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The Press., 1915-08-18
Grocers as Fighting Men.

In olden times in England the gro cers' trade played a useful part in ma tional defense. The Grocers' company was commanded in 1857 to furnish six ty men for "the resistance of such in iquitous attempts as may be made by foreign enemies" Further demands of the same kind were satisfied in sue cessive years, and in 1588 the company supplied 500 men to resist the Spanish armada. Authority was granted to press men into this service, and ap- prentices and journeymen were called upon to leave the counter for the bat tlefield. Sir John Philpot, an early master of the Grocers' company, clear ed the North sea of q horde of Scottish pirates by means of fleet equipped entirely at his own cost.
 Itching, bleeding, protruding or blint piles have yielded to Doan's Ointment E0c of a n atnroa
The Press., 1915-08-18

Hartford, 0 0 0 o % 6 1-8
 Stafford, 0 0 o 0 o Oe1 o O-1
 Runs, Kerwin, Bolen, Atwood, Riley 3, Harwood, Burnham, Bon- yolior. sStolen bases, Weber, Bolen, Riley, Bonvolior, Kaufman. Two base hits, Riley, ?, Harwood. Home run, Kerwin. Hits, off Kerwin 6, of Kaufman 3. Left on bases, Hart ford 5, Stafford l. Struck out, by Kerwin z, by Kaufman II. Batter hit, Dickey. Double play, Murphy to Bolieau. Passed balls, Ashe 2. Time 2h 1Om. Umpire, Miller.
The Press., 1915-08-18

Iegtn, inv May lslh, and until october isi our a d niI close at noon on saturdays
The Press., 1915-08-18
Chinese and l.nanase,

Chinese and Japanese do not speak the same language, nor can they be said to have the same religion. Con- fucianism is the prevailing faith of China, while Buddhism is the chief re- ligion of Japan. Geometry probably had it's rise in Egypt, though f was perfected by the Greeks.
The Press., 1915-08-18
BIRD'S-EYE MAPLE
 FLOORING
3-S in. thick by 2 in. face

A novel and beautiful thin hard wood flooring which can be laid right over your cd floor. This is an opportunity to get an unusual hard wood Il. or ut an ordinary price.
 We aro unloading to day a car containing a small quantity of the above flooring. also a full line of Hard Wood flooring of the finest quality. The floor of your house is second in importance only to tho roof. We can show you how to mako it both durable and at tractivc.
 negtnr ing May isih, and untn october list our a ufI close at noon on saturdays.
The Press., 1915-08-18
Two of Kind.

Human nature does not change so very much from decade to decade, and the kind of man who always caught the biggest fish of the season ten years ago now has an automobile that will take any hill on high gear.
The Press., 1915-08-18
Ahstrusa Cooker.

Abstruse Cookery. T see Boston ggls are taking up culinary matters in the public schools. ' Learning to cut the pie. suppose, in. to comic sections. Judge.
The Press., 1915-08-18

The Roman catacombs are 580 miles in extent, and 1t is estimated that something like 15,00O,000 dead are inferred in them.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-25

such construction work now under way
totals about 81, 1880
The Honolulu Planting Mill Company
is constructing great coaling dock and
station at Pearl Harbor to cost 500, 600
the Lord-Young Engineering Company IL
building five Industrial structures at the
naval station to cost 10000; the Spald-
ing Construction Company is engaged in
placing the foundations of the gigantic
wireless tower which will attain a cost
of $4,000.
More than 100000 Of construction work
has been started at Fort Kamehameha
on the shores of Pearl Harbor. which
will make this One OF the model coast
defense stations of the United States
the army itself is building structures &c
cost $1,000 In addition to this the Lord
Young Engineering Company Is engaged
in the construction Of water pipe line
and an electric line both at Pearl HarboI
Naval Station and Fort Kamehameha
which will cost $4,000 and $1,000. respec'
lively.
Out at Schoheld Barracks, twenty miles
distant from Honolulu and in the mIds'
of the famous Hawaiian pineapple belt
the army is doing work of which the
ultimate cost is placed at 100000 This
is a brigade post at which are stationed
the Fourth United States Cavalry. the
First United States Field Artillery. and
the First and Twenty-fifth United States
Infantry regiments.
Considerable additional work is being
done at Fort De Russy and Fort Ruger
the former situated at Waikiki Beach
and the latter at Diamond Head, which
is an extinct crater and which has been
utilized for fortress purposes.
Pearl Harbor Naval Station will total
cost of more than s15.ooO. go when COM
pleted and will be the most complete
naval station under the American flag
The channel from the ocean to Pear
Harbor is four and a half miles long
The drydock will be more than 1000 feet
long The anchorage In the lochs is ex-
tremely deep in places and a considerable
part of the battleship feet of the Ameri-
can navy could be easily anchored there
The Washington herald., 1915-07-25
ARMY ORDERS.

Mai Curtis W otweI. Corps Of Engineer viii
make two visits to Belvoir Tract. Va. during July
and August for duty as observed At the joint camp
for engineer troofs-
By direction Of ths President. CAPT Harry T.
Matthews. Qusrtermaster Corps. il relieved from
detail in that eorps. to take effect August
Second Lieut.. Sumner Waite. Fifth Infantry.
aviation student. is on duty that requires him to
participate frequently in aerial flights from July 10
Mai Frederick A. Dale. Medical Corps. IL re-
le1ed from duty at Galveston. reI. and win Pm
iced from Fort Crook. Sebr.. to Fort Ontario. y.
Y. for duty.
Capt James p. HARRISON. Fourteenth Infantry.
is transferred to the Twenty-frst Infantry.
Mai Edwin D. Brickr. Ordnance DEPARTMENT.
will visit Sandy Hook Proving Ground. n. J.. On
business pertaining to operations Of the Ordinances
Department.
upon his arrival in the United States. Is granted
Capt. William Fl. Thearie Medical Cora
Mai Edward T. O'Hern. Ordnance Department.
will make two visits to Schenectady. n. T., prior
to September % on business pertaining 70 the
operations Of the Ordinances Department
Second Lieut. David Mel. Crawford. Coast Arti-
lery Corps Is relieved from duty on the mine planter
Mai. Samuel Rinsgold. and will report to the cnm-
handing officer coast defenses Of Boston. for as
sisnment to q company.
Upon the return to Fort Rosecrans. Cal. Of
Capt. Fred ". Palmer. Medical Corps. from leavs
Of absence. First Lieut. Harrison W. Stnckey.
Medical Reserve Corps. will proceed to the Pre-
.idio Of San Francisco. Cal. and report TO tbs
commanding officer for temporary duty.
First Lieut.. Cassus NJ Dowen. Eleventh In
fantry is detailed for duty in the Judge Advocate
Generals Department. and will proceed to Wash
inston. D. c.. reporting to the Judge Advocate
General for duty in his Office.
Capt Ralph s. Granger. Second Field ARTILLERY.
is detailed for service and to all vacancy In the
Quartermaster Corps. to take effect August =
Mai. Elisha s. Benton. retired, 10 relieved from
duty at the Columbia Military Academy. Columbia.
Tenn to take effect August l.
Capt. John A. lockwood. retired. at his own
request is relieved from duty at Fork Union Mill
tary Academy. Fork Union. Va, to take effect
August l. and is detailed As professor Of military
science and tactics at the Tennessee Military Inst
tute. Sweetwater. Tenn, to take effect August ,
Second Lieut.. James A Merritt, Fourteenth In
fantry, Is relieved from duty at the Tennessee
Military Institute. Sweetwater. Tenn. to take ef-
feet August !. and is detailed ~ professor OF
military science and tactics At the Columbia Military
Academy. Columbia. Tenn. TO take effect August :.
Capt. Edward n. Macon. retired. At his OVID
request is relieved from duty at the North Dakota
Agricultural College Agricultural College. n. OAK.
to take effect August 81. and will proceed to hi,
home.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-25
lone FRENCH OFFICER
CAPTURES II GERMANS
Sub. Lieut.. Hanoi Receives Decora-
ton for Notable Feat in
Enemy's Trenches.
Special Cable to The Washington Herald.

srecial Cabs to The Washington Herald.
Paris, July 24-While Sub-Lieut. Hanoi
(who received a decoration for this feat
was threading his way between trenches
which the French had just captured. he
lost his bearings and inadvertently went
beyond the first line of French trenches
He was Immediately assailed by hail
of bullets.
Seeing that he could only escape by a
miracle the young officer resolved to sell
his life dearly and rushed forward with
drawn revolver. BY chance he stumbled
into the German communication trench
and the first man to bar the way was
the officer commanding the section. The
Frenchman blew the mans brains out
Behind the German officer were three OF
four soldiers, who offered no resistance
when ordered to throw up their hands.
IT have a battalion with mitrailleuse
behind me-" cried the Frenchman in ex-
cellent German" and II but one of you
moves I will have you all exterminated.
Thereupon from the next communities
ton trench emerged. one by one. dozen
or more German soldiers, their hands
In the air. Give US our lives" they
begged.
Not a little surprised and somewhat
uneasy, tno TtTCn uSpdiCu
in himself what he should do with his
captives. 1t was no easy thing to get
the seventeen prisoners to the French
lines unless he could maintain their be-
lief in the battalion close by.
After a seconds hesitation, the lieuten-
ant ordered them all out Of the trench,
made them fall down fiat on the edge OF
the parapet, and then told them to &c
forward in bounds on all fours in order
to escape the bullets which swept the
800 yards separating them from the
French lines.
When they were nearing the French
outpost guard, he gave them the order to
march at the goose-step. and the Ger
mans obeyed Immediately. raising their
legs in their best parade manner to the
huge amusement of the French officers
and soldiers, who could hardly believe
their eyes when they realized that these
seventeen prisoners had been captured
by one man.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-25
Wants Navy Reorganized

Francis T. Bowles, who was chief
naval constructor of the United States
under Presidents Mckinley and Roose-
welt and later president of the Fore
River Shipbuilding Company. says, &C
cording to the New York Tribune:
THE great trouble with the United
States navy is that it needs a master
with the full confidence of navy Off
GERS and of Congress. He must be
willing to hear all the troubles of all
the men in the lavy and then say.
This will be our policy in the future
The policy of the navy cannot be out
lined by the officers, because they all
have different ideas. and there is jeal-
ousy among them. Promotion in the
navy at present is by seniority. 1t
puts no premium on efficiency, ana
even works against efficiency. 1t is
driving a great many young men out
of the navy. They can see nothing
ahead
The adjustment of the present sys-
tenn of promotion would hit some men
pretty hard, but l feel sure Congress
would stand back of the Secretary of
the Navy who undertook to make the
change The navy would come through
the uproar and we would soon hav.
better service. The change ought to
come at once. 1t will take big man
to do it. but it can be done. 1t ought
to be done quietly and by men wholly
disinterested and yet perfectly familiar
with naval matters"
The Washington herald., 1915-07-25
NEWS OF ARMY, NAVY AND MARINE CORPS


of the day from now until camp, the ON
GERS and noncommissioned officers being
ordered to report at the armory, and
such privates as may care to attend are
welcome to do so. Section and company
work in the field are being taken up and
several knotty points will be worked
out
From all/accounts. the Signal Corps
Company is expected to play the game
according to regular army regula tons
this year, and from the simple salute to
an officer to the working out of field
problems the men will be put through
their PAGES.
Sergt Winters has been busy assem-
bling the three new escort wagons. and
aside from having parts enough left over
to make an extra one. he did a good
job.
The new uniforms are expected at any
time
The new wire carts have not arrived.
but will be here in time for camp. The
two now in the company's possession
will have to be overhauled thoroughly be-
fore taking the field. The company will
not take them over the road, but will
shin them by boat to Colonial Beach.
A good-sized detail will so by boat to
pitch the big canvas and get the kitchen
in running order. So that when the COM
pany arrives everything will be ready
for them.
Capt. Terry has plenty of road work
and drill marked out for the company.
1t looks as though the company will
be filled up to seventy-five men before it
leaves, as it now has seventy-three.
There are a few whom Capt. Terry will
discharge, however as they have left the
District and are no longer available.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-25
Campaigning for Navy

A systematic effort to bring the
people of the South and Middle West
to see the need of an adequate navy
has been planned by the executive
committee of the Navy League. Rep
resentatives are to be sent into every
State which has voted consistently
against naval appropriations and every
means adopted to build up sentiment
for adequate naval protection.
These States and others in which
navy sentiment is not strong have
been divided into three districts, into
each of which a field secretary of the
Navy League will be sent to build up
a State organization, to educate the
people and focus public sentiment on
the States representatives In Con-
gress. The first district will include
Indiana, Illinois. Iowa. Wisconsin,
Michigan and Minnesota. and Is to be
organized for the league by William
NJ Lewis. mayor of Lake Forest. Ill.
The second district will include Ohio.
Kentucky. Missouri. Nebraska, Kansas,
Oklahoma, and Texas. Maj. ]. j.
Dickinson, of Washington, special
commissioner of the State Department
to Europe for the Panama-Pacific Ex-
position, will organize this district.
The third district will include Vir-
ginia. the Carolinas. Georgia. Alabama.
work of organizing will be done by
Alexander S. Vest. son of the late Sem
ator Vest. of Missouri.
State committees will be patterned
after the great political party organi-
cations, with one State committeeman
to each Congressional district, who
will pick local committeemen to act
with him in district work. the whole
to cooperate with a national commit
tee of the chairmen of the State COM
mittees Before fall the league ex-
poets to have national. State and dis
trict committees organized and at
work. Every political party in every
district will be visited and efforts
made to have a plank indorsine an
adequate navy inserted in its platform.
An effort will be made to secure a
statement from every candidate for Of
flee regarding national defense, and
committees will see that local senti-
ment in favor of an adequate navy is
brought TO the attention of each mem
her of Congress from his home dis
trict.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-25
West Point Brevities

West Point. July 24.-Col. and Mrs
Tschappat are motoring through the
Adirondacks and later will join Mrs
Tschappats parents, Gen. and Mrs
Tully McCrea, at Sacketts Harbor
where they are spending the summer
Mai and Mrs. Timberlake are on a
fortnights motoring trip to Montreal
Edgar Graham, here for several
weeks with his brother. Lieut. E. +,
Graham. who was seriously injured
while playing polo, returned Monday
hams mother will remain here with
her daughter-in-law. Lieut.. Graham is
improving rapidly.
Lieut.. and Mrs. O'Leary are receiv-
ing congratulations on the arrival OF
little daughter. born Sunday. July
IS.
Lieut.. W. D. Smith has reported for
duty in the department of tactics
Miss Miriam Householder is the
guest of her brother and sister-in-
law, Lieut.. and Mrs. Householder. for
hop. Lieut.. and Mrs. Householder en-
tertained at supper for Miss House
holder, the Misses Schofield. Miss
Hoffer. Cadets Undertake. Parker
Spence and Flanagan.
Miss Dorothy Rich, whose engage
ment to Capt. Godfrey was announced
last week. was the guest of Lieut.
and Mrs. North for the weekend.
Lieut. Richardson has visiting him
his mother and sister, Mrs Richard
son and Miss Richardson.
Col. Holt has returned to the post
after a week at the seashore.
Lieut.. Miller has gone to Plattsburg
on militia duty.
Mrs. Kuhn, wife of Col Joseph E
Kuhn, and Mrs. Parker are guests al
the hotel.
Lieut. Russell James, on duty with
the militia encamped near Fishkill
was taken i'll there and is now at the
Cadet Hospital
Mr.. Schofeld. chief clerk in the War
Department, Washington. is spending a
few weeks at the post with his fam
lily.
Col Ogden Rafferty,. retired. spent
the weekend at the hotel to visit his
son, Cadet Rafferty,.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-25
Fort Monroe Notes

Fort Monroe. Va, July A.-Capt. and
Mrs. Masteller gave a porch party in
honor of Miss Van Horn, other guests
being Capts. and Mesdames Lincoln.
Alley. Crane. Lieut.. and Mrs. Williford
and Lieut.. Ljungstedt.
Mrs. Pettus entertained at bridge re-
Gently in honor of her sister. Mrs Rob-
inson. of Mobile. Those present were
Mesdames Strong. Shartle. Lincoln.
Wildrick. Masteller. Maddux. Barlow.
Ohnstad. Moore. waddell. Ide. Holmes.
Tignor. Robinson. Stovall and the Misses
Hall. Jemison, Corbin and Collins.
Prizes were won by Mesdames Shartle.
Tignor. Moore. Waddell and Miss Hail.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Wildrick and Lieut.
gressive bridge-dinner for Capt. and Mrs.
Baker. Capt and Mrs. Grain. Lieut. and
Mrs. Maddux. Mrs. Bradley and Capt
Brigham. Prizes were won by Capts.
Brigham and Baker.
George F. Adams gave a progressive
dinner in honor of Brig. Gen. and Mrs.
F. S. Strong. The guests included Lieut.
Col. and Mrs Stark, Col Haynes. Majs.
and Mesdames Pettus. Callan. Little.
Maj. Nugent. Capts and Mesdames
Baker. Shartle, Lincoln, Mckinney,
Mssteller. Lieut.. and Mrs. Rose. Lieut..
and Mrs. Wildrick. Mesdames Bradley.
Perneau and Pierce
Lieut.. W. E. Shedd. aid to Brig. Gen.
Strong. arrived Tuesday.
Mrs. Ohnstad entertained at bridge for
Mesdames Bradley. Ide. Tignor. Grain.
Alley. Chapman. whaley and Williford.
Prizes were won by Mesdames Grain and
Williford
Brig, Gen. and Mrs Dan C. Kingman.
of Washington, spent the weekend at
Monroe with their sons Lieuts. F. E. and
R. w. Kingman. The latter Is here from
Ell Paso. Tex. with his wife and two
children.
Mrs. Walker and daughter. Gene, have
gone to spend the summer in the noun
tains Of Virginia
Miss Martin and Miss Sneed. of Will
loughby Spit. spent Monday with Mrs.
Dodson. who entertained Mesdames Alley.
Tignor. Stovall. Williford and the Misses
Corbitt and Van Hoose at auction bridge.
Prizes were won by Mrs. Stovall and
Miss Corbitt.
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. E. NJ. Weaver. Of
Washington, spent the weekend with
Lieut. and Mrs. Rose.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-25
India Millions Supporting
England, Says Elder Daniels
Upper Classes Are United in Loyalty to Brons But Under
current Of Dissatisfaction Exists Among Anarchists,
Declares President of Seventh Day Adventists

Elder A. G. Daniels. president Of the
World Conference of Seventh Day Adven-
fists, who has Just returned from a years
tour in the Orient, Australia and New
Zealand. yesterday gave an interview
in which he refuted the belief in some
quarters that the native population of
India would break out in revolt IL the
natives believed that the allies ultimate
ly will be defeated.
Elder Daniels declared that India
millions are supporting ENGLAND In the
greatest crisis in the history Of the Brit
ish empire and said: AN undercurrent Of
dissatisfaction among anarchists and nj
hilists is no more than one would find
among the same classes in other coun-
tries" He declared that the better
classes are united in loyalty to the Bril-
tains He added:
Not only in the great religious
awakening that has taken place do
we see the hand of God, but God has
shaken those people out OF their old
beaten tracks of thirty-four and
forty centuries. They are not where
they were fifty years ago, politically.
intellectually, industrially. socially.
and religiously. In all those lines
there has been a tremendous awaken
ing, a tremendous change in all that
part of the world.
Instead of travelling by the wheel
barrow or the camel or the bullock
cart in many parts Of all those coun-
tries now they have splendid railway
lines and splendid steamship trans
portation. Instead of trying to get
up that great river. the Yangtse in
The Washington herald., 1915-07-25

Among those who have decided to at
tend the military camp for professional
and business men of New York at Platts-
burg on August 10 are the following:
Willard Straight. of ]. p. Morgan & Co.;
Theodore Roosevelt, jr.: Frank Butter
worth, the Yale football star of years
ago: Crawford Blagden, the former Har'
ward football star: Colgate Hoyt. Jr.;
William W. Hoffman. L. H. Bigelow. 1r.
Langdon P. Marvin, Grenville Clark
George S. Hornblower, Alfred Ely. Fan
cher Nicol, Harold Herrick, George Adee
Elihu Root, jr.. E. d. Morgan, jr.. Ham
ilton Fish. P. J. Roosevelt. j. J. Higsin'
son. John A. Dix, and scores or others
prominent in the business. professional
and social life of New York. The camp
is open to New Workers who desire to be
more adequately equipped to defend the
country in event of war. Those who
! measure up to the mark will be listed as
available for commissions should their
services ever be required. The cost pei
man will not be over $40.
It NAV afford us some consolation.
when we consider the transportation
blunders that embarrassed the Cuban
evolutionary force in 1895, to learn that
nelles. 1T has been generally known
for some time" the Army and Navy
Gazette tells us. that the transports
had been SO badly loaded when they first
left Alexandria that stores urgently
wanted at the very outset of operations
had been placed at the very bottom OF
the holds. while above them had been
loaded articles that had been intended
for the supply of an army for many
-, "
at this important juncture Sir Ian Ham
ilton found it necessary to carry almost
the whole of his force back to Egypt,
and thus delay for more than a month
the commencement of the task he had
been directed to undertake"
The Bureau Of the National Census
reports that the average American is
worth 1856, or nearly twice as much
as the average German, who before the
war was worth sl.l00; the Frenchman.
81. 400. and the Englishman. $3.50 to
sl7OO. Nevada. the richest State. is
worth SOS per capita, and Mississippi,
the poorest SIPS. California ranks num-
Der five in the list of comparative
wealth: District Of Columbia, second: IL
linois. tenth; New York, twelfth; New
Jersey. nineteenth: Pennsylvania. TWEEN
ty-second: Indiana, twenty third: Ohio,
twenty-sixth: Massachusetts. twenty
seventh: Rhode Island. thirtieth; Vir-
ginia. forty-second. and Kentucky, forty
third.
Using the American civil war nsel -sS)
as a standard. during which the North.
iwth a population of about q. OCo. 900 and
a wealth of about 81. 900, 100000. spent
81. 900. 100000 in four years-about 50 per
capita per annum-it is a conservative
estimate that at present. considering its
wealth, $3.50. ooo,c0O. 600. and it's population.
the United States could, without making
greater efforts now than were made then,
spend $4,000. 100000 per annum for the
prosecution OF a war. At the present
time none of the powers engaged in the
European war is equaling the relative