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
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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><M
*Ts your book interesting?"
"No. not Interesting." answered Jack,
j "but amusing. It spells words so dif
! ferent from the way I spell them."—
Sacramento Union.
Might Take the House.
; "How do you like buili in turne
| ture?"
"First rate. In fact, it ba.-> 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!