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Evening star., 1915-09-12

ishing 75s and machine-guns for every
fifteen men on the front"
France and England have already
more men than Germany can ever
bring against them.
There are 100000 English in
France who have not yet seen fire. l
have it from Capt. Buck, at Fontaine-
bleau. And another 100000 coming
Keep your eye on the Nerdun corner
when the dance commences"
In the Rue Gluck there is a British
pharmacy. where the ambulances stop.
The proprietor knows why they have
not pierced in the north.
Those French slackers are waiting
for kitchener's new army and the Brit
ish heavy guns" he says. Il don't
blame them. Why send men to slapgh-
ter? Let the Germans do ii. In Eng
land 356 factories are turning out mu-
nitions. When the dance starts, keep
your eye on Metz
He told us about the aeroplanes.
1.-TWO thousand French aeroplanes
and 1000 British. Eight squadrons of
500. All under way, half of them built,
and 5000 pilots in practice. All new
and extra At Pau and at Toulouse the
air is black with them, like focks of
wild pigeons. l have it on direct au-
thority.'.
! started away with my soap.
Come back" he called Each car
carries hydrogen bullet blunderbuss
| have it from a personal friend of
Gen. French" (To newcomer, enter
ing), You can speak before Mr. Ster-
ling. He is good Engiishman."
The newcomer was blond. with gold
eyeglasses, and the top of his right
ear missing.
''Oh, I'm neutral, a peacemaker, a
Swede and friend of England" he
murmured, "and l say, stop the slaugh-
ter! OF course. 1t is beautiful heroic
and just like them, all those splendid,
quixotic Englishmen getting them
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of joy) It's like vacuum cleaner.
only different. l have it from per-
sonal friend of Senator Humbert."
Silence. A great man had cleaned his
throat to speak.
Its a personal friend of Paul Poiret.
who invented the sky-blue uniform"
whispered the agent of the Anglo
Dutch Schnapps Company.
I'VE lombard the forts of Metz Oc-
tober II said the authority, "and push
into Germany from three sides Oc-
tober 15. l have it from personal
friend of Castelnau."
They asked why October l.
Because we enter constantinople
September 49," he answered. III the
Balkan League is renewed, events will
march more rapidly. The vulgar pub
lie cannot be expected to grasp the
Interviewing wheels of strategy on
hand me that poker-thanks-it rep
resents the Italian line. this ruler the
north France front. and if any one has
small PACKAGE
/ went to get my soap.
X
Returning, bumped into the
schnappe agent.
Its getting thick in there" he said.
Come, have sugar and water, I'M
possible to get in word with those
good, dear fellows. I'm Belgian my
self and my heart bleeds for those
poor dear Serbians and Rumanians if
the Germans smash through them be-
fore our friends can force the Darda
nelles. Between you and me, the Dar-
danelles are untakable. It's just
slaughter for nothing. I have 1t on the
best authority"
We sat at little cafe.
Il say stop the slaughter" he con-
tinued. II am a Belgian-naturaltze
yes. How did you know? We Belgians
have suffered, and I have my moments
OF compassion, but we'll fight It out.
fight 1t out, II we have TO Waoe TO our
make Of that X-cannon? | think it is
blum. but you believe 1t real. No?
But you spoke of ASessmaker In
Neuilly whose husband Is an expert
mechanician working on detached
pieces. and boasted that he could make
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The City Of Rio de Janeir0 and Its Great

Military. Naval and Central Club. the
Great Central Hotel. and many banks
and other buildings devoted to busi-
ness.
worthy of mention. The central road
way consists of blocks of hardwood
laid in asphalt or cement. and the
sidewalks are pavements TWENTY-FIVE
feet wide and fioored with mosaic They
are made of things laid in patterns
and smoothly fitted together. At
home we think We do well II We have
a mosaic vestibule. Down here in Rio
they have three miles of such mosaic
running up and down the sides of this
avenue. Each block has its own pat
tern running from cross street to cross
street. Here is one where the black
and white lines give the impression OF
being grooved, looking like a great
waving flag from one end OF the block
to the other. From above this flag of
white and black stripes seems to be
moving up and down like the waves
of the sea. and the illusion is SO per-
feet that the people walking upon it
appear to be going over hills and hol-
lows the seeming difference in height
being created by the way the colors
laid. ] have often sat and watched
this effect from my room. on the third
story of the great Hotel Central. which
stands in the heart of the avenue.
Other blocks have different patterns
of the same co1ors.
Another detail of the Avenida is the
great street lights which. with their
big globes. make night as bright as
day. and another is the post office
boxes. The latter are of bronze upheld
by bronze posts which have arms
reaching out and holding the box. The
lampposts are of bronze, and every
thing seems to have been created with
out regard to expense.
The Rua do Ouvidor has also been
made over. This. which in the past
was the Broadway, the Rialto and the
Boulevard of the capital, is now divid
ing it's honors with the Avenida Cen
tral. 1t still has the best stores and
many of the clubs. 1t is one of the
chief gossiping places, the chief shop
ping street, the walk where the beaux
and bellies come to see and be seen,
the spot where the candidate feels the
pulse of the people and the political n
holds his daily receptions. 1t is the
same as in the past, but it has been
remade. The old street has been torn
up and a new one with a smooth pave
ment and sidewalks of tiles. fine
enough for the floor of a bathroom,
have taken it's place. The crowd is
thicker than it was when l was here
fifteen years ago; but it is of the same
character, representing Brazil. Today
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You buy tickets at both ends of the
route.
The car starts on the level, and, ris-
ing. you feel as though you were in an
aeroplane. You are soon high above
the harbor. A little later the car tilts.
You are beginning to climb and you go
on the slant to the top. AS you rise
the houses dwindle. BY and by you
tain two-thrds as high as the Sugar
loaf. The great cable carries you from
there on to the top of the Sugarloaf.
The space between is covered with
green, and YOU have magnificent views.
At the right is the ocean going on and
on to Europe and Africa, and on the
left is Rio. with its wonderful harbor
and it's wall of green mountains be-
hind
The city has no skyscrapers. It's
streets are more even than ours. They
are lined with three. four. and five
story buildings, and the whole effect is
most pleasing.
you seem to be climbing Sugarloaf
mountain. 1t is absolutely bare rock.
The water has slid down 1t for ages
and it's sides are worn smooth. You
can see the mica shining like silver
out of the granite.
x*#
find Rio a new city. 1 visited 1t
sixteen years ago. 1t was then
whited sepulchre, beautiful but deadly.
and noted as one of the pest holes of
the world Yellow fever was COM
mon. and some of the foreign resi-
dents carried bottles of castor oil as
our fashionable ladies carry smelling
salts. At the slightest headache or
fit of Indigestion, down went the oil.
with a view to preparing the system
to resist yellow jack if perchance he
might be coming. The town was the
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around it that the great city runs, hav-
ing a sea-wa1 like the frame OF a
picture.
Back of the wall the buildings rise.
covering the foothills The great drive
of Rio which runs around the sea can
be plainly picked out with the eye,
but the distance dwarfs the tall palms
and other trees to bushes. and the auto
mobiles look like ants or bees, flying
along over strip of black road, which
from the Sugarloaf seems only as wide
as pencil mark. That avenue runs
along the sea for miles. The tiny
together with the tumble of houses
that climbs up the green hills, they
form one of the most beautiful cities
of the world.
Now let your eye follow the shore
line. 1t winds in and out of one bay
after another. Now it circumscribes
an island. and now goes up and down
peninsula. Everywhere there are
buildings, everywhere trees. and here
and there great gardens or beautiful
parks. That white speck at the left
is the Monroe Palace of Peace. and the
broad street upon which it stands.
cutting through from one side of the
peninsula to the other. is the Avenida
Central, the new boulevard of the Bra
lillian capital that surpasses any in
Paris. 1t is only ten years of age, but
it is one of the finest streets of the
world.
But stop a moment and see where you
are. How did YOU get to the top of
this mighty cone rising straight up
from the ocean. You could have reached
1t only by an aeroplane a few years
ago. The rock is so bare and so steep
that goat could not climp it. But
now it has an observatory made of
steel and concrete right on the peak.
and an aerial railway. consisting of
cars slung to steel cables. lifts pas
sengers from the sea to the top. | took
an electric tram in the center of the
city and rode four or five miles to the
park where the national exposition was
formerly held. l bought a ticket at
the Bilheteria. inside the great stee!
tower out of which the car rises. The
car itself is a steel cage which will
hold twelve or fifteen people 1t has four
cables two of which are as thick as
your wrist. They run on great pulley
wheels. The upper cables support the
car, the lower ones keep it steady as it
goes up. The metallic sides of the car
reach to the height of your chest and
the space above is covered only with
network, so that you can see well as
you go up. The fare to the top is 66
cents, and the return costs the same.
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HIGHER THAN EIFFEL TOWER, IS AT TIL
ENTRANCE HARBOR.

THE HARBOR.
carries one for many miles along the
edge of the bay, from which it is sepa-
rated by the sea wall.
Rio is a big city. There are only four
municipalities in North and South
America that surpass it in population.
These are New York, Chicago, Buenos
Aires and Philadelphia. The city COW
ers twice as much ground as Paris. 1t
is nine miles wide and ten miles long,
and it is a mass of beautiful vegetation
except where the houses and streets
have been chopped out of the jungle.
The mountains at the back have mag
nificent trees loaded with orchids and
on their lower slopes are gardens with
the streets lined with royal palm
trees and every park contains plants
that see only in botanical gardens.
Rio is the home of the royal palm. Its
fern-like top is to be seen all over the
city. The trunk of this tree is as
round and as straight and smooth as the
most beautiful column ever Clipped out
by sculptor 1t rises in a symmetrical
shaft Of silver gray to height Of from
100 to $50 feet, and there ends in a can
opy of fern-ike leaves. Some of the villas
of Rio have rows of these palms on the
sides of the walk that lead into them; and
many of the avenues are lined with palm
trees The palm avenue Of the botanical
gardens is famous all over the world. That
avenue is a half mile in length and it has
1874 palms averaging eighty feet in height.
One of the wonders of the new Rio de
Janeiro is the Avenida Central. This is a
boulevard that has been cut right through
the heart of the city as one of the new
improvements. This avenue is one hun
dred feet wide and mile and half In
length 1t crosses eleven different streets,
including the Rua Ouvidor, which has long
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standing with the Boches. 1t is Ger
many's game to embroil us with our
friends while raising up the cry for
peace. Patience, we've got them! I
Kitchener that the English munitions
are arriving two shiploads per day"
Three railroad trains, of forty cars
each,' said the globe-trotter. Il have
il from a personal friend of Gen. Foch." !"
The English have made good in the
nick of time said the yachtsman. Had
they delayed until August 25, at Pm,
it might have been disastrous. but the
transports began arriving on August
10, at am, six and a half days lee
way, which is enormous"
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] started away with my soap.

! started away with my soap.
Pardon" he said low. do you know
why the French did not pierce at Ar
raso They're all getting tired of it,
poor. brave fellows. 1t makes my heart
bleed, but it favors peace. Two French
generals have been court-martialed.
They turned the artillery on their own
troops and moved down 5000 by mis-
take. Naturally, the men refused to
quit. the trenches. They telegraphed
Joffre. Turn the cannons on them"
he replied, but the colonel said: We
don't shoot Frenchmen on purpose, only
by mistake" Pardon, what are those
hydrogen bullets?"
got away with my soap. + de-
posted 1t in the cloakroom of brok-
er's office near the Avenue de rOpera.
which is a kind of French English
American afternoon club. Six nom
combatants, in leather armchairs, were
making an asphyxiating smoke cloud.
AFTER that seance of the Academy of
Sciences" one was saying. 'the nine
members in question went with the
commission to the minister of war. The
X-cannon was adopted on the spot.
Now you know the cause of our delay
in piercing. l have it direct from a
friend of Millerand."
1t exists No Frenchman would give it
away Nor will l. 1t is the X-cannon,
astonishing in this, that 1t uses no
powder whatsoever. neither smokeless,
cordite or whatever. 1t is a ballistic
innovation beyond whooping-the
French Institutes reply to German
science A party of fifty years of age,
who owns a racing stable and is losing
$1,000 per day. twisted all up, laughing
about 1t.
BLOW them off the earthw he haw-
hawed. Were making four detached
pieces in separate factories, to fool
any spies at Creusot, If there be such
from the sky. (Can-can step expressive
Evening star., 1915-09-12
DOWNRIGHT 1915, by Frank q. Carpenter
RIO DE JANEIRC

RIO DE JANEIRO.
~ TAND with me on the top of the
~ Sugarioaf and take a look at the
VI harbor and city of Rio de janet
~ no. We are mighty rock,
almost three times as high the
Washington Monument and more thai
one-third higher than the Eiffel Tower.
in the center of Paris. This rock
stands at the entrance to the harbor of
Rio. 1t rises almost precipitously out
of the sea and commands a panorama
OF water and land such can be seen
aowhere else in the world. Right be-
low US are the three great islands that
guard the entrance to the harbor. and
beyond them at the east rolls the At
1antic ocean, extending on and on to
the horizon AT our left begins a wall
of gray mountains that extends like a
great horseshoe about a magnificent
bay, on the shores of which is the city
Of Rio. The mountains arc green at
the base and far up their sides but
their ragged peaks are lost in the
clouds. Some of them are over three
thousand feet high, and one, on the
opposite side Of the harbor, is so tall.
SO slender and straight that it seems
to point to the heavens, and is known
by the people as The Finger of Cod
Now turn your eyes to the harbor o.
Rio, with its city of million and more
hugging its shores and climbing the
mountains behind. 1t is the most beau
tiful harbor on earth. I have heard it
compared to tAat of Sydney and Con-
stantinople. but to me it outranks them
both. In coming to Sydney you wind
through the mountains, and enter a
narrow bay surrounded by hills, with
the town on one of the slopes. Con-
stantinople has the Golden Horn. with
Pera at the right and Scutari facing
you on the Asiatic shore over the way.
Neither has the wonderful mountain ef-
fectS of Rio. and the beauties of the
ocean are lost by their being far in
land. Here you have mountains and
sea, and that under skies as cerulean as
those that cover the Bay of Naples or
the waters of the Piraeus. near Athens.
The harbor of Rio is immense. and it
is spotted with islands. There is an
outer and an inner harbor. the outer
having an opening in the center of the
half moon. The inner harbor forms
part of the bend of the moon; and it is
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Views the New Metropolis the High Mountain.
Municipal Mosaic and Sidewalks leThe
Avenda the Stores
Of Those of Sydney and Consantinope.
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Not That Kind.
ID ICHARD HARDING DAVIS W.
Nv talking about Germany.


Nv talking about Germany.
She seems to be having her own way
now" he said. doubtfully. but. of course,
she will be licked in the end. for that 10
what the quadruple entente declares
But Germany. even If licked. will be
hard to manage. Maeterlinck says that
Germany. laboring to pay a vast war
indemnity, will be the slave Of Europe
for the next century. But I hold that
Germany's position will be more like
Sam Smiths.
Sam was smoking and reading Bris-
bane's editorials in the kitchen rocker
while his wife did a wash-his wife did
nine washes weekly.
"'You lazy worm the tired woman
growled. II you was half a man you'd
help me turn this here wringer.'
mo, Jane said Sam. putting his pipe
comfortably. No. / may be a. worm,
but ! amt the kind that turns
Evening star., 1915-09-12

The bridge champion entered, trou-
bled.
whats the natter" we asked him.
He wagged his head
"I don't like the Balkan affair." he
said, with slow deliberation. 1T re-
quires too many men. Do you know?
Two hundred thousand French REIN
forcements sail from Toulon tomorrow.
at am. in 200 French and English
transports. I have it from personal
friend of Admiral Boue de Lapeyrere.
We'll, what's the HARM We asked
him.
Reckless" he said. very reckless.
We can't spare them. What with Vi
emma egging on the Spanish conserVa-
tiyes to nag us-they won't fight. but
will bait us with maneuvers till we
guard the Pyrenees-put down 100000
men, five army corps. 1 have 1t
"But-
what with the mess in Russia. let
ting loose 100000 Germans, put II
down. 100000 reinforcements needed
to defend our north line. And
What mess in Russia?
"Why, the Swedes. The Swedes' at
tack on Finland. 1 have it on the best
authority, from a Dane, neutral and
friend of France"
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selves killed for others. Do you know
what Calais is? Calais is the French
lightning rod. The Germans are bring
ing 100000 reinforcements from the
east. The French will shunt them on
to Calais
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But the English

But the English
They're defending Calais, only Ca
1ais, Do you know what Calais is?
Calais is the English lightning rod. I"
shunt off the German attack of their
island Speak to me of the English!
Do you know why they failed to pierce
at Lille? Two English generals were
court-martialed. They turned the ar
tillery on their own troops and moved
down 5000 by mistake. Naturally. the
men refused to quit the trenches. They
telegraphed Kitchener. Turn the can
mons on them" he said. but the colonel
answered. We don't shoot Englishmen
on purpose. only by mistake" And"
Pardon" l interrupted. isn't your
Dane also a peacemaker, who wants to
stop the Slaughter
isn't he a blond with gold eye
glasses. and the top of his left ear
missing?"
about
my Cousins munition train over the
schlucht? Come to think of it. yes.
1 started to discreetly advise. but the
duke rose, smiling benignantly round
his cigar.
What matters?" he said. 1--WE enter
Berlin on December 1. I have it from
the best sources"
STERLING HEILIG.
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Of beautiful young hospital nurse.
from a Rumanian gentleman. (The 10y
al child promptly backhanded him:
speaking Of Spanish. walk it!o They
expelled the Rumanian. He had heard
the story from a druggist, who got it
from a patent medicine man, whence
it was traced to a bottle firm and my
innocent corkwood broker. Gle brush
es his back hair over his ears for side
whiskers and wears fur coat on chill
ly August evenings.)
But it's not that at all!' protested
Durand. my business was suffering
from irregular mails and transports.
lockwood comes through Spain and
1 sell much in Switzerland.) I consult
ed my adviser, who counseled patience
till September 1, when we would make
a drive and pierce the Germans"
''who is that adviser?" they asked.
He refused to answer, but they
pressed him.
mime. de Thebes," he faltered. She
told me not to fear for NY Spanish
communications, because the repub-
Hcans are for France, and the con-
servatives more likely to raise a revo-
luton against themselves than five
army corps against us"
That Spanish story came up at the
dukes the other evening.
''It is Brandeis, German by race and
education, whom they've put in
command at Mahon. in the Balaeric
Islands," said the vicomte. "a distinct
ly unfriendly appointment. German
submarines are being tanked with oil
there. 1 have it straight from the for
eign Office
nut" said the poet. Remember the
Italian story, how they had an under
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1915-02-27
DASHED HIS HOPES OF GLORY
Wouid-He Military Hero, Aged Eleven,
Recognized Call That There Was
No Disobeying.

Senator John Sharp Williams was
never in the Confederate army. But
the fault is not his. He started with
the best intentions. as well as with a
knapsack filed with good lunch.
The war was at its height when he
was a big boy of eleven. and as his
father was in the army, and dozens OF
friends and relatives had gone forth
to battle against the dreaded "Yank,
John Sharp one night decided that his
country called him to arms. The fact
that he was only eleven, and about the
only road he knew was that to the
candy shop, did not deter him. Out
in the darkness of the night the cali
Of his country sounded as loud rs the
dinner horn to hungry field hands.
So young William arose and set
forth down the road in the early dawn.
And as he tramped down the lanes or
dust, past the still farmhouses over
which hung the early smoke from the
kitchen chimney. he dreamed dreams
of how he would. come back on a
prancing charger covered with glory,
gore and gold lace. Then suddenly
behind him he heard the lope of an ap-
preaching horseman. Looking back.
he saw it was old Uncle Zeph on the
blind mule. Uncle Zeph pulled up the
mule with jerk beside his young mas
ter.
John, your nav says as how you
better be gittin' back home in hurry.
She amt cr goin' ter stand fur no sich
COINS on!" exploded zeph. You jes'
elm up here hind me on dis mule and
he'll tote US home ter breakfast"
So John climbed aboard the mule
and turned his face homeward, leaving
in the ashes of a dead past his high
hopes of military glory.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1915-02-27

Proposed Change in RaiIsea" Service.
The L. r. & N. Co. has given
notice that it will appear belor'
the Railroad Commission in Baton
Rouge at 10 a. m. on Thursday,
March A, 1915, alleging that, due
to decreased revenue, the compa
ny finds it Necessary to reduce it,
passenger service.
The proposed reduction in SER
vice will greatly discommode
travel to and from Colfax, and
our citizens have signed a petit
ton opposing the change, and We
understand a delegation will visi
Baton Rouge to appear before
the commission and offer vigor-
Gus protest against the reduction
in passenger service.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1915-02-27
Put Ban on Veto.

1t is recalled that at the papal con-
clave of 1908, not little sensation
was caused by the revelation that EN-
peror Francis Joseph of Austria had
ordered Cardinal Puzyna, archbishop
OF Cracow. to pronounce the imperial
veto against the election Of Cardinal
Rampolla, who was suspected of be-
ing friendly to France. On that oc-
casion Cardinal Oreglia stated that
the conclave could not accept such
communication or take it into ac-
count. and. although Cardinal Ram
polla was not chosen. Plus x regarded
the incident with the greatest indig-
nation. and issued bull directing that
any cardinal attempting to repeat the
veto in future would be placed under
the major ban, or be accommodated.