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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-06-24
Within Few Days His Troops
Will Begin Attack on zaCat-
eCaS Where FederaIS Are
Strongly EntrenChed
MOST DARING EXPLOIT
Natural FortitiCdtions on Hill
Tops Will Have TO Be Taken
Before Rebels Can Continue
Progress TO Capital

Saltillo, Mexico, June 2i-Person-
ally heading an army of 25,OOO met
Gen. Francisco villa will. within a few
days, lead a general assault on Zaca
tecas. inaugurating a battle which is
expected to prove the crucial one of the
campaign TO capture Mexico City and
dethrone Huerta.
Villa plans, it is said, to storm La
Bufa hill and Guadelupe, the two
mountain fortresses which guard Zaca-
tecas to the north and southeast. VII
las plans are said to be personally to
lead the attack on La Bufa. If neces-
sary he will place himself in the van
of the force which must storm the
heights guarding the city which lies in
a deep mountain gorge.
Most Daring Exploit.
Villas putting the ability of his
army to an open test before Zacatecas
is declared here to be his most dar-
ing exploit. The city is defended by
Barron, with not less than $4,000 men,
who are entrenched in hundreds of
abandoned mine workings on the
slopes of La Bufa. If the rebel chief
can mfuse The dash and daring neces-
sary to LII Bufa's capture into his
men, Can Luis Potosi would then he
the only obstacle in a march to Mex
leo City and it's Notifications are weak
compared TO those at Zacatecas.
Have Zaeateeas Surrounded.
1t is stated here that Villas forces
have Zacatecas entirely surrounded,
and that reinforcements from Huerta
cannot possibly relieve the city. II
this proves to be so. villa may not
make "a real attempt to storm La
Bufa hill. If the certainty of heavy
loss TO the rebels is developed Villa
then is expected to hold his army in
front of the city and try to starve
Barrons federals into submission.
Some Of the most stubborn battles
in MeXicos history have been fought
at La Bufa's natural fortress Dur
ing the war Of Intervention the French
stormed the hill and Benito JuareZ
barely escaped capture. The follow
ing day Juarezs forces, led by Gen.
Miguel Miramon. stormed the rocky
heights and recaptured the position
from the French and their imperialist
Mexican allies.
Mediators Still Optimistic.
Niagara Falls, ont. June 2I.-Re-
ports from New orleans quoting the
private secretary of Carranza as say
ing the commission en- route To Wash
ington would not participate in infor-
mai negotiations with the Huerta dele
gates did not disturb the tranquility of
the mediation colony. Assurances have
been received from authoritative
sources that the constitutionalists will
be here.
Plans have been completed by the
mediators for the signing within "A
day or two of all protocols in the
peace plan which relate to the inter
national difference between the United
States and Mexico except the plank
giving the composition and personnel
of the new provisional government.
The intention Of the mediator7 is 20
have the entire peace plan ready so
that at informal conference the Huerta
and constitutionalist delegates may be
with the task of selecting a
provisional president and cabinet Of
ficers
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-06-24

southwark to avoid hitting big berg
that he could feel and hear hut could
not see.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-06-24

NHE M 3 e r OF THE
M ASSOCIATED PRESS
AL TopAv's NEWS TODAY
Evening star., 1914-11-14

and the overgrown trough" into which
no real player ever drives his ball. MY
caddies' eyes haunt me. see them
everywhere 1 go. They are full Of
me for having assumed the air of a
golfer who knows where his ball is
going when he hits it. They make me
tremble as l address the ball, endeav-
oring to remember the fifty things the
golf professional told ME I MUST do
or be dub all my life. They get on
my nerves, and a fair sample of their
opinion is found in the expression OF
None very small caddy. l had driven
what I thought was a wonderful ball
The small boy beside me looked up and
said, quizzically:
This is the first time you ever
played. isn't it?"
1 couldn't see the ball the next time
for the tears in my eyes.
Most people take it fol. granted that
golf is field sport. With MOST people
it is. With me it is all amphibious
pursuit. Half the time 1 am in the
water. The other half / am eXplor-
ing portions of the course never before
trod upon by the foot of mortal man.
Some fiend incarnate lays out golf
course and spreads deep bitches right
in the place where my ball wants to
land. All the other balls fly over the
ditch. Mine does not even fall short
it hops right in and buries itself many
inches deep in the soft muck on the
ditch side. There is no golf club yet
invented which will extract one of my
balls from the mud. The only known
extractor is a steam shovel.
If it does not do that. it buries itself
in the dead leaves and murk in the
water at the bottom of the ditch. The
balls / have been using do not float
and the sound of them splashing in the
bitches is like the sound of many
waters Skulking golf pirates, half
grown lubbers who hang about the
edges of golf courses, follow me with
rakes and rescue dozens of my balls
from their resting places at the bottom
of the streams, and then on the NOR
row will meet me and offer to sell them
back to me. Was there ever a more
unfortunate man.
Before me as I stand upon the first
tee lies the fair green" many yards
wide and beautiful to behold. A clean
white ball driven properly should lie
gllstening in the sunlight 200 yards
Evening star., 1914-11-14
HhElsihS
4 Tie Searchli8ht
Rounder Chickens.

Electric lights, white lights-symbols
of soft, irresponsible living, the bril-
liant concomitant features of lissome,
reckless and studious dissipation, name
quality of Broadway, the Frederick
strasse, the Rue d'Italien and other
white ways of the world-have late
ly received mention as getting under
the traditional sturdy Puritanism of
the barnyard. There comes story of
rounder chickens from Danville, KY,
which tells of the decadence of these
fowl under the dazzling glow of the
arc lights.
Danville, it seems. has installed re-
Gently types Of lights such as turn
Broadway and Friederichstrasse night
into daytime. Under the scattering
rays of these new lights, the shadows
are dispelled even out of the tangled
grass. and the Danvilie chickens, of a
race of the most regular and ire
proachable beings. whose early-to-
bed and early to rise predictions
have made them the peculiar joy of the
moral philosopher, are abandoning
their century-hallowed virtues for the
giddy pleasure of bug-chasing in the
hectic electric glow all night.
Danville roosters, 1t Is reported, now
chase the weary grasshopper until the
wee, small hours; sleep heavy-lidded
through the mornings, and sing their
one-time morning songs, according to
the fashion of world grown luxuri-
Gus in the &ate afternoon.
Evening star., 1914-11-14
DECLARE SHRUBS AND ROSES
REQUIRE LITTLE ATTENTION
Generally Withstand Cold During Winter
Months in Washington Vicinity, Say Ex-
perts of Department Of Agriculture.
PLANNED.

Suggestions for tile care of shrubs
and roses during the winter months
have been made by experts of the De-
partment of Agriculture as follows:
While lilacs- snowballs and certain
other shrubs should be let alone dur
ing the winter. being neither trimmed
nor covered with straw and manure,
other bushes need special attention.
Hydrangeas (semi- mi-herbaceous) in the
south will last out the winter if prop
erly cared for out of doors. The tops
should be protected with straw or
brush. This may be held in place about
the bushes with a little manure or
stones. The flower buds of the hy
drangea form in the fall, and this
cover will keep them from winter kill
ing while shielding the bush from
winds and sun. In the north hydran-
geas must be taken up. planted in tubs
and placed in the cellar. This is gem
orally true of latitudes north of Phila-
delphia.
The shrub known as brugmansia
should be treated as is the hydrangea.
The brugmansia tknown botanically as
daturo) is also called thorn apple. 1t
is cultivated form of jimson weed
and has long bell-shaped white flow
ers and rather coarse foliage.
Few Shrubs Are Trimmed.
As rule shrubs should not be trim
med in the fall. This process is timely
Immediately after the blooming period,
liz this is in the spring, as in the case
|of the snowfall. If the shrubs bloom
lin the fall. as do some hydrangeas, the
|rose of Sharon and some lilacs, they
should not be cut directly after bloom
ling. but in the spring of the follow
ling year
The mock orange. which is also
known as "syringa," needs no special
treatment to help it winter the severe
|w Gather. The name "syringa," although
|popularly applied to the mock orange,
Evening star., 1914-11-14
TRAVELETTE
BY NIKSAH.
Jerusalem.

We who are of the west western. we
who are of the Church Christian, we have
been taught to believe that cleanliness is
next to godliness. We have been taught
Alright. But it is a shock for us when
we visit the cradle of our faith to find
that holiness and dirt go hand in hand.
So 1t is of all holy cities-of Jerusalem
of the-Jew and the Christian; of Mecca
OF the Moslem; OF Benares of the Brah-
man. They are dirty beyond belief and
if theirs is the odor Of sanctity, no trav-
eler from the United States would ever
wish to be a saint.
Yet. for all its dirt and squalor. Jerusa-
lem remains the most interesting city on
earth. Every Traveller finds it SO, for who
can fail to be thrilled when he walks in
the court of the Temple of Solomon;
when he trudges over the Via Dolorcs sa
behind the Christ bearing Ellis cross
when he stands under the arch where
PLATE judged Jesus; when he sits in
Gethsemane and stands bareheaded on
Golgotha" Or who can cail to be thrilled
when he approaches the doors o. that
church which was builded by Constant ne
and fought for by Godfrey and Richard
and Baldwin and St. Louis?
But, oh, the misery cf the starving Jews
who have come here to die in the city of
David. Oh. the pity of the miserable
rags and hunger to have their sins for
given them on Calvary. Oh. the horror
of the leprous beggars and the deep, dark
shame of the Sleep. spiritual wolves who
fatten ON the starving lambs of simple
aith and deep religion
Jerusalem in times of peace is provo
cative of thought-but what deep
thoughts for Christian. when the Turk
ish soldiers must keep the peace between
rival worshipers of the Lamb at His
very fomb' And now the Dj1grips 1Jpnp
whom the people live are cut off by the
war, there Is no industry, there is little
food. Starvation stalks over the hills
of Judea and Zion again is desolate.
Evening star., 1914-11-14

I am the worst golf player in the
word This is a confession which is
marked by its isolated individual char
acter. There are many golfers who
believe they are good players. and
will tell YOU So There are many who
are fair players. and who declare they
can't do very much at the game: and
there are many and many players who
tell you they can outplay old man Golf
himself and do St. Andrews course in
80. but l defy ALL history to bring
forth a golfer who deliberately con-
fesses to being the worst one eNtant
Every now and then some alleged
humorist squares off to write himself
piece in lightsome vein on the subject
of the royal game. but he falls far
short of the truth. 1t is not a game
akin to breaking rocks. nor did it origi-
nate in an insane asylum. It's a grand
game, and l wish / could play it: but.
mentioned, I am the worst golf
player in the universe.
For proof l will present the caddies who
have lugged my bag of clubs around the
course. slowly wandering from side to
side. mostly taking the line of bitches
Evening star., 1914-11-14

is really more appropriate for the
lilac, which is known botanically by
that designation, while the mock
orange is botanically "Philadelphus."
Most Roses Hardy Here.
Almost all kinds of roses are hardy
in the vicinities of Washington and ST.
between these points. From Washing
ton northward local conditions infiu-
ence the successful cultivation of GER
tain varieties. Some roses, as the briar
and rugoSa, need no protection, but
other varieties, such as the hybrid
perpetuals, teas and hybridteas. need
special care. particularly north OF the
fortieth parallel. Teas and hybrid teas
hardly succeed in Chicago, although
the hybrid-perpetuals grow as far
north as Canada. All these classes do
well on Long Island and in Boston near
the sea when proper care is given
them. These varieties in the vicinity
of Washington need merely little
manure on the ground to prevent all
ternate freezing and thawing. Farther
north. however. they should be treated
as follows:
Tops Should Be Cut.
Cut the tops to within thirty inches
of the ground. Cover the roots with
coarse manure or leaves or similar lit
ter. Hold this in place by brush. which
also acts as a protection. Evergreen
boughs may be substituted for the
coarse litter except in the most north
ern regions.
1t is best to draw mounds of earth
about six or eight inches in height
about the base of the rose bushes to
keep them from mice. In some locali-
tees the loose brush around the roots
will attract mice, who will make their
winter quarters there and destroy the
rose bushes. AS an added protection
against mice, permit the ground to
freeze slightly before the winter pro-
lection is supplied. In fact, roses should
not be protected until after the first
Evening star., 1914-11-14

or more away, directly in the middle
of the close cropped pathway. But
does my ball do that? 1 should say
not. Walter Johnson in his palmiest
moments never got curve as wide as
mine. My balls curve to a greater
extent than they go forward. With a
little more practice they will be able
to encircle me entirely, like the moon
in grass two feet deep and take two
hours to find. l dreamed last night
that I had solved this difficulty by in
venting a whistling golf ball which
emits hoarse shrieking sound when
'in the rough" and stops only when
found. That would be the only way
1 could find the balls / drive
Once my ball landed -airly upon the
fair green and 1 chortled in my joy, but
discovered upon reaching it that the
perverse thing had rolled into snake
hole I couldn't dig it out with any of
the tools in my bag So l played another
ball and the drafted thing went off into
the woods and has never returned. l
that the ball did not take legs and run
away. 1 have never putted directly to
the hole that the demon didn't leap right
over the cup and escape. l have never
been within 300 yards Of bunker that
the ball didn't hide itself in the sand. I
have never yet been near stream of
water that l did not have to wade in
order to find the spot where the frac-
tlouS d1mpled little darling lay.
And yet / see elderly men playing
swift and accurate game. see joyful
young men driving balls that go straight
for miles. l see women of all ages and
weights swinging brassies and getting re-
suits like Harry Vardon. And where
am I? In the ditch.
x x Z
There is a sporting writer Of some re-
nown who has considerable of a reputa-
ton around these parts. He is the King
Bee when it comes to doping out the pos
sibilities of tomorrow's game. and has
been known to write description of
worlds series without using one single
word that is not slang of the deepest
and most perpleXing sort.
This Bonny Boy was celebrating the
result of the last worlds serious" as
Ring W. Lardner would call 1t. and was
evidently leaning against the furniture
known as "a BAR in those places where
liquor Is said to be sold for consumption
on the premises In came another sport
ing writer leading by the hand a man
who can be described as the most Dismal
Human Being In the World. In other
words. he was a fiend on cocaine. He
absorbed it into his system by any avail
able means. When not chewing 1t ne
was squirting it beneath the epidermts
by means Of a needle Of highly developed
horsepower.
The dismal one was introduced to Bon
Evening star., 1914-11-14
THE EVENING STORY.
THE CURE.
,t,opvrieht,. 1914, by W. werner.)

Jenny looked gravely at her hus-
band as he whistled into the small, hot
summer kitchen with a short string
of black bass.
I,azi1y he flung the fish down.
Enough for supper-huh?" he said.
Guess I'll have time to mend my
pole
Did you get the place." she inter
rupted, curtl!.
THE place." vaguely. "Oh, at old
man Bayne's. No. pleasantly. Il was
too late Another fellow got there
first. And I don't much care. Believe
me- I earned my ten a week when I
worked for the old geezer last spring.
Say, you should have seen the pickerel
that got away from my hook. Four
pounds if it was an ounce. Maybe to-
morrow"
The pan in which Jenny had laid the
fish preparatory to cleaning them slip
ped from the table and crashed to the
floor. Her small fingers, tanned and
strong as they were from garden
work, were trembling with anger and
fairly tingling with a desire to box
her indolent, good-looking husband S
ears. IT couldn't can those berries be-
cause | mad no money 10 Duy sugar,
she said curtly, as she gathered up
the fish.
couldn't your" he asked. amiably.
"Oh, well. don't care much for straw
berries. anyway. Well have plenty of
apples Here. I'll pick up the fish!
Shucks! there's the kid whimpering."
He hurried. into the bedroom and
emerged with the baby, which had just
awakened and was cross. He tossed
it into good humor. He whistled and
beamed at Jenny. Plainly he was un-
aware that anything in his conduct
demanded censure. The hot, angry
words that had been on the top of
Jennys tongue were not uttered. Oh.
there were worse men than Ferd! But
her lips frightened somberly. When the
anger ebbed from her spirit it left
behind a residue of bitterness. Some
times she almost would have preferred
man who mistreated her. provided
he also was willing to work hard for
her. She was tired of the struggle to
keep home neat and pleasant on the
small living that they could wrest from
the five acres. They got enough to
eat. The chickens and COW and garden
provided that. But there was not much
more. The occasional few days or few
weeks work that Ferd took when it
came his way kept them from naked
ness. but not much more. Ferd fully
enjoyed life. He fed the chickens,
plowed little, picked the berries and
Evening star., 1914-11-14

fished. Jenny kept the house. the baby
and the front yard clean. also herself.
It is not easy when even pennies for
soap are scarce. Day by day she was
growing more resentful of the neces-
sity for her enduring the daily strain
while Ferd took life so pleasantly.
Yet she loved him, and she tried to
think that If he could only be aroused
to action
When the baby was laughing Ferd
held it on one arm and with the other
rummaged for his pipe. Then he sat
down to smoke while Jenny fried the
fish. He fairly radiated content as he
glanced around the clean kitchen. Il
stopped at Naggerly's," he said present
ly, and then explained the glance OF
more than the usual content. And. be-
lieve me, I'm glad I'm not Jim Naggerly.
He must have at least eight children.
They were all crying and didn't see a
face among the bunch that looked as
though it had been within six feet of a
bar Of soap for month. And the kitch-
en-. Say. l wonder if that Naggerly
woman knows how to take hold of a
broom Ferd shifted disgustedly. such
a house. Perfectly terrible for a woman
to let her work go that way
Anne never was much of a hand to
work." said Jenny. absently, her thoughts
on her own troubles more than Anne's.
Then she added spiritedly: But eight
Evening star., 1914-11-14
Care of Climbing Roses.

light freeze, which may be expected in
Washington about the first of Decem-
Der, but earlier farther north.
Care of Climbing Roses.
In the latitude of Philadelphia and
farther south climbing roses usually
need no protection during the winter
unless they are a particularly tender
variety Farther north these roses
need protection similar to that given
to the tea and hybridtea roses.
Climbing roses may be best cared for
by being removed from their supports.
The branches should then be covered
over with a little dirt and treated as
hybrid-perpetual roses would be treat
ed A little fall trimming might be de-
sirable to lessen the space occupied by
the branches on the ground. such side
branches as are not to be needed for
next seasons blooming may be cut on
Such cutting off and shortening of the
ends as would otherwise be done in
the spring, may be done i'll the fall be-
fore covering. merely for convenience
The above method is much more sat
isfactory than attempting to put straw
about the roses as they remain on their
posts or trellises-
Evening star., 1914-11-14
Memoranda.
War Risk Insurance.

Uncle Sam has gone into the insur-
ance field. His new Bureau Of War
business. How it operates. what it
has done so far and why it accepts
certain risks. but refuses others. is
an interesting story to be found to-
morrow in the Special Features Sec
tion of The Sunday Star.
Evening star., 1914-11-14
Trying Out Suggestions.

l have adopted and am putting into
execution two suggestions offered in
a letter from &c. E. J." of Mount
Rainier, Nd. One is that sweet po-
tatoes may be kept by packing them
in dry sand. l already had put down
beets in sand, but had never heard of
that method of keeping sweet potatoes.
If it works all right. as l am assuming
it will, it is valuable information for
farmers and also for people who live in
the suburbs and have small gardens.
l doubt if there is any crop that gives
so large a return for the investment
and labor as sweet potatoes, but many
people are deferred from growing them
because they are SO hard to keep.
Here is his other suggestion l am trying.
in his own language: shell three ears
of corn and put in a pot or vessel, and
add one quart of wheat bran. To this
add slop or dish water enough to make
it sloppy-just like a pig prefers it
and put it on the range until 1T is
thoroughly cooked Do this three
pork. Three times the amount or any
other amount of dry corn won't fatten
a pig as fast as this formula"
&C. L. J." also prescribes the same ra-
tion for COW. with the comment that
there is no live stock that pays the
dividends of good COW, especially
where there is a family of growing
children" I agree with him as to the
value of COW, but just now 1 am ex-
perimenting with scientifically ar
ranged COW ration, SO have not tried
his prescription.
A number of other questions have
been asked regarding our back to the
soil' experiment which are entitled to
about used up my allowance of space
they will have to wait until another
time.
Plans for Husking Bee.
In fact, I have just room for an ad-
vance notice of the old-fashioned husking
bee which the Friendly Neighbors' Cluo
is going to give next Wednesday night.
The committee on arrangements met at
our house last Saturday evening and the
date was decided upon. The proposition
made by Mr.. Frazier, memDer OF the
club. that he would pay preVaiuns rates
for husking his corn was accepEo' SO tne
dance will be held in his big barn and
the supper served in wagon sheo along
side.
It was very harmonious meeting. eX-
cept for one incident. memper OF the
committee, who shall be nameIess, Utmost
broke up the session by her inslstence
that rule be adopted providing that
when a married man found a red ear he
should be permitted to claim the reward
only from his wife. She refused TO say
whether she wanted the rule for fear
her husband might find a red ear. or
whether she feared some lucky blade
might call upon her to pay reward. but
she was nightly set and determined
there should be no interfamiy Kissing:
didn't appear to know at first how to
deal with the proposition. but there wasn't
one of them who would agree to 1t. l
wonder why. Was it that they didn't
want to limit the freedom Of their hus-
bands, or that they didn't want to limit
the freedom of other men? E. 5. M
Evening star., 1914-11-14

not be itself any more had he. dismal
Johnny, not met our hero.
Il have read your stuff time and time
again." said the cocaine epicure.
You flatter me- said the sporting
writer.
"And I have long wanted to meet you"
Pm at your service"
Because" confessed the seedy one. Il
want to find out what brand of dope you
use"