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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17

In East Prussia the Cossacks show great daring. Sometimes they pay for their daring. When trouble comes, in dividual Cossacks volunteer to sacri- flee themselves for their comrades Near Stallupoenen a dozen Cossacks found themselves cut off They knew that the Germans occupied all outlets from the wood in which they were hidden. and they suspected that the Germans did not know of their presence. German cav airy were on two sides. The one way of escape was to draw all to one side. The Cossack Yefimoff volunteered to bring this about. He and comrade dashed out of the wood, galloped across open country, and drew the Germans in pursuit The ruse succeeded The German cavalry on both sides of the wood galloped after the fugitives and left one road unguarded. The Cossacks In the wood galloped away, and reached their on lines. Yefimof and his com rade outrode the Germans. The com rade was shot down. Yefimoffs horse was killed and he himself was sabred. hear of many such Cossack feats in which courage and ingenuity play equal roles.
 As the mass fighting of the million strong armies becomes less and less de- cisive each side takes to ruses in order to gain small advantages. Red Indian war on European scale' is the descrip- tion of Russian newspaper man. The Germans design elaborate plans to de- ceive the Russians. The Cossacks in East Prussia are finding that out One ruse is in field fertilization. Southern East Prussia. with most of the subpro- vince of Allenstein, is in parts imprac- ticable for the passage of troops. There are chains of lakes with narrow pas sages between and endless, vaguely outlined marshes. The Germans, on the defensive, have linked all the lakes and marshes with lines of trenches and barbed wire labyrinths. Thus every practicable inch of the country is blocked. The Cossacks lately discovered that impracticable country is also blocked. In front of immense marches which no commander would think of passing, or sending artillery through. rise ostentatiously prominent wire en- tanglements. This is ruse. The Ger mans think thaI the Russians on seeing the entanglements will conclude that the country behind must be passable. They will, therefore. assafl the entan- elements; lose heavily from German artillery posted behind the marsh and on the Hanks. and after heroic efforts break through the entanglements only to find before themselves in marshes waist high with mud.
 Both sides use dummy guns and dunn my men to draw the enemy's fire. In this way Russians have repeatedly out witted Germans. At the modern artillery range it is impossible to tell a wooden gun from a real one; and at modern rifle range impossible to tell dummy sol- dier. Tn front of Sklerniewice the Rus sians set up long row of dummy sol- diers in trench. The Germans shelled HO dummies out of existence. Russian sol diers crept along the bottom of the trench
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the Polish ''sokol" organizations. I'll "sokols' wage relentless guerilla wa Second in command of "sokor' bal is Mariana Preszeo, who writes poet| when not killing men. Members of thel bands count as francs tireurs; they wei no uniforms and when they are caug| they are shot. After bloody nigl fight near Lisiagora village, the RtI sians captured Mariana and
 "sokols.' They did not want to sho her. They imprisoned her for the nig and asked for instructions from heal quarters. No reply came. Marianl stayed in prison another day. No il structions came. She was given thil respite. She solved the problem by d caping on stolen horse. As she rol off she gratuitously risked being caug by firing at sentry who had not sel her. Now Marianna, with a dozen fait ful followers, is sniping on the Craco] Tarnow railroad.
 Proclamations are flying. Russial print proclamations friendly to Il Poles Austrians reply with friendli proclamations The Austrians broug into South Polan a big proclamatil organization known as the ChancS lery for Polish Propaganda" Thd were a dozen proclamation writers al translators. One of the translators VI a Russian sympat thizer. A proclamati| concerning Peace and Prosperity q the People of Poland" contained numd ous ambiguous phrases which could interpreted as friendly either to Al1 tria or to Russia. The surprised Pol examined. the proclamation. They al covered that if every other line wd skipped, the proclamation read as| violent attack upon Austria, and an q planation that Austrian rule is not good for the Poles as is Russian.
 War is a curious mixture of herois self-sacrifce, mildness. ferocity, dew ton and roguery.
 Copyright, 1915. by Curtis Brown1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17

only one-ffth of the territory upon which wheat can be grown. If all the wheat lands here were in use, even with the present poor methods of farming, he Argentine would yield from S00, 0oo.ooO to 1000 GOO. 900 bushels of wheat every year.
 Argentina is already the chief corn exporting country of the world. It is now sending out something like 40C. G00.0O0 bushels a year. This is about one-seventh of our present corn crop but our corn is almost all fed at home. The Argentine has not begun to de- velop its corn lands. The whole north ern part of the republic will raise maize, and the pork industry is one of the great possibilities of the future.
 In addition to wheat and corn, Ar gentina is exporting oats to the value quantities of linseed. She is second among the sheep countries of the world, having 10 sheep for every man, woman and child of her population. She stands third in her number Of cattle. having 3o,O0O,0o0 head. which are valued at something like $500, 900. 000 She has more horses to her area than any other land upon earth, and she raises some of the finest horses now known. She has 100000 such animals, with a value of $100,000,000.
 These figures will give you some idea of the Argentine crops. Now let us see where the crops come from. So far, they are mostly raised in the central and northern parts of the republic, where lie the beds of rich soil built up by that wonderful system of streams that empty into the Rio de la Plata South America has four great rivers that form vast drainage system for all the lands south os the Amazon valley. Each of these rivers is loaded with silt and for ages it has been carrying down the plant food from the highlands. The streams all told drain country larger than the basin of the Mississippi and, in fact, half as large as the United States proper It is the draining of this territory that has made fat the Argentine pampas.
 The best lands lie along the rivers, but the soil is rich all the way to the Andes and it is so free from rocks that there are tracts over which you can travel for a hundred miles without find ing pebbles enough for game of jack. stones.
 If you will imagine yourself in the heart of our corn belt your surround ings will be those of the basin of the Rio de la Plata. You must, however, cut out the corn and cover the land with pastures and grain. You must take away 49 farmhouses out of every 50 and tear down the barns. You must replace our neat country homes with mean huts of mud matched with straw or with sheds of galvanized iron, and erect here and there groups of large low buildings sur rounded by flowers and trees, the homes of the rich Adding to this sheep and cattle in flocks of thousands, feeding
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17
What Is a Moratorium?
he Philadelphia Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 You need a dictionary to keep up wit the words and phrases which wd resurrects. Here comes our venerabl but long buried friend moratorium.
 King George has signed a proela nation of moratorium; that is cabl All of us might devoutly wish soms body would do as much in our ind vidual cases-that is to say, give | permission to postpone the payment our debts
 Applied to the Bank of England. moratorium in effect means that it ca issue larger amount of bank not, against given amount of gold r, serve. In short, the Old Lady of Thread needle street may and will put out big bunch of fiat money to appease hun gry borrowers.
 It isn't the first time it has been ne, essary for the British government help the Bank of England. During tl whole period of the Napoleonic wan or for 24 years, tie bank lived Il special legislation. In 1S47, again 1857, once more in 1866 and as late 1890, at the time of the Barring Brot1 CTS stupendous failure, the Bank England had to be helped.
 In the last named instance the Ban of France came to it's rescue with vast quantity of gold. Even a 10 pl cent discount rate-the highest In century-now fails to keep gold in t1 Bank of England. Therefore, the lal governing it's actions is suspended, al it may refuse to pay out gold at aI price, but instead pay with it's special created funds.
 
 Both the Bank of France and tl Bank of Germany may, as they no have done, stop payment of gold at ai time. Napoleon and Bismarck-respe tive fathers of those institutions-sa the political necessity of a quasi-go' ernment institutions hoarding it's go when sabers were rattling all over E rope.
 But we have full sized moratoriu right here in Philadelphia-yea, even Philadelphia. By law our banks mu have behind every s5 note they issl a certain amount of government bond
 When your house is on fire you dor stop to filter the water which you pol upon it.
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to make money Some of them have large tracks, but they live little better than hogs. In most cases two or three rooms make up the whole house.
 Passing out of the alfalfa country, we entered a region of pastures inter spersed with fields of Indian corn. some of the fields were almost bound less, and the green stretched out from each side of the track like a mighty sea. The pastures have grass q foot high, and the corn is in blossom. The land and the sky impresses you with the immensity of the country. The sky hangs low. It is a hot blue, with fleeeY white clouds floating about here and there. As you ride across the republic you see nothing but this low sky and the grass and the crops, which extend out to it at the horizon. Everything is impressive in it's bigness. The fields are in tracts of hundreds of acres and the corn rows seem to run from the railroad track clear to the sky. The corn is as luxuriant as that of Illinois or Missouri, and the yield is such that this country is now export ing more corn than any other a1d of the world.
 And then the great pasture lands. There are thousands of acres of pas- ture to every acre of corn, and the grass extends on and on in all direc- tions. At times I rode for an hour see ing nothing but grass, grass, grass, with the vast flccks and herds feeding upon it and then We would pass some huts of the farmers, such as l have described, and perhaps on the skyline see a windmill of galvanized iron. The windmill is visible in most parts of the rampas. It is used for watering the stock, and in some places is so much in evidence that you can tell the cur yature of the earth by the graduated land. These mills are mostly American, md not a few Of them come from Chi cago They have a saucy look as they stand so prominently out on the pam
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17

January 4.-tSpe-
 cial Correspondence )-War for
 Poland, for Galicia, for East Prussia is tremendously dull and tremendously thrilling.
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on the vast fields, you have some idea of the bread lands of the Argentine.
 In the northern part of the republic the scenery changes. To get some idea of it, you must imagine yourself in Flor ida or other parts of the far south. Here the country Is warmer. There are more cornfields and great plantations of sugar cane. The province of Tucuman has soil which produces a hundred bushels of corn to the acre and which is now yielding all the sugar consumed in the Argentine Republic. It has also big pastures de- voted to cattle and horses in the northern part of it are tropical trees, and still far ther north, on the frontier, Is region called the Chaco, which is covered with forests interspersed with pastures. Much of the Chaco is still unexplored, and the most of it has not yet been developed.
 And now turn your steps to the south and cross the great pampas country, which occupies the whole central part of the republic. At the southern end of it you enter tableland very much like northern Nebraska. This country is semi dTiu. There IS d great uedl OI sand. The streams cut their way through the crumb- ling soil, and the plains are covered with nothing but brush and thin growth of grass Still the vegetation is fitted for sheep, and wherever water can be got ten on to the land it produces like our irrigated sections of the far west. All the river valleys are now settling, and the government is starting colonies here and there in them. This is especially so in the valleys of the Rio Colorado and the Rio Negro.
 ture and sheep are now reared all the way from Buenos Aires to the Strait of Magellan. I have already written of the great sheep farms in the Chilean half of Tierra del Fuego. The eastern side of the island belongs to Argentina and it is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17

CRING the past 2i hours I have
 crossed the Argentine republic.
 I started in the foothills of the Andes and spent all night and
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 That is as you see it in big patches or small. The big operations are dull. Official reports tell tediously of unoccupied and reoccupied towns; positions taken; the foes heavy loss; ad- vances of 10 miles here. of five miles there. tired of the war. It is the incidental, small scale, unofficial stores which com pensate. They show that this war is es- sentially interesting; that it has as much romance, incident, courage, chiyalry, cunning, ferocty. tragedy and comedy as the liyeliest wars of history.
 Michael Uvaroff, a one-year volunteer from Vitebsk, an ex-uniyersity student, resolved when he went to the front to note down everything interesting. He hoped that by the end of the war he would have enough incidents to make d book. After three days fighting on the SanolS his book was complete. The book began with a tale of two Cossacks who escaped from Austrian captivity and brought with them as trophy the boots of their killed jailer. It ended by telling how patrol found in an abandoned vl- lage a 7-year-old Polish girl. who was sent to the Grand Duchess Elizabeth at Mos COW. It mentioned that the girl-in the best style of Donizetti-was nicknamed ''dotch nashevo polka" Daughter of Our Regiment.
 This student-warrior gave me some de- sAi.. of the CossaclS De Wet F'ilimonoff. Filimonoff, a ranker. has been made an officer, and he has got all four degrees of the Order of St. George. On one day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17
Killed 1000 Rabbits
m the New York Sun.

From the New YOrk Sun
 Walla Walla, Wasn.-Four hundr hunters, formed in the segment of circle stretching nearly from Burbal to Two Rivers, took part in the secol big rabbit drive of the season at Blu bank, killing 4000 rabbits. Hundreds rabbits were turned over to state pris officials for the convicts and to { Salvation Army to be distributed amol needy families. The rest were taken hunters and ranchers.
 Men moved forward at signials, shoe ing at rabbits as the animals jump up. Those that the hunters missed a which kept ahead were run into , acre field. Sportsmen stood outside t fence and shot the rabbits in pen t they were tired or out of ammunition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17

and set them up again. The Germans thought the trench had been reinforced. They shelled with double vigor. This lasted six hours. The real Russian sol- diers, with their khaki coats invisible against the autumn foliage, were com fortably digging trenches. When the Ger mans. owing to Russian rifle going off, located the real Russian trenches, it was too late. The Russians were all under cover. The Germans continued to shell the dummies. The Russians amused themselves by making sweepstake bets ss to how many would be knocked over. After the German retreat the Russians found most of the dummies blown to bits.
 Among Russias enemies the Hungar- ians aye most skilful in taking advPn- tage of landscape features. They come from the flat ''Puszta" and feel at home in level Poland. The Russians at Ivan-
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gorcd, du.ing a sally in which they drove in the A.ustrO-German right, had great trouble with Hungarians in an oak wood near KozenIcy. Vistula village Hun ga-an infantry lay in the wood and sniped the Russians. The wood was drenched with terrific rifle and machine gun fire, but the Hungarians kept their position and their sniping did not abate. The Russiaits were puzzled. They con- centrated more machine guns and rifles and swept the wood with hall which in parts st,ipped off the leaves The Hungarians continued to shoot. The Rus- siaHs captured a Buthenian who ex- plaired the mystery He said thGt the Hungarians were stationed behind oak trees and that they never left their shell ter. Through each oak tree were pierced three toopholes, one above the other. and through these the Hungarian riflemen shot. The cI.emy had kept busy drilling
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17
Copyrighted, isli, by Frank G, carpenter)

Buenos Aires, Argentina. TURING the past 2i hours I have
 crossed the Argentine republic.
 I started in the foothills of the k.Xk&2y Andes and spent all night and
 all day moving over the pampas. My train was fast express. and it car. ried me through the best settled part ot this mighty country.
 l went to bed in the sleeper surrounded by vineyards. There were grape vines on each side the track. and they extenced as far out as my eyes could reach. That region has more than 1.0O,l0O acres in grapes, and it yields much wine every year that if it were transported 10 our country there would be gallon for every man. woman and child. and still some It. spare.
 Leaving the vineyards. we came into region of scrub and brush, and then en- tered a short strip of desert. We crossed this during the night. and when I looked out of my window al daybreak we were travelling through the greenest of green. The vast plains on each side of the cars were covered with alfalfa, and that In fields of hundreds of acres. In many places the alfalfa was as high as your knees, and herds of fat cattle were feed ing upon it, or lying down and chewing their cuds There were bales of alfalfa at the station. They had been put up in rectangular piles and covered with canvas to keep off the rain. There were also stacks in some of the fields, but in most places nothing but this vast ex- panse of green.
 Ot1r ,f,, Ja f-t. western part of the Argentine republic Is thinly settled and the villages are far apart The crowds we saw at the sta tons were like those of our western frontier and many of the people looked as though they had just come from the Immigrant ships. I saw Spaniards and Italians by the score, and mixed with them were the gauchos or Argentine cow boys. The people were clad mostly in cottons. The men had on caps and jack cts and full trousers upheld by belts or strings at the waist. The legs were tied in at the ankles. Some OF the men of the better class had on leggins or boots The women wore bright colored calico dresses with skirts which reached only to the tops of their shoes. Their heads were bare or covered with shawls. They resembed the peasants of southeastern Europe. About the stations horses were tied and we could see men galloping across the fields and over the roadS
 Between the stations we saw little but these great fields fenced with wire and spotted with great droves of stock At times We rode for miles without seeing the dwellings of the great land owners. The most of the farm build- ings are mud huts not more than 70 feet square, and so low that you could stand on the ground beside them and reach to their roofs. Some of the huts are roofed with galvanized iron and others with thatch. There are also iron buildings among the newer homes of the farmers. None of the poor er huts have gardens or flowers about them. They are the homes of tho Italian colonists who have come here
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17
ACROSS THE ARGENTINE PAMPAS

equally valuable with the Chilean sectio It is now supporting 100000 sheep. an in addition. it has more than 2o.ooo catt and horses.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-10-15
Says 5iIi'5i7 le az roe
Better than Castor OH
Case Of Chronic Constipation Yields
to Mild I,exattye Compound.

Writing from the House Of the
Good Shepherd. at sunside Ave. and
i50th St. Seattle. where she is the
guest Of her lifelong friend. the Rev
erend Mother. Mrs. Mary Austin, Wild
ow Of Q wealthy San Franciscan, who
lost everything in the hre Of 1906.
says she experienced speedy relief
from the use OF DIR. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin and that she found this gentle,
pleasant-tasting Laxative more effect
I've than several doses Of catsor oil.
The active principles Of certain lag
alive herbs are mbined in DR.. Cald-
Wells Syrup Pepsin to act on the
eliminative organs in an easy. ma
ural way, without gripping or other
discomfort. Its freedom from opiate
OF narcotic drug Of every description,
combined with its gentle action and
positive effect. make 1t the ideal laxa-
tive for family use. Druggists every
where sell 1t for fifty cents a bottle.
A bottle Of DR.. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin should be in every home for
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-10-15
Musician Ascribes miracle 10
His Faith That One Day
4 He Would See.

PENDLEToN, Ore, Oct. 15-For
fifteen years Karl Guiott. music
teacher. of this city. was blind. Sud-
denly the other day. while tapping
his way along street with his cane,
sight came to him.
II felt a sudden pain In my eyes. I"
Guoitt explained. Il became dizzy.
Blue flashes appeared before me and
gradually in slowly dissolving mist
the sidewalk, buildings, autos and
wagons appeared before me-"
Immediately after regaining his
sight Guoitt hastened to the ONCE
Of his physician. The doctor told
him his sight would probably he per-
manent, but the man rushed to his
home, wearing his sight would again
fail before he could see the features
OF his wife and son.
Guoitt says he kept forever alive
the desire to see.
MY faith In my mental strength
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-10-15
Many Kinds Of Rheumatism
One Sure Mode Of Treatment
Authorize. Say Don't Use Liniments. Treat
Il Through the Blood. You Can't Rub L Out

Whether your trouble Is sciatica,
Lumbago or the dreaded Articular
Rheumatism, the answer Is the same.
fou must treat 1t through the blood.
That is the only way to rid the sys.
TEN OF uric acid, purify the blood and
revitalize the nerves. II the blood d
freed from impurities, Rheumatism
must 60. This in short Is the exact
knowledge gained by the research lab
oratories Of the s. s. s. Co., in Allan
ia There tests have been made for
fifty years. They know what Rheu-
matism Is. They know that s. S. s..
the remarkable blood tonic, which
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-10-15

Lumber Company, located in Smith
county, is being moved to a point
twelve miles west Of the present To-
cation.
It has mayor and board Of al:
dermen and a complete set Of ordi-
nances. It will probably be severa.
weeks before the name OF the post
Office will be changed. although the
moving is practically complete.
The present town OF. wisner con,
tains 500 citizens and boasts Of one
of the finest Young Mems Christian
Association organizations in the
county, a post Office. general store,
drug store. meat market, barber shop.
electric light plant and many other
conveniences Of an ordinary city.