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new DEVICE GUIDES
SUBMARINE PILOTS
Indicator Shows Exact Posi-
ton of Craft Under Water.

New York-Hudson Maxim has in
submarines, which he believes to be at
once cheaper and much better than
those now in use. This implement
will enable a submarine to find her
own position under water and will do
away with the dangerous necessity Of
going to the surface for that purpose
Mr. Maxim has applied for a patent
on this. He said that while it had not
yet been granted, he understood 1t
would be obtained without difficulty
and that the device would enable the
captain of submarine to find his posi-
ton on a map at any time within a
short distance.
There are position indicators Of an
English design In use in all the navies
of the world" said Mr.. Maxim. Their
work, however, is cruder. There was
an instance at the beginning Of the
war, where German submarine,
caught In a bay by a British fiotilla,
was unable to find the way out of the
harbor without rising to the surface
AS soon as she appeared above the wa
ter she was attacked and destroyed.
MY device would enable a submarine
commander so caught to locate the
mouth of the bay with accuracy and
slip out under his enemies. The de-
vice also costs only $1,000 to install In
a submarine, whereas the position indi-
Gator at present in use costs SIT, 00O
It could Of course be used on any ship
as well as ON a submarine.
"As to a device to enable a subma-
rine to locate another vessel without
coming to the surface, there is no one,
so far as | know, who has come any
where near solving this problem. Every
offensive device in the history of war
fare has in the end been answered by
defensive instrument, and | have no
doubt that in time to come some one
will invent reply to the submarine
But there is no sign of it yet
Mr.. Maxim is experimenting with an
improved periscope, but was reluctant
to discuss this part of his activities.
Both this and the position finder, he
said, would be offered to the United
States government as its exclusive
property, and the navy department had
already allowed him to inspect the sub
marines at present In use In order to
find the improvement most needed.
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DIXIE HIGHWAY ROUTES.
Chicago and Miami Settled a. Ter
mnals of Road.

Chicago and Miami Settled a. Ter
minals of Road.
Chattanooga Dixie highway,
from the great lakes to the gulf Of
Mexico, was given definite form when
the commissioners from seven states
adopted its route. Chicago was select
ed as the northern terminus and Miami
as the southern.
The commission designated a west
and an east route between IDdianapo-
lis and Miami, but plan was adopted
to connect the north portion of the two
lines with a road along the eastern and
western shores of Lake Michigan and
connecting the southern portion with a
road from Miami along the west coast
of Florida. thus making a continuing
loop of the highway.
The commission voted to invite Mich
igan into the association to provide the
lake loop and pledged itself to extend
the east route from Dayton, o., north
through Toledo to Detroit.
Among the principal cities on the
route between Chicago and Chattanoo-
ga are Danville, H., Indianapolis. Lou
isville and Nashville, while south from
Indianapolis on the west route are
Cincinnati, Lexington, KY, and Knox
vile.
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AFrfdav Julv 80 1915
GAVE UNCLE SAM ROSES.
Grown on Experiment Farm to Test
Effect of Climate.

Grown on Experiment Farm to Test
Effect of Climate.
Washington. - The formal presenta-
ton to the United States government
Of more than 400 varieties of roses now
growing In the experimental farm of the
department of agriculture at Arlington,
Va, took place recently at gathering
Of prominent rosarians from all Sec
tons of the country, The roses were
accepted on behalf of the government
by DR.. w. A. Taylor, director of the
bureau of plant industry, who repre-
sented the secretary of agriculture at
the exercises.
The roses have been growing in the
experimC ltal farm for about two
years. They were donated by florists,
both amateur and professional, living
in all sections of the country. The
roses are being grown at the expert
mental farm for the purpose Of ascer-
tanning the effect of this climate on
the different kinds of plants. Similar
testing gardens have been established
by the National Rose society at Hart
ford, Conn; Minneapolis, Mimi; ithaca,
N. Y, and others are now being estab-
lished on Long Island and at San Fran
cisco.
Two years ago the department of
agriculture set aside about two acres
of ground in the experimental farm
for rose testing. The rose plants were
supplied by various rose growers desir-
ing to have different species tested.
The testing of rose bushes takes
three years. They are examined by ex-
perts at frequent intervals during this
period and an accurate record kept of
their growth and performance.
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THREE BIC MEALS
FOR OUR SAILORS
Uncle Sans tackles Are Best
Fed In the World.
FARE BETTER THAN SOLDIERS

No Other Fighting Men Supplied With
as Varied, as Dainty or as Scientific
Menu-Fare Costs 81 Cents a Day.
Few Canned Articles Are Used, and
Vegetables Are Always Fresh.
Washington.-Our bluejackets are
the best fed fighting men in the world,
and if boy has any leanings toward
enlisting In the nations defense he
will make no mistake by casting his lot
with the men afloat. He may have a
laundering for terra firma, but 1t must
not be forgotten that the army is out
distanced by the navy when it comes to
the matter of dietary.
:. The daily issue of food either to the
glider or the sailor out of which three
meals are made is officially called ra-
ton. This allowance for the army costs
Uncle Sam between "a and % cents,
but last year the average cost Of sub
sisting one man for one day in the
navy was $0.366, Jacky being the high
er liver by the purchasing power of
nearly IL cents more than his soldier
fellow in the national defense.
1t is not overstating the case to say
that the major part of the fleets eff
cheney and the contentment of the men
is due either directly or indirectly to
the generous and varied provender
which is now given them whether the
ship be in port or blowing her way
through stormy seas. There was time
not long ago when timed foods were
extensively served on board our naval
craft, but the fleet is using less and less
of these all the while.
Upon this point Admiral MCGOWAN,
chief Of the bureau of supplies and
accounts, has recently said: There
are certain things that 1t is almost
necessary to use as part of ration.
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POLAND A DESERT;
FUTURE IS DARK
Every Second Man In the COun-
try Is Now a Refugee.
PEOPLE IN WANT OF FOOD.
Robert Crozier Long Makes Extended
Tour of Country and Finds Great
Devastation and Much Suffering.
Tells Exactly What He Has Seen and
What People Face.

London.-Robert Crozier Long, au-
thor and special correspondent, has
written an account of his extended
tour of the war devastated districts of
Poland. In it he says:
"'Finis Poloniae,' Kosciuskos cpl
taph on his country. has been real
ized.
"a tour of central and south Poland
and the Polish parts of Galicia con-
vlnces me of that. | visited all the
chief towns and many villages, or
ruins of villages, in 10000 square miles
of country lying between the Austro-
German lines and the Vistula In a
semicircle from the Bzura to the Nida.
| visited also the basin of the Dunajec
and Willoka, the theater of the san
culinary May day outbreak. The coun-
try is a desert, the home of nomads.
l got my first glimpse of 1t on the
Bzura, west of Warsaw, where during
a four months artillery duel every
habitation has disappeared.
II reached this battle front first after
dusk and from an observation tower
saw the remnants were gaunt, erect
pillars. This is typical of burnt out
Poland. A street of frame cottages,
the first shell and only ugly rows of
brick chimneys are left.
Isolated factories all have been de-
stroyed, mostly by airmen's bombs on
the suspicion that they were staff
headquarters. Thirty villages either
were burned or blown up.
"The governor Of Radon assured me
that in his province 500 villages had
been burned. Refugees assure me that
In a circle extending thirty miles
around LODI only five villages were
spared
"Poland's population is suffering as
no Europeans have suffered since the
Thirty Years war. Every second man
Is a refuge Warsaw has 10000 refu-
gees, a third of them Jews. In Radon
| found $4,000 refugees, in Kielce 90
600.
"a Warsaw rabbi assured me that
100000 Jews from the towns Of LODI,
Piotrkow and Lowicz are without
homes. Many refugees still tramp the
roads, begging despairingly from peo-
pie themselves beggars. Many thou
sands are huddled in the tottering frag-
ments of cottages, while 10000 are
shivering In the abandoned trenches
and terraced Russian dugouts at Ska
rysZom.
81 met many refugees without food
or money and mostly i'll clad. Near
Ostrowiec was dreary procession of
men in thick sheepskin coats without
other clothing, women in mems trou-
sers and children in dresses improvised
from shawls.
"Such is Poland's present. The fu-
ture will be even worse. The country,
ravaged and irreclaimable. begins to
resemble the primeval Sarmatian
waste. Roads, forests and even fields
have vanished.
1.-THE roads which have been repair
ed cannot bring food to civilians, for
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all are crowded by parallel transport
columns. The fields were destroyed
by transport and artillery trains,
which, finding the roads too narrow,
spread right and left, obliterating
farms.
winter grain was not sown. and
there is no seed grain for spring.
1.-The worst, because it is irremedia-
BILE, is the forest destruction. Some
woods have been hewn wholesale to
make causeways through morasses,
some to pave roads, some to make
clear field for artillery, some shelled to
bits because they afforded shelter for
troops. some drenched with petroleum
and burned This forest devastation
means for Poland generations of beg
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Photos by American Press Association.
PROVISIONING AN AMERICAN BATTLEsHIP.
For instance, there is canned corhed
beef, which Is so well understood and
SO well liked in the navy that its use
to q certain moderate extent Is not
only welcome, but most welcome to the
men-they like 1t. Then canned to-
matoes and few other staples; canned
fruits and some vegetables canned are
very serviceable and are used right
&sg. But the great majority OF all
food furnished to the men now, at
least in the battleship fleet, is fresh
food-fresh vegetables, fresh meats,
fresh bread, etc"
Surely this is enough to make our
old sea dogs rise in protest from their
graves. They could remind their
young followers of today of the trying
times of wooden ships and canvas
when salt horse" "sowbelly," hard
tacl<'' and the like constituted the main
elements of the sailors ration. Timed
foods, as we know them now, would
indeed have been a delicacy In the
decades gone, but the fighting jacky or
those days had to be content with such
delectables as ''scouse," ''lobscouse'
soft tack" soft tommy" "skillaga-
lee," "burgoo," "doughboys," dogs
body" and duff" the latter not always
able to boast of plums- The water
too. that our seamen drank In those
other days was both scant In Its al.
lowance when on the open ocean ana
as likely as not tainted and unpala-
table.
The public little realizes what nice
figuring must be done in order to keep
expenditures within bounds. With
total enlisted force of approximately
5000 men Uncle Sam has to pay more
than $7,4O0,OO0 annually to make the
elmer man" happy. Remember that
Il costs more to feed the sick, and
while the daily ration for the well does
not involve an outlay of more than
thkNcents lawfully allowed, still the
average for everybody brings
the figure up to nearly 81 cents per IA
ton per diem.
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LOWELL FIXES MANS PRIME.
Harvard's President Tells Graduates
Twenty three Is Mental Maximum.


Twenty three Is Mental Maximum.
Cambridge, Mass.--President Lowell
of Harvard university in a speech said
that after the age of twenty-three a
mans keener senses begin to lessen, al
though something may be added
through the medium of experience aft
er that age.
II believe" said DR.. Lowell, that the
mental and physical maxima are reach
ed at nearly the same period. A man
reaches his full physical growth when
he is about eighteen or nineteen years
old, and by the time he is twenty-three
he is beginning to lose his keener per-
ceptions, so that this age may be called
the physical maximum. The mental
maximum is reached great deal ear
lier than most people suppose"
Speaking to college boys, he contin-
ued: "You have reached your physical
maximum and are close upon your
mental maximum. You will probably
gain something more from experience,
but your actual capacity will increase
very little"
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ordsr TO Shave ssirs French.

Paris.-The decision Of the military
authorities that soldiers at the front
must be clean shaven as a hygienic
measure has brought forth a storm Of
protest from large number Of beard
ed men on the firing line.
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1t is estimated that the largest
grain crop in history will be raised in
Washington, Oregon and Idaho this
year.
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Work on Snohomish County's six
mile portion OF Cascade Scenic High
way between Index and Barring is to
be started Immediately.
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The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-02-05

enemy's headquarters. the plan meant
giving, giving In the hope of receiving
much in return. Would he get the re-
turn?
CA woman was the ideal one for the
task we intrusted to Feller," he unused,
"a gentlewoman, big enough, adroit
enough, with her soul in the work as
no paid woman's could be! There
seemed no such one in the world"
But to let her do It'll" gasped Ian.
stron.
at is her suggestion, not yours? She
offers herself? She wants no per-
suasion?" Partow asked sharply.
Entirely her suggestion" said Lam
stron. "She offers herself for her
country-for the cause for which our
soldiers will give their lives by the
thousands. 1t is time of sacrifice"
Partow raised his arms They were
not formless as he brought them down
with sledge-hammer force to the table.
Your tendon of Achilles? My boy.
she is your sword-arm!" His sturdy
forefinger ran along the line of from
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CHAPTER XIV.
In FelIer'S Place.


What am I? What have 1 done
What am I about to do? shot as forked
shadows over the hot 1ava-f1ow of Mar
ta's impulse. The vitality that Wester-
ling had felt by suggestion from a still
profile rejoiced in quickening of pace
directly she was out of sight of the
veranda. All the thinking she had
done that afternoon had been in pic
lures; some saying, some cry, some,
groan, or some smile went with every
picture. 49,.
The sitting-room Of the tower was
empty to other eyes but not to hers.
The lantern was in the corner at hand.
After her Fastening steps had carried
her along the tunnel to the telephone,
she set down the lantern and pressed
the spring that opened the panel door.
Another moment and she would be en-
barked on her great adventure in the
finality of action. That little ear-piece
became a specter Of conscience. She
drew back convulsively and her hands
flew to her face; she was a rocking
shadow In the thin, reddish light Of
the lantern.
Conscious mind had torn off the
mask from subconscious mind, reveal
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The Last Shot
FREDERICK ALMER
(Copyright, 1914. by Charles Scribners Sons)
SYNOPSIS.

At their home on the frontier between
the Browns and Grays Marta Galland and
her mother, entertaining Colonel Wester-
ling of the Grays, see Captain Lanstron
of the Browns injured by fall In MS
aeroplane. Ten years later. WesterHng,
nominal vice but real chief Of staff, re-en-
forces South La Tir and meditates on war
Marta tells him Of her teaching children
the follies Of war and martial patriotism
and begs him to prevent war while he IS
chief of staff. On the march with the 53d
of the Browns Private Stransky, an
archist, is placed under arrest. Colonel
marta at her home. She tells Lanstron
that she believes ,Feller. the gardener, TO
bs spy. Lanstron confesses 1t Is true
land shows her telephone which Feller
the tower for use to benefit the Browns
in war emergencies Lanstron declares
his love for Marta. Westerl1ng and the
Gray premier plan to use trivial inter-
national affair to foment warlike pa
triotism in army and people and strike be.
fore declaring war. Partow, Brown chlef
OF staff, and Lanstron. made vice, DISCUSS
the trouble, and the Brown defenses. Par
tow reveals his plans to Lanstron. the
Gray army crosses the border line and at
tacks. The Browns check them. Artll-
Hery, infantry, aeroplaneS and dlr1g1DleS
engage. Stransky rising to make the
anarchist speech Of his life, draws the
Gray artillery fire. Nicked by shrapnel
splinter he goes to Berserk and f1ghts-"ali
a man." Marta has her first glimpse or
war in It's modern, cold, scientific, muir
derous brutality The Browns fall back
Ito the Galland house. Stransky forages.
Marta sees a night attack. The Grays
attack in force. Teller leaves his secret
telephone and goes back to his guns
Hand to hand fighting. The Browns fall
back again. Marta asks Lanstron over
the phone to appeal to Partow to stop
the fighting Vandalism in the Galland
house. Westerling and his staff occupy
the Galland house and he begins to WOO
Marta
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-xou do!n westeriins exploded. IN.

/ -xou dol" Westeriing exploded. The
plans of the enemy! The plans that
neither Bouchard's saturnine cunning,
nor brides, nor spies could ascertain!
It was like the bugle-call to- the hunter.
But he controlled himself. yes, yes!"
He was thoughtful and guarded.
"Do you think it is right to tell?"
Marta gasped half inarticulately.
Fright? Yes, to hasten the newt
able-to save lives!" declared Wester-
ling with deliberate assurance.
Il want to see an end of the kill
ing! T." She sprang to her feet as
if about to break away unanimously,
but paused, swaying unsteadily, and
passed her hand across her eyes.
I'VE intend general attack on the
first line of defense tonight" he ex.
claimed, his supreme thought leaping
into words.
"And you would want the informa-
ton about the first line tonight Tiff
it is to be of service?"
Eyes, tonight"
Marta brought her hands together
in tight clasp Her gaze fluttered
for a minute over the tea-table. When
she looked up her eyes were calm.
cit is a big thing, isn't it?" she said.
"A thing not to be done.in an impulse
try never to do big things in an i'm.
pulse. When 1 see that am in dan
ger of it always say: Go by your
self and think for half an hour!' So
must now. In little while will let
you know my decision"
Without further formality she start
ed across the lawn to the terrace
steps. Westerling watched her sharp
ly, passing along the path of the Sec
ond terrace, pacing slowly, head bent,
until she was out Of sight. Then he
stood for time getting a grip on his
own emotions before he went into the
house.
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ing the true nature of the change that
war had wrought in her. She who had
resented Feller's part-what a part
she had been playing! Every word,
every shade of expression, every tell
ing pause of abstraction after Wester-
ling confessed that he had made war
for his own ends had been subtly
prompted by purpose whose actuality
terrified her.
Her hypocrisy, she realized, was as
black as the wall of darkness beyond
the lanterns CLEAN. Then this demon
alization passed, as a nightmare
passes, with Westerling's boast again
in her ears.
When wars principles, enacted By
nc en-, were based on sinister trickery
called strategy and tactics, should not
women, using such weapons as they
had, also fight for their homes? Mar.
ta's hands swept down from her eyes:
she was on fire with resolution.
Forty miles away a bell In Lam
stron's bedroom and at his desk rang
simultaneously. At the time he and
Partow were seated facing each other
across map on the table of the room
where they worked together. No per
suasion OF the young vice-chief no
edict of the doctors. could. make the
old chief take exercise or shorten his
hours.
know. ] know myself" he said
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tier under his eye with little staccato
leaps. 'Eh?" he chuckled significantly,
finger poised.
LET them up the Bordir road and
on to redoubts So and 81, you mean?"
asked Lanstron.
"You have it! The position looks
important, but so we'll do we COM
mand it that it is not really vital. Yes,
the Bordir road is her bait for Wester
ling!" Partow waved his hand as if
the affair were settled.
But" interjected Lanstron, 1--WE
have also to decide on the point of the
main defense which she is to make
Westerling think is weak"
"Hm-m!" grumbled Partow. "That
Is not necessary to start with. We can
give that to her later over the tele-
phone, can't we, eh?"
"She asked for it now"
"Why?" demanded Partow with one
Of his shrewd, piercing looks.
"She did not say, but can guess"
explained Lanstron. "She must put all
her cards on the table; she must tell
Westerling all she knows at once. II
she tells him piecemeal it might lead
to the supposition that she still had
some means of communication with
the Browns"
"Of course, of counsel" Partow spat-
ted the fiat of his hand resoundingly
on the map. CAS- I decided the first
time / met her, she has head, and
when a woman has a head for that
sort Of thing there is no beating her.
Well" he was looking straight into
Lanstron's eyes, "Well, J think we
know the point where we could draw
them in on the main line. eh?"
Cup the apron of the approach from
the Engadir valley We yield the ad-
vance redoubts on either SIDE"
Meanwhile, we have massed heavily
behind the redoubt. We retake the adj
vance redoubts in a counter-attack and
-" Partow brought his fist into his
palm with smack.
Eyes, if we could do that! If we
could get them to expend their attack
there!" put in Lanstron very excitedly
for him.
1--WE must! She shall help" Par
tow was on his feet. He had reached
across the table and seized Lanstron's
shoulders in powerful If fesh-pad-
ded grip. Then he turned Lanstron
around toward the door of his bed
room and gave him a mighty slap of
affection. "My boy, the brightest hope
of victory we have is holding the wire
for you. Tell her that bearded old
behemoth, who can kneel as gracefully
as a rheumatic rhinoceros, is on both
knees at her feet, kissing her hands
and trying his best, in the name of
mercy, to keep from breaking into
verse of his own composition"
Back at the telephone, Lanstron, in
the fervor of the cheer and the enthu-
siasm that had transported his chief,
gave Marta Partow's message.
"You, Marta, are our brightest hope
of victory"
CTo BE CONTINUED
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Great Luck.

We'll, how did your camping trip
turn out?"
81 had great luck about that camp
ing trip"
How was that?"
81 got sick at the last moment and
couldn't go."-Louisville Courier-Jour
nal.
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"Pop!"
Eyes, my son."
"What is this war about over in
Europe?"
Don't know, my boy, but you might
ask your mother. She knows lot
about fighting"