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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-12

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that he might place it before the president of the
company to show the features of the machine.
third interesting point is the immediate
results obtained At 7:50 P. NJ on the day when
the first page appeared, the first sale made-to
the manager of a hotel in New York where the
sales manager of the Barrett Company was staying
by placing before him the Post advertisement.
The first mail the next morning brought eleven
inquiries from Saturday Evening Post readers.
Among them million dollar steel company a
million dollar oil company three banks large grain
house and big shoe company. Several well known
Philadelphia firms telephoned in In less than
week more than 81 inquiries received. Practi-
cally all Of these from firms right in the terri
tories where the sales organization has been estab
1shed and at work tor some trne-and practically
every one asked for demonstration of the machine.
For example, this from southern mill:
o%G two years n6o or more & ago we had small RaFEett
weeks Saturday Evening if you
have machine would like description,
with an instruction book, covering this new machine"
These are but straws first Indications If the
very beginning of a national campaign arouses such
interest in all channels salesmen distributors and
customers-consider how much greater will be the
effect a month from noW a year from now. The
power of advertising for such product adding
machine is exerted not solely through direct chan
nels, but also through it's stimulating effects upon
the entire trade. AS the general sales manager Of
the Barrett Company said in memorandum to
his statesmen, dated February 9th:
1--WE do any salesman get the idea that
publicity is necessarily going to sell adding machines for
him. but do want him to realize that it will enable him
to accomplish in one month what he would otherwise take
five six do. He will be brought in with
prospects, people will talk about his goods and lost motion
will be eliminated by as lost motion
is eliminated by the of product"
In other words, the advertising introduces the
salesman under the most favorable circumstances.
The possible purchaser is already impressed.
We congratulate this company upon it's pro-
gressveness, upon its promise of greater success.
We recommend it's example to other Phila-
The Spectator., 1915-02-23
Heroic French Girls Tragedy
 Thrills All France.
Kill Their Husbands When They Find Latter, Who Were German Born, Planned to Poison Garrison
 With Arsenic.

Paris.-How two little French girls poisoned the husbands they loved. to save the life of an entire garrison has just been made known in Paris, and it has created a tremendous sensation.
 Rose and Marie Dupont. two eight een-year-old twins were born at Vile rupt, small village on the Lorraine frontier. In 1912 they married two students of chemistry, named Ulrich and Wilhelm, who loved them so much that they became French citizens and bought drug store in the town.
 Both unions were most happy until July 29 of last year. when the hus- bands received a letter from across the frontier. Immediately both be- came very nervous and asked the two girls to go to their grandmother S home in Longwy until the situation cleared.
 Both went to Longwy. but found that their grandmother was not there. They returned very late the next day to Villerupt.
 When they arrived at the drug store they found 1t closed. Going through the back garden they peered through the closed shutters and saw their husbands, to their great amazement, talking in quite friendly manner to two uhlans in full uniform.
 They could not believe their eyes at first. but they were mortified later at the conversation they heard
 A deep plot had been arranged by Ulrich and Wilhelm. They had stored a big dose of strychnine and during the night 1t was planned to drop it in the wine casks reserved for the French garrison.
 Are you sure the dose is strong enough!" asked one of the uhlans.
 Why" answered Ulrich, it is strong enough to kill all the garrison and its reserves"
 With low cry Rose shuddered and almost tainted. Both realized they had been fooled. and that instead of being loved they were the wives of the worst of scoundrels and even worse than that-traitors.
 We must act" said Marie, ito pre- vent this most awful crime. even if we must commit one ourselves"
 Half an hour later they rang the front door bell. They appeared very joyous and explained their elation by saying they had heard the war had been averted
 They said they were so glad that they wanted to open some wine in honor of peace and the friendly uhlan soldiers.
The Spectator., 1915-02-23
POISON LOVED ONES

Marie went out and brought back champagne bottle. She poured the liquor and they drank it.
 Next morning they ran out of the house. They were widows, for they themselves had used the poison.
 They went straight to the chief de gendarmes and told him of their sorry plight
 We have killed our husbands" they cried. Do what is right with us"
 But the official simply wept with them and kissed them. for it was found that the plot had been deeply laid and that the sacrifice of the girls, which has no precedent in history, had saved thousands of French troops from cer- tain death.
 Marie and Rose have been critically i'll and for two months were lowering between life and death. and it was feared they would lose their reason, but they have recovered. and are now Red Cross nurses.
 In caring for the wounded they are trying to forget theire terrible life drama.
The Spectator., 1915-02-23
GIRL IS VICTIM OF GOSSIP
Sent to Home for FriendIess After Death of Woman She Thought
 Her Mother.

La Crosse, Wis.-Fifteen years age MT. and Mrs. Fred West decided their childless home was incomplete and they resolved to adopt a baby. A little girl, one month old, was taken by the couple, and upon her Mrs West proceeded to lavish mothers love and devotion. The girl was named Hazel West
 Two weeks ago Mrs. West died and the child, heartbroken over her loss, heard neighbors whisper that she was not Mrs. Vests child. For the first time the girl learned she did not know who her parents were. Unable to stand remarks made concerning her birth, the girl appeared before Judge Brindley.
 1nasmuch as she had never been legally adopted the girl was sent to the home of the friendless.
The Spectator., 1915-02-23
ID PAY THE GUARD
Uncle Sam to Be Paymaster for
 State Militia
Proposition Receives Unanimous Ap. proval oi Senate Committee Will Help Solve Problem of
 Military Unpreparedness.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.

tStaH Correspondent Western Newspaper
 Union)
 Washington-The senate committee on military affairs has given favora- ble and unanimous report to bill which will make Uncle Sam in part the paymaster of the national guards men of all the states in the Union.
 This means that every Republican and Democrat holding membership in the committee is in favor of paying the state troops out of the funds in the United States treasury for the actual military work which they perform. Army men hold that this will increase largely the efficiency of the National Guard, will help solve the problem of military preparedness and will largely increase the enlistments in the mili- tary organizations of all the states.
 This federal pay bill for the militia may not become law at this ses- sion, but members of congress seem to think that its passage virtually is certain in the near future. Under this bill the enlisted men in the guard will be paid 25 per cent of the pay of a man of their rank in the regular service, but of course the money will be given them only for the hours in which they are engaged in necessary military duties. drill, book instruction and the like.
 For years the officers of the Ma tional Guard from nearly every state have been advocating this measure. The governments division of militia affairssin the war department has rec commended it time after time Con- gress was opposed to it, but recently seemingly there has been complete change of sentiment, the vote in the senate committee showing this conclu- sively for it has been said every Dem ocrat and every Republican in the com rhittee gave the measure his sanction.
 Regular army officers and guards men alike have urged that nearly all men when they are paid to do a thing, no matter how small the payment may be, feel an obligation to do it. They say that drill attendance will be in creased largely, that interest in the guards work will be keener and that
The Spectator., 1915-02-23
HOLD THE FORT" MAN DIE!
Samuel Wagner Wigwagged the Fa- nous Message for General
 Sherman.

Terre Haute, Ind.-When in the Civil war General John M Corse, with a small force was holding Altoona pass, in the Kenesaw mountains. Ten nessee, and signaled General Sherman for succor, the latter general caused the famous message, Hold the fort. for l am coming" to be wigwagged, Samuel Wagner, who died recently at the age of seventy-three at Paris, H.. did the wigwagging from limb of a tall tree.
 He was a member of an Illinois reg iment, from which state General Corse was accredited.
The Spectator., 1915-02-23
Important Part in the European War
 By D.. J. A. FREDERICK. New York

pend entirely the condition soldiers said has 125OO0O training service he the importance of conditioning his soldiers Latin arebetter able to stand long than the Teutons the English Both the German and the Brion The English particularly likes his meat perhaps less than the German but he likes it, and has proved that ae while physically strong for supreme struggle cannot endure extended strain
 There not finer than the Burian when physical perfection The big strong strappng fellows capable of enduring all of hap and they stand the strain much better than the German the Engishman
 In the demonstrated that the marve of physical endurance The Bugns and the Japanese essentially They live vegetables and fish and mighty little of the latter.
 Mea particularly while they strength, subtract from the endurance and this greatest of worlds struggles question of which going last believe the force that has the larger number of nonmeat eaters will win
The Spectator., 1915-02-23

the relations between the state troops and the regular troops will be closer than ever. In truth the unanimous vote of the senate on this bill and the approval which has been expressed of the measure go to show seemingly that this legislation is considered to be one means of making the country more thoroughly prepared to defend itself If the occasion ever should arise when defense will be necessary.
The Spectator., 1915-02-23
Amateur Drivers Are Cause of Accidents
By s. B. HOFFMAN. Brooklyn. N. Y.

into the matter ascertain Automobile accidents confined almost entirely rversnd their victims little thought will make the plain and also tend lessen the number of accidents
 There two why professional caueus have few dents One of greater skill driving but the second and important that they greater The professional takes chances He doesn't dodge between two coming opposite directions at intersections he doesn't through
 sight openng he doesn't barely to get past pedestrian or wagon anything ese if there chance of trouble Instead he slows down and In the long he makes better tme while few seconds because his he does not lose the minutes-and sometimes hours-hat accidents cost
 The professional anxious keep whole skin and to his saving He that he doesn't mind being accident He knows that he isn't but that he is merely acting sensibly when he is careful.
 That lesson the driver learn from him. for fooharnes nne-enths of the trouble
The Spectator., 1915-02-23
Man Is Innocent Until Proven Guilty
By ELMER E. ROGERS, Ch;e.eo

to the end of time handicapped if actually guilty And though padone after discovery of innocence the stigma remains the bighe life
 Mere leads ones fellow to him social outcast The state furnishes police guard court and prosecuting attorney that he punished It only recently that society has provided for his defense It has remained for Los Angeles naugurate the humane plan of providing that the accused of crime shall have good defense ouras good lawyer the lawyer who Justice be done This office in America has proved remarkable
The Spectator., 1915-02-23
New Tangled Ideas Make Spelling Hard By A. ]. DRESKA. W.upun. Wis.

usually the right direction which to get mental picture the word If kept along this line he would without doubt be good per But what happens?
 The which he separate letters and put together recy taught of sounds He learn to spell all these phonecay This the first thing partly throw him of the track
 He might still out all right not for bobbng spelling The student wishing to be upto all of h he to be right
 Then fine day. twenty-five carefully selected words pecedy him. Now, would ask the Daily if it not expecting the good ooned when he has been bothered with these ....1gled ideas?
The Spectator., 1915-02-23

this country and through adoption people dpng the home of it's just dues They extending cities and leaving lands depopuaed The rich the only the country from the cities The who needed work the and the cities to be Europanized There thus tendency neglect the home Americas grand old institution which present prosperity built
 The lives of greatest all started the home George ingon and Abraham Lnco statesmen Mark Twain American letters and Walt Whitman greatest poet the home They were brought good old American hon log cahina
The Spectator., 1915-02-23
Entirely in Order,

Phoenix, Ariz.-A letter from Mollie Shane of Brooklyn, asking for the names of unmarried members of the Arizona legislature, who might be in- terested in a matrimonial proposition was referred to the committee on militia and defense.
The Spectator., 1915-02-23
PoWderlese Gun.

An electric gun, recently invented in England, aims to put the powder mills put of business. This weapon reverses the usual procedure by pulling the pro- jectile instead of propelling i,. This purpose is accomplished by an inge- uious arrangement of magnet on the outside of the tube.
The Spectator., 1915-02-23
Germans Open Rail Service.

Amsterdam.-Th German admins tration in Belgium has announced that a limited railway service will be opened on thirteen lines in the region of Brussels, fourteen in that of Liege five around LuXemburg and five in the vicinity of Charleroi
The Spectator., 1915-02-23

The Europeanization of American people today is tending to menace the great est and proudest of our country's institutions-the home. European manners and customs are invading
The Spectator., 1915-02-23

Society decreed long ago that man is innocent, or a lawful citizen, until proved guilty. This principle, how ever, has never governed so- ciety. One accused, from the commission of a misdeed
The Spectator., 1915-02-23

Why is it that, among the large number of automobile accidents, we find practi- cally none in which profess sional chauffeurs are in- volved This is a fact which anyone who cares to look
The Spectator., 1915-02-23

The Daily Illini of Cham
 paign, H., asks, "Is it pos sible to teach spelling?" to which I would reply in the negative. In my opinion the two main reasons we have poor spelling in schools
The Spectator., 1915-02-23

The matter of diet -,ay play an important part in the European war. Expert militarists agree that the question of endurance may determine the length of the war, and endurance will de-
The Spectator., 1915-02-23

This picture of the American min ister to Holland was made during a recent visit to his home in Princeton, N. J. At present Doctor Van Dyke is actively engaged in aiding the home less Belgians who have taken refuge in Holland.
The Washington times., 1915-10-04
|PLANT CREDITORS
WILL MEET SOON
Total Liabilities, It Is Estimated,
viii Not Exceed $4,000
to $4,000.

A meeting Of the creditors of Arthur
@. Plant & Co., the bankrupt broker
age concern. probably will be held
within a week. and 1t 10 estimated to-
day that the total liabilities will not
exceed $4,000 to $4,000.
Frederick A. Fenning. receiver. has
made but a partial examination OF the
books. and the exact Indebtedness OF
Mr.. Plant, who committed suicide with
in a few hours after being declared a
bankrupt, Is so far unknown.
Mr.. Plant was buried yesterday aft
ernoon in Rock Creek Cemetery. after
funeral services at the Plant home.
1884 Calvert street. The services were
in charge of La Fayette Lodge No. 10.
F. A. A. NJ. The Rev. DR.. T. s. Fal-
mer, pastor of the Washington Heights
Presbyterian Church, orriciated.
The Washington stock Exchange was
represented by Albion X. Paris. Rich
ard e. Claughton, and J. l.. Edwards.
Receiver Fenning was consulted yes
terday by Attorney Fred s; swindell,
of tho largest creditors of the firm. Mr..
renning. however, says the power TO
call a meeting of creditors rests with
the referee In bankruptcy and not with
the receiver. and he corrected the re-
port Mat he would assemble tn.
A Judgment In default was entered in
the District Supreme Court yesterday
on a suit filed for A.277.6O against the
firm OF A. G. Plant & Co.. and indors-
ers on a note for the above amount
was In favor OF Mr.. tiffany. who also
recently entered suit on another note
for Slb00O
The Washington times., 1915-10-04

canoe when they sighted another moose
at sope distance. II was expected
that as soon aS the latter got their
wind It would make away. but IT show
ed no signs OF fear. and attempted to
charge when the canoe came near, the
colonel and his guides being forced to
put to deep water. Colonel Roosevelt.
thinking to scare. fred over It's head.
but this only. seemed to infuriate II.
Tho way home lay through a small
stream connecting two lakes, and
shortly before they came to this the
moose disappeared into the brush and
the party thought they had seen the
last of II. However. as the canoe was
half way down the stream the animal
appeared In front OF It. The water at
this spot was g. about n foot deep.
and the moose an his charge at
about thirty feet tance.
The former +. lent, realizing, as
he said afterwar, that II was either
his life or that Of the beast, fired again
and struck the latter IN the chest at
about eighteen feet away.
He slowed UP for a moment but
came on again. And this time the big
game hunter gave him the rest with a
shot through the head. which brought
him down.
The Washington times., 1915-10-04
OFFER0F GERMANY
TEMPTED BULGARS
Balkan Nations Reward Large
Territory With Passage Of
Munitions as Recompense.

LONDON, Oct. 4.-According to the
SOMA correspondent of the Niewe Rot
terdamschs Courant. the offers made
to Bulgaria by the contending diplo-
mats were as follows:
Germany proposed that Bulgaria
should bind herself In any case to
undertake nothing against Turkey. In
exchange for which tho porte should
Maritsa and Tundsha. which includes
the railway to Dedeaghatch, and de-
clare its readiness to regulate the
frontier north OF Adrianople as far as
the Black sea. whereby the district
OF Kirk Kilisse would revert to Bull
ga1ia- ..
On her part Bulgaria was to permit
all goods desired and persons ,provti-
cd with special passes to pass through
her territory. while the three empires
obtaining the whole of Macedonia. In
! cluding the so-called disputed part
| Of Uskub and the coast region along
| the Aegean sea to Struma and the de-
sired port OF Dorbrudja.
! On the other hand. the entente pow.
ers offered In their note Of September
4 IA the cession of Macedonian territory
so far as concerns the so-called un-
disputed zone prescribed in the Bul.
garian Serbian treaty of alliance of
i 1919, independent OI COhpeUsdNiOub Ot
! territorial extensions which other
Balkan states might obtain.
The British minister. according to
the same correspondent. communicat-
ed further in writing that until the
cession OF territory to be taken from
Serbia. II should be occupied by Ital-
ian troops, and this was verbally con-
! nrmed by the ministers of France
| and Italy. and in slightly different
form by Russia. While the note con-
| tained nothing about the obligations
! to be entered into by Bulgaria. II is
| Established. says the correspondent.
that Bulgaria would be required to
place It's whole army Immediately at
| the disposal OF the entente powers for
| the capture OF Constantinople from
| the land side. After that event Bull
garia would retain for herself Turkish
| territory northwest OF the Midia-Mu-
radli line and the Ergene to Enos and
| receive at once the western part of
Macedonia. Bulgaria was finally prom
ised all necessary financial support.
The strength OF Germanic argument.
according to this view. lay In the fact
that the proposals OF the central en-
pires merely required neutrality,
| though of a very benevolent quality.
from Bulgaria. whereas the demands
of the entente called for Bulsar arian
action against Turkey.
The Washington times., 1915-10-04
AlarmFe in Germany
Over Allies Successes
Newspapers Admit That Operations in France May
Lead to Wars End-"Battle on Rhine" Possible
One Forecasts in Army Strong. -."

offensive on this front has 10 far re-
suited In complete defeat for the
"Despite the fate Of those moved
down by the German machine guns q
barbed wire entanglements the British
repeatedly sent more troops to attack"
Many papers compare the fighting in
against the Russian lines The Hambur-
ger Fremdenblatt says:
"Obviously the British and the French
vented vented Ms,,, to DO S what yon Mackensen.
battle between Tarnow and Gorlice.
They had made themselves ready for
the storm The British had even length
ened their front. Woe to thee. Ger
But what succeed. once in war does
effort T. repeated or initiated" o..
The The %Frankfnrter zeitIng says:
and Tarnow and the battle in the west!
| In the former case the Germans broke
through the Russian lines as they
pleased. They fxed tha hour and fixed
I'm the west. on the contrary, the
British and French remained suspended
| as soon as they emerged from the area
, which had been desolated by the ex-
plosive force Of their shells. That Is the
decisive difference. They can initiate
our shells. but they cannot initiate our
men.
"There Is not the least occasion for
anxiety. The German lines In the west
are so Arm that no enemy can break
| through them. however much ammuni-
! ton Of his own manufacture or ammu-
n,tion purchased from kind neutrals he
may like to waste.
Nor will our enemies succeed in de-
laying by their furious attack in the
| west the decision In the Balkans"
Foresees Battle on Rhine,
The Leipziger Neueste Nachrichten
says:
| There can be no doubt about It. The
new offensive Of Joffre and French has
begun. the chieftains Of the Basutos,
the Grukhas. Senegalese and Zulus hav.
ing at length consented to lend their
valuable assistance to the adventurous
enterprise. II Is possible. now that a
| start has been made. that the hope OF
Joffre to attack along the whole front
| may be realized and that battle on
the Rhine in the immediate future will
decide.
"one thing is certain: the time for the
most violent combats. perhaps the time
Of the final decision OF the war. has
| arrived. But II our old God has re-
served victory for the Germans He VIII
! cause the strength OF Me French army
| and nation to be utterly exhausted and
the spirit of the people to become SC
depressed that all the paper armies OF
Kitchener will be unable to hold them
! in the belief OF ultimate victory.
"If Joffre Is able to force us from
! another position we know also that be-
hind every rock there rises another
rock. behind every wall fresh wan.
behind every death another leath.
"Our enemies are again. As they have
been since the war began. helplessly
out Of their reckoning. Now that halt
the world has sent them her coiored
sons they think themselves far superior
, to the Germans It is a bloody error, "a
they will find to their cost In the hours
or days or perhaps weeks Of record
breaking greatness that are before US"