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(Suburb of Chicago Finds Itself in the War Zone
/CHICAGO.—Morgan Part unconsciously slipped Into the war zone the
other day—and slipped light out again. The woods at Prospect avenue
ojBsd Guoveland court bore a near appearance to a European battlefield. There
were iwu imps ui ireuuuea, m iruni
of which the earth had been piled up
in superdefenses. Projecting from
loopholes In this earthwork were the
barrels of rifles. Twenty boys, armed
to the teeth, filled the opposing
trenches.
The German eagle waved over
one trench and the flags of the al
lied powers flew over the other. The
forces were evenly divided, and it
was evident from the tenseness of
the situation in each trench that an
was near, men me unexpeciea—me element mui rums me uae
ni ^Kittles—happened. A number of men In blue uniforms were creeping
ws> In the grass in the rear of the allies’ trench. They crouched behind trees
and .spied on the operations.
A* the moment when the commander of the allied forces started to lead
his men out of their trenches in a desperate charge on the German position,
itbe men in blue rose and started another charge on their rear.
’’Uhlans!” shouted the little Bobby-make-believe, who was leading the
«*SteatS>e of the allies. "We are cut off from the rear! Fight your way
r&tarnugh, men! Up and at ’em!”
•-Cossacks!” shouted a youthful figure that appeared suddenly on toy of
• the German trench. “The enemy has re-enforcements. Beat it.”
"Stop the war In the name of the law,” shouted Police Lieut Charles
t®. Burns, who was leading the line of blue. “Surround them, men. Capture
‘IOk.ts> alive, but let no man escape.”
The war was momentarily forgotten In the effort to elude the police.
ItDerman and Briton, French and Russ mixed Indiscriminately In the rush for
liberty. It was a rout.
Five of the warriors—allies all—threw down their arms and surrendered.
Three flags, two rifles, three revolvers and Borne ammunition were gath
>oed up and when the boys’ parents met the warriors In the police station a
iynaoe treaty was signed. The guns and cartridges were confiscated. The
•Stags and parts of uniforms were returned to their owners to be kept as
Ws&cs to be cherished in later years.
Central Park Shown to New York Police Rookies
SEW YORK.—A new sight-seeing service has been established In Central
Park for those who may have heard of the famous reservation but are
acquainted with the chief topographical features that are well knows te
■RHftners. The automobile In service
Is vine of the large green-painted ma
chines owned by the police depart
ment. Remarkable as It may seem,
tee sightseers are men In blue. They
me police rookies, who are assigned
So duty in the park on Saturdays and
Bundsvs to help out the short-handed
jark squad. Usually a veteran park
*wp who knows every blade of grass
*oes along with the rookies as' ot
«dal announcer. A typical trip runs
3m part very much this way:
This Is Donkey hill. You 'will nnd it a nice post, but you will have te
answer a lot of questions. Over there Is Pigeon hill, a quiet post; mostly
worses and children. This Is Lovers’ Lane, near the reservoir. You don’t
aea anything wrong here as a rule, for you must remember that you were
mace young yourself and didn’t like to be disturbed by the old man coming
toto the parlor when you was calling on your best girl. If you are assigned
to Reiser's hill, bear in mind that ghosts don’t walk In the daytime. Yon
won't have to do duty at night, so you needn’t worry in case you have heard
the tradition.”
So the veteran cop goes on, pointing ont Sulqide lawn, Cat hill and many
rather places.
Swarm of Bees Causes Sensation in Atlanta
ATLANTA.—A swarm of bees from the country caused a sensation by to
jin vading Atlanta’s business district in a compact, buzzing cloud, and after
fJBt&rtling Peachtree street went up 17 stories over the roof of the Healey
building and settled on the low root
of the Central club. There they
picked out a ventilator hood as theta
home and, headed by their quee^
proceeded to set up housekeeping.
Office boys were beating tin can%
while people on the roof stood aloof,
when Ernest Deacon, an insurance
man, saw them from the Empire
building, two blocks away. He re
membered his early bee-catch!a|
days In the foothills of Georgia. With
a packing box and a square of can
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| •ventilator. Deacon calmly placed the box near the bees and began picking
(them up by the handful and putting them in the box.
After a little he desisted, saying: “I’ve got the queen In there now; watch
jttae rest crawl in after her.” And, sure enough, they did. In fifteen minute*
jatoere wasn’t a bee In sight outside the box.
Deacon wrapped the canvas about the box, tucked it under his arm ant
'"“—’hed away.
C“Tb©y will never sting you while they are swarming,” he said. “Ther
t; they’re too fat.”
The colony is now Installed in his back yard.
lopeka Plans to Make Money Out of Skunk Farm
TOPEKA, KAN.—The city of Topeka is to have a municipal skunk farm to
Lakewood park. W. L. Porter, city commissioner of parks, so an
\ nounced. “There’s money in it,” explained Porter, enthusiastically. "Of the
j various Kinds or animals which the
|*aty Is keeping at the Gage park zoo,
! none Is profitable. I have just pur
chased eight skunks, and from these I
ropeet the city to reap a good profit.
' Tlhe skunks will help pay for main
taining the other animals.
"The skunks I have bought are
.wery fine animals. Their hides will *
"we worth $4 each when they are a j
^esr old, but the value of the fur de- ,
■Jeads somewhat upon the kind of feed
tb« animals are given. If the right
LOOK) LIKE ]
A COOP
IINEbTMeNTir
TO ME
rjtma or ieea is given, me niaes win ne worth even more tnan |4 each. An*
|**eb pair of Bkunks should raise eight young ones each year. So multiply
tiCsjrhi by four and the city should have 32 skunks a year from now, and four
'rthnes 32 is 128, the number at the end of the second year, and four times
p28 is 512. If these 512 hides are worth $4 each, the city should receive
V*&G40 in three years—looks like a good investment for the city.
"What about the scent? Oh, that can be remedied. Skunks can be per
tassmer.tly deodorized. Deodorized skunks are not only profitable, but thay
$»aake nice pets. They are real cute.”
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' HOUSE IX ORANGE, N. J.. WHERE LUCY STONE LIVED
| MADE HER FAMOUS PROTEST AGAINST TAXATION
J- REPRESENTATION. DATE OF PROTEST 1857.
WHEN SHE
WITHOUT
WOMEN BRING
LIBERTY'S TORCH |
TO JERSEY
Suffragists Meat on Hudson.
On Saturday, Aug. 7, midstream the |
Hudson, the torch of liberty which
New York women have carried the
length and breadth of their state Is
to be handed over to New Jersey.
Arrangements have been made for
bringing the torch to New Jersey by
MBS. RICHARD T. NEWTON OF NUTLET,
VICE PRESIDENT WOMEN* POLITICAL
UNION OF NEW JERSEY.
Mrs. Richard T. Newton, chairman of
a special committee of the Women’*
Political Union.
The torch, unlighted till the women
in the east vote, will be brought from
New York on a tug bearing the suf
frage colors by Mrs. Harriot Stanton
Blateh, president of the Women's Po
litical Union of New York, and given,
halfway between Jersey City and New
York, to Mrs. A. Van Winkle, presi
dent of the Women’s Political Union
of New Jersey, who will meet her in a
decorated tug putting off from Jersey
City.
The first torch meeting on New Jer
sey soil will be held on Pier B, Jersey
City, which has been lent for the pur
pose by the Pennsylvania Railroad
company. It will then be taken to the
steps of the city hall, where Mayor
Fagan will speak.
The torch, which is of a handsome Ro
man design, has been carried through
the state of New York by Mrs. Hen
ry O. Havemeyer and Mrs. Stanton
Blateh.
The trip through New Jersey by au
tomobile will begin with outdoor meet
ings on the first day in Newark, Rah
way, Perth Amboy, Keyport, Keans
burg and Atlantic Highlands. At At
lantic Highlands it will be placed in
the hands of Miss Eleanor Brannan,
who will carry it over Monmouth
county, in which she and a corps of
workers are campaigning.
In Jersey City Mayor Fagan will
welcome the torch bearers and be one
of the speakers at the meeting there.
Other speakers on the first day’s trip
include State Senator Frank U. Pierce,
Rev. Charles S. Kemble, Fillmore Con
dit, Nicholas O. Perry, J. P. Furber,
Winston Paul, Hon. Everett Colby,
Thomas F. Meaney, W. J. Morgan and
Commissioner Harry A. Moore of Jer
sey City.
tititititititititititititit
—
+ Woman’s Place Is In the Home, +
+ BUT— J
J Look at New Jersey, where the t
-j- question of woman suffrage *
I comes before the voters on Oct. *
* 19: *
.j, In New Jersey the number of T
■+■ women of voting age is. 736,669 X
+ In New Jersey the number of +
J wage earning women is. 239,565 t
This means that one-third of all *
* the women in New Jersey have j
+ to work outside of the home for +
+ a living. ^
The Hon- Everett Colby thinks that
suffrage may be made unanimous In
this state through the very nervous
activity of its chief opponent, the only
Jim Nugent Even those who were
not interested will begin to think there
to a very good reason why they should
become interested in the propaganda.—
Elizabeth Journal.
LEADERS OF THE
SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGNS
GATHER IN JERSEY
Lucy Stone Honored.
The "Boston Bay” of American worn
en is the name given to the home of
Lucy Stone, 16 Hurlbut street. Orange,
where the famous “taxation without
representation” protest was made in
1857. Upon the house in which she
lived will be placed a tablet Aug. 13
which will be so worded that if the
house is torn down the tablet still will
commemorate the spot.
Aug. 13 has been selected for a
celebration and for unveiling the tablet
because it is the ninety-seventh birth
day of Lucy Stone, founde. of the New
Jersey Woman Suffrage Association in
1806. Orange will be the meeting place
of suffrage leaders from the states of
New Jersey. New York, Pennsylvania
and Massachusetts, the leaders of the
thousands of American women strug
gling for their political independence.
The celebration will be inaugurated
with a banquet. Present as guests of
honor will be Miss Alice Stone Black
well, daughter of Lucy Stone, president
of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage
Association; Dr. Anna Howard Shaw,
president of the National Suffrage As
sociation; Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt,
president of the International Suf
frage Alliance and chairman of the
Empire State Campaign Committee;
Mrs. Frank J. Roessing, president
of the Pennsylvania Woman Suf
frage Association; Mrs. Raymond
Brown, president of the* New York
Woman Suffrage Association, and, it
is hoped, Mrs. Antoinette Blackwell
of Elizabeth, N. J., who was a sister
in-law, college mate and close friend
of Lucy Stone, and who is now eighty
nine years old.
Mrs. E. F. Feickert, the president of
the New Jersey Woman Suffrage As
sociation, will be the toastmistress at
Lt’CY STONE.
the banquet, which will be held at
the Casino on Eagle Rock on the even
ing of the 12th.
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell will be
the speaker at the unveiling of the
tablet Aug. 13 at 2 p. m.
The house upon which the tablet will
be placed is in the Italian district of
Orange, and its present occupant is
Matthew Masi, a druggist He is em
phatically in favor of suffrage because
his national heroes, Garibaldi and Maz
zini, believed freedom good for women.
Mr. Masi is very proud of the garden in
front of his home, and his only fear
In connection with the pilgrimage
ceremony was that his flowers might
be hurt. Dr. Mary G. Hussey, a suffra
gist and flue gardener, immediately
sent Mr. Mast a barrow load of healthy
young plants.
W omen will have an equal voice with
toen in casting at least ninety-one of
the electoral votes that are to decide
who is to be our next president. The
ninety-one votes in question will come
from the twelve states of the west and
middle west where women now vote.
This number may be enlarged consid
erably. however, between now and
1010, as the suffrage question goes to
a vote of the people this November in
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey
and Massachlsetts.
In all countries, even those where
the equal rights movement is least ad
vanced, the more thoughtful women
now realize that the restrictions laid
upon them are due to human blindness,
not to the laws of nature or to the will
of God.—A. 8. B.
I ■
WARSAW EXODUS
WITHOUT PANIC
Residents Fled to Moscow In
Orderly Manner.
MAJORITY WISHED TO STAY
Russian Govornment Gave Free Rail
road Transportation to All Who
Wanted to Leave, bq* Only 15 Per
Cent Took Advantage of the Offer.
Retirement Carefully Planned.
Hundreds of refugees from Warsaw
are arriving at Moscow dally. Most
of them are without money or means
of sustenance and are seeking aid at
the American consulate, where an en
larged staff is attempting to supply
temporary assistance ponding the or
ganization of a Itusslan relief commis
sion.
The refugees state that, although the
population of the Polish capital was
convinced that the Germans ultimately
would occupy the city, a majority of
the citizens elected to remain, only ap
proximately 15 per cent having depart
ed. This accounts for the comparative
order and the absence of panic which
accompanied the exodus.
When German occupation seemed
Imminent the government issued an
order that third class tickets to any
point in the Interior of Russia should
be given free to all citizens desiring to
depart. The only condition attached
by the authorities was that residents
so leaving would not be allowed to re
turn without a special permit.
nesiacni5 rcareu rdmme.
Those choosing the alternative of de
parture foresaw that Warsaw wrould
be visited with conditions similar to
those imposed on Lodz and that the
town would be cut off from the interior
of Russia, whence all provisions were
obtainable, and that Warsaw would
suffer from famine.
The refugees compare the orderly and
systematic abandonment of the city
with the panic caused by the first Ger
man approach last October, when an
attempt of the city officials, institutions
and private citizens to all bolt at once
resulted in indescribable confusion.
The retirement this time was so care
fully planned and so systematically ex
ecuted that it went off like clockwork,
and an onlooker received the impres
sion that a no more extraordinary phe
nomenon was occurring than the ordi
nary summer exodus. Sufficient extra
trains had been provided so that trav
eling conditions on the whole differed
little from normal.
Provision Tickets Unnecessary.
An unusual feature of the present
abandoment of the city was the fact
that provision tickets were made un
necessary.
The bulk of the refugees traveled on
foot or with wagons along the high
ways. Most of the refugees were un
able to proceed southward and to Kiev,
and, finding the railway to Vilna mo
nopolized for military purposes, they
took the line to the east, temporarily
crowding Moscow, Vladova and Brest
Litovsk. Many of these lost their
homes in the outlying portions of War
saw, the destruction of which became
a military necessity.
All the territory immediately to the
west of W*arsaw, containing large fac
tories, Polish estates and peasant
dwellings, now present blackened and
uninhabitable areas.
Care had been taken that no subur
ban factories should fall into the handi
of the Germans and be converted C»
their use. Chief among those destroy
ed was the $1,000,000 sugar factory be
longing to a Polish lawyer, Eugene
Karaluk, with more than 2,000 tons of
sugar.
The factories in the city itself, al
though abandoned, had not yet been
destroyed when the refugees left the
capital.
SOLDIERS SMITTEN BY BEES.
Thinking They Have Been Struck by
Shells, They Fall.
The Third regiment, Kentucky na
tional guard, met a decisive defeat In
the battle of Bon Harbor, the attacking
army being made up of the First and
Second regiments. The defeat was
brought about by the use of automo
biles by members of the Louisville reg
iment, who reached the front before
the Third realized that the machines
contained soldiers.
During the battle several of the sol
diers thought that they had been hit
by shells and fell to the ground. Mem
bers of the hospital corps examined
the wounds and discovered that the
men had been stung by bumblebees.
BORROWED A MALLET.
And Went Over to the Enemy’* Trenck
es For It.
One of our men in the trenches, saya
• London paper, was ordered to ham
mer in a post which supported some
wire entanglements and had become
loosened. Finding that there was no
hammer, the man coolly walked across
to the nearest trench of the enemy and
asked to be lent a hammer or mallet.
Evidently surprised and pleased at
the courage of the man, one of the
Oerman soldiers handed him a mallet,
and the post having been straightened
and fixed, the man walked back to the
1 German trench, returned the mallet
and calmly rejoined his companions.
Thu
From his early ronmiuR 6iiccr*.< t« 1
his golden maturity i'mle.-ii- M :.ur»i '
the Provencal poet, had a sort of i(.,
endary destiny almost unheard of jj I
the modern world. When he eauie li,t„ i
the dining room of the little hotel b
Arles where he used to luneb alter«
visit to his museum even the stiff
backed British tourists found then,
selves leaping to their feet with the
rest of the company and cordially re
turning his tine salute. Travelers who
have had the fortune to catch a glimpse
of him on some fete day at Arles or
Nimes or Orange will never forget the
impression he made. Standing on the
stone bench of a Homan arena, lifting
his black sombrero as the close packed
crowds rose in great swelling waves
to break Into the shout ‘•Mistral!" be
seemed the very symbol and type of*
the legendary youth and joy and beau
ty of Trovence. His natural eminence
was tempered by such natural simplic
ity that popular response to it was as*"
spontaneous as It was sincere. His
gracious presence defied time, and he
wore old age like a wreath of myrtle.
—Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant in Cen
tury.
Arguing With an Expert.
Never argue with an expert. It is
useless. There is no way of making
headway against him. Though you
may know much more than he does,
you can’t possibly get him to admit it
His main defense lies in the possession
of his own special vernacular. No ex
pert is complete without a vernacular.
Many experts have nothing more.
In arguing with an expert he always
begins by assuming, first, that you
don’t know what you are talking about
and, second, that if you did know
what you were talking about you
couldn’t talk about it intelligently, be
cause you lacked the specific vocabu
lary that the subject demands. As the
argument proceeds he spends so much
time asking, "Just what do you mean
when you use the word-and you
spend so much time explaining your
terms that you totally forget what you
are arguing about. Obviously when a
man forgets what he is trying to prove
he should immediately quit trying to
prove it.—Life.
Water Hemlock.
If you are fond of parsnips you
should before eating them make sure
that they are parsnips and not the poi
sonous roots of the water hemlock.
The water hemlock grows In marshy
places In various parts of the United
States. Its roots, which look almost
exactly like those of parsnips, are full
of a deadly poison known to science as
spasmotoxin.
Animals frequently die from eating
the hemlock and occasional cases o!
serious illness and death among hu
man beings have resulted from eating
parsnips with which the poisonous
hemlock roots had been mixed by mis
take. In India the water hemlock Is a
favorite method of suicide.
Even a very small dose of the poison
in this root is sufficient to cause death
from asphyxiation, paralysis and ex
haustion and no antidote for it has yet
been discovered.—New York American.
Ancient Couriers.
It wras the custom of the couriers of
the middle ages to carry silver beads
in their mouths to lessen thirst. In
certain districts of India which are not
traversed by railways the ancient cou
riers still survive and carry mails from
village to village. In the jungle dis
tricts they carry bells about their
necks to frighten away tigers. The
American Indians had their swift run
ners, who carried messages in times of
war between allied tribes or from the,
warriors In hostile territory to their
native villages, and extraordinary tales
are told of their swiftness and endur
ance. The running messenger in Eu
rope was succeeded by the mounted^
messenger, and as civilization pro
gressed systems of couriers were es
tablished, which slowly evolved into
the modem system of posts.
The Thermometer.
A thermometer the bulb of which
contains mercury will not register un
der 28 degrees F. below zero—that is
to say, mercury will freeze at that
point. Of course in the temperate zones
little practical use is found for ther
mometers showing more than 28 de
grees below zero, but in the arctic and
antarctic they are essential. Such In
struments, however, contain spirits in
the bulbs instead of mercury, but even
this fluid becomes sluggish when 40
or 50 degrees below zero is recorded,
and it will seldom show CO degrees
below.
Norway’s Fourth of July.
The Norwegian Fourth of July is the
17th of May, the declaration of inde
pendence previous to that country’s
last union with Sweden having been
proclaimed on that date in 1814. Even
the Norwegians in this country keep
green the memory of that day.
Made Bill III.
First Boy—Why are you sad, Bill?
Second Boy—Oh, I'm troubled with
dyspepsia. First Boy—How can tha|
be? Second Boy—I got licked at school
’cause I couldn’t spell it.—Exchange.
Gastronomic Mistake.
“This condiment is so hot I can’t
eat it.”
“Why, my wife said it was chilly
sauce.”—Baltimore American.
Luxury Too Easy.
“And that boy was raised in the lap
of luxury.”
“It’s a pity he wasn’t spanked across
it”—Boston Transcript.
Be true to your word and your wort
and your friend.—O’Reilly. t
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