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The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
A Frequent Result.

"Ah, Mr.. Howkins," said Brown
to a wealthy merchant, II believe q
poor boy named Wilks sought your as.
sistance twenty years ago and you
were very kind to him! You gave
him food and sound advice, a suit of
clothes and a half dollar, and dis.
patched him on his way rejoicing.
He told you at the time that you
never would regret your kindness. Am
I right?" "Yes, you are" replied Mr..
Howkins. "He said," Brown went on,
'that If he prospered he would see that
you never had occasion to regret your
kindness to a poor struggling lad"
"Gracious!" exclaimed Mr.. Howkins.
ut sounds like fairy tale! Why, you
must have seen him." 81 have" said
Brown, "and he sent message to YOU"
"What is it?" Mr.. Howkins asked ex-
pectantly. "He told me to tell you
that he would like another half dol.
lar" replied Brown.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
How q Diamond Cuts Glass.

It has been ascertained by series
of experiments that diamond does
not cut the glass file-fashion, but forces
the particles apart, so that continu-
GUS crack is formed along the line Of
the intended cut. The crack once be-
gun, very small force is necessary to
carry 1t through the glass, and thus
the piece is easily broken off. The
superficial crack or cut need not be
deep; q depth, according to fine meas
urements, Of 20Oth part Of one inch is
quite sufficient to accomplish the pur-
pose, so that the application Of much
force in using the diamond only wears
out the gem without doing the work
any better. Numerous stones, such as
quartz and other minerals, when
ground into proper form, will cut glass
like diamond, but are not so valuable
for that purpose, lacking the requisite
hardness and soon losing the sharp
edge necessary to make the operation
q success.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
ALBANIANS ARE ODD PEOPLE
Some Of Them Are Highly Civilized,
But az q Body They Will Have
Nothing Of Progress.

As a matter of fact, Albania Is q
network of mountain tribes under
hereditary chieftains, each Of whom IS
independent of the rest and Of all the
world, and they do not want any
other form Of institutions. Any gener-
al government they regard as limita-,
ton of their immemorial freedom.
They are natural fighters, and esteem
no privilege higher than the privilege
of warfare among themselves, tribe
against tribe. They are of several
faiths and churches-Moslem, Catho-
Flic, Orthodox Greek, MOslems with
Christian customs and Christians with
Moslem customs, and in some tribes,
in the same family, the boys are
brought up as Moslems and the girls
as Christians. With these people re-
ligion Is a mere incident. The main
thing is to be let alone. Only in this
disposition and in their language are
they united.
Yet these picturesque and free-spir-
tied barbarians are the Oldest, purest
and probably the handsomest repre-
sentatives Of our race. In lineage they
are the Aryan aristocracy OF Europe!
Ardent tribesmen, most dignified shep-
herds, devoted mountaineers, they new
erthless wander over the earth; and
many of them are engaged today In
backing boots in Boston, New York
and Chicago. Individually capable OF
civilization and education, well en-
dowed with brains, their native prefer
ence for the wild nationless life OF
their mountain home suggests a doubt
whether they have not after all the
right idea Of life-whether the rest OF
us, in modifying the purity OF the
blood which these rude Skipetars have
maintained so nobly, have not degen''
Grated instead of risen, says the Bos-
ton Transcript. Why else, a curious
mind might ask, should the Albanians
placed in the most beautiful nook OF
Europe, facing the Adriatic sea, poised
between Rome and Constantinople
and Athens, have remained illiterate
barbarians through all the centuries,
never Hellenized, never Latinized,
while at the same time they preserved
some of the noblest characteristics
and virtues Of the race? Isolated they
have been, and very much civilized
some Of their members have become.
But of progress they will have nothing'
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
Nav Seize French Wine OUTPUT.

Paris, Aug. 16.-Confiscation of the
wine crop is contemplated by Maurice
Violette, minister Of subsistence, as
the result of complaints from growers
and dealers that speculation by few
who buy up in advance is solely re-
sponsible for prevailing high prices.
Deputy Thierry-Cazes addressed an
urgent request to Villette asking him
to increase to 500 grams instead Of
800 the daily amount of food to be
allotted the population. With the addi-
tional 200 gram allotments this will
make q total OF 900.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
Poet Gray's Birthplace,

If tablet is placed on Gray's
birthplace in Cornhill, it should
bear record also that there is no ac-
tual surviving birthplace Of the poet,
says the London Chronicle. The fire
which, on March 25, 1748, destroyed
the house that Grey had inherited
from his father was reckoned the big
gest London conflagration since 1866,
seeing that in it 200 houses were
burned down. In very practical way
one finds the poet summing up his loss
in a letter to Wharton: "The house I
lost was insured for $500, and with
the deduc ion Of 8 per cent they paid
me f4S5. The rebuilding will cost $500
and the other expenses will mount that
sum to $780,"
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
OFFERS PEACE RESOLUTION
La Toilette Wants U. S. to Definitely
Define Objects.

Washington, Aug. ia peace reso-
luton has been introduced in the Sem
ate by Senator La Toilette providing
that the United States define definitely
the objects for which it shall continue
to wage war and that the Allies also
make a public restatement of the peace
terms which they will demand.
The resolution seeks to put congress
on record as opposing support by the
United States for annexation or indem.
mites for other nations and proposes
the amassing Of common fund by all
the belligerents for, restoration Of
battle-devastated territory.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
into DEATH TRAP
Engineer Faced Unknown Dan.
gers on Great German Liner.
Explored, slngIe.Handed, Black Re-
eesses Of Interned Ship Which Was
Seized by United States.

Think of q great deserted ship, 54o
feet long, 20 feet wide and over 5O
feet deep, as black and forbidding as
Siberian copper mine, with not a ray
Of light from the uppermost deckhouse
to the caverns of the lowest holds, In
the damp and Shiny bilges, or In the
rooms filed with engines, pumps, dyna-
mos, pipes and valves without number.
Think of exploring 1t, single-handed,
with the warning fresh in your ears
that 1t is full Of pitfalls, bombs and
death-traps; that every door you touch
will set off an explosive which will
blow you into eternity; that every
ladder you step on will send you
sprawling down q bottomless chasm,
and that, If you value your life, you
must not touch thing-wood, metal
or cloth-without first investigating it.
How would you like to explore such
a ship with only fashlight to guide
you through the abysmal blackness,
and with no means Of communicating
with friends on the top deck once you
start on your perilous journey? This
was the task assigned to certain en-
gineer in New York shortly after the
government seized the interned Ger
man ships in this country, says the
Popular Science Monthly. 1t was a
task fraught with the greatest danger,
requiring an extraordinary degree OF
caution and patience, and calling for a
rare display of courage. But so fear
less was this young engineer and so
successful was he in his undertaking
that SO hours after the ship in ques-
ton reached the navy yard, the main
boilers were generating steam. -,
Among the many interesting things
revealed by the intrepid Investigator
were the location of missing parts OF
the main engines, carefully hidden
away in the coal bunkers; the discov-
cry of bolts and nuts which led to a
minute examination Of the cylinders
and steam-chests, where 1t was dis
closed that parts had been removed and
other parts carefully substituted to
conceal the omission; the location, In
other places, Of studs and bolts partly
sawed through, with the saw slot filed
up; the finding Of steel fitted into
steamports, so that any attempt to turn
over the engine would have ruined it I;
the discovery of Instructions in pipes,
smokestacks and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Of coal and bars Of iron placed on
top Of the closed damper-valve in a
ventilator, requiring only pull on the
damper-chain to precipitate the entire
load down on the head Of the person
foolish enough to pull it, and other
trans too numerous to mention here.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
Another Extremist.

The business politicians were dis.
cussing the uplift.
"How does Jones stand politically?"
asked one.
R"Oh!' exclaimed the other. "He's
impossible"
"How is he impossible2"
why, the mans bowling radical:
he's practically anarchist"
II heard that he advocated the pub
lie ownership of public utilities, but
didn't understand that"
Public ownership? He's daft about
it. Why, the man even believes in the
public ownership Of legislatures r.
Baltimore Sun.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
Gotham.

Gothamites was term applied to
residents Of New York by Washington
Irving in his book, "Salmagundi." The
original Gotham was part of Not
tinghamshire, England. Its inhabitants
early became byword as simpletons
and madmen. According to one tradi-
ton, King John proposed making a
progress through the town with the
Intention of purchasing a castle, but
the people, averse to maintaining roy
atty, turned him away by engaging in
'diotic pursuits.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
Girl Lives Week In Wilderness.

Rocky Mount, National Park, Col,
Aug. 14.-Tanned almost to the shade
Of pine bark, and badly bitten by mos.
quitoes, Miss Agnes Lowe, the 20-year.
old Ann Arbor, Mich, college girl who
lived for q week without clothing,
weapons or provisions in the heart of
the mountain wilderness here, has re-
turned to civilization. She had been
out in the woods few more than her
allotted seven days. She was in per-
feet health and weighed half a pound
more than when she left civilization,
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
Central Control Of Worlds Tonnage.

Central Control Of Worlds Tonnage.
Washington, Aug. 12.-Centrai con-
troll of the worlds tonnage with sharp
reductions in ocean freight rates were
discussed at conference between the
shipping board and Thomas Royden
of the British mission. The British
propose, y is understood, that the
American government enter the inter
Allied chartering conference, and that
neutral tonnage be forced in by op-
Grafton of a joint Allied bunkering
arrangement and by exercise Of the
Allies control over their exports.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
Insane Prisoner Fights Sheriff.

Dickinson, N. D., Aug. 13.-Mike
Chumak, held there for trial in con-
nection with the death Of James Cald-
well and his wife, who gained national
notoriety when the famous u. c. R."
brought action in court to prove that
he was long-lost son, became violent
" insane in Jail and attacked Sher-
III Hartung when he entered the room.
When rescued, the clothing had been
stripped from Hartung's body and
three deputies were required to sub.
due the man.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
Interested Maqnanimity.

"The Joneses are very forgiving.
When their son wrote them he had
eloped with the cook, they wrote him
to bring his bride home at once"
'But you don't understand how hard
1t Is to keep a cook In this place."
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
REGULAR Army at War STRENGTH.

Regular Army at War Strength.
Washington, Aug. 13.-The regular
army is raised to its full strength Of
100000.
Recruiting will continue without any
let-up, as the war department expects
to keep up steady flow of volunteers
into the reserve.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
Explained.

"Jlggs, the author, Is great drink
er, isn't he?"
swell, he's responsible for one of
the six bent cellars in the United
Stktes."
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
Wonderful

Smith is a remarkable man." said
Brown.
what Is so remarkable about
him." asked Jones.
why. he can sing the whole Of
the 'Star-Spangled Banner from MEM
ory," replied Brown.-Cincinnati En-
quirer.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
Prospects Good.

Creditor-I shall call upon you ev-
cry week until this bill is paid?
Hardleigh-Then there seems to be
every probability Of our acquaintance
ripening into friendship.-Puck.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
Grain Men Picked.


Twelve men were named by the food
administration to represent the grain
division at the various terminals.
They are:
Edward M. Flesh, at st. Louis.
Ed M. Houser, Portland, Ore.
c. B. Fox, New Orleans.
H. p. Irwin, Philadelphia.
p. M. Ginder, Duluth.
Frank L. Carey, Minneapolis.
George s. Jackson, Baltimore.
H. B. Jackson, Chicago.
Charles Kennedy, Buffalo.
R. A. Lewis, San Francisco.
D. F. Piazzek, Kansas City.
Charles T. Neal, Omaha.
MlIIers Selected.
Milling interests named a commit.
tee to cooperate with the food admin
istration in negotiating voluntary reg
istration of the milling industry. The
committee comprises the following:
James F. Bell, Minneapolis, chair
man.
A. P. Husband, Chicago, secretary.
Albert C. Loring, Minneapolis, repre-
senting the Northwest.
Andrew ]. Hunt, Arkansas City,
Kan, representing the Southwest.
E. M. Kelly, Nashville, Tenn, repre-
senting the Southeast.
Mark M. Mennel, Toledo, represent
ing the Ohio valley.
Theodore B. Wilcox, Portland, Ore,
representing the Pacific coast.
Samuel Plant, st. Louis, represent.
ing st. Louis and Illinois.
Bernard A. Eckhart, Chicago, rep
resenting Chicago and Milwaukee.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
HOOVER Is CHAIRMAN OF NEW
FEDERAL BODY WITH $5o0oo,-
600 CAPITAl-PLANSP RAc-
TIcALLY PERFECTED.
BARNES OF DULUTH AND
LADD OF FARGO NAMED
Minnesotan 10 President Of Company
Which Will Conduct Government
Wheat Purchases and Sales
Price Fixing Board One of
Three Committees.

Washington, Aug. 16.-Creation of
food administration grain corpora
ton with $50,000,0 900 capital to conduct
government wheat purchases and sales
has been officially announced.
To carry on the gigantic work the
President appointed three committees
the wheat purchasing DIVISION the
price fixing board and the United
States millers' committee.
Along Shipping Board Lines.
The grain corporation will be organ
lied along the lines of the shipping
boards emergency feet corporation.
1t will be managed by the grain divi-
sion of the food administration which
will have the same officers as the cor
poration. All the stock will be held
and owned by the United States gov.
eminent.
Machinery Practically Perfected.
The great machinery for wheat con-
troll is now practically perfected. The
following executive officers have been
named:
Herbert Hoover, chairman.
julius Barnes, Duluth, president.
Gates w. McGarrah, New York,
treasurer.
F. G. Crowell, Kansas City, vice
president.
Edward Chambers, Chicago, trans.
portation director.
Curtis H. Lindley, San Francisco,
counsel.
J. w. shorthill, York, Neb. secre'
tary.
Price Fixers Named.
The personnel Of the wheat price
fixing commission was announced as
\ follows: 49,
Henry A. Garfield, president Of viii.
liams college, chairman.
Charles ]. Barrett, Union City, Ca,
president Of the Farmers union.
William H. Doak, Roanoke, Va, vice
president of the Brotherhood Of Rail-
road Trainmen. %.
Eugene e. Funk, Bloomington, ILL.,,
president of the National Corn associa-
ton.
Edward F. Laid, Fargo, N. D., presi-
dent of the North Dakota Agricultural
college.
R. Goodwin Rhett, Charleston, s. c..
president of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States.
J. w. ShOrthill, York, Neb., secre.
tary of the National Council of Farm
ers' Cooperative Associations.
James w. Sullivan, Brooklyn, N. Y,
of the American Federation Of Labor
L. J. Tabor, GAINESVILLE, Ohio, mas.
ter of the Ohio State Grange.
Frank w. Taussig, chairman of the
tariff commission.
Theodore N. Vail, president Of the
American Telephone & Telegraph com
pany. .... ... ....-
Henry J. Waters, president of Kan
sas State Agricultural college.
Grain Men Picked,
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-18
STUDENT OFFICERS
AT FORT SMELLING
GET COMMISSIONS

st. Paul, August 14.-Following Is
the list. announced by the war depart
mont. Of Minnesota men who have
served IN the training camp at Fort
Smelling and who have received COM
missions in the several branches Of
the military service. Those with the
(n) have been designated for duty
with the national guard. The others
will 90 into the officers reserve corps,
and will be assigned to active duty
with the troops in short time:
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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-08
GORDOMSYILLE

Especial TO The Times -Dispatch.l
GoRDONSNiLLE. VA, April Miss
Rachel Walker. of Wayreshorc. has
been visiting Mrs w. w. Osborne, TT
Lower SprinSticids.'
Mrs. r l. Banks and children LETT
to-day for Madison to stay Until June
with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Smith
They Will later go TO Slab Fork. w.
Va. to make their future home.
Mrs. w. l.. Beckham and Miss BERTHE
Beckham were Charlottesville visitors
this week.
Bennie Lcako. Of Newport News.
visited his mother in South C;ordons.
willie. this week.
DR. John w. Martin. left recently
for Ashland. w. Va. where lie will
practice.
Mrs. Jane AicLanc returned on
Tuesday from n visit to hcr sister.
Mrs. G. u. Shackclrord, in Cnarlottcs-
willie.
John S. Day. of Orange, visited rela-
tivcs here recently
Miss Ruth Tra!num is visiting her
parents, MIR. ana Mrs. J. l.. Uranium. in
South Gordousvillc.
Mrs. j Handy. of ST. paul, VA, Is
spending some time with her mother,
Mrs. w. NJ. Downcr. III this city
MIR. and Mrs ~ J. Parrish, OF tiich-
mond, arc visitors this week q; the
home Of the la;tor's mother, Mrs. Char :
lottc Goodloc
Mr.. and Mrs. w 3 Eaugham and
son, LEVEL. who have been spending
the winter With their brothcr- law.
ID. II. Mcmillan. at San Angelo, Ten,
and with relatives III Kansas City, Mo.
returned home on Wednesday,.
y. u. Downer OF Characteristics, Wis
ito" his mother. Mrs. W. NJ. Downer,
this week
Captain james Bailey. cf Richmond,
visited relatives here on WedneSt;ar
MIR. and Mrs John Reynolds. OF
Ncwsport News. visited relatives here
this week.
c. c. Niche. of Richmond, spent
Wednesday with his sister. Mrs. X
G. Watkins. In the city
Mr.. and Mrs. Hagerty. OF Orange,
visited at the home of Harrison Stricll
Ter recently.
l.. NJ. Watkins. has been spending
nc past ten days with his family, in
South Gordonsville
Mrs. Jenkins and daughters. Misses
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-08
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
Especial TO Tho Timcs-pisnatcb !,

Especial to Tho Times Dispatch.1
FANMNiLT.I1. VA, April THE last
Of tho star course was play entitled
~'Captain I.ettcrblair.' presented by the
Normal School Dramatic Club under the
direction OF Miss Wheeler. on Friday
night. The principals were Misses
Mary Ellen White. Jessie Brott, Ethel
Surface. and Jessie kellam
y description of the passion play
was given by Miss Rohr on Thursday,
under the auspices Of the Young NTo-
mans Christian Association. Miss Rohr
saw the passion. play given in 1910 and
visited in the home OF Antoine Langi
Professor Thomas D. l:ason address ed
tho Civic League OF Wakefield on Mon
day evening.
President Jarman has had several
conferences during tho past week with
the Legislative committee OF tho State
Teachers Association in regard to the
May campaign for better schools to be
wagcd throughout the state.
Intense interest has been manifested
by The students in the election of Of
iicerS for tho coming year. owing To
the fact that a system OF self govern
mcnt prevails among the students Civ
Ing good deal of authority and plac-
ing much responsibility on the student
governing committee. The following
officers were elected: president. Julia
Slower: senior vice-president. Josephine
Gleaves; junior vice presidents, Clara
Greene and Louise Thackcr; secretary,
Mildred Dickerson.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-08
STOMACH UPSET?
Get at the Real cause-Take DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets

That's what thousands of stomach
sufferers are doing now. Instead OF
taking tonics, or trying to patch I'D a
poor digestion, they are attacking the
real cause OF the ailment--clogged liver
and disordered bowels.
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets arouse
the liver in soothing, healing way.
When the liver and bowels arc per-
forming their natural functions, away.
goes indigestion and stomach troubles.
If you have a bad taste in your
mouth. tongue coated, appetite poor,
lazy, don't-eare feeling, no ambition or
energy, troubled with undigestcd foods,
you should take Olive. Tablets, the SUBJ
stitute for. calomel.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are
purely vegetable compound mixed will,
olive oil. You will know them by their
olive color. They do the work without
gripping, cramps or Pair.
Take one or two at bedtime for quick
relief, so you can eat what you like.
Al, 10c and Csc per box. All druggists.