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ued the pursuit OF the FrencE Oh DOtn SIdeS
OF the Nardar, occupied The railway station
at Demir-K apu aud are now twelve kIIo-
metres east Of the station. We approached
Grabitra from three sides and a hot battle
took place until midnight. One column ut
tackled and anuihllated II French battalion
by buyopet attack near Peiroz and captured
its encampments. We ae operating south
Of Slrumulza and have advanced south to
Kosturuo, Attacking the French and Brit
ISL on THEN front, and we have taken one
hundred and fourteen prisoners after a stub
bonn battle. Our columns from KirchevO
and Monastir, which were advancing against
Ochlida, descended into the Ochrida plpin
md occupied the city. On the Serbian and
Montenegrin front enormons booty has been
captured, including eighteen guns one hun
bred caissons, fifteen motor-cars, four carrio-
gts and other war muterial"
The speech delivered in the Reichstag by
Dr. Won Betbmann Hollwcg, he German
Chancellor, ON Thursday, had only been par
tmlly received in London when yesterdays
papers were printed, but such editorials as
appear are sarcastic. The "G"aphico says
the world will smIe ut the ideu Of Germany
Offering to forcgo the advantages which the
Chancellor claimed through the protonga-
tlon Of The wnr, and that people do not Talk
about peace unless they want it. aud that
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
White Mountain Reserves.

From the New Hampshire Forestry.
The national forest now includes
225,000 acres. purchased at a cost of
nearly $1,6O0,000. The latest purchase
includes the bulk of Mount Washing
ton, with the primeval timber in the
great gulf. 1t includes also the great
err part Of the town of Albany. with the
Moae 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 Both of next June. Members of the
national forest reservation commission
in Washington and other leading
members of Congress seek to have re-
appropriated at this session of Con-
gress 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 pur-
chase. one of about 66S,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
MAX1M's SIEGE GUN.
Krupps in Use Are Duplicates Of
Model Perfected in 1897.

Hudson Maxim. in Hsrpers Weekly.
Maximite. 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 plate by
a 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.
I delivered 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 I showed
designs of a twenty-four-inch siege
gun, with semi-armor-piercing pro-
jectile. carrying half a ton Of high ex-
plosive. and Weighing, charged, 2,700
pounds, and capable of being thrown
by the gun at maximum elevation, with
a smokeless powder charge, to a dis
lance of more than nine miles.
The present German 23E Inch siege
gun and the German high-exp1osive
projectile are close duplicates of the
gun and shell then shown by me.
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 >maximite. and although
the English. soon after that lecture.
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
The Future of India.
From the Chicago Journal.

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 1t is
doubtful If the most farseeinG among
them can give 1t anything like 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 revoiu-
ton the moment Britain was involved
in Europe, India has come forward
with voluntary offerings of money and
troops. suspended all agitation for po-
liticaI changes until after the war.
turned deaf ear to the persuaslons 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 municipalities winch
have proved their value in this fashion
in time of war cannot be relegated to
the status of lesser breeds without the
law in time of peace. But what other
sta tus can they assume? Can india be
trusted with self-government IKE that
which prevails in Canada and Aus
tralia? Can Europeans ana As1atics
henceforth work side Ny 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
~ foreign masters for centuries find
that. after all, they have a common
ideal in the empire2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
Waffle Day in Australia.
Prom the London Chronicle.


Waffle Cor mimosa, as it 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 recog milton in the common
wealth coat-of-arms.
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 Waffle day" commentaries
| the founding of the first British settle
| rnent at Port Jackson. near the site of
Sydney. January rs. 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 Divine Problem.
rom 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 te
take in a battle. on whose outcome his
own existence often depended. But In
these days, when all of Christendon
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 its faith in the possession OF
divine favor. So far their reasoning
in some cases rather bewildering, has
followed in a 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 MERCER 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 flourishing re-
cision In the matter must therefore In
yolye 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
A Dogs Devotion.
rom the Rochester Post-E1press


The dog of 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 filled
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 a 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 life
true that the dog is of all animals the
most capable of sincere. self-denying
attachment, these higher qualities
having been developed by long and
close compan1onShlp with men. He
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
are kindly men who respect all ami
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
Ban on Hip Pocket.

From the Portland (Ms.) 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 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 a gun in
their Nip pocket. thing that is very
far from a safety-first proposition.
But the hip pocket has another use
SO we'll understood in communities like
Maine that when one citizen asks an
other II he has Anything on his hip
there Is at once q full comprehension
of the complete meaning of the in
quiry.
1t is this use Of the hip pocket which
may well 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
Hill of Tara.
From the 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 ot
Ireland and the famous million meet
ing" of OConneIl. 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 theret
Their digging among the mounds was
finally stopped by a 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
the House provided for the payment
from revenues of the District of Column

the House provided Tor the payment
from revenues of the District of Column
sum of s5SS,06723. money advanced by
the United States to the District OF
Columbia with which to pay the inter-
est on the 1865 bonds of the District OF
Columbia for the fiscal years 1877 and
1873 and also the sum of $15S,437 de-
clared to be due the United States from
the District of Colum bia by recent de-
cis1on 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
and agreed to in conference. The bill
for the establishment of the University
of the United States was passed by the
House. Mrs. IL. +. Dimock, president of
the George Washington Memorial As
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
United Service Club. The question of
the sanity of the late Stilson Hutchins
was involved in the continuance of the
nearing in the contest over his will A
dehc1ency of 43 per cent in funds avail
able for payment of police and f1remen
pensions was reported to the board of
Commissioners.
fire threatened the records of the
patent office. DIR. Thomas j. Kemp and
Dr. E. 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
Cockre1l 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
q 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 a longtime govern
ment employe: Robert A. Golden, pio-
neer commission merchant; DIR. Robert
Farnham one of Washington's oldest
practicing physicians: ]. H.. Tibbitts,
veteran Treasury Department employe;
Commander J. B. Briggs, L. S. N, re-
tired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
THE CHARM OF ROOFS.
New City Vistas-spaoe in Some
Countries Z Well Used. ,

from oxabsm190 NAEakAA.
There 10 something unaeoeuntsAay
captivating to the imagination in the
Idea Of life carried on At unacoustomsd
levels-life in tree tops or subterras
mean caves. I stu recall though oau
no longer plaza . story Of my child.
hood about 3 family who Lived, unsus-
pected. In the thickness Of the walls Of
another familys house.
felt tho same old charm whom
nrst looked down on the eastern life of
the roofs, I saw Il first. not In the
in southern Spain. A whole city of
gardens and Playground. and even OF
dining rooms. was spread out beneath
me-a ground plan. you would have
said, II 1t had not been SO far above
the ground. Here and there a piano
was to be seen. standing out boldly
under the rafnless blue sky.
And as the sun set these roofs were
peopled as suddenly as our streets are
sensible way to live, 1 thought. Why
don't we do II at home? Little / then
knew that we did.
But / know 1t now; for recently [
have spent my time at the top of Il
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. -Iot only are
chimney pots and water tanks rnassed
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 brown-
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. a loggia Is
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
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 tho 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 q 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
Crocker 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
the Panama exposition. with its
guarantee fund of $5O0.o0 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 multiplication of regional and
municipal art museums seems little
short of wonderful when we reflect
that prior to 1875 We had virtually
none 1t 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. II 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 public func-
ton and resolutely withhold all public
support.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
The English Fens.

Could you give offhand the exact
geographical boundaries of our English
fens. which are now SO badly flooded?
The Fens have a mixirnum length of
some seventy miles, extending from
Lincoln to Cambridge. and a breadth
81 thirty-five, measured from Stamford
10 Brandon. in Suffolk. The first at
tempt TO drain the district was made
ny the Romans, and William the Con-
aueror's chamberlain also essayed the
task, but serious foundations 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 l. Ard in these days Of battle
it is il resting &c recall that Dutch
prisoneh of war were employed in the
work,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
THE WEEK
Epitome Of Events Ending Feb
ruary q. 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 yes
sells We're sunk by mines. Germany
claimed to hold 1,035,0t prisoners.
Swiss troops fired upon 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
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 abb
rogation of the half-and half principle
again insisted on elimination of the
johnson rider from the measure. de-
fciency' appropriation bill reported to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
The Fell Clutch of Habit.

From the Salt Lake Herald.
Ragged Rogers-I heard a Teller say
this mornin' dat he wasn't happy I'M
less he was workin'.
Tattered Thomas-Ain't it terrible
! thing when er habit gifts hold Of er
man?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
Some Improvement.

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
How is young John getting on at
college," asked the friend of the fam
lily.
Every we'll indeed" answered Johns
rroud mother. 1.-The president has
about decided to let him stay on for
| the rest of the term"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
Located.


whats become of the solitary horse
man who used to appear in the first
chapter of the novel, outlined against
the horizon on the top of a hill?'
He is probably at the bottom Of the
same hill in an automobile with his ell
CINE stalled