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ster I'll tell you how it is he sagey. 3The
good Lord made SO many beautiful women that
to the end of them, and we think everyone
is just little bit nicer than the last one-just
like eating apples smoking good cigars looking at
fine pictures
At length they sailed through the Suez Canal, and
glanced the yellow the pink, and the brown; and
Papa Gladdn was thereupon moved to remark that
beauty, after ALL was comparative, matter of geog
raphy as, for instance, the Turk falls in love
with girl unless she is fat and the Italian ditto unless
she is ean and the Hottentot doesn't take to the OPP
posite unless they have peekaboo patterns worked
in their and and cheeks that they be
strung with crochet needle and the South Sea Islander
insists on his lady fair being frescoed and embossed
DADDY GLADDEN. had one last surprise left in his
bag. He didn't lift it out until the steamship Mon
goa tied up at the San Francisco wharf and they
entertained at dinner and dance up the hill. Young
Master Thomas impressed with the exhibits of
the Golden Gate on this occason-being back on his
native heath again after so long absence-that
Daddy G1addn for the wondered if he had not
erred acticay in starting their pilgrimage east instead
of west. For several days he in serious doubts
to whether not he could get out of San Francisco
without daughter-n-law.
aYou are the rascal, Sir! You are the rascal" he
cried. 3You not content with leaving trail of
dead and wounded two continents You must
trouble the minute you set your foot in your
own country. Remember, they shoot over here! They
don't take the trouble to send you their cards. I'll
whisk you out of here quick enough, Sr!'
And off they went gaoping the country, taking
dip here and there in the fountains of beauty-but
only dip. No spashes! 1t was wild and dizzy
finish
The old gentleman quite bit worried by the
time they caught the Limited of Chicago; but once
the wheels began to he breathed sigh of relief.
They going straight through with no more
night stands weeks engagements His young hope
full had become altogether too much of connoisseur,
and he wasn't taking any chances. He had
stamped out too many fires and his feet So
they bounded the praries and through the
mountains and at length dipped under the river and
came up solid rock on the Island of Manhattan, in
the marble -piared station 33d-st. There many
pretty girls there, waiting for lucky dogs and
Daddy Gladdn, cloyed with NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
beauty-though he was, could not Withstand the temp
tation of pointing out one, pretter than the rest.
"By George and amt she the pippin, hey, Tommy"
whispered the old gentleman in tense Whispers excited
for once his life. And he couldn't help thinking that
maybe he had made mistake after ALL in going all the
way round the world. Only catch few like this and
stir his young rascal up among them, and goodby to his
puppy love!
HEY there, you young cuss what you doing?7 sud-
denly cried Daddy Gladdin, rubbing his eyes. For
there the PLATFORM front of thousand staring eyes,
his son. the young to whom he had
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ARMIES

dred million gallons of lubricants. more
than three hundred million gallons OF
gas oils and more than twenty seven
million barrels of residum.
Modern war looks upon these
necessities. Will our exports of them
increaSe?"
No one, probably, will know the an
swer quicker than DIR. Day himself.
Uncle Sans "oil man." A native of
Ohio. he took his A. b. at Johns Hop
kins University in 1851, when he was
twenty-five years old. and his Phi ID.
in chemistry at the institution in the
meantime. In 1856 he entered the gov
ernment service as chief of the di-
vision of mining and mineral resources
in the geological survey.
All his life since then he has been
engaged in the work, only recently be-
ing transferred from the geological
1907 he has been expert in charge OF
the government petroleum investiga-
tions.
At ali the worlds fairs of recent years
he has directed the government min
era exhibits, and as United States COM
missioner he has sat on several inter-
national conferences for petrole um
tests.
Oil operators the world over-but, or
course, principally in this country
place a high value on his opinion As
the agent OF Uncle Sam he has pointed
out the path to riches which many have
trodden, although mis- government EN-
ploy has prevented him treading the
same paths. He is one of that great
body, OF government scientists that.
with their rewards limited to small
salaries and distinction in their pro-
fessions, have materially increased the
country's wealth. ASHMUN BROWN.
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prepared for their welcome, exhausted
rest, as was their custom. But 1t was
not to be, for a strange activity among
them soon became apparent, one at
which they were even too tired to
grumble, but obeyed the orders to
move as men aroused from a sodden
sleep.
To the northward, where the canals
interlaced the land, infantry columns
made their way, with tool wagons close
in rear, and there, in water waist-high,
they swung pick-mattock and shovel.
The water seeped at first through cuts
in the embankment, then gushed forth
as the tools and the increased weight
of water broke away. Where trodden
fields had waved few hours before
black sheet of water reflected the stars.
Many of the batteries which had
crouched behind the long ridge linn
bered up and moved to the south. Re
serve batteries, from miles in rear of
the position, came up and took post
blindly, where their orders directed
them. Cavalry brigades moved north
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The Car in Proverbs.

TT would appear from a collection
which has been made of Russian
proyerbial sayings wherein the czar is
mentioned that the Russians make eX-
tremely free with him in their COM
ments. Among these proverbial say
ings may be cited:
THE cars crown does not protect
him from the headache"
Even the czar gets beSpattered II he
puts his foot in puddle"
THE lungs of the car himself could
not blow out the sun"
The OK of the czar has only two
horns"
Even the cars vinegar does not
sweeten."
IF the car were naked, he would not
disdain a fox's skin in winter"
Put the czar in the desert, and he is
a man and nothing more"
"The cars 'ukases' are good for
nothing unless Gods amen is written
on them"
1t will be observed that the limita-
tions of the imperial power are the
theme of the above sayings. There are
many proverbs of a different sort, re-
ferring to the dependence of all things
in Russia upon the czar. or satirizing
the obsequiousness of the great. Some
of these are the following:
THE horse that the czar has ridden
once never afterward ceases to neigh.
THE czar's bootblack also thinks he
has some right to the throne"
t"The czar's voice re-echoes where
there are no mountains
"A tear in the cars eye costs the
country a lot of handkerchiefs.
DO not hurt yorr hand. little father
czar, or we shall all have to carry our
arms in a sling"
when the czar is a rhymester, woe to
the poet"'
when the czar has the smallpox. the
country bears the marks"
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over a map, through which vari-col-
ored pins pricked the polished surface
of the wood. Minute scales were APP
piled to the map at different places,
where distances were measured and
noted. The height of certain contoured
sections was estimated. the passage
of streams was considered and COM
pick note was taken of the little canals.
which, in time of peace, made avenues
of transportation for the garden COM
merce of the land Through the WIN
dow could be seen groups of lounging
men and picketed horses, while high
powered automobiles waited, with
chauffeurs in the driving seats, for
call to instant use. The headquarters
detachment, cavalry and machines,
seemed struck with the spirit of the
apparent stalemate.
The generals eyes closed for a mo-
ment and a staff officer, noticing, nudg-
ed one of his fellows. They both looked
the tremendous respect they felt for
the man, and some expression on their
faces almost proclaimed their thoughts
that he was wrestling with the prob
lem, reviewing in his mind the exact
position of the rival lines.
They would have been startled could
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reused. too. the dormant resource
which had elusively refused to come
out until now. The great soldier open
ed his eyes, shook the dottel from his
pipe, pocketed it and walked with de-
cisive stride to the map.
X
His eyes narrowed in thought and
the lines of care seemed to slip away.
Seating himself at the table, he began
to dictate and hurrying pencils took
his messages AS each was completed.
an officer FASTENED with it from the
room, and in the adjoining room tele-
graph instruments began their song.
Then the great soldier, accompanied
by his staff, went out to where the
racing machines were parked. AS he
emerged from the door, the sentries
presented arms and the lounging troop
ers sprang to attention, while the
motor engines began to throb. They
took seats in the cars, the drivers,
former racers of international fame.
threw in the clutches and the cars
leaped forward.
Ten, fifteen miles of hard road
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shrapnel smoke. Men and more men fell
within the lines of the stormers, yet the
number of lines which pressed forward
seemed countless, even under the ter
rife fire which played upon them
AS the enemy's first line halted. to
scrape away into the bosom of the earth.
men crept forward to clip the wires OF
the ENHANCEMENT ahead. And like bolts.
in a cloud of dust armored autos dashed
through the lines straight for the wire
and crashed through in places before the
hit Of some gun on the ridge placed them
out of commission, with the drivers,
forever
And the defending lines still retired.
A smoke bomb sped aloft and burst. and
the ball of black smoke displayed served
as a signal. for at the moment the entire
attack. in all its line, sprang to DOT and
dashed forward The infantrymen Of
the attacking line held their rifles at hip,
emptied their magazines with scant d:rec-
ton. without pause in their advance
crammed fresh clips of cartridges into
the receivers, and emptied their rifles
once again.
The defending artillery on the ridge,
scorning shelter, abandoned indirect fire
and the guns were pushed forward until
the muzzleS cleared the crest and their
shrapnel tore through the surging lines
with a fierce whistle. never failing to find
some billet. And once again thicker lines
merged with the thinning ones OF the at
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he has been recognized as one of the
leading world authorities on the sub
ject of mineral oils. Year by year ne
has compiled for the United States
geological survey it's annual report on
petroleum. and has made that report
standard the world over. When in 1917
the Fifteenth International Congress
of Applied Chemistry, held in Washing
ton, brought to the National Capital
the worlds greatest chemists, DIR. Day
was found in charge as president OF
the section devoted to fuels.
He has Travelled widely, not only in
this but in other countries, building up
his first-hand knowledge of the min
eral oil industry. He knows all the oil
wells of the world by their first names,
and processes for getting the most
work out of their products are at his
tongues end.
In the Baku fields OF Russia and in
the oil districts of Borneo the opera
tives may not have heard of woodrow
Wilson, but they know about DR.. Day.
Oil technologists the world over recog-
nize his pre-eminent place in the pro-
fession.
In any consideration of the Oil and
gasoline question as it effects the exist
ing war it is well to start with an un-
derstanding of the worlds sources or
petroleum supply.
Here is a table from DIR. Days most
recent report on the subject. 1t shows
last years production of petroleum by
countries, and the world production by
countries since the industry began in
1857:
,vor,d.s r,ro6nct,on Of Petroleum 1857 -1913.J
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is to burn oil eventuany to the eNciu-
sion of any other fuel. We have now
built or are building the following
ships that use oil entirely: -Four battle
ships, four destroyerS, fifty submarines.
one monitor, three tank ships, three
tenders, seven oil barges and several
tugs and smaller vessels. This years
naval appropriation bill provided for
two battleshipS, six destroyers and
eight submarines, all to be oil burners.
Already the navy consumes more than
21,000,O00 gallons of fuel oil a year.
navy yards of the United States now
have capacity for $4,000 barrels of
fuel oil, and 100000 was appropriated
at this session to build additional
tanks.
while, unlike England, we have not
great a reserve stock of fuel oil for
navy purposes. steps are being taken
terror and the Navy Department to
preserve exclusively for navy purposes
large areas of oil-producing land in
order to have an assured source of sup
ply, and the stock in commercial
hands tributary to the Atlantic and
Pacific seaboards greatly exceeds that
of any other nation.
~
1T will be interesting to observe the
effect the war will have on our oil in
BILE the facts upon which to base any
conclusions. Normally. we have been
exporting between four and five million
barrels of crude oil a year and about
two hundred million gallons of gaso-
line, slightly over one million gallons
of illuminating oil, more than two hun
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an aero quivered and tumbled to
earth, but the rest sped quickly from
view.
X X
Half an hour later the enemy'S line
blazed away and the survivors of the
aero squadron returned to report. The
columns of combatant troops still moved
horse. foot and guns. and the jaded
soldiers seemed to catch some promise of
momentous affairs from the very air
they breathed.
Then the great soldier and his staff re-
turned and bvouacked on the field
AS though on schedule. an hour before
the expected dawn, the first firing of the
enemy's attack broke out. But there
seemed to be a heavier volume of fire
and when the shrapn cloud broke over
the trenches and the ridge. as it always
did, to cover the attack. there seemed
to be far more of the vicious projectiles
than usual, telling a story of massed
batteries presaging a supreme effort in
storming the trenches.
The batteries which had remained along
the crest opened up in reply with rapid
fire. The whirr of speeding shrapnel
could be clearly heard above the terrific
note OF battle. and as daylight slowly
came the distant lines of the enemy's
advance unfolded.
There hung over the valley two lines
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horsefesh and drivers. The uninjured
drivers sprang to their feet, unlinked
the trace chains of teams which had
been shot away. and with lessened
teams darted forward once again, until
most of the guns gained the shelter
of the gun pits that had been used by
the retiring foe.
The fire from the ridge lessened and
lessened, until it seemed as though
dumb fear had taken possession of the
defenders and they were hurrying to
save themselves by prompt flight before
the storm of the impending attack.
Division after division of the enemy
came up until an army stretched across
the valley, in possession of the
trenches, and another attack surged
forward. Up the slope they went. toll
ing under the added lift of climbing.
struggling across the shallow trenches
which strewed the way, yet forced for
ward by their officers. Monoplanes OF
the attack swooped overhead. across
the ridge and returned in few mo-
ments, to report with glee that the en-
emy was in full flight, even the bat
teries which SO recently had rained
their death upon the lines were rush
ing madly for safety. And the attack,
cheered. pressed on.
The distance from the defending
trenches to the crest of the ridge was
about a mile. A mile of dreary ex-
panse. swept clear of every vestige of
tree or shelter, of fence and dwelling,
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the country before them and tanning
their beams across the sky. There
came the dull reports of distant firing,
the clamor of musketry and the boom
of artillery. Sweeping upward from
broke, showering canopies of white
fire, which glowed and Illuminated the
heavens and the land beneath with an
unearthly, bright starlight. And the
aeroplanes swept onward. over the
hostile position and far to the rear, in
search of news to the proximity of
the reinforcement trains.
From the specially mounted guns for
defense against aeroplanes, tracer
shells. which first left fiery trail to
tell of their course, then burst with a
shattering of flame, scared upward as
the air craft darted by. Here and
"e glare of the searchlights,
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''Germany's production, as the table
shows you. is extremely small 1t
amounted last year to something less
than a million barrels as against some
year before. The German fields are
two in number, one at Wietz. in Han
over, and the second in Aisace
Were all of the European supplies
cut off, the United States no doubt
could supply all world needs of petro-
leum and gasoline for at least twenty
years. from known sources. In tact
our possible oil supply is almost un-
tied only by the oil production. Then.
too. we are securing gasoline from
natural gas now. Last year we Sc
cured more than 24,OoO,0oo gallons
from that source alone
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New processes developed in this
countrv have materially increased our
possible supply of gasoline in the last
two wears. These entail cracking the
heavy crude oil under pressure The
new deep wells also are producing
more gasoline These factors, by the
wav have worked change in trade
conditions in these two years. Although
there is great supply of crude oils
on the Pacific coast, the extraordinary
demand for gasoline resulting from
the increased popularity OF autono-
biles brought about condition where
a large quantity of gasoline each year
was imported to the Pacific coast from
Rorneo. Now, however, the new pro-
cesses have brought about change
and imports from Borneo no longer are
necessary.
PURPOSES seldom remains cheap for
very long period, and therefore the sup
ply for railroads and similar consum-
ers is so unreliable that crude oil as
a fuel has lost favor rapidly, and re-
course is eventually made to the pro-
ducts of the crude, which happens In
the particular oil under consideration
to more than supply the demand for
these particular products.
included, as 1 mentioned ability to
break up the less saleable products
in crude oils, and thus increase to
very great extent the yield of those
gasoline among them. in other words,
we are producing more power proper
tionately from gasoline and less pro-
portionately from crude fuel OIL
Three of our railroads, for example,
during the last year ceased to be oil
burners. The crude oil which they
burned is being used to produce gaso-
line.
abandonment of oil as fuel 1t is
simply a trade condition. Producers
naturally want to market their product
as quickly as possible and keep no
more than is necessary in stock. If the
better market for the time being is in
gasoline gasoline is produced, no mat
ter If that does make uncertain the
supply of fuel oil. All this viii be ad-
justed in time.
"Oil as fuel for ships of war has be-
come the definite policy of the modern
navies of the world. Not all navies
have converted their battleships to
burn oil instead of coal, but where
they can see a supply in sight they are
working to that end.
LAS recently explained by Winston
Churchill. first lord of the British ad-
miralty. the British navy, having be-
come a considerable consumer of fuel
oil, has laid in great supply of it.
enough for a full years war, and has
made arrangements for increasing the
reserve with the increase of the needs.
''The policy of the United States navy
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tack, until the trenches We're carried with
a sweep of bayonet and tired cheer.
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An advantage once gained must be
pressed home and the fruits of victory
must be gathered before it is too late.
Scarcely had the enemy taken posses
sion of the trenches. when his lines
were reformed. The following lines of
reinforcements came up and clawed for
shelter into the earth. At swinging,
mad gallop, the batteries told of to
follow the attack and support 1t, to
form n rallying point in case of repulse,
dashed up, under the still-playing fire
from the crest. Horses and teams fell.
while the cruel guns. in their momen. .
tum, ran over the hghtinS mass OIL
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ward behind the crest and disappeared
in the pitchy blackness of forest.
their way being guided by cautiously
disclosed electric flash lanterns in the
hands of staff officers, while the infan-
try columns. springing out of the
blackness, seemed to move aimlessly
in all directions.
From in rear of the ridge there came
a great clatter of exhausts. vicious
rattle which approached. growing
overhead, mounting upward until the
sound of the engines became fainter
and fainter and finally died away. Far
to the front, where the enemy kept
ceaseless watch, fifty searchlights
blazed their quiet fingers, sweeping
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two million barrels a year. In 1913,
however the decline was less than
one million barrels, the district pro-
ducing that year 7,S1S,174 barrels as
against s,535.174 in 1912 All the de-
cline has been in Tustanowice.
I'm Boryslaw and West Galicia,
however there has been an increase.
Nevertheless the production has not
been commensurate with the national
demands and Austria Hungary in re-
cent years has been importing oils in
increasing quantities. Last year the
Austrian railways abandoned the use
Of oil as fuel and returned to the use
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that it would be practical for her to
do SO.
.'The Russian fields lie in the south
eastern part of the country, on the
Caspian sea. with pipe line to the
Black sea Some crude oil has been
found also on the Black The
Russian production, however, in recent
years has been declining and the de-
cline has not been compensated by the
increase in new districts, which in
cluded Emba for the first time in 1913
as commercial factor. The outlook
for the future is frightened some-
what by the prospecting which has
progressed rapidly in the Cral Caspian
Evening star., 1914-11-15
Did Hannibal Use Dynamite?

EVERY one knows the story of how
Hannibal crossed the Alps. 1t is
usually asserted that he demolished
tie rocks that opposed his progress
with the aid of fire and vinegar. The
We'd used by the Latin historians. and
which is ordinarily called in English
transla ton vinegar" is acetum.
The question has been raised by
European officer whether this is the
true meaning of the original. He
thinks that by acetum the historians
intended to describe a substance
sembling dynamite in its properties.
and he invites chemists to consider the
question whether the ancients may not
have possessed a formula for making
a powerful explosive of this kind.
He calls attention to the fact that
two ancient historians, Marcus Grar-
Gus and Albert OF AK, speak of til"
existence of two kinds of acetum, one
OF which possessed greater energy
than the other. \ clue to the COM
position of this explosive may ba
found, he believes, in the fact tlIdt
to acetum was ascribed the propertr
of extinguishing the dreaded Greek
fire." He thinks the substance may
have been strongly oxygenated.
Although to discover how Hannibals
dynamite" was made would be to add
nothing, perhaps. to our sense of the
greatness of his achievements, yet
such discovery would certainly
throw new light on some interesting
events in the wars of antiquity.
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flashed by almost in a bur. and the
cars drew up below the crest of
ridge behind which many batteries
frowned in their gunpits, and the lines
of the reserve bivouac stretched for
miles. From the crest the general
scanned the country. checking each
point upon map, and more orders
flowed from the stylographic pens to
the nearest radio station. after being
transposed into code. Then the STAN
and its chief returned to the cars ana
sped along the highway running paral-
lei with the position, southwark
When the enemy's evening attack was
repulsed as it had been for days. night
had fallen blackly and the weary
troops in the trenches far to the front