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Evening star., 1915-03-25
Alliterative Sporting News.
n the Burlington ,Ran.) Republican.

From the Burlington iRan) Republican.
Billshurg's basket ball bellies beat
Burlington's basket ball beauties
Blondes. hrunettes. beautifully bed,-
zened by basques. boomers. belts. but
tons Bugle hlows-hout begins
beauties buffet ball hriskly. but bellies.
being better bumpers. beat beauties.
Burlington Boosters boom beauties
Beauties bicker hravely. but bouncing
Bellies bear battles hrunt by busy
bursts beyond NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
bend. basques bump, buttons burst.
belts break. bloomers hloom-both
lunches handy blithely. but battles
bright badge bedecks BiIsburg $
Bellies. Ruriington's basket ball boys
beat Billsburg's Braves. Busle blows
battle begins: boys bump Braves
Braves buck ,boys-Boys brush by
braves bulwarks-big business-bin-
bang g-bomb-Roys' basket ball-Bvr-
linston Boosters below boisterous
heatitudes. Big battle buzzes-bai II
blizzard blows-both big punches
hunsle ball-ball bounces-Boys' but.
feting-Braves hucking-Boys bail
bounds backward. Before S pc
come hurdensome, better beware
belleslettres boast be beaten-BuliY
Boys-by-by Braves.
Evening star., 1915-03-25
.LE0P. WHEAT, COMPOSER,
DIES IN HOSPITAL HERE
Classmate and Intimate Friend of
Sir Arthur Sullivan Was Noted
Organist Also.

Leo r. Wheat. composer. organist
of the most prominent musicians of the
south. died early this morning in a
local hospital Death was due to the
infirmities of age. although the illness
which was Immediately responsible for
his death developed only about a week
ago. Mr.. Wheat was attended by DIR.
Cary T. Grayson. White House ply
sician.
The arrangements for the funeral have
not been completed. it was stated this
afternoon. but the services will be pri-
vate and attended only by members of
the family. 1nterment will be In Glen
wood cemetery.
Born in Memphis.
Mr.. Wheat was born in Memphis,
Tenn, May .. 1s41. He was the son of
the late Rev. J. r Wheat, who was a
minister of the Episcopal Church, and
also for many years professor of Eng
lish in the University of North Caro-
lima. where Leo Wheat received his
education brother, Maj. Robideau
W neat, commanded battalion of the
Louisiana Tigers in the civil war.
Mr Wheat studied music at Leipzig,
Germany. where he was classmate
and intimate friend of the late Sir
Arthur Sullivan. After returning to
the United States. Mr.. Wheat was as
sociated with the late Theodore
Thomas, composer and orchestra d.
rector
Evening star., 1915-03-25
Some Mountain Railroads.
rom the Indianapolis News.

Wonderful changes have been
wrought In the transmountain thor
oughfare in the state of Washington
In seven months the tortuous, narrow
path across the Cascades has been
transformed into a splendid sixteen
foot highway with maximum grade
Of per cent. The state of Washing
ton has spent approximately s335.000
on the twcpty-eight miles from North
Rcud TO Lake keechelus.
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Now Operating
Under New Name.

the extension work of the government.
Upon it is to be laid especial stress,
for it is to symbolic the new era that
is dawning for the agricultural work
OF the government. .....
AS a supplement to this work of the
experiment stations there was taken
bodily from the bureau of plant indus
try a force that had grown up almost
Of itself, and which was known as
farmers cooperative work in the cot
ton belt" This was the movement that
for ten years had been attempting to
relieve the south of its habit of farm
ing nothing but cotton and corn. 1t
had looked toward relieving condi-
ton Of run down land and Improbable
farming that had become rather gen
eral in certain sections. Its method
was to appoint county agents, men ac-
cuainted with the various communities
and who also knew scientific farming.
These men worked patiently in their
communities in their efforts to intro
Evening star., 1915-03-25
Your Dog the Best.

] -Nu tIc Topeka JVlrIIol.
Another certainty is that every
youngster who revels in the compan-
ionship of a faithful mongrel pup that
IS all his own will refuse to accept the
dictum of the Judges at the westmin-
ster Kennel club show that particular
wire-haired fox terrier is 'the best dog
in the United States
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of chemistry had been studying the
marketing of eggs. All this work is
brought together.
Such branches of the work as that
handled by the weather bureau. the
forest service. or the bureau Of chem
stry arc little affected by the reor-
Canization. But the palm seems 20
have passed from research to extension
and a new era to have dawned.
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TURKS AND KURDS
S[AY CHRISTIANS
Persecution and Massacre of
Assyrians Reported From
Northwestern Persia.
PRESBYTERIAN MISSION
AT URUMlAH IN DANGER
Situation Already Taken Up With
Turkey by This Government.
10000 Dead or Missing.

TIFLIS March "a, l pm. via Petro-
grad. March 25. 10 am, ana Lohooh.
1910 pm-Telegrams and letters
reaching. here from Urumiah. in north
western Persia. describe the SITUATION
Of the American Presbyterian rnissioh
stationed there as desperate Iur hish
regular troops and kurds are perse
cutting and massacring Assyrian Chris
tians.
Harry 2. Packard. the doctor or the
missionary station a. Irumiah or the
board OF foreign missions OF the fres.
l,yteriau Church. risked his Ire IN
successfui effort to prevent a 1right-
ful massacre at Geogtapa, where 3.ooo
Assyrians made their last stand. Ihey
had fought for three days. ana an
their ammunition was gone. Al thiS
iuncture Or. Packard unfurled al
American flag and advanced between
the lines. His act resulted in the saw
ing of all hut 200 of the Assyrlahs'
who had been burned In churcn.
Fifteen thousand Assyrian CHRISTIANS
have taken refuge under the protec,iUy
or the American mission station, Whlle
. 900 are at the French mission.
dispatch received at Tifiis from urum-
iah yesterday declared that seVenes
Turkish regular troops had entered tne
Ma.aIia and four orthodox clergymeh
and u and insulted missionary
named Al, Shortly before the slxty
refucees hau been dragged from the
French mission and executed In spite
II the fearful pleas of the nuns
Cruelty Of the Kurds.
II Gulpaslan the Kurds We're par
,.ularly cruel. This was the last OF
total Of 103 Assyrian villages to hold
at and it was occupied a month ago.
i.he Kurds ordered all the Assyrian
males into the streets, tied them In
.oups of five, marched them to the
r;veyard and killed them barbarously
= the last boy. Girl babies and older
:, omen were then executed with great
lrocity, while the young women were
arsied away as slaves.
As result of the war 10000 As
-!fians are taking refuge in the eau
tsus. some 1900 are described as In
imminent danger at the Uhumiah Mis-
sions, while 10000 are dead or missing.
furthermore. much property has been
destroyed. The Assyrians fought their
assailants bravely, and as long as they
had ammunition they were victorious
The missionaries are unttr1nS In
their efforts to help the people, and
they are spending money TO this end
freely In Urumiah they are disburs-
rag the equivalent of S400 daily. Dis
,',se is prevalent among the refugees.
Evening star., 1915-03-25
Col. Roosevelt May Testify.

No session Of the Senate ship biz
lobby committee was held today ~ -
cause of Observation-Disclosures among "a 4
nesses as to the time they were TO ap-
pear. The next session will he hel"
Saturday. when Col. Roosevelt may
testify.
Evening star., 1915-03-25
Plans for Cruise of Midshipmen.

The hattieships Missouri. Ohio and
Wisconsin. the Naval Academy squad
ron. in reserve At Ph PhladeIph'a. have
been ordered Aaced in commission,
April /. to go to Anna polls and later take
the midshipmen on their summer cruise
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A Composer of Note.

He was composer of note, many of
his compositions being favorites in
southern homes even today. He gave
many of his own compositions in con
cert through the south
For many years he was organist OF
the Monumental Church. Richmond,
Va. He married Miss Florence Allen
of Richmond in 1872. who, with six
children, survives him. The children
are J. Allen Wheat. Charlottesville.
Va: Mrs. D. r. Potter, ClarksburE, w.
Va: Leo ?. Wheat, jr.. Washington :
Miss +. L. Wheat, Berryville, Va; Mrs.
J. T. Burrell, Millwood, Va, and r, G,
Wheat, Clarksburg. W. Va
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Nothing is more disgusting than a
young man trying to act old or an
old man trying to act young.
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Some men remain bachelors because
they are unable to choose between
beauty and intellect.
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When a wise young wife discovers
that she is unable to keep up with her
music and her husband at the same
time she gives up her music.
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duCe better methods ana more DIVERSE
fed systems of farming. The results
that they obtained were revolutionary.
They were the beginning of the eNten-
sion work. The organization had so
grown that today there are 1858 agents
in as many counties of the south who
are actually accomplishing the purpose
at which all agriculturists aim This
entire force is transferred from plant
industry to the states relations service.
With it goes an appropriation OF $685.
600 year
So successful was this work in the
south that a counterpart of it had
been started for
Work Extended mort hern and
North and West. T,his areanization
grew up under the scientific bureau of
plant industry, where it did not proper
ly belong 1t developed upon the prin-
ciple of planting sclentthc agrclui-
turist in each county and allowing him
to become the friend and counselor OF
the farmers of that community. The
srevice is young. but already there are
263 of these county agents and the de-
maud is strong for the establishing OF
more of them. They are taken over
bodily by the states relations service
and with them an appropriation OF
S3Se,00o.
With these two branches of work go
those varied activities in which the
federal government has taken q part
and which appear in various commune
ties in various guises The boys corn
clubs are the greatest of these, and
are arousinS whole states to a new ap-
probation of the possibilities of corn
growing. In other places they take
the form of tomato clubs in which tae
girls compete for prizes. There are
pig-raising clubs, chicken clubs and
various others which lead the rising
generation to appreciate the accumu-
lated information with relation to va
rious articles produced on the farm.
The supervision of these will, in the fu-
ture, be a part Of the extension work
of the states relations service.
Just at this time, while the reorEan-
ization of agriculture is under way,
there appears a new act which has
as Its avowed purpose that Of carrying
science back to the farm. The Smith
Lever act, passed last year, provides
four and a half millions a year for ex-
tension work in which the states and
the federal government are to CO.
operate. The states relations service,
charge of this work as we'll Various
other lesser tasks fall quite naturally
to it. So is the groundwork laid down
for the application to the farm of what
has already been learned.
At the same time this great new bu-
reau is created an additional piece of
Evening star., 1915-03-25
Asks for Halt
in Activities.

gone before Congress
Asks for Halt and asked that the
:. course Of its activ-
LII AcIisitios' tiles be modified in
such a way that its main purpose be
to communicate the Information al
ready obtained to xhe farmer. While
the scientific work is not to be lessened.
1t is to yield the center Of the stage to
those who are engaged in taking IT
back to the land and getting it actu-
ally applied. To this end the Secre-
tary of Agriculture last year asked the
permission of Congress to reorganize
its work He wanted to separate that
work which was regulatory-as, Tor
instance, the enforcement of the pure
food law. and bring it together. He
wanted the research work OF the depart
ment centralized to avoid confusion and
duplication. But, most important of all.
he wanted the extension work brought
into one bureau. that 1t might come into
its own. Congress granted this pernnis-
sion, and the appropriation act just
passed was framed for this neE-made
department.
The greatest Of the scientific branches
of the department was the bureau OF
plant industry. The scientists OF that
bureau studied all plant life in its rela-
ton to agriculture. But it's purpose was
merely the accumulation Of information.
Yet within that bureau developed various
lines of work which had to do with the
application Of this Information rRther
than its accumulation. Research and ex-
tension work were being confused.
By extension work the department
means the application of it's findings to
the farm. 1t looked about for the best
nucleus around which to gather all this
extension work. 1t found that 1t had an
office Of experiment stations. This office
looked after government demonstration
farms in every state and territory. 1t
was engaged in taking scientific agricul-
work already built up. This should be
the nucleus.
So the Office Of experiment stations
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Additional Bureau
Will Be Featured.

had developed incidentally, and Is
placed directly under the Office Of the
Secretary Of Agriculture. 1t. too. hav-
ing as its object the application of
proven methods to the farm, is to be
featured. It is the Office of farm man.
agement, and It's purpose is the investl-
cation and application OF business
methods to the farm. 1t has just com
pleted survey. for instance, which
shows where it is and whore It is not
profitable for farmer to raise calves.
1t is difficult for the individual farmer
with half dozen cows to determine
such a problem.
AS the extension work OF the depart
ment is grouped under one bureau in
the reorganization. so is the engineer
ing work. The Office of public roads
becomes known as the Office of public
roads anG rural engineering. In Its
handling of the road problems of the
nation this has always been the chief
engineering bureau of the department.
To it is now to be added all the other
work OF the department that is of
a purely engineering nature.
There are. for instance, the investiga-
tions into drainage and irrigation that
have formerly been cared for under the
Office of experiment stations These
are purely engineering problems. Par
ticularly in drainage has this depart
ment done very important work. There
Evening star., 1915-03-25
REORGANIZING DEPART
MENT OF AGRICULTURE.
BY Frederic J. Haskin.

The Congress Of the United States.
backed by the administrative branch of
the governme has reached the con-
clusion that an epoch has been passed
in the h story of one of its greatest
departments The Department OF Agri-
culture has. for two decades. been do
ing a most comprehensive work in
accommodating information, largely scien-
tific. which bears upon the possibility
Of growing better crops 1t has torn
the soils of the nation into their COM
ponent parts and studied them. IT has
brought the plants OF the world to this
country and grown them in its experiment
stations. 1t has sifted the pollen of the
mock orange into the petals of those
kindred plants that grow in the best
orchards of Florida. and, 10. a new fruit
has come into being. 1t has learned the
secrets that will double the corn weld OF
the average American farm. II has de-
Veloped serums that baniSh disease from
among farm animals. II has found many
ways Of lessening the labor Of the mother
on the farm.
The development of this information
has been a vast work. Nearly 100000
people have been employed in the task.
OF these 5000 we're trained scientists,
the largest body of men in the world
who We're entitled to write letters
after their names. The money spent
for this informa ton has climbed stead
lily into the millions. ten. fifteen,
twenty millions year. until the final
appropriation just passed amounts TO
so3.000.00O.
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are vast areas OF marsh and swamp
lands in many parts of the country.
and much of these are being reclaimed
The men of this service are the ad-
visers of states and individuals in this
work. They have become a clearing
house for all such information.
1t has been found that various agen-
cies in different bureaus have been en-
gagged In purely architectural studies.
The bureau of animal industry. for in
stance, has Ia bored long in the develop
ment of model silos and model dairy
barns. Another interesting arctitrc-
tural problem has been the model farm
kitchen which would save the steps Of
the housewife The department: has
long had the ambition 20 lay down 4
series of architects plans for model
farmers houses. The farmer often
builds his house himself without the
advice of an architect and with little
knowledge of the possibi'itieS of ma X
ing it conVeniert. Bara riaE the best
architectural skill of the nation be
brought to bear upon 4 series of plans
that will include a design of good
house of almost any size and cost
wanted. and the facts can be furnished
gratis to the farmer
Another engineering problem that is
to be referred to this bureau of the de-
par:ment is that
Farm Machinery of farm machin-
Another Problem. ,,,aa, ~ ,as s;s
ready a superintendent of machinery
who is an authority on road building
apparatus. and who recommends to
road builders everywhere the imple-
ments that the government has proved
through long experience to be the f't-
test for the work in hand
There has grown up in the depart
ment in the last year or two what ls
designated the office of markets and
rural organiza ton. This is again prac-
tical work of applying what is already
known. To this office, also, is made a
number of additions, picked up here
and there. The bureau of plant indus
try had been doing some work on farm
credits and farm insurance which is
transferred. The bureau of animal In
dustry had been studying the market
ing of milk and butter and the bureau
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So the Office Of experiment stations
has been rechristened and called the
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At the same time this great new bu-
reau is created an additional piece of
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Another engineering problem that is
to be referred to this bureau of the de-
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Now the department pronounces it
self surfeited with information. 1t ha
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Gi;OUNI,
FLOOR.
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'lors are fascinating-the styles
cry special tables.
Georgette Crepe Blouse. with m
tucked front; novel collar and tie:
$3.50.
Georgette Crepe Blouse, with siik-n'
b0ler0 jacket. mt $50.
SiIk-Iace Blouse. with embrOtdere
chiffon vest, mt $3.50.
Military Crepe de Chine Blouse. nan
embroidered, at $3.50.
Theater Blouse Of crepe de chine, wit
Iace-trimmed OrgAndie vest, at $3.50.
Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-10
FRAZIER GETS STAR
 FILMS FOR LOWELL

The Edison Company has just re- leased @ five part adoption of the fa- nous Hanlon Brothers fantasy Fan tasma." It is to be distributed by the General Film Company and is said 10 be one of the finest offerings that the Edison Company has as yet put out George Hanlon Jr played Pico. the clown, with W. T. Carlton of the Carlton Opera Company as Mephisto Zamaliel and William Ruge and Geo. Strode famous pantomimeists as spir- its. Charles M. Shea is the producer
 t will surely be a most welcome change in the Warren District as big special Sunday feature. It is sort of fairy version of the Faust anr Marguerite story. in which pathos is relieved by drollery that is wholly contagious and to which mystery and romance and adventure and beauty all add their portion to a wonderful ly delightful effect This mamouth production will play at the Lowell theatre this coming Sunday. February 14 when there will be given spec ial matinee at 2:3 and three complete performances at night. GAS. 8:OO and 9:15. For tonight the Lowell will have the eight episode of the ever in- creasins popular "Trey O. Hearts" This number is entitled "The Couu- terfeit Rose" and is even more thrill ing than any of the former numbers As a supplement- to this exceedingly popular story. there will be shown "The Troublesome Wink" and anoth- CT picture making in all an excep- tionaliy entertaining program. On to- morrow night there will be shown at this picture palace the Vitagraph Broadway Star feature The old Flute Player" which is in two acts and three reels and features that sterling player Charles Kent, ably as- sisted by Edith Storey and an au star cast
Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-10
WISHED SHE
 COULD DIE
And Be Free From Her Troubles,
 but Finds Better Way.

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 Cardm goes to all the weak spots and helps to make them strong. It acts with naluTe-nOt against her. II is for the ufed, nervous, irritable women, who feel as 1T everything were wrong, and need something to quiet their nerves aHi strengthen the won-out system.
 If you are a woman, suffering from any oi the numerous symptoms of womanls trouble, take Cardul lt will help you. Al all druggists.
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Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-10

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Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-10
Ferne Rogers, a Popular American Musical Comedy Artist, Wins London.
Maria la Bella and Bernabe Simarra New Dancers to Arrive in America.

ize. Indeed, the entire West found words of cOmmendauuu only for the players and none for the play
 Maria la Bella. the European dan Ccr who came Co thc United States a fortnight since with her dancing part- u,r Eernabe Simarra is a spanish beauty, and has been awarded high honors for her beauty as well as her ierp-Ichoreau art She is dancing iu Chicago at present under the direc- uon ot William Ryan, and is due for a new revue in the metropolis this spring
 Fcne Rogers. the American musical comedy star. who won a distinct suc- cess as the principal artiste in "The Sleeping Beauty Beautided,' at the Drury Lane Theatre. London. is Go rec turn Go thc United States. Miss Rogers created the most favorable im- precision of any American prima donna to sing at this famous playhouse, and was the only American artist in the cast