AMERICAN TROOPS FIGHTING IN HAITI
Bluejackets from the United States ship Washington are here shown ashore near Port-au-Prince. Haiti, attacking
a party of rebels in the bush. The American forces have now about restored order in the black republic.
CZAR OF BULGARIA AND HIS GENERALS
Ferdinand, czar of Bulgaria (in the right foreground!, and the leading generals of the army with which
Is attacking Serbia.
LORD AND LADY ABERDEEN IN AMERICA
The marquis and marchioness of Aberdeen are now making a tour of the
United States and Canada for the purpose of attending various meetings and
of delivering lectures on social topics. Lord Aberdeen, who has twice been
viceroy of Ireland, was made a marquis last January. The marchioness is
president of the International Council of Women.
PANAMA -CANAL BLOCKED BY SLIDES
This photograph shows dredges working on the latest slides that have
blocked the Panama canal just north of Gold hill. Slides occurred on both
banks and the land pushed up formed an island in the center of the channel.
The canal may not be opened again to traffic before the end of the year.
OLD WEATHER SAWS
Here are a few weather signs which
are older probably than anyone liv
ing today. Experience has shown them
to be fairly reliable, and some of
them can be explained on a scientific
basis:
Moonlight nights have the heaviest
frosts.
The higher the clouds the finer the
weather.
The farther the sight the nearer the
rain.
If the sun sets in gray.
The next will be a rainy day.
When the wind's in the south.
The rain’s in its mouth.
The wind in the west,
Suits everyone best.
Evening red and morning gray.
Help the traveler on his way;
Evening gray and morning red.
Bring down rain upon his head.
When the clouds appear like rocks
and towers,
The earth’s refreshed by frequent
showers.—Farm and Fireside.
NEW BRITISH GAS HELMET
This is the latest gas helmet is
sued to the liritish troops lor pro
tection in the trenches against the
deadly fumes from German gas
bombs.
Activities of Women.
The woman conductors on the Glas
gow tram cars wear green straw hats
and black watch tartan skirts.
Thirty-rive per cent of the women
in New York, Pennsylvania. New Jer
sey and Massackussetts have to work
for a living outside the home.
The threatened grand jury investiga
tion of the juvenile court in Chicago is
said to be a direct attack on Miss
Mary Bartelme, assistant judge of the
court.
The majority of the boatsmen in
Wales having gone to war. their places
have been taken by women, who take
people out for a sail or a row in the
same safe way as the men did.
Woman munition workers in the
Vickers factory in England are earn
ing from $4 to $5 per week for six
shifts of 54 hours. They wear overalls
of butcher blue, caps to match, leather
gloves and strong boots. They all
live together in a house close to the
factory.
Our Friend, the Doctor.
A doctor is a member of the great
est and most beneficent and unselfish
of all the learned professions. We jest
at the doctors in our hours of health,
but when disease seizes upon the
strength of manhood, when even the
mighty Caesar cries like a sick child,
when the hour of pain is upon us, then,
in the hushed chamber and by the
lonely lamp of the watcher, we invoke
the merciful ministrations of the doc
tor, and with willing feet he comes
through the storm and darkness, and
with skill anu patience and courage he
battles with disease and beats back
death from the house of life.
Evidently Not.
Bacon—Who is the bow-legged
man?
Egbert—Oh, he's one of our self
made men.
“Well, say, isn’t there any law
against faulty construction in your
town?"
To Arrest Careless Citizens.
Fire inspectors in Birmingham.
Ala., have been directed that when
hazardous conditions conducive to fire
are discovered the owner or occupant
of the premises ic to be arrested.
GREECE TO REMAIN NEUTRAL
DESPITE ALLIES’ WAR BAIT.
DANGER TO SERBIA LOOMS UP
Entente Powers See Seriousness of
Situation; Austro-German-Bulgar
ian Armies Gaining Ground.
London.—Greece has declined for
the present the allies’ offer to her of
Cyprus and other concessions, terri
torial and financial, in return for her
adherence to the Serbo-Greek treaty
of alliance, which would mean her
military aid to assist in meeting the
Bulgarians and Austro-German at
tacks against her former ally. The
reply of Greece to the offer, which
leached the foreign office, is a
lengthy one, and there is reason to
believe that the Hellenic kingdom
bases its decision not to join the al
lies on the ground that the Anglo
French force landed at Salonika is
not, in the Greek government’s
opinion, strong enough for the task
allotted it. The refusal to accept the
allies’ offer was not unexpected as it
has been often stated in official cir
cles that both Rumania and Greece
were withholding their assistance un
til the allies either won a decisive
victory or proved to the Greeks and
Rumanians their ability to do so, or
until operations had reached a stage
which would assure them that their
countries would not be overrun by
the forces of the central powers or
their Turkish and Balkan allies.
It is officially announced from Ath
ens that a bombardment of the Bul
garian coast front Dedeaghatch to
f’orto Lagos, a distance of thirty
eight miles, has begun by the all
fleet.
There is no inclination here or in
the capitals of other members of the
quadruple entente powers to mini
mize the seriousness of the situation
of Serbia. The Austro-German and
Bulgarian campaign is developing
slowly and are steadily gaining
ground in the little kingdom. The
Austro-Germans’ center is advancing
down the Morava valley from Semen
dria. while the Bulgarians have got
across this valley to the south and
command the Belgrade-Nish-Saloniki
railway. The Austro-Germans have
three other forces engaged, one in
the northwest, at Shabatiza, one at
Belgrade and the third, which has
not yet crossed the Danube, about
Orsova.
The Bulgars also have other ar
mies mo\ ing across the frontier near
Zaitar, Pirot and Nish and further
south, near Egri Palanwa and Ko
hane and claim to be already in Ve
ieze. on the Vardar river. It is this
latter force the Anglo-French troops
landed at Saloniki probably will first
encounter.
To Guard Coast Lines.
Washington, D. C.—Organization of
the naval districts of the Unit 'd
States and the insular possession-1 to
aid the bureau of naval intelligence
in gathering information that will be
of use to the department in war or
peace times in included in plans upon
which officers of the navy department
are at work. There are thirteen of
tin se districts in addition to those at
(fonolulu. Manila and Panama, each
under the supervision of the com
mandant of a navy yard in the re
gion. It is proposed to make this:
organization active in registering all
American merchant vessels that
might be of use in war rimes, in
cluding power boats and motor
launches, to organize by these dis
tricts the various radio stations, pub
lic and private, as long distance j
eaves-droppers to “listen in” on any i
wireless conversation at sea off the j
coasts and also to make the prcpose.d I
navy training camps correspond to
the district organization. A proposal
has been made and probably will be
presented to congress this v,-inter,
that all pleasure power boats be re
quired to carry registry by number
in order that close track may be
kept, on them.
Saved From Drowning by Pillow.
Sioux City. la.—Mrs. Margaret An
derson. widow of Andrew G. Ander
son, Sioux Pity’s flood hero, fell to
the bottom of a thirty-foot well when
the board covering gave way. She
was saved from death by landing on
a pillow which she happened to be
carrying to a clothes line in the back
yard. A neighbor saw her fall and
summoned help. Mrs. Anderson’s
husband was drowned after saving
twenty-seven lives in the flood of
May 18, 1892. A monument com
memorating his bravery stands In Lo
gan park cemetery.
Boys Kidnap Girls.
Chicago—Armed with shotguns with
which they held a pursuing posse at
bay, a crowd of hoys kidnaped two
16-year-old girls from the Illinois State
Training School for Girls at Geneva,'
a suburb. The girls were 'finally cap
tured and returned to the home.
Inquire If Carranza Will Pay.
Washington. — European govern
ments are making inquiries of the
United States as to what assurances
have been given by the newly recog
nized Mexican officials as to claims.
Holds Breath for Ten Minutes.
Berkeley, Cal.—What is claimed to
be a new record for voluntary suspen
sion of respiration has been made by
Warren D. Horner, of the University
of California, in an exneriment con
ducted by Dr. Saxton Temole Pope.
Horner held his breath ten minutes.
Road Orders 59 Locomotives.
Lima, O.—An order for fifty-nine lo
comotives to cost $1,500,000 was rer
ceived by the Lima Locomotive cor
poration from the Illinois Central
Railroad Co., it is announced here.
THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
Oct. 25, 1914.
Germans crossed Yser canal
near Dixmude.
Battle at Nieuport.
Russians drove Germans from
Vistula river and retook Lodz and
Radom.
Austro-Germans defeated near
Przemysl.
Heavy fighting in Bosnia.
Japanese sank German cruiser
Aeolius off Honolulu.
Rebellion by De Wet and Beyers
in South Africa.
Oct. 26, 1914.
German advance checked on the
Yser.
Battle between Rawa and the
lijanka river.
French steamer Amiral Gan
teaume, loaded with refugees, sunk
by torpedo or mine off Boulogne.
Slayers of Archduke Ferdinand
found guilty of treason.
German property in France ta
ken into trusteeship.
I
Oct. 27, 1914.
Allies captured Thouro'it and
claimed Germans were driven
across border near Nancy.
.Fierce battles between La Bas
see and the Somme.
New Russian army crossed the
Vistula north of Ivangorod.
Russians drove Germans from
Rawa.
British dreadnaught Audacious
sunk off Ireland by mine or tor
pedo.
Germans laid mines off Irish
coast.
Oct. 28, 1914.
Allies repulsed night attack near
Dixmude and made gains in Ypres
region and between La Bassee and
Lens.
Germans retreated before Rus
sians advancing from Warsaw and
Ivangorod.
Battle along River San.
Hungarian cavalry division al
most annihilated in Galicia.
Belgians, defeated Germans on
Lake Tanganyika, Africa.
Emden sank a Japanese steamer.
Japanese cruiser Chitose re
pelled attack of two German war
ships.
Holland army massed on border
to prevent invasion.
Oct. 29, 1914.
Allies gained near Ostend.
Germans made gains west of
Lille and southwest of Verdun.
Germans intrenched themselves
near Thielt.
Russians split opposing armies
north and south of Piliza river.
Northern German army in re
treat.
Allies took Edoa, Africa.
Turkey began war on Russia by
bombarding Odessa and Theodo
sia from sea.
Emden sank Russian cruiser
and French destroyer in Penang
harbor.
German airmen dropped bombs
on Bethune, killing 19 women.
Prince Louis of Battenberg re
signed as first sea lord of British
admiralty, being succeeded by Sir
John Fisher.
Oct. 30, 1914.
Belgians flooded lower Yser val
ley, compelling Germans to with
| draw.
Germans made gains in the Ar
gonne.
Russians, pursuing retreating
Germans, captured guns and aero
planes and retook Czernowitz.
Austrians defeated near Tarnow.
Japanese, aided by Indian
troops, attacked Germans at Tsing
tau.
German cruiser Koenigsberg
bottled up in Rufiji river on Af
rican coast.
Turkish torpedo boats bom
barded Odessa, sinking one Rus
sian gunboat, three liners and
French steamer.
Russian and Turkish fleets
fought in Black sea.
German reserves of 1914 called
out.
American commission sent food
stuffs to Belgium.
Hope of Improvement.
“Do you think the world is getting
better?”
“It ought to be,” replied the mm
who worries about his health. “There
are more new medicines being in
vented every year.”
Heavier Crop.
"Now scientists say that vegetables
are susceptible to praise.”
“I think I’ll try that on my can
bages, It would help a heap if they
all got swelled heads.”—Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Truly Accomplished.
“Is your daughter a musician?”
“Yes,” replied Mr. Cumrox; “she
has studied music thoroughly."
“But she never sings or plays the
current melodies."
“No. She has studied music enough
to have some respect tor it,"
To Be Expected.
“Just as we got to the mouth of
the river—”
“What happened?"
“We found ourselves in the teeth
of the wind."
Curious Mineral.
Perhaps the most curious mineral
found In the United States is stauro
itte, otherwise known as the “fairy
stone.” This is an iron-aluminum sili
cate found only in Virginia and North
Carolina, the reddish-brown and
brownish-black crystals occurring in
well-defined single and double crosses.
There is some commercial demand for
the crosses as curios, which are worn
as watch charms or on chains in the
manner of a locket or lavalliere—a de
mand perhaps stimulated by the
chaint legend which is told of their
origin; the fairies living in the caves
of the mountains, on hearing the sad
tidings of the death of Christ, fash
ioned these crosses as mementoes of
him.
Why Do the Girls Do It?
“Why do only very pretty girls wear
their hair in knots over, their ears?”
asked Jenkins.
“Because fur earmuffs cost money
in these war days,” ventured Judkins.
“They wouldn’t probably, if they
knew constant covering up the ears
tends to deafness, besides being un
sanitary,” said the doctor. “The ears
require air as well as the face.”
"Pshaw!” returned Jenkins, "they
cover their ears because they don't
wish to hear all the pretty things said
about them.” ,
“Jenkins, you don't know a thing
about human nature, as exemplified in
the pretty girl.” retorted the doctor.
And they all laughed.
Painful Contrast.
“Who is that fellow fulminating
against American bankers for being
willing to lend Great Britain and
France approximately $1,000,000,000?”
“That’s Jibway. No wonder he's
bitter.”
“Why so?"
“He's been going around town for
two weeks trying to borrow $50.”—
Exchange.
Of Course.
“I want to git a bed an’ a mattress.”
said Farmer Wayback, entering a
Newark furniture store.
“Yes* sir,” replied the furniture
dealer; “a spring be* and spring mat
tress, I suppose.”
“No; 1 want that kind that kin be
used all the year round.”—Mrs. Emma
L. P. Wilcox, California.
Living Up to It.
“You have an excellent motto for
this railroad, sir. ’Safety First’ in
spires confidence in the public.”
“Yes, sir. And we live up to it
No passenger travels a mile without
paying first.”
The Extent.
“What ground of complaint have
you against that dentist?”
“Oh, achers of it!”
Fond Epithets.
“My star!” cried the capitalist.
“My angel!” cried the actress—
Baltimore American.
DECIDED TO KEEP “HANNER”
Comment of Uncle Josh Certainly no
Tribute to Charms of Attendants
at “Exchange.”
The conversation in a club the
other afternoon turned to the unso
phisticated. when Senator Claude
Kitchin of North Caroline recalled a
happy little incident, about Uncle J'r'i.
Uncle Josh, who lived far back in
the crimson clover zone, happened
into the big city one day and found
himself standing before a woman’s
exchange. That was a new one on
Josh, and for a long while he stood
there and thoughtfully pondered. Fin
ally he entered the building.
"I s'pose, ma’am," said he, address
ing one of the attendants, "that this is
the woman’s exchange?”
“Yes, this is the woman's exchange,"
replied the attendant. “What can we
do for you?"
"I s'pose," continued Josh, glancing
alternately at the two or three women
in the office, "that you are the only
women folks here?’
"There are no others," was the won
dering response of the attendant.
"Um,” thoughtfully observed Josh,
starting toward the door, "then I
guess I’ll jes' keep Hanner.”—Phila
delphia Telegraph.
Unexpected Reply.
The teacher had been giving a long
lecture on the need of a good educa
tion and, wishing to know if it was
making a good impression on her pu
pils, she asked. “What is the best
thing to take through life with you?”
You can imagine how pleased she
was when her favorite pupil, who was
usually rather dreamy, quickly raised
his had. “Well, John. I'm glad to see
that you've been paying attention.
You may tell us.”
She was much dismayed when he
innocently answered, “A good girl!”
Value of Hardship.
“So you’ve been camping?”
“Yes," replied the sunburned man.
“Of course you had a good time.”
“No. It rained almost incessantly,
the insects nearly ate me alive, and I
didn't catch any fish. Still, I derived
a great deal of benefit from the expe
rience."
“I must say you are optimistic.”
“Yes. Before I went away I didn’t
know how to appreciate a hall bed
room."
Why He Wasn’t Good.
"I hope you are always a good boy,
Tommy.”
"Well, I don't, sir. I don’t want to
die young.”
Regular Boarders.
Hixon—I understand your wife
comes of a very old family?
Dixon—Yes; also very numerous.
Equipped.
“Do you think you could walk ^
stretch with me?”
"Oh, yes; I have rubber solos.”
On the Side
of Science —
GrapeNuts!
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Certain elements are necessary i
for building stout bodies and active ®
. brains. The great majority of these 4
all-important elements for life and
health are supplied by Nature in
her held grains, wheat and barley, out white Hour
products lack these essential elements—Why?
Because the miller to make his flour look white
and pretty throws out about 4/5 ths. of the mineral
content of the wheat necessary for building brain,
nerve and muscle. *
Scientific opinion is on the side of
Grape-Nuts
FOOD
for supplying balanced nutritive values.
Not onl} does this famous pure food supply all
the sound nourishment of the wheat, including the
vital mineral elements—sturdy builders of brain, nerve
and muscle—but of malted barley as well.
Grape-Nuts is easily digested, generally in about an
hour—white flour products require about three hours.
Grape-Nuts is always ready to eat direct from the
dust-proof, moisture-proof, germ-proof packet—de
licious and economical?
Not alone from the scientific side but from the
view-point of better health thousands have come
to know
“There’s a Reason” for
Grape-Nuts
Sold by Grocers everywhere.