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Representatives Frequently Derelict in Duty
W ASH (;TNT'ON-"'apa, the man down there said they were in committee
of the whole, liunt that isn't all of them, is It?" "No, son. There are
only forty-lnne present, and there are 4'15 members." "Then why do they
call it eonunltt e of .he whole house?"
fIight here ipran. not being a par- Mi C 1POSE ROST
liomentrian,. wa:s stamped and had to o F C
admit it to the 1,?y. others in tlhe PR5-" M ,E F X
house of repri.sentati'es gallery won- AOUT 41
deredl with the b,)y, who unconsci.lously TEIR
had dlsplhtyed a bit of deltlietos lrony i rFENCES
:et the exlp.ense if the natio.n's law- !
makers. o hllt'' sessNion in the l"Ist
mointh has 'een morei, than one-fourth
of the total tnembership present, and
"committee of the whole" is rather
more of a joke than anything else.
In a short time the house of representatives has passed on at least three
tresnendously inrportant pieces of legisllntion:
The five-billion-dollar urgent dei-ti-lencle appropriation.
The $176.iK0.000 war risk insurance hill.
The $11.53:8.000.000 bond and certificate measure.
At no time during discussion of the last-nnmed hill were there more than
75 members on the floor of the house. Rarely during the Insurance discussion
did nmore than C0 show themselves.
Washington. accustomed to anything in the way of congressional behavior,
or misbehavior, has hardly raised an ieyehrow at this queer, not to say naive.
way of handling important national business. But the casual visitors with
nothing better to do than to visit the house have frequently remarked on the
situation.
A faithful handful of represeuntatives have been fairly regular in at
tendance, but by far the great majority have not shown thetmselves at the
capitol in weeks. "Illness in the family" and "necessary business" must he
responsible, as alleged, for gabsenci-es, bhiause it is an off-year for elections.
Notable Gift to United States National Museum
IHE United States National museurn at Washington has recently received
and put on exhibitionu a notable collection of swords, uniforms and
aiscellaneous relics of MaJ. ;Gen. George R. McClellan. These mementos
were a gift to the museum from George
= It. McClellan of Princeton university.
The swords, of which there are
nine, are perhaps the most Interesting
feature of the collection. The most
-I striking of these is a gold-mounted
sword set with pearls presented to
Q McClellan by a number of citizens of
11 -----* Boston In 1803, in recognition of his
s ervices during the Civil war. The
- scabbard is inscribed, "To Major
General George B. McClellan, from
many citizens of Boston, Feb. 5, 1863.
Pro rege saepe, pro patria semper." Two swords in the collection were car.
ried by McClellan in the Civil war, a dress sword and a service sword.
The other swords in the collection commemorate his Mexican war service,
one dress sword having been presented to him "by a number of gentlemen as
a testimonial of their high admiration for his gallantry during the war with
Mexico. First, at the siege of Vera Cruz ; second, the battle of Cerro Gordo;
third, battle of Contreras; fourth, battle of Churubusco; fifth, Chapultepec;
sixth, capture of the City of Mexico."
Another of the swords carried in the Mexican war is a service saber
with a small piece of the hilt broken away. The donor of the collectiona
writes: "A piece of the hilt of this sword was carried away by a bullet
which slightly wounded General McClellan in the hand."
Among the other relics of this great American general are several uni
terms, aspurs, field glasses, revolvers, powder flasks, and a number of more
personal relies.
Many Clerks Needed to Handle President's Mail
PRESIDENT WILSON'S mail bag is the largest in the world. ThousandL;
of letters arrive daily, and every one of any importance must have the
individual attention of America's first citizen. Of course, the president ii
not able to read all his correspondence
himself. This difficulty is overcome
by a carefully developed system by -r
which the contents of the White House M
mafl bag of any importance are laifl *
before Mr. Wilson each day.
The work of iselectlon falls upon a
corps of confidential clerks, who open
tse letters and give them a first read
ing. Then they are carefully sorted.
Many of them are simply recommenda
tions for ofce. These, after courteous
acknowledgment, are referred to the
proper departments and placed on file until the matter can be taken up for
consideration. aHundreds of the ml#soves are purely formal, or contain Im
possible requests. These are immediately answered by the stat and signed
by one of the president's assisltant secretarlies.
Such communications as the president ought to see are clearly brlieed-
that Is, a slip is pinned at the top of each letter, and on this is a typewritten
synope of Its contents, telling who the writer tis and what he has to present.
requently the premsident is sumdcently lanterested by the brief to cause him to
read the whole letter. Sometimes the communlcation is referred to a cabinet
,e. inl which ease the slip is retained at the White Boouse and filed.
Washington Watches Daring Military Aviators
ARING Italian military aviators, in two battle planes of lightning speed,
and a giant bomblna plane carrying ten passengers, gave official Wash
iagton a marvelous example of what the American aviation corps must do to
strike Germany through the air. All
t three airplanes fiuw without accident
from Langley field, near Newport
News, . .. to Washington n in less than
two hiurs. The distance was apprixI
, mnatily 120 mIu!s. :nid the average
liringt maintained w:s 7,0r00 feet.
In the gr.:lat Caproni hombing ma
chine, which has a wing spread of 85
ftcet and 525 horse-power engines, there
n't-re si-verail government officials, who
enJyed the trip Immensely, suffering
ii illnonvetiletnce whatever. After ar
Llvlng, here two of the airplanes thrilled thousands of sectators with feats I
-e the air, which filled the highest officers of the signal corps of the army with
uwndlguised admiration.
The exhibition ended with the flight of the great Caproni machine over
the city, carrying a party of persons, and the "bombing" of the White House I
:17 one of the smaller machines with bouquets of flowers, dropped from a great
Officers of the armay and navry who witnessed the landlng of the three I
sachrines and the wonderful aerial feats which they later indulged in, did not
hesitate to say that the United States has yet a long way to go before It can
equal the aviation corps of Europe.
Many members of the house and senate were present, and they were v- t
bly Impressed with the efiency of the Italian machines and the skill of I
their pilota.
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ODDS AND ENDS
Four thiglrrs in India are held sacred
-tows, crows, snakes and uonakeys.
One-tenth of the 2.000.000 inhabi
tants of Uganda are Protestant Chris
tiuans.
A refrigerator made of concrete
cools by the action of water flowing
over the sides of the device.
Novel snow plows of recent inven
tlon for automobiles are carried on
sled runners in fron' of the forward
wheels.
A million and a quarter horses and
mules have been exported for war
purposes since the fall of 1914.
The Mexico City town council has
ordered the arrest of any person
caught speculating in theater tickets.
It is said that Germany contributes
about $3,737,000 a year for the support
of her ruler, Austria-Hungary $4,507,
000 and Turkey $5,000,000.
Pressed steel is crowding out other
materials-gray iron, malleable cast
ingsC wood, brass and aluminum--in
the manufacture of automoble.
ýlUEER STORIES OF NEW RUSSIA
Elementary Mentality of the
Masses Demonstrated by
Amusing Examples.
FISH MADE FREE BY TROOPS
Hew Pretty Woman, With Dogs and
Red Ribbon, Turned Hestility to
Enthusiasm-Man With Red
Umbrella Becomes Per
aenage.
Par.i-Political happenings hove
snceweded ono another so rapidly In
Russia that French correspondents
there have had little time to do more
than occupy themselves with them, and
descriptive articles from those jour
nnalists have been few regarding the
effect of the revolution on the Im:ss
of the peolde and its results in the
provinces and lnlnong the peasants.
One or two articles, however, have ap
peared which throw soume light on the
mentality of the Russians, regarded as
so different from that of other Euro
iana.
IRobert de Flers, associate editor of
the Figaro and now attached to the
headquarters staff of the IRoumanian
army, has had months of study of the
Russian troops serving in conjunction
with those of Roumanla. 11ere are
some anecdotes from his latest article:
There is a fine lake somewhere in
the south of Russin which is connected
by a channel with a smaller lake,
where huge carp are raised. The chan
nel was burred by nets to prevent the
carp from passing Into the larger lake,
and. as food doews not reach the troops
In the district too plentifully nor in
great variety, the officers were glad
to vary their mess with the fish.
One day some hundreds of soldiers
were gathered in a meeting--one of
those meetings which have become a
regular Institution in the Russian army
this year-plunged in deep discussion.
Suddenly-there was a rush toward
the lakes and. with cries tf "Sloboda !"
"Slobodha !" ("Liberty I" "LIberty!"),
the men began to pull out the barriers
and nets and destroy them. The offi
cers wished to prevent the destruction,
but the soldiers took little notice of
their reprimands beyond crylng "it81
boda ! Sloboda for the fish I"
A no'hcommlssioned officer explained
the matter. "Fish are God's creatures
as men are. Like them, they have the
right to liberty. But men can talk and
so have made the revolution, while
fish are dumb and can never make
theirs. It is, therefore, our duty to aid
them because it Is contrary to nature
to pen them up In order to capture
them and easily kill them."
A Personage and Didn't Knew It.
A middle class functionary, a man
who occupld a modest position In one
of the tax-collecting offices and who
was Imbued with the narrow, bureau
cratic, reactionary spirit generally
found In that class, chanced to go out
one day with a red umbrella under his
arm. A group of manifestants going to
a meeting begged him to open his um
brella. He willingly complied, and at
MRS. WM. ASTOR CHANLER
..ts earl str le for lfe is M WI
nemuch of her time ricand energ since ho
the Marqis of Lafayette and the Fretnch
in their great struggle.
Mrs. Chanler has been interested nla
hospital and relief work in Plars but
her especlial charities have been the
Lafayette fund. which provldes com-i
fort kits to French soldiers, and the
French heroes' fund. It was the lat
ter fund, of which Mrs. Chanler was
presdent. that purchased the birth- I
place of Lafayette in France to be pre- a
served as a museum.
How to Cut a Bottle.
A simple method of accurately cut
ting a bottle is to place It upodf some a
level foundation and fill It with lin
seed oil to the point at which you de
sire the line of separation to occur.
Then take an Iron rod of as great a
diameter as will pass into the bottle, t
make it almost white hot, and dip It t
into the oil. After the lapse of a few I
moments a sharp crack Is heard, and f
the bottle is found to be neatly cut c
as if with a diamond. If the bottle a
be very thick and the crachUllg mad q
Snce found that his bright umrII.lla -
red being the revolution's co'lr -.01e'
him a Inr irsounage. WVomon threw htinI
flowers. children were lifted up f or
him to kiss, andt he xs at otre iad~t'
Ipre-ident of 11he meetin1|g.
SV ,he tlhallt was (,I l" he was :l tonducit
edI in triumph Itn a :hanqel,. andi there.
tot.. he nmadle sit clil': tnt s l.'h. ee'h, h
ir.: dtiover, lhimsl4tif' arn orator with
d o'it hlvin g cticr suspectedtcl 1. Finailly
he was coiduc'tedl to his horlne at a
Inte. hour by3 severrit thousands ,of his
free. if rtnot enlightened fllowI-citizens.i
Frotri that day. after insrlling his
nllult' iel ion the revolutionary c',iommittee,
he has nevecr gone cout without his red
umbireii :lla, lit ola r.,
SFor iocnths every Iilaterial. f-oun silk
to the eiillnlmno est (clottlI, eoul',rcd rcl|.
I Ihasl t been, sought for ind inside into
r- sMktell 5, Ihngs, .trc.nlle*rs, etct. The
e imtllelt fruagent 'of red 'series aP aU
= c'lxiise for a Ilainifea'tlatin·,. hlere is a
story Iof a squad of ltuss.ian sliiers. t
i rcetty woman. a Ipet dog, and a how
knot of red rib,bon.
0 The Lpretty wonmno m· s walking up
s anl dowfln the tlatformn of a little sta
tlion crowdedt with soldiers. The men,.
whose oplortullties of seeing a pretty
f wton had bIteen litited for many a
e month. hze rl in niadmilrtion and were
, preptarel to make a manifestation in
e her honor. liBut suddenly their feelings
a showed a change and cries of discon
e tent begun to bI heard. A group of sol
dlers went up to the woman and se
rverely uphralded her because a bow of
red ribbon was fastened over the ear
of her Pomeranian dog. Such a use of
the symbol of revolution was shocking,
e they said, Is it showed a wish to ridi
rule the great movement. The soldiers
shouted, shrleked, and jumped about
Ixcitedly, to the utter astonishment of
the pretty woman and of the IPom.
iBut the woman extricated herself
from an embarrassing position with
f the guilt of a true daughter of Eve.
She took the rhlbon from her dog's
lad and placed It in her own hair.
On* more the crowd changed its tone.
and at was nrild enthusiastic cheering
that she. and the dog, took the train a
little later.
A certain general was suspected by
his men of being only lukewarm to
ward the new movement, so a delega
tion of soldiers waited on him to ask
him his real opinions.
"I'll tell you jest what I am." he said
to them. "and you can tell it to every
one. I look upon my men as my chil
dren and so have no reason not to tell
them the whole truth. I am a Maximal
Ist anarchist. After that I am sure
you won't want any further details."
The men went away delighted. They
declared to the regiment that had sent
them: "The general is absolutely all
right. He is so tremendously revolu
tionary that we couldn't even remem
ber the name that he said."
Logic of Freedom.
Two soldiers had happened to speak
to a general and one had used the
term. "your excellency." as was the
custom before the revolution. The
other soldier afterward rebuked his
companion for sucwh a lapse from new
principles.
"You said 'excellency'!"
"Well, of course I said 'excellency.' "
"But don't you know that now you
musn't say 'excellency? "
"And why musn't we say 'excellency'
and more?"
"HThat? Why? Because we have
made the revolution, and now we are
all free."
The first soldier was silent for a
tminutes, and then remarked:
"But since we are all free, we are
free to say 'excellency' if we like to."
The other soldier, In turn, reflected
for a minute, and then declared:
"That's true, after all. The moment
we are tfree we can do what we like.
It's that, you see that's so dlmcult to
understand. But as that's really so, I
am going to say 'excellency' myself."
Then he added:
"But. all the same, it won't be the
same thing as beforae."
Ludovie Nadean has found time to
send to the Temps some anecdotes
about events lin Petrograd after the
grmeat revolution:
In the early days of the revolution a
strange-looking street-sell made his
appearance on the Nevsky Prospect.
As he wore a sarlet cap, a crowd soon
gathered. He was offering pamphlets
at 50 kopecks aplece. and could hardlyi
hand them out quick enough. The nat
ural inference would he that the work
treated of the revolution, but, as a
matter of fact. It was a "Hllistory of
Buddhism," bought. doubtless, for a
nominal sum as a publisther's remaind
or. One soldier. as he carried away
hIs bargain, wits heard to say: "I can't
rend. lut lots of conradces in the bar
racks can."
Before the revolution. people hathed
naked In the Neva. but outside the
town. Now they ore bathing, entirety
stripped, within the town. and walk
about on the bridges and quays be
tween the French and British embas
des. The men of 1793 were christened
"sans culotte," (without trousers), the
men of 1917 are "sans calecon," (with
out drawers).
The Petrograd soldiers, anxious to
Instruct themselves and occupy the
leinre that the revoluation has given
them, are great visitors to the mu
seems. Their anxiety to investigate
everything leads them to paws their
hands over the pictures and caress the
statuary, (often marking It with their
nails). Notices have been put up bg- t
not heard in a few moments, a little
cold water thrown on the outside will t
accomplish It.
Knots Not Interesting.
In one educational museum of Ja- c
pan is a great frame of the most bean
tiful knots, tied in silken and golden I
thread. This had formed a part of j
Japan's exhibit at a certain world's
fair. For six months this wonderful
collection had hung upon the wail, anad
only two visitors had noticed and ta- i
quirsd about It.
Sn . , 1 ' . i' t hi.
i':l llih ',' 11,r' tetli\i'l.hle ''-tl firf 1e 1,' L i ,I
I i of  sel , rvh'ie, '. s t.heny Vh li . carry
r the ke'+" t\ 1.u"e! the leather brceems,
a ll 4e' le htl t le rrq are the real turna
How to Be a Civil Engineer.
I. a manuilrL''tl' t ihe' wvrklmwn, ig n
body wlII'l e II the civil engineerl to
I tell thI.I thliat.'h.'te ' old order having
'r i'l'iel aIwayI , theri'rc' Iiie t l tie no m e'orl
slavery. Ever e',1." lullt w.ork in turn.
I SSo you will kindly L~-oiw of .n goe
I down lnto the minics, ancid Vthie'Ls fire
tho' 'enlgiln es."
1 And hr, w'ill 1do nr y;vrkT'' asked
llw e'ngixle".,rs.
"S,1. ,f u+ V ill taik'e t"r'q in your
""llt what will yo'n ek, there?"
"The Salei :I' sI ti aroeund.
'harl,'i, le'n il'. als i .Inoeke e-ig -
Sr.ttes."
()r. Surn:yy .l1 , 111}" i. .1;',lnd,::t 'aw
n crowd lieving talong the Nevsky
I'ro'-pe,'t. carrying h:nimers, half blue,
uhalf yellh,i. "That's all right." maid a
mnlddlee-eIner citizon to him. "Re'volu
tionary reld seemrs toe he going out of
date." When the colunmn had ap
pruechol. It proved to be (h)tpOsed al
most e'ntirely of sollers, enough to
form two or three' regiments. Their
btnners for the Inscription "Long Live
the Govermennt !" 'hich seemned to
show that I :twas r patriotic nmtnifesta
tin,. hut others had "Long Live the
Ukraine!" "Long Live Independent
Little Russia !" "Long Live the Inde
peendent Ukraine."
The soldllers belonged to the Petro
grdl garrison and were natives of Ltt
tile Russlia. aIlnllifetsting their desIlrt to
be enrolled as soon ats possible In the
'purelvy Ukralnian army that is being
formed in the south. No one Interfered
with their seeparatist demonstration.
Some soldiers whose bearing was
anything but martial. we're taking up
too much room In a tramway to please
the female conductor, who rated them
vigorously with all the extraordinary
authoritativeness which women in Rns
sla always display toward men. Yon.,
soldiers! Go on! You only have sol
diers' Clothes, that's all!"
"It's a shame to treat a poor wound
ed man like this," murmured one of
them.
"You wounded?" retorted the con
ductor. "If you are wounded it most
be In the left nostril and by a cork
from a bottle!"
These illustrations of Russian tem
perament are declared to indicate the
difficult task Kerensky confronts, to
direct such a people and to keep them
steadily In the path that be would
have them follow.
COW GETS ARMY RECOGNITION
Seldleen Permitted to Own Animal,
Paying Upkeep From Ration
Savings.
Washington.--oldiers in the army
not only may keep a cow, but they
can feed it at government expease,
provided they consume the milk, says
a ruling of the judge advocate general.
The decision was rendered on the
question of whether feed for a cow
kept by a detachment of soldiers for
the production of milk for the detach
ment mess could legally be purchased
from the ration savings, In view of the
regulation that "such savings shall be
used solely for the purchases of arti
cles of fiood."
ACTIVE REB CROSS WORKER
Mrs. Funston, widow of the late
General rederlek Punston, Is one of
the leading workers in Red Crs
work.
The widow of one of the eountrys
greatest soldiers Is dolat more than
her share in urging practical aid forI
the soldiers and sailors.
Vienna Not on Danube.
Vlenna Is popularly misunderstood
to be on "the beautiful blue Danube"
river, but that mighty stream In its
long course to the Black sea really en
circles the city some miles from Its
center. A canal winds through the
heart of the city and connects with the
Danube below the Prater, Vienmma's
great playground. 1
The works of Thomas Kempls were
written In Latin. but they have been
translated into the language of alost I
every eltilised peepls.
BI
Bill of Big Denomination Staggered HOt
SEATT'I..-It' all rtcit in the 1nt - i ,.f 'ne, ut" i
is no su, Ih thing as $1.,,, t. I. ~'r. knew thisn kbt
nlght r,,,I , I,'rk  ,t the, \\Va-,  ie ,, W t,. , h in a
proatrhed the' dle'a;t sh ,rtlcy ifte, n:," ar
lnight the othier n!iht. ! o:i ,lt wn it Al . -
bill and ask,et that i' I~' th z .. it,.
clerk lpit up a stall.
"I'll have to e'tiil f r ti" a. t "''*.
to open the enfe." he, thi tlthe str:,:,z r
"WHIl yu kindly wait ,
He ealle]e one 11,.lhey .9tl A ni r .. " " "
for the fltldlitr. Then he .: i. . -
other and w-hiwpered to, himt to, :aii
the pollee.
The aulditor was slow In nrri
the stranger grew fldgety and ,!' 1
up his bank not, thrust it in hi, k. ; ,':alkel out. But If a
was slow the police we.re not,. il :t t rl,, -Tr.trir ent out at theme
detectives e'rntetredul.
"Follow him." the room clerk hi'--,:. "'lillow tnd arrest uh 1
a $1.000 bill."
The detectives teek the strang.,r tio police he'adquarter., Whh
asked to explain.
"My namne is (Charles M. ;aill kh,"r." he sal:. "and fonerliy I1
proprietor of the Antlers hotel he r,. I just wanted to get a bill dti
do not see any reason for my arr,.t.'"
tut the detectives didn't tbeliyeve it, 1c,,Nwl tills either, so they
up for the night. The ne'xt day (l;legher expalutned further that bi
a nulti-nillllonaire oil operator ail pl.arl flNher at Srdney, Augt
he had a little more than $2.i1) in curren,'y the day before wheage
didn't know stopped him on the -tree t ntl asked him for saalel
nations for two $1.(K0i bills. "I li:lrn't know there was anything ~q
a big bill. so I necomontlatedl hin.'" hle retetled.
The police department heads,. in the mlnontime having heard f a
$1.000 bills, and (;illegher having two peI'rfectly genuine oPne toV
story, set the man at liberty with the tdelvce to put the money hias.
Colored Gentleman Had Grievance Agarin
NEW YORK.-The colored Iappulatlon In the Black Belt of Ba
their wordy affrays just the same as other cave dwellers e oatI
and when they are aired in court the comedy is better than seest t g
The other day Weiagst 
Si ton, a Pullman porter.i.
between New York and
vealed the animal life i tbhil
(, t I 'where he resides. He p nala
witness against Mrs. Sadel
whose tiger-eyed maltse ihe oa
of shortening his life by at e
years. Mr. Wasbatrae tamid
evidence in a high sad iSlpti
explalning that the eat tarid
tie by robbing his lee atr amF
thing but the ice. He oda !
caught her when it was too late and admitted that he had bit he, h
with a dictionary, after which the feline ran around the wallt, asdel
forefeet, spat ire, whistled through her teeth and gave other eoM
supernatural annoyance. "You were not bitten, were youl" u*ml e
"Was ah bit," exclaimed Mr. Washington. "Did she bite me ip Aibis
say she ate me alive. Den she kicked me a swaek is tab ik li
break it" "Well, now," said the magistrate. "cats don't kick, de thn?
be you think they doean', you' honoh," answered the defends 1t
box, "cause youall never see'd din murderin' cat. She ain't a I#
y'know; she's a Shetland pony, bulldog cat, dat's what sbe L. t,
purrin' beauty: she's a spittin' debil wid a bad look."
Just as soon as Washington Boll, a negro prisoner, was rsmasi
In another court he called to a keeper and asked for pen and bt. !eb
hesitated and asked what letter was so important that it ON be i
before he got to the Tombs. "Ah'll tell y' jus what it is," replid IY
Washington. "Ah want ter write to my folks In Calina an' let ' ier
ah'm in 2.000 hail. Law, man, when dey heah dat der io'i epi
out from dey heads. Some ball."
Remarkable Speech Made by Man Convictld
DETROIT, MICII.-Louis Carter convicted of stealing utaladLui
fainted after Judge Jeffries had sentenced him to serve OM
William Saunders, alias Charles 1'arker, convicted of the bu Ia
Schre!her, knowing the judge must im
pose a life sentence on him, made a il$s/I'T ais.'
smeech.
"Before going to prison, I wish to S .Tnl
express my profound sympathy for l, l
Schrelber's widow and her son while
they are here in court," said Saunders.
"I am sorry this ever happened, but I
am willing to pay the penalty. Your
honor ha given me a fair and Impar
tlal trial and the assstant prosecutor
ha tried the case fairly and without
almo~alty. The detectives in charge
he treated me fairly and my lawyers could not have dam ps &
"This i a unfortunate matter sall around," said JuI
by Senders' apparent sineerity, "but the court, you know, a5 a5 ,
However,. I can give you your choice of Jackson or Marqettl P
Pleas to be sent to Jackson prison instead of Marqget U
but Saunders, with only a moment's hesitation, chose M ia ,tlI
ashamed to be sent where my fellow-conspirators a all5
sentences," he said.
8aunders, thirty-four years old, and prematurely ral, M 6i I
the four charged with the murder of Schreiber, a salooSkS'. "
Sad Echo of World War Heard in Chicp
jiITCAGO.-With the thousands of I~tlgilans who fled I .
Swhen the Germans overran it, were the IHamnens. They es _
And that brings the story down to the time when Attorney oll ni
mans, also counsel for tLhe
sul here, appeared ien t
i P Dolnn's court on heI at e
lBrlsterfeldt for 35 .
"I think this wm-s
lowed to sue s a '1S5P
cause she is a Belgl aS
Mr. Streyckmasta f i
"Kindly state y 0
she should be l
f' without cost8" . 9
"I will give ra eg$
terrupted Mrs. Hamens. "When we came here my bha l s e
We aved our money. We hoped to go back to Beluglria U
over. My husband was finally able to buy a team. S
"Then his, health gave way. I was compelled to al th
Bristerfeldt bought it for $250. He paid me only ·id d I
rest. My husband is still sick. We need food--my ro
she showed the judge a picture of her nine childre.
"You have nine good reasons for wanting that moOey, sri
grant the plea."_, w
HERE AND THERE.
Of the old-time vegetable dyes Bra
zil possesses an almost endless va
rlety.
Sugar production in 1910 brok.o all
previous records in the history of the
Phillppines.
Tests made in England to determine
the most suitable composition for fire
proof writing paper developed the f.i't
that the addition of no other Ingredi
eat increases the resistance of asbes
tos to fire
rr
The VenU3a P"d-M
has prescrtibd It rf
fir butter, and L faI
of any that If .dills N
The heating .14I3t w'tw
f r creasing troUl0' ;O
be-ing wornl to placed J
the garments to ov '
x g'the outelde adt: ý RY~
TxttIle expertS i u!f
U ·edled in trea ti t I D 00
rr,,ciss similar tgbl
cl)"oul. givlnl tber gyL
1 yh:te of soda at bidP