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New Britain herald., 1916-05-11
OBREG0N HAS
 LAST CHANCE TO q. AGREE WITH U. s.
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nstments and with no specific time of federal service stipulated.
 General Scott ,teIegra phed the de- partment that another conference with General Obregon was set for 10 o'clock this morning at El Paso. Secretary Baker said there was nothing to con- firm border reports that Gen. Scott had served an ultimatum upon Gen. eral Obregon for a final answer upon acceptance or rejection of the tenta- tive protocol. It was expected here that General Obregon would present counter proposals in writing, particu- larly regarding fixing a date for ul- timate withdrawal of American forces.
 No Incursion Reported.
 The war department had no report early today on another incursion into American territory reported last night from Marathon. There also were no official advices that American troops had actually crossed the border in the Big Bend region, although it was believed probable that some had done so.
 American cOnsulS throughout Mex ico have been instructed to again call attention of Americans to the state departments repeated warnings that this government regards their pres ence there as undesirable. The last census of Americans in Mexico, taken by the state department six weeks ago, showed less than 5000 throughout the country. Most of them are near Mexico City and extreme east and west coasts, few remaining in Chihua- hua and Sonora.
 Secretary Lansing said the new in- structions sent yesterday to the con- suls to renew attention of Americans that the department desires to have them leave Mexico was primary to secure reports regarding the result of their endeavors so far
New Britain herald., 1916-05-11
Troops Cross at Marathon.

Marathon, Tex, May 11.-Major Langhorne with his two troops of the Eighth, cavalry crossed the Rio Grande river into Mexico last night and are making their way rapidly SOuthWard today,
New Britain herald., 1916-05-11
Henry krOn

The funeral of Henry kron was held this afternoon from the Erwin Mortuary chapel in Fairview ceme- terY. Interment took place iii Fair view cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-11

of well-bred Young Men the country over,-styles are right on Broadway as on Main Street in the smallest village. You're assured of their ab- solute correctness, as well as of their quality because we recommend and stand back of them, because they bear the name
New Britain herald., 1916-05-11
TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION

FOR SALE-Young Jersey cow Call
 at 47 Sunrise avenue 5-11-3dx
New Britain herald., 1916-05-11

LOST-Thls morning at o'clock in
 New Britain National bank, $5. Re turn to Herald. Reward. 5-11-1d
New Britain herald., 1916-05-11

Best creamery butter SIC a lb.. 2 3-4 lbs. for $1. Russell Bros.-adVt.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29
Much Timber Wasted,

Fifteen per cent of the timber cut
In the United States Is wasted every
year and government experts are en-
gagged in a number of experiments to
determine to what extent a huge
money loss to the country may be pre-
vented by utilizing the waste.
One of the interesting experiments
under way is the utilization of saw
dust in the manufacture Of alcohol.
These tests have hardly more than
passed an experimental stage, but
technical men are optimistic as to the
ultimate success of the process. An
other interesting possibility is the
utilization of hydrolyzed sawdust as a
carbohydrate cattle food.
The use of wood for producer gas,
according to officials, deserves more
extended introduction in industrial
plants. DR.. e. e. Pratt, chief of the
bureau of domestic and foreign COM
merce, in a report to Secretary Red
field said that the manufacture Of
plastics from wood, as well as the
manufacture of wood flour, has not
been developed in the United States,
and that European nations are far in
advance of this country in the utiliza'
ton of such by-products.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29
Dutch Raraes on the Thames.

Belgian barges have appeared on the
Thames and are probably fraternizing
with those Dutch neighbors who are
always to be found just below London
bridge. For more than two centuries
there have always been big, broad.
sterned Dutch boats lying in the river,
with a baggy-trousered Dutchman
smoking on board quite calmly. 1t is
the "Reminiscences Of Dutch conquest,
Those boats have moored there, with
their cells for London, ever since VIII
liam III gave them the right OF traffic.
And IL there wasn't Dutch boat for
a single second just below London
bridge, the ancient rights would be
lost. But you will always find the
calm Dutchman smoking on his
pitch. Dundee Advertiser.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29
Phones RepIace waitera.

Telephones are being used in one
of the restaurants at Plainfield, N j.,
as substitutes for Mattresses, says the
Popular Mechanics. Instruments have
been installed at each of the several
tables and permit the guests to com
municate their orders direct to the
kitchen without suffering delay. The
activities of the mattresses are con.
fined solely to the serving of food. To
simplify the system, each menu on
the card Is numbered SO that patron
may render his order mum erically. A
switchboard operator makes a record
of all orders and attends to the is.
suance of the checks. The guests are
privileged to use the telephones for
outside calls and likewise may receive
incoming messages without leaving
their respective tables.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29
BROTHERS. WORK ALL RIGHT
Proof That There Is More Than Ono
Way Of Leading Man to Make
Proposal.

Before his mirror Jack Maguggle
carefully painted freckles on his hand.
some face, drew on a false wig and
beard and hied him to the opera,
where his ticket called for a seat in
box A.
In box B sat a lovely young woman
charmingly attired in sen-sen-col-
ored gown relieved by peanut bars.
With her was a saturnine youth with
an American beauty rose in his but
tonhole.
Jack Maguggle stared at this young
dream of beauty intently. In fact, new.
er once, even during the exquisitely
sung "Simpadoxus'' aria, did he re-
move his eyes from that vision of love.
Illness. And as he stared he made no
attempt to hide his alteration.
The escort of the gorgeous young
woman scowled and attempted to
catch Maguggles eyes, but Maguggle's
eyes, as aforesaid, were busy. After
the opera Maguggle, waiting in the
foyer, slipped note into the fair ones
hand. The escort saw and his face
grew black.
Maguggle arrived home before his
sister, whose first words we're: ooh,
Jack, thanks awfully! He proposed
three times without stopping, coming
home in the taxi. Wherever did you
get that wig ?'-Detroit Free Press.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29

The chancellor of the exchequer of
Great Britain reports the total amount
of scrip vouchers sold to date tc be
$25,000,000. This amount is not what
was hoped for from the scrip vouch-
ers. Now it is proposed to issue bonds
In the multiples of 91. They will bear
an interest of s per cent and can be
cashed on demand at their face value
at any time. In return for these facili-
ties bonds will carry no interest for
the first six months.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29
First Guide to Beauty.

By singing, and by singing only, a
little child of five may come in con-
tact with pure and perfect form of
beauty. Not only that, but the child
can reproduce this beauty entirely I'M
aided, and in the process of doing so
its whole being-body, mind, heart,
and souls engaged. The song. for
the moment, is the child. There is no
possible realization of the little per.
sonality comparable to this. Here, in
sounds, is that correlation of impulses
in which the stars move; here is the
world of order and beauty in minia.
ture; here is a microcosm OF life;
here is talisman against the cold un-
meaning facts which are driven into
children's brains to Jostle one anoth-
er in unfriendly companionship.
Through this they can feel beauty
and order and sequence which their
minds are incapable Of grasping. The
Joy which a child gets In reproducing
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29
Warming to Motorists.

A fine of 500 for lying" and SIS fol-
speeding was assessed against Louis
Greenspon of 5S29 Westminster place,
a merchant, by Police Judge Hogan,
according to the st. Louis Post-Dis.
patch.
1t was charged that Greenspon drove
his machine at % miles an hour on
Locust street, between Beaumont
street and Twenty-first street. When
he was arrested, Judge Hogan asked
him If he had not been arrested before
for speeding. Greenspon said he had
not. Hogan had the record looked up,
and it showed that Greenspon was
fined S. on August IA for speeding.
Young man." Judge Hogan said, 81
fine you $40 for lying and SIS for speed,
ing"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29
BIT OF REAL POLAND
VILLAGE IN ASIA MINOR HAS AN
INTERESTING HISTORY.
Peopled Many Years Ago by Vet
Grams of the Crimean War, the
Community Has Maintained Its
Purity and Independence,

Hundreds of miles from Poland, In
Turkish territory, not far from the
Black sea and the Bosporus, there is
a Polish village. 1t has been there
for 60 years. But the news of its ex-
istence will come as a surprise both
to the world at large and to the Polish
Poles of Poland.
The village was discovered" re-
Gently by a German journalist, the
correspondent of a Berlin newspaper,
who was watching the fighting at the
Dardanelles. He sandwiched in be-
tween his dispatches describing death
and destruction on the Gallipoli PENN
sula an interesting description of this
peaceful and forgotten bit of old Po-
land under the title of "A Polish Is
land"
The village was founded back in the
fifties of the last century during the
Crimean war. Among the Russian SOL
diers fighting in the Crimea against
the British and French and Turks
were some from Russian Poland. OF
these a number were captured by the
Turks and taken to Scutari, opposite
Constantinople, in Asia Minor. There
some Polish noblemen, bitter enemies
of Russia, found these men, and hit
upon the idea of emancipating this
handful of their fellow-countrymen
from the control Of Russia. Foremost
among these noblemen was Prince
Adam Czartorisky, a very wealthy
man, who, from his own pocket and
out of funds collected by him from
chased lands in Asia Minor from
Turkish owners and there established
the Polish prisoners in q village Of
their own.
On that spot the prisoners and
their descendants have continued to
live to this day. When the German
journalist visited the village he found
a few of the original colonists still liv-
ing. The villagers, he writes, are
genuine Poles, still speaking their ma
tive tongue. The noblemen who
founded the village fetched the wives
of many of the prisoners from Poland
when the village was first started, and
their offspring have intermarried
among themselves, thus preserving
the purity of their race. Not one of
them, says the German writer, has
married Turk or even learned the
Turkish language that is spoken on
every side of this little Polish Is
land"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29

little rough but approximately level
with the rest of the lake. The hole
has been mysteriously filled up during
the night, and in the course of week
all traces of the digging will be oblit-
Grated.
This does not mean necessarily that
fresh asphalt has come into the lake
from underground sources. On the
contrary, the excavations are filled by
very slow settling or leveling of the
surface asphalt There is no such thing
as new" asphalt, by the way, for the
transition from liquid petroleum to
solid asphalt by natures process in
wolves period Of time that must be
calculated in centuries. The digging
done in past years has caused the gen.
eral level of the lake to sink several
feet, SO that It is not absolutely mex
haustible, as some people imagine. It
Is believed that fresh asphalt very
slowly pushes itself upward into the
lake from the subterranean depths,
but how large quantity is thus added
annually has not been calculated.
Lakes Depth Not Known.
Near the middle of the lake the ma
terial is less hard than elsewhere, and
in few places soft asphalt may be
seen oozing up from below. This fresh
asphalt is of about the consistency of
putty, and can be kneaded and pulled
in the hands without soiling them
greatly. In the main, however, the
lake Is solid asphalt
No one knows the depth of this mys-
FERROUS lake, the only information on
the subject being the fact that long
ago a boring was made to a depth of
1876 feet without reaching the bottom.
The cores" of this and other borings
show that In consistency the asphalt
remains the same to a very consider
able depth. Curious as it may seem,
there are many evidences that the en-
tire mass comprising the lake is in
constant but very slow motion. The
surface is a series of great folds, and
In the creases between these the rain
water gathers. One writer has aptly
compared the surface of the asphalt
to the skin of great elephant, the
creases being the folds in his hide.
Along the edges Of the pools of water,
grass, bushes and small trees take
root, forming green islands" of great
er or less extent.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29
IN FORM Of LADDER
Ship Really Climbs on Its Pas.
sage Through Locks.
Economical Device Where Waterway
Has to Be Cut Through High
Country-Superlority Over
Tide-Water System.
1t is fact that a ship really climbs

1t is fact that ship really climbs
4 ladder.
Each step in the ladder is a small
lock in which the ship can float. To
begin the ascent pair of gates at
the bottom of the ladder is opened
and the ship sails in. Then the low
est gates are shut and more water
is allowed to go into this lock, or
dock, where the ship Is
When the water in this lock is level
with the water in the upper lock, an
other set of gates is opened and the
ship sails into the second lock. The
gates are then shut, and when the
water has been allowed to flow into
the second lock, in which the ship
now is, other gates are opened. And
30 on the ship goes up the ladder.
II 1t were not for the system of
locks, which may be really called ship
ladders, the canal would need to be
cut very, very deep where it goes
through high country, so that the sur.
face of the water would be on the
same level throughout the entire
length of the canal But with locks
the cutting of canal Is much easier
and cheaper.
1t was for this reason that the Pan.
anna canal was designed and construct.
ed as lock canal, although many en-.
gineers favored the tide-water or non.
lock as the better system. 1t is
claimed that the slides which have
already caused thousands of dollars in
damage to the canal would have been
far worse had the channel been cut to
a depth which would have directly
connected the two oceans.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29

~ DESSA, Russia's first naval
base on the Black sea and the
starting point for over-the-wa-
ter attacks on Bulgaria, Eu-
ropean Turkey and Asia Minor, is the
most imposing milestone on the Mus
covite's shortening road to Constan-
tinople and the warm waters Of the
Mediterranean, says bulletin Of the
National Geographic society. The
great and fourishing port is one Of the
youngest cities of the East, for 1t was
founded by Catherine II after her war
of conquest against the Turk had end
ed in the treaty of Jassy in 1891, and
its foundation was largely due to the
desire to have strong city just as
near to Constantinople as possible, as
a well-equipped point of departure for
Slav armies of future generations.
1t is said that the Russian is the
dreamiest and the longest-memoried of
all the races of Europe, and it has
been on its way toward the world-city
on the Bosporus, where it's national
faith was Graded, ever since Arab in
vaders broke the communication be-
tween Santa Sophia and the Russian
church In the ninth century.
The only un-American thing about
Odessa, Mark Twain said, are the cut
of its droshkies and the stupendous
girth of their drivers. The city is
modern, new, and more European or
American than any other city in the
cars empire, with the exception of
Petrograd.
Becomes Great City In a Century.
Odessa has only recently passed its
one hundredth year, yet, at the out
break Of the war, it was ranked by but
three other cities in the empire for
size and commercial importance-Pe-
trograd, Moscow and Warsaw. A few
huts of mud and reeds and Turkish
fort were all that marked the site,
when Catherine the Great commanded
a city here. In 1902, eight years after
its foundation, it numbered 5000
Greeks, Italians, Russians and Alba
mans. 1t enjoyed, however, unusual
imperial patronage for strategical rea-
sons; even the Emperor Paul, who
delighted to make vain all that owed
its title to his mother, continued to
favor the young town, A statue of
Catherine, represented trampling the
Turkish flag under foot, stands on one
of the finest squaresi Today the city,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29
Bullets Which Trail Fire.

After many months experimenting,
J. A. Sambrook Of Ellesmere Port,
England, has invented bullet which
travels at tremendous velocity and
emits trail of sparks, which, he
asserts, will pass through a Zeppelin
like a comet through space and in
stantly blow it up.
The invention consists of an ordi-
nary-sized bullet charged with a spe-
cial preparation which ignites with it's
passage through the air.
The bullet can be fired from an ordi-
nary rife, and is easily adaptable to
aircraft and machine guns.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29

/ wealthy, and important among world
lion people.
The city lies on semicircular bay,
about midway between the mouths of
the great Russian rivers, Dniester and
Dnieper. 1t is LOTT miles south-south-
west from Moscow by rail and 610
miles south from Kief. Varna, the
nearest Bulgarian port, and one re-
Gently bombarded by the Russians,
lies 290 miles across the Black sea to
the southwest.
Has Six Fine Harbors.
Odessa Is builded in the midst Of a
dreary steppe. 1t is regularly laid out
in broad streets, faced with substan-
tial modern buildings, and wears its
commercial prosperity patent to the
most casual visitor. It's port is
equipped with six good harbors-the
quarantine harbor, coal harbor, petro-
leum harbor, new harbor, practical"
harbor, and the harbor Of the Russian
Company for Navigation and Com
MERGE, the principal shipping company
Of the port. The freezing of the har-
bors and the bay interrupts navigation
for an average of 16 days each year.
Novorossia, or New Russia, which
includes the governments Of Bessa-
rabia and Kherson, has its intellectual
and commercial capital at Odessa.
The social capital is also there, and
the life of the metropolis has been de-
scribed as much more gay than the
life Of Paris or Vienna. The nights in
the Odessa of pre-war days were giddy
and irresponsible, the avenues filled
with people and ablaze with cafes I'M
til early morning hours. The merry
making of Odessa did not really begin
in the cafes chantants until midnight,
and its gayeties lasted until between
three and five in the morning.
There was a dark side to the pic
ture, the usual one to contrast with
the bright in every great city. A mis-
cradle army of poor, whose ranks were
largely filled by the tides of transient
labor that washed the greatest trading
city of southern Russia, lived from
hand to mouth on stray crumbs of the
places prosperity. The number of the
very poor was estimated at $4,000, and
many of them lived in the extensive
catacombs beneath the city, which
were formed by the quarrying of sand
stone for building.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29
"Hoboism Is a Disease"

"Hoboism is not a habit, but dis
ease''
There are 5000 to 1000 homeless
men in Cleveland today--hoboes,
tramps and buns"
"On the Trail of the Hobo" was
the subject of Rev. John A. Gray, in
structor in sociology in the extension
division Of the University of Mime
sofa, and formerly pastor in New
York, who spoke under auspices Of
the Cleveland Lyceum bureau at East
Cleveland Congregational church, Eu-
cid and Page avenues, East Cleve-
land.
Rev. Mr.. Gray based his assertions
on two weeks investigation of
Cleveland's homeless problem, during
which he lived among hobos, tramps
and buns in the city's cheap lodging
houses.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29
'Twould Save Time.

What have you there?"
Some garden seed"
Thinking of starting a garden?"
L was just debating the matter. I
don't know whether to feed the seed
to my neighbor's chickens direct, or
put the pesky fowls to the trouble Of
scratching them up."
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29
New Plants In United States.

Since the United States department
of agriculture established the section
of seed and plant introduction in 1907
this has introduced into the United
States almost 10000 varieties of
plants. In the year ending last June
more than 1000 were introduced and
1881 experimental plants and 11,465
packets of seeds were given to expert
mentors, Of each Of which a record 10
kept.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29
Frank AvoWaI.

Il wish to marry your daughter"
said the straightforward young man.
What do you wish me to do?"
Speak a good word for me-"
my friend, I'd do anything in my
power for you. But If you realized
how little influence have with moth
er and the girls, you'd realize that you
are playing mighty poor politics."
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29
sign of the Times,

It Is said that Chinese statesman
has just married his stenographer.
China may at last be considered to
have caught up with occidental civil.
cation.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29
A Disappointment.

Il understand you have quit max
Ing speeches on preparedness
Yes" replied the more or less pub
lic-spirited citizen. Il became dis.
couraged.'
why so?"
Il discovered that the chautauqua
managers were not prepared to pay
me for my trouble"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29
To Be Handled With Care.

"A little nonsense now and then"
II KNOW" replied Senator Sorghum.
"But that fact doesn't justify some OF
us in taking 1t seriously and acting a.
II we were proud of It."
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-04-29

beautiful melodies is like no other ex-
perience in life.-Thomas Whitney
Surette, in the Atlantic.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-08
MoNGoosE.

The Legislature of 1916 having ap
propriated the sum of s2500 to pay
bounties for the determination of mon,
goose, notice is hereby given that a
bounty of 10 cents will be paid for
each mongoose head produced and
delivered according to law.
Such heads shall be delivered to the
tax assessor of the division where
caught. together with a statement I'm.
der oath specifying the amount OF
bounty claimed ano setting forth that
the mongoose from which such heads
were taken we're killed within such
taxation division within 60 days next
preceding the date of such delivery.
~ :.-E... L. C. ]. MCCARTHY,
Treasurer, Territory of Hawaii.
~. ..- 6364-3t r.:
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-08
eY AUTHORITY.
SEALED TENDERS.

Sealed Tenders will be received by
the Superintendent of Public Works
up until IL o'clock noon of Wednes-
day, March s, 1916, for the furnishing
CT Metal Furniture for the Judiciary
Building, in Honolulu, Oahu.
- The Superintendent of Public
Works reserves the right to reject
any and all tenders.
Plans, specifications and blank
forms of proposal are on file in the
office of the Superintendent of Public
Works, Capitol building, Honolulu.
...:... .>, ..@ A. c.. WHEELER,
Acting Superintendent of Public
r. Works.
Honolulu, January 4, 1916. e..
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