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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-01-05
Johnny Writes

n. y. wonsdy-there's all kinds Of dinrent reasons
for wanting old acquaintance
Teller that Is president OF a bank in herkimer.
n " come down the city the luther day. and he
stopped 10 the cashear of the bank he does dismiss
with here
Blmeby the cashear says TO him. here's funny
thing, got lunch Engagement with jim jones presa-
dent of the steenth national bank
he comes from herkmer you must know him. and
naby you'd like to join lunch party
yes says the Teller from herkmer 1 know Jim Jones
all rite and kind Of think would like to him
worked nine years for Jim in herkimer, he paid
me about enough to keep chickin alive, and worked
me IA hours day regler
when i'got tired coudent get up in the morning
he locked me for being late
and Hnelly when I got up the to ask for so
cents more a week, he fired me
goodness me. says his trend the cashear. don't
see why you should want to see him again
we'll ansers the Teller think would like TO slam
him In the other eve lohny
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-01-05
Accidents Take Heavy
Toll of Children

cordlngly, lecture entitled Safety
ana Caution was prepared as a basis
ior talk 10 the children. No par.
ucular anecdotes We're needed, as II
was thought each teacher would re.
call many an illustrative fact which
could be used in reinforcing a spe.
cial point in the text. As a result
about $4,000 school teachers. April a.
1918, designated as Safety day made
interesting talks TO nearly 500 600
school children simultaneously"
Following the recent collapse of
steel beams in new office building
In New York just
Failure Of as the structure
Steel Beams. was nearing com.
pletion, engineers
In all parts OF the country have been
aroused on the urgent need OF get.
ting accurate information on the
standards of strength OF large steel
Orders used in the erection of Office
buildings and bridges.
Calls have been made on the Uni
ted States bureau OF standards Tor
official information on the weight
carrying strength or large beams, but
the government Is not able 10 furnish
the data because q testing machine
TO determine the strength OF steel
Orders and beams has not been built
Ia this country Giant testing ma,
chimes with tremendous pulling and
twisting power TO find the tensile
strength OF steel bars or 10 compress
a concrete or steel column are now q
part OF the la boratory equipment OF
the bureau OF standards. but there is
no machine to determine the amount
OF weight which a horizontal beam or
girder VIII carry.
A machine 10 test large beams has
been designed and its plans are now
in the Office of Prof s. w. Stratton
chief OF the bureau OF standards. The
design has been examined by ensi
neering experts In and out of the gov
eminent service. and should congress
appropriate for the building Of the
machine the United States VIII be IN
a better position than any other ma
ton In the world 10 furnish accurate
4 data on steel construction both in
buildings and in bridges. Large beam.
or 50 10 100 feet in length and sly
or more feet in thickness can be test
ed in the proposed new machine. En-
gineers are compelled TO admit that
there Is some guessing at the carry
ing strength Of large beams. and tina
some OF the present rules governing
weight capacity of beams are not &C
curate is indicated by the failure o
the beams in the New York building
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-01-05
His DISPOSITION.

During a concert tour OF the late
Theodore Thomas and his celebrated
orchestra. one of the musicians died.
and the following telegram was imtne.
dlately dispatched TO the parents or
the deceased:
John Blank died suddenly today.
Advise by wire as TO disposition"
In a few hours the answer was re.
ceiyed, reading as follows:
we are heartbroken: his DISPOSE
ton was a rowing one. P-Washington
Herald.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-01-05
The COMPROMISE

How did Jack and Mabel agree over
their dispute about the marriage ser.
vice?"
Mabel told Jack II he would make
good on the "allhis-worldly.g oods.en.
dowment proposition. she would make
the promise to obey Baltimore
American.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-01-05
POPULAR SONG SUGGESTION
when I've ShoVeled 10 the Lot Line,
Then ! Think I've Done Ny Share"
RuIes For the Snow Shovel

Rules For the Snow Shovel
When the blade OF the shovel
gets caught in a crack In the walk,
smile sweetly.
Never, under any circumstances,
be so profane as TO say what you
feel like saying 10 the man who,
in passing simply smiles.
Ditto In the case OF the next
man who tells you 1t Is great
exercise"
Don't get fused up II your wife
takes seat at the window TO look
on. It's amusement for her.
Never shovel further than end OF
your own walk.
It's what they call lumbago
Doesn't IL seem pity we can't all
work for the Ford Automobile com
pany7
Euclid, Ohio. may annex Cleveland
The invention Of the crayenetting
process for waterprooang textiles is
said 10 have been the result OF an
accident. Which explains, no doubt
that II you get a raincoat that pro
tects you from rain. II is an accident
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-01-05
IT LOOKS AS IF DISHONEST
MONEY WE'RE JUST A BIT "ShEERED

Let's suppose you wanted to buy a pair OF shoes
only three shoe stores in town. operated as you
I believe, by separate distinct companies
You have dealing the Black Tan Co., but on passing the
window Sole Co., pair OF sho wnoh uA your
aacy
Ypu 20 in and price them clerk tells they are So
You ask them S. and he replies that the board
~ director. has rule against cutting prices
thought strikes Mes and Smith directors
"A the company happen the store and he to you:
directors might ask them just LOT
Che aks Of being that we have only price
That satisfies you.
Suddenly you having kind OF shoes the window
recollection that they were marked "a
You decide try find that the shoes the
Same price from $ the original price put upon them
BY mistake
The clerk viii not cut price ST. because he 1.-The di
rectors nearly had fit them Me Jones and Smith hap
pend one dsy the them which costing BLACK
4 Tan dollar every pair sold
The names of Jones familiar sound and
wondering you heard them before proceed to Uper
nsteps the third and last store in the hope Of getting ne SHOES lot
less than s..
Thew are IS at this store the the other
And while you standing there talking with the clerk meeting
Of the directors Uppers auns in little side
room and ont walks Mes Smitdrecors of the Heel
Sole Co. whom YOU earlier the Black Tan Co., whom
you about the Uppe nss Co. whom you now
meet again. " ~
And recognizing YOU they say you only exposing their
bold plot: o-,-r
THERE ISN'T A BIT OF USE YOUR RUNNING ALL AROUND
TOWN TRYING TO GET YOU WANT FOR LESS THAN &c.
BECAUsE WE CONTROL EVERY STORE IN THIS TOWN
ZONE OF OUR COBBLERS FOUND THIS OUT JUST LAST WEEK
WHEN WE REFUSED HIM AN INCREASE WAGES AT ONE OF OUR
SHORES HE THOUGHT ONE OF THE OTHER TWO STOKES
WOULD BE GLAD TO GET HIM AT HIGHER WAGES
"HES BACK AT N0W(at which both laugh heartily
WORKING FOR LESS THAN HE GETTING BEFORE AND
WORKING LOGGER HOURS"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-01-05
Diary of Father Time

In 1885, Cotton Mather wrote a
book entitled Wonders OF the InvIs-
bile World" This book received the
Endorsement OF the president OF Har-
ward College The author cites many
cases OF persons who We're bewitched;
and also makes the interesting state
ment that the devil knows Greek,
Latin and Hebrew, but speaks English
with az accent These facts were
long used at Harvard as argument in
favor OF the classics, and when Greek
vas al last made optional. the devil
was supposed to have filed a protest
with the dean OF the faculty.
"We will dance through life to-
gether."
All then | am sure nothing can
even come between us."-N. Y. World.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-01-05
SAYINGS OF FAMOUS MEN
Dec Cook-"You're Another"

There's nothing like keeping ever
lastingly at It. The weather bureau
just simply kept right OH predicting
snow until 1t got here.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-01-05

That il how interlooling directorate works
That is how Morgan Co. has worked the thing
through nteng dreotorates from 20 Of which it has just resigned
Nth that eventually will withdraw from others
Figures Of the Puo committee investigating
xha money trust showed members Of j. P Morgan Co.,
the directors controlled trust companies and OF the First
City together hold BAL rectorshp In liz cor
aou, having aggregate capitalization of
Ts report fr with two New York city
nks National City National constitute the inner
4 the money trust -
another example supplied by Louis d. Bande which Illus
"the vicious conhe endless chainthrough which
financial oigaroh through nterong drecoae has operated
Morgan partner director Of the New York New Haven
hartford railroad that to sell to p Morgan Co.
. issue Of bonds
Morgan the with which those
na from the Guaranty company Of which MI Morgan Cor
rnrner) Is director
J. P. Morgan Co. sold the bonds to the Penn Mutual Life
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-01-05

An eastern hotel-owner is suing a
fish dealer who sold him dog-fish for
bass. The hotel owners appears
TO be what you'd cail a bony-Fidy case
What they mean, probably, when
they say an automobile has turned tur-
tie, is that II is in the soup.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-01-05
From Another Point of VielU

Of in killed
patroman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-30

the judiciary was to be elected and also
even officers of the church. During this
period great numbers of the nobility and
other royalists fled to Prussia and Aus
tria, whence they made trouble by
intriguing against the revolution. These
intrigues led to the great war which fol-
lowed in 1892.
All this time the word republic was
merely an academic term. Scarcely any
one In France thought of substituting
any other form of government for the
monarchy. so firmly fixed was the mon
archical idea in the minds of the people
That is why they brought the king from
Versatile to Paris. and again returned
him when he tried to fly across the from
tier.
Even the Duke of Orleans, who was
capable of it, had the idea come to him.
never tried to declare himself regent,
which he might have done with the king
in flight and both the latter's brothers in
foreign lands with the emigres Parlia-
ment even decreed that the king had been
carried off to Varennes, and it received
him on his return and had him take the
oath under the constitution.
The queens letters to her brother,
the emperor of Austria, had had their
effect, and when the national assem-
bly, met in October, 1871, France and
Austria were on the point of war. The
leaders of the new assembly were the
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felt that 1t was carrying a crusade for
the freedom of mankind to all the
world. A spirit of unity prevailed 1t,
and the manifesto of the Duke of
Brunswick demanding the restoration
of the monarchy in France and threat
ening to treat the revolutionary author
tiles as rebels set them ablaze with pa
triotism.
1t was al this critical period that the
Marseille battalion arrived in Paris.
having marched all the way, and
brought the immortal air of Rouget de
Lisle, which still inspires revolution
aries in whatever land it is heard.
August 10 the mob attacked the
Tuileries. routed the 5000 who guarded
it and looted the palace.
The royal family fed to the hall of
parliament, where they were overtaken
and imprisoned in the tower of the tenn
pie Danton. supported by the military.
usurped their place. The adherents of
the crown were arrested by scores,
while the army lists were filled for the
war.
Meanwhile Brunswick. leading the al
lies, had invaded French soil at Longwy,
so often mentioned in present day dis
patches. when now. as then. the invaders
are Prussian and Austrian A few days
later the garrison at Verdun surrendered.
The Girondin idealists' conduct of the
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An Eye-opener.
LITTERATEUR and ref

A LITTERATEUR and reformer was
defending his recent assertion that
the beer saloon turned the laborer into
a poet and a philosopher.
Beer" said he. does not merely
make a man foolish. Often it uplifts
him. Often it opens his eyes. Often it
makes him wise and kind and good"
He smiled pensively. Then he went on:
Take the case Of that wicked old
roue, Gobsa Code.
''Gobsa, leaning on. the arm Of a beau
'tiful young typewriter girl. passed from
his ninety horsepower gray touring car
into the Methodist parsonage of the vii
lage of Squash. He wished to be mar
red The minister looked him over care
fully. Then he turned to the young girl
and said:
my dear young lady. you must
bring Mr. Code back again tomorrow.
He is not fit to be married today. He is
drunk Have him put to bed in the hotel.
and let him come again when he's
sober
The girls beautiful eyes filled with
tears, and she answered in a tremulous
voice:
He won't come when he's sober"
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Gfrondins, so called because they came
from the Gironde. They were idealist
democrats, patriotic without being so
national as the more extreme men,
bers, and were noted orators. The ex
IRENE party, known as the Mountain,
was led by Robespierre. They repre-
scented Paris. They began by opposing
the coming war. but later not only ia
vored it, but actually sent to the gull
lotine the Girondins. who then had set
their faces against it.
In December. 1891. Louis asked the
king of Prussia to mobilize on the
French frontier to prevent the spread
of the revolution. Neither the Prus-
sian king nor the Austrian emperor
needed the warning. They both had
sensed the danger to their thrones
Then, too. the revolution had abolished
the feudal rights of Austrian princes
in Alsace; it had annexed the papal
state of Avignon and had outraged
other conventionalities. War was final
ly declared. and France went out to
fight two enemies whose combined
armies were about six times as great
numerically her body of unframed
troops.
But her army had gained a new spirit
1t was consecrated to democracy. 1t
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The fortresses themselves were practi-
cally buried in the earth with only
slight projections for the gun and OBJ
servation towers. These towers were
strong as to ricochet the best aimed
shell. Only at the moment of firing
was a gun exposed. elaborate machinery
Withdrawing it instantly from sight and
in a position for reloading. About the
whole emplacement was massed TWEEN
ty to thirty feet Of masonry and iron
with nearly five feet Of earth. and
against such barriers the ceaseless fire
of the German artillery seems to have
had little immediate effect.
mounted In the Liege forts is naturally
not a piece of public information. SINH
lar Suropean forts, and many of the
splendid fortresses of the United States
seacoast, contain mortars thirteen feet
long, fifteen tons in weight and require
125 pounds of maximite, three times as
strong as gunpowder. to deliver the pro-
jectile. The modern twelve-inch rifle,
a frequent equipment of the best mod
errS defenses, is forty feet long, weighs
shell for which a charge Of 500 pounds
of maximite Is necessary.
There is another and equally important
type of fertilization, that used in the
field and largely subject to the local con-
dtions and the demand for speed,
Trenches are placed wherever possible be-
hind hedges or concealed with artificial
screens. The troops have to take care
of the digging operations, with the assist
ance and under the supervision of the
engineers. The parapets are usually
three to four feet thick. sufficient to
block rifle fire, and eight feet thick when
shell fire must be faced.
1t is a matter of military theory. not
by any means carried out invariably,
that trenches should have a casemate or
roofing of timber. No engineer would
claim this protection a sure cure against
shells but it serves to minimize the de-
struction from shrapnel bullets and
splinters of shells.
Field Notifications rely considerably on
the creation of obstacles such as wire
entanglements where barbed wire Is
stretched between posts or trees. Wire
was favorite device of the Boer COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-30
Simplicity Does It.

A DETECTIVE was being congratu-
~ lated by a New York reporter on
the conduct Of a famous case.
How did you do It? You must have
employed some marvellous method" said
the reporter.
"Oh, no." said the detective. He added:
You cast a great deal of light on
criminal just by shadowins him.
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and gave the British not little trouble.
The cost of a modern fortress is about
two million dollars. although such phe-
nomenally complete types as the Island
of Helgoland have run to ten or TWEEN
ty times that amount A single twelve
inch rifle costs $4,000. its carriage $41,-
600 and the emplacement of concrete
$4,000, a total of SAG. OO0-merely to sup
ply lonely item in a nations defense.
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IT'D inland Americans acquainted
solely with moldering fortifica-
L lions along the Canadian boun-
6arv or the blockhouses that served for
the Indian campaigns, the marvel OF
the Liege resistance to the most pow
erful army in the world almost passes
credulity. Even those who have least
ed their eyes and braced their conf
dence on the splendid chain of sea-
coast Notifications bordering the At
Iantic and Pacific oceans have shared
an establishment that has passed equal
" to the military and naval experts
of Europe.
modern fortified position. as the
United States and Europe have come
to understand that term, is as differ
ent from a fortress of fifty years ago
as is the dreadnought from Columbus
caravel
Evolution in forts has been obliged
to keep pace with the amazing de
velopment of arms and ammunition
With the introduction of rifed guns
the large detached fort with Its mas
sive walls and total reliance upon
stone masonry has given place to the
smalles possible infantry redoubt.
There are now no open parade grounds;
the sky is blotted out with steel and
earth. Deep bitches endeared in fic-
tion as the ''moat" are to be found
in few modern plans of defense. but
have been retained about Antwerp,
Belgium and other old centers. Height
and terrifying appearance have been
reduced to low and invisible lines: in
deed, many of the fortified positions in
the present war resemble an innocent
stretch of country meadow. Stone
walls. once the hope of the beleaguered.
are today merely supplementary to
banks of earth, concrete and metal.
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smokeIess powder In 1890, since which
the discharge of guns was no longer
accompanied by the tell-tale puff of
smoke This in turn made Lea advisable sab
walton of the attacking forces. and
so the disappearing gun has been
adopted by all countries:
A very common design of modern
fortress, of which the Liege forts and
those at Namur and Antwerp are only
variations. places girdle of infantry
redoubts at from four to six miles
from the edge of the defended city and
at intervals of from one to two and a
half miles apart. According to the
is made up of from half company to
half a battalion. Between the redoubts
are lined up the howitzers at spots
affording the maximum protection.
Direct firing fortress guns are also
employed to supplement the howitzer
fire The transport of ammunition
along an extended line of Qualifications
is, Of course, vital question and this
has sometimes been solved by building
a trench railway that makes a circuit
of the batteries.
1t will be seen that the object of mod
ern military science is to halt an enc
my's advance with gun fire rather than
with such obstacles as moats or I'M
means the capture of the fortress al
most as easily as walking into de-
partment store.
How the defenders of Liege were able
to stand off the German attack has
been indicated in dispatches in the most
fragmentary and vague fashion. When
it is stated. however. that instead of
storming a set of stone walls as in the
Franco-Prussian and earlier campaigns.
the kaiser's hosts found themselves face
to face with a chain of holes in the
ground. called emplacements. from
which belched thousand mouths of fire
and against which siege guns and ma
chine guns had small chance to land a
fatal shot. the delay in the German
program of advance is not so surprising.
Before Lege lay a countryside swept
clear Of trees. houses and shrubbery
SO as to give the guns free play and
force the foe to the maximum exposure.
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the revolution which was surely sweep
ing toward him. The little royal group
was now practically imprisoned in the
Tuileries. Mrabeau, the leader of the
assembly. did much to hold the revolu-
tionists from excuses. He became. how
ever, about 1890 the. secret advisor Of
the king. His advice as in the main
good and if Louis had followed 1t much
which came after would never have hap
pened. but Mirabeau was hated and sus
pected by both king and queen. and after
his death in 1891 they lost the only prac-
teal friend they had
All this time Marie Antoinette was Sc
cretly corresponding with the courts of
Vienna and Berlin. seeking to induce
them to threaten France by mobiliZing
their armies on her frontier She said
if this was not done the revolution would
spread to every country of Europe. Mira
beau had advised the king to withdraw
from Paris. gather the army about him
and declare war on the revolution. In
stead, the queen induced him to attempt
flight. In June they secretly left Paris.
but were captured at Narennes and taken
back.
In 1871 a new constitution was decreed
France was divided into eighty-three de
partments governed by elected officers :;
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BY HERBERT CAXToN.

j mas peen Sdin tndi
the present IT,
tanic struggle in
Europe is one be-
tween autocracy
and democracy.
and it is predicted
I h a t, whatever
the result may
be, the twilight
of the kings has
set in. The out
come cannot be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-30

The March of De-
mocracy Began a Cen
fury and a Half Ago.
Impetus From Amer
ica-A Little Pamph-
let and a Great Revo-
luton - The Council
of Notables - When
the Prussians Invaded
Longwy = End of the
Reign of Terror-Rise
of Russia and Prussia.
BY HERBERT CAxToN.