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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-30
EVILS or DUST AND NOISE
says They Are Destructive OF Vital
Powers.

The mn who cranks his automobile
al night and then allows the engine
10 run riot while he leisurely adjusts
his gloves and comments upon the
beauties Of the evening. or he who
honl,s or blows his automobile horn
In order 10 notify some one I'm the
next block of his presence, may not
realize q. but he is doing more 20
disturb the rest Of those IN the neigh.
borhood than any other night time
agency. Jar one out OF his slumber.
thereby forcing him to remain awake
probably for hours, and an inrosd ls
being made into his nerve reserve.
That destroys the nervous system.
At the recent annual session OF the
American Civic association. Mrs
ImOgeu B. Oakley OF Philadelphia
brought all this out In a paper dealing
with the public health, as II is con-
trasted with the noise nuisance, and.
while the greatest harm Is brought at
night. she said. the daytime noises do
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-30

on the subject OF habituation that peo-
pie In crowded cities are In a constant
state Of nervous fatigue, and the fact
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-30

that many Of them do no, like tne
quiet OF the country is a proof Of their
pathological condition. dallas Noua
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-30
0bregOn Fires a Few
Shots and Takes Capital

Dcnrnes5 Frm PaFe oae'
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29
WILL SING MESSIAH TWICE
Pittsbure Making Preparations for
Big Musical Festival During First
Week in May.

A May music festival is to be given
bat the State Manual Training School
at Pit;sburg the week of May 3. Two
renditions of The Messiah" are to
form the climax of the festival.
Prof. Waiter McCray, head OF the de-
partment of music, has been preparing
for the production of THE Messiah
all during the present year. He will
present the famous Handel oratorio
the night of Thursday, May 6, and will
repeat the rendition the next night.
There will be one hundred and fifty
voices in the chorus Twenty-Five mu-
sicians will compose the orchestra.
Miss Gertrude Concannon of Kansas
City and Miss Rhetia Hesselberg Of
Joplin, pianist and violinist, both men,
bers of the faculty of the music de-
partment of the normal, will appear in
the renditions.
Nine. Iva Bigelow Weaver, Milwau-
kee soprano, will be one of the solo
lists. Ella Van Huff of Kansas City
will sing the contralto parts of the
oratorio Otto Booker will be the ten
or soloist and j. D. Barker, jr., young
Kansas artist, now studying in Chi
cago, will carry the barytone parts.
Professor McCray, who is serving
his first year as head of the normals
music department, is determined to
make "The Messiah" an annual event
for the music lovers of this corner of
Kansas. He served at Lindsborg I'M
der Samuel Thorstenburg, the great
oratorio director, for two seasons, and
he has directed productions of THE
Messiah" elsewhere.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29

from the trees in this jungle, chat
.tering wildly at anyone who ventures
to disturb their solitude. From high
platforms in harvest time the vii
layers watch their few impoverished
grain fields to drive off the maraud-
ing wild elephants.
Now Mere Jungle Ruins.
Once Anuradhapura must have
been one Of the most thickly populat-
ed spots on the surface of the globe
No one can know with certainty how
many people lived there. 1T is we'll
known fact, sahib,' said. my host,
that 100000 people lived here in
the reign of the great Gamani."
had not been long in the Orient,
yet long enough to know that the
Oriental has little regard for statis-
tics. Every statement is introduced
as well-known fact. In Anuradha-
pura there are the ruins of what is
called the Elephants bath" so
called, not because the elephants used
to battle in it, although the wild ones
do come there now every morning at
daybreak, but merely because it is
big. The word elephant is The
Singhalese adjective for bigness.
Adopting their terms, had already
learned that there are elephant"
beggars in Ceylon, and elephant"
liars as well. Even supposing that
my hosts estimate was three-fourths
too high, l know of no other city of
that day which contained 100000
people.
Ceylon is the garden spot of the
world. What wonder that the Tamils
who lived on that dry, hard strip OF
southern India across the strait from
the island, were always jealous of their
prosperous neighbors? Repeated and
often successful attacks from the
mainland partly explain why the
northeastern end of Ceylon is literal
ly full of buried, forgotten and ruined
cities. Anuradhapura was built, de
stroyed and rebuilt half a dozen
times. Since the twelfth century IL
has been a complete ruin.
Palace Had 600 Rooms.
The Brazen palace, with its nine
floors, a hundred rooms to a floor
rested on sixteen hundred roughly
cut stone pillars Probably the super
structure was brick, wood and thatth
The Singhalese were not skillful IL
the use of stone. To them stone was
merely substitute for wood. They
did not understand the principle o.
The arch They hewed out a ston,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29

object of pride and admiration. The
Singhalese people became united
around the great city and the new
religion.
Two Kinds Of Ruins.
Generally speaking, there are two
kinds of ruins to be seen in Anura
dhapura-the vihara and the dagaba
The viharas, or palaces, are com
pletely fallen. Only their FONDA
lions remain. There is typical GROUP
of these ruins scattered among the
trees out near the ancient Thupa
rama dagaba. Five palaces were
grouped together evidently as parts
of single monastic establishment,
The beautifully nodded slabs of gran
lite which composed the foundations
are, for the most part, still in their,
original places. Some of the stones
are thirty feet long, five feet wide
and nearly as high. Before one OF
these foundations a magnificent set OF
'moonstone steps" leads up to the
door. Before another entrance one
may see some finely carved figures of
Indian mythology, tutelary deities set
UP to guard the door.
A feature of these establishments
were the baths. large rectangular
bathing pools, from fifty to two hun.
bred feet long. The granite sides, Of
mammoth /stones, we're built back
from each other like shelves, so that
the monks could enter the water one
step at time. The water for these
baths was conveyed from the noun.
tains, $50 miles away.
The dagabas, owing to their solid
construction, are in a fair state of
preservation. At first they remind
one of the pyramids, although they
are conical in shape, rising from the
plain 200 to 300 feet in height. The
interior of them is brick, packed to-
gether without mortar. The relic
which each one contained was placed
in the very center of the mound, and
well protected In some mysterious
way the exterior of these dagabas
became covered with soil, and now
they look merely like grass-coveEed
mounds
Standing amid these ancient ruins
under the welcome shade of the jun.
gle, one has only to conjure up in i'm.
agination the forms of these huge
structures, and see them in theli
original brilliant colors to realize that
Anuradhapura in its pristine Gradeuv
must have been . veritabie dreaA
city.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29
aa { / !; j GTY
- OF (EYL Oh -.

beam as they would have shaped a
tree trunk and employed it in the
same way. The Brazen palace was
destroyed by fire few years after it
was first erected. It. was immediate.
ly rebuilt, destroyed many times
more in the course of its history, and
now is marked only by this forest of
upright, broken and fallen pillars in
the jungle. It's fate was the fate of
many of the great structures of this
ancient city Invasion, fire or the
wear of time on imperfectly con-
structed work has laid them low.
Tissa. great king of the pre-Chris-
tian ere, introduced Buddhism into
the land. He erected great temple,
the Mahapali almshouse, the ruins OF
which have been almost entirely OBJ
liberated, and planted the slip from
the original DO tree.
This tree f1ourished to the same ex-
tent as did the new religion and the
city which, afforded it home. The
Thuparama dagaba, a huge mauso-
leum and shrine for the left collar
bone of Buddha, the oldest building
in Ceylon-now a high mound of sod
covered brick, with trees growing half
way up the slope-is witness to the
enthusiasm of Tissa and to his ambi.
tious plans. In its ruins it stands
$50 feet high and $50 feet in diane
ter at the base. Originally 1t was a
hundred feet higher than now. An
other dagaba of this period had a
canopy resting on stone pillars, suf-
ficently large to shelter thousand
worshipers. Anuradhapura became an
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29
DARING CAVALRY LEADER.

One of the most daring cavalry
leaders in the western zone of the,
European war is Lieut.. Gen. E. H. H.
Allenby, who since the contest began
has been promoted from major gen.
eral and is now in command of am
army corps. In several dispatches
Sir John French has taken occasion
to comment on the skill with which
Allenby has turned ito the best ac-
count. the good qualities inherent in
the troops under his command, the
energy and bravery with which he
has carried out "Reminiscences in
the face of great opposition, gaining
valuable information and holding in
check strong forces of the enemy.
General Allenby commenced his
military career with the Inniskill-
ing dragons, and with this regi-
ment he served with the Bechuana-
land expedition. He was promoted
adjutant, Inniskilling dragons, in
1889, position which he held four
years. He served throughout the
South African campaign, commanding
mentioned in dispatches. and received
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29
sANDusKY IS PROUD OF HIM

DR., Walter F. Rittman of the
United States bureau of mines, who
has developed a process Whereby
much of the waste in deriving gaso-
line from crude oil may be eliminated,
and another for the extraction of
toluid and benzol, used to make dye
stuffs and explosives, also from crude
oil, went home to visit his parents in
Sandusky, o., and received an ovation
from his admiring fellow townsmen.
In Sapdusky Doctor Rittman is looked
on as a second Thomas A. Edison.
AS a youngster no one eve.'
thought that the "Rittman kid" as
Doctor Rittman was known, would
ever amount to much. He indicat ed
marked preference for play as a
sehoolboy. In 1905 Rittman left the
high school, saying. he, was tired of
going to school," and the next heard
of him he was stenographer for a
manufacturing company in Clevelai d.
He had attained some fame as a foot
ball PLAYER, and a wealthy Philadul-
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29
DECORATED BY KING ALBERT

Mile. Jeanne Perichon, a blue
eyed girl of twenty-three years, has
the distinction of being the only wom-
an whom King Albert of Belgium has
decorated with the military order of
Leopold, and the medal was pinned
on her bosom for conspicuous bravery
which has seldom been equaled even
by members of the stronger sex. IL
Mile. Jeanne is Red Cross nurse
who has actually done work in the
trenches at the front. She felt she
could accomplish more good there by
administering first aid to the wounded
than by simply doing her regular du-
ties in some field hospital and by
special permission she was permitted
to go with the surgeons to the battle
lines. She is in America as the sec.
rotary of the Countess L. de Hemp
time, to aid in her appeal to Amer
leans for help in rebuilding Belgium.
Jeanne has seen actual fighting
in towns that were sacked and fired, y
the countess eXDlains "She was at
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29
WEEE045WWHO
NOW .
QUITS WHILE STILL POPULAR

Il have never had great deal OF
personal ambition except perhaps my
desire to make the best l could out
Of public life, and to retire while the
tide of my popularity in my district
was at its height ann gratifying
that ambition now"
So spoke James T. Lloyd, who for
20 years has represented the First
district of Missouri in congress, and
thereupon he announced that at the
end of his term, on March 4, 1917, he
would retire from political life The
step was entirely a voluntary one, as
the fact that he received the biggest
majority of his career at the last cleo
ton will verify, and there are hints
that his admirers will insist on put
ting him up for higher position than
he has held.
Although he is nearing the three
score mark in age, James Tilghman
Lloyd is vigorous, and hearty and
looks forward with keen kind Of
pleasure to his prospect of returning
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29

~ my Singhalese host at the
resthouse in Anuradhapura,
writes Tyler bennett in the New
York Tribune. The question was not
really asked for information. He
knew that / had not come equipped
to hunt elephants. He also knew that
the game laws of the British govern
ment amply protect these valuable
beasts. He wished, merely, to i'm
press me with the range of entertain
ment afforded by Anuradhapura. l
was impressed Elephant hunting in
the jungles of Ceylon or curio hunt
ing in the ruins of forgotten me-
tropolis which once stood amid these
same jungles-one may take his
choice!
Twenty-Five centuries agoAthe morn
ing sun cast the shadow of a nine
story building over the spot where
we we're seated. This Brazen palace
of Duttha Gamani was 166 feet high,
higher than the tallest building on
Broadway 95 years ago.
Out yonder grows the sacred DO
tree, over 2,100 years old. 1t was
grown as a slip from the sacred fig
tree under which Buddha himself sat
when fighting off the temptations of
sense which hindered his attainment
of perfect wisdom. Crumbling ruins
forests of pillars, grass-grown mounds
hundreds of feet high stretch back
into the dim vista of tropical for
est on every side Monkeys swing
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29

Fort Waehem Antwerp during the siege and for two weeks she lived with
soldiers until health
She taken with fever and had to be carried off to London from where
could
Is
adds II have been
bursting she
soldier tearing their bodies u
m
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29

phn to all OF his
the benefit M his prowess
Swarhmore up
football without trouble and IN SS
Swath its first only Pennsylvania
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29

the walks Of business life his intention He native
Shebyvie and graduate Christian university at Canton The
his life
He prosecuting attorney 1889
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29

Woman Dies at 1o2.-Mary Kane,
1O2 years old, is dead at Parsons. fol-
lowing an illness of two months.
Prior to that it had been her boast
that she was never i'll q day in her
life.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29

concordla Newspaper change-Linn
w. Bloom has sold his interest in the
Daily Blade and Weekly Empire to his
partner, Ray Green. Mr.. Bloom ex-
poets to remain in Concordia, where
he has other interests. He came to
Concordia from Topeka newspaper
in 1909.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29

Kansas Lard to Europe.-Three
trainloads of lard have been shipped
to the European war zone by the Cud-
ahy Packing Company of Wichita the
last month. They went by way of
New Orleans The three trains car
ried about sixty cars and each car was
loaded with thirty thousand pounds of
lard, making total of 100000
pounds.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29

kansan Shoots Himself.-Andrew
Bowman, So years old, went into a
pawnship at Independence, purchased
a revolver and handed the shop Keep
er check. When the shopkeeper
turned to get the change, Bowman
shot himself, dying at once. 1t is not
known whether the shooting was acct
dental. Mr., Bowman was contractor
and is survived by his wife.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29

State colIesian once a Week-The
student board in charge of the Kansas
State Collegian, published at the Kan.
sas State Agricultural College, has de-
cided to discontinue publishing the
paper twice week and hereafter will
publish each Friday morning.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29

Judge Rapler Dead.-Judge H. Ra-
pier, rs, is dead at Burlington. He
had been elected twenty-five times
as justice of the peace. He was elect
ed the last time a week ago, when he
received one more vote than his clos
aef oomnetitor
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29

Aged Veteran Dies.-Riley Ballar,
a Virginian who served three years in
the Union army in the Civil war died
at his home in East Dunkirk the other
day. He was 81 years old.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29

Found Dead Under Auto.-Harrisy
Ross, so years old was found dead
under his upturned motor car near In
dependence the other night. The car
was found near small culvert and
it is assumed Ross was unable to fol-
low the road in the darkness and the
car struck the end of the culvert.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29

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Atchison Champion Reorganlzed.-
A stock company composed of Shelf
field ingalls,, Wilbur G. Hawk, o. A.
Simmons and A. S, and E. P. Ande-
rock has been organized to succeed
Anderock Brothers as owners and
publishers of the Atchison Daily
Champion.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29

F/1 it to hunt the wild ele-
( o d plants or to see the ruins
that sahib has Gomez asked
my Singhalese host at the
resthnmse In Annradhannra.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-08-17
HAMBRECHT NAMED HEAD
Governor Appoints AssemIyman for
Post Now Held by CroWnhart-
Moran Oil Inspector.

Madison.-Gov. E. l.. Philip sent
to the senate the appointment of AS
semblyman George P. Hambrecht of
Grand Rapids to succeed Charles H.
Crownhart, Superior, as chairman of
the state industrial commission, and
Assemblyman Barnard Moran of
Rhinelander to succeed Louis F.
Meyer, Milwaukee, as state oil in
spector.
Mr.. Hambrecht is appointed for a
term Of six years at salary of 5000
year, and Mr.. Moran for two years
at a salary of $4,000 a year.
Mr.. Hambrecht is a graduate of
the college of letters and science and
the college of law of the University
OF Wisconsin and is serving his sec
ond term as member of the house.
He was candidate against Lawrence
Wh1ttet for speaker of the assembly.
Gov. Philip sent to the senate the
appointment of H. S. GriswaId, West
Salem, as member of the state fair
board advisory committee.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-08-17
HARVEST HEAVY
DESPITE STORMS
WISCONSIN WILL HAVE RECORD
CROP THIS FALL ACCORD
ING TO REPORT.
DAMAGE WILL BE SMALL
Prof. Moore Says Grains Had Filled
Before Winds Caused Lodging
Means Little More Work
in Harvesting.

observation-disclosures will harvest
record crops this fall despite bad
storms, according to Prof R. A. Moore
agronomy department, college of agri
culture. The rains will make harvest
ing more difficult, and will probably
1nJure their quality to some extent, but
the yields of barley, wheat, rye and
oats throughout the state are expected
TO be as large as last year.
Most of the rye, wheat and barley
mad filled before the storms" said
Prof. Moore, ''and so l do not appre.
bend that as much damage has been
done as first believed. With modern
methods of harvesting and a little ex-
ira labor, it will be possible for the far
mer to cut his grain even though it
may be lodged pretty badly
The discoloration of the grain re-
sulting from the abundance of mois-
ture Will not cause great loss, Prof.
Moore believes, as most of the grain is
marketed through the farm animals of
the state
i think that when the threshing re-
ports come in, the yield of grain will
surpass that of last year." he said.
A larger acreage of clover and alfa1-
ia has just been harvested than ever
before, he added. The new seedlings
of clover and alfalfa look exceedingly
favorable as they do better in cool,
moist weather. Corn is behind, but
is coming along rapidly now.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-08-17
is HELD FOR MURDER
ETEEN-YEAR-OLD SON CON-
FESSES KILLING FATHER.
TWO Brothers Said to Have Aided In
Disposing of the Body on Rail-
road Tracks.

Green Bay.-A coroner's jury at
Bonduel returned a verdict finding
that Albert Herms, a wealthy farmer,
came to his death by blows from a
club in the hands of his 19-year-old
son, julius Herms, and that two other
sons, Paul, Is, and Rupert, 16, aid
ed julius in taking the body in a car
rage to "a trestle three miles away
and hurled it onto the Northwestern
tracks.
District Attorney Andrews an
nounced julius will be charged with
murder and the two other boys with
being accessories after the fact Jul
Jus confessed to the murder, the dis
trlct attorney says. All are held with
out bail.
According to Andrews the farmer
was murdered in his barn on his
farm following quarrel with his son
Julius. Afer darkness the body was
taken to the overhead bridge and
dumped onto the tracks in an effort
to make it appear the farmers horse
had run away and that Herms had
1aIlen out of the carriage. The ia
ther and mother were cousins and
most of the children are half witted,
it is said. There are sixteen children
in the family.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-08-17
Badger Pioneer Dies.

Grand Rapids.-Burton Pritchard,
aged 81, one of the Oldest residents
here, died at his home on Baker street.
Some years ago Mr.. Pritchard had a
stroke of paralysis from which he
never recovered and which eventually
caused his death He was born in
New York in 1923 and came to Wis
consin with his parents when 5 years
of age. He is survived by his widow
and three children.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-08-17
VETERANS TO MEET AUG. rs
cipal Address - Many Are Ex-
pected to Be Present.

loo have arranged for soldiers re-
union to be held here Wednesday,
Aug. rs. Members of the Grand
Army of the Republic, of the Sons of
Veterans and of all auxiliary socie-
ties, have been invited particularly,
but the invitation is general. Many
acceptances have already been re-
ceived from G. A. R. posts through
out the state.
Gen. Charles King of Milwaukee
will deliver the principal address and
Commander w. J. Mckay of Madi-
son, past commander S. A. Cook of
Neenah and several others will also
speak.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-08-17
DROWNING GIRL Is SAVED.
Hermis DIonne Proves Himself Hero
Before One Thousand Spectators
at Mayflower Lake.

Antigo.-Risking his life to save
that of drowning girl, Hermis Di-
onne proved himself a hero before
1000 spectators at Mayf1ower lake.
Agnes Berendson swan out beyond
her depth and sank. Dionne was pass
ing in a boat when he saw her. AS
the girl sank, Dionne dived in full
clothing and came to the surface
grasping the unconscious girl by the
hair.
He swan about one hundred yards
TO shore with her. When he reached
shore he fell exhausted upon the
beach and did not recover conscious
ness for some time. The girl also
required the services of doctors.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-08-17
OWEN APPOINTS ASSISTANT
j. +. Baker, Madison, to Look After
Arson Cases for Attorney
General.

Madison.-Ald. John F. Baker of this
city has been appointed an assistant
attorney general by Atty.-Gen. Walter
Owen. He will take care of the arson
cases for the state, a new duty in the
attorney generals office.
Mr.. Baker has geen performing this
work for the past four years for the
state fire marshal, but as that depart
ment has been consolidated with the
insurance department, he will be con-
nected with the attorney generals Of
fee.
The new state official is a former
member of the assembly and the au-
thor of the Baker law.