THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG. PA.
MaaWiiKout
A Country
& Edward Everett Hale
FIRST INSTALLMENT.
fNo document In actual Amer-
more J
lean history conveys a
2 powerful lesson of what citizen-
m snip in tnis repuouo means, none
delivers a more searching appeal
to loyalty, than this fanciful re-
cltal of the Man Without a
Country. The unhappy creature
whose living death It has graved
upon the memory of mankind
J was but a figure born of a writ- J
eis Imagination. Yet, the ac ,
$ count of his passionate outburst J
and of his dreadful expiation
stirs the dullest soul, and will J
awaken emotion In the minds
$ of readers of generations yet un-
born. There can be no more ar-
resting lesson for the disloyal or
the heedless, no more Inspiring
appeal to the spirit of true Amer-
Icanism, than this memorable
work of literary art and high-
5 souled patriotism.
11
I suppose thnt very few casuul
readers of the New York Herald of
August 13th observed, In un obscure
corner, among the "Deuths," the an
nouncement :
"NOLAN. Died, on bourd U. S. Cor
vette Levant. Lnt. 2' 11 S.. Long. 131"
W., on the 11th of Muy, I'hlllp Nolun."
I happened to observe It, because
I wus strundud ut the old Mission-
house In Mackinac, waiting for a Luke
Superior steamer which did not choose
to come, nnd I was devouring, to the
very stubble, all the current literature
I could get hold of, even down to the
deaths und inarrluges In the "Herald."
My memory for nuines and peoplo Is
good, and the reader will see, as ho
goes on, that I had reason enough to
remember Philip Nolan. There are
hundreds of readers who would have
paused nt that announcement, If the
ofllcer of the Levant who reported it
hud chosen to make it thus : "Died,
May 11th, 'The Man without n Coun
try.' " For it wus us "Tho Man with
out a Country" that poor I'hlllp Nolun
hud generally been known by the olU
cers who hud him in churge during
some fifty years, as, indeed, by all
the men who hud sailed under them.
I dure suy there Is ninny a mud who
has tuken wine with him once a fort
night, In u tliree years' cruise, who
never knew that his nunie wus "No
inn," or whether the poor wretch hud
any name ut all.
There can now be no possible harm
In telling this poor creature's story.
Keason enough there lias been till
now, ever sinco Madison's administra
tion went out in 1817, for very strict
secrecy, the secrecy of honor Itself,
among the gentlemen of the nuvy who
have had Nolun in successive churge.
And certuiuly It speaks well for the es
iirit do corps of the profession and the
personal honor of its members, that to
tho uress this man's story lias Deen
wholly unknown, nnd, I think, to the
country ut large ulso.
I have reuson to think, from some
Investigations I made in the naval
archives when I was attached to the
bureau of construction, that every of
ficial report relutlng to him was burned
when Ross burned the public buildings
et Washington. One of the Tuckers,
or pusslbly ono of the Watsons, hud
Nolan In churge nt the end of the war ;
and when, on returning from his cruise,
bo reported nt Washington to one of
the Crownlnshlelds who was In the
nuvy department when he came home
he found that the department Ig
nored the whole business. Whether
they really knew nothing about It, or
whether It was a non ml rlcordo, de
termined on as u piece of policy, 1 do
not know. But tills I do know, that
since 1S17, und possibly before, no
naval ollicer bus mentioned Nolan In
his report of a cruise,
As I suy, there is no ueed for se
crecy any longer. And now the poor
creature is dead, it seems to me worth
while to tell a Hale of his story, by
way of showing young Americans of
toduy what It Is to be .
A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY.
I'hlllp Nolan wus as Dne a young
ofllcer as there was in tho "Legion of
the West," as the western division of
nur nrmv was then called. When
Aaron Purr made his first dashing ex
ucdition down to New Orleans in 1805,
ut Fort Massac, or somewhere above
on the river, he met, us the devil
would have it, this gay, dashing, bright
young fellow, nt some dinner party,
I think. Iiurr marked him, talked to
him, walked with him, took him a day
or two's voyage in his flatbont, and,
In short, fascinated him. For the next
year barruck life was very1 tame to
poor Nolan. He occasionally availed
of the permission the great man had
given him to write to him. Long, high
worded, stilted letters the poor boy
wrote nnd re-wrote nnd copied. But
never a line did he have in reply from
the gny deceiver. The other boys in
the garrison sneered at him, because
be sacrificed in this unrequited affec
tion for n politlcinn the time which
they devoted to Monongaliela, sledge,
and high-low-Jack. Bourbon, euchre,
end poker were still unknown. But
one day Nolan had his revenge. This
time Burr enme down the river, not as
an attorney seeking a place for his
office, but as a disguised conqueror,
He hud defeuted I know not how many
district attorneys; he had dined at I
know not how many public dinners; ho
had been heralded in I know not how
many Weekly Arguses; and It was ru
mored that he had an army behind hi in
and an empire before him. It was a
great day his arrival to poor Nolan.
Burr had not been nt the fort nn hour
before he sent for him. Thnt evening
.he asked Nolan to take him out in bis
skiff, to show him a enne-brako or a
cottonwood tree, as he suld, really to
seduce him; and by the time the snli
wus over, Nolun was enlisted body and
soul. From that time, though he did
not yet know it, he lived as "A Mun
without a Country."
What Burr meant to do I know no
more thnn you, deur render. It Is none
of our business Just now. Only, when
the grand catnstropho came, and Jef
ferson nnd the House of Virginia of
that day undertook to break on the
wheel all the possible Clnrences of the
then House of York, by the great
treason trial nt Richmond, some of the
lesser fry in that distant Mississippi
vulley, which wus farther from us thun
I'uget Sound is toduy, introduced the
like novelty on their provlnclul stnge,
nnd, to whilo nwny the monotony of
the summer nt Fort Adams, got up, for
spectacles, a string of court-mnrtlals
on the officers there. One nnd anoth
er of the colonels nnd majors were
tried, nnd, to fill out the list, little No
Inn,, against whom, heaven knows,
there was evidence enough, thnt he
was sick of tho service, hnd been will
ing to be false to it, and would huve
obeyed nny order to march anywhlther
with anyone who would follow hlr.
had the order only been signed, "By
command of His Exc. A. Burr." The
courts dragged on. The big files es
caped, rightly for all I know. Nolan
was proved guilty enough, ns I say;
yet you and I would never have heard
of him, reader, but that, when the
president of the court nsked him at the
close, whether ho wished to say any
thing to show that ho had always been
faithful to the United States, he cried
out, in a lit of frenzy:
"D n tho United States I I wish
I muy never hear of the United States
again !"
I suppose he did not know how the
words shocked old Colonel Morgnn,
who was holding the court Half the
officers who sat In It ' had served,
through tho Revolution, and their
lives, not to say their, necks, had been
risked for the very Idea which he so
cavalierly cursed In his madness. He,
on his pnrt, had grown up in tho West
of those days, in the midst of "Spanish
plot," "Orleans plot," and all the rest
His education, such ns It wus, had
I PFPI
IliSI l-fe
Marshal, make my respects to Lieu
tenant Mitchell at Orleans, and re
quest him to order tlrnt no one shall
mention the United States to the pris
oner while be la on board ship. You,
will receive your written orders rrora
the ofllcer on duty here this evening.
The court is adjourned without day."
I have always supposed that Colonel
Morenn himself took the proceedings
of the court to Washington City, and
explained them to Mr. Jefferson, cer
tain It is thnt the president approved
them, certain, thnt Is, If I may believe
tho men who say they have Been his
signature.
The plan then adopted was sub
stantially the same which was neces
sarily followed ever after. Perhnps
it was suggested by the necessity of
sending him by water from Fort
Adnms and Orleans. The secretary of
the navy waa requested to put Nolun
on bonrd a government vessel bound
on a long cruise, nnd to direct that he
should be only so far confined there
as to make it certain that he never
saw or heard of the country. We had'
few long cruises then, and the navy
was very much out of favor; and an
almost all of this story Is traditional,
as I have explained, I do not know cer
tainly what his first cruise was. But
the commander to whom he was In
trustedperhaps It was Tlngey or
Shaw, though I think It was one of
the younger men we are nil old
enough now regulated the etiquette
and the precautions of the affair, and
according to his scheme they were
carried out, I suppose, till Nolan died.
When I was second officer of the In
trepid some thirty years after, I saw
tho original paper of Instructions. I
have been sorry ever since that I did
not copy the whole of it It ran, how
ever, mu'h in this way :
"Washington," (with the date, which
must have been late In 1807).
"Sir You will receive from Lieu
tenant Nealo tho person of riillip No-
lan, lute a lieutenant i In the United
States array.
"This person on his trial by court-
martial expressed with an oath the
Ish that he might never hear of the
United States' again.
The court sentenced him to have
his wish fulfilled.
"For the present, the execution of
the order Is Intrusted by tho president
of this department
"You will take tho prisoner on bonrd
your ship, nnd keep hlra there with
such precautions ns shall prevent his
escape. ,
"You will provide him with such
quarters, rations, and clothing ns
ould bo proper for an ofllcer or ins
late rank, If he were, a passenger on
your vessel on the business of his gov
ernment ' ''
"The gentlemen on bonrd will mnke
nny arrangements agreeable to them
selves regarding his society, ne Is to
bo exposed to no Indignity of nny klnd(
nor Is he ever unnecessarily to ue re
minded that he Is a prisoner.
"But under no clrcumstnnces Is he
ever to hear of his country or to see
nny Information regnrding it ; nnd you
will especially cnutlon all the officers
under your command to tnke care that,!
in the various Indulgences which may
be granted, this rule, In which his pun
ishment Is Involved, shuli not be
broken.
"It Is the Intention of the govern
ment that he shull never again see
the country which he has disowned.
Before the end of your cruise you will
receive orders which will give effect
to this Intention.
"Respectfully yours,
"W. SOUTHARD,
"for tho Secretary of the Nuvy."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
WAS A MAGNANIMOUS PAGAN
Wish I May Never Hear of the
United States Again I"
been perfected in commerclnl cxpedl
tlons to Vera Cruz, und I think he told
mc his father once hired an English
man to be a private tutor for n winter
on the plantation. He hnd spent half
his youth with tin older brother, hunt
ing horses In Texas; and, In a word, to
him "United States" wus scarcely a
reality. Yet he hikd been fed by "Unit
ed States" for all the years since he
had been In the army. He had sworn
on his faith us n Christian to be true to
"United States." It was "United
States" which gave him the uniform he
wore, nnd the sword by his side. Nay,
my poor Nolan, It wns only because
"United States" had picked you out
first ns one of her own confidential
men of honor, that "A. Burr" cared
for you a straw more than for the flat-
boat men who sailed his nrk for him.
I do not excuse Nolan; I only expluin
to tho reader why he damned his coun
try, und wished he might never hear
her name again.
He never did hear her name but once
again. From that moment, Septera
ber 23, 1807, till the day ho died, May
11, 1SC3, he never heard her name
again. IVr that half century nnd
more he was a man without a coun
try.
Old Morgan, as I said, was terribly
shocked. If Nolan had compared
George Washington to Benedict" Ar
nold, or had cried, "God save King
George," Morgnn would not havo felt
worse. He called the court Into his
private room, and returned in fifteen
minutes, with a face like a sheet, to
say:
"Prlsopw, hear the sentence of the
court. The court decides, subject to
the approvul of the president, that you
never hear the name of the United
States nguln."
Nolan laughed. But nobody else
laughed. Old Morgan was too
solemn, nnd the whole room wns
hushed dead as night for a minute,
Even Nolan lost his swngger In a mo
ment. Then Morgnn ndded: "Mr,
Marshal, take tho prisoner to Orlenns
in un nrmed boat, and deliver him to
the naval commander there."
The marshal gave his orders, nnd
the prisoner was taken out of court,
"Mr. Marshal," continued old Mor-
pan, "see that no one mentions the
United States to the prisoner. Mr,
GERMAN FIRST
LINE AGAIN CUT
British Advance to the East
of Gricourt.
GERMANS AGAIN COUNTERING
Gen. Nivelle's Frenoh Forces Capture a
Fortified Position Near the Chemin
des Dames, Fronting Laon,
Their Chief Objective.
London. Once more the grent bat
tle In the west has resolved itself tem
porarily to a nibbling process on tho
tmrt of the French and British and
incessant counter-attacks on the part
of the Germans. The latter still noiu
Fresnoy village, retaken by them from
tho Canadians, while in nnd around
Bullecourt fighting Is continuous, with
constantly alternating fortunes.
Sir Douglas Halg reported further
progress by his troops near Bullecourt
and. added that "costly efforts of the
enemv to shnke our hold on his posi
tions" were fruitless. South of the
Souchez River the British cut a new
niece out of the Gorman first line,
while they also advanced to the east
of Gricourt.
American aviators with the French
Army have brought down six German
airplanes sinco April 6.
Latest Official Report.
The Berlin War Office asserted that
all British nnd French attacks were
beaten off with henvy casualties to the
assailants nnd emphasized thnt "Fres
noy remained entirely in our hands in
spite of repeated British attacks.".
Tho official report from British head
quarters in France reads:
"We advanced our line slightly on
tho south bank of the Scarpe. Under
cover of a heavy bombardment, the
enemy renewed his attempts upon our
positions In the Hlndenburg line, ear.t
of Bullecourt. His attack was com
pletely repulsed by our troops.
"Further . hostile counter-attacks
near Fresnoy were equally unsuccess
ful. "A party of the enemy raided our
trenches southeast of Ypres; a few
of our men are missing."
WE ARE COMING,- UNCLE CY, 50,000 STRONG
(Copyright.)
II LIBERTY
LOAN BOND IS $50
It Must Be Paid For in Four
Installments.
The French Operations.
Paris. The official communication
Issued by the WTar Office reads:
"Northeast of Solssons nnd on the
Chemin des Panics the artillery fight
ing was intermittent,' except in the
sector of La Itoyero and north of
Braye en Laonnols, where the two
artilleries displayed great activity.
"We carried out detailed operations
which proved of value to us. North
of Sancy particularly we captured an
enemy trench system nnd took about
30 prisoners. In the sector of Chev-
reux the Germans nttempted anew to
drive us from the trenches which we
gained on May 6; their attacks were
broken by our barrage and machine
gunfire.
"Our batteries caught under their
fire and dispersed enemy troops'con-
centrating In that region. Unite
spirited artillery actions occurred
south of Moronvilllcrs. Northwest o!
rrosnes we mad" appreciable progress
and took about "0 prisoners."
M'ADOO ANNOUNCES DETAILS
Balance To Be Paid In Four Install
ments, Running To August 30.
Bonds Will Be Dated
June 15.
BILLION DOLLARS
E
0
SIPS
Measure Contemplating the Con
struction of 6,000,000 Tonnage
MAY COMMANDEER PLANTS
Under the Bill Which Will Give the
President Sweeping Powers All Other
Steel Construction May Be Re
duced To Actual Necessity.
Saladln, Conquerer of Jerusalem, Did
Not Shed Drop of Christian Blood
When City Fell.
It wns In 1193 that Stdndln died In
Damascus, leaving behind him a repu
tation for magnanimity unique In that
ago, nnd only exceeded by his fame as
n warrior.
It was only sit years before his
death thnt Saladln defeuted Guy de
Luslgnnn, the Christian king of Jeru
salem, and obtained possession of the
sucred city, which hnd been captured
by the Crusaders 88 years before. Tho
golden cross wus pulled down .and
dragged through tho streets of the
Ity, and tho Mosque of Omar, which
hnd been consecruted to Christ, wns re
stored to the worship of Mohammed.
But not a drop of Christian blood was
shed after the capitulation. Instead of
butchering thousands of the Inhabi
tants, ns the Christians had done after
conquering the city, Saladin ordered
that none should be hivrmcd. The
weeping queen was treated with great
consideration, nnd Saladln was so
moved by her misery that he Is said toi
have shed tears of sympathy. Later,
during the third crusade, the Chris
tians under Rlchnrd Coeur de Lion be
headed In cold blood 5,000 Surncen
hostages, and Saladln revenged himself
upon Christians In his power. On the
whole, however, he was vnstly better
than most of the rulers of his time.
Whales.
Whales are ablo to attain such an
enormous size because their bodies are
supported by the water In which they
live. A bird Is limited to the weight
which Its wings can beur up In the air.
A land animal, If It becomes too large,
cannot hold Its body off tho ground
or readily move about and Is doomed
to certain destruction. But a whnle
has to face none of these problems
and enn grow without restraint
Because whales live In a supporting
medium their young are of enormous
size at birth, In some Instunces the calf
being almost half the length of Its
mother. I once took a 25-foot baby
which weighed about clifht tons from
an 85-foot blue whale. Exchange.
Not Very Rellgousty.
Physician "Did your husband fol
low my directions, tnklng his medicine'
religiously?" Wife "I fear not doc
tor. He swore every time I gave him
a dose." Puck.
RUSSIA TO SEND MISSION.
Early Departure Of Root For Petrc-
grnd Also Announced.
Washington. Official announcement
wns made of the coming of a commis
sion from Russia, the personnel of
which will bo announced later. It was
announced that Elihu Root, heading
the American Commission to Russia,
will go with the distinction of being a
special ambassador. The American
commission will depart very soon.
FRENCH FARMERS CALL TO U. S.
Want Troops So Home Workers Can
Be Released. t
Moulins, France. The Agricultural
Society of the Department of Allicr
has asked the Minister of Agriculture
to propose to the Government of tho
United States the immediate sending
to France of men to replace French
farmers who havo been mobilized, thus
permitting the farmers to return lor
urgent farm work.
TURKEY DELAYS AMERICANS.
Men Of Military Age Find Difficulty In
Leaving.
Washington. Americnns of military
ago experience difficulty In leaving
Turkey, and the Embassy at Constanti
nople is making recommendations.
An official dispatch received by way
of Stockholm says 21 Americans got
away, May 4, but 20 men between 18
and 45 were not permitted to depart
at the last moment
Washington. The J2.000.000.000
issue of Liberty Loan bonds, Secretary
McAdoo announced, will be in denomi
nations of from $50' to $100,000, will
mature in SO years und may bo re
deemed by the Government in 15; will
be subject to payment In four Install
ments, and will carry the privilege of
conversion Into any bonds which may
bo issued later during Uie war ai a
higher rate of interest.
Two per 'cent, of the subscription
must be paid on application. The re
mainder will bo paid ns follows:
June 28, 18 per cent; July. 30, 20
per cent.; August 15, 30 per cent, and
August SO, 30 per cent.
The bonds will be dated June 15 in
stead or July 1, the date previously
designated, and interest will bo pay
able semi annually on June 15 and
December 15.
Bonds In Two Classes.
Two classes of bonds will be issued,
coupon and registered. Tho lowest
denomination of registered bonds will
bo ?100, otVr denominations being
$500. $1,000, $5,000, $10,000, $50,000 and
$100,000. Coupon bond3 payable to
bearer will be issued in denominations
of $50, $100, $500 and $1,000.
The present offering, it wns an
nounced, will be limited to $2,000,000,
000, and "no allotments will be made
in excess of that amount." This dis
poses finally of reports that Mr. Mc
Adoo bad under consideration the ad
visability of extending the amount of
tho offer to include a percentage of
oversubscription which apparently will
re.'ult when the subscription books are
closed June 15 next. ,
May Bo Closed Before June 15.
"Applications must bo made on or
before June 15, 1!)17," reads the formal
announcement, reserving to the Secre
tary the right In his'dlscretion to closo
tho subscription books at an earlier
date. Tlie statement then gives the
terms of payment and continues:
"Accrued interest will be payable
with the full nnd final payment
(Augu.'.t 30). Provision will bo made
for the privilige to pay earlier tiie full
subscription price upon terms nnd
conditions determined by tho Secre
tary." In order that tho various payments
required for the settlement of this
transaction bay bo completed with
the leist possible disturbance of
monetary conditions, tho .Secret-Ay
will avail himself of the privilege givt-n
him by the act to redeposit the pro
ceeds or tho bonds, in so far as It Is
practicable, with the various national
and state hanks and trust companies
throughout the country.
Change in the dato of the bonds
from July 1 to June 15 was made. It
was announced, "to avoid adding to
tho heavy burden of work incident to
the July 1 and January 1 settlements."
The second offering of $200,000,000
in Treasury certificates of Indebted
ness, it is understood, has about been
taken up anil another offering may be
made within 10 days. From the pro
ceeds an additional loan may be made
to Grent Britain.
ARMY ENGINEERS
TO GO TO FRAN
Nine Regiments of Tra
Railway Men.
ON COMMUNICATION
Washington. President Wilson will
nsk Congress to appropriate inline-
dlately $1,000,000,000 for tho construc
tion of 6,000,000 tonnago of American
ships to defeat Germany's submarine
blockade.
The administration bill, providing
for this colossal program nnd vesting
in government heads sweeping powers
to make merchant shipping the most
powerful factor in winning the war,
will be introduced In both houses of
Congress nnd will speedily be rushed
through.
With this appropriation a great
fleet of steel and wooden vessels will
bo put into the steamer lanes within
a comparatively short time to rush a
steady stream of supplies of all kinds
to the nation's Allies. Tho entire pro
gram outlined by tho shipping board
in the proposed legislation will be
completed within 18 months,' or two
years at the most The legislation
would authorize the President to di
vert to government use the products
of every steel plant In the country and
would provide for tho cancellation of
existing contracts between those
plants nnd private consumers. It was
explained that perhaps part of the billion-dollar
appropriation will bo used
to indemnify fully parties whose con
tracts are cancelled.
Only those steel manufacturers will
bo exempt from tho provisions of the
proposed law who aro needed in
other ways for national defense work.
Sheel mills also will bo permitted to
supply tho railroads with the mini
mum amount of steel products which
arc shown to be absolutely necessury
to meet the nation's war needs.
Such prompt action is expected by
Congress that administration leaders
are confident that the machinery for
turning out the shirs would be set In
motion within one month. Large num
bers of contracts have been drawn and
are ready to be signed when authoriza
tion for their construction is given.
No embarrassment on account of la
bor with which to carry on operations
upon a 24-hour basis in shipyards will
bo encountered. Assurances of tho
utmost co-operation of the labor
masses has been pledged by organized
labor's authorized spokesmen.
National defense heads declared
that ns a war measure- tho diversion
of steel products to ship building
would mean the discontinuance of the
use of structural Bteel In high build
ings nnd in brldgo building except for
military purposes.
Forces Will Be Volunteers trii
To Be Raised At Nins Grt
Railway Centers Of
Country.
Washington. Nine new wri
of army engineers, to be compos
cluslvely of highly trained n
men, will be the first Americans
to be sent to France. They
"at the earliest possible niomel
War Department announced, fot
on comuiuuicuuuu iiiir, dui (p.
tion as to exactly when or to
points they will be seat a
because of the submarine menact
The new forces will be volu-
raised at the nine great riulwy
tors of the country. tach nt
will be commanded by an em
colonel of the Regular Army, al.
an adjutant All other ollicers i
railway engineers or olllciala.
The expedition will have
strength of between ll.ono am!:.
men, each regiment beins coi
of two battalions of three cot;
each. Every branch of railway
era necessary to the building or
tion of lines will be represent.:
ranks, and tho War Hej:rt:
pects a response to the mil tt
permit a careful selection to b,
cised and Insure a force alrcijj
cd to the minute, an army oic
In railway operation.
Tho department statement
"The War Department has s:
orders for tho raising, as r,::
possible, of nine additional in:
of engineers, which are Ant
proceed to Franco at the earlie
sible moment for work un tlieb
communication. It Is r-iii-sti-d
press that no speculation or :.:
regarding this force be oarrM:
than that given out. All iei
garding the force will be Rivet :
fast ns compatible with thebfc
He Interests."
VAWTER IS acquitte:
MORE PAY FOR JACKIES.
and
Amendment Equalizes Navy
Marine Corps With Army.
Washington. In approvjng the
House bill to increase the navy to 150,
000 men and the marine corps to 30,
000, the Senate Naval Committee In
serted nn amendment raising the pay
of enlisted men In both services
equally with the Increases in the War
Army bill, which gives a private not
less thnn $25 per month.
CHICAGO PAPERS GO TO 2 CENTS.
FLOUR MAY GO TO $20.
Stlckln's.
When a boy asks his mother If It Is
wrong to play marbles for keeps, it is
a safe bet thnt he has come home with
more thnn he started out with.
With Food Control It Can Be Cut
Under $8, Says Hoover.
New York. Herbert C. Hoover, who
recently came from Europe to advise
tho Government on food conditions in
Europe, says that without control flour
may go to $20 a barrel before the year
is over, but that with control "the pres
ent pprlce of flour can be reduced 40 to
SO per cent, and at the same time the
producer he treated in a liberal manner."
All Expected To Have Raised Price In
Another Week.
Chicago. Another week Is expected
to see all Chicago newspapers, the
price of which for years has been one
cent, selling nt two cents, owing to
the high prices of paper and all other
elements entering Into their prepara
tion. TUo Herald made formal an
nouncement of the advance Tuesday
and set the dato for next Monday.
Other papers admitted that they had
decided on similar action.
TO GIVE NEWS OF AMERICANS.
Red Cross Announces Creation Of a
Bureau.
Washington. Creation of a bureau
to supply news of wounded, dead or
Imprisoned Americans at the front
with W. R. Castle, Jr., of Honolulu, in
charge, was announced by the Ameri
can Red Cross. The first work of the
bureau will be to obtain from Germany
a list of, Interned Americans In ex
change for Information about Interned
Germans In this country.
SLAYS WHOLE FAMILY.
Kentucky Farmer Kills Parents,
Brother and Sister-ln-Law.
Elkton, Ky. Frank Millen, a young
farmer, killed his father, Charles
Millen; his mother, Mrs. Petty Millen;
his brother, Elmoro, and his brother's
wife, Amy, and hanged himself. Young
Millen notified the authorities hero by
telephone that ho had slain the mem
bors of his family and was about to
take his own life. "Tho whole family
Is dead but me," ho told Coroner llart-
lett over the wire, "and I will be dead
when you get here."
"UNCLE JOE" CANNON 81 YEARS,
As Vigorous As Ever and Receives
Congratulations.
Washington. Representative Joseph
G. Cannon, of Illinois, former Speaker
of the House, was 81 years old Mon
day. Despite his years, "Uncle Joe'
apparently is as vigorous and active
as ever. He received muny congratu
lations from members of Congress,
Government officials and others.
AMERICANS AGAIN CITED.
Third Mention For Section 1, Of Field
Ambulance.
Paris. Soction 1, of tho American
Field Ambulance, the oldest in the
service, has beon mentioned in the dis
patches for the third time. This sec
tion went to Dunkirk in January, 1915,
and served Inter in the Argonne and
the Champagne. The new citation
mentions particularly brave work nt
Verdun In the transportation of wound
ed under fire. I '
Jury At Christlansburg, Va, Ri
But One Ballot.
Christlansburg, Va. Chr
Vuwter, former professor at V
Polytechnic Institute, was i;
by a jury in the Montgomery'
Circuit Court of the murder o!
ton lleth, Jr. .
The scene thnt followed "
nouncement of the verdict w
fecting one. Deputy Clerk T:
tors had not finished rr.v
jury's decision when Profi.oi-
jumped from his chair umic.i
mother In his arms. The xr'.
shouted, "Oil, glory!"
Attorney R. L. Jordan, ol "
cne of Vawter's counsel and'
lawyer in the room, with a
"Thank Cod!" sank inio hist:
wept
KAISER REPLIES TO SUL'W
Invokes Aid Of Almighty T:
Complete Victory.
London. A dispatch to
Telegram Company from A:
gives the reply of Emperor U
recent congratulations .'em fc'
Sultnn of Turkey on the bri
ttle German troops. The Es;
the course of his reply, said:
"All eyes are turned on ti
conflict In the west, w
enemies, superior in number!
terlnl, are seeking a decision
"Our brave troops are thff
plishlng deeds such hs n
have been recorded in Hi'1
all times and of all peoples.
Almjghty also protect tW
future and lend them to ce
tory."
CANADA PROFFERS TT:
Offers Also To Share Other
With United State
Washington. Canada h
mous reserve stock "f ,ft ,
other Quartermasters' Mi
which tho United States cj(
necossnry for tho c(i'iiirc':
armies. Thomas Ilillard, ?f
the Canadian War I'iucH
mission, made tho offer w
!n1c Slwivtnirn nt t. lltMSl'i!
v. - ..... ..I.. ......l.i InU
,tbe mobilization camps fort j
Ivfi draft nrmv. and-1 he CaW'-f &
may be found useful.
MENOCAL
IN DANC:
Plot To Assassinate the t"'!
Cuba Foiled.
Havana. An attempt
assassinate President
Cuba, by monns of a boni
Nine arrests wero nind
ennsnirntors could carry O"'
The Cuban authorities for
had been investigating a
to. make a new attempt
lifo r Drod, lont Menocal
,11V, If. A 1VHV. ..V ,
disgruntled elements of
abortive rebellion.
AUSTRIA TO SEEK &
Holland Hears "Politician'
France.
London. The Amst?1.
spondent of the Excluutf '
Company wires that ne
from the best of source'
prominent Austrian Pol '
peace proposals and that J
he given sate conuuv
order to discuss with th
inet the possibility of P""