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Evening star., 1914-10-25
PROGRESS OF THE ALLIES
IN PAST MONTH REPORTED

Progress of the allies during the last
month is described in an official dispatch
from the foreign Office in Bordeaux to
the French embassy here yesterday, as
follows:
I'm the region of Sauterre certain
partial successes. and in the region Of
Verdun and Pontamoussan.
In order to appreciate the results ac-
complished by the allies it is necessary
to consider the conditions as reported at
the end of last month, when the left
wing of our line was on the Disc. in
the region of Compiegne, and those por-
tons which were disposed farther to the
west hardly reached the Somme in the
vicinity of Amiens.
To-day, however. the battle front
stretches 200 kilometers to Belgium,
reaching the ocean. where our left wing
co-operates with the English fleet.
I'm Russia the Germans still hold the
VistuIa, except on the line Ivangorod-
kozionics. which they have abandoned
pursued by the Russians. The Russian
offensive has made itself felt to the north
of Jaroslaw.
Another dispatch to the embassy from
the minister of foreign affairs denies the
report that the Germans have attacked
the French colony. Jibouti, on the east
coast of Africa. The dispatch follows:
Certain foreign papers have received
from German official sources news that
the German cruiser has bombarded the
| railway of Iibouti and destroyed French
storehouses. Our colonial minister has
| just informed me that this information
| Is false
Evening star., 1914-10-25
What Are Luxuries :
from the New York World.

4
Discussing what it calls the new
necessa ries.' and including in that
! category tea, "once a luxury, now a
necessity" fiction. change of scene. OF
food, of habits, etc. the London SLec-
tator says: strictly speaking. there
are no new necessaries. 1t Is only
luxury which is new. The necessaries
Of life are the same as always this
side of savagery.
This is a contention difficult to prove.
So far from it's being true that the
necessities of life remain always the
same, the very contrary is the fact:
the luXuries of one generation become
the necessities of the next This side
of savagery' man has transformed so
many of the one into the other that he
could not now exist without the COM
forts which to his forefathers We're
luxuries but which to him are the very
essentials of life. If civilized peoples
were required tomorrow to adapt them
selves to the condition of life of ten or
twenty centuries ago they would die
like flies.
Man could live without tea: as for
fiction. he has never been without il
describe forms in the clouds. But
could he do without heat In winter?
without artificial light and modern
means of transportation? The steam
engine and the locomotive were not
necessaries as recently as q century
ago, but if the twentieth century world
were suddenly deprived of them. half
the urban population would die of star
walton.
Human progress is measured by the
ceasless transformation of luxuries
into necessities. To stop the process.
to have the necessities "repain the
same as they always were," would
cause decadence and death.
Evening star., 1914-10-25
QUOTATIONS THAT
HAVE GONE WRONG

QUOTATIONS usually get themselves
< enormously ascribed. and in a way
1t is waste of effort to get them re-
stored to their rightful authors after
they have once gone astray. An error
which once gains general currency
will persist in spite of the most ear
nest and praiseworthy attempts to head
it off or knock it out
One of the sentences which greet
mems eyes from every page is: War
is what Sherman said it was" or War
is hell. as Sherman said" AS a matter
of fact. there is no record, written or
unwritten, that Gen. w. T. Sherman
ever made such a statement. Sherman
ordered that the non-combatant popu-
lation of Atlanta leave the city at the
time of his attack. The mayor of At
lanta protested to the Union general
that the order was cruel. In his reply
to the mayor. Gen. Sherman said:
You cannot qualify war in harsher
terms than L will. War is cruelty, and
you cannot refine it. You might aa
well appeal against the thunderstorm
as against these terrible hardships of
war. They are inevitable" So, as
near as Sherman came to saying War
v.
you cannot refine il "
Soon after the war there appeared an
article in which it was written that
Gen Sherman, replying to the women
of Atlanta, said, War is hell" 1t was
not the women of Atlanta who protest
ed to sherman against the evacuation
OF the city by non n-combatants, and, of
course. he made no reply to them His
response was to the protest of the
mayor OF Atlanta, and his words were
as already quoted. But the misquota-
tion has become deeply impressed on
our minds and in our speech.
Napoleon never said, God is on the
side of the heaviest battalions," nor
did he say, God was on the side of the
heaviest artillery" At least, if he did
say either of those lines. there is no
record of it and no reason why they
should be ascribed to him. 1t is re-
corded that Napoleon once gave it as
his opinion that Providence is always
on the side of the last reserve" A
long list of men have expressed the
same thought in different ways Taci-
tus wrote that "The gods are on the
side of the stronger" and Voltaire
wrote, in 1770, TT is said that God is
always on the side of the heaviest bat
talions." The words credited to Napo-
leon were really the words of Vol
taire.
Quotations do not often pass into
current usage accurately. Grover Cleve-
land never said. Public Office is a pub
lie trust" He once wrote that Public
officials are the trustees of the people,"
A great many sayings are ascribed to
Lincoln which he did not say, and any
number of Lincoln stories were never
told by Lincoln. 1t is interesting to
recall, though. while SO many men of
divergent views and objects are declar-
ing that God is on our side." that Lin
coin. when the civil war ragged, and on
being assured that God is on our side"
said:
~ do not know. l have not thought
about that. But l am very anxious to
know whether we are on Gods side"
Evening star., 1914-10-25
l@-lNCH GERMAN HOWITZER


from thirty to forty horses to drag
them about. If the allies are not now
using them they may be expected to
later if the Germans are permanently
put on the defensive and have to he
blasted out of positions. The chances
greatly favor the supposition that the
allies are using them now and that the
heavy naval guns which they are re-
ported having brought up in the
operations in the campaign OF the Aisne
are these big siege guns.
The heavy siege artillery in the Eu-
ropean war is described in the current
| number of the United States Field Ar
| tillery Journal. and there you may read
that the Krupp howitzer has a caltber
of 1923 inches. that its extreme range
| Is 11.045 yards. the weight of Its COM
mon shell $50 pounds. the weight OF
It's propelling charge ten to thirty
pounds, its muzzle velocity Lis foot
seconds though this is variable. ac-
cording to the weight of ammunition
used). its limit of elevation zero to g.
degrees and its limit of traverse ten
degrees. The weight of the gun is
| 1874 pounds and the weight OF the
| gun and carriage complete is 30,e4l
pounds The Ehrhardt mortar and the
Schneider -Cruesot mortar are similar
to this big Krupp weapon and every
whit as powerful and efficient
The Field Artillery Journal pub
fishes picture of the Krupp siege
howitzer. and under 1t is given this iii
formation bearing on the subject we
are talking about:
| This illustration has appeared in
the public press with the title Seven
| teen-inch German Siege Gun" The
| ty-eight-centimeter howitzer is
| the largest German siege howitzer OF
| which there is any authentic record
This photograph appears in pamphlet
| on the twenty-eight- -centimeter howtt-
| zer by Lieut.. Gen. H. Rohne, and there
| is no doubt that it has been described
as a seventeen-inch howitzer through
| error"
Evening star., 1914-10-25
Incidents of Warfare.

THE following story is told of an Incl
= dent that occurred during the Zulu
war in South Africa. when an overwheln-
ing force of natives was opposed to a
little band of English marines From the
Zulu host stepped forth a warrior laden
with an ancient firearm. which he calm
ly mounted en- a tripod in the open, while
the marines locked on. admiring his
pluck and wondering much what he pro-
posed to do. At last one jovial marine
suggested that their photographs were
about to be taken. and by common con-
sent no shots were fired.
Having loaded his piece with great de-
liberation. the Zulu primed it, sighted It,
and. leaning hard upon its breech. fired
The recoil knocked him head over heels
backward. while a great roar went up
from the delighted marines He sat up,
ioA<lng dazed. and then. the amusement
ovtS. he with his countrymen charge 1
and were annihilated by Il voley from the
steadily aimed pieces of the little band Of
marines.
During one of the many battles waged
BRUSH settlers the latter ran out of am
munltlon. At the moment when death
seemed imminent flag of truce appeared
from the enemy'S trenches and messen-
gers came forward with supply of cart
ridges to enable the white men to con-
tinue fighting
Evening star., 1914-10-25
GR0wN-UPs AT COLLEGE.
How the Process Differs From the
Real Thing.
rom the Indianapolis News.

From the Indianapolis News.
The mistakes of our youth are supposed
to follow US through the trials of our
maturity. 1t would not be so bad il they
were content to follow US. but they have
pesky way of trying to catch up, and
when they catch up we recognize among
them some Of the most virtuous of our
youthful virtues which have turned out
to be mistakes after all. One of the lat
est which has thus forced itself into our
notice is the fact that we went to col
lege. We thought ii was a very good
thing to do at the time. but now we are
compelled to admit that II was not a
good thing at the time. The fault was
in the time. We should have waited and
gone to college when We had grown up
Grown-up people are going to college
now instead of taking summer vacations.
And going to college when you are grown
up is one long snap course. or short snap
course. whichever you prefer. That is
the point. Everything is jus: as you pre-
fer. When you are grown up you pick
out a college with nice fishing and bath
ing facilities. and just camp out. When
the fishing Is bad you go to school There
are a lot of uncomfortable things about
camping. and when you get tired OF them
you attend lecture on why Is Mex
ico?' or THE Rise and Fall of the Price
of Potatoes. or anything else that APP
pealS to you. II you start TO class ana
happen to sit under a tree on the campus
and go to sleep. 1t is your happy privi-
lege to sleep as long as you like. Neither
the janitor nor the faculty has power or
inclination to awaken you. If you pre-
fer to sleep in the lecture room, II is all
right with the professor.
Now. doesn't a condition like that make
your youthful efforts to escape an educa-
ton seem foolish? Do you remember
that you used to be allowed to cut
classes just many times semester
and that those cuts had to be saved and
expanded with the most extreme discre-
ton? Do you remember that the whole
purpose of the university used to seem to
be to make You go to lectures ana 10
make you learn things in which you
We're not particularly interested. and that
going fishing In lecture hours was re-
garded as sinful. and that mapping on
the campus would have been sacrl-
legious? Do you remember how you used
to look out of the windows Of the labo-
ratory into a distance of wild crab ap-
pie blossoms and sky and just ache to he
let loose? The grown-ups at college are
loosee all the time OF course. 1t may b..
that they would enjoy it more II they
had to ache a little for It,
Evening star., 1914-10-25
Ambitious Los Angeles.
rom the Providence Journal.

FROM the Providence Journal.
The visit of two japanese cruisers to
Los Angeles harbor" is reminder of
the pains to which the metropolis of
southern California had been to ac-
quire shore frontage and protected
anchorage for deep-sea craft 1t has
annexed Wilmington and San Pedro, on
the coast, and connected them with it's
old area by a sort of shoestring tract
Los Angeles used to be merely twenty
five miles from the Pacific, but by
these radical measures it has become
an ocean port. Its municipal enterprise
is reflected likewise in the bringing of
water supply from a mountain stream
more than 200 miles distant. With am
bitions of SO imperial character. it is
no wonder that the city is treading
close numerically on the heels Of San
Francisco.
Evening star., 1914-10-25
this war is over and its

"WHbsss ss,e1s as s war ~rs,ss is ssss i, sna ~ ss
interesting to know whether
this siNteen-inch howitzer of the Ger
man army, and about which much
is being written, is a myth or a fact.
1t may be that this matter can be
cleared up. SO far as the public is con-
cerned. before the war is finished.
presume the artillery and ordnance Of
ficers of the armies of the allies know
now whether sixteen-inch howitzer
shells are being thrown at them, but
their knowledge of the facts has not
reached u.s." The speaker was an ar
tillery officer.
1T is my private opinion that these
sixteen-inch howitzers are mythical
that is, that they are eleven inches of
gun and five inches of fiction. l formed
that opinion when first began to
read reports of this German ordnance
in the operations against the forts of
Liege and Namur. and since then /
have talked with man who has been
in close touch with European artillery
| affairs. and he said that these reports
of sixteen-inch field guns or Siege ar
ti1lery was part of well conceived
scheme in Berlin to strike terror into
the hearts of their enemies and to
| magnify the German military power
for the benefit of the uninitfated and
for its effect on the morale of the
allies.
He said that these guns. every de-
tail of which is known to the British
and French ordnance officers, are
eleveninch rifles: that the British and
French armies have them, but did not
use them in the opening stages of the
campaign because of the difficulty of
| transport and the danger of losing
them in case of retreat, as it takes
Evening star., 1914-10-25

settle down in England at Queen Vic
toria's invitation. Before King George
became engaged to the then Princess
May the German emperor was. of
course, consulted about the proposed
marriage and Queen Mary has never
forgiven or forgotten the cable message
the kaiser sent to Queen Victoria:
Il welcome the idea, but could not
May have mourned for Albert a while
longer?"
In many courts in Europe the idea
prevailed that the marriage had been
arranged in undue haste after the death
of the Duke of Clarence, but the Ger
man emperor was the only sovereign
who openly expressed such an opinion.
man emperor and King George there
could indeed be but little liking or
sympathy. They are the antithesis of
each other. The one, physically pow
erful and immensely vigorous, inherit
ing many of the qualities of the war
like race, come from and reared from
his earliest years in the conception. of
himself as the head of nation whose
derating power in Europe, the kaiser
became the most forcible figure among
the crowned heads of the world. The
other, a physical weakling, untitled in
large affairs, King George is, perhaps.
the least conspicuous personality that
occupies throne today.
Yet it is in many ways strange why
both King George and Queen Mary
should have allowed themselves. espe-
cially since King Georges accession, to
be dictated to by the kaiser as they
have done.
The Connaught and Fife wedding was
postponed a month from the date orig
inal1y fixed at the kaiser's request in
order that he might be present at it,
and then the emperor did not find it
convenient to come.
The visit of the late Arshduke Franz
Ferdinand of Austria and his wife to
the English court was a remarkable
kaiser had over the English king and
ly at the instance of the German en-
peror and was more or less brought
about in order to compel Queen Mary
to recognize the archdukes wife,
though her majesty had made it un-
derstood after King Georges accession
that she would not receive the Duchess
of Hohenberg, who was not of royal
blood
At the time the Inflated duchess was
not received at the German court and
the kaiser had no special reason to
desire that royal recognition should be
granted to her. Eut later developments
in European politics made the German
emperor regard the matter differently
and the archduke and duchess were re-
ceived at the German court and the
Evening star., 1914-10-25

throne the changes and increases in the
staff of the royal establishment both
at Buckingham Palace and at Marlbor-
ough House, where King George went
as Prince of Wales, entailed a very
heavy outlay which the late king de-
sired to meet by realizing certain Sc
curities bequeathed to him by his
mother. but at the time he was una BILE
to do this without the kaiser's consent
"a consent which the German en-
peror would not grant. The kaiser $
trust lasted for two years and during
that time he exercised his powers to
the full and took advantage of his po-
sition to compel both the late sover-
eign and King George to consult him
in regard to the most trivial and pri-
vate family arrangements.
But especially did he domineer over
Evening star., 1914-10-25
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

IlE ioIlS peIlt-u uD
personal dislike
entertained by
King George to-
ward the kaiser
is now finding
open expression
at the English
court. and, what
ever the result of
the war, it is
highly improbable
that the two mon
Evening star., 1914-10-25

1t matters little what it is thai You
went-whether a situation or a servant
"a want ad in The Star will reach the
person who will fill your need
Evening star., 1914-10-25

archS will ever meet on friendly terms
again.
The kaiser-partly. perhaps, for politi-
cal reasons. but more because of the
extraordinarily high opinion entertained
of him by Queen Victoria-was allowed
to assume position of authority
among the members of the English
royal family that not even King Ed
ward cared to dispute.
From their earliest years King
George and all the members of King
Edwards family were taught to re-
gard the German war lord as one to
whom it was their natural and bound
en- duty to render obedience. reverence
and respect, and the kaiser has played
almost as forcible a part in settling
and determining the private affairs of
the English royal family as he has in
his own.
X
He was one of the trustees in Queen
Victoria's will, and as such he was in a
position to interfere considerably in
the private affairs of the late king,
more especially in regard to financial
matters, and he did so in a manner that
earned for him the intense dislike of
the whole royal family, which was, per-
haps. all the greater because none of
them dared to show it
When King Edward came to the
Evening star., 1914-10-25

visit of the archduke and his wife to
the. English court, which took place
last autumn. was arranged, though half
heartedly objected to by King George.
But the outbreak of war between
England and Germany at once removed
all reason. If any reason really existed.
for King George and Queen Mary seek
ing to retain the favor of the emperor.
and their majesties. when such a state
of affairs came about. were not long in
showing how distasteful to them their
submission to the will of the kaiser
must have been. nor in disclosing their
personal dislike of him.
Evening star., 1914-10-25
ENGLISH ROYAL FAMILY,
WITH. SINGLE EXCEPTION,
UNITED AGAINST GERMANY

How Wilhelm II
Bossed King George
and His Consort for
Years - The Late
Archduke Franz Ferdi-
nand of Austria and
His Morganatic Wife
Were Received in Eng
land Despite Queen
NJ ary's Opposition.
Princess Henry of Bat
tenberg Doesn't APP
prove of the Anti
Kaiser Crusade.
Evening star., 1914-10-25

The Tecks are as poor in spirit as
they are in purse was the way in
which the emperors father alluded to
the family when the late duke went to
Evening star., 1914-10-25

King George, for whom the German
war lord has never taken the trouble
to conceal his dislike. and he has al
ways equally disliked the family into
which King George married.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-10
Parrot Buys the Paper.

A parrot that purchases the news
paper every morning Is owned r. Ia
trolman Jerry O'Brien Of Alls:oi
street, Charlestown. a retired patrol
man. Each night Mr.. C'Erien leaves
penny outside the window sill. ano
when a newsboy passes in tho morn
ing Polly shriekg. Say. boy, bring IL
q paper!" Tho hoy brings In the pa,
per and takes tho Boston
Traveller.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-10
IoId by the Face,

How enormously the face ia nodded
by the thoughts Of it's possessor il
shown by the fact that certain occupa
tons have heas peculiar to them
The navy face is we'll known. AnC
there is an army face" too Doctors
ard lawyers can generally be detected
by their countenances. There is s
something about them that tells the
occupation.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-10

For Carpepterisg ara general re-
pair work call J. II. EOGER3. Bell
phone sIs. Residence s0s Twenty
third street. Shop rear OF sl5 Wash
ing,on avenue. 1920 II
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-10
ILLINOIS
Corrected to MAY 10, 1914.
Trains leave Cairo Daily
North Bound

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North Bound
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! 1856 p. m. Chicago Midday Special
.; As 7, N. Afternoon Express Tor St.
Louis and Ccntralia.
Sis .. III. Chicago Night Expre1
sleeping car from Carbon dale tc
Chicago.
1880 p NJ Chicago Night Express,
arrives Chicago $40 a. m, local
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South Bound.
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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-10

A man knows he must look pleased
when his VITO tells him that tRelr
new Infant with as yet no teaturss
In relief is his perfect image.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-10
Grow Their HWp Cedar.

The lighthouse reservations on the
great lakes are able to grow I'll the
white cedar needed for spar buoys Ia
their district.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-10
HELP WANTED--MALE.
Miscellaneous Tnr4es.

NANTED-R esponsible party to
buy biggest and best bakery In
Cairo. Good business location. Nav
STOCK hWiuces increasing. Right
party can add Dairy lunch. Terms
reasonable. Spann Real Estate
Man. Phone 403. Ala If
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-10

Some people car talk fluontly an
think well at the sane time, but evel
they seldom do So.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-10

WANTED-Good cock. Apply
Bondurant hospital. 5-14
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-10
LOST AND FOUND.

LOST-Brown leather music roll,
containing music. Name of Beryl
written on masic. Finder return to
512 2lst st, and receive reward. 5-15
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-10

Misunderstanding as house
Keeper; out of town position es-
pccially considered. Address X. SC
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WANTED AT ONCE,

500 rooms to paper. $500 and IN
omplete. Union help and best me-
;hapics. The Maraale Co. Eighth
md Washington. Both phones Pa.
3-l5 If
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-10

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& Son, Piano experts. Tuning, ac-
ton repairing and adjusting Sound
ing boards, repaired, rebuilding anG
thoroughly overhauling pianos cur
speciality. Planes examined free OF
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