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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-19

for another section of the Turkish line The artillery fire on both sides had become more severe: machine guns began to be heard and the bullets of one of them splashed into clay bank nearby.
 "Ore of the oldest things we have around here is the village of Kirthia. '' said the officer-guide. The allies have almost razed it with shell fire and since then they have tried innumerable times to take 1t by assault. Do you want to go. there.
 To reach Kirthia. one had to traverse the broad ridge of low hill. swept by the shells of the allied batteries.
 When we get to that bush over there, break into a gallop.'' cautioned the officer. "Ride for all you are worth until you get into the communi- cation trench" This advice was fol- lowed and the trench was reached just n time to escape two shells, compli- inents of the ever-alcrt allied gunners. Their range was poor, but mark ed improvement was all too noticeabl as an attempt was made to survey the contested terrain from point iron, which 1t was visible in its entirety.
 kirthia, once flourishing Greek settlement, rpesenttd a melancholy spectacle. The allied shells had wrecked every house and fire had con- sumed most of the debris. A few starved Cats were it's only denizens.
 One of the streets of the place Is still swept by the rifle fire from a British trench, The party advanced as far as this street and then decided to return, instead of visiting the Turkish positions some 1000 yards south of the last house.
 There was surprise in store for the party on the return. Just before the danger zone was reached the officer recommended that one man at time cross the summit at full gallon. The an Arab. went first. the cor was second the two riding about 800. yards apart. Evidently the all lied gunnera guessed that the men. wno.
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things moving in his immediate vsinnty most all the time It newer gets dull and unnterresting while the Senatur Is feeling ft and he is neerly al ways feeling fit
 The Senatur was elected by the Idyho Legislature to the Senate in 1907. He had been cannydate be- fore that for the Senate, but in way failed press bone-heded Legislature that Idyho would re- main unsung and unknown until it had sent him to the Senate, and therefore he failed of eectsion. However this peeved him quite considerabull so in 1907 he proceeded the state house and bit his inissias all ovver it and submitted few curt re- marks to the assembulled Legislature soon had the same eating out of his hand at intervals he choose for it to eat at all.
 When Senatur Borah furst cum to the Senate, Sen atur Bailey of Texas considered the reeay grate big 49-inch sentimeter gun of the demmycras. Sen atur Bailey the gratest constitusonel lawyer in captivity, and no for momint permitted to overlook that fact for if need be- Senatur Bailey would remind them of it himself
 Whenever ennyone dared mension the constitu- sion in the Senate, 1t understood be with the permission of the Senatur of Texas he was the rite full and constituted guardien of the constituson kiew it upside down, sideways and backwards. If Senatur sed ennything deroggotory otherwise of
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CORRESPONDENT UNDER FIRE IN DARDANELIFS

The situation. was most favorable to the Ottoman forces, he continued. Had it not been that the allied ships literally overwhelmed the peninsula with artillery fire during the landing operations, not a single British or French soldier would have set foot ashore. But for days and days the allied ships had bonlbarded treme of the peninsula, making it inn possible to move the Ottoman troops without exposing them to almost instant annihilaion. But day after day. the Turks dug more trenches and improved them Then it was that the allied land forces ran into wall of Turkish pluck and en- durance.
 In those days Weber Pasha was in com mand of the Ottoman forces behind Kum Kaie- Here the French tried their tick General Weber forced them back. The operations against the Asiafic side at Kun Kale were no feint. Weber Fasha has in his possession the general or,!cr'' of the French landing troops. Kun Kale and it's neighborhood were to be taken and held at all cost in order that the Turkish batteries in that locality might be captured. It was feared that these batteries would prove thorn in the side of the allied troops at Sid-eI-Bahr: because they could sweep, and at pres ent do sweep. every day, the positions on the allied right wing.
 The French failed to hold Rum Kalc. because the Turkish batteries moved down everything on the ground held by the French troops. and the Ottoman iii- fantry waded in with the bayonet in manner, which not even the French, no mean performers with the bayonet thtn- selves, could stand So they re-embarked and went to Sid-el -Bahr, where today. they form the allied right wing and are almost daily subjected to gallins fire by the Turkish batteries they were to silence At any rate the British forces form the left wing at Sid-es- -Bahr, N lsich E out of effective reach of the Turkish Kun Kalo batteries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-19
SNAPSHOTS OF RIO DE JANEIRO

watermelons. The baskets are hung to a pole which rests on his shoulders The bob up and down as he goes through the street. Behind him is onion peddler. who has strings of onions fastened to each end of a pole laid across. his shoulders Onions are sold by the string. Their tops are so braided that the onions look like knots in long braids of white hair.
 How many of the people are bare footed. I am writing of the working class and such as you see on the mar rower streets The most of the men have no shoes, some of the women, wear sandals. but fors others the call loused skin of etheir soles is. the only protection from the hard street. You see barefooted carpenters and masons going about in hat, shirt and trousers. Their clothing is cotton. for Rio is warm.
 There are some children going to school. They carry great portfolios, some have bags for their school books. The girls are bareheaded and bare legged. The better classes wear shoes and low socks, but the legs are always pdhc AIoui tHe dHhle tO tne kneeS. ms is so of both the boys and the girls. They think it more healthy that way
 We must take the shady side of the street as we go. We are now in the tropics and che sun is hot overhead. The Brazilians say that only dogs and strangers walk in the sun.
 The narrower streets have many small stores and each store Is a work shop. There is a great deal of house industry and the wares used by the people are often handmade.
 But let us visit the market It is on the edge of the harbor so that fish, vegetables and other things can come in by boats The market buildings cover six or eight acres. They are d little city of themselves surrounded by. walls of stores with a glass covered tower at each corner and clock tower of glass in the center. z The interior of the walled city is divided up into streets which radiate from the tower with cross streets running through them. The streets divide the market building into blocks in which the stalls are. Each block has it's own kind of merchandise Here is one devoted to vegetables and fruits, there one which has only butter and cheese, while far ther on is a third. where meat only Is sold. Some of the bloc ks are filled with live animals Here, for instance, there are cages of dogs, large and small, and
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zilian men are fond Of jewelry and a stone ring on the first finger was for merly the mark of a professional man. There are many perfumery shops, not drug stores, but shops that deal in perfumery only. They are patronizeol by both men and women. There are also lottery shops. The government here has daily state lottery and the peddlcrs cry the tickets throughout the streets. Every bootblack sells lot tety tickets.
 Are you fond of fruit? There are fruit stores on all of the principal streets and fruit is sold in front of the hotels, railway stations and outside the cafes. You may buy alligator pears for Q cents apiece and take them in to eat with your meals and you can get apples from Oregon which have crossed the United States and come from New York down to Brazil. The apples will cost you from 10 to Is cents apiece and they are sold everywhere. There ara also grapes and pears from the Ar genuine, oranges from Bahia and grapes from Portugal. There are ba. nanas and pineapples and all the oth- CT fruits of the tropics as well. There are also watermelons and musk elons and the papaya, which is fruit and di- gestant as well. It looks like melon but it's golden flesh is loaded with pep sin and you can mix it with meal ot mince pie and fat pork and survive.
 It is interesting to sit down with the crowd outside the cafes and watch the people as they go back and forth. We select cafe on the Avenida Rio Branco and call for the waiter. He brings us a cup of coffee which holds about as much as half an egg shell. The coffee Is fresh made. and the price Is cents. It is served without milk and it will tone up the nerves like cocktail. It has the clements of what the Brazilian calls good coffee. That Is, If Is "as strong as I've, as bitter as death, as black as ink. as hot as hell and as sweet as love" aat
 l have had little experience with hell. but from what I have heard 1 am inclined to think the Brazilian cof- Tee fills the bill As to its sweetness this is produced by half filling the cup with cane sugar which is more sweet than the beet sugar we buy in the lump.
 Drinking such coffee has serious effect upon the nerves. The Brazilians drink all the day through and they show it. They are never still. The men sitting about us have their legs bobbing up and down as though they were running sewing machine. If one tries to rest his muscles by keep ing his heels on the floor he does it but a few moments before the leg begins
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lew nlmsef-but when the Senatur dropped out of poytlcks fast trains quit stopping in dyho and the phase was put on the rural routes again
 It was sed of Wilyum Edgar upon one occasion when he was making speech, which by the way is pretty often And also by the way, when Willyum Edger does make speech it is usuelly sum speech and especially when he Is primed and tuned up to make a speech, which he most always is-any way during the corse of this speech which was one of the rngailed variety deep and profound so often pulled by Wilyum Edger, that total strangur present on enquiry lerned that the speaker was Senatur Borah of 1dyho-upon having this infermasion imparted
 to him. sed total srangur enquired further as follows to-wit Where in the h-I is Idyho? Of corse this was moor or less ignerense the part of the total strangur aforementioned, for most evveryboddy knows about ldyho Idyho being a large and sum- what swift sectsion of western country bounded on the nawth by Cannyda, Montanner and a cold wave, on the east by Wyoming and stud-poker on the south by Utah, Nevada and Cheef Profit Smith and his large and inturresting fammily on the west by Oregon and womans suffrage and the state of Washington and Senatur Poindexter So you will ob- that the state of Idyho is completely surround ed by fresh lot of exsitement evvery minnit But the state of Idyho has nuthng it's favvorite sum- Senatur Borah. The Senatur manages to keep
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Senator Borah
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the constitusion up Senatur Bailey on the spot with T beg the Senaturs pardon" This usuelly sed in manner that plainly indicated that the Sen atur aforesed ought to appologse to Senatur Bailey for evven daring to think about the constitusion, much less mension 1t in an audibu tone of voise in the Senate. Of corse, Senatur Borah when he furst arrived in the Senate, didn't know that Senatur Bailey was the sole and proprietor of the sed constitusion and therefore he was permitted to blunder rite on to his fate One day he took the oc
 casion to mension that propersision under dis cussion couldn't be did on of the constitl- sion. He theereupon went into quite lengthy dis cussion of sed constitusion and talked sorter like he had actually red it himself This went on for sum time before hastily dispatched colored messenger could reech Senatur Bailey Sed exsited messenger informed Senatur Bailey that lob dem new Sena- turs was up in de Senate actually dscussin de con sttusion." Senatur Bailey arrived upon the sceen almost out of breth, but chuck full of ndignason Of corse evveryboddy thought that Senaur Borah would subside soon Senatur Bailey arrived, but he's not much of subsider Senatur Bailey tried to wither him with sturn look but it went rite ovver his he'd He didn't wther wurth mensionng So it cum rite down to and Senatur Borah and Sena- tur Bailey locked horns. And bleeve me- it was sum lock- So after that historical fite 1t kinder
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shrapnel increased the interest" of the party, which. nevertheless. kept close to clay bank and continued on it's way to the front. More reserve troops were passed and more "merhabas" were heard. Everywhere smiling faces and eyes grateful for the recognition of q salute.
 The ride to the actual firing line continued under a shrapnel and shell fire. which at times became rather crit ically uncomfortable Wounded men were being met now. Most of them walked. q few were carried on stretch ers-all were well bandaged. as an in- spection established.
 Here is another danger zone said the officer-guide, and sped off. This time the ground had to be covered at full speed. Through low shrub and across rocks. he led the way. When the party halted in a dry river bed, the trenches of the Turks had been reached
 In the shelter of high embankment rested more Turkish soldiers. Most of them were men on fatigue They had been making portable barbed wire 'entanrle ments known as Spanish horse." A few of the men had come from the trenches for water. others For the evening meal. The same good humor was met in their faces, though few of the men had slept the previous night. owing to an attack they had made on the British in front of them.
 The correspondent was received by q captain and his sergeant. presiding genuises Of machine gun section. Cof- fee was offered in d little wooden shack which the two inhabit, The attack on thc previous night had been severe, said the captain. The British had thrown hand grenades. but the Turks had occupied part of the trench and were still holding 1t.
 T am against your going into the trenches this afternoon. continued the captain. The shrapnel fire is too se- we're. Come back tomorrow
 Just before sund0wn the party left
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cages filled with rabbits and guinea pigs and cages of monkeys and cages
 of birds
 The monkeys are of all sizes. Some are as big as collie; others are not larger than kitten just born The small ones are marmosettes. They have tufts of gray hair over their ears and long tails. There are also scream ing parrots and parrakeets and also sweet singing birds.
 The market has plenty of chicken and game. The chickens are sold by ped dlers in bask et-like crates. They poke their heads out through the slats and squawk or crew as the man trots through the streets. One of the DOT ters asks us to take Il snapshot. As open my camera four others come up and stand by his slds They have great They grin from ear to ear as my cam era clicks.
 We stop at meat stall. Fresh beef brings cents a pound. It is a queer thing that dried meat brings more than fresh meat. Dried meat or jerked beef Is much liked by all classes It is made in Brazil. 1t is also brought in by the shipload from Buenos Aires and Montevideo, being corded up as we cord up hides. The meat is sold in flat sheets, one or two inches thick. It has strong smell and is salty Another high priced meat Is. fat pork. This is put up in rolls about g foot in diameter and two feet in length 1t is sold by the slice. The fat Is used for cooking with beans and With the carne secca or dried beef, it forms q part of almost every Brazilian meal. The meat seller is a negro wom- necled dress shows her black arms bare to the shoulder.
 We leave the market and go to the fashionable parts of the city. We are walking down the Ouvidor. It is one of the best business streets. The show windows are of plate glass and on the narrow roadway, paved with tiles it is like going through the aisles of Here is a jewelry establish ment See the diamonds, pearls and other precious stones displayed in the windows. Brazil is one of the best markets. The chief stones come from South Africa, although many are still found in Brazil. There are jewelry establishments to be found on every block of the Ouvidor and also on the Avenida Central There are win dows filled with blazing stones beauti- fully set. There are quite as many rings for men for women. The Bra
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genemens agreement in the Senate that half of the constusion belonged to Senatur Bailey and the uther half to Senatur Borah The only thing that they then had to row which half belonged to Borah and which to Bailey
 The only trubble with Senatur Borah and the nom minason of his party for the Pressldensy is the fact that he is in the rong ocason Those fore electoral votes of Idyho do not look verry heavy to the poly tisans when compared with those of Ilynoise and Ohio-to say nuthing of Massachusetts and New York. Senatur Borah is of the biggest men in the G. O. P lot. Nun of the heavy waits have enny- thing whatsoever Senatur Borah when it cums to heavy think stuff But when Idyno tries swell up big enuff to get into the cumpany with the uther states to swell Senatur Borah's chanses.s she looks like wart dill pickle and is almost enuff to put the Senatur out of the running It is grate compliment to the Senatur that he is givven serius consideration for the nomminasion It stamps him of the gratest forses of the country for if he Is big enuf to get by with dyho as his spon- sor. he's going sum. The republican party can if 1t half tries, pick out hole army of cannydates frum the bigger states and do much than selecting Senatur Borah evven if Idyho has but fore votes
 Yours trooy,
 BILL VINES WacL ,rfa. n ~
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plants. There are roses and flowers every where and the whole town makes you think of a botanical garden.
 Rio Is beautifully paved. 'AIt has as much asphalt as Washington city, and there are long boulevards of wood mosaic The city has all kinds of traffic It has thou sands of automobiles which fly hither and thither without regard to speed limit It has OK carts and mule carts which go side by side with the street car. The drays and wagons are hauled by, mules which in most cases are no bigger than. ponies. The mules are white, black and gray. Their drivers make them go on the trot. Some of the OK carts are drawn by bullocks of the long-horned Indian breed known as the zebu. They look like those you see on the banks of the Ganges They have humps on their backs and their stride is majestic. There are also horses and carriages. but these are owned by the rich.
 Much of the carrying business of Rio is done by the men, Boxes and bags are pushed from place to place upon SA N>HS' ihCLS iS POilci N1ln d great load of trunks. and down that side street comes one pushing a half-dozen barrels The people carry all sorts of things on their heads. Here comes a bare-footed negro with a trunk, weighing POO pounds, balanced upon a cushion that rests on his crown. There IS a man with a great basket of bread on his head. and beside shini walks boy with bottle balanced on the top of his pate. In another street see a porter from the market carrying basket of apples and grapes the same way. and a little further back another porter with tub full of meat. They even carry pianos that way. I have seen four men walking along with a grand piano resting. on their crowns, their boss In the rear telling them to step lively.
 This is a city of peddlers. All sorts of goods are brought to the houses The women prefer to buy at their front doors to- going out shopping. and there are peddlers of dry goods and notions who go through the streets clapping two sticks together as the sign of their trade. There are fruit peddlers and fish peddlers. There are men with long brooms and brushes and bakers who carry bread and cake in blu, tin coffins on the tops of their heads. The coffins have windows in the sides and you can see the wares through the glass.
 Here comes a man peddling melons. He has two low baskets. each as big around as a wash tub, filled with papaya and
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Early in May, General Weber was transferred to commant 'the south group of the Ottoman forceszof Gallipon
 About in the afternoon the first visit to the actual Sid-el-Bahr front was made by the Associated Press correspondent The route taken led across stretch of country on which the allied ships and land artillery have thrown tens of thou sands of shot and shrapnel For .,niles the earth Is scared with the holes and furrows of exploded ~projectiles Frag. ments of steel are almost, as, common as rocks on New England field Within few square yards one can find parts or proJectiies Of every calibre and descrip- tion-from the eshree-inch shells of field artillery to the ,15-inch giants of the superdreadnaught- Queen Elizabeth Some of the holes torn into. the ground are large enough to completely hide sAverni men on horseback. Despite this wj1rer- ing fire the Ottoman troops held their ground.
 The spirit of the Turkish soldiers in this position was excellent The men were resting on the ground when the party approached. Instantly they were on their feet. A lusty "merhaba" came from hundreds of strong throats. To an inquiry how they felt. the men replied with sincere: Very good, sir" and smiling faces. despite the shrapnel which Kept on coming. and the spent allied rifle balls which hummed above their heads.
 We've not afraid of the English and French said several to whom the ques- tioR implied was put.
 Now comes part of the approach which is very dangerous,v said the off ocr who acted as guide. i've must tnxe that at smart pace The British ,in- fantry can't see us.s but every h1i,.et which goes high 'andss. .en that spot. ''
 Off he started at a scanter. followed by the othefs. The road now led at rlsht angle to the BritishStrenches and bullets whizxed past every instant Meanwhile some other Britiah battery had taken 6p the ftre and sayar6