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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10

@ARLY that Saturday morning.
 Elsie and Elise-note the names
 carefully else you may become
 - confused-started out for a long walk in the woods. They were not after chestnuts, for it was too early in the season, but they were hoping to gather a basket full of beautiful, red and brown and golden autumn leaves, painted by Natures brush in colors that only she can provide.
 So many things can be done with autumn leaves, you know. Garlands may be woven of them; they may be strung in long chains and draped over a dollhouse and, if you are very care ful, you may even fashion a dress of them for your very best dollie. And, of course, they are ideal to place be- tween the leaves of a great, heavy book and press and dry.
 On and on through the woods the two little girls trudged. looking eager ly about to pick the very prettiest of the myriad of leaves with which the ground was strewn.
 "Oh. Here's beauty" Elsie would exclaim, stooping down and lifting a gorgeous ohS iioAA Ato uAoiHS pidCc.
 But just look atl this one.' Elise would exclaim moment later.
 At first all of them went into the basket but in a short time it was filled to overfiowing--and there were hun dreds more. it seemed, each one pret- tier than any they had gathered 50 far!
 Presently the little girls came to the edge of the woods. Their faces were flushed from the exercise, their hands were beginning to blister from polk Ing about in the leaves with long sticks and, if the truth, be told. they were very, very tired.
 Let's sit down and rest" suggested Elsie.
 "oh, please let's.'' gasped Elise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10
Willie Wee and Cross Patch

Cross Patch has been waiting so long and wondering why he has not brought the supper for the baby owls" Mamma spoke quietly and Willie knew she was very serious. Did you notice how his feathers are pointed?" she asked
 Willie didn't, so she told him they were made that way so that wher the owl flew through the trees ai night in search of food he would moi make any noise. He cannot fly very fast in search of food" she said. 'sc he goes around at night for he can
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10

the owl seemed to turn his head round and round, really he only turned it half way and Tipped it back so quick ly that one could scarcely sec him do 1t. And she told Willie, too, that the owl moved his head because he could not move his eyes like other birds
 "But why is his head so big?" asked Willie Wee.
 That is because his feathers are fluffy and his ears wider than other birds so that he can hear better" But he is very cross, anyway" in sisted Willie Wee.
 That is because he is tied and can not fly away to his nest where Mrs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10

saw path in the grass. all around the perch on which the owl sat.
 What made that big circle?" asked mamma.
 q did," answered Willie, as he dug the toe of his shoe into the ground.
 What did mammals little boy do that for?"
 '.I was trying to wiring his neck and though I walked around him ever so many times, his head wouldn't come off,"
 Then mamma told Willie that while
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10

Iject. What he finally found was a large board, and for the want of some thing better he cast it adrift. him. self seated right in the middle of it.
 Isn't this great" he exclaimed. 'T wonder whether Columbus had such Ia bully time on the Atlantic. I won- der what's at the other end of this river. I hope 1t is some new and wild land on which no white mans foot has ever walked. Before leave these friendly shores I'll give a war whoop Ito attract Mammals and Grandma's s and then I'll wave them a friendly goodbye"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10

was trying to discover new lands like Christopher Columbus. and now
 Then Mamma told him of tho danger he had been in. and as she lovingly pressed him to her breast. she said, "Son, in the future confina your discoveries to the land; let older explorers navigate strange waters
 "All right" answered Charlie "Then I'll be like William Penn. and under that spreading tree I'll sign q treaty of peace with--let mo see. who can have for Indians? Oh yes! I'll pretend the chickens are Indians. They have feathers. you know, and I'll make my peace with them."
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see in the dark quite as well as a cat"
 What does he eat?" asked Willie
 Little pests that destroy things in the barn and garden" said mamma.
 And it is a pity to keep him tied when he would be so useful if he were allowed to go."
 So they united the owl which spread its wings and flew silently through the pines.
 Good bye. old Cross Patch." shout ed Willie.
 "Hoo-hoo,' replied the owl.
 You are the only one I know laughed Willie Wee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10

I>O begin with, there is no excuse for Elfreda, not the least in the
 world. She knew perfectly well " that she should not have pulled the hair of little Aida who sat directly ] n front of her. And when Aida was |considerate enough not to cry out but to bear the pain in silence so that Teacher wouldn't know anything about 1t, Elfreda certainly should have |btopped.
 But did she? Indeed no! On the contrary, she seemed to think that all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10

is what is the matter with Cross Patch," said Willie.
 "All owls are cross," said mamma as she took Willie by the hand and led him to where Cross Patch was sitting in the sun and blinking his queer big yellow eyes. Then mamma
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10

"Yes'm," answered the youngster.
 On the morrow the teacher asked Johnny to repeat the verse that she had taught him the day before Johnny promptly replied:
 Tn fourteen ninety-three.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10
N OurpuZZle Corner x
sEAsoNABLE PUzzLERs.

REASONABLE PUZZLERS. My First is the World Columbus
 reached When he sailed out West from the old; My second is what Columbus did At the end of his voyage bold. My third is something Columbus saw 'Twixt the sea and the sky so blue On October, the 18th, that wonderful
 year Of fourteen and ninety and two. My whole's an animal shaggy and big, Ever ready a life to save The animals known as, the Children s
 friend And he's gentle as he is brave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10

or DTtitIl.
 Cross Patch was the name Willie had given big horned owl that had been caught in a trap and was tied to a perch out in the yard and mamma wondered why Willie wanted to give him soda.
 "Grandpa takes soda when his stomach hurts him, and I think that
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other pretty ones on our way back"
 So they sat down at the foot of a great oak tree and were soon busily engaged in their task. But 1t wasn't long until first one little head and then the other began to nod-and nod -and-nod-
 Ouch! Get off my mid-rib!" cried
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10
All On An Autumn Day

And we can pick only the very pret-
 tiest out of the basket and throw the others away and then have room for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10

brought us into bloom we were indeed a jolly company. An. indeed yes, life was happy then, with the birds and the bees fitting about us and the warm wind tossing us merrily. But that was spring! And 1t can't be spring all the time. you know"
 Elsie stirred in her sleep and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10
DIAMOND PUZZLE.

If the following are written one below another, their central letters will spell the name of 8 fish. 1. A consonant. 2. A verb. 3. A color. 1. A vessel used for drinking. 5. Same as 1.
 ANSWERS: Sedsondble PuxzIers-NeUf0undldnd. DIAMOND PUZZLE: Trout. Il. T
 2. are
 3. br0t0n
 4. mug
 5. [
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-10

AMMA, may have some soda for Cross Patch?" asked
 Willie Wee as he hurried
 into the kitchen quite out
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-01-12
ARTILLERY IS
BUSY IN BATTLES
ALONG WEST Line
Energetic Siege Warfare Now Pre-
walls on Both Great Theaters
of War.
MUD HALTS THE GERMANS
Austrians Again Admit Retirement
Before Strongly Reinforced
Russian Army.
1UD HALTs THE GERMANS

London, Jan. aside from tn,
continued Russian pursuit of The
Turkish forces defeated in the Cau
casus and the continuation of the
Russian advance through the passes
of the Carpathian mountains, siege
warfare with intermittent artillery
duels seems for the moment to pre-
vail almost everywhere in the area
of hostilities in the eastern arena as
well as in the western.
The reports reaching London show
that General Won Hindenburg, the
German commander in Poland, for
some time past has made no appreci-
able progress toward Warsaw, the
mud of Poland evidently having
done for him what the broken dikes
and the resultant foundations did
for the Germans in West Flanders.
A dispatch coming to London from
Copenhagen declares that Won Hin
denburg is expecting heavy rein
forcements and that with an army
of one million men he purposes to
make one more supreme effort to
break through to the Polish capital.
The Russians would appear to have
had ample time to reinforce them
selves and to strengthen their posi-
lions around Warsaw, and it is the
opinion of British observers that the
trench warfare for which the west
ern theater of the war has become
famous, will be waged in the region
of the Polish rivers. 49,. .s.s,-
AustriaHungary again admits the
retirement of the forces in Buko-
wilma and it is from this Russian for
ward movement before which the
are giving way that the
most spectacular developments Of
the next fortnight may be expected
to spring, according to the opinion
held yesterday by some British OBJ
servers of the war. The argument is
made that once Russia gets good
foothold beyond the mountain pas
SEES, something that may be accomp-
lished in q fortnight if the Russians
are not checked, big stride toward
the over-running of Hungary would
have been made. If this is accom-
plished it will be the first consid-
cradle invasions of any territory Of
the Teutonic allies
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-01-12
ASKS BRITISH TO
PUNISH MEN WHO
SHOT AMERICANS
U. S. Government Sends Formal
Note Concerning Killing and
Wounding of Hunters.

Washington, D. c., Jan. S.-The
United States government yesterday
sent a formal note to Great Britain
through Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the
British ambassador here, requesting
the punishment of those guilty of
the killing of Walter Smith and the
wounding of Charles Dorsch, two
American citizens who were shot by
Canadian militiamen at Fort Erie,
Ont, while hunting ducks in alleg-
ed violation of the Canadian game
laws.
The communication, which was of
a friendly character, pointed out
that not only did the United States
government expect the offenders to
be duly punished but absolute COM
pensation be given families of the
victims.
Coincidentally with the sending
Of the note Secretary Bryan receiv-
ed a personal memorandum from
the British ambassador here after
which the secretary said:
"The British government without
deciding the question of liability
will consider the payment of dam
ages to the injured man and the
family of the deceased"
From this state department offic-
ials took it for granted that dam
ages would be paid after the domin-
ion authorities had completed their
inquiry.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-01-12
SUES FOR GREAT
sum AS TAXES
Government Asks $9,O15,O29.O7 Of
Ohio Dairy Firm.

Columbus, O., Jan. Suit fol
$9,015, 029.07 was filed in the Unit
ed States district court here yester.
day against the old Capitol City
Dairy company. That sum is alleg.
ed to be due to the federal govern
ment as taxes on colored oleomar-
garine. appointment of a receiver
for the company is also asked.
This suit asks also for appoint
ment of a receiver for the old Cap
ital City Dairy company, New Jer-
sey corporation.
The taxes alleged to have been
evaded are alleged to be due upon
the business of the company during
the last ten years.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-01-12

DR.. T. B. Lsrrabee. osteopsth. d-tl
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-01-12
$4,000 STORM
TABERNACLE TO
HEAR sunday
Hundreds Trampled Upon When
Crowd Attempts to Get
Into Building.
BATTER DOWN THE DOORS
Police Unable to Stop Rush and
Hospital Overaows With
Injured.
BATTER DOWN THE DOORS

Philadelphia, Pa, Jan. 9.-More
than $4,000 men and women, not
knowing the entire seating capacity
had previously been reserved for
students of Philadelphia schools and
colleges, stormed the Billy Sunday
tabernacle last night and when they
were unable to get in, shattered the
windows, battered down the doors
and climbed on the roof.
| Two riot calls summoned all the
available reserve policemen on duty
at the central city stations but the
authorities were unable to cope with
the situation with the result that
many, especially the women, were
injured. Hundreds of persons were
knocked down and trampled on in
/ the mad rush of the thousands on
the outside to get in and the thou
sands on the inside to get out. The
tabernacle hospital was filled SO full
that many men and women suffer
ing from minor hurts were placed
on the sawdust in the vestibules un-
til they could be taken to hospitals
or room found for treatment.
Two sets of conflicting tickets for
the same entrance started the trou-
BILE and long before the hour for the
beginning Of the night service so
dense was the crowd in the streets
outside the tabernacle that many
were crushed up against the walls
of the building. Hundreds, fighting
to escape from the crush behind
them, were forced up on the roof OF
the low structure. Women became
hysterical outside and inside the
tabernacle and panic ensued.
AS many fought to get out as did
to get in and the arrival of the po-
lice and ambulances only added to
the excitement instead of quieting
it. q
Suddenly all the doors were
thrown open and the throng surged !
in. All seating arrangements and y
attempts to preserve order in thu &
immense auditorium were abandon &
ed and in less than two minutes e,
cry seat and inch of standing room {
was occupied. Practically all the i
women who tainted in the crush
were left lying in the tabernacle
hospital without attendance and re-
covered without the assistance Of
doctors.
Pathetic incidents by the score oc-
Cured during the excitement. One
man escorting eighteen little blind
children was separated from his
charges; ministers trampled on each
others toes, forgetting they were
ministers, and pandemonium reign
ed for fully half hour until quiet
was restored.
The crowd inside the tabernacle
made every other crowd ever before
in the place look little in COM
parison. Finally the police aided
by Sunday and his assistants, gain
ed control of the situation and the
service proceeded.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-01-12
NARROWLY ES.
CAPES BEING
BURIED ALIVE
Mrs. August Sedden of Persia Was
Pronounced Dead by
Physician.
HEARD THE FUNERAL PLANS.
She Was Powerless to Cry Out,
Though She Tried For
Hours.
HEARD THE FUNERAL PLANS.

Council Bluffs, Ia, Jan. S.-Fo1
eleven hours Mrs. August Sedden
of Persia, Ia, lay in trance and
was pronounced dead by her ply
sician. Unable to move a muscle
of her body or to make sign, she
heard the sobs of her family, heard
friends notified of her death, heard
the doctor telephone the cemetery
officials to have the grave dug, and
heard the minister engaged to con-
duct the funeral service.
Then at the last moment she
gave a gentle sigh, and was saved
from being buried alive. She is in
precarious condition, and death
may yet result from a long sick
ness and the shock to her nervous
system engendered by her dreadful
experience.
Il was keenly conscious of every
move" said Mrs. Sedden, following
her remarkable recovery. my sense
of hearing was left to me, and be-
came abnormally acute just as soon
as my power to move left me- When
the doctor raised my eyelids I could
see just as we'll as | ever could, al
though l heard them say that my
eyes were glazed"
She tried to say she was alive,
but was unable to do so. She heard
the sobbing of her friends, and
thought to herself that as soon as
she spoke to them their sobs would
turn to smiles. Then she heard
someone telephone for the under
taker. Half an hour afterward he
came to the house and discussed the
details of the burial arrangements.
Because of the season of the year, it
was decided that embalming would
not be necessary.
- when they began talking of en-
balming I became really frighten-
ed" said Mrs. Sedden. II knew that
the injection of the embalming
fluid into the veins meant DEATH
Then came friends who prepared
her body for burial. She was
stretched upon cooling board,
which the undertaken had left at
the house. On that board she re-
manned for eleven hours. She heard
friends at the house telephone to,
other friends that she had died, and
that the funeral would be held the
next day. Members Of the choir were
notified, and were told the songs
they were to sing.
And all this time the woman was
struggling to make some sound or
movement to let those around her
know that she was not dead. She
says she struggled frantically, until
her very bosom seemed ready to
burst with her efforts.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-01-12
PERSIAN ULT|NATUN
is Sent TO TURKEY
Neutral Territory is Being Invaded
by Kurds and 0ttomans.

Rome, Italy, Jan. 9.-The Gior-
male d'Italia has published an inter
view with the Persian minister to
Rome in the course of which the di-
plomat said Persia desired to re-
main neutral throughout the war,
but that it's territory was being in
vaded by Kurds and Turks.
Persia has sent an ultimatum to
Constantinople, the minister said,
the result OF which was unknown
yet. The telegraph was interrupted
and it takes seven weeks for a letter
to travel from Teheran to Rome.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-01-12
Release Mrs. Van Horn.

Mason City, Ia, Jan. 9.-Mrs.
Charlotte Van Horn, who was order
ed bound over to the Cerro Gordo
county grand jury on a charge of
numbering her husband at their
home near Clear Lake last Novem-
Der, was able to secure bail in the
sum of $500 last evening. She
left at s o'clock last night for Des
Moines, where she will return to
Hills retreat, from where she was
taken following her arrest last week.
Drawing paper for sale here.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-01-12
CROWDS ARE
|MPER|LED BY
fire IN SUBWAY
Woman Fatally Injured and More
Than 100 Others Hurt in
New York.
MANY ARE REPORTED KILLED
Persons Made Unconscious by Gas
Results in Belief of Heavy
Fatalities.
MANY ARE REPORTED KILLED

New York, Jan. 7.-More than
100 persons were overcome by
smoke, cut by flying glass, bruised
and otherwise injured in a fire
aboard a train in the subway at the
height of the rush hour yesterday
morning. In the panic and confu-
sion which ensued police headquart-
ers issued report that twelve per-
sons had lost their lives, but this
later proved to be unfounded and
only one known death was recorded.
The entire fire fighting force of
Manhattan, every ambulance in the
borough and every pulmotor that
could be found were brought to the
scene. The fact that scores of per-
sons were unconscious led to the
early report that many had been
killed. Later, Police Commissioned
Woods and Fire Chief Kenlon an
nounced that so far as they knew
there had been no fatalities.
A surgeon attached to the Poly
clinic hospital reported that one in
jured woman had died in an ambu-
lance on her way to the hospital.
Two hundred persons in all were
taken to the Polytechnic, the surgeon
said, but as far as he knew, with
this one exception, none had been
fatally injured.
The entire fire department of the
city and all ambulances were sum-
moned to the scene. At II o'clock
hundreds of half suffocated passen-
gers were being rescued from sub
way stations and preparations were
being made to dynamite the streets
10 let air into the tube.
1t was not possible at that time
to determine the extent of the IA
talities and some estimates placed
the number of dead far in excess Of
twenty. -..
The fire broke out in a subway
train which was one of a long line
Of rush hour trains held up between
the fiftieth and Fifty-ninth stations
BY an earlier accident in the power
house of the system which tied up
the service. There were reports that
there had been a collision between
two trains, but although some of che
panic stricken passengers referred
to "smashup," the police had not
definitely verified such report.
Unofficial reports gave the cause
If the fire as a collision between ex-
press trains. At the time of the fire
he subway contained smoke from !
l previous fire, extinguished only a |
Few minutes before at the Sprip y
street station.
1t was shortly before $50 o'clock
hat wisps of smoke began to curl
rom the manholes' along Broadway
between the two stations. The spot
where the fire burned fiercest was
opposite Fifty-sixth street. Ham
'ered in their efforts to reach the
,laze the firemen dug into the pave
nent with their axes. They succeed
ID in making a hole above the sub
way at Fifty-third street. From this
'pening belched a volume of smoke
md flames as if from a crater. Hose
vas directed through the opening
nd even hand extinguishers were
Ised.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-01-12

Drawing paper for sale here.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-01-12
ST. LOUIS TRAD
ERS MAKE $780,
900 IN PROFITS
Sell Holdings of May Wheat for
$1.36, Rise Of s. Cents
Since July.

st. Louis, Mo-, Jan. 9.-Profits
estimated at 100000 were made by
St. Louis grain traders yesterday
who sold for S1.36 their holdings
of May wheat. This price repre-
sented rise of 81 cents since last
July. The quotation yesterday was
the highest since the Letter corner
of 1898.
Two grades Of cash wheat sold at
$1.37, cents higher than Thurs
day.
Most of the traders who realized
on May wheat yesterday made 10
cents bushel, but some made as
high as 20 cents.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-01-12
Real Americans.

The American Indians are the only
race properly classified as ''the Amer.
lean race" insomuch as they are the
aboriginal inhabitants Of continent
resettled by European peoples. The
word American" is applied, however,
to all native-born inhabitants Of the
continents of North and South Amer
lea, and specifically to citizens Of the
United States.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-01-12

For sale, Mammoth Bourbon Red
turkeys and Black Langshan cock
rels. Mrs. w. H. Mullen, Williams,
Ia 1-4f4t4
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-01-12

F. A. Boysen, Dentist, Second st.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-05-03
Try to Complete Destruction.

Vancouver, May 3.-Following two
attempts yesterday to burn remaining
portions of the Granville bridge, po-
lice guards We're posted today.
Determined efforts are being made
to capture the incendiaries. The po-
Ice profess to believe pyromaniac
responsible, not German sympathizers
as reported when the Connaughr
bridge was practically destroyed and
the Granville bridge damaged, week
ago, by an incendiary fire.
Men were seen running from the
central span of the bridge yesterday
as the fire broke out.
Baron Won Luttwilz, a wealthy Ger
man, who is ordered interned,, with
his family and servants, left last night
for the detention camp. A German
band serenaded his home as he depart
ed. "Not much use sending me away,
he announced "The war will be over
by October. Canada will then belong
to Germany"