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Denver labor bulletin., 1915-06-26

Empty beer kegs are being used as
wheels for binderies to save the Kansas
wheat crop" Yes, but where did Kansas
get the beer kegs2 1t is up to the state
police authorities to enlighten the people.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-06-26
WHY HE WAS CAUTIOUS.

lawyer must know the whole truth
before / can successfully defend you.
Have YOU told me everything'
Prisoner-Except where / hid the
money. / want that for myself.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-06-26

Peace can always be maintained with
honor whenever nation has any honor
to maintain.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-06-26

thence across the Irish sea TO Liverpool,
where We were successful in securing
passage on the $. $. Adriatic for New
York
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-06-26

As The Hague, Holland, was not far
distant we made it our next stop, visit
ing among other places of interest the
famous Peace Palace in which the peace
treaties of the world have been signed,
only to be cast into the waste paper
basket by many of the European nations
at the start of the war.
From The Hague we went to Rotter-
dam, making a one-day visit, after which
we Travelled on to Antwerp, Belgium. A
brief tour Of the city and we were on
our way to Brussels, the city which has
gained rcnown for the brave and gallant
stand its people made during the Ger.
man invasion about year ago. OF
course, we did not overlook the opportu-
nifty Of going out to Waterloo, looking
over the battlefield whene Napoleon met
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
White Mountain Reserves.

From the New Hampshire Forestry.
The national forest now includes
225,ooO acres, purchased at a cost of
nearly $1,600,000. The latest purchase
includes the bulk of Mount Washing
ton, with the primeval timber In the
great gulf. It includes also the great
err part Of the town of Albany. with the
Moac mountains and the north slopes
of the Tamworth or Chocorua range,
together with that piece of valuable
primeval timber on the south slopes
of the Tamworth range, overlooking
the attractive village of Wonolancet.
The Weeks act, under which pur-
chases of forest land are made in the
White mountains and in the southern
Appalachians. expires by limitation on
the 3Oth of next June. Members of the
national forest reservation commission
members of Congress seek to have re-
eress the 100000 that was appro-
priated by the Weeks act. but never
became available. All who are willing
to do SO are urged to communicate
with their senators and represent
atives, especially persons living out
side Of New Hampshire. asking them to
use their influence in Congress for this
reappropriation. Unless this passes
the work will stop.
The forest service has laid out a pur-
chase. one of about $4,000 acres, in
the high parts of the White mountains,
Of which at this time one-third has
been acquired. Write to your con-
gresham.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
The Divine Problem.
the New York Tribune

From the New York Tribune.
Once upon a time, when every ma
tionality had its own particular deity
or deities, to call upon them for victory
could cause no confusion in the empyr-
can. Each god had but one side to
take in a battle, on whose outcome his
own existence often depended. But in
these days, when all of Christendom
worships the same God, His choice of
sides in war Is subject to as many in
terpretations as there are belligerents
involved.
Each nation at war in Europe has as
severated it's faith in the possession of
divine favor. So far their reasoning,
in some cases rather bewildering, has
followed in rough way, though with
out public avoWal for obvious reasons,
certain ecclesiastical cleavage. The
priests of France have called for the
blood of the German heretics. Catholic
Austria would have God annihilate the
Slav minions of the Greek Church.
Protestant Prussia has offered up pray
ers for the defeat of the ignorant.
british followers of Greek priests and
for the humiliation of decadent Catho-
lie France. And Cardinal Mercier has
expressed confidence that God would
punish the Prussian despoilers of Cath
Ollie Belgium.
But now comes a German cardinal,
Archbishop Won Hartmann of Cologne.
with the announcement that God will
not permit atheistic France and ortho-
dox Russia to crush the f1ourishing re-
cision in the matter must therefore in
volye a rather more complicated psyche
logical process even than we had at
ligious life in the fatherland." The de-
first feared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
The Future of India.
From the Chicago Journal

What will be the status of India in
the British empire after the war? Even
in the press of instant needs. that
question must cross the minds of
thoughtful British statesmen, but it Is
doubtful If the most farseeinG among
them can give it anything like a full or
certain answer. Only one thing is sure:
India will claim and receive a larger
measure of self-goyernment and fuller
participation in imperial affairs than
she has had before.
The loyalty of India has been one Of
the great surprises of the war. In
stead Of bursting into flame of revolu-
ton the moment Britain was involved
in Europe. India has come forward
with voluntary offerings of money and
troops, suspended all agitation for po-
litical changes until after the war,
turned a deaf ear to the persuasions of
kaiser and sultan. Sikhs and Gurkhas
are on the firing line in France; native
princes have offered their personal
services In the field.
Provinces and principalities which
have proved their value in this fashion
in time of war cannot be relocated to
the status of lesser breeds without the
law in time of peace. But what other
status can they assume? Can India be
trusted with self-government like that
which prevails in Canada and Aus
traliao Can Europeans and Asiatics
henceforth work side Wy side. instead
of tandem, as hitherto? Will the ISL
anders who developed modern consti-
tutional government and the orientals
who have bowed to the personal sway
Of foreign masters for centuries find
that. after all, they have common
ideal in the empire?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
MAXIM's SIEGE GUN.
Krupps in Use Are Duplicates Of
Model Perfected in 1892.
Hudson Maxim, in Harper's Weekly.

HUDSON Maxim, In Harper's Weekly.
Maxinite. invented by me, and adopt
ed by the United States Navy In 1901,
was the first high explosive success
fully to be fired through heavy armor
plate and exploded behind the plato by
safety delay-action decorating fuse.
A little later the United States govern
ment adopted my safety delay-action
decorating fuse for use in high ex-
plosive projectiles. Since that time the
other nations Of the world have fol-
lowed suit. and the use of high ex-
plosives In all kinds of projectiles is
now universal.
delivered a lecture before the Royal
United Service Institution Of Great
Britain in 1897 on "a New System Of
Throwing High Explosives From Pow
der Guns" In that lecture / showed
gun. with semi-armor-piercing pro-
jectile, carrying half ton OF high ex-
plosive. and weighing, charged, 200
pounds, and capable Of being thrown
by the. gun at maximum elevation, with
a smokeless powder charge. to dis
lance Of more than nine miles.
The present German 23k-inch siege
gun and the German high-explosive
projectile are close duplicates of the
gun and shell then shown by me.
That lecture. with illustrations, was
printed In the journal Of that society.
in London Engineer. the Scientific
American, New York Herald and many
other papers.
Although the United States govern
ment adopted smaximite. and although
adopted lyddite, still the Germans are
the only people who have had the sa-
gacity to adopt my system of throwing
high explosives in its entirety.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
Waffle Day in Australia.
rom the London Chronicle.


Waffle Cor mimosa, as ii is still in
correctly called), with which all Aus
tralian persons and institutions In
London are adjoining themselves today.
Is in full bloom in Australia itself in
September. the first of which month ac-
cordingly is kept as Waffle day there.
Though this celebration as a federal
fixture is only two years old. it was
forecasted as long ago as 1889 by the
foundation of Waffle Blossom
League in Adelaide. This league had a
field day two years later. when that
city put itself en- fete to welcome Sir
George Gray. after half century's alb
sence, and for twenty years it's
branches tentatively practised the cult
of the waffle, which has now received
official recognition in the common
wealth coat farms.
Nobody quite knows who discovered
Australia. The feat has been fathered
on Chinese, Malays. French. Venetians
and Spaniards; while dark hints about
the existence of a southern continent
were made by the ancient Greeks and
Romans. Possibly the secret lies hid
den In the unpublished records of the
Dutch East India Company among the
state archives at The Hague. The
present Waite day" commentaries
the founding of the first British settle
ment at Port Jackson, near the site of
Sydney. January Is, 1888. But those
earliest settlers were for the most
part involuntary colonists being COM
posed mainly of transported convicts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
THE CHARM OF ROOFS.
New City vistas-Spaoe in Some
Countries L Well Used. ,
BY McManus


IRON o01bsme10 MASaxa80.
There IL something unaeosun<aAay
captivating to the imagination IN the
idea Of life carried on At unacoustomed
levels-life in tree tops or subterra.
mean caves. / stu recall though I can
no longer plsoa . story Of my child.
hood about . family who Lived unsus-
pected. In the thickness Of tho walls Of
another familys house.
felt tho Same old charm whom
first looked down on the eastern life of
tho roofs. 1 saw II first. not In the
east, but from tho tower Of a cathedral
in southern Spain. A whole city of
gardens and Fairgrounds. and even of
dining rooms, was spread out beneath
me-a ground plan. you would have
said, IL 1t had not been SO far above
was to be seen. standing out boldly
under the rainless blue sky.
And as the sun set these roofs were
peopled as suddenly as our streets are
filled just after working hours. What
a sensible way to live, / Thought Why
knew that we did.
But l know 1t now: for recently I
have spent my time at the top of a
high building in an uptown district,
the street level Of which has been
familiar to me for many years. But.
seen from above, like this it is all diff
ferent-as different as the bottom OF
the sea is to its surface. Not only are
chimney pots and water tanks massed
with surprising frequency. but cupolas
appear. and half stories with romantic
French windows. opening on terraces
never suspected from below
Across four roofs belonging to four
contiguous houses of the dullest browns
stone variety nuns pace every morning.
with hands folded. heads bent and
every Illusion Of being in a cloister.
On the top of a certain club, which to
street-level eyes had always stopped
at Its heavy granite cornice. loggia IL
discovered. and here a member in blue
serge may be seen taking his exercise.
Back and forth he goes. with his hands
in his pockets and his head in the air,
very different from the nuns. He Is not
trying to reproduce cloister; he has
no love OF seclusion. Why. then, does
he shun the street? A dozen answers
suggest themselves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
REGIONAL ART MUSEUMS.
Development Of American Galleries
Since the Philadelphia Centennial.

From the New York Evening Post.
There was dedicated the other day
in Minneapolis an art museum which
Is the first Of its kind in tho tier of
states between Chicago and Portland.
This opening OF the new building OF
the Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
declared the Bellman. marks the be-
ginning OF new period in tho artistic
development Of the whole northwest.
Achieving distinguished colleo-
ton is a matter of time. but the provi-
sion of such a home in tho northwest
is itself a promise" No one acquaint-
ed with the Chicago Art Institute, the
Croker Gallery at Sacramento. -four
ishing twenty years ago, OF the San
Francisco and Portland galleries, would
subscribe to the Bellman's Implication
that the east claims monopoly OF art.
But the Importance which the north
west attaches to this new exponent OF
its regional art tendencies Is sIgnifi-
cant. The transmississippi west has
recently felt an interest in art to which
guarantee fund OF 100000 for pictures
to remain permanently in California,
cannot fail to give as great an impetus
as the Centennial and Chicago EXPOSE
lions did to other sectios Of the coun-
try.
The multipliction of regional and
municipal art museums seems little
short Of wonderful when we reflect
that prior to 1879 we had virtually
none. It was true of America till the
Philadelphia exhibit, as of England till
that of the Crystal Palace in 1851, that
public interest in art hardly existed.
The result could be traced in lament
able standards of furniture, interior
decoration and architecture. But Hay
don's defense Of the English people
would have fitted Americans. Show
them fine works. he said In effect. give
them the opportunity of study. teach
them the basis of beauty in art, and
then give your opinion. IL you like;
but you have no right to condemn the
nation when you offer them none of
the advantages foreigners enjoy. when
they have no schools Of design, no
galleries open to public view. and when
you refuse to allow art a public func-
ton and resolutely withhold all public
support.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
Ban on Hip Pocket.
from the Portland (Me.) Press.

From the Portland tMe.) Press.
Is another blow to be aimed at the
liberties Of the people? It would ap-
pear so, for bill has been introduced
into the Colorado legislature placing
the ban upon the hip pocket. Not only
that, but q similar measure Is to be
submitted to the Missouri legislature
and damned through IL possible. OF
course the promoters Of the measure
are all right in their intentions, for in
some of the newer communities of this
nation there are those who have adopt
ed the practice of packing gun in
their hip pocket. q thing that is very
far from a safety-first proposition.
But the hip pocket has another use
SO well understood in communities like
Maine that when one citizen asks an
other II he has anything on his hip"
there Is at once full comprehension
Of the complete meaning of the in
quiry.
1t is this use of the hip pocket which
may we'll give pause to any legislator
who might contemplate submitting a
measure similar to that proposed in
Colorado and to be proposed in Mis-
souri,.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
the House provided for the payment

the House provided for the payment
from revenues of the District of Column
bia to the United States Treasury the
sum of s5s6,o67.23. money advanced by
Columbia with which to pay the inter-
est on the 1865 bonds of the District of
Columbia for the fiscal years 1877 and
1875" and also the sum of $15S,437. de-
the District of Columbia by recent de-
cision of the controller of the Treasury.
for rentals said to be due from the
Washington Market Company.
BY vote of 179 to SO the House
voted against present consideration of
the Jim Crow bill Howard University
was voted an appropriation, cut out by
the House. but restored by the Senate
ana agreed to in conference. The bill
for the establishment of the University
OF the United States was passed by the
House. Mrs. IL. F.. Dimock, president of
the George Washington Memorial As
soc1ation, announced s260,000 in hand
toward that purpose. The Anti Saloon
League, before the Senate Investigating
committee. charged the excise board
with illegal procedure: Chairman r. G.
Smith defended the board. The board
OF commissioners announced that it
would sanction the operations of jitney
buses. Admiral c. NJ. Chester was
elected president of the District of CO.
lumbia organization of the Sons of the
American Revolution; Gen. H. Ogden
Lake was elected president of the
United Service Club. The question of
the sanity Of the late Stilson Hutchins
was involved in the continuance of the
hearing in the contest over his will. A
dehclency of 43 per cent in funds avail
able for payment of police and f1remen
pensions was reported to the board of
Commissioners.
A hre threatened the records of the
patent office. DR.. Thomas ]. Kemp and
Dr +. c. Barstow were placed under
arrest. charged with prescribing mar
cotlcs in defiance of the pharmacy laws.
X. l.. McArdle, shooting at imaginary
foes, endangered the lives Of tenants
of the 1roquois apartments. Mrs. Mae
Cockrell of Covington. Ky, threw her
self down the shaft of the Washington
Monument. the first person to commit
suicide there since the Monument was
built. Miss Dorothy Dodge. falling from
a third-story window, received injuries
from which she died. The body of
James w. King, supposed suicide, was
recovered from the Potomac. Among
those who died during the week were
w. l.. Schmalhoff. veteran government
printer: Maj. E. w. Clark. veteran of
the civil war and longtime govern
ment employee: Robert A. Golden. a pio-
neer commission merchant; DR.. Robert
Farnham, one of Washington's oldest
practicing physicians: ]. H., Tibbitts,
veteran Treasury Department employe;
Commander J. B. Briggs, U. S. N, re-
tired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
Hill of Tara.
he London Chronicle

From the London Chronicle.
Tara, the fitness Of which for the title
of a Scottish peer is being fiercely dis
puted. has become doubly dear to Irish
men from memories of the kings OF
Ireland and the famous million meet
ing" of O'ConneIl. A few years ago the
sacred hill was the scene of strange
excavations. but not for the discovery
of relics of those glorious days about
which Moore sang in The Harp That
Once Through Tara's Halls The
search was made for the Ark of the
Covenant, which some religious enthu-
siasts believed to be buried therei
Their digging among the mounds was
finally stopped by storm of public
protests. But the historic Hill of Tara
has already been closely connected
with allen nobility" 1t formed part
of the property bestowed by the Duke
of Bedford on Lord John Russell, when
created earl. in order that he might
maintain the title with dignity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
A Dogs Devotion.
rom the Rochester Post-Express.


The dog of a French soldier follow
ed him to the war, lived with him In
the trenches and shared his blanket at
night A shell killed a dozen men and
buried this one, badly wounded, in a
trench which the explosion half filed
with earth. The dog dug frantically
for his master and managed to expose
his face before he suffocated. Then he
seized other soldiers by their clothing
and finally succeeded in drawing them
to the scene. They unearthed their
comrade and put him on hospital
train into which the dog also managed
to force his way. At the hospital near
Paris the mans leg was amputated,
and the devotion of the dog was such
that the attendants found a kennel for
him near the kitchens and allowed him
to visit his master twice day. His
love for the wounded man was so great
and his sympathy with his suffering
SO evident as to touch the hearts of all
who saw it.
What does it mean? Here is devo-
ton which exceeds that Of many moth
erS, of many men. Here is affection
manifested in a lower order of lire
which equals our own. It is probably
true that the dog is of all animals the
most capable of sincere, self-denying
attachment. these higher qualities
eiosa wtS iong aae
can subordinate himself more COM
pletely and enter into mans feelings
more sympathetically than any other
form of life: yet how friendly and
how loving to the extent of their ca
pacity, would all the furred and feath-
err folk of the woods and fields be If
only man would meet them half way
How the birds would delight to sing
for him if their confidence had not
been destroyed by ages of persecution.
There are Hindus who assert as a fact,
within their own experience, that there
NAL life whom neither tigers nor
snakes will harm. An immunity of
this sort was assured of old to believ-
ers, but it would seem that nobody has
sufficient faith to make trial of it
nowadays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
Treasury Has No Cash.

Even if the Russians could immedi-,
ately train themselves for the work
hitherto left to the Germans. further
obstacle arises in settling with the
German Russian subjects. The Rus
sian treasury has no cash ready to pay
Germans for their property or for their
stocks. Even if the money were forth
coming, it is not clear to any one just
what would be done with the property
when bought. Russians themselves
consider that the depreciation in land
value and the decreased productivity
during the period of transfer would
be calamity
The various tangles into which the
question unravels seems effectively to
obstruct any positive action. Mean
while some Germans are being sent out
of Russia and are temporarily re-
placed by competent persons of other
nationality. Some, in view of the in
dispense bility of their services, have
received special permission to remain
at their posts. Those who have been
expelled are concentrated in camps in
Siberia and in the Ural districts, await
ing the outcome of the war and the
fate which shall decide whether they
are to be allowed to go to their homes
in Russia or the homes of their fore
fathers in Germany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
THE WEEK
Epitome Of Events Ending Feb
ruary Il. 1915.
THE WAR IN EUROPE.

Austria announced its purpose to declare
the Adriatic a blockade war zone, and
to deal with shipping as Germany has
declared its intention. to be in the North
sea. A number of British vessels in
the war zone established about the
British Isles were blown up by Ger
man submarines; several neutral ves-
sells were sunk by mines. Germany
claimed to hold 1,035.OoO prisoners
Swiss troops fired upon a German avia-
tor flying over Swiss territory. Bread
tickets were issued to all residents of
Berlin, limiting the individual issue
of bread Five Russian socialist depu-
ties were charged with treason for
meeting to oppose the war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
The English Fens.
fon tae London Chronicle.

Could YOU give offhand the exact
geographical boundaries of our English
fens. which are now so badly flooded?
The Eens have a miximum length of
some seventy miles, extending from
Lincoln to Cambridge. and a breadth
Of thirry-fiye. measured from Stamford
10 Brandon, in Suffolk. The first at
tempt TO drain the district was made
ry the Romans, and William the Con-
aueror's chamberlain also essayed the
task, but serious inunda lions from the
sea destroyed their work. The COM
plete reclamation of the Fens was
cot achieved until the beginning of the
nineteenth century. but an effectual
start was made with the work as early
as Ice n Ard in these days of battle
il is Nesting to recall that Dutch
prisonen ,of war were employed in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Agreement on all but three amend
ments to the District of Columbia APP
preparation bill was reached in confer
ence; the Senate, resisting proposed alb
rogation of the half-and-half principle,
again insisted on elimination of the
johnson rider from the measure. A de-
ficiency' appropriation bill reported to