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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-06-28

tive may always be in attendance. In
all post offices employment bulletins
are posted which ask these questions:
DO you need help DO you want
work.
Data Must Be Given.
The form of application for en-
ployers requires them to give refer
ences. and to state the kind of work.
length OF employment, the hours of la
Dor. wages. frequency OF wage PAY
ments. whether wage payments are 10
be in money or by checks (and IL by
checks the facilities for cashing them,
iiVins accommodations and cost, store
accommodations and prices, whether
strikes or other labor disputes exist or
are contemplated, and such other facts
as me department may need in order
10 oring employer and worker together
upon terms that are in the interest OF
both. For like reasons the forms for
Wageworker applications make CORE
spending requirements.
1t is too soon to estimate the actual
OF possible usefulness OF this national
experiment in labor distribution Less
than two months of experience has yet
oeen had, March and April. for the
mechanism was not in general opera
ton until after the beginning of March
Even the reports for that period are
not yet complete.
~ supply harvest HANDS.
While that highly important work
progresses regularly, the Department
or Labor is making special prepara-
tons for the coming wheat harvest in
oklahoma, Kansas. Nebraska and the
Dakotas. 1t is cooperating with the
national farm labor exchange recently
organized in the wheat belt When To-
cal arrangements are complete in those
states the Department of Labor will
open headquarters at Kansas City for
the purpose of completing its special
preparations with reference alike TO
employers.
In that connection there are hopes of
some experimentation with plans the
department is considering, on a scale
more comprehensive than that Of wheat
harvesting. for establishing annual
vacations for wage-earners. The essen
tiai theory Of these plans is that all
interests could he better served IL the
sporadic demands for seasonal work OF
various Kinds were systematically met
by wage-earners on vacation. Details
are not yet developed. Little more can
now be said than that a vacation in it's
pest sense Is not q mere 1oafing' or
'dawdling' opportunity. It is an op-
portunity for recreation by varying
ones activities and becoming acouaint-
ed with new scenes and new interests.
Probably little more would be need
ed than a thoughtful organization OF
vacation clubs among wage-earner.;
and a little congressional legislation
enabling the Department of Labor and
the interstate commerce commission to
cooperate with reference to speciat
transportation rates for the purpose"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-06-28

hills, can see these signs is not ex
planned.
The fact that several important struc-
lures here were hit by those skyrock-
citing English shells impelled Enver
Pasha to send twenty-five French and
English prisoners from Constantinople
to be housed in Gallipoli, where they
subsisted for six days at the expense of
Hoffman Phillip. secretary of the
American embassy, who accompanied
them officially.
A feature of Chanak is the collection
of cats living in the Street of the Lame
Camel. They were gathered from va
rious destroyed houses by kind
hearted Turk who now feeds them.
Chanak is only the shell of city.
Beyond the white houses that line the
seafront there is nothing, except in
the direction of kilid Bahr, from which
it is separated by only a few hundred
yards of water. Only when the visitor
actually sees this narrow passage,
swept by over fifty eight-inch guns
mounted thirty feet above the water,
does the difficulty of attempting to
force it become clear. Every inch Of
the surface of the water is plotted on
the artillery maps in the forts, and 1t
needs but an instants calculation to
get the exact range of any ships enter
ing the zone
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-06-28

purpose of the department. ito foster,
promote and develop the welfare OF
the wage-earners of the United states,
to improve their working conditions
and to advance their opportunities for
DrOf1ta BILE employment'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-06-28

Mrs Sarah A. Hagey, ninety-one
years old, of Baltimore. died Saturday
as the result Of a fall week before.
While descending stairs June 10 she
made misstep and plunged ten feet
TO the landing below.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-06-28
Water Gurgles Into Valley.

The water began to gurgle into that
lowlyiug valley from scores upon
scores Of slashes in the clay walls that
had held II back for generations. Ger
man svious had been swooping over
the bikes in reckless disregard OF the
Belgian tire When the first lier saw
the CLEAN of water spreading out over
the meadows he wheeled in air and
carried the word to the doomed legion
The work of the six thousand had
been done. No force could hold back
the floods now. The German flank
could not be turned
so they began to run for the hills"
said the Belgian. AT first they tried
to save the guns
At first they always try TO save the
guns That is rule of all armies
The guns come before lives. But the
loss of guns is not of any serious con-
sequence in military eyes if the enemy
does not capture them. The enemy
could never capture these guns. In an
hour they would be six feet deep under
loyal waters. The Belgian observers
called down from the church towers to
those waiting below:
They have pushed the guns off the
roads. That cleared the way for the
retreat The roads were open. The
August sup no longer glinted upon that
brass cap Which protects the muzzle of
the German rife when it is not in use
Through their glasses the observers
could see the Germans discard their
arms-by companies and by order-and
break into the double on those long,
marrow roads that led toward safety.
But the ordered ranks began to lose
symmetry. The stronger runners be-
gan TO force ahead. The order had
been given: Save yourself who can.
The water purred through the long
grasses toward the gray roads. Now
and then L shallow pool shone in the
hollows far ahead of the sparkling
wave that led the main advance.
Drown Before Comrades.
The water crossed the road. The
first of the six thousand who came to
IT tried to ford. They drowned before
their comrades eyes. Those in the
lead-those strongest runners who had
fought their way to the front-turned
and charged against the weight Of
their painting comrades. For little
time there was frightful confusion. Men
by the hundreds were pushed off the
roadway into the water in the lower
were able to make their way back to
the road, where drowning would be a
little longer in coming. Sometimes they
choked where they fell
AT last" said the Belgian officer at
Dunki,k who first told this story,
they stopped their struggling. All
along the road they stood in quiet
ranks. Only along either side were
men fighting in the water. The water
kept rising higher. Those of US who
were near enough could hear them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-06-28
1000 Shells Fall Hourly.

Two thousand shells per hour fell In
Chanak during one of the lombard
ments by the British fleet, but the cas-
ualties in the forts were only twenty
six killed and fifty wounded. The dam
age to the forts was not serious. This
is proof enough that the problem of at
lacking land fortifications with ships.
even when tthey are armed with the
most powerful guns, still leaves a
heavy margin of advantage with the
forts.
Admiral Won Usedom, the German
commander, is a gentleman with a
kindly eye and a courteous manner. He
wears the badge of the order Pour lie
Merite and lives comfortably in a con-
cealed camp. where the attentions of
hostile aeroplanes have not yet been
directed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-06-28
Neutral Property Indica ted.

At Gallipoli a curious feature is pro-
vided by large black and-whte sign
boards erected here and there over
many of the buildings of the town.
These are to indicate neutral property.
How the owners hope that the gun
pointers of the ships in the Gulf of
Saros, many miles away behind the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-06-28
STEAMERS STILL PLY
THE SEA Of MARM0RA
Fear of British Submarines, How.
ever, Causes Extra Precautions
by the Navigators.
of the Associated Press.

Correspondence of the AsSocia ted Press.
CONSTANTINOPLE. June Turkish
steamers still run up the Sea of Mar
mora from Constantinople to Gallipo1i
and Chanak, Notwithstanding the ac-
tivity of the British submarines Their
cargo is mainly was stores and NUM-
tons. and any one who wishes to ship
as a passenger. whether he be Turk or
alien. must have official permission to
make tie trip.
The fear of submarines is very strong
among the Turkish sailors. and the
steamers bound for the fighting zone
slip away from their docks at odd
hours, generally midnight or later, with
u squad of sharpshooters. twelve or
more in number, stationed along the
rail on both sides of the boat, rifles in
hand. straining their eyes out over the
waters in search of the enemy. The
Sea OF Marmora has many porpoises,
and to re excited imagination every
porpoise seems submarine. So the
firing is frequent. The crack of the
rifles tends to steady the nerves. how
ever. so that by the time the real dan
ger zone comes into sight the soldiers
are quite Indifferent to danger, and
lounge about the deck with utter con-
tempt for the underwater enemy.
Vessels Pass Arsenal.
A little out of Constantinople the
steamers pass the big powder works,
which even in the blackness of night
present a scene of modern war. Eight
towering chmneys belch forth smoke
and fame, and the glare of the lighted
windows tells of the struggle going on
to keep pace with the demand for mu-
nitions
Ten hours from Constantinople finds
the ship in the broadcast part of the
Sea of Marmora, and a few hours later
the peninsula of Gallipoli begins to
draw near.
This section of the country Is Tar
from desolate. Every acre is cultivat-
ed Roads wind in and out along the
shore, and windmills crown the crest
of the ridge of Gallipoli. Wherever
the sea pushes into the land to form q
bav there is a little town, busy and
prosperous in Turkish manner OF
speaking. In every case the salient
feature is sky-piercing minaret. Al
fixed points along the road, white tent
ed military camps squat against the
green landscape.
Neutral Property indicate
At Gallipoli a curious feature is pro-
vided by large black-and white sign
boards erected here and there over
many of the buildings of the town.
These are to indicate neutral property.
How the owners hope that the gun
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-06-28
Knew Of March to Death.

C'est la guerre.
1--WE know" said the Belgian officer
who first told me the story. and We
knew they knew. We watched them
as we would a great tragedy. We
think that even the private soldiers
knew they were marching forward
to their death, because as they march ed
they sang sad. old German songs
songs of home and the Rhine hills.
There was not that note in jubilation
we had heard before in their choruses.
1t was as though these living dead men
were singing their dirge."
Six thousand Germans marched into
that lowiying valley between Dixmude
and the bikes. From the church cow
ers of the little villages the Belgian
observers saw the long gray green
strings creeping over the brown fields
of late summer. They called down
word TO their comrades in the church
below. They had not yet been COM
pletely hardened By war. They had
seen their country devastated, but they
still pitied. Their voices trembled as
they told of the quarry marching into
the trap. Hours passed. The German
march ceased. They began to intrench
themselves in the center of that low
lying valley.
NO more are coming" said the OBJ
servers.
Cut the dikes.' was the order tele-
phoned along the line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-06-28
Were in Death Trap.

There they were in a death trap"
said Col Fignal. But they died well.
1t is war
From Dxmude it is not far to the
sea, low-lying valley. perhaps fif
teen miles wide, made the trap. at the
farther side of the valley were the Bel
gians. Somewhere in the distance the
English were advancing toward that
line they hold today. In few days or
hours the Germans knew the Belgian
and British forces would be joined. The
forces Of the allies made the bait for
the trap.
wal The GsSnaaa. lsex eia G not S soid
, ,.~. .os- .yans valley the Belgians
could march up it and turn their
flank. That meant the cutting off Of
the lime of communications. But they
also knew that If they did not hold
the valley the Belgians would open
up the bikes. Then they would all
be drowned
1t was a simple problem that con-
fronted the Germans. An army could
be saved by the sacrifice of a regi-
ment or two. There was no question
as to the German course. Lives do
not count when victory is to be won.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-06-28

tive may always be in attendance. In
all post Offices employment bulletins
are posted which ask these questions /:
DO you need help DO you want
work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-06-28
5000 MEN DROWN
TO SAVE AN ARMY
Germans Make Brave Sacrifice
on the Plains Near
Dixnude.
GO TO CERTAIN DEATH '
SINGING FOLK SONGS
As Teutons Intrench, Mighty bikes
Are Cut and Lives End in
Swirling Waters.
Copyright, 1915, by Herbert coscy.)

Vloiyg night. 1915. by Herbert Corcy1
BoULOGNE, June 14.--One hears one
phrase constantly in France. 1t eX
plains everything excuses everything.
condemns everything.
''C'est Ia suerre.'
1t is war. Things happen that by
every rule of humanity are impossible
and incredible. Only momentary at
tention is given to them. There are
deeds of heroism that in any other age
would be perpetuated in epirs. They
pass and are forgotten. When the world
was condemning the German course in
Belgium the French hardly discussed
it. For months the charges of atrocity
were forbidden publication in French
papers.
''C'est la guerre," said these philoso-
piers.
So it was with the story of the Lost
Legion At first those who heard it re-
fused to believe. 1t argued both
ruthlessness and courage that were
beyond reason.
But it is quite true" said Col. NigraI,
nov military attache at the French en-
bassy in Washington. "C'cst Ia guerra.''
1t is one of the innumerable minor
events of that frantic German rush
through Belgium in the early days of
the war. The invaders had not yet be-
gun to count the cost. The little Bel
gian army was fighting every foot of
the way. The extreme right of the
German line was curling past Brussels
and Louvain toward Yprcs, where the
greatest battle in Englands history has
been fought for the past three MONTHS.
The Belgians We're retreating before
them, killing cheerfully as they fell
back. The Germans reached Dixmude.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-01

Los Angeles, caI.-The love which
Miss Lillian D. Kelley won and lost
was worth exactly $4,000, as meas
ured in gold coin, the court award
helping standardize the value of Gu
pid's commodity. :.
That was the price she finally
agreed to accept in place of $4,000
breach of promise suit she had pre-
ferred against John c. Da Silva, who,
LA SALE ST. BANK MAY PAY
Is CENTS ON DOLLAR
Twenty-Five cents viii be award
for the depositors of the defunct La
Sale st. bank, according to state
ment from VIM. C. Niblack, receiver
for the institution. A report due to-
day. will not be ready for a month.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-01

| 1t was shown, was worth $40, 900.
Superior Judge c. S. Wilbur made
the award after $4,000 verdict had
been given Miss Kelley by jury and
motion for new trial had been made.
The love that was worth $500
was measured out in coolies, gobs
and scads" by Da Silva during his in
fatuation, over $50 impassioned let
tiers having testified to his lavish pro-
fessions of affection.
Law suits in great numbers have
followed the attempt of the receiver
to get cash from the doubtful list of
securities listed as assets by bankers.
--O-O-
Mrs. Ruth Murdoch, 1155 w.
Washington blvd, wants to adopt
baby now in county hospital, but can't
find mother ~
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-11-18
COMPETITION IN SAVING.
A Challenge Wife Accepted and q
Contest In Economy.

A Challenge Wife Accepted and a
Contest In Economy.
The following Is an account of what
competition did toward encouraging a
bank account:
II am on a newspaper. | have al
ways made salary In excess Of sim
pie living requirements. but | was a
free spender and did not save.
"A baby came. and felt an added
responsibility. was alphabetically
frightened for the first time in my life.
Then gave the matter Of saving some
thought. but l could not decide upon
any course of action.
AT the Office one day business dis
cussion made me see that what need
ed in my home was competition.
THAT night on my arrival home |
said to my wife that l would, begin
ming the next Saturday. give her half
Of my salary and l would keep the
other half. and we eachstake an equal
share of the household expenses.
AT the end OF the first month / left
my bank book on the library table. |
wanted to surprise her. That evening
she handed 1t to me and said she
thought was doing fine. Looking at
her closely, saw that she realized she
was challenged. She did not speak.
however, Of any intention she might
have had In mind.
"A month later found her benk
book ON the library table identically as
! had left mine. She had beaten me.
for her savings showed $1,000 more
than my own for the corresponding
month and SIS In excess of my depos-
Its for the first month.
I'VE are now In race We both
have the saving habit. We have enough
to buy home IL we should Join funds"
American Magazine.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-11-18
THE ROPE OF MAUI.
An Ancient Lsssnd Of the Sun From
tho South Seas.

An Ancient Legend of the Sun From
tho South Seas.
One Of the most picturesque legends
connected with the solar beams is that
told In the islands Of the south Pacific.
where sunbeams ARE known as the
ropes of Maui" ri is related that In
former times the sun god Ra was not
so regular in bis habits as he Is today.
In fact, he caused the south sea island
ers much annoyance by setting In the
morning or at noon or at other mop
perfume times, just when his light was
needed for the daily tasks of mankind
The great hero Maui undertook to
cure him Of these erratic habits, and
the first step was to make the sun god
prisoner. This was accomplished by
laying a series of six snares made of
strong cocoanut fiber along the suns
path in the sky. When the deity next
rost from Avaiki. OF the land of ghosts.
the first moose encircled him, but slip
ped down and only caught his feet; the
second slipped. too. but caught the sun
gods knees; the third caught around
his hips.
Still Ra pressed on, scarcely ham,
pered by these contrivances. The
fourth moose frightened around his
waist, the fifth under his arms, and
finally the sixth and last caught him
around the neck and almost strangIed
him. Then the sun god confessed him
self vanQuished and In fear Of his life
promised Maui that he would in future
adjust his daily journeys more In ac-
cordance with the comfort and conven-
fence of mortal men.
Ra was then allowed to proceed on
his way, but Maui prudently declined
to take or the ropes, which may still
be seen hanging from the sun at dawn
and when he descends into the ocean
at night Hence the islanders say, when
they behold the beams radiating from
the sun, "Tena te laura MauY'-"See
the ropes OF Maui r-Philadelphia In
quirer
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-11-18
ECCENTRIC N ORTIZ RIVER.
Curious Franks Of a Tortuous New
England Stream.

Westerners tell of the queer behavior
and changes of course INDUCED In by
the Missouri river, and Texans aver
that for pure cussedness and general
fckleness no stream of water can ap-
proach the Rio Grande. There is, how
ever. stream In New England where
OF the rest Of the country hears little
and which should il justice be accord.
ed place in the list of queer behaving
bodies of water.
This is the North river in Massachu-
setts. II has its source In pond near
Hanson, whence it proceeds In a tortu-
Gus course to the sea at Scituate. Now
the distance by air line from Hanson to
Scituate is only ten miles. but by the
North river it is forty.
New Englanders aver that when the
tide Is coming in the North river runs
upstream. and not pnly that. but the
upper part of 1t. which is fresh water,
also runs up. Thus this queer stream
presents the strange spectacle Of a
fresh water river proceeding uphill.
The North rivers claim to eccentric
ity is not, however, limited to this fact.
1t Is SO crooked that 1t doubles on itself.
At one spot near Hanover this river, by
accomplishing three loops, moves to-
ward the sea for distance Of only
nfty feet and wanders about for a dis
lance or about fifteen miles in doing it
In November, 1895, the North river
got very cantankerous. 1t moved its
mouth three miles TO the northward,
thus making a present to the town Of
Marshfield OF deep harbor. In so do
ing It killed three men and converted
many thousand acres of good meadow
land into salt marsh.
Historically the North river is of note
as being the scene Of the last Indian
raid on the coast settlements.-phIla.
delphia Record.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-11-18

Stationery" has etymologicallv as
much to DO with standing as has ''sta-
tlonary. The original stationers, or
statonarii, were so called because they
sold their books upon stalls or ''sta-
t1ons"-in London round about old St
Paufs cathedral. In some cases against
the walls OF the cathedral itself. This
Is one OF the many trades the names of
which have no direct allusion to the
commodities sold. HGrocers." for In
stance, were so called either because
tney sold zen gros." wholesale, or be-
cause they were zen grossers," monop-
olizers.-London Chronicle.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-11-18
The Great Hia Moon,

The full moon is very deceptive to
those who attempt to estimate its ap-
parent size in the sky. Most people
would assert that the great big MOON
could entirely blot out the lovely cius-
ter Of the Pleiades, which glitters in
the constellation of Taurus. but actual
ly the full moon could. and occasion
ally does. pass through the Pleiades
and only succeeds In hiding few of
the stars comprising 1t. So small In
deed is the moon when In its full phase
1t dominates the night sky that a three
penny piece held at arms length will
completely eclipse it.--Pall Mall Ga
zette.