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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-02-18
"iN AGAIN, OUT AGAIN.
IN MEXICO's CAPITAL

WASHINGTON, Feb u.s.. -Carran-
as forces have again eyacnated Mex
ieo city according "a dispatches. and
uata forces have re-entered.
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AlRsHIP ExPLoDEs AND
CREW ARE TAKEN CAPTIVE
my AssocInted Pre.s.l

AMSTERDAM, Feb. 1S.-A Zeppe-
lin dirigible over Fance Island took
fire and landed, when 1t exploded.
Fourteen of the crew were saved and
we're interned by Danish authorities.
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DIPLOMATIC BILL ORDERED
TO CLEAN UP DlScREPANCiES
lnr ArsocInted Pree..l

IUY ANsOcIafed FreNn.D
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-The gov
eminent has ordered an informal dip
lematic bill to clean up the discrep-
ancies between the Japanese and Chi
nese memoranda.
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FRANK JAMES, FORMER
OUTLAW, STRICKEN TO-DAY

ENcElSlOR SPRINGS Mo- Feb
IT'S. Frank James. lle last survivor
of the James outlaws, was stricken
with apopleXy to-day
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RUSSIAN PRISONERS TAKEN
SAID TO NUMBER 6a,0o,


BERLIN. Eeh Us The number of
Russians taken prisoners In East
Prussia total $4,000.
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Extra Session
Not Planned

. NY ANHOcIufed FrFaA.I
. WASHINGTON. Feb 1S.-- =
= President Wilson has virtually y
= decided not to call an extra ses- .
= sion Of congress, no matter what .
. may be the fate OF the ship .
. bill.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-02-18
THE WEATHER

Unsettled weather
tonight and Friday.
Probably showers.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-02
Getting Lead From Radium.

A very interesting paper by X. Fa-
jams on the different atomic weights
of lead was read recently before the
Bunsen Gesellschaft fuer angewandte
physikalische Chemie at Leipzig. Ac-
cording to a line of reasoning, stimuli
taneously developed by Fajans and
Soddy during the last few years, lead
derived from radium and lead derived
from thorium by the loss of five and
six atoms of helium, respectively,
should be identical, except in atomic
weight.
Throughout the past year Doctor
Fajans' assistant, Doctor Lembert, has
been working in Richards laboratory
at Harvard, in order to obtain atomic
weights of as high a degree of trust
~worthiness as possible.
The differences established by the
series of determinations announced at
the meeting by Fajans amount to
about 0.3 per cent. In this connection
it is interesting to note that Soddy
and Hymans read a paper before tho
London Chemical society early in the
spring, in which they likewise de-
scribed experiments which showed a
difference between thorite lead and
ordinary lead of 0.5 per cent.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-02
COAL FIELDS NOT EXHAUSTED
Estimated That Many Millions Of
Tons still Remain to Be
Drawn Upon.

It has been estimated that the
amount of coal which will be dug out
of the ground In the United States
during the present veal will be great
err by far than the total excavation for
the Panama canal.
Experts Of the United States geo
logical survey have estimated that
originally there was enough coal in
this country to make a solid block ten
miles long. ten miles wide and ten
miles high. A block of this size would
weigh more than $500. 000, 000, 900 tons,
and up to the present time the coal
that has been removed amounts only
to something like $4,000. 600. 900 tons.
The coal mined during 1914 will
amount to about 600.0 900. 900 tons, con.
taining about 800. 900 900 cubic yards.
The total excavation for the Panama
canal from start to finish is computed
at some 1852. 0O0. 900 cubic yards.
The comparison indicates In a strik-
Ing way the extent Of the coal mining
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-02

y EFORE the great French dress
- making houses we're caught in the
maelstrom Of the war, they had
brought out many new modes that
were successful upon their presenta-
ton, and had in them a vitality that
makes them apparent now in the
fashions of the hour.
Our coats and gowns and hats are
rarely exact copies Of the original
models. but the original models are
reflected in them. AS Americans we
see fit to follow certain Paris crea-
tons at a little or a great distance,
according to their a%daptability to our
needs. The originals are beautiful, or,
at least, interesting,
The coat pictured here is one of
those that may be copied exactly to
advantage. 1t is of satin with long
waist and flaring skirt, the fronts cut
in one piece. Three cords are insert.
ed near the bottom, giving the skirt
Its outward swing. The body is cut in
one, with the sleeves and it's ample
fullness at the back gathered in where
it is Joined to the skirt.
1t is cleverly shaped in at the neck
by means of cords inserted in shir-
rings. The neck and revers are fin.
ished with a narrow fringe of ostrich
fues and malines, and the sleeves with
plating of malines beaded with two
rows of cording like hat at the bot
tom of the coat.
The coat is lined and interlined and
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-02

about the head. 1t is finished with
small flowers and loops of satin rib
bon a half inch wide.
A ribbon only two inches wide is
used for the second cap, cut into one
length of % inches and n of is. The
short length is drawn up, by gather.
ing it along n edge, into a small cir
cular piece for the center of the cap,
and finished at the center with a tiny
ribbon flower.
The lace strips are 81 inches wide.
They are. machine stitched to both
edges of the longer strip of ribbon.
This makes a wide band OF ribbon
and lace. The ends are sewed to-
gether, forming a circIet. The top
edge of this is fulled in to the e n
ter already made. and stitched down,
completing the cap.
Baby ribbon is threaded through
the lace frill and ties in a bow at the
back, adjusting the cap to the head.
Three little ribbon flowers are sewed
to the frill at the front.
All the materials for a cap of this
kind will cost less than fifty cents.
Thin silk may be used, cut into strips,
instead of ribbon. There is economy
in making two caps at one time. They
are made up in all the light, beauti.
ful c~olors--pink, blue. lavender, rose,
green, etc.
JULIA eoTToMLEY.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-02
HsaSy With Answer.

The prevalence of hog cholera in
central Kansas recalls the meeting of
the state Y. NC. A. which was held
IN Salina a few months ago, and is
giving Dave Bean, a big ranchman,
merited distinction as a prophet. Eff
forts were being made to raise money
by subscription, and a noted worker
from New York was telling the audi
ence what they should give. "You
Kansas people spend your money for
farms to raise corr to feed more hogs,
to buy more farms to raise more corn
to feed more hogs" etc. After he had
gone yer the rotation of words a
dozen times he cried out at the top of
his voice: and where is it all going
to end?" Mr.. Bean, in the center of
the auditorium, who knew by expert
ence, spoke up quickly. more hog
cbolera!"-Kansas City Star.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-02
PIECE OF BLoTTING PAPER
Its Characteristics and What It lndl.
Gates of the Habits Of
Its Owner.

Few people realize the true inward.
ness Of blotting paper, particularly
people who live in big towns and
should know better. 1t is, for instance,
a real pleasure to sit down to q large,
clean sheet of new pink plotting paper
and instead of it's soiling one, to be
the first to soil it. White blotting
paper has to be very thick and alb
sorbing to hold its own, while green
blotting paper is only suggestive of
banks and business, and little soiled
ends which are used for the weeks
books. The blotting paper %connoisseur
changes his plotting paper with abso-
Lutte recklessness. 1t becomes to him
like the paper target which, once
marked with his prowess, has fulfilled
It's function. 1t is a delight to tear
the corner off a sheet of thick pink,
and pick up as much as possible Of
the blot made by an overlooking pen.
But the orner once away the sheet
loses its charm and should be re.
placed by another.
Blotting paper and plotting pad are
indices of the household psychology,
e writer in the Manchester Guardian
observes. There is, for instance, the
pad which, though not very much used,
has grown shiny with use, and it's ac-
CURED surface absolutely refuses to
pick up any ink at all. There is the
pad that has been overused and has
lost it's absorbent power through the
writing of many black and dashing
notes. There is the neat pad which
is always carefully tended and
which suggests that the sooner all
trace of writing be removed the better,
and there is the plotting book, with
its choice of half dirtied leaves and
its surface which by no possible means
can ever be as level as blotting paper
should be.
The ideal way of using plotting pa
per Is to have two or three loose
sheets of thickish white or pink, which
can be thrown away, used or stolen
with impunity. 1t is useful to be able
blot from above and the singleness
of the sheet enables this to be done
most eficaciously. Also it necessi-
no conscientious scruples as to
and enables the writer to write
ahead with comfort instead
lodging about his pages to avoid
the pains of plotting.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-02
Simple Blouses.

Attractively simple blouses for wom-
en- who cannot stand fussy trimmings
are of daphne silk made with long
sleeves, a little ~fullness at the shout
der seam to give soft lines over the
bust, and a kimono finish around the
neck and down the front edges-that
is a fiat facing on the outside which
forms a narrow outstanding collar band
across the back of the neck. A blouse
OF this sort of dark green daphne silk
yer white has a kimono facing Of
black satin, and within this a facing
of equal width of white satin. The
blouse crosses in kimono fashion at
the bust and a single snap fastener
holds it in place. The rather severe
neck finish is becoming because of the
softness of the materials.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-02

although there is nothing star
IA tlingly new in morning and boudoir
caps, they continue to captivate the
feminine public and cause them to
part with small sums of one
Surely nothing was ever designed
which offered more in the way of
daintiness and beauty in return for
a little outlay than the gay caps of
ribbon and lace which remind one of
bright, well-known and well-loved
flowers.
The two. caps shown here are made
OF thin satin ribbon and shadow lace.
The ribbon Is about three inches
wide, and n yard of it is used to
join the strips of lace together, which
form the cap. Wide founcings of
shadow lace cut into strips will pro-
vide a lace frill for one cap and the
insertions in the crown of two. That
is, a founcing of ordinary width may
be cut into five strips.
In the cap shown at the left two
strips Of ribbon join three of lace.
making a square of IS inches. The
corners are rounded off and the edge
turned up in a narrow hem. A mar
row side-plaiting of net is sewed
about the edge, and a narrow bias tape
is stitched on the under side along
the top edge of the net, to form
a casing. Flat elastic cord is run in
this casing. gathering the cap in
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-02
SISTERS RING
BY EDWARD MARTiNoALE.

"Worshiping a divinity at a dis
lance, ehY' rallied Don Warren.
His chum and familiar, Nate STAN
bro, flushed and looked embarrassed.
Then he challenged boldly:
DO you blame me?"
Warren cast a look through the
leafy screen Of greenery that shaded
the river path where he had come
upon his friend. In the center of a
rustic bridge spanning a purling
brook stood a young lady, a fair pic
thre, indeed, in her neat walking
dress and dainty sunshade cap. She
stood gazing dreamily down into the
limpid waters, mechanically slipping
up and down her slender finger a
ring, her glowing face showing health,
beauty and intelligence.
ITS Miss Ava Reese of the big
place up the road, isn't it," spoke
Warren. mo, l don't blame you,
Nate. She has some handsome sis
tiers. and If I wasn't called back to
the city l would put in the rest of
the vacation counting their attention"
The speaker passed on his way.
He and Nate had been together at
Hazelwood for a week. Only Incl
dentally twice at formal social func-
tons had Nate met Miss Reese, not
half a dozen words had been passed
between them. Nate, however, had
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-02
REALLY ODD SAVINGS BANK"
Wife Of Mexican Millionaire Devised
Most Curious Hiding Place for
Her Money.

With the coming of the pay enve.
lope for women has developed the
evolution of the broken-nesed teapot
as a savings bank. Many and varied
are the methods women have worked
out to save money, although it is only
within the last fifty years that the av-
GRACE woman has had to consider the
problem individually. With their Ego
ing to business" however, questions
of finance and investment have come
to them.
Many amusing incidents of the brok.
en-nosed teapot as a savings bank have
come to light. There is a story Of
Pedro Alvaredo, the peon millionaire
of Parral, Mex, whose mines yield
ed silver SO fast that he could not
spend it, though he bought pianos and
ponies by the carload, and all the
metal work in the palace that stood
where his old adobe hut had once been
built was of silver.
Alvaredo had no faith in banks and
kept great quantities of cash in his
house. Naturally, much of this came
into the hands of Sonora Alvaredo.
The sonora had a special bed quilt
which always covered her at night and
was new far away in the day time.
When the sonora died her maid went
to Alvaredo and asked for the quilt.
But Alvaredo was superstitious and
disliked to give away anything to
which his wife had been so much at
tached. He offered the woman money
instead and, though dollars were nc
longer flowing in at the rate of 10000
a day, he was generous in the matter.
the girl insisted that she would
have no memorial of her mistress but
the quilt.
Finally Alvaredo's suspicious were
thoroughly aroused and he ripped the
quilt to pieces. 1t contained $4,000
in $1,000 pieces. Among them was a
letter from the sonora saying that she
had saved the money for her two sons
and directed that it be put in the bank
to their credit. And now the young
men are being educated in an Ameri-
can college upon the interest of their
mothers savings.-From the Business
Woman's Magazine.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-02

If men are just to each other they
will love each other without effort or
coaching, because of the justice they
receive. They will not need to be
taught to love each other. Men are
taught that now because they find it
impossible to love the man who is ex-
plotting him or depriving him of his
due in any sense, either as exploiting,
slave-driving employer or competitor
in business or labor.
And that, by the way, is exactly the
reason why teaching men to love one
another as they love themselves, If not
a failure in 1000 years of trial, has not
been the success the teachers have
hoped. For, how can men love each
other when their principal business is
to cheat each other? 1t can't be done.
1t ought not to be expected. Men sim
ply can't love each other under these
conditions.--Exchange.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-02

emotion. He was like n who had
received a smarting blow.
Engaged he groaned. "Ah, II
will be hard to cure myself Of this
follyl"
He was terribly humbled and dis
appointed. He thought not Of his wet
n uncomfortable condition. His
dream was over-its fair guardian
spirit lost to him. Ava belonged to
another. oh, the bitter %awakenlngi
Nate wandered about for hours.
Then he lay down on the grass to
rest, to think. A cold wind came up.
He reached home chilled through
and through. The next morning Nate
was in the grasp of a hot fever.
1t was a week later when he came
back to something like normal coher-
ency. His landlady explained to him
about the flowers that stood upon the
stand at the head of the bed.
Miss Ava Reese SEN them, sir"
she explained. "She has called twice.
l promised to phone her as soon as
you were well enough"
1t would be pain ineffable to view
that fair face again, yet Nate could
not forego. the opportunity.
He saw a trap driven by a hand
some young man come up to the
house. Ava was with him in another
minute.
Her words were sweetest music to
his ear. She was gracious. gentle,
sympathizing. She told of how she
would never forgive herself, that she
had brought upon him such serious
Illness in his efforts to restore the
ring.
Nate hopelessly thought of the
handsome fellow in the trap-prob-
ably her lover. Happy rival! Ava
noted his glance.
MY brother" she explained. HE
is anxious to know the gallant knight
Grant as he calls you. My sister has
yet to thank you, too"
For what?" stammered Nate, not
understanding.
For restoring her engagement ring.
She had loaned it to me. She is a
superstitious being, is Marcia. and"
Your sister," breathed Nate, a
whole heart of hope springing to his
ardent eyes.
She flushed and thrilled. Artless as
she was, Ava read in the radiant
glow of love in those intense eyes the
secret of his soul-and was gladi
Copyright, 1914, by w. C. Chapman.)
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-02

junction with the actual conditions of
life and labor revealed by a visit to q
Japanese mill. According to these re-
turns there are in Japan 305, 196 male
operatives over fourteen years of age.
and 427,676 women. Under fourteen
years OF age there are 1912 males
and 1891 females employed.
The dominant industries in japan
are cotton and silk, and they absorb
the largest proportion of the workers,
namely, 44S,243 persons, male and fe-
male. In raw silk, cotton spinning,
and cotton weaving we find employed
45,496 men and 293,468 women. In the
thtrty-two Japanese cotton mills for
which returns are given the average
number of working days per annum
was 1926, and the average number of
working hours per day was 22.44. The
two great centers of industrial activity
are Tokyo and Osaka. l penetrated,
not without considerable difficulty,
into various cotton mills in Japan.
Women and Children in Factories.
Generally speaking, Japanese wom-
en- engage IN the cotton trade work
under contracts essentially servile In
character. They are ~indentured for a
period of three years, and live In COM
pounds attached to the factory. Dur
ing this term they seldom leave the
compound, and cannot, save under
very exceptional circumstances, break
their indentures. Sunday, of course,
is not kept in the far East; the princi-
pie of n days rest in seven does not
obtain there. The cotton factories
work day and night on shifts of 10
hours each, and there are two holt
days in the month, more, one suspects,
for the needs of the machinery than
that of the human beings. The aver.
age daily wage of the female silk spin
ner is 80 sen (say IA cents), and of
the female weaver rs sen. But from
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-02
The Marines Debut.

The marine is in his origin and use
peculiarly British. and even today
America is the only country to pos
sess a similar force. The marine orig
mated in 1864, when 1900 land sould-
gers were rayzed to be distributed in
his majesty's leete." Since then the
marines have been constantly disap-
pearing and coming to life again. In
1897 they were disbanded, only to be
revived by Queen Anne. Disappear
ing again in 1712. they were revived
as part of the army 26 years later. In
l74S they vanished again, but seven
years later they appeared once more,
and since then their history has been
continuous-and glorious. = London
Chronicle.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-02
Can't Depend on Compass.

1t is a physical phenomenon known
to the most ignorant skipper who ever
commanded a whaler or a trawler. or
aay description of water craft, that the
magnetic compass is not dependable.
1t points toward the north pole or the
south pole in only a few Of the SO.
called parallels of latitude or longi.
tude. Its guidance is only less un-
availing than that OF philosophical
delivers, most of which have become
objects of derision with newer discov-
cries which have put the older con-
victions to flight. only to have those
newer discoveries and theories suffer
an awful upset sooner or later.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-02
Why the HoundIess pardansIIes?

Why did Homer call the Dardanellea
broad" or "%boundless," although Il
the point where Leander and ByreS
swan 1t the breadth is barely a milsS
Byron's comment is very neat: "Ths
~wrangllng about the epithet the broad
Hellespont,' or the 'boundless Helles-
pont,' whether it means one or the
other, or what 1t means at all, has been
beyond all possibility of detail. / have
ever heard 1t disputed on the spot,
and, not f%oreseeing a speedy conclu-
sion to the controversy. amused my
self with swimming across it in the
meantime, and probably may again
before the point is settled. E.
Probably Homer had the same notion
OF distance that a coquette has of
time. and when he talks Of boundless
means half a mile, as the latter, by a
like figure, when she says eternal at
tachment simply specifies three
weeks"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-02

and even amusement of their opera.
tives. In n compound / saw a thea
ter and also a shrine erected to the
memory of those who died in the mills.
Hospitals, unfortunately, are neces.
sary adjuncts, some clean and we'll
managed, others slack and dirty. In
n compound there would be a strip
of garden nicely kept with flowers.
in another a dank, depressing yard,
at the best, who could wish for
a young girl to spend three of the
best years of her life under such con-
ditions? But the Japanese daughter
has few rights over her own person.
If her family is poor, up to the pres
ent she has resigned herself to the
fate to which her parents may consign
her, being practically sold by them
either to factory, geisha house, or the
deeper degradation of the yoshiwara.
That the girls themselves are begin.
ming to revolt against such conditions
is a healthy and desirable sign of the
times in Japan. The / ficulty of OBJ
tanning cheap labor may lead to a re-
form of factory life from within.
Though ~living-in is the rule for wom-
en-, 1t is not invariable, and l saw one
factory where a large proportion of
women lived out. Here arose the diff
ferent evil Of the employment of mar
ried women, this particular factory
having a nursery attached where the
women left their babies. But unques-
tionably there was a less coarse, hope
less look about the women who lived
out and had some redeeming inHu-
ences of home in their lives than what
one noticed about the ~listless girls Of
the compounds. This circumstance
struck me very forcible Il a very dirty
match factory, where all the girls lived
at home. Despite the conditions un.
der which they worked and the long
hours, the women did not look amiss
or Ill nourished.