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SIZE SAD Sue WAS NOT 6
TO INTRODUCE NE.

dropped deep curtsy as she passed
Why should l, free agent, bend the
knee to that other woman, who was
pretty, but not pretty enough; good
but no better than the best. and totally
without those transcendent qualities
that would draw US voluntarily to our
knees? If the human being is so for
lorn a creature as to demand sym
bolical object before which to precipi-
tate himself how can any of his kind
be so without humor as to lend him
self to be the object symboliZed?
Thank you very much" | answered
my friend II think / will not meet
the guest of honor"
Even as spoke something leaped up
in me to make a silent protest that I
would. Come to England on an GRAND
that involved meeting some one des-
ignated as royal highness and walk
away without meeting her. Shades of
the great men who had troubled
themselves to train me! I read in their
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Curious Buried Forest.

1T appears that the recovery anG
use of buried timber is no new
thing. For hundreds of years the wood
of buried and submerged trees has beer
recovered and worked among the Swiss
the western counties can point with
pride to an old cabinet or carved four
poster of black bog oak. But. according
to Pro. D. w. Pagan. who has given
much study to the subject, it Is doubtful
if anywhere else in the world there is so
vast an area of buried timber of immense
size as in the Papakura valley, near
Auckland. New Zealand.
Beneath the surface of peat, where
the soil has shrunk in drying or has
been blown away. the trunks Of in
Vulnerable kauri trees lie exposed to
view. For centuries they have been
covered by the semi-liquid peat until
their branches and crowns have de-
cayed and disappeared. Nothing but
the solid heart@ood OF the mighty
trunks remains. and these lie in orderly
swaths almost as regular as wheat
stalks in a newly reaped field. The
thousand heads all point in one direc-
the sickle of some giant reaper.
Like the branches and crowns. the
soft sapwood that once surrounded the
solid heaf:wood of the living trees has
long since Disappeared; so in estimat-
ing the original size there must be
made a considerable addition to the
present measurements. Many of the
logs today show a girth of over sixty
feet and a length of eighty or ninety
feet of straight timber free from knot
or branch.
Everywhere about the swamp there
are excavations where workmen are
uncovering the timber. They scoop pits
in the peat on each side of the trunk
for the sawyers to work in. The men
WELD huge cross saws and cut the tree
into shorter lengths for the mill Then
the grips of a forest devil" are at
tached to one of the sections. There
is a rattle and clank of machinery, a
groan and strain of pulleys. a roar of
steam and the great log is torn from
it's bed of centuries. swung on a trolley
and hauled away on its last journey to
the mills.
The cut timber is perfectly sound and
of excellent quality. 1t differs from
the kauri timber that is cut from the
living tree only in its color. which is
dark reddish brown. like mahogany.
The peat is full of fossil gum shed
through countless centuries by the
trees that are now being dug out. The
value OF resin makes another industry
profltable-the recovery of fossil gum.
In some parts Of the swamp area as
many as i've successive layers Of gum
have been found.
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MAKING OF GUNCOTTON

RH 7HAT is guncotton?
NAV Down at the big du Pont
w plant at Hopewell, Va, they
turn ont several hundred tons of the
explosives every twenty-four hours
But even the people who work with
the explosive, and Hopewellians who
speak familiarly of it as cotton, DO
not know exactly what it is other than
that it is one of the most powerful ex-
plosives known.
Statements to the effect that German
scientists have found substitute Tor
cotton, from which is made an ex-
plosive even more powerful than that
made with real cotton and an acid mix
ture. are not taken seriously by experts
of the United States government or by
chemists who know the method OF
making the explosive and know what
materials yield the best results
various substitutes for cotton in the
tried" remarked a chemist in Uncle
Sans employ Some of them give ap-
proximately the same product as that
yielded by real cotton, though not SO
uniform in action. while otner. a.
first thought practical substitutes Tor
the expensive cotton. proved on con-
tinued tests to be worthless. Cotton IS
still the base for actual guncotton, ap-
parently serious accounts to the con-
trary Notwithstanding.
Guncotton is known chemically as
trinitro- cellulose. 1t is made by the
chemical action of a mixture OF nitric
and sulphuric acid on supercleansed
dry cotton fiber. 1t is the base OF the
best known "smokeless powders and
it is one of the quickest and most
powerful explosives known in spite of
the fact that il it is lighted in the
open it will simply burn with a clear
flame until it is consumed. not ex-
ploding or decorating.
In the manufacture of guncotton at
the Hopewell plant the raw cotton is
placed in a big washer. consisting of
an iron cylinder mounted on hori-
Zontal axis. The cylinder is pierced
with number of pipes carrying
steam for heating the washing solu-
ton, which is caustic soda in water.
In this solution the cotton is washed
for four hours. the cylinder slowly re-
volving all the while and the steam
pipes maintaining a high temperature.
This is to remove all grease. oil and
dirt from the cotton.
From the washing machines the cot
ton is removed to centrifugal
wringer. where it is wrung as dry as
possible. Then it is washed again,
this time in clear. pure water to re-
move all of the alkali, and again
wrung dry.
The cotton is then placed in pick
err. where 1t passes between toothed
horizontal rollers revolving in oppo-
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to get out. She did toe dancing and
would love to perform professionally,
but she would rather marry and raise d
family. There was SO much night
work in going round socially.
| thought of the buttonmakers of
Muscatine. Iowa, and inquired whether
she had the eight hour law. She had
not the faintest idea of what ! meant,
and she commented on what was in
her thoughts She had seen me talking
so earnestly at the luncheon to the
member of parliament, and she Won
dered what the conversation was about
] tried to recall it, but was distracted
by her utteranceS He was at that
boa riding house because she was here.
Her mother was Lady Something, but
II was not a powerful title-only a
little distinction conferred on her for
being the wife of some one in the army
] think that was the way of it.
OF course. her mother wished her
chaperoned by some one of greater
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robes, sits on their coronation chair.
bears their titles, but his occupations
are not the same.
He opens grammar Schools, punches
electric buttons in the ceremonial OF start
ing vast new machinery, travels through
Scotland, reading typewriter speeches.
that are handed him, ana Tor rev
months Of every year sets the omcial
sanction of Great Britain on tne season :
output of debutantes American young
women, like some of our other domestic
products, may get the imported laoel TOT
a price Canned goods made IN OHIO and
champagne made in Cailtornia are sent
across the ocean, stamped there with
pretty seal and accepted again by GER
tain class of our people as superfne.
In nv experimental introduction to roy
atty, of course, behaved with all the sub
servience demanded by precedent. and be-
cause life delights to supply appropriately
ironical details for large dramatic occa-
sions, the date of this comedy CHANGED to
be July A.. ! told the countess. who was
waiting as undisturbed as though no mis-
understanding had arisen, that L thought
I should take an earlier train than hers
We said goodbye as casually as though
we expected to meet again.
Before leaving the grounds 7 ran across
the man my friend had introduced to me.
IT'S a curious thing" / said. this
business of rank and royalty. l even
hear introductions are bought and
sold"
Eyes, there's woman here-Lady Bal
moral-who deals in them. The king is
quite provoked about it,.
THE king. He actually and definitely
knows" The man nodded. And yet
does not put her out of BUSINESS
1~
Restricted? He lets her sell only a
certain numbers that it,
NO, indeed; he has told her she must
not sell any at court, and he allows her
to introduce only two people-a rela-
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social name. who might put her in the
position of making a distinguished
marriage. member of parliament did
not seem good enough to her mother,
especially since he had absolutely made
his own way. Her mother wished some
one with more history back of him.
Still. Lady Balmoral knew and did not
interfere. The member of parliament
paid enormous board money, besides
being nice in many ways to the count
ess. My sponsor evidently did not care
from how many sides she took money,
and she would even use her influence to
further some good end, such as a mar
riage for love, if she but turned penny
by it.
My main attention chung to the bust
ness of the day, and l thought the
guests of honor must have resumed
their places in the receiving line. We
turned into path that presently
brought US on to the lawn near the
performing geese. A number was
Just completed. whereupon the royal
visitors got up from their seats in the
front row TO return to their posts.
The earl and the countess were no
where to be seen. l followed my prey
for a distance and sank on to a bench
near the receiving line. The next mo-
ment catastrophe long feared befell
me- saw some one I knew. charm =
ing Englishwoman with whom l vas
acquainted stood over me.
Well. How do you do" she said,
and introduced her companion. He was
a rather big man in England, ana, as
| am going to quote him presently, 1
regret that his name must be withheld.
You are the last person l should have
expected to see here.
Sou are quite right. ! am in thor
o \ " uncharacterStic situation.
ell. come on and meet the princess,
and you'll feel better.
gazed across the green at the spec
tacle and was filled with a sudden re-
sentiment. One woman after anolher
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replied that was going with her. Mrs.
Sommers said:
"No-she came to me: and, though
am too sick to take her often. I said I
thought she ought to appear with diff
ferent ones, and I would arrange that.
I have secured Lady Constance Ray"
The countess answered that I had
already started with her. and Mrs.
Sommers commented that you had to
watch these Americans, because they
were tricky and went round getting
one chaperon to bid against another
so they could secure their introduc-
tions inexpensively.
satisfied the countess that mis-
take had been made, whereupon she
turned on her agreeable manner.
Lady Constance. you know. she cor. :
fided, cant get the invitations Last
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that is an old and dignified title and
has never been in the courts"
You mean that no one of the name
has. as yet, been divorced?"
He nodded. If such are the basic laws
Of merit, what are the arguments? T
was glad the task was completed which
had ceased to be dmusing or instruc-
tive-that is. I was under the impress
sion that 1t was finished. The next day,
however, telephone message came to
the hotel that the countess wished to
see me. l took myself unenthusiastic-
ally that night to her residence to dis
cover what she desired. She was not
very cordial Mrs. Sommers had tele-
phoned to say l had engaged her to
take me round and had given the
countess as reference. The countess
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site directions. The cotton is drawn
between the teeth of the rollers. which
comb out the humps. knots and tanGles
In something like sheet form it is then
removed to the drying house. equipped
with big bins with perforated bottoms
The cotton is placed in <he bins; hot
air is forced through the perforations
in the bottoms and up through the cot
ton, and the mass is manipulated until
every fiber of the cotton is thoroughly
dried. This process requires about
eight hours, when the cotton is taken
from the bins and placed in air-tight
cans until il is to be used This is
necessary, as the dry cotton absorbs
from Ia to 2 per cent of moisture sim
ply from exposure to the air. Ii is
taken in the cans to the nitrating
house. where it is given the acid treat
ment that converts il into guncotton.
In the nitrating process the cotton is
placed in centrifugal containers, into
which the acid mixture is admitted
and the spent acid removed by means
of stopcocks. About sixteen pounds of
cotton are used at time. to which il
added 900 pounds of a mixture of three
parts of 9S per cent sulphuric acid and
one part of 80 per cent nitric acid.
The charge" is kept in the machine for
thirty minutes. In the process of MI
fration the cotton increases in weight
about so per cent. the sixteen pounds
of pure cleaned cotton fiber yielding
about twentyfour pounds of guncot-
ton or trinitro-cellulose.
To remove the free acid the cotton
is taken from the nitrating machine
and soaked for eight hours in pure
cold water, the water being changed
twice in eight hours. After this soak
ing it is placed in another centrifugal
machine, which is started as soon as
the charge is placed in it. and while
1T is revolving cold water is turned on
it from a hose. After ten minutes of
this the water is turned off and the
machine is revolved at its highest
speed until the cotton is wrung as
dry possible The nitrated cotton
is then pressed into blocks, which look
much like blocks of ordinary cotton
compressed. There is no danger of its
exploding or decorating except in con-
finement.
Guncotton is used in manufactures
other than explosives. among them cell
luloid.
Hundreds of bales of cotton are re-
ceived at the Hopewell plant of the
du Pont company every week, and as
much as 100000 pounds of guncot-
ton is made there in that period. Some
of the guncotton goes direct to the
purchasers. although the larger part
is shipped to the company's plant at
Carneys point. across the river from
Wilmington, Del, to be converted into
smokeless powder and other high eN-
plosives. The guncotton from the Hope
well plant that is shipped abroad Is
for use in torpedoes, mines and highly
explosive shells
In addition to guncotton the Hope
well plant turns out large quantities
of trinitroleum, which is one of the
most powerful and dangerous eXplo-
sives known to science.
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BY MARY ISABEL BRUSH.

Continued from last Sundays Starr
E0HE groups surrounding the re-
ceivinC line were sparse and
III amiable. whereas the throng in
< the tea tent was all but riotine.
Lady BalmoraI had no trouble, how
ever. in securing satisfactory acconmo-
dstions in front of the strawberries.
The rest of US. from the outskirts, Sc
cured glass OF claret and an occa-
sional cooky as they were passed.
When We returned to the lawn the
receiving party had broken up. Lady
Balmoral said in low voice to Lord
DIFFERING that We could not go round
in d great party. and that he should
take care of some one whose name
did not hear. lie straightway went
OFF by himself to the place set with
high backed chairs and raised dais
where a :placard proclaimed that per-
forming geese would do a marathon
The earl and countess lost themselves
among the groups. The English girl
and ! were left to follow the dictates
of our own hearts, She said: Shall we
take a walk"
We passed the house. where we saw
the dining room door placarded with q
painted sign in black. amateurish let
tiers on yellow cardboard, Private"
The prince and the princess were hav-
ing their tea. The walk ran into the
gravel path. which became the oak
lined river lane. The spongy earth
gave under our feet as We followed its
moist course on and on. My compan
ion became confidential with that curl
Gus way English girls have of looking
so reserved and all of q sudden hand
ing out the most astonishing secrets.
such as their loathing for their par
ents and their unfortunate entangle-
another.
W., Az -
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tive and one close friend"
Severe and effectual punishment for
SO grave a blow at British dignity. 1t
is akin to the mastery methods en-
ployed with the militants. Not deli
cacy of feeling. but actual economic
danger explained my sponsors hesita-
ton to present me to one bearing a
royal title.
1.-The king knows" | repeated. land
vet does not put her out of business?
"Just what could he do? You see,
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which changed and hardened into an
expression that was not pretty. Put
ting her hand on my elbow, she steer
ed me to the edge of the shade. In a
low, defiant voice she said she was
not going to introduce me. | had sus-
pected as much for upward of an hour
The mystery that regulated her
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STREAM OF BULLETS THROUGH
PROPEL l.E@ OF AEROPLANEs

kers have cruising radius of close to
500 miles. with power to carry two
passengers, a machine gun and am
munition. several bombs for dropping
on objects or places below and suf'
Client fuel supply to enable them to
make the distance referred to without
trouble.
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I hurried away in search of my paid
sponsor. She was standing under an
oak tree talking to an earl, an honor
able and duke. l said to her that I
was ready to meet the royal guests.
The rose tint went out of her face,
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as to give the machines almost perfect
stability under all conditions.
The Fokkers are equipped with pow
erful engines, which give tn I'm speed
under ordinary circumstances of 100
miles ar hour, with a rate of spiral as
cent almost double that of other
planes. 1t is known the largest FOX
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averted eyes my expatriation. Still, to
meet their highnesses through this
unimplicated agent would have no
significance.
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Why did J wish to enter English So
eiety? She desired nothing so much az
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-26
PRISONERS DIE IN SIBERIA
Snn francisr" Man brings PitifuI AZ.
count "f German and Austrian
tRptiVcS.

SAN FRANCISCO. January. 2a.-Thou-
sands OF German and Austrian pr!s-
"ners in EUs*: were described as
Starving and dying from exposure" by
w. J. Wakefield. Of San francisco. who
arrived today on the steamer Shinyo
Maru.
lie travelled through Siberia las,
summer, after his marriage 10 the
former Mrs. Sprcckics
I'm Tchita. siberia" Mr. Wakefield
said. n, one place We saw that 500
prisoners in Il camp already had died
from exposure and insufficient food.
rhcir condition was pi,iable. anu the
Russian government, was told. could
10 nothing.
There were abou, 5000 prisoners
there, but. with their German and
Austrian uniforms in tattcrs. some
shielded themselves with animal skins.
In all of Siberia there were hundreds;
OF thousands Of prisoners. They mus,
be given aid or thousands will die"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-26
OPPOSES SUFFRAGE
Miss Lucy jean Price to Srenk ~
Jefferson Auditorium Mon.
day Slght.

Miss Lucy Jean I'rice. Of Cleveland,
ohio. Will be the speaker on Mon.;av
night at $3.50 O'Clock when the Asso-
citation Opposed to Woman SUFFRAGE
meets In tho auditorium OF the Jefrer.
son Hotel. All interested in tho ouc..
ton are invited TO attend. Miss pric,.
Will answer questions from tho an
,liencc.
Tho arguments Of Miss Price Will h.
answered by the Suffrage League Nrs
g. Is. Valentine. president. announced
Yesterday that the Jefferson Audi,oriu,n
had been engaged for Tuesday nicht
FEBRUARY ]. when she would herself
answer the arguments OF Miss t.ric,
An open-air meeting under tho
auspices OF the Equal Suffrage Ieasuc
was held last night At Sixth and Hrnad
streets. Mrs. +. S. johnson prcsided
and speeches on suffrage were made
by Miss Adele Clarke. Miss Neal Scha.I
and Miss Nord IIourton. Sufras. lii
erIturc was distributed.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-26
READY FOR MAYOR
'h"r'"r thnnucs tboIishinr Police md
"chi'h H"nrds Arc Enrolled
by CITY Clerk

NY Clerk Zen 7 August yesterday
m''Ene" cnroisinr The chartcr-chanc.
report AZ il has been adontod h,. $50,
branches Of the CITY Council. aud viii
,h'S morning send il 10 Mayor Ainslie
10, the iItters approval or rejection.
MI August also finished the enroll
mem OF The several other measures
tohcu!reo IN 10y the lower branch on
MondaN night. and cleared his dcsI, NJ
an matters pending for action by the
Mayor
The fact that the Council has voted
IN INC terms OF the ordinance FOR life
tenure IN Office by members o, the po-
nee Department and failed 10 vote for
fHe provision for members o. the
FIRE Department viii no, require that
the ordinance 20 back Ia either branch.
Lift" tcnur> Tor members Of The Fire
Department, will he given under sep
HraIc bill
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-26
Secs Emperor
at Close Range
Daily Mail Correspondent Says
German Ruler Is Iscd
ard Broken

LONDON. Januarr 2c.-The Daily
Nail correspondents. who arrived at
N:*h January IS. describes what he
SAW Of the German Emperor at close
range on several occasions ut Nish
'nd what happened IL tho roya. ban-
Hnet, where the Emperor WAS the
, guest OF King Ferdinand
Il was face "a face with the t.nl-
rc'or directly afS.c ieft the train.
he says. King Ferdinand bud onl,
Few momcnts before received hin, on
his arrival from the west. and they
were walking un' a,i.L down the sta
Non platform without ceremony. arm
~ arm. ! had Hs"cr seen r'er'i.nan
before. and it WIS ViGh; years since
I had last seen :i,. German Emperor.
What Il change The Emperor is
not tall man as represented in his
Photographs. and beside the great.
massive figure of Tive hawk -nos.d Fer
d!nand. who has curious duck like
"addlc. the great war lord seemed al
most din,inUtive The Emperor wore
- long coat. :, hrown fur ncri>ie; and
- spur covered with khaki cloth. The
people did not SNOW mitch interest in
The Emperor. bu, :hc lsuliari:u min
listers were obs-luioUs
How did the Empcror Hook. Whuth
rr 1t he due To the fatigucS OF war.
he effect OF NV" days journey or
'll-health. cannot s":. but his face is
! hair is white. though his mouStachc is
still suspiciously dark. There was an
absence OF the old activity of gesture.
'rhe Emperor was obviously out TO
NAL lie himself agreeable He examined
the medals Of the Bulgarian soldiers
with apparent interest and chatted
with royal affahiliiy and smiled right
and left. None the less. he - greatly
aged, lie held in nis hand haiyikcr-
chief. which he was perpctualiy using.
and | noticed later AZ the banquet that
! he seemed 10 require i 10 ;ssuaEc tho
; continual c"ughn:c The handkerchief
was a huge Turkish affair II red. en-
hroidcred with White star and cres-
. cent in the corner.
AT the hauQuct King Ferdinand sat
on the Empcror's r.Ch: and NJ Eados-
lav"ff. III" I"cnli r. on his left Next
20 KING Ferdinand "a, General Won
falkenhayn. III" German chicf-ot-
staff. Tie Empcro:' ate and drank rir-
,ually nothing ~ the banquet. and i;
is said that he always eats before pro-
ccedins {" state functions. Certainly
lie spent NOR" time coughing than
eating ~ Nish
The gathering broke UP quite in
formally the whole scene leaving AN
impression Of Smpiic,ty."