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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
THE SEASONS NEW
FICTION: A SURVEY
Novels for All Tastes-Comedy and Farce
Tales Of Small Business-Modern Ger
many as Seen in Its Fiction.

The fiction of the season, already
published ard yet to come, is
so heterogeneous that no con-
illusions as to tendencies can be
drawn from IT, There is a little,
and considerably more, of every
thing 70 suit all tastes-romanoe,
love, marriage, feminisTn, adventure,
mystery, realism, and, let us be
thankful, a great deal Of cheer
full reading There are H. G.
Weiss boisterous "Bealby," Harry
Leon Wilson's "Ruggles of Red
Gap" and Arnold Benefits lively
tale OF mook-mystery, humor and
plenty OF plot, The City OF
Pleasure" an earlier book of his,
hitherto unknown on this side of
the water, and now published at
just the right moment, We all need
diversion.
The novel Of malefactors Of great
wealth is in allegiance; Mr.. Theo-
dore Dresser has for the moment
the monopoly of the field with his
trilogy Of The Finsncier," whose
concluding volume we shall not have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
LAIS TO HER DOG.

tEmm. A. opper. in May ''scribnsrs'0
You're a droll flower that lifts its face
in meek
Obeisance to the skies;
You cannot smile, poor wight you
cannot speak,
But love yearns from your eyes.
I have blenched white under the cruel
blaze
OF scorning chances bent;
Never was blame IN your adorng
You hold me innocent.
Lovers that lightly come as lightly go,
Forget me and forsake;
Should you be torn from me, comrade,
know
Your little heart would break.
And if I whispered to you how fought,
Shrinking with fear and hate,
The Doom that dragged me down and
made me naught,
The ruthless, grinning Fate
And how to see a white rose smites me
sore,
Sets me to brood and grieve,
Because they grew beside my mothers
door
You'd listen; you'd believe.
You Joy with me, you sorrow when I
sigh;
am your shining star,
o little wistful friend! And when
die
And creep 70 heavens bar,
II then some angel, kinder than the
rest,
Shall say, Forgive her sin;
It is a tired soul, fevered breast;
Forgive her; let her in
And if | cannot hide you 'gainst my
heart
And somehow take you through,
And il they chide me, thrusting US
apart.
I'll stay behind with you.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01

, or THE FIGHTING LINE. By Constance smed-
ley. G. P. Putnams Sons
ONE MAN. A novel. BY Robert Steele Mitchell
Kennerey.
Open MARKET. By Josephin. Dasksm Bacon
PALS FIRST BY Franc, Perry Elliott Harper
a Bros.
PARsrvAL By Gerhardt H.uptmsnn. Translated
by Oakley Williams. The Macmillan 20.
An alIegory OF modern life.
A PERFECT LADY. A novelisston q the play By
Claiming Pollock and Rennold Wolf. Edward j.
COde.
PIERRoT. DOG OF BELGIUM By Walter A
Dyer. Doubleday. Page Co.
PoLYANNA GROWS Up. By Eleanor Fl. Porter
Page CO.
TIE PRETENDER story OF the Ls1n Quarter
By Robert ". Service Dodd. Mead q Co.
RAGGED MESSENGER. THE. By W. B. MAJ
we'll Bobbs Merrill Go.
"Chlldren OF the Dead End" George II. Dofan
co. May IS.
RED FLEECE By VIII Lexington Comfort
George II. Doran Co.
A tale Of tho war on the Eastern frontier and
Of revolutionary propaganda in tho Russian
armies.
RFLUC GIANT ADAM A. By sidney WILLIAMS
HOughton Minin Go.
RIM OF TIE DESERT. THE. BY Ada woodruff
Anderson. Little. Brown Il Co
Doubleday Page * Co.
RUSSIAN COMEDY OF ERRORS. A. BY George
A KEENAN,. The Century Company.
True stories OF underground Russia. the police
and SOY system. famous arrests and escapes.
THE RETURN OF TARTAN. BY Edgar Rice
burroughs A. C. AcClurg & Co.
SCARLET PLAGUE. THE. BY lack London. Tho
Macmillan 60.
SECOND BLOOMING. THE. By W. L. George
Little. Brown * Co.
SEVEN DARLINGs. TIE. By Gouverueur Morris
illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. Charles
S,nourr's Sons.
SHORTY NrCABE OS THE JOB. By sewell Ford
Edward j. Glode.
SILENT WITNESS A. BY r. Austin Freeman.
John {. Winston Go.
mystery story.
SINISTER ISLAND. By Charles watswOrh Camp
DOdd. Mead Co.
SINNERS A novelization Of Owen psviss PLAY
Edward j. Globe
SNAKE. TIE. By George vane John Lane o.
SOUL on FIRE. A BY Frances Fen"iek "niAfns
John Lane 90.
spRAGGE.s CANYON. By Horace Anneslry
Vaphell. George II Dorsn Go. In June
sruG I'M By Honort willae p. A Stokes Co.
s,,rv o, the reclamation work o, the DspGrmsn.
n, he Interior. Scenes laid in the Far IVES, and
az Washington.
SWORD OF YOUTH. THE By James Lane Allen.
The CeTiiuy Co.
TANNING or AMORETrE. TIE. By AIMS ".rn1
Little. Brown 60.
rUaN<Ft-L's INHERITANCE. By Joseph c. LIN
coin. y. Appleton 90.
THREE THINGS. BY El,nor Glyu. Hearst's Inter
nEiioUll Library Co.
TURMOIL. THE BY Booth rEhnSton. Harper
Bros
VALLEY OF FEAR. TIE. Sherlock Holn..
Novel b. Arthur Conan Doyle illustrated.
George H. DufA 60
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01

until this fall Meanwhile there is
springing up a fiction of the small
successes in modern business life,
as seen in Philip Curtis's The Lad
der" and in The Business Advent
ures Of Billy Thomas. the story OF a
shipping clerk in a wholesale grocery
house who becomes a member Of
the firm-told with uncompromising
fidelity to the ambitious shipping
clerks outlook upon life and to his
vernacular, and purposeful in its
sound advice. With Montague
Glass business is only the vehicle,
however realistically treated, for
sympathetically humorous studies
Of character His new volume of
short stories, THE Competitive
Nephew" has just come from the
press
In the field Of the short story there
are some notable new volumes
Katharine Fullerton Gerould'S The
Great Tradition" "Fifty-one Tales"
by Lord Dunsany, "Hillsboro Peo-
pie" by Dorothy Garfield, author of
The Squirrel Cage" and a new edi-
ton Of Colonel E. D. Swinton's
The Green Curve" This colleca
ton Of stories of way as it really Is
attracted the attention OF military
men the world over at the time Of
its first appearance, but fell fat
with the general reading public,
which was not seriously interested
st the time. The books reissue now
promises to bring il wider circle
OF readers.
The great fiction Of the world
war is still to come; meanwhile
there are some swift-moving tales
Of love and adventure amid it's
alarums. A branch OF contempt
rary German fiction, dealing with
the abuses that had crept into the
Official life Of the empire, in its civil
service as in its army, is only just
being opened up in translation.
Much Of this fiction is not only Of
historic value, il is also capital art.
We have had thus far this spring a
new edition of Lieutenant Bilse's
sensational an Garrison Town"
Count Won Baud;ssin's Life in a
Crack Regiment" and, far better
than these, both on account OF its
wider scope and its excellent work
manship, Baroness Won Heyking's
Lovers in Exile" reviewed else
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01

The decencies of life are hardly missed
and (this, too, is a familiar observa-
tom the city-bred men stand the ia
tigue and the hardships better than
the countrymen. ARM officers are
inclined to ascribe this TO the city
dweller's more generous meat diet;
kreisler suggests that il is rather the
radical nature of the change, the tonic
effect of life in the open, whereas the
countryman, used to the open air, only
experiences the lassitude of unaccus-
toned and far harder eyertion. He
himself spent three days without food,
and clicked the dew from the grass
for want Of water" Sleep is the bless
ing of the man on campaign. Within
few days Kreisler and his compan-
ions slept through the heaviest bonn
bardments. They welcomed the risk of
death in battle as o relief from the
back-breaking torture of marching.
The musician comes curiously 20 the
fore in this record. Kreisler tells US
that his delicately tuned ear soon
taught him to difrerentiate between the
noise made by shells fred in opposite
directions, and even TO fix the acme Of
their parabolic fight:
In talking over my experiences
with an artillery officer, was told
the fact was known that the shells
sounded different going up than
when coming down, but this knowl-
edge was not used for practical
purposes. When | told him that
| could actually determine by the
sound the exact place where
shell coming from the opposing
batteries was reaching its acme,
he thought that this would be OF
great value in a case where the
position of the opposing battery
was hidden, and thus could be To-
Gated. lie apparently spoke 70 his
commander, for a few days later
! was sent on a accommodating tour,
with the object OF marking on the
map the exact spot where | thought
the hostile shells were reaching
their acme, and il was later on
reported 20 me that / had sue
ceeded in giving our batteries the
almost exact range OF the Russian
guns.
There are some anecdotes here OF
the absence of hatred between the men
OF the opposing armies once they come
into actual contact. Brief truces by
common unspOken consent are FREE
quent, and on one occasion Russian
officer and a private came into the
Austrian trenches under a flag of truce
10 ask for food for themselves and
their company. They returned loaded
with half OF the Austrians' own seant
supply. ..-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
FOR LIGHTER READING.
Recent, Current and Forth
coming Novels.

| ADVENTURES or DETECTIVE BARNEY. THE.
/ By Harvey J. o Higgins. The Century Co.
ALICE AND A FAMILY. BY St John q. ErTine.
/ ANARuLY or CLoTHEs-LrE ALLEY. By
/ Belle X. Manistes. Little Brown Co.
ANGELA.s BUSINESS. A comedy o. temporary
spinsters BY Henry sydnor Harrison Houghton
al1l!a 60.
AN>E OF THE ISLAND. By l. NJ Montgomery.
A new s,ory o, Anne Of Avou!sa In June
AUCTION MART THE. BY sybn Cookson. John
Lane Go.
AUGUST FIRST b Mary Raymond shipm.n
Andrews and Roy Irving Murray. Charles Serb
ALLAN AND THE HOLY FLOWER By Sir
I.rr Haggar1. DOngmAns. Green Co.
BARBARA's MARRIAGES. BY Msude Rsdford
Harper Bros
BETTY ALL ALONE By Neg vn.r, Edward
BREATH OF THE JUNGLE By james Francis
/ Dwyer A. c. McCluH Co
Blue BLOOD AND RED. BY Georry CorsOn.
Henry Holt Co.
BROCKLRBANK RIDDLE. TIE. By Hubert
Wales. The Century Co.
/ mystery sto0
| 81 SINESS ADVENTURES OF BILLY THOMAS.
TIL By Elmer L. Ferris Tho Macmillan Co.
/ BLAl.BY. BY II. O. Wells The Macmillan Co
! A fArcicsl comedy Of English country life
/ COCOON THE. By Ruth McEnery stuArt. Hetrts
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/ CONE on CHARLEY. BY ThoDu Addison. @.
/ ". Dillingham; Co
/ COMPETITIVE NEPHEw. TIE. BY Montague
Class doubleday. Page Co.
CRAYoN CLUE. THE. BY Minnie J. Reynolds.
/ Mitchell kennerley.
. CURSE OF CASTLE EAGLE. THE. BY Katherine
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. pAYBREAK story Of the age Of disu~erJ BY
I Elizabeth Miller. Charles Scrieners Sons
DEALER IN EMPIRE. A. By Amelia Josephine
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/ A ATOM OF spain in the days Of Pcdinand and
Isabella.
DUSTY ROAD THE n, Tnr~s TSi~. J B.
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/ ELBOW LANE BY the suihor Of "Altosethu
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EMPTY POCKETS. BY Rupert Hughes. Harper
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The authors new novel OF New York life.
ENEMY. THE BY George Randolph and Lillian
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/ PAR COUNTRY. A BY winston Churchill. me
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FyIIx TELLS IT. BY Lucy Pratt D. AVpleOo
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D. Appleton a Co
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
ALL-BRTTISH PRIZE NOVELS.

An All-British novel competition held
BY Holder E. Stoughton, Of London,
has resulted in the following awards:
$3.50 to Mrs. A. E. Taylor. of st. An
drews, \. B., for the best Canadian
story, Land of the Scarlet Leaf" and
similar amounts to Katharine Susan
nah Pritchard for her Australian novel,
"The Pioneers; F. Horace Rose for his
South African tale, Golden Glory"
and s. Foskett for his Indian novel,
"The Temple of the Tope.' The judges
were Sir Gilbert Parker for the Cana
dian section, Charles Garvice for
Australia, Sir II. Rider Haggard for
South Africa and Captain D. E. W..
Mason for India.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
FRITZ KREISLER'S FOUR
WEEKS OF CAMPAIGNING
A Man of Genius as Cannon Food-The Hypnotism of
Battle-Fardshps and Human Adaptabiity-A
Musicians Trained Ear as Range Finder.

FOUR WEEKS IN THE TRENCHES. The
War story Of a Nioliuist. by Fritz Krcis-
Ter. With illustrations. lGmo. PIP. vii,
Sc. Boston: The Houshton Mifii!n Com
pany.
During the Bosnian Herzegovinian cri-
sis an anxious world was told that, in
the event of war, men whom it cannot
replace, for whose coming II can only
wait, would not be exposed TO the dan
gers of battle They, so it was said,
would have to serve like everybody else
in the nations under arms, but their
governments would keep them safely
employed al headquarters. Fritz KreIs-
ler's experiences have exploded that as
surance. The world came near losing
him; it will continue to rejoice over
his escape, but will continue also 70
worry, amidst its grief at the whole
sale carnage, over the fate of many an
other exceptional man whom il honors
and thanks for rare achievements and
service in the highest fields OF human
endeavor. This Indiscriminate qualita-
tive as well as qualitative waste Of
human life IS brought home 20 US again
by kreisler's own account OF his COM
rades IN the battalion in which he WAS
an officer. Among them were a ia
nous sculptor, well-known phllolo-
gist, two university professors, a
prince, a civil engineer at the head of
one Of the largest Austrian steel cor
porationS. Among the privates in his
platoon were painter, two college pro-
fessors, singer Of repute, a banker
and a post official Of high rank.
Kreisler was constantly under fire
during the ten days fighting that con-
stituted what has become known as
the battle OF Lemberg He started for
the front under the impression. re-
ceived N Vienna. that The Austro- Hun
tory. lie discovered that. on the con
trary, the enemy had penetrated into
Galicia. In actual battle, he says, the
individual seems 70 be in an hypnotic
trance, which prevents his mind from
taking in impressions, and certainly
from storing them. There il only the
lust Of battle. The cessation of fight
ing produces a sudden detention; then
follows the unforgettable horror of the
low. monotonoVs moaning Of the
wounded. But all sensibilty becomes
bluHted with amazing rapidity. Men
eat their crust of bread with the ut
most unconcern among the wounded,
the dead and the dying. All this is
perhaps sufficiently we'll known, but IL
is worth reading again as Kreisler reg
listers il.
Physically he found the hard
ships OF campaigning most beneficial.
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where in these columns to-day.
This field is worth exploring; the
frankness wherewith its authors ex-
pose and criticise the evils that had
crept into the administration Of the
affairs of the nation and into the life
of its aristocracy is astounding.
Occasionally their work has been
suppressed, generally too late, but
the bulk of it, in fiction and in the
drama, has never been interfered
with. Some OF the foremost authors
Of Germany have contributed to it,
among them Sudermann and Fulda,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
THE HOUSE OF THE MISTY STAR.

THE HOUSE or THE MISTY STAR A
Romance % Youth and Love and Hope IN
Old Japan ~ Frances Little Fannie
Caldwell Maoaulayl. illustrated. i2no.
pp. 270. The Century Company.
There Is a great deal Of young Amer
lea in this new tale Of Old Japan By
the author Of "The Lady OF the Dec
Grafton" Indeed, the direct contrast be-
tween the two is Of the essence Of the
story, which is told by a middle-aged
American missionary who has spent
thirty years in teaching English in her
house of the misty star in Hijishams.
To her comes the "independen" mis-
sionary Jane Gray, who builds a hos
pital with nothing but the faith that
moves mountains; and 70 these two
elderly women comes Zura, the isugh-
ter Of an American painter and an
japanese woman, the child. also, OF
Seattle, grown up wild In rs public
schools and It's Streets girl who
forthwith proceeds to oppose and out
rage her grandfather, the worthy
Kishimoto, worshipper Of the Old
Japan, and It's finished incarnation. To
Continued ON page IL, column
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01

MAN FROM HOME. THE By Hlrry Leon VII
son. novel founded upon the play 81 Booth
Harrington ard Harp Leon Wilson D Apple
'on & Go.
MAN or IRON. THE By Richard Dehsn. F. A.
Stokes Company.
A story Of The Franco German war. presenting q
able study Of Bismarck
MARY MORELASD. By Marie Van Won't Lttle.
Brow a. CO. In MAY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01

MIRACLE OF LOVE. THE. I'J Cosmo Hamilton
George n. Doran Co MAY 2.
MOONGLADE. By ne author ~ The Maryrdom
II au Empress Harper & Bros.
MY HEARTS RIGHT THERE By Florence L.
BARCLAY G.. +. PutEam's Sons.
MOUNTAIN BLOOD. novel By Joseph Herges-
hr.mcr. Mitchell Kennedey.
MUSHROOM TOWN by Oliver Onions. George
II. Doran Co
OF HUMAN BONDAGE. By W. Somerset Msus-
ham. George H. Doran Co. In June.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
Apple Ton
& 90.

but the best of it is from the pens
Of younger generation.
Among the new historical novels,
which are very few in number, men
ton must be made of Elizabeth Mil
ler's "Daybreak," a tale of Ferdi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01

nand and Isabella and Columbus;
OF Cyrus Townsend Brady's novel
OF Waterloo, THE Eagle of the En-
pre-" and of Richard Dehan's tale
of the Franco German War, The
Man OF Iron" The detective story
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
"A SELECTED LIST OF IMPORTANT NEW FICTION

, VICTORY. By Joseph Conrad. Doubledy. Page
& Co.
WAITING. A Novel. BY Gerald oDonovan. Nit
chell Kennerley.
WATCHDOG. THE. BY Arthur Henblo~. q. W.
Dillingham; Co.
WHO GOES THERE, By Robert W. Chamber.
d. Appleton 4 Co.
WILL TO LIVE THE By Henu Bordeaux. rrSns-
lated By Pitts Dualed. Dunied Co.
WINNING OF LUCIA. THE. By Amelia r. Bar.
D. Appleton & Co.
WOMAN ALONE. THE. b. nabd HsroeEt CrnS'
Harper & Bros.
YOUNG MANS YEAR. A. BY Anthouy Hcps D..
Appleton Il Co
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
OF CURRENT NOVELS
Frau Won Heykings Picture of German Official Life
A New Japanese Tale by Frances Little
Elmer Daviss Capital First Novel.

tail: the cleft between the Berlin %
the dyed-in-the-wool Prussian Junkers
and the world capital, with its
n0uUenur riches. its men Of achieve
ment and ambition, its world outlook.
But throughout the lovers in exile are
kept in the foreground The purpose
of the book is not allowed 70 over
shadow its story.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01

LOVERS IN EXILE By Baroness von heyslnS Z.
Adapted b. the author from her oriEIa ,'er r,,,
novel lie Mini" l2mo. % $50 =. J. pH'
ton & Co.
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Continued ON page IL. column
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FOUR WEEKS IN THE TRENCHES The
War Story Of a NioIiuist. by Fritz Krcis-
lCr With illustrations. lCmo, pp. vii,
Sc Boston: The HJughton Mifiiln Com
pany.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-07-24
PINE FOREST REGION

The ~prOspectOrs in the Pine for
est region r sounding the tocSin
of golden opportunity for that sec
ton, according to T. E. Robbins,
and w. McGann of MERGED, Calf,
who returned from the northern
Humboldt county quartz and placer
section. They report that. the
prospectors are opening gold, silver,
copper, antimony and molybdeniIe
deposits over a wide area. While
north Mccain and Robbins secured
some mining ground which adds in
terest to the Pine forest region. The
claims show molybdenite associated
with copper and gold values. Molly
bdenite is a most valuable metal at
present, rating around 81 a pound.
According to Messrs Robbins and
McGann, the molybdenite predomi-
mates in this ore.-Humboldt Star.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-07-24
SCARLET OAKS
Wins HANDICAP
TAKES BIG MONEY-YES-
TERDAY'S RESULTS

Scarlet Oaks, entered by George
Wingfield, flashed under the wire a
winner in the opening handicap of
the Reno races Saturday afternoon.
She was ridden by T. T. Burns, a
Reno boy, and it is said that the
handled the horse in great style,
beating her nearest opponent, Sem
eca, in handy fashion. The race was
for a purse of $1,000.
The first foul results of yester-
days races were as follows: First
race Old Bob first, Wasatch Sec
ond, Tordillo third; second race,
Helen Hawkins first, Earl Keenig
second, Bill York third; third race,
Tom Chapman first, Superb second,
Custom House third; fourth race,
Robert Mantell first, Mark Kennedy
second, Fort Johnson third.
In the races Saturday, the opening
day of the meet, over $4,000 pass
ed through the pari-mutuel ma
chimes. In the third ace yesterday
a long shot, Tom Chapman, hit the
wire first and the only straight
ticket on him, 50, held by a woman,
paid $173.4O.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-07-24
EXPERIMENTAL Teaching Is
DELAYED ANOTHER MONTH

Delay in the arrival of a carload
! of material has caused a postpone
ment of the teaching process at the
Thompson smeltery. The start was
to have been made this week, but it
will probably be late in August be-
fore the delayed material arrives and
is in place.
Mr.. Weldine, the superintendent in
charge, stated today that the leach
ing plant is entirely completed ex-
cept for a portion of the cyanide end,
and that the work has advanced
very satisfactorily from the very be-
ginning.
The plant. while the very latest
and most approved in design, is
strictly for experimental purposes,
having a capacity of only 20 tons
daily. 1t will be used for expert
mental purposes IN custom ores, and
ores from other states are now await
ing it's completion.-Mason Valley
News.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-07-24
LEONARDO OA v|NC|
PROPHET IN WARFARE

ROME. July 4. = The Leonardo
da Vinci. of whom the world thinks
only as a great painter, is now set
forth in the Italian papers as a
great prophet of what might come TO
pass in warfare. In the latter part
of the fifteenth century his versatile
genius included skill as a scientist,
and his imagination led to the design
of many remarkable implements OF
war among which was a steam gun
which were run by boiling water. In
this invention, incidentally, it is said
he anticipated the steam engine.
In certain of his works he told of
several forms Of bombarding en-
gines, one of which threw minute
particles, like a storm OF hail, pro-
ducing quantities of dense smoke to
brighten the enemy. Among his
papers are found what may be called
the ancestors of the terrible cannon
for throwing burning liquid at a
great distance, which the krupp and
Essen factories are said to lave
turned out. There will issue from
the earth" he wrote, that which,
with frightful sounds, will deafen the
surrounding and with it's breath will
kill men and ruin fOrtresses M cit
ies." He suggested the use OF a
powder which would stun and suffo-
cate the enemy, and at the same time
suggested a remedy. ITO send poi
son in POWDER" he said, "be careful
to have a wind which will not send
the powder upon yourself, or have
the lose and mouth covered by a thin
wet cloth, so that the powder can
not pass"
He left sketches of mOrtars and
other heavy engines of war which
suggest the modern heavy and quick
firing guns, and seemed even to
have imagined a submarine and aero
plane. OF the former, he wrote, &C
cording to the quotations given in
the Italian papers, 81 do not publish
or divulge my way of staying under
water because of the bad nature of
men, who would use it for assassina-
ton under the sea by ripping open
the bottoms of ships"