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SUCH AS
£like, Yet Very Different.
On Seventh aveaue the other evening
I saw a small red headed fool of a boy
throwing cans. “An excitement crav-
ing. empty headed kid,” I said to my-
self, driving by. On the next block 1
+ Saw a girl with red curls, dressed in
furs, rather dashing, who gave:me a
little provocative smile as I passed.
Did I say to myself that she was an
excitement craving, empty headed kid
She was, but I didn’t. On the con-
trary, for the moment at least, I feit
quite drawn toward her. Yet she and
that boy might easily have been broth:
er and sister and twin rowdies at
heart. Why did one of the two so at-
tract me and the other repel?
The strange lure of sex. It was
ready to blind me to the meéntal d-
fects of that zirl. It was ready to fix
my thoughts on her cheeks or her hair
if I'd sat with her. Now, isn’t that
odd? 1 should never have given a
snap for her kid brother's hair. or
well over and seen at a glance he.
hadr’t much character and maybe less
brains, but could I have seen what she
lacked once I'd felt her attraction?—
Clarence Day, Jr., in Metropolitan
Magazine.
.
Wonders of Color.
A small and simple experiment can
be mide by any reader which will £1
far tc convince him or her what a road
thing it is we have sunlight. which en.
ables our eyes to take advantage of th
beautiful hues of nature. Make a room
quite dark and then burn some car
bonate of soda in the flame of a bun-
sen gas burner. It will burn with a»
orange yellow light sufficiently strong
to illuminate everything in the room
but you will realize with a sudder
shock that, bright though the light is
all distinctions of color have vanished
Only light and shade remain. A crim
son carnation, a blue violet, a red ta
blecloth. a‘ yellow blind—all look gray
or black or white. The faces of thos:
present look positively repulsive, fo:
all-natural color has disappeared. No
other experiment will so well convinces
those who have witnessed it how great
a loss would be that of our sense for
color.
Artist and Gounterfeiter.
There used to be an old German
counterfeiter in this country who was
a veritable. wonder with the brush and
pen. This man iiteraliy painted pic-
tures of twenty dollar notes which
were works of art. He used no tools
except his pens and brushes. and it
took him a week to-do the portrait of a
banknote. Te figured that his handi
cap was worth about $3 a day and
worked under the idea that the world
owed him a fair living and should not
object if his talent led him toward
portrait painting, with twenty dolar
Even jail terms fail-
ed to impress him seriously with his
wrongdoing, -A collector of curios
once offered $500 for one of his speci
mens of bill portraiture. and the value
of some others was said to be even
greater, so marvelous was the delicacy
of his brush work.
Helping Old Rubber.
Rubber that has lost its elasticity
may be rejuvenated by immersing it
for five minutes in a bath of glycerin
mixed with twenty-five times its vol-
ume of distilled water and heated to
70 degrees C. and then drying it with
filter paper. :
A Fluent Talker.
Whangs—Is your wife a good con-
versationalist? Bangs—She would be
but for one thing—she talks so fluently
that she interrupts herself.
Alpine Shoes.
The shoes worn by Alpine mountain-
ers have steel soles with eight project-
ing points.
16 have Touked ‘him. } gi rg
tt They Could Keep It Up.
Thess have been big men in Wall
«treet who did all the work them-
selves, who attended to every minute
item, who were from Missouri in re-
card to each point in any proposition
put up to them: One of these marvels
wus among the very zreatest finan-
ciers the country ever had. -But he
didn’t last long, and there have been
few others like him. If a man with
the first order of brains and ability
could only keep it up there is nothing
to prevent his owning the United
States. If B. H. Harriman could have
‘kept on fifteen or twenty 3 rears longer
rt the pace he was going he would
have gobbled up all that was worth -
taking. He had about all the rail-
roads in sight, and Be was just getting
a strangle hold on the big banks. He
conquered every square foot of terri-
tory as he went along. There was no,
force on earth to stop him except pre-
mature death, and now he is almost |
forgotten.—A. W. Atwo ) Saturday
vening Post.
Most Buoyant Wood.
The lightest wood known, so far as
any evidence attainable is concerned,
Is balsa wood, which grows extensive-
ly in the Central American and north-
crn South American states. It is com-
posed of very thin walled cells. which
are barrel shaped, interlace with eack
other and are almost devoid ef woody
fiber. These cells are‘filled with air.
making a natural structure well adapt:
ed to prevent the transmission of heat
because of the particles of air impris-
oned in the material without intercon
necting fibers. Various tests of the in-
sulating properties for resisting the
flow of heat have been made. Balsa
wood has been used quite extensively
in the past as a buoyancy product for
life preservers and in connection with
the fenders of lifeboats and rafts. Its
life is short, under ordinary conditions.
unless treated with antiseptic or pre
servative material.
Ariake Bay's Mystic Fire.
Shiranubi, the mystic fire of Ariake
bay, Kyushu, has been famous for the
past 2,000 years, the sight being con-
sidered one of the great wonders of the
Japan seas.
In a recent issue of the Taiyo Maga-
zine M. Kaneko, a teacher in the Shi-
mabara middle school, relates his im- .
pressions of the fire. According to Mr.
Kaneko, when he witnessed the spec-
tacle the first light appeared like a star i
about five miles distant. Suddenly the
volume of light increased until it soon
covered an area of many miles. The
“light moved with the waves and re-
-sembled electric
lights being lighted
and then suddenly extincuished. DM:
Kaneko says that intermittent wave
like movements are the chief charac-
teristics of the mystic fire. He fails
to find a cause for the origin of the fire
Cheaping.
In ‘parts of Switzerland the baker :
wife carries round the bread in a son
of hamper, and she has not a fixed. im
mutable charge, but ¢haffers for a price
with the customers. The old English
word for this process was ‘‘cheaping.”
which in many places in England has
been corrupted into chipping. Chipping
Norton, for instance, is really Cheap-
ing Norton, or the place where goods
were cheapened—that is, sold by chaf-
fer.— London Standard.
Congressional “Pairs.”
The custom of legislative “pairing”
is the practice of members of legisla-
tive bodies by which two members of
opposing parties agree to refrain from
voting on a prescribed subject or to be
absent during a certain time. It was
first used in the United States house of
representatives in 1839.
Yellowstone Park.
Yellowstone park measures fifty-four
miles from east to west and sixty-two
miles from north to south.
WILSON BACKED
BY CONGRESS
President Not Yet Ready fo
Go Before Joint Session
YANKEE SHIPS NEARING ZONE
Order to Arm American Vessels will
Not Be Long Delayed, It Is Said In
Capital.
With the German crisis apparently
suspended in mid-air, it was officially
stated in Washington that President
present.”
There ‘was no disposition to states
however, that .the president has de-
termined not to lay the demands of
the international situation before con-
gress some time between now and the
expiration of the sixty-fifth congress
on March 4.
Despite the clearly defined lessen-
ing of the international tension it was
apparent
that the presidént will not alow the
present congress ‘to: die
emergency that may grow out of. the
German crisis. . It was stated that he
will probably go before congress late
this week or early next. ;
hind the president all of the pow~"
authority and finaneial’ support of the
United ' States in any:.move that he
man erisis.
The slackening of the Gorman cam-
paign, of destructiveness on the high
seas and the fact that as yet no “overt
act” has been committed involving
American lives and American ships
brought a general feeling of relief to
Washington. In some quarters there
was even an inclination to believe
that some means may be found for
preventing the German situation from
developing into open, hostilities be-
tween the two nations. ;
In this connection administration
sources today emphasized the fact that
the only serious question in dispute
between the two countries is the sub-
marine problem. It was stated by an
ment today that the numerous other
matters which have aggravated the
ers, the treatment of American citi-
zens in the Teutonic countries and
other minor matters of this character
were merely collateral issues.
‘There were no new reports from the }
3 war zone at the state department ‘and bh
officials noted as |
state department
somewhat significant the general de-
cline in the German submarine cam-
paign. They pointed out that up to
date the ruthless warfare had failed
| merchantman
at the rate of 1,000.000 tons a month
fixed by the German admiralty when
the campaign began. With the Ameri
can freighters Orleans and Rochester
in the neighborhood of the war zone.
however, Washington waited anxiouc
ly for reports of their progress. It
was stated that the sinkinz of either
one of these vessels without warnin~
would make the situation still more
serious.
The navy department, it was
learned today, has practically com:
' pleted detailed arrangements for arm-
ing any American merchant vesse'
sailing for the war zome. Orders for
new guns suitable for use on merchan*
+ ships have been ordered rushed by
the armament manufacturers and
| meantime the navy: department ar
| ranged to use naval guns. Plans have.
| been worked out in detail even to as-
| signing particular guns to individual
ships. It will be a matter of a few
weeks, a navy department official said
last night, to arm every American
when the president
gives the word.
There were indications today that
the order to arm American vessels
will not long be delayed. Administra-
{ tion officials were clearly concerned
over the economic results of the Ger-
{| man submarine campaign. It was
| pointed. out that the holding up of
{ American ‘shins''in' vrriou ports by
lhe submarine menace was practically
an acduiese nce in the Ger*ion hlap™
"ade declaration. The president, it wa:
understood. is extremely anxicue tho:
i American commerce should resume =:
regular movement as soon as possib
ALL RAY ITUA TA a0 HOME “<
53,000 State
‘ruops on Gorder to Ba:
+ tg cred Out.
With the roc
‘ning of the Ar 'r¢ .;
rmbassy * M xico (i. bg
pational gu rdiicen cune nieatod
the bord:r cn Comin a; bondi
livities, will be in pro oo: oi gd
tion. Orders were issu c hy ‘ao w
{ department directing Genoral Frid
- erick Funston to :beegin imm~disic
{ demobilization of all guard units re
maining in border camps, and it is ex
pected the last troop train will be o
its way north by March 7. Tho pur:
| ber of guardsmen remaining along th:
| border is about 53,000
| General Funston still will have on
the border nearly 50,000 troops, all of
the regular army, disposed along the
line from Brownsville, Tex., tc Yuma,
Ariz. on plans worked out by the gen-
sral staff. The command includes ail
of the troops who were in Mexico un-
der General J. J. Pershing, and their
| distribution was carried out under the
: direction of General Eben Swift.
{
Wilson will‘ not go before congress “at
in administration’ ‘eircles
without i} 4
making ample provision to meet any}
Leaders today’ ‘planned to plade be- i}
may deem necessary to meet the Ger-
authority close to the state depart- |
break between the two countries, the |
detention of the Yarrowdale prison-
by a wide margin to destroy shipping
NAVAL MILITIA STAFF
MAN BUSY IN NEW YORK |
Photo hy American Press Association.
COMMANDER A. B. FRY.
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GERMANY DENIES TALK:
OF OVERTURES TO U. Ss.
*
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* It is denied in Berlin that Ger-
> any in a note to the United
* States, or throughout her medi-
* ums, is inviting suggestions for
* the avoidance of actual war. It
* is reiterated that the imperial
* government is not permitting
* “doubts in any quarters regard-
* ing the position actively as-
* sumed in the U-boat warfare,
* and that there can be no talk
* or thought of recession from
* the program already being car-
* ried ‘out.
. In view of this, it is de-
* clared in authoritative circles,
* that any further parley or ex-
* change of notes with the Unit-
* ed States may be dismissed as
* unwarranted and improbable.
$ The origin of the report is as-
* .cribed to the recent announce-
* ment made through the Swiss
* government that Germany was
* willing to negotiate respecting
*
*
the amended treaty of 1799.
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REBEL FORCES DEFEATED
Cuban General Willing to Surrender
- Jf Life Is Spared.
A dis; atch from Manzanillo, Cuba,
reports the defeat of the rebel forces
je under . Colonel Masso. The
ther of casualties’ is not given.
Colonal Masso has offered to surren-
der at Campechuela if a guarantee is
given that his life will be spared.
La Discussion publishes a dispatch’
from Cienfuegos saying an attack on
Perdo Barbo planned by rebels under
ex-President Jose Miguel Gomez to
prevent the holding of re-election:
there was frustrated by governmen'
troops which, after the passage of mii-
itary trains, dynamited the railroad
bridge at Jatibonico, on the border
line of Camaguey and Santa Clara
provinces.
Bayamo Manzanillo, sub-secretary o
the government of Montalvo, reports
that the situation hore is much im
proved.
Heavy fighting occurred between
rebels and government troops near
Hoyo Colorado, seventeen miles west
of Havana. Several rebels were
killed.
It is reported the United States
government is sending four warships,
one each to Santiago de Cuba, Nue-
vitas, Cienfuegos and Havana.
The newspaper La Lucha says that
American troops have landed in San- |
tiago de Cuba to guard the American
consulate and that they are patrolling
streets adjacent to it. The paper says
also that it is officially confirm
Americans have landed elsewhire in
Oriente province.
© GREEKS EAT GRASS
Famine Stalks Through Country as
Result of Blockade.
, The Greek legation says in a state-
ment that famine is resulting from
the entente blockade of the coast 0.
3reece and the poor classes are living
on herbs and grass. It alsg is de-
clared’ that despite compliance wit
(he ultimatum of the allies, there hs
been no relaxation of blockade meas:
ares.
“The Greek Toation has received
information to the effect that the Te-
ults of 'the blockade of th~ Greek
:0asts enforced by ‘the entente al »
since Dec. 8 are of the most gru
‘tome character,” the statement rea:
“Ten deaths from
been reported from the province 0°
Jannia, one ir Laurium, ten in Acarn-
ania, two in the province of Precez:.
one in Eubia and one in Messina. Th»
poor classes have begun to live o»
‘herbs and grass. Epidemics are rap-
idly Spreading in the country.” .
Score Railroad Pact.
Chicago board of trade members
who have been seeking to move mil
lions of bushels of grain to the east
complained of the “gentlemen’s agree:
ment” entered into by eastern rail
roads to embargo export shipments
until the domestic situation is cleared.
They claimed that the British admir
alty has had fourteen ships waiting
for more than a week in eastern ports
for nearly 4,000,000 bushels of differ-
ent grains
rnaneen 1 um—
that |
starvation hav: |
DEATH PRAMES
TO GEM, FUNSTO
Commander of of Troos at the
Border Strickan In Hotel
WAS HERO OF PHILIPPIKES
‘Military Man Had Just Finished Din.
ner In San Antonio, Tex. and Was
Playing With Child When He. Fell.
Major General Frederick Funston
died suddenly in San Antonio, Tex.
Monday night. He collapsed in a hotel
and soon expired.
‘ General Funston had gone to the
hotel with a party of friends. Attend-
ing physigians said the cause of death
was acute ind gestion.
General Funston had just finished
ad
when he ’:l1 unconscious.
Major General Funston was fifty-two
years old. He had been farmer, coi
lege student, railroad conductor.
botanist, lecturer, newspaperman, €x
plorer, trapper, soldier of fortune, fili-
busterer and finally United States, SO}
dier.
He saw service in the Philippines
and: was in command of the detach-
ment which captured Aguinaldo.
In the spring of 1914 he was sent to
Vera Cruz at the head of the army of
occupation. When the chase for Vil’
began Funston was placed in com-
‘mand of the southern department.
Funston was born in Ohio but grew
up on a farm in Allen county, Kan.
At ‘twenty he went to the University
‘| of Kansas.
! General Funston’s military eareer
began when he was thirty-one years
old. He joined the Cuban insurgent
army in the spring of 1896.
This ‘Cuban fighting was in scm»
ways the most interesting of Funsion’s
whole career. It was hand-to-hand
fighting, with the cannon pushed up
under the very noses of the Span-
iards. Sometimes Funston fired at a
distance of less than 200 yards. #un-
ston was in Cuba eighteen months, He
was wounded in one lung, suffered a
broken arm and his hip was injured
when a horse fell on him, Jlaming him
for some months.
Funston never got to Cuba during
the Spanish war. He was commis-
sioned colonel of the Twentieth Kan-
sas.
The Twentieth went to San Fran-
cisco and stayed till November. It
drilled on a sandy, wind-swept ‘parade
ground; hoped, grumbled, lost hopc;
decided it would never get to the
front. Peace was concluded with
Spain and still the Twentieth kept
drilling. It was a weary grind, but it
was making soldiers of the farmers,
school - teachers, printers, salesmen,
lawyers and young collegians who had
formed the Twentieth.
Drill regulations, Funston said with
charming f(rankness, were Greek ©
him when he reached San Francisco.
The ‘officers hired horses from loc:
‘livery stables and on the Fourth of
July, when a paradc was planaed
Colonel Funsion’s horse ran away
with him.
At a time when it was expecting 1
be ordered home and be mustered cu
i the Twentieth Kansas was sent to th -
Philippines.
Fighting started Feb. 5, 1899, wi’
a night attack .by the FMlipinos. The
followed the fighting up the river t
Malolos, which included the crossing
of the Tuliacan and the Bog Bar
rivers. Troops swam from the bok
en end of a bridge about forty-iv-
feet to the opposite bank of the Bag
Bag and were under fire at the time.
Funston swam himself.
FEAR BIG STRIKE IN CAMBRI”
5,000 Miners Now Out; Many Thou:
sands More May Quit.
With nearly 5,000 miners on strike
twenty-five mines idle and the possi-
bility of the strike spreading, the co:
situation’ in Cambria county, Pa..
assumed the most serious aspect
in years. There are 20,000 miners in
this district, all under control of the
United Mine Workers of America anc
a strike sprred is feared.
Thirteen coal companies are alread
‘affected. The strike ‘started when
the miners of the Portage district re
fused to enter the mines and declared
a strike on as the result of the re
fusal of the companies to abandon ths
standard weight system of loadine
coal cars. Under the standard weigh
system the miners do not get paid for
any more than 3,000 pounds of coal
regardless of whether they load more
them that upon the car.
$3,000,000 From 1917 Auto Tags.
i Automobile license fees for 1917, a
received by the Pennsylvania stat
highway department Monday, totaled
$1,677,000, or $447,000 more than o
the same day last year. Indication:
are that the total for the year will be
close to $3,0€0.000.
Harvester Company Case Collapses
The government's case against the
Independent Harvester company col
lapsed in Chicago when Judge A. L
Sanborn ruled there was no evidence
to convict and ordered the jury to
bring in a verdict of “not guilty.”
Knapp Nominated as Rear Admiral.
Captain Harry S. Knapp was nomi-
nated by President Wilson as a rear
admiral. Several lesser naval promo-
tions also were sent to the senate.
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‘The big entente cilensive along the
Somme front hos apparently resumed.
The British during the last few days
have shown great activity and have
succeeded in making important gains.
The English are said to be now only
six miles from Bapaume, one of the
objectives of last year’s offensive.’
Many prisoners and guns have been
taken. Berlin officially admits the
loss of ground in this region. #
Official announcement was made in
London that the British forces on the
Tigris front have established a line
across the Tigris bend west of Kut-el-
Amara, completely hemming in the
Turks.
Russian positions in the Meste Can-
esti sector of Rumania were stormed
by Teutons under command of Arch-
duke Joseph, says the German official
statement. The captured ground was
held despite violent counter attacks.
More than 1,200 Russians were taken
prisoners and the booty captured by
the Austro-Germauns included three
cannon and twelve machine guns.
Three civilians were injured and a
small amount of damage was caused
by the recent raid on Karlsruhe by
French aviators, the Overseas News
agency reports. German aviators on
Feb. 10 dropped 7,300 pounds of ex-
plosives on a railway station at
Amiens, settling ire to the building,
and 3,300 pounds on the station at
Aveluy.
Britisk troops in strength continued:
their attacks cgainst th~ German posi-
tions on the noi brnk of the river
Ancre in rs "wo British ?--
tacks sou © of ‘he tewn of Sorre were:
repulsed o'r violent hand-to-hand
fighting, according to the official aa-
nouncement.
Troops of the (
in an attack agains
south of Ripen’, '» (ths ~
the Berlin war office announced, ons
a front of about a mile and a half,
captured gronnd to a é-~*'h 2° q half":
mile. The Germans took 585 prison--
ers, including 21 officers.
The attack, which was preceded by
intense artillery fire, was made main-
ly against French positions at Mais-
ons de Champagne farm and Hill No.
185, about one-third of a mile south
of the farm. Four lines of French
positions were stormed in the attack.
The French made counter attacks, but:
were repulsed with losses. The Ger-
man losses are said to have been:
small.
BERNSTORFF ON HIGH SEAS
Former German Ambassador Given
Farewell as He Leaves For Home.
The Secandinavian-American line
steamship, Frederik, Viil,, carrying
Count von Bernstorff, former German
ambassador to the United States, is to-
day on the high seas bound for Hali-
fax, the first stop on the long ocean
voyage to .Copenhagen, wiaence the
count will proceed to Germany.
Von Bernstorif had his last view of
American shores late Wednesday ait-
ornoon, when the ' Frederik VIII
passed Sandy Hook and swung ea‘
into the Atlantic. Shrill blasts fro i
the whistles of river craft resounded
as the -ship got under way and tock
a course which would circle her
around the Statue of Liberty.
The crews of the great German lin-
ers tied up here climbed on the rails
nd waved a farewell to their depart-
rg compatriot. On American ships
officers and crews were on the decks,
and along the shore hundreds of
ightseers watched the vessel swing
down the river. !
The fermer German ambassador and
his party stood at one of the rails of
the liner and waved responses to the
farewell demonstration.
Through Dudley Field Malone, col-
lector of the port of New York, Count
Bernstorff sent ashore the following
signed message:
“] cannot refrain from a last ex-
pression to the American people for
the wealth of flowers and gifts sent to
the countess and myself. It is hard
to tell of the good will sent us both.
No expression of gratitude would be
adequate *0 speak an affectionate
farewell. Bernstorff.”
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