PREPARE DETENTION ~
HOUSE FOR SERVICE
County Commissioners Close Con
tract With Electric Co. to
Install Modern Plant
■bmbmwmmh Plans for the In-
JJ\) )( II) stallation of a mod
electric lighting
/ fgS system in Dauphin
county's new House
of Detention were
discussed to-day by
tlle county com-
UTrjtMraSTOj missioners with a
representative of
llfriSblmmn the e'ectrlc light
' company. The de
tentlon house near
Lucknow is now being prepared for
occupancy and should he ready within
a week or ten days. Twenty-five mod
ern mazda type lights are to be placed
In the house and on the porch.
Judges to Return.—President Judge
Kunkel of the Dauphin County Court
will return from Port Deposit Monday
evening to remain for a few days.
Tuesdav morning he will conduct a
brief session of sentence court and
District Attorney M. E. Stroup will
present four pleas of guilty and about
half a dozen nonsupport cases for dis
pose. On August 17 Additional Law-
Judge McCarrell will return from
Eaglesmere to hear the continued
argument in the Bucci-Pavone bakery
injunction suit.
To-day's Realty Transfers. S. S.
Etter to Agnes Stoll, Highsp:re, $1000;
J. L. Kcrwin to John H. Gerberlch,
Lykens, $400; J. Ferguson to D. B.
Jenkins. Wiiliamstown. $700; D. Huck
to George W. Updegrove, 1542 Penn.
$1; M. H. Gettys trustee to I. C. Kind
ler 2028-30 Mifflin. 53570; John A..
Smith to Margaret D. Feindt, 1811
Regina. sl.
Building Permit. MacWllliams'
Construction Company to-day got a
permit to build a two and a half story
dwelling at Fifth and Woodbine
Btreet, $6000; John H. Dinger, single
story garage, rear of Susquehanna and
Basin. SISOO.
Want Polling Place Changed.—The
county commissioners to-dav were
asked by voters of the proposed new
third precinct of the Eleventh ward 1
to change the newly designated poll
ing place from the upper end of the
district to the cigar store at Green
and Muench streets. The change will
be authorized.
Nomination Petitions. Prlmary
nomination petitions filed to-day in
clude the following: George D. Wel
comer, Washington, Mtddletown, high
constable; Jonathan Plouser, Demo
crat. first precinct. First Ward. Mid
dletown, assessor; William H. Stipe.
Democrat, second precinct. First Ward
Middletown, assessor; George Weigle,
Republican, second precinct. Middle
Paxton. judge of election: John H.
Thompson, Republican, second pre
cinct of Second Ward. Steelton, judge
of election: John H. Glbb. Democrat
and Republican. First Ward. Steelton.
constable: Howard C. Fry. Republican.
Paxtang, justice of the peace; Jacob F.
Beinhauer. Republican, third precinct,
Swatara township, inspector.
New Disturbance on
West Coast of Haiti
By Associated Press
Washington. D. C., Aug. 6.—A new
revolutionary disturbance at Gonaives,
on the western coast of Haiti, has been,
reported to Rear Admiral Caperton
and he has dispatched the naval tug
Osceola with forces to protect the cus
toms house.
The admiral to-day reported the
occupation of Fort Xationale, In Port
a u Prince, by American forces without
resistance. The American marines are
quartered in the barracks.
Colonel Cole, commanding the ma
rines, landed from the battleship Con
necticut. is in military charge of the
town, and Captain Beach has been as
signed to handle civil affairs. A ses
sion of the Haitien parliament to se
lect a president has been called for
Sunday.
OKLAHOMA FIRE CAUSED BY
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION
By Associated Press
Philadelphia. Aug. 6.—After a thor
ough examination while the damage
•was being repaired, officials of the
New Tork Shipbuilding Company are
convinced that the fire which swept
the hold of the dreadnaught Oklahoma
se\ eral weeks ago was caused by spon
tpneous combustion. Government In
spectors in charge of construction
wtrk at the shipyard are likewise as
sured that there Is no foundation for
the incendiary theory suggested when
r.o one could discover the origin of the
blaze.
CONFERENCE E>l>S TO-DAY
By Associated Press
San Francisco, Aug. 6.—The confer
ence of the Department of Labor being
held here, at which labor leaders and
labor and Immigration officials from all
parts of the country are working with
Secretary of Labor Wilson In an en
deavor to find means of bringing the
man and the job and the man and the
land together was to come to an end
to-day.
STUDENT ROLL INCREASED
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Aug. 6.—An In
crease of nearly 7 per cent, in the
number of students in American col
leges. universities and technological i
schools in 1914 over the previous year
Is shown In the annual report of the
Federal Commissioner of Education,
which has just been made public. The
figures are 216,493, compared with
202,231 in 1913.
MRS. BHODHEAD DIES
By Associated Press
Denver. Col., Aug. 6. Mrs. Eva
Wilder Brodhead. well-known novelist
and short story writer, died yesterday
at her home here after an Illness of
eleven months. She was born at
Covington, Ky.. in 1870 and began
literary work at the age of eighteen.
With her husband, Henrv c. Brod
head. she had lived in Denver ten
years.
WARDEN ALLEN WILL QUIT
By Associated Press
Chicago, ill., Aug. 6.—Warden Ed
mund M. Allen, of the Illinois State
Penitentiary at Joilet. declared to-day
he would resign because Governor
Dunne has denied him the privilege of
living outside the prison in which his
wife was murdered.
RUSSIANS HAVE HOPE
By Associated Press
Petrograd, Aug. 6, via London. 2.12
P. M.—The Russian newspapers to
day are unanimous in stating that
Russia's determination to pursue the
war to a victorious end has been
strengthened by the enforced evacua
tion of Warsaw.
WORKMAN'S FOOT CRUSHED
John Brindo. aged 38 years, a track
hand employed on the yards of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, went to the
Harrlsburg Hospital this morning with
a crushed right foot. A rail fell on
his foot
FRIDAY EVENING, HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH AUGUST 6, 1915.
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HIGH WATER DELAYS
WALL GAP'S CLOSING
Lynch Instructs Contractors to Pro
ceed, but Sudden Rise in
River Again Prevents
High water Is not interfering wtth
work on the new Cumberland Valley
Raiiroad bridge. The Robert Grayce
Company, contractors, have prepared
for floods and stated to-day that there
would have to be a big rise In the
water to stop work.
To date about one-third of the con
crete work on the south side of the
bridge has been completed. Work has
been going on rain or shine. Work
on the west side of the island has
been progressing In a very satisfactory
manner. The contractors do not look
for any trouble from high water unless
the river goes above the flood stage,
which is said to be Improbable.
Further Inquiries For
Railroad Equipment
Railroads are anticipating a most
profitable year for the term ending
June 30, 1916, and to prepare for big
demands upon their rolling stock, are
making inquiries for equipment. The
Atlantic Coast line is the latest to en
ter the field by asking figures for 800
box cars; the Chicago & Northwestern
has placed an order for 2,000 all-steel
box cars in St. Louis: the Raltimore &
Ohio has ordered $2,500,000 worth of
equipment, and the Western Maryland
is figuring on additional rolling stock.
The western roads are particularly ac
tive in arranging for -new equipment
with the orders to be placed in the
early Fall, while the roads in which
Pittsburgh is particularly Interested,
such as the Pennsylvania, the Buffalo,
Rochester & Pittsburgh, the Baltimore
& Ohio, the Bessemer, the Pittsburgh
& Lake Erie and others will enter the
market shortly. The necessity for
these purchasing is the enhanced ship
ments of steel products and the great
ly increased coal and coke shipments
which show no sign of abatement.
Complete Largest Scales
on P. R. R. Main Line
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, within a week, will complete the
Installation of a set of scales In Ty
rone that will weigh anything up to
400,000 pounds.
Scale Inspectors F. M. Basler, H. B.
Houston and W. E. Ebrlght of the
Pennsylvania began setting up the
scales early in June and the work has
been under the direct supervision of
the inventor, A. H. Emory, of Stam
ford, Conn., who is past 81 years old.
The largest scales now used by the
Pennsy have a weighing capacity of
300,000 pounds, but the company is
also building a set of standard scales,
such as they now use. at the Juniata
shops which will also have a capacity
of 400,000 pounds. When completed,
comparisons can then be made be
tween Mr. Emory's scales and the
standard type.
Standing of the Crews
HARRISRIRG SIDE
Philadelphia Division ll4 crew to
go first after 3.10 p. m.: 126, 111. 103,
104, 128, 105, US. 110. 127, 102, 125,
124. 120, 122. 121. 1 17, 113.
Engineers for 102, 111. 113, 115.
Firemen for 102, 113. 114. 116, 126,
Conductors for 113, 116.
Flagmen for 104. 110. 114, 126.
Brakemen for 102, 103, 113. 117. 129.
Engineers up: Gibbons. Sober. Wolfe,
Long, Buck, Davis, Kautz. First. Al
bright, Bissinger. Madenford. Crisswell,
Heindman.
firemen up: Manning. Horstiek,
Neidtgh, Martin. Rhoads. Miller, Kreld
cr. Herman, Barton, Collier, Everhart,
Huston. Sees, Yentzer, Bleich, Packer,
Shaffer, Shive.
Brakemen up: Allen, Coleman. Moore,
McGinn!?, Kope, Wiland, Boyd, Kone.
Middle DlvUlon 2O crew to go
first after 1.30 p. m.: 24. 23, 22, 18, 19,
16, 21, 17. 26.
Engineer for 20.
Fireman for 18.
Brakemen for 23. 19, 17.
Engineers up: Sharver, Havens. Gar
man. Kugter, Mumma, Slmonton. Hertz
ler.
Firemen up: Richards, Karstetter,
Lieliau, Look, Mohler, Arnold, Sheesley,
Potteiger. Fletcher, Stauffer, Seagrist.
Conductors up: Fralick, Basklns.
Flagman up: Carpenter.
Brakemen up: Fritz. McHenry,
Frank, Henderson. Baker. Werner. Mar
tin, Kane, Myers, Stahl, Reese, Riss
inger, Roller, Wenerick, Bell.
YARD.CREWS
Engineers up: Snyder, Pelton, Shav
er, Landis, Hoyler, Beck, Harter. Biev
er, Blosser, Rudy, Houser, Meals, Stahl,
Swb Crist, Harvey, Saltsman. Kuhn.
Firemen up: Barkey, Sheets. Bair,
Eyde. Ulsh, Bostdorf, Schlefer, Rauch,
Lackey. Cookerley, Bartolet, Maeyer,
Getty. Sholter.
Engineers for 6. Ist 8, 2nd 8. 16, 32.
Firemen for 16. 18.
E.YOLA SIDE
Philadelphia Division 204 crew to
go first after 3.45 p. m.: 223, 231, 216,
232. 239, 226. 206, 240. 203, 237, 225.
Engineers for 214. 216, 231.
Firemen for 203, 219, 225, 229.
Conductors for 04. 14.
Brakemen for 03, 06, 36.
I Brakemen up: Baker, Twigg, Mus
ser, Goudy.
Middle Dlvlalon lll crew to go
after 1.30 p. m.: 109, 119, 118. 110, 102,
107. 114. 115. 117, 108. 101. 113, 120. 104.
Firemen for 119, 117, 120.
Conductor for 107.
Brakemen for 111. 109, 118, 107, 114,
108, 104.
YARD CREWS EJiOLA
The following is the standing of the
yard crews after 4 p. m.:
Engineers up: McCormick. Rider.
Firemen up: Bruaw, G. L. Forten
baugh, Feass. Ewing. McNalley.
Engineers for Ist 108, 2nd 108.
Firemen for 2nd 126, 128, Ist 106.
READING CREWS
The 16 crew first to go after 7.30
o'clock: 4, 9. 19. 24, 2, 3, 12, 23, 8, 17.
The 61 crew first to go after 9.15
o'clock: 68, 57. 52, 60. 63, 53, 54, 59.
Engineers for 2, 21, 22.
Firemen for 63, 12, 21, 22.
Conductors for 21, 22.
Brakemen for 53, 54, 57, 63, 4, 8, 9,
12, 16. 17. 19, 21. 22. 23.
Engineers up: Glas«. Tipton, Rich
wine. Wood. Morrison. Sweeley.
Firemen up: Brown, Chronlster,
Carl. King.
Conductors up. Orris. Blpes. Wolfe,
German, Sowers. Gingher, Landis. T
Brakemen up: Hinkle, Ayers. Chart
er. Grimes, Machmer, Ensminger, Yod
er, Zellers, Holbert. Capp, Little,
Hughes, Bingaman, Epley.
EIXAXCIAL AMERICA WAXTS
DESCRIPTIVE ARTICLE
The editors of Financial America
have requested E. L. McColgin, secre
tary of Harrisburg Chamber of Com
merce. to submit them an article de
scriptive of the Harrisburg Chamber
of Commerce efforts to stimulate for
,, elgn trade development.
CITY REPAIRS THIRD
ST.; SECOND NEXT
Numerous Holes in Uptown High
ways Being Patched With Ma
terials From Municipal Plant
I Third street, from Relly to Maclay
street. Is now undergoing repairs and
ns soon as this stretch of asphaltum Is
Eatchcd. City Commissioner W. H.
.yneh, superintendent of streets and
public Improvements, will devote hia
attention to the whole length of Second
street, from Maclay to Market Square.
All of the material, of course. Is being
turned out by the city's new asphalt re
pair plant, and the working Is being
done under the direct supervision of
the Superintendent of Streets.
Nine more sections of streets which
had been paved prior to 1910 were add
ed to-day to the list of highways which
Harrlsburg will hereafter look after on
Its own account. These streets Include:
Front street, from Calder to Kelker;
Carnation. Sixteenth to Eighteenth;
Nectarine, Mulberry to Kittatinny; Dls
brow. Carnation to Walnut: Lawton,
Calder to Relly: North, Sixteenth to
Seventeenth; Reglna. Seventeenth to 180
feet east of Eighteenth: i-watara. Cres
cent to Seventeenth: Second. Maclay to
Woodbine: Evergreen. Market to Derry
streets. The five-year repair guarantee
with the paving companies has expired
and the contractor has placed them In
first-class shape for the last time. Mr.
Lynch has been asked to formally re
lease them from the bond.
Derry street, newly paved from
Twenty-third to the eastern city line,
was formally accepted yesterday by
Commissioner Lynch
Comparatively little paving remains
on the city's program outside of
Bellevue. Specifications for this new
type of improvement are now being
prepared, and if Council approves them
Tuesday. Commissioner Lynch will ask
for bids at once.
Second street, from Schuylkill to
Seneca, is to be paved and an ordinance
providing for this improvement along
with the paving of Saul and Atlas
streets, will likely be offered by Mr.
Lynch on Tuesday.
One Autoists Dies;
Two Others Near Death
in Sands of Desert
Los Angeles. Cat., Aug. 6.—Failure
to think about evaporation in an auto
mobile radiator brought death to one
man and frightful tortures to two
others who arrived here from the
desert and told of their sufferings.
The trio, James S. Roche and John
M. Welsh, attorneys, and James G.
Clarke, a real estate dealer, left here
Sunday in an automobile for El Centro.
in the Imperial Valley.
Monday morning the car stopped in
the sand. The radiator was empty
and they had no water. Roche and
Welsh started after a mirage which
they believed was the Salton Sea.
Clarke waited a day and then, believ
ing them dead, made his way to Min
eral Springs, where he was resusci
tated. and organized a rescue party.
Tl ey found Roche unconscious and
Welsh dead. Roche said they dranU
lubricating oil.
Plan Celebration For
Oldest Passenger Agent
John R. Potts, passenger agent for
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
railway on a visit to the Pennsylvania
Railroad station ticket office yester
day, let drop the fact that he will be
75 years old on September 1, which
accidental outgiving immediately led
to a suggestion by other agents that
they prepare "a celebration for the old
man." This Is now being tentatively
considered, and It is a probability
that "Uncle John" will be the honor
guest at a complimentary dinner, al
though he swears "by the beard of
the prophet" that he intends to spend
the day at the home of his birth in
Lycoming county, Pa.
ROADHEI) WASHED AWAY
Dillsburg. Pa., Aug. B.—A storm o*
severe intensity swept over this part
of York county last evening, this be
inpr the second damaging storm within
a week. The rain began falling at
5 o'clock and grew In volume to the
proportions of a cloudburst, causing
creeks to overflow their banks and
carry away small bridges and fences,
making roads almost impassable. At
the farm of Pierce Knaub, where the
oats field bordered on a small creek,
a lot of oats shocks were washed from
the field. < >'ie hundred and twenty
five feet of the roadbed of the Dills
burg branch of the Cumberland Valley
railroad was washed away near Mount
Olivet campgrounds.
MARRIED OR NOT MARRIED.
THAT'S THE QUESTION
The report was sent out this morn
ing from the office of the Elliott-
Fisher Company that C. J. S. Kish
prugh, 406 South Sixteenth street, who
is employed by that company, has
gene to Philadelphia for the purpose
of entering into the blessed state of
matrimony. Mr. Kishpaugh left for
the Quaker City last evening, leaving
his mother under the impression that
h» intended to visit at the home of his
sister in that city. However, his
mother stated this afternoon that one
never could tell what boys will do,
although she thinks it Is probably a
Joke which some of his associates I
have "framed up" against htm. There]
is the slightest possibility that the
,loke will work the other way and that
Mr. Kishpaugh will come home with a
bride.
PLAINFIEI.D SMALLPOX
VICTIM STEELTOXIAX?
Joe Petrowitch, aged 39 years, be
lieved to be from Steelton, died at
Plalnfleld, X. J., Wednesday, from a
serious attack of smallpox. The man
was out In a storm Tuesday night,
and was in an exhausted condition
when found on the outskirts of the
town.
In a letter received to-day by Dr.
J. M. J. Raunick. local health officer,
from N. J. Randolph Chandler, health
officer of Plainfieid. X. J.. Informa
tion is given regarding Petrowitch's
death.
The man is said to have left Harris
burg two weeks ago, traveling on a
Pennsylvania railroad train.
AS READIXG DOES IT
Delegates to Convention Will he Slimvn
Sewage. Water and Garbage Systems
Within a few days the program for
the annual convention of the Third
Class City League of Pennsylvania to
be held at Reading the latter part of
the month is expected from the com
mittee of arrangements in the Berks
county city.
A feature of the program this year
will be papers on Reading's sewage
disposal, garbage and filtration plants
by the respective superintendents in
whose charge these departments are.
The reading of these papers will be
followed by Immediate adjournment
to the particular plant about which
the paper has been read so that the
.visiting delegates may see the plants
In actual operation.
TIX PLATE KIXG DEAD
Xew York, Aug. 6. George G.
McMurtry. chairman of the American
Sheet and Tin Plate Company, a sub
■ sldlary of the United States Steel Cor
poration, died suddenly at Atlantic
City, N. J., early to-day.
Says "Pick Your Spouse
by Size of His Wallet"
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bemtmcs <» oldie—
New Vurk.Aug. (!.—Prominent club
women here agree with the vote of the
Harvard summer school girls that
twenty-five was about the right age
for a girl to marry. The question of
money proved to be more difficult.
Figures as low as 51,500 a year and
as high as SIO,OOO showed what the
family pocketbook should be. The
Radcliffe girls made an average of
$2,000.
"Those college girls have the right
idea," Mme. Beatrice Goldie, presi
dent of the Made in America Club,
said with emphasis.
"Any woman knows that It Is des
perately hard work to make $2,000 a
year spread over the wants of two
people.
"Selecting a husband means select
ing his pocketbook. Love flies out of
the window pretty fast when the gro
cery and rent man have to alternate
every other month waiting for their
bill.
"Girls make a big mistake in ig
noring material things when they se
lect the man they mean to live with
the rest of their lives."
BOY DROWNED IN CONESTOGA
Lancaster, Pa., Aug. 6. Clarence
Kruhel, an orphan, aged 13, was
drowned in the Conestoga Creek near
this city on Thursday arternoon while
swimming when he got beyond his
depth. Several companions who were
with him did not tell of the tragedy
until this morning and the police
grappled for the body but on account
of the high water were unable to
recover It.
TOWNS NEAR WARSAW BURNED
By Associated Press
Petrograd. Aug. 6, via London. 2.40
P m.—a letter from Warsaw dated
Tuesday, August 3, received here to
duy, says the towns of Jirardoff. Groitzs
and Blonle were in flames when tho
Germans reach them.
The invaders are said to have been
forced to fight fire so persistently In
tin advance to the Vistula river that
the Teutonic armies were preceded by
detachments of military firemen.
FUNERAL OF MRS. PRO WE LI,
New Cumberland, Pa., Aug. 6.
Funeral services were held for Mrs.
Clarence Prowell In the Church of
God vesterday morning, conducted by
the Rev. S. N. Good. The choir sang
several selections. The Ever Faithful
Bible Class, of which Mrs. Prowell was
a member, attended in a body. The
pallbearers were: Filmore B. Balr,
Norman Uptegraph, William Burns
and William Keeney.
INHABITANTS FLEE RIGA
Petrograd, Aug. 6, 1 P. M„ via Lon
don, 4 P. M.—Ten thousand persons
have been leaving Riga, the Baltic
capital, daily for a week. Among the
objects most carefully removed from
the evacuated territory are church
bells, many of them often too large
to remove whole without erecting
special framework. In such cases the
bells are sawed to pieces.
CYMELENE FOOTE
Funeral services for Cymelene
Foote, aged 15, who died Wednesday
evening at 9 o'clock In the Harrlsburg
hospital following an operation, were
held from her late home, 1721 North
Seventh street, this afternoon at 2
o'clock. Burial was made in the Pen
brook Cemetery.
BOUGHT SMOKES FOR BOY
William Roberts was before Mayor
John K. Royal this afternoon to ans
wer a charge of furnishing clgarets
to minors. It was said that Roberts
went Into a Chestnut street store and
bought a package of clgarets for a
12-year-old boy.
CRUSTY FATHER
Arthur, aged' Reven. had carefully
bitten out all the soft pieces of his
slice of toast, neatly pUlng the crusts
on the edge of his plate.
"When I was a little boy," said
father, reprovingly, "I always ate my
crusts."
"Did you like them?" asked Arthur.
"Of course I did!" lied the father
glibly.
"Then you may have these," replied
hla son graciously.
HIGH WATER NQ BAR
TO DRIDGE BUILDERS
Work on New Cumberland VaDey
Railroad Structure Is Pro
gressing Satisfactorily
High water has again delayed the
starting of work on the closing of the
river wall gap at Market street, al
though Commissioner W. H. Lyncn.
superintendent of streets and public
Improvements, said to-day that Stucker
Brothers Construction Company have
been ordered to go ahead.
"The sudden rise in the river has
again prevented a start," said Mr.
Lynch to-day, "and just as soon as the
tl.ree-foot level, or nearly three-foot
level, is reached the contractors will
begin. They've had their Instructions,
but the high water has prevented."
Tuesday Mr. Lynch will have a state
ment of the condition of all the im
provement funds for Council. The
Lynch ordinance directing the transfer
of certain balances to the fund for
completing the work will be passed
finally at next week's meeting. Ar
rangements for settling the Opperman
arbitrators' award are now being
made.
The heavy rains of the last few days
have created some little havoc with
the newly graded slopes of the river
front at certain places and City Com
missioner M. Harvey Taylor, superin
tendent of parks, Is remedying the
trouble as rapidly as possible.
Chamber of Commerce
Will Issue Blue Book
A complete membership list of the
Chamber of Commerce, carefully cross
'lndexed, and showing the telephone
number of every member, with the
by-laws of the Chamber appended,
will be mailed to members of the
Chamber next week.
The membership list for the Cham
ber of Commerca contains practically
every business man and concern of
importance In Harrisburg and will be
used as a blue book of Harrisburg
commercial and Industrial Interests.
20,000 Homeless as
Result of Struggle
By Associated Press
London, Aug. 6.—Replying to a re
quest for information as to the extent
of the damage done as the result of
the war in Armenia, the Governor of
Van telegraphs:
"Besides Van, the provinces of
Chatak, Mokssparkert, Mamertatek
and Khizan are saved. Trie rest are in
ruin and devastated. Twenty thousand
persons are homeless and famine and
infectious diseases are widespread."
TirF, PHANTOM ARMY OF ST.
GEORGE
"World without end. Amen,' said
one of the British soldiers, with some
irrelevance, as he took aim and flrod.
Then he remembered a vegetarian
restaurant In London, where he had
once or twice eaten queer dishes of
cutlets made of lentils and nuts that
pretended to be steaks. On all the
plates In this restaurant a figure of
St. George was printed in blue with
the motto, Adsit Anglis Sanctus
Georgius. May St. George be a pres
ent help to England! The soldier hap
pened to know Latin and other use
less things, so now, as he fired at the
grey advancing mass, 300 yards away,
he uttered the pious vegetarian motto.
He went on firing to tne end, till at
last BUI on his right had to clout him
cheerfully on the head to make him
stop, pointing out as he did so that
the King's ammunition cost money and
was not lightly to be wasted in drill
ing funny patterns into dead Ger
mans. For as the Latin scholar ut
tered his invocation he felt something
between a shudder and an electric
shock pass through his body. The
roar of the battle died down in his
ears to a gentle murmur, and instead
of it, he says he heard a great voice
louder than a thunder peal, crying
"Array! Array!" His heart grew hot
as a burning coal, then It grew cold
as ice within him, for It seemed to
him a tumult of voices answered to
thiß summons. He hear/i or seemed to
hear thousands shouting. As the sol
dier heard these voices, he saw before
him. beyond the trench, a long line of
shapes with r shining about them.
They were like men who drew the
bow, and with another shout their
cloud of arrows flew singing and whir
ring through the air toward the Ger
man host. The other men in the
trenches were firing all the while.
They had no hope, but they aimed
just as if they had been shooting at
Bisley.
Suddenly one of thehe lifted up his
voice In plain English. "Gawd help
us!" he bellowed to the man next to
him. "but we're blooming marvels.
Look at those grey gentlemen! Look
at them! They're not down in
dozens or hundreds—in thousands It
is! Look, look! There's a regiment
gone while I'm talking to ye!"
"Shut It," the ther soldier bellowed,
taking aim. "What are ye talking
about?" But he gulped with astonish
ment even while he spoke, for Indeed
the grey men were falling by the thou
sands. The English could hear the
guttural scream of their revolvers as
they shot, and line after line crashed
to the earth. All the while the Latln
brod soldier heard the cry, "Harow!
Harow! Monselgneur! Dear Saint.
Quick to our aid! St. George help
us!"
The singing arrows darkened the
air, the heathen hordes melted before
them. "More machine guns!" Bill
yelled to Tom. "Don't hear them!"
Tom yelled back, "but thank God,
anyway, they have got it in the neck."
In fact theer were ten thousand dead
German soldiers left before that
salient of the English army, and conse
quently—no Sedan. In Germany, a
country ruled by scientific principles,
the great General Staff decided that
the contemptible English must have
employed turpentine shells, as no
wounds were discernible on the dead
soldiers. But the man that knew what
nuts tasted like when they called
themselves steak, knew also that St.
George had brought his Aglncourt
Bowmen to help the English. The
Hon. Mrs. St. John Mlldmay, in The
North American Review.
CREAM OF THE CLASS
Two small boys who lived on dairy
farms In South Australia were sent at
last to a little school In a neighbor
ing town.
At first the novelty of their sur
roundings kept them quiet. Then,
after the first day or two, they began
to whisper to each other and fidget
about.
"You must stop talking," said the
teacher kindly.
For an hour or so they behaved
beautifully. Then the muttering be
gan again.
"Now, Tommy Smith and Willie
Jones, If you don't stop talking I must
separate you!" said the teacher, most
sternly.
A large smile spread over Tommy
1 Smith's face as he said audibly to his
chum:
"I say, Willi* teacher finks we's
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NORTH DAKOTA HAS
BIG COAL OUTPUT
Increased Production in 1914;
Mines Free From Labor
Trouble
The output of lignite In North Da
kota—the only mineral fuel of the
State —increased in 1914 from 495.320
short tons, valued at $750,652 In 1913,
to 506,685 tons, valued at $771,379.
The output of lignite In 1912 was
499,480 tons and in 1911 502,628 tons.
The relatively small differences in pro
duction during the last four years indi
cate an absence of any fluctuating in
fluences and shows tha tactlve devel
opment of lignite properties will wait
upon Increased population. At present
lignite is consumed chiefly for domes
tic uses, but when properly handled
with proper equipment It can be used
with satisfaction as a boiler fuel. A
convincing example of what may be
accomplished with lignite for boiler
use is presented by the Irrigation plant
of the United States Reclamation Serv
ice at Williston, where the Recla
mation Service operates the mine and
uses the product in the generation of
steam for Its pumping plant connected
with the irrigation project at Willis
ton At Kenmare, Scranton, and Dick
inson lignite is successfully used in
bv.rnlng brick, and as it is smokeless
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and sootleas and is cheap, It Is well
adapted to this use. As the gas
producer and internal-combustion en
gines in large units come into more
general use in the West, as they are
rr.pidly doing in the East, the llgnltea
of North Dakota will become great
factors in the settlement and economic
development of the State.
To be successfully utilized, lignite
(unless briquetted) must be burned in
the vicinity of the mine from which
if Is taken. When freshly mined North
Dakota lignite contains from 25 to 40
per cent, of moisture, but on exposure
to the atmosphere It gives up a. large
ptirt of the moisture and "slacks'" or
crumbles. Prolonged exposure reduces
it to a rather fine powder with oxi
dation and loss of volatile combustible
material. One company, at Mlnot,
manufactured briquettes from lignite
on a commercial scale In 1914.
The number of men employed in the
lignite mines or North Dakota in 1914
was 558. who worked an average of
216 days, as compared with 641 men
for an average of 221 days in 1913.
The average production per man was
908 tons for the year and 4.2 tons for
each working day, as compared with
772 tons and 2.9 tons, respectively, in
1913.
The mines were entirely free from
strikes, suspensions or lockouts in
1914.
C. OF C. CONGRATULATES MAXIM
Hudon Maxim has been tendered
the congratulations of the Chamber of
Commerce upon the recent announce
ment of his selection as a member of
Secretary of the Navy Daniels' advis
or*- board to investigate Inventions to
increase the navy's efficiency, which
Thomas A. Edison will head.
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