! w tvwsV TWV1, 'W' 8A J-r-r-g LING, r ALS BELIEVE diplomats at Washington Predict 'Overthrow of Em- V'nprnr hv T.ihornl Fnvpna e - t, ; rEW CABINET UNPOPULAR tTwwr wp ' . . a, ?: er KTi; WFfCTRWCTFTV ..... r..r. -v. ..rA. -. ..v-.'r'l'X-'vvrdiT4.' - ,-,. teVnrAbhriCTC I lUtflAT AMffi MOVK I PRAISE OF KAISER THAT STIRS CHICAGO J. S. TO STOP MM? v. t m . Emperor Confident German People Will Stand Firm COPENHAGEN, Auk. 8. KAISER W1LHELM has sent the 'following rr"3snjja to President Ktompf, of thd itcIclwtnK: That the spirit which snranR three years npo from the depths of the pcoplc'H soul nntl which united the people in the enormous sacrifices of war is still alive nmoiiR us l.i sh .vn when in these (lays our hravo llRhtcrs under a Croat hattlo leader liavo mastered unprecedented attacks, and when (he country is nvinfully holding fast desr tu sufFcrlnRs and dep rivations. IlemcmborinR tho strength of the people, I am sure they, will stand firm until a pcaco guaran teeing the honor and greatness of tho country and its happy sure future is obtained. M tit WASHINGTON. Aug I? American Government heads today ex pressed belief thai Germany must rami reckon with a growing demand from Its people for greater liberalization of gov ernment. Hcml-ofllctal ndvli'es to tho State Dipi.'t ment Indicate tho nation Id not altogether natlsflcd with the I pactional y line-up In Its administration, anil that sooner or later tho people will burst nut llh demands for Bomcthlng moro than promises. Neutral diplomats predict the elcrmans, Already nnxlpus for peace, will ultimately overthrow the Kaiser though they feel tho Country In more or P'ss united for the present, cnnrvti.inrv a.,,, e ff. ...... ..... .......... .... " "f : Tho fourtem new member; of the Mer man (loverniivtil were plrkejl personally by tho Kaiser an 1 their official actions will directly reflect the Kaiser's views, says a dispatch received here from Ilcrlln today. ' largo section of the press Im nttarklng the newcomers li the Goernment for vari ous reason, but nmong the lenders of the various political factions there Is an evi dent desire to wait a while before support ing or opposing them. Certain of tho Socialist and Socialist Democratic, pa pern accuse all the new of ficials of beliiK Imrealieiati, while the Pan German press charge'i them with favoring a policy which Is "antagonistic to the ex pansion of the llmplre " Tho two chief iivetmes of iirllnn for tho reorganized Goermncnt which will bo watched most closely by the German people are: First. Movement toward peace Second. Institution of constitutional re forms In tho Umpire. It Is n conspicuous fact that a number of promlncnt German statesmen who are acknowledged lenders of the reform mine ment and who were spoken of for places In the reorganized German Cabinet aro miss ing. One of tho central figures In tho Cabinet who Is coming trt for abuse from almost every nuartor Is Doctot lielfferlch, tho Vlco Chancellor, who letalns tho otllco he held In tho old Government Tho P.m-GermanH nro attacking him ns a friend of Ilngland; tho Socialists am accusing him of being a bureaucrat, and tho Liberals and Social Democrats charge him wfth reiiresenting the very essence of I'russlanlstn. Ho Is a rT cinn ot Breat I'ower. k& AMSTERDAM. Aug R Count Reventlow, Germany's flrchrnnd Journalist, writing to the Deutsche Tagcs- i leltung. of Ilcrlln, answers the recent spoich 3 of Premier I.loyd George In a way that ho hopen will hearten th German people, at- cording to advices from Ilcrlln today. "Premier I.loyd George In merely talking to distract attention from Hngland," said the German writer "Franco and Italy aro deeply disappointed that tho recent attack In West Klnnritrs did not result in lit caking through the German lines" Count Iteventlow gives what Is regarded hero as a prematuro opinion when lie dn rlarcH that tho "Ilrllish drlo In West Flan ders proved a military failure " Tho Vosslsclie eltung, of Ilcrlln, says It now rests with the itclclistng to see that the new appointees do not run contrary to dem ocratic wishes Tills pnper points out that three of them nro consenatlvo agrarians otherwlso Junkfts while one of them Is an out-and-out annexationist. Theodor Wolrf's significant comment In the Berliner Tageblatt is- "In Germany only tho army Is allowed to tna.ke history." .-. I ! W c :, V Lu I- m. i ',, NEW RAILROAD TRACKS LAID AT CAMP MEADE &v Large Force Rushes Work to Re r lieve Present Heavy Freight Traffic BALTIMORE. Md.. Aug. 8 Gome Idea of conditions under which rail roads are laid In France by the Allies, and by the Germans, too; can bo obtained by watching tho work of tho Pennsylvania Railroad forces In connecting up Odenton, Md., with Camp Meade. A largo fotco Is rushing and trying to make this link with as little delay ns possible. A heavy vol ume of freight and later or men will travel over these tracks to tho camp. Tho progress along all lines Is encourag ing. About a dozen buildings aro checked oft the list as complete. There are eighty five structures under way. No building can be marked down n completo until the last piece of hardware and fixtures havo been .provided. Major Watson and Captain Marshall, of tho regular army, are ofllclal observers of the details of tho work. They havo been piloted around by Major Proctor and hove seemeu pieaseu with tho progress on tho big The two structures for housing ordnance r . & 'Kht and wennom for trmrh ii.Mir,. i,.., $?'. completed. i:ach measures 100 l,v lKa Tv' k mA I- , .. ... ' -"" "-,. $ ' ' r , V$C State Employes. Called in Draft ': HARItlSBURG. Auir. 8 TIlf a Vl' Jepartmenta of the State. Government' will rT i v In , ' "" "Mit xvjuio me urait ex t5 . vJlnlnir boards this month, and It fi prob j'i"'V ob'8 tnat many of t.ha met) will be ac HV 'A ' . ' """lry service, some or the Sir' M.men who Jive In other nlaces hiva nnnti. vjai .Harrlsburg boards for examination. The r j "" "'khwkjt jjtpariment, public Ser j vice commission, Fisheries and Health De MsjiPrtment have men who have been sum- F lC?i, .. SlTMn ot th0 men connected Lf? Fisheries Department alone have ' Wi u""""e' ior examination. Chief ,, Clerk It. M. Stackhouse. of that dennrt. Jnmt, has been called for examination. r "8eashore Rail Men Seek IUJIcf ' iOCBAN CITV. K. J.. Aur. It n.r,-....,- 4tlve of the, agents, clerks, telegraph oper. g.trs, slgnslmn, linemen and climbers em L.ijWedion th. Cape May division of the 91 WMt Jersey and Seashorn Tlnllmsiri v...,. V . Mlm - T. . 'I. ... ..M,V : ior projective, purposes. A commit ('been .appointed to confer wltH- h- iJmMmfttt the ranMrlVMW u. ior rniiAT " .. . n. , --r vt- .-r.vr r u - t T: LLOYD flEORGEMSTS ON SERBIA'S FREEDOM Declares Independence of Nation and Reparation Aro Peace Requisites LONDON, Aug. . Independence ot Serbia will be one of Kngland's demands that must bo met heforo peace Is possible. ' Premier Lloyd George made this clear to day In an adross delUrred at a luncheon In honor of Premier Pashltch, of Serbia. "Great Britain will tint bo satisfied until Serbia Is Independent," the Premier de clared, speaking In the natCc of the Govern ment. "Setbla Is entitled to full reparation and muit get It." Lord Cecil declared following Lloyd George. Russians Resume Drive; Win Towns Cnnllminl from 1'ase One A dispatch from Petrngrad today quoted tho newspaper Npvoo Vremya as saying that tho Russians have evacuated the garri son towns of Prosskurof and Kameneu Fodolrl:. Prosskurof nnd Kamenolz-Podolsk aro In Russia. The former Is thirty miles east of the Gnllclan frontier and tho latter Is ten miles Inside of the Russian border Pross kurof, which lies on tho railway running Into Russia from Tarnnpol Is sixty miles north of Kametietz-Podolsk The latter Is on the Smottyez Rler and Ih of great strategic Importance If tho if port of tin Ir evacuation is true It Indicates that Hie Aiistro-Germans havo effected n second In vasion of Russian soil slncn their present offensive! began ono Into Dodolla Province, the other Into llcssarnbln. BGRLIN. Aug. 8 Further nireessos on the Rumanian front north of Focs.ml were repotted by the War Otllco today "We extended our nuccess after bitter lighting," the statement said. In the wooded Carpathians the Austrlans storm d and eaptuted several strongly de fended mountain summits HOOT I'll EDICTS RISK OF RUSSIA WASHINGTON, Aug S A permanent Russian democracy Is cer tain. Dllliu Root, rlialrman of the Amer ican Commission to Russia, declared upon his return here today. "It Is as certain as anything In human nffalrs can lie The only thing that car. possibly stop It would be the overwhelming of Russia by Germany That would not stop, but merely retard It "Russia's democratic government must bo built up from the foundation precisely ns our Govrnment was build up It will be done careful. y. Mcp by step It s a great and laborious woik" The Russian people, he said, are amply able to contiol their own affairs Thev nro good business men and good democrats and e,roat things mav be expected from them. Tho Russian Is "a mighty good fighting man" and "Russia will eome out of tier tumbles nil light." said General Scott, an other member of tho commission "America," said Charles IMwnrd Russell, the Socialist representative, "must convince the Russians that sho has no selfish ax to grind In this war Only this conviction can cement the bonds between tho two nations" Russell foresees a stable democracy ris ing soon from tho seeming chaos In Russia. "Russia's heart Is sound," said General Scott Ho described tho brllllnnt ndvnnce of Knrnlloffs men Just beforu the recent mutiny In the Russian army forced a devas tating ictreat "Them was no sign of mutiny when I was with tho Russian army there," ho said, "and by the tlmo wo left Vladivostok the Russians had taken fifteen miles of Austrian trenches, 3.1,000 prisoners nnd a hundred guns. "When I lirst looked over the sceno of battlo tho day before the offensivo rarted thero were no signs of tho forthcoming struggle. Men and women were working In the fields nnd It looked like a stictch of quiet country. But tho next morning the big guns were te.ulng up the earth, leaving craters as big as a small bouse, and thou tho Russian soldiers went over the top. Pretty soon the Austilan prisoners weio coming back of the line What I saw con vinced ine that the Russian Is a mighty good lighting man and that Russia i fe ' Canada's War Hill $8.-0,000 a Day OTTAWA, Aug 8 Canada's wrtr ct penillluies aro now about $850,000 a day, tho total of July 20 being $623,000,000, Tho sum Includes upkeep of Canadian tioops In France, for which Canada owes Gie.it Britain $:'.' ono.non. Advances to thii munitions board amounted to $288 aoo.ooo. while IS2.ooo.nou was spent for h.iv. cheese, flour, etc Canada Is supply ing about $10,00,000 a month to buy cheese and contributing $25,000,000 a month to the Impei Inl treasury for the purchase of munitions In Canada. U-BOAT ATTACK MOVES CAMDEN MAN IN DRAFT Mariner, Exempt on Occupation, Waives Claim His Ship Sunk by Submarino The fact that he was n survivor of tho stoatnsr, Hlldegard. which was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on the morn ing of Julv 10, Is not sulllclent to Instill fear Into the heart of Charles K. Snyder, of S01 North Ftont street, Camden. Snyder was one of the first men to ap pear for examination before the First District exemption board In Camden today. Atrhmnrii he. Is a mariner and eligible for exemption on that ground, Snyder refused to ask exemption, saying he was ready to leavo to fight the Germans this afternoon If he were wanted. He Is married, also, hut wants a chanco to avenge hlmsr.' for tho suffering lie experienced when' his steamship was sunk In nildocean. Snyder wns chief officer of the Hlldegard. Ho was at sc.i on registration day, but as soon as he landed he appeared before Go board In his district for registration Another man nceepted by the First Dis trict board this morning was John J. Rheln hold, of 821 North Second street A few days ago his mother appeared before the board and asked exemption for her son. say ing that the fear of being drafted wns so constantly with him that his nerves were shattered and he threatened to kill himself By noon today the First District board had examined sixty-four men, of whom fifty-four were accepted. In tho Third District fifty were accepted by noon and ten rejected. Two men appeared before tho board who, since registration day, weie crippled, and they were rejected Paul Ppclmlak, of 118P, Chestnut street, had his arm caught ill ma cblneiy at his place of employment, nnd the arm was amputated. George Moore, of llfi I Pilncess avenue, appeared before the board on irutches. He wns crushed be tween a wagon anil a 1'ennsjlvanla ferryboat. Among those exninlned In the First Dis trict of Camden County was Cl.ivton F Memre nf Harrington, son eif Congressman J. Hampton .Mooie. tie claimed exemption on the ground that his wife Is dependent on him for support. eHore, Onus fnthi'rs and mothers whS make false affidavits III efforts to have their sons lelensed from the draft on dependency claims In Camden will be promptly nnd vlgoieiuslv proi-ecuted. "Wn will not tolerate such action for a moment," stated Baptist Scull, a member of tho board In the Third district "My at tention has been ellricteil to a claim for exemption on the ground of u dependent relative-, tho relative til question being a father who presented the claim In person, It was staled to me that tho son wns tho sole support of a business which In turn supported tho father, hut on Investigation It has been learned that the father owns the business and tho son Is only an em ploye " When the matter was brought to tho at tention of the father he did not present tho affidavits In support of tho same Tho fine for such false statements Is $2000 under the draft law Judiciary Candidates Kile Petitions HARRISBI'RG. Aug 8 Davis Lavls to. day filed his petition for nomination as Common Pleas Judge In Court No. 3, Phila delphia , James L. Rankin filed a petition for Common Pleas Judge In Delawaro County mmmamstaamaoacsammmmKmamammmmm esin ol surely did knock out that eczema Three days apo my arm was all red and itchy and I thought 1 was up against it for fair. Hut Joe had a jar of Kcsinol in Ins kit 1 used a little and the itchinp; stopped rif,'ht on. in the morning most of the redness was gone and a couple more applications fin ished it up. Reslnol it old by all dru,jti. "A luminous stori." "Absorbingly interesting." CHRISTINE BY ALICE CHOLMONDELEY The second edition is now ready. The third edition will be ready next week. thn'i?lUSh C'",lmo"d'ly "ev". ?ur congratulation, and hearty thank. She ha wntten a book which I ab.orbinsly intereting.with much in if of beauty and even more of truth." N. Y.Time. CHRISTINE "A book which i true in enential to real that one It temnf.J 0f wh"her '','' fici? atJ.g-r,mtb'y -'" '&? im. If.?',, 't ' 'a i T" b" dimcult. 'e.d to find a book in whUh the "tale of m.ndof the German people i. pictured .o clearly, with o much undemanding and convincing detail. . . . lntelliBent . XT' TT-ii. bad.minded, auick to ee and TapT.TiatVaU own '',?" ,"' "J" "?UrV '" art' "''"icing humify over her own great gift, endowed with a keen ene of humor, Chri.tine', i, a thoroughly whale.ome and lovable character. But charming a ChrU tine' personality and her literary tyle both are, the mat v'alue of the book lie in if. admirable and lucid analy.i. of the German mind" N. Y. Time. CHRISTINE "U abiolutely different from preceding book of the war. It very free, dom and girtithne of expr,lon, it Very eimpllcity and openhearted. net; prove the truth of it picture." N. Y. World. P'nneartea. CHRISTINE "A luminoutory at a ,nitive and generou nature, the tpontaneou cxprelon of on. p,ri.d, affectionate, ardently ambition., andbU,Vd with a tcme of humor." Botton Herald. . oiened 1 At all bookstores $1.25 THEMACH1LIAN COMPANY, Publishers, New York ffi la el M '. fr id at Utj I a1 in the, one l ad pr-1 -M.ry ittmi a ttoiy. I par Hiram , Talker, li.x, no i f ehose ten. rform. lldrfd and I li wetV IncJ :."! N"v I 1'0'C ,ff I'll I'd li Gui se mil If?, a " 'I attache. IC fiein th efl- rovrtn feu t (h hn'ic n th a CHICAGO PUIUC eCHOO!. Ouil SPELLING Eiouth Gkadb beoember 191010 Nmt JMcUUtolfcopOTJltttf0IVfMaikIii6f irordctMtov. Til poptU will b mtkd ot til Trend la lUUc tdttwrla.UlM THE KAISER IN THE MAKING In the gymnasium at Cosed the CtrmtnKautr tpent three ytais of his boyhood, & dWgtid but not a brilkant pupil, ranking tenth among stitntccn candidaltr for tba wuwmrj. Many talcs are told of this period of his life, and one Of them, at least, is iiluminaiing. A rnftaor, it fa Baidwiching to curry faVoiwiiJftii royal pupil, informed him cvtrrnjgkl of the chapter in Greek that was to be made the tubjta of thtfncxt day's lesson. Tho young prince did what many boys would not hare done. As toon as the class room Was opened on the follow, fag morning, ho entered and wrote tonspiewnuly on the blackboard the information, that bad been given him. Ono may say unhesitatingly that a boy canaille of ouch an nntion has tho root of a fino character in him, poistsscs that chivalrous sense of fair ploy which is tho nearest thing to a religion that may bo looked for at that age, hates rrtann and favoritism, and will wherever possible, cxpo60 thtm. There is in him a fundamental bent toward what fa clear", msnlv and aboveboard. 1 2 a 4 5 G 7 8 census bequeath fofeip which Delawaro disguised vehicle peninsula 0 guarantee 17 10 teparato 18 11 traitor 19 12 sorcery 20 13 rcaccably 21 14 European 22 15 antique 23 1G artillery 21 orchestra rcicntifio victuals resource brsiege commerce compromise aocesjory son lamia's) and fin DtnTtr. Haap ef tjtae fal In thaGe near aUpt,' lera- I Can conn clal I SptBI defen Hen hoitlli natlona lens foi far tx iptnd only a, and t' li al peop the, nit' T an" iJ'l ''V-ChicaGo School 13oo,d .Rci'rrdoVf-- . ... I All ,1, n .f',n,lllj,l 'TV-., k'ftl.,!,. ,n '...ll I nut llif MEr' entitled 'TK- Knl-er m crtati J r lit c fIi rftuM " wrillni 1 1 . II. I-"! rrtnl ' '" ' lects Motion to I car Out I ..! ,t I'.'l n,;' n,, The papc. reproduced above, from the spelling hook used in Chicago public schools, has boon the storm center of n discussion involving parents of 130,000 children and tho School Board of the Windy City. A motion urging parents to tear the offending page from their chil dren's spelling books wns defeated by tho School Hoard, so that, for the time being, the eulogy of the Gorman Emperor retains its place in tho school textbooks. OF SHIPS ABROAD Unpatriotic Action of Amer ican Owners Responsible for Plans NEED MORE DRASTIC LAW Present Statute Offers Opportu nities for Evasion by Men Seek ing Enormous Profits WASHINOTON, AUR. 8. Sale of American .Mr by tliclr private owner, to forever. In denanco of h. sr ssa"? SrS.S the Department of Commerce todn. With thli country In Imperative neec of all tie ship tonna. that ran be , proe urcd X-crafrhaVrllufSm. Sdo and koW their Phlpa Into foreign res Istry, elepartment onielals allefre. President Wllnon nn-1 other olllclnl.i, as a result, decided that neneral commandeer inB was necessary to conserve n "'rchant marine, under the American flan. II ! ex pected ronuress will bo asked to Brnnl stronser powers to somo execute e prob nblv the Secretary ot Commejeo, to deal strictly with transfer of MilpplnB In war times. Under exIstltiB laws no ship Is sup posed to be sold out of American registry without the express permission of the Ship ping Hoard, but weaknesses In this statutes have enabled, shipowners to evade It nnd part with thb.r vessels In order to get enor mous prices from foreigners. Itecent sales, which have prompted tho American Oovernment to decide on com mandeering, have been made nt Seattle and mi the Great Lakes The Pacific coast vessels have been sold to Japanese Interests and the lireat Lakes vessels to Canadians. It Is said that In each rase the rssel sold has gone Into direct competition with Amer ican shipping. Tho Washington authorities have accu- ...I r. Jk ....li4Aattl a m.AA a .- nuumcu wii,, "i ui, mtM hi of ships to foreigners. Tha Shipping' b0'.m and the Department of Commerce are. anxW lous to see siringeni legislation enacted which will provide harsher measures for dealing with such cases than now aro avail, able. Tho Qrent Lnkcs vessels which ha! been sold aro being withdrawn from th Lakes, already short of tonnago, ana placed In that transatlantic trade which pr.i dent Wilson recently ntttcked ro forcofuliJ on tho ground that operators aro exnctlnJ unfair profits. '" AMERICANS IN PITIFUL PLIGHT REACH BERNE Old Men, Women and Children Bring 'Sad' Tales of Turk-. ish Conditions tin Apcnce Ilndia nnilNK, Aiifr. s Two tralnloads of Amcrlcnn citizens nil In pitiful condition, havo nrrlved In Swlti erland from Jerusalem nnd other tinin within the Turkish empire. ' 'n" They wero eight weeks on their ....... with little food and no opportunity i ciuinK" ittrti iiiiuun ui wuan eiuring th m entire Journey through Tut key. Ji0st ', 1; tho refugcert nre old men, women ntut r-v.ii m dien All report food conditions In Turkey terrible. EXPORT LICENSES TO BE USED TO CHECK PRICES Government to Employ This Means of PrevcntinR Extortion in Sales to Allies WASHINGTON". Aug 8, The Uso of the export llcenso ns a means to govm u-lci charged foreign governments for war mate rials was discussed today In official cliei. Department of Commerce clerks can cheek 1 prices of snipmenis ior mo war inelustrles board and tho purchasing board When these boards find the prices exorbitant, 1. censes can be refused and shipments blocked, Government money lent to foreign nations Is being spent at such a terrific rate that the administration Is seeking every possiWj method of stopping extortion Officials to. day declared Informally they have the proper veapon In the export licenses ise it favorite music, rendered in a The Victrola is the instrument for your home becaus gives you your kind of music. You can hear at will your manner that will delight you. The very music you want, sung and played by artists especially gifted to bring out the beauties of each individual composition-the world's greatest artists who make records for the Victrola exclusively. 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