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Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11

Daigs. Lesghians, Kazy-Kumyksh,
Tush. Ingush. Greeks and others of the
Occident Caucasia, indeed, may be
said to be place preeminently de-
voted to language-all kinds and COM
in bewildering richness.
Between Black and Caspian Sea.
Caucasia is the broad, stocky 18TH
mus which, extending from the south
east corner of Europe to Asia, divides
the Black and Caspian seas. It's area
is about 100000 square miles, or more
than four times larger than the state
of Ohio. 1t has good ports upon both
the Black and Caspian seas, Batum
on the one. and Baku on the other.
The famous Apsheron peninsula is one
of the richest of the worlds oil fields,
and. in general the Caucasus is the
mineral treasury of all the Russias.
The grain, grazing and fruit lands of
this government are very bountiful
and could be turned into the richest
of garden and farming spots with a
little modern care. Coal is produced.
Among the ores now mostly developed
for commerce are copper. manganese,
mercury, sulphur, iron. cobalt and
salt.
Europe's barrier against southeast.
ern Asia, the Caucasus range
stretches across the middle lands of
Caucasia. dividing the government in
to Ciscaucasia and Transcaucasia. In
the mountainous central region is to be
found some OF the most beautiful
scenery In the world.
The population of Caucasia is most
ly agricultural In its pursuits. 1t ia
backward and for the most part, be
yond an abundance of grains and
fruits, has no other desires. Natural
ly, therefore, the industries of modern
life have only made negligible begin
nings.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
HIS PRESENTS ALL PAID FOR
But Mr.. Jones Was Not Quite the
Model Citizen the Statement
Seemed to Make Out.

Referring to the promptness of some
people in settling their accounts, Sena-
tor William Alden Smith of Michigan
recalled little incident about party
named Jones.
A few days before Christmas Mr..
Jones was talking with his neighbor,
Brown, when the subject of inter-
changing presents entered into the
conversation.
do you mean to say" declared
Brown, in response to a statement
made by Jones. that all OF your
Christmas presents are paid for?"
Why. yes" was the easy rejoinder
of Jones. II settled for the last Of
them yesterday"
You are nothing short of a won
der!" enviously returned Brown. Il
haven't even begun to buy mine yet"
Neither have l." answered Jones,
with look of enlightenment. Il was
referring to last Christmas" as."-Pitts-
burgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
CONSTRUCTING THE BIG GUNS
Enormous Amount of Labor Involved
In the Making Of These
Weapons Of War.

A fascinating sight is to watch the
first stages in the manufacture of the
big guns, which are proving SO devas-
tating in the war. A solid ingot Of
steel, some fifty feet in length and
weighing about one hundred tons. is
employed in the making of a 13-inch
gun. After being forged and then al
lowed to cool, so that it may be
toughened for the heavy work, this gi-
gantic bar of steel is pressed into cylin-
drical shape by a powerful hydraulic
press, which exerts a pressure of any
thing between 5000 to 10000 tons to
the square inch. Later what is known
as the trepanning operation is carried
out, namely drilling the bore from end
to end. Next the bore is rihed.
The most impressive sight, however,
is the hardening process, when the
rough weapon is heated to dazzling
white heat and plunged into a well
full Of oil. If the operation takes
place lii the night time the sight of
this big, glowing bar of metal being
lowered apparently into the bowels of
the earth issuing leaping tongues of
flames from the burning Oil, may be
likened to q scene from Dante's Infer
no. The gun is left to cool in the oil
bath, out of which it comes hardened.
toughened and tempered.
Now follows the wire-winding opera
tion to make the weapon stronger and
impart to It some measure Of elastic
ity. This wire winding is much the
same in principle as the whipping on
the handle of cricket bat. In this
case. however. the whipping takes the
form of a strong steel ribbon, which
is wound around the body OF the gun.
Every 13-inch gun has about one hun
dred and twenty miles of this steel
ribbon wound about it. Some idea of the
labor involved in the manufacture Of
one of these guns may be gathered
from the fact that from start to finish
the time occupied is IL months.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11

made precious presents to this temple,
until its vaults are bursting with pent-
up treasure. The city has no indus
try, no commerce-nothing that is
apart from its religious purpose. 1t
supports itself upon the money Of the
pilgrims, lodges them, feeds them,
robs them, sells them prayer bricks
made from the graveyard clay, and
even marries them for the period Of
their visit to perennial brides, brides
kept in stock, who legally have many
husbands in their lives.
A British Indian army officer told me
that the looting of the Nedjef mosque
was a favorite dream of the soldiers
In the middle East, who looked forward
to the day when war may sweep an
army of invasion into Nedjef.
Something About caueasia.
Concerning Caucasia, where the
Turks and the Russian are renewing
that long ago conflict that has existed
between the Turk and the Muscovite.
the National Geographic society is
sued the following statement:
Caucasia is potpourri of races.
tongues and religions. Nowhere else
in the world can one find on similar
area SO many types of peoples, so
many languages and dialects. so many
religions and sects thereof. The Cau-
casus mountains, for the most part,
stretch above fruitful land, and every
folk-stream which flowed their way
has left eddies within their closed.
world-isolated valleys.
The cosmopolitanism of New York
is provincial compared with the mag
nificent, regardless confusion of Cau-
casian peoples. There are some seven
ty dialects strange to the West spoken
within its boundaries, while business,
touring, engineering and other tech
niques bring most of the other Ian
guages in. In this modern Babel dwell
Georgians, Imeritians, Chevsurs,
Lazes, Mmgrelians, Pshavs, Swanit-
tians. Abkhasians, Circassians, Kebar-
dians, Ossetes. Avars. Chechinzes,
Jews, Russians of several varieties,
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
SHOW SUPREMACY OF SOUL
Bright Spots in Dark Incidents of
the Great Conflict Going on
In Europe.

Courage is the universal possession
of the German, the Englishman, the
Frenchman, the Belgian, the Austrian.
the Russian and the Japanese. The
stories of individual coolness and dar-
Ing are SO many that they have al
most ceased to attract special atten-
ton. The other day, when the Brit
ish dreadnaught Formidable went
down in {. storm, crushed like an egg
shell by torpedoes or mines, it's cap
ain-Loxley-was on the bridge as 1t
sank; and his last words were:
Steady men; it's all right; keep cool;
do not get in a panic; be British"
Every officer was at his post; many
of them had lighted cigarettes. This
stirring exhibition of the fact that
the man does not die when his body
falls in the trenches or sinks in the
ocean can be matched in every navy
and army. All Europe is fighting for
Invisible things. There never was
such universal and commanding evil
dence that the soul Of humanity is su-
preme and invincible.-From the Out
lcok
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11

and one Of patient resignation about
his wife. The humdrum of business
life was wearing the lightness from
step.
He would have diagnosed the trou.
Bile otherwise-the Wilderness and wild.
ness of the Chihuahua sands and a
dark-eyed boy were calling him. For
years he had succeeded in nearly for
getting them; but as time passed, and
no heir came to bless him and Elisa
beth. thought of the boy returned with
increasing persistency 1t would seem
30 good to have young life in the house,
to have his boy there always, and a
whole string of other boys sometimes,
and be young with them all again.
During the interminably long, empty
days he revolved the thing over and
over in his mind, until, one day, the
restlessness Oyercame him entirely.
Telling his wife that he had been
called away on some urgent business
that would require his attention for a
month or SO, he boarded west-bound
train, and in the course Of a few days
landed on the Chihuahua sands again.
Once at the station he hired a rig
and drove across the plains to his
former home. Inquiring cautiously at
a neighbor's as to who lived on the
old Leeks place, he found that
strangers owned his former home;
that his wife was buried beside the
mound that was supposed to be his;
and that his boy, who was described
as very promising lad, was in some
college in the States
For a week he stayed, going over
the once familiar scenes. But the
place seemed strange to him. the men
rough and the women simple. The
soul had gone out of things, and, try
as he might, he could not put life in
them.
Again he rode swiftly down to the
dry arroyo. across the low mesquite
to where the trail led into the noun
tains, and crossed the American line.
Once over, he pulled up and looked
back at the forbidding black sills that
shut in his dreams.
~.
1t was commencement day. Chad
Leeks was valedictorian. At the close
Of the exercises. the elder Chad went
up and introduced himself to the
younger man as a friend of his IA
ther
I'm glad you knew him." the boy
replied heartily. MY mother could
not die in peace until l promised to
graduate at the same college that he
attended. She thought it might help
me to become the man he was
With sigh the elder man turned
away. He would rather die than al
low the boy to be disillusioned.
"She-wanted-him to become-the
is-father-was," he mused bit
terly as he boarded a home-bound
train.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
Quite a New Dance.

Like flying dumping Uncle Flop
wit projected himself from the moving
bus to the pavement.
But mud was everywhere.
Poor old Uncle Flopwit's feet
touched the paving stones for frac-
tion Of second, but he proceeded for
the next ten yards of his way face
downward-his white waistcoat churn-
ing a neat furrow in the slime.
Then a lamppost brought him to a
halt. He was still PROSTATE when a
Samaritan's voice exclaimed
"oh. dear! Poor old gentleman!
Have you hurt yourself?"
Now. Uncle Flopwit didn't like be.
ing called old, and he considered the
rest OF the question ridiculous.
Hurt myself? or course not! That
sliding business Is the first figure of a
new dance-the walrus glide Sup
posed to be q walrus sliding or q
block OF ice into the sea. Did 1t rather
neatly, think. don't you. you idiot?'
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11

city's walls. where millions upon mil
lions of past Shias have turned the
sands to clay. This enormous grave
yard about the city is not the least
part of it's weird fascination. The des-
ert trail to the sacred city is empty,
barren and dead 1t is an unattrac-
tive trail whose silence is broken only
by fanatic pilgrims and by caravans
transporting corpses to the Shia Nee
ca OF the dead.
Nedjef Is great city. Not a green
thing-a plant. shrub. or tree-lives
within its dry hot limits. 1t is built
ON high plain of soft sandstone. The
narrow, crooked streets, in many
places mere passages three or four feet
wide, wind like jungle paths. One of
the strange features OF this strange
city is its cellars. In summer the
fierce heat drives the painting people
deep down into the earth, like rats in
hole. Beneath every house is a cell
lar. burrowed miDe-like to amazing
depths; one / explored reached an as
toundingly low level. being more than
one hundred feet below the street.
Cellars as Refugees from Heat.
Into these damp. dark holes the
Shias fee when the scorching desert
air sizzles above and imported Ger
man thermometers stand at 1870 de-
grees r. Some of the cellars are ar.
ranged in a tier of cells or rooms.
one below the other; the upper room
Is used In the first hot months, the
family going lower down as the heat
increases. Many OF these cellars are
connected by underground corridors,
and the criminals, who swarm in Ned
jef, easily elude capture by passing
through these tunnels from house to
house.
The mosque is covered with great
gold tiles which run to its very base.
For oges the rich of Shia faith have
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
For Steadfast Peace.

God puts within our reach the pow
er of heipfulness, the ministry of pity;
he is ever ready to increase his grace
in our hearts, that as we live and act
we may learn by slow degrees skill
and mystery of consolation. "If ye
know these things. happy are ye if ye
do them" There is no surer way of
steadfast peace in this world than the
active exercise of pity; no happier
temper of mind and work than the
lowly watching to see if we can lessen
any misery that is about US; nor is
there any better way of growth in
faith and love.-Francis Paget.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
a First Offender.

Each of two little Boston girls has a
black-and-tan terrier dog. 1t was not
long before the two dogs fought, and Il
required the efforts of man to sepa-
rate them.
Each little girl was disposed to
blame the others little dog for start
ing the trouble, and one of them said:
81 don't care. your dog is a sneak
ing little thing, anyhow
We'll, so is your dog" was the
reply. And this time it shocked
first, too"
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11

- - YSTIC, buried in the ex-
elusive sands OF the desert,
almost unknown by the white
man, the Arab city of Ned
jef, Mecca OF the Shia Mo-
hama11ans, born of and for a reli-
gioa. esatains within its walls Of sun
dried Srick a treasure rich beyond
fable, ne Shia st. Peters, into which
a stream OF gold and jewels has poured
for oeaturies, and over the lOOting OF
which many an empire-building SOL
dier has sweetened his dreams while
sleeping on the battle fields of India
and elsewhere in Asia. Nedjef has
become hostile land, and the wonder
ful mosque of gold and precious stones
is exPosed as a possible objective of
invaders. Frederick Simpich, one of
the few white men of any race to have
made a visit to hidden Nedjef. has
Transmitted an account of this strang-
est of cities to the National Geograph-
ic society. He writes:
II is five days by mule or camel
caravan from Bagdad to Nedjef, and
in the eventful centuries since the
ssouldS IUuuucu thc oPoI
where a nephew of the Prophet Mo
hammed was slain-it is estimated
that over 25,000,OOO Moslems have
made the pilgrimage to this mysteri-
Gus desert city of golden domes, fabu-
lous treasures, and weird rites. Thou
sands OF devotees from the Shia
hordes Of India, Persia and South Rus
sia flock through Bagdad each year,
bringing with them their mummified
dead-salted and dried-for burial in
the holy ground about the mystic city.
All Seek Burial There.
Each member of the Shia sect must
make the pilgrimage to this holiest of
his shrines. the city toward which
throughout life he bows in worship.
the unnatural city bound up in the
deserts spell. into which the treasures
of all his fellows in faith are flowing
for their spiritual welfare. Each men,
ber of the Shia sect expects to be
buried in the sacred earth without the
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11

housework or attend to my baby was
sowesk. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound did me q world Of good. and
now am strong and healthy, can do my
work and tend my baby. l advise. all
suffering women to take it and sget
well as did. "-Mrs. FANNIE CooPER,
RED, Bridgeton, M.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotic or harmful
drugs, and to-day holds the record Of
being the most successful remedy for
female ills we know Of, and thousands
of voluntary testimonials on file in the
Pinkham laboratory at Lynn, Mass.
seem to prove this fact.
For thirty years it has been the stand
ard remedy for female ills, and has re-
stored the health of thousands Of women
who have been troubled with such all
ments as displacements, inflammation.
liberation, tumors, irregularities, etc.
If you want special advice
write to Lydia e. Pinkham Med
icine Co., (confidential) Lynn.
Mass. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by q woman
and held in strict confidence.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
A Bridal Tour.

81 want to go abroad the worst
way!" exclaimed the young thing.
Then you should marry. | know Of
no worse way"
Sayins which, the older thing smiled
harshly.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11

A female cynic is one who declares
that all men are alike.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11

A girls idea of a ringleader is the
first man to come along with soli-
taire. =.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
Among the Elite.

Among the Elite.
Then they never have a family
jar?"
They occasionally have what might
be termed family jardiniere. AS aris
tocratic people they only quarrel in
very refined way
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11

For the treatment of colds, sore throat,
sure relief-5c at all good Druggists.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11

Success often comes to man be-
cause he has forgotten that he might
fail.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11

Great thoughts seldom come in very
big packages.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
THIS W0MAN'S
SICKNESS
Quickly Yielded To Lydia E
Pinkharn's Vegetable
Compound.
Dridgeton, N.J.-"Iwsnt to thank you
4 thousand times for the wonderful

good Lydia E. Pink
ham . Vegetable
Compound has done
for me. I suffered
very much from .
female trouble. I
had bearing down
pains, was irregular
and at times. could
hardly walk across
the room. I was
unable to do my
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
important to Mothers

Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that Il
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11

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Inf Mecca Of the Shia Mo-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-02-19

planned to President Wilson and the
department Of justice, saying this ut
terance by a federal judge violates the
letter and spirit of President Wilson's
neutrality proclamation.
-O-O
BARTHoLDT MAKES ANOTHER
PRO-GERMAN SPEECH
Washington, Feb. 20. - Declaring
Germany is not getting justice from
the United States, demanding hon
est neutrality" and accusing Aneri-
can newspapers of printing vile
oalumniesa upon the fatherland, Rep.
Bartholdt asserted in the house to-
day:
"should the United States ever be-
come embroiled in war again, the
Germans of this country would rally
to the American flag.
1--WE have not had the same con-
sideration as our English brothers.
"Not word has been said about
English and Japanese violations OF
Chinese neutrality,
'EIaYe we. protested against Amer
leans being dragged from neutral
ships because they had German
names? Have we protested against
England's policy to starVe German
non-combatants? Have we protest
ed against England declaring the
North Sea a war zone?
mo. But when Germany did the
same thing we dispatched stiff note
to Berlin; a mfldeF one to England. =
MoRAL-WAS4 YOUR FEET
Los Angeles, Feb. ia dirty foot
sent Henry b. Mcdonald to the pen
for five years. Known as the bare
foot burglar, % he was trapped by the
imprint Of his naked foot.
-----ll-9Hl
Arnr ~ ..rIHnnnaEn
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-02-19

married. That was on May 2, 1907,
very shortly after the divorce.
The marriage which hal looked so
fun of golden possibility soon went on
the rocks. Although the couple lived
together for some time and were in
fact remarked in Chicago, on Sept.
81, 1912, and Mrs, Lehman gave
birth to a baby girl, Case Virginia
Lehman, now nearly years old,
storm clouds were sighted over their
home.
Although the mighty Lehman
family took pains to. cover the tFon-
BILE up, and the trust newspapers be-
came afflicted with lockiaW, it soon
became public scandal that the young
Mrs. Lehman was going to sue her
second husband for divorce.
The expected came q few days ago
when the bill for divorce was fled
In it Mrs, Case Lehman tells of
cruelty and beatings inflicted upon
her by Otto Lehman.
She charges that on one occasion
he took advantage of her in an auto
mobile and caused scratches on her
face that were apparent for several
weeks, I,
On other occasions, she charges,
he struck her, She says that in Feb
ruaTy of this year he rushed on to
New York after her and when she
refused to agree to any of his plans
for the future he struck her In the
face. That was the last straw and
the fling of the bill came next
OHIO GERMAN ALLIANCE IS HOT
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-02-19

OHIO GERMAN ALLIANCE Is HOT
OVER KILLITTS' SPEECH
Columbus, O., Feb. 1e.-TWenty
branches of Ohio German alliance
were today on record with Fesolu-
tons asking President Hexamer of
the National German Alliance in
Philadelphia to call attention of con-
gFess to the alleged recent anti-Ger-
man utteFanees Of Federal Judge
John NJ, Killits of Toledo.
At a public school meeting Killits
is charged with saying:
am a German and do not care
hB7# soon some one drops thousand
bombs On the kaisef's head I 90 not
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-02-19
OH NY TUMMfl

New York, Feb. 19.-Bring on the
paregoric, Mrs. Eleanor Reynolds
and Morton 0hrbach win ind out to-
night who can eat the most Holsters
for q $50 prize.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-02-19
MoRAL-WAsH YOUR FEET-

Los Angeles, Feb. ia dirty
sent Henry b. Mcdonald to the
for five years. Known as the Z
foot burglar, /" he was trapped by
imprint Of his naked foot.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1915-02-19

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