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The Washington herald., 1916-02-01
Special Cable to The Washington Herald.

Special Cable to The Washington Herald.
London. Jan. 31.-The war Office off,
cialfy announces that Zeppelin raid was
made tonight by six or seven airships
over the eastern and northeastern Mid
land counties. A number of bombs were
dropped. Up to the present, says the
war office statement. inconsiderab BILE dam
age has been reported
This appears to be the most ambitious
aerial raid undertaken by the German
up to this time. Not more than four
ZeppelIns were represented in any air
raid around London
The Washington herald., 1916-02-01
FLYING SICKNESS" LATEST.
Army Ariators suffer from New
MsIsdy Incident TO War.

London. Jan. S.-F1yins sickness Is the
latest disease produced by the var. II
affects syiators and is brought on by
the. strain and esertion Of long fights
under FIRE and battles In high attitudes
The symptoms are thu, described:
Profound lassitude. intense headsche,
feverishness, accelerated respiration snc
occasional spexmodic suipins OF air lilt
fish when taken out OF the water"
The Washington herald., 1916-02-01
Want Bulgar Army Shifted.

Milan, Italy, Jan. 31.-Germany is in
sisting that the Bulgarian army be shift
ed from Macedonia to the eastern theater
of war. says the secolo. In this way.
says the newspaper. the Kaiser hopes to
avoid difficulties between Bulgaria and
Greece during an offensive campaign
against the allies at Saloniki.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-01
No Pay; Police Quit.

Teaneck, N. j., Jan. a.-Because they
failed to vote any appropriation for
policemen. residents are arming to pro-
tect the town when the police depart
ment-a chief and four patrolmen-quit
tonight. " g.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-01
US. REFUSES TO
ARB|TRATE The
LUS|TAN|A CASE
Lansing Bares Mailed Fist in
Demand for Uncondition-
al Disavowal.
PROPOSALS REJECTED
Two Requests for Settlement
of Dispute by Court Are
Turned Down.

The United States government has com.
ment of the Lusitania controversy with
Germany through the machinery of in
ternational arbitration.
This fact, obtained last night from an
official source indicates the exten to
which Secretary Lansing has barred the
mailed fist in his demand for an uncon-
ditional disavowal by Germany.
The refusal to arbitrate, 1t was learned,
was based on the ground that the vital
interests and national honor Of the Unit
ed States beng involved. thu matter was
one which could not be submitted to
arbitration.
It was the second time that such a pro-
posal had been turned down, and it was
rejected definitely and finally. II is re-
llably stated, at the last conference which
the Secretary of State had with Am
bassador Bernstorf.
On the occasion of his last conference
with Mr.. Lansing Count Won Bernstorff
said Germany greatly deplored the loss
tsnia, and was willing to demonstrate
the extent of her regrets by paying an
indemnity. She could not, the Ambas-
sador insisted, admit that the attack
without warning on the Lusitania was
illegal
Attack a Reprisa1.
This attack. he is aid to have insisted
was a reprisal against Great Britain's
argued. recognizes that reprisals are
legal. There is nothing in international
law, the Ambassador contended which
states that reprisals cannot be under
taken If they endanger the lives of
neutrals.
That being the case, he held. the as
sumption was that neutrals should keep
out Of harms way when plain warning
is given that reprisals are to be re-
sorted to. Nevertheless, the Ambassador
is declared to have suggested. Germany
was perfectly willing that the question
should be determined by an International
court of arbitration.
Secretary Lansing is reported to have
replied that the right of the Americans
to be on board the Lusitania could not
be questioned; and that their right to
the protection which international law
accords to neutrals on the high seas was
too firmly established to admit of de-
bate.
While it is insisted that there is no
connection existing between the Lusi-
tania negotiations and the proposals of
Secretary Lansing to the entente powers
looking to the disarming of merchant
men suggestive of anything like bar
gain. the hope is nevertheless expressed
that the favorable impression created
in Germany by these proposals will give
the Berlin foreign office a loop-hole
through which 1t might make conces-
sions of sufficient value to avoid a break
in diplomatic relations.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-01
Scotland Yard Employs Women.

London. Jan. SL-For the first time in
history women are being employed by
Scotland yard to take the place of police
men who have enlisted and gone to war.
About a score OF women are now at
tached to the yard"
The Washington herald., 1916-02-01
Anglo-Jap Treaty Denied

Toxic, Jan. a.-The foreign office issued
statement today denying the report
that Japan and England have signed q
treaty that recognizes Japan's superior
rights in the Far East.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-01
Paints 1000 Cats; Then Dies.

Pitman, n. j., Jan. 31.-Mrs. E. NJ.
Gardner, an artist, who painted nothing
eli but cats, was stricken with blind
ness Just as she finished her one thou
sandth painting of a feline.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-01
Fire Burns Through Concrete

Lansford. Pa, Jan. a.-The mine fire
which has been raging for sixty years in
Panther Creek Valley, has burned its
way through fifteen-foot concrete wall
and threatens the high coal mine
The Washington herald., 1916-02-01
Dutch Liner Strikes Mine.

London. Jan. s1.-The Dutch liner Mas
dijk has been badly damaged and beach
ed, it was announced today. Two men,
bers of the crew were killed. 1t is be-
lieved that the liner hit Z mine
The Washington herald., 1916-02-01
American Academy Helps Cripples..

Rome. Jan. 3L-Announcement was
made today that the American Acad-
emy has placed at the disposal Of the
war ministry the magnificent villa
Mirahori for mutilated and blind sol
dierR
The Washington herald., 1916-02-01
Italians Land in Avalona.

Berlin (via wirelesS. Jan. a-Reports
from Vienna state that the Italians have
landed a new Infantry division and sew
eral batteries Of heavy artillery at Ava
Iona. Albania This indicates that Italy
viii not abandon its position IN AihasiA
The Washington herald., 1916-02-01
Cruiser Shells Sedd.el.Babr

Constantipople (via London. Jan. a.
Dardanelles front: On the 18th a hostile
cruiser fred twenty shells into Sedd-el-
Bahr.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-01
10000 March on Pekinr.

London, Jan, 31.-A Reuter- dispatch
from Mukden, Manchuria, states that
2o,f5o Monaghan rebels are marching
upon Peking.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-01
3.Ooo Miners on Strike,

Glasgow, Jan. 31.-Three thousand
miners went on strike today, as a pro-
test against wage reductions. Three
collieries ere idle
The Washington herald., 1916-02-01

Mavai Graa, New orseass, Mobile, Pes-
saeois. Low fares Tfckess on sale Feb.
ADV. y
The Washington herald., 1916-02-01
12-YEAR-oLD A SUICIDE.
Girl Fails to Pass Examina tion ,
Jump. from window.

New York. Jan. 3l.-Being told that she
had failed to pass her examinations.
Sadie ostror, II years old. left her school
this afternoon and. going 10 a nfth-story
window of her home in Avenue D. COM
mitted suicide by jumping TO the yard.
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chance of getting 6.cent verdict
against him as long as he could make
Roosevelt feel good by saying he never
touched the stuff but don't let that
prevent them from enjoying theirs.
Most men when they refuse a drink
but don't object to others having one,
raise such temperature over being en-.
tirely unprejudiced about II that they
get to feeling the same way as a bigoted
man with quart of schnapps inside
of him. Well, everything goes all right
up to and through the soup. Mr.. Roose-
welt tells them about a fish he seen
while taking a swim near Trinidad,
which looked very similar like n salmon
except 1t had blue tail feathers and
made its nest of grasses and pieces of
bark on the ground at the foot of a
stump of tree or beside rock and lays
four or five eggs, white with small
brown spots, .75X.55. He was going
to show how the natives killed it with
a sterling silver olive fork when Mr.
Bacon choked him off by asking him
had he read Eat and Lose FLESH" and
winks at Mr.. Root, who pushes the olive
dish to his end of the table. The roast
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Our PostoTice Box

What do you think we have three mem
bers in Council Bluffs, Ia. (Take out
your Biographies right this minute and
find out where Council Bluffs is.) Their
names are Ruth. Esther and Winifred
Cole. and they are real true active mem
bers who read the club news every single
night.
If you don't believe It, listen TO their
little letters First comes Ruths; she
writes: II have been reading about your
Rainbow Club and / like 1t very much l
am going to be In play at school l am
Sleeping Beauty. and Esther. my twin sis
ter, is TO be Snow White. Andrew Lind
say has the measles. He is my little cousin,
Some of our tulips are In bloom, ! wish
you could have some" Little Esther
says: Il like the stories very much. Wini-
fred has doll like the one in the paper.
Ruth and | just love to read; we are in
the second grade. Yesterday we went to
the library with Ethel, a little girl we
know, and we We're caught in a bad storm
and we had 10 call up Ethels mother to
come and take us home. Good-by, Farmer
Smith" Lastly, Winifred puts in her lit
tie message: I'VE like News and Views
OF Farmer Smiths Rainbow Club very
much. AS you are too far away for me
70 see you, will tell you about myself. /
am ten years old and am In the fifth
grade. My teachers name Is Kathryn
Morehouse. l had to teach school for al
most half an hour for the class below me.
/ love to cook and can bake pretty good
bread. Love to Philadelphia Rainbows."
We think these lovely little letters deserve
some pretty postal card answers from our
Eastern Rainbows. Who wants to send
a message to Council Bluffs?
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minutes to tell one another how well
they was looking Anberufen."
And what's Bacon doing all this
timer" Birsky asked.
Bacon is the host and naturally he
is outside in the kitchen making an ap
propriate cocktail composed of equal
parts gin, vermouth and mathematic
spirits of ammonia, while Mrs. Bacon
Is giving him final instructions not to
start in and talk about preparedness
until all the dishes was off the table, as
the last lunch Roosevelt was to, yum
derstand. he showed how the Germans
could land 10000 men on Long Island
with two flfty-dollar place plates for
the Germans and they chased the New
York National Guard, consisting of
three genwlne Bohemian goblets and a
cut glass celery dish, right Off the table
into the fireplace"
"Aber Roosevelt amt drunk a cock
tail in years" Birsly said, "and what's
more, he won case against an editor
in Michigan for accusing him of do
ing So"
Don't know it?" zapp said. But
a hospitable feller like Bacon could run
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and Mr.. Bacon rang for the English
butler to sweep UP two lampshades.
That's all right Mr.. Root says.
Do you know who is indorsing me?'
"T seen the names in the paper be-
ginning with J. p. Morgan & Co..
Mr.. Roosevelt says, and IL you was
running for President of the National
Model License Society, and was in
dorsed by q lot of citizens headed by
Bishop Vincent and footed by w. j.
Bryan, you would stand just so good a
show to get elected
"'Well, tell me one thing Root says.
Who is indorsing your
az am Mr.. Roosevelt says, and 1
ain't got no second choice neither
Here Mr.. Bacon gets busy
"'F'or my part he says, got only
the interest of you two fellers at heart,
and L don't give whoop which one of
you gets licked. I'm entirely disinter-
ested and 1 think l show It, because, be-
lieve me, amt no fonder of getting
my house broke as anybody else
"Mr. Roosevelt nodded sympathet-
ically and the effects down in the
kitchen was felt instantly by a butter
dish and six soup plates in an open set
of 1875 dishes.
$50 what say is Bacon went on,
one poker hand between you and draw
to the cards.
Mr.. Roosevelt shakes his head and
the open set becomes 122A dishes.
"I never touch cards. he said.
"'Then how about dice? Mr.. Root
suggests, but with no better results
than before by two, cups and saucers
and vegetable dish.
"'I might. just as we'll lend you a
million dollars Mr.. Roosevelt said, and
match you to see' whether you pay me
back oder not One thing you could be
sure of, Mr.. Root, If / lose this here
nomination to anybody by playing cards
it will be Garfield solitaire
""Then I'll tell you what I'll do with
YOU Root says. I'll match you to see
whether we both resign in favor of
Hughes
Hughes?' Roosevelt says. Who's
I1ubltS!
"And Sh.n he laughs so hard that
from tho vibrations of the mechanical
earthquake detector in the observatory
of La Sale University, st. Louis, it was
estimated by the professor of astron.
omy that the centre of the disturbance
was no further away as Alaska.
"Listen, Root Mr.. Roosevelt says
when he can get his breath again, Mach
mir kei bluGsi Mr.. Wilson lays awake
nights worrying that the Republicans
amt going to resurrect that feller
Hughes oIaU haSholem from the Su-
preme Court. I wouldn't indulge in no
post.mortems with you about Hughes,
but I'll say this much: you areNthe only
Republican presidential possibility in
sight
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he might lose as much as 1900 folios.
Believe me, Birsky, Mr.. Hughes is
where be belongs, because there's only
two fellers could make a living by hav-
ing their faces disguise their feelings,
and that's Judge and waiter, yum.
derstand, dber waiter nebich must got
to do II without whiskers."
"sayl" Birsky said, this Is free
country and nobody need got to shave II
he don't want to-"
you're right, Birsky," Zapp said,
"and whiskers wouldn't be handicap
II a man could become President by in.
junction, mandamus, certiorari or quo
warranto proceedings, dber when he has
got to make personal appeal and get
the sympathy of several million voters,
and the only means he has of showing
love, luhochles, sorrow, simchd, despair
ara rdchmonos is a couple of cubic feet
human hair where his facial expression
ought to be, he's up against it like
one-armed fiddler"
well, when It comes to facial express
sion, Zapp," Birsky said, II seen pic
lures in the Sunday supplements of Mr..
Roosevelt speaking from the back plat
form of a railroad train, and you can tell
from the way his face looks that what
he Is saying would make what the Pater-
son, N. j., police says Quinlan said sound
80 revolutionary like 'Curfew wouldn't
Ring Tonight"
."Sure 1 Know" Zapp said, land the
chances is he is only saying that he is
glad to be once more among his old
friends in Snedekerville, the home of
the Snedeker Farm Implement and
Buggy Company, y'understand, and he
is making em believe 1t, too, whereas
IL Hughes was on the back end of that
train the chances Is he would call 1t
Steubenville, and when his secretary
nudges him he would try to square him
self by calling it 'steubenville or snede-
kerville as the case may be, or words
to that effect"
And what would Mr.. Root say7"
Brsky asked.
HE wouldn't go there at ALL" zapp
replied. what does Mr.. Root care
about the people of Snedekervile when
he is indorsed by the presidents and
boards of directors of every interna'
tional, national and American company
in the corporation directory from Inter-
national Architectural Iron to Inter.
national Zinc Buckets? Yes, Birsky, II
Mr.. Roots indorsers filled so much
space in the registry of voters as they
do in the Directory of Directors, y'under.
stand, he would have the same walk
over as Mr.. Roosevelt has got"
"Then you think Mr.. Roosevelt would
be elected?" Birsky said.
st certainly do" zapp replied, but
If l thought I could get appointed to
office by inviting him to eat at my
house, Birsky, wouldn't take no
chances; I'd borrow the furniture and
dishes from an armchair lunchroom."
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FARMER SMITHS TURTLE BpOK
Tommy Turtles Eyes

Mrs. Cat was so excited when sh5Esaw
something moving in the tall grass that
she arched her back and began to spit.
.sWhy be so excited2" asked strange
voice which seemed to come from the
moving thing.
.oh, it's you Well, Tommy Turtle, I
IN glad 70 see you and also TO wish you
= happy new spring"
s-rhank you very much. my dear, am
zelighted to come out OF my winters quar-
4srs and see you once more It must be
very tiresome 10 have to live all the year
round Tommy came out OF his house
zfili farther and crawled over TO where
airs. Cat was sitting.
He sat for a long time and then he
said. ''Do you know your eyes changer
They get larger or smaller as the light
Shines into them"
Il was Just thinking what wonderful
eyes you have" said Mrs. Cat. You
haven't any eselashes, as l have I Non-
der shy that is2'
Il don't know myself, only I learn not
70 ask a lot OF questions about myself;
Ehs more l ask. the more l get confused.
#heEe IS no dust IN the water and, there
fore, I do not need 10 have eyelashes 10
tried 70 look as If he knew great deal
about Mother Nature.
your eyes are On the side OF your head
aud mine are straight in front" began
hlfz. Cat when suddenly Tommy said,
.zfhAI,s 50 you can see mice T.
Who said nicer asked Mrs Cat, as
she seampersd away.
That's just Ike some people 10 run
before they know what they are running
Eaf.s said Tommy, as he craBled into his
zzazlL
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"Much obliged Root said
mot at all,' Mr. Roosevelt tells him.
In fact 1 wouldn't mention It If 1 was
you, because this year a Republican
presidential possibility ain't enough.
What the Republican party wants is
presidential probability, Root, If not a
certainty, and am sure 1 enjoyed your
luncheon very much indeed, Mr.. Bacon
Tell me, Zapp, amt you got this
wrong?" Birsky said. II understand
Senator Lodge and General Wood was
also at this here lunch"
"They came in later, Just as Mr..
Roosey 1t was going" zapp said; "and
when Mr.. Roosevelt told General Wood
that he was glad to see him again 1t
cracked the lacquer cabinet, o~electric
light bulbs and the glass In a framed
enlargement over the piano.
's'enough,' Bacon says to Root.
Ring up a taxi and we'll take him and
his friends to the Harvard Club
"Why the Harvard Club7' Root says
They just got the furniture done over
and things fixed up fresh over there.
Take 'em to the Metropolitan Club.
Them millionaires over there can stand
it, and they're going to move into,a new
clubhouse soon anyway
"And that's the whole truth from the
luncheon party, Birsky" Zapp con-
tinued which 1t wouldn't of made no
difference if they had the lunch oder
not, Root and Hughes amt got look
in. Compared TO them two boys the
United States Mortgage and Trist Com.
pany has got winning personality and
a public following equal to Geraldine
Farrar's. They amt redblooded enough.
For instance, If Judge Hughes some
Easter Sunday should Gott soil hutcn
cut an artery on account he gets out Of
practice from year to year trimming his
beard, understand. before they could
stop the flow of stenographer's minutes
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Ewes. BIRsKY," Barnett zapp, the
Il waist manufacturer said, If pol
itician calls another politician a pol
itician, yunderstand. it's like you being
a real estater, Birsky, and some other
real estater instead of calling you real
estater which is pretty bad at that,
would call you at the very least a
dirty crook, a highwayman, y'under-
stand"
"Is that so?" Louis Birsky retorted
with an ironical emphasis of which
zapp appeared to be entirely uncon-
scious.
$50 you could easy imagine that when
Mr.. Roosevelt gets an invitation to eat
with Senator Root by this here Bacons
house on the following Tuesday" Zapp
continued, "he said to Mrs. Roosevelt
that If them two cutthroats was going
without food till he eat with them,
y'understand they might just SO we'll
take the new Rockefeller Institute Cure
for Diabetes and be done with it. Also
he told her IL she wanted to give the
girl day out on the following TuesdaN
all right, as he was going to have lunch
at the Bacons on the following Tues
day, and when them two fellers finally
gets together at Bacon's home, Birsky,
you would think Mr.. Roosevelt didn't
miss a single day down in the West
Indies sending Root sowveneer post
card. I Bet yer It took 'em twenty
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! chicken passes off pleasantly in knock
ing La Toilette and they got down to
the coffee with nothing more serious
than the milk jug being Columbus, N.
NJ, and getting upset in the direction
of the ash tray in front of Mr.. Root
representing two days march beyond
Chihuahua City, some of the milk going
one days march farther or partly on
Mr.. Roots pants and partly on the rug;
so Mr.. Bacon suggests they should finish
their coffee in the sun parlor where 1t
is furnished with wicker furniture and
mating, and as they let Mr.. Roosevelt
go ahead, Root says I told you we
should of took him to a restaurant.
When it comes to breakfast two lunch
cons with that feler is equivalent to
removal And Mr.. Bacon says, Remind
me l should give you some Carbona
before you CO.
"'Yes gentlemen Mr. Roosevelt says.
'supposing that window there to be the
Rio Grande River and this here chair Is
Ell Paso'-when Root interrupts him and
says was he seasick coming from Trini-
dad
"'That's all right, Root Bacon says,
let him go on. carry plate glass insur-
ance'
"'Sure, 1 know Root says, but I
didn't come here to get information
about Mexico which during the past
two months feler could find out for
himself by reading the headlines going
home in the subway, without investing
a cent for the newspapers themselves.
Yes, Mr. Bacon, there is some people
which was never no nearer Madison
Square Garden than the bulletin board
of the San Francisco Chronicle, and If
you would give em show they would
back Tex Rickard into a corner and de-
scribe to him round By round the Will
lard-Moran fight. If Mr.. Roosevelt
wants to tell me about the Mexican
trouble he would have lots of oppor-
tunity as Secretary for War in my
cabinet
"YoUR cabinet" Mr. Roosevelt
shouted.
"'That's what said,' Mr.. Root tells
him, and right there Mr.. Roosevelt
laughs three dollars and twenty-five
cents worth Oh neCeSSdIy IepdlIS lnto
the wicker chair he is sitting on.
whats the joker Mr. Root asks.
"I.isten, Root Mr.. Roosevelt says,
you was a pretty good Secretary of
State when you was working for me.
don't know no one that could cut out,
baste and finish treaty better as you,
and not even the worst of your 5,141,-
614 enemies couldn't say any different.
AS a Senator you wasn't so bad neither,
because no matter what the newspapers
says rotten about a Senator, yunder-
stand the Leute is going to say, We'll,
what could you expect from a Senator"
Aber as a President
Here Mr.. Roosevelt waved his arms
in one of them can-you-beat-it motions
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5O,OOO!M.
MOTHER NATURE TALKS


living things which fail take themselves You do not
eating and eating and seeming get filed but you
do little boys girls making pigs of themselves
the little him though
yet he has 5000 and all points.
Did notice how hard it is KILL A FLY?
living
yourself.
Cat She taking a bath keep
the thing and
while all walk the bathroom and
the little fellow rubbing
his little
Rnd he all his little fers.
think
selves you ought to some of YOURSELF?
forget animals take the proper
children go 70 bed old time"
you
take ofo I FARMER SMITH,
Chndrens Editor EVENING