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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
MILKMAN DRIVES OFFICERS
FROM HOME WITH A GUN
Germantown Milk Dealer Resents
Levy for Non-payment of Taxes.

As his goods We're about to be levied
on S. d. Johnson, sol Allen lane, Ger
mantown, milk dealer, grabbed a shot
gun and threatened to Kill Constable ..
Fl. super and Deputy Constable &. ..
Super If they attempted TO carry out
the execution. As the constables pro-
ceeded 10 levy Johnson raised his gun
and drove them from the premises.
The milk dealer was called 10 the front
door and found the constables waiting
for him, and when they served him with
the notice, Johnson told them to remain
for a few minutes. He ran into the house
and in a moment returned with a gun I'm
his hand, The coustabIes stood amazed
and before they We're able To recover
their wits Johnson grabbed the papers
from the hand of Super, placed TWO
cartridges in his double -barrclod gun and
drove the constables from the premsles.
The judgment on which tho levy was
to be made was granted by tho City
Treasur" Tor a delinquency i'm payment
OF the mercantile tax ana WIS in favor
Of the Commonwealth Of Peuusy lvania.
The coustabl"s attempted the eXecu-
tiOn on Wednesday, when they were
driven away johnson was arrested on "a
warrant from Magistrate Reushaw and
at hearing today in the central police
station he was held under Sl000 bail ON
"a charge of assault and battery, threaten
ing and attempting 20 kin and inter
ferlng with an officer attempting 70 serve
legal documents.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
TOMMY ATKINS TRIBUTE
TO FIELD MARSHAL FRENCH
Private Writes Commander Is No
Show Man" But worker.
LONDON. Sept. IS.

\ high tribute was paid to Field
Marshall Sir John French in n letter re-
ceived from the front today. 1t was writ
ten by George Busby. a private, and Is
a graphic pen picture Of the British COM
mander in France.
General French is very popular with
his mcn." Busby wrote There's no side
about him. and when he passes along he
IL Just as ready to smile on the ordinary
Tommy as ON the highest officer. He
takes a keen interest in our life in the
trenches, and we all feel that he is jest
the man to turn to in trouble. and there
is not one Of us who wouldn't so through
fire and water for him.
He never asks the impossible from us
but always acts as though he could rely
on us TO set out of tight corner He
knows We are doing our best for him and
the country I'm this war, and he always
gives us credit for il.
"Ic is not one of your show men, but a
hard Gghter and worker from head to
toe, and he expects every man under MIN
to be the same. No matter how tired we
may be we always turn out to give him
q cheer when he passes through the lines,
as he does now and then.
"llo stops when he has time, for q chat
with us Just for the sake of finding out
what We think about it all, and whether
We are being properly looked after. He
doesn't like shirkers, and most Of them
know they have no chance In this army
at any rate.
"He does his best to see that We are
we'll provided for regarding food and
clothes, and If things do go wrong now
and then it's not his fault"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
KAISER PLAYS LAST
DIPLOMATIC CARD.
ITALY'S AID STAKE
Victor Emmanuel Declines, il
Receive Imperial Repr..
sentative and Is CalleJ
Traitor" According d
Report.

ROME, Sept. 10
Germany has played its last card IN ~.
diplomatic game that has been In prorro..
here for weeks with the assistance !,
Italy in the present war as tho stab.
and apparently has lost.
It was learned from a reliable sor,..
today that special messenger arrlv.s
here from Berlin on Wednesday evepss
and departed last night. 1t Is reno+,,I
he came as a personal representative 4
Emperor william. Whether his sudd.,
departure was due to the refusal !,
King Victor Emmanuel to receive hir
canot be ascertained.
Several papers in Paris report ,h,,
the Kaiser sent to the King of italy IA,
following telegram:
"Conqueror or conquered I absu
never forget your treason"
Italian reservists have been cal,ea "a.
1talys withdrawal from the Triple AIN.
anie on that date.
Tho Italian radical party today will vo,.
an ordero of the day in Parliament asklns
the Government to forsake Its pollcv y,
neutrality and to ally itself with IN.
Triple Alliance. The anarchist partv ha
declaret against war.
Demonstrations against the Goysrn.
ment's policy of neutrality continue ant
the war fever Is aggravated by ponnIor
resentment at unemployment.
The Italian military attache at Berlin
his been recalled and 1t Is Understood tho,
the German military ttche will be with.
drawn from Rome.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
ROMANCE, TRAGEDY AND COMEDY
FROM BATTLEFIELDS OF EUROPE

nor with their arms stacked, the British
soldiers, unable TO reach their weapons,
rushed upon tho foe and attacked them
win their bare fists. The Gordons ar
rived in time TO aid them and beat off
tho Germans.
A British seaman, writing OF the recent
naval battle off Heligoland, tells Of
slaughter on the bridge of the Liberty,
when all except one man was killed, and
of q freak of the fight where a clock on
one of the boats had it's glass face
smashed and one hand carried away but
kept right on running.
The destroyer Laurel seems to have
suffered the most" the seaman wrote.
She had one funnel carried away and
the others riddled like pepper boxes. One
shell struck her right forward. went
through her bulkhead, through the gal
ley door and out. The cookie was in
there at the time, but it missed him and
went out through the other side of the
ship.
at was on tho bridge and around the
Libcrty's bridge everybody except one
was killed; in fact, they were never
seen since. They must have been carried
right overheard. The skipper of the
Laurel had both his legs shot away
THE scout Arethusa came in last. She
brought in 100 Germans picked up from
the cruiser Mainz. Two cooks were In
the galley of the Arethusa. just having
their rum, when n shot killed one and
blew the others arm off,"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
COOL LOGIC MARKS
BELGIAN ATTITUDE
TOWARD GERMANY
Treaties in Ink Violated,
Must Be Rewritten in
Blood, So Plucky Little
Kingdom Fights Against
Great Odds.

ANTWERP. Sept. / ,Ry Courier TO Os-
tend and Mai to New York.
The little Belgian soldier who climbed
into the compartment was dead tired; he
uailed his rifle behind MIN, threw himself
into the seat and fell aound asleep. lie
was ready to talk when he awoke an
hour later
YES. l was up all night with German
prisoners" he said 1t was a bad job,
There were cnly sixteen Of us to handle
200 Germans. We had four boNcars, and
we put . prisoners in one end Of the
car and 25 ut the other. aud then four
OF us with rifles sat guard by the cardoor
I'VE rode nye hours that way, and
expected every minute that the whole %
Germans Son the car would jump on us
four and Kill lis. -Four to 80. that's heavy
odds. Hut wc have to do it. You see
there aren't enough soldiers in Belgium
ty do all the work, So We have to make
cut the bes, we can
That's the plucky little Belgian soldier
all over. Ia the first place he's different
from most soldiers. because he Is willing
90 dght when he knows he's going to
lose.
I'VE have to make out the best VIC
can" is his motto. In the second place,
he's a common sense little fellow. Even
while he's lighting he's doing 1t cooly,
and there is no blind hatred In his heart
that causes him to waste any effort. He
gets down to the why and wherefore Of
things.
II really felt sorry for those German
prisoners" said a comrade OF the first
soldier "They were all decent fellows. /
1, . a.. .1.-4
them. They said the officers gave them |
French money on the German frontier |
and then yelled to them on to France" /
They went on for three days and got to ,
Liege before they know they were in |
Belgium instead of France.
1--WE didn't want to hurt Belgium
they told US, because we're from Alsace-
ourselves.
You see" continued the logical little
Belgian, 1T wasn't their fault, so we
couldn't be mad at them
That is the Belgian idea-cool logic.
why did you fight the Germans?" a
iigh Government official was asked.
Because civilization can't exist with
tut treaties and it is the duty that
lation owes to civilization to fight to the
loath when written treaties are broken"
vas the reply. 1T must be a rule among
,ations that to break a treaty means to
sht. The Germans broke the neutrality
With Belgium and we had to fight
But did you expect to whip the Ger
rans?"
Hoy could we? We knew that hordes
" GKmans would follow the first comera,
but We had no right TO worry about who
would be whipped: all We had 70 do was
to fight, and we've done ii the best we
'ould."
II has been a cool-hcaded, logical mat
or with the Belgiens, from the start.
Treaties are made with ink; they're
'roken with blood. and just as naturally
nd Coolly as the Belgian diplomats used
glt in signing the treaties with Germany.
O the Belgian soldiers have used their
lood in trying to maintain the agree
7ents.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
REPULSE OF GERMANS
F0RET0LD BY MONK
Documents of 1000 Prophesied Con-
flict With BLACK Eagle"

PARIS, Sept iS.-Tho Figaro continues
TODAY tho Latin urophcrv dated in Ia.,
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
FOOTBALL GIVES RELIEF
TO ENGLAND'S SORROWS
Managers Decide to Continue Game
During Winter Months.

LONDON, Sept. Is.
Football and its relations to the war
continues to be the subject OF earnest
discussion both in England and in Scot
land. Despite the recent statement OF
Lord Roberts that this Is no time for
games" the trend Of opinion among
football managers is that IL would be
unwise, rather than the contrary, to
abandon this scheduled winter sport.
J. McKenna Liverpool, presided over
n meeting Of the management commit
tee of the English Football League in
London yesterday. At this great crisis
IN the history Of the British nation, he
said, they desired to make the following
public pronouucemeHt:
When scores Of thousands have
gone. and scores of thousands must
follow, there win he millions OF peo-
pie who must remain behind, and
I'm other ways lend all possible aid
In considering the course TO he
adopted with reference 10 our great
winter game, We are not uumindful
Of the days Of deep sorrow now with
US and yet 10 come, days when the
dark clouds that surround us will
"prrcss and appal us. To SIT and
" am is 10 aggrayate the nations
81 row.
ANY national sport which can mini
nlize the grief, helu the nation 10
bear its sorrows relieve the oppres-
sion of continuous strain and save
the people at home from panic and
undue depression, Is a great national
asset which can render lasting sery-
Zee 90 the people.
We, therefore without the slightest
reservation appea. 20 the clubs, the
press and the public that our grea,
Wiutr" game should pursue its usual
Coursa. Especially do we appeal 10
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
ANNOUNCES DISCOVERY
Flaxner Declares Germ of Infantile
Paralysis Has Been Found

SARATOGA, y. Y, sept. 1S.--Tho sole
topic Of discussion today among dele
eatcs TO the convention Of state health
officers in session here is tn" announce
mcnt made by pr, Simon TlcXncr, dt-
rector Of the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research. that the infanttle
paralysis germ had been found. lie spoke
on the Influence of Scientific Research
ON Public Health"
Tho mtcro-orgauism OF this terrible dis
ease. he said, had been grown in test
tubes and were visible through powerful
microscopes when viewed in masses. He
intmatcd important results would be
produced from those experiments. He
defended viviscction by explaining that
the most modern facts of medicine had
been discovered through tho use Of ami
mails for experimental purposes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
Pinchot Talks to Small Crowd.

BRADFORD, Pa, Sept. 1S-Gifford
Pinchot was scheduled 10 address a
crowd on the public square at noon to-
day and the crowd was there, but Mr..
Pinchot, who arrived at 1880 in an auto.
waited to eat his dinner and a good
part of his audience went home as they
had dinners OF their own to eat, so he
lost some of his audience. The candidate
discussed the Issues 10 a fair sized
crowd. Others. who spoke, were Guy 3.
May, candidate for Congress. and Messrs
Smith and Watkins, Assembly candl-
dates from this county.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
FRENCH METHODS SOON
HEAL SOLDIERS WOUNDS

DR.. Alexis Carrel Commends Per-
centage of Cures.
PARIS, Sept. lS.-Dr. Alexis Carrel, Of
the Rockefeller Institute in New York
who has been placed in charge of all the
military hospitals at Lyons, declared that
he believed the French methods OF caring
tor the wounded could not be surpassed.
The only dangerous wounds with
which we have to contend" he said, "are
those caused by German siege artillery.
Others generally heal without difficulty.
We have lost only 20 out of 1000 wounded
at Lyons"
"The German pavilion at the Lyons
Exposition has not been touched, and Is
still flying the German flag. Above this
flag however, has been placed a French
banner and a notice on the pavilion says,
Property of France.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
ASSASSIN TRIES TO KILL
GALICIAN WAR GOVERNOR

Attempt Reveals Russian Military
Rule in Austrian Province.
BERLIN tby way of Amsterdam. Sept
IS.
\ dispatch fiom Vienna states that an
unsuccessful attempt was made today
TO assassinatc Count Bobrnski, Russian
military governor OF Galicia. Ills assail-
ant was Ultranian He fired three shots
one of which struck the Count in the
shoulder, before he could be disarmed.
The foregoing dispatch reveals for the
first timo the fact that Austria admits
the Russians arc in control of Galicia and
have appointed n military governor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
BANDITS COMMIT SUICIDE
Gang Responsible for General De La
Rey's Death Driven to Bay.

ANNESBURG, Sept. Is.-QuIet Dre-
walls here today following the dramatic
suicide yesterday OF the gang of desuers-
does under the leadership of a man
known as Jackson. The bandits had COM
mitted many crimes and were Indirectly
responsible for the accidental shooting OF
General JacObus Hendrix de La Rey a
noted Boer general.
Jackson and his companions took ref
uEe in a cave on the east Rand, which
was Immediately surrounded by the DO
lice. The bandits refused TO surrender
al hrst, but later Jackson offered 70 give
up their arms 10 JacksOns wife. Urged
on by the police and her husband, she
entered the cave ana was immediately
shot By him. Then ~ the desperadoes
cglpllittsd suicide.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
WAR BY BALKAN STATES
REGARDED AS INEVITABLE
Missionary Tells of Preparations for
Hostilities

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Sept. 1S-Genersl
Ralph e. Prime, missionary, who re.
Gently returned from Italy and Syria.
today said extraordinary preparations
are being made in anticipation Of war by
Italy, Turkey and Greece The troop,
of those nations, he declared, are being
drilled constantly and the people con.
slider the outbreak OF hostilities inevt.
able.
"The common belief in Syria and Tur-
key IS that the German cruisers Goeben
and Breslau were sold by Germany TO
Turkey to prevent their capture by the
allies fleet" said General Prime. There
Is bitter feeling between the Turk and
the Greek.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
"DUM-DUMS" EXHIBITED
BY, FRENCH WAR OFFICIALS
Reported to Have Been Taken in
Early Alsace Campaign.
BORDEAUX, Sept. IS.

The Foreign Office today exhibited to
TIE French and foreign newspapermen
assembled here a quantity of dum-dum
bullets, which, it was explained, were
taken by the French when they originally
occupied Muelhausen, in Alsace in the
early days of the war.
II was the discovery OF these bullets,
and reports of the French surgeons that
they actually had been used that resulted
in the original French note of protest of
August 1S.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
KING LEAVES wURTTEMBERa

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 1s-A dispatch
from Stuttsart says that the King of
WurttemberE has left for Louvain by
way of Strass1urg.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
LUSITANIA MAY TRANSPORT
CANADIAN TROOPS TO WAR
Cunard Liner, in New York, Gets
Rush Orders for Halifax.

NEW YORK, Sept, I-The giant liner
Lusitania lad hardly warped into her
dock at 1880 o'clock this morning when
her crew began Immediately the work of
recoaling the speedy Cunsrder.
Although the I.usitania's officers refused
confirmation, it was reported the boat
would lie rushed to Halifax tonight to
carry Canadian troops TO England.
The LusItana arrived off Quarantine
about midnight. She was TO have re-
manned at anchor in the Narrows all
night, and a big dance had been planned.
Rush orders t. proceed 10 her dock un-
der permission from customs officials
ended the festivities,
ON board We're 1902 passengers, COS in
tho saloon Among the latter were Mrs,
ieoree Vanderbilt Miss Cornelia Van
LerDllt, Chaunce- ". Depew, Jr., and Mrs
Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Servants of An
drew Carnegie, who were on board. said
the steel king would be in the Baltic
later today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
RUSSIANS LIBERATE $4,000

PETROGEAD. Sept. ls.-The Russians
have liberated i'm I.embers 1900 prisoners,
most Of them arrested for sedition since
the outbreak of tho war.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18

Former Mrs. Cleveland Leaves Genoa
GENOA. Italy Sept. 1S-Mrs Thomas
J. Preston, Jr, whose first husband was
Grover Cleveland, was among the passen-
gers sailing today on the steamship
Tomaso di Sayoia for New York
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18

The Cunard Line officials this afternoon
declared that the publication OF the
stories to the effect that the Lusitanis
would nr taken over as a transport was
causing them a great real OF annoyance.
The Lusitania Will sail for Liverpool
uu Wednesday with passengers, accord
ing TO schedule. At no time, the Cunard
officials said, was there any question as
20 the y-sso. being taken over as a
night.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18

The Exchange Telegraph correspondent
at Bordeaux says:
81 saw in the hospitals here among
the prisoners beardless Teuton boy,
WHO was Is years and months old. He
was q student in the technical school
at Mannheim and was wounded and made
prisoner at the battle of Marne. He
SAID in broken English. that all the stu
dents of his school who were over 10
years of age had been modified and
placed in different regiments"
In n letter from Sergeant Cahil to his
friends IN Bristol is the tribute of an
Irish soldier to the "Red Cross girleens."
Cahill wrote:
THE Germans give us no rest night or
day, and those of us who have come
through il will never forget to our dying
day what it Is to have to fight here. The
Red Cross gireens, with their purity faces
ard their sweet ways, are as good men as
most of us. and better than some OF us.
They are not supposed to venture into
the firing line at all, but they get there
all the same, and devil the one OF us burst
turn them away"
Tommy Atkins" goes into battle
gle that has in it not word about death
or valor, glory or pathos.
And lest Americans do not know the
words of this epoch making chorus here
they are, fated for some unfathomed rea-
son to become historic:
IT,. long way to TIppeTary
70, The e%eetcst, girl Know;
Farewell, LciCcstCr-Squarc,
It's q long, long way to Tlpporary,
But my hearts right there.
The author-composer Of this imperish-
able lyric is Jack Judge. a music hall ar
ust, and there is probably no man in the
world more surprised than he-unless it
is his publisher. Bert Feldman-at the
FAR flung vogue It has SO suddenly re-
ceived. The British hero sings II when
reveille sounds; he sings it route march,
ing to drown the monOtony of Boots
observation-disclosures, sloggin' up an down
again"
AS they so into battle the Germans
thunder their die Wacht Am Rhein,"
the French chant their "Marseillaise"
sonorous and impressive, and the Bel
gians fight gallantly with their beautiful
"Brabanconne" on their lips, but the
British sing no national air.
a British sergeant major says he be-
lieves the regiments recruited in the big
citles are proving the best on the battle
fields because they are accustomed to
noise. tits the quantity, not the quality
of the German shells that is having its
effect" he says. THE hellish noise is
nerve racking."
A young artilleryman, writing to his
wife In London, tells of being left on the
field for dead, but finally was found and
dragged from beneath his horse which
fell on him when shot This alona ya5
his life. as all other members Of his |
battery were killed.
When the Fourth Middlesex regiment |
was surprised by Germans while at din |
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18

A young artilleryman. writing to his
wife in London. tells Of being left on the
field for dead, but finally was found and
dragged from beneath his horse which
fell on him when shot. This alone saved
his life, as all other members of his
battery were killed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18

a British sergeant major says he be-
leves the regiments recruited in the big
cities are proving the best on the battle
fields because they are accustomed Ia
noise. "lts the quantity, not the quality
of the German shells that is having its
effect" he says The hellish noise is
nerve racking''
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18

When the Fourth Biddlesex regiment
was surprised by Germans while at din
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-09

Dick declared he had just dropped
in and subsidized on a convenient stool.
Fascinated. he watched Reynolds NOV
ing quickly to and fro at his work,
transferring some substance from a
glass crucible to another; depositing a
bit here in small iron kettle over
fame and dropping more there into a
square zinc can packed In ice; watch
ing the tests almost simultaneously in
four or five different vessels; stopping
occasionally to jot down results in a
little book; keen. alert and accurate.
Here was the competent workman for
getful of all but his work. Forgetful
even of employer; oblivioue to friend:
immersed in his task. Dick could not
refrain from one question.
What is 1t, Bob? ?" he asked.
Reynolds brow contracted just a bit.
He answered tersely:
Cement for the Black river dam"
In a moment he wrote rapidly again
in the book, clapped it to and called to
an assistant.
"Clear away the junk. Hennesy," he
ordered. tits o. TX"
He turned smilingly to Dick.
What's the good word, old topf
You'll excuse my brusQueness but you
caught me right at the end Of Job
and it's big one. Reports have to go
to the front tonight. for If the ship
ments don't start tomorrow there's q
$4,000 forfeit
Dick took the extended hand. Man
though he was he felt q rebellious