2 STRIKt (-KOIVI NEW POINi Allies Bringing to Bear Strong Offen sive Movement Against Germans. Paris, Oct. 12. —While General Joffre's communications, always of th* most general nature, reassure Paris a* to the ability of the allies to held th enemies at all points of the main ba tie line, there are unofficial reports that produce even mere satisfaction. The allies are developing an offen sive from an entirely new quarter. They have found the men and the means to threaten the Germans fro"- the direction of the channel and th North sea ports. Large forces of French and British are striking v? orously anu apparently successfully at the Germans in Belgium while the main allied army defeats every at tempt of tin German host in northern France to maintain a new offensive. Although the allies have been pressed to defend their lines fron Arras southward, to Soissons and east ward all the way to the Meuse an the line of Verdun-Tour, they hav succeeded in mobilizing and launchlnj independent operations that threatei the German hold on Belgium. More and more General Joffre is swinging the important action toward the north and compelling the Germans to length en their west flank. More and more it becomes certain that the allies, impregnably situated along the north of the Oise, are de veloping the strength to attack the Germans' line of defense in Belgium, an attack designed to free the coar-t cities from danger and to recapture Brussels, to seize the railroad lines communicating with France and to force the retreat of the German armies from France territory. There will be no surprise in Paris If the news of this week dealt with great battles between Ghent and Ant werp. The safety of the Belgian army is assured and this force can now be utilized in attacks against the Ger man flank from Ostend. There is a hope that the allies, while pursuing their operations in Belgium and defending the line to Soissons, may yet turn the German fortified position that begins at Sois sons and runs east to the Argenno. Slow but steady progress has been made by the allies at this point. W. & J. Grandstand Burned. Washington, Pa., Oct. 12. —The new Washington and Jefferson grandstand at College field, built two years aso at a cost of $5,000, was destroyed by fire of mysterious origin. The theory generally accepted is that the fire was started from a campfire of tramps, for a high wind was blowing. There was $2,500 insurance on the structure. Some Pumpkin, This. Kittanning, Pa., Oct. 12. —George Kernor of White Oak valley, near here, claims to have the largest pumpkin raised in this vicinity this year, if not at any other time, and as yet no one has disputed his claim. The pump kin weighs 178 pounds and measures 101 inches around. Cholera In Austria. London, Oct. 12.—The Rome corre epondent of the Exchange Telegraph company says that according to a Vienna message cholera is now spread ing over the entire dual monarchy, new cases averaging forty daily. I Killed Walking In His Sleep. St. Clairsville, 0., Oct. 12. —Basil Terry, aged twenty-two, miner of Baileys Miiis, was instantly killed when he fell from a window whil# walking in his sleep. Wind and the Sun. Wind does not always go down with the sun, but may blow from high to low after suuseg If wind starts to fill up a low pressure area before sun set It is Liable to keep pouring In until It is filled and equilibrium restored. If wind stops exactly at instant of sun aet one may rest assured that the area of barometrical depression Is filled. If wind blows from sea to land by day it may stop at sunset and reverse direc tion. If it does the cause is that at sunrise the sun's radiant energy heats the land more than it does the water. The land warms the air. Increases its rarity, and it rises, producing a lower pressure area, and cooler air from over the ocean rushes in to till It. After sunset land cools In less time than the water, .and the direction of flow is re versed. But this may not always oc cur. Local causes, as fog. saturation of air. electrical conditions cut others may prevent—New York Journal. Sometimes Happens So. The family had gone off for their holiday In a taxi. Twenty minutes Jater the taxi snorted back up the road. "Forgotten the tickets?" cried a neighbor. "No." said the irate householder, "but my wife's just remembered that she's left a kettle boiling on the gas stove." He dived into the house and came hack the next moment with a ghastly calm on his face. "All right now?" said the neighbor cheerily. "Right! I'd forgotten that I'd turn ed the gas off at the meter, and now we've two hours and a half to wait for the next train." —Glasgow Dispatch. Wonderful 8 ewe re. The sewers of Paris are the meet wonderful in the world and constitute j one of the sights of the city. Visitors sre allowed to inspect them on certain days each week, and it is certainly an experience to make a "personally con ducted" tour of the two main sewers The journey is made on electric can nd lannches. which draw up occasion at brightly iilttwlaate the yearly cost of the war (or $38,- 35G.154 per day) to Germany. Austria. Belgium, France. Russia and England, according to the German statistical ex pert Captain Mux Ilenkr. Of this expense France and Ger many, he estimates, each with 3.000.000 men In the tie'd, must stand $2,800,000.- 000 each, while Russia's share, with her 4.000.000 fighting men. will be $3. 800.000.000. These figures would seem exagger ated if tlie actual cost of England's Boer war (in which not more than 400.000 British troops were actually engaged at one time) was not known to have cost $1,200,000,000 in less than three yesrs. or $450,000,000 n j*ear. Desertion Discouraged. Clarence Ring, the well kuown geo logist, was a man of nerve as well as genius. One summer he was with a government expedition in the far west, and the men he was compelled to em ploy were, for the most pare, ruffians and desperadoes. One night one of them deserted, and Mr. King knew that it meant a stampede if the de serter were allowed to go unpunished. He chose a companion, on whose silence he could rely, overtook the de serter and lauded him in a couveuiem fort. The runaway had subsisted foi three days ou game, and his wbit> horse was streaked with blood fron the game hung on the saddle. Mr. Kin;, and his companion rode back, lendinv the crimson stained horse with all tht deserter's belongings and said nothing. The men sent a committee to ask what had become of the deserter. "He is gone," said Mr. King impressively, "where anybody else who tries to de sert. will go too." The committee re tired with a scared look, and. there were no more desertions that trip.- Philadelphia Inquirer. Problem of the Prisoned Cork. It often happens that iu attempting to uncork a bottle the stopper is forced into the bottle instead, and it thus floats on the liquid. This would per haps not be a drawback were it not that each time i h*> bottle is to be em[>- tied the cork cmues ;> (he neck and causes au obs.inotion, preventing the flow of the liquid. Tins can lie avoided very readily and ail that is needed is to bend a piece of stiff iron wire iu a long U shape, properly fitting it iu the neck of the bottle so that the loop por tion projects somewhat below the neck. Upon inverting the bottle the wire loop prevent the cork from reaching the neck to obstruct it. HOW WILD ELEPHANTS ARE CAPTURED IN INDIA. Hunt Permitted Every Fifth Year. What Huge Beasts Are Used For. This is the year of the "elephant battue" in the great forests of Mysore, India. The hunting of these gigantic ani mals is permitted in India only every fifth year. On the average from 200 to 250 wild elephants are captured during the battue season, and these are trained for the various purposes for which the Asiatic elephant Is used. Quite Sufßdlcnt. It was on a long railway journey, and for six hours he had sat opposite a solitary traveling companion, and not a word had been spoken. "Excuse me," was his opening, "but are you an Englishman?" "Yes," rapped out the stranger. "Oh, then I beg your pardon." And after that the long journey was completed in silence.—London Answers. Irreverent Youth. Her Father—Young man, young man, would you take my daughter from me? You don't know a father's feelings at such a time! I must suppress them. Her Lover—Oh, that's all right. If you want to give three cheers, go ahead.— Topeka Journal. Compensation. Dentist (telling story)—l tell yon. when I got to flint point of danger I lost my nerve. Patient—Well, you've got mine, haven't you?— Baltimore American. RUINED BRIDGE OVER THE OISE IN FRANCE. Photo by American Press Association. Much of the recent severe fighting has been along the banks of this stream. This bridge was blown up by the French to delay the movements of the enemy. * • GRAVE OF A BELGIAN SNIPER. he / 4c : v 1 f i II WSlk. ...k*'-I I t X> 1914, by A merican Press Association. Notice the hand projecting from the earth near the rude cross. This may ve been due to haste or carelessness or it may have been done purposely as a ruing. WAR POSTER SOLD IN BERLIN. Photo by American Press Association. This representation of one of the 1G.4 Inch shells used by the Germans in battering down forts in France and Belgium has had a lively sale in Berlin. It carries at the top the caption, "German War Surprise, 1914," and at the bot tom, "With God For King and Fatherland." It also bears the names of towns destroyed by the siege guns. TAKING BRITISH WOUNDED HOME. ?ry : 'jL Photo by American Press Association. Thousands of British soldiers who have been wounded in France have been sent back to England to be treated in hospitals or to convalesce at home. ""sis shows them heliitr hoisted aboard Mnp. R OT ART TREASURES OF FRANCE. Precautions That Guard Them at the Louvre, In Paris. Those who visit the Louvre do not suspect the labor that is necessary in keeping the building in order. It must be protected at night against fire and burglars by watchmen, who, with re volvers at hip and dark lanterns in hand, make their rounds, accompanied by police dogs. Upstairs and downstairs and along the corridors, says the Paris corre spondent of the New York Sun, the distance they travel amounts to four miles, and in every room the watch men • must "punch" the clock that shows whether the rooms have been inspected and how often. During the night the most valuable works of art are kept under lock and key. When the galleries are closed to the public a clever piece of mechanism is set In motion that carries the royal jewels, worth millions of dollars, into a special burglar proof chamber. The Venus de Milo. too. has her own spe cial bedroom. An iron shutter rises from the ground in front of her and hides the marble features of the god dess. In the early morning au army of custodians pours through the rooms, and the process of cleaning begins. A force of 150 men sets to work with brooms, dusters and floor polishers The custodians exceed the strength of a company of soldiers on a war foot ing. There are one chief custodian, three undcrchiefs. twenty-seven supe rior and 148 inferior custodians. To these must be added the Louvre's arti sans, for the great place has its own works department and almost its own factory. RADIUM AND LIGHTING. And the Better Protection of Hordes During Thunderstorms. Radium has been discovered vastly to improve lightning rods In their pro tection of buildings during thunder storms. Of course the enormous cost of radium prevents any practical use of the fact as yet But there is a very fair possibility that the information gained In this way wiii lead to a new form of lightning rod which will be. more efficient or that further experi ments will show that a tiny quantity of radium at a reasonable cost will im prove the protection. The purpose of lightning rods, of course, is to catch the electrical cur ivnts in the air during n storm and lead them safely into the ground in stead of allowing the lightning to pick its own course down through a house or church steeple. and their use is based on the principle that a metal rod will give the electricity a smooths path of less resistance than ordinary building muterial The whole trouble with lightning rods now iu that, though they can be made to do the trick if the electrical discharge is near them, there is no way to lead electricity through the air to the rod. Radium will do this paxt of the work, as has been demonstrated in scientific experiments. Two milli grams of radium ou the end of a rod made the air a considerable distance away a vastly better conductor. Thus any electrical discharge within several yards of the rod had a path open for it along the radium rays tc the rod and then down the rod to the earth.—Saturday Evening FosL i Out of the Mouths of Babes. Sunday School Tencher—Can you tell me who dwelt in the Garden of Eden? Little May Yes, ma'am; the Ad amses. "What is an amateur, Bobby?" quer ied his small sister. "An amateur." replied Bobby, "is anything that isn't nature." "Mamma," queried little Myra. "do you think grandpa has really gone to heaven?" "Yes, dear." was the reply. "Well, continued Myra. "I'll bet be sneaks outside ouce in awhile to smoke b's pipe " In the lesson mention had been made )t the canthook that is used in rolling logs. "Can you tell me what a canthook Is, Tommy?" asked the teacher. "Sure," replied Tommy, f'lt's a cow that hasn't any horns."—Detroit Free Press. ? What Bobwhite Eats. Fifteen per cent of the food of the bob white fnm posed of in eluding several of the most serious pests of agriculture. Half of its food consists of weed seeds, one-fourth of grain and about one-sixteenth of wild fruits. Taken in all the bob white Is very useful to the farmer, and while It may not be uecessary to remove it from the list of game birds every farmer should see that his own farm is not depleted by sportsmen. Father Foota the Bill. Father (having just accepted cigar from son)— And what do you pay for these? Son—Two for a quarter. Fa ther—What! And I content myself with two for a dime! Son—Well, you know, dad, our cases are different If ! I had as large a fantfly as you to sup port I shouldn't smoke at all—Boston Transcript Watch and Watch. First Pickpocket— Here he comes, nowl Second Pickpocket—All right You keep a watch on 'lm while I take a watch off 'lm!— London Answers. Where to Find It Wigwag—l never knew such a fel low as BJones. He Is always looking for trouble. Henpeckke— Then why doesn't b* get married.? WHAT "SHOCK" MEANS. How It May Affect th*. Physical and Mental Systems. In medical language "shook" menus the depression of the vital forces, both mental and physical The condition may result from many causes and may vary from n fnintness and {wilior that soon disappear to a state so desperate that the sufferer dies of it. as in the case of serious accident or difficult surgical operations. Shock may also be the result of an overpowering emotion, like great ter ror. That kind of shock is ofteu seen in the survivors of any terrible acci dent. Many who have not got so much as a scratch suffer for a long time from a state of impaired health. Sometimes their nervous systems are so badly shattered that they never entirely re cover. That is one of the many reasons why foolish practical jokes are wrong. It is not funny to dress up like a ghost, to jump out on timid children from be hind doors, to play "jokes" with dead mice or snakes. And such pleasantries are dangerous as well as stupid. Many an unfortunate child has been made the slave of fear all his life by reason of a shock that some playmate gave him in his youth. The remedies that the physician uses are those which will restore the blood to its normal flow and stimulate the vital functions. For shock associated with great loss of blood the best thing is to inject salt solution. For shock without hemor rhage. a stimulant of some kind is gen erally given.—Youth's Companion. KITCHEN SINKS. They Are Low Yet Because They Had to Be Low Originally. In a recent issue of the Survey the question why kitchen sinks have been made so low was discussed. No oue seemed able to explain. Finally a certain maker discovered thnt the orig inal sinks were made when the wash ing of dishes and other sink work was done In wooden tubs with high sides. Such a tub when used in a high sink came up too far. so the sink was made low. Furthermore, as running water and fixed faucets had not long been made, the tub had to be lifted out of the sink and the lower the sink the lighter the lift Through Improvements In faucets, dishpans and other accessories of kitchen sinks have been made no one has seemed to realize that the sink 1 could be improved by raising. So women were —and are—compelled to endure discomfort when doing their ordinary household work. "There may be a certain percentage of inconvenience to be reached before the human mind grasps the fact that something must be altered," remarks 1 the Journal of the American Medical association. "The wise inventor attains a reputa tion for brilliancy by making his in vention before the need becomes ob vious to others." Fashionable Fainting. In an old English scrap book Is the following clipping, dated June 1, 1790: No Woman can now discover ber Distinction of true Breeding better than by a well-timed Faint at the musical Festival In Westminster Ab bey. The Noble Managers tiy from their Box to her Assistance. "Whys she?"—" Lovely Girl!"-"Feeling Cul ture!" instantly reverberates from one Aisle to another. But like all tonlsh Airs, this. It seems, is now descending to inferior Ranks; for no less than three City Ladles were among the five female Fainters of Saturday last- To 1 prevent therefore the further Extent of this fashionable Influenza the Man agers. we learn, intend issuing Some thing like the following Notice, In Imi tation of the Lord Chamberlain's No tice to the Courtly Dancers, viz: "Such Ladies who intend to Faint at the next Abbey Performance, are de sired to send their Names, Rank, and Places of Abode to Mr. Ashley, on or before 12 o'clock to-morrow; that a sufficient Proportion of Bars Rest may be set apart, in Order to give to the whole Performance the desired Ef fect 1" - Waylaying Mendelssohn. After the London performance of "St. Paul" by the Sacred Harmonic society at Exeter hall In 1837 Mendelssohn's coach was waylaid at midnight OD his way to Dover, but instead ot being robbed the composer WHS presented with a silver snuffbox by a group of devotees. He had behaved with charm ing grace In an awkward incident. The London performance In question was to have been conducted by him. But the Birmingham festival was just due. and he was the great attraction there in the Rame oratorio. It was felt that his appearance as conductor in London at that Juncture would detract from the importance of his visit to Birmingham. Mendelssohn saw the point and canceled his London en gagement. But he attended the per formance and wns so winning to all concerned—audience, performers, offi cials—that he turned a disappointment into a scene of wild enthusiasm. ' Strong Talker. "Mr. Smith, won't you please talk to me?" "Why. certainly, my little girl But what do you want me to say?" "Won't you please talk like you did wbea you were talking to yourself in the library when the dog Jumped at you? Mine's so straight, and mamma said the way you talked made her hair curl."—Baltimore American. Finesse. "What did you tell your wife when you got home from the club last night V "I told her she was the sweetest woman in the world." K|*okaue Bpoke&uiuij Let jew.