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Daily and Sunday, Six Monthhs. . .3 -Daily and Sunday, 8 Months. .-11.75 PurUy Only, One Tear .2.0u Entered at the Postoffice in Wilming ton, N. C, as Second Class Matter. 1 Foreign Representatives: frost. Green and Kohn, Inc., 225 Fifth f' Avenue, New York, Advertising :i Building, Chicago. SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1918. t It's in order for the kaiser to fire jhis naval commander at Ostend. It looks like the shipyards areK go dng to win in the race with the sub marines. ' - The price of linen collars is to be raised. That's where we get it in the neck again. General Mauricer now knows from personal experience that there is 'such a thing as going after wool and .coming back shorn. . f Before this thing is over . Mr. Borg lum will wish he had stuck to his jchisel and mallet and let the probe lone. - Nicaragua may not help much m whipping the Hun, but she gives him a slap in the face, figuratively speak ing. "There is nothing said when rents .are lowered," says the real estate i agent. Of course not, for no one is ever given such occasion to say any 'thing. j Last Monday was the tenth an niversary of the possibility of man Inavigating the air being established ;and it was done in eastern North Carolina. When you get the interest on your second issuVliberty bonds next week ,,-the best thing to do with it Is to put ; it in war savings stamps or thrift i certificates. If the British navy has been as suc cessful as' it claims in closing the harbors of Zeebrugge and Ostend the -German submarines now on the. high seas are in a bad fix. . It's the order of the day now to walk up to the captain's " office, fess up to having violated the food con servation rules and hand your roll over to the Red Cross. ?." The kaiser had the name of Von Hindenburg put on a . castle gate. When the allies win it will adorn a' grated gate in some other kind of A)ig and strong building. - Dutchman Quidde got just what he . J deserved and; what he mijght have ex pected when he approached Prgsient .Wilson's friend with such a peace r?proposal" and in such a manner. ' It is hoped that the Victory Home company will adopt some plan by i-. which wage earners and other per ... ions without capital may be able to - take stock in the company. We have no doubt this will be done. The queen of Rumania shows that she is worthy of the title of queen "when she declares-that she had rath er addicate the throne than submit to the humiliating treaty of peace forced upon her people by Germany. The men, of Berlin have been or dered by the government to furnish forty - thousand, suits of second-hand .clothes for use of workmen. Won er how many of his t&re hundred .army and naval uniforms the kaiser .will donate. The British ministry was put in a mighty, tight place V hy the Asauith fresoiution, but the premier , handled She situation with wonderful tact and ;courage, thereby winning a decisive i victory. No doubt had. he pursued .the' course first suggested the pposi ttion would have vOtt necessitating the resignation of the ministry. GERMANY'S; BLUNDERS. From a military standpoint the capture of Jerusalem by the British was of little or ho importance. No strategic advantage was gained. The city commands, no important trade route : or military line of communica tion. Its possession by the British was not necessary to protect the Suez canal. It had no bearng on the In dian situation. Yet no success of any army of "the allies so thrilled the hearts of all peoples of the world, saying only, of course, the Germans and Turks, from whom it was taken. The action of the British in driv ing the Turks from the holy city is in glaring contrast with the unholy alliance of the Germans with the in fidels for retaining possession of the city by the latter. . The allies' promise of re-establishment of the Jewish nationality in its fd home has won for them the sup- port of the people of that creed, while the Jews of the central pow ers lost their enthusiasm for a causa whose victory would mean, loss of their most cherished hopes. In the alliance between their governments and that at Constantinople they saw if the central powers were victor ious the hold of the Turk on their city strengthen and the day of their return to it thrown far into the dis tant future if not made forever im possible. The German alliance with Turkey was a mistake on the part of the Ger mans. It is hard to understand why they should have made it. Germany had nothing to gain by it, and she has lowered herself in the esteem of the world by doing so. Another blunder of the Germans wa$ their destruction of the cathedral at Kheims along with their exhibiton of disregard of everything holy and sacred. The Germans ha"e made great ef fort to gain influence with the natives in India or the purpose of bringing about a revolt aganst British rule. The destruction of the famous ca thedral in Rheims has made a great impression on those people. They cannot understand why, just because there was war between two nations one should commit such sacrilege on the soil of the other. That action has given the Indiana- a horror of the Germans. Bishop Warne, of the LMethodist church, who is Just back from India after a residence there as a missionary for many years, says the destruction of the cathedral shatter ed the possibility of unitng the Mo hammedans in a holy war on their side against the British. India, even, says the bishop, stood aghast when she heard of the bombardment of the cathedral. "What kind of people are these Germans?" asked the native Indian, according to the bishop. "They have no respect even for places of worship, no reverence for God himself. If they came down here they would destroy our mosques and violate our sanctuary too." And there Germany made another mistake. MOST DISTRESSING. The accident to the troop train at Camp Jackson yesterday was most distressing. A soldier's death in such a way is far sadder than if he had lost his life on the battle field. De plorable as "was the accident it is fortunate that the train was moving at a low rate of speed. Otherwise there most probably would have been much larger casualty list. The horrors of the war are coming closer and closer to us day by day. We can now begin to realize what the people of France and Great Brit ain, who-have sent their loved ones to the front, have been suffering for nearly four years. Until casualty lists contain names of friends and: ac quaintances it is hard to bring our minds to a realization of the havoc of lives this war is producing, though we may daily read long lists of the killed and wounded from other sec tions. While those young men who have lost their lives and those who were wounded were only undergoing train ing for the sterner duties of the bat tlefield they were nevertheless doing their duty as faithfully and as pa triotically as those who fall in bat tle. They have suffered death or wounds in the service of their coun try and all honor is due to them. It 1s said that liquor is being made from cotton seed meal. There is not much some fellows will not do to get J a drink when they get real thirsty. Well, we reckon cotton seed liquor would not be any worse than persim mon and pumpkin brandy, to which resort was made in some sections of the south during the war between the states. An' exchange tells of two cows dy ing soon after drinking water out of a wash tub in which a certain kind of powdered soap had been used. Reck on it is fortunate for the family that they died before milking time. SERVED THEM RIGHT. It is . the opinion , of the -comptrol ler of the currency that men who or ganize and control national . banks should have some patriotism and be willing to aid their country . when crises arise. Holing this view he has revoked a license already given to organize a national bank. When the application was made there was na objection to the men or any cir cumstances connected with the foiK mation of a bank by them, so permis sion was given. It has since, been learned that the men applying for the bank charter had subscribed only two hundred dollars among them to the third liberty bond issue, although they were all very wealthy. The whole country will heartily endorse the action of the comptroller. Those men belong to a class who are of no earthly use to any country. Their one idea is to gather in the dollars and to hold on to them, adding dollar to dollar. They contribute nothing to the support of the government which protects them and their hoards except what is wrung from them by the tax-collectors.' If they are not willing to help support the govern ment they should not be accorded any of the special privileges of citizen ship. AN ABSURD RUMOR. German propagandists in this coun try are ever on the lookout for sub jects on which to start false reports calculated to do injury to the cause of the allies trying to make it un popular with the people. They man ufacture stories to fit every conceiv able pondition and to attract the at tention of all classes of people. The strange thing about it is that no mat ter how absurd are their lies some people can be found to believe them and help in the cause of the propa gandists by repeating them. Of all the absurd reports of this kind that have been put afloat is the one that the government of the United States has notified that of Great Britain that in its opinion Irish conscription shouldn't be applied until an Irish home rule bill had been passed by parliament. Of coarse this govern ment has not been so officious as to meddle in Britain's internal affairs. It does not' seem necessary that a de nial of such an absurd statement was necessary, yet the report has been repeated so often and so seriously that Secretary of State Baker felt called upon to make official denial of the charge. "If it should happen that Jack Frost makes another trip 'enduring of the long cold spell in May it will be a sad day for the peaches which so far , have refused to fall for the cold weather that is past," says The Greensboro Record. It would sound mtrclf better to talk about what a fine prospect there is for an abund ant peach crop and that the indica tions are that there will not be cold enough weather to injure the fruit. Indications are that this is going to be a mixed year as to politics. In some sections the war will overshad ow political contests, while in others there are going to be some hot times. Among the latter may be placed the third congressional district n this state. It looks now like it is goitrg to be a knock down and drag out fight between Abernethy and Dortch. With TheEdit'ors Greensboro News: Seventeen mil lion people in the second line of de fense have answered in no uncertain tone the Hun challenge. Greensboro News: The mystery sur. rounding the disappearance of the American naval collier Cyclops, car rying 283 men, will perhaps be cleared up one of these days by the garru lous propensities of one who may know the fate of the vessel. In all the world there are really few se crets that cannot be learned and the work of the sleuths is greatly aided uy the whispered confidences of thosvj who know things that seem steeped in mystery. Perhaps the most plaus ible theory advanced is that the col lier was a victim of a German subma rine. If the Cyclops was thus "sunk without a trace," the members of the U-boat crew apparently have careful ly guarded their secret. However, the desire for the adulation of their fel lows would probably prompt narra tion of the exploit in Germany, soon er or later. Perhaps even now a con siderable number of . Germans are chuckling gleefully over the sinking of the Cyclops. News and Observer: Even with the Reichsrat closed the Austrian people can smell a mouse. Fayette ville Observer: They do say that Hindenburg has about come to the conclusion that he doesn't care about driving the allies out of the Ypres sector, anyhow. He prefers to go forward by some other route not yet discovered. Charlotte Observer: Another "Straw" indicating the tightening t BcrcwB iu Germany. Tne government has made . requisition um tW.itn of Berlin for 40,000 suits of second hand ciotnmg, tor which only a nom inal payment is to be made. If Ber lin rebels and should show a dispo sition to profiteer, .the requisition will be seized and nonpayment whatever will be made. The fact that second hand articles were-specified implies that Berlin is in no position to supply any other kind and the warning con nected with the giving of the. order would seem to express doubt, of Ber lin ability to furnish even second hand stuff, L except under threat of dire consequences. News and Observer: As Leon Trotz ky is now advocating compulsory la bor for the Bolsheviki, it is not sur prising to learn of his growing unpop ularity. Greensboro Record: Of course, there couldn't be big public expenditures without some scandal. It hath been a custom to loot the government if Op portunity offered, and it appears from the noise being made in Washington that the dirty face of Graft has shown itself in the airplane contracts. Of course, it Isn't as bad as some would paint it, but the fact that President Wilson has looked over some of the specific charges ' and ordered a thor ough investigation suggests that the taint or graft is visible, and investi gation may reveal a terrible state of dishonesty in some quarters. We have the promise of the president.that the matter will be fully investigated, and vif there has been dishonesty thos guilty will be brought to court State News Saw a Bargain in Light. A man from Concord wrote Mr. Curtis Lee, superintendent of the wa ter and light plant, last week, want ing to trade him a 1915 model auto mobile for the Monroe power plant. The rdan saw afr advertisement in The Charlotte Observer signed "Power & Light, Monroe," offering "to trade a country lighting systm for an au tomobile, and that was how Mr. Lee received the unusual offer. Monroe Jiurnal. , Klng't Mountain Artillery Ranges. The artillery range over against Kings mountain has become a source of unfailing interest and attraction for visitors from all the country sur rounding for a distance of-many miles and automobile parties increase in number with each succeeding Sun day. The targets are about seven or eight miles northwest of Bowling Green and the batteries are located at different points to the northeast of the targets, the three-Inch batteries something less than two miles and the larger batteries, consisting of guns of slightly under five-inch caliber, are close to three miles away. The tar gets are not within view of the guns at all. They could be seen probably except for the intervening hills and woods, but a direct view is not de sirable. The firing is directed from an observation tower between the tar gets and the gunners, and in view of both; also from a wireless station on top of Kings mountain. Trained Nurse for County Home. Following a request by a number of ladies who have been interested in the welfare of the inmates of the home, the county commissioners yes terday agreed to furnish a whole time trained nurse for the-county home. The ladles told the board of conditions found at the home, which are very unsanitary and declared that the health of the unfortunates who are forced to accept the hospitality of the county should be looked after in the best way possible. Strong Appeal to Jury. Declaring that the man who slacks either by refusing to Join the army or giving his money for the support of the soldier is o traitor and warning all those who have any sympathy for Germany to keep it to themselves, Judge James E. Boyd, of Greensboro. yesterday morning at the opening of United States district court here, de livered one of the strongest patriotic addresses that has been heard in Ashevllle since the country entered the ranks of the natjons fighting the Huns. Asheville Times. New Bernian: A Berlin correspon dent writes of Von Hindenburg: "I found him In high spirits and filled with pride over the happenings of the fiast" It, Hindenburg can be proua UI WML ucl maujr Xiao utu v.v..e " Russia he's even more of a brute than we thought him. In The News Rt. Rev. Dennis J. Dougherty, who has been named to succeed the late Archbishop Prendergast of Philadel nhia. is the present head of the Ro man Tfithnlift riinceae Of Buffalo. Bishop Dougherty was born at Ash land. Pa., in 1865. He studied at Mon treal and Philelphia before going to Rome, were he distinguished himself at the American college. He was or dained to the priesthood in Rome in 140, and upon his return to America was appointed a professor in the Overbrook seminary by the late Arch bishop Ryan. In 1903 he was sent to the Philinivines as bishop of Neuva Segoria. Twelve years later he sue ceeded Bishop Colton of Buffalo Bishop Dougherty is ranked i among the most brilliant prelates in the American hierarchy. A DAILY LESSON IN HISTORY. One Hundred Years Ago Today. 1818 The surgical operation known as the ligation of the innominate art ery was performed for the first time by Dr. Valentine Mott of New York: Seventy-five Years Ago Today. 1843 Wilhelrq Wagner, a celebrated German philologist, born at Steinau Died at Naples, April 15, 1880. Fifty Year Ago Today." 1868 Public executions in Great Britain abolished by act of parliament. Twenty-five Years Ago Today. iovarine Earl ,of Aberdeen was appointed Governor-General of Can ada. ONE YEAR AGO TODAY IN WAR. May 11. 1917 Elihu Root named to head the. American mission, to Russia; Chinese house of representatives re fused to adopt resolution declaring war oh Germany; BritJab and French envoys given memorable banquet as climax to Now York ovations. OUR DAILY BIRTHDAY PARTY Major Gen. Eben Swift, head of the American military mission to Italy, born in Texas, 64 years ago today. John B. Schoeffel, one of the oldest and most prominent of American theat rical managers, born 72 years ago to day. ' Stanley King, Boston business man, now serving as special assistant to the Secretary of War, born at Troy, N. Y- 35 years agd today. Charles W. Fairbanks, former Vice President of the United States, born in Union county, Ohio, 66 years ago to day. . n Dr. Robert J. Aley, president of the University of Maine, born at Coal City, Ind., 55 years ago today. Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, distin guished engineer, now serving as ad viser to the British government, born 57 years ago today. Samuel R. Van Sant, former gov ernor of Minnesota and prominent grand army veteran, born at Rock Island, 111., 74 years ago today. THE PROFITEERS. William H. Taft, Chiyles M. Schwab, John D. Ryan and Edward Stettinius will work for Uncle Sam at $1 a year. We understand that Uncle Henry Ford Is holding out for $1.50. O, these profiteers! Milwaukee Sentinel. COULD IT BE DONE? Director-General McAdoo has served notice that railroad folders in the fu ture must be "purely informative." Why not apply the same rule, too, to Mr. Creel's literary efforts ?-Roches-ter Democrat and Chronicle. MOTHER'S DAY. Forth from the amber sunset, under the purpling dome, She floats to me from afar, the angel of dreams of home; Out from the solemnly sweet warm shadows that mirror light God's priest3ti3, but human mother, she comes in glory white. O mother, who alwuys knew!! Do you zeei now a lead can ache When it is gray? How a heart, when worn of the world, ca.i break? Do you know how frightful, a life left empty, hope s!ckened. dumb. That now from your holy rest, as of oia, to me you come? O mother, mother or mine, has my need of you pierced the veil? As you came to the grieving child, do you come from beyond the pale Starlight instead of the night-lamp? For lo, my troubles cease, , And hope has conquered despair, and after long strife is peace! Stokely S.Fisher, in Farm Life. LOAN SHARK87 To the Editor Evening Dispatch: At this time when our city is to have an increase of some 10,000 new residents and most of them of the working class, let mecall your at tention to a menace that is carried on to a disgusting extent under the very eyes of our citizens that bids fair to grow to even greater propor tions unless there is a stop put to it, and put to it quickly. That is the sandbag, blackjack methods of our socalled money lenders, better known in Washington, D. C, as sharks, vampires, blod suckers, etc. These people "prey" upon the misfortune of others, and probably in no other city are conditions as bad as right here in Wilmington. Washington, D. C, long ago threw them out, yet they were ale to cross tne Potomac river and offer free buto service to their patrons, and at that they only charged two per cent. While here, as conditions have been presented to me by one. of my employes, when a pledge is made you ar presented with a genuine, dyed-in-the-wool bill of sale, and not a memorandu mbf a loan. For this you are charged 20 per cent right off ther eel, and is so written on your bill of sale. It also reads that the goods have been act ually bought by the lender and must be rebought from him. One of my men gave me thes? facts : Fourteen months ago he got a ten dollar loan. At the end of that time, he went to redem his chattel and was confronted with a bill of $38. Imag'ne, if you can, $p8 interest on a $10 loan for 14 months, or 20 per cent a month. .For the protection of the many men that will of neces sity be temporarily embarrassed in sending for their families or buying household goods, I ask you to use your influence in remedying this odious state of affairs. How long is it to continue? Is there any legal rate, and if so, what is it? ' T. P. DORSE Y. NEW YORK LETTER. By O. O. MclNTYRE. . (Special Correspondent of The Dis patch.) New York, May 11. Peter Musco, a soldier, and Percy Tucker, a seaman, proved their right to be assigned to shock duty the other morning when without the aid of gas masks, fighting against terrible odds, they made pris oners of three large sectors of lim burger cheese after a desperate hand to hand struggle. In their eagerness to show their courage they broke into the cheesery Conducted by Salvatore Maculuso, of Harlem, and now their freedom .has vanished. Their mistake win deprive them of a chance to make a trip to France, which is a real calamity, for tnose wno came in contact with them declared they could stand a whole lot Of sweeping by ocean breezes justnow. Two detectives were about a mile way from the cheese garage when thev began v, sniffing ; vigorously. Each . ac cused the other of smoking finnan had- i m rw w r i i r- irf mm CHAPTER VIII. Two Opposite Types. ' BETTY CONNORS was very tiny, but she had the bluest: eyes, hair like, spun gold, which reached to her waist, and when fas tened on top ol'her head would es cape in little curls over her forehead and neck. -She had two of the sweet est dimples, and long eyelashes, sq dark they looked almost black when contrasted with her hair. Even while loving the girl," I felt sorry for her. It isn't good for a poor working girl to be as loVely not in a big city. Carrie in looks was as opposite to her little roommate as she was in dis position. She was a tall, slender, dark-haired girl, with ' a fine figure, good teeth and a capable, strong face. She ' looked a little hard some times. Somehow one knew that Car rie would always get along. She would be either a very successful good girl or a very bad girl. There was nothing about Carrie to indicate mediocrity. Betty had been complaining. She had not yet secured woTk. "I am not bothered in the way you complain of," I said to her; "neither are you, Carrie, are you?" "I never have been 'pestered, , as Betty calls it. I .uess I'm not good looking enoughs or something. But my boss is a fine man, all. right. He's got a nice daughter of his., own. She comes into the office. once in a while. She is a nice, pleasant-spoken girl, not a bit stuck up." "They don't bother you two because they dassent!" Betty bursr out. "Whr not " I asked. "Because you two ( girls are good workers; you know your job. Your bosses know you'd leave if they got fresh, and they now too, that you could easy get another job. But they ain't so sure they can get girls to take your places. So they are mighty careful. But, you see, they know they, can get plenty of girls like me; they are as thick as fleas. Men don't dast get fresh with a girl who. knows enough to make him need hern his business. It's only us 6 a week flap pers what ain't up on. our work what gets pestered." I felt that Betty was telling the truth, that the efficient girl was prac tically immune from Insult, even from a bad employer. I had always sup posed it was up to the girl herself. But this little incapable typist had told me the truth. It was a girl's ef fiency her employer's need of her that was her greatest armor. If a girl was an asset to her employer, Instead of simply a negligible quan tity, which could be replaced at any time, she was safe. "You see," Betty went on, "no, man what has any tj3nse is a-going to cut off his own nose to spite his face. die, but at last they recognized the fumes of limburger. Catching hoW of hands for mutual support they smelled their way to the delicatessen- shop, from which point they had no diffi culty in trailng Percy and Peter two blocks further to ther lair. The detectives reached the station house with their prisoners and the evidence and then collapsed, They were relieved from duty and two de tectives who had colds in their heads relieve them. In court the prisoners calle to friends in the back of the room to aid them. The latter refused to enter the danger zone, telling Percy and Peter to cqmmunicate by post. The evi dence was under guard and the guard ians thereof prayed that someone would come in and steal it all oyer again. What on earth tempted you to steal limburger cheese?" asked one of the sleuths. N "We were hungry," answered the prisoners. "Then why didn't you steal Paris green or something like that? No jury will ever believe a man is hungry enough for limburger to steal it," And that is the close of New York's fascinating novel "Hard oh the Scent" a new best smeller.- She was a picture to look upon as she tripped into a Broadway car. Un der her arm she carried a portfolio of music. She looked all about her for a seat but not a one was to t?e had. Men burled their noses further in the headlines. She hung gracefully to a strap for severaj blocks and then the big idea came. 'She cleared her throat and started singing "The Star Span gled Banner." Everybody arose. She selected the best seat and sat down and the conductor suppressed a giggle struggling for expressslon. Having determined to make a clean bxeast of it and let the law wreak its justice on him, desperate Leonard Vander, aged 12, approached a police man on Lexington avenue and" handed him the following confession: ' "I stole $5 from the groceryman, gave $2 to my mother and spent $3 on my own birthday party. I give myself up tot the crime." Desperate Leonard only lent him self, however. He was returned to his mother, who is a widow, and the fam ily clipper went into front line serv ice. Will Irwin, back from Europe, was given a reception the other night by the alumni of Stanford University at the Majestic. When he entered the room the college men gave him a rousing cheer. He became q fiustratea that he stepped on the train of a lady's dress. There was an omnious rip and a chorus of gasps. But the lady was a diplomat, and said: "George, that is twice you have stepped on my dress tonight." He apologized. Later In going out some one else 'stepped on the lady's train and Irwin rushed up: "Pardon madam," he said, "letfthis one be dfx me." r It's just common sense to let alone. Because both you good looking and smart Yn,, believe me, I know, but is L?f cause they are afraid thm ,JUSI s. that they don't , ask you tn ,! yo like they do me." dinner IT 4. J TS. , . i uai a hu, joetty and t k,, you are right you must work r hard and make yourself so proflri! they don't dare offend you. ?ou J?1 given ua something to think aW hasn't she, Carrie?" at0ul. Betty laughed a bitter little iantfc "A swell chance I've got to t worth anything to anybody t only two months at the eveni? classes at hornet and, believe me th business school was a dream ! guess if you had learned yourself J you know, and took the time vl ought to be sleepin' to do it wouldn't be much different from m I never saw a schoolroom after I li; and only by fits and starts befor! then." "Why don't you try somethins else?" Carrie broke in. "Clerking i a store or something?" Betty compressed her lips and a swered : "No! I am not going to be an office girl. I have made up my mind, m be a stenographer and type-writer in some good place yet that i3, if j don't starve to death first." "We'll see that you don't starve" Carrie said. "I don't -see why you two girls are so good to me, especially Mary, she's VV.WVM. : JUUl AAtlC lUlOW" nothing. Having you two for friends is sure great luck." That minute I bade good-by to my fall suit. Betty must keep her faith in me, in my friendship, even if I went shabby all winter. The next day I watched the girls in the office more closely than I ever before had done. I also watched the men over us. More and more wag it proved to me that little Betty was fight. That the girls who were ei pert, were not approached with the same familiarity, the same freedom of speech that the others were. I owed a good deal to Betty. Because of her keen analysis of the situation I would redouble my efforts to make myself valuable. That night we three girls had a long talk. We decided that Betty should not look for work for two months. That she should study, and I would help her. I laid out a course in spelling and simple English lot her during the day, then at night 1 would hear her lessons and explain anything she didn't understand. She also practiced on my typewriter when she had time. She was very quid; and made amazing progress. -4 (Copyright, 1918, by Dale Drnmma CONTINUED- TOMORROW. Bishop Chat'rd'a Anniversary Indianapolis, Ind., May 11. "ft Rt Rev. Francis S. Chatard, the ven erable head of the Roman Catholia diocese of Indianapolis, tomorrow will celebrate the 40th anniversary of his consecration. Bishop Chatard, then rector of the North American College in Rome, was appointed the fifth bishop of Indianapolis and con secrated in Rome May 12, 1878. Ha was born in Baltimore in 1834, and studied at Mt. St. Mary's college, Emmittsburg, Md. He then took up the study of medicine and obtained his medical degree at the University of Maryland, but soon decided to en ter holy orders, became a student at the Propaganda college, Rome, and was ordained priest there in 1862. m 1868 he succeeded the Rt. Rev. Wil liam G. McCloskey as rector of s the American college, having'' for seyem years previously been as socmen with its administration. Napoleon Now Claimed by German ' Amsterdam, May 11. Having al ready claimed Shakespeare as a Ger man, the Berlin newspapers have no discovered that isapoieon Dima--was also one of them. The claim M Napoleon Is put forward on the au thority of a Prussian anthropologist. Professor Otto Hauser, who notes among other "proofs" that Napolepa had blue . eyes and cinder-colored hair, which are "called characteristics of the German race." Napoleons patronymic, he adds, was "Cadohng hi," taken from the German vow Kadeling, and his mother belonged to the Ramolini, "which is a debase, ment of Rammeleln, an essentially, German name." New York "Finest" on PaPrads. New York, May 11. What any se dtiously inclined individuals wouw be up against in the event they at tempted to start anything in the n" ture of a wartime riot in the metrop olis was demonstrated today m tw annual parade of the New York p lice department. Amid lines of cheer ing spectators 10,000 uniformed P lice marched with military PreclS"J from the Battery up Broadway ao along Fifth avenue. Seven regime 4k. - f-m inH three reg' nents of reserves were Included the line. To Try Former Army Major, Santa F6, N. M May ll.-Dr- JoW M. Birkner, a former major or j United States army connected wj the medical corps at Camp Cody, be arraigned in the federal cour nere xaonaay w ai&na uiw u" - v, of disloyalty. Birkner got wide P licity recently when a band of viets at the New Mexico penitential tarred and feathered him. Italian Battalion Forming. " London, May17.-A battalion of oJ thousand Italian soldiers is De1 formed In London, the members being- Italian refugees who have cently arrived here from Russia. -7 -r
The Wilmington Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.)
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