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Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-17

creep forth from under capsized gun carriages and limp away in search of cover. They nearly succeed when a little white cloud is suddenly seen and the tottering figures and every thing around are moved down That was one of our shrapnels
 "The smoke has cleared away. and our field artillery is shooting at more important game--a field battery in the road. which is now at rest forever.
 Iurrah'! is shouted through the tele- phone, with the announcement: Cuff fies has been taken completely also the height 13g (namlng a little forO Enthusiasm for a moment and then the telephone service gOes on wi'h the same zeal and energy We have had great successes. and not a man thinks of getting his dinner We onlv drink black coffee from morning tin night. and that is all that keeps us on our feet The enemy's artillery gradually stops firing, but ours fires stnl more hotly If possible Suddenly the urgent call
 "'Thc whole artillery will prepare Crouy and vaurot to be taken by storm At 2:3O Crouv is taken after a hard struggle and occupied by our hrave Field-greys Two hours later Vauxrot is ripe for attack and is taken by storm with only small losses. Another hour and the glass factory after having been frlghtfully shot tu pieces. falls into our hands. That was strong supporting point of the French: and now there is no longer any holding out on their side Their riflemen run for the Aisne in will masses and press to cross the bridges for the south bank. Our artillery tears with rapid fire through the disorder ly masses. Hundreds of these brave soldiers redden the soil of the native land with their blood
 Another 'HurrshH Announcement from division headquarters that the Kaiser. our beloved Kaiser. has just arrived in an automobile behind nui front. Hundreds of telephones carr, the news into the front battle lines, and our men are no longer to be held back -- in a short time all the country on this siee of the Aisnc is cleared oi the enemy
Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-17

giene sociale, speaking of the mobil- ization order and comparing it to one of the great physical phenomena which constantly trouble the universe, like earthquakes uday waves, etc.. says tbat "the maunre in which France supported the shock ausurs well for the health of the race after the war
 "Adaptation", he says. "is Che great est law of biology for we live and preserve our physical and moral life by adaptation only He who is in- capable of adapting himself succumbs. The French race adap tdeitself admir- ably to this unforeseen danger, and to realize this it is only sufficient lo remember what Paris and what France were at the moment the mobil- ization order was published For the calm confidence with whic hone went to his duty we are indebted 10 a qull- ity that we di duot know we possessed perhaps to that degree nervous sta- bility to the mastery of ourselves. to the control that we have not lost of our nervous system,
 "In a collectivitv' he says, there are always a certain number of in- dividuals who suffice for their daily life, but who area unable to accomplish a more arduous task or to support an unforeseen shock. When the hour of the trial arrive sthose succumh They lose their heads During the first days of the mobilization a number of such subjects profoundly troubled mentally, their number i'm proportion to the num- arrived at the hosDitals but in reality ber of healthy subjects was very small and many fthese troubles were of very short duration. The trial was se- we're, but 1t was to our honor because 1 it bears witness that the French race has not degenerated.
 "We knew by long experience that every war involves the outbreak Of a great many diseases, and we were very aPreeably astonished during the first three months O fthis war that sickness was very rare iu all our sam itary stations. The army in barracks reflects the state of health of the civ
Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-17
OVER PHONE
 DESCRIBE BATTLE
 AS II PROGRESSES
Operator in His Den on the Fighting Line Tells of In- structions Which He Trans mitted For Officers in Charge

BERLIN, Feb 16.--A Hamburg sol dier who acted as telephone operator in the latest lighting at Soissons, had a remarkable view of the opera. tions from his dug-out.
 My den". he writes, %suddenlv became the meeting place for officers and for several days 1t has borne the name; Central Telephone station Of Feild Artillery The name says enough to explain itself All orders pass through my wires, giving direc- tions for our artillery fire at import ant points.
 Outside we hear the wild rage of the battle. Suddenly our dugout seems to be caving in stones crumble from the roof; we stop breathing and terrible pressure in the air seems about tc flatten our chests What was that? The younger soldiers tremble and grow pale but the veterans give a quick and meaning glance. and the new men who have not yet been in battle recover themselves and proceed calmly with their work. It was after all only a little 6O-inch bomb. The veterans know that it did not fall ji rectly over the dug-out and proceed with their telephone work, knowing that only delayed message might cost much German blood. Meanwhile the tide Of battle is turning back and forth
 "Our infantry is falling back and has lost connection with adjoining troops. The first and third companies of the regiment has disappeared; or Height number -- must be stormed at once. The first battalion is under a flank fire. its losses heavy help wanted at once. The artillery must lengthen its range 300 metres at once as it ia endangerlng our infantry Captain X-- has just fallen Lieut. enant S-- assumes command Field artillery must immediately open fire on height number -; upon -- road and enemy's artillery galloping away Two minutes later that road is screened wnth smoke as our shells fly further and further into the thick masses of men and horses. Horses dash away in mad panic, and men
Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-17
Most Old People
 Are ConStipated

The wear of years impairs Che action of the bowels. With ad- 1anciug age people are disposed to restricted activity and exercise, which is responsible for Che con condition of most old folks
 The digestive organs are more sensitive to the demands made up, on them and rebel more quickly
 A mild, effective remedy for com stipatiCn and one that IS especially suited Co the needs of elderly peo- pie women and children, is the combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin that is sold in lrug stores under the name of Dr. CaldwelTs Syrup pepsin A free trial bottle can be obtained by writing to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 452 Washington St. Monticello Ills
Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-17

il population with which it is a4soci- ated. If we were not at war should now see the diseases of the season dp- pear in all our garrisons, but on the contrary the army in action is re- markedly ire efrom them, and fortu. nately. in proportion to the dead the wounded and the sick there will re- main a far greater number who have escaped all the dangers. These will come back hardened more resistitaat that they were before ennobled rip, ened and better tempered physically as morally"
 This improved condition of the sur vivors. Dr, Chauard thinks, will more than offset the decrease in the birth rate, cue Co the many deaths. and for that reason he considers that the gen eeral physical condition of the French race win be Improved by the war
Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-17

pr William J Mayo. and Charles IT,. Mayo, of Rochester Minn, have de- cided to establish a $lOO0,000 founaa- 'uon for medical research and 10 place the foundation under certain resu'c. tions, in hands of the University of Minuesota's board of regents
Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-17
id San Antonio, Tex Feb. 2
 FEDERAL LEAGUE.
Camp

Club Camp Date Indianapolis. Valdosta, Ga. Mch C
 Chicago Shreveport. Miss Baltimore Southern Pines, N C. Buffalo .......... Athens, Ga 10
 Brooklyn Browns Wells, Miss Kansas City ... Brunswick, Ga. 6
 Pittsburgh ...... Augusta, Ga St. Louis .... Havana, Cuba Feb. 2S
Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-17
HOSTS SOON TOSTART
 TRAINING

NEW YORK. Feb. Within the next three weeks more than zoo base ball players win be scattered through the south and southwest training for the annual pennant races of the Nu- tional American and Federal Leagues. With the gathering Of veterans and recruits the baseball situation will pass through another stage of the progress which marks the annual sea sons of the national sport Magnates league executives and legal uthori. ties win give way to the player SO far as popular interest is concerned and the coacher's cries silence the waugling of rival combinations
 While a majority Of the twenty-four clubs composing these three. leagues have selected their spring training camps and set the dates for the re- porting of players there is suu a possibility that two or three may al. fer their plans at the last moment. As the lists stand at present. however. 'the south Atlantic states will be the scene of the greatest activity Geor- gia win quarter siy clubs within her borders while Florida will entertain five Texas has been named by four clubs as the state wherein to prepare for the 1915 campaign Mississippi, Arkansas and Virginia claim two each while California, Cuba, Kentucky and North Carolina will have at least one squad training within their boundar- ies during the month of March
 The list, arranged by leagues show ing the city or town where the train ing camp win be located and the prob able date for reporting is as follows:
Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-17
NATIONAL L-LEAcUE.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Club Camp Date Boston .. Hot Springs, Ark Mch. 8 Washington Charlottesville, Va Detroit ..... GulfpOrt, Fla Feb 17 s. Louis .. Houston, Tex 28 Chicago ...- Paso Robles. Gal |" l9 New York ... Savannah Ga Mch
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-10-15
No-Tip Barber Shops.

The number of 'no-tip" barber
shops springing up all over town looks
as if in a short time the skids will be-
put under the tipping nuisance, espe-
cially in barber shops, a New York
correspondent of the Pittsburgh Dis
patch writes. Most Of these no-tip
proprietors pay their BARRIERS half
again as much as the other shops
pay on their written agreement that
they'd neither accept nor receive any
tips. And many Of them are getting
the cream of the trade. The other
day a prosperous looking man insist
ed upon the barber taking 15-cent
tip. But the boss protested. This
is a no-tip shop he said. What
right have you to tell me what shall
or shall not do with my money!"
snapped the customer. mo right at
ALL" said the boss gravely, but I
have got the right to run my own
business according to my own meth.
ods AS business man you ought to
know that" I'm not a business
man." growled the customer, as he
left the place. He belonged to that
queer breed of men who give tips in
discriminatory out of pure love of
ostentation, and these are the fellows
WHIP perpetuate the tipping graft and
make it so hard to down.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-10-15
Movies in Spain.

A press dispatch announces the
first showing in Bilbao of moving pic
lures in their natural colors. 1t seems
pertinent to suggest to manufacturers
of projecting apparatus and films in
the United States of the probable op-
portunity to introduce these goods
here, especially now, at the beginning
of summer, when the motion-picture Is
about the only amusement of the peo-
pie. In all the principal plazas and
gardens of Seville, moving-picture
screens are erected and small tables
and chairs set out, the exhibitors
either making their profits from the
drinks sold or by rental of chairs at
two cents each. Thousands of people
60 nightly to the different plazas and
gardens, and the entire life of the
city for about four months centers
around these moving-picture shows.
Anything in the nature of novelty IS
sought, and the exhibition of pictures
in their natural colors would undoupt-
eddy attract the crowd, and manufac-
turers should, therefore, find a ready
market. 1t, is probable that credit ar
rangements would have to be MADE
with the purchasers, as it is unusuai
to sell here for cash.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-10-15
HIRE WOMEN AS CONDUCTORS
Between $500 and 5000 Now En-
ployed on Trolley Cars of Berlin
Take Place of Soldiers.

The art of Conducting" street car
through the crowded thoroughfares Of
Berlin is being taught to women in five
schools for conductresses," which
graduate each week total of between
3CJ and 400 female conductors to take
the place of men gone to the war
not since the earliest days of the
electric car in Berlin have candidates
Tor the positions on the back platform
proved so apt as the women, who once
were considered unfit for such mascu-
line work. Between $500 and 5000
women are now employed as conduc-
tors, and incidentally everyone who
has applied passed the preliminary ex-
animation. A large percentage, how
ever, have been unable to stand the
strain and have had to seek other
work.
The women are given theoretical
course of three days, eight hours a
day, in one of the five schools, and
then, for their practical training, are
accompanied on genuine trips by ex-
perienced conductors, learn the names
of streets and have a chance to put
their theoretical training into use.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-10-15
CANDY TO RELIEVE FATIGUE
British Soldiers In France Devour
Sweets in Enormous Quantities.
Substitute for Alcohol.

The value of candy is recognized
by military authorities. The British
soldiers in France are reported as
consuming "prodigious quantities of
sweets" A captain at the front with
the British army reports that the
canteen has five times the demand
for sweets that was expected, and one
fifth the demand for beer" The Aus
tralians encamped in Egypt have eat
en- all the chocolate to be had in
Cairo.
Scientists contend the sugar has
much food value and is a good sub
stitute for alcohol Chocolate, for ex-
ample, is harmlessly stimulating. Sol
diers have discovered what scientists
know before that sugar will relieve
fatigue quickly and give a sense of
strength that is real without the sub
sequent depression experienced by
those who use spirits. Sugar and can
dies are found to be useful not only
to the physically tired, but to those
who suffer mental exhaustion.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-10-15
THE IRISH OF THE BALKANS
Serbians Have All the Virtues and
Some of the Weaknesses of
the Ribernian.

The Serbians are the Irish of South.
eastern Europe, with all the virtues
and some OF the weaknesses of the
Irish people. They are specially proud
of their national poetry, which they
possess as no other nation possesses
in modern times, for they still have
their national bards-men who live by
making national song, not highly Gull
tured poets, but men in the street.
They do not go to newspaper to re-
port what they hear, but to the next
inn or coffee house, and there take up
their instruments to recite what they
have to say. Virtually our bards are
ancient reporters. The old ones sing.
Those of the present day stenograpn.
The Serbian language is the richest
and most musical of the Slav dialects.
The Russian language has that repu-
tation, but it IS not so musical and
clear and rich.-Mlyatovitc Serbian
minister to England, IN the Manchester
Guardian.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-10-15
BLACK SHEEP ARE REQUIRED
Provisions for Army Uniform Cloth
In Case of War-searching for
Good Domestic Dye.

One of the difficulties to be met in
the selection of natural notified
brown for cloth for the army is the
shortage of black or brown sheep, says
the Army and Navy Journal. In the
experiments conducted in the quarter
master corps under the direction OF
Brig. Gen. Henry G. Sharpe it has de-
veloped that it will require 70 per cent
of brown or black wool for the cloth
under consideration. A less proper
ton of dark wool would produce too
light a color of cloth and would not
meet the requirements of the army.
In peace time, with the present
strength of the regular army, there
will be no shortage of black wool, but
in the event of war it would be neces-
sary to use dyes in producing the
cloth for. the uniform Of large army
To provide for this contingency, Cen
eral Sharpe is now conducting inves-
LEGATIONS to determine whether a do
nestle dye can be secured for coloring
cloth. Unless this can be done the
position of the war department Will
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-10-15
Death to the EAGLE.

The bird of freedom has been off,
cially pronounced an outlaw. Many
states in the nation pay stipulated
sums of money to any man who will
show that he has killed an eagle. Now
the federal government has outlaWed
It's own emblematic creature of the air,
the bird that appears on it's money,
and forest rangers and hunters are
instructed to use all their tricks to
exterminate it. For the regal bird
that symbolizes the power and
strength of an unfettered nation has
the habit of devastating chicken yards
and preying upon the young of the
ranchman's focks. Utilitarianism out
weighs sentiment and the eagle must
go.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-10-15
Not Much Time to Spare.

The conversation at recent social
affair turned to the subject Of mar
row margins, when Senator Robert L.
Owen of Oklahoma recalled an anus
ing incident along that line.
Some time ago circus drifted into
y rural town and announced the prices
of the performance at rs cents, chill
dren under ten years of age ten
cents. At the afternoon show a
boy leading a little girl by the hand
advanced to the ticket wagon.
1.-TWO tickets, mister" said the boy,
with a businesslike air, "a 20-cent one
for me and a ten-cent one for this lit
tie girl"
"A ten-cent one" returned the tick
ct seller, sizing up the small mite of
femininity. isn't she ten years old?'
Yes, sir" was the prompt rejoinder
of the boy. "Ten years old today, but
she wasn't born until five o'clock in
the afternoon. "-Philadelphia Evening
Telegraph. ..o
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-10-15
fIO~TE:lJkO
O>fNT15
50 HELPS
FARMERS MAKE HOMES UGLY
Beautiful Scenes Are All Too FIRE.
quentIy Spoiled by Lack Of
Building Plans,

To reach the home of a prosperous
farmer in a corn belt community one
passes back from the road between
cornfelds for so rods, The approach
to the house is through the coWlot
The woodpile is also there, near the
front gate From the parlor window
one looks out over the hoglot toward
the barn. To get a view of grassland,
trees and real scenery one must go
to the kitchen door, which opens to-
ward the rolling pasture and the wood
beyond. But even there one must
look over the array of chicken coops
close by the house.
If this house had been near the road
it could have overlooked a wide ex-
panse of beautiful prairie-f1anked
woods, says the Breeders Gazette.
Another home in that section is beau
tifully placed about 100 yards back
from the highway on a broad knoll
overlooking a 60-acre sparsely tim
bered hill pasture lying across the
road. But unappreciative of the glori'
GUS natural view, the builder OF that
homestead put the horsebarn to the
left and the cowbarn to the right of
the house and both nearer the road
than the house.
We are told by landscape garden:
eys that it is we'll to have the view
from the home framed in, but old
barns are not good picture framing
material. Trees and shrubs are bet
ter. There Is an evident lack of plan
to blame for most of these ugly farm
homesteads. Location and natural
scenery are sometimes very attrac-
tive. but the effect is spoiled by poor
arrangement of buildings and enclos'
ures. Perhaps some farmers do not
pay enough attention to the beauties
about them. Certainly there are great
differences in farmsteads.
On other farms the front of the
house is the first thing seen from the
road, and it is set about by trees in
such a way as to frame a complete
picture of it. Shrubs and trees are
placed so as to leave desirable views
as one looks from the porch. All
blend with lawn and surroundings
into one harmonious living picture.
Barns and stock lots, chickens and
vegetable garden are grouped back of
the house To each side of the house,
fanking the road, are pastures or
meadows of alfalfa or small grain.
The distant view is unobstructed. The
family enjoys, and to that extent owns,
all 1t can see. There Is more inspira-
ton in a view of distant fields, woods
and homesteads than in the contem'
plation of nearby pigpens and cow
lots.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-10-15
MIKADO FOND OF QUAIL EGGS
Emperor Devours Two, Raw, Every
Day-kotaro Oda Enjoys Monopoly
In Metropolis of Tokyo.

Of the many dainties which daily ap-
pear on the imperial table the eggs of
the quail, which are additionally
known in Japan as an elixir of life, are
perhaps the most expensive.
The emperor daily takes two of
these eggs raw, for which he is re-
ported to have a great fondness.
Very few people keep quail, and
even if they did it is very rarely that
the birds lay eggs. Perhaps Kotaro
Oda may be the only dealer in quail
in Tokyo who can successfully obtain
their eggs.
Last year Mr.. Oda presented some
of these eggs to the emperor, who &C
cepted the rare gifts, which he highly
priced. Since then the quail eggs have
formed a favorite dish for the emperor.
who now never fails to partake them
once every day.
A farmer of Echigo, Oda worked In
the fields when quite young and later
made a regular trade of hunting. He
started the rearing of quail, which has
now almost become his monopoly in
Tokyo and vicinity, some years after
coming to the capital.
He first procured a pair of quail
from a bird fancier and tended them
carefully. In due course the pair
furnished him with a number of eggs,
and thus he obtained some fine young
birds.
One day." narrated Mr.. Oda, "a GER
tain noble looking young young man
called on me and asked my views on
quail breeding. When he was leaving
I presented him with 20 quail eggs,
which he duly accepted.
The young man was later found to
be a son of Prince Takatsukasa, for
it was known that the prince offered
the eggs to the emperor several days
hence.
Some time afterwards received an
inquiry from Baron Kameda, chief
imperial veneur, if I had more quail
eggs to be presented to his majesty.
This was an unexpected honor to me,
and I presented a box of the eggs sew
eral days before the emperor's birth
Gay last October by way of wishing
him longevity. York Sun.