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The Detroit times., 1915-01-04

deafened. their clothing torn to
shreds, mummified with mud, the
kaiser's men stumbled along, deaf and
blind TO any but their own misery.
incaders Eat; Belgians Starve.
"But the unutterable misery Of Bel
gium itself is famine. From Ant
all. None. Whoever dies, the in
vader must live. Therefore, all the
cattle have been seized and sent into
Germany. The growing crops were
long since commandeered. Little re-
mains. A few starved fowl scratch
ing In the shattered streets, rows Of
empty shops without bread, sugar or
oil.
Nurse Marie Felicie paused mo-
ment. Then she said:
There are two recollections OF
that country OF sorrows which stay
with me most vividly. The first is
pleasant. II Is OF the one little vii
lage in all that desolate land which
remains peaceful, populated and
happy.
One Happy Village.
"Profondeville, with 100 people,
iiNCp vi uhllOuDlcu anu bcCuIt, kuOW-
ing nothing of war but the echo of
artillery. Only one road passes Pro-
fondeville, for the valley is hardly 800
feet wide. One Sunday, while the vii
layers gathered for mass, a disabled
motor car crept into the little square.
In II sat two German officers, young,
arrogant and armed. But before they
could draw their weapons they we're
surrounded and threatened with
death. Almost every old man in that
crowd had served his time in the
great gun factories of Liege. Others.
although too old for the Belgian army,
were not too old to be revenged. The
Germans realized their lives were in
peril.
Suddenly the parish priest inter
vened, pleading for the enemy. These
men are not spies!' he said. They
came quietly, let them pass quietly.
So may God show mercy to our men
in the field. Standing on the village
green men and women voted that the
prisoners be released.
I'm three days came a document
from Berlin, signed and sealed. So
long as this war lasts no harm will
come to Profondeville. For the Ger.
man officer they spared is one OF the
kaisers sons!
Dismal Trains Of Dead.
And my other most vivid remem.
brance is one OF DEATH resumed Ma.
rie Felicie.
Every night trains Of dismal mys
terry clank across Belgium, back from
the front toward Germany. The
trains sometimes are composed of 26
cars, and in every car are 100 bodies
OF dead German soldiersi
The Germans who died advancing
on Paris were weighted and sunk in
the nearest river. Today, in conse
quence, typhus is epidemic In north.
ern France and there is true Asiatic
cholera at Lille. Later the trenches
about Charleroi served as grea,
graves. Belgium and the Argonne are
enormous cemeteries.
But now, mon dieu. the death toll
Of the User Is incalculable. There
fore the poor bodies are collected
stripped OF accoutrements, roped be-
tween boards In bales of four-and
packed into trains,
These dreadful corpse trains bear
their burdens back to the new crema
tory near Ghent, or the huge furnaces
at Liege. Thus are the regiments
which devastated Belgium returning
toward the fatherland!"
The Detroit times., 1915-01-04
EYESTRAIN IS
A FERTILE CAUSE.
OF FCONSUMPTION
Consumes Nerve Force, Lowers
Vitality and Makes System
Receptive of Disease
CITES CASES OF DIABETES
CURED BY EYE OPERATION
Young Woman With Consump-
ton Took to Wearing Glasses
and Then Recovered

NEW YORK. Jan. 4.-Eyestrain in
the development OF tuberculosis Is the
subject OF paper by DR.. Frank ID.
w. Bates, OF Hamilton. Ont, in a re-
cent issue OF the New York Medical
Journal. He relates experiences since
1896 In which the medical profession
has not given him much encourage
ment, but which have convinced him
that strain upon the eyes consumes
nerve forces. lowers vitality and re-
duces the system to a condition fa
vorable for the reception OF tubercu
lar and other germs.
His paper suggests to the profes-
sion that it is quite as important TO
keep the body In such shape that
germs will not take root In II as II Is
to discover germs or invent new
methods In surgery.
His attention was first called to
eyestrain in the development of dis
eases OF the general system by a case
OF diabetes that was cured by an op-
Grafton upon the eyes. A physician
had been treating the case in the reg
ular way for four years without re-
suit, not expecting a cure The pa
tient got into the hands OF Chicago
oculist who performed an operation.
The oculist gave no medicine.
DR.. Bates heard OF the case one
year afterward and wrote inquiries
about 1t both to the physician and
the oculist. The physician replied
that he had examined the man doz-
en- times since the operation and not
a trace of diabetes remained. There
had been complete cure, which he
attributed to his patients relief from
eyestrain by the operation.
DR.. Bates spent three weeks with
the Chicago oculist, then came 10
New York and studied the work of a
specialist who believed eyestrain a
factor in general disease, and after
ward had extended correspondence
with DR.. George M. Gould, OF Phil
adelphia, originator of the eyestraip
theory. He became convinced, adopt.
ed the theory into his own practice
and he says, in Is years since then
he has had no reason to change his
views.
His attention was drawn to eye
strain as factor In the development
Of tuberculosis by book In 1897 by
Dr. A. l.. Ranney, Of New York, re-
porting cases OF direct connection.
Cases of two sisters, born OF a
hardy family In which there was NO
tubercular heredity, next came under
treatment by DR.. Bates. The first
sister had lost weight from 113 to 81
pounds, coughed much, had night
sweats and little appetite. and the
family physician had informed her
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that she would die in three

parents that she would die in three
months.
Her eyes troubled her at the same
time and she went to DR.. Bates. He
prescribed glasses and soon the night
sweats stopped, the cough lessened
and weight increased. With the view
OF accelerating improvement he sug-
gested to the parents an operation
upon the muscles OF the eye. The
parents objected. and DIR. Bates did
not press the matter, not then feeling
SO sure OF his ground as he would
now. The girl kept wearing glasses
and remained in fair condition for 10
months, when her tuberculosis took a
sudden turn for the worse and she
died.
Two years later the second sister
had tuberculosis and the family ply
sician informed the parents that she
would go as the other had gone. The
girl also suffered from eye trouble, for
which she consulted DR.. Bates. who
found she had simple myopic astig-
matism. She hegan to improve i'm
mediately on wearing glasses, and Is
alive and well today
DR.. Bates says that since then he
has had number OF cases OF pro-
nounced tuberculosis in his practice.
all OF which have recovered after
treatment for the eyes except one
young woman, whose condition was
already hopeless. bat she lived two
years.
"Eyestrain cannot produce tubercu-
losis by any direct connection with
the lungs or the organs involved
DR.. Bates writes, "but the eyes do
more work than any other organ OF
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broken-up families have taken refuge.
The kaiser, who fears little else
fears friction with the vatican, so his
military governors have orders to let
the priests remain.
"One good old priest gave me a
map he had made for the allies.
~'For two months ! have watched
these invaders he said. From Water
loo to Gemblou they have zigzagged
the plain with mines. Belgium has
become a vast field fortress, line after
line OF hidden defences. The Ger
mans no longer care what they ruin;
they know that they cannot remain.
AS for me, / am an old man, ig
norant OF affairs military. Alone, on
foot, / worked out this poor map. II
is for the allied armies.
Belgium Vast Field Fortress.
When they enter Belgium | will
not be here. Let their generals be
warned From Waterloo TO Marbais
uslans dressed as peasants 10 deceive
the airmen have constructed quag-
mires lined with electrified wires.
Trainloads OF barbed wire have come
from Germany. The snares are spread
over line 10 miles wide by at least
100 long. Everywhere are buried
mines. That means savage warfare.
"'Above Bioux German engineers
have set guide stones across the
marshes. These show best at night,
being covered with phosphorescent
paint. II Is an indication OF the
end When the invaders retreat they
will take with them as prisoners OF
war the men OF the Garde Civique.
foresee that we hostages will remain
hanging on the trees
when / reached Namur ] found
further indication OF the truth of the
old priests warning to the allies.
"Since Namur fell, the captured
Notifications have been reinforced. A
thousand men from Krupp's have
worked for months mining the fields
toward Marlagne and weaving wire
entanglements. All the villages round
the fortress haye been evacuated and
destroyed to clear the range for gun
fire.
For here and at Liege the kaiser s
hosts must make their last stand In
Belgium during their great retreat
the retreat which every man and
woman in Belgium confidently awaits,
feels in his heart Is absolutely in
evitable.
Next day we refugees walked to
ward Dinant. Twice we were crowd
landwehr and landstrum. Just re-
lieyed from the firing trenches, black
as miners from the pit, stiff, sore
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Tramp Steamers Make Money.

Owners of British tramp steamships
are deriving great profit from the
war. For weeks past freights have
been rising not only steadily. but
sometimes rapidly. and they now are
on a very much higher level than
when the war began. For instance
freights for grain from the Platte have
risen from 13s ton TO 29s Cd ton.
while freights from the Pacific coast
or North America have advanced from
about 35c to 45c. The rise 10 due
largely to the acquisition of many yes
sells by the government. Many OF
the finest British liners have been
converted into armed merchant cruis-
ers or have been employed as troop
ships; some have crossed the Allan.
tic packed with horses; many have
been chartered for the carriage OF
stores or to act as colliers. British
shipping has not only been doing the
bidding OF the British government, but
II has been at the service OF the
French and Russian governments as
well.
The Detroit times., 1915-01-04
SEEKING DIVORCE, THEY
BLAME "13" AS HOODOO

WICHITA. Kan. Jan. 4.--Many
people claim that there Is nothing to
the superstition about "13." but In
Wichita is couple seeking divorce
in the district court that believes the
number is an Ill omen. They cite
their own lives since they met and
were married. Here is the story as
told by he man:
Thirteen years ago the man and
woman met in Topeka on March Is.
They became well acquainted In the
months following, so on Oct 13 were
married. They were married at No.
213 East Seyenth-st.. and started
housekeeping at No. 213 East Eighth
ST. The rent on the house came TO
s13 month, and they have had three
children.
Oct. 13 this year the suit for d.
vorce was fled In the district court.
The sheriff served the papers In the
case and made his final return Oct.
%. The woman asked for temporary
alimony and the Judge granted her
$13 week. Each is 43 years old
The Detroit times., 1915-01-04
WHO BROUGHT THAT
PET SKUNK TO SCHOOL?

PASADENA, Cal, Jan. 4.--If n
l.. Hunter, janitor OF the Pasadena
high school. ever learns which one %
the pupils it was who brought a pet
skunk" to school recently, he says he
will so far forget himself as to do
bodily harm.
Since the visit of the little white
and black animal Hunter has used
gallons OF disinfectant with no last.
Ing effect, and all who pass through
the halls Of learning are impressed
with the fact that the unwelcome
guest was present Hunter thinks II
will be months before he, the teach.
ers and pupils can forget II.
The Detroit times., 1915-01-04

The best of all winter sports has
come into its own again--this winter
everybody skates, and the girl who
tangoes and the girl who "trots" has
made way for the girl who can skim
the Ice on skates.
The first nip OF skating weather
brought Miss Claire Cassell, the New
York skating champion, 10 the rinks,
and her daily exhibitions are q fea-
ture OF New Yorks brief season Of
winter sports.
The Detroit times., 1915-01-04

the body, and. If there is trouble with
the refraction or muscular eQuilib-
rum, we are using up a certain
amount of nerve force all the time.
''If person is manufacturing only
just as much as he is using up every
day the additional nerve force used
up by eyestrain is sufficient soon to
place the system below par. where the
disease to which he Is predisposed Is
likely to develop. and that may be tu-
berculosis"
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Sister Marie Fec Who Nursed 1000 Germans Escapes and
Tells Shudderng Story of Desolaton Starvation and Death

lReaders OF Mary Boyle o'Reilly's
articles from Belgium early In the
war Will. perhaps. remember the story
Felicie and Miss OReiny 10 get milk
through the German lines TO the babies
OF Brussels. Every effoTt failed until
the climax, which was produced py
sister Marie Felicie. who bearded the
German governor In his office ana de-
manded that she herself be given per-
mission To drive the farmers carts past
from the same Sister Marie Felicie.-
Editor1
The Detroit times., 1915-01-04
100, 100000 XMAS GIFTS
BY PARCEL POST

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-Prelimln.
airy estimates by postoffice depart
ment officials, place the number OF
parcel post packages handled durin,
the Christmas rush at 100000 900.
IL indicates that the total volume
OF parcel post traffic for 1914 will to
tai nearly 1.000.000,0O0 packages.
The Detroit times., 1915-01-04

Louis Dulski. rancher OF McKen.
zie county, N d., uses an automobile
to herd his cattle. He finds that his
automobile enables him to cover as
much ground as could be covered by
two men on horses.
The Detroit times., 1915-01-04

man found drunk in Denmark is
turned over to the care OF doctor
and the bill is sent to the proprietor
of the last saloon visited by the man.
The Detroit times., 1915-01-04

The Norwegian government main.
tains an agricultural college and three
experiment stations.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-01-14
Day Has Gone
Never to Return

In all games OF chance there is a
winner for every loser, except where
percentage is taken out, and then
there is one winner for a considerable
number OF losers.
The men who are stripped of their
coin are usually the wage Garner and
the money that they are parted from
would otherwise go to the landlord,
the merchant, the proprietor OF
amusement houses, the producer and
all others engaged in legitimate in
dustry.
The working men paid the revenues
OF the state which are used as an ar
gumcnt in favor OF legitimatizing
gambling i'll Nevada. Please God,
this state will never again be enrich
ed by tainted money, wrung from
women and children dependent upon
the wage Garner OF the household, nOr
ilched from the business mar from
whom credit was secured. The old
days are past. Nevada has wiped its
slate and its record henceforth must
b, clean.-TonOpah Bonanza.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-01-14
''Hiker' Is w edded

John Conn. a business man OF Car
lin, has been married to Miss Marie
BeDertz, one OF the two sisters VINO
recently made a c~ross-country walk
from Michigan to San Francisco. The
sisters, clad in mems clothing. spent
three days at Carlin. Cohn went to
Portland to press his suit, and upon
being accepted, was married there By
a rabbi. y civil ceremony at Car1in
followed.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-01-14
Finds Ledge of Tin Ore

According to well authenticated re
ports there has been a strike made OF
some tin ore to the northeast of Ba--
tie Mountain on the lsenhood ranch,
owned by George Russell. The ore
Is said to be an oxide OF tin and in
the form OF cassiteritc and occurs il
a vein. Some stream tin is also sad
to have been found. y large party Of
I'rospectors has gone out today to 10
cate and investigate the reported find.
battle Mountain Scout. e
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-01-14
Washington Boy Who Has Never
Eaten Candy or Other Sweets

When the boy attended his first
party, DR.. Wiley said he went along
and when the other children had
lunch he told his boy hat sweets
were not good for him and that he
should not eat them. The lad agreed,
said DR.. Wiley, and ate graham crack
ers instead.
lie eats his mush without sugar
and cream every morning" said DR..
Wiley, and you couldn't make him
eat it any other way. He has never
been taught to eat candy and sweets
and he does not want them. Every
Sunday evening he gets some black
berry preserves, which he enjoys, but
they have acids and other foods ~
them and are nourishing.'
The youngster didn't eat a bite OF
candy or cake on Christmas, the
feast day OF most other boys and
girls. DR., Wiley said he bought no
candy Tor his children. Instead they
had fresh fruits and nuts.
DIR. Wiley said children should lot
have candy because it interferes with
their digestion, decays their teeth
and makes them crave an unusual
amount. No one under eighteen
years OF age should eat candy, sad
Dir. Wiley. And he recommended il
for men and women who work hard
physically" He said is was espec-
tally good for football players and
that he recommended to the Harvard
coach that each player eat sugar dur
ing the game. Sugar burns mp
quickly in the blood" he added.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-01-14
Personal Mention
Tom Dougherty OF Tonopah is a
Carson visitor.

Tom Dougherty OF Tonopah is a
Carson visitor.
Milton A. Baldt is a Carson City
aisitor from Elko, having arrived on
the express this morning on legal
business.
Oliver p. Morton, district counsel
of the United States reclamation ser
vice for California, Nevada and Ore
gon, was an arrival in the capital to-
day.
William Forman departed for his
home at Tonopah last evening, after
several days spent in this city in at
tendance at the trial OF the State
Bank case.
Lew Blakeslee, resident agent OF the
Southern Pacific at Reno, visited this
city on a business mission yesterday
afternoon, returning to the riverside
city last evening.
Deputy superintendent OF Public
Instruction Blaisdel OF Las Vegas ar
rived from the south last evening to
attend the annual gathering OF the
assistants to Superintendent Bray.
Asscmblyman +. l.. Drappo passed
tnrongh TO his Reno home from Wal
ley Springs last evening. Mr.. Drappo
has been resting up at the springs
preparing for strenuous times to come
during the Legislative session.
MIR. and Mrs. Charles Day were
among the Carsonites on the local
this morning en- route to the riverside
city, where they will visit their son
Harry. Mr.. Day will take up his du-
ties as night Waterman at the capitol
tomorrow evening.
Mr.. A.. \. Crisler, who has been
the guest of. Mrs. VIII Epstine, has
returned to her home at Sacramento
n. A.. Willis returned to Yeringtor
this morning after a brief business
visit with Attorney General Thatcher
in connection with litigation before
the District court Of Lyon county.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-01-14
Aurora Live Camp

The editor Of the Yerington Times
las just returned from a trip to
aurora and observes hat altogether
aurora is now a lively camp. Some
80 men are working at the big mine
and mill. 1t is said that about 100
more men will be put to work with
i'll Il short time. Rodgers & Laily
have their 100-stamp mill nearly cod
pleted and expect to begin grinding
out the yellow metal by the first Of
next February. They will! employ
quite a number OF men and it looks
as though times would be lively
around the Aurora section the coming
season.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-01-14
legislators Arrive

l.. \. Beason, editor of the Phoebe
Record. with his wife and young son,
arrived in this city on the local thu
afternoon. Mr.. Beason will represent
Lincoln county in the lower house OF
the legislature a. a Republican, he
having o. Over his Democratic OPP
ponent by a majority OF one vote. \.
l.. Scott, Democratic member OF the
assembly from Lincoln county also
arrived from Phoebe this afternoon.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-01-14
FOR BIDS
For Steel Filing Cabinets for the o.
flee of State Controller

Notice is hereby given that the
Board of Capitol Commissioners will
receive sealed bids for supplying Steel
filing cabinets for the offi~e of State
Controller, said bids to be i'll accord
ance with the plans and specifica-
tions now on file in the office of the
State Controller, State CAPITOL Build
irg, Carson City, Nevada.
All bids t be filed with the Clerk
O. the Board of Capitol Commission
ers on or before II o'clock, noon,
February 9, 1915. Each bidder to
accompany his bid with a certified
check for ten (l0) per cent Of the
amount Of the bid.
The Board reserves tn. right to
reject any and all bids.
By order of the Board OF CAPITOL
Commissioners.
GEORGE d. SMITH,
Clerk, Board Capitol Commissioners.
Carson City, New, Jan. 8, 1915. I'd
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-01-14
By Burton X. Standish, written fol
the United Pressl

by burton N. written LOT
the United Pressl
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-There
is a little boy in Washington, the son
OF one OF the most well-known men
in the United States, who has never
tasted candy, ice cream or cake.
W hen he goes to parties, like all 9th
er little boys and girls, he takes sew
eral graham crackers and when his
companions eat candy and cake and
ice cream, he eats crackers. And this
little boy goes to scores and scores
OF parties. He has never been II
and is strong and healthy with hard
muscles" according to his father.
This little fellow with this unique
record is the two and hall year old
son Of DR.. Harvey W. Wiley, former
chief chemist OF the. United States de
partment OF agriculture.
And besides, Master Wiley doesn't
want any OF those d~elicacies. Last
May the Northern Pacific railway
sent him an S-pound frunit cake with
two gold-platcd candles on it." said
DIR. Wiley, Il cut a small piece ami
Ia>ked him if he wanted some
No, raddy," he said, cake not
good for your boy"
DIR. Wiley said he was strongly Or
posed to feeding children sweets.
such as candy, ice cream and cake.
1t makes children fat and it is a
sin to be fat in b~abyhood. We 3et
that way soon enough added this
big stout man.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-01-14
Coal by Parcels Post

\ Winnemucca coal merchant
brought an unusual package for mail
irg to the p~ostotfice in that own yes
tcrday, in the form OF 1900 pounds
q coal for National. The coal was
ali sacked, each package weighing 50
pounds. One hundred and twenty
nine dollars and sixty cents worth
Of stamps were required to cover the
shipment. which will be handled as
parcel post matter. Coal is trans
ported in this name for about S
per ton less than frcighters charge
Tor HAULING.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-01-14
Shooting May Have Been Accident

The independent says that a num-
ler OF Elko officers have advanced
the theory that the man whose body
was found near that place a few days
ago was o murdered but was struck
by a chance bullet from the gun II
someone who was shooting at a tar
get or who was hunting. The man
has been Identified as a ranch hand
by the name OF Park.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-01-14
Bound Over for Murder

Fred Ben. an Indian, who. during
the Christmas day celebration OF the
local Indians, caused a bullet to pro-
trude from an automatic revolver and
enter the entrails Of one Indian Bis
marck. was bound over this week N
Justice Harkins court to answer to
the charge of murder in the District
ccurt.-Cfark County Review.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-01-14
Again In the Tolls

DR. q. B. Dye, a paro1ed prisoner
trom the Nevada penitentiary, is
again in the tolls, this time in Sacra-
mento. where he is held by the police
on a charge Of grand larceny. He at
tempted some ounce game on a rich
farmer, but it was given away by the
nurse who was employed.