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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-25
PRINCE SLAIN BY RUSSIANS
Frederic Of Thurn and TaAis Falls In
Dnlester Fighting.

Amsterdam. Sept. 24.-Prlnee Fred
eric Of Thurn and Taxis, son Of Prince
Ismoral. was killed Monday Will,
fghting in the Dniester region in Rus
"a according TO a Vienna dispatch to
che Berlin "Lokal Anreiger." Prince
Frederic was forty-four years old.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-25
ASKS SIX SHIPS
TO MAKE NAVY
FIT FOR BATTLE
C;oreral Board Plans Swift
Rattle Cruisers and
Superdreadnoughts'
CsIISLITTLE NAVY
AS GOOD AS NONE
oscisI Voices Need of Watch
,,o Iapan. Great Britain and
Germanv-War a Teacher.


.r-a us Tisans R0rs'ui ,u-
Washington. Sept ga nc 0''', -
program r.u 90 least six
,,e navy viii call ior a' .''
bio ships. s. was learned 'o'~"' w.
.n,bori,ative sources al me Navy -. -
r,r,men,. A, least one ana posi-.
,ro Of these will be oa'''e q '''' .
and the rest sDTeroreaan0"en'S 49,
A. present the navy mas ~ ca-ora1
cruisers. but experts o. '.'' -
Hoard arc convinced 'n"' ''' Wv ~
ment o. ms y 60. E.. oh,irea 20
when '"' E.. ~ocosearv TO provide
prepare '., ,.. ...o ,,i,bout DELAY.
ships o. 80. R-..,;n and Germany
'sP''' .-.-.os with the battle
have '"i'' ,... .-,riv demonstrated
cruise " 81. has been shown
IS use ''''' o4o..;vo WAY Of COM
ihst 'he'e - went with
batting .,.no ord for that
ships o. TIC ~ :. =. ob.o,u.elv
reason. experts soy
,eosssarv FOR the United states 10 CON-
~,
s"o'' -. r.orL IN q compre-
me oo"'" ,.
hensive battle cruiser P'0e
.bi,b Il IS hoped, can be followed from
neil tho navy is equipped
year 20 wa Certain
with an adequate NUM- -
rAmbers Of the board favor ouiiu'ns
-. ,.oo- beginning AZ once, and con-
-. o. chat rate until the required
uhu'"S 4. ~oo.bed
ratio 10 other navles IS reAc"eU'
o,cStio, If Opponents.
..o,
at is all question OF "h"' "a'io.'
ava coi,r 10 Eight" said a high
.'' .os.,. "rf we are nre-
rsval oTl'-A' '0-ON' H.,
pairing for defense against hIS'-''"S'
laval mower. we might as well have no
-, 80 1;..le one"
navy a. ,o which
The ha''.esnip P'Os "''''''''
calls for forty-eight first class battle
1910 has baen allowed 10 drop
90
behind unui 'he'S ~ -.- .5ot
final reall14,''i'is' 80 % he aut.3rized
..e 49, 80" ,har 1916 in order 70 be ready
a.. ssiivsrv In 1919. and there is small
~. - ne. ne ten battleships re-
me- me- for he completion OF the pro-
s-IIe- ali 20 autborized by Con-
- w. the next two sessions.
go 80 -o-,r Roar5 however. will
lne .l,o-,roorS tho ships Just
CONF" y, ~ .lu.eve adhered to
a' j No'.-- or,e-inallv outlined
me Pie ie. 90 80 oo,struc+ion Of
ana WI 1850 s55i+io1
'"1,e -. 30 -Le hattie cruiser. as
lHe - 10 technical ex-
eAp.aihe1 %! oj'e -. fioe N its
peFls OF we ~ P-' -. armament. II
pes' spec" an -. l,tla more
carries sIi"o' ~. - on the
than half as 'nlcH a. VIC" $50 ;s
dreacnought ana lot 'n9' -
unable 20 give batt!e 70 'nS 49,
though mounting guns o. equa-
Il can, however, run cow anu
s.roy vessels carrying HsNDei 5roaS
ment, such rs cruisers, - cer
noughts ana alNl.'"I! 90. ba+.Io
give battle eHeCt-FeIy 10 ~. .he Cd
cruisers e7ie-.a-.s -. .,,-,bers
vantage o. superior huHiDe's'
L. :. should Have the Odds.
az. ~. ol4s arc five 10 three. good
-. 5,--s,Js nat the three run
80 ,rar't a. ,Le evo nursue. Our navy
go 80! 1 -, t... e,ovgb n have the odds
49,. -. ,-E he in The pursuing
W -. ~ 60 ,-.,.oI ofce~
'- r.. So. of he General Board
80 80. Che 1essons Of the Euro
80 No. '',e a sre endeevoring to ar
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-25
U-BOATS IN MEDITERRANEAN
Reported to Have Sunk French, English
and Russian Ships There.

Berlin, Sept "a (by Wireless to Tuck
erton, y. J).-The newspapers OF
Spain, says the Overseas News Agency.
report that German submarines in the
Mediterranean have sunk several
French and English steamers and one
Russian vessel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-25
GUN IN ST. PAUL'S
CALLED A MYTH
Falsehoods Betray Zeppelin
Plans, Britain Replies.

London. Sept. 24-The British Home
Office. in a statement referring to the
German account of the Zeppelin raid
on London, declares it contains numer-
Gus statements which are untrue: One
to the effect that an anti aircraft gun
has been placed under cover OF ST.
Paul's Cathedral, the statement says,
"can only be characterized as false
hood, apparently invented to excuse
what German aircraft are attempting
20 do"
An official statement issued at Berlin
September 10 asserted that London was
fortified by great number Of perma-
nent fortiAcations and by still larger
number of field Notifications.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-25
CARS CALL REACHES CHINA
Hardin and Vladivostok TO Lose All
Men That Can Bear Arms.

London, Sept. 24.-All eligible Rus
SLAMS in China have been called to the
colors under the ukase OF September
16, summoning reserves Of the terri
torial army according 20 Peking dis
match to the Exchange Telegraph Com
II is reported that Hardin and Vlad,
;vostok soon will be denuded Of men Of
military age.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-25
Ian Journalists Sail for U. s.

Toxic. Sept. 24.-Tcn representative
Japanese journalists Will sail for san
Francisco tomorrow. Their trip VIII
he for the purpose OF studying conai-
lions in the United States.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-25
ARABIC BODY DRIFTS IN
That Of Mrs. Bruguiere Goes Ashore
on South Irish Coast.

Queenstown. Sept. PA body that
came ashore at Clonakilty, on the south
coast of Ireland, has been identified as
that of Mrs. Josephine Bruguiere Of
New York, who went down with the
Arabic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-25
Durnovo, Russian Leader, Dead.

Petrograd. Sept. 24.-The death o..
Peter Nkolaievich Durnovo is an
nounced. He was Russian Minister OF
the Interior. a member Of the Counci
of the Empire and leader of the party
Of the Right in the Council.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-25

Rome, Sept. % (vla Paris. Sept 2O.
The earth shock felt here tonight was
more pronounced in other districts Of
Italy. but no great damage was done.
At Avezzano the inhabitants fled from
the huts in which they had been living
since the great disaster OF last January.
In the city Of Aquila, ffty-eight miles
northeast of Rome, and throughout the
province Of that name the shock
caused alarm.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-25
FALL KILLS HERO OF AIR
French Lieut.. de Maud'huy. Famous fol
Attack on Six Hostile Planes.

Toul, France, Sept. "a. Lieutenant
dc Maud'huy. son Of General l.. +. de
Maud'huy, of the 9Th Army Corps, has
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-25
ITALY JARRED BY QUAKE
Night Shock Fills Cities Streets With
Frightened Folk.

Messins. Sept. PA strong earth
shock occurred here last night at e.l5
o'clock. The people rushed to the
streets and many remained in the open
all night. No damage was done
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-25
THANK U. s. RED CROSS
Austrinns Grateful to Worker Leaving
for Siberian Camps.

Washington. Sept. 24.-The Austro-
Hungarian Embassy to-day made public
wireless dispatch from Vienna
stating that the departure Of the Amer
lean Red Cross contingent for Siberia
was the occasion OF special ceremonies
under the auspices Of the Austrian Red
Cross.
The message. signed by Foreign Min
lister Won Btrian, said that the Austro-
Hungarian government expressed its
gratitud 10 the Americans for their
work in the hospitals at Vienna and
Budapest.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-25

Berlin. Sept. q by wireless 10 Tuck
erton, y. 1.-THE American surgeons
and nurses who are on their way 10
Siberia to attend the German wounded
and sick prisoners in the Russian de-
tention camps were received last night
by the German Crown Princess.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
CHAPTER x.

Early that year, the touch Of autumn
came to the air. Often. returning at
shutdown from the afternoon life class,
Samson felt the lure OF its melancholy
sweetness, and paused on one OF the
Washington Square benches, with
many vague things stirring In his
mind. He felt with stronger throb
the surety OF young, but quickening.
abilities within himself. Partly, 1t was
the charm of Indian summer, partly
q sense Of growing with the days, but,
also. though he had not as yet realized
that. It was the new friendship into
which Adrienne had admitted him,
and the new experience Of frank cam
araderie with a woman not as mem
Der OF an inferior sex, but az an equal
companion of brain and soul. He had
seen her often, and usually alone, be-
cause he Stunned meetings with
strangers. Until his education had ad-
vanced further, he wished to avoid
social embarrassments. He knew
that she liked him, and realized that
It was because he was a new and virile
type, and for that reason diversion
a sort OF human novelty. She liked
him. too because 1t was rare for a
man to offer her friendship without
making love, and she was certain he
would not make love. He liked her
for the same reasons that every one
else did-because she was herself. OF
late. too, he had met a number OF
men at Lescott's club. lie was mod
estly surprised to find that, though
his attitude on these occasions was
always that of one sitting In the back
ground. the men seemed to like him.
and, when they said. See you again"
at parting. it was with the convincing
manner of real friendliness.
One wonderful afternoon in Octo-
Der. when the distances were mist
hung. and the skies very clear. Sam
son sat across the table from Adrienne
Lescott at a road house on the Sound.
The sun had set through great cloud
battalions massed against the west.
and the horizon was fading into dark
ness through q haze like ash of roses.
She had picked him up on the Ave
nue.. and taken him into her car for
a short spin. but the afternoon had
beguiled them, Turing them on a little
farther, and still little farther When
they were q score OF miles from Man
haitian, the car had suddenly broken
down. 1t would, the chauffeur told
them. he the matter Of an hour to
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

"Astounding!" cried Robert briggs.
did it get here?"
Mr.. briggs had reason to be
amazed. He was more than that
stunned, unnerved. A bachelor Of
thirty, sedate and settled in his ways,
shy with women, unsocial with chill
dren, an appeal to his humanity had
come home to him with a force that
was absolutely a shock.
To the reticent, well-regulated &C.
cupant of the prettiest home in Brook
ton, and the loneliest, in the opinion
of many signing matron with mar
riageable daughters, there had come
a disturbing invasion. He had left
home in a peaceful frame of mind.
He had returned to find Mary, an old
loyal family servant, pacing the porch,
a bundle done up In shawl In her
arms, which she was industriously
rocking and "s-sh-ing," to the accom-
paniment of an unmistakable infantile
chorus.
"Why-what-?" began the dunn
founded briggs.
Don't talk too loud, sir" warned
Mary, mysteriously. 'It's baby"
"Where-did you get it? How-does
it happen to be here" blurted briggs,
aghast.
Its a war baby, sir"
"A what"
"Oh, sir" don't act so horrified!"
pleaded Mary. cts not my fault. Just
after noon l came out on to the porch
here, and there was this poor, wee
little darling lying asleep in an old
blanket. The sweet cherub!" and the
speaker cast defiant look at her mas
ter as though reproaching him for his
cast-iron lack of human sympathy.
But you said war baby" project
ed Mr.. briggs.
YES, sir, that's right"
And what do you mean by that?"
Why" explained Mary, "of course
I was startled. l telephoned to the
lady next door, the widow, you know,
who has just taken the place beyond
our garden wall She came over. She
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
Romance Shattered.

Is snoring enough of reason for a
woman to secure a legal separation
from her husband? One woman in
New York thinks it is. This woman
says she married man whom she
loved, about two years ago. About
midnight on their wedding night, the
woman says in her petition for sepa-
ration, she was awakened by strange,
weird, almost terrifying noise. She
traced the uproar to her husbands
nose. He was snoring in different
keys. First there would be a long
rumbling noise; then he would make
a noise like a rusty front gate. For
an hour this was kept up and then the
bride awakened the snoring husband
and told him to cease snoring. L
snore?" exclaimed the indignant man.
Listen, dear; 1 never snored in my,
life" From that time on love to dis
like turned, and the woman AYERS she
never could endure her husband. He
never ill-treated her, she says, and
always has provided for her, but he
snores. That's enough, she thinks,
to secure her a separation, together,
of course, with q reasonable sum on
which to live.
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AS he accused himself, Samson was
looking at her with unblinking direct
ness: and she met his glance with
eyes that twinkled.
Mr.. South" she said, IT know all
about manners, and you know all
about a hundred real things that
want to know. Suppose we begin
teaching each other?
Samson's face lighted with the rev.
olutionizing effect that smile can
bring only to features customarily
solemn.
Miss Lescott," he said, lets call
that a trade-but you're gettin' all
the worst of It. To start with, you
might give me lesson right now in
how a Teller ought to act, when he's
talkin' to a lady-how 1 ought to act
with you!"
Her laugh made the situation as
easy as an old shoe.
Ten minutes later, Lescott entered.
well" he said, with smile, shall
l Introduce you people, or have you
already done 1t for yourselves"
"Oh," Adrienne assured him. "Mr.
South and l are old friends" AS she
left the room, she turned and added:
1.-THE second lesson had better be at
my house. II l telephone you some
day when we can have the school-room
to ourselves. will you come upT'
Samson grinned and forgot to be
bashful as he replied:
I'll come a-kitin!"
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OLD CRAFT OF ODD DESIGN
MesopotamIa Boat, Known as kufa,
Known to Have Been In Use Be-.
fore Christian Era.

The Kufa, a curious circular boat
made Of basketwork, and seen no.
where else in the world. is com
mon sight in Mesopotamia- The fer
rymsn charge only a cent each pas
senger. There Is one good point about
these strange craft-they are not cas-
lily upset. Their carrying capacity also
is great, and the kufa men pack in
their passengers like herrings in bar
rel. had the good luck to take pho
tograph Of the actual building OF a
kufa on the banks of the Tigris river,
says a writer In the Wide World. They
are made of date palm branches
woven together with rope made out of
leaves of the same palm, thickly plas-
tered on the outside with bitumen.
They range from four to twelve feet
In diameter. Nowhere but on the
Tigris and lower Euphrates rivers can
one see these curious craft, which
serve principally for the transport of
passengers, country produce and
beasts of burden across the river.
About three men are required to make
kufa OF respectable size, and it
takes them some twenty days to build
it. Like the kelek, the kufa is of
great antiquity. for both these strange
craft were in use long before the time
of Christ. The evidence of this is In
disputable, for on the bas-reliefs taken
from the palace of Sennacherib both
craft are clearly represented
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
MUCH LIKE THE PRESENT DAY
Walpole Complained Many Years Ago
That Rulers Abrcgated Law
OF Nations.

In letter to Hon. Henry Seymour
Conway, from Strawberry Hill, Of
July s, 1888, Horace Walpole made a
number Of observations in regard to
the European situation Of that day
which are amazingly, curiously Apo
site to the existing situation.
1.-THE invasion of Portugal by Spain
in the last war, and the partition OF
Poland. have abrogated the law OF
nations" writes Walpole. Kings have
left no ties between one another.
He is a good king that pre-.
serves his people; and II temporizing
answers that end, is it not justffable?
DR. Joseph (the emperor Of Aus
tria) and DR.. Frederick (Frederick
the Great of Prussia) with 100000
commentators are reading new lec-
tures-and / should say. thank God,
to one another, II the 100000 com
mentators were not in worse danger
than they. Louis XIV is grown a
casuist compared with those parti-
TONERS.
well, let us simple individuals keep
our honesty, and bless our stars that
we have not armies at our command,
lest we should divide kingdoms that
are at our bienseance! What a dread
full thing 1t is for such a wicked lit
tie imp as a man to have absolute
power!"
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Brieux Reads Frances Future.

Eugene Brieux, in a recent article in
the Paris Temps, anticipates the obvi-
GUS question as to whether the French
people will forget all their differences
and live in complete accord after the
war.
He thinks not; but he believes that
a great improvement in their political
affairs will ensue and that his COM
patriots will understand better how
there can be disagreement without hate
and argument without insult.
He does not expect them, however,
to become "calm as statues" by her
geographical situation, and because ot
the races that gave it being as a ma
ton, France is destined to agitation.
And agitation may be fruitful, while
immobility never is. Literary Digest.
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your voice, you are woven of human
silk I've learned lately that silk isn't
weak, but strong. They make the
best balloons of it." He paused and
laughed. but his face again became
sober. Il was thinking, too, OF your
mother She must be sixty, but she's
a young woman. Her face is smooth
and unwrinkled, and her heart is still
in bloom. At the same age, George
won't be much older than he is now"
The compliment was so obviously
not intended as compliment at ali
that the girl flushed with pleasure.
Then" went on Samson, his face
slowly drawing with pain, Il was
thinking of my own people. My
mother was about forty when she
died. She was an old woman. My
father was forty-three. He was an old
man. l was thinking how they with
cred under their drudgery-and OF the
monstrous injustice of 1t all"
CTO BE CONTINUED)a s.--'
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effect repairs, 40 the girl, explaining
to the boy that this event gave the
affair the aspect of adventure, turned
and led the way, on foot, to the near
est road house.
I'VE will telephone that we shall
D9 late, and then have dinner" she
laughed. And for me to have dinner
with you alone, unchaperoned at a
country inn, is by New York standards
delightfully."- unconventional. 1t borders
on wickedness." Then, since their at
titude toward each other was SO
friendly and innocent, they both
laughed. They had dined under the
trees of an old manor house, built a
century ago, and now converted into
an inn, and they had enjoyed them.
selves because It seemed to them
pleasingly paradoxical that they should
find in a place seemingly so shabby
genteel a cuisine and service of such
excellence. Neither of them had ever
been there before, and neither of them
knew that the reputation of this estab-
lishment was lin it's own way wide
and unsavory.
The repairs did not go as smoothly
as the chauffeur had expected. and,
when he had finished. he was hungry.
So. eleven o'clock found them still
chatting at their table on the lighted
lawn. After awhile. they fell silent,
and Adrienne noticed that her COM
panion's face had become deeply, al
most painfully set, and that his gaze
was tensely focused on herself
What Is 1t, Mr.. South?" she de-
manded.
The young man began to speak,
in q steady, self-accusing voice
Il was sitting here, looking at YOU"
he said, bluntly. II was thinking
how fine you are in every way; how
there is as much difference in the tex
ture OF men and women as there is in
the texture of clothes. From that
automobile cap you wear to your slip
pers and stockings. you are clad In
silk. From your brain to the tone OF
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-07-15
Soldiers untimelx Return.

A typical story of Yorkshire charac-
ter Is told of a returned soldier. Any
one who knows the all-importance Of
washing day in Yorkshire will appre-
ciate the humor of it. He was just
out of the hospital, and except that
his left arm was tucked into the
breast of his jacket, you would never
have guessed what he had suffered for
king and country AS he crossed the
threshold of his home his father took
the pipe out of his mouth and gave
him a real Yorkshire welcome
'Thah's newer cum. Moother!
there's aar jim" And mother"
hurrying in from the back yard. added
her Fluctuations thus:
"Thah's looking nooan so bad, lad:
but whatever med thee cum hoam on
a wesh day."
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said than an emigrant train with a
lot OF Belgian refugees had laid over
in town since morning. Some Of
the emigrants had put in the time
scattering around town. In Mrs. Dens-
lows opinion, some woman among
the poor unfortunates got disheart-
ened and left her little baby, she
hoped, in friendly hands,"
"Why, we must find the mother"
began briggs, in a worried way.
TOO late, sir, I'm thinking" inter-
rupted Mary. You see, the train has
gone on. BY this time any number
of emigrants may have left it. In
fact, sir, If you can't stand it to have
this poor, motherless darling around
the place. I'll adopt it," declared
warm-hearted Mary steadfastly.
"And leave me?"
I'll have to, If you won't let the
baby stay
"U-um, ahem!" and briggs reflected.
Somehow it appealed to him strongly
to be merciful to the little stranger.
He had taken in crippled dogs-at
heart he was human-why not a for
lorn mite of humanity abandoned to
the cold charity of the world?
Mary" he said finally in his usual
definite way, ''the baby can stay. Pro
vide for it's comfort and ne started
to walk into the house.
IF you please, sir" Mary halted
him, there are some necessities /
must get for the poor little girl.
There's some clothing and coverings
needed, and infant food and the like.
If you could mind the little one for
an hour, l will run down to the stores
and get what's wanted"
Suppose-suppose it gets frac-
tious."
1T won't" insisted Mary. See, sir,
it's gone to sleep. I've given it some
warm milk and it will be quiet for
the little spell that I'm away, / am
sure"
1t was with considerable trepidation
that Mr.. briggs undertook the task
of pacing up and down the porch, awk-
wardly holding the sleeping child in
his arms. Then the little one began
to fidget. 1t was warm on the porch
and shady in the garden. Cautiously
he conveyed his precious burden down
the steps. There was path lining
the high brick wall that separated the
place from the adjoining house. Here
briggs took up his anxious promen-
ade.
He was not acquainted with his
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LIamas In Harness.

An interesting attraction in one of
the European geological gardens is a
pair of tame llamas that carry pas
sengers about the grounds. They are
declared to be the only creatures of
their kind in Europe that have been
trained for this purpose. The ami.
mails draw a light carriage. and at a
recent test it was shown that they
could easily pull load of $50 pounds.
They are quite docile and readily an
swer to the rein.