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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER.
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6 DIE, MANY HURT
AS STREET DROPS
Crowded Surface Car Falls Into
New York Sobway.
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PEDESTRIANS ARE BURIED
Dynamite Blast Tear* Away Tunnal
Scoring and Csussd Disaster—Msny
Women and Qlrla Are Victim*.
Six persona were killed and be
tween eighty-fire and one hundred
others injured when a dynamite blaat
In a partly constructed section of the
Seventh avenue subway in New York
caused an entire block of pavement
to cave in, engulfing a crowded inr
face ear, a heavy truck And many pe
destrians.
A number of laborers at work In
the excavation were burled under
tons of debris. Seventy-eight persona,
a considerable number of them being
. women and girls on. their way to busi
aneas, were on the surface car, whioh
dropped thirty feet into, the excava
tion and waa partly buried under con
crete, rails, heavy Umbers, dirt and
rocks.
The dynamite blast, whioh resulted
In the cave-in, was set off almost dft
rectly nnder Seventh %venue and
Twenty-fifth street, according to Chief
Engineer Jones, of the construction
-company. He told the lire commis
sioner the Wat had hurled a large
rock against portions of the underpin
ning, knocking this away and allow
ing the pavement overhead and por
tions of the dirt sldewalls to collapse.
The accident occurred shortly be
fore 8 o'clock anS more than half of
the Injured were women and girls on
their way to business. Although the
surface car remained upright, It was
partly hurled nnder an avalanche of
concrete, rails, timbers and earth, and
* many of the passengers were severely
crashed.
Persons who were in a large office
building, close to where the car went
down, said a great roar as
the pavement and portions of the
sidewalks sank. This was followed a
moment later by the cries of the part
ly entombed passengers and of pe
destrians who were either thrown
Into the excavation or knocked down.
Men and women smashed the ear
windows with their bare hands In an
effort to' escape, eye witnesses said,
while pedestrians who had been
thrown into the hole struggled to
avoid the falling debris~ and regain
the street leved.
The cave-In broke water and gas
mains, and within a few minutes after
the accident heavy flows of gas and
water threatened the lives of the 104
or more persons In the excavation.
Prompt work by city employes In
shutting off the flow of water and gas
In the- broken mains -put an end to
this danger.
Fire ladders and ropes were low
ered into the great hole and police
and firemen began carrying out the
dead and Injured, while contractors'
employee and others worked furious
ly, clearing away the timbers and
debris that Imprisoned many peraons.
Victims were carried ont by. police
and firemen to nearby stores and of-
PBOFESSIONAL CARDS
DR. L. J.- MOOREFIELD,
PHYSICIAN
OFFICE IN NJTYV PARIS BUILDING
Office Hoon 9 to 11 a. m., 2 to
3 p. m., 7 to 9 p. m.
'Pho ie 34w or 99. Graham, N. V
E. C. DERBY
Civil Engineer.
GRAHAM, N. G.
National BaakM Aluuaet
BURLINGTON, N. C,
■MttMNsdaalS^SstMlss.
JOHN J. HENDERSON
Atlerary.st-Law
J",. S. O OOJS 9
Attorney-at-Law,
GRAHAM, N. C.
OOee Patterson BnOMlag f4.
DR. WILLS.MM,JR.
. DKNTIST . . .
Snkssi •« - - ■ NtfUl Carelies
OFFICE M 3JMMONB BUILDING
JAOOB A. urn A, i. LOM
LONG * LONG,
AttomeyesaidOoaasalorseOl a«*
OKA HAM, N. C.
JOHN H. VERNON
Attorney and Cesnseler-st-Lsw
ru»M oiw HI laMQats an
BCBLJHOTOV, N. C.
Dr. J. J. Barefoot
OFFICE ore* BADLR'S non
Leave Meaaagea at Alamance Phar
macy Thona 97 Bfiaidenas Tbone
882 Office Hoars £-4 p. m. and by
Appointment.
DR. G. EUGENE HOLT
OBTBOTATHIO FHTBIOMS
At Office in O rah am on Toeedaj,
Thoradajr and Saturday After
noona n Donnell Building.
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GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 1915
dees wfifcE were" turned"lnfo tempo r- j
ary hospitals. Nearly all of these
victims were seriously injured, many
| ' having-broken arms or legs.
I Woman Falls Dead en Street Car. .
I A plainly dressed middle aged wo-
I man boarded a south-bound Sbtth ave
nue car In New York at Forty-second
| street
' When the car reached Fortieth
street the suddenly pitched forward
to the floor, and when she waa picked
up she was dead. *
It was not until an honr later, at
. the West Thirtieth street police eta-' 1
| Hon, after $50,000. worth of jewelry
and more than $13,000-in cash had
| been removed from the lining of her
' corset that her ldehtlty was revealed.
> She Is Mrs. Annie Vaughan Watson,
f wife of Henry W. WatooSv former con- /
i. gressman from Pennsyl-
I vanla district. Whose country estate
. Is at Langhorne, in Bucks county.
I Heart failure was' the cause of her
t; death.
j { Mr. Watson called at the police star
c I tion and nearly collapsed when told
t j his wife was dead,
u The cash foiind upon the dead wo
.' man totaled $12,186.85; $11,600 was In, \
I bills of sino denomination and the re
i malnrter In smaller bills and gold
r pieces, each wrapped separately. The
, money was not all together, but the
[ neat, crisp bills were contained In
. double silk water-proofed envelope*
( of about SIOOO each. .
Beeka SSOOO Dsmagss for False Arrest
| Suit was fieW in Reading, Pa., by
Joseph Weber for his son, Nicholas
. Weber, against John Klein, his son,
k Joseph Klein, and City Detectives
. Peter 8. McOovern and Edward T.
. Halllasey for SSOOO damages for al
leged Illegal arrest and Imprisonment.
1 The allegations are that the detec
tives arrested Nicholas Weber, twen
-1 ty years old, on suspicion of the theft
of SB3O from the Kleins, and, after
subjecting him to third degree meth
ods, wre compelled to release him for
* lack of evidence half an houf after
j his arrefct.
t Fought Duel In Dark; Two Killed.
) As a sequel to a quarrel, George
i Barvls and Rufus Rerfves, wealthy
t turpentine manufacturers of BUoxl,
[ Miss., each armed himself and by
; WIFE CONFESSES MURDER
' After Five Months Woman Saye Sen
Blew Her Husband
' Arrested on ah indictment by the
' grand jury at Frederick, Md., charg
' lng her with being intpllctaed with
her son, Barl Harp, 19 years old,
1 in the murder of Charles V. Harp, on
; May 16, at their home, near Wolfs
vllie, Mrs. Florence Harp, In the coun
-1 ty jail, told a story which officials be
' lteve to be the true version of the
1 murder.
' The mother's confession ends the
' attempt of -the son the shield his
mother from the consequences of the
, law. Flte months ago, on the night
. of the mnrder. Harp and his mother
! stood, beside the body of Cbarlea V.
Harp and concocted a tale of suicide.
' The story .held for a period of three
{ or four days, and then the fcody was
f exhumed, following the arrest of ths
youth.
In a final attempt at least to pre
t vent the arrest of his mother, Harp
{ faked a confession, and told the offl
, claU he alone was responsible for ths
death of his stepfather.
The ftory told by Mrs. Harp, which
was confirmed ty the son, was to ths
effect that her husband and son had
fought. She said that her huaband
, had struck and knocked her to the
floor, and was leaning over to strike
. her again, when Earl secured a revol
ver and flred. The husband fell dead
i by the side of his wife.
1 SAFETY-PIN DODGES KNIFE
• Out of Baby 1 * Stomach Just as Bun
i geon's Cut In.
Although he swallowed an open
 safety-pin, and has undergone a futile
serious operation for Its removal, ths
, 10-months-old son of R. A. Newhall,
of Warren, Pa., Is expected to live.
He is at the Emergency hospital at
Warren.
Last Tuesday night the little child
, found the pin on the floor and swal
lowed It An X-ray examination
made, and a photograph taken by Dr.
Africa, which Waa later develop^,
The photo showed the pin to bln
' the child's stomach, with the point
[ and catch holding It at the opening
to the Intestines; so an operation was
decided upon. When the baby passed
, nnder the Influence of the anaesthetic
It faulted, and the pin disappeared
Into the intestines. The wall of the
> stomach wis sewed up after the futile
surgery, as the baby's physical con
dition prohibited farther Investigation
for the time being.
The attending physicians are cos
. fldent that the child will recover.
LEAVES BABY IN GARAGE
Little Fellow Dlee After Being Taken
' to .Hoepltal.
Stanley Pat, the year-old son at
John Pat, died la the Beaten, Pa.,
' hospital.
The child was found in a garbage
can, covered with flies, where his
father had ibandoned htm. The po
lice say tlut the child's Mother is la
an Insane asylum.
The fathe- has dleappeared, aad an
aunt, the oaly other known relative,
, Is a patient at the Baston hospital.
HAITIENS FIGHT MARINES
' 40 Natives Killed and Ten Americans
Wounded In Battle
In an-nttpek b- Haitian rebels an aa
about two miles from
Cape HaltWn, forty Haitians were
Ml led. Ten Americana were wounded.
The rebels have refused to 'disarm
. aad the Americans are marching oa
. Heat da Cap, In the Plain at the
Mortt.
Terribly Maimed by Machine
. Ran over by a steam shove* appe
-1 rates on a trestle at the Bastsrn
Steel company's plaat at Pottatown,
Pa., Oeorge Herblne, 40 yeans old
, lost his right leg at the hip, and his
left foot. He waa rushed to a local
hoepltal, aad will probably die.
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News Snapshots K ?!! 0 7"' K . ,be p " n °J Dr - ambaaeador to the United Btatsa, to cripple American fectoriee by
~ . withdrawing foreign labor, we aaked his government to recall him. The recall o Captain von Papen of the Uerman r
Of the Week wu * lao «P«cted, when It was announced be had gone en a vacation to Telkrwstooe park. Secretary Daniala gave oat twenty
i two names selected for the ifaval advisory board, Including' Hudson MaxltfT and Peter Cooper Hewitt Zeppelins raided the
heart of X»ii(lon. Twenty were killed and many Injured. Count von Bernstorff gave the state department aaenrances, hsrlrtl by hh government, that the
Arabic case, would be settled to our natisfactlon. Six financial experts from England and rranea, hitailnl by Lord Chief Justice Keadinfc at Great Britala.
conferred with J. Hierpont Morgan nnd other bankers about loan. A fire on Bant' a una |g aldocwn enlhrngrrsd Urea of ltaUaa resarvlata
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QUEEN OJr BELGIUM
Wife of Ruler Devote* Much
Time Caring for Wounded. j
I'Jtola by American Prtw Anaoclation
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
THEWAR
M«NDAY.
General von Hindcnburg'a forcee
have occupied Ulna and are threat
ening to capture uießusslan army,
estimated at more than 250,000, which
la trying to eocape to the southeast.
The Muscovite force* ire .nearly sur
rounded, but advices from Petrosrad
say their safe withdrawal has been
accomplished. Russion (trees under
General IvanofT, In the southeastern
Held of operations, are attacking the
Austro-German* furiously^
An unofficial dispatch from Berlin
■ays eighteen Socialist members of
the Russian duma have been arrested
and that the legislative chambers are
under military guard,
TUESDAY.
Bulgarian troops have invaded Ser
bia, according to 'a dispatch from
Athens. Reports from Berlin say Ser
bla haa declared the Serbo-Bulgarian
border a war tone and that both Ser
bia and Bulgaria have troops concen
trated along the boundary line. Aus
trian and German artillery continue
attacks on the Serbian border.
Berlin Insists that Russian forces
trapped east of Vilna are in danger
of annihilation. Dispatches from Pet
rograd Indicate the Russians have ex
tricated themselves. Petrograd an
nounces the beginning of the bom
bardment of Dvlnsk by German how
itzers and airship*. An unofficial dis
patch from Stockholm says workmen
have been killed by troops during la
ternal disorders.
The Paris war office announces that
the French have fought their way
across the Marne' canal, which has
been held by the Germans since •
year ago. The move threatens tbe
German lines north of Rbeims.
WEDNESDAY.
The *sar haa saved his army on the
Vllna front, according to dispatches
from Petrograd, but practically the
entire Vllna-Rovno _ railway line,
which waa supposed to mark the
limits of the" German campaign. Is lo
the hands of tbe kaiser.
The official report on operation*
issued at the war office records etfc
cesses for the Russians near Dvlnsjj
and In Volbynla. On tbe Dvlnsk front
the Germans are using asphyxiating
gas. The German war office claim*
further gains along tbe front north of
Vllna and that the Rqaslaa lines si
Dvlnsk have been .pierced-
Following the, action ef Bulgaria,
the king of Greece baa ordered tbe
mobilisation of the a nay. Bulgaria's
declaration of war agalnat the entente
powers Is expected any hour.
THURSDAY.
With the Russian army, which was
driven from Vllaa aafe, Oermaa forces
have begua a vigorous attack on
Dvlnsk aad along the Dvina river, ae-
I cording to dlapatchee to London. Ber
11a nays the fall of Drinsk Is expected
tat-a few days. Petrograd announces
that civilian* have been ordered to
evacuate Minsk, 110 miles east ot
Vllaa
Rome h«4rs that the entente allies
have made new proposals to Bulgaria
In an effort to keep the Balkan ration
out of the war. Dlfipatchea from th»
east say Bulgaria ber war
like preparations. t> -
The American consulate in Stntt
gart was damaged by a boml, riroooel
| by a Aeet of sKiy-flve aeroplanes
which raided the royal palace {p thai
I city. •
On the western front the allies con
tinue 4 furious bombardment of t]>
| Oerman trenches.
FRIDAY.*
| Alarmed by Bulgaria's warlike
. preparations King Constantlne has
ordered the mobilization of the Greek
army, calling twenty classes of r»
serves to the colors. Bulgaria i» re
ported to have 700,000 men aadef
arms. ,
General von Mackenaen, who had
advanced IXO miles east of Brest-
Lltovsk, has been forced to retreat
according to a Berlin admission.
General, Von Hlndenburg has taken
several of the defenses of Dvlnsk. An
unofficial despatch from Kiev says
thq Russians have achieved a notable
victory over the Austro-Germans la
Volhynla, and that the Teuton* are
in retreat after losing several thou
sand In prisoners.
The Turkish Island of Ruad, off the
coast of Aria. Minor, has been seised
by % the Freiihb.
French reports say the Allies' ar
i tlllery operations are demolishing
the Oerman defensive works along
the western 'ront. FJerce fighting Is
reported In t'-e vicinity of
aud Pont a Mousaon.
BATURDAV.
Greece Is hurrying the concentre
t'og or trooca, preparing for the pos
sible entrance of Bulgaria Into the
war. Crowd* In Burhareat have taken
part In demonstrations against Gar
many. Rumanian t/oopi\ lt| la re
ported, have been sent Ur the Bul
garian border.
Petrogro! reports the recapture of
.Lutsk. In Volhynla, with the captor*
of 4000 prisoners, and a retreat by
the Atistro-'"erman forces In thai
field. - Rusnlan gains are reported
also east of Vllna, while the Musco
vite army near Pinsk Is said to be
holding General von Mackensen in
check.
Thirty thousand new troops have
been adde 1 to the German crown
prince's nrjnj In the Arconne region.
France, P'arls reports heavy cannon
ading alonn the whole western bat
tle front. British warships have bom
barded the German defences at - Zee-
Brugge.
Girl Die* from Slte'of Dog.
Helen Levan, aged eight years, ■
school girl, died In Reading, Pa., from
the bite In the neck of a dog, which
some boys were teasing. Blood pois
oning developed. There were no signs
of rabies.
Woman Unable to Oct Drug* Die*
Unable to get drugs without a doc
tors prescription, Mrs. Clara Henry,
of Columbia, Pa., died In the Colum
bia Hospital.
'' Alabama Rejects Suffrage.
Equal suffrage was defeated In Al»;
bama. The senate rejected % Mil >1
to I*.
V>GENERAL MARKETS
PHILADELPHIA. FLOUR quiet;
winter clear $4.00®4.#0; city mills,
,a per barrel, 91
01.50. ■
WHEAT aniet; No. t red, new,
11.07 ii I.ot.
d N :JV»o'Wt
hen., 14
©lsc.; old roosters, 11011 c. Dressed
steady: choice fowls, Ttc.; old rooa
tersTnc.
BUTTER quiet; fancy creamy.
steady; selected, ItQlta.;
nearby. >oc.; western, toe.
Live Stock Prices.
CHICAGO—HOGB—Market steady
cA'frLE—Market 10®J5c. lower:
beeves, |VSH«in 40; cows and heif
ers, ||{j«»; Texans, HMOIil;
calvaa.ie.2S till JO.
BHBW»—Market steady; native
and western, »1©5.75, lamb*, |IJiO
Ftytnf Beard Kill* Man.
O art aid Lareon, tweaty-tve yaws
old, member of the Arm of Larson
Bros., of Wllllamepoet, lumber and
coal dealers of Renovo, waa killed
when a ebarp pointed (tank waa
harled froaa a saw la the Larson mill,
tad penetrated hie neck.
' Auetrfana Balk at Ward far Alllee.
More than tfty Austrian* and Hun
gariaae have left wort at Iron aad
steel worfce which have alllad con
tracts la the vicinity of Harrtsbmrg
la lb* last week. Forty quit at oae
pleat Which baa a ooatract far sheila.
eada Lentf lllneea WHH Potaon
Believed to have been deepoodent
because of caatlaaed 111-health, Mia.
Jeremiah Caaffman, aged 15, of WU
aHagton, Del, committed suicide
at her borne by drinking carbolic add.
I Her husband aad Ave small children,
survive her.
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A " r ' !T Tc , Sensatlom at th* Shalt
;; Noted Author at Front ww*tia Bv
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Ws present betsw the tiret of six
srtlelss from tl.u pan ef Rudyard
Kipling, undir the general title ef
"Franoe at War on ths Frontier ef
Civilisation," deseribing the im
praasions of a visit te tlte fighting
line in Franoe.
By RUDYARD KIPLINO.
[Copyright, ins, by the Bun Printing and
Publlshlns association.)
"fTBa pretty perk," said the Preach
I artillery officer. "We've Bonn a
[ lot for it since the owner left. I
boiie be ll appreciate It whan ha
conies back." ,
The car traversed a winding drive
through woods between banks mlid-
Us had with little chalets at a rasiw na
ture. At first the chalets stead thsb!
full height ebove ground, suggesting
tea gardens In Bnglsnd. Farther on I
they sank Into the earth till at the top |
of tlie ascent only their solid brown
roofs showed. Torn' branches, droop
ing across the driveway, with here nnd
there a scorched patch at undergrowth, I
explained the reason of their modesty- (
The chateau that commanded these
glorlee of forest end park sst boldly on
a terrace. There was nothing wrong
with It except, if one looked closely, a
few scratches or dints on Its whits
stone walls or a neatly drilled hole nn
der a flight Of steps. One such hole
ended In an unexploded ahell.
"Yes," sold the officer, "they arrive
here occasionally."
Something bellowed across the folds
of the wooded bills. Something grant
ed In reply. Something pesssd over
head querulously, but not without dig
nity. Two clear, fresh barka joined the
chorus, and a man moved lastly In the
direction of the gnns.
"Well, suppose we come end look at
things a little," said the commanding.
officer on observation poet
There waa a s|ieclmen tree, a trss
worthy of such s perk, the eort at trss
visitors are always taken to admtea
A ladder ran up (t to a platform i
What little wind there was swaysd the
tall top, nud the ladder creaked Ilka a!
ship's gangway. A telephone bell tin
kled fifty feet overhead. Two Invisible
guns spoke fervently for half a minute
end broke off like terriers choked on a 1
leash. We climbed tin the topnsoat
platform swaysd .dually beneath aa.
Here one found a rustic shelter, always
of the tea garden pattern—a table, a i
map and a little window wreathed
with living branches that gave on* the
Biyt view of the devil and all Us
works.
Grass Yellow from Oa*.
It was a stretch of opsn coon try
with a few sticks, like oM tooth
brushes, which had ones bssn trass
round a farm. The rest wss yellow
grass, barren to all appearances as ths
veldt.
"The grass is yellow horaaas thsr
hare ossd gas hers." said aa sAesr.l
"Tbstr trenches sra-yon ran sse foe
yourself"
The guns In the woods began agafck
They seemed to hsvs no relation to'
the regularly spaced borate of saaoke
along s little smear In the desert sarth
MOO yards sway, no connection at all
with the strong vofc-ee overhead, con
ing and going. It was as Uaporsoaal
as the drive of ihe sea along a break
water. Tboa It went— A pa POP, A gath
ering of sound like the race of as in
coming were, tbsn the Ugh Bn*
heads of breskers spoating whHe ap
the face of s groin. Bnddsnly a aov
snth wave broke and spread the ehaps
ef its foam like a pOnae overtopping
all the others.
That's one of our torptlleisn, what
yon call trench sweepers," said (fee oh
ssrvsr.
Among ths whispering isavas soms
one crossed ths platfona to consult -
the map with Its ranges. ▲
| outbreak of whits snaoke rose a ttttis
beyond the lsrg* plums. It waa aa
1 though the tids bsd struck « reef eat
y«ndor. Then e new voice at tresnsn
doas volume lifted itself. Oat at a
lull thst followed sonaebody
evidently the voice wsa known.
"That is not tor as," a gunnsr said.
They sre being waked up frons"-hs
named s dUUnt Pftnch position—"and
so tha torpllleur is sttondlng to thsm
there. We go on with oar nensl work. .
"Look, snother torpUlear. The bnr
barlanr
' Again s l>lg plume roe* and again the
lighter shells broks at their sppoiatsd
. dlstsnce beyond It The smoke died I
awsy on thst stretch of trench aa the I
toam of a swell dlee In the aaglp ga|
harbor wall' ami broke~ oata/reaE fialf
a mile lower down. In It* appelant
laalnesa. In Ita awful deliberation aad
Ite quick spasms of wrath It waa mm
ilka the work of wares than of —re.
aad our high platform's gentle •way
and glide were exactly the motion of a
ablp drifting with us toward that
ahore.
t "Always the Bama Work."
"The usual work, only the usual
arprk," lb* officer explained. "Some
tlmee It la here, sometimes above or
Wow ns. I have been here since
May."
A little sqnahlne flooded the stricken
Madacape and made Ite chemical yat
lew look mora foul. A detachment of
j Ma moved oat oa a road which ran
: toward the Preach trsncbse aad thee
vaalshed at the foot of a little Haa.
Other men appeared moving toward
I a* with that coDcaotradoa of parpoee
i aad bearing shown la both artaiee
when dinner la at hand. They looked
like people who bad been digging hard.
„ "The same work, alwaya the aama
work," the officer sold, "and yon could
walk from here to the aea or to Switz
erland in that ditch, aad 700*11 Sad
the aamo work ttolng on everywhere."
"It isn't war; it's better than that,"
aald another; "It's the eating ap of a
people. Tbey come and they fill the
tnacbaa, aad they die, and they a*ad
nana and the** die. We do the aama,
ef coorae. but look!" ,
I He pointed to the large, deliberate
I amoke bead* renew lag tlieinaelvee
. along the yellowed beach.
"That la the frontier of clvlllaatlaa.
' Tbey have all -lvlllxatlon agnlnat them
; —those brute* yonder. It'* not the lo-
I eal victories of the old wars that we're
after It'a the berbariana, all the bar
bariana. Now. yqo've aeon the whole
thing In little. Come aad look at eat
1 children."
We left that tall trae whoae finite
are death, ripened aad distributed at
the tinkle of small bells. The obeerrer
to hi* map* and calcnletloaa,
the telephone boy stiffened op beefale
1 Ma exchange. Ae the ama tea ra weal
oot of his life some oae called dowa
through the bra aches to aak who waa
attending to Belial, let oa say, for I
1 could not catch the gun's aama It
aastnid to belong to that terrific aaw
voica which bad lifted Itself fS( the eee
ead or third time. It appealed from
the reply that If Belial talked too toag
he would be dealt with from aaother
point mtlea away. *
The troop* w* came down to aae
ware at rest la a cßala of cavee wttt
had began Hfe as quairlaa and bad
beea fitted op by the army for Ite ewa
, aaaa. There were andetvroand eorvt
-1 data, antechamber*. rotundaa aad ven
tilating abaft*. with a bewildering play
I ef crass lights, *0 that wharaver yea
iteeked you saw Ooya'a picture* ef mea
I at arma. Every eoidler baa aae ef
the old asald la Mm aad iwjoieee la all
the little gadget* aad devfcee ef Mi
ewa Invention. Death and wsaafling
ssuis by natare, bat te lie dry, slesp
eoft aad keep yourself cleaa by fore
thought aad contrivaoc* Is ait, aad la
all thlnga the Frenchman Is glorioaaly
aa artist
All Welded la Oa* Puum.
• Msrsovsr, the French gffitiia eeem as
■ ilfrsra, keea oa their asa, as theti
mea are brother*, food of theaa. May
be the poeassslve form of sHrees,
"Moo fHMfll, 808 riflffllfMpi
the Mea which oar BMB ciaak M other
aad carter phrases, aad thoaa soldier*,
Uke ears, had besn welded for months
la oae furnace. Aa aa ofcer aaM:
"Half our order* now a*ed aot be gtv
-ea. Experience ma bee aa tMak te
gßthtr."
I baUeva, too, that If a French prt
vata baa aa Mea-aad they are fall of
Maaa It raacha* Ms nnmmantltag *
aw quicker thaa It doaa with aa. Ifea
Muriidn wee the bmuaat health aad
vitality ef tbaaa atea aad the «nadty
ef their hrssdlng Tbey boas theaa
setves with awing aad naput fliHghl
M Ufa, whil* their valcas aa they UOk
ed la the side cavern* aatoag the
.atanda of arma were the controlled
voice* of civilisation. Tat aa the Hghfs
pierced the gloom tbey looked Mia
baadits dividing tba *poU.
One picture, thoogb far from war, J
I stays with me. A.perfectly built,dark]
I akianed young gMat bad peeled Mas-1
| aelf oat of hi* blue coat aad had
t
broogfcF h down with a swßTupSa the
shoukler of a half stripped comrade
who wu kneeling st bU foot boqr
with M»M footgear. Thar stood
| against a background of Bemilmnlnoua
j bios base, through which glimmered a
PO* of coppery straw half covered by
a red blanket By a divine accident of
| light and poae It wu 8t Martin giv
ing hla cloak tp the beggar. Than
wen aeons of pictures in thaaa gal
leries, • notably a rock hewn chapel,
where the red of the cross on the
rough canvas altar doth glowed Uka
a ruby.
Dofi Mount Guard.
Farther Inside the cafes "We found a
row of little rock cat kennels, each in
habited by one wise, silent do& Their
duties begin ntulrht with the sentinels
and listening posts. -And believe ma,"
said a proud Instructor, "my fellow
bars knows the difference between the
noise of oar shells and the bodies'
shells."
When we came oat into the open
sgaln there were good opportunities for
this study. Voices snd wings mat and
paaeed In the air and perbape «■»»
strong young tree had not been bending
quite so far scwas the pictareeque park
drive wben we first went that way.
"Oh. yes." said an officer, "shells have
to fall somewhere, snd," ha addad with
Una toleration, "It la. after all, against
■ ns that the boche dirscta them. But
come, you, sod look at my dugout. Ifs
the must auiwrior of all possible dug
outs. No, couie and look at our mass.
It's the Kit* of these parts," they
Joyously told bow they had got or pro
cured the various fittings and the sle
gagcee, while handa atretched out at
the gloom to shake, and man nodded
welcome and greeting all through that
cheery brotherhood in the wooda sad
lit the Holds.
> The voices snd the wings wan stfll
> busy after lunch when the ear slipped
» put the tea housss In the ditve and
i came Into a country where wtunen aad
| children worked amour the crepe.
> There ware lacga raw" shell hoiss by
* the wayside or In the ill it of fields,
f and often a cottage or a villa had beau
[ amsahed as a bonnet box Is
[ by an umbrella. That moat be part of
, Bettsl's work, when ha bellows so
truculently smoog the bills to the
north. We were looking tor • town
i that lived under the shell Bra The rag-
I alar road to It wu reported unhealthy
—not that the woman and children
seemed to care. Wa took byways at
which certain expoeed heights and cor
ners wets lightly blinded by wind
brakes of drlad tisotope.
Children Still There.
Hare the shell holes were rather thick
on the ground, but the woasi end
the children and the old man want on
with their work with the cattle and
the crops, end where a bouse had been
broken by abulia the rubbish was col
lected In e neat pile, and where a
1 room or two still remained neable they
were Inhabited, and the tattered win
dow curtelne fluttered u proudly u
any flag.. «■
Time wu when I need to flannnnna
young France becaaee It tHed to kOH
Itself beneath my car whula and the
tot old women who rrowded roads
without warning and the especially
deaf old meu wbo slept In carts on
the wrung side of the road. Now I
. could tako utr my bat to every single
soul uf them. Bat one cannot traverse
a wbole land bareheaded.
The nearer we came to our town the
tower were tbe people, till at last we
halted In a well built suburb of pared
etreets, where there was- DO lito at all
—a wrecked town. The stlllnaas sru
u terrible ss the spread of the quick,
busy weed* between tbe paving stouae.
Tbe air smelled of pounded mortar and
crushed stone. The sound of a foot
ball s boed Ilka the drop of a pebble
In a well. At llrst tbe horror of wreck
ed apartment bo usee and big ebope laid
, open makes one waste energy In an
ger. It Is not seemly that rooms ebould
be torn out of the sidee of buildings u
one tears lbs soft hsatf out of Eng
lish broad; that villa roofs should Us
•cross Iron sates of private garagas or
that drawing room doors should flap
alone and disconnected between the
ampttneassuf twisted gliders. The ere
wearies of the repeated pattern that
burst shells make on etoue walls, u
the mouth sickens of Use taste of mor
tar and charred timber.
One-quarter of tbe place had bees
shelled nearly level. The facades of
the bouses stood doorleee, roofleee and
window lee*. like stage scenery. This
wu neer tbe cathedral, which Is al
ways s favorite mark for tbs heathen.
They had gubed and stripped the
eidee of the cathedral Itself, so that the
birds flew In and out at will. They
had emasbsd botes in tbs roof, knock
ed huge csnttes out of tbe buttrseeee
and pitted apd starred the paved
aqua re outside. They were at work,
too, that very afternoon, though I do
not think the cathedral wu their ob
jective.
Kneel la Damaged Cathedral.
For the measout we walked to aad
fro In tbe silence of tbe streets aad
beneath the whirring wings overhead.
Presently g young woman, keeping to
the wall, croued a corner. An old wo
men opened a shatter. How It Jenud
and spoke to tor. Tbe silence cleeed
again, but It Beamed to me that I beard
a sound of atogtag. the sort of chant
cue hears In nightmare cities—of
voice* crying from underground In the
cathedral.
"Nonsenser eeld aa officer. -Who
should be singing bereT"
We circled the cetbedral agsln aad
aaw what pavement stones can do
against tbelr owe dty when sheila Jerk
them upward. But there waa singing,
after all. on the other side of a little
door to the flank of tbf cathedral. Wa
i looked In. doubting, and aaw at least
a hundred folk, austly women, wbo
kaelt before the altar of aa un wreck
ed chapel. We withdrew qutotty from
that ht«y ground, aad It wu not only
tbfr agree of the French officers that
*4 with tears. Thau than came aa
eld. eld thtog wltbapraysr hoefe to bet
hand, pattering acrose the square evi
dently late for eerrles.
. "And wbo are thaaa women r I
asked.
"Some are caretaken, people who
, have etili little shops here; Then to
| one quarter where you caa buy things,
i There are many old people, too, who
I will not go away. They are of the
place, you sea."
"And this bombardment happens o«-
NO. 33
I tenr I said.
j "It happens always. Wonld yon like 1
to look at the railway station? Of
' course it has not lieen so bombarded as i
I I the cathedral."
; We went thro :h tba> irgil naked- '%(
j ness of streets without people till wa
' reached the railway station, which was !
■' very fnl'.ly knocked about, but, as my
►, friends said, nothing like as much as
• | the cathedral. Then we bad to cross *
p ■ the end of a long street down which
' the boche could: see clearly. As ona i'£
» glanced up q street one perceived haW ■')
the weeds, to wlilch men's war is the
trace of God, bad come back and we - a
well eotubllshed the wbole length of U, ■>l
watched by the long perspective of
open windows.
r
} (Canaas Woman Prisontf Paroled.
r Only woman In Kansu prison fr
murder has lieen paroled. While tl
, ahe kept her two daughters in scbuoi
by do!ng fancy needlework.
I , ————- ' .'ft
i THOMAS B. CATRON.
I New Mexico Senator Says Eu
-1 repesns Will Sesk Frsedetn Here.
V
' jr
i
\ agreement entered a darkened room,
whers they fought a duel to the death,
both being kiUed.
Wltneesee aay tbe men never raised
. their voices above a whisper during
the quarrel. Each borrowed a re
volver aad at Barvis' house arranged
details of the duel.
Aa alarm cloclf wu set for 4
| o'clock, and when the bell rang each
, began firing Barvis wu stni alive
[ when friends entered the dual cham
ber. His lut words were. "Ifs our
private affair."
' ——.
Groom Wede Bridesmaid.
Jilted at the altar whan his bride
i elect failed to appear at the appoint
ed time, Michael Ziegler, of Larfcs
ville, near Ashley, Pa, married the
bridesmaid at the home of his pram,
lsed bride's parents.
Tbe bride-to-be, It wu learned,
boarded a train for Buffalo and on
the same train wu a young man from
Wllkee-Berre. it la said, and news of _
an elopement is expected.
Every arrangement for the wedding
of Ziegler with Margaret OoMIn had
been arranged and the gueats were
arriving when . the. disappearance of
the bride-to-be wu noted.
Ziegler then appeal to Mary Nobel,
who was to have been the brideamald,
and aftera few whispered words a
1 ceremony Vu performed, the brides
| maid becoming Mrs. Ziegler.
John D., Jr, Goes Down Mine.
Dressed In overalls and Jumper,
John D. Rockefeller, Jr, Inspecting
properties of the Colorado Fuel i
Iron company, entered the und
ground workings of the Frederick
mine at Trinidad, Col, to talk with
the miners aad'to see for himself tha
conditions under which they labor. |
Mr. Rockefeller stopped at the com
pany offices to gat Into a miner's out
>t. Carrying a miner's lamp and ac
companied by E, 8. he dis
appeared into the dark tunnel.
Held Up Bank Messenger.
Vincent J. Moloney, messenger of
tbs Chatbsm snd Phoenix National
Baak in Nsw York, wu held up in
HaHem strut by two men and robbed
of a satchel containing S2OOO in cash
aad a number of checks.
Wblls one man threatened bim with
a pistol, ths other but Maloney over
tha head with a blackjack. Malonajr
Is seriously Injured. The thieves
caped.
Lancaster data 70-Cent Gas.
Tbs corporation controlling the pub*
lie atHitlu of lAn caster, Pa, hu an
i Bounced a reduction In the price of
gas from 15 to 70 centa per 1000 cublo
fut. This city now bu cheaper gaa
then any city of Its site In Pennsyl*
van 15....
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Pitched Ball Kllle Pleyer.
Russell Kistler, twenty-nine' yean
i old, of Maryevllle, near Harrisburg,
died from'having been struck on tha
bead by a pitched ball lut Saturday
durtag a game between the Pennsyl
vania railroad of Dauphin and
: Marysvllls.
Accused of Thrsatenlng Schwab. '
After threats to murder Charlea If.
Schwab, David Williams, Sodallat *
labor agitator, who lsd tha Bethlehem
Steel strike, wu arreeted In Alton- s jj
town. Pa. Detectives are said to hava
worked on tha case three months.
Alabama Rejecte Suffrage.
Equal auffrage wu defeated to AI»
bama. The senate rejected a bill *1 !
• GENERAL MARKETS
PHILADELPHIA. FLOUR quiet;
winter clear. |4.t;o®4JO; city mills.
'•Wk'S&teW ,«>>»«.«.
®WHEAT quiet; No. 2 red, • new,' *>• «
CORN qaiet: No. 1 yellow, 85@86c. "*
OATB quiet: No. i white, 4*c.; t
lower grades, 40' Ac.
POULTRT: Live steadv; hens, 14* U
©lsc.; old roosters, ll»Mc. Dressed
steady choice fowls, 19c.; old rooa-
BuTTnjjß quiet; fancy creamery,
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