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Evening star., 1915-08-15

down the boulevard.
He lived at the Grand Hotel. and
loved the Italian restaurant, though
he takes neither wine. coffee nor to-
bacco. II have cut out wine for ten
years." says the maestro. Nobody
takes wine nowadays" Alas, he did
not foresee the three lieutenants of
Lake Constance!
When he disappeared. Kahn told us
the maestro. is in Zurich, to be in touch
equally with italy and Germany. Con-
tracts went back and forth by mail. 4
One day Kahn was jubilant.
THE most beautiful German girl in
the world" he exclaimed. "A pearl
of loveliness, and great artistic! The
maestro has found her on Lake Con-
stancew
Also, a new German opera, all melody
and sweetness, a sensation and nov
lety, not yet heard in Germany
Until, at last. the dark day came.
when everybody in the Place Vendome
was worried sick. l refer to Cam
paninfs business headquarters.
"Where is the TRaestro?" mourned the
agent. "Observe this package of con-
tracts. Note the envelope, come back
from Zurich stamped Destination un-
known And this. to Daibler, his sec
retary, Refused by the German post
Has Campanini ventured into Germany?
Already an American newspaper. cable
gram makes him a prisoner of war. 1
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have contradicted it. And here is Far
rar in Chicago, drinking toasts to Ger
man arms. and Chenal in Paris wants
to break her contract
What for?" I asked. "On account of
Farrar?"
Geraldine .Farrar, most beautiful of
known American opera stars, pearl of
Campanini's German company, made
her grand success in Berlin. where she
has tender and grateful memories.
Surely. Chenal has no objection to her
drinking a toast. -,
''Naw," said Kahn. IT'S not that
Chenal wants to sing i'm the French
trenches. We can blame Lipkowska"
And the cat was out of the bag.
When you want a trench soprano, you
go after her-if you are hero.
On the other. hand. the world is jeal-
Gus of heroic business men. Even sue
cess doesn't always justify the story.
So l will give you touchstone. If Lip
kowska really sings this coming sea-
son in America, you can tell that she
was not brought by wireless telegraph
from Bessarabia.
The maestro. has trinitrotoluol faith
in beauty. And Lipkowska Is raving
beauty.
q ;Campanini4 had sLipkowska roped> by
his agents last November
Produce her. he said, on arriving.
Wish. we could" said Kahn, but it's
impossible,
Evening star., 1915-08-15
e Winds Tell Of Coming Forest C0nflagration>

RY winds are the steeds of the
III W forests fires. say the United
ii ~ States forest service officials,
~ and because of this they have
added to the already elaborate ana
carefully planned system of forest-nre
fighting the services of the United
states weather bureau.
The job mapped out for the official
forecasters of the government is noun
ing more nor less than instructing the
forest service "lookouts who dwell
on the lonely timbered heights of the
national forests in the art of foreteli-
ing the coming of the steeds of flame
Already on nine mountain peaks whose
Jagged fangs rear upward to a mimi
mum altitude of 5000 feet above sea
level in the forests of the Pacific coast
there have been established within the
past few weeks meteorological sta
tions, where mysterious instruments
MUCK from the atmosphere tidngs of
shifting winds and changing tempera-
lures.
The instruments have been installed
at regular lookout stations.
where men are kept continuously for at
least two and a half months during the
year.
The first of these wind forecastins
stations for the benefit of the forest
service to be established are located
on Buck mountain, in the Okanogan
forest; Mount Wilson. in the Oregon
forest; Black Rock, in the Umpqua
forest; Windy Peak. in the Crater for
est; Strawberry mountain, in the Mall
heur forest. as well as upon peaks in
the Olympic, Snoqualmic, Rainier and
all washington ana
Oregon.
During the past few fire seasons.
when the flames break out and sweep
over many miles of valuable timber
land before the elaborate fre-ighting
system of the government can even be
gotten under way. the forest service
came to the conclusion that what
would do more than anything else to-
ward saving the great timber tracts
belonging to the people of the United
States from devastation by the annual
visitation of flames would be an ade- =
auate warming of the coming of the
fires. True, the lookout system. which
has been in use for many years. might
he depended upon to locate through
powerful spyglasses the presence OF
fire in the forests and to send the
warnings flashing over the great lonely
ranges. through the medium of tele-
phones photographs or signal flags, to
call out the forces of firefghters and
bring them hurrying to the scene of
the conf1agration. But all too often the
firefghters, although mobiIizing with
almost incredible swiftness, reached
the scene of the fire to find the flames
had gained too great a headway for
the damage to be held to minimum.
From long experience the forest
rangers and the lookouts know that as
the Pacific ocean is the source of all
moisture for the western coast, it fol-
lowed that the western winds were the
rain bringers, and that while those
currents are in motion the fire hazard
in the national forests is greatly di-
minished. But on the other hand, they
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permit the volunteer fire fighters to
bear the brunt of the battle. Fire pa
trors are Immediately doubled upon the
first warning OF the coming of the hre
winds. and here are a few OF the meas
ures Of preparation that the rangers
themselves Immediately undertake.:
All fire tools must be sharpened.
packed in burlap and their cases put
in the proper places.
All pack saddles and camping equip
ment must be put in readiness for in
slant use.
All of the forest trails must be clear
ed so they can be travelled rapidly in
case 1t is necessary to transport men
and supplies over them to the scene of
a fire.
All telephone lines and instrument,
order that they may be depended upon.
and all fire notices must he posted
The lookouts on the national forest
peaks, to whom the duty of forecast
ing the coming of the fire winds has
fallen. have become almost a race unto
themselves by reason of the peculiar
conditions under which they spend
their lives. always isolated and many
times in actual danger.
Their homes-many of them haye
wives and children-are necessarily
small. perched. as they often are. upon
the highest slope of a mountain peak
with cloud bank for a doorstep and a
"dugout" his only refuge i'm time Of
storm, when thunder shakes his dwell
ing and lightning makes playthings of
his possessions.
And so the days work of the men OF
the mountain tops is not entirely a
round of scientifically qua riding
against fires from a safe vantage point
thousands of feet above sea level.
Not long ago a report was received
from the Custer Peak lookout In the
Black Hills national forest. detailing
the vagaries of storm which ragged
around the little lookout station on the
mountain top. The lookout wrote
The lightning broke three window
panes. blew off two of the legs under
the stove, tore a piece out of the win
dow sill. shot an oil can and a can of
nails full OF holes. knocked holes in all
the tin dishes lying around. struck
pieces of enamel off the granite-ware
utensils, entered a case of fifteen dozen
eggs, breaking and scattering eight
dozen of them all over the house. and
threw articles of clothing and cooking
utensils all over the place. The fuses
of the lightning protector were blown
to bits. and the protector itself melted
to a solid mass, although the telephone
was uninjured.
when the storm broke the qua rd's
wife and baby and young woman liv-
ing with them were eating dinner in
the house. the lookout being absent on
some Improvement work. The women
the house. They had no sooner reached
safety than the first crash came, fol-
lowed almost Immediately by a second
stroke. The baby was injured by the
crash, but recovered and was found to
be not seriously hurt"
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requires at least three lieutenants to
slip him through.
Great is the power of beauty. But
when, the next morning, general staff
order closes the entire Swiss frontier.
SO that not even telegram can get
through. Lieutenant must look for
one-legged Saxon major. Its your
mania for skirts" said the Prussian
horse-convoy captain. And yours for
music"' retorted the Baden Zeppelin
commander: there is nothing bus to
camp him.
Here comes in the grand musical
episode of the quarrel. The beautiful
girl, imploring, throws herself among
them with the touching aria, Think of
German Hospitality and My Contract"
The baritone solo. "A Soldiers Faith"
is answered by the basso: when the
Sword is Drawn, Alas" And the third
act closes with the smashing trio. "A
Prisoner. A Prisoner complicated by
a distant soldiers chorus.
The last act opens in thunderstorm
at the Meerburg hotel. The young
Italian clanks his chains to an orches
trail "Miserere." The beautiful girl en-
ters with a candle and her hair down.
The lieutenants bar her way. Il pass
over a lot of incidents in haste to the
denouement) The Italian has been
treating to champagne in every act.
ties on the floor. he advances to the
center, with the tenor's melting
romance. When Beauty in the
1t is the tale of Lipkowska, the
trench soprano.
The captain is in tears. The COM
mander unlocks the handouts. The
beautiful girl burns her contract and
stamps on the ashes. And the major
writes out residence permit, until the
Swiss frontier shall reopen.
Because the beautiful girl artistic has
sung her great renunciation, "A Ger
man Maiden@
'I shall not go to America" she says.
'I shall sing in the German trenches"
The remainder of the story is brief.
When one is not permitted to. tell any
thing one is bound to stop.
"Marthe Chenal wants to break her
contract and sing in the French
trenches"
The next day the carved jem beauty.
'Edvina wants to break her contract
and go as a British hospital nurse. I'll
bet" he added, she wants to sing In
the trenches"
In course of time Campanini returned
to Paris.
He is as calm as you or ].
No sign betrays his triumphs.
Grand opera is saved for America"
he says. "The season will be as catholic
and representative as the great United
States
And he adds:
"A wonderful season for home talent.
Never have engaged SO many Ameri-
can singers They are grand American
European war. Never before has an
American grand opera company had so
many American stars in its midst. 1t
is a revolution" STERLING HEILIG.
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LYDIA LIPkOWSkA.

told them to sue her, but it seems
that no Paris court would give a de-
cision against the patriotic child. Fur
thermore, she had skipped the jurisdic-
ton.
"Lipkowski's in the Russian trenches,
singing to the soldiers."-
Probably Campanini will tell you that
he rested a month in his town of Parma,
where he has a theater and street
named after him, and Mrs. Harold F.
Mccormick has founded prize of
10000 lire for the best opera by
young Italian who has never yet had an
opera produced
Even concerning the three lieuten-
ants / shall have to imagine scenario
Evening star., 1915-08-15

United States Weather Bureau Plans to
Aid the Government Fire Fighters in Ma
tional Forests by Establishing Meteorologi-
cal Stations on High Peaks Delicate
Instruments Pluck From the Atmosphere
Warnings of Shifting Winds and Changing
Temperatures-The Elaborate Fire-Fight-
ing System Now Used.
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and the best Saint -Saens has done since
Samson ct Dalila." ...
They rejoiced in "Cleopa tra," the last
opera of Massanet, which. has been
heard only at Monte Carlo. 1t will be
particularly interesting to Americans.
in view of the efforts made by the
French to replace Gerran influences.
And right beside it, they fetched out
their German novelty for Chicago and
most of America, the "Elektra" of
Strauss. 1t had been scheduled at the
Paris grand opera for last March, when
Strauss was to have conducted
I'VE are as catholic and. representa-
tive as the great United States" said
Campanini. I'VE open the doors to all
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weather conditions observed and of an
phenomena which he may notice.

weather conditions observed and OF any
phenomena which he may notice.
+ y
This is how the weather experts and
the bureau of forestry officials expect
their plan to work out:
Whenever a lookout discovers that
one of the dry, fire-bearing winds is
headed toward his forest he imme-
diately telephones the headquarters
upon his tract, and from there the word
is relayed to the other forests-both
under government, state and private
control-which galvanizes into imme-
diate activity not only the federal
and state forest f1re-f1ghting forces, but
all the many private protective asso-
Citations which exist among the timber
men in Washington and Oregon, where
one-third of all the timber in the Unit
ed States and it's possessions is located.
These flre-f1ghting forces comprise
what is known in the forestry field as
is built around corps of fire fighters Or
ganized at carefully selected strategf-
cal points, each of which is the center
of activity for forest district, and at
can be had to the forest regions by
railroad or automobile roads, there
have already been established big sup
ply and ware houses, where there Is
continually kept an equipment SuH-
cient for many hundreds of frefghters.
Emergency rations are to be found in
all of these stations ready for instant
use And then there are the individual
rst-aid boxes, designed especially for
use on the fire lines by the Red Cross
Society, together with fire-fghting ap-
paratus of every description.
AS soon as the district forester in
the locality threatened receives word
from the lookout that there are indica-
tions of long dry spell, attended by
the fire winds, the emergency station
becomes a scene of instant activity.
without waiting for the actual coming
of the flames. Equipment Is over
hauled and gotten ready for field serv-
ice. Automobiles are mobilized. Ar
rangements are made for the trans
portation of the fire fighters should the
menace become an active danger.
To cap the climax of all this activity
word is sent to each man on the long
lists of volunteer fire fighters to stand
by" so that at the first cry of Fire."
from the lookouts squads of men can
be rushed with the least possible de-
lay to the scene of the conflagration.
But the. forest rangers themselves
are far from idle at such a time, and
there is no disposition on their part to
Evening star., 1915-08-15
LOOKOUT READING THERMoMETERs. =.

learned that the eastern winds are the
dry winds, coming from across the
deserts, and that their prevalence
usually means the coming of dry
spell, during which time the fire haZ-
ard is greatly increased.
So. the officials of the forest service
concluded. if the. coming of the dry.
fre-ridden winds from the east could
be foretold, the efficiency of the fire.
fighting organization of the national
forests might be increased many fold.
1t has been a long g-established custom
of the Portland, Oreg., branch of the
weather bureau to send each morning
to the distant stations of the f1re-look-
out forecast. stating in general
terms the condition of the winds. what
might generally be expected of the fire
hazard and in which areas it might be
expected to increase.
But this too general forecast of the
situation did not apparently meet the
needs of the f1re-f1ghting system, and
so it was determined to install the
meteorological stations on widely sepa-
rated peaks of great altitude, and IN
this way garner in a host of local at
mospheric conditions by which may be
more closely determined the exact
areas to be threatened by the coming
Of the fire winds.
The meteorological equipment Of the
nine forecasting stations already In
operation consists of an thermometer,
by which the velocity of the wind is
measured; psychrometer, from which
the percentage of moisture in the at
mosphere can be determined; a barom-
eter, to tell atmospheric pressure; a
wind vane and dry and wet thermome-
ters. The first of these equipments
were Installed by the weather bureau
from which branch of the government
scientists were detailed to instruct the
forest rangers and the lookouts in the
art of forecasting the threatening
winds.
Daily records of meteorological con-
ditions must be kept by every lookout,
who is charged with taking five read
ings each day. The first must be taken
as nearly upon the hour of sunrise as
possible. The last as nearly upon the
time of sunset as Is practica BILE, while
the other three may be interspersed
during the day.
After each reading the lookout is
charged with recording the direction
of the wind, the thermometer reading,
the movement of the wind. and its
velocity, the dry bulb" wet bulb"
and maximum temperatures: the per-
centage of humidity in the air. and the
barometer reading. The lookout must
also make careful note of all unusual
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The Lookout System Which Has Been
in Vogue for Several Years - Efficiency
Increased by a knowledge of When Dry,
Fire-Ridden Winds From the East Are Due.
The Meteorological Equipment of the Nine
Forecasting Stations Now in Use-The
Lookouts of the Great National Forests and
the Nature of Their Work.
Evening star., 1915-08-15
Special Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS, August 5,


~ ~AMPANINI will never tell it.
m The staid director of the
II Chica go -Philadelphia- New York
W grand opera organization is
simply "in Europe" preparing to put
, America musically foremost in the
world
Incidentally. he collects basket of
ktrue peaches. 1t is assumed to be easy.
! under the circumstances.
So. fifteen days remain a blank. Tele-
grams to his Zurich hotel are returned.
! ''destination unknown and his agents
in London and Paris ask in agony:
-'Will he ever come back"
Where is the maestro? "A war pris-
soner In Germany" Deny it. Gone
through Greece to Odessa?" How shall
a conservative business organizer show
himself as Orpheus harping his way
: into the war hell of Europe to rescue
Eurydice from the trenches-against
! her will?
The curtain rises on the Italian res
faurant of Paris.
Spaghetti is not Italian, it is mondial.
worldwide. So is American grand
opera.
1 heard all their secrets. how they
had secured Louise Edvina for
, "L'Amore Del Ire Re" of Montemezzi
,their example of modern Italian music.
which was given in Paris and New
York last year, but is not known else
where.
Campanini had just rushed up from
Italy in three days. 1t requires three
days to cross any frontier these war
times. His boat from New York, the
Re d'1talia, had been stopped by British
cannon at Gibraltar and French de-
stroyer off Sardinia. Now he must af-
front the British channel, with it's sub
marines, mines and bomb-throwing air
craft, for Edvina.
l was not listening. l was thinking
of Edvina, when she used to come in
at the back of the Champs Elysees
American residential quarter. They
called her the carved gem beauty.
Hardened photographers were foolish
in her presence. Crude fiashliyht
caught only Ioveliness. When she
smiled, the secretary wrote his name
furiously on the typewriter. When Ed
vina passed, we babbled of green fields.
know how Campanini cinched
Marthe Chenal to sing "Aphrodite."
Aye, and they have secured the Jon
gleur de Notre Dame" And 'Monna
The beauty of Chenal enthuses the
maestro.
"Ah, beauty" he exclaims. 'When I
see an artistic. I look IL she is beauti
full. If yes. it is 60 per cent gained in
advance"
heard them boasting of saint-saens'
;"Dejanire," which has never been
heard in America. 1t is completely
dramatic opera. krandiose,- spectacular,
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to compete for Mrs. McCormick's
operatic prize. The locality. is close to
Zurich. He had that beautiful German
girl to- sign at Meerburg, just across
the AXE from the Swiss town of Con-
stance. And Daibler was already in
Germany.
Act l. The Lorelei of the Lake. Act
II. Prisoner of Germany. Act III. Or
pheus aux Enters. Act IN. The Re-
>nuncfa NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Uber Allies!
She should have crossed and signed
in neutral Swiss territory. Evidently
when a gallant Italian, who is practi-
calIy an American. to spare beauty
boat trip ventures INTO -Germany-at
war with Italy or not, as may bet
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schools The 'Amore Del IRE Re- is
the latest word on the orchestral side
of opera. 'Elektra' was a revolution,
which is melodious, and Saint-Saens
will be given chance to prove the
claims made for him* to replace Wag-
ner" 49, "a.
He tackled the spaghetti
II give no opinion. 1 present the four
tendencies of the world. You choose
what you like. If: you And Saint -Saens
rotten. it is not my fault. If you find
IAmore' sublime, take no credit. 1t
is not me. it is the Italian movement
I give you chance be educated"
Afterward, I=met Gampanini up and
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-24

Money to loan on improved farms. R. l.. Blakely. Advt If.
 The price of The Nevada News is only one dollar per year.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-24
NEGRO TAKEN TO
 PEN FOR SAFETY
Cincinnati Pearson, Who Killed Plant CT Nine Years Ago, Sentenced to Hang for Murder-Es-
 capes the Death Chair.

Cincinnati Pearson, 30, negro, con- victed of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hanged at Angus ta, March 12, is in the State peniten- tiary for safe keeping. Pearson was convicted recently in the Northern di- vision of the Woodruff County Circuit Court, charged with killing John liar ris, a wealthy planter and a deputy sheriff near McCrory, who was acting as jailor at Cotton Plant, and guard ing the negro, who was held on a mi nor charge.
 The crime was committed about nine years ago, which was prior to the time the electrocution law went into effect in Arkansas. For that reason Pearson will be hanged by the sheriff of Woodruff County, March 12, unless he is granted a respite.
 Pearson was arrested in Oklahoma and returned to Woodruff County about two months ago.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-24
BUSINESS SUSPENDED
 TODAY FOR FUNERAL

Little Rock, Feb. 24.-Banks, busi- ness houses and manufacturing estab- llshments closed Wednesday afternoon the General Assembly is not in ses- sion, and all departments of the state government are closed, and even the street cars of the city will stop run ming during the funeral of William Marmaduke Kavanaugh. This funer- al cortege will be probably the long est ever held in Little Rock, and at tended by more dfgnitaries from out side of Arkansas, as we'll as from all sections of the state where the de- ceased was known and loved. There were a number of lodges attending the funeral for man engaged so pro- in so many enterprises.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-24
AMENDMENT ADOPT.
 ED CHILD LABOR ACT

Little Rock, Feb. 24.-The House Tuesday afternoon adopted an amend ment by Mir. Robertson, to the bill by Senator Wagner, providing that child ren under sixteen years of age, may be employed in all pursuits not pro- hibited in sections ? and of the Child Labor Act. The Wagner bill pro- videS that such children may be em- ployed in agricultural or horticultu- ral pursuits The bill with amend ments took its place on the calendar and Is subject to be called up at any time on Senate day. The House read twice the Greenhouse bill for consoli- datlon of elections and the Moore bill regulating holding of primary cleo tons, The Greenhouse bill regulating publications under the initiative and referendum and the publicity act was read twice and left on the calendar a motion to refer to the Jud. Com. having been defeated.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-24
FUTURE PRESIDENT
 BORN YESTERDAI

Little Rock, Feb. 24.-A future president was born in Little Rock Tuesday at the residence of James & Barkman, who happens to he only the grandfather, David Allen Gates, Jr., of Fayetteville. owner and pub fisher of the Democrat being the ia ther. The father visited the capitol later in the day and attempted to have Washington's birthday delayed one day in the year hereafter so that the good people of Arkansas would have a double event to celebrate. A name for the future statesman has not yet been discovered, though books of mythology, science and general re search are being consulted.