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held tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock.
These meetings will be of special ma
ture from now until Easter. The first
half-hour will be devoted TO song, pray
er and the giving of cherished Scriptur-
al verses. The latter part of the meet
ing will be period of religious ,nstruc-
tion by the pastor, the Rev. f. Victor
Roland, who will discuss the questions
pertaining to faith and Christian prac-
tiee. To this meeting are invited all
who desire this instruction and espe-
cially those who are thinking of church
membership.
The Ladies' Aid Society will meet
Thursday afternoon at O'Clock in the
basement of the church.
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side, has suffered probably more than
any other town in the whole earthquake
region. Less than 200 persons have
been saver out of population of 1900
and not single house remains stand
ing. All are shapeless ruins.
Along the main road from Paterno to
Pescina traffic has ceased except for a
few motor ears carrying supplies and
some country carts which, when en-
countered, were generally laden with
two or more collins.
sickening odor From Bodies
The hourishing town of Pescina is
a mass of ruins from which there is al
ready distinctly perceptible faint
sickening odor of dead bodies. More
than 1000 of the people of Pescina are
buried under the fallen buildings. Some
of the corpses which have been recover
ed lie on the ground at street corners
while others are hastily enclosed in
cofins made of the first wood obtain
able.
Although living persons are still be-
ing dug out of the ruins there are only
$50 soldiers at Pescina to assist the
survivors in rescue work. The few sur
viving town officials complain bitterly
of the government s neglect. They
say no bread has been obtainable since
Saturday and that the people and SOL
diers have had nothing to eat but
vegetables brought from neighboring
villages.
Pescina lost its most famous land
mark, the sixteenth century castle of
the Piccolomini family, and the house
where the famous Cardinal Mazarin
was born.
Condition of Survivors Deplorable
The condition of the surviving pop
ulation at the town of San Benedetto,
near Pescina, is deplorable. Over 1000
of the inhabitants perished out of a
total population of 4,500. Only volun-
teers from the nearby districts have
been engaged in the rescue work. They
took out ten living children from among
the debris Sunday and to-day they
saved young woman and a 5-month
old child.
No outside help of any kind reached
San Benedetto until Sunday although
Pescina is only three miles away. The
roadway between the two places was
blocked as a result of the eruption.
Great assures in the highway testify
to the severity of the earth shocks in
this district.
1000 Dead at Celano
The town of Celano, northeast of
Avezzano and $500 feet up in the
mountains, lost 1000 in dead through
the earthquake. There are also many
injured and ten thousand persons are
without shelter. A majority of them
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Two Thousand Persons
Perish at Ortucchio
Out of a Population
of $500
1000 DEAD UNDER
CATHEDRAL RUINS
Mass of Ruins With More Than
1000 of the Inhabitants Buried
Under Fallen Buildings

Avezzano, via Rome, Jan. 19.-
Grave news reached here to-day from
the town of Ortucchio. southeast of this
place, where the earthquake victims
are reported to number over 1000. A
thousand of the dead, it is stated, are
buried under the ruins of the cathedral.
The entire population of Ortucchio
numbered about 2,500. The village of
Amort, in the same region, is also
reported as being completely destroyed.
Tagliacozzo, via Rome, Jan. 49,
Not less acute than the misery and suf-
fering of the people of Avezzano is
that of the inhabitants of the entire
district to the south in Pescina, San
Benedetto, Gioji De Marsi and other
towns. The loss of life and damage to
property in these places is equally as
great, but the needs of the sufferers
have received far less attention.
Lamentable Scarcity of Food
Soldiers have arrived at several of
these places to aid in the work of res
cue, but there is lamentable scarcity
of food for both troops and the people.
The temporary shelters provided are
also inadequate to protect the people
from the increasingly cold weather.
Palermo, high up on the mountain
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have been compelled to pass the bit
terly cold nights in the open air be-
cause very little lumber has been sent
to the place with which to built shell
ters.
Another severe earthquake was ex-
perienced at 6 o clock Monday morning
and the people as a consequence are
afraid to take shelter near buildings
that are still standing.
Cosenva, Calabria, Jan. 19.-The en-
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ONE VIEW OF WAR
And the Question of the Mother of the
Slain Soldier Boy

When but consider the word war
feel shock, as if one spoke to me of
witchcraft, inquisition, some dead and
distant thing, abominable, monstrous,
unnatural.
When we hear of cannibals we smile
with pride and proclaim our superior
ity over those savages.
What are savages, real savages-
those who fight to eat the victims or
those who fight to kill, merely to killf
Those youthful soldiers of the line
speeding along yonder are destined to
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tire population of Cosenva as well as
the inhabitants of Paola, Amantes,
Castrovilari aud Rossano left their
houses when the earth shock occurred.
Fortunately there were no victims in
these towns. The people, however, can.
not be induced to return to their dwell
ings as they fear repetition of the
shock.
STAR-INDEPENDEN WANT
ADS. BRING RESULTS.
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Memory

Says Jean Ingelow: "They are poor
who have lost nothing; they are poorer
far who, losing, have forgotten; they
most poor of all who lose and wish
they might forget
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Royal Blue hand-packed
tomatoes, large cans, =. 12c
American Beauty country
gentleman corn, can, lie
Sugar Hill sifted June
peas, can, ..........1 lie
Flag creamy Maine corn.
can, ...................I5c I5c
Flag small rosebud beets,
large cans, ........... 1Sc
Broken macaroni. h.. SC
New Pearl tapioca, lbs,
25c
Fancy head rice, lbs,
25c
New Pearl barley, h., &c
Best cleaned currants and
raislns, pkg, ......t3 Ice
Loose Muscatel raisins,
10" ............ 10c
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: Just Had To Talk

Madge-Why don't you think before
you speak, dear7 Marjorie-If I did
that shouldn It have time to say half
what l wanted to say.-London Tele-
graph.
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Senate tea, h., .... csc
Peanut butter. the finest
obtainable, lb., ..... .I5c
English dairy cheese, lb..
27c
Pimento cheese, lb., .27c
Cream cheese, lb., E. 25c
Imported roquefort, h..
55c
Kaiser limburger. To-, 2Sc
Sweitzer cheese, H., .33c
Walnut ch e e e, made
from cream cheese and wal
nuts, cake, .......... IOc
Golden West Alaska SAL
mon, tall tins, .... 12c
AZ Dives. Pomeroy 6
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PricesHave BeenVeryMuch
Lowered In the January
Sale Of Table Linens
10 to 25% Under Regular Prices

soc homespun table linen, So
inches wide, dice patterns. Special,
yard, ............. SOC
75c snow white bleached table
linens, &C inches wide, fine design.
Special, yard, ............ SOC
Soc extra heavy bleached table
linen. 20 inches wide, large new de-
signs and heavy quality. Special,
yard, 75c
$1.00 extra fine bleached table
damask, 20 inches wide, all linen,
handsome patterns. Special, yard,
SOC
Linen table damask, 2 yards wide,
II patterns. Special, yard, .$1.OOI
S& Dives, Pomeroy g. st,
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A Sale of Groceries That Brings Staples and
Del1cacies Down to Attractively
Low Prices

lonoow m %dweek sale Of food suf promise of Qualities usually found
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broadcloth suits. Final Clearance
price, ...... $500
$500 chiffon broadcloth suits.
Final Clearance price, -. .S16.5O
$500 chiffon broadcloth suits.
Final Clearance price, -. $500
Elevators.
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SAC bleached and brown toilet twill toweling. II
inches wide. Special, yard, ................. &c
10c brown linen finish union toweling, blue border.
Special, yard .................... SC
121ec fine quality red border huck towels, extra
good size. Special, ...................3 for 25c
15c plain white and red border huck towels, part
linen. Special, .................... .121ac
19c white and red jacquard border huck towels
size 16x32 inches Special ................15 15c
zoe all linen huck towels, red and white borders
good size and quality. Special, ..............17c
fE Dives Pomeroy S
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TURKISH BATH TOWELS

12kc plain white hemmed Turkish bath towels
cpecld, iUC
15c bleached Turkish bath towels, large size and
good quality. Special Observation-Disclosures. 121s C
25c checked blue and pink Turkish bath towels, ine
quality slight mill mperfeetions. Special, 17c
29c fancy coored bath towels, handsome jacquard
borders. subject to mill imperfections Special, 19c
Regular S9c red and blue border heavy Turkish
towels, with place for initial. Special, 29c
art, Street Floor, Rear
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Chinook salmon steak.
large round cans, ..... .2sc
North Sea kippered her
ring, large oval cans, lie
Country cured dried beef,
u h., ................. Ice
Minced ham, To-. ... 2Uc
Boiled ham, lb., 30c
Sugar cured bacon, sliced,
lb., ................. .2Sc
Berkshire salt pork, bone
less, lo., ...............2 22c
Fancy Florida oranges,
1oZen, Z8c
juicy grape fruit, -. &c
O for 25c
White Almeria grapes, h.,
ISc
Stewart, Basement.
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Napkins to match. dozen, $500
$1.39 extra heavy double table
damask, 2 yards wide. fine new open
border designs. Special, yard, Sf.25
PATTERN TABLE CLOTHS
Linen pattern table cloths.
Size 66x66-inch cloths, S1.49
Size 66xS5-inch cloths, S1.05
Extra heavy pattern table cloths
in handsome designs with napkins to
match.
66x61-inch cloths. ...... .S1.05
66xS5-inch cloths, .... $3.50
21x21 inch napkins, dozen, s.. 80
wart, Street Floor, Rear.
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5 lbs. granulated sugar. 24c
l lb. Banquet coffee, .3Oc
can Evergreen corn, Zoe
l can mellow June peas, 18c
lb. Fancy head rice, f0c
4 cakes Ivory soap, p,... I6c
S1.00
Fat Norway mackerel.
10-lb. pals, .sI.I5
Tuna fish, delicious white
meat for salads, can, . 24c
Record coffee, lb., 25c
Banquet coffee. lb., q. . Soc
Purity coffee, l 10. cans,
IOc
Our Favorite tea. lb., 45c
Pure cocoa, the best, Ib.,
15cj : lbs. 2sc
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Mems Street & Dress Gloves
In theJanuary ClearanceSale
Grouped in two lots as follows:-
$780, 81 80 and $500 tan kid and cape gloves 7O
and black January Clearance price, ...........!...
$50 and $ tan kid dress and street gloves from leading
American and foreign makers January Clearance
Dives, Pomeoy Stewart Mems Store Street Floor.
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$3.50 serge suits, in navy,
brown and black; back of coat trim
med with braid and buttons. Final
Clearance price, ........S $3.50
$3.50 navy, brown and black
novelty cloth suits, with short coat
tF Dives,
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r. Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart. Street Floor, Rear.
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$50: Reduced From $3.50 to S35

and circular skirt. Final Clearance
price, ............... $3.50
$3.50 and $500 black broad
cloth suits. Final Clearance price,
$500
$500 navy and green chiffon
neroy & Stewart. Second Floor-Thre
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New ImpetusIs Given to the Sale of Towels
and Toweling By These Out-of-the
Ordinary Values

First Importance
nd of dquany
49, 4 for 25c
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$4,000 navy, plum and brown
eponge novelty coats with braid
belt: collar and cuffs of velvet.
Clearance price, .... $3.50
$500 novelty cloth coats with
broadtail collar. Clearance price,
$500
$1,000 navy corduroy coats in
fox trot model. Clearance price,
$3.50
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-05-29
Train and Track.

Four working parties which are
building a railroad across Australia
will be equipped with wireless appara-
tus so they can keep in touch with one
another.
Although British railroads rank
fourth among the nations In regard to
mileage, they carry more passengers
every year than are carried In any 9TH
er country.
An eastern railroad has built a ma
chine operated by compressed air that
loads two cars at once with steel rails
or unloads them and places the rails
ready for laying at a rate Of four a
minute.
Elevated railways are a feature OF
Berlin. Every compartment Is marked,
there being a special carriage for those
who have dogs, for those who have
bundles, for women alone, for smok-
ers and for nonsmOkers.
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DANES AND DAUGHTERS.

Eliza N. Nye, mother Of Bill Nye, Is
now eighty-seyen years old and Is still
a devoted reader OF Ibsen-
Mrs. Josephine ID. BIN Of Macon,
Ca, was married at the age OF twelve
and became a grandmother at the age
OF twenty-nine-
Miss Gladys Nelson, daughter OF Sir
william Nelson OF the British diplo-
matte service, is driving a notorious In
France in the service OF the Red Cross.
Alene Calvert Houck has achieved
fame early In life. She Is only year
old and was recently awarded her
sixth prize for being the wonderful
100 point" eugenic baby in New York
city.
Mrs. Lucy Jones Harris Of Morgan
field, KY, has been appointed by Pres
ident Wilson to take up the problems
arising In the labor distribution branch
Of the immigration service Of New
York. This Is the first time a woman
has been selected for such position
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: SIRES AND SONS

General Jo1re only became generals
simo Of the French army In 1911 on the
refusal OF General Pau 70 accept that
once.
Representative Claude Kitchin Of
North Carolina win succeed Oscar On
derwood, senator elect, as Democratic
floor leader when congress convenes
again.
Ernest william Brown. who has been
awarded the gold medal Of the Royal
Society OF Great Britain In recognition
Of his remarkable work on lunar tables.
has been professor Of mathematics at
Yale university since 1907.
DR.. Yang Ming Feng, special commits
sioner OF the minister OF agriculture OF
China, has arrived In this country &c
study labor and commercial conditions.
he VIII make an extensive tour Of the
United States, gathering ideas which
win be employed In solving the pres
emit difficulties Of the oriental govern
ment.
Alexander Vouras, the new Greek
minister to this country, is a man OF
ripe experience, a diplomat Of ability
and endowed with those mental attain
ments and graces Of heart which make
for success. He was here five years
ago as secretary to the Greek legation
at Washington and was for a number
Of years charge dafraires-
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Alaska.

Alaska would make 40 Rhode Is
lands.
Alaska has the only tn mines IN the
United States.
Alaska has 599.446 square miles,
3S3, 645.444 acres.
Alaska has the greatest fishing wa
tiers In the world.
Alaska has more copper than Mich
igan and Arizona
Alaska has more gold than Califor-
mia and more coal than Pennsylvania.
Alaska has the greatest cattle and
sheep ranges under the American flag.
Alaska has the highest mountain IN
der the American dag-McKinley, 90
300 feet
Alaska Is larger than all the states
north Of the Ohio and Potomac rivers
and east Of the Mississippi
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HALY'S STAKE
and ROUMANIA'S
Both Countries Influenced BY
Desire of Expansion.

T<HE hesitation Of Italy In enter
ing the war has been a subject
Of much criticism She has
been looked upon by many as
a mere opportunist, az playing the
part OF the bat and watching to see
where victory perched, but Italy has
been playing for a stake that Is very
dear to her heart, and In playing for a
very large stake a certain amount Of
caution Is necessary.
II Is the dominion Of the Adriatic
that Is at stake-the question that con-
Germs Italy's progress as a nation and
as q great power far more than that
Of the mere recovery Of the provinces
of Trent and Trieste.
The control Of the Adriatic depends
upon the possession Of Istria and Dali
malta. A glance at the map VIII re-
veal that the whole western coast OF
that sea Is without indentations and
or lying islands, those Of the Vene-
tian lagoons being worthless for prop
er harborage on account Of the shall
low water behind them, and the three
harbors only which this peculiar forma-
ton Of the land allows to the Italian
kingdom-Venice, Ancona and Brindisi
are at once too shallow, too small and
incapable Of being properly fortified
for defense on account Of opening too
directly upon the sea.
On the other hand, the whole eastern
coast Is not only one long succession
Of deep bays and inlets, guarded by
mountainous TANKS and promontories,
but is further protected, clear down
to Albania, by the extraordinary on
lying chain Of the Dalmatian islands.
whose narrow, tortuous channels are
easily fortified to impregnability. Who
ever, therefore, possesses this coast
has at his command a plenty Of capa-
cious, unassailable harbor. from which
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Current Comment.

Being president isn't 4 soft snap
not all Of the time.-Philadelphia Press
1t Is always advisable to swat the
fly. Another good way is TO keep the
garbage pail covered. - Detroit Free
Press.
When you stop to think Of it there
is much irony in the fact that South
America is at present the only peace
full continent-Clevelan Plain Dealer.
Joy riding is all right until the wine
Is in. the wit is out, the joy evapOrateS
and death takes a hand. Then II
doesn't seem so joyous after al.-PhI-
adelphia Ledger.
Mrs. Ellen G. White, the eighty-eisht'
year-old prophecies Of the Adyen1Sts'
cannot be blamed for insisting thai
her long predicted Armageddon has ar
rived.-St. Louis Globe-DemOcrat
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BRIGHT BRIEFS.

A loafer never allows himself to get
out OF practice.
Some talking machines are made, but
most Of them are born.
An empty discourse and a solid one
are much alike-they are both sound.
Safety First" and See America
First" have become synonymous slO-
gans.
When n woman has seven children
her Office hours are longer than her
husbands.
Women grow old for the want of
somebody to tell them they look as
young as ever.
Probably a man never fully realizes
how golden silence is until he tries to
buy some OF II.
One Of the most popular decisions Is
that any one who makes a lot OF mon
ey Is Il financier.
To make yourself agreeable TO some
people you have To- say disagreeable
things about others.
Some people are ~ busy laying fOun-
dations that they never get time to
erect the superstruCture.
No really prominent man considers
himself immune TO presidential light
ming, but most Of them are. just the
same.
A London art dealer wants $4,000
for being called a "faker." He, at
least, seems to have no doubt Of his
genulneness-
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a thing that the brainy men OF the
army had been demanding for many
years.
The building in Washington Is a mon
ument to Root Its cornerstone was
laid by him in 1903. and the structure
was completed some years later.
The United States maintains an in
stitutiOn whose business it is to know
how to pass from a state OF peace to
a state Of war The most secret, the
least known Of its institutions, is the
vital link in the great war chain, the
war college. and the business Of the
war college is TO see to it that the peO-
pie Of this nation are not placed at a
disadvantage should a war emergency
arise.
Surrounded with mystery, filed with
officials who have nothing to say when
interviewed, steadily acquiring from
all possible sources the fullest and most
accurate information up to the very
minute of all that the other nations in
the world are doing In the way OF de-
Tense and Offense; knowing to a man
the. strength and disposal OF foreign
armies, where they are and what they
are doing. and learning all this and
much more by agencies Of which the
nation that goes calmly to bed at night
never dreams, the war college Is an
alive and vital agency Of the govern
ment
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The Writers.

DR.. Cyrus Townsend Brady, the su-
thor, is a graduate Of the Annapolis
Naval academy and is a student Of
military tactics.
Amelia Barr. the grand old woman"
Of the literary world, who is now
eighty-five years old and has had if
teen children, is writing her sixty
seventh novel.
Maeterlinck Is said to be richer BIZ
$4,000 as a result of THE Bluebird7
tours. His royalty is said TO be no
less than - per cent, an unusually
large percentage
For two years Thackeray did all his
writing with one pen, which also
served him for writing two novels.
Oliver Wendell Holmes used a gold
pointed pen for over thirty years, dur
ing which period he wrote over 1000
600 words.
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ITALIAN CAvALRYMKE AND RoUMAH1AN
ARTILLERY.
secure refuge he can dominate COM
pletely the opposite indefensible shore.
The Austrians have made Of Pola and
Cattaro two such impregnable war
ports, while Zebenico and several 9TH
er places could be likewise fortified at
comparatively small cost
The alliance served well the purpose
OF the wise Italian statesmen in keeping
peace between the two realms In spite
Of constant irritating questions and In
controlling Austria's ambitions In the
BALKANS, but now that It Is broken
Italy Is determined that the eternal
menace OF that impregnable shore
shall be ended 1t is to her a vital
point Of safety, OF life, Of progress.
And since both Istria and Dalmatia
were always Italian, until wrenched
away by Austria a century ago, and
are still Italian in language, culture
and basic chronological stock, Italy
claims them back again. and for that
WIN fight.
Cordial relations have always existed
between Italy and Roumania, and the
latter country's dream, like Italy's, q
born Of a desire for territorial aggran-
dtzement
At the very beginning Of the Euro
pean war Roumania grew restless. The
first clash OF arms, the first roar Of
the cannon, awoke in the hearts Of the
nation the long suppressed aspiration
for the redemption Of the three Rouma-
nian provinces under Austrian. Hunga-
rian and Russian domination.
MISUNDERSTANDING Banat, Te-
mishana, Maramuresh and Krishana,
all under the general Roumanian de-
nomination OF Ardeal-Bukowtna and
Bessarabia are the goal Of the national
longings. The first thought was around
which OF the two great European con-
stellations ought Roumania 10 revolye,
which Of the two groups OF Roumanian
speaking lands, one comprising ArdeaI
and Bukowlna and the other Bessara-
bia, should be saved from foreign
sway.
Consequently Roumania n playing
for much the same stake as Italy, 50
there b community Of interests be-
tween them. and both must play their
part IN settling the great issues which
the present war has Brought to a head
IN Europe