2 French Gommander Who Has Won Great Viclory J? A r*Z'- ■ -M >< K / .. ) 1 ' ' r *' k " * %i \ * V ~ ±4 Photo by American Press Association. GENERAL JOSEPH JOFFRE. Some idea of how the Germans were han-dsseu oj artillery fire during their retreat was obtained on a visit to the fields near Meaux. The German in fantry had taken a position in a sunk en road on either side of which were stretched in extended lines hum mocks, some of them natural and some the work of spades in the hands of German soldiers. Beside many bodies were forty or fifty empty cartridge shells while frag ments of clothing, caps and knapsacks were scattered about. This destruc tion was w-ought by batteries little more than three miles distant. Straggling clumps of wood inter vened between the batteries and their mark, but the range had been de termined by an officer on an elevation a m'le from the gunners. He tele phoned directions for the firing and through glasses watched the bursting shells. The sunken road was littered with bodies today. Sprawling in ghastly fashion, the faces had almost the same greenish gray hue as the uniforms worn. The road is lined with poplars, the branches of which severed by frag ments of shells, were strewn among the dead. In places whole tops of trees had been torn away by the artil lery fire. Servians Win Another Victory. Nish, Servia, Sept. 12. —The Servian army occup ed Semlin after the blood iest battle of the campaign. The Aus trian loss was very heavy. The Serbian army took Semlin at the point of the bayonet. As a result of this conflict the entire Austrian army, which three days ago forced the Servians, under the command of the crown prince, back across the Save river at MProvicza, is now retiring, panic strii ken. Thousands of Aus trians have been killed and captured. Many stands of colors, cannon and large quantities of munitions of war have been taken by the Servians, who are following up their advantage. There were 150,000 Servians in the attacking column, all veterans of the Balkan war, and they resorted to cold steel, many not even firing their rifles as they rushed madly forward cheering wildly. The Austrians could not stand the bayonet and broke and fled, abandoning their equipment in wild flight. Semlin is an important town of Aus tria-Hungary in Slavonia. It is located on the tongue of land formed by the Junction of the Danube and the Save, opposite Belgrade, Servia, with which it was conn cted by a railway bridge across the Save. British Had Narrow Escape. London, Sept. lz. —The Times ex pert concludes his analysis of Field Marshal Sir John French's dispatch as follows: "We can little doubt that nothing but prompt retreat, cool leading and hard fighting qualities saved the Brit ish army from destruction, but at great loss to itself. The l. v .ie army fulfilled its mission, for the Ger man t-> ; s swarming southward on Aug. - iot come up against the suc <veastve barriers presented by Sir Joliu French, they would in all probability have crossed the Sambre by Aug. 24 ft-nd would have crushed the French armies retreating from Charleroi." Freight Tax Opposed. Washington, Sept. 12. —Opposition to the freight tax provision in the ad ministration emergency revenue bill has reached a stage where it may be necessary f or President Wilson to make an effort to compose the differ ences among his party colleagues. Two Killed In Auto Accident. Mercer, Pa., Sept. 12. —Two men were killed when an automobile ran into a ditch near here. The dead are Frank Byerlv, Baltimore and Ohio en gineer, Mahoningtown; Charles John fon, New Castle. One Parisian Surrenders. Paris, Sept. 12. —One Parisian, seeing his supply of absinthe was re duced with no chance for obtaining more, drank his last bottle ala./*st at •ne drink and died. GERMAN FORCES 6 TURN THE TIDE Russians Falling Back Before Their Advance AUSTRIANS RESUME ATTACK Situation In East Prussia Said tc Have Became More Favorable tc Germans Because of Arrival of Sev eral Additional Army Corps —St Petersburg Admits Russian Advance Is Now Retiring to New Position. Washington, Sept. 12. —"The forti fied position of the Austrians at Opolie and Turobin (villages between Lublin and the San River) has been taken by our troops," says a cable to the Russian embassy. "Sept. 10 during the pursuit which followed our success some of our columns in one day covered twenty miles, fighting all the way. Our cav airy is in the rear of the enemy. To maszow has been taken by our troops after a stubborn battle. "Serious fighting continues along the line from Rawarusska to the River Dneister. On the east Prussian front the Germans continue to advance. Their main effort seems to be directed toward the region of the Mazur lake. Near Mishinetz and Horjele our troops have repulsed the Germans, in flicting on them heavy losses." Petrograd, Sept. 12. —German troops which have been transported from the west have concentrated along the banks of the River Alle and are now marching in long columns in an east wardly direction and crossing the Ma surie lakes. The Russian advance guard is retreating to the east. London, Sept. 12. —The Berlin offi cial \ersion of the fighting in the eastern war zone is as follows: "In the •- thcatfr of the war the battle .fenced at the Austr. "e fensive in P iDg the nine mated that the liu.v gaged 560,CJ0 infantry, 1,600 machine guns a~_ guns." In a dispatch from Copenhagt. correspondent of the Iteuter gram company says that General Vo Benckendorff under Von Hindenburg has defeated the left flank of the Rus sian army in east Prussia with his eastern army, and has thereby opened the way for an attack on the enemy's rear. The Russians are said to have abandoned their resistance and to be in full retreat, with the German east ern army pursuing them in a north easterly direction toward Memel. General Hindenburg with the east ern army outflanked and defeated the left wing of the Russian army still in east Prussia. The Russians gave up fighting and are now retreating every where. The eastern army is pursuing the Russians in a southeasterly direc tion toward the River Niemen. A correspondent of the Bourse Gazette, the Reuter man continues, re counts that at Bendzln, Russian Poland, the Germans compelled some Polish miners to load the coal trucks of their trains. The miners did so, but concealed high explosive in the fuel. The results were appalling. It is said that one military train was destroyed and that an ammunition factory was wrecked. Cossacks are credited with having wrecked a Ger man armored train carrying quick firing guns at a point northwest of Chenstokoff. A small detachment of Cossacks fired at the train while a big force remained in the rear. The Germans backed the train up and it was derailed by the Cossacks behind it. The cars rolled down an embankment and the Cossacks there upon attacked the enemy with their swords.- Th- Germans were annihilat ed, the correspondent of the Bourse Gazette declares, and the Cossacks captured the guns. Reuter's Telegram company has a dispatch from its correspondent at Petrograd, who says that after the recent fighting with the Austrian left wing the enemy's rear lied in such panic that regiments became inextric ably mixed and blocked the roads and bridges. Those furthest behind resort ed to the strength of their arms to force their way through the men aherd of them. The roads were littered with overturned carts and the harness cf the transport, the horses evidently having been used as mounts by the men in retreat. Many Russian hospitals, the corre spondent continues, harbor more Aus trian wounded than Russian. Copenhagen, Sept. 12. —A dispatch from St. Petersburg announces that the German military governor of Bel gium has ordered that all Belgian reservists under youths liable to serv ice by the end of 1914 be taken to fight for the Germans. This is regard ed as another outrage on international rules of warfare. The authorities of St. Petersburg are furiously indig nant over this action of the Germans. The Belgian reservists are believed to be en route to a remote part of south ern Germany. Motorcyclist Dies. Cumberland, Md„ Sept. 12.—William Ansel is dead from injuries received when he was thrown from a motor cycle. BENEDICT XV. IS A BORN DIPLOMAT Selection Due Largely to That Fact and His Age. ASTUTE, GALM, CAUTIOUS, "Chosen Because He Was Recognized as Safe Leader For Church When All Europe Was In Arms" —Is of an En gaging Personality—Combines Char acteristics of Last Two Pontiffs. Pope Benedict XV. is the two hun dred and sixtieth occupant of the chair of St. Peter. Like most of his predecessors he is an Italian. Of fifty seven popes since 1378 only four have been foreigners. There were one Greek, two Spaniards and one Dutchman. As Benedict XV., if fate deals as kindly with him as bis predecessors, the new pope is apt to occupy the throne for many years. He was fifty nine years of age Nov. 21 last. Pius X. was sixty-eight at his election, and his pontificate lasted eleven years. Leo XIII. was the same age. and he reigned twenty-five years. Gregory XIV., who preceded Pius IX., was sixty-five years of age when elected, and he reigned sixteen years. The youngest man to be chosen pontiff in the last three quarters of a century was Pius IX. He was only fifty-four, and his pontificate covered thirty-two years. It is believe*! that the age of the new pope had considerable to do with his choice at the present time. It was deemed wise to have a pontiff not weighted down with years or infirmity. Also it was realized that Cardinal della Chiesa was well versed in all the diplomacy of the Vatican, an especially important consideration now, with half the world at war. Choice of Name Indicates Policy. "If we can judge," says the Rev. John J. Wynne, S. J., editor of the Catholic Encyclopedia, "of the intention of the new pope by the choice of his name, Benedict XV., he will combine i ry happily In his administration the liaracteristics of the last two pontiffs. Leo and Pius, the former distinguished for his temporal policies, the latter for his spiritual. "Benedict XIV. was famous as a can onist. and a canonist is needed now to bring to completion the great work be gun by Pius X. of codifying and adapt ing the laws of the church to its mod ern conditions. The last Benedict was also a great liturgist and perhaps tlw most successful of all the popes ir. conciliating the eastern churches. It is very likely, therefore, that Benedict XV. will insist on the liturgical re forms, particularly in church music, established by Pius X., and there is no doubt that he will imitate the late pontiff in attempting to bring about the unity of churches of the east and of the west." A man of diplomacy, a cool, level headed, leader, a man of even temper who can face a tremendous emergency dispassionately, a man of the school of Cardinal Ratnpoila, with a keen rever ence for all the traditions of the Vati can—that is the impression Tope Bene dict XV. made upon an American who had a chance several years ago to meet and to know the man who Is now head of the Roman Catholic church. It was in 1907, when he was then Mgr. della Chiesa, holding a minor post in the Vatican, that the present pontiff was in a position to meet men from foreign lands. One of these men was Amasa Thornton, a New York lawyer. Regarded as Safe Leader. "The present pope," says Mr. Thorn ton, "never lost his head and was never angry. He was one of the kind est hearted men I ever met "I think that he was chosen not be' cause he was a builder or u construc tive genius, but because be was recog nized as a safe leader for the church when all Europe was in arms. At an other time I believe be would not have been considered. "The new pontiff has a most engag ing personality. He convinces one at once of his earnestness. He is familiar with important issues He is quick to grasp and quick to act He is courte ous and at the same time guarded in his response. "Pope Benedict is a strong believer in everything American." MELTING POT FOR GERMANY. Wedding Rings and Keepsakes to Re* lieve Distress In the Fatherland. Hundreds of wedding rings, brace lets, baby pins, earrings and keepsakes of all sorts of gold or silver have pour ed into the "melting pot" of the Ger man Historical Society of the State of New York from patriotic Germans. The metal will be converted into money and sent to the fatherland for the relief of soldiers' families. One woman, who said she was a widow, entered, accompanied by her five small children. She took off her wedding ring and placed it on the table with the other contributions, saying that it was the only remembrance of her late husband. Charles Stolberg, a veteran of the Franco-Prussian war. gave a heaTy gold watch to the fund. lie said that it had been presented to him by his superior nffWrs after the battle of Se dan, when lie taptnred a French stand ant THE PATRIOT DINING IN LIBERIA, Dumboy, Their National Dish, le a Gastronomic Wonder. TO CHEW IT MEANS LOCKJAW. The Sticky, Cement-like MeBs Has to Be Bolted lr. Lumps, Washed Down With Soup—When Allowed to Stand and Harden It Is Used For Bullets. Dumboy. tbe national dish of Li beria. is one of tbe world's gastro nomic wonucrs. If allowed to stand long after being prepared for tbe table it becomes very hard, broken pieces of it being a favorite kind of shot for use In the long muzzle loading guns of the natives. A casing of dumboy is also used to stiffen the leather sheaths of the native swords and knives, accord ing to G. N. Collins in a communica tion to the National Geographic society at Washington. "To attempt the description of some novel food is like attempting to de scribe a landscape," writes Mr. Col lins. "The constituent parts may be de scribed and the manner in which they are combined, but it requires some thing more than accurate description to reproduce the sensation of the origi nal. The principal ingredient of dum boy is cassava, or 'cassada,' as it is called in Liberia. The edible roots of this plant are the source of tapioca and some forms of sago. "To prepare the roots for dumboy they are peeled, boiled and all fibers from the center removed. The cooked roots are then placed in a large wood en mortar and beaten with a heavy pestle. This beating requires consid erable skill and experience. In the hands of a novice the result is lumpy and inedible. "The beating requires about three quarters of an hour and is hard work As the beaten mass becomes homo geneous the pestle produces a loud crack each time V is dr , *"!i from th mortar. These s rn I heard Inn -tunc, est a r* l the o. "Who. em stage thi ' n injury to < . pro beating is carried pasi must be rapidly comp.eloii ... dumboy eaten at once. The natives .->a. it is actually dangerous to oat dum boy that has stood for more than a few minutes after it is beaten. "As soon as the beating is finished the dumboy is taken from the mortar and placed in the shallow wooden bowls. The native method is to place the entire quantity in one large bowl, from which all the partakers eat. If divided the customary portion for each person is a piece about the size of an ordinary loaf of bread. "A soup which has been prepared while the dumboy was being beaten is now poured into each bowl. There is great variety in the soup, which im parts most of the taste to the dish. There is always a stock of some form of meat. This may be either chicken, deer, fish, monkey or even canned beef. To this nre added as many vege tables as can be obtained. "As soon as the soup is added tue dumboy is ready to be eaten, and, while the ingredients are somewhat bizarre, the method of eating strikes the traveler as even more startling The mass of dumboy, which can best be described as a sticky dough, will adhere instantly to anything dry, but Is readily cut with a wooden spoon if the spoon is kept moist with soup. "An incredibly large piece is cut off with the moistened spoon, taken up with a quantity of soup and swallowed whole. No one thinks of chewing it, and it is customary to caution the nov ice by tales of the frightful operation necessary to separate the jaws once the teeth are buried in the sticky mass. "As might be expected, few Euro peans like dumboy on first acquain tance, and with some the initial dis taste prevents further experiments. If a second or third attempt is made, however, and the dish has been prop erly prepared, the habit is usually formed, and before long every night spent in the bush without n meal of dumboy is counted a privation. Among the white residents of Liberia fond ness for the dish amounts almost to a cult It is regarded as a sort of guar anty that one's tenderfoot days are over." 0 Prince of Peace! O Prince of Peace, to thee be given The homage of the warring world! Let all the clouds of wrath be riven And all the battle flags be furled. Let peace prevail where war enfolds The millions In its blighting breath. Assert thy sway where hatred Loids Its awful carnival of death. The village homes, where love and life And laughter recently held sway. Are desolated by the strife And shattered in the fearful fray. The harvest fields with blood run red. Where sheaves of ripened grain should be, And Death, the Reaper, piles his dead In furrows strewn with agony. The widows and the orphans weep For those they never more will see. The loved ones gone to their long sleep, The victims of this butchery. Oh, pity the bruised hearts of those And bid war's dreadful carnage cease! Make friends of them who now are foes, O Prince of Peace! O Prince of Peace! —New York Sun. ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF HAELEN IJ ' I MMIMMMMIMMMMM- 1 lIWIIMMMWW " • Copwright, 1314. by American Press Association. This shows a pile of saddles, blank ets and small arms gathered after the fighting. STREET BARRICADES IN DIEST. BELGIUM. i! ; " ;:v * —all: Copwright, 1914. by American Press Association. Bi. 'ided Grosbeak* The b'• >Kd grosbeak >f ' west taU ice of the rosi in tl. e it '■* x ster. "li- s. apricots other t. d ••!■{' damage green pio -• ■- ' it is so j tive a foe • ;• boral pes that we .". • '"look it suits. ! !•'. •! '-nit con ~d it <h s n ■ k more t ir> e and ah •!' < - 'lack •\ e „ ..a w;\ it -wer h. -*!. I.i • geu* • olity of vujlu •, moth pupae am, • nUei worms. Always Dreaded the 14th. Most dismal of all men off the stage was Grlmaldi. the clown, and his fa ther fathered him. He had that curi ous dread of a certain date which as sails so many. The elder Grimaldi lat ed the 14th of the mouth, and when It was passed he regarded himself as safe until the next. He was born, christened and married on the 14tb of the month, and, being discontented with all three events, we will hope his death on March 14, 1788, satisfied liim —London Tatler. Hannah More's Strictness. For real Sabbatarianism we must go back a little. There was Hannah More, for instance, who refused to dine out on the Sabbath and retired to her own room on the very hint of music on that day. And more. Ex pressions like "christening" a ship, the "salvation" of a country or the "ascen sion" of a balloon were quite against her idea of the fitness of the use of words which had been exalted by their religious associations.—London Chron icle. A Doleful Mood. The proprietor of a Paris cafe no ticed that after he had refused to give his pianist an increase of salary the nnmber of his customers dwindled rapidly. It wis only when all but one diner had deserted him that he discovered that the pianist had been inflicting Chopin's "Funeral March" on the audience nightly. The pianist, who was proceeded against in the law courts and was fined 5 francs, pleaded that he played according to the mood he felt In after his request had been refused. A Demonstration. "I distinctly saw you with a police man> arms around you." "Oh, yes, mum! Wasn't it nice ot him? He was showin' me how to hold a burglar if I found one in the house." -Life. Bcenting Scandal. "I understand that demure little Mrs. Jinks always crooks her elbow on a certain occasion." "You don't say so! When was It?" "When she carries the baby on her arm."—Baltimore American. Proof of Affection. A man doesn't really love women or children unless he lets them impose on him.—Atchison (J lobe. Flies' Eggs. Eggs of files are so small that you must use a microscope in order to see their real peculiarities. Each female fly lays on the average of 150 eggs. For her cradle she selects a heap of garbage or refuse. The eggs hatch into minute maggots. In five days the maggots turn into little chrysallds, or pupae, shaped like miniature beans. Within another five days these give birth to flies, which develop with amazing rapidity into adult insects, and then the mischief begins. The Pessimist. The pessimist stands beneath the tree of prosperity and growls when the i fruit tabs on his head. Japanese Cniid Jugglers. Among the Itinerant street entertain ers in London are a number of tiny Japanese children, usually hoys. They make their way into hotel and public house bars, saloons and restaurants and. producing a sheaf of knives from their pockets, suddenly begin juggling with them In the most expert manner, accompanying the performance with a monotonous- singsong whi'-h seems to be inseparable from the exhibition. Being very small, they seldom depart without receiving a shower of coppers, to which tbey respond at the doorway with a little chant of thauksgiviug. It is difficult to guess the age of Japa nese children, but none of tbe tiny tots engaged in this business appear to be more than seven years old. Wireless Help Signal. The symbol "S O S" as used in wireless telegraphy simply means "Hurry up! Drop everything else and get help to me at tbe earliest possible moment!" Apart from this there is nothing to tbe call. Tbe letters were selected because tbey are the best cal culated to carry tbe hurry-up call.— New York American. Too Much Wit. An East Cleveland man who likes to tinker about bis home pulled away the steps to his side door last Saturday and took them into the garage, where he added sundry nails to their makeup. He was lugging them back when his next door neighbor looked over the fence and said: "Hello. Brown. What you doing? Repairing your house?" "I'm taking steps in that direction,'* Brown replied. He was so much pleased with his wit that be forgot his caution, tripped on a croquet wicket and, falling over the steps, cut his nose on the scraper —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Lincoln's Religion. I have never united myself to any church because I have found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize their articles of beMof and confessions of faith. Whenever any church will inscribe over its altar as its sole qualification for member ship the Saviour's condensed statement of the substance of both law and gos pel. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself," that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.—Abraham Lincoln, Where Ignorance Is Bliss. "Was that your intended that you •were walking with?*' "Yes, but ho hasn't yet caught on. H —Life. Dark Eyes. Only twelve men In a hundred have dark eyes as compared with twenty women in a hundred. Causes of Divorce. Wiggs—What causes divorce? Wagg —Men, women—and marriage.—Club Fellow. To Wash a Greasy Bottle. To wash a bottle or a glass that has contained oil use very hot coffee grounds. If the glass be badly incrust ed wash it with a mixture of bichro mate of potash and sulphuric acid in equal parts, being careful not to get n drop of this upon the fingers, as it is a powerful caustic. Then wash in sev eral waters.
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