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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-16

just how I work around a rinE. I'm
in perfect condition and should salts
fy everybody"
The little champion was accom-
panied by his manager, the shrewd
Billy Gibson, known from coast to
coast as the whitest and most capable
man now connected with the business
Of handling boxers. Gibson saw
Leonard in his first bout The cham
pion was then a mere kid from New
fork's East Side, but he could hit,
and he was fast and he was game.
Gibson took him in hand and in four
years made him q worlds titleholder
Prof. Grupp, as he is known
In New York, Is q clever boxer. He
faces all the best boys in the business
with credit to himself and he may
be counted upon to make Benny
Leonard show all the ability. barring
the Knockout, that brought America
to the top OF the lightweight class.
Prominent Men There.
Most of the prominent men in
Washington will be on the Monument
grounds today when Benny Leonard
climbs through the ropes for his ex-
hibition. Especially interested are
the heads OF the military service. for
boxing is being taught the embryo
soldiers for their protection when bat
Ting the German enemy in Europe.
Leading men in both the National
and District Governments are ex-
pected to be on hand when the great
free ring exhibition IL given today.
Under the capable management OF
DR.. Joseph E. Raycroft, Princeton
University's athletic director. who has
handled hundreds OF athletic events
today's exhibition should proceed
rapidly and smoothly from beginning
to end.
Corbett to Referee,
Though Benny Leonard and Prof.
Grupp will be engaging in q friendly
boxing exhibition with large gloves,
there will be a regular referee. No
less hero OF the square circle than
James J. Corbett, conQueror of John
L. Sullivan for the heavyweight
championship. will act as referee of
the main attraction.
Corbett has long since ended his rinK
career. 1t brought him fame and for
tune. Today he Is known from the At
lantic to the Pacific as one of the
stages best monologue artists. But his
Interest in things fstic remains and for
that reason, in addition to his friend
ship for the little New York champIon-
was he willing to accept the Invitation
OF The Washington Times to come here
and oniciate as third man In the ring
on the Monument Grounds.
0sC0nno- g.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-16

PRIVATE lessons any time. Ne; Z "a. -
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-16

NATIONAL
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-01-22
RUSSIA IS REPORTED
 IN BAD CONDITION
Masses Tired of War and Aris
 tocracy FavOrs Peace.

Dr. Sigurd Svenson. a Swedish phy- sician. who was permitted to visit the prison camps in Eastern Russia and siberia. as representative of the Swedish Red Cross Society, recently returned To New York. and in an in terview. he gave the World the fol- lowing
 "Conditions throughout Russia are
 xtremely bad. So many men have been sent 10 the front that al industries, even the railroads. are crippled. Al though there is an enormous surplus of food stuffs in certain sections of hte vast empire. the population Of the large centers is starving. Great quantities Of wheat are rotting in the grain eieya- tors of Odessa and in other ports on the Black Sea, while in Kishineff. Kieff and Charkow only a few hundred miles away. the people can get no flour and bread The transportation service is iemoralized.
 This yeaEs Russian harvest was far selom the average. but the granaries are stlu filled with the surplus from former years. There would be no sui eriug fl the government were not thor oughly incapable. Much Of the misery $ caused by the fact that certain dis honest high officials are silent part ners Of the food spectators and pre- vent reforms from sheer ayarice.
 The Russian people are sick and uired O the war. This impression gained everywhere on my travels. In many places found much unrest, and ! know Of al least TWO cases of serious riots.
 The nliterate masses have only a vague idea Of the war situation, but they realize something is going wrong and want 10 know the truth. Although tbe terrible Russian losses are kept se- crst by the government, they have be- come known in the most remote rural districts through letters from the front which occasionally escape the censor. The government. through the press, as =ures the people daily that the war is practically won and that the Central Powers and their allies are beaten. but the peasants and working men cannot understand why they continually have 10 furnish more and more recruits if the enemy is defeated and not capable of further resistance. I talked with men and women in all walks of life and they all expressed the feryent hope that the var may. come to an end soon. This universal desire is the cause Of Jhe bitter parliamentary battles and the attacks on the government in the Duma, The movement to end the war is growing steadily and the aristoe- racy openly advocates a separate peace
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-01-22
STINGING KETTLE
 TO SUPPLANT COTTON,

Perfection Of a method for making cloth out Of the fiber Of the stinging nertle. iJ is said, may make Austria and Germany independent of cotton imports. Re ports to the department Of commerce telling Of the invention Of the method Of Dr. Richter of Vienna say that samples Of the cloth prove that the fabric produced from the net lie can be used for any purpose to which pure cotton fabrics heretofore have been put. Experiments already conducted in districts along the Dan ube indicate that the lands are well adapted to the cultivation Of the net tle. Ten million acres Of the land, it is said, not now utilized, could be used -or that purpose.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-01-22
EGG CAME FIRST SAYS
 CALIFORNIA PROFESSOR

Comes now Dr. 5. J. Holmes, asso ciaJe professor or zoology Of the Uni versity of California, and deposes that the egg happened before the hen, there by settling the archaic riddle: Did the hen come from the egg or the egg from the hen
 Professor Holmes says the solution is easy. He say sthe first bird was not a bird, but reptile
 Inc first bird was matched from a reptiles egg. Therefore, the egg is sure 10 have occurred before the bird and a hen is a ird. All this hap pened, according to Professor Holmes, when the first reptile wriggled up out Of the dim Laurentian seas to live on dry land. And then came the long gradual evolution of cold blood reptiles into creatures with warm blood
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-01-22

This new insurance is said to be just as business like and efficient iii as ar rangement as is life insurance. In stead of passing upon the applicants health the agent bases her acceptabili- ty as risk upon her degree Of beau ty. personal charm and wifely quail. ties. The prettiest girls are the best risks. the homely ones having to pay. the highest premiums.
 There appears to be only one diff culty about the arrangement. Who is to fix the age at which the insur- ance becomes payable.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-01-22
OLD MAID INSURANCE
 MAKES ITS APPEARANCE

form Of insurance that is likely to prove popular in America has appeared in Vienna, Austria. t is that of in suEing q girl against being an old maid. The neyg form of insurance grew out Of the probability that there would be great shortage Of men following the var, and consequent certainty that there would not be enough men to go around.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-01-22
THE VIOLIN
By J. 4. WHiTNAH.

The violin is an instrument capable of producing the most divine strains of music or the saddest of walls.
 In the tender hands of master it sings, but when abused by the novice it cries out as though in pain and seems momentarily on the point of shedding bitter tears. Thus easily are its sensibnities bruised and torn.
 The violin is a small. resonant box having metal strings stretched length wise upon it. You can see all parts of it's anatomy except the important part. it's soul. which is hidden away some where in a secret place and makes its appearance only at the personal re- quest Of a Kreisler or an Elman.
 The violin is undoubtedly the modern development of the stringed instru- ment spoken of in Sanskrit documents Of great antiquity, and hence its fam fly tree is rooted in ancient Asiatic times. The more recent ancestor of the violin and its brethren is the rebec. which was the principal bowed instru- ment Of the Middle ages. It had a pear shaped body and two or three strings. It was used 10 make dance music, and was often heard at street festivals and in orchestras
 Cremona. an ancient city near Milan, Italy. became the center of culture for the violin. Antonio and Geronimo Amati. two talented Italian workmen, introduced notable improvements, and are credited with having taken the first steps toward the development of the instrument which is so familiar in the twentieth century.
 It remained however, for Antonio Stradiyari. 8 pupil of Nicholas Amati, son of Geronimo, to carry the craft to it's highest pitch and make it an art Stradivari was born in Cremona in I644 and died there at the age of 93. He was apprenticed to Nicholas Amati in his youth and remained with him until the age of 40, when Amati died and left Stradivari all his precious woods tools and other materials. Strad- ivaris designs, which had been grow ing more and more beautiful and dis tinctive, now took on an added orig inality and finish, and from 1884 until the time of his death Stradivari pro duced the wonderful instruments which made him world-famous. Since his time all violin makers have been his | imitators, fnasmuch as he was the ere ator Of the model now universally in use.
 stradiyari made about 1000 violins.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-01-22

The Utopia Ball will be on the 14th What e'er you do, don't forget the
 (date. The music will be the very best, So come early and don't be late.
 adv
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-01-22

FOR SALE:-Two Pianos-I Durham l Eilers' Cash payment. Address, P. o. Box. 36 adv.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-01-22
Advertised Letter List
For the week ending January ta. 1917

 For the week ending Jan. 20, 1917, Laurita. Alex, olson, E. When calling for the above. say "Ad- yertised" Parties claiming letters from the above list must pay a fee of one cent for each letter claimed All letters unclaimed by Feb. 3, IT will be sent to the Dead Letter Office Washington, D. c. - M. E. SWINE FORD, Postmaster.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-02
RID STOMACH Of
CASES. SOURNESS.
AND INDIGESTION
"Pape'S DiapepSin" relieves
stomach distress in
five minutes

You don't want a slow remedy when
Your stomach * bSi-Or an uncertain
one-Or a harmful One-yOur stomach
is too valuable; you mustn't injure II
with drastic drugs
Pape'S Diapepsin is noted Tor Its
speed an giving relief: its ha-mlessness;
It's certain unfailing action IT, regulat-
ing sick. sour, gassy stomachs. Its
quick relief in Indigestion, dyspepsi.,
aud gastritis when caused by acidi,y has
mace il famous the world over.
Keep this wonderful stomach sweet
ener IN your home-keeP il handy-get
q large ftfty-cent case from any drug
store end then il 'anyone should eat
something which doesn't agr-e with
them: il what they eat LAYS like lead.
ferments and sOurs and forms gas;
causes headache. dizziness and nausea;
eructations OF acid and undigested food
remember as soon as Pspe's Diapepsin
comes in contact with the stomach II
helps to neutralize the excessive acidity.
then all the stomach distress caused by
il disappears. Its promptness. certainty
and ease in overcoming such stomach
disorders is a revelation 10 those who
try it-IAdvt.l
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-02
AMERICAN GUNS
ROAR ALL ALONG
WESTERN FRONT
Indiana Lieutenant Describes
EagerneSS of Soldiers,
Working All Night, to Fire
First Shot Against Germans

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY SOME
WHERE IN FRANCE, Oct. 30.-Under
terrible weather conditions the American
army is exchanging blow for blow with
the Boches, learning war by contact.
France today is a vast stretch of icy
rivulets and mud boys. Rain and snow
are beating down day after day.
Through it ali the Americans are man
ming their guns. perfecting their marks
manship by Smelling enemy emplace-
ments while the infantry in some places
actually stands knee deep in almost
freezing water,
The American infantry stand their
watches on the front lines and take their
regular turns at patrols into the bleak,
deadly waste that is No Mans Land. 1t
is a desolate section where the bliz-
Yards swirl of snowflakes or sheets of
rain make it often impossible to see
more than few yards.
Nearby American engineers, constant
ly alert, clustered around a feeble fire
in a half demolished farm house, await
hourly summonses from across an al
most impossible terrain, to repair
trenches. Returning wet through and
stupefied with exhaustin, they throw
themselves on the floor, wrap up in blan-
kets and snatch a wink-mostly without
an opportunity to change their clothing.
Accredited American correspondents
on Sunday had their first opportunity
to visit the American soldiers at the
front-their gun pits, dugouts and
trenches.
We staggered single file across a
valley to see the gun that fired the
first shot of the war.
A young lieutenant from Indiana told
with boyish enthusiasm how that first
IL {v,4o Il
his running narrative with cryptic COM
mands to his gunners. working under
ground.
THE French officers told us it was
impossible to procure horses to haul
that particular gun here until day
break" the lieutenant explained He
said if we wanted to drag it up. by
manpower, we might beat the others and
thus have the opportunity of firing the
first shot.
"Our men knew it would be a tough
Job, but they were anxious to shoot
that first shell. So they worked through
all that night in the rain and mud
And they got the gun in position just
before daybreak."
With hardly a perceptible pause, the
lieutenant lifted his voice abruptly here
to shout: Ready to fire!'
1t must have been a command to the
gunners in the subterraneon chamber
for almost instantly a gun crashed, fol
lowed by a swishing shell aimed at the
enemys entanglements.
The Lieutenant didn't stop for the
noise. He resumed: .
- daybreak, and 1 myself watch.
ed from an observation post when the
gun was fired. 1 saw the shell--tht
first fired by an American gun--burst
near a party of Germans. They flopped
down like prairie dogs into their holes
BY George! 1t was great"'
Down below at this particular juno
ture there was another trembling earth
roar and another American shell wen
swishing along. The same American ar
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-02
Pike County Citizens
Bought $4,000 Bonds

Especial Dispatch to The JournaL)
GAINESVILLE, Ga, Oct. S1.-Ac-
cording 10 the statement of NJ. c. II =.
Humphrey, who was chairman for the
county. Pike citizens bought more than
$4,000 worth of the second issue Of
Liberty bonds. exceeding by many thou
sands the allotment for the county. The
citizens Of GAINESVILLE took about
$4,000 of the total. There were sever
al large subscriptions among the people
Of GAINESVILLE and many small pur-
chaseTs.
The record made is highly gratifying
TO Mr.. Humphrey and other citizens.
The claim is made that this community
has furnished more soldiers for the
present army and navy than any sim
liar community in the country, and il
was but natural that a large amount of
Liberty bends should be bought here.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-02
Precautions RedOubled
At All Danger Points

WASHINGTON, oct. 21.-Precautlons
at every munitions and grain dock in the
country were redoubled today following
the incendiary fire in Baltimore with
heavy loss. The secret service officials
here are certain German agents started
the fire with bombs.
I'VE are surprised that more such at
tempts have not been successful" said
one official "Our Baltimore office has
been on guard against Just such a fire
for some time"
Chief Flynn, of the treasury secret
service, in Washington today, and Chief
Bielaski, of the justice department, were
in close touch with the chase for clues in
Baltimore Whether arrests were immi-
nent both refused to state.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-02

tilIery sergeant who had pulled the lam
yard for the first American shell was
yanking away, busy on his job today,
and firing the same gun.
The correspondent wanted to know
something about this gun sergeant.
Are you Irish?" the lieutenant yelled
down the hole.
NO" came q voice from the depths
IT come from South Bend, Ind"
/ met a Keokuk, Ia, boy peeling pota-
toes for supper at the entrance of a
dugout near the front line; a south side
Chicagoan, grinding hash near by.
Then we went forward to traverse.
There was a silent, shivering group of
boys, their rifles peeping downward from
below their ponchos. They were stopped
in the trenches, waiting their turn in
No Mans Land as their patrol shoes
oozed ice water and melting snow drip
ped from the brims of their "tin he'll
NETS" as the shrapnel helmets are known
in trench nomenclature.
The sergeant commanding the patrol
"a native of st. Louis-spoke:
This war isn't so damned bad. The
weather's my chief complaint"
Boche shells were bursting on a hill
half a mile away. Sammies' eyes peered
over the top of the parapet trying to
see the effects. but the snow blocked
their vision. So. p, tr.v
81 guess the enemy is Smelling our
battery" said the ST. Louisian.
In his trenches, Sammy acts as though
he had done nothing else his whole
lifelong. The morale of the American
forces is excellent. Feeding is difficult
but the food is of the best. Just like
the Canadians, the Sammies require re-
straint to prevent them from attacking.
1t looks so easy and the waiting is so
monotonous that they want to be UP and
at 'em.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-02
Son-in-Law Of Packer
May Be Interned in u. S.

CHICAGO, Oct 3O.-The case Of Count
Minotto. son-in-law of Louis F.. Swift
millionaire packer who is accused of
pro-German activities, is today I'm the
hands of DR.. Percy L. Prentiss, LEGAL
head of the federal immigration bureau
He is expected to decide both on Minot-
to's loyalty 10 this country and his cit
izenship. Minotto claims to be a citizen
of Italy, born in Berlin, his father be-
ing an Italian and his mother a German.
If Or. Prentiss decides against Minotto
and is upheld by the commissioner of
immigration on the question of his liza
bility to become a public charge, he may
be informed.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-02
GEORGIA PRODUCTS
SET FOR NOVEMBER
IS IN NEW YORK.
Georgians and Sons of Geor-
gianS to Eat Articles From
Home State at BiItmore
Hotel

Three hundred former Georgians and
sons of Georgians. who are the mem
bers of the Georgia Society of New
York, are looking forward with sharp
ened appetites to the Georgia products
dinner which will be given them at
Hotel Biltmore on November 10, and
officers of the society are looking to
the people of Georgia to contribute the
food products yet needed TO make the
dinner a truly Georgian event.
Georgia products dinners, which are
familiar to Atlantians and to former
Georgians in other cities, among which
is Detroit, where the dinner last year
is still talked about, will be a new
thing to Ne wYork. where good food
Georgia foods sought after even
more continually than once was the
gold of the tabled Ell Dorado. Geor-
gians, who raise good food and who
know the advantage of letting the world
know how good the food products of
the state are, are being counted on to
send the Georgia society in New York
the food products yet needed to make
the dinner a thoroughly Georgian meal.
While many articles have been con-
tributed, the society still needs Georgia
shrimp and fish, Georgia pigs and
opossum, Georgia butter beans and
field peas. Georgia asparagus, tomatoes
and lettuce. Georgia pickles and celery,
Georgia apple cider Georgia canned Ell
berta peaches, Georgia flour and cigars
and coffee made or roasted in Georgia.
Georgians who wish to gladden. the
hearts and satisfy the hunger of former
Georgians for home food and at the
same time bring lot of good advertis-
ing to the state can do so by sending
any of the above-named articles in what
ever quantity they wish to the Georgia
Society, Room 100, Hotel Biltmore,
Madison avenue and Forty-third street
New York.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-02
Government to Control
Meat Prices of Nation

CHICAGO. oct. 31.-'rhe first meat
prices of tho nation, under government
control. will be announced within the
next month, Charles Mccarthy, per-
sonal representative of Herbert Hoover,
declared today. Committees investigat-
ing packing house conditions and pre-
pairing the way for the licensing sys-
tenn which starts Thursday and to act
as an advisory council, have been ap-
pointed and are at work. They are eX-
pected to report within the next three
weeks.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-02

and stayed four weeks but when / came
home ! would faint just the same and
had the same pains
A friend who is a nurse asked me to
try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. began taking it that very day
for was suffering great deal. Ithas
already done me more good than the
hospital. To anyone who is suffering
as / was my advice is to stop in the first
drugstore and get bottle of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound before
you go home. Mrs. w. c. BROWN,
ss44 W. 18th St, Cleveland, Ohio.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-02
| am Sincere! Stop CaIomeI!
Guarantee Dodson's Liver Tone
Listen to me! Calomel sickens and you NAY lose
davis 1rorly TT hi1iouS constructed or

Lave. Lp youf sIu6kIsI4 IINCf. Ac~-
fine and cheerful: make your work a
pleasure; be vigorous and full af ambi-
ton. But take no nasty, dangerous
calomel, because it makes you sick and
you may lose a days work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis of the bones. CAL
omel crashes into sour bile like dyna-
mite, breaking ii up. That's when you
feel that awful nausea and cramping.
Listen to me! If you want to enjoy
the incest, gentlest liver and bowel
cleansing you ever experienced, just take
a spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver
Tone tonight. Your druggist or dealer
sells you a bottle of Dodson's Liver
Tone for few cents under my personal
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-02
All Clicked Up With Catarrh?
Why Continue Makeshift Treatment?

only the surface. To be rid of Ca
tarrh, yof must drive the disease germs
out of your blood.
Splendid results have been reported
from the use of S. S. S., which COM
pletely routs from your blood the Ca
tarrh germs. for which it is perfect
antidote.
S. S. S. is sold by all druggists. If
you wish medical advice as to the
treatment of your own individual case.
write today to Chief Medical Adviser.
Swift Specific Co., Dept. LAO. Atlanta,
'Ga,-(Advt.) h 80
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-02

i.IOnes -Uack guarantee tnde UdCh SpOO-i-
full will clean your sluggish liver bet
ter than a dose of nasty calomel and
that it won't make you sick.
Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver medi-
cine. You'll know it next morning be-
cause you will wake up feeling fine.
your liver will be working; headache AMI
dizziness gone; stomach will be sweet
and bowels regular.
Dodson's Liver Tone is entirely vege-
table therefore harmless and can not
salivate. Give it to your children. Mil
lions of people are using Dodson's Liver
Tone instead of dangerous calomel now
Your druggist will tell you that the sale
of calomel is almost stopped entirely
here.-(Advt)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-02
Sprays and douches will never
cure you.

Catarrh is annoying enough when 1t
chokes up your nostrils and air pas
sages, causing painful and difficult
breathing and other discomforts. But
the real danger comes when it reaches
down into your lungs.
This is why you should at once real
ize the Importance of the proper treat
ment and lose no time experimenting
with worthless remedies which touch