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Evening star., 1916-08-05
Indiana Vote in Other Years.

There are $500 precincts in the
state. and the change of one vote in a
precinct will make a change of 1000 in
the result. That this might be effec-
tive is shown by past experience. In
1872 the state went democratic by
1000; in 1876 democratic by 5000; in
1880 republican by 5000; in 1884 demo-
cratic by 5000; in 1888 republican by
1900; in 1892 democratic by 1000; in
1903 republican by 10000.
Indiana. therefore. has always been
fighting ground, and in this year of
grace 1916 there promises to be one of
the most hotly contested campaigns
the much harried Hoosiers have ever
engaged in. 1t will be a fight where
the contending parties will get down
to individuals. pulling and hauling at
the very doorstep and counting noses
in every domicile.
1t is trite saying, but none the less
true, that Indianians take to politics as
a duck to water. 1t is a fact that the
state has for years produced crops of
the most skillful politicians the coun-
try raises, and political campaigning
is reduced to science on the banks
of the Wabash and contiguous terri
tory.
Evening star., 1916-08-05
Both Parties Well Managed.

Both parties are well matched this
year in respect to the ability of their
leadership and management. Among
the republicans the old guard war
horses are again in the field, and the
democrats have among their managers
men with stakes in the game who have
been noted for years as political eX-
perts.
This is especially true of the sena-
torial and gubernatorial tickets. For
the senatorship Thomas Taggart. dem
ocrat, whose name is household word
in every hamlet, is running for the
short term against Jim Watson, re-
publican, old guard manager of many
past campaigns. For the long term
Harry s. New. raised in politics by
his father, the late John c. New, re
publican veteran. is contesting with
senator John w. Kern, democrat.
There is a quartet for you when it
comes to practical politics. If there
are any moves in the game that they
don't know Indiana would be immense
" gratified to have them stated.
Evening star., 1916-08-05
british CAPTURE
MAIN SECOND LINE
ENEMY TRENCHES
Sweep Over System of De-
lenses On a 2,0OO-Yard
Front Near Pozieres.
STRUGGLE AT VERDUN
KEEPS UP WITH FURY
Germans Make Several Futile At
tempts to Regain Thiau-
mont Work.
FRENCH HOLD AT FLEURY
In Possession of Greater Part of
Village After Bitter Fight.
English in Aero
Raid.
STRUGGLE AT VERDUN
KEEPS UP WITH FURY
FRENCH HOLD AT FLEURY

LONDON, August s. The
main German second line system
on a front of 1000 yards north OF
Pozieres, on the Somme front, has
been captured by the British, it
was officially announced by the
war office this Afternoon.
\ bombardment OF the most
violent character is taking place
over the entire sector of THAI
mont and Fleury. The battle
lasted from 9 o'clock last nigll
until this morning, the Germans
making unsuccessful efforts, the
statement adds, to drive the
French from Thiaumont work,
which was gained, lost and mostly
regained yesterday.
The fighting at Fleury has been
fierce. After having evacuated
the whole OF the village yesterday
morning, as a consequence OF sew
eral German attacks, French in
fantry, in the afternoon, carried
with the bayonet the greater part
of the village. The situation here
is without appreciable change.
Evening star., 1916-08-05
WEATHER

Generally fair tonight and tomorrow.
light variable winds. Temperature for
twenty four hours ending pm. Highest,
sc, at 4 80 pm. yesterday; lowest. 69, at
3 am today.
Full report on page 9.
Evening star., 1916-08-05
New York Surface Lines Able
to Maintain Almost Normal
Schedules.
POLICE GUARD STATIONED J
ON EACH CAR SENT OUT
Strike Leaders and Railway Officials
Disagree as to Number
of Men Idle.

NEW YORK, August 5.-Al-
though strikes were in effect to-
day on nearly every surface car
line in Manhattan, Queens and
the Bronx, with between 1000
and $500 motormen and con-
ductors reported idle, profess
sional strikebreakers and loyal
employees were in the places of
the strikers, and officials of the
New York Railways Company
and the New York and Queens
County railways said at 10 am.
that almost normal schedules
were being maintained.
Police Commissioner Wood as
signed a policeman to every car
Of these lines, and except for
few minor demonstrations there
was no disorder. Officers of the
two companies asserted that
fewer than 500 men had struck.
The cars were late in getting away
from the barns, which led to the belief
early in the day that a serious tie-up
had been effected.
Unaware of Strike.
Later on only, a few lines was any
delay in the operation of cars noticed.
Many workers on the way to their place
Of employment were unaware that
strike was in progress. Very little dis
order marked the early hours of the
strike.
The labor leaders asserted that so per
cent of the employees of the New York
Railways Company, which operates the
haitian, had voted to strike.
The elevated and subway lines, which
were not affected by the strike vote,
were thronged by persons who were
unable to use the surface lines. Threats
have been made that the strike even
tually would be extended to those
systems.
The street railway lines involved in
clude the New York Railways Com
pany, the I'd avenue lines, Third Ave-
nue. Railway Company and two lines in
the Bronx.
Evening star., 1916-08-05
Cars Reported in Service.

Reports received by Police Inspector
Max Schmidtberger during the early
forenoon showed that 59s of the 1921
cars operated normally by the New
York Railways Company were in serv-
ice, that the Sd avenue lines in the
Bronx, were operating 1o9 cars out of
952. but that in Manhattan only 73 out
of sos In Queens, the reports said. So
cars out of III were in operation.
About fifty cases of intimidation and
other disorderly acts were, during the
forenoon, reported to police headquar-
ters including a demonstration at one
of the New York railways car barns.
which called police reserves there. The
threatening attitude of the strikers and
their sympathizers frightened a number
of loyal crews into returning their cars
to the barns There were few arrests.
Evening star., 1916-08-05
Split Likely on senatorship.

Now on the senatorship. the best po-
Iitjcal report out here is that irrespec-
tive of what may be the result on the
presidency and the governorship. there
NAV be a split decision. Without Of
fering invidious suggestions. it may be
reported as part of the current talk
that Taggart and New are considered
as likely to run ahead in the election
To state it delicately. it is said that
ragpart and New are stronger with
the populace than Kern and Watson :,
There is no suggestion OF any deal
or trade to this end, but the possiDility
is explained on the ground OF tne per
sonal hold which these two candldates
have upon the voters. somewhat re-
gardless of political DIVISIONS
II Is said to be almost a certainty
that Mr. Taggart will receive some re-
publican votes for the snort term Whlch
will be withheld from Mr. watson. and
nv the same token that Mr.. New VIII
bave the support of some democratic
votes for the long term instead OF thelr
going to Mr.. Kern. TheEe rs tax TO
This effect in both Democratic ana re,
nubIican circles here. and is submitted
pnara1v- as mart of the routine report of
politics.
Wilson Strong Throughout State.
As TO the national outlook, it is a
fact that the democratic managers have
been yery much encouraged by reports
coming to them from two very impor-
+ant classes in Indiana. the farmers
and the Iaboring men. According to in
formation which is at hand. and which
the republican managers are not very
confidently denying. both these classes
are nretty well satisfied with the Will
son administ ration and disincfined to
he interested in propositions to change.
In point of fact, the statements are
nartially confirmed in some republican
quarters and causing no little concern.
There is not a question of doubt that
the republicans are aroused, and some
of them at least to degree which
,eads them to the conviction that the
state will have to be fought for to be
won and that the fight will be hard
one.
With the laboring men it is said to
be the same cry heard elsewhere, will
son kept US out of war;" together with
contentment over full employment and
good wages. With the farmers 1t is
said to be qualification over fine prices
ard no fault to be found with the leg
islative record of the administration.
Causes of Republican Concern.
AS to both classes the fundamental
cause for the republican concern is
said to be the apathy of the voters
growing (e4 g indifference to politics,
Evening star., 1916-08-05
Eighty Per Cent on Strike.

Officers of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Street and Electric Railway
Employees declared at o'clock this
morning that 50 per cent of the 3,100
motormen and conductors employed by
the New York Railways Company were
on strike.
The hall in which 1900 workers had
taken a strike vote earlier in the night
was again packed with employees of
the company at 2 o'clock. Most of the
men were in uniforms They had come
direct to the hall from the barns after
turning in their cars.
Shortly before the meeting opened
Police Commissioners Woods and sew
eral of his deputies established head
quarters in a garage adjoining the
hall When this fact became known in
the meeting place. leaders of the men
urged them to abstain from violence
and demonstrate that they could con-
duct a strike in an orderly manner.
Soon after l o'clock a band of about
200 strikers, who were marching near the
car barns on seth street. were dispersed
by police reserves. There were many
minor disturbances. but no one was seri-
ously hurt, although the police frequently
were called on to use their clubs in
breaking up incipient riots.
Strike Vote Is Cheered.
The strike vote was taken after the
reply of the company to an ultimatum
from its employees had been declared un-
The report of the negotia-
tions was made by a committee of six.
which had been appointed to confer with
General Manager Frank Hedley The
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-11-08

Women are unconsciously going
back to a time in antiquity when
scanty costumes were the extreme Of
popularity.
The gradual increase in the cut Of
low necks in evening gowns. absence
Of sleeves, bare shoulders, discarded
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-11-08
Will 1t Come to This?

Berkeley, CAL, Nov. s.-Women'
adorned in the flowing robes Of clas-
sic Greece.
Feminine garb from the skins Of
animals.
These are two Of future dress pos
sibilities in the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-28
HOTEL LOBBIES
Nitrate Plant

Tt augurs well for Birmingham and Alabama that the people of this city are beginning to take greater interest in the location of the government ni- trate plant at Muscle Shoals" said w. M. Sorrell, a local attorney yesterday. The mere fact that the government had decided to make this investment of s2O.Ooo,ooo in Alabama and close to Birmingham would be worth an untold amount in advertising if there were nothing else to be realized. The people of every section of the country where there is any site at all suit able are keenly interested in this proposition and they are working hard for the plant.
 "But Birmingham and Alabama will realize much more from this than the free advertising. The investment of the large sum of money will mean big impetus to business and the manufac- ture Of nitrates with the resultant cheap fertilizer close at hand will mean millions annually to the farm CTS and the agricultural section. That Birmingham is getting alive to the importance of this matter is most en- couraging as 1t seems certain that the plant will come to Muscle Shoals if the advantages of that location are reasonably well presented to the gov- ernment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-28
LIGHTING THE GAS

From the Houston Post.
 A New York man is suing for divorce. He charges that his wife uses dollar bills for lighting the gas.
 Lighting the gas with dollar bills is that have been Tit up' with them
 It would be interesting to know how many dollar bills man has ever used to light a charming maidens eyes, or to draw the walters attention in the mid night cabaret, or to brighten the joility of a a. m. joy ride, or to heighten the red light of his own nose.
 And now he asks a divorce because his wife lights the gas with single dollar billi
 How inconsistent!
 For ages women have been the wonder of the working world. They have man. aged their households on inadequate all lowances, without proper tools or ap- plances for their work, with "A hours at hard labor in every day-and no change from the rut until lunatic asylum or grave mercifully opened to them the doors to peace and rest.
 Men have been lighting everything along their way with dollar bills since the first paper dollar come into circulation. and then with which to light the gas or spend as they please without having to give an itemized account of it's ex- penditure to be sneered at by the would be head of the house."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-28
SHOOT AMoNG THE HUNS

From the New York Times.
 Senator Reed Shoot of Utah pokes his head up from the republican ruins in his wrought:
 The claim that Wilson kept us out of war is responsible for the result, and it is the vote of the women that was in- fluenced by that.
 If MT. Shoot will cast his eye over the map of the democratic victory he will find plenty of male suffrage states where "he kept us out of war" was one, though but one, of the reasons, as potent with men as women, for a general vote of con- fidence in MT. Wilson's administration. He makes no better figure than Father Adam did in laying it on the woman" It is, or should be, a time of confession and repentance for the republicans. At least, they should see the facts unless the republican party is to become per manently bunker and dwindle, like the federalists, into an irreconcilable and im- potent rump.
 The Hon. Reed Shoot and his like and his wing of the republican party filled the progressives of the country with distrust and suspicion. They saw the republican party incapable of positive advance in legislation, of responding to the strong popular desire for policies that build. MT. Shoot and the elder statesmen, MT. Roosevelt and his personally conducted progressves, could not coalesce, save in name and for election purposes. MT. Hughes was really the candidate of two hostile parties. Republican success would have been only a prelude to a hopeless schism. So multitudes of former pEogres sives and of independent progressives took MT. Wilson on his progressive and other achievements. They knew him. What was the country likely to get from a combination of the Penroses and Shoots with their old enemies?
 MT. Shoot shouldn't inculpate the women. Republican men are to blame, the excellent but still befogged MT. Shoot among them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-28

shaken drops of water and a sense of much snow and rain generally are our only other impressions of the book.
 Tom Sawyer" is a boy groping and fearing in a cave; of Toms humorous pranks we remember nothing. "Huckle- berry Finn" we almost know by heart but then we have read 1t a dozen times.
 In "Toilers of the Sea-" where the man is seized by the devilfish as he himself is hunting crabs to eat, Hugo elaborately builds up 8 scene which is the epitorne of the whole tremendous book, and the symbol of the gaunt, eter- nal struggle between man and nature (animate and inanimate) which the book dramatizes And yet. for all Hugo's craft and power, that scene thrills us less-speaks less stirringly to our blood and nerves-than one incident of far less significance in the same volume
 This incident, which stirs us more, deals merely with the murder of a guard on the edge of cliff than overlooks the sea. It is thing that in no wise touches the moral bones of the story; it is essential to the structure of the tale as a tale; another device might have been used if Hugo had not evidently fancied this one for it's own sake. But it gets itself remembered. The devilfish scene, informed though it is of the essen- tial spirit of the book expressed in the terms of physical conflict, will. have left us long before we forget the coast guardsman's murder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-28
CARRANZA AS A LEADER
sory Mason in the outlook.

Gregory Mason in the Outlook
 The men around Carranza are an interesting lot. They fall into two wholly dissimilar groups. As mem bers of his cabinet and as his imme- diate advisers he has gathered about him of surprising polish, suavity, in telligence and ability. They are mostly young men, some of them college graduates, some of them self taught, but all of them thinkers. They are the intellectual leaders of the revolu- tion. But from these men in the ad- ministration buildings it is only a block of two to the gaudy, noisy cafes, where the fighting, fire eating Indian generals. the bulldogs of the army, spend their leisure hours. How Car ranza has held together two such diff forent and, in fact. antagonistic ele- ments only he knows. but the accom- plishment is a testimonial of his quali- ties as a leader.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-28
BOOKS ALMOST FORGOTTEN
Don Marquis in the New York Sun.
Or alinony.

Don Marquis in the New York Sun. 6I HERE is peculiar pleasure in
 striving to remember something
 of books enjoyed years ago, and never read again. It happens with us, and may with most people, that in many instances one or two scenes, one or two gestures, starting out of a sort of fog, stand for the whole book There are numerous fogs and each one has it's own quality.
 All that is left to us of Rob Roy is 8, woman with broadsword in her hand who stands upon rocky way that over hangs a lake and screams forth vehe- ment command. Someone, we believe, is about to be cast over the precipice at this furious ladys order. The earth round about is reddish brown, and over head the clouds are moving rapidly
 "Bleak House. is woman who clings to an iron gate and peers through it's bars. And we have also some faint rec ollection of an echo that was like the footstep of @ sentinel ghost. The fog from which emerges the woman at the iron gate is more than fog; it is a black vapor, inky black.
 We cannot see the heroine in Lorna Doone' at all, but we still know how John Ridd felt when he all but drowned in a swirling, icy pool; we can still see him as he bends over tnd tries to catch little fish with his fingers in the cold brook just before he falls into the pool The pale glitter of a faint sun upon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-28
Political Setting

Murder trials in which prominent people are involved always attract much attention and hold the close interest of the people, said James Davis, assistant county solicitor yesterday. But when there is the question of politics involved the interest is doubled. That is one req son the Overton case has attracted such widespread interest not only in Alabama but throughout the south. Take. for ex- ample, the killing of Governor Goebel in Kentucky and Senator Carmaclz in Tennessee. People of their prominence are not infrequently killed, but the wide- spread interest of the public seems only to be aroused in case there is a political setting.
 '"The Overtop case has held the closest attention of the lawyers as well as the laymen of Alabama since the trial started and the outcome is awaited with the keenest interest by the public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-28
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

At last woman has been elected to Congress and will take seat in that distinguished body. Long may she wave in politics. and may she never lose her supporters.
 One reason why we never save any money today is because it is going to be so much easier to save money to- morrow.
 It is all right to yank the baby around by the arm. But any nurse maid knows that if she lifted F'ido by the tail she would be discharged in hurry.
 With phonographs selling for $5, we may expect to see even the most humble of the Hoi Polloi learnedly discussing the merits of the Poet and Pheasant and Ill Trovature
 The old-fashioned Indian who used to do a green corn dance now has a son who goes out on amber rye dances.
 Another reason why you shouldn't bor- row trouble is because you will have to pay it back on the installment plan.
 It doesn't matter how long he waits, no widower ever waits long enough to satisfy his first wife's relatives
 And just because a woman is married and has to do her own housework is no reason why she should go around the house all day looking like something the cat dragged in.
 Isn't it remarkable how seedy and frowsy looking your furniture is when it is on moving van, and how respect able it looks when it is unloaded and distributed around the house?
 The old-fashioned man who used to look forward to Sunday as the day of rest now has son who regards it as the day the saloons are closed.
 Almost any girl can make a man be- lieve that he is making love to her when she is doing all the love-making herself.
 If this suffrage business keeps on pro- gressing it won't be long until the girls will drive the motorcycles and the men will have to occupy the seat in the rear.
 Ignorance may be bliss. But that doesn't keep a woman from opening her husbands s mail.
 You never saw a poor man who wasn't able to tell rich man what the rich man should do with his money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-28

MS[ WASHINGTON, D. C., November wv s7-(sDeolalo-rhs National Geographic society issues the following war geography bulletin con- cerning Sultanabad, capital of the Per- sian province of Irak, in the vicinity of which the Russians are reported to have administered defeat to a considerable Turkish force:
 "Sultanabad is the infant city of Persia having been founded only a little more
 than a hundred years ago, whereas most of the places of more than 5000 inhabi-
 tants in this ancient Kingdom have his
 tories antedating the Christian era by
 centuries. The town owes it's importance
 to the fact that it is in the center of one
 of the greatest rug making districts Of
 the near east It forms with Hamadan
 Tabriz, and Herman the big four of the
 Persian carpet world
 "The hand-woven carpets of Persia are
 divided into three general classes-kali,
 or rugs having piles and cut like plush;
 the nimads, or felt weaves which are sell
 dom exported and the gilinl, with smooth
 surfaces much in demand for hangings,
 draperies and couch covers. Sultanabad
 is noted especially for it's kali. and before
 the war the value of these goods ex-
 ported from here and Ferahan amounted
 to half million dollars annually. A
 British company is established in Sultan
 abad to handle this business.
 t'There are only five or six roads in Per
 sia which are sufficiently wide and well graded to make vehicular traffic possible
 and one of these passes through Sul-
 tanabad. The importance of this fact
 cannot be fully appreciated unless one recalls that this country, which has an area two-thirds as large as all the states east of the Mississippi boasts of but one railroad and that is line only six miles long running between Teheran and a
 mosque just beyonr the capitals city linn its.
 "The Sultanabad highway runs to Kun, 6S miles to the northeast and thence
 north to Teheran, an additional 92 miles. The part of the road from Teheran to Kun was built in 1883 at cost of $6o, 900. but had to be rebuilt by the Imperial Bank of Persia, which expended $275, 900 on the enterprise. The second section of the highway, from Kun to Sultanabad, was built to connect the capital with
 Avhaz (Ahwaz), at the head of naviga- ton of the Karun river, from which point a fortnightly steamer service to the head of the Persian gulf is operated. aided by subsidy from the British gov
 ernment