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B? SERVIAN WOMEN ACT AS STRETCHER BBRERS The Servians are admittedly putting up a splendid light, and their women are giving-the army Invaluable aid. Some of'tliem are here shown serving as stretcher bearers. -HOLLAND NEUTRAL BUT ON GUARD The queen of Holland la here seen Inspecting a frontier guard. Though neutral, the Dutch are leaving nothing to chance. Their army le fully mobilised, the 191* claaa of reaervea having been called to the colors recently. WHEN SUNSHINE HITS THE TRENCHES I A graphic Idea of what the British "'Tommies" at the front had to endure for the past weeks or bad weather Is presented In this picture, which Shows some members of a famous British regiment taking advantage of a lull Ilk the fighting and rain to renovate their trenches. TURNED RAGE TO LAUGHTER How Resourceful Man Saved City of Madrid From Fury of Revolu tionary Mobs. It was In the year 1868, after a bat tle In tbe Spanish revolution of that year, and" the streets of Madrid were IIlied with angry crowds that were bent on destroying everything and everyone Suddenly an unknown man appeared at the city ball. "Qlve me a band of musicians,'* be sald."'and before nigbtf&ll I shall con trol all Madrid " He must bave been a man of rare ? personality to have been able to per ' suade the authorities In that dark1 hour to give him anything. j But he got the musicians, and went out with them to wander through the city. While they played, be sang? popular street songs, or some old na tional air When these tored tbe lis teners, he mounted old bores and told funny tales. By nightfall peace reigned In the city, and the mob broke up and went heme to bed. The man'e- name waa Felipe Ducatel. and he was only twen ty-two years old when he cleverly achieved tjt|a result. We are told a deal about herolfT things In saving countries by long, terrible rides at night, or by the sac rifice of oneself by^d>lng In some body's stead, but few of us hear of anyone who saved a town by laughter. ?Youth's Companion. Napelson Anecdote. "While I was at the military school I tried. I don't know how many times, to overcome the vertigo caused by walulag without being able to suc ceed. Our dancing master had advised ^us when practicing to take a chair In our arms lostead of a lady I never railed to fall down with the chair, wblch I- hugged so affectionately as to break It. The chairs in n.y room and those of two or thrfcKof my com rades disappeared one after another." ?Unidentified clipping from a scrap book. _ ' . ' French sentYy In tbjt trenches, wear ing a heavy ingri k an 1 cuirass of steel perttetrabJe-tfi'ily at a tery close range, watching Oermans who are Intrenched but a few yards av;ay. At Last He Found It. Irwin Cobb and "Bote" Bulger have had a monopoly of aR the new darky stories (or_ such a long time that It Is a pbsltlve pl-tasure to be able to re late one they have never heard* This one must be credited to a retired of ficer whose bachelor apartments are presided over by a Virginia cook of the old school. "Cap'n." said she, while serving breakfast, "you all sutten'y Is lookln' good, raight now." "Yes, Lucy," he replied. "You see, I'm drlnklng ^he right brand of'whis ky, now." *" Lucy chuckled. - Then she said: "Well, Ah mils' say, cap'n, yoh kep' raight on twell yoh foun' hit."?New York Letter to the Cincinnati Ttmes Btar. Real Warfare. "Oh, dear, 1 wish.this dreadful war In Europe would stop." said Mrs. Was serby "I feel the same way," answered Mrs Twobble. "My heart bleeds for the sufferers." "Of course I'm sorry for everybody who Is a.victim of the war," said Mrs Wasserby. "but what I was thinking about at the moment was the effect It's having on our children. My son. Tommy, Is leader of the Belgian army In our block, and the last time thev had a battle with a German army down the ytreet he came home bruised from bead to foot" TRENCH SENTRY IN ARMOR AIREDALE BEST WAR DOG British Officer Puts Them Above All Others as a Dumb Companion In the Trenches. The finest military dog Is the Aire-. 4ple. In. the opinion of Mai. E ? H Rfchardeoa a breeder of ear doga mho was In charge of a pack of blood hosfffe with the Belgian army sntll they tee?e loat In the disaster at ?tons ' He says the Airedale can itand any | climate. i? second to none In faithful ness and Intelligence, has powers of hearing and scent remarkably acute, and Is the right else whether used on sentry duty, scouting, searching for ' the wounded, or as a messenger or ammunition carrier | "He can hear 300 yards farther than a man. and knows friend from foe by their smell." says Major Rich ardson "A maw's smell depends on what he eats, so a <tn? can tell the j difference betwe - FVgtlsh French Bat ._ si and German*, even-when dressed In the same kind of clothes " An oOcer wrote to the major In re gard to one of his dogs: "Don >u blown to yards by a bursting shell Hs was not hit, only scared He declined to (see the music any more until after a lot of coax ing. when be went back on night duty, watching and listening tn the trenches with the intentnesa of the most sea nosed sentry, slued further by a sense of sight sad smelt that was almost uncanny." ? t M&k ? 'id Fimsciiir REVENUE IGT PASS LIVELY DEBATING BEFORE JOINT COMMITTEE ON ANTI-JUG LAW, NO REPORT, LATE STATE CAPITOL NEWS Rtv?w of tha Latest News Gathered Around U>o Eta to Capitol That Will Bo of Interest So Our Readers Over North Carolina. Raleigh. The House spent a couple of hours In committee of the whole considering the revenue bill and passed upon the flrst 21 sections of tho bill In such way that they were formally adopted bo fore the committee arose to report progress, the sections being adopted practically as they came from thfe Fi nance Committee. These Include the state tax rate of 23 2-3 cents and the Inheritance tax modeled after that ap plied In New York which la estimated to probably yield 3360.000 or more annually In North Carolina. Discuss Prohibition Bill. - The Joint committee from the Senate and House having In hand the bill of the State Anti-Saloon League to stop the shipment and delivery of liquors for beverage purposes heard advocates of the bill for an hour under the direction of Supt. R. L. Davis of the Anti-Saloon League, who offesed a substitute for the original bill that so changed the measure proposed as to make R possible to ship wines out of this State and prevent only those ship ments and receipts of liquors Involved' In Interstate shipments. After the hearing the Joint com mittee went Into executive session and decided to have the bill and sub stitute with amendments printed and set the bills tor further executive ses sion consideration next week. Ago of Consent Bill Killed. Despite the earnest plea of Mr. Brockett. of Guilford, the House re fused to amend the law raising the age of consent from it'years, the pres ent statute, to 16 years. The Guil ford member aTgued for the adoption of the substitute bill which came be fore the House on a minority report which changed the penalty In the or iginal bill, making it a misdemeanor Instead of a felony. He said that he spoke for the girls of the state of tender age who were forced to go out Into the world to make a living and be subjected to the wiles and chicanery of unprincipled men. He said that he did not propose to deal la the sensa tional and spectacular but only give the cold facta. When you sear the soul of a girt he declared she carried the scar to eternity. Her wrong step blasted the hopes of a sister, crushed a loving father, brought sorrow to the face of a brother and sent a loving mother to her grave In anguish and despair. He argued for the cause of civilisation, the cause of womanhood and begged the members of the House to stand like men among men and support, the bill. Mr. Brockett demanded a roll call vote and the substitute was lost 48 to 42. Giles Bill Finally Paaaas Senate. The Senate finally dlapoaed of the Oiles bill for the uniform examina tion and certification of public school teachers, passing the measure without material amendment 29 to 13. Sen ator McRae of Mecklenburg contend ed courageously and adroitly for the exemption of the Charlotte schools from the operation of the bill, but his amendment to -exempt cities of 30,000 was defeated 37 to 8 along with num erous other amendments designed to exempt smaller towns, down even to those with 2,000. It was, this more for wholesome exemption of towns that cost Senator McRae his fight. Aid of Forests of State. Two bills affecting the forests of the state received favorable reports, one of these allowing the state to purchase forest areas and the other to protect the forests of the state from the ravages of fire. Favorable Report eir Amendments. ' There came a favorable report from the Committee on constitutional amendments for thel Laughlnghouse . bill to submit to the people the ques tion of amendment to the Constitu tion changing .the homestead exemp tion so as to allow 8300 for a wife and $100 for each child Involved in the estate. Instead of the present system of $1,000 exemption out of real estate and $500 from personal property. There camm a unanimously unfavor able report tor the 8tacy bill to pro hibit all work on Sunday. House Bills Reported Favorable. Tjte following bills received a fa vorable committee report: establish a recorders court In Robeson; amend act relating to court stenographer In Caldwell; relating to holding courts In Caldwell; amend revtsal relative to pensions; allow acquirement by state of forests; amend law relative to drainage commissions and districts In -Catawba; amend state drainage act; repeal act relating to {hrtain advnce ments made by the state treasurer; to protect the forests of the state yalnst the ravages of fire. Woman Suffrage Discussion Ended. The oppoeltlon to woman suffrage In North Carolina was given fij consider able Jolt and tjie forces that have been fighting for the measure were correspondingly elated over the show ing made in the House when, what was considered a test vote on the propo sition, came before that body. The mot Ion whs made by Mr. Dnnrhton In Msstpone Indefinitely, action on the bill and on this motion there were $8 ayes. 31 noes, 18 absent and net voting. <8 ' . '/ ? House Mil* Pass Pinal Reading. Bills puesed third reading u fol low*: relating to bond t?u* for good roads in iiylva township, Jackson county; to build system of good roads la Oat Seville township. Gates county; establishing CherryVllle graded school district, Gaston county (an amend ment making the bond Issue 130.000 put this bill back on the second read ing calendar.) Correct land grant of M. T. Davis of Graham county; amend revlsal establishing wreck districts. This bill consolidate* the New Han over and Brunswick wreck district. Prohibiting the selling and shipping of quail In Davie; repeal the rabbit law of Person; Incorporating certain churches in Montgomery; amend act establishing office of auditor In New Hanover; amend not establishing re corders court In Vance County; pro hibit buying and selling of quail In Chatham, Guilford, Randolph, David son, Union, Anson and Macon county. Permit election of chief of police by Aulander; amend the Duplin county road laws; repeal the law as to wire fences In Mitchell county; amend the Caswell county road law; specify the fees 4 that road supervlsorL.-shall re ceive In Martin county; relieve cer tain townships In' Chatham county from road taxes when they vote road bonds; amend the road law of Transyl vania county; regulate the width of wagon tires In Montgomery county; abolish ths office of county treasurer In Washington county; amend the Washington county road law; allow the use of convicts on street and road work In Washington county; repeal the road law of Bhalotte, Brunswick county; repeal the 1913 act as to lees of Duplin county officers. Continue Convict Work on Railroads. The Senate killed the Muse bill de signed to break up the state policy of airing the constructions of railroads In undeveloped territory by working convicts In exchange for stock; and this .with the action of the house Anore than a week ago in defeating the Page bills to repeal the acts that auth ised the convict work now In pro gress. Is taken to mean tLat the 1916 Legislature has now fixed this state aid policy at least to the extent of carrying out tho compacts that the. state has wih railroad companies for his co-operative construction work. It was a lively debate on the Muse bill with Senator Muse and Senator McLeod arguing strenuously for the bill and Senators Chatham, Ballou. Thompson of Iredell and others mak In gthe fight for the continuance of the convict work as at present. The Mhse bill wohltl have required the state treasurer to credit the state's prison With the actual expense of the state's prison In maintaining the con victs at work on the roads, instead of with the par value of the stock taken la exchange for the work. Thn-blll was killed 34 to 7. Kill Part of Justice Act. After more than five hours of de bate on the floor, extending over two days' session, the senate passed the bill to repeal the long and short haul provisions of the Justice Act, substi tuting therefor the long and short haul provisions of the revisal of 1906. The oill has already passed the House, having beep voted through that body almost without opposition, in , the senate, however, the bill met a hardy opponent In Senator Hobgood, who offered an amendment for relief to railroads having a mileage of less than a hundred miles. This was the Identical amendment offered by Sen ator McRae and later withdrawn by him after adoption In the committee. The amendment of the Senator of Guilford was voted down along with the passage of the bill. However, It suffered a little better fate than ab solute objection to the bill met. It : was lost by a vote of 23 to 10. The bill Itself passed by a vote thirty five to seven. Discuss Educational Standard. The House took up the bill to raise the standard of educational and spe cial training for applicants for license to practice prahraacy and specifying that a person shall not be licensed to practice t!ntil be Is 21 years old In stead of 18, as at present. The bill was opposed by Williams of Cabarrus a sworklng a hardship on the poor young man who would be obliged to spend two years at college. Short Message From Governor. A message from Governor Criag was received transmitting statement as to the salaries In his department and of the Fish and Oyster Commission. Another important bill was oCTered by Senator McNlder to eradicate hog cholera and regulate distribution of virus. ' V Prepare Machinery Act For House. The Joint Finance Committee be gan the work of preparing tbe ma chinery act as a commpanlon measure for the reevnue bill''that was intro duced In the house. There Is special effort at the very beginning of this work to settle the question of the scale on which the "reassessment cf property for taxation will be. It la planned to readjust the ma chinery so as to give tbe revenue bill Just Introduced an additional revepue ralslng power of around 8300.000 without Increasing the burdens on anybody. Along with this there Is Is renewed discussion of at least pre liminary steps for the final adoption of a state policy of actual asBesment of all property for taxation at Its money value, with the tax rate auto matically fixed by the aggregate of property assessments and state reve nue to be raised as recommended by Chairman Travis of the Corporation Commission. Bills Passed Final Reading as Follows. To amend the charter of High Point; to authorize a special tax In Alexander county tor a county home; to pay so licitors and witnesses full tees when defendants aTe sent to tbe roads; to allow Shaw University to hold' prop erty to the value of $500,000; to amend the charter of Mount Holly; to amend the charter of Cherryfllle: to amend the charter of Smkhfleld; to amend tne chartsr of Greensboro College for Women; ?to repeal the charter of North Kdenton. tVt ?,* y. wnoBfnp | WILL YUAN BECOME EMPEROR? 81nce Yuan Shi Kal ha* de clared blmaeir prealdent for Ufa of tha Chinese republic, with power to nominate his successor, and further more ha* made -himself the head of the Chlneee state religion of Confu cianism, many persons are wondering It he will not soon proclaim himself emperor. While there was no one to pre dict that the young Yuan Shi Kal would ,erer become a "Son of Heaven" there were plenty who knew the gen tleman In his youth who were will ing to wager anything they possessed that he would make his mark In the world. The Manchus, the Chinese and the foreigners In China all labeled blm "a coming man." He was born In ISM, the eon of a district governor. His school teach ers picked him out for a bad egg. for to save his life he oould not master the old classlce as the good little boys In the class oould. In China the' verjr ??m iuiub iuh accompiianea 11 you wish to enter official Hfe la to muter the classics. ^ So Yuan Shi Kai, the failure, gave up bis u pi rations and went Into Korea as a secretary to the army. LI Hung Chang appointed him to a most im portant position at Seoul when Yuan wu only twenty-six years old. After the war with Japan he reorganized the Chinese army, and It Is generally as serted that a few years later he helped the Empress Dowager wrest the throne from the Emperor Kuang Hsu. for his help Yuan was made governor of a province. Whan the Boxer rebellion came along he was Invited to join the movement. He did not dare refuse. ? When the republic was founded In 1012, be had attained such power thst be compelled the retirement of the provisional president and himself as i sumed the office of president. He hu ruled with great firmness, authority and ability, according to some of the foreign residents of China, but wltb a tyranny greater than that of any emperor In recent years. If the word of many'* Chinese Is to be taken for truth. COLONEL CROOK'S JUBILEE Col. WlllUm H. Crook, disbursing officer of the Wblte House, celebrated recently bis golde- <ubilee as an em ployee in the office* of president*, and everybody connected with the execu tive mansion, from President Wilson down, congratulated heartily tbe man who Is known as tbe "White House encyclopedia." It was 60 years ago that Colonel Crook, then a metropolitan policeman wbo bad served in a district regi ment in the Civil war, was assigned as a bodyguard to President Lincoln along with four other policemen. He was not with Mr. Lincoln the night of the tragedy in Ford's theater, but he had wanted to accompany Mr. Lincoln and had been told that It would not be necessary. He aesved? In the same capacity for President Johnson. In tbe White House Through all administrations since then Colonel Crook ha* remained, serving each so faithfully and effl cientiy a? u> receive praise from the highest officials or all President Wil son himself joined In the general congratulations to Colonel Crook, compli menting blm on hla splendid record. Secretary Tumulty and all the execu tive clerks joined In a group picture with Colonel Crook as the central flgura. - Colonel Crook is a veritable encyclopedia on White House affairs at the past, and has written a number of. magazine and newspaper articles giving * some of his experiences. He can throw light upon many of the dim and musty archives of the White House. His health Is good and he Is at his desk each day with the youngest of the White House employees. | REAR ADMIRAL CLARK Rear Admiral Charles E Clark who, when a captain, took the battle ship Oregon on Its famous trip from San Francisco around the Horn la time to take part In the battle of San tiago, will not be In actual command of the Oregon - when she passes throngh the Panama canal In March at the head of the procession of mod ern dreadnaughts, cruisers and de stroyers. The rear admiral, however, will be on the bridge of his old battle ship and so far as appearances go be will be In command. The reason that the old officer will not issue the orders on the. trip through the waterway Is a simple one. Under the rules governing the pae sage of the canal no captain Is al lowed to command his ship while the Journey Is being made from Colon to the City of Panama or the reverse. When a pilot comes on board a ship he Is In supreme command and the umi??u amies government, oy tne ad vice of the governor of the zone, has decreed that every ship going through the canal must have on board a pilot who shall rank every man on the vessql whether he be the president of the United States, an admiral of the navy or what not. Rear Admiral Clark, standing on the bridge of the Oregon, will have under him a large part of the crew of the old Oregon which won fame In the Spanish war. The rear admiral will still be "Captain" to his men. It la, said the old sailor dnd the men who served under blm are looking forward to the reunion with a heart-quickening enthusiasm. 1 MADAME PANARETEFPS ROMANCE Madame Panareteff, wife of the Hrat minister to be eeot to the United States by Bulgaria, la a Massachusetts , soman, and her wooing and wedding make a pretty romance Dr. Stephen Panareteff held a chair in the Roberta college at Con stantinople for many years, and dur ing that time became familiar with Americans and American customs and ideals. It happened that a charming soman named Lydla Giles of North Andover, Mass., and noted for her rlvid Intelligence, went out to Con stantinople to teach In Roberts col Age and met Doctor Panareteff in the usual order-of things., collegiate. It was not until one day when she ' was riding oni among the hills and ber mount became rlclous and threw her on to the rocks that Doctor Pana reteff became a potent factor in her Ilia He rescued her from certain death, and thereby began the Inter esting lore story, which still goes w IB t?e newest legation m Washington, established la the, modest Noble house j on N street.
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