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AMERICAN STEAMER SUNK BY TORPEDO » 1 * i————— • ut steamer Nebraskan of the American-Hawauau one. v.nieh was struck o. a torpedo and seriously damaged " :lle British coast. She had started without cargo from Liverpool to New York, was flying the American flag ana had her name and nationality painted on her aides. WELLESLEY CREW READY FOR THE SEASON he iyi5 crew of Wellesley college has shown exceptional speed in us trial spins on the lake and is now ii prime condition for the contests of the season. DRILLING GERMAN CITIZEN ARMY *n*tio*aw Mt»t> Heads of boys schools in Germany and som^ of their pupils in an improvised trench receiving instructions from a drill sergeant. ADMIRAL BENSON AND STAFF Rear Admiral Benson, chief of the new bureau of naval operations, and his staff. Standing behind the admiral, left to right, are: Capt. Volney O. Chase. Lieut. Wilson Brown and Lieut. Byron McCandless. Later the staff, will be increased. DR. LEO S. ROWE Dr. Leo S. Rowe, professor of po litical and social science at the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, was made sec retary general of the big Pai^Amcsri can Commercial conference In Wash ington. Doctor Rowe Las spen; mat y years in South Amerifa an* speaks Spanish like a native. He has beeti a member of various government com missions that have visited the repub lies to the south of us. Simple Home Remedies. A severe coughing paroxysm caji be relieved by taking a teaspoonf-,1 o! glycerin in a swallow of hot milk. A salt bath is very beneficial and restful. Purchase of druggist a bo« of sea salt; dissolve about a fourth c'. it in hot water. Saturate a bath towel in the salt water, then let it dry. Af ter the regular bath, rub the body with the salted towel, or use it mornitgs after the cold bath. If you want to keep from sneezit.g, press the finger on the upper parr o! the nose. A bag of hot sand with a tablespoon ful of vinegar sprinkled on will relieve neuralgia. Russ Language Spreads. Russian is already the dominant tongue of 170,000,000 people, and the statisticians declare that by 1950 it will be spoken by no less than 300, 000.000. PORTUGAL IS IGNORED NOW Newvc of Revolution in That Once Great Nation Has Attracted Little Attention. la a communication to the French Academy of Sciences, M. Gabriel Guil bert reports the results that have at tended the application of his empiri cal method of weather prediction in a series of no less than 9,000 forecasts, published In a Parisian newspaper. This method of forecasting, which seeks an indication of coming changes in barometric pressure, such as the paths of cyclonic disturbances, from the observed relation between the force and direction of the winds to the force and direction appropriate to the existing isobars and barometric gradients, was first announced by its author in 1891, and attained great prominence among meteorologists when M. Guilbert won the prize in a weather forecasting competition held in connection with the international exposition at Liege in 1905. In the series of forecasts, it it claimed that the movements of cy clones in all parts of Europe wert correctly forecast 24 hours in advance in 89 per cent of the cases; variation* of pressure in 86 per ceDt« and weath er conditions in more than 8ff per cent. It is claimed, moreover, that nearly all the failures were due, not to the method of prediction, but to the sparsity of weather reports from cer tain regions or other analogous causes. Common sense is a great stabilizer. PRESIDENT WILSON SENDS NOTE TO LEADERS WHICH DE MANDS PEACE. SAYS ANARCHY MUST END Message Says Unless Government Powers Can Recognize Is Set Up Soon U. S. WiM Use Means to Save Starving People. Washington, June 4.—President Wil son on Wednesday served warning o>n the leaders of the various factions in Mexico "to act together and to act promptly for the relief and redenip tion of their prostrate country” or the I'nited States "will be constrained to decide what means should be ern ployed in order to help Mexico save 'terself and serve her people." The president's statement is ad Iressed to the American people "For more than two years revolu tionary conditions have existed in Mexico. The purpose of the revolu tion was to rid Mexico of men who ignored the constitution of the repub lie and used their powers in contempt nf the rights of its people: and with these purposes the president of th<£ Fnited States instinctively and gener ausl.v sympathized. Put the leaders 3f the revolution, in the very hout of their success, have disagreed and urned their : rms against one anoth ?r. All professing the same objects they are nevertheless unable or un willing to co-operate A central au thority at Mexico City is no soonei set up than it is undermined and its authority denied by those who were txpeoted to support it. "In these circumstances the presi dent and government of the United States cannot stand indifferently b* and do nothing to serve their neigh bor They want nothing for them selves in Mexico. Least of all do they desire to settle her affairs for her oi claim any right to do so. But neither do they wish to see utter ruin come upon her and they deem it their duty as friends and neighbors to lend any aid they properly can to any instru mentality which promises to be effec five in bringing about a settlement which will embody the real objects of the revolution—constitutional govern ment and the rights of the people. “It is time therefore that the gov ernment of the United States should frankly state the policy which in these extraordinary circumstances it be comes its duty to adopt. It must pres ently do what it has not hitherto done or felt at liberty to do. lend its active moral support to some man or group of men, if such may be found, who can rally the suffering people of Mexico to their support in an effort to ig nore. if they cannot unite, the warring factions of the country, return to the constitution of the republic so long in abeyance and set up a government at Mexico City which the great powers ot the world can recognize and deal with, a government with whom the program of the revolution will be a business and not merely a platform. 1 therefore, publicly and very solemn!* call upon the leaders of factions in Mexico to act together and to act promptly for the relief and redemp tion of their prostrate country. I feel it to be niv duty to tell them that. If they cannot accommodate their differ ences and unite with this great pur pose within a very short time this government w ill be .constrained to de cide what means should be employed by the United States in order to help Mexico save herself and serve her people ” SPEYER LANDS IN NEW YORK Earonet, Who Resigned After Charges of Disloyalty. Comes to America for Vacation. New York. June 4.—Sir Edgat Speyer, the English baronet who re p’tly resigned his privy councillor of Great Britain, divested himself of other offices and honors and be sought the prime minister to revoke his baronetcy because of growing sug gestions and charges of disloyalty to the British crown, arrived in New York aboard the American liner Phil adelphia. With Sir Edgar came his wife and family. Before sailing from Liver pool, May 26. Sir Edgar said he ex pected to take the trip as a part of a short holiday. The steamer had aboard 715 pas sengers and the bodies of eight vie tints of the Lusitania tragedy. Philip Klein, son of Charles Klein the playwright, who died when the Lusitania went down, was a passen ger Those aboard included also Louis G. Dreyfus. American vice-con sul at Berlin, and Raymond T. Bakei of the American embassy at Petro grad. When the Philadelphia left Liver poo! it avoided the usual sailing lanes 10.000 Canadians Landed. Ottawa. June 4.—More than ten thousand Canadian soldiers were land ed safely in England during the last week, not a submarine being sighted. There are now nearly sixty-five thou sand Canadians with the allies. Earthquake in Bavaria. Amsterdam. June 4.—An earthquake shock is reported from Munich, Pa varia. The earth tremors began at C: O', o'clock and were very severe, de stroying instruments in the observa tory and shaking buildings. To Protect Buildings. London, June 4.—It is reported that an agreement has been arranged be tween the British and German govern ments for the protection of specified buildings. These buildings include museums, churches and hospitals. Turk* Still in Retreat. Petrograd, June 4. — The Turkish army in the vilayet of Van, Armenia, is still retreating before the Russians, it is officially announced in a state ment on operations on the Transcau casian frontier. ——_ ROAD BREAKER IS CIVILIZER Man’s Scale Is Very Correctly Tested by His Attitude Toward Some Obstruction in Road. The civilized man makes roads; the savage does not. That is the safest test of civilization. Among us in all communities are individuals who are not really civil ized. They do not take any interest in roads. A man's scale in civilization is very correctly tested by his attitude to ward the stone which has rolled into the road, or the tree which has blown down across it. writes Herbert Quick in Farm ar.d Fireside. The man who drives around the obstacle day after day is one sort of man. the one who stops his team and rolls or drags it away is another. And a person pass ing along a road which he does not expect to retrace, who removes the obstruction for the sake of the stran ger who comes after him, responds to a very high test of civilization. He feels socially. AVhen the snow piles up in the road the man who goes ahead and breaks the path for others bears the burden which he who lias made progress al ways must bear. There is snow in every road—to co-operation, to better schools, to better business methods. There must be road breakers for every path. The road breaker is the great civi lizer. DIRT ROAD IS THE CHEAPEST Most Satisfactory Highway in Nine Tenths of Territory—Big Objec tion to Macadamized Roads. The time may come when we can make cement roads. They will cost from $5,000 to $10,000 a mile and they may be so smooth, if we learn to make them properly, that the children liv ing on these lines of road can go to school on roller skates, as they do in j some places down in Maryland. There may be some satisfactory I combination of sand and clay; but, speaking for the prairie lands, the best and the cheapest road we can get over nine-tenths of the territory is the dirt road. The more clay there is in it. the better the dragged road will be. There is no better road than the gum bo road, if it is properly dealt with. It is really a pity that the drag is sc simple ar d cheap. If it had cost $25 or $50. and was painted red. then the farmers would think something of it. The main reason why it has not come into more common use is that it is so cheap and simple in construction and so easy to handle. Someone may ask: Why is it that there wil no objection to macadam ized roads twenty or thirty years ago? Simply because wp did not have the automobile. MacAdam. that Scotch Excellent Roadway in Colorado. man from the section where Secretary Tames Wilson was born, was a genius. He figured that by putting stone on tlie road, the wheels of the wagon, especially if broad tired, would gradu ally jvear down these stones and fur nish a filler. lie did a great service to his coun ry. But the automobile has come in. It has no iron tires; hence it makes no filler. On the other hand, it sucks out the filler and throws it out ia the air. It pries the stones apart, and then we have what is called a "raveled” road, that is, a road cov ered over with loose stones, the mean est kind of a road 10 travel over. That is the reason the macadam road fails under modern travel. — Wallace's Farmer. Extremes to Avoid. “One of the important factor3 in roadmaking is to control the moisture content of the soil in making up the roadbed. When the soil is dry it crumbles to dust and when it con tains too much water it becomes mud. These are two extremes to avoid. Too Much Moisture on Top. Trees should not bey allowed to shade the road as this keeps it too moist on the surface after rains, so that travel spoils the surface. More Profits in Hogs. There will be far more profit in the hog-business when farmers breed and feed so as to make a pound or more growth per day, and turn out prime fat hogs at seven or eight months of age. Feed for Lambing Ewes. During the lambing period the ewes should be provided with the best of clover or alfalfa hay and from one to two quarts of bran and oats each day, with pure water to which they can have access at all times. Our Telephone Policy To give the best telephone service that American brains can produce; to charge the lowest rates consis tent with prompt and dependable service; to treat everyone courteously, and to merit a reputation for integrity, efficiency and decency. 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