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McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-09-18
Statement
DESCRIBES RETREAT.
GERMAN RETIREMENT CALLED A
RouT-MANY GUNS BEING
LEFT BEHIND.
sTAkED ALL ON BATTLE
Allied Armies Have Crossed Marine,
While Germans Have Abandoned
Neighborhood of Nancy.
French In Luneville.

Paris. - An official communication
tonight says:
"First-On our left wing the gen
eral retreat of the Germans continues
before the French and British forces,
who have reached the lower course Of
the Aisne.
"Second-Likewise in the center the
German armies are retreating. We
have crossed the Marine between
Epernay and Vitry-le-Francois. On
our right wing the enemy in like man
ner has begun retiring movement,
abandoning the region around Nancy.
We have reoccupied Luneville.
"The German retreat is so rapid
that 1t may be described as a fight.
Everywhere they have left not only
guns and ammunition, but even their
personal belongings, showing their
precipitious haste.
"The prisoners give marked i'm
preston of utter restitution, over
driving and encouragement. The
horses particularly are exhausted.
"The ommander-in-chief Of the
French armies addressed the follow
ing order to his troops:
"'At the moment when a battle is
being engaged, on the result of which
the welfare Of the country depends,
it is important to remind all that it is
no longer time to look behind. All
efforts must be employed to attack
and drive back the enemy.
"a force which cannot advance any
farther shall, no matter at what cost,
retain the conquered ground and be
killed on the spot rather than fall
back. Under the present circum-
stances no weakness can be toler-
ated.'"
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RUSS AVIATOR GIVES
LIFE TO WRECK FOE

London.-Captain Nesteroff. one Of
the most daring Russian ayiators, and
the first of his countrymen to loop
the loop, has sacrificed his life in
successful attempt to destroy an Aus
trian aeroplane. says Petrograd dis
patch.
According to report from the front
Captain Nesteroff was returning from
an aerial reconnaissance when he saw
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an Austrian aeroplane lowering over
the Russian forces.
The Russian aviator Immediately
changed the direction of his machine
and headed at full speed straight for
that Of the Austrian. Although he
must have. known well that victory by
such tactics could be gained only at
the cost OF his own life. he dashed into
the Austrian aeroplane. The force Of
the impact caused the collapse Of both
machines. which plunged to the earth,
the two ayiators meeting instant
death.
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Sienkiewicz A Prisoner

London.-A dispatch to the Evening
News from fetrograd says that Henryk
Sienkiewicz, the Polish writer and
author of Quo Vadis," who recently
appealed to the Poles to support Rus
STA in the war, has been taken pri-
oner by the Austrians and sent to
Cracow.
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Many German Prisoners.

Washington.-The British embassy
received the following dispatch from
its foreign office: "The Anglo-French
forces Rave taken many prisoners, in
GLIDING a battalion Of infantry, a mi
trailleuse company and many cais-
sons"
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servian Women Eiaht.

Amsterdam.-A Prague newspaper
says Servian women and children are
helping fight the Austrians. One IL
year-old girl. lying wounded In Teu-
satz hospital boasts of throwing 16
hand grenades at her country's enemy
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Take 100000 Prisoner

Rotterdam. A dispatch to the
Nieuwe Rotterdamsch Courant from
Berlin says the number of prisoners
of war now in Germany is about
100000. Among these prisoners are
1880 Russian officers and 91.4OO Rus,
sian privates.
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Unklnd Suggestion.

my youngest boy is always think.
Ing of bright and clever things" said
Mr.. Bliggins.
I've often heard you say So" re-
piled Miss Cayenne as she moved
YEARLY on. SYou ought to get him to
tell you a few of them some time
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10000 ENGAGED.

London.-A dispatch to the Ex-
change Telegraph company from Rome
says 1t is reported from Basel that 3d.
600 men were engaged in fierce bat
tie between Thaun and Senheim. The
Germans occupied the Gebweiler Val
ley at the foot of the French vosges.
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Bordeaux.-The health department
II the war office has reported that this
war is not resulting In very heavy
loss OF life. II assets that of every
hundred men placed hors de combat
only two are killed.
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Tramp Steamer Hits Mine

London.-A dispatch to the Star
from New Castle says that the tramp
steamer Ottawa struck a mine off
Northumberland and went down. So
far as is known none Of the crew of
rs men was saved.
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CROWN prlnce Win Floht

London. According to f'etrograd
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
company, it is believed there that tie
German crown prince has been ap.
pointed commander-in-chief of the
forces against Russia.
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Austrian Landstrum caIIed.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the Austrian
iandstrum, born in 1894, will be called
to the colors, according to unofficial
news from Vienna, which is quoted In
dispatch from Amsterdam to the
Reuter- Telegram company.
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Whenever You Need . General Tonic
Take Groves

The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUININE
and IRON. 1t acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents
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krunp Exnerts raken.

Amsterdam.-A large German aero
plane has been shot at and brought
down by Belgians at Stypen. East
Flanders. Three officers who were in
the machine proved to be well known
experts from Krupps.
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London. British troops have met
and defeated German force of 400,
which entered Nyassaland, British
Central Africa, according to an an
nouncement by the official press bu-
reau.
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n,Annunulo 70 seoome serplnn

Paris. = Gabrielle d'Annunzio, the
author. announ,, ed that he would re-
nounce his his Italian citizenship and be.
come Servian should Italy persist
In her refusal to join the allies.
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c.rman Flee, OF AIand Islands.

Copenhagen.--A dispatch from Rau-
mo. Finland, says that, according to
statements by pilots and fishermen, a
German fleet has been cruising in the
waters south Of the Aland Islands.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-09-18

London.-A dispatch to the Reuter-
Telegram company from Paris says
the French have occupied Scissors,
Department of Aisne.
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Doesn't Miss Il.

docs your furnace smoke to dis.
agreeable extent, Mrs. Jags?"
mo; but my husband does"
Evening star., 1914-08-09

BATH" the small glass of liqueur like
wise brimming, the carafon of orange
flower water with its Jumps of sugar,
and a glass of sirup for the hopeful
a waiter clean, grave. in a high dickie.
The father read the paper, the mother
slept over her crochet work and the
boy made houses with the dominoes.
Or the society of one table would ex-
change civilities with that of its neigh
Dor. Acquaintance were made, and. lat
er. marriages. Establishments that still
maintained their reputation of the grand
old days were looked on as fast, and the
bourgeois, in Monselet's verses. crossed
himself as he passed Tortoni's or the
Maison Doree, imagining the orgies Of the
literary and foreign sets who made them
their peculiar place.
The grand old days of the Boulevard.
Rotous old Lord Seymour-he who for
Evening star., 1914-08-09
Safe -HASH PHoToGRAPflED WITH NouflG CXrIERA

ed in this way: The rain falling in one or
two streams down the sides Of the tree
forms conductor which becomes in
sufficient at the time of violent discharges
to carry OF all of the electricity. This ex-
cess energy dispersesy itself as best 1t
can. but sometimes 1t strikes the sap
through knothole and it blows away a
large portion of the bark.
The most disastrous shocks occur when
the electricity is insufhciently carried off
by the outer surface. 1t collects at the
junction of the main branches and the
trunk, where there is a cavity containing
water. The tree is rent by the explosion
of the steam generated.
We often hear of a housemaid being
struck while hanging or removing clothes
from wire clothes line. 1t is preferable
to chance an additional soaking of the
clothes than to attempt to remove them
from a metal line during storm.
OF the various varieties of lightning.
those with which We are most familiar
are the 'fmpulsive rush and the multi
Pile flash" When lightning takes glob-
ular form it is called ball lightning.
This of all varieties is the most battling
Evening star., 1914-08-09

posed of. if the conductor is in connection
with the earth. When 1t falls upon a
piece of -wood-a bad conductor-it will
shatter the wood into fragments and pos
sibly develop enough energy to set it
afire. -
This fact involves the entire principle Of
the relation between lightning and man.
He must attend to this dangerous amount
Of electrical energy and his effort should
be to dissipate 1t as quietly, not as
quickly, as possible.
Whether to install lightning rods on
ones property is. after all, matter of in
dividual judgment. Lightning rods do
really protect buildings If they are built
of the proper materials and are properly
installed and grounded in moist earth.
They increase a buildings susceptibility to
being struck, but properly rodded house
is struck frequently without injury.
whereas a single stroke without rod pro-
lection may cause grave disaster.
Because of the invariability with which
lightning aims to dissipate itself within
the earth. many other simple rules for
protection have been fixed. Any upright
object within the danger zone of a thun
Evening star., 1914-08-09

in its movements. These balls are Of diff
ferent colors, ranging from flaming red
to electric blue, and may be as great as
two feet or as small as two inches in
diameter. They always disappear with
an explosion accompanied by vivid Zig
zag flashes. $50
No electric phenomena are more purs
ling to science than the subtleties of ball
lightning. In France some time ago one
of these luminous globes entered the din
ing room of a residence and hung sus-
pended over the table at which the fam
lily was eating. After circling the room
it passed out through the doorway with
out damaging the house, although the
mother Vas rendered unconscious and the
daughters arm was paralyzed.
~f.s
What we term ''heat lightning and
what appears to. be noiseless discharge
is in reality but a reflection of discharges
occurring in distant localities. A rare
variety is bead lightning" a series OF
bright spots producing the same effect as
string of pearls. s'+a sa'.-.. -'fs-
Evening star., 1914-08-09

to be ignorant of living. The Boulevard
was a bowling green ("bour-vert") on
the northern outskirts, lined by rustic
cabarets. And great ladies, descending
from their carriages took seats in the
open.
After us the deluge" they repeated.
The deluge came, but 1t assisted the
development of the cafe along all its
predestined lines. The democratic
reasons of the great French revolution
decided that the cafes should be ap-
pendages to a new, untrammeled and
promiscuous public social life.
1t was from a table of a cafe terrace
:. of the Palais-Royal that Camille Des-
moulins harangued the populace the
night before the taking of the Bastille,
and it was around these cafe tables
that the red-handed ones of the terror
began to play the gentleman. Cafes
were public clubs for pose and polite
ness. where women mingled in equality
with men.
One goes to wine shop to drink wine
to restaurant to eat. to hotel to
Evening star., 1914-08-09
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dercloud-that is. in the area under the
clouds liable to be struck. Trees,
church steeples and towers are well
known targets. 1t is always wise If
caught in an open field during storm
to stand alone and take chances on get
ting drenched to the skin rather than to
seek the shelter of any of these objects.
The human body besides being small and
little likely to attract the lightning of
itself, is better conductor of electricity
than the air it displaces. The moisture in
the body acts as the conductor.
A story is told Of a man who was
standing near a willow tree during a
storm. He was struck, and while his
boots were found at the foot Of the tree,
he was picked up about six feet away.
The explanation of this strange occur
renee is that the air gap which the shoes
created between the mans body and the
ground. although very small. was suff1-
cient to cause an increased expenditure
of energy as the electricity crossed the
Evening star., 1914-08-09

from being struck by lightning. The
great expanse of tin roof connected with
grounded water spouts acts as perfect
conductor. 1t is the farmhouse that
stands alone in an open, meadow that is
subject to greatest danger, .
The fact that lightning strikes -four
times as many people Of outdoor occupa-
ton as any other class emphasizes the
wisdom of keeping indoors during cleo
trical disturbances. But II you do hap
pen to be out of doors seek the heart of
a dense wood rather than the outskirts.
The large collection Of trees acts as a
multiple conductor.
XII
The single tree alone in a field is
treacherous companion in a storm. Ashes,
elms, oaks and poplars are dangerous.
Beeches naples and birches are hardly
ever touched. Lightning strikes trees in
two well defined ways. The most COM
mon and luckily the slightest scores out
the bark on the trunk and often reaches
the lower limbs far out into the small
branches and twigs. 1t may be explain
Evening star., 1914-08-09
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gap Of non-conducting atmosphere. This
dissipation was great enough to hurl the
man six feet distant.
The weather bureau is in daily receipt
of letters from people all over the coun-
try requesting information as to how
to conduct themselves during storms.
One man wanted to know IL he should
wear rubber shoes to insulate his body
from the electrified earth
Water being a good conductor of cleo
tricity. the body is quite safe from light
ming when 1t gets drenched in storm,
But when standing in an open field dur
ing thunder gust drop such articles
as umbrellas or iron rods. An instance
occurred in Washington last year when
a man was struck and killed while play
ing on the golf course of one of the
country clubs. The metal of his golf
stick attracted the lightning. and his
body was not good conductor. The dis
persion of the electrical force completely
electrified him as though he had been
sitting in the chair at Sing Sing with the
current turned on.
Statistics show that houses built in
row in city block are almost immune
Evening star., 1914-08-09

Louisette, put on those trousers, Jacques,
where's your sunbonnet7" - -r5r-5
One of his liveliest lieutenants was the
Marquis of Hertford, the Lord Steyne
of Vanity Fair" and just across the
side street from. the Maison -Doree lived
until his death the latter's high-mfnded.
fabulously rich and art-col1ecting son. Sir
Richard Wallace. -- 49,
In the last days of the, ,Maison Doree-
finally killed by the neglect OF the
position of 1900-Aurelien Scholl wrote its
famous panegyric, beginning: He Uer-
dier) yields blamelessly. He defended
butter against margarine. fresh green
peas against the canned" With three
hero-worshiping Americans Edward
Tuck and the late Lamar Middleton were
of the party-Scholl made a last tour OF
the rooms.
In this corner sat Nestor Roqueplsn.
originator of the modern newspaper
and greatest director Of the Paris
Opera
Here is the room where the Prince OF
Wales lunched with Gambetta.
Here was the first silver grill in all
the world. invented by Dumas.
The Boulevard is dead Long live the
Boulevard.
At s pm. it still gives its grand
matinee, all gratis. Its 1000 shops
scintillate with electricity, and the
splendid poem Of the show window
sings its strophes of color. The crowd
plays the chorus of the antique tragedy.
It laughs. loves. weeps, smiles. pur-
sues, tempts and dreams, moving. You
still cannot stroll a block, as Balzac
said, without meeting friend or an
enemy, a "type" whose face makes you
laugh or think. a hungry man seeking
a penny or a millionaire seeking OBJ
livion.
Two hundred cafes, brasseries and
restaurants glitter with electric lights
and overflow their hordes on the side
walk terraces" Many have music. Ad-
vertising signs and theatrical columns
throw floods Of red and blue light.
White arc lamps spit and dazzle. Noise.
effuigence, excitement. gipsy orches-
tras.
vfve the oBulevardl But 1t is not the
same one. Or have we changed? Before
1t failed, last year, we went for dinner
to the one pure. ancient landmark that
still remained. The Cafe Anglais. ex-
actly opposite the Cafe Richie. was the
last to yield to the new order. In its
faded white-and-gold halls sat the
diners at a dozen tables. The cuisine
was like a dream of VateL i noticed
that we whispered. We squirmed. We
were conscious and uneasy. Every one
was whispering. sauirmings conscious
We had nothing to say, We had lost
the habit. Conversation is dead. We
missed the noisy gfpsy orcheetra.
I vive the Bouleyard--the new one,
:. STERLING HElLid
Evening star., 1914-08-09

became the natural clubs and smoking
rooms of the Grand Armee. Triumphant
colonels of eighteen would stop an In
slant on the battlefields Of Wagram and
Austerlitz to make hasty dates.
Meet me two weeks from today at
Which,"
The Cafe Foy. in Paris. of course"
There was continual movement from
the plunderi9g army to the capital and
the Cafe Lamblin were the news ex
changes of the empire. One day. reading
the gazettes, the cafe walters came
across the ominous word. Waterloo"
with powder. in torn uniforms, with hate
in their hearts and tears in their eyes.
there came back to the Cafe Turc. the
Cafe Foy and the Cafe Lamblin-'1ike
vors of that supreme struggle. Many
had no other family than their old
friends of the wars, knew no other par
lor than the cafes Of the capital.
tion Of Grouchy. the night Of Bourmont.
the charge Of the Cuirassiers. the def
ance of Ney groans and oaths of admi-
ration mingled from the company.
One day four officers of the invading
sians wished to taste the pleasures of
the Boulevard. At the Cafe Lamblin
they stumbled on grievous roomful.
Eyes SnOt fire ana swords leapoQ from
choked cry Of "vive TEmpereusr' They
turned and fed. They ned before the
ghost Of the Grande Armee!
-.
With the restoration quite another at
mosphere came to the cafes. The phil
osophers gave way to the wits: politi-
clans were replaced by men Of literature,
and the heroes OF the wars were ousted
by the dandies.
It was at the end Of this epoch that the
celebrated Tortonis began to win its
clientele Of literary and fashionable he
roes. Again q new element was entering
the life of the Paris cafe-the newspaper
in its modern form, not pamphlet, ga
zette or bundle of dispatches
Clicking swords were still heard in the
distance, despite the passing Of the men
Of war. Chocquart, tall. thin, hatchet-
faced, with long white mustaches. last
link between the old imperial bombaster
Tortoni's.
One day. as usual, Chocquart said:
Waiter, chocolate and the Constitution
mel" Monsieur. the Constitutional Is
in hands" A quiet gent sat reading the
file copy TRANQUILITY. Five minutes passed.
Waiter, the Constitutionnel!" And
again, Monsieur, it is in handsr Then
marched up to the quiet gentleman and
snatched the paper from his hands. The
duel following put sword thrust in
ChocQuart's side. AS soon as he was on
his feet he walked down to ToPtonfs The
quiet gentleman was. still there reading.
Evening star., 1914-08-09
BOULEVARD CAFE OF THE SECOND EMPIRE.

cheeks, carried them on their shoulders
in a solemn procession to the corner of
the Chaussee d'Antin, where they took
cabs.
When I first arrived in Paris I lunch
ed with awe in the old Cafe Richie, where
Dumas and Rossini had gone into the
kitchen and prepared their wonderful
dishes. Murger had his crowd here In
the latter days, when literary success
had torn him from Bohemia. The table
Of Musset and George Sands was still
shown. Balzac died owing a terrific bill.
Up to 1894 they still gave for so cents a
simple. refined lunch-old art bestowed
on perfect raw material-such as you
need seek today, and at ten times the
price, only at voison's or Paillard's, But
the public taste was already going to-
ward the Flemish brasseries.
The Maison Doree is now a sub-post
Office. TortonPs is a shoe store This
Cafe de Paris has a worthy successor
in the Avenue Of the OPERA Rich
Evening star., 1914-08-09

Waiter, the Constitutionnel"' Mon
sieur, it is in hands," And Chocquart,
planting his full height before the reader,
thundered: "Ah, then, monsieur. must
give you another lesson"
"Dandies'' in yellow gloves stared the
passing ladies out of countenance from
chairs which thoughtful Tortoni placed
on the sidewalk. Such was the origin OF
the cafe terrace" under the awning, still
the feature Of Boulevard life today.
have still the last card Of the Ices OF
the day"-of the last day when Tortonfs
closed in 1898. Aurelien Scholl, Henri
Fouquier Catulle Mendes and few 9th
ers sat on the terrace looking as II the
universe were crumbling. The proprietor
gave them the last four little tables re-
naming from the empire; and those faith
ful clients, with tears running down their