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nnnnnnnn BELGIANS STUBBORNLY HOLD TRENCHES HOLT SUCCEEDS IN TAKING HIS OWN LIFE IN THICK OF FIGHT Fierce Exaltation of Battle Told by Frenchman. i, Look ForTk: rt mm. T&tasI n BV 7. Ar MANY CONFLICTING REPORTS AS TO THE MANNER IN WHICH HE ELUDED GUARDS. TOP OF SKULL FRACTURED Body Found in Ceir Where Keeper Says He Was Killed. Others Say He Jumped Through Window. Glen Cove, N. Y. Frank Holt, the Cornell University professor, who shot J. P. Morgan, in his home near Glen Cove committed suicide in the jail at iVIineola. While several of the jail authori ties declare that Holt killed himself by climbing through the opening at the top of "his. cell door and then plunging to the narrow court below, Holt's keeper said he was positive that the prisoner was killed In his own cell where he said he found the body. There were many conflicting reports as to the manner in which Holt met' his death, but it was definitely established through Doctor Cleghorn, the jail phy sician, that Holt died of a fractured skull. ' Several of those alout the jail said they heard an explosion, the report coming from Holt's cell. This noise, it was believed, was due to the falling of boards' from the top of the cell, i Jeremiah O'Ryan, the keeper detail ed to watch Holt, said he was 15 feet away from the cell when he heard a loud report. He looked Irrthe direc tion of the cell, but it was dark. En tering he found Holt's body in a pool of blood in the corner. The excitement that followed the noise brought Warden Hulse and oth er jail authorities to the scene. Dis trict Attorney Lewis J. Smith and Dr. Cleghorn, together with several con stables, were soon on the scene and Immediately began investigation. Dr. Cleghorn denied a report that Holt had killed himself by chewing a pre cussion cap. He repeated that death was caused by a fracture at the top of the skull. An explosion which would have blown" his head off would have followed an attempt by Holt to chew a percussion cap the physician said. A thorough examination of Holt's eell failed, according to the jail au thorities, to disclose any weapon or implements of any kind which Holt could have used to kill himself.' Corporal Describes the Hoarse Shouts, the Rasp of Steel on Steel, the j Appeals for Mercy in Street Fighting. 600 CARRANZA TROOPS KILLED. A Fruitless Attempt is Made to Cap ture a Villa Stronghold. Lareno, Texas Six hundred Car ranza troops were killed in an all day battle in a fruitless attempt to cap ture Paredon, a Villa stronghold about '30 miles northwest of Monte rey, - according' to reports here. Eight een thousand men were reported en gaged in the battle with total casu alties -on both sides of 2,000. Car ranza reinforcements renewed the attack. About 8,000 Carranza troops under Gen. Jacinto B. Trevino advanced along the railroad from Villgarcia, a village about midway between Monte rey and Paredon. The advance fol lowed a truce during which both sides buried the dead, who during two weeks incessant fighting about Villa gar cia had fallen so thickly as to menace health.- The Carranza offi cers estimated that Villa had nearly 10,000 men concentrated at Paredon under Generals Urbina and Chao. Paris. "No more excitement; an astonishing calm fills us as we open fire upon the Germans who have taken cover in the houses in the outskirts of the village," writes Charles Tar dieu in a recent installment of his "Impressions of a Corporal," published in the Figaro. "From windows, embrasures, from the cover of doorways they blaze away at us. Forty bodies are strewn across the interval between us; a few wound ed men are scrambling and wriggling in the mud. Little by little we re gain our breath. j "At the top of the village street de bouches a company of German infan try. A hellish fire welcomes them, but still they come on, sowing their dead by files. Faster and faster we pump our breech bolts. Their first ranks crumple, they tramp over them; the next rank falls, still they come on. At last their chief, a huge devil of an officer, who is waving them on, goes down. A new volley drops seven or eight more men. This time they stop, hesitate a second, then turn and run, . "'Charge!' roars the captain. 'Give them the steel! We rush in, our two buglers, their neck veins swelling, playing us the heart-stirring notes of the charge. A heroic intoxication swells through us and we run like be ings possessed into the narrow streets, through the humming bullets. "Into houses, through gardens, past open doorways the skirmishers throw themselves, to come out with dripping bayonets. No more shots death shrieks, groans, hoarse shouts, piteous cries for mercy are mingled with the crash of falling furniture, the slam ming of, doors; the nasty rasp of steel on steel. And over it all the strident notes of the charge! "From each house as it is silenced pour our men, some of them wounded. Hatless, coatless, without their packs; one man has discarded his blouse and Is working with his sleeves rolled up. "Trampling on the corpses that strew the way, leaping over obstruc tions, we make our way up the street, when a machine gun section appears in front of us. But before they have time to unlimber we are upon them. An instant of hard work with butt and steel and its crew is down be side their overturned piece. We pass on. "Into the cross street we turn. A few bodies are, lying there; one house is burning briskly. Spiked helmets bob over the walls as their wearers Charles R. Connant Dead. New York. Charles R. Conant, of Now York, a banker and financial ex pert, died in Havana of hemorrhage of the stomach. He was in Cuba at the request of the Cuban authorities to reform the financial system of the republic. French Suffer Fearful Losses. Berlin, via wireless to Sayville. Special dispatches from the western front say that in the recent battle be tween Arras and La Bassee the French and British forces suffered fearful losses, one command alone losing 3,400 men out of 4,200. .i)ix. ...-.HZ . :, jmlffSSWr n fin n Minn ffiw5'1 This1 photograph, taken during the heat of battle while the Germans were attempting to drive the Belgians from a position in the trenches, shows the soldiers of King Albert's army, armed with machine guns, fighting des perately against the heavy odds of the Germans. In the foreground one of the brave defenders of the trench' is seen lying dead. retreat through the gardens. A scat tered fire is heard on all sides. 1 At the end of the street, behind a bar ricade of overturned wagons and wine barrels, some of the Germans who still hold out open up onfus. 'Charge bay onet!' ' , "We rush on, when a Shuttered win dow bursts open and ithe head of Lugagne, the bugler of the Third, pops out, blowing a frantic charge. Our comrades, making the frontal attack, have won their way through. "Sweeping everything before them, our comrades join us, shouting with the joy of battle as they scale the barricade. By groups, rallied at haz ard, we search the houses. All who show fight are finished; those who sur render are rapidly hurried to the rear. At last there are no living forms but those clad in French uniforms and we arrive at the other end of the village, which is now completely cleaned :out. "Our officers, in the dusk, rally their men, bringing order out of the confu sion. Some three hundred prisoners, livid, trembling, are herded into the courtyard of a house, under guard of the sergeant major and twenty men. They will be well guarded. "But what is this? Crash! Booooom! They are opening fire with their artil lery upon the village. The captain comes running. " 'Corporal, what are you loafing there for? Find the major and ask for orders!' - "I go running, aimlessly. The ma jor? Where is he? Bodies, bodies everywhere. Wounded men who whim' per, helmets, knapsacks, rifles, strewn about.. Blood everywhere on the walls, on the doors,; on the paving stones.- Cries, shouted orders, the plaints of the wounded. A stream of injured men looking for the sur geon. "Somewhere a bugle blows the as sembly and I rush through the wound ed, who are patching themselves up as best they can, some dragging a leg, some with arms in slings. ' 'The major? Where is the major?' " CAPTURE A "LIVE" GIANT Amite City Hears This "Broth of a Man" Hasn't Shaved In Two ' Years. Amite City, La. A reminder of the once "Bloody Tangipahoa" is in jail here. He is Louis Singleton, the most powerful man physically in Tangipa hoa. Without a haircut or shave for two years, Singleton looked more like a huge grizzly bear than a human. His relatives say that they have been un able to keeD him at home. Singleton has two brothers, Walter and Ezra, and the old 250-acre home stead is situated three miles north east of Kentwood. The brother, Wal ter, together with Louis Singleton, is charged with shooting a neighbor s cow and disturbing the peace. IS CHUM'S MAID OF HONOR Plan For National Prohibition. Atlantic City, N. J. Action to hur ry along the movement for National prohibition by amending of the Fed eral Constitution was taken by busi ness men connected with the Anti Saloon League of America, which opened its sixteenth -annual conven tion here. It was planned to appoint a committee of 100 men prominent in business and manufacturing for the purpose of raising funds and other wise to further the movement or the adoption of the Hobson-Sheppard amendment. Evelyn Thaw Will Not Testify. New York. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, summoned by the state to testify against Harry K. Thaw, her husband, in the jury proceedings to determine his mental condition, reached New York from her camp at Chateaugay Lake, near Malone, N. Y., and. announc ed she would stand on her constitution al rights and refuse to take the stand against her husband. Deputy Attorney General Cook asserted that as the hearing was a civil proceeding the court could direct her to testify and he would ask the court to so direct f J til lr$mmM sex Miss Hanna Heistein, daughter of the former Norwegian consul-general at Paris, recently came from Norway to act as maid of honor at the mar riage in Philadelphia of her chum, Mlis Helena McKinley, to Barton La1 in. Miss Heistein introduced Mr. Lairin to her chum in 1912. A year later Miss $fcKinley introduced Miss Heistein to -a captain in the Norwe gian army and an engagement fol: lowed. r SINGS WAY OUT OF COURT Scot With Burr in His Speech Is Told Not to Let it Happen Again. Chicago. Joseph McGIlloch ias a burr in his speech that' betrays his Highland ancestry, but he sings. He stood before Judge Rafferty and heard him say, "One hundred dollars and costs." McGilloch smiled a rueful smile, Then he wa? moved to song. "Stop your ticklin, Jock," he sang with a chuckle. Judge Rafferty's eyes twinkled. "Go," he said, "but don't let it hap pen again." . McGilloch was arrested at Van Bu ren street and Wabash avenue for re futes to &et out of a taajcab. SMUGGLING IN WAR a- Business, Not Romance, Marks the Contraband Trade. Chiefs of the Runners in Holland Are Well Dressed and Their Dens Are Modern Offices Guard Methods Closely. Rotterdam. The romantic- smug gler waiting for a dark night to run his lugger ashore in a cove and then bury his bales and barrels in the sand has disappeared, but the trade still flourishes and probably brings more profit than ever, especially just now ia Holland. The modern smuggler here, however, is interested chiefly in get ting contraband out of the country rather than bringing it in. A call at an up-to-date smuggler's den, of which several exist in the cen ter of Rotterdam, probably would re veal a middle-aged German dressed in a well cut business suit at a desk, in front of him small heaps of spices, grain of various species, oilcake and raw rubber, and sample bottles of burning and lubricating oils. From time to time the smuggler chief takes the telephone receiver down and calls a number, and bargains in terse phrases over the price of job lots of the articles, samples of which lie be fore him, sent for his approval by mer chants and dealers who held stocks more or less extensive before the new and strict government regulations call ing for an Inventory were issued. Then follow other telephone calls on shippers or their skippers. ,The smug gler chief is trying to arrange for the transport of his illicit exports across the border line Into Germany or Bel gium. Freights for this trade are high, and the smuggler's efforts are directed toward beating down the ship per to as low a figure as possible,; but the shipper holds out, for he knows smuggled goods bring high rates when safely brought to their destination. Torture would not force the smug glers to disclose the methods by which they manage to forward the contra band beyond the closely guarded fron tier. It is hinted, however, that many railroad cars ostensibly conveying freight from Holland to Denmark and from Denmark to Holland are mys teriously uncoupled and disappear while passing over the intervening German territory. Dutch fishing boats, too, often are seized off the coast by German patrol boats', and taken into German ports, whence they are. re leased after their cargoes have been unloaded, to the evident satisfaction of the skippers. Dozens of Rhine lighters pass daily up and down the river whose course runs through Germany and Holland and occasionally one is held up be cause of the presence of illicit cargo: but it is possible that for each one stopped several others pass muster with forbidden goods on board and are received with welcome by the German authorities. From numerous point along the frontier,, closely guarded though it is by Dutch troops, come re ports of cattle and horses being driven across into German territory, where the lines of sentinels are thin or wood prevent a clear view. The gains to be obtained by the run ning of contraband are so tempting that the efforts of the authorities have been rendered futile. Practically half the Dutch troops now mobilized are engaged in guarding the frontiers, not against foreigners but against Dutch men trying to pass contraband. It is difficult, however, to guard every yard of the border line and if the attention of a sentry can be distracted for only a few minutes this gives the wily smuggler his chance to get across with his goods. GARDENS IN LARGE CITIES No Reason Why Certain Difficulties Shrould Not Easily Be Overcome, With Proper Thought. There are a few things that must. be provided if Omaha is to become famous for its gardens, and it is to be hoped that the agricultural expert who la coming here will attend to them, says the Omaha World-Herald. There would be many more gardens if there were some central agency established where men too busy to at tend to all the work could call by telephone and get a reliable man when one is needed. The charity organiza tions have been relied upon, but the men who seek work through them are often inefficient and unreliable. One business man said: "I have quite a lare-R bit of eround inurfcack yard that I would like to put in aarden, but I cannot take a day dff to spade It ud and prepare the ground for the seed. I would be glad to plant the seed and care for the ground after ward. Last year I tried getting a man and after much worry got one. He was unreliable and the work that he did was hardly worth the time look ing after him, so this year I have con cluded to seed it down and avoid that sort of worry." The plan for children is good and should be boosted by every one, but a large number of gardens would be planted where there are no children if there were a place where the right kind of help could be secured. Lawns would be kept in better condition if a man could be called by telephone when a mower was out of order or needed sharpening and when bulbs and shrubbery were to be planted. Omaha gardens and beautiful lawns would add very much to the city in the satisfaction of citizens and visitors and to the value of. property. It might be a good policy for some of the civic organizations to undertake to supply this want by establishing such a cen tral agency. There is no doubt that it would be a paying enterprise. FLOWERS IN CONCRETE WALLS Monotony of Driveway Relieved by Device of Designer Who Gave Thought to Subject BOX CAR ANNIE" IS BACK Woman Hobo Calls Again for Drup Cure at Hospital In Kan sas City. Kansas City, Mo. -"Box Car Annie" is back at the General hospital again, seeking a second trial of the drug cure. It was in March, this year, that the stringent enforcement of the fed eral drug act sent the woman hobo to the City hospital. After taking the cure she "bummed" her way south, visiting Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas. -., A few days ago she felt the old de sire for drugs coming back to her and immediately started nrnh for Kansas City where, she said, "they have a fine bunch to help you." Maggie Draper, alias Annie Smith, alias "Box Car Annie," is thirty years old and a well-known character in the western part of the United States. She has been a professional hobo for about twelve years. Average Life of an Officer. London. It has been figured oil that the average life of a British offi. cer once he reaches the firing line is only 23 days ; a cavalry horse larts ten days in actual fighting and at wato- mobile about one month. am ncki 'tioiu -it's a quality ,r,ark for ,xce, lly good table daicties plain or stuffed, are fro'S P olive groves in Spain. ' UbbySweet.Sour and Dill iT Pickles are wauanf r,nri c.. r4 Your summer meals an(J , . . LU CO.u plete without them. Insist on Libby's at your grocer's. Libby, M?Neill & Libby Chicago Ml Oil to m firi Nearly Lost. j uu couia nave onlv Wish. What wnnlH it v ' lt He It would be that that ru if I nnlv darprt toll .. i JKJU ,Nliai lt be! O V. TT711 . one vveii, go on: hy clo pose I brought up the wiShinB I In designing a residence driveway ehich was to be cut through a ter race, a builder avoided the monotony of harming two long concrete retain ing walls flanking either side by breaking them at intervals with semi circular niches in which plants could be placed. These spaces were made so that they broke what otherwise would have been the straight line of the two copings. Each was made about 3 feet in depth and 2 feet wide and given the same finish as the ex terior walls. Concrete jardinieres were made for the plants which were set in the spaces. Popular Mechanics. Making the Town Worth Living In. The following, from the pen of Judge Nelson Case of Oswego, applies to any Kansas town: "Taxes paid for good roads, for libraries and schools, for any improvement which adds to the comfort, the enlightenment, the happiness of a people, are among the most valuable investments a person can make, even though he cannot see that he has any direct interest in them. The most prosperous cities are those whose inhabitants have the most advantages for education, religious culture, recreation and such amuse ments and diversions as are elevating In their tendencies, and are free from demoralizing Influences. Kansas City is a fine example of this .spirit and policy. It is what her citizens have done to make the city beautiful and a desirable place in which to live, fully as much as her direct efforts to secure trade, that has given her the prestigr she enjoys." Kansas City Star. Tetterlne Cures Itching pjet Again I am callinfS fhw8"? ever used. End OSPri flnrt torn one-nan aozen boxes of Tettrine Tetterine Cures Erzoma VtL.Kl8f' Worm. Boils. RouRh Scaly Patches 3 race. uia licnmff Snrps. Itchi Cankered Scalp. Chilblain? fw,9; every form of Scalp and Pkin Di"J? Tetterine 50c. Tetterine Soap urugsisi, or Dy mail from the mam. tHE&.The ShupV;,ne .. SaVann B With everv ma 1 order fnr t,,J. eive a box of Shuptrine's 10c Liver l Envious. "What is the matter, Alice?" ask uiuuici us mt; nine ciri cr home crying as if her heart wc-J break." "Mabel Jones has got adenoids and I never have anything," sobbed Alice. For Galled Horses. When your horse is galled, app!; TT a T-l 1 r i . nanioru s rsaisam oi .viyrrn ana you can keep on" working. Try it and il your horse is not cured quicker thai by any other remedy, the dealer wi refund your money. Adv. Her Worry. "Darling, will you love me when I'm old?" "I will if you'll promise to love me I should grow, fat." To Drive Out Malaria And Build lp The System Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC You bow what you are taking, as the hrmuh s printed on every label, showisj a b Ouinine and Iron in a tasteless form. The Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron builds np the system. 50 cemi kit Never Get Tired. "You dance like an angel." . "Yon flatter me." said the girl.1 could keep going much longer if II wings." Manuring the Soil. , In garden making the first essential is a heavy layer of barnyard manure placed on the surface-and then turned under as deeply as it is possible to get it. If a lot has to be filled three or four feet in depth, it should first be covered with two feet of barnyard manure, on top of which should be placed two feet of good soil. When all has been settled by the rains of one winter we will have a garden "as is a garden." This illustration is used merely to show where manure should be placed If it be possible to get it there. A garden so filled in would grow roses and other flowering shrubs that would prove little short of mar velous. " Cut the Weeds and Grass. Whether you are a renter or an owfi er, you should not permit grass and weeds to "take" the sidewalk. Flies and mosquitoes bred in the tangled gtass of a home owner are just as an noying and poisonous as those that are brought to life on the rented premises. And the blow to civic beauty is as se vere In the one instance as in the oth er. Don't be a drawback to comfort, health and civic beauty, which is to say, don't let weeds and grass encum ber the sidewalk of the place that you J call home. Corslcana Sun. i' EirXIR BABEK A GOOD TOXIC And Drives Malaria Out ',heT.:vvs;,,!1 "Your Babek acts like ma-ic. Ihayep tt to numerous people in my parish suffering--with chills, malaria aul t'W. commend it to those -who are uiiereK K need of a good tonic" -Rev. s. fzv,mf. j. St. Stephen's Clmrch, Pert-b Ani.y--- Klixir llabek, 50 cents, ail ii" Parcels Post, prepaid, from Klcxzeio Washington, D. C. If a woman isn't jealous she isnt Interested. ,To remove soreness use Balsam. Adv. Beads of perspiration are of honest labor perhaps. Kanford's the je!s The General Says: Ton can buy the most.dnroo e - t the world at a price that is reasonable u i insist on f Roofing lumber a.Jfi &UeauS oot accept a GENERAL ROOFING MFC Tour local hardware supply you with U e Hflii LADIES!! USE GILBERT'S JEWEL cD TALCUM POWDER The Talcum of QuaVine nd e people; Perfume neb last w quisiteV Powder of velvety cu IClaJar.-lSc.a3l 2 Sold br all dealers. i MADE B i ; "ggsja- SPECIAL PRICES S?fe-j Leghorn.; greatest , $ Boienuneauy owi ""V";-, ;anl y tr C poultry farm outh of M"11 v TH 8 JUf. u Btratn'yoa will eventually yowner. " 1 - - 1 "oil, Wtch'' - Emblem Pln. Charmi. R Eo,i,l ft .t LoW Price.. SmaMt Se-doE1,ble"dce,ve free Catalogue. AUUK- pA. W. A. HARPER. 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