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CONTINUAL AVANZATA
DEGLT AUSTRO- -BULGART
SULLA BASE DT VAL0NA
ST Dice Che ABSTRACT Bulgari
Hanno Effettuato il Col
legamento a Nord di
Fieri
GERMANIA E RUMANIA

ROMA, 7 Febbraio.
Ieri ST rlun II Conslglio del ministri,
che discusse dl nuovo la situazione IN
Albania.
Per due settimane II cattivo tempo ha
ritardato ravanzata dele for2e austIo-
bulgare relrAlbania, ma ora, essendosl II
tempo ristabilto, gil austriaci hanno pas
sato IL fume lsmi nord ed nora u-esL VI
DurazZo Piccoli reparti serbi tcntaroho
di ostacolare ravan2ata degli austriaci
ma dopo una battaglia di otto ore furoho
costretti a ripegare su Durazzo enc
robicttivo Immediate delle forze austria
che.
Oui 81 aspetta che Durazzo sara occu-
pata da un momento all'altro. giacche un
dspaccio dice che re3arti di caVallerla'
fornanti lavanguardia dele forze aus
trache, sono gia' giunti al fume Arzen,
chn e. ad appena quattro miglia da Du-
ra2zo Quest reparti aspettAno IarrlNo
del crosse per continuarc In loro marcia
passarc il hume. La forze scribe ripie-
gano n sud per evltare di essere aVVllup-
pate dale forze bulgare operanti da Ell
bassan.
La situazionc in Albania va dundue av-
vicinandosi rapidamente ALA sua Ease ris-
olutiva, giacche' 81 rtiene che le forze
austriache narceranno subto da Durazzo
COntro Nalona.
LA sITUAzGoNE IN RuMAN1A.
II communicate ufficlale pubblicato ieri
sera dal ATinistero della Guerra annuncia
scmplcemcnte che, ad eccczione di
azion di artigleria, non ST G. avuto alcun
che di importante sulla fronte italo-
austriaca.
II Secolo di Milano pub lea un dis
paccio, ritardato dalla censura, che dice
che governi di Berlno di Vienna han
no formalmcnte notificato al govern
rumeno che essi riguardano come attl
ostili rcczione di due 1r. dentist della
PENNSYLVANIA ALA Camera del Deputati
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AUSTRIANS FOUR MILES
FROM ALBANIAN CAPITAL
Italian Cabinet Holds Special Meeting
as Menace Grows

ROME, Feb. Z.
Durazzo, capital OF Albania, probably
will be occupied by the Austrians before
many hours
Austrian cavalry has reached the Ar
zeni River, four miles northeast Of Du-
razzO, according TO dispatches received
here. 1t is awaiting the arrival of the
main body of Austrian troops, which
crossed the River Ishni early Sunday
after defeating a Serbian detachment
The Serbs are falling back to the south
to escape development by Bulgarian
forces at Elbassan.
Improvement in the weather conditions,
that nearly for two weeks have hampered
the Austro-Hungarian operations in Al.
bania, mas permitted a resumption OF &C
tiyities.
Small Serbian forces on the southern
bank of the Ismi opposed overwhelming
numbers OF the enemy, but after a battle
lasting eight hours the Serbs were com
PEELED 10 retreat toward Durazzo as a
haven.
A long Cabinet meeting was held here
on Sunday. at which the situation in Al
bania was again discussed.
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BELEAGUERED BRTTTSB
AT KUT CRY FOR ii
Garrison Short of Food I.
Ammunition, Turk War
Office Reports
CONsTAN NTINnp1r :

British troops besieged in IN, !.
potamian town of Kut-el-Amo,.
Turkish forces. are short Of food ~,
munition, and will be compelled II 1
render very soon. according to ~
advices received by the Turkt.h y
Ofllce.
a dispatch from Bagdad state, !,
wireless message from the co,nn,a..las VA
the beleaEuered troops. sent 10 ueF ,I
lief expedition that has tried in we ue
reach kut-el-Amara. appealed frap,l..l
for assistance, saying that the ivy
force was on the verge of starvailaa
that the supply OF ammunition av.ila
would last only week.
Dyscntery and typhus fever A.,
to have caused terrible havoc an,os.
English soldiers, five temporary hos
being crowded with the suffering
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GERMANS HAVE NEW GAS
MACHINES ON WEST FRONT
Teuton Papers Predict New Outbreak
of Submarine War

AMSTERDAM, Feb. "A new machine
for the transmission Of poison gases has
just beer devised and installed in the
trenches on the west front by the Ger
mans. Improvements also have been
made in the artillery which makes special
training necessary for the gunners.
1t is believed that the Germans are
awaiting a strong east wind before begin
ming an offensive with clouds of poison
eases from their new apparatus.
Another burst of German submarine
activity is imminent, says the Cologne
Germany Volk Ieitung This paper de-
clares that England will experience the
effects of further submarine surprise
within the next few days, adding:
Everything America does and which
English diplomats work day and night
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FRENCH FAIL TO. HOLD
ARGONNE NINE CRATER
Germans Drive Foe From Position
They Captured, Berlin Says

BERLIN. Feb. 7.-Violent artillery
daels are raging in Artois and south Of
the Somne River
The German War once in an oficial
Btatement today declared that big gun
duels Of a fierce character are In progress
between the La Bassee Canal and Arras,
Ia Argonne the French occupied a mine
crater but were driven out By the Ger
mans.
The following is the text OF the official
report.
Pierce artillery battles are proceeding
between the Ia Basse Canal and Arras,
as Wan as south OF the Somme River.
The enemy has violently bombarded Lens
fer the last rev days.
Iu lhe Afscnne the French occupied q
nzIne crater 81 HH No 2s5. northeast Of
- Chalade bun Were driven Gus imme-
dlateI1 ~ counter-att4eh
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POLITICIAN IN ALLEGED FRAUD
West Goshen Assessor on Trial for
Breaking Election Laws

WEST CHESTER, Pa, Feb. 7.-Asses-
sor Stephen Peoples. Of West Goshen
township. who also has n position rs n
State road supervisor. was placed on trial
in court here today, charged by Dr. Bay
ard Kane, OF the same township, with
violation OF the election laws.
Peoples had selected days for sitting to
enroll the voters of the precinct but sew
eral of them applied and found him abb
sent, it being alleged that he was al work
upon a road contract instead and had af-
terw. rd collected fees from the county
for work he did not perform as assessor,
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for arises from the strivings to make a
submarine war impossible for Germany.
England will be less successful than ever
during the next few days. The German
people are supporting the submarine war
fare with the same enthusiasm and de-
termination that they did at the out
break of the war"
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Or they might say "verwersen," which
means ito throw" or ito cast away"
ito rcpudiate." and so Ito disavow." The
German word '1augnen" carries the idea
of denial" and "disclaiming" and dis
avowing"
So they agreed that the Germans were
not without equivalents for the thought
expressed by "disavow" and that there
must be other reasons for their failure
to find the place in the book,
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ALLY WARSHTPS WATCq|
FOR ANOTHER APpAV
French and English Cruis,,
Said to Be Violating Three
Mile Limit

NORFOLK, Va, Feb :
According to the reports received !, d
shipping offices here, not only ava N
Virginia capcs being closely patrolls, \
Allied cruisers, but the fact that a ~.
mile limit exists is being ignored N
cording to these reports, there ara N
foreign cruisers, one recognized A. N
British cruiser Caronia, and a sod
guarding the southern channel, bAfs'
to be French.
"Tn patrollinE the coast yesterdav n
last night both ships were inshor,
an extent that unquestionably M
them we'll within the limit" said 4 N
pilot.
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BULGARS CROSS GREEK
LINE; BEAT FRENCH BACK

Continued from Page One
principality OF Pennsylvania, inhabited
largely by Rumanians
The Marmornitz correspondent OF the
Chronicle reported a sudden concentra-
tion of Rumanian troops along the Hun
garian frontier within so yards OF the
Austro-H Hungarian lines.
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| rumena e la vendlta di $1,000 vagoni di
| grano ali'Inshiterra.
| N qoverno rumeno rispose che la costi-
| tufzione rumena non gil permetteVa ui
annullare Teleslone del due deputati iran
silvani di qualsiasi deputato irreden-
tlsta Sc non duando queste elezioni fos-
sero illegali Per quantio riguarda Ia Ven-
dita di grano all'Inghilterra 81 tratta sem
plicemente di una quistlone economical e
naturalmente e autorita' rumene deVono
salvaguardare gil Interest," economici del
paeso che governano. lntanto 81 dice enc
truppe buigare turche vanno concen-
trandosi al conflne della Rumania.
Giunge notlzia che lie forze austriache
O buleare hanno effettuato II loro col
legamento In Albania ed hanno gla' at
taccate un reparto misto di italiani e
serbi che, di fronte a forze SUPERIOR, ma
dovuto ritirarsi su Fieri, a circa ~
miglia da Nalonda Questa notizia g al
fonte austriaca,
Notizie dirette giunte Roma dicono
invece che uno squadrone di cavalleria
austriaca ha occupato II villaggio al
banese di Kroin. circa IL miglta
nord -est dl Duraszo. ma che lie truppe
italane duelle di Essad non sono an
cora venute a contatto con gil austriaci
ed bulgari
combattimenti ira albanesi cristiani @
mussulmani, cd | bulgari hanno reclutato
bande albanesi armate. Uficiali bulgari
cd austriaci ST sarebbero dati 81 dice, ad
organizzare masSacri nellie popolahiohi
albanesi. Pare intanto che forae italiane
continuino a sbarcare in Albania per OPP
porsi alIavanzata degli austro-bulgari su
Valona.
LA SKODA DGsTRUTTA?
Tn dispaccio da Bucarest dice che Ia
grande officina Skoda, la fabbrica di
artiglieria delrimpero austriaco, che sorge
Pilsen, Boema, G. stata in parte dis
tritta da una TERRIBLE esplosione.
II dispaooio invato da Bucarest al
Secolo di Milano dice:
"Secondo informazion giunte dui da
fonte dogma d fede mel famoso arsenale
austriaco Skoda 81 G. avuta una terrible
esplosonc di menlite Tire edilci dele Of
ncine compreso duelo che era usato per la
costruzione del Erossi cannoni fdraulici da
305 milimetr sono saltati in aria l9J
persone sono perite mel disastro'
lie of1lcine Skoda sono ira lie piu rino.
mate del monde G. dopo lie Krupp, lie piu'
grandi che gil imperi Centrali possedevano.
81 era spesso detto che | grossi cannoni
che ridussero lie fortezze francesi belghe
erano delle officine Skoda non krupp,
come 81 suppoueva
Tn telegramma da Monaco di Baviera
dice che laerodromo di Johannisthal e.
state distrutto da un incendio che ha di-
vorato anche sci o move aeroplani che 81
trovavano negli hangers.
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You see," she hastened to explain, we've marked these squares on the ground, and then take this stone and stand here and toss it into one of"
 ''Aw shucks!" interrupted "Bluster Bobby" And--rude boy that he vas he kicked the stone which was lying on the ground so hard that it disap- peared beyond the fence. "You don't have to have any stone to play this game. Whyn't you tell me that you try to see how far you can hop on one foot, without telling me all about that old stone? Now you watch me-Ill show you how to play this game? Say, do you know how far can hop on one foot?" And he paused impressively for reply.
 But Arthur merely continued to stare at him and Ellen looked away.
 "why-why." said the bully, T can begin here and hop into every square without putting my other foot on the ground-not even once!" "Wou-wouldn't you get tired ?" Ellen ventured to ask in a weak voice. "Get tired? Hunh! should say not! You don't know how good I can hop, you don't. Why. I could hop from here all the way to China and back again. if I wanted to-"
 Arthur looked at him quickly. How could you cross the ocean?" he de- manded.
 For moment "Bluster Bobby was puzzled; that question seemed to take
 the wind out of his sails" as the say ing goes. But he recovered quickly and scowled at Arthur. "Shucks!
 That'd be easy! Why, I'd just swim across the ocean. would! I never | tried hopping on water, but I guess I could do 1t if I had to!" Arthur laughed. He just couldn't help 1t!
 What are you laughing at?" de. manded the bully in a fierce tone.
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Jamie tried to ask a dozen questions at once, so the gentleman got some chairs and they all sat down while he tried to explain just how ice is made, so that Jamie could understand.
 Now, Jamie, you, know how hot you get when you run and play?" Jamie nodded. Well, in order to run and jump, you have to use a certain amount of energy-that is, strength. And that strength or energy uses up so much heat out of your body. That's the reason you get hot. Do you think he understands that?" he asked Ja- mics mother, who said, "Yes, I think so." So he went on: That is, in or der to do any kind of work, a certain amount of heat is used up."
 "Yes sir" said Jamie, wondering what that had to do with ice.
 Well" the. gentleman went on, Everything has a certain amount of heat in it--wood and earth and water
 in fact, everything. You can't al- ways feel it, but it is there just the same. It is called latent heat. It is sort of sleeping heat.
 Well, all this water that we run into these tanks has a certain amount Of heat in it-latent heat. If the heat were taken out then it would be cold. For cold Is really the absence of heat. Do you understand that?" Jamie nodded. ''Oh, yes! When anything is cold it has no heat in it.
 Exactly, Now, we want to make this water so cold that there will be no heat left in it. So this is what we do. We make something work and use up the heat that is in the water. So the water gets very cold when the heat is taken out of it and then it | freezes"
 What do you make work? ?" Jamie wanted to know.
 Ammonia gas. We squeeze that ammonia gas by machinery until it be- comes liquid-something like water. Of course when we stop squeezing it, it tries to go back to gas again--to expand just like a rubber ball does when you stop pressing it." "Yes sir"
 The gentleman went over to one of the tanks filled with clear water. Do you see this muddy-looking water all
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Jamie Learns How To Make Ice

around these tanks ?" he asked. That is brine-water with a salt in 1t and 1t is kept very cold by ammonia liquid working to get back to its gas form. It takes the heat from the water in the tanks, then the ammonia liquid uses up that heat as fast as it can. So the water loses so much heat that it becomes very cold and freezes. This brine is about IA degrees, which is about as cold as a sharp winter day So of course the water surrounded by this cold brine freezes and makes ice"
 Does the brine ever freezer" Jamie asked.
 NO" the gentleman replied. That is not cold enough to freeze brine"
 How long does it take to freeze
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rWT was not morning III Ju ulys Jamie was barefooted, dressed in # overalls and low-necked waist, so # he was very comfortable, but everybody else in the family was hot, from Lassie. the dog, to Nora, the cook, who was cleaning the ice-box, and grumbling at the heat.
 Jamie was playing in the sand pile in the shady back yard when suddenly he heard the chatter of heavy wagon out on the street. Here comes the ice mani" he shouted, and up he jumped and ran out to get little piece of ice to suck.
 Mike, the ice-man, tossed him nice, clear lump of ice, as he gripped his tongs into the big square to take into the house Oh, my! but that little piece of Ice did taste good to Jamie! Of course Jamie followed Mike into the house, making a great deal of noise as he sucked his ice.
 There's that boy eating that dirty ice again." Nora cried, as she saw him.
 Dirty, nothing!' retorted Mike, bouncing the ice into the ice chest and getting dark look from Nora- That ice is made of clean water, I'll have ye to knowi"
 "Huh!" grunted Nora, land full of ammonia. too! It's a wonder you fel- lows can't make decent ice, if you make it at all!'
 "Ammonia!" Mike sniffed. Much you know about making ice! No ann monia ever gets near that ice, Nora, dear" he said, as he tried to chuck her under the chin and got slap for his pains.
 Jamie stood looking on. his eyes big and round, as the two talked about making ice. Mike slammed the screen door and started down the walk, but Jamie caught his arm.
 "Oh Mike," he cried. "Do you really make ice?"
 Well, I don't exactly. but we do up at the plant, Jamie" Mike answered
 ''In this hot weather?" Jamie asked.
 Sure! Hot weather is the time that people need ice," Mike said.
 "why, I thought it had to be cold weather to make ice-you know, win ter"
 Mike laughed. Say, kid, you get your mother to bring you up to the plant some day and we'll show you how to make ice In hot weather" and he yelled to his horses and was gone.
 Jamie ran in to find his mother. "Oh, mother" he cried, Mike says they make ice in hot weather--do they, really?"
 Why. of course, Jamie," his mother answered.
 It seemed a strange thing to Jamie, but he had learned that there were many things in the world that seemed strange until they were explained by grown-ups, then they were not strange at all. So he told his mother about Mike inviting him to come to the plant to see how ice was made, and she promised to take him sometime.
 So one morning they got on the car and went to the ice plant. Jamie ex- pected 1t to be very cold and insisted upon taking his sweater. His mother let him take it, but she smiled. When they got there 1t did not look one bit like the North Pole, as Jamie expected it to. It was just plain-lo oking build ing. They went into the office, where Jamie's mother explained their errand to a hot-looking man in his shirt sleeves.
 Certainly" he said, as he slipped
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BIRD PETS PIGEONS

seem to have a remarkable instinct for finding their own family and they speedily return. Every lesson they are taken little further away until they will return swiftly five or six hundred miles, travelling on an average of about twenty miles an hour.
 In early times these strange postal clerks were largely employed to carry messages from one part of the coun- try to the other. Sometimes falcons used to chase and wound the faithful pigeons. They have been known to carry messages of 30,000 words in length. These were so arranged as to be enlarged by photography by the ones who received them. During the Seize of Paris communication was kept up with the outside world by the means of pigeons.
 These gentle birds make delightful pets and the rarer varieties may be procured from pigeon fanciers. As they breed several times a season. the original price may be made up by the sale of the young birds. It is not difi- cult to make a pigeon house. It should be roomy and comfortable as they are rather large birds. It Is well to arrange light, open-air piazza of lighting perches about the roof and projecting from the floor of the house so that the inmates may sun them selves at their pleasure, or alight upon these perches as they return from an aerial excursion.
 The White Fan Tails are very at- tractive, both when at rest and when flying. Almost any boy could make a pigeon house as good as the one shown in the picture if he had the material and was handy with tools.
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%OURPUzZLE 

WORD SQUARE. No. 1. To peel; No. 2. Dry; No. 3, Outside of a large fruit which grows on the ground; No. 4, Circular motion of air or water.
 DIVISIONS. 1. Divide the fruit of a tree of the East Indies and get a human being and a word meaning to depart. 2. Divide corrupt or barren In two parts and get to join or put together and word meaning gone before. 3. Divide charge for firearm in two parts and get wagon with two wheels and the top of roof. 4. Divide severe trial in two parts and get proposition and a business transaction
 AnStcers. WORD SQUARE PARE
 ARID
 RIND
 EDDY DIVISIONS: 1. Mango-Mdn-go. 2. Addled--Add-led 3. Cartridge-Cart. ridge. 4. Ordedl-Or-deGI.
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fully. Mora says the ice is just full of ammonia" he went on.
 Mora, whoever she is, is mistaken, for the ammonia never gets near the ice," the gentleman said, laughing What a boy!" laying his hand on Jamie's head, "IIe's got something in here. all right"
 Jamies mother thanked the gentle man kindly for his trouble, and then they went home.
 All the way home on the car, Jamie talked about making foe in hot weather, asking question after ques- ton until he was satisfied. When they got home, he ran out into the kitchen
 ''Nora," he called. They make ice out of water that's pure by making ammonia work very hard and take the heat out of the water and when there Is no heat left the water freezes and then 1t is feel"
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sequences of a place with L grounds more than a resident family of semi-tame birds. It Is difi- cult to find any of our feathered friends which will meet the foregoing requirements better than the White Fan Tail Pigeons. They are easily tanned, make charming pets, and their snowy forms futtering about through the trees or walking deliberately and proudly upon the grass are extremely picturesque
 There is a great variety of pigeons and even the commoner ones are most interesting. They all belong to the family Columbadie. Those native of the temperate regions are very so- berly colored being brown, grey. black and white, or mixed colors. Those native to the tropical regions are more brilliant and show the brighter shades of blue and rich pur- pie. Other pigeons on the Orient are very vivid in hue. They show green. yellow, orange, red, blue and violet colors in their feathers. Pigeons live upon fruit grain and seeds Their meat is very delicious and the young pigeon or "squab' is often raised for market. There are three hundred species of pigeons known.
 The early historians of America tell of the native pigeon which grew and abounded in this country, especially in the Mississippi Valley in the early days. Sometimes there would be as many as a hundred nests in single tree. When a column of them many miles in length and mile in width was encountered 1t would drown the | report of guns. When the birds set
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his coat on. T will be pleased to show the boy how we make Ice in hot weather" So they went from the office into the plant.
 The floor was made of many wooden lids, each with an iron ring in the top. The gentleman picked up one of these lids and they looked into a square box made of heavy tin which was full of water.
 Where do you get all of the water?" Jamie asked, and the gentle man replied Out of the hydrant. It is just the kind that you drink, only much cleaner, for we get out all the impurities before we freeze it."
 'How?"
 "Bv boiling it." the gentleman said.
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ALWAYS OBEY MOTHER.
Y THINK it very wise of you

Y THINK it very wise of you \ To do what mother says to do;
 If mother tells you not to swim With Tom and Bob and Joe and Jim i; Then speak up bravely like knight And say. T won'tl It'isn't rightI" And if they call you "Fraidie-cat." And "Scaredie-crow" and "Silly-ratl" And say you're just baby yet, You smile at them and don't forget,
 That boys who mind their mothers s
 may
 Be presidents some future dayl And boys who 6b and run away. And boys who never can obey, Are quite unworthy even when They grow to be the size of men
 So just remember what l say:
 It's always noble to obey!
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"LMOST every one likes pets and
 nothing adds to the pictur- sequences of place with / grounds more than a resident
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Playing Hop-scotch," answered Arthur shortly, in level tone.
 "Hunhi Nice game for a boy to be playing, ain't 1t! How do you play the thing, anyway"
 "Oh, would you really like to know?" Ellen spoke up brightly, hop ing that by being pleasant to him he would, in turn. act the same way and. maybe, enjoy the game with them.