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MODERN WAR IS MERCIFUL
Under Existing Conditions the Wound-
ed Are Given a Fair Chance
to Recover to Health.
To
A general impression is that with
powerful weapons of great precision
greater loss of life and greater pain
are caused. That view is almost cer-
tainly inaccurate. The modern bul-
let, says the Scotsman, unless it is of
the soft-nosed type, is on the whole
merciful, and either kills outright or
gives its victim a fair chance of re-
covery. It does not, as a rule, muti-
late.
The ambulance corps was practical-
ly unknown 60 years ago, and not
only is aid brought more rapidly to
‘ the wounded, but it is far more ef-
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Rapidity of conveyance has increased
beyond all comparison. In the pres-
ent war it is true to say that in many
cases men have been lying in a Brit-
ish hospital within 24 hours of
receiving their wounds. If the
risk of being hit is greater, the
chances of recovery from injury have
been immensely increased.
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An Emotlonalist.
“So youre hanging around broke
again?” said the policeman.
“Yes,” answered Bill the Burglar.
“1 haven't a cent. I broke into a
house night before last and the poor
mark of a taxpayer told me such a
bard luck story that he had me shed-
din’ tears an’ lendin’ him my last
cent.”
The , direct and circumstantial
charge that Senator Boies Penrose
himself was personally guilty of put-
ting up money to debauch the late
Mayor Reyburn of Philadelphia, is
made by the North American.
This direct exposure giving dates
and places and stating categorically
that Penrose was DP rsonally mixed
up in the scandalous financial _in-
trigues of the Republican leaders of
Philadelphia created consternation
last week among the machine leaders
and workers of Philadelphia.
The editors of the North American
charge circumstantially that Senator
Penrose with two city contractors de-
bauched the late Mayor Reyburn
while he was then magistrate of the
city by the payment of sums aggre-
gating $198,000.
The North American recites that in
August, 1911, Penrose sought an in-
terview with the editors of that news-
paper and told them that Reyburn and
Clay, his director of public safety,
A widower never invests in a guitar
for the purpose of serenading a spin-
ster. He begins right where he left
off at the end of his first courtship.
it,
A woman forgives an injury one
day and forgets that she has forgiven
it the next.
| were bankrupts and corruptionists,
The “Meat”
and that they had received from con-
oO orn | tractors, politicians and corporation
| officials nearly $1,000,000 in cash and
other forms of financial aid.
Penrose then sought the help of
— the sweet centers .of choice } | : ;
i fn; oked, seasoned | the North American in defeating
Indian com; £0 { William S. Vare, one of the contrac-
just right, rolled thin as paper tor politicians of Philadelphia, who
and toasted until they become || was a candidate for mayer and who
golden brown flakes —crisp | was being supported by Reyburn and
|
1 oi { Clay.
Seligious! Penrose in Game, Too.
That’ Penrose had brought the Catlin
s why | commission to Philadelphia in order
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to club the Vare candidacy out of
1a : existence. This Catlin commission
I ti
professed itself ready to hear charges
from whatever source concerning the
i contract irregularities of the politi-
cians of Philadelphia.
| Penrose declared to the North
| American and Attorney General Bell,
who was in the conference
| editors, that he himself, along with
are better than ordinary “com commission and give testimony. He
72 » ave his “word of honor” that
a fakes ang of the charges would be held
and that he would appear
ness to substantiate by hd testimony
others would appear before the Catlin
Toasties are packed in an
inner container inside the
tight-sealed, familiar, yellow
carton — keeps the food fresh
and crisp for .your appetite —
nicipal corruption which he had vol
Penrose informed the editors of the]
North
| had lost at least onehalf a million |
in gambling in rapid transit]
Among other amounts given |
1 Clay by politicians he
rege sum—$198,000-
Reyburn had rec ived |
Al-
dollars
StoCK.
Superior
Corn Flakes
— sold by Grocers.
with the sisted.
the facts concerning widespread mu-|
unteered to the editors of the paper. | the
i the
- | through Fred Wagner, a confidential
yro- | humor the ceaseless importunities
CHARGE THAT SENATOR PENROSE DEBAUCHED
FORMER MAYOR REYBURN OF PHILADELPHIA
vided it were contractors—city con-
tractors, who had received facts from
the mayor.
“And then without further urging,
he said that one of the two was Vare
and the other McNichol,” says the
North American expose.
Penrose Convicts Himself.
«Just here the senator related with
great gusto an incident which seemed
to afford him the richest amusement.
william S. Vare, he said, personally
paid $5,000 cash to Reyburn, and then
came ‘strutting’ before Penrose and
others, - ‘with his chest sticking out
like a pouter pigeon’s,’ SO proud was
ihe of his success in actually having
passed the money into the mayor’s
hand—the first time he had experi-
enced that personal triumph of diplo-
macy.
«Senator Penrose was in a position
to appreciate the exquisite humor of
Vare’s pride in his achievement, since
he knew that McNichol and Israel
W. Durham had passed cash over to
Reyburn before he was elected mayor.
«Thus we had the voluntary, ex-
plicit avowals of Senator Penrose,
made before witnesses, that Reyburn
and Clay had been debauched by
Vare, McNichol, Durham and others.
He asked us impressively what we
supposed would be the effect of pub-
lication of these facts upon the mayor
iand the director.
«We said that if the facts were
properly supported and were capable
of legal proof, it would destrgy the
two officials; otherwise, of course, the
publication would destroy The North
American. And we inquired what sub-
substantiation we could count upon.
«Why, said Senator Penrose, 1
would stand behind you.
«ow? we inquired.
«+¢’]1 appear as a witness,” said the
senator.
“tAs a witness
to what? we in-
«Well, said the senator, in a final
burst of candor, ‘1 was one of the
three who supplied the $198,000. I
the | put up one-third of the money.’
-
“Then the senator explained he felt
as a wit |it necessary for the sake of the party.
$198,000 Put Up.
of this vital acknowledgement—that
$198,000 corruption fund was
raised by himself and McNichol and
American that Director Clay | Vare—Senator Penrose readily gave
us further details.
«He said the money was raised
jointly, and paid to the mayor—after
$5,000 passed over by Vare—
bookkeeper in the office of Wolf
Brothers.
«Then he described with
«After having unburdened himself | honor” the North American charges |
Reyburn—how he would pursue the
members of the corruption syndicate
with messages by letter and telegram
and telephone; how his demands be-
came so enormous that they were
compelled’ to pay him sums just large
enough to keep him quiet—=$5,000 !
when he asked for $10,000, $10,000
when he asked for $20,000, and so on.
«Very likely, he remarked, with |
solemn sarcasm, ‘you will find that
the payments were most liberal just |
before contracts were to be handed |
out at city hall.’
“Such was the startling budget of
news that we took to our legal ad-
viser, after receiving the senator’s
assurance that he would tap all his
sources of information for evidence!
to corroborate the charges with which
{he had furnished us.
| “It was from Senator Penrose, then,
[Hat we first learned that Reyburn
{and Clay, bankrupts, had been de- |
bauched by contractors,
and corporation officers.
“It was from Senator Penrose that |
we learned that William S. Vare had |
personally handed cash to Reyburn,
and that Edwin H. Vare had ‘fixed’
the mayor by purchasing worthless
bonds from him. .
«genator Penrose it was who in-
formed us that Clarence Wolf had
given Reyburn at least $100,000. t
«It was he who related to us how
President McCall and the Philadel
phia electric interests backed Clay’s
stock-gambling account; how John B.
Parsons and George D. Widener had
indorsed Clay’s paper and had had
to pay $100,000.
It was Senator Penrose who dis-
closed to us the fact that the joint]
account recording the debauchery of |
Reyburn was kept in the office of
Wolf Brothers by a confidential book-
keeper.
«and it was Senator Penrose who
made known to us the fact that Vare
and McNichol were two of three men
who raised $198,000 to bribe Reyburn,
admitting, finally, that he himself was
the third member of the syndicate of
corruption.”
«word of Honor” Didn't Stand.
In spite of Penrose’s “word of
politicians |
| that 48 hours before the time set for
| the hearing before the Catlin com-
| mission, rumors were circulated that
| Senator Penrose was going to adjourn
| his Catlin commission.
| “We were actually getting ready to |
| proceed to the hearing room, when
| word came that the commission had
| adjourned,” says the North American, '
| “and from that day to this, it has
{ never been reconvened. We soon
leatned that Senator Penrose had or-|
of | dered his commission to decamp.” |
| pensable, and it is useless to attempt
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TEN ESSENTIALS IN GROWING ALFALFA
Baling Alfalfa Hay Direct From Windrow on 1,400-Acre Farm Near Sher
man,
Alfalfa, one of the oldest and most
widespread of crops, can be grown
in this country as far as climate is
concerned, in every state, but in the
humid sections it is very exacting in
the character of soil and treatment
required The following list,of “don’ts,”
published by the U. S. department
of agriculture in Farmers’ Bulletin
No. 339 will, therefore, be of interest:
Ten Don'ts for the Alfalfa Grower.
Don’t fail to provide for ample in-
oculation.
Don’t sow poor or weedy seed.
Don’t sow on a weedy soil.
Don’t sow on any but a sweet, well-
limed soil.
Don’t sow on poorly drained soil.
Don’t sow on any but a finely-pre-
pared, well-settled seed bed.
Don’t pasture the first or second
year.
Don’t lose the leaves; they consti-
tute the best part of the hay.
Don’t seed a large acreage to be
gin with. Experiment on a small area
first.
Don’t give up. Many prominent al-
falfa growers finally succeeded only
after many failures.
The first essential, as these “don'ts”
show, is proper soil. A deep, fertile,
well-drained soil, rich in lime and
reasonably free from weeds is indis-
to grow alfalfa on any other kind of
land. The lack of any one of these
qualities is very apt to be the cause
Texas.
and gives alfalfa ample time to make
a growth before the winter sets in; a
fact which gives the plants a good
start in the following spring, and aids
them successfully to resist the inroad
of weeds. 1
The conditions that determine tl
time for seeding alfalfa indirectly de-
termine also the crops which should
precede it. Where late summer seed-
ing is practiced a truck crop which
matures early will enable one crop
to be secured that season and still
allow time-for the preparation of the
land for alfalfa. Under such eircum-
stances the fertilizer demanded by
the truck crop will probably be sufli-
cient for the alfalfa.
The efficiency of green manure
cropk in increasing the humus content
of the soil makes them especisily val-
uable as a preliminary crop for al-
falfa. If the soil is not fertilized in
this way, or does not obtain tke bene-
fit of manure used for previous cash
crops, well-rotteC barnyard manure or
commercial fertilizers must be em-
ployed if the best results are hoped
for. It must always be borne in mind
that alfalfa requires rich soil. It can-
not’ be grown on any kind of land
that happens to lie handy for the
farmer. On the other hand, wit
proper conditions and care its yiel
will be sufficient to justify the use
of the richest and best drained land
on the farm. In the East it is usually
best to develop the fertility of some
of failure especially in the East and
South, where at best alfalfa is pro
duced with some difficulty.
The plant is a deep-feeding one and
usually sends its roots down many
feet to obtain food and moisture
which are out of reach of the shallow-
rooted crops. On soil that lacks
depth alfalfa is unable to ytilize its
deep-feeding roots and is, therefore,
less able to withstand the attack of
surface-feeding weeds. An exception
to this seems to be found in the case
of soils that are underlaid by lime-
stone: at a depth of some eighteen
inches or two feet.
Weeds are, in fact, one of the
greatest enemies of alfalfa. The
young plants are very tender and are
apt to be killed during their early
stages of growth. For this reason it
is good practice to raise some culti-
vated crop on the ground for two or
three seasons before alfalfa is plant-
ed. If this is not practicable some
such crop as cowpeas, which natural-
ly prevent the growth of weeds, can
be seeded. Alfalfa sown in the spring
is especially susceptible to harm
from weeds, and spring seeding, there-
fore, should be avoided wherever pos-
gible. It is, however, preferable in
of the high, rolling land and seed
that. Bottom lands should be avoid-
ed; not only is the danger from weeds
on such soils greater, but alfalfa ab-
solutely requires well-drained land.
Overflows from streams are usually
fatal to it during its growing pe-
riod, ia fact, it is unusual for it to
survive more than 24 hours of com-
plete submergence, although during
its dormant period in the winter it is
less susceptible.
Not the least difficulty that the al-
falfa grower must face is the neces-
sity for thorough inoculation of the
soil in regions where the proper baec-
teria are aot supplied by nature.
Throughout the western half of the
United States inoculatioa in general
does not appear to be necessary, but
In the East the grower who neglects
this precaution is practically certain
to lose his time. There are two
methods now in general use. The
bacteria may be supplied either by
scattering the soil from a successful
alfalfa field, or by cultures. The ar-
tificial cultures are supplied by the
United States department of agricul
ture and their use explained in detail
in the printed matter which accom-
panies the bottle of culture. After
Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Da-
kKotas where any but spring or early
summer stands are very apt to win-
terkill. In general, the principle un-
derlying the time of seeding is to sow
as far in advance as possible of what |
promises to be the most trying season |
for the young plants. In the East |
and South a late summer seeding is
usually best. This enables an earlier
crop to be removed from the land
being mixed with the clean water and
certain chemicals these cultures are
applied to the seed, which is then
dried in a shaded place and sown as
soon as possible. When this method
is successful at all it appears to be
ally as much so as the scattering of
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