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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-01-19
SHATTERED THE sELIM

Constantinople, Jan. 19.-An un-
confirmed report is current here that
the cruiser Sultan Selim, formerly
the German cruiser Goeben, which
was struck by a torpedo in the Bos-
phorus some months ago, is so badly
damaged that she can't be repaired.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-01-19
STRUCK THE TURKS HARD AT
SINOPE

Sebastapol, Jan. 19.-Al f1otilla of
Russia ntorpedo boats dashed into the
Turkish harbor at Sinope, on the
northern coast of Asia Minor, under
the guns of the Ottoman forts at
plight, and sank the steamer Meorges
and three sailing ships, which were
being prepared to be used for trans
ports.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-01-19
BIG PLANT BURNED
MILLION DOLLAR FIRE MAKES
IDLE 1900 MEN

Trenton, N. j., Jan. 19-The big
Roebling manufacturing plant and
twenty dwellings were burned this
morning with loss of over million
dollars. Twelve hundred men are
thrown out of employment.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-01-19
MANY TO SEE MANNING
Almost Riot When the New Cover
nor was Inaugurated

Columbia, S. c., Jan. 19.- Richard
Manning was inaugurated governor
today. There was almost a riot in
the crowds in an effort to enter the
crowded hall.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-01-19
SHIP WILL
NOT STEAM
BRITISH GOVERNMENT LIKELY
TO SEIZE BOTH CARGO
AND BOAT

Washington, Jan. 19.- Great Brit
ain today notified the state depart
ment would not waive tn E right of
seizure in the case of the former
Hamburg American steamer Dacia,
and refuses to allow the Dacia to
make voyage with cotton from the
United States to Germany.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-01-19
WANT NO
MORE WAR
#HUNGARIANs TIRED OF BEING
MADE CATsPAWS BY THE
HAPsBURGs
-

London, Jan. IA News dispatch
from Venice states that the Giornale
d'Italia fully confirms the report that
Hungary is attempting to make peace
apart from Austria.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-01-19
SNOW COVERS
CENTRAL STATES
ANOTHER BLIZZARD CHILLS THE
PEOPLE AND TIES UP
TRAFFIC
indianapolis, Jan. 19.-Haf to
foot of snow covers the central states
today. Traffic is seriously impeded-
RICK ISLAND IN
HANDS OF RECEIVER
NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY
CAUSES THE APPOINTMENT
OF MOVES

New York, Jan. 19.-Federal Judge
Mayer today appointed Walter Noy-
es, receiver of the Chicago, Rock Is
land and Pacific Railroad Company.
This is the result of an equity suit
instituted by the Central Trust Conn
pany of New York.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-01-19
COSENzA HAS
ALSO CRUMBLED
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS CON.
TINUE TO AFFLICT ITALY

Rome, Jan. ia violent, earth
quake shock was felt this morning at
Cosenza, city of 10000 inhabitants
in Calabria, near the Mediterranean.
Heavy damage is reported with some
loss of life
Additional report sto the govern
ment has increased the death list of
last weeks earthquake to 33, ,460. Sew
en- more towns and villages are yet to
be heard from. 1t is thought that
the death list will not run over $4,000.
Conditions are being restored to
normal as rapidly as possible, and
trains with supplies are being sent
into the stricken zone.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-01-19
STEAMER WASN'T SUNK

Hamburg American Liner is Safe in a
Porto Rican Harbor
New York, Jan. 19.-The Hamburg
American Steamboat Company today
denied the report that the steamer
President had been sunk. The vessel
is now in the Porto Rican port of San
Juan.
SAFETY CONFIRMED
San Juan, Jan. 19.-The Hamburg
American liner President is here.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-01-19

Paris, Jan. 19. The French have
recaptured their former positions at
LaboiselIe, northeast of Amiens, fol
lowing severe hand to hand fighting
Sunday and Monday.
A blizzard with heavy SHOWS is I'M
peding operations in Belgium and in
the region of Arras, northwest Of
Pont Mousson, the French assail-
ing the Germans attempting to cross
the Meuse, captured new German
field works in the Lapetre forest, and
are now holding five hundred yards OF
German trenches.
A heavy snow storm is raging in
the Vosges.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-01-19
STREET CAR HOLD-UP IN
A TENNESSEE CITY

Chattanooga, Jan. 1.-Two masked
men held up an Alton Park street car
early today, robbing the crew and pas
sengers. The robbers escaped.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-01-19
RELIEF SHIP
NEEDS RESCUE
CUTTER HAS RUSHED TO HELP
OF THE CAMINO

Washington, Jan. 19.-The Belgian
relief ship Canine is in distress in
mid-Atlantic and United States rev.
enue cutter has been rushed to her as
sistance. Details are unknown.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-01-19
PREPARING To
BOMBARD PARIS
SHELLS NAY FALL on CITY FROM GERMAN
AIR SHIPS
FRENCH DO NOT ADMIT DEFEAT But CLAIM SEVERAL Sue
GESStS ALL ALONG THEIR FRONT

Copenhagen, Jan. ia private
dispatch from Berlin reports that a
Zeppelin dirigible balloon sailed over
Paris yesterday and that an aerial
bombardment Of Paris will soon begin.
FRENCH HAVE CAPTURED THEIR
FORMER POSITIONS
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-01-19
CARGO OF COTTON
ARRIVED IN HOLLAND FOR GER
MANY FROM AMERICA

Muiden, Holland, Jan. 19-The Am
erican steamer Pathfinder, from Gal
weston for Bremen, with cargo of
cotton, arrived here today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-08
A GOLDEN RECIPE
From the Knickerbocker Press,

From the knickerbocker Press. George Mclean, Jamaica negro 7f
 years old sailor for 61 years and still
 an active and able seaman, veteran of a thousand storms and a score of ship
 wrecks, has been telling the Philadelphia Public Ledger how to avoid illness and attain old age without losing an ounce of the strength of youth. Here Is Georges recipe:
 "Eat as much as you like, whenever you desire.
 Eat whatever you like Sleep whenever you feel sleep No particular hours are necessary. "Just live like you want to-" There is no doubt that Georgia has the right idea. Youth-at least until i'm placable age has broken it of its desire believes in eating as much as it likes, whenever it likes and in sleeping when l it feels sleepy. But by the time one is l more or less able to just live like he wants to- a lifetime of training in the opposite direction holds up inhibitory ! hands and robs his libertX of it's savor. l George is an example-but he perhaps owes more than he realizes to the bel laying pin and the ropes end. both ot which aids to good habits were in theii prime when his habits were forming
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-08
THE BIRTH OF PIERROT

 Thomas Walsh. "The Pilgrim Kings. etc. (Macmillan).
 Was it a bird>that sang?-was it the plasl Of silvery water-that awakened me? It seemed that at the dark woods edg
 some flash Of moonlight set my. soul from prisol
 free:
 And all the grim, primeval memories Of cruel strife. of loveless hearts tha
 groped
 In caves and gloom, shook off some lon
 disease
 And. springing forth. my heart tool
 flower, and hoped. Now down the world I run-a fugitive, Tapping in snows upon your windoy
 pane,
 Or laughing in the sunlit showers tha The April blossoms to the hills again. am half faun. half angel, butterfly! The lover sees me fitting OCT the hill An well he knows it is no fiower-but I. Pierrot-the sprihgtime with it's thrill! She at her easement leaning hears m
 song Awhisper down the trellis. rose to rose am the rloonbeam there that finger To light his face in dreams to her re
 pose
 Yea, am all the wit and laughter faint Of all the world!-the gleam of ligh
 and art. Price Fantasy-the sinror and the saint, The child-phibspher in every heart! Passing. I yet remain in memory. Sc all touch again grows glad an|
 young; My blossom wand wave!-again shall hl The dance of youths and maids. anl
 music sung!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-08
MIR. J. TODHUNTER SLOAN

as an indication of ''Tod's" almos hypnotic influence over horses, hi: editor, A. Dick Luckmann, tells in hi: Introduction that he could make horst eat anything if he would first eat some of 1t himself. "The grimances tha horses would make scrunching up al orange was the greatest comedy pos, sible." Of another horse, MT. Luckmanr tells that it used to lift tho little jockey up in his teeth high above hi, head and put him down again as gentl, as a mother a baby.
 In this book Sloan reviews his varie gated career. He tells of famous peo pie he has met and famous horses h, has ridden, and races he has won, ant the one girl he ever married (Julis Sandersoa, tho actrcss); of his up: and downs generally, and finally hi; down, when shut out of the Englisl Jockey club, and being therefore de. barred, as he says, from the one thins he could do well. He even thinks hs could "come back" now, after 15 years if they would let him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-08
Sunday Moving Picture Patrons

I thoroughly approve of the stand The Age-Herald has made for the continuance or the moving pictures on Sunday and consider it's work for the interest of the laboring man in demanding the right of
 having the moving pictures to operate on Sunday a great achievement" said pr. II. A. Elkourie, who is regarded as a
 keen observer of the many local issues. T have heard some of those opposed to the Sunday moving pictures say that the idea that they are a means of enter- tainment to the laboring man is @ fallacy. This phase of the question was brought up in a conversation I had with one of the anti-moving picture people the other day. The idea of the Sunday moving picture helping the laboring man to for get his many trials of the week, and thereby entertain and amuse him is all
 bosh,' said my friend have seen few of the horny handed sons of toll in the
 movies on Sunday. Most of them are we'll dressed men who are evidently clerks or salesmen,' he continued
 We'll said I, Do you not consider the lawyer, the doctor, the clerk, the 1 clerical man and the we'll dressed man as well as the poorly dressed man, all en- | titled to the distinction of being iaporers Does it mean that man must dig a ditch and earn his bread by the sweat of his brow to be a laborer? I am a
 laborer, most men who earn a living by
 any of the many trades and professions
 are laborers, besides those who are me- chanics, artisans. and even ditch dig gers, dress up in their best Sundays and appear as well as the professional man
 or any other person regardless of their walk of life.'
 After a few minutes Of thought my friend agreed that it was not necessary l to class the laborer with those who mere ly appeared dressed in neat clothes or Sunday. Throughout the civilized world people dress their best on the Sabbath
 And most. if not all Of those who are the purchasers of moving picture tickets
 on Sunday, are well dressed, but never. tEeless, laborers,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-08
BOWs TO AUNT SALLY

From the Philadelphia Evening Ledger.
 Without desiring to start any interna- tional complications, the proprietors of southern hotels have begun to banish French chefs An ancient tradition and an ancient friendship are thus destroyed. The pates and glaces and other French delicacies with acute accents and with a tendency to give acute indigestion are to be no more
 And for whom are these culinary chief tains being. if one may put it so ungrace- fully, fired? In the fair far southland there is no prejudice. What is wanted is good food, by whatever hand prepared. Those of us dwelling in the painful north who can afford to so south go there with an appetite made keen for beaten bis cult, for chicken just so, for candied yams or sugared sweets. There is re- corded the case o1 man who travelled 200 miles that he might eat of the omelet souffle as 1t was practiced by one who bore the sweet name of Lavinia Nobleton, and who prayed over each omelet. To cater to such appatites southern proprie- tors tried to import French chefs They have failed. On Broad street, yes. Below the Potomac. no. The ''mammy'' has
 stepped from the mansion kitchen to the great hotel.
 Brillat-Savarin bows tc Aunt Sally.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-08
BOOKS BY PARCEL POST

From "A Parcel-Post Library System, ' by Fred L. Holmes, in the American Re- 1 view of Reviews for December.
 1 Looking over the applications it is evil
 dent that the service goes to the remotest
 districts of the state, sometimes 250 miles ] from the state libraries. Some of the l postoffices are unknown except to the postal guide. Many of the applications are from school teachers, who are getting the books not to make them available for one reader, but to make them avail able for the entire school. Often, too, some business man or community leader will get a book that is much in demand
 and relend 1t to all around him. For ex- ample, one banker borrowed two books Fraser "The Potato;" Putnam: ''The Gasoline Engine on the Farm" The books were retained so long that an inquiry brought the statement that both books had been circulating rapidly among a large number of different farmers, and the request that they be left longer, since the banker had memorandum of many other farmers who wished to borrow the books as soon as they were obtainable. With each month the number and vary ing character of the orders have increased
 as information about the new plan is dis seminated. With the reopenIng of the schools the volume of requests has nearly doubled.
 The relative ratios of the character of books ordered are at variance with city library statistics generally. With the lat ter fiction comprises 70 per cent of the books loaned. Of the first 743 orders re- ceived, which is characteristic of recent orders, 251, or S4 per cent, were fiction; 1S1, or 24 per cent, were for books on ag- riculture and home economies, and 311, or
 42 per cent related to history science, biography and travel.
 Applicants must sign a statement, to
 be verified by the postmaster, teacher of the rural school, or some other responsible person. that the book will be carefully protected and will be returned after IA days unless an extension of time has been gra nted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-08
prominent musicians which appeared in uac+apdo1yJS ora ua-o1d

prominent musicians which appeared in yesterdays Age-Herald.
 For many years past music teach CTS associations in many states have been asking for legislation along the | line referred to and in a few states examining boards have been estab- lished. But the agitation should con- tinue until every state has it's board. While many excellent musical in- stitutions are found in every large city, the majority of those who set themselves up as teachers are i'll qualified for their work. Parents de- string to have their children taught simply waste their money when they pay for instruction that is funda- mentally faulty.
 No one is allowed to teach in the public schools unless he or she has passed an examination, and the same general rule obtains in other profes- sions. No one is admitted to the bar or to the medical fraternity without first having been examined.
 The Alabama Music Teachers as- sociation should make an earnest ef- Fort to bring about the standardiza- tion of their profession in this state. The music clubs are about to form a state federation and it should be taken as matter of course that such an organization would be ready to cooperate.
 Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile and other Alabama cities are for tunate in having music teachers who are thoroughly competent. Here in Birmingham are found teachers of voice, and the various instruments, and theory, too, who rank with the best in the great musical centers of the United States, but not until cer- tificates are demanded will the ma jority following the profession be pedagogically fit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-08
winter Interest in nasebnl1

Despite the fact that it is almost Christmas, interest in baseball has by no means decreased," said Earnest Wi,- lams, cashier of the Greenwood Cave.
 I have an opportunity of hearing con- siderable gossip during the day and 1t Is surprising to me the amount of interest there is in baseball during the winter. The bugs call it the winter league' or stove circuit and they fan just as en- Enthusiastically as if 1t were June.
 There is a great deal of interest in the coming league meeting to be held here December 15, as everyone realizes the im- portance for this city of the reelection of President R. H. Baugh. MT. Baugh has made an excellent league executive and from what I hear the circuit gener- ally is much pleased
 Friends of Roy Ellam were glad to learn through this mornings Age-Her- aid of the sale of Dolly Stark to the Memphis club. Stark had ambitions to manage Nashville before Ellam was given the job and had he remained on the team he would have been a disturbing element and would have given the sorrel-top trou- ble l have heard that Stark was one of the reasons Bill Schwartz didn't care to manage the Vols another season.
 All the talk about baseball being a back number is bunk, and I and thou sands of others in Birmingham will greet the return of the horsehide with loud cheers.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-08

makers to fatten their dividends at
 Uncle Sam's expense.
 While it is quite probable that munitions manufacturers are keenly interested and some of them may be actively engaged in furthering the campaign for preparedness, for their own selfish ends, if the government builds and operates it's own plants, as it is expected to do, there will be no chance for private corporations to make exorbitant profits. It may not be possible or expedient for the government to manufacture every thing needed to bring our navy up to the required efficiency, strengthen our coast defenses and provide ade- quate supplies of guns and ammuni- tion, but these are details that the President and Congress are expected to work out.
 The main point IS not so much the possible advantages that may accrue to munitions makers-and Congress should see to it that these gentlemen are kept well in hand-but the nec- essity for arming ourselves as soon as possible for defense. What if the munitions makers do favor prepared ness? Millions of patriotic Americans in no way connected with the manu facture of armament are also in favor of it. The schemes of selfish people are a mere detail of the business and can be properly dealt with. If we are to wrangle over questions of minor importance we shall be no better able to defend ourselves at the end of five or even ten years than we are now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-08

The oldest painting on canvas in the world was recently sold in New York for $1700. The picture illustrates life in Egypt when Thebes was one of the world S great cities. It belongs to the eleventh dynasty and is comparatively small, be- ing IS by 13 inehes.~, No rain ever falls in Upper Egypt and there was no damp ness to affect the canvas. which had been folded and was preserved with all of it's original freshness. It was found in a pile of debris in the ruins of the temple at Deir-E Bahari, 1895. The picture rep resents the Goddess Hathor in the form of COW on Q richly decorated bark. A deified king is standing beneath the head of the goddess and seven figures are approaching in act of worship. Their names and prayers are written in hero- glyphics above. What is said to be the oldest sculptor in the world seated ape like figure of a kind moulded in n-dried clay, estimated to be TOGO years old, brought less than $1Oo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-08
Mir. viereck Explains

In recent issue of the Fatherland, of which he is the editor, George Syl- vester Viereck, whose pro-German ut terances have attracted great deal of attention throughout the country and have kept him under the fire of many New York newspapers, again sets forth his views and the views of German Americans on national pre- paredness. Mir. Viereck reiterates that he is strongly in favor of strengthen ing our army and navy. Discarding the hyphen, which has become an off, fense to loyal German citizens of America, he says that it isn't pre- paredness itself he opposes, but the motives behind it and the way in which it may be brought about. His greatest fear seems to be that it is simply scheme of the munitions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-08
LUCK IN WALL sTREET

From the New York World.
 The case of the former Wall street messenger boy who has just paid ,00C for Stock exchange seat out of his win nings in war stocks will long serve to point a moral and adorn a tale of the magic possibilities of stock speculation. As against this concrete example of suc- cessful get-rich-quick finance, all the hard-lucA experiences of the less for tunate and all the warnings about the snares and pitfalls of stock gambling will be as nothing. There was the unlucky case a few months ago of the bank teller whose faith in war stock profits proved his ruin. But that Is another story, and as opposed to it here is the more agreeable instance of the youth who has made good, and at 31 from the humblest of beginnings has reached the cherished goal of all stock brokers clerks.
 But 1t is to be noted that he made his fortune operating from the inside and not from the outside.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-08
Brillat-savarin bows to Aunt Sally.
SOFIA. THE BULGARIAN CAPITA

SOFIA. THE BULGARIAN CAPITAL.
 From The Bulgarians and Their Coun-
 try" by Oliver Bainbridge in the Amer
 ican Review of Reviews for December.
 No city in the east has undergone such a magic transformation as Sofia. Prior to the emancipation of the Bulgars it was a small Turkish town of 2o,000, with mar row, dirty streets. There was practically no trade and the pople were in hideous state of poverty. The city which has now risen up has poplation of about 125 900 and is rapidly becoming one of the best in eastern Europo. Architecturally, 1t has far moro claims to respect than is at first apparent. The streets. which are well paved and beautifully, clean. are too mar row for the adequate display of the fine proportions of the Czar's palace. the Ma tional theatre. the general postoffice, the war office. the Bulgarian National bank, the William Gladstone High School for Boys the Grand Hotel de BuIgarie, the National Agricultural bank. the So- branje. and many other public buildings which are of fine sandstone. The eccle- siastical ediflces are of remarkable beauty, especially the new cathedral.