NEWS IN GENERAL.
Charles F. White, 63, who lived in
a squalid Bowery tenement in New
York dresssed shabbily and was
continually complaining about being
poor, died lately. He left $20,000 in
Government bonds and $30,000 worth
of real estate,
State policemen have been ordered
to co-operate with the state highway
department in the enforcement of the
automobile laws. Complaints have been
made in a number of instances of the
speed limit being exceeded and other
provisions of the law being violated,
especially outside of cities.
With the occupation of Olita the
ninth Russian fortress to capitulate
within three weeks the Germans now
are in virtual control of the line of
the Nieman and the Bug. Grodno for-
ty miles south of Olita the only
stronghold on this front still in the
hands of the Russians is semi-official-
ly reported to be on the point of e-
yacuation.
A large falling off in consumption
of liquors in twelve months ending
June 30 is indicated by the prelimina-
ry report of Commissioner of Internal
Revenue Osborn for the fiscal year
just made public at Washington, This
is due largely to the constantly in-
creased dry area created under local
option and state-wide Prohibition, and
also to the strength of the temper-
ance sentiment.
Aircraft have again broken the mo-
notony of the western warfare. Sixty-
two aeroplanes of the French flew ov-
er the Dellingen iron works near
Saarlouis, Rhenish Prussia, dropping
150 bombs while a British aviator is
reported successfully to have dropped
a bomb upon and destroyed a Ger-
man submarine off Ostend. The Ger-
man reports say that four of the
French machines in the attack near
Saarlouis were brought to the ground,
The United States has received
ample assurances from Germany of
its decision to yield to the demands
of this government regarding the pro-
tection of American lives at sea.
Count Von Bernstorif the German am-
bassador informed Secretary of
State Lansing that Germany would
give “full satisfaction” to the United
States for the loss of American lives
on the Arabic.
The scream of shells and the roar
of cannon rolled over the waters of
Long Island sound Saturday. The long
mute 12-inch mortars at Fort Totten,
which guards the northern entrance
to New York harbor, found tongue and
sent 18 700 pound projectiles climbing
three miles into the sky at a moving
speck of a target, 13,000 yards off
shore. Conditions of actual warfare
were duplictated so far as possible.
Instead of a hostile flect upon whose
decks the gunners would endeavor to
drop the big projectilies in actual war-
fare, they fired at a triangular sail on
a bobbing float at the end of a 500-
yard hawser let out by a tug. At night
seaorch lights were used.
i A very decided campaign in favor of
more air raids on England is being
carried on in German newspapers, ac-
cording to the latest copies which
have arrived. The leading Berlin
journals urge the Government to
turn all attention possible to attacks
on the British people in their homes
and openly declare that nothing less
than the destruction of London will
satisfy Germany. The leaders of this
propaganda call upon the Govern-
ment to send the entire fleet of Zep-
pelins to the heart of England to cre-
ate havoc and ruin that cannot soon
be forgotten.
The United States for the first
time in its history lead the world as
an exporter. Figures made public a
few days ago by the bureau of for-
eign and domestic commerce show
that American exports in the fiscal
year ended in June 30 totaled $2,768,
600,000 compared with $2,170,100,000
for Great Britain, the next largest ex-
porter. This was an increase of 17
per cent in the case of the United
States when compared with last year
and a decrease of 30 per cent for the
United Kingdom. American exports
included domestic products valued at
$2,716,200,000 against $2,239,700,000
in 1914; and foreign products $52,400-
000 against $34,900,000 in the preced-
Song and
dtory.... ..
MAYBE.
Sick and weary and want to quit?
Blind and staggering, weak and
wan! i
Losing courage and strength: and
grit?
What's the object of fighting on?
Let me whisper a word to you,
Maybe the other guy’s groggy, too.
Maybe his arms have lost their punch,
Maybe his heart is faint and sick;
Go on fighting with just that hunch;
Summon your last grim grit and
stick!
Stick till the final round is through,
Maybe the other guy’s groggy, too.
—Judge.
A Good Guess.
“Is the editor in? asked the man
with the unbarbered hair and the
shiny coat, as he fished a roll of
closely written paper from his pock-
et.
“No,” replied the office boy, “he
has just gone out.’
“This is the third time I have
called to see him,” growled the caller,
“and each time you have told me
that he has just gone out. What’s the
explanation?”
“I don’t know,’ answered the of-
fice boy, “but I guess he must have
been born under a lucky star.”—
No one is useless in this world who
lightens the burden of it to any one
else.—Dickens
One evening a little boy entered a
grocery store and handed the clerk a
note which read: “I am a poor wom-
an and have no money. My children
and I are starving. Won't you give
us something to eat?”
The kind-hearted clerk filled a
large basket with food and gave it to
the boy, who quickly departed.
In a few minutes he returned.
“What's the trouble now?” said the
clerk.
“Mammma sent me back to get the
trading stamps,” the lad replied.
Her Sacrifice.
The divorce had been granted
Their only child had been given to
the mother but after the final decree
they met and the young woman said:
“I am willing to let you have the baby
half of the time.” “Good!” cried the
father with satisfaction. “That is
fine!” “Yes,” resumed the fair, yet
unfair divorcee, calmly, “you may
have him nights.,.
If you want to be rich give! If
you want to be poor, grasp! If you
want abundance, scatter! If you want
to be needy, hoard.
Little Ruby, aged five, came home
from her first visit to church, On the
way back home she forgot the preach-
er’s text. The next week her mother
was very busy sewing. “Oh, mother,”
she exclaimed. “I know what that
preacher said last Sunday!’
“Then tell me, dear,” answered
Mother.
“What you sew in the summer you
shall rip in the winter.”
The Spirit that Wins.
Two men were standing beside a
frozen pond one day last
winter watching the skaters. Among
the pleasure-seekers was a very small
boy so evidently a beginner that his
frequent mishaps attracted the at-
tention of the men. No sooner had he
gained his feet after one fall than
down he went again.
“Why, child,” called one of the men
“you are getting all bumped up. I
wouldn t stay on the ice and keep fall-
ing down so. Come over here with us
and watch the others.”
The tears of the last fall, which
had been a hard one, were still roll-
ing over the plump cheeks, rosy in the
cold, but the child looked indignant-
ly from his adviser to the shining
steel runners on his feet.
“I didn’t get new skates to give up
with,” he retorted. “I got ’em to learn
how with’
“Good,” laughed the other man; “eo
ing year. British exports included
British and Irish produce, $1,744,100,- |
000 against $2,557,200,000 in 1914 and
foreign and colonial produce $426,- |
000,000 compared with $526,500,000 |
in 1914. |
That German Zeppelins have been |
employed to relieve the Turkish shell |
shortage by one of the most novel !
schemes of the war is the latest story
from Berlin. One hundred tons of fine
hachinery used in the manufacture
of shells have been carried from the
Austrian frontier across Servia and
Bulgaria to Turke Zeppelins ac
cording to inform: rexching Am-
sterdam. The Zeppeli traveled bw
t to escape detection by the Bul-
ian border patrols an
inst violation of B
at it again. You’ll succeed.”
“Yes,’ said his companion, as they
walked away, “and if he keeps that
spirit he’ll succeed in bigger things
than in learning to skate.”
—Ladies’ Home Journal.
Advices are that nearly a dozen of
Count Zeppelins largest dirigibles
were used on the 280 flights from the
Austrian to the Turkish border.
Their use for this purpose, it was sta-
ted accounted for the Zeppelin’s in-
| activity during the early part of the
summer,
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BENJAMIN F. SHIVELY.
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
THE WAR
German troops have occupied the
fortress of Ossowetz, the westermost
fortification of the Russian defensive
line, which had been evacuated by th:
Russians, the German army headquar-
ters announces.
Cotton was declared absolute con-
traband by Great Britain Saturday.
The English government proposes t)
initiate measures to relieve depres-
sion which might temporarily disturb
the cotton market because of the con-
traband order.
‘Italy declared war on Turkey Sat-
urday. The Turkish ambassador to
Rome, Naby Bey, has been handed his
passports. Marquis di Garroni, the
Italian ambassador to Constantinople,
notified the Turkish government of
manded safe conduct from Turkey.
The declaration came at the end of a
short cabinet session. The Italian gov-
ernment had demanded that reservists
of the Italian army be permitted to
leave Turkey without restriction.
The Germans have captured the
Russian town of Bielsk, twenty-five
miles south of Bialystok, and haye
driven the Russians over the Biala
river.
Verona reported that Italian arti
at Trent.
The fortress of Kovno, together
with all the forts and an amount of
war material which has not been de-
termined, is in German hands. More
than 400 cannon were taken. ‘'L..c
fortress was captured by storm in
spite of the most tenacious resistance
by the Russians.
German aeroplanes are bombarding
Vilna, almost fifty miles east of Kov-
no. The possibility of the capture
of Vilna by the Germans is foreseen
in Petrograd, and operations pre-
liminary to its evacuation are in prog-
ress,
The fate of Brest-Litovsk, the last
stronghold on the Russian inner line
of defense, now is the center of inter-
est. Its fall is becoming more and
more ‘imminent with the continued
progress of General von Mackensen's
flanking movement. Speculation on
the part of military writers agrees
that the Grand Duke Nicholas, in
order to save his main army, will
abandon all forts to form a new line
with this fortrese as a pivot.
Novo Georgievsk, the Russian
fortress situated nineteen miles north-
west of Warsaw at the junction or
the Vistula, Narew and Wkra rivers,
described by one correspondent a
“second Vicksburg” because of its
position, is in the hands of the Teu-
tons, together with more than 20,000
Russians. The German statemen:
says that the complete garrison con-
sisted of 85,000 men and six generals.
Negotiations between the allies and
Switzerland relating to the importa-
tion into Switzerland of the foodstuffs
needed for home consumption is at a
standstill, owing to the demands of
Germany and Austria that they be al-
lowed to exchange their products for
enemy goods and their refusal to ac-
cept payment for their exports. Thu.
Switzerland is unable to assure the
allies that their foodstuffs, imported
into Switzerland, will not go to the
enemy. As a result the allies are now
threatening to forbid the importation
of foodstuffs into Switzerland entire-
ly, compelling the republic to seek
supplies in Germany and Austria
alone. .
Over 6,000 Austrians, seriousiy
wounded on the Austro-Italian front,
pre overcrowding the hospitals,
schools and churches of Laibach. It
is impossible to relieve the crowding
by removing some of the wounded to
other towns, because of the lack of
hospital trains. There are not enouzh
doctors to handle the cases and th
stock of medical supplies is insuf-
ficient for the needs of th
wounded.
Premier . Okum states that Japan
| you must
Italy's intention and immediately de-
lery has attacked the Austrian =,
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