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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-03-10
Survival Among Birds.

The struggle Of life among the birds
and other wild creatures is SO severe
that the feeble and malformed, or the
handicapped in any way, quickly drop
out, writes John Burroughs in Har-
per's Magazine. Probably none of them
ever die from old age. They are cut
OF in their prime. A wedding out proc
ess goes on from the time they leave
the nest. A full measure of life, the
perfection of every quill and feather,
and unerring instinct, carry them
along. They are always in the en-
emy's country; they are always on the
firing line; eternal vigilance and cease
less activity are the price of life with
them. The natural length Of life of
our smaller birds is calculated to be
eight or ten years, but probably not
one in q thousand reaches that age.
Not half a dozen times in my life have
/ found the body of dead bird that
did not show some marks of violence.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-03-10
ONCE A GREAT STRONGHOLD
kamlniets Polish Fortress That Pro-
tected Europe Against the Bar
barians of Asia.

Kaminiets Podolsk, the city upon
which the latest iarge-scale Russian
offensive was based, that against the
Austro-German lines in eastern
Galicia and Bukowina, was at one
time the greatest fortress in the king
dom of Poland, the stronghold that
held back the wild hordes of Asia
through many years of battle, says a
war geography statement given out by
the National Geographic society. The
Tartars struck time after time against
its high. rocky blum in vain, and many
skirmishing parties Of Poles and Rus
slams left the fortress to carry terror
into the steppe around the southern
Dnieper.
The town lies but few miles from
the Austrian frontier, and is built over
a peninsula formed by the Smotritch
river. an afiuent of the Dniester.
Odessa is 235 miles in the southeast.
and Kief about an equal distance in
the northeast. Kaminiets is the seat of
administration of the Podolian govern
ment, and, since the war, it has be-
come important as one of the larger
supply depots Just back of the Rus
sian front. 1t is divided into two
parts. one, the old town, spreading
over the hills, while the other nestles
around the base. Across the river, the
ancient castle still frowns defiance up
on the country, though its war-worn
walls could offer but little resistance
before the power of modern guns.
''Batu, the cruel leader Of one Of
the waves of Mongol buccaneering
against Europe. laid Kaminiets waste
in 1240. In the fifteenth and six
teenth centuries. storm after storm
of Tartar. Turk and Moldavian inva-
sion broke upon its walls, and the
principal industry of the people Of
this outpost became that of fighting
and weapon forging. The adventure
some from all parts of Europe found
their way into garrison there, and
took part in the great drama in which
the East was finally turned back upon
itself. The city passed to Russia in
1895"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-03-10

two blades OF fine steel. But at one
end is a hole. Anyone asked to cx-
anime the article and say what it is
will be most likely to guess that 1t is
some new-fangled pencil sharpener or
cigar cutter.
In the end of the knife is a steel
block that turns out on a swivel, being
held by a spring that is released with
the thumbnail and reveals a hole
straight through the block. The car
fridge is inserted at the base of this
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-03-10
KNIFE AND PISTOL
Effective Combination to Be Car.
ried in Pocket.
Discharges Small Cartridge, but One
Capable Of Infiicting Damage at
Close Range-Useful Defense
Against Burglars.

The smallest breech-loading cannon
in the world Is now being made for
pocket use. 1t is not toy, but takes
a 22-caliber rim-fire cartridge.
OF course. it is not easy to hit any
thing at distance with it, on account
of there being no sights and the barrel
being only half an inch long and con-
cealed, but a 22-caliber bullet is use
less except at very close range. The
special use of this cannon" is for
soaring off burglars. as when fired
with a blank cartridge 1t makes tre-
mendous bang, and fires bullet that
would inflict a nasty wound at close
range.
Its inventor is Edmund c. Moore of
New York, who is also the patentee
of a rifle grenade.
1t is in the form of a pocket knife
no larger than the usual knife and has
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-03-10
Mules Now kerchoolnu.

Even the mules in the mines here
are suffering from the ravages Of the
grippe epidemic and stable horses and
hostlers are kept busy caring for the
sick animals. Many miners declare
that they have caught the infection
from the mules, who sneeze in the
limited air supply in the underground
workings and spread the germs all
over.
The local veterinarians have thus
far vainly sought to find a remedy to
combat the disease. In some cases
quinine and whisky appeared to help
the animals temporarily.-Hazleton
(Pa.) Dispatch to Philadelphia In
Quirer.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-03-10
MADE TREE SERVE AS TOWER
California Farmer Solved Windmill
Problem In q Peculiar but satis-
factory Fashion.

A growing eucalyptus. partially
cleared of leaves and branches, has
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-03-10
Want Kisses SteriIixed.

The New York health board is out
for the sterilized kiss. You've got to
stop kissing while the present grippe
epidemic is on" says the director of
the bureau of public health education.
The deadly grippe bacilli love nothing
better than to spring from the depths
of a lovers throat. speed across the
bridge made by kiss and Jump with
clutching tentacles down the throat
at the other end of the kiss. II you
kiss when you have grippe you are al
most certain to. transmit the malady
with your affection" Grippe or no
grippe, Broadway celebrated the New
Year with promiscuous kissing. Five
minutes before midnight every glim-
mer in the restaurants we're put out.
and the order was let kissing be un-
confined" And it Was.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-03-10

trees. Clearing away much of the
foliage on the nearest trees, he
ran braces to the windmill and Sc
cured a machine which has given
him entire satisfaction. - Popular
Science Monthly.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-03-10
USE FOR POCKET FLASHLlGHT
May Be Made to Serve the Purpose Of
the x-Ray When Minor Operation
10 In Question.

James M. Kane of Doylestown, Pa,
sends to Popular Mechanics Magazine
an account of how a splinter may be
found under the finger nail. To remove
a splinter in that position is usually
a matter of guesswork, for 1t cannot
be seen unless its end projects.
Putting the finger over q pocket
flashlight in a dark room makes the
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-03-10
War Unkind &c the Lawyer.

The war, while having a pretty de-
pressing influence upon litigation, is
having a still larger effect upon calls
to the bar. Only 30 students have
donned wig and gown this term, and
half of them bear oriental names, in
dicating that they belong to distant
parts of the empire.-London Mail.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-03-10
Made No Difference,

Passenger - Say. conductor, tha.
man on the back platform just feE
on.
Street Car Conductor-That's al
right. He's paid his fare
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-03-10

been used as q
windmill tow er
by a California
farmer. In search
of good running
water, the farmer
found a spring
u n d Q n @ q t b
a grove of euca-
lyptus trees. It
was found that in
order to erect
a windmill stand
ard over the
spring 1t would
be necessary to
s a crifice the
beautiful tre e 8.
Finally solving
the problem Of
b uil ing tn Q
windmill without
destroying tn q
trees, he mount
ed the fan on one
of the central
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-03-10
FNhg the knife-PistoI.

hole. the block is swung back into
place, the trigger on the side is opened.
thus cooking the pistol, which is now
ready to fire. 1t is held in the hand
and the trigger pressed down with the
thumb.-New York World Sunday
Magazine.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-17
"NEWHAVEN" ROAD
FILES 8-HOUR SUIT
RUSSIA DENIES Plan
FOR SEPARATE PEACE
ENJOYS i'm Allied Countries
Instructed to Reassure
Entente.

Petrograd. Nov. 1.-THE minister
of foreign affairs has sent a telegram
to representatives in allied countries
declaring Russia's firm intention not
to make a separate peace under any
circumstances according to a semi
official news agency. The text of the
telegram is a follows:
"Petrograd Nov. 16, 1916 REPORTS
spread abroad recently by the press Of
certain countries of pretended secret
pour parlers being carried on between
Russia and Germany with the object
of signing a separate peace. are futih
and make no impression on the Rus
sian government. The imperial gov
eminent desires to declare in the
most categorical manner that these
absurd rumors can only find force in
enemy countries.
Prussia will maintain intact the in
innate union which binds her to her
valiant allies, and far from thinking
of the conclusion of a separate peace,
will fight by their side the common
enemy without the slightest faltering
until the hour of final victory
Nothing that our enemies can do will
shake in any degree the decision of
Russia.
"You are charged to give the lar
gest publicity to the preceding and to
bring the contents of this telegram to
the knowledge Of the government to
which you are accredited.'
New Britain herald., 1916-11-17
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY
SOCIETY in SESSION
Western Connecticut Asso.
citation Has Its Meeting
Here.

The annual meeting of the Western
Connecticut Association of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary society
was held at the Trinity Methodist
church today. Delegates from So
cieties as far north as Winsted and
south as Greenwich numbering about
eighty were present when the meeting
was opened with devotional service,
led by Mrs. S. E. Lawson of Higga-
mum. Mrs. Edward S. Swift, president
of the association, presided at the
business session which followed. One
of the most pleasing report of the
session was presented by Miss Esther
Northrop Of MiddletoWn, treasurer,
which showed a substantial gain in
receipts during the past year. The
minutes Of the last years session were
read and approved.
Election Of officers was the next
routine business pursued and the fol-
lowing were elected:
President-Mrs. Edward S. Swift Of
New Haven.
Continued On Fifteenth Page.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-17
AMERICAN SCHOONER WRECKED
Three of Grew of the Fred A. Daven-
port Are Drowned.

Washington, Nov. ia wireless
message received here early today re-
ported the American schooner Fred
A Davenport to be total loss off the
coast of Santo Domingo. No details
as to the nature Of the trouble with
the vessel was given. The Davenport
left Charleston, S. c., October 81
bound for Porto Rico.
In a wireless report to the navy
department., Commander Pollock of
the transport Hancock. at San Do
mingo city, reported that three mem
bers of the Davenport's crew were
missing and probably lost. Captain
Blake of the schooner was injured
but, with four seamen, was rescued
and taken to Puerto Plata
The Davenport, which records here
show was owned by William Blake of
Philadelphia, stranded off Diamente
about fifteen miles southeast of Cape
Francis, Santo Domingo, according to
Commander Pollock's message.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-17
Take Mountain at Bayonet Point.

Berlin, Nov. II, by wireless to Say
ville.-Bavarian reserve troops in a
bayonet charge captured the summit
of Rungul mountain along the Mold
avian frontier of Rumania and held
it against heavy counter attacks, ac-
cording to today's war office an
nOuncement.
A Rumanian position west of the
Predeal road was penetrated by Ger
man and Austro-Hung arian forces.
In the Rothenthurm pass region the
capture of more than 800 men and
elsewhere the taking Of 600 prison.
ers and IL machine guns from the
Rumanians is reported.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-17
Hughes Holds Out in Minnesota.

st. Paul, Nov. 17.-Democratic
hopes for a Wilson victory in Min
nesota rested today on the chance for
an error in the Hennepin county re-
turns, a semi-official count Of which
yesterday failed to make a change,
and the possibility of a few radical
changes in the reports of the twenty
nine counties which have yet to make
returns to Secretary of State Schmahi.
The Hughes plurality stands at 1925
The state canvassing board will meet
next Tuesday and it is said that the
democratic leaders will not give up
pending the official count
New Britain herald., 1916-11-17
No Material Differences Shown by
Official Recount Of Ballots
A SEE SAW EJACULATION
Presidents Chances for Carrying
Minnesota Now Believed DIM
Permanent Democratic Headquar-
tiers to Be Established

San Francisco, Nov. 1.-Two Of the
populous California counties had COM
pleted their official recounts today as
had several of the smaller counties,
but no material changes from the re-
suits of the unofficial tallies were en-
countered.
In San Diego county the official can
vass gave Hughes a gain of "a woes,
making his plurality over President
Wilson in the county 1853.
In Sacramento county President
Wilson gained Sc votes, while in San
Bernardo county recheck Of yes
terday's announced official count re-
suited in the loss of 9 of IL votes it
was declared Wilson had gained.
In San Francisco and Los Angeles
counties the count was being con-
tinued.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-17
FILLING JURY BOX
Seven Jurors Accepted in Trial of
John Edward Teiper, Held for Muir
dering His Mother.

Buffalo, Nov. 17.-There we're sew
en- jurors in the box when court con-
vened today for the trial of John Ed
ward Teiper on the charge Of murder
ing his mother about year ago.
Should the selection of the remaining
jurors be completed today, which
counsel regarded as possible, an ad-
journment until Monday is expected.
Mrs. Teiper, who has occupied a
seat beside her husband during the
two days proceedings, met Teiper at
the Jail annex this morning and
walked with him and his guard to city
hall.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-17
A. F. Of u. Opposes Presidents Plan

Baltimore, Nov 1.-THE American
Federation of Labor by an unanimous
4 vote today declared against that pro-
vision of President Wilson's legisla-
tive program making illegal any rail
road strike or lockout prior to the
investigation of the merits of the
case"
\ The committee report which was
adopted, recommended that the con-
vention take an unequivocal position
against compulsory institutions and in
favor Of the maintenance of institu-
tons and opportunities for freedom
The convention had before it that
section of the executive councils re-
port dealing with the railroad broth
erhoods threatened strike. Referring
q to the bill introduced in congress for
r the purpose Of preventing strikes and
Interruptions Of transportation mod
elled after the Canadian compulsory
investigation act, the report says:
This effort to again subject wage
earners to involuntary servitude has
aroused the determined resistance of
wage earners generally. Their declar-
- atoms against involuntary servitude
' the proponents of the legislation
have replied that although a strike
would be made Illegal under the pro-
posed law and strikers criminals yet
individual workers were not deprived
y of the right to quit work.
cit is pure sophistry that only aug
ments the sense of injustice that wage
Warmers may feel for industrial
wrongs to allow them by law the
right of individuals to quit work and
to declare that they cannot agree with
fellow workers that conditions are so
hn al Of ,cfs
and fair dealing lies in agreeing to-
gether to quit work. that is to refuse
to perform their usual tasks-to
strike
~ Problems of industrial justice and
redress for industrial wrongs, the re-
port concluded, cannot be worked out
by laws.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-17
Say British Attacks Filed.

Berlin, Nov. II, by wireless to Say
ville.-British troops last evening at
tackled the German lines near Beau
court, north of the Ancre brook. the
war office announced today. This
attack failed, as did night attack to
the west Of Lesars. in the Somme
area, the official statement declares.
On the road from Flores to Thiel-
10y, German troops drove the British
westward and captured five machine
guns
New Britain herald., 1916-11-17
Leaves Pier at 1880 A. NJ.

The Deutschland drew out of her
pocket at the pier of the Eastern
Forwarding company at l:3o
this morning, accompanied by the
tugs A. A Scott. Jr.. and Cassie. OF
the T. A. Scott Wrecking company,
| sub-agents of the Eastern Forwarding
| company. She carried on her home
ward dash cargo valued at $1,000
! 900 and consisting of nickel, rubber
| and silver bars.
The trip down the harbor was with
| out incident and when last seen by u
newspaper launch the submersible
was ploughing through a smooth sea
at the rate OF IL knots an hour
headed for Montauk Point. The news
paper launch returned here after fol-
! lowing the submarine several minutes.
At that time the sea was smooth and
the moon in it's last quarter cast it's
rays over the water. The members
of the Deutschlands crew in their oil
skins were on deck. Greetings shouted
at them by passing craft were not
returned.
: Failure of the tugs to return at an
early hour led to much speculation
but it was believed that they would
accompany the submersible well be-,
yond the three mile limit.
List of Dead
The tug that was sunk by the
Deutschland was the It. A. Scott, Jr.
The list OF dead is:
Captain John Quincy.
Engineer William A. Cation.
Fireman Edward Stone.
Cook Clarence B. Dawson.
Deck hand Eugen Duzant.
Although the Deutschland appar-
emily had been ready for her dash
for some days, her departure was
rather unexpected. Her skipper, Paul
Koenig, spent the evening in his US
ual leisurely manner about the city.
He called at two hotels and shook
hands with friends. When asked
about his sailing. the captain merely
smiled and said he did not know.
After leaving theater, the captain
strolled down to the state pier, stop
ping to converse with persons on the
way. In the meantime, thorough
preparations had been made for leav-
ing. The machinery of the boat had
been tested days before and the craft
was provisioned. First of all, the
lights at the pier were extinguished
and the launch Efcok, Of the North
German Lloyd liner Willehad, sour
ried down the river to see that the
course was clear Then the steel net
that had protected the entrance to
the pocket was hauled up
Farewell greetings 70 the Willie
had's crew were given. At l O'Clock
the tugs Cassie and 7. A. Scott, Jr. of
the T. A. Scott Wrecking company
steamed up to the pier The pontoon,
bearing a high fence that stood be-
tween the Willehad and the dock,
was pulled to one side and at l:oo
o'clock the Deutschland slipped silent
ly down the Thames.
Capt. KOcnig Shaken
Capt. Koenig of the Deutschi@no
appeared pale and shaken as ne
stepped ashore from his vessel on l'S
return. He refused to talk about the
collision and Immediately sent Wofu
10 Vice President Paul G. Hilken o.
the Eastern Forwarding COMPANY
who arrived at the cOmpany'S o1nCe9
shortly afterwards and went int con-
sultation with him.
THE accident happened all III
minute" according to q meInpe. "
the Deutschland's crew, who t"lhe"
briefly about it this morning. Inv
tug, he said, got in front OF the SUI
marine and the Dcutschla land struck IL
in the sern, lifting it so far out OF the
New Britain herald., 1916-11-17
"A. f. OF L. OPPOSES
'ILLEGALITY" CLAUSE
Declares Against That Part of Presi-
dents Program Making Unlawful
Institution of Strike Previous to In
VI yestigation of Merits of Case-Na-
tional Council of @. of G. Discusses
Law From Business Angle.

Boston, Nov. 1.-THE New York
New Haven and Hartford railroad
company filed suit in the federal court
today to test the constitutionalitv of
the Adamson eight-hour law. The
vNlit is directed against United States
District Attorney George w. Ander-
son and the chairman of each of the
four brotherhoods in Massachusetts,.
Judge Morton announced that the
court would hear the company's pc
tition for a preliminary injunction on
Decern Der II.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-17
German Submers Feht In Collision With One Of Conveying Ships Smo
Twelve Miles From Port and Is Forced to Put Back Dock
REPORT OF PRESENCE OF HOSTILE
MOTOR BOAT IN VICINITY DENIEl

New London, Nov 17.-Fve members of the crej
of one of the tugs which accompanied the Gel
man submarine Deutschland from New London early q
dau an her return trip to Bremen we're drowned wha
the submeribe and the tug colided in the Race, abo
twelve miles from this port.
The only person on the tug saved was Captain Frd
Hinsch Of the German informed liner Neckar The tut
which belonged 10 the T. A. Scott Wreckng compan]
went to the bottom The Deu tschand returned to hd
dock here at Sis Officials declined TO discuss tn
accident or to tell the extent of the damage inflicted
the submarine
The tug and the submarine came together in reli
lively smooth When was apparent that the tug wa
fatally rammed the crew jumped overheard. CAPITAL
Hnsch swan to life preserver thrown out by the Deu
schland's crew.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-17
DEAD MANS ASHES WILL
BE GIVEN AS SOUVENIRS

Chicago, Nov. 1.-THE ashes
of Joseph Hillstrom, an organizer
of the Industrial Workers of the
World, who was shot for murder in
Utah a year ago, will be distributed
in six hundred parchment packets
to the delegates of the I. W. of w.
to the tenth annual convention,
which is to begin here Sunday.
General organizer William D.
Haywood, today ordered the urn
containing the ashes brought to
the headquarters of the organiza-
ton.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-17
London Reports Lines Extended
in Battle on SOmme Front
BERLIN ENTERS DENIAL
Rumanians Meet With Reverses, Los
ing Mountain Peak Near Predeal
Road in Bayonet Charge and Being
Forced to Give Up Two Villages.

London, Nov. II, 1905 p. m.-An-
other attack along the Ancre yester-
day netted further gains for the Brit
ish. The war office announced today
that the British front had been ex-
tended east from Beaucourt along the
north bank of the Ancre.