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The Carlisle independent., 1915-01-14

that way, why not let Brand in He could take his chances. He understand that; but If he might return the favor.
 We'll, Brand had won. He h S150,000, and SO we find him not groveling.
 His quick response to knock door brought his secretary.
 "A gentleman to see you," sa menial. "A MT. Meade
 That reporter?"
 He wouldn't state his busine Said you'd know him
 Now, ordinarily Brand would not have been in to reporters. He consid- cred them prying sort with entirely too much knowledge of other peoples business and too great a thirst for more. But we have said that he was happy Some irrelevant thought, too, flickered through his mind; some in- applicable curiosity to see whether this particular reporter had an over coat For 1t had grown colder since that night at Staten Island and Brand thought that If this young man didn't have a topcoat-well, let Dick answer
 Show him in" were the secretary's . orders. He obeyed, and withdrew
 Brand did not rise, but his greeting was cordial.
 Sit down MT Meade and make your self at home," he invited.
 q can do the one, but not the oth- CT" the reporter replied. "A little too grand up here for me. Once more I suppose you're, surprised to see me-"
 "No, the same answer goes, my friend. as on the night on the island. And even if were surprised I wouldn t be worrying. We business men put reporters in most any category, but we never class them with buzzards. That's one thing you can say for a newspaper man; he's never lowering about a dead one"
 Thanks"
 "No, I thank you. I was compli- menting. myself. You see. don't al
The Carlisle independent., 1915-01-14
A Rull's-EYe.

E.. Berry Wall said at a dinner in New York:
 "Woman's dress nowadays is beau tiful-beautiful but shocking The slashed skirt, to be sure. has disap- peared-but it has only disappeared to make room for the lace panel.
 "A stupid greenhorn of a butler scored bull's-eye unconsciously the other day.
 Is Mrs. Blanc in?" a late caller asked him.
 Yes, sir; she's in,' said the butler, but she ain't at home, sir. She's up- stairs undressin' for dinner dance.'" Washington Star.
The Carlisle independent., 1915-01-14
Destroying Equilibrium.

That former enemy of yours Is pay ing you a great many compliments !" Yes" replied Senator Sorghum; "and I wish he'd quit 1t. One of the easiest ways to throw man down Is to swell his head until he gets top-heavy."- Washington Sta1
The Carlisle independent., 1915-01-14
Revenue Shows pecreas.

Washington.-Custom revenues for the six months ending December 31 last, amounted to s1O7, ,732,934. com. pared with s15S,357,91S for the last six months of 1913.
The Carlisle independent., 1915-01-14
 CHAPTER XII.
PleasantrIes.

MT. Brand sat smoking one of his made to order perfectos. The head of
The Carlisle independent., 1915-01-14

But, then, monkeys had the first family trees.
The Carlisle independent., 1915-01-14

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Evening star., 1915-03-09
U. S. CORPS OF ENGINEERS
LOSES VALUABLE OFFICERS
Coils. Goethals, Hodges and Sibert
Transferred and Roessler
Will Retire.

The Corps Of Engineers is rapidly
losing many of its most valuable off,
GERS Col George W. Goethals, builder
OF the Panama canal, and Coils. Harry
r. Hodges and William L. Sibert, two
OF his principal assistants, have been
advanced in rank and transferred to
the line of the army. and Col. Solomon
w. Roessler, in charge of defensive
works at the eastern and southern en-
frances to New York harbor and of
other works in that vicinity, has ap-
Piled for transfer to the retired list
under the forty-year-service clause.
These separations will result In many
promotions in all grades in the corps
and may involve a general reassign-
ment Of duties among officers In the
higher grades.
Col. Roessler is from Illinois. and
was graduated from the Military Acad-
emy In June. 1877, near the head of his
class: His entire service has been In
the Engineer Corps. and he has had
charge OF important government engi-
neering works in various parts Of the
country. He reached the grade OF
colonel in April. 1909. and has been
stationed at New York and vicinity
since July, 1908.
Gen. Ktngman, chief OF engineers, says
that Col. Roessler is one OF the fortifi-
cation experts Of the army, and OK
to terminate his active service, as 1t
will be hard to fill his place. Next to
Col William NJ Black. formerly Engi-
neer Commissioner Of the District, Col
Roessier Is the senior colonel in the
corps. He has residence at Black
Rock, Bridgeport. Conn. and it is ex-
pected he will make his future home
there.
Evening star., 1915-03-09
FAILURE OF U. S. TO ACT
NO BAR TO OPIUM DEALERS
Lack Of Tax Stamp License and
Other Blanks Not to Inter
fere With Business.

Those handlers of opium, coca, their
leaves, salts and derivates who have
properly applied for registration are
not to be penalized for proceeding with
their legitimate business in such mar
cotics where the government has failed
to provide the tax stamp license and
order blanks. This is ruling just
made public by the internal revenue
bureau.
Dealers will be allowed to fill orders
and prescriptions of any proper person
making application and not knowing
his registry number. by reason of de-
lay on the part of government agents
in providing such number. But the
dealer is required to file such orders
and prescriptions as required by regu-
lations, the registry number to be in
serted as soon as known.
1t relieves the anxities of many hand
lers of prescribed narcotics as to their
right to proceed with their business un-
der the terms of the law. where they
are not themselves in default, but have
not been provided with the necessary
documents establishing their lawful
conduct of such traffic.
Evening star., 1915-03-09
RITTMAN'S DISCOVERIES
TESTED AT COLUMBIA
Company Planned to Utilize Gaso-
line, Dye and Explosive For
mulas Under Treasury Control.

NEW YORK, March 9-Followine
demonstrations here OF the processes
of manufacturing gasoline and two
chemicals used in the making of am
munition and dyestuffs discovered by
DIR. Walter F. Rittman. chemical en-
gineer of the United States bureau OF
mines, 1t was announced yesterday
that a plan was on foot to organize
and operate company under the su-
pervision Of the Secretary of the
Treasury so that the public may utilize
the new discoveries commercially. The
tests were made in the laboratories OF
Columbia University.
One test was devoted to the gasoline
process, by which 1t is said that inde-
pendent refnefs can increase their out
put zoo per cent. Another test showed
the process of extracting benzol ana
tuluol. two chemicals necessary IN tne
manufacture of dyestuffs and the mosi
highly explosive of modern ammuni-
tions which have heretofore been eA-
tracted from coal tar.
Prominent chemists. oil men and am
munition manufacturers were present
Evening star., 1915-03-09
Il The Searchli8l1t |
Fathers Clubs,

The newest organization on record is
the Fathers Club, which was first or
ganized in Council Bluffs. Iowa, less
than a year ago. The idea has spread
rapidly and there are now at least ten
well organized Fathers Clubs having
an average membership of fifty.
The object of the Fathers Club is to
create a greater interest in child train
ing among the fathers who heretofore
have been all too willing to ''let mother
do it," Teachers. juvenile court Off
GERS and all those who come in con-
tact with youthful delinquents agree
that. in nine cases out of ten. the boy
who goes wrong has had no real at
tention from his father and his
mothers authority was not sufficient to
control him. The club will bring
fathers together to discuss matters
pertaining to the welfare Of their chill
dren after the fashion which has
proved SO helpful in thousands of
mothers clubs In the last decade.
The United States bureau of educa-
ton has heartily Endorsed the Fathers
Club, and is already planning to stimu-
late interest in the movement through
Its newly organized home department.
Evening star., 1915-03-09
TRAVELETTE
BY NIKsAH
Sidi-Okba.

Should the Prophet Mohammed return
| to earth today, at Sidi- -Okba he would
find life as he left it and the lapse of
the centuries would be as nought
Sidi-Okba Is an oasis of the Algerian
desert-a city of brown sand. with
windowless houses of sun-dried brick
made of sand. and sandy streets. all
a-gleam under the blazing blue dome
of desert sky.
Like a protecting arm, the tasselated
green of the date-palm groves is flung
about the city, and beyond lies the
traversed by rowing whirlwinds, set
ting a mighty barrier hundreds of
| miles wide between Sidi-Okba and the
world.
1t is this barrier, crossed only by
caravans of camels, that has kept Sidi-
Okba unspoiled; there the hardy Berber
| lives as he did before the Romans con-
quered him.
The name of the city is a memorial
Islam. Sidi-Okba was a great Arab gen
eral who, in the year 667 A. d. went
forth at the command Of his sovereign
to conquer all Africa with q small body
of horSemen.
The Berbers were an untamed people
of wonderful bravery. 1t had taken the
Romans a hundred years to subjugate
them. But Sidi-Okba was man of
UIlllIdHI ltdueTSHlp anu SdSdSe
cry. Across the desert to kairouan, his
Arab cavalry carried all before it.
putting the Berbers and their war
camels to fight and killing many.
At kairouan the conqueror set up his
capital and went forth in search of
new conquests. And the Berbers.
stung by defeat, waylaid him in the
passes of the Aures mountains and
killed him.
Now the tomb of Sidi-Okba. at the
city of his name, is shrine for all
good Musseimans. and numberless
miracles of healing are said to be per-
formed there The catafalque said to
contain his body is gaily decked with
red and green silks and quaint pic
lures, and before 1t lie always ostrich
eggs and amulets and other votive Of
ferings brought by the pilgrims.
The Berbers of Sidi-Okba today are
just like the ones the great Arab lead
er cohquered-majestic, dark-skinned
men in flowing robes OF white, and
gaily dressed women perched on the
roofs of their houses. spinning with
crude implements There Is but one
school, where a dozen young Berbers
squat on the floor. softly chanting the
words of the Koran to the rhythmical
swaying of their bodies.
At evening an old man climbs the
minaret of the mosque. and the soul
of Sidi Okba is in the prayer he calls:
There is no God but God, and Moham-
med Is His prophet"
Evening star., 1915-03-09
CONTROLLER SOLVES PROBLEM.
Question Over Cost Of Exchange
With Germany Decided.

Treasury warrant for IS cents. sent
to Berlin concern In payment Of the
cost of exchange Of previous warrants
issued for materials purchased. could
not be cashed by the recipient because
the cost of exchange on this warrant
to adjust exchange would have been
greater than the amount Of the war
rant. The controller of the Treasury,
George E. Downey, directs that an in
ternational money order for the proper
amount due In German money be sent
to the Konigleche Porcelain Manufak-
tur, at Berlin, subscribing to it's con-
tentions that its credits to the United
States are payable in German money
as quoted in estimates.
Controller Downey further suggests
that all difficulties in purchases and
payments Of this character can be OBJ
waited by the purchase of interna-
tional money orders for the amount in
foreign currencies.
Evening star., 1915-03-09
CREEKS MAY GET OIL LAND.
Receiver Appointed for Tommy At
kins' Allotment" Worth a Million,

MUSKOGEE, Okla. March ga re-
ceiver for the Tommy Atkins allotment,
said to be worth s1.ooo.ooo. has been
appointed by the federal court
In this case the government, for the
Creek Nation, contends that the allot-
ment was made to a fictitious person,
and that 1t should be cancelled and the
property revert to the Creeks. An oil
company has lease on the land. and IL
producing 5000 barrels Of oil per day.
The government made an arbitrary
allotment to Tommy Atkins" because
his name was Oh an old Indian roll
Now II contends there never was such
a person, while two oil companies have
produced two women, each of whom
claims to be the mother of Tommy At
Eius''
Evening star., 1915-03-09
sANTo DOMINGO PROSPEROUS.
Senator Phelan, Back From Re-
nublic. Brings Encouraging Reports.

Senator James D. Phelan of Cali
fornia, who is investigating the
charges against James NJ. Sullivan.
minister to Santo Domingo has returned
here from a visit TO that country, and
will submit his report to Secretary
Bryan in about ten days. He says he
found affairs in Santo Domingo in good
condition. and predicted an ero of
peace and prosperity there as result
of recent developments.
THE Jimines government, now in
CONTROL" he said, has proper under
standing and appreciation of the at
titude of the United States govern
,nent toward the republic. and Is CO.
operating in the fiscal reforms which
have been successfully inaugurated
and maintained"
Evening star., 1915-03-09
JUDGE W. H. SEAMAN DEAD.
Served in U. s. Court of Appeals for
Chicago District.

CHICAGO. March 3.-Judge W. H.
Seaman of the United States circuit
court of appeals for this district, died
at Coronado Beach, according to a mes
sage received from his daughter. who
Judge William II. Seaman was born
in New Berlin. Wis. November Is. 1872.
He received a common school educa-
ton In Sheboygan. After serving In
the civil war he was admitted to the
bar In 1868. and located in Sheboygan.
In 1893 he was appointed to a United
States judgeship at Milwaukee, to sue
ceed Judge James G. Jenkins, retired
Later Judge Seaman was elevated to
the United States court of appeals, with
headquarters at Chicago.
Evening star., 1915-03-09
MATTER OF PREFERENCE.
Sleeping Car Practice Issue Befor'
United States Supreme Court,

That there is no accounting for
taste" was evidenced by a remark
made by Associate Justice McReynolds
in the Supreme Court yesterday.
The constitutionality of the Wiscon-
sin statute prohibiting sleeping car
companies from making up an upper
berth over an occupied lower berth
until the upper berth is engaged was
being argued.
II prefer to have the upper made up
when 1 sleep in a lower" suggested
Justice McReynolds.
THE law Is based on the comfort
and desires of the great mass of
the travelling public and not upon in
dividual cases. replied Assistant Attor-
ney General Webb of Wisconsin, who
was defending the law.
Evening star., 1915-03-09
Tobacco Planters Threatened.

PADUCAH, KY. March 9-Tobacco
planters in Ballard county. who have
been terrorized by night riders, have
reported to the authorities the receipt
of notices threatening them with pun
ishment if they disposed of their to-
bacco crops for less than cents a
pound. the planters said $50 persons
had received the notices. In the same
neighborhood recently a farmer was
called to the door of his home and shot
to death. The killing was accredited
to night riders.
Evening star., 1915-03-09
Millionaire Theatrical Man Dead.

NEW YORK. March 9.-Ma1 C. An
derson, millionaire theatrical manager.
who controlled, with Henry NJ. Ziegler
of Cincinnati, his partner. chain OF
vaudeville houses in the middle west,
has died at his home here of a COM
pIication Of diseases.
Evening star., 1915-03-09
GAIN OVER 1918 SHOWN
BY DECEMBER EXPORTS
Character Of Business in Several
Customs Districts Synopsized
in Report.

Figures compiled by the bureau OF
foreign and domestic commerce OF the
Department of Commerce show that
exports from the port of New YORK.
Galveston, New Orleans, Baltimore,
Boston and Philadelphia were con-
siderably larger for the month OF De-
cember, 1914. than for the same month
Of 1913. Reorganization Of the customs
service effective at the beginning OF
the fiscal year 1914. it is stated in a
report made public today. renders I'M
possible comparisons with earlier
years in entirety.
The report synopsizes in a general
way the character of export business
transacted through the several ports
and customs districts.
New York Handles All Lines.
New York, which does about 40 per
cent Of the country's export business,
handles practically all lines of mer-
chandise. Galveston, second in point Of
export sales. handles chiefly cotton,
cottonseed oil cake and meal, wheat,
flour and rice. New Orleans is not only
a great cotton market, but an inn
portant distributor of wheat. dour.
mineral Oil, lumber. meat products.
cottonseed oil. oil cake. rice and
tobacco. Baltimore, fourth In value Of
exports, handles wheat and other
grains. iron and steel. leaf tobacco,
copper and many lines of manufac-
lures. Detroit. the fifth largest export
ing center, is an important seller of
automobiles and carriages, hides,
fruits, oils; lumber. iron and steel.
meats and miscellaneous manufac-
lures. lures Buffalo is great shipper Of
iron products. coal and mineral oils.
Boston exports chiefly leather manu-
factures, meats, printing paper and
wheat. Philadelphia, which is tho
eighth port in point of exports, ships
chiefly grains and flour, coal, leather,
meat products. kerosene oil and mis-
cellaneous manufactures. San Fran
cisco. ninth in export sales, is a lead
ing exporter of fruits, salmon, cotton,
iron and steel and leather goods, and
ships largely of oils to the oriental
countries. The district Of Georgia, with
headquarters at Savannah, exports d
large quantity of cotton and cotton
seed oil cake, and is the leading ex-
port market for naval stores. Seattle
and Tacoma are important distributors
OF canned salmon, cotton, lumber, oil,
grains and automobiles. Norfolk and
Newport News are great coal-shipping
points. Tampa and other Florida points
handle most of the phosphates and a
considerable share of the naval stores,
tobacco and lumber exported. Port
Arthur exports largely of cotton, cot
tonseed cake, wheat and mineral oils
and is the leading exporter of sulphur.
Imnorts and Exnorfe Fiorrae
Evening star., 1915-03-09
Brownlow to Address Citizens.

Commissioner Brownlow Is scheduled
to deliver an address at the regular
meeting of the Connecticut Avenue
Citizens Association in the assembly
hall of the Army and Navy Prepara-
tory School tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1915-03-09
Bread Drops to Five Cents,

NEW YORK, March e.-The price of
bread has gone back to 5 cents a loaf
The recent drop in the price of flour
was given as the reason for restoring
the price.
Evening star., 1915-03-09
Imports and Exports Figures

The following table shows in millions
of dollars the imports and exports of
the United States at the twenty-five
leading customs districts of the coun-
try, arranged in order of magnitude
of exports:
Evening star., 1915-03-09
Praises officers and Crew.

Capt Caussin paid tribute to the
GOODNESS of his officers and crew.
Owing to the early arrival of La
Touraine at Havre, nearly all the pas
seugers were able to proceed to Paris
on the train leaving at am.
The ship shows no external sign OF
the fire. 1t was admitted that military
supplies were included in the cargo
which was threatened.
Evening star., 1915-03-09
Dresses
An Advance Sale

The moment you see them
you'll be literally carried away
with their bewitching styles,
colors and fabrics. All are
copies of higher-price models.
And it goes without saying that
the assortment is character
lied by a variety that is I'M
qucstionably gratifying. There's
money to be saved by buying
YOUR spring dress here and now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-25
AN ALL PERvAD1NG INDUSTRY

Thirty-four states in this country
possess motor vehicle factories, OF
which there are a total of 44S, writes
H. W. Slauson in Leslie's. The en-
p1oyees directly engaged in the pro-
duction of vehicles in these factories
may be counted by the hundreds of
thousands. There are nearly $4,000
garages, repair shops and supply
stores in this country, which would
account for another hundred thousand
employees not engaged in the produc-
ton of cars, but whose livelihood is
directly gained from the motor car as
an everyday utility and pleasure We
hicle. BY including the men engaged
in the production of supplies and ac-
cessories used only on motor cars
such as tires, starting and lighting
equipment. speedometers, carburetors
and magnetos, and the like, we would
have another vast army of a hundred
thousand more. The effect of the
prosperity of these men may be under
stood at a glance: but does the aver
age law-maker realize the intimate as
ISOLATION of other industries with the
motor vehicle industry? Does he
know, for example, that there are
close to three-quarters of a million
tons of special steel used annually in
motor car construction; that the seats
of this years cars are covered with
the hides of some 10000 cattle, and
over 100000 square yards of iTnita-
ton leather; that over 100000
yards of top materis Is and lining are
used annually, and that 100000
pounds Of sheet celluloid find their
way into the curtains of a years out
put of touring cars and runabouts.
Even the carpet industry profits mar
velously by the prosperity of the mo-
tor car manufacturers, for. during
1915, half a million square yards of
linoleun for running boards and toe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-25

boards will have been consumed.
Nearly ten million board feet of
hickory and other wood for floors.
wheels, running boards and the like
will have been consumed, and the
tires for the new cars alone will con-
tain 100000 pounds of manufac-
tured cotton used in the construction
of the fabric. This list may be ex-
tended to include such n multitude of
industries that it would seem that
there is scarcely a single kind OF pusI-
ness in this country that does not con-
tribute some portion of its output to
the construction of motor cars. The
machine tool industry has long been
an important one in this country, and
few years ago sixty per cent of its
output was purchased directly by
automobile manufacturers for the en-
largemcnt Of ther plants. Closely al
lied with this is the hardware in
dustry, which contributes five million
hinges and Is many door catch fittings
merely for the doors of the cars manu-
featured this year.