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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-19
Allies on Offensive.

Both the German and French Off
cial reports continue evidence that the
Allies offensive movement is begin
ming to gather impetus and is meet.
ing with stubborn resistance from the
German troops, who have been left to
hold the Western line while their com
rades are battling with the Russians
in the East. The French have been
particularly active in the Woevre re-
gion, where they have been trying to
cut off the German force which pro-
jects like an arrow head to st. Mihiel
on the Meuse.
The troops in France and Belgium
are suffering from plague of mud
and damp, which causes them greater
discomfort than did the cold wave at
the end of November.
More Fighting Around the Ypres.
The German report shows that Gen
eral Joffre's men have reached a point
midway between st. Mihiel and Pont-
a-Mousson, as they must have got
across the German line of communi-
cations, but they lost six hundred men
in prisoners and large number of
killed and wounded. In the same re-
gion the French claim to have made
substantial progress. There has also
been more fighting around Gpres-
that bone of contention in Flanders.
Allies Claim Gains.
The Allies are reported from Paris
ard London to be making slow but
steady gains along the entire battle
Tine in northern France and in Bel
GUM. This advance has been pro-
ceeding for the last six days. accord.
ing to the Information. The Allies
nave captured Roulers, in Belgium,
and Armentieres. in northern France.
Both are strategic points.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-19

western seNSpapef mon news service
Misunderstanding. Gen. Hugh l..
Scott, chief of staff OF the United
States army, left Wednesday for Naco,
Ariz., to endeavor TO use his personal
influence with the warning factions
near Naco to stop firing into American
territory. He was accompanied by
Lieut.. Col. Robert E. L. Niche, who
was on the staff of General Scott
when the latter was at Ell Paso.
Should this final effort fail, and the
threat of the American government,
communicated both to Provisional
President Gutierrez and General Car
rama, that force would be used if their
subordinates did not cease firing into
the United States go unheeded, it is
generally understood that a defensive
fire will be begun by the six batteries
of artillery, eleven troops of cavalry
and three regiments of infantry which
have been ordered by the Washington
authorities to the international line.
Gen. Scott will not supersede Gen.
Bliss, who is in command of the Naco
situation. but will act in diplomatic
capacity, role in which he had sue
cess in similar situation at FL Paso
and the troubles among the Arizona
Indians
Provisional President Gutierrez has
assured the United States government
that none of the executions which have
occurred in Mexico City recently have
been at his orders, but were the re-
suit of 1.-The commission of actual
crimes"
Gutierrez said decree would be
published prohibiting the carrying out
for the trial of the accused by court
martial, with someone being permitted
to conduct the Defense"
Incidentally, it was learned that the
United States government. in view OF
the recent executions in Mexico City
had pointed out in friendly way tc
the Gutierrez government the horror
which the civilized world felt toward
such occurrences American consular
representatives, moreover. were in
structed to indicate that the American
government could not but view with
disfavor such incidents.
An American battery was placed on
the Bisbee road nearly three miles
from Naco but about two miles from
the border in a straight line and di
rectly north of Governor Maytorenas
headquarters This battery faces the
front of tie Villista force besiegine
Gen. Hills Carranza soldiers in Naco
Sonora. 1t also places Hills east
trenches. The guns are trained direct
ly SOUTH and the gunners are sta
toned beside their artillery. Two more
American batteries are in the same rel
ative position as the one installed ex.
cept that they are further west.
Battle Raging.
Ell Paso.-The first decisive battle
between the Carranza and Villa fac
tions of the constitutionalist revolu-
zionist army is in progress near San
Pedro de las Colonias, town east OF
Torreon Several columns of Car
rama troops from Coahuila state, ag-
gregating about 5000 men, are being
engaged by a Villa force Of slightly
superior number.
Reinforcements for both sides are
being rushed to the scene of conflict,
Both sides have ample artillery and
the fighting is described as desperate.
The Carranza force is commanded by
Col. Ilifonzo Vasquez, a man of less
than thirty years.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-19
On the Trail of Friend Husband

On the Trail Of Friend Husband.
Mrs. F'ury-Has yo' seed anything
O. muh husband, Brudder Lopp?
The Night Owl-W'y. howdy, Sistah
Fury; howdy. Nome, l isn't seed him
since long bout ten o'clock But what
brings yo' downtown at dis time o
night?
Mrs Fury-Lookin' for dat man O.
mine And l hopes to de Lawd nuth'n'
happens to him befo' l finds him,
uh-kaze Is gwine to bust his head wild
dis club when l kotches him!-Kan-
sas City Star az
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-19
Believe Dorskrs Sweetheart Got $500

Pueblo-That a sweetheart of Cor
poral Frank Dorski got away with $S,-
700 of the money stolen from the Wal
senburg postoffice two weeks ago. was
the theory advanced in the federal
court when Dorski and his five com
panions were arraigned before United
States Commissioner Gardner NJ.
Greene. All waived examination and
were sent to the Pueblo county Jail in
default of $500 bond.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-19
Presidents Prober. to Visit Colorado

New York.-The members of the
Presidents Colorado coal strike COM
mission held conference here, after
which Chairman Seth Low announced
that Charles W. Mills and Patrick Gil
day OF the commission purpose to go
to Colorado soon after Jan. as a pre-
liminary to a later meeting of the full
commission.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-19
Driving Germans Back.

The Russian forces which checked
the German advance in Northern Po-
land are now in full pursuit of the
army of General Francois. which con-
tinues to retreat toward the East
Prussian Frontier An official state
ment issued at Petrograd asserts the
Germans are being driven back in the
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-19
The Latest Reports Say They
Have Retaken Belgrade
From Austrian Army
After Struggle.
FRENCH ARE ACTIVE
Their Offensive Movement Increases
Near ST. Mihiel-kings Of
Norway, Sweden and
Denmark Meet.
(Summa,y Of E0ents.)

The Servians, after fierce bat
tie, have reoccupied Belgrade, ac-
cording to Nish dispatch. The
Austrians occupied Belgrade De
cember =, after having besleged 1t
since July 20, bombarding from
batteries near Simlin and from
monitors on the Danube. A large
portion of the city was said to
have been destroyed by the fire OF
the Austrians. When war was
declared the Servian government
moved from Belgrade to Gragu-
yevats and later went farther
south to Nish, where it remains.
The most striking feature of the
official news is the candid admission
by. the Austrian government OF the de-
feat Of the Austrian army in Servia
and apparently OF the abandonment
of its third attempt to invade the ter
ritory of it's small Slav neighbor.
While attributing the failure to the
enemy's superior force, as all govern
ment bulletins explain failures, the
Austrian war office announces plainly
an extended retirement and heavy
losses
servian Rally a Wonder
The marvellous recovery OF the Ser
vians and their defeat of four Aus
trian army corps which had penetrat-
ed half way across Servia, remains the
wonder Of military men. The crown
prince, in an address to his troops, told
them that they had beaten and
pushed the enemy with rapidity un-
heard of in military history"
The shattered Austrian right wing
crossed the Drina into Bosnia. where
it was attacked by the Montenigrins
near Veshegrad and had to leave au-
other toll OF prisoners, killed and
wounded and war material The pur-
suing Servians also picked up another
five thousand prisoners and some guns
and munitions
Serbs Win Big Victory.
An important Austrian defeat in
Bosnia is now an established fact.
The Servians drove a wedge into the
center of the Austrian forces, shatter-
ing four army corps, which are now
in flight. The mass of prisoners and
captured material is SO great that it
cannot be tabulated.
The Servians are pushing the pur-
suit vigorously and successfully. The
roads in the rear of the Seryian army
are blocked with incoming prisoners
who appear satisfied that their ordeal
is over. Entire battalions are seen
marching under guard of handful of
Servians, while many groups of pris-
ouers come in unattended, says
Scrvian official report.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-19

to twist any old thing man says
into proposal.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-19

If you wish beautiful, clear white
clothes, use Red Cross Bag Blue. At all
good grocers. Adv.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-19
~Watchful WaitjNo,"

What are we TO do for fashions. II
the war in France continues?"
Wear as little as we can, and
wait. t."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-19

direction OF Mlawa, which is only eight
miles from the German frontier.
Siavs Block Advance.
or the five Austro-German columns
which for some days appeared to be
making steady progress in their in
vasion of Poland. three have suffered
checks, according to the official re-
port from Russian headquarters. The
column which was making a down
ward stroke from Mlawa. on the east
Prussian frontier, and which was re-
ported in one dispatch from Petrograd
TO be within fifteen miles of Warsaw,
was repulsed after an energetic often
sive, and under counter attacks from
the Russians, was compelled to. retire
al some points.
Germans RepuIsed.
The attacks Of the main German
column which had its front on the
line Letween Lodz and Lowicz. and
which came down diagonally from
Thorn. we're delivered with great
force. but. according to the Russian
account, were repulsed with heavy
losses to the invaders. That the Ger
r.ans attached great importance to
the success OF their attack here Is
shown by the fact that in the two
days they faced the Russian trenches
seven times and were driven back by
a murderous fire.
Didn't Relieve cracow.
The ether column which has suf-
fereI IL that composed of German and
Austrian troops which has been trying
TO outha1k the Russian left south of
Cracow In this case it was the Rus
sian who assumed the offensive, and
they claim that after a tenacious re-
sistance they defeated the Germans.
taking several guns and 1000 pris
oners.
Pursuing the Russians.
The Germans declare they are pur
suing the Russians to the south and
southeast OF LODI. Several American
spondents We're with the Rus
sian army when the battle of LODI
broke, but nothing has been heard
from them for several days. Evident
censorship.
British military experts say that
three-quarters of the best material OF
the German army has been held in the
western theater of war throughout the
campaign and that the troops opposed
to the Russians consist principally OF
second line organizations.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-19
u. S.ARMY CHIEF
GOES TO BORDER
GENERAL SCOTT STARTS FOR
NAco TO PERSUADE MEx-
CANS TO QUIT FIRING
OVER LINE.
BATTLE NEAR TORREON
GUNS CRASH ABOUT NORTHERN
RAIL CENTER IN FIRST DE-
cisIvE CLASH OF
RIVALS.

western Newspaper Union New. Service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-22

Under this loan the park area has been
increased to 1874 acres. AS in Har-
risburg, Spokane has added largely
to its park system through the dona-
ton of lands by public-spirited
citizens.
1t is interesting to note also that
much has been done in the Western city
in the way of providing for future de-
velopment in the same manner that is
now proposed by our own City Plan
ming Commission. 1t is no longer the
rule to wait until the need is at hand
before proper street lines and grades
and other details are arranged. These
matters are now regarded as prelimi-
nary to the. development of later
years.
Other cities are working along the
lines of Harrisburg and Spokane and
1t is with some qualification that the
people of Harrisburg learn from time
to time of the adoption elsewhere of
the Harrisburg plan of development,
not, only in it's park system, but in
other features of civic growth and i'm
provement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-22
Plain Letters by a Plain Man

Messrs. Vance c. Mccormick and A.
Mitchell Palmer,
Gentlemen:
One plank of the Baltimore plat
form of 1912 was:
"The law pertaining to the
civil service should be honestly
and rigidly enforced to the end
that merit and ability shall be
and promot rather than SER
Vice rendered to a political
party"
Candidate Wilson solemnly as
sured the nation that, Our plat
form is not molasses to catch flies.
It means what il says. It is the
utterance of earnest and honest
men"
How has the pledge above given
been observed? Has it been kept.
other. planks Of this platform, the
promises OF which were mot mo-
lasses to catch fiies?"
Woodrow Wilson, as Princeton
professor, was, an official of the
League, and wrote glowing eulogies
upon the beauties and benefits of
civil service.
Woodrow Wilson, as President of
the United States. on october 90,
1913, signed a deficiency appropria-
tion bill which contained as a rider
provision which exempted all
deputy collectors OF internal reve-
nue. and all deputy United States
marshals from the operations of
the civil service law.
And then began the wild scramble
for these places. which has been
going on ever since. Tried and
competent officials were hurriedly
replaced by new men, not on the
standard of merit or ability" but
of service rendered to political
party"
Perhaps Woodrow Wilson, the
President, has forgotten to read the
writings of Woodrow Wilson, the
private citizen.
Possibly. after all, that Balti-
more platform was "molasses to
catch flies"
In signing the bill mentioned,
President Wilson gave the first de-
structive blow to civil service re-
form that 1T had received since its
institution, in 1888, as a feature
of our Government.
Successive Presidents have taken
advantage of the discretion which
the law affords to broaden and
widen the scope of civil service 1t
was fostered by Harrison, Cleve-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-22
THE PLANTING OF A TREE

.- [Arbor Day. October 23.1
Wouldst thou upbuild a home where
IE sweet wild lives are nested,
Glad with the sound of song, quick
with the flash of wings,
Where the soft broods may rock,
warm-housed and unmolested,
Deep in the leafy hooks, through all
the changeful springs?
Or wouldst thou rear an arch of
noblest grace and splendor,
Lifted in air and light, shaped by
the sun and storm,
Moved by the wandering wind, swayed
by each influence tender,
Yet by the hand of life nodded to
steadafst form?
Wouldst thou make day more fair. and
night more rich and holy,
Winter more keenly bright, and
summers self more dear,
Grant the sweet earth a gift, deep
rooted, ripening slowly.
Add to the sum of joys that bless
the rounded year?
Go, then, and plant a tree, lovely in
sun and shadow,
Gracious in every kind-maple and
oak and pine.
Peace of the forest glade, wealth of
the fruitful meadow.
Blessings of dew and shade, here
after shall be thine!
For though thou never see the JOY thy
hand hath granted,
Those who shall follow thee thy
generous boon may share.
Thou shall be Natures child. who her
best fruit hath planted,
And each of many a spring shall
find thy gift more fair
MARION COUTHOUY SMITH.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-22

great as in 1913. From day to day
the demand for export grain is fea-
ture on the New York Produce EX-
change. Meat products of all sorts are
in huge demand. Foreign officers are
buying many thousands of horses.
But the market for manufactured
wares appears to be no less. There
are very large orders being placed for
all sorts of material of war, term
which includes such diverse articles as
barbed wire and automobiles. In ad-
dition clothing and underclothing for
the troops in the field and for civilians
at the hear are eagerly sought. The
shrinkage in home manufactures COM
pels the beuigerent peoples to come
here for their supplies. Just now the
call is extensive for footwear and un-
derwear of plain, durable quality, 60
per cent. wool. 1t is said that existing
stocks in this country could be sold
out completely If the holders did not
refuse to risk a scarcity in the domes-
tic trade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-22
LOOKING TO Us

a LII Europe is looking toward
IN America to succor the sick and
= wounded and to provide food
for the homeless in the wal
zone, and now comes cry from China
that thousands are on the verge OF
starvation there and that the benevo-
lence of the good people of the United
States alone can save them.
Floods have wrought tremendous
damage. The consul generals report
reads:
Many millions in distress will
need help until the next harvests.
been blotted out. The loss of life
may never be known, but the suf-
fering is appalling. This is only
the beginning. Help is needed now.
Delay cannot be long II these peo-
pie are to be saved
AS citizens of Christian nation
we hear this appeal in behalf of those
facing a more terrible situation, so far
as the immediate loss of life is con-
cerned, than the people of the ma
tions in the great war. The agonies
of starvation widely eclipse those oc-
fare. The attention of our National
Red Cross Society is occupied in seek
ing to mitigate something of the hor-
rors of the sufferers in Europe. 1t is
not necessary that we relax our ef-
forts at making the situation there
less horrible. Our first duty is to help
make the relief measures there sue
cessful.
On the other hand, to save the
situation in China will require such a
relatively small effort and the result
will be so far-reaching in the advance
for the elimination of famine in China
that inaction must remain inexcusable
on the part of those who might con-
tribute funds. What shall the reply
to the cry of the famine be? America
has never closed her eyes to situa-
ton like this and it is gratifying to
note that the Christian Herald, OF
New York, has undertaken to raise
the needed relief funds.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-22
THE RISING TIDE OF EXPORTS
[From the New York sunJ

GFrom the New York Sunl
After all, the war cloud may prove
to have a silver lining, or rather a
golden one. The latest developments
in the business and financial situation
are far different from what the pessi-
mists were predicting only a week or
two ago. All talk of stagnation in
our export trade has ceased and alarm
over the settlement of our debts to
Europe is disappearing as millions of
credits are transferred to New York
to pay for the huge purchases that
England, France, Germany and Russia
are making or planning to make here.
great variety of interests. Except cot
ton, which so far remains in a class
by itself, all forms of rural industry
are benefited. September's shipments
of wheat, flour, corn and kindred
products were two and half times as
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-22

negative points in. Brumbaugh- in their
speeches at Pittsburgh yesterday. They
don't know him.
If as Mccormick says there are
faults in the schools. Brumbaugh is
the very man to correct them.
Roland Morris is out in Phila-
delphia with a statement that Pal
mer is a friend of business. Must be
getting scared.
Mccormick might start his "clean-
up" at Democratic State headquar-
ters, taking the fiscal agent" for in
stance.
THE Delaware county Prohibition
dorse local option candidates and
stuck to their own nominees.
Mccormick and his crew are in
Philadelphia for a four-day tour.
William Draper Lewis is to speak
in Waynesboro Saturday. Probably to
address Roosevelt Progressives.
Governor Tener plans a vigorous
speech for Pittsburgh next week.
Not much is being said about the
Highway Department since DR.. Brum-
baugh suggested that IL there is any
thing wrong the fiscal officers should
find it.
The Philadelphia Bulletin appears
to think that the Colonel won't help
much in his tour of the State.
the Bull Moosers to go to meet the
Colonel. The mills there have been
hit by the tariff for which Mccormick
stands.
-Pinchot got frost in West Ches-
ter last night. He says he is hope
full, but has no figures.
John r. Mclean, Jr., an inde-
pendent Philadelphian long active in
politics, is ont with a letter in which
he says he will not stand for McCor-
mick.
Billy Berry is out again in Phila-
delphia. The Wilson tariff has caused
business to fall off so much that he
has time to spare from the customs.
The Civil Service Reform Asso-
citation says in a statement that Nc
Cormick and Brumbaugh stand for
the same thing in State civil service.
Tyson Kratz says DR.. Moore has
set back local option ten years by his
dragging of the Anti-Saloon League
into politics.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-22
Do YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg makes some OF
tho largest waterwheels in the
country?
DIR. BRUMBAUGH's STAND
TPhiladelphia Public Ledeer1

philadelphia Public LEDGER
1t is common experience of politi-
cal campaigns to find the candidates
taking refuge behind shuffling equivo-
cations. This Doctor Brumbaugh has
resolutely declined to do. He comes
out into the open and speaks from the
shoulder, and leaves none who hears
him in doubt where he stands.
Through all his campaign speeches
runs the sincere purpose to take the
people into his confidence as to what
he intends to do when he is made
Governor. He refuses to be side
tracked into the kind of epithetic con-
troversy which may have it's noisy ef-
feet for the moment in applause and
laughter, but neither molds the con-
victions nor wins the votes of the So
ber, silent, thinking portion of the
electorate. The voter wants facts, not
personalities.
The paramount issue is not the sue
cess of a man, nor even the lift of a
party, but the welfare of the State.
1t is of vital concern to choose for
Governor one who thinks right, and
therefore will act right In the settle
ment of grave pending problems af-
fecting the citizens individually and
collectively.