CRUISER STOPS ANOTHER SHIP Descartes Takes Man From Borinquen off Porto Rico NOTE TO PARIS UNANSWERED WUhelm Garbe, Removed From Vessel, Was German Who Had Taken Out First American Citizenship Papers. Wilhelm Garbe of Brooklyn, purser of the American steamer Borinquen, was removed from the vessel off the harbor of San Juan, Porto Rico, by officers of the French cruiser Des cartes, according to the Borinquen •killer. The ship has arrived at New York. According to Captain Dow of the Borinquen, the me; lent occurred about 1 a. m. on Dec. 15, while his ship was five miles outside San Juan harbor. Garbe, it was said, wbs a German, but had taken out his first citizenship papers some time ago. He had been employed by the line about three years. The United States still is awaiting a reply from France to the vigor ous protest recently lodged against the action of the commander of the cruiser Descartes ia stopping three steamers of the New York-Porto Rican line and taking off 'Germans and Aus trians. As soon as the state department is officially advised of the latest in stance of what it holds to be flagrant violation of the protection of the American flag, involved in the remov al of Wilhelm Garbe from the steamer Borinquen by the same French com mander, supplementary representa tions probably will be made to France with the intimation that an immedi ate cessation of such acts is expected. Regardless of the fact that Gartoe had taken out Iris preliminary papers of naturalization, which under United States laws entitles him to the same protection as an American citizen, France has been informed that the United States does not concede the right dl a belligerent to remove from an American ship on the high seas any passenger or sailor, no matter what may be his nativity or citizen ship. PEACE DECLARED IN MEXICO Villa Generals Surrender; Amnesty Guaranteed; Chief Bound For Border. General Villa's forces have surren dered -to the Carranza government and wore incorporated into the gov ernment forces, and all organized re bellion against the newly established government in Mexico in the northern part >of the republic is now ended. As .a first act following peace terms in El iPaso, the garrison in Juarez, •opposite El Paso, took the oath of al logiance to Carranza. Temporarily there are no changes in officials. 'Gen oral 'Villa declined to surrender. The surrender was made by his officials following their decision to renounce Mm. The peace agreement was signed in the Carranza consulate in El Paso. Following the conference the sign ers gave out a lengthy statement rec ognizing the Carranza government and declaring amnesty to the sur rendered men. The state department has decided General Villa will receive the asylum accorded a political refugee should he enter the United States. This decision was sent to General Funston by the war department. MARKET QUOTATIONS Pittsburgh, i,- ButteT —Prints, 37i-o@3Sc; tubs, 36 Eggs—Fresh, 3S@39c. Cattle —Choice, $5.50@8.75; prime $8.35@8.50; good, $7.75@8.15; tidy butchers, $7.5O@S; fair, $6.75@7.25; common, $f>.50@6.50; choice heifers, $6 @7; common to fair heifers, $4.50@ 6.50; common to good fat bulls, $4 @ 7; common to good fat cows, s3@6; fresh CQWS and springers, s4o@Bo. Sheep and Lambs —Prime wethers $6J>0@6.60; good mixed, $6@6.40; fail mixed, $5.26@5.75; culls and common. |2.50@4; heavy ewes, ss@>ll; heavy and thin calves, $6@8.50. Hogs—Prime heavy, $6.90; heavy mixed, $6.80@6.55; mediums, $6.75@ 6.80; heavy Y'orkers, $6.70@6.75; light Yorkers, $6.40@6.50; pigs, $6@6.25; roughs, $6@6.25; stags, s4J>o@s. Cleveland. I 21. Cattle—Choice fat steers, $7.50@ 7.85; good to choice butcher steers $7 @7.50; fair to good butcher steers $5.50@6.50; good to 'choice heifers $5.75@6.75; good to choice butchei bulls, $5.50 @6.50; good to choice cows $5@5.50; fair to good cows, s4@s; common cows, $3@3.75. Calves—Good to choice, $10.25@ 10.50; fair to good, $9@10.25: heavy and common, ss@9. Hogs—Y'orkers, $6.50; mediums $6.60; mixed, $6.55@6.60; pigs, $6; roughs, $5.90@6; stags, $5. Chicago, Z 21. Hogs—Bulk, $6.20@6.60; light $5.95@6.50: mixed, $6.10@6.70; heavy $6.20@6.75; roughs, $6.20@6.35; pigs $4.75@5.90. Cattle —Native beef steers, $5.80 @ 10.90; western steers, $6.20@8.20; cows and heifers, $2.80@8.30; calves $6.75@10. Wheat —$1.21. Cora —I > 69%0. Oats—4l}%®, Hw Much Iron Can We Wake? Iroci furnaces of this country, in cluding all in blas£ or idle, could, ac cording te the Iron Age, "'apparently produce about 4A.000.000 tons if they remained in blast a year." This would be 9.000,000 tons above the maximum calendar year output. The Iron Age doubts, however, if all the furnaces could stay in blast a full year, and suggests a trifle over 38,000,000 tons as maximum capacity. Very Annoying. "I can't bear these men novelists." declared one lady. "Why not?" the tfther inquired. "They calmly tell you that the hero ine wore a gown which fesefcated a duke and "not a werrd as to what it was made of or how it was trimmed."— Lonisvifte Courier-Journal. Untrue. "Your leading lady is not true to life." "What's the matter?" "In Hhe first act she receives a tele gram, and you have her open it with out fear or trembling."—Detroit Free Press Make yourself an honest max and them you may be sure there fe one vess rascal in the wcrilfl.—Garlyte. Pascal's Early Observation. Blaise Pascal, who wrote a remark able treatise <on the laws of sound, was constantly observing the familiar occurrences about hbn even as a boy. When he was onsy ten years old he sat u,t the dinner table one day strik ing his plate with Ms knife and then listening to the sound. "What are you doing with -that plate, Blaise?** asked his sister. "See," be replied. "When I strike the plate with my knife it rings. Hark!" Again he called forth the eound. "When I grasp It with my hand so," he continued, "the sound -oeases. I wonder why it 45." In Sympathy. The two men had met at a dinner party and were talking in a corner by themselves. "Yen see that tall woman with the sharp nose and the critical eye?" ask ed one of them. "Yes." said the other quietly. "Well, I"ve watched her for quite awhile. She's always got her nose into somebody's business. She's the last woman I'd marry." "Which shows hew strangely in sym pathy we are." said the other without resentment "She's the last woman vJ did marry " —Exchange. The Lacking Stroke. "Do you think it would improve my style." inquired the varsity man who had got into the crew through favor itism. "if I were to acquire a faster stroke ?" "It would improve the crew," replied the candid trainer, "if you got a para lytic stroke-"—. Landon-J^-Bits. Crapping Baboon*. Hagenbeek in bis book, says that bab oons are caught in traps made much like the huts of savages. Food is put into the huts, and once the baboons go inside a trapdoor closes behind them. Outside baboons make a great to do and urge the prisoners to escape. When the trappers come the captured baboons are terror stricken and try to force their heads through the walls of the huts. One baboon was caught three times In the same trap, and sev eral when turned loose got back into the same trap a second time. When the baboons are carried away all their comrades thereabout climb into trees and scream out to the prisoners, who answer in sad, mournful voices. On one occasion some big Arabian baboon* were trapped, when 2,000 or 3,000 bab oons hurled themselves upon the trap psss, who had hard work t aav* them selves with firearms and clubs. As the taappers were forced back the visSoiV oos baboons tore ap the trap an 4 tank ed loose the captured baboo**. Mvn't Limitations. Man has done wonders since he came before the public. He has navigated the ocean, he has penetrated the mys teries of the starry heavens, he has harnessed the lightning and made it light the great cities of the world. But he can't find a spool of thread in his wife's workbasket; he can't dis cover her pocket in a dress hanging in the closet; he cannot hang out clothes and get them on the line the right end up. He cannot hold clothespegs in his mouth while he is doing it either. He i cannot be polite to somebody he hates, j In short, he cannot do a hundred •things that women do almost instinc tively. Repartee. "But why are you in mourning?" "Oh, for my sins." "I didn't know you'd lost any!" "CYCLONE" DAVIS STORMS. ;! / | Photo by American Press Association. Congressman "Cyclone" Davis, picturesque Texan and former stump speak er, made his maiden speech in the house by attacking preparedness program. The Burden of Golf. Golfer (with a full bag, looking for a caddie) —I say, my friend, do you hap pen to know of any one who— Near sighted Villager (testily)—No, I don't All the folks round here does their own umbrella repairin'.—Puck. The Observant Beggar. "Excuse me, sir," said the pan handler, shuffling up to Dubbleigh's side, "but you couldn't let me have $l5, could you?" "Fifteen dollars!" echoed Dubbleigh. "Great Scott, man. do you for one moment suppose I'd be fool enough to give you $15?" "No. chief, I didn't," said the pan handler, "but I sort o' hoped you'd re gard it as a kind of personal assess ment and sivear off $14.90, leavin' me With a dime to the good." He got it—New York Times. Negative Suggestion. Legend tells of a Hindu fakir who seemed to have a working knowledge of practical psychology and made him self rich selling plain wicker baskets in the streets of Calcutta. The peculiar virtue of the baskets, he explained to the buyers, lay in the fact that if one filled his basket with ordi nary pebbles, placed himself in a re ceptive attitude of mind and stirred them with a stick for an hour, each and every pebble would be transmitted into a nugget of gold—provided the stirrer did not think of a hippopotamus while stirring. The baskets were sold, but the idea of a hippopotamus was so firmly fixed in the minds of all the purchasers that not one of them ever had legitimate grounds on which to demand his mon ey back. Colloquialisms. One of the most common surprises in reading is to come across in old books what we have been accustomed to tak ing for modern colloquialisms. Wc have just struck this; "Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a rod?" Where? In Epictetus. Th(, modern form is likely to be a poker, but we had always looked upon the whole image as essentially American. It is in reading the Elizabethans that this experience is most frequent, al though one is likely to have it in read ing any classic. The best colloquial isms are likely to he the oldest—Har peris Weekly. Another Denial. At a dinner of the Gridiron club in 1913 Thomas F. Logan of the Phila delphia Inquirer was initiated as a member, and part of his hazing was to go about as a young reporter and in terview the guests. Then he was ques tioned concerning the results. "Did you interview the secretary of war?" he was asked. "Yes." "What did he say?" "He denies it" "What does he deny?" "Why, what I asked him, and he said it didn't make any difference what; it was the immemorial custom of the war department to deny everything."—Ar thur W. Dunn's "Gridiron Nights." iThe Eskimo Baby. The clothing of the Eskimo baby Is often very scanty. In fact, one occa- I sionally sees a baby being carried in its mother's hood with only a cotton shirt on, despite the fact that the ther | mometer registers 20 degrees below ; zero. The mother's hood is the baby's ! cradle. Being made of seal or deer skin, it is warm and wind proof. The t infant also has the benefit of the heat of its mother's body and is out of harm's way. If it were laid in a bas ket cradle in the tent it would be very much in the way and weuld always he in danger of falling a prey to the wolfish Eskimo dogs that prowl round the door by day and night, ever ready to pick up a dainty morsel. , —— A Lost Mine. Among the famous lost mines of the western world and one which is again being sought is the Tislngall of Costa Rica. It is said to have yielded great quantities of gold in the time of the Spanish domination. After quelling the Indian uprisings, however, the Spaniards failed to relocate the mine. It is thought that It lies hidden in the bed of one of the larger streams. Many legends are heard dealing with Its wonderful richness, and many at tempts have been made to find It, bat so far without avail. — Argonaut The Safe Spot. "So when you had 200 feet start to escape you ran Instead directly up to the bear wheu your gun failed to , work ? I don't know whether you were ( a foolhardy hero or a rattled fool!" de- , dared the doctor a*s he sewed up j Smith's numerous wounds. I "I was neither," explained Smith. ( "I used remarkable judgment at a ( oritical moment Ycm see, the bear , was between Jones and myself. I saw Jones was about to fire, so I took shel- ' ter at the safest spot—with the bear" ' —New York Sun. £ CRADLE OF THE WORLD IS SCENE OF MS WRATH Campaign in Mesopotamia Dif fers From Every Other Oper ation in Old World. CRUEL, TREACHEROUS PEOPLE British Official Report Tells of Event® Before the Reversal at Ctesiphon —Kut Is Captured After Fierco Battle Across Level Plain. t London.—The official press bureau has just given out a picturesque ac count of the campaign for Bagdad by Sir Mark Sykes. He describes the victory of Kut and deals with events before the British reverse at Ctesi phon, further up the Tigris. He says: The campaign in Mesopotamia dif fers beyond all words from every oth er operation taking place in the world In this year of war. It may be called, the Cinderella of campaigns, for In deed, if past history and modern en gineers tell a tale to be believed, the swamps and wastes of Irak will be changed within the life of the present generation into something as differ? ent from themselves as were the mice and pumpkin of the fairy story. The lawless and ignorant tribesmen of Persia are being urged and organ ized to plunder Bushire, Bander Ab bas and Jask by erstwhile commer rial travelers; the half-witted Perslai^ fanatic is deliberately encouraged to assassinate British and Russian con sular officials in the provincial cap itals. To meet and check this policy Great Britain • must needs detach small bodies of troops at Charbar, Jask and Bushire. In each of these places a small handful of Indian troops under a few British officers give peace and security to traders, foreigners and Persians alike. Inland the tribesmen roam in an * archy; on the shore peaceful con merce is protected from their o slaught by these little bands of ' a< Ties. • j : On the southern side of the gul' [ Muscat and Bahrein again we find liar isolated groups, in each j # | ace holding in check those forces o 4 • order and violence which the en sffey'g agents seek to provoke, but o A Arabian shore the star of Gerir j a on the wane, the Arab sail* jr fdHc know that on the sea "Alleme ,nf" *r% no more. These Arabs, who c ruise as far afield as Zanzibar and their way to Malabar across the ©pen sea without sextant or master* 1 ® have learned that the flag of Cfennahyj cannot be shown upon the waters off the earth so long as war lasts, andlk the word has gone through thv Ara-' bian coasts that he who would trtMk* abroad must be the friend of the ID? gliz, who spoiled the slave trade in years gone by and lately stayed the traffic In arms. '*JL I Cruel, Treacherous People. j A winding river which is restless, til its bed, capricious in Its fall, un certain In its rise, and sown with shifting shoals and sands is the sole means of communication between Bagdad and the sea; it is the inevit-, able line of supply, advance or retreat for Turks and British. On either hand stretches limitless plain, show ing a horizon as level as the sea save for here and there a mound of ancient ruin, a bare ridge or faint undulation. This unending plain, hpwever, must not be imagined to be of completely easy passage, for its faint depressions are swamps of un known shape with bays and inlets, while at right angles to the river banks run dried canals and cuttings with hard ridges on either hand. As for the population, it Is base, aemi-momadic Arab, cruel, treacher ous, and rascally as the town influence can make it, yet predatory with primi tive Bedawi Instinct. To these people, Turkish corrup tion, smugglers and a year's war have brought a wealth of arms and muni tions; Without any cohesion or policy they are neither for British nor Turk; on the day of battle they haunt the outskirts of the fight, plunder the wounded and stragglers impartially, harass the retreat of the defeated side, hoist white flags over their tents and make professions of unswerving fidel ity to whoever seems to be in the ascendant. Before the occupation of Kut mat ters were thus: astride the river stood the Turks; on the left bank three swamps were linked by chains of en trenchments traced with every device known to the science of the Teutonic engineer; on the right bank the posi tion was continued with equal care and preparation, and so conforming it self in relation to the bends in the river as to oblige an enemy endeavor ing to turn it from the landward side, to make a detour which could not be compassed unobserved JB the space of one dark night. In this position was firmly established a force of Turks numerically superior, well armed, plentifully supplied and supported by a greater number of field guns than those against them. Seven miles in rear of this prepared tosition lay the town of Kut; midway -.etweea Kut and the entrenchments ■-x.r JU -. J wvW^r t w^^n, H Outfìtters for the Entire Family §3? M Dopo l'inventario e' la TT 3 8 3 E 3 I Dopo l'inventario e" la gj M vendita di sgombro d/ 1 la fes f* | Erf vZ\ vendita di sgombro H U per Debraio. Ora I I I I I per Debraio. Ora Kìj| incominciata. incominciata. H Indiana's Low Piice n Questa Vendita di Due in Uno 1 v[ Abbiamo trovato dopo aver fatt l'inventario, che noi abbiamo troppa roba jj >|! invernale, e per fare posto alla mercedi primavera prossima a giungerci <![ abbiamo tagliato i prezzi in questa vendita da destra a sinistra.Qui vi e' Se >;! la vostra opportunità' di prendere mercanzia onestamente e ben fatta a js j! prezzi minori che vi aspettate di pagare per robe a buon mercato. o SPrezzi Veri Dimenticati a Questa Vendita gS Venite a vedere da noi questi grandi mercati sensazionali. Vi rende con- gj to perche' risparmiente la meta'. Ri Noi specializziamo in vestiti e finimenti per sponsalizi a prezzi più' bassi della citta'. R4 Ancora 5 Settimane ! | = = = 1 ~~ Per poi chiudere il nostro intiero '-Stock" di vestiarii da uomo e ragazzi, cappelli beretti e forniture da uomo. Tutti gli articoli in que sta casa sono marcati a prezzi più' bassi del loro valore. Noi ancora abbiamo un grande assortimento per voi da sciegliere. Perche' non ne approfittate di questa vendita? Noi vogliamo vendere tutto per chiudere. : v ■ . È | : |Penningtonslj
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