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Evening star., 1915-04-12
Fire Unmethodical.


In the main the fire of the allies has
been rather scattered and unm methodi-
cal The ships enter the bay north of
Kumkale and Sidd-E -Bahr and usual
~ begin to fire in all directions. For |
this the batteries of the Turks are
responsible to great extent. Each |
day the British vessels discover that
the pieces have been shifted from the
point where it was thought they had
been silenced on the previous day.
No sooner is the British vessel within
range than an avalanche of shells be-
gins to fall close about it. This neces-
states first of all that the batteries
must be found and an attempt made
to silence them. In this manner the
allies are obliged to begin each day
anew. a labor they thought eliminated
sition discovered and the first Shells
fired in its direction than the pieces
are taken to other parts in the hills,
to repeat from there their most an
noyinS work.
In dealing with this the allies are
also handicapped considerably by a
matter of artillery technic. The large
guns on battleships are fiat trajectory
pieces; that is to say. they are designed
to be used principally against an OBJ
ject more or less on the level on which
the gun itself is located.
The result of this is that the Turkish
batteries on the elevation cannot be
taken under very effective fire. The
British shells strike either near the
crest on which the guns stand, or go
over II. The gun used here, on the
other hand, being high trajectory
piece il able to drop its shells upon
the deck of the vessel-the most vul-
nerable part of the ship.
New Naval Feature.
Apparently realizing this. the allies,
March g. began indirect fire from the
Gulf of Caros. hoping to reduce there
by the works at Kalid Bahr. The at
tempt led to a totally new feature In
naval warfare. While the Queen Eliza
beth, one of England's largest ships.
threw shells over the peninsula,
Turkish heavy battery also took up IN
direct fire. and the German gunners Of
the Turkish battery obliged the Brit
ish vessel TO withdraw in a damaged
condition.
Before that the Turks had discovered
that a surveyors notice on an eleya-
tion 900 feet high was serving to direct
the fire of the Queen Elizabeth. The
sign was promptly removed and then
the shells fell wild. 1t is thought here
that the German officers and non-com-
missioned personnels are largely re-
sponsible for the showing made by the
ments are said to be good. good water
| transportation making this possible.
Kumkale and Sidd Ell -Bahr have
been silenced, but with their elimina-
| tion the real problem before the allies
has been merely brought nearer, accord
Moreover the silencing of the forts near
this town and Kilid Bahr across the
l. strait would mean but that part of the
L work had been done.
Evening star., 1915-04-12
LECTURES" PLANNED.
Public Health Service Institutes
Stereopticon Loan Library.

stereopticon loan library. the first
of the kind in a government depart
ment, has been established in the pub
lie health service. Thousands of slides
have been collected. showing the va
rious activities in the work Of con-
serving the health of the country. and
these have been classified, catalogued,
duplicated and numbered. Books con-
tanning them are to be forwarded to
responsible persons and institutions
wishing to use them in any commu-
nifty service.
Later this public health campaign is
to be enlarged by canned" lectures,
prepared addresses to be used with the
slides, all to be lent for public use.
Evening star., 1915-04-12
BATTLE FRONT IN EUROPE
1856 MILES IN LENGTH

PARIS. April 1c.-Troops of the allies
today occupy battle fronts whose length
totals 1856 miles. according to a COM
pilation made by the Matin.
In the western arena. according to
these figures, the French occupy $40
miles of trenches. the British thirty
one miles. and the Belgians seventeen
miles.
In the eastern theater. the Russians
face a front of SJ1 miles, while the
Serbians and Montenegrins are fight
ing along a line which measures .1T
miles.
Evening star., 1915-04-12

paid. The payments are to be made
over a period of four months, running
from April II to August 90
The great ease of the money market
also has facilitated the fiotation of the
loan. Call money is now quoted at l
to IL per cent, and rates never go
lower than that at Berlin. The banks
particularly the savings banks, have
unusually large supplies of cash. Since
the beginning of the year deposits in
the savings banks have run unusually
high, amounting in January alone to
more than s9o,O0O.000.
The loan is regarded as great patri-
otto demonstration by the German peo-
pie. All classes shared in the de-
termination to make it success.
Evening star., 1915-04-12
Guilty Of First Degree Murder.

DETROIT, Mich, April 12.-AIrs. Caro-
line i. Becker. sixty years old, was yes
terday found guilty of murder in the
first degree for having caused the
death of Miss Frances Bomholt last
December Evidence given at the trial
showed that Miss Bomholt was beaten
to death with large chunk of coal
and that ROBBERY was the motive for the
crime. The case was given to the jury
Saturday afternoon.
Evening star., 1915-04-12
KENTUCKIANS TO ORGANIZE.
Residents Here to Meet This Even.
ing for That Purpose.

The 123d anniversary of the admit
tance OF the state of Kentucky into
The Union is 10 be celebrated by organ
izing the Kentucky State Association
of this city tonight at 4 meeting to be
held at Typographical Temple, 423 G.
street northwest. Tie meeting is TO be
c8lied At O'Clock.
II Is announced that former Senator
BscSburn. resident member of the Lin
coin memorial commission. is TO be elect
ed honorary president. and that the sena-
tors and representatives in Congress
from the Blue Grass state are 10 be
vice presidents at large The object
of the association. il is stated, is to
bring all kcntuckians in the District
together and to further the building
~ "A convention hall and armory here.
Evening star., 1915-04-12

II YOU want work. read the want col
umus or The Star.
Evening star., 1915-04-12
President Arthur's Sister Dead.

JOHNSTOwN. y. Y. April fe.-Miss
Anne Eliza Arthur. aged eighty seven
years sister of the late President
Chester A. Arthur, died AT her home
here Saturday, after a short Illness
In her early life she Won name for
herself as an educator. She WAS in
Str,IctresS in several Of the prominent
southern families before and after the
civil war a nonS her pupils being sen
;,tor BENJAMIN T. TillmaH aud Lieut.
nj Scbfivl,.r
Evening star., 1915-04-12
Explosion Causes $4,000 Loss.

KANSAS CITY. Mo, April 12.-An ex-
plosion, the cause of which is unknown,
last-Anight wrecked the seven-story
cooling building of the Cudahy Pack
ing Company's plant here, causing
loss estimated at $4,000. Patrick
Lyons, a fireman. and Oliver Bennett,
temperature man, were injured serf-
ously.
Evening star., 1915-04-12
Allies Gained Little.

But the allies have gained little by
this thus far, Today Turkish infantry
holds the ground about the silenced
batteries. An attempt by the allies on
March to occupy kumkale and Sidd-
El-Bahr ended in rout of a landing
party. Of which seventy were killed in
action and others drowned. The losses
of the Turks were: At SiddE Bahr,
four killed. fourteen wounded; at Kum-
kale. two killed twenty-one wounded.
The landing party of the allies was
supported by a heavy fire from the
British ships, which ventured so close
to the shore that even their machine
guns could be brought into play. Two
other attempts to land troops met with
no greater success.
Meanwhile the expenditure of ammu-
milton by the French and British has
been prodigious. The Associated Press
correspondent has been able to ascer-
tain that it has led to small results.
On March 81 the allies threw into Fort
Medjidieh and other works about kilid
Bahr no less than 354 shells. most of
them of the largest caliber. without
doing any serious damage. Only one
man was slightly hurt by flying clod
of earth. Shells thrown in the direc-
tion of Fort Hamidieh, on the Asiatic
shore near this town. proved equally
harmless
Evening star., 1915-04-12
SURE DARDANELLES
CANNOT Be FORCED
Turks Insist Allied Fleet Has
SiIenced Minor De-
fenses Only.
GUNS ON THE HEIGHTS
DAMAGE BIG WARSHIPS
Constant Shifting Of Land Batteries
Puzzles Attackers. Whose Fire Is
Unmcthodical. Ottomans Say.
.-e.n.,,..Irn..r q Inc !. .sncia,ea Press

Co-respou.,rn.r of the tss"ciste. Press
,1IANAk kALESSI Dardanelles,,
March 1:;.-Tne first phase of the cf-
forts uf the British and French to force
the Dardaucllcs demonstrated that TINS
task is far more difficult than was sup
posed at first, according TO Turkish
opinion. The heavy bombardments
March and : of the defense works
near this town and kalid Bahr. as well
as the futile attempts to clear the
channel of mines the night of March
10-11, show that the waterway from
the Mediterranean to Constantinople is
better defended than British and
French authorities may have thought.
For the last six days the works giving
entrance 10 the inner Dardanelles have
not been bombarded. and during the
last two nights no serious attempt at
mine clearing has been made.
While ii is true that the allies have
succeeded in silencing the forts at
Kumkale and Sidd- Ell Bahr and two
positions of minor Importance near
there it would be fallacious for the
allies to assume that this had lessened
materially the proportions of their
task The positions at kumkale and
Sidd-E Ell Bahr were reduced easily, be-
cause it was possible to take them
under enfilade fire.
In addition a slight advantage in
range made it possible for the British
TO throw SO great a weight of metal
into these forts that almost from the
first there was little chance that the
Turks could hold them.
Evening star., 1915-04-12

MRS. J. Il. MALTBY. 1I12 ION ST NV
Meetings " ed. and Fri 7:s;D pm: n message
. each. Daily readings. . am 10 30 D. IN.
pfooe North s2S3-
Evening star., 1915-04-12

Viola Browning, three and one-haif
years old, who was struck by an auto
mobile in Baltimore Saturday. died
yesterday at Johns Hopkins Hospital
from internal injuries.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-01
THE CALL OF THE NEW YEAR


A Christian man sat In the Masters presence
thinking of the coming Of the new year. It was
a good but solemn thing to do. The mans
thoughts in that presence ran thus: Seeing him
| am sure that every year is the year of our
Lord 1t ought to be begun, continued and
ended in him. He will be with me all the days.
MY days must be in his hands," The Christian
man continued his meditation always In his pres
ence, what sort of man ought I to be, this year
and all years?" The answer came out of an old
word which had new meaning, in his presence:
Complete in him." Again he asked: what kind
of work ought to do this year and all years Z"
The centuries fade away and he seems to hear
again: Whatsoever he saith unto you do IT." He
asked again: Where shall go to be his man and
do his work." Once more old words leap into
new times: ITO your household, to your neighbor,
and to all the world" How can do all this?
1.-THE entrance of his word giveth light" therefore
give yourself to Bible study; mot by might nor
by power but by my Spirit, saith the Lord OF
hosts" therefore give yourself to prayer; II can
do all things through Christ" therefore give your
self to work; "n all things he shall have the pre-
eminence," therefore give yourself to him. And
the man arose from the meditation to make the
new year and all years. years of the Lord. And
the Master arose and went with the man.-Bishop
Mcdowell.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-01

in Scotland and England. The first visitor to
house on New Years morning had the privilege OF
kissing the person that opened the door. Perhaps
there is Renaissance of ancient fire worship In
the Shropshire custom of stirring the fire on New
Years morning before uttering word.
Although there are few houses where New
Years day is observed with its oldtime hospital
ity, the day is not wholly divorced from tue
thought of good things to eat. The ridiculous New
Years eve dinners in the Broadway restaurants
have no special significance but there are certain
dishes inseparably associated with the day.
One of these is roast goose. which Is perhaps
more liked in England than America But even
more Characteristic are those admirable little
cakes which come from Germany, and which are
imported in tin boxes. German cooks have made
them for centuries, have lavished their time and
energy on new designs and new favors and the.
result is cake SO excellent that it must always
be the special delight of the New Year feast. This
point of ritual, surely, must be left us.
So excellent is the German New Years cake
that it cannot be used for charm, like the New
Years eve cake of Ireland. For this was thrown
against the wall and broken into pieces. The first
fragment to touch the ground was eagerly sought.
for he who ate 1t was sure Of years happiness.
There was much pleasure In the baking Of the
cake. It was placed on gridiron before the open
fire. and incantations were sung to secure the suc-
cess Of the charm.
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direction, but left the NAV of curl
csity unsatisfed.
And unsatisfed it had remained up
to this hour, when through accident
or was it treachery-the barrier to
knowledge was down and the question
of years seemed at last upon the point
of being answered.
Meantime fussy, laxative man was
endeavoring to impress the rapidly col
lecting crowd with the advisability of
their entering all together and ap-
preaching the Judge in a body.
I'VE can say that we felt it to be
our dooty to follow this woman in"
he argued. Didn't you say she had a
child with her, Miss Weeks?"
Yes, and
TELL us the whole story, Miss Weeks.
Some of us haven't heard it. Then if
it seems our duty as his neighbors and
well wishers to go in, we'll just go in"
The little woman towards whom this
gan her ingenious tale. She was sit
ting in her front window sewing. Ev-
erybody knew that this window faced
the end of the lane in which they were
then standing. She could see out with
out being very plainly seen herself;
she had her eyes on this gate when
Bella, prompt to the minute as he al
ways was, issued forth on his morning
walk to town for the days supplies.
Always exact, always in a hurry
knowing as he did that the judge
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-01
MOST DIFFICULT HINDU FEAT
Dancing Girl Balances Eggs on
Threads That Are Stretched From
Rim of Wheel.

OF the many wonderful feats per-
formed by Hindu jugglers, one of the
most remarkable is the egg dance.
Usually it is executed by girl, fam
tastically dressed. She makes use of
a willow wheel. around which at equal
distances are threads, and at the end
of each thread there Is a moose, held
open by bead.
This wheel the girl places on her
head, while she carries a basket of
eggs on her arm. When the music
strikes up she begins to dance, and
the wheel Begins to spin around She
then takes an egg from the basket
places It n one of the thread noosee,
and throws it from her with sufficient
force to draw the knot tight. The
spinning Of the wheel keeps the thread
stretched. with the egg at the end Of
it
She then taxes another egg from
the basket. places it in another moose,
and repeats this until there is an egg
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-01
Cable Over Whirlpool.

An aerial passenger galloway is
soon to be built across the whirlpool
at Niagara falls to enable visitors to
get a close view of that marvel of
nature and to experience the thrills
connected with such a view without
mourning any danger. The system,
which is described with illustrations
in the August Popular Mechanics
magazine, is similar to one recently
installed at San Sebastian. Spain, for
spanning a chasm between two noun
tain resorts, and to the one that
c.mbs the first stage Of the Watter
ho.n = Switzerland. The whirlpool
is situated in canadian territory,
about six miles below Niagara falls.
The galloway Is to be about ITO feet
long, with the cables stretched at an
elevation of about $50 feet above tbs
whirlpool. Tbs car, which has al
ready been built in Spain has q ca,
pacity Of fifty passengers.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-01
NOT A MATTER OF INTELLECT
Though Not Generally Understood,
Couture" Really Appertains to
the Spirit.

We talk much of culture and get
1t mixed up with learning and schol-
arship. 1t may be these things, but
never unless it has another quality,
and that is gentility. Culture is a
matter of the spirit, rather than the
intellect It is not as John Galsworthy
says, scientific learning, social method,
and iron discipline, nor the power Of
approaching and producing works of
art Culture belongs to the soul, it
feels more than it thinks. Think Of
mean, grabbed, sho-t-spoken man be-
ing cultured! He Is the very opposite
Of it. We have seen tell sdtr,ars who
could read Greek. solve ths calculus
and discuss Spnoza, who we're nbt
as much cultured as a rabbit.
It is the bad idea % what culture
is that has done lots Of harm in the
world Boys are taught that if they
are shrewd and know q lot, they are
cultured Parents are apt to be proud
OF their smart boys. while the gentle
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-01
THE NEW YEAR.

Julia Ward Howe was no believer in New Years
resolutions. I'VE should make and keep good
resolutions all the year round" the celebrated
author once said In Boston 81 am no great be-
lever in New Years vows, for, although they are
splendid things, they really don't amount to much
more than Oliver Wendell Holmes tobacco reso
luton.
Mr. Holmes, with affected gravity, said to a
friend on the first day of the year: really must
not smoke persistently; must turn over
new leaf-a tobacco leaf-.and have cigar only
after each-here he paused as if to say meal
but he continued-tafter each cigar"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-01

in every moose. Her fantastic costume,
her perfect motion, and all the eggs
swinging on stretched threads at once
present curious sight.
1t requires much art to execute the
dance, for one false step would cause
the eggs to be dashed together and
the dancer to be disgraced.
After dancing for some time with
all the eggs swinging around her head,
she takes them out of the moose one
by one, all the time keeping the wheel
balanced and in motion, and again
places them in the basket on her arm.
After the performance the epecta-
tors are allowed to examine the eggs
to see that they are real-Ideas.
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would come in the morning and return
at night This continued until re-
Gently.
A few weeks ago Bagg observed
that ten Of his choice hens were miss
ing and aIr!butsd the theft TO thieves.
Last week be last u, and as his hen
house was locked. the windows barred
and no;signs that it had been entered,
he believed that fox was carrying
away his poultry Saturday he put
in the day watching his diminishing
flock.
Late IN the afternoon he heard
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-01
Greek Coins Most Perfect.

Between the rude issues Of asia
Minor and the most perfect coins OF
the Greek states is an interval OF
three centuries, during which all that
is known, or proba bly, ever will be
known, in beautify1ng steel die was
achieved. So far as design is con-
csrned, the Greek coins were simply
perfect No modern, coins can COM
pare with them in eauty.-Scientifc
American
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-01
settled into confirmed melancholy, an

S6LLl6O luLO COuuIlucu mS&duCuOly, dnu
melancholy into eccentricities.
Judge Ostrander was recluse of
the most uncompromising type; but he
was such for only half his time. From
ten in the morning till five in the after
noon, he came and went like any other
citizen, fulfilling his judicial duties
with the same scrupulous care as for
merly and with more affability. In
deed, he showed at times, and often
when it was least expected, mellow
ness of temper quite foreign to him in
his early days. The admiration
awakened by his fine appearance on
the bench was never marred now by
those quick and rasping tones of an
easily disturbed temper which had
given edge to his invectivo when he
stood as pleader in the very court
where he now presided as judge. But
away from the bench, once quit of the
courthouse and the town, the man who
attempted to accost him on his way to
his carriage or sought to waylay him
at his own gate had need of all his
courage to sustain the rebuff his pre-
sumption incurred.
The son, a man Of great ability who
was making his way as journalist In
another city, had no explanation to
give of his fathers peculiarities.
Though he never came to Shelby-the
rupture between the two, If rupture
it were, seeming to be complete
there were many who had visited him
in his own place of business and put
such questions concerning the Judge
and his eccentric manner of living as
must have provoked response had the
young man had any response to give.
But he appeared to have none. Either
he was as ignorant as themselves OF
the causes which had led to his ia
theirs habit of extreme isolation, or
he showed powers of discrimination
hardly in accordance with the other
traits of his admirable character.
All of which closed inquiry in this
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-01

connection near the river bank. Look
ing there, he saw two geese with heads
together and perched upon their
neeks was one Of his hens. The geese
started and swan sideways across the
-iSer The two -an1aining geese en-
tered the water, aupfhsr hen few to
their uecks and they departed.
Ragg entered his rowboaf and rowed
to tho Binn farm, There he learned
that 40 strange hens had Joined the
Binn flock. After explaining the s1-
rloit of the geese Bagg was allowed
to- taks his hens home The geese are
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-01
THIEVING GEESE SWIM RIVER
And the Stolen Chickens Are Wafted
Across Stream on Their Neekss
Is ths SterY.

All summeS people coming and 60
ing over the river road have noticed
four extra Tsrge geese a mile below
here. These geese belong to the Binn
farm, acroSe the river,
Early IN the spring the geese
crossed the river and mingled with
the fowls on the Bagg farm They
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-01
A CASUAL OBSERVATION.

1--WE are living in age Of exceptional Gull
ture," said the woman with angular features.
'Mebbe we are" said Farmer Corntossel But
can't help noticin' that people walk right up to
the news stand to buy pretty fluffy stun,
while it takes mighty good book agent to work
off set of Shakespeare"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-01
Greatly Renstlted.

Greatly Rensflted.
Your E.ssght seems to be about the
same AL the time, Mr.. Kasggs.
'Abnnt the same. HUWaVsr. 1t var
led a little last year
Tell me about it,
Owing to an affection of the throat.
Mrs. Knaggs was unable to speak for
two weeks. and gained seven
pounds"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-01

now inclosed in a pen. -Brewerton
IN. W Dispatch to New York Tribs
une
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-01

and kindly boys are passed by. There
is more hope for the latter in life
- strife than for the former. and
the world is better off for their having
lived.-Ohio State Journal