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Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-29
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'Batted for Ayers In sth.

washington 30 900 900 ~
Detroit ..n.. o l % 10 10 Is
Two base hits. Morgan, Burns .. Three
base hits, Bush. veach. Sacrifice flies, Cobb,
yeath. Crawford. Bases on balls, Ayers /.
rtfits and earned runs off Ayers and In
q; pumont ! and 0 in inning. Struck out,
by Ayers q by Dubuc. /. Umpires. Con-
molly and Owens. hrH -.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-29
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Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-29
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Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-29

W. ]. Dixon, chairman OF the state
board of control, has been in Rock
we'll City this week at the Woman's
reformatory site planning the loca-
tions of the twenty-eight buildings to
be erected there. Six buildings are to
be started this season as follows: Ad-
ministration building, pathology build
ing, power house, service building and
two cottages.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-09-09
New Buq Killer.

A new piece of agricultural appa-
ratus has been developed for the pur-
pose of combating the destructive bugs
and undesirable vegetable growths by
an application of steam to the soil
penetrating some distance below the
surface. The machine carries steam
generating plant and moves over the
surface on n large drum, the periphery
of which is staggered with protruding
stream outlets in the shape Of blades
or spines. AS the apparatus is drawn
over the ground the spines imbed them
selves in the soil and while in this po-
sition the steam is released and pene-
trates the soil for some distance
around the outlet, killing the worms,
larvae and bugs and the undesirable
crop of weeds which seed themselves
from one season to another.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-09-09
Linen Growing Scarcer.

Summing up the linen situation re-
Gently, one of the principal importers
to this market spoke this way: "Busi-
ness is as active as it ever is at this
time of the year, when everyone is
trying to reduce stocks as far as pos
sible before taking inventory, and or
ders are placed only for goods that are
really needed to meet some special de-
mand or to fill out broken line. Flax
continues to get scarcer and dearer as
time goes on, and linens of all kinds
are also getting scarcer and dearer.
This will continue, at least until the
war ends. In many cases merchandise
is still being let out in this market be-
low the cost of replacement, and this
will be done as long as present meth
DDS of averaging up buying and sell
ing prices are retained. New York
Times.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-09-09
Speed of the Turtle,

The slowness of the turtle again is
proved, but he gets there just the
same. While hunting on Dantz run in
Delmar township, L. r. Van Horn
found a large mud turtle. He noticed
a steel plate on its back, which bore
the inscription "V. D. G., 4-15-13." 1t
was supposed that these were the mi
tials of V. d. Gross of Tyadaghton, and
Van Horn wrote him a letter.
He replied that he had found the
turtle in Pine creek at Tyadaghton and
put on the plate and turned him loose.
In two years and seven months his tur-
tie has travelled Is miles. Van Horn
has had copper plate made with his
initials and address, and he will send
the turtle to some point in the North
Tier and have it Observation-Disclosures
(Pa.) Correspondent New York Sun.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-09-09

city in Texas, Ell Paso, which had only
736 people in 1880 but which had
grown to more than $4,000 in 1910.
Nuevo Laredo Is Important.
Another center of Mexican popula-
ton along the frontier is Nuevo
Laredo, the border city of Tamaulipas.
1t is one of the most important gate
ways to the southern republic, not on
account of its population, for Ell Paso
and Juarez constitute hyphenated
city more than twice as large as
Laredo (American) and Nuevo Laredo
(Mexican), but because the latter Is
the northern terminus of the shortest
railway route to Mexico City, the dis
lance being only about 800 miles, CON-
pared with 1900 miles by way Of
Juarez and 1000 miles through Ciudad
Porfrio Diaz (Eagle Pass.
With 5000 people, Nuevo Laredo is
a little more than half as large as the
American town at the other end of the
9OO-foot international bridge which
spans the Rio Grande at this point.
The two towns were one up to the
time of the secession of Texas, the set
Element on the left bank of the river
being captured by Texas rangers In
1916 and occupied by United States
troops under General Lamar a year
later.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-09-09
Predicts a Simple Religion.

"When the war is over we are going
to have simple religion, religion
without frills," the bishop of Stepney
said, addressing those who took part
in the second procession of prayer and
intercession service arranged by the
Church League for Women's Suffrage
in Hyde Park. mo frills," he added,
pointing, amid laughter, to the frills
on his own sleeves.
ave shall want religion that will
hold us together. We have had great
deal too much of individualism in re-
ligion. We have had too much of the
ology of the jolly miller who lived on
the banks of the River Dee, who said,
Il care for nobody, no, not I, and no.
body cares for me-"
The boys when they came back from
the front would not want mere sing
ing, or billiards, diluted with religious
thought, but something stronger and
firmer, he asserted, and with all his
heart he believed we wanted more re-
ligion, but a real, living, simple reiig-
ion.-London Observer.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-09-09
Greatest Master Of Chess.

In 1858 during trip to Europe, Paul
Murphy played eight games, blindfold-
ed, with the best British chess players,
winning six, losing one and drawing
one. In Paris he played blindfolded
simultaneously against eight of the
strongest French players, winning SIX
and drawing two. This feat he repeat
ed on several occasions while abroad
and after his return to this country
He was educated for the law and final
ly gave up chess playing In order TO
devote himself to the practice Of law,
but lost his mind and died in 1884. his
father was attorney general OF Louis
lana and afterward judge of the SUI
preme court Of that state. He was ac-
counted good chess player, but the
son gave him odds and beat him when
the son was only twelve years old.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-09-09

northernmost of the two branches Is
the shortest, but 1t is generally re-
garded as the real source Of the river.
It lies to the north of Erzerum, while
the longer branch passes 1t to the
south. The two branches are divided
by the wild mountain district Of Der
sim. After uniting they form the
Euphrates proper, which boldly breaks
it's way through the mountains by a
zigzag course that carries 1t now to
the right and now to the left. Now 1t
flows for 80 miles at right angles to its
general course, then 60 miles parallel
to it and then $50 miles at right angles
again, as though it were headed for
the Mediterranean sea. Then 1t winds
to the south for so miles.
Here it takes up its general trend
to the southeast and with innumer-
able sharp windings and bends, but
with only a few broad curves it heads
| its way to the sea. The air line dis
lance of the remotest spring Of the
| Euphrates from the sea is only 500
miles and yet its waters must travel
1900 miles before they reach the sea.
In the last 1900 miles Of it's course the
Euphrates is slow and sluggish, wan
dering all over the land when 1t has
opportunity, making that which it
touches a marsh and that which it
cannot reach a desert.
Its fall during the last 1900 miles
is only ten inches to the mile and 1t
broadens out so much that while 1t
contains enough water to float the
greatest battleship, 1t is SO shallow
that at places swimmer cannot float
in It"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-09-09

vF THE United States and Denmark
strike a bargain and the three
islands which comprise the Danish
4 West Indies are transferred to the
former, the sale will mark the culmi-
nation of bit of bartering which be-
gan nearly fifty years ago, when the
American government offered $780,
900 for the 1873 square miles of terri
tory in the Antilles, a sum exceeding
by 100000 the price paid to Russia in
the same year (1867) for the vast, rich
territory of Alaska, comprising an area
more than four thousand times as
large The sale was not consummated
because the United States senate failed
to ratify the treaty, says bulletin Of
the National Geographic society. Four
teen years ago negotiations were re-
newed and a price of 100000 was
agreed upon, but this time the Danish
parliament refused to sanction the
sale, although the islands had been
governed at loss to the mother coun-
try for many years, in fact ever since
slavery was abolished in 1913, thereby
putting an end to the profitable opera
ton of the sugar plantations.
These three islands Of the Virgin
group-St. Croix, ST. Thomas and st.
John, in the order of their size and
population-were discovered by Colum.
bus in 1893. Spanish, British, French,
Dutch and Danish flags have floated
over one or all of the islands at vari-
GUS times.
st. Croix, lying 65 miles southeast of
Porto Rico, has an area of "a square
miles, and Is the most prosperous of
the group, with it's two towns of Chris
tianstad and Frederikstad. 1t was held
at one time by the knights of Malta,
having been given to that famous Or
der by Louis XIV of France.
ST. Thomas Has Fine Harbor.
st. Thomas, which lies only 40 miles
east of Porto Rico, was at one time
the chief distributing center of West
Indian trade, its importance being d.
rectly attributable to the fact that the
mother country, Denmark, maintained
its neutrality during the numerous Eu-
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-09-09
Japan's Factory Law.

Operation under the new factory
law in Japan, which was to have
gone into effect on June 1, has been
postponed for two months by order
of the prlvy council in order that the
regulations may be revised. These,
it Is pointed out, did not sufficiently
guard the interests of the workers
and would result in confusion If at
once enforced. To the working
people of the United States the
hours of labor permitted under the
new law will meen extraordinary long,
but it must be remembered that fac
tory work is young in Japan and that
the working hours are founded on
the hours voluntarily devoted to
work by the people on the farms or in
their own workshops-twelve to six
teen hours a day. The most import
ant thing is the forbidding of child
work under 10 years and limiting the
hours of girls under Is. 1t is on the
whole, an advance on conditions as
they have been and will open the way
to further concessions to labor.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-09-09
BLOCKADE IS ALWAYS DEFIED
Capable of Eluding Any Gordon
of War Vessels.

Blockading and blockade running is
not young war measure by any
means, a writer in Munsey's says. One
of the earliest authentic instances OF
the practice dates back two centuries
before the Christian era. Marcus
Claudius Marcellus, commanding a
powerful Roman army and an efficient
fleet, laid siege to Syracuse, rich city
on the Isle of Sicily. Carthage, Rome's
great rival on the north shore of
Africa, one Of the great sea powers
of that time, was not at all pleased
with the idea of Rome capturing SYRIA
cuse, q free city and probably source
of great revenue through trade with
Carthage.
Syracuse was a well fortified city,
and there seemed to be no immediate
prospect of Rome taking it by storm,
so Marcellus decided to starve its in
habitants into submission. He put a
Gordon of ships across the entrance to
| the harbor and arrayed his army on
| the land side so that no succor could
come from without. But he had I'M
derestimated the boldness of the Car
thaginians. There was no question Of
contraband in those Representations
or other.
In their swift, oar-driven galleys the
sailors of the African city easily
eluded the ships set to watch the port
and carried provisions water and war
material into the beleaguered city. SO
successful were the Carthaginians In
getting supplies into the city, running
the blockade-that had 1t not fallen
| through treachery it would have been
enabled to hold out indefinitely. While
blockades probably had been estab-
lished before on a small scale the
blockade of Syracuse is one OF the
earliest instances where the efficiency
of blockade by sea was of vital I'M
portance in determining the success OF
war on an important seaport.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-09-09
PLEA FOR BED AS IT WAS
Modern Things That Masquerade as
Such Are Properly Condemned by
Chicago Newspaper.

Modern life, having succeeded In
eliminating economy from the list OF
virtues, is now, apparently, conducting
a drive against sleep, which the old
err authorities numbered among man
kinds blessings. People, city people
In particular, seem to be ashamed OF
the fact that they must sleep. Tired
natures sweet restorer sore labor's
bath, that which knits up the rayeled
sleeve of care-the inventor of which
was so praised by Sancho Panza,
prince OF squlres, is in disrepute.
This tendency to conceal the fact
that sleep still falls upon mankind is
ture. The bed that was frankly bed
Is being thrust into the background
rs something to be ashamed of. Its
place is taken by various kinds OF
monstrosities that masquerade as 9th
er articles of furniture in the day
time, and, indeed, far into the night,
confessng that they can be made to
serve as beds only when friyollty can
no longer stand or sit, but must, per-
force, become recumbent.
The bookcase, the piano, the bath
tub, the mirror, the closet door, the
Morris chair-these may at any mo-
ment, by the pulling of a strap or the
pressing of II spring, be revealed as
sleeping utensils-beds one cannot
fairly call them. And they function
as beds in diffident, half-hearted way,
as If ashamed of the Office. Jacks OF
many trades, they are masters or
none.
Until sleep itself becomes obsolete
the human race must have beds or
some sort, and the more comfortable
they are the better. No sleeping i'm
plement disguised as phonograph, a
bird cage or a cook stove can take
the place of the old-fashioned piece OF
furniture that was bed and nothing
else.-Chicago News.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-09-09
EUPHRATES A MIGHTY RIVER
Flows Through the Cradle Of ClvllIza-
ton Where Empires Have Risen
and Fallen.

The Euphrates is the largest river In
western Asia and civilization Is re-
puted to have come into being upon
Its banks. For six thousand years at
least empires have risen and fallen on
Its plain, conquering armies have
marched to battle and hundred cities
have come up out of the earth and
fallen into obliterate ruin again.
Describing this great river as 1t runs
its seaward course today, the National
Geographic society, whose headquar-
ters are in Washington. says in a
statement given to the press:
THE Euphrates lays strong claim
to the honor of being the most his
toric river on earth and certain it is
that in the region it drains. along with
its twin sister, the Tigris, man first
emerged from behind that impene-
trable curtain which divides the known
from the unknown past.
From then henceforth civilizations
have raised their proud heads above
come and gone. cities Of rare beauty
have risen their proud heads above
the plain only to pass on into obliter.
ate ruin.
The Euphrates rises in two arms
flowing parallel to one another on the
north side of Taurus mountain
through narrow valleys into which
pour innumerable small streams from
the high Armenian plateau. The
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-09-09
Hearing Your Men at Work.

The manager of machine shop or
factory can know how much work is
being done at benches by mechanics
or by power-driven machines or tools
by means of microphones or telephone
transmitters connected with the work
ing apparatus, says Popular Science.
BY becoming familiar with the vibra-
lions of the different machines he can
tell at any given moment just how
fast Pat is working the lathe or how
industriously Mike is operating the
milling machine on one of his blue
Mondays. In addition to this he can
tell at a simple turn of the switch if
the machines are running at normal
speed and smoothly and properly, as
they should.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-09-09
MADE Big MISTAKE
TRAVELLING MAN "GoT GAY" WITH
THE WRONG MAN.
Meant His Remarks as a Joke, but
Sleepy Individual Whom He Had
Abused Could Not See 1t
That Way.

A Columbus travelling man tells of
an unusual and humorous experience
on the road down in south Georgia a
few days ago.
A salesman had been working that
section and found business fine. Cot
ton sales had been good and the folks
had money to buy his commodity and
did buy. So, his work over and an
envelope stuffed with orders mailed in
the post Office, he felt in extraordinary
fine spirits when he boarded the train
to go to the next town.
The train started off and the sales
man stood on the back platform, smok-
ing good cigar and surveying the
scenery with great satisfaction. A
leaning against post near the track,
hundred yards or so from the depot.
The train had gathered considerable
momentum and was going fast when
it passed the post.
The salesman was in extraordinary
high spirits and his good humor' had to
vent itself some way; and it expressed
itself d this most unusual manner.
When the rapidly moving train passed
the shiftless-looking man the traveller
leaned off the platform, shook his fin
gers in the others face and In the
course of two or three hilarious sec
onds gave him his complete industrial
and personal history in terse, crisp
phrases. The travelling man was smil-
ing, and If the citizen had but known
1t, his apparently derogatory remarks
were really an expression of overflow
ing good nature and satisfaction with
the world, but the sleepy-looking man
couldn't see anything in it but malice
Of the most astonishing and unexpect-
ed kind.
To the travelling mans establishment,
the sleepy-looking man, galvanized into
life, started down the track at full
speed after the train, now going quite
fast. 1t was apparently an unequal
race and the man on the platform was
lightly amused, although admiring the
others pluck and endurance. In two
or three minutes, however, he was sur
prised to find the speed of the train
lessening, and as it did so the runner
made another squirt. In just little
bit the train came to a dead stop
the engine always paused to get water
there, although this passenger was, of
course, unaware of that fact. The
Marathon runner in the rear arrived
in time to jerk the traveller off the plat
form. The classiest kind of fight fol-
lowed, but when the travelling man
managed to climb back on the platform
as the train started off again. he had
two well-blacked eyes and his new suit
was sadly torn, while the gentleman
whom he had decorated with several
titles a quarter mile back down the
track, had found and was utilizing an
other post and seemed in a state of
perfect content.-Macon Telegraph.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-09-09
In Darkest San Francisco.

A superb marble figure of Christ
typifying christianity Emerging From
Paganism," the work of a famous for
eign artist, exhibited at the Panama
exposition, was offered as gift to the
city of San Francisco. The women of
that city raised $4,000 to meet the cost
Of transportation and material, but
the park commissioners refused the
gift on the ground that ''the subject
was a religious one."-Leslie's.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-09-09

ropean wars of the eighteenth CEN
tury. The temporary occupation of the
island by the British during several
periods of the Napoleonic wars added
further to the Importance of the chief
port, Charlotte Amalie, where mer-
chant vessels rode at anchor in the
magnificent land-locked harbor while
waiting for conveys to protect them on
the voyage across the Atlantic.
This town of Charlotte Amalie, with
a population of less than ten thou
sand, mainly negroes, is still an i'm
portant coaling station for steamers
in the West Indian trade. With a
depth of from 81 to SO feet of water,
the roadstead can accommodate the
largest merchant ships which sail
these seas. The export and import
trade has become negligible since the
rapid decline of the sugar industry
which the Danish government has tried
in vain to revive by granting annual
subsidies.
St. John Is the Smallest.
st. John, least important of the
islands, lying four miles to the east of
st. Thomas, has an area Of twen-
ty-one square miles. 1t is scarce
ly more than a ten-mile noun
tain ridge with but one distinguishing
feature, Coral bay, the best harbor Of
refuge in the Antilles. Cruxbay, vii
lage of 1000 inhabitants on the north
ern shore, is the center of population.
While Danish is the official language
of the islands, English is quite gen.
orally spoken. The monotony of ex-
istence is not infrequently broken by
earthquakes and hurricanes.
If Denmark decides to part with
these islands there will remain to her
only two colonial possessions-Green-
land and Iceland, which have an aggre-
gate area more than five times as large
as the mother country, but with only
one-twenty-seventh the population. The
1873 square miles of Denmark's West
Indian territory sustain nearly three
times as many people as the 46,740
square miles of Greenland.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-09-09
More Effective Now.

In 1916 there were 1,240 sugar mills
In Louisiana and their output averaged
that year III zoos pounds per mill. Inc
operation factories numbered l63 III
1918 and averaged 1926 pounds OF
such each; while the short crop OIL
1915 was handled by 1875 factories the
average Of each being 2,022, 600 pounoA
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-09-09
Start of Maximiian's Attempt.

A short time later Juarez precipi-
tated an international crisis by his de-
cision to suspend for two years the
payment of interest on the national
debt. England, Spain and France sent
fleets to Vera Cruz to force payment,
but England and Spain soon Withdrew
while France, her soldiers once on
Mexican SOIL decided to press her
claims, and gradually Napoleon's
scheme for q western empire began TO
assume definite form. His scheme
eyentuated in the abortive attempt to
establish Archduke Macmillan of Aus
tria on the throne of the Montezumas.
1t was during the famous defense of
the city of Puebla against the invad-
ing French army that a young Mexi-
can soldier, who was to become the
most conspicuous figure in the history
of modern Mexico, distinguished him
self by his bravery and his exception
al powers of leadership. This young
hero was Porfirio Diaz, now known to
fame as ''the strong man of Mexico"
1t was in the center of the interna-
tional bridge which connects Juarez
and Ell Paso that President Taft and
President Diaz Che who had been
Juarez's military right hand) met in
| 1910, upon the occasion of the CEN
tenary celebration Of Mexican inde-
pendence.
The traveller who passes through Ell
Do h S tn II nhnnCa
any of four times by which to set his
watch-C Central, Mountain, Pacific and
Mexican. Mountain time is an hour
slower than Central, while Pacific Is
an hour slower and Mexican is "a
minutes faster than Mountain.
Famed for Its Bull Fights.
On account of It's bull fights and cock
fights, Juarez has long been a city of
feast-day pilgrimage for Americans In
search of new sensation. The Span
iards, who became addicted to the bull
fight habit in the twelfth century, dur
ing the occupation of the 1berian pen
insula by the Moors, introduced this
sport into Mexico shortly after their
overthrow of the Aztecs. The fights
in Juarez are not so deliberately staged
as those in Mexico City, for native
bulls are used customarily, and these
have not the ferocity of the animals
imported by the capital from Andal
usia at a cost, frequently, Of $1,000
(Mexican) each.
On important bull-fght days the
population of Juarez tops the 10,0O(
mark, while there is a relative TEN
porary decrease In the size of the fftf