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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1917-01-29

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lsGdiuert einen syrieSen ersiuimgen,
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lima 6cs IDlfcs nGtig lit.
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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1917-01-29
Mipt in s5mare;.
Mmfritanfr angegriffen
nn0 mtisbalt0elt.
BefebI zuffi HusitlarlN.
Dilla aneeblih bon Wor:
9uia 9eihlaeen.
Ser Sag ber nterif. prdii=
bentetipabl.

- Na6ridJten, bic offenbar iiber-
trieben iinb, fon1men iiber Strakeas
fraiualle in sSmarea, bic segen Mtne-
rifaner geridtet iuarem. Nm SDnn-
tag iiorgen ipullten nngefGbr 400
merifaniide Jramen Der slrbeiter-
&laiIr iiher bic Bride nadJ Gl Haip
gebem, nm nad ibren Mrbeitsplater
81 geiangen, als iie anf Der Bride
bon amerifanifdjen Sanitatsbeam-
ten nngebalten iunraen, bic linen
tencmteten, bafl fie aqe Elm gao in
eiurr Nfiidnus pon GiIig nnb gaio.
lin nebmen nlikten, elJe iie nadl
@ 9salo brriiber biirften. Sic serie.
ten bariiber in cine fiirdtbare 8mt,
griifen 6ie Nagen Der amerifani-
Idjen GtraFenbabn nm, Die iiber bic
Bride fabren MOLTEN, oemolierten
lie mnS misban0eltem 6eren WaOtDr-
lemtc mno Gpn6nfteure. Mud) Elm
cmerifamiidJer Yoitiuagen iunr6e bOn
ser lpiitenben Menge bempliert nnb
Der &ntid)er besfelben misban0elt.
Die geiuegitng breitete iidj iiber
sc ganse StaSt aus, Die Wamner
griffen ebenfalls Elm nnb bal0 mar
Gin alsemeiner Giut inn 8amse, Der
cinen entldieben anerifa=fein0liden
Garafter tritg. MmerifaniidJe Slug
gen iunrben bermntergeriilen, ameri-
faniide 8euobner non 81 Gaio, 3. 3.
cine Ssram Satd)ea, bic 6attin eines
amerifnniiden Miffionars, mno Gin
amerifaniider GeldMftsmann 9ea-
mems MeGbasneD, iuItrben misban=
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nmdj Die '3eiite, sic nit ben yiennen
sn TIM Bdtteit nii6 gum 8eiMdJ ber-
Ielhen beriibrr gefommeu iuafen,
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MS crIansrn, nah 81 Yaio snriid-
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gen onrd' Sic astrafen unS trnBen
cine iynbntj nnf ber rim SptenfDpf
ST ieben ipnr; tin 3ridleu, BAT fie afs
f tStfa 'abnrben, Sic s9tn lire San6e
fielen. oglnd zine geseiiternnB fa-,,
Ml[a sriste fid 'pI5klidj. Ser &nf
a8iba gilia1 eunrbe iiberal geb6rt,
leadr iGarransa lgulbates fuaen ibbi
aertfen bnbeit.g D1ebrerea lcllen bes-
tuesena eridppiIeit ieim. Miidj Elm an-
aeiebeaer Merifaner 'ssamets Soie
Maria Saadjea Ser ben &nf aus
ittef, mnrbe erihpiien 1lnb 5iuar pon
einem Garransa : Dffisier. amf Der
amerifaniId)en Seite Der Bride itan-
ben nmerifaniIden solbaten, bereit,
Iofort iiber bic Bride sa geBen,
iuenn man puii Siiares aus etiua nadJ
benz amerifaniiden liter beriiber
Id1efen iuiirbe. IS geidJalJ aber
nidt. slm gsadmittag ideint iid
Die Mcngc ,uieSer beritbist 81 ba-
ben. llnsiueifelbait lit, iuic sciaat,
en- Der Sdilbernng Mandes iiber-
trieben, aber jebenfalls mar es Elm
iebr erniter mnb bebenflider &or-
fad. Die slngit Der Sraien bpr
bent allerOings midDt iebr angeneh-
men Sao lunrSe Snrd oas 8eriidlt
erb0bt, Oak mn tic ebenio perbrsnnen
iuulle, luie ppr cinem Sabr Die nenn-
sebn Manner in IofdJ cincm Babe
perbrannt ieien, ais einer Der 8aben-
Den iidJ cine Cigarette ansiinoete
nnS oaonrd cine fnrdJtbare Grplu-
iion herbeifiibrte. 9as YnS lpurSc
ais Elm 9esinfeftipns- mno Sider-,
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1917-01-29

= Die ameritaniidJen Golubops
mno Soloaten ba6en, in Der 0esenb
bun SinbD, Nrisona, mo am Ssreitas
nno Samitag Elm aanipf sluiid)en III
men mnS merifamiid)en Sploaten
itattTano, Die lebtercn ii6cr Die
Wren5e getrieben nno in Die 6ii-
gel pcrjagt. Son oen Mmcrifanern
fumrbe feiner aet6tet pbcr periunn-
bet, bic Werifancr id)eincm ab,r
Teriunmocte gebabt sn baben. Ter
&f iunroe BON ocn Merifanern
begonnen, als bic Go,pbpps nidJt lei
ben iuOllten, paR Die Merifaner nj
amerifaniidJem guoen gieb smiam-
mentrieben. Den Guiubups famcn
Onnn Soloatcn 81 6iilfe.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1917-01-29
Deutlhe,,SteIlungell bei Verdun gebdlten
Die A6ut50g66Of6at oeS oen(ten Ha1uS d6r Den KriRg
Gmglii1er &iilfstrea5cr peric1ft.
9uidtr Grfog an Der 0renjt Der SnfominQ 6nmdniens
Sebpere 1setpaifnnne aller eneltietsn
6antelsbampicr.

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lit ben 0run0 gebDgrt lei.
3luildem 2es Giparges nno Dem
Galonne= =@raben, n6rolid ppn Ser
bnn, ippaen Die Transulen oemtidje
@raben gemontmem baben. 0as @lei=
die melben bic Gnslanber in Der
Gpmme-9 -9egeno. yead einem Grfolg
Der 9entlden; uie benz bor einigen
Saaen BEL @erbmn, n1ebren lid iol-
DIE gfadrid)ten geiu0bnlid in iiberra-
Id)ember @eiie.
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oentidem Norofiiite, BON 0anemarf
bis nod Soaanb, fir sefabrlid) err
flGrt. @abrideimlid) bat es bort gru-
re Maiien ppn Wiinen legen laiien.
{ Ser &1nig bon 9i1ntGnicn fat
Diersebn 9ibiiions- nmb 8rigaoe-Ge=
nerGle abeeIebt; tie iinb Die Sim
oenb1fe fir bas ltngliif Nmmaniens,
Terbinanb snm a0nig 81 babeu.
Sm einrm @pttes6ieni, Der am
Gjebnrtstag bcs bentIden aaiIers
ppn bemtl6en intermierten Seelertem
in Der Jlottengarb 5il HbilaOelpbia
abgebalten ipitrbe, mnrben 0ebete
fir cinen bal6isen ssrieoen nno ei-
nen Sieg 9emtid)lanbs gelproden.
Cine seraoe5h bl6biinnige 9epe-
ide bes rSnternational Neipat Ser
pice" aus @aibinston behanptet,
Ser YrGiibent lei Der Nniid)t, oaf er
nit ieiner Jriebensrebe pur bent
Senate bic 8elt einen nngebeMren
Sdritt benz syrieoen naber sebradt
babe. Die 9llliiertem batten ieine
Gtellnmgnabme mnb Die nit bieier
Neoe eimseleitete neme Jrieoensbt-
luegmng gntsebeiken nno es feble
ickt MIR nod bic 3mitimmmng
9cmtIdlanbs mno Ieincr @erbiinbe=
ten. Der ErGiibent erluarte jekt
ein oireftes @orgeben SentidlanDs,
nnt @prbereititngsn fir ben syric-
ben in Gang 81 brinsem. S96dit
tnohr,ds;nIid, merhe sir 2riammen-
fmmft num ss;ihrerm Ser Nemtid,en
mnS ;6rer 9,erh;;nSeteu om Gehmrts-
fao Res bentidlem aaiiers sinIas N
| eine,n rold,en goroefen oe6en. Mon
| oInn6e Siss nm 10 melir. ols man
! o,,n;s m;i,e Sof III aeut1d,en gsolfe
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ftGrfer msrS, nnS Sas ma, Aie Sent-
ridIe g,eoiernno bereit ,e;. iiber Sen
| Jrirhen a. beraten ll2l- 9as IL Elm
! nni;nnioes nnS Smsnmts R,nprttr.
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jsioe /, OarifeiIaMa jYiditi6 M Neine
! Ser dIfiiertsu aRS6,fy haf 81 inpori bem
Vralt6enfen Ii drntad,ten { Worfd,iSoe
! gatgebeiFeR miiS ifatt Sic Triebens.
amgelegtnbeit 81 fDrbern, bdt 6ieie
Neibtshna lie ditf oetnitiben Slut
aeIai1tit 'luic ifriihtf. oDtt ne adr alts
lriifsebradjt. gsad Der onnerbSrt
b5sartsaen nnb brlei6iaenoen Nnt-
| mort Ser Nlliiertrn anf ben oent-
tdjen ;yrieOehsborIdlda, r1uE fir
9tntfdldHe Die Tritbensangeltsen-
beit fir bies Nal ab9etan itit nnb
feline Uemiibar8 BON ttentrater
New Britain herald., 1917-01-10
WASHED ENERGY.

Governor Beeckman of Rhode Island is in sympathy with the ideas of Governor Holcomb which have to do with the elimination of certain state commissions. The two states have a kindred complaint. There are too many commissions, too much lost energy, too much expense on the tax payers. Two years ago on the recom- mendation of Governor Holcomb the duties of the Building and Loan Com missioner were incorporated with those of the Bank Commissioner, where they belong, under single head The doing away with super f1uous commissions means also putting a. stop to the shifting of responsibility.
 In his recent messa ge to the Leg1s- 1ature Governor Holcomb made further recommendations which would aid materially in doing away with some of the deadwood in state govern ment He then repeated his plea for the abolishment of the offices of Com missioner Of Domestic Animals, Dairy and Food Commissioner, State Orni- thologist and State Board of Agricul- ture. In place Of this motley array of commissions and boards he would cover the entire field with the one official head, a Commissioner of Agri- culture.
 There are other states in the New England group that would profit by following the plan recommended by Connecticut's governor. The taxpay- CTS are burdened enough as it is, and in some cases there is no reason for some of the commissions now existing. In this state, for instance there is a waste of energy existing in the Board of Examiners Of Barbers. This board with it's almost inactive sister, the Connecticut Board of Embalmers. could be very well. as the Governor suggests, be transferred to the keeping
New Britain herald., 1917-01-10

not comprehend. The onlyesway to realize the awfulness of it all is to see it through the human eye. Even then the full significance of the pain and anguish doessnot dawn upon the intellect. Writers may write about 1t from now until doomsday, preach CTS may preach, lecturers may try to illustrate, the misery .and anguish; but. to no avail. The American Red Cross knows, if any agency knows; and, knowing, makes every attempt to alleviate the conditions. This is the one great method of applying the balm of brotherly love. It is the channel through which American funds will reach their proper desis1ta- ton. It has the sanction of society and the approval of the President of the United States. It should now re- ceive every, possible help from the people of the greatest neutral nation on the face of the globe.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-10
Khdrpnt e Famous Cify
 Beto1e Rome Was Burned

Washington,s sD. C., Jan. 5.-"Khar- put. flourishing city of .30,000 in- habtarts, beautifully Situated on a hill terrace few miles south Of the Murad Su, or Eastern Euphrates, and near the head waters of the Tigris, seems destinedl to play an important part in the Russian campaign in Asia Minor during the next few weeks" &C., cording to today's war geography bull lettns, issued from the Washingt on headquarters of the National Geo. graphic society. f.
 t "The strategic importance of the town is due to it's. situation on the great highway artery running from Samsun on the Black. Sea- to Diarbekr.
 Sivas, another strategic city on the same road, is some 150 miles north- west of Kharput, and Diarbekr Is 60 miles to the southeast. To the north
 east lies Efzerum, a distance of 140 miles and seven days journey by & fatguing bridle path. Mezere, the capital of the vilayet or province of which Knarput is the chief city, is only three miles to the south, Erzingan
 is 9 miles due north.
 'Kharput Is widely known to
 Americans as the center of missionary activities in Armenia A college a. theological seminary and a boys and
 girls school are located here. This colony of Christians suffered terribly at the hands of Kurds some twenty
 years ago when, after burning many of the populous Arm enian- villages which dotted the fertile plain stretch Ing for to the south, the wild tribes
 men succeeded in entering the town
 itself, putting to the sword Gregorian and Protestant Armenian clergymen and converts, and footing the monas- teries and missions.
 ''The history of Kharput goes back tq the cloudy ohscurity of the years which marked the decay of the
New Britain herald., 1917-01-10
The Influence of the "Isllbok''.

c. Finger in Cartoons Magazine).
 In Russia the humorous and satiri- cal papers are read only by the edu- cated classes. Though such publica- tions as Boudilnik, Loukomorye and Novi Satirikon have been publishing countless war cartoons reflecting every phase and turn of the great struggle, these periodicals do not reach the primitive, illiterate people of the widely scattered villages
 It is the cartoon, of course. that reaches and influences the masses, and in order to reach the masses sev- eral of the Russian Journals began publishing the cartoons in separate sheets. phey were known as flu ,boks" or posters, and while many of them were crude and even savage in their execution, they carried their message directly to.the hearts of the people. IF
 Tons of these luboks have been turned out. They have gone every where, into the remotest communi- ties where books and newspapers are never known. One doesn't need to know the alphabet in order to under stand a lubok. It's meaning is clear and on the surface. And when you
New Britain herald., 1917-01-10
And the Cat Came Back.
(Zim in Cartoons Magazine)

(Zim in Cartoons Magazine).
 Did you ever try to lose a cat? I mean a cat that your wife didn't want hanging round the house and had or dered you to carry off eight or ten miles and drop into the lap of nature. Maybe you think cats have no idea of the points of the compass Well, you're wrong, for they have the hu- man race cheated in their powers of orientation. Last night I placed an unwelcome feline in a bag, bade it God-speed, and sent boy on bicycle with full instructions and a bill of lading as to his destination and thanked goodness that not one cor puscle of it's blood had been shed in the commission of the act. This morning Grim alkin sat in his accus- toned corner on the porch, ready for brea kfast.
 No, it was not Grimalkin's ghost. It was Grimalkin in the flesh.
 Bent you superstitious about cats. mister? I be!' said the boy. II let it out of the bag head first but I think l ought tove took it out tall first, so I'm going to try it again to- night and take it out 'tutherend to, and ride my bicycle home hind end forem ost sos to make the cat b'lieve he's running a back track and dis cumfuddle him SOS he won't know where he's at!''
New Britain herald., 1917-01-10
A Town That Died.
(BoSton Herald.)

When the office of the secretary of state at Augusta had received the re- turns from all the 525- Maine towns and cities, except Hurricane Isle, in Knox county. 1t waited as long as it's official dignity seemed to warrant and then gently prodded the delinquent town clerk. The answer was prompt: "As I am now the only voter here 1t did not seem worth while to hold an election"
 Yet not long ago. as older people reckon the passing of time. Hurri cane Isle was a town of some 800 persons and it had more than 200 voters to take part in it's elections. As recently as the last census the popu- lation was 256 and its voters S9. The story of declining population is an unhappily familiar one along the Maine coast. but thus far Hurricane Isle is the only town to decline to the vanishing point. The reason may be summed up in one word--concrete. For Hurricane Isle in it's days of pros perity was little more than a grent granite quarry, standing we'll out in the waters of Penobscot Bay, thoug1 not so far out into the open sea as Isle au Haut or Matinicus or Crie- haven. From its great cliffs of gran ite well paid workmen took out the blocks that built the custom house in New York. the post office in St. Louis and great public and commercial buildings in many other cities Thel, dawned the age of concrete Now Hurricane Isle has more than 15O empty dwelling houses and only om or two that are inha bited.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-10
TIT MUST STOP.

Thomas w. Lawson has created a stir in Congress. His antics have proven amusing if not edifying; but withal he has made a show of him. self. And the worst part of it Is he has brought the National House of Congress into a very bad light. The people throughout the country will lose their exalted opinion of the House of Representative if 1t allows such tactics as these to continue. For Congressman Caldwell of New York yesterday introduced a bill which would make it unlawful for anyone to disobey any House order, writ, or process, or to misbehave during a hearing before any of the Con- gressional committees.
 The bill is leveled at Thomas w. Lawson and men of his type who seek self-advertisement by appearing be- fore committees of the National House of Representatives. There have been instances of the same thing in the past although the Lawson methods were not carried to such extremes as the grand master of self exploitation saw fit to so. There is but one other parsonage in the entire country who could stage 8 kindred performance and get away with, and that is Theodore. the First. The two of them put together would make the finest vaudeville team the world ever saw.
 But the cham bers of Congress were not designed to stage theatrlcals The business there is supposed to When the dome of the capitol build ing can be changed over night into a proscenium arch the time is coming for a radical change in the method of sending men to take care of the public's business and to make its laws. Instead of election booths the atrical agencies would then be es- tablished. If more of these scenes are enacted in Washington the House of Representative will soon be the laughing stock of the nation, and the nation might eventually be placed in the same light before the world, We must have no more of it. This Congress should see the last of such performances. When the new Con- gress assemblies there must be stringent rules adopted so as to war rant the death of a ridiculous prac- tice,-that of allowing self f-advertisers to gain notoriety through the medium of the nations law making institution.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-10

Se}eIcid Epnp pire, in which period 1t :, was hown as Carathiocerta in the kingdom of Sophene, founded by Zariadris. It Was one of the towns visited by the Roman general Corbulo in the course of his famous campaign against Tiridates, who had been crowned king of Armenia by his brother, to Parthian Vologaeses. Cor bulo. after having forced Tiridates to lay his diadem at the feet of a statue of the Roman, emperor and tosswear never to resume it until Re received 1t at the hands of the sovereign in Rome. was ord cred home by the Jealous Nero. When the hero, who was the idol of his soldiers and who might easily have attained the imperial crown itself, reached the port of Cornish he was met by messengers from Nero who commanded him to commit suicide. Without moments hesitation the intrepid general "obeyed the order, saying as he expired: T have de- sefved it.
 s'Kharput was one of the cities cap- tured by the iliustrious and powerful .Sel1uk prince Kaikobad during his war against sixteen princes of Syria and Mesopotaia led by the Egyptian Malik -al-Kamil. I4s triumph was short-lived. however, for two years after the fall of this city and the triumph of his arms he was poisoned by his own, son.
 During the first quarter of the twelfth century Kharput was the place of imprisonment of Baldwin II king of Jerusalem. who had fallen into the hands of the Amir Balak of Mar din. The historian William of Tyre has preserved the fictitious legend that while trying to make his escape Bald win was apprehended and that in punishment for~this he was cast from a nearby cliff and dashed to death on the rocks below"
New Britain herald., 1917-01-10
Contemporary Religion. : (Philade1phia, Rulletin\

One of the seeming paradoxes of the moment is revealed in the recent re- ports from auth horitative sources rel ative to religious trends here and abroad. The United States. gifted as it is, and rich, apparently, in the en- dowments of a favoring destiny, is described here and there as manifest ing some signs of decline in religious faith. Europe, meanwhile, torn from the familiar state of mind, pain rid den and denied the things and con- ditions which ordinarily might be conceived as signs of infinite favor, is experiencing renaissance of the spirit. turning generally to renewed religious devotion and finding com fort in the new attitude.
 It was Philadelphia college pro- lessor who recently published, with his own confession of disbelief, some statistics to indicate a steady rise of agnosticism among scholars and fac ulty men in American universities H. G. Wells, on the other hand, who has been one of the ablest and most sin cere observers of the social reactions of the war in England and elsewhere, describes a sharply contrasting state of affairs in Britain. France and Italy. "The war;, he writes in a current summary, has produced a very great volume of religious thought and feeling. People habitually re- llglous have been stirred to new depths of sincerity and reality, and people are thinking of religion who never thought of religion before.'
 If peace, happiness and material well being, the temptation to high hopes and high endeavor. and the easy way to their realization are not purely accidental circumstances, if there is a destiny that guides nations
New Britain herald., 1917-01-10
FOR THE RED GROSS.

RAdent Wilson's appeal to the ican people for a refilling of the Cross Society's relief fund Ia find immediate response. The of this great organization Is a corporeal work of mercy It
 the hungry, clothes the naked, harbors the harborless To do with any degree of success it
 have funds. Tn the past the e of this nation have ever been
 to unloosen their purse strings. European war, true. has placed tden upon them that is tremen-
 Nevertheless the spirit of gen. fy ever prevalent in this coun- has not shrunken one iota. If hing 1t has grown by lea0s and |ds. It will not fail to respond 6is latest call.
 ere are those who feel that iCa has been somewhat over ened by demands from Europe, hlls from a war that is not of tican origin and never will have Banction of America. But it Ia not be forgotten that because his war, to greater or lesser de-
 America has prospered beyond |reans of the ina gination. Be B of this, then, we owe some debt 3urope, and it :. cannot be repaid
 better way than through the nels of the American Red Cross.
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