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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-12-20

tBy Associated Preasb
PARIS, Dec. 20-Fighting between
of Greek and Bulgarian
troops is reported in dispatch froIp
Brindisi, Italy. 1t was said that several
Greek officers and soldiers had been
killed or wounded
Greece is hastily forwarding rein.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-12-20
BULGARIANS AND GREEKS NOW FIGHTING

forcements to the scene The dispatch
says the disturbance occurred in the
province of Epirus. at the western end
of the Serbo-Greek border. The Bul
garian advance is said to have pene-
trated Greek territory after an en-
counter with Greek outposts.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-12-20
PEACE IN MEXICO HAS BEEN DECLARED

the de facto government of Mexico.
A conference was held between the
Mexican consul and ex-Lieutenant
Villa at the El Paso consulate. The
signing of the peace agreement elm
mates Villa from Mexican affairs.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-12-20

All toys, games, dolls and similar
lines OF holiday goods will be closed
out at from 25 to so per cent off.
Splendid new novelties for gifts.
Rotholz. Bros. See us. Adv. D9t24
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-12-20

DARDANELLES PLAN
IS EVIDENTLY LOST
British Troops Have Been With
Drawn From the GdllipOIi
Peninsula


the Galpo their
operation officially
clearly brought out by the
the abandonment the Galpol
terpse that effected
= with small LOSSES, details given
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-12-20
ny Associated Press1

ny Associated PresaD
Ell PASO, Dec. 20.-An agreement
has been reached and papers signed
whereby the Villa faction in Northern
Mexico concludes peace terms with
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-12-20
OPPOSED DEATH PENALTY
by Associated Pre...)

by Associated PressD
SACRAMENTO, Cal. Dec 2O.-An
anti-death penalty petition has been
filed, invoking the initiative and to
submit the question to the people at
the general election November next.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-12-20

]. w. TUFT and NJ. d. Kerr OF
Lun,ng are guests at the Mizpah.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-12-20

Within half an hour the refinery
building was constructed with steel
practically no combustible material,
but the burning oil destroyed it. The
building was constructed of a steel
frame, with galvanized covering, metal
roof and concrete floor. The regular
semimonthly melt was in progress,
but none of the bullion was lost.
The estimate of the loss is not
given out, but it is believed that the
building and contents. including the
machinery, were worth about $4,000.
The plant will be rebuilt soon after
the adjustments of the loss is made
The structure and contents were fully
insured r. j Highland will handle
the adjustment This disaster will
not in any way affect the output OF
bullion from the property.
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, 80 80 . . . .
TODAY AND A YEAR AGO

} Official readings OF the Their
} mometer by the United States =
} observer at Tonopah:
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-12-20

. Relative humidity at p. m. =
. today SO per cent. .
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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-12-20
The Weather

Fair, Colder Tonight;
Tuesday, Fair.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
HAVE MANY FANcIFUL BELIEFS
Bedouin superstitions, Firmly Rooted.
Are Of the Most Peculiar
Character.

Some Bedouin superstftions are
fanciful indeed They believe that
when a man dies Of thirst his soul
goes forth in the form Of q green
owl, which flies about above the
desert a thousand. years, screaming
for water. If a fish leaps from the
water into q boat where z woman is
riding, 1t is a sure sign that she viii
soon bear a SON They live in daily
dread Of the evil eye; the Arab moth
er fears for her child, lest this curse
descend and blight its life Some say
a man so possessed has merely to
cast his baneful glance on z bird hy-
ing, when the creature viii fall TO the
earth stone dead II an Arab woman
finds the threads in her "nuttou"-
loOm-have become tangled, she
blames the meddlesome evil spirits.
Many women have their limbs and
bodies tattooed in fancy designs, as
much as a charm to ward on disease
as for beauty's sake.
Mamma is still much eaten among
MesopOtamian Arabs; the women col
leet and prepare II from the ground
beneath certain hill trees. whence It
drips- Yet the Arabs-and the Jews
and Chaldeans as We1l-Armly believe
that this sweet, whitish gumlike food
is cast down from heaven; that il is
the same mama which tradition says
was cast down from heaven for the
children Of Israel Geographical Mag
azine.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
WOMEN PRICED AS PROPERTY
Have a DehnIte Value Among African
Natives and Are Treated
Accordingly

Although woman in Africa is regard
ed as property, she has certain rights
which are seldom infringed upon, and
Of these the most important is her
right TO marry whom she pleases, OF
rather 10 refuse to marry one who
does not please her, the Southern
Workman says. There are two grim
reasons for this First, women mar
ried against their wills have been
known to commit suicide. Second,
women married against their wills
have murdered their unloved husbands,
usually strangling them when asleep.
And to these reasons may be added
the fear of marital unfaithfuIness So,
in forcing oneself upon one OF these
women there is liability to Q great loss
the loss Of valuable property or OF
no less highly priced life. The young
girls are well cared for, partly that
they may be comely and draw many
suitors. Every girl VIII tell you frank
" that She wishes TO marry and have
q good husband and children Every
father is anxious 70 have his daugh-
tiers marry well. To secure q wife one
must pay a dowry in cattle TO the IA
ther, or, should the father be dead, TO
the nearest male relative If q girl Is
much sought after her father naturally
asks a larger dowTy. When a man has
paid part Of the dowry the father may
give consent to a provisional marriage
and permit the couple to live together.
Should the husband be too slow in pay
ing the remainder OF the doEry his
wife is taken from him. Trial mar
riages are common and can be set
aside by either party Their principal
objects in marriage are mutual help
fitness and the perpetuation OF the
race.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
For Nervous Persons.

No one can help feeling nervous at
times in this age of rush and racket,
but it is quite possible to put on the
brake, as it were, and not let the
nerves run away with US. Here are q
few hints on the subject:
IF people fret you, it is not neces-
sary to be rude to them. Try, instead,
to avoid them. Don't read books that
irritate you. Books are plentiful, there
fore put away the offending volume
and choose another. If noise at night
worries you, don't let it continue to
do so. Get up and see to the matter
and put II right
Don't let yourself get into the habit
Of being bored. It is not worth while.
When you feel it coming on plunge at
once into some task that viii take all
your time and energy. It is better to
run away from certain things than to
let them irritate you Such martyr
dom is usually unnecessary and bad
for you all round"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
ST. Reters At Rons.

St Peters at Rome is a Basilica-
the Basilica Vaticana-but It never
was. and is not now q cathedral-the
church where a bishop has his Official
see or seat In Rome it is the Lateran
church dedicated to Christ the Savior.
and in the second place to St John
Baptist, which holds this dignity.
Hence the inscription which all who
go there may read, Mother and Mis-
tress of All Churches" In the Later
an, not n St Peters, the pontif take
possession Of h5s see; and in II tbs
cardinal vicar holds ordinations, on
Ember days People use the word
cathedral very loosely. But there is s
grave errcr in describing St Peters
as the Cathedral OF Christendom."
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
Had Dangerous PIaxthino.

a fine afternoon for two children was
spoiled the other day by a policeman
who discovered them playing with dy-
Mantle in a vacant lot in New York.
When the policeman appeared the
children fed AS they ran they
dropped some Of the playthings they
had taken from a building under con
structiOn- The policeman found the
playthings to be sticks Of dynamite
and percussion caps, used in blasting
The policeman chased the children TO
their homes and then made them pick
up the dynamite and caps he hadn't
recovered and restore them TO the
place from which they had taken
them
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
Purity Of Water.

1t is sometimes useful to be able to
obtain an idea OF the purity or other
wise of a given water supply without
mourning the expense Of full chemi-
cal and meteorological analysis.
Among the constituents Of sewage are
phosphates in comparative abundance.
If clear glass bottle is nearly flied
with the water to be tested, a lump
or two of sugar added, and the whole
corked tightly and placed in a sunny
place for two or three days, the water
should remain quite clear. If, how
ever, it contains phosphates in ex-
cess, a milkiness will have developed
in it, in which case the suspicion OF
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
RAILWAYS IN SALT MINES
One Of the Worlds Wonders Is Stu
ated Near City of Cracow, in
Austrian Poland.

Writing of the wonderful Wieliczia
salt mines near Cracow in Austrian
Poland, the Manchester CEngland)
Guardian gives an interesting descrip-
ton of a railway station in the mine
There are So miles of pony tramways,
says the Guardian, and % miles Of
railway. All these lines and the pTin-
cipal passages or streets" meet in a
sort of central cavern. Here is a cen
trail railway station, with spacious
waiting rooms, Offices and an excellent
FefTeshment room all complete, all
hewn out OF rock salt, and looking, &C
cording to one description. more like
q summer pavilion than a railway sta
ton, with its latticed galleries an6
stately pillars cleaning white and iri
descent" This is comparatively mod
ern, Of course. The Oldest building
in the mine is the chapel of st. An
thony, dating from 1891 1t contains
three affairs, a pulpit and much statu.
airy, ali deliberately carved out of rock
salt. But services are now held only
in the more modern but equally elab
crate chapel of ST. Cunigund. which is
SAIOAOu uOnA ~ ScsiL STEPS AAS NAoROl
is so yards long, and is used regularly
for worship. The ballroom is a huge
room, where miners festivals are Otter
held. A miners orchestra plays regu
Iarly in this hall not only for the
dances, but for the entertainment Of
visitors, for the mine is one Of the
wonders of the world and is much Wis
tied by tourists.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
Character Told by the Fingers.

When long fingers with shorter
paIml are knotted at the joints we
find an extreme love for the minor
parts Of construction, whether it be
in the building Of a bridge or the end
less tasks pertaining to q kitchen.
These persons are also logical. and
not at all Influenced by prejudice or
gossip They make our best house
keepers, for they are orderly; never
caring how many little things they are
called upon to do and generally doing
them al well.
As scholars they are good mathema-
ticians, making our best accountants
Many times these hands are found
upon doctors who have taken up some
special branch Of study and are max
ing themselves masters OF it These
are our specialists.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15

The wonderful c-E3 of the suspen-
sion bridge across tEe sEenai strait In
Wales has made tn structure famous.
II one of the main piers Of the bridge
is struck By a hammer the sound Of
the blow IS returned in succession
from each c-oss beam supporting the
roadway ana from the opposite pier
standing $40 feet distant At the same
time the, sound is reflected back and
forth between the water and the floor
OF the bridge at the rate OF % times In
I'VE seconds Pathfinder.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
SUGARS GREAT FOOD VALUE
Constitutes one-Haif the FsourishEnsnt
That Man Needs, and Has Many
Other Virtues.

Sugar and sugaT-fOrming foods con-
stitute more than one-haIf Of the
needed by a healthy per
son. As q food it possesses Wellknown
properties, being a nutrient TO adipose
tissue and a respiratory fuel, and it is
decidedly diuretic in its action upon
healthy kidneys If sugar is withheld,
as in diabetes, a person actually
starves and undergoes progressive and
rapid emaciatiOn- The excessive use
CT SUGAR or sweets II the dietary IS
never advisable, but . iudicious mix
ture of sugar with the general diet
is necessary TO maintain health. Any
one who omits sugar from his diet viii
lose in weight, become thin and have
no muscular strength Sugar gives one
muscular strength Eating candy is
ar agreeable form of sugar. 1t should
not be eaten at all times; f taken be
tween meals it is apt to cause indi-
gestion 1t is always best to eat candy
after meals, with dessert Growing
children need sweet foods and candy
to help build up their muscular
strength The chiId's longing for cake
and candy is in reality a systema tic
demand for food to give it strength
Let the children have candy at meals.
never between meals. Eating too much
CT the sweet things, particularly be
tween meals, causes fermentation IN
the digestive tract, and sometimes e
serious Illness may result. Sugar is
an antiseptic. Burning sugar on a
shovel viii destroy unpleasant doors
For hoarseness and weak voice there
is nothing mere comforting than sCEe-
thing sweet slowly dissolved in the
r7Oufh
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
Mar,.einus Activities

A diner in q restaurant thought he
would have a joke with the waiter, and
asked him if he had ever seen a saus-
age roll Say" said the waiter, I
have not only seen a sausage roll,
but have seen q biscuit box, a table
spoon, a chimney sweep, a chain link,
a nose gay. a camera slide, q garden
fence, a sword fish and wall flower
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
Hahits Of the crocodlIe.

Although the crocodile does not pos
sess lungs Of extraordinary size, il
can remain beneath water for any
length of time. II has the power OF
alternating as well In many parts
Of India these creatures are buried.
during the hot season, beneath the
dried-up mud at the bottom Of the
lakes The mud hardens above them
and they stay thus buried in q torpid
state for long periods.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
difference Between Them.

''The king of Prussia" Napoleon
once remarked to General Gourgaud
at st. Helena, was a real BOBBY
Every time he came to see me to talk
over important affairs, he never man
aged to say anything on the subject
He went OF about shakos, buttons,
skin haversacks and a lot of other
nonsense, while did not know a word
about such trifing military details"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
Eirst Amerlean AdmIraI.

Esek Hopkins was the first admiral
of the American navy, being appoint
ed in 1775 by the continental congress
commander-in-chief of the navy. While
he at first achieved great success, he
was removed in 1777 on the ground
IF incompetency. He died in 1902 at
Providence, R. l., where a monument
has been erected to his memory.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
careIeaa Omission costly.

A "monkey-wrench" mechanic will
often omit placing cotter pins or re-
tanning wires in the crown nuts in the
motor transmission case or differential
housing. Should one of these nuts
shake of it will more than likely get
into the gear mesh and break up the
whole mechanism
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
Wanted the job compIeted.

The visiting lady had kept her hos
tess at the open door fully half an
hour saying good-by. Finally an irate
masculine voice indoors called out:
"Say, Maria, if you're going out. go;
If you're staying. stay; but for heav-
ems sake don't ooze out "-Harper's
Magazine.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
Has the Right to Wish.

But there is no law to prevent a
woman from stopping in front of mill
liners window and wishing she had a
bank account of her own.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
Preserve Patch Of Yew Trees.

A bit of primeval yew 4Orest about
half a mile square is carefully pre-
served in the Bavarian highlands OF
Germany, the tree, once widely dis
tributed, having become almost extinct
in Europe.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15

eseeerOf amu i aps
he uP
ano m i " is a
ongar eftec atsoy car
n the Beneath tn ca are "
a al meet for
pous ~
peceu ad p an q az is
p 5et oh clouds
decq ~ with
swing
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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
Panama Canal.

The Panama canal route shoTte:;s
the sea journey between New York
and the west coast of the United States
by more than eight thousand miles
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15

The St Lawrence river system is the
largest In Canada, and Il is probable
that the water power available from Il
Is greater than that Of any other riTsE
a. Canada
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
After She Has Him cinehed.

1t doesn't take the average man long
TO develop into a nonentity 4 the eyes
Of the capable young woman who
chased him to the altar.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15

BAAa ysa tmas ever 9 nez lesf,a
sd Uncle Eben. ~ycu's got 70 rake
10 yoh mind not TO notice De peopSs
dot mission huntfn' I'D De back nun
bers an making -emzrkz
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15

contamination would be sufficiently
confirmed to warrant q full analysis
II the water supply before any more
Of it Is used for drinking purposes.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
Ali the Difference.

A thin mar is in difficulties for life.
but a thin woman can reconstruct her
figure to suit--Exchange
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
Conservatism.

Customer-"None O. yer gaudy col-
ors for me. Give me plain red an
lIer."-Puck
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15


Of
ancient dancing singing pottery
which be the land
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-11-17

Let all members of the new organ
ization, the Booster Club, be present
at the meeting in the Yonge block
this evening and support the enter
prise of building the railroad to Sill
yer Springs. The plan is entirely
practical and the road is entirely
necessary. 1t is reproach to 0cala
that it has not been built long ago.
It viii not cost much to build the
road, and it will pay on the invest
ment from the day it is opened. What
other town than Ocala, in less than
six miles of navigable river, and
with such pleasure resort as Silver
Springs as well, would have gone un-
connected with both by railway SO
long. Let's get busy and provide
ourselves with quick and easy trans
portation to the springs before next
summer.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-11-17
PENITENTIARY SENTENCES
ARE POSSIBLE

For many years the wet men of
Marion county have fagrantly brok-
en- the law and defied morality and
public welfare by wholesale bribery
of the more ignorant and purchasable
class of voters, paying their poll
taxes, dosing them with cheap whis-
ky and marching them to the polls
like sheep. And the dry men have
gone around like so many old hens
with straws over their necks and
allowed it to be done.
In this campaign, the vets, who de-
pend entirely for their grip on the
county on this element, are repeating
their former tactics. The liquor inter
ests have sent money into the county
to pay poll taxes for hundreds of ne.
groes and some whites, and hired de-
PRAYED men to go out among that
element and by bribery and threats
induce them to vote wet.
But the drys have woke up and are
going after this bunch of law break
ers. They have the law with them
and they intend to make good use %
it.
1t is crime, punishable by term
in the penitentiary to bride man te
vote or to accept bride to vote. The
law specially sets forth that to pay
another mans poll tax is a bride
and that both the payer and the payee
are criminals.
In the last few weeks the tax col.
lector of Marion county has received
a number of polls obviously not paid
by the voters in whose names they
were sent. He has secured a number
of afidavits from parties the polls
were paid for, and is going after
others.
He warns all parties who allow
their taxes to be paid contrary to Law
that they are fooling with fire. He
will not only have their votes chal
lenged at the polls but will put theil
cases in the hands of the grand jury
and if they are convicted they car
expect to go to the penitentiary.
The men who paid these, or who
rather acted as agents of the whole.
sale whisky dealers, are also in dan.
ger. There is already some proof
against them and the dry people are
after more, and they stand a mighty
good chance to stand up in court
alongside of their dupes and tools.
The prohibitionists intend to offer
rewards for evidence to convict, and
some of the men who have been cor.
rupting Marion county politics stand
good show to work in stripes.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-11-17

Others Still Fought at one Anotners
Threats.
her. Then like mighty wave, the
mass of stark mad and heaving hui
mainly had broken upon them and
torn them apart. Then it was that
Arthur ragged like demon and struck
out on all sides and knew no more in
his madness. even when the wall gave
way and the roof fell upon his uncon
scious body.
Eddied to the outskirt of the combat
Quabba had pIucked Esther from the
storm of blows and had led her. dazed
to safety.
When the riot had broken loose
Smythe had struck out smartly, hitting
every skull in sight. But when the
surge of the crowd had borne against
the side wall and men and women had
turned like Ieasts to rend and tear
each other the lawyer. taking advan
tage Of being near the doorway. had
darted out into the night. which seem
ed to promise safety.
In the excitement and the struggle
he had not noted the diamond had been
hurled through the air when Luke Lo-
veil, struggling for it like the rest. had
struck the arm of Kansas En-. loosen
ing her grasp upon the chain of the
locket as she held it high above the
throng. Over the heads of the erowd
1t had flashed and fastened upon the
deer horn. and so the lawyer had borne
it from the scene of struggle unnoticed
by any one in the struggling medley.
not even by himself.
Scarcely knowing what he did, the
panic stricken lawyer darted into the
first haven of safety he encountered
1t was a barrel that Pete's bartender
had converted into a kennel for stray
puppy which had been given to him
that day.
Those who had not been imprisoned
or crushed by the falling roof of the
dance hall dragged themselves from
the debris Some ran wildly through
the muddy streets of the little town