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Evening star., 1915-12-15
Haiti's Old Citadel.


from the AIKonant.
On the summit of Haitian mountain
over 1000 feet high stand the wonder
full ruins of the great citadel La Fer
riere, built by the black King Chris
tophe. Some of the walls are eighty
feet high and sixteen feet thick, and
heavy batteries of old fifty-six and ehir-
ty-two pound guns are still in position.
They were laid to guard every approa ch
of what was intended to be the last
asylum of Haitian independence Springs
of water still exist in the interior, and
there were secret subterranean pas
sages and secret chambers for holding
his boarded wealth, much of which is
supposed to be still buried there. AL
though partly destroyed by the earth
quake in 1912. which demolished nearly
all of the important buildings in the
country, the colossal ruins of the cita-
del still attest the gigantic work of
Christophe, and the world still wonders
how the work was done and how the
material for the construction and
armament was ever got to the top of
the mountain. Little authentic infor-
nation has ever been obtained on the
subject, and the whole enterprise is
clouded in romance and anecdote.
Evening star., 1915-12-15
War and Wages.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Temporary riches from war orders,
trade balances, and marginal winnings
now being liqufdated by foreign hold
ers do not express even the real cold
dollar and cents advantages that the
European war will bring. Respectable
opinion now feels sure enough to for
cast a general breakdown of the wide
differences between the labor costs in
the United States and in Europe, with
the American standards triumphant.
What the United States has not been
able to accomplish by example or leg
islation in a La Follette's seamans bill
may be brought about in all lines of
industry by the natural consequences
of the war, if the experience and judg-
ment of many leading students hold.
The heavier taxation, higher cost of
living, and appalling depletion in the
labor supply are all working toward
one end, it is said. Even with Amer
ica's splendid isolation" merchants,
ly have been compelled to retreat be-
hind a high tariff because of the lower
labor cost in Europe, and even the
tariff projections have been ineffective
against the deadly German combina-
tions known as "cartels" for carrying
on foreign trade. The suggestion that
labor rates will rise following the war
because of the excess of demand over
supply is very definite encouragement
aside their provincial ambitions to be-
ASIDE their provincial ambitions to be-
come international bankers and inter-
national merchants.
Evening star., 1915-12-15
Fairgrounds Proving Their Worth,

From the Charleston News and Courier.
1t is a fact which ought to be of in
tense interest to the people of this city
that during the past week the attend
ance of children at the public play-
grounds of Charleston reached the un-
precedented figure of 10.575. 1t is esti-
mated that about $500 different chill
dren visited and made use of the pIay-
grounds during this period
That ought to give the people of this
community a clearer idea than they
have heretofore posse ssed of the i'm
mense value Of the playground system
and OF the effectiveness of the system
as 1t Is being applied in Charleston Prob
ably a majority of the Charleston read
ers of this newspaper have not been
aware all this time of the Importance
which the few Fairgrounds now avail
able have assumed as a factor in the
life of the children of Charleston. That
these Fairgrounds have been made use
of in one week by something like $500
different children and that these chill
dren have resorted to the Fairgrounds
SO constantly and SO regularly that the
total attendance during the week has
been over 1O,500 are facts which fur
nish convincing proof of the value of
these places of outdoor recreation.
Evening star., 1915-12-15
Juvenile Delinquency.
rom the Rochester Post-Express.

From the Rochester Post Express.
Among the problems which puzzle the
sociologist in the United States is the
cause of juvenile delinquency. 1t is
easy to say that the juvenile delin-
quent is the product of environment
but the cause lies deeper, as is pointed
out by Sigismund Mendelsso ohm, direc-
tor of the summer classes of the edu-
cational alliance. Having studied the
statistics on the subject, he has salts
fed himself that the national ideals of
America are largely to blame for the
offenses of the young in this country.
1t has been suggested that most juve-
nile delinquents are the children of for
eign-born parents. but this Is not cor
rect, for the figures show that the
highest rate of delinquency in New
York city is among the native children
of native parents, and the lowest
among foreign-born children. In the
case of the native children of foreign
parents the rate of delinquency is high
though not quite so high as in the ma
tive children of persons of American
birth.
1t appears that in European coun-
tries there is far less juvenile delin-
quency than is found in the United
States The child in the United States
is not brought up with any fear of au-
thority OF course, the child that is
normally developed is made stronger
by the atmosphere of freedom, but the
child of feeble will power readily sue
cumbs to bad surroundings and is
tempted to vice or to crime:
Evening star., 1915-12-15
Stamping Out the Drug Traffic.

From the New York World.
The police show a commendable activ-
ity in their efforts to break up the
secret traffic in narcotic drugs. To shut
eff the regular sources of supply was
a comparatively simple matter. Repu-
table druggists have too much at stake
to connive at any violation OF the law.
But to close the underground channels
of distribution is more difficult.
When the contraband drugs are car
ried about in taxicabs through the Ten
derloin, when addicts can telephone
from restaurants and receive cocaine
or heroin by messenger from dwelling
house "depots," when they are dis
pensed" from hotel apartments, an idea
is given of the extent OF the debasing
traffio in what is probably Its worst
phase. II obstacles are put In the way
Of obtaining narcotic. drugs for legiti-
mate medicinal use. they clearly should
not be had by the vicious and the de-
All the more credit thus attaches to
the preventive measures OF the police
AGAINST this feature of Illicit traffic in
dru9s. Best of all Is the prospect that
the prosecution of offenders 10 not to
be a mine days" affair, but persistent
crusade.
Evening star., 1915-12-15
MANY FILM COMPANIES FAIL.
New York Music Publishing Houses,
Too, Are in Distress.

New York Letter to the Cincinnati Times-Star
Reports along Broadway of the f1nan-
cial distress of many of the feature
film companies and of several music
publishing houses indicate that over
exploitation is bearing its inevitable
results in two fields of what has been
highly lucrative endeavor In each
case the disaster which threatens ap-
pears to have been invited by diver
sion of managerial enterprise from
primary legitimate purposes.
The music publishers have put their
business to the bad by iIl-advised eff
forts to create" popular song hits.
paid so much attention to selling
shares of stock that they have neglect
ed the vital matter of producing films
that can be sold. Selling stock without
selling films produces a situation that
is most difficult. Dividends can be paid
on stock which is sold only with the
revenue derived from films which are
sold. And now, it appears, that thoagh
the stock has been sold many of the
films cannot be spld
George Ade play, produced at con-
siderable expense by one of the widely
by the agency which was to have mar
keted it. 1t was SO carelessly and in
adequately produced that it simply
wouldn't do" This incident is not
alone. The situation is simply one in
which legitimate effort has not kept
pace with exploitation. Undoubtedly,
allowing a liberal discount against the
pessimistic prophecies one hears along
Broadway, a number of the f1lm-pro-
ducing companies are likely to be COM
PEELED to suspend business.
The situation among the music pub
fishers is different, yet in a measure it
exhibits relative result. The process
of issuing thousands of free profess
sional copies of songs with the purpose
of creating a popular demand, and of
supplementing this with bargain
sales at reduced prices, has operated
to produce exactly the opposite results
to the ones intended.
Evening star., 1915-12-15

cate the near approach of peace II
peace were declared now nothing
would be settled There have been no
material changes In the battle lines
through France and Belgium since the
end of the battle of the Marne. Septem-
ber Is last This war is celebrated for
two masterful retreats. The French
and British allies retreated from Mons
and stopped near Paris. After the bat
tie of the Marine came the German re-
treat to the valley of the River Aisne.
The Germans stopped at this valley
and again defeated the allies. Then
the men of both armies began the
work of digging trenches and have
been at 1t ever since. In some cases, for
short distances, the opposing trenches are
within thirty or forty feet of each other
The two lines represent three millions
of men. They are supplied with their re-
spective quartermaster and commissary
departments by the use of automobile
trucks. Horses and wagons are used on
the intersecting dirt roads. The feeding
of the great armies is one of the tri-
umphs of efficiency, and the French are
rot one bit behind the Germans in this
respect The twenty millions of men com
prising the armies of Europe are supplied
Evening star., 1915-12-15
Snobbism lin Dress.

From Good Health
Redfern, the head of the dressmaklng
house Of that name in Paris, an Eng
iishman who has been decorated by the
French government for his services In
the world of dress. says, "Fashion
without art is snobbism."
There is no reason why. when we
90 shopping, we should take what Is
set before us to take, providing the
standard of that set before US is COM
mon. and our standard is higher.
Bacon. in his Essay on TraVei, ad-
yises visits to treasures OF jewels
and robes" And Bacon had a great
mans great mind, you know. we
need not apologize for our love OF
dress If we love what is worthy OF
being loved
Queen Isabella of Spain used to say;
"Wh osoever hath good presence ana
a good fashion carries continual letters
of Recommendation" Bacon also re-
norts this in his apothegms.
Being we'll dressed is credit even
to a philosopher. But what Is sooo
dressing? a..
His santanic majesty ought not to
have monopoly of pretty clothes any
more than he should of all the good
times and all the good tunes.
Evening star., 1915-12-15
Too Noisy at Night.

ffcm tne Daytoh ->e"s'
A "city chap" complained the other
day to a farmer about the country. He
said he did not like it, especially at
night, because it was too quiet. He
liked to hear the rumbling of the city,
he said, and could not stand the abso
Lutte quiet of the farm.
Whereupon the farmer smiled. and
said his only objection to the country
at night was that it is too noisy. He
could hardly sleep for the noise, he
said, and actually hated to go indoors
at night and leave all of the noiseS
out of doors. He didn't like the city
because there were no voices" in the
city-just the dull rumbling of metal
and stone. with never a quiverng vi
bration from the throat of night such
as one hears in the country.
And the farmer was more nearly cor
rect than the fellow from the city.
more vibrations, more different
sounds" 1t is not so loud or roaring,
but it is th>~e-the music from a mil
lion voices, the vibrations from bill
lion strings of vegetation There are
the murmurings of the softest winds
that blow, and the plaintive call of in
sect to its mate-and the rustling of
the undiscovered hings-sounds which
one can never tell whence they
come. The very earth seems to spea k
and low mutterings, and the rasping Of
wings and beetles, and the splash of
unseen dew drops. There is everything
in the country-at night-that was
ever intended for making sound
Why. if you sit right still at night out
in the woods, you can hear worms
boring through the bark of trees and
other worms drilling their tunnels in
the earth at your feet, and the dust
that comes from the leaf where the
insect carves hole-you can hear it
fall upon the leaves like tiny hail
stones, if you will listen.
But there's the trouble. Folks will
not listen: not all of them. And he
who fails to listen fails to hear.
Evening star., 1915-12-15
Popular Lies.

FTem Life.
together thirty years and have never
had a cross word"
My summer vacation cost me ex-
actly s4.6o day. Any one who spends
more than that is a base plutocrat."
Il make a rule to pay all my bills
regularly in cash the first day of every
month. Then there's no question"
IF l thought there was airy doubt
about my making your daughter happy.
sir, / should be the last man in the
world to ask her to marry me-"
But. my dear. this is only my second
cigar today"
"Yes, sir. 10000 miles in that car of
mine, and my total bill for repairs is
Is cents"
Evening star., 1915-12-15
Teaching Children How to Spend.

From Good Health.
Judicious spending is such an impor-
tant part of a child's education that 1t
should receive more attention from par
ents than is quite generally given to It,
There is wisdom in having the child
earn his pennies and wisdom in teach
ing him to save, of the little sums
earned or received as gifts. some por-
ton for a useful purpose In whatever
way money comes to him it is most
essential that he learn early to spend
it judicfously.
With most people it appears to be an
accepted idea that candy is the childs
prerogative; that because sugar is es-
Evening star., 1915-12-15
The lawyers Fable.
From the Chicago Journal.

A barrister who was possessed Of an
unusually loud voice was making an
eloquent address to jury. His case
was fairly strong. and his trumpet
tones made the rafters ring. The jury
looked thoughtful and much impressed.
The opposing barr1ster had face
like q hatchet and . thin, low voice.
He began: "As I listened to the thun-
derous appeals of my learned opponent
I recalled a fable. A lion and an ass
entered into a compact to slay tho
beasts of the field and share the spoils,
The ass was to go into the thicket and
bray and frighten the animals out,
while the lion was to lie in wait and
Evening star., 1915-12-15

kill the fugitives. well, the ass sought
the darkest part Of the jungle, and. lift
ing up his awful voice. brayed and
prayed and brayed. The ass was in
toxicated with his own uproar and
thought he'd return to see what the
lion thought of it. He found the lion
pale In the face and trembling. What
do you think of that for braying? said
the ass. Don't you think l scared
them" Scared them" repeated the
lion in an agitated tone. why, you'd
have scared me if I didn't know you
were a jackass""
Evening star., 1915-12-15

sential to his well-being. and candy is
made of sugar, therefore, candy is a
rightful Indulgence. The appetite for
is an element most needful for the up
building Of the child's body. There are,
however. several forms of sugar, and
one needs to be very careful in the
selection of the sugar to be given to a
child
Evening star., 1915-12-15
A Deadlock in the Great War.

Lafayette Young. in Leslies.
Thousands of American people are
talking about peace when. as a matter
of fact, the European war is only fair
ly started There is nothing to indi-
Evening star., 1915-12-15

with their necessities with less trouble
and annoyance than two hundred thou
sand men were cared for In the American
civil war Or in the Franco-Prussian war.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-20

2. The character of the business
to be conducted.
3. In what manner such business
is carried on.
l. In what place the business was
last pursued
5 The time for which a license
is desired
Sec 81 Licenses Non-assignable.
All licenses shall be non-assignable
and non-transferable and shall ex-
pire except when issued for one day,
one week, or one month, on the last
day of June or the last day of De-
cember of each year.
Sec SO. Penalty. Any person Vi
olating any of the provisions of this
ordinance shall be deemed guilty of
an Offense and upon conviction there
of in the police court shall be fined in
any sum not exceeding one hundred
dollars for each offense and shall
forfeit his license thereby, if he holds
any license.
Sec. 80. Saving clause No prose-
cutiOn now pending and no offense
heretofore committed under ordi-
nances heretofore enacted shall be
affected in any way by the provisions
Of this ordinance, but all prosecu-
lions shall be conducted to final
judgment and all such offenses shall
be prosecuted in the same manner
as if this ordinance had not been en-
acted; neither shall this ordinance
affect any outstanding and unexpired
license issued under ordinances Nos.
434, AT, 483, and 542 or either of
them, until the expiration of such
unexpired license.
Sec. 40. Repeal. That ordinance
No. 434, passed and approved May
18th, 1905; Ordinance No. AT,
passed and approved November 18th,
1905; Ordinance No. 4S3, passed
and approved August LIST, 1907;
Ordinance No. 542, passed and
approved July 22nd, 1909, and all
other ordinances and parts Of ordi-
nances in conflict with this ordi-
nance are each and all of them here
by repealed.
Sec. Al. Take Effect. This ordi-
nance shall take effect and be in
force from and after it's publication
once in the Ellis County News.
Passed and approved June 3rd,
1915.
H. W. Oshant, Mayor.
Attest:
F. Loreditsch, City Clerk.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-20
COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS

The following was omitted from the
proceedings of the Board of County
Commissioners for October 5th, 1915:
The Board examined the books of the
County Treasurer and final settlement
war made.
November 1st, 1915, $50 a. m.
The members of the Board of County
Commissioners not being present, the
Chairman adjourned the meeting to
Tuesday, November End, at $50 a. m.
November End, 1915, $50 a. m.
The members of the Board of County
Commissioners met as per adjournment.
Members present, Isaac Zeigler, Chair
man, Eli Cole and VIM. Grabbe, County
Commissioners; E. C. Flood, County
Attorney; and Geo. H. Brown, County
Clerk.
Mr.. e. H. Gerkin, Mr. Micheal Lang
and Mr.. M. NJ. Weigel appeared before
the Board in matters pertaining to
various roads and bridges.
On motion of Commissioner Cole the
Board adjourned to 1:30.
November End, 1915, 1:3O p. m.
The Board met as per adjournment.
ALI members present.
The following bills against the
County were examined and allowed:
8 C Arnold, ] P fees State VS.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-20

On motion OF Commissioner Cole the
Board of County Commissioners ad-
journed until 1:30 p. m.
November 3rd, 1915, 1:3O p. m.
The Board met as per adjournment.
All members present.
The following bills against the county
were examined and allowed:
VIM Lee, labor on bridges At
xxyood road Q 40 ~
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-20

Campbell g Oh
NJ NJ Zeigler,
EN- Shade AS
Mrs Joe Graft e 10 Is
Wolf Binder, digging grave o P
Campbell. 90
J S Dreiling, supplies pauper
Rosa Meier 35 90
Is 90
Mrs Goetz g 90
Mrs Vattelmeier g - 80 90
g 10 90
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-20

On motion of Commissioner Cole the
Board adjourned to $50 a. m. Wednes-
day, November Bird, 1915.
November Bird, 1915, $50 a. m.
The Board met as per adjournment.
All members present.
The following bills were examined
and allowed:
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-06
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
National League
w. L. Pct.

vi. Pct. W. L. Pct.
Phila. 81 AZ .548I IN. York .48 46 .511
Chicago 49 IS 516IPittsb'h 48 48 800
Br'klyn so Al .515ISt.Louis AZ So .47O,
Boston so Al .515 Cincin'ti Al 55 APT
American League
WI. Pct WI. Pct
Boston SO "a .634IN. York AT Al 800,
Detroit go 3S SIP CleveFd 81 81 1874.
Chicago So SO .604l StLouis 38 SO 1892
Wash'n 81 46 .526IPhila. SO GA $40
Federal League
W. L. Ret. WI. Pct.
KCity 81 40 .588 St.Louis 50 46 .531
Chicago SIS 43 .561 lBrook'n As 81 AL
Pittsb'h SO AZ .558TBuffalo AS 81 AL
Newark 50 A .542I Balt IA GA BAT
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-06

LlC ROI CudulDlOl, QIuu 4dSSC 4Ou6 III
the junior tournament, being put out
in the first round by De Witt Balch
of Cincinnati. 5 and 8. The second
round left Balch, John Simpson of
Terre Haute and MOritz Loeb and
Ross Howell, both ChicagOans, to
fight for the title. Simpson has
played the best golf of the quartet
so far. Sunshine this morning i'm
proved the Midlothian course.
A benefit game for the EastIand
fund will be played at Federal league
park Saturday, at p. m, between
the Otto Riemans and an aIl-star
nine from the Intercity league. Ad-
mission will be % cents.
r. Norris Williams, who defeated
Maurice Mclaughlin in the national
tennis championship last year, will
meet the Californian in the challenge
round for the LongwoOd tennis cup
at Boston. Williams cut through the
field by defeating Nat Niles. Nc
LoUghlin has won the LongWOod cup
twice. i
Chicago athletes entered in the
Junior track and field meet at the Pa
nama-Pacific exposition today are
expected to carry off the majority of
the points. Several Chicagoans who
are eligible to compete are saving
themselves for the senior meet tOmor-
row.
The Chicago city golf champion
ship, open to all amateurs, will start
at 1870 Monday morning with an
elimination round over the Jackson
Park course. The lowest "a will play
IS holes again Tuesday, the 16 best
scores qualifying for match play. En-
tries will be received at the tee until
1870 p. m. Monday.
Slow courts handicapped the play
eTs in the western tennis tournament |
at Onwentsia. George Church of |
Princeton put out Forstal and Tur-
vey, progressing to the semi-final !
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-06
RESULTS YESTERDAY

National LeagUe.-ChicagO 4, Bos-
ton 8; Pittsburgh 1, Philadelphia o;
st. Louis 8, Brooklyn 2; New York s,
Cincinnati 2; New York 2, Cincin-
natl 1.
. American League-New York 8,
st. Louis 1; New York 2, st. Louis O;
Detroit IL, Philadelphia 5; Philadel-
phia 9, Detroit 8.
Federal League. - Chicago 8,
Brooklyn 1; St. Louis 1, Baltimore 0.
Having won three games In a row,
and from the league leaders, the Cubs
may come to realize that they are as
good as any team in the National
League, whatever satisfaction there
is in that thought.
And If Bresnahan can again get
them into that frame of mind, there
is yet a ray of hope for worthy show
ing in the final stages Of the race.
Earlier in the season Roger had his
hired men believing themselves quite
some shakes as ball players, and they
won, mainly on the strength of that
belief, for they weren't any better
mechanically then than they are now.
Any manager who has even aver
age material in the league this season
and fails to finish at the top, Of the
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-08-26
WARS GREATEST MIDDLE

CHINESE puzzle simplicity itself compared with the dplo
tange involving the relations between Germany
Turkey Italy Greece Serbia and Albania Yet other
discussion of their material
for bulky volume newspaper article Never before has
there been international problem quite complicated and
proverba Philadelphia lawyer might confess his inability
straighten out the issues says the Chronicle
Briefly stated this the substance of the problems Italy at
with Austria who ally of Germany and Turkey but
with but of the latter powers Before
participating in the conflict the Italians had trouble with u
key enemy who fearing that Italy might become her
antagonist held ND large Italian Henry Nor
genthau American ambassador Consantnop secured promise
the safe passage of Italians from Turkey but the
recalled because it feared that Italy join
bombardmen of the Dardnees and because she
ally of Russia, at with Turkey.
Of the allies fighting against Austria Italy thus far
fighting of Serbia but the Serbs have
occupy portion of Albania the Italian government reported to
have requested Serbia to evacuate that territory
Yet complication introduced by the fact that Greece
conditional ally Serbia the condition being the obligation