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NO MORE DELAY
ON SHIP WORK
“Full Speed Ahs ad” Is Whits
Hause Order
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QUARREL ENDED BY WILSON
Goethals and White Quit, Denman’s
Resignation Asked For—Hurley Is
Placed at Head of Ship Board.
Full steam ahead! That’s the order
that went forth from the White House
following the dismissal of the entire
shipping board by President Wilson
and the filling of the vacancies by
other men,
Goethals, Denman and White were
relieved of their duties because the
whole shipbuilding program was
threatened with irreparable delay by
a dispute.
~ Washington was taken completely
by surprise at the summary action of
the president. But in his method of
decapitation Mr. Wilson only followed
the practice of Major General George
Goethals when the latter was building
the Panama canal. The general al-
ways ended disputes by discharging
all parties to them. : Chairman Wil-
liam Denman of the board was asked
to resign. The resignations of Goe-
thals and Captain John B. White, &
member, had been in the president's
hands some time.
The places of the men were quickly
filled. In announcing the resignations
of these three men the president also
announced the appointment of Edward
N. Hurley of Chicago as chairman,
Bainbridge Colby in White's place and
Admiral Capps in Goethals’ place.
Hurley until recently was chairman
of the federal trade commission when
he resigned to take charge of his
business interests in Illinois.
Colby, a Progressive, is a ‘prominent
business man of New York and was
active in behalf of Wilson’s eanligacy
in the last election.
Admiral Capps is a well known
naval constructor. He was born at
Portsmouth, Va. in 1864, graduated
from the United States naval acad-
emy, has been chief of the bureau of
congtruction in the n’+y for many
years. He represented the United
States at the international maritime
conference in London in 1913 and dur-
ing the last two y¢ :; has done ex-
tensive work in naval architecture and
marine engineering.
“We will start with a clean sheet,”
«the president explained in his letter
to Goethals, accepting the general's |
resignation,
It was evident ‘trom. the “promptness
with : which the president .acted in
every particular that he had had the
“house cleaning” in mind for some
days.
sm inssmisaen ny mmentess,
Fire Will Be Returned.
The fire of Mexican snipers across
the border will be returned by the
United States patrol, General Bell
announced. Bell sent word to the
Mexican consul when the latter pro-
tested against the killing of a Mexican
soldier ten days ago.
_ LIVE STOCK CK MID GRAIN
Pittgburgh, July 31.
Butter—Prints, 43% @44c; Ohio
creamery, 37@37%c. Eggs—Fresh, 38c.
Cattle—Prime, $12@12.75; good, $11
@11.75; tidy butchers, $10.26@11;
fair, $9@10; common, $7@8; heifers,
$6.60@10; common to good fat bulls,
$6@10.25; common to good fat cows,
$6@9.26; fresh cows and springers,
$40@90.
Sheep and Lambs—Prime wethers,
$10@10.50; good mixed, $9@9.75; fair
mixed, $7.50@8.50; culls and common,
$4.50@6; spring lambs, $10@15; veal
calves, $14.50@15; heavy and thin
calves, $7T@11.
Hogs—Prime heavy, heavy mixed
and mediums, $16.46@16.60; heavy
Yorkers, $16.26@16.40; light Yorkers,
$15.60@15.90; pigs, $14.75@15; roughs,
$13.560@14.50; stags, $12.50@13.
* Cleveland, July 81.
Cattle—Prime shipping steers, $11
@11.50; choice fat steers, 1,150 pounds
and upward, $10.50@11; choice fat
steers, 1,100 pounds and upward, $9.50
@10; good to choice butcher steers,
$9@9.50; fair to good, $8@8.560; com-
mon to light steers, $6.60@7; choice,
fat butcher bulls, $7@8; bologna
bulls, $5.76@6.50; good to choice fat
cows, $7@8; fair to good, $5.76@6.75;
canners and cutters, $6@5.50; milcl
cows and springers, $60@ 90.
Calves—Choice veal calves, $14.50
@15; mixed, $13.50@14; heavy and
common, $8@11.
Sheep and Lambs—Choice spring
lambs, $14.50@15; fair to good, $12.50.
@13.50; common, $8@9; choice sheep,
$8@9; culls and common, $5@6.
Hogs—Yorkers, $16; choice heavies,
$16; good mixed, $16; pigs, - $15;
roughs, $14.10; stags, $12.76; fair to
good, $5.756@6.75.
, July 81.
Hogs—Bulk, $16@15.80; light, $14.75
@16; mixed, $14.60@18.16; heavy,
$14.40@16.10; moughs, $14.40@14.607
pigs, $11.60@14.50.
Cattle—Native beef cattle, $7.60@
14.15; western steers, $8.40@11.60;
gtockers and feeders, $5.80@9; cows
* and heifers, $4.50@11.70; calves, $8.75
1s.
Chicago Grain Market Close.
Wheat. Corn. OQats.
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| treat of some of the Russian male di-
‘pied after -General Brusiloff’s
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Photo by "American Press Association.
VISCOUNT K. ISHII.
The Japanese war commission to |
the ‘United States is due to arrive
shortly. The mission will be headed
by Viscount Kikuliro Ishii, formerly
foreign minister. By virtue of a spe:
cial ordinance by Emperor Yoshihito,
Ishii is designated as a temporary am-
bassador extraordinary.
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
THE WAR
The advance of the ‘Austro-German
forces in eastern Galicia continues un-
interruptedly, the Berlin war office an-
nounces. "Tarnopol has been captured
and the Germans are nearing Buczacz.
The statement also reports the cap-
ture of Stanislau and Nadvorna.
Emperor William watched the Ger:
mans repulse a” Russian attack from
the plain of the Sereth, between Tar-
nopol and Trembowla, it is officially
announced.
Russian’ commissioners . who re
stored discipline in the Seventh and
Eighth armies, making possible the
recent Russian offensive in eastern
Galicia, after witnessing the retreat
of the Russiang in the face of the
Austro-German attack have sent their
reports to Premiar Kerensky.
_ They advise that “capital punish-
ment should be meted out to those
Wanted to Help Him.
His kindness 0 his men once placed
Dr. William H, Nichols in a predica-
ment which caused him the worst mor-
tification in his whole life, says a writ
er in Leslie's. The head of one of the
concern’s largest customers came to
him and complained that he had been
systematically cheated by short weigh-
ing of carboys containing acid. Dr.
Nichols could not believe the allega-
tion, but on going to the consumer's
plant fifty carboys were weighed, and
Leach was found ten pounds short. He
promised to make an immediate inves-
tigation,
One employee was pointed out to Dr.
Nichols as the man responsible for see-
ing that every carboy contained the
proper quantity of acid. This em-
ployee Dr. Nichols would have trusted
with his own money, But when ques-
tioned he colored up and stammered.
Finally he blurted out:
‘Mr. Nichols, the boys is very fond
.| of you, and we wanted to help you.”
The Diphthong.
Answering the question, “Why was
th~ tliphthong devised and why has it
di» peared from geronnl use?” the
New York Sun says
Ac ‘phthong is any two vowels that
come together in the spelling of a word.
Diplir:ongs were not deliberately 'de- :
vised any more than English spelling
was deliberately invented. They have
not disappeared from general use ex-
cept in a few instances. In a “proper
diphthong” the sounds of both vewels
are retained, though merged in one syl-
lable, as in “noise.” An “‘mproper
diphthong™ is one in which the sound
of only one of the vowels is heard.
“Eo” in “pcople” is an illustration. Such
changes as have been made in diph-
thongs have aimed at keeping the vow-
el sounded. That is why some prefer
to write ‘maneuver’ in place of “ma-
noeuvre.”” Then there is the simplified
speller’s favorite “thru.”
Woman and Her Beauty.
Woman is the master stroke of beau-
ty. Woman is the jewel in the crown.
No chisel ever carved such lines, of
softnesg; no painter ever put such lus-
ter in the eye. Nature molded cliffs
and gave us twilights, gave us the
horizon in the east and west; gave us
the flowing, shimmering river that
travels toward the sea; let the moon-
beams glimmer on the tranquil ocean;
gave us flowers with thelr fluffy pet- | °
als, some soft and snowy white, oth-
ers tinted all the colors of the rain-
bow. Yet when all has been looked
upon, when all the landscapes have
been viewed with wonder, man turns
back to something stronger, turns back
to that which soothes and heals, back
to that which satisfies the eye and
heartstrings—woman, the crowning glo-
ry of all revealed.—St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
. Start of Our Navy.
The United States navy has the dis-
tinction of being somewhat older than
the government itself, for nine months
who refuse to risk their lives for their || before the actual Declaration of Inde-
fatherland and freedom.”
The present line of the southwest-
ern front is approximately that ocecu-
‘drive
last summer, except before: Tarnopol,
where the enemy succeeded in push-
ing further into Russian territory.
che fate of the latter town was vir-
tually decided with the Germans hold-
ing the suburb just across the Sereth
river, within easy gun range.
Russian women have laid down their
lives on the battlefield of democracy.
Against the reports of traitorous re-
visions before the Austro-Germans
came word of how the women’s “Le-
gion of Death” on the Vilna front
fought and died in repulsing an enemy
attack.
For the first time in the Bigtory of
the great world war casualty reports
chronicled the death and injury of wo-
men in the trenches.
Five women of the “Legion of
death” were killed and wounded in
this first engagement in which they
were called upon to resist with arms
the invasion of their country.
German airplanes made a raid on
Paris. Two bombs were dropped on
the capital. The opinion is held that
the raid was made with the object of
testing the possibility of a successful
German attack in force, similar to the
recent raids made on London.
The British cruiser Ariadne has
been torpedoed and sunk, with a loss
of thirty-eight of those aboard, the’
admiralty announced.
The vessel, which was of 11,000
tons, carried a crew of 677 officers
and men.
Whether more than thirty-eight of
these lost their lives in the disaster
was not made known in the admiralty
announcement.
The scene of the sinking also was
not disclosed.
CROWDED SHIP RAMMED
1,400 United States Soldiers on
Transport Are Saved.
The United States transport Sara-
toga with 1,400 soldiers on board was
rammed and badly damaged off
Stapleton, Staten island, by the steam.
ship Panama of the Panama Steam-
ship company. 2
"As the Saratoga, in a sinking condi-
tion, made for a dock, all boats were
lowered and filled with soldiers. Craft
of all kinds rushed to help in the res-
cue work. The transport was at an-
chor, waiting orders to sail .
At the office of Colonel J. M. Car-
son, superiniendent of army transpor-
tation, it was ‘said that all reports re-
ceived there had been that there was
no loss of life and that everybody
had beefy accounted for. No further
comment was made there on the acci-
dent.
pendence congress authorized the con-
| struction of two “national” cruisers
| and appointed a committee to purchase
vessels to form the nucleus of a fleet.
Within three months of its appoint-
ment this committee got together four-
teen armed vessels and anpointed. a
personnel of officers. among whom was
the famous old sea dog, John Paul
Jones. During the war of tbe Revolu-
tion the infant navy captured as many
as 800 prizes; but suffered so heavily
that by the time peace was declared it
had almost ceased to exist. A new
start on a more ambitious scale was
made in 1794.
The “Tawdry. Saint.”
St. Etbhelreda has been unfortunate,
inasmuch as her memory is perpetu-
ated in the disagreeable adjective
“tawdry,” and she is sometimes even
referred to as the “tawdry saint.” In
the Isle of Ely, where she died, a fair
was formerly held in her honor, at
which a peculiar kind of cheap but
showy lace was sold, which, as St.
Ethelreda’s or St. Audrey’s lace soon
became proverbial and tawdry, an easy
corruption of the saint's abbreviated
name, was used to denote all thing:
more gaudy than valuable. — Londo:
Chronicle.
. Ths Use of Names. .
Judge Giegerich of New York in de-
nying the petition of a foreigner desir-
ing to use an American name recently
said: “I have the greatest objection to
forcigners who take up their residence
in this country assuming the names of
old American families of New York. It
causes embarrassment to men who are
of high standing in the community and
take pride in their family names.”
Solomon's Servants. ~
Solomon’s servants (Ezra ii, 56-58:
Nehemiah vii, 57-60) were the descend-
ants-of the Canaanites reduced by Sol-
omon to the state of slaves. They
were compelled to work in the king's
stone ‘quarries and in building his pal-
aces and cities.
Corrected.
Wife—1 really believe you married
me simply because 1 have oney.
| er when the cause was known.
Hub—You're wrong. I married you be- ;
cause I thought you’d let me have some
of it.
Always Picking.
Yeast—My wife used to play the ban-
Jo beautifully before we were married.
1 suppose?—Yonkers Statesmen.
Galilei’s Telescope.
The telescope with which Gallel dis.
“Stop worrying” is a physician's best
Speecription and the hardest to take.
SATURDAY
RAKING day.
and they get the same big brown loaves, crisp cookies and
flaky pies without heating up the whole house and wearing
themselves all out.
A Perfection is always ready to fry, boil or roast. No wait-
ing for the fire to draw up. No carrying wood, shoveling coal
The fireless cooker and the separate oven
Ask your dealer.
Perfection Oil Cook Stoves burn the most economical of fuels
And the best kerosene is Atlantic Rayolight.
and toting ashes.
are two big features.
—kerosene.
Ask for it at the store that displays this sign:
Rayolight Oil for Sale Here.”
THE ATLANTIC REFINING COMPANY
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
A roaring hot fire!
hot enough anywhere this weather, but that kitchen is
almost, unbearable. Why should it be? There’s another way.
All over this nation busy housewives are using
Goodness knows it’s
“Atlantic
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PICKING MEN FOR WAR.
The Selective Draft Was Known In the
Time of Moses.
Registration for a selective draft was
known thousands of years ago. The
first chapter of Numbers tells how Mo-
ses in the second year after the exodus
from Egypt was commanded to choose
from among the various tribes men to
uldte the names of the males over
.age of twenty who were able to
go to war.
lows:
“Take ye the sum of all the congre-
gation of the children of Israel by their
families, by their fathers’ houses, ac-
cording to the number of the names,
every male by their polls; from twenty
years of age and upward, all that are
able to go forth to war, thou and |
Aaron shall number them by their
hosts. And with you there shall be &
man of every tribe. (Here are men-
tioned the men who are to assist in the
registration.)
“And Moses and Aaron took these
men that are mentioned, and they as-
sembled all the congregation together
on the first day of the second month,
and they declared their pedigrees afier
their families by their fathers’ houses,
according to the number of the names
from twenty years old and upward.”’—
Chicago Tribune.
DIET AND DISEASE.
Rickets in Children is Caused by the
Wrong Kind of Foods. |
“Beware of giving young children too
much pasteurized milk, proprietary
food or even cereals to the exclusion of
brown bread and butter, stewed fruit
or roasted apple and a little meat once
a day." writes Dr. Beverley Robinson
of New York in giving a warning note
about rickets in the New York Medical
Journal,
He adds that be is “considering espe-
cially children two or three years old
who are healthy and vigorous unless
rickets develops unawares by reason of
faulty dietary.”
lowing from Osler:
“Like scurvy, rickets may be found
in the families of the wealthy under
perfect hygienic conditions. It is most
common in children fed on condensed
milk, the various proprietary foods.
cow’s milk and food rich in starches.”
Rickets is the cause of knockknees
and bowlegs. It is due to too little
anicial fat and protein in the dietary.
together with too little lime salts.
Curious Choice of a Wife.
Some years ago an English curate
surprised his parishioners by marrying
a widow considerably older than him-
self. The astonishment was still great-
The
curate had become engaged to a young
girl whose frivolous conduct soon led
| him to regret the step. He offered a
! settlercent :for his release, but it was
: refused.
He endeavored in every way
to break the engagement, but without
| success,
Crimsonbeak—Now she picks on you. |
| this?” he exclaimed one day in despair.
“Is there nothing I can do to escape
“Yes,” remarked the girls mother,
who was present and who bad been
| the prime mover in the marriage nego-
: £4 the satellites of Jupiter in 1610
Bnerved in a Florence museum. |
| 2% one ~f
| mother
tiations, “by marrying me.”
The curate decided if he had te mar-
the two be preferred the
d accepted her. The young
gil ma. . cd a wealthy stockbroker.
The passage, in part, fol- |
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