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The Harrison times., 1914-07-04

bat.eSes Of field artillery two com
palies OF engineers, two companies OF
signal troops, three ambulance com.
panIes, and there are lacking ammuni-
tlon, supply and pack train forces.
With tho three excess regiments OF
infantry to draw from It would be
possible to make up the shortage In
other arms by proper transfers. but
Of course there would be delay In ht'
ting and training infantrymen for their
new duties,
There Is an excess OF infantrymen
in virtually all Of the militia divisions,
and readjustments and reasSignments
and additional equipment would be
necessary to balance each division
properly and to send II into the field
Ns a perfected unit, 1t Is true that II
the military preparedness Of the eoun'
try as o whole had been considered by
the state authorities in the formation
OF their National Guards the condl
tion OF excess In some branches and
deficiencies In other branches would
not obtain, The state, however In the
past has looked moro perhaps to the
wishes OF the men forming org0nl2a'
tions than II has TO the military oxl'
gencos OF some national crisis The
day OF readJustmont eventually Will
come II In certain to como II we have
war, and II IL almost certain 10 como
If we have peace, because the officers
OF regulars and the officers Of the
Guard together are working to this
great end OF unlhcatlon and efficiency
II the United states gets into war
OF great proportions there will be
more National Guard9m0n In the fold
than regulars, The volunteers are
tho fighting resource Of every nation
The guard iB IN better condition to-
day than II over has been before, but
II is nothing like perfect In itg organl.
gation, The lessons OF the Spanish
war, added TO those OF the present
day, II seems are likely TO result IN
making perfect that order Of things
military to cffoct which It has been for
years tho earnest effort Of the officers
OF tho division OF militia atiaiFa Of the
war department Of the United States.
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might add that the yummor popula'
ton Of n good hive Is about sixty
thousand,
"Woll, Bum managed to keep alive
until September lie had too much
sense 20 work himself TO death lie
made about two trips Ntt0r honey a
day, took things easy, and when the
winter rolled around climbed In with
the rest OF the bunch and went to
sleep, lie got away with the aomo
stunt the following summer All the
other bees were dead before they got
wise TO him Bum slept through Ana
other winter, aneaked through another
summer and was starting out on his
Hfth season when ho fell In with bad
company, Maybe the other bcoB had
been knocking him for hla failure TO
bring In the goods don't know, Any
way, Bum got In with bunch Of rob
befs and started doing little OF lt
on his own hook
"Tho robbers, you know, depend on
lnbll bl'NllUb NUlHll'H w hNlVN
honey from other hives They have
to gee by the guards at the entrance
and out again, but Bum was smart
and succeeded for several weeks,
Then, IN the lattor part OF tho SUM
NOR Of 1898 just about the time tho
Spanish war was ended=ho got
caught
II heard u big buallhg and ran out
with the idea that one Of tho hives
was getting ready 20 swarm. Instead,
/ found the whole population Of Hum'a
hive hghtng a llio and death battle
with the guards Of the hive he'd been
leotng
Nothing like II ever happened be-
fore or since. II WAS ten minutes be.
fore II struck mo that the hive had
come to regard Bum an sort Of pa.
triarch=an influential ci02on= and
that they were ready 70 fight for him,
I got smoker aud broke up tho bat
tie, but when | started looking over
tho dead bees, ! found BUNS body,
Undtf his wings was tho honey that
he'd Just stolen from the hive"
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embassy, accompanied Otoko Yama
on boar hunt IN tho llokkaldo noun.
tainB
How old arc your" asked Major
Wlgmoro by means Of mn interpreter,
whoroupon the old hunter commenced
70 repeat herring, salmon, herring,
salmon, herring" and no on, Major
Wlgmoro knew a little Of the language
and ho was puzzled, Tho interpreter
laughed
"llo Ia counting up his years." be
said, "ahd the way he does II Ia to
count the aoasons, 70 him there are
only two seasons, when the herring
come and when the salmon come, ono
herring season and one salmon season
make 4 year" Otoko Yama finally
gave Il up, lie could remember about
nifty herring and salmon seasons, but
no moro,
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Hagan, who lives in a house adjoining
the Ousborne home The grandmother
in turn, having occasion TO 30 to a
nearby store, placed the child in the
care Of two children VINO were playing
In the street
For time the little girl watched
the other children at play She then
toddled into the areaway which sepa'
rates the two houses and which is
used as a common entrance by both
families. At the end OF the areaway
there are two gates, one leading into
the yard Of tho Hagan home and tho
other into the Ousborne yard, Both
gates are similar In appearance. At
the time the child entered the yard tho
rooster was running about the yard,
On seeing the girl the rooster attacked
her. Mr.. Ousborno heard tho oommo.
tion in tho yard and Immediately In.
yestigatcd. He found tho child lying
IN the yard
Mr.. Ousborno fought back tho
rooster and picked up the child, Ho
took her to her grandmother and later
20 her home Dr. Arthur l., Tubleson
was then sent for and he attended to
the baby Her face was badly lac.
Grated,
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BUM" WAS A VERY
ASTUTE OLD BEE.
He 0utIived Thirty Generations
and Loafed on the Job All
the Time.
SLAIN FOR STEALING
Had Too Much Sense to Work Him
self to Death, But Finally Fell In
With Bad Company and Was
Caught.

Chlcago.-F l. Suebling Of West
Pullman has been keeping bees for
years and years Mr.. Suebing is
great student Of bee life and knows
the little merchant Of the sweet as do
few. He told the following about a
bonny rover Of the clover patches to
the beekeepers in session in Chicago,
recently, as published in Che Advance.
Mr. Stuebling may be a nature faker
of the insect world, but the following
Is very interesting reading;
Bum was born" began Mr. Stueb-
ling, in 1894 lie outlyed 80 genera.
tons OF ordinary bees and, except for
an untimely death, might still be buzz
ing around the old hive. noticed
him first one warm, sunny day when
the rest Of his relatives were out gath
ering honey, Bum wasn't Instead
he was standing kidding with the
guards at the front Of the hive,
''Ile had hooked body and long fiat
wings, You know an old beekeeper
can recognize bees just as a cowman
recognizes cattle It's easy when you
learn how. After that first look at
Bum ! got interested in him and used
to keep track Of his goings and com.
ings, They were worth watching.
The average bee travels mile
minute, Bum never went fastdf than
ten miles an hour until he got within
ten feet Of the hive, Then he speeded
up and shot down to the door 80 fast
you couldn't see him. The average
bee works himself to death in five
weeks Fact! OF course, It doesn't
make much difference because the
queen Is busy laying eggs at the rate
Of 1000 a day so there are always
plenty Of young fellows on the way,
with the first spring flowers, they
go on the wing and by the middle Of
June the most Of them are dead
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KILLS 500 BEARS !
WITH HIS OLD BOW
0tOkO Yama's Skill in Handling
Ancient Weapon Is Shown
Government Officials.
SEE HIM SLAY A BEAR
Americans Pay Visit to Nlmrod Up In
Mountains and Learn Of His Queer
System Of Chronological Com
putation.

Yokohama Japan.-There IS in Jap
an man who Is popularly believed
to have killed 500 bears with bow
and arrow. 4 short time ago some
Americans visited him in his wild
mountain home on the Island Of Hok-
kaido
This island belongs to the group
north Of Japan. Otoko Yama is the
name Of the bear hunter He prefers
his bow to modern weapons. Recent
ly he tried an old muzzle-loading gun,
and while he had some success with
1t, he liked his bow and arrow better.
Otoko Yama Is an Aino, member
Of one Of the aboriginal tribes OF
Japan. Some years ago when the Jap
anese began to pay more attention to
the government OF Iokkaido and It's
other island possessions In the north
they started to register or make a
census Of the inhabitants, This was
by no means easy, because these long
bearded and half wild people had no
names, and 30 tho Japanese authori-
ties had to name every man as best
they could.
High up in the mountains they came
across a man who seemed to be lead
or among the people in that vicinity
He was n great hunter and much ad-
mlrod by the natives because Of his
prowoss, When the Japanese officials
learned that he had killed many bears
with a small bow and arrow they
could scarcely believe It, but he took
them into the forest with him and
soon proved It by killing bear with
poisoned arrow sent with accurate
aim into bruins body just below the
ilfth rib,
Because this man seemed to be
head Of the people in the mountain dis.
trict they called him Otoko Yama.
Otoko means man" and Yama means
mountain"
Not long ago Major Wlgmore, for
mor American attaGho at Tokyo, and
c, j, Arnell Japanese secretary Of tho
The Harrison times., 1914-07-04
Better Trained and Equipped
Than Ever Before.
BUT STILL FAR FROM PERFECT
In Case Of War With Mexico II VIII
Require Some brushing Up" to
Fit State Troops to Take Field
With Regulars,
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.

Washington.-When the cloud came
unto the sky suggestive of war with
Mexico, the first thought Of the mill.
tary authorities concerned itself
naturally with the preparedness Of the
regular army. The second thought
was directed to the preparedness Of
the National Guard, but in a way the
second thought was graver than the
first, for in war which assumes great
proportions volunteer organizations
must make up the major part Of the
armies In the field.
The National Guard forces OF the
states Of the Union are better trained,
better organized and better equipped
today than they ever were before, but
they are still far from state Of per
feet readiness for war, From the day
OF the birth Of the first rumor Of prob.
The Harrison times., 1914-07-04
CHURCH SNo0zERS ARE MEN
After an investigation Milwaukee
Preachers Think They Have Found
out Why This Ia 30.

Milwaukee The mystery of tho
church eno0ser has been solved,
After determining that the ratio OF
women TO men who fall asleep during
sermons IN about ono TO two hundred
and thlrtyfour certain Milwaukee
preachers have gone Into the secrets
Of The phenomena and have sought out
the reasons therefor
Contrary TO the popular belief that
mems minds are slower and duller
than those Of women, aud that there
ioro they arc moro dlincult to hold
with the logic OF sermon, the lnyes'
tigatlng pastors say that the women
are not brighter quicker 20 under
stand, more aelfconirolled and that
their eyes and their minds are not
more easily attached 10 the sermon.
The Harrison times., 1914-07-04

supplied or fought unless 30 organ
iacd" II IN thla Wow Of tho military
authorities that led TO the division Of
tho militia into dlylBlons,
From tho experience OF all tho ma
tions that ever engaged IN warfare IL
In known approximately tho proper.
tlona which the different arms In onoh
division should bear TO one another,
There Ia a great variation In these pro-
portions IN the divisions OF the or
gahEed militia No two are alike and
not n single one IL complete, NOR Ia
there any immediate prospect OF a
single complete division with the OK.
eoptIon OF tho SIXTH" which will bo
drawn from the state OF New York
alone,
The deficiency In the National Guard
In most markedly apparent In field
artillery The division OF militia NJ,
fairs haa bent every effort 10 create
the missing troops and met NJ frat
with only slight success, The creation
The Harrison times., 1914-07-04
GAMECOCK ATTACKS
O-YEAR- OLD CHILD
Little Margaret Baum, a BaItl-
more Baby, Is Probably
DiSfigured for Life.

Baltimore, Md.-Margaret Baum, the
pretty two-year-old daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Frederick X. Baum, 2O35
Cough street, was probably dishgured
for life recently when a game rooster
belonging to Edward Ousborne, at
tackled her. The child was attacked
in the yard in the rear OF the Ousborne
home.
At the time Mrs, Elizabeth Gus
borne, the mother of the lad who owns
the rooster, was at the Trautfelter
home. She learned Of the affair upon
returning home.
The mother Of the child had gone to
town and had left her daughter in the
care Of her grandmother, Mrs. Sarah
The Harrison times., 1914-07-04
AGED INVENTOR IS DEAD
Levl H, Page Of Chicago Said TO Have
Designed First Arc
Lamp,

Chieago,=Jeyi H. Page, reported to
have been the inventor OF the arc
lamp, waB buried here Mr. Page, who
was soyonty,olght years old, died Of
heart trouble In his homo Ot 1857 West
Madison street, IN obBeufIty and com
paratlyc poverty although thofo are
said to be 90 Of his patents, registered
In Washington, which have mOd0 for.
tunes for others, Mrs, Page tho
widow, declared that her husband In
vented the first are light and scores Of
other things, from on egg beatef 10
A rnall ahtlor for railway trains"
The Harrison times., 1914-07-04

Of auxiliary troops, 1t is said, Is or
vital Importance to the Union and it is
also held that until all these divisions
are made complete, each containing
all arms in their proper proportion,
large part Of the efficiency Of the So
called units would be sacrificed IN
campaign.
War finally brings organization up
to its perfected form for material and
men must be supplied, The army, and
with 1t the militia, is far better pre-
pared today to go into the field than
1t was at the opening Of the Spanish
war That war taught lessons which
were well learned but even with the
regular army things are not perfect
The general condition is due largely
to the refusal Of congress TO listen TO
the appeals for money necessary to
keep the regular service up to the
standard, and to the indifference OF
the states to the welfare of their Ma
uonal Guard, Law-making bodies al
ways seem obsessed with the thought
that war never is again to come. Then
war comes
In the twelve militia divisions there
Is an excess Of infantry. Take as an
example Twelfth Division which com.
prises the troops Of Illinois and In
diana, Here there is an excess Of
three regiments of infantry over the
normal number of infantrymen re-
quired. There is a deficiency, how
ever, of three troops of cavalry, six
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able trouble with Mexico, the Amori.
can volunteer spirit has been mani
Testing itself Enlistments In the Ma
tIonal Guard have increased and It
can be said that II the occasion de-
mand, the National Guard troops can
be taken into the service Of the United
States quickly, and In such a condi'
tlon OF comparative preparedness that
there need be no great delay IN send
ing them into the field with the tried
men Of the regulars,
Ever since the passage by congress
OF the bill introduced by Senator Dick
OF ohio, some years ago, and under
tho active operation Of the resulting
law, tho National Guardsmen have
progressed in organization, IN efll'
cheney and in equipment In tho war
department there Is q division Of mill
tia affairs whose chief IN Brig, Gen, Al
bert l., Mills n tried soldier and a
medal Of honor man decorated for con
gpicuous personal gNlantry on the
field OF battle in Cuba The first aB'
slstant to General Mills is Lieut., Col
Harry G, Halo Of tho Seventeenth In
fantry, who has had hard field sory'
ice, including three tours Of duty In
the Philippines, and who Ia known Ns
one OF the closest students Of military
affairs generally that the army holds
Ever since its organization the dh
vision OF military affairs has striyon
to bring tho regulars and the National
Guard closer together In spirit and In
efficiency Of service, or course, II is
recognized that II Ia impossible to
turn u civilian into regular over
night, and that II N also impossible TO
do II In years under tho conditions Of
training which naturally must attend
the regime Of the guard, The guards
men drill only once week They 90
into camp only once year, and at
the best thoy can got but the first los
sons of the regular service lfo As II
IN, however by means OF the help
which the federal government has CIV
Oh and through the increased interest
among the guafdsmeh, the state sol
dlerB are today filter probably than
over before TO enter active service,
In round numbers, thero are 100000
National Guafdamon IN the United
atates, 1000 officers and 200 on
listed men, on the wall Of the main
once Of the division Of military affairs
Washington IN huge map OF tho
United states This map In "cardod,"
state by state, eaeh card showing the
strength Of each arm OF the service IN
every state Of the Union, Elsewhere
In the once are tho reports which
show efficiency Regular army officers
pnaN Judgment upon the military stand
ing, all thInge considered, Of the dlrrer'
ent organizations Of the guard Nv
arythhg pertaining n the efficiency
Of the state troops IN known TO the
war department authorities In Wash.
ingtop, and II Ia on the basis OF this
knowindge unqueBtlonably that first
seleetion for service will bo made,
The regular army and the National
Guard together are divided into 10
military divisions The regulars form
tho nrst four divisions and the guards
men tho other ~ divisions, In n
senee, no far M the National Guard II
concerned, this division formation Is
tentative, II the guafdsmeh are sent
The Harrison times., 1914-07-04
Tbls, Took Dead Man's ehoes.

Toledo, 0,=After tho body OF win
lam 8tenhauer had been lying IN an
undertaking chapel Tor more than n
year, n thief entered tho building and
took the ahooa from tho dead mans
feet A sorIbbled note found In tho
chapel sad ~ need the shoes more
than he does
The Harrison times., 1914-07-04
.ENRAGED BULL KILLS WOMAN
Then Herd Of Six steers Charge PLY.
slcan Who Went 10 Her
ReBeue,

Wabash, lnd,-Mra, Philip Lembar'
ger wife Of u wealthy farmer near
here, was gorod TO death by bull
tho other day Dr, A, H. Rodgers,
who went to her rescue, was almost
killed In n torrl0c fight with tho AMI
NAL and six Inhratod steers,
Mrs, hombarger was crossing pas
turo when gho was attacked Her
twelye.yearold daughter saw the bull
charge her mother and tramplo her to
tho ground She called 10 Doctor
Rodgore who was passing along tho
road, Tho doctor Bprang from the
buggy, secured pitohfork and rushed
20 the rescue,
plunging the tlnos Of the fork into
the bJll'a aIdo Doctor Rodgers man
aged to drive the animal from hIa
victim, But nix longhornod atoers,
maddened by tho combat rushed at
the physician, Standing above Mrs,
Lembafgor'B prostrate form, the ply
sclan fought tho crazed animals for
half an hour driving the pltohtork In
thoIr bodies llut tholr wounds and
tho smell Of blood soemed TO make
tho bFutes more furious, and they
charged murdorously time and again,
Doctor Rodgers was making his last
stand with what was left OF hlB ebb'
ing strength when party OF farmers,
driving past, hurried TO his aid and
beat on the animals,
Mrs, Lembarger was dead Several
ribs were broken, her chest was
crushed and her body and iaoo man
pipd
The Harrison times., 1914-07-04
prI,oner. In Remnrkable Iaeapo.

Chicago Three prisoners eaoaped
ffem tho Dull pen" on the eleventh
floor Of the county building by climb.
Ing through a window to a narrow
ledge thence up n rope dangling from
n flag pole to the roof, through an
opon skylIght and down II aIghto OF
ataira 10 tho street
The Harrison times., 1914-07-04
nushana Was opposed 10 Mort.

Pittsburgh, Pa because her hue.
band would not work, complaining II
was too hot IN tho summon, and In
the winter too cold, In the spring be'
cause he suffered from spring fever
and In the fall because he played foot
ball, Mrp Charles Btebler was granted
y divorce,
The Harrison times., 1914-07-04
1000 eoos Bumped Upon Man,

Chicago Morris slboom became n
human omelet when his hOraes, at
tached 10 n wagon loaded with 1000
hen egga ran away and dumped tho
yolky load upon him
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-09-04
PARIS PREPARING
FOR LONG SIEGE
CITY BEING TURNED INTO AN
ENTRENcHED CAMP AND
FOOD BEING STORED.
Decree issued Calling for Evacuation
Of Military Zone Around Forts, u
Being Probable Tenants VIII be
Asked 70 Destroy Property.

Paris-The French capital Is rush
ing its plans to resist siege by the
German army. The city is being
turned into an entrencbed camp.
Following the decree issued by the
military governor ordering residents
OF the districts within action Of the
city's defending line Of forts to exac-
uate and destroy their houses. enor-
nous stocks Of food were placed in
the state warehouse.
The Bots de Boulgne presents a pic
turesque aspect. 1t has been trans
formed into a vast pasture filed with
cows and sheep. The animals have
been divided into groups and are
guarded by reserves wearing the large
shirts Of droVers. The number OF
sheep pastured in the parks exceeds
10000
The decree calling for the eyacuae
ton Of the military zone around the
forts was a formal notice, although
army. engineers recently made a tour
OF the environs of the forts and ex-
planned that tenants might be called
On to destroy their property, which
was deemed an obstruction.
Many houses in the line of fire are
occupied by peoples whose sons are
now at the front A large number of
these families lack resources and will
be without refuge. Nevertheless they
took the situation without complaint,
although some addressed a petition
to the military governor, requesting
that he use the power vested in him
only as last extremity.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-09-04
GLOOMY VIEW OF RRIToN.
Correspondent Declares Germans are
Sweeping All Before Them.

London.-A pessimistic view of the
situation of the allies is taken by the
Amiens correspondent of the Weekly
Dispatch. He says:
This is a pitiful story which l have
to write. The time for secrecy is
past. What you know in England
may be something like the truth, but
| write with the Germans advancing
necessarily while all the rest of
France believes that they are still
held near the frontier.
The best hope of holding them lies
in the hourly expected arrival of an
army from Alsace under General Pau,
who so brilliantly retrieved the blum
der at Mulhausen. So far the Ger
mans have carried all before them,
partly by sheer weight of numbers and
partly by deadly hail of bullets
from their numberless maxim guns.
Just now an American Red Cross
volunteer inquired from the official
in command here how he could motor
to Paris. Take any road" was the
reply. You are covered by between
100000 and 100000 men,"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-09-04
COST OF EUROPEAN WAR.
Broker Figures the Cost at s27,777 a
Minute, or $4,000, 900 a Day.

Chicago.-A broker whose ordinary
occupation has been interrupted by
the war in Europe has been musing
on the money cost of that contest and
he has reduced his musings to figures.
In his estimates of the capital now
being expended for war purposes ne
has taken for basis a figure which
was said to be as nearly accurate as
possible and reduced that amount 20
per cent in order to be conservative
in his deductions. His figures do not
include any of the remote or construe-
tive losses, but only the direct cost
of the contest
The following are the figures: Cost
of war per minute. $27,777; cost OF
var an hour, s1.666,666; cost of war a
day. s4O,OOO,O00; war debt for one
month at S4O,O00.O0O per day, $780,,
100000; interest for one year at 6 per
cent, $72,00O.O0O. War debt for one
month with interest, s1,272, 900, 900.
War debt for six month at 10000, o0s
a day $4,000, O00,O 900. Interest for one
year at per cent, $43S,O0O, 900. War
dept for six months with interest, ST.
3S,000,000. War debt for one year at
s40,000,000 day, s14,400.0 100000. In
terest for one year at per cent, 1884,
100000. War debt for one year, with
interest $15,264, 100000
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-09-04
eIames 4 on the War.

New York.-The European war is
directly responsible for the increased
price of foodstuffs, according to re-
port filed by Mayor Mitchen's citt-
zen's committee, of which George ",
Perkins Is chairman.