Two-Year-Old Who Reads Is Martha Springer San Francisco, CaJ.—A tiny two year-old baby girl here holds the! world's record in mental develop-1 ment. The infant prodigy is Martha 1 Springer, 26 minths old. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John K. Springer, of Mountain View. The child can read like an eight year-old. The father says the child has a normal mind which simply j kia been developed by persistent! ■"•dining. S.t a recerit meeting of college professors ami experts in pedagogy; !nd psychology the child for 40 min utes read, counted and told the time h ythe clock and talked with the, men who were observing her. Her; baby's brain did no sag she! appeared to enjoy the long inter \ iew. All were unanimous in declaring, that the baby's case indicates that! geniuses are made. r>ot born. The < hild reads and speaks with a vocab- \ tilary of aboua 2.000 words. She is largo for her age and eats ■ id sleeps well. 30 MILES OF RAILROAD TRACK AT MARSH RUN [Continued from First Page.] ea to haul supplies to points near | v. here they can be put into the j buildings without much truckage. 1 Vast sums of money and large num- j bers of trucks and men will be saV- j cd by bringing the railroad to the ; point as near the construction work bp is possible. The work is moving rapidly and alread? nearly a mile of iuils are down. The grading was begun Tuesday and the whole thing will be . ompleted by the close of the week, it would have gone more rapidly, ' Captain Carpenter one of the men on the job said, if it had not been | for a shortage of men to drive i JV'.kes Good wages are being j paid for the work but men of the ' kind needed are few. The rails that j are being used were consigned to I the Russian government and would | now be doing duty somewhere west of Fetrograd had not the United ' States government seized them when i it became apparent that Russia is \ out of the war. When Major Morova and his staff arrived on the ground they j found no quarters ready for them, } so they simply shooed the cows out j of the big barn half way between : New Cumberland and Marsh Run. j dusted out the upper floor and rig- [ ged up offices of a temporary char- I acter, where the force is working to- | day. Within 2 4 hours, however. | they will be in the new office build- | ings, located near the main highway j on the big tract some distance below ; New Marke*. These are being put ; together as rapidly as a force of ! nearly 100 carpenters can work and next in line will be the frame bar- ! racks and dining halls. Big trucks are at a premium in ; the vicinity of Harrisbnrg and for ■ the 5-ton variety costs about $33 a day without the driver. To save this sum to the government many times multiplied.- Major Morova has procured from the War Department Irt big army trucks, which are now parked on the plot, with the prom ise of 12 more should he need them. The whole transportation problem is giving the men in charge food for thought and in particular is it important to be able to get work men too and. from Harrisburg quickly. In a few days at least 1.000 men will be on the work and many of these will reside in this city. "N"o matter what they may think of jitneys in other parts of the State. I will welcome them here." ?a d Major Morova today. "We will he glad to prant them entrance to the ground? if they bring the work men down in the morning and take them hack at night." The Valley railways lines run as far as New '"nmberland but at present between that and the construction plot there is no passenger communication. The water problem will not enter into the calculations of those who build the Xew Cumberland plant. Already plans are being made for connection with the filtered water supply of the Riverton Consolidated Water Company, which supplies all the West Shore towns, and an un limited quantity of pure water is assured. A large amount of water is an essential not only for drinking pur poses but for use of the concrete mixers, as all of the many buildings to be erected will be of reinforced concrete. The plan is to make this a permanent development for the supply o fthe Army after the pres ent war, and not only the buildings but the railroad construction is de signed to that end. The Pennsyl vania railroad is preparing to run a siding along the tract long enough to hold 65 cars to prevent blocking the main line. Learn How to KNIT Nearly everybody's knitting these days, so of course, you want to do your BIT for OUR soldier boys as well as make a sweater and other comfort articles for yourself. THE WINIFRED CLARK SWEAT ER BOOK includes instructions for the stand ard Red Cro?s Army and Navy ETe*x Woman Wants One M*U the tfbupon and 15 cents to this paper to-day and the Winifred Clark Sweater Book will be mailed to you. Enclosed And IS cents for which mail me the new Winifred Clark Sweater Book. Name Address • ■■■*' _ FRIDAY EVENING, HARHISBURG TELEGRAPH MAY 3. 1918. "Outwitting By Lieutenant Pat O'Brien (Copyright, 1918. by Pat Alva O'Brien.) One night in Bcl giuni my course took me through a deso ] late stretch of coun t>■HPnbfi try which seemed to .'I lit- absolutely uncul- JpfHF >1 tivated. 1 must have covered twelve ■Kr "fj miles during the y| night, without pass- ' IIK a s >ngle (arm or cultivated tleld. My which I had plucked the night before was gone and 1 ' planned, of course, to get enough to! carry me through the following day. j toe* Hungry on m "Huueh" The North Star was shining , brightly that night and there was | absolutely nothing to prevent my j , steering an absolutely direct course ! for Holland and liberty, but my path , seemed to lie through arid pastures. Far to the east or to the west I | could hear faintly the striking of ; village bePs, and I knew that If I ' changed my course I would undoubt- , edly strike farms and vegetables. , i but the North Star seemed to plead 1 with me to follow it and I would not turn aside. j \ When daylight came, the conse- j i quence was I was empt.vhanded and 1 , I had to find a hiding place for the j day. I thought I would approach the j first peasant I came to and ask for j i food, but that day I had misgivings | —a hunch—that I would get into i trouble if 1 did. and I decided to go i without food altogether for that day j i It was a foolish thing to do. Ij i found, because I not only suffered ! i greatly from hunger all that day, but it interfered with my sleep, t would drop off to sleep for half an hour, perhaps, and during that time : 1 would dream that 1 was free, back I home, living a life of comparative ease, and then 1 would wake up . with a start and catch a glimpse of j the bushes surrounding me. feel the hard ground beneath me and the : hunger pangs gnawing at my in sides, and then I would realize how far far from home T really was. and I would lie there and wonder wheth- | er I would ever really see my home | again. Then T would fall asleep again and dream this time, perhaps, of the days 1 spent in Courtrai. of the Bavarian pilot whom I sent to eternity in my last air fight, of the tracer bullets getting closer and closer to his head, and then I would wake up again with a start and thank the Lord that I ! was only dreaming it all again in stead of living through i^ Kind* Flr< Ileal Friend That night I got an early start be cause I knew I had to have food, and I decided that rather than look for vegetables I would take a chance and apply to the first Belgian peas ant whom I came to. It was about 8 o'clock when 1 came to a small house. I had picked i up a heavy stone and had bound it in my handkerchief and I was re solved to use it as a weapon if it became necessary. After all I had gone through, I was resolved to win my liberty eventually at whatever • cost. As it happened. I found that night my first real friend I had encoun- ; tered in all my traveling. 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He brought me some cold potatoes and several slices of stile bread, and he warmed me some milk on a small oil stove. I ate ravenously and all the time I was engaged I knew that he was eyeing me closely. Before I was half through, he came over to me. touched me on the shoulder, and, stooping over so that j his lips almost touched my ear, he said, in broken Knglish: "You are an Englishman—l know it—and you can hear and talk if you wish—am I not right?" There was a smile on his face and a friendly attitude about him that told me instinctively that he could be trusted, and I replied: "You have guessed right—only I am an Amer ican, not an Englishman." He looked at me pityingly and filled my cup again with warni milk. "Wanted to Warn Him His kindness and apparent will ingness to help me almost overcame me, and I felt like warning him of the consequences he would suffer if DandVLine |||| Extra Wear Shoes rumps ' j? Oxtords $2.95 $3.45 $5.00 $5.00 Made in By Devine & Yun^el DandYLine Shoe Store 202 Market Street the Huns discovered he had befriend ed me. I had heard that twenty Bel gians had been shot for helping Bel gians to escape into Holland, and I hated to think what might happen to tihs good Samaritan if the Huns ever knew that he had helped an escaped American prisoner. After my meal was finished I told him in as simple language as I could command of some of the experiences I had gone through and I outlined my future plans. "You will never be able to get to Holland." he declared, "without a passport. The nearer you get to the frontier the more German soldiers you will encounter, and without a passport you will be a marked man." 1 asked him to suggest a way by which I could overcome this diffi culty. He thought for several moments and studied me closely all the time —perhaps endeavoring to make ab solutely sure that I was not a Ger man spy—and then, apparently de ciding in my favor, told me what he thought it was best for me to do. Proipeot of a Passport "If you will call on this man" (mentioning the name of a Belgian in —. a city through which I had to pass), he advised, "you will be able to make arrangements with him to secure a passport, and he will do everything he can to get you out of Belgium." He told me where the man in ques tion could be found and gave me some useful directions to continue my journey, and then he led me to the door. I thanked him a thousand times and wanted to pay him for his kindness and help, but he would ac cept nothing. He did give me his name, and you may be sure I shall never forget It, but to mention it here might, of course, result in serious consequences to him. When the war Is over, how ever, or the Germans are thrown out of Belgium, I shall make it my duty to find that kind Belgian If I have to go through again all that < have suffered already to do it. (To Be Continued t Four Out of Each Five Pass Rigid National Army Test "Never in all history has an army been organized and handled as the National army of the United States" writes Henry Rood in the Century. "For instance, one of the ablest British officers told me, after a con siderable sojourn at one of the can tonments, that nothing approaching it for thorough organization, hous ing, etc.. is known at any of the great cantonments of the British ar my. Certain It is that our men gen erally are better cared for than any others recorded in military annals. And the raw material gathered in the cantonments, the men them selves selected for the National ar my. effectually disprove the fears some profess to have held that as a type American manhood, had dete riorated during the last generation or so. Provost Marshal General Crowd er is authority for the statement that of all the men called to the colors last summer by registration and draft, only 20 per cent were re jected for physical disability, and a considerable proportion were refus ed admittance to the National Army because of minor disability, such as weakened arches or some slight vis ual or dental defect, to which little attention is paid in civil life, but which unfits a man for the terrific strain of modern warfare. Let it be remembered that, counting ex clusions from such causes, four men out of every five of the six hundred or seven hundred thousand called to the National Army came up to rigid physical requirements, and were permitted to wear khaki." 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