WE'LL STAND OR FALL TOGETHER SAYS JAPAN EMPEROR OF JAPAN. Japan has become a party to th agreement not to conclude a separate peace. Italy also is a party to this agreement, having given adhesion when she entered the war last May. VILLA'S TROOPS LINE FORBATTLE Placing ArtlDiry for Assault on Agua Prieta UNKEES 111 LINE TRENCHES Ground Before Carranza Line Mae Been Heavily Mined, and &nfantfy Charge Is Expected te Be Fatal, But Artillery May Stampede Indian Troope of Carranza —American An tillery Commands Whele Field. Douglas, Arte., Nov. 1. —General Villa's army has arrived befere Afua Prieta and is planting artillery, ap parently preparatory to opening fire on the city. Tlie cr:p, cold, clear atsomspehe of mountain and mesa south of Agua Prieta, Sonora, was punctuated last night with hundreds of small, flicker ing eampfires, around which small groups of troopers of the army of General Villa huddled over baking tortillas and roasting animal fteeh. In plain view of the garrison off Carranza soldiers under General P. E. Calles, in Agua Prieta, the Villistas bivou acked for possibly their last night be fore their attack upon the border town in an effort to crush the power of the de facto Mexican government in Sonora. General Villa learned laat night for the first time that the United States had allowed Carranza soldiers to pass through American territory. He de clared he would fight the United States and Carranza too if necessary. American troop commanders esti r ated the Calles force behind the Agua Prieta fortifications at between 3,500 and 4,000 men prior to the ar rival of reinforcements. Carranza of ficials declare that 5,000 reinforce ments have arrived. Calles already had some artillery and a goodly supply of field guns and claimed to have re ceived more of each by freight Friday night. The Calles troops are well foriified and the location of Agua Prieta is somewhat above the ground over which Villistas will have to at tack. Besides the fortifications the Car ranzistas have a large area of country laid with dynamite mines. The Villa artillery cm approach close enough to shell the place without endangering itself from these mines, however. Villa Claims Army of 8,000. Villa claims 8,000 men. He has not nearly that number, however. He is said to have sixty pieces of aitillery, but is not beiieved to have anything like that 11 umber of effective pieces. It is known that it was not possible for him to carry any great quantities or artillery over the Sierra Madre mountains front Chihuahua to Sonora. It is claimed that through field glasses from the roofs of houses Villa men can be seen planting their artillery for attack upon the Calles garrison. There is a question of how the Calles men will withstand such an assault if Villa is prepared to use his artillery to effect. Many of the Calles troops are In dians, not accustomed to the fire of artillery, and it is a question of whether they will remain at their posis if the Villistas open upon them with heavy guns. There is skirmishing between Car ranza outposts and advance guards of Villistas. Several Villista bands were driven back and in some instances the Carranza outposts, after firing at the advancing enemy, hurried back to the protection of the Agua Prieta guns. General Calles sent his men into the trenches Sunday as a precautionary measure. General F. T. Davis, commanding the United States force, also sent the American troops into the trench paralleling the international line on the Douglas side and distributed his ( That is the story of scores of the BIG BUSINESS ENTERPRISES of this country ADVERTISE VOIR BUSINESS ON VOUR LETTERHEADS AND BILLHEADS Give Us a Gall OUR PRIGES ARE RIGHT The Patriot Ptthlishing Company artillery so it would rake the entire country over which the Villa army is approaching. Troops all along the , American side of the line east of Doug ias were strengthened to prevent the Villistas violating American neutrality as they approach Agua Prieta. El Paao Guarded. El Paso. Tex., Nov. 1. —Eight three inch cannon glistened as the sun rose this morning on the hill overlooking El Paso. The guns were planted be side the w .ter works reservoir and commanding the railroad approach A to EI Villa troops on patrol duty across the Rio Grande could be seen gazing at the big guns pointing.! yi their direction. BRITISH TO MAKE STEEL _ "Vices of American Product Give Impetuk to Home Industry. Paris, Nov. 2.---Your correspondent learns from an unimpevc huble sou re-- ;hat American sales in steel pars t. France and England have beei. -o seriously menaced by the excess "t prices demanded that four-fifths it the market probably has been 10-t. j At the recent conference betwc it \lbert Thomas, the French minister of munitions, and Lloyd-George, t e minister o* munitions for Great B t- j ain, which was attended by the ch'c? French and English steel ma? u facturers, arrangements were conclud ed by which British mills will be able not only to supply all the require ments of Great Britain, but fuvni k more than half of France's need. In Sympathy. The two men had met at a dinner j party and were talking in a corner by ! themselves. I "You see that tail woman with the sharp nose and the critical eye?" Ic ed one of them. "Yes." said the other quietly. "Well. I"v e watched her for quite I awhile. She's always got her nose j into somebody's business. She's the last woman I'd marry." "Which shows how strangely in sym pathy we are." said the other without resentment. "Site's the last woman I dkl marry."—Exchange. The Lacking Stroke. "Do you think it would improve my style," inquired the varsity man who bad got into the crew through favor itism. "if 1 were to acquire a fastT stroke?" "It would improve the crew." replied the candid trainer, "if you got a para- J lytic stroke."—Lundoju-Tlvßits.. Honesty and Sagacity. A successful business man once told j his aon that only two things were nec essary to make a great financier. "And what are those?" the boy asked. "Honesty and sagacity." "But what do you consider the mark tf honesty to be?" "Always to keep your word." "And the mark of sagacity?" "Never to gire your word!" In Half Mourning. "I don't understand you. Linda. One day you're bright and jolly and the next depressed and sad." "Well, I'm in half mourning; that's why."—Fliegende Blatter. Kin and King. Kings in the earliest days were mere ly the "fathers of families," and the word is derived from the same source as "kin." Every man will get his rights when every man does bis duties and not be fore Raindrops. Drops of rain vary In their stae per haps from a twenty-fifth to a quarter of an inch in diameter. In porting from the clouds they precipitate their descent till the increasing resistance opposed by the air becomes equal to their weight, when they continue to fall with uniform velocity. This ve locity is therefore in a certain ratio to the diameter of the drops; hence thunder and other showers 1b which the drops are large pour down faster than a drizzling rain. A drop of the twenty-fifth part of an inch in falling through the air would, when it had ar lived at its uniform velocity, acquire n celerity of only eleven and a half feet per second, while one of a quarter of %n inch would have a velocity of thlr ty-three and a half feet The Senate Barber Shop. Here's an odd thing about the Unit ed States senate barber shop: Although the number of senators has hardly In creased at all. the number of shaves aas increased at a surprising rate in recent years. The reason is simph that the senate is now inhabited large ly by comparatively young men with smooth faces or wearing mustaches at most, and they are obliged to get shaved every little while, whereas tin old style senator with a riot of whisk ers never had occasion to visit a barbel shop except every few months to get his hair trimmed.— Cincinnati Enquirer A sure Proof. "The new family who have just moved in have something in their lives they want to hide." ''Why do you think so?" "Because their hired girl is deaf and dumb."—Baltimore American. Smokeless Powder. Some smokeless powders decompose after awhile, and as a result of such deterioration they are likely to ex plode spontaneously. The destruction of the French warship Liberte, which blew up in 1911, is thought to have been caused by such an accident. As a precaution against such tragic hap penings all tbe powder of that kind used by our own navy is put through a proeess of remanufacture every five years, and there is a regular fortnight ly inspection of the stuff on hand on every battleship and cruiser. When It decomposes it gives out reddish, acrid fumes, which should give ample warning of the threatened danger.— Youth's Companion. i GERMANS GAIN : IN CHAMPAGNE Gapturs French Trenches With Guns end Men CLAIM ADVANCE IN SERVIA Berlin Also Reports Gain In Riga Re gion—Allies Bombard Bulgarian Coast In Aegean Sea—British sub marines Sink 20 Ships in 12 Day In Baltic, Hindering Munitioning of Courland Army. Berlin, Nov. 1. —The storming of "Height No. 192" northwest of Tabu re in the Champagne district and the capture of 1.100 meters (about 1,200 yards) of French trenches northeast of Neuville and south of Souchez in the Artois region, is announced by German army headquarters. More than 1,400 prisoners were taken and | four machine guns captured. The loss in an attack by a superior force of French of a salient trench north of Le Mosnil in the Champagne is admitted. Teutons Advance In Servia. The capture of Milanovac, more than forty miles south of the Save river in Servia, and an advance by the army of General von Gallwitz on both sides of the Morava valley is an nounced officially. South of Srebrenica the Servians were thrown from their positions. Six hundred more Servians have been captured. Russ Driven Back Before Riga. The Russians have been driven back from Plakanen on the northern bank { of the Missa river, south of Riga, by Field Marshal von Hindenburgs troops, German army headquarters au -1 nounced. Germans Attain Summit of Tahure. Paris, Nov. 1. —The text of the of ficial communication of the French war office is as follows: "The enemy bombardment reported ; Saturday night in the Champagne de veloped with great violence on a front of about eight kilometers, bounded by the woods on the side of Hill 195, Butte de Tahure, the village of Ta hure and the trenches to the south as ; far as and including the works of La ; Courtine. "This preparation was followed I along this entire front by a thorough ,ly organized attack by important | masses of infantry formed in the I major part from troops recently | brought up from the Russian front. "In spite of the vigor of the attack ! and the extreme ferocity of the assail ! ants, the enemy was again subjected to a serious check, j ""The assault waves were decimated by our fire upon the entire tront and succeeded only in attaining the sum mit of the butte de Tahure. "Everywhere else and notably be fore the village, where the fighting was particularly stoubborn the Ger mans were completely repulsed and thrown back into their trenches. They left upon the scene of the struggle a very large number of dead bodies." The Bulgarians liave occupied part of Veles, says au Athens dispatch. Their losses there are placed at 25,- 000 men. Allies Bombard Bulgarian Coast. Sofia, Nov. 1. —The Anglo-French fleet is again bombarding the Bul garian Aegean sea coast, according to the official statement of the Bulgarian war office. Russia Combats Hyphenates. London, NOT. 1. —"The slackening of the German thrust at Riga is at tributed by the Retch to an insuf ficiency of shells, owing to the activi ties of allied submarines in the Bal tic," a Reuter dispatch from Petrograd states. "Parties of Bulgarian deserters who have arrivpd in Petrograd asked to be enlisted in the Russian army, provided they were not required to fight their compatriots. "Vigorous measures have been taken to combat the propagation of Germauophilism by many persons who recently have acquired citizen ship. Sixty such persons already have been sent to the government of Irkutsk for a term of years. "Petrograd and Moscow banks have agreed to participate to the extent of 880,000.000 roubles in the Russian 1,800,000,000 rouble loan." Twenty Ships In 12 Days. The Liverpool Post publishes a list of twenty German ships, aggregating tnore than 38.000 tonnage, sunk by British submarines in the Baltic sea between Oct. 11 and 23, as follows: Lulea, Germania, Director Repper hagen, Nicomedia, Walter Leonhardt, Svania (or Jvanen), Gertrude, Pyrgos, Emgard, Babylon, Pernambuco, Soder hamn. Jo annes Russ. Dalarfvon, John Wulf, Electra, Rendsburg. Gla- Ten and two named Hernosand. Germans Evacuate Kovel. PetrograJ, Nov. 1. —The Gerroa ? are evacuating Kovel, where they have accun ulated stores of ammuni tion and supplies. Champion Hen. Philadelphia, Nov. 1. —With a record of 314 egg in 385 days, bady tine, a wb. e leghorn pullet, has be come the ampion egg layer of the world. Th_ little hen. weighs three and a half pound ODDITIES IN JAPAN Natives Have a Topsy Turvy Way of Doing Many Things. BATHING IS A SACRED RITE. B.nd Whenever it Native Hae a Mo ment to Sp're He Reaorts to the Tub, With !ta Peculiar Cade of Ethic*. Houses Without Windows. I just cau l get use !-to how turned around, upside dowu. i.. "de out, topsy turvy, thinrs ate iu Ji. in. A Japu no>c cai iH-iittr draws i o plane toward himself, ami a l!aclcsni;tli sit* down to work. A Japanese I kick smith never knows the jo„ s of : c. i mg uckets to the circus, for he ha - M I any place for the advance man to jus.o up his three sheets. The whole front of a Japanese blacksmith shop is opeu, with other buildings Jam med up so close on each side that the circus man couldn't get a poster in. A Japanese book begins on our last page and finishes on our first para graph. And their sentences begin at the top of the page and read down, like long columns of figures. They wear white to funerals and judge poetry by the beauty of the handwriting. Japanese houses haveu't any chim neys, so you may see a whole plateau of houses with not a single curt of smoke as far as the eye can reach. The Japanese cooking is done outside the house in a little charcoal stove. They have no stoves to keep themselves warm, only little hlbachls, gallon Jars with charcoal in them covered with fine ashes. There isn't enough heat in one to singe a miller, and whenever they get too cold they take a wart* bath. Bathing is a sacred rite. Whenever they have a spare incment they run and take a hath. When business Is dull they hurry to a public bathhouse and jump iu. If they uilss one train they take a bath while waiting for the next They take hot baths—steaming, six zling hot. And the Ntrange thing is they don't do the bathing in a tub. They have little foot baths about the size of crocks that they use for washing them selves, and when they are .thoroughly clean they climb Into the tub. If you should get into the tub first the proprietor would break into tears and tell you that you were bankrupting him, for the same water is used all evening, no difference how many guests the hotel has. After soaking awhile they crawl ous, steaming all over, gently blot them selves, get into kimonos and sit around bare ankled. One would think that be fore the evening was over a fleet foot ed runner would have to be dispatched' for medical assistance, but instead of that they never catch cold! When I got here and was in riled fnbr a Japanese home 1 found thai liiey hadn't any chairs. In fact, there ian'B a stick of furniture a foot high In * Japanese house. You have to sit on the* floor. A person of my build was never meant for sitting on the floor. When 1 get down on the floor and try to draw up to a Japanese table my feet are so in the way that I can't get up to where there is au.vthing doing. The waitresa has to walk arouud my feet to bring me the viands. By the time the ineai i* over she is pretty well fagged out. A Japanese house Uasu't a single window. And it's only the most stylish of houses that have a pane of glajs. A person who has a pane of glaifc somewhere in his house sets the social pace iu that neighborhood. Instead of glass they have paper pasted on sliding frames, and through the paper the light filters. Naturally one wonders how they keep the rain out. This it* little trouble, for outside the paper walls arc a series of wooden doors, which also slide back and forth. When time comes to retire you look around for the bed. but there isn't oae In sight. It is rolled up in a draw er. and the Japanese wouldn't kuow a bedstead from a quilting frame. Alii lions of people in Japan have grown* to manhood, voted, paid taxes aud gone to their reward without ever buy ing clap[>ed eyes on an American bed stead. To make the bed reudy the servant opens the drawer and unrolls the quills on the floor, putting a tomato can look ing thing under one end for a pillow. Then she shuts all the paper window* and pulls to all the wooden slides so that not u breath of air can get iu una the l>ed is ready Mouey in the palm wouldn't persuade a Japanese to sleep with the window open. ■ Their theory Ls that during the da> the air becomes full of dust and germ. , BO that if you keep your window* sealed during the night none of the germs can get in—Homer Croy in lie's Weekly. Queer Spelling. Jack was looking over tli dirtfonnrv ind once he laughed aloud. "Why are you laughing?" asked L> one great advantage." "And what is tmitr "Installment men can't come and move it out"- Birmingham Age-ller -1 aid. Whatever dfsgr v.- e "... it Is almost always iii cur p ;iver t > establish our rtvu ti. o \jt lie/.. r 'mi caul!