being the h / ur .
,
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rare # f protaction It 1* Prac
tically »1 Ne Uaa.
DctaHcd Riporto Increato Litt Proaldoat Ordert Inquiry Into
P o m IM* Illegal CoAfehia-
of Dead and Injured and
ia in Background.
v \
Proparty Lota.
Roma.— A renewal of seism ic dto-
u ir bancas has served to add to the
terror of the people In parts o f tha dis
trict that w as visited by the heavy
earthquake last week.
Although th* shocks w era 1
buildings which had been cracked and
tottering from the effects o f th*
disturbano*, wore completely
In Avessano sa d flora, th*
towns which s u ffe r*« moot from the
disaster, the people left their
ary shelters and took refnps In
It ha* been able to gather from the Sopply B ills May Ball T h is Season.
districts and villages hitherto isolated.
F ears that no general legislation,
announces that the number o f dead h x d m M t the governm ent skip par*
and injured In the Abrussi district chase M il, can be passed In the senate
alone la 30,000, without Including the before adjournm ent of congress by
flora district.
M arch 4 are now being supplemented
San Atollo has 200 dsad and 600 to- by apprehension on the part of ad
jured. Mortno 1500 dead. Caalstro 600 m inistration leaders that tom e o f the
Injured, Carvufo S00 victims. Borgo general supply bills also w ill fa ll un-
60 dead and Valleroveto 1000. A t Ctrl- less a plan cam be devised to expedite
tails Roveto alm ost the entire popu- legislative business that has been
latlop escaped because they w ere at dragging at a snail-like pace for sev-
worfc In the fields when the shock o c -. oral weeks.
curred.
Fifteen appropriation bills, includ
T w elve thousand bodies. It Is semi- lng the District o f Colom bia measure,
officially estimated, are burled under w ith its prohibition rider, now before
the fallen w alla o f the earthquake- the senate, are to be dispoeed of with-
ruined city of Avessano.
in six weeks, if the necessity of adopt-
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ln g joint resolutions to continue ex-
ALLIES
6AIN IN
FLANDERS
ALLIES GAIN
IN FLANDERS
‘■tlnx appropriation, ta to be averted.
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N aval «11 Reported. >
Boris and Berlin A gree A rtillery Duete
The naval appropriation bill, carry
A re Chief Activities.
la g »148,000,00«, waa form ally report-
Loodon. *4 O fficial Germ an
and ed to the house by the committee on
French reports agree fa saying that naval a ffa irs
it does not alter the
late activities of the arm ies on the two-battleship program . The subma-
w astern front have been confined rise la declared to have proved its
chiefly to artillery engagements. T h e great value, but It is pointed out that
Oerm aa account tolls o f the blow ing battleship* have been shown to be
u p 'o f a foundry at m angy, east o f A r- necessary for control of the see ta
ran and the French version adm its war. The bill Increases the building
losing this position, hat asserts that program of the navy department by
It was promptly regained and is still 18,4*2,006.
held.
The total number o f vessels In the
,. A feature of the German report la United States navy on July 1, the ra
the estimate It m akes of the looses of port sura marts* *, w as 3*6, with a total
the antes since the general advance | displacem ent o f 1.66S.647 tons, « (
was reputed to have been decided on which 886. with displacem ent of 1454.-
in December. These are given by Bar-1 884, are “fit for service,” Including
lin as 20.000 killed and 17480 prison- those under construction or author
era, and it Is added that the grand to- toed. Those listed as fit for service
tal. Including wounded, sick and miss- Include 10 first-line battleships, 26
lag, must have been 160,000 men.
second-line battleships. 10 arm ored
“O u r total Ices as for the sam e pe- cruisers, 24 other cruisers, nine moni-
rtod,” says the Berlin account, “do tors, 66 destroyers. 19 torpedo-boats,
sot amount to one-quarter o f that SO subm arines and numerous other
number.”
o ra ft
Berm er Q. A. R. Chief Die*.
N ew b a r*. O r*. — M ajar Thaddeua
cam mender - In
London.— A . Petrograd dispatch to Clarkson, form erly
ch
let
o
f
the
Grand
A
m
y of the Re (rab
the Contrai Now s aayi:
il«
and
ex-postm
aster
of
Omaha, Nob.,
“An official eom annlcatlon says the
dlod
h
er*
age+-74.
f
t
*
had
lived here
Eleventh Turkish army corps baa boon
with
a
daughter
for
several
years
peat
exterminated near K ara-Urgan.”
This to the third Turkish eorpe de
stroyed by the Russians,
The following official statement re
garding the operations In Poland, Gal Colenei Oarxa Named W hen Gutierrez
Blee* Brom Mexico City.
icia and Buka wins, waa leaned from
W ashington.— Cotonai Roqua Oco
generai headquarters:
“On the right bank of' the low er V is tales G a n a , ooa o f General v illa 's
tula wa a r* still m aking successful principal officers, to the executive
head of that portion o f Mexican terri
“In the other sections we repulsed tory controlled by the V illa-Za pat*
the enemy and forced them to fail
back on their positions.
“In Bukowina our advanced col um os
oapturod by storm tho K lrilbabe Page,
on the Transylvania frontier, situated
on the road from Klm polung (in tho
soutbarn part of Bukowina) to M am -
maros Sslget (northeastern H ungary)
Profits Prom ised on Dominions Job.
New Tork.— James M.
Sullivan,
American m inister to tha Dominican
republic, was pictured at the Inquiry
conducted by Senator-elect Phelan in
to hie fitness to hold th* post, as hav
ing been associated with Interests who
for money consideration would g u a r
ante* to obtain profitable contracts
from the Dominican governm ent
President W ilson Is Grandfather.
Washington.— A son was born at the
W hite House to Mrs. Francis Bowse capital w ltt several members of hie
Sayre* President W ilson ’s
second cabinet to socape assassination at the
daughter. Mrs. Sayre sad th* ohlld hands of Zapatistas, according to re
pasts received hare.
w ere reported to be doing w tlL
TO-D,
tog the practice of »inge-
hair, the Journal of the
i Medical Association cay*
000,000 annually. Thia u not aay-
ing ve did mot get oui money’a
earth at that, -for quite the eon
trary 4 a true. Not l per oent of re
turning traveler* regret what it
coat them to tee the work* of art,
historical monuments, beautiful
cities, and how the other nation*
lire.
Europeans who have visited ue
are constantly amazed at the utter
indifference with which American*
confeaa to a lack of acquaintance
with the natural wonders of our
own country, which they had seen
when on our side. It is high time
we did know oar own country, and
while our town halls and churches
are not a thousand years old, our
Niagara falls and Rocky mountains
and Glacier park are older than
either Borne or the ruins of Hercu
lineutn. And where on earth can
one go in a palace car and find a
Yellowstone park, or a Grand can
yon of the Colorado, or a Yosemite
or a Mammoth cave, or a Great Salt
lake?
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Our* is a iahd of wonders, and
though new in a constructive sense
is not lacking in interest. The south
is full of surprises, the vast prairies
of the central west lisve no counter -
part in Europe; our great lakes
float steamers with all the luxuries
of an ocean liner.
"-'ffljSl-
'*« Even1 the adventurer need not
tniss the excitement of mountain
climbing. Both Washington and
most reckless might desire, and the
explorer may spend years among
the ancient cliff dweller*’ towns in
New Mexico and the petrified for
ests of the had lands. He may
search for gold and precious stones
in the Death valley, or for dia
monds in the Ozarks, and hidden
treasures which the pirates who
“ This is recommended to over-
Dme splitting at the ends and to
iwvent falling of the hail1, the rea
lm for the latter being that it
ilosea the port* and keepa the fluid
i the hair. With the long hair of
woman, which ha* a tendency to
plit at the ends, it is possible that
ingeing the tips may be of some
use. It substitutes a charred blunt-
end of fuaed horn for one tapering
to a point or ent dean across. But
even in caaaa of this sort it, is less
useful than greasing lightly the-
hair and thus supplying the fst
which is lacking in such hair. ‘
“ For the hair of men, which is
kept abort, singeing is not of any
uae in preventing, splitting. Bair
which is not allowed to grow to its
natural length does not split onles*
it has a deep seated disturbance.
“ Of course singeing the hair ends
in order to prevent the fluid in tin
hair from escaping, like sap from a
tree, is based on an entire miscon
ception of the hair’s structure and
nutrition, The hair does not con-
tain any more nap than a baggy
It is not nourished by any
fluid in it, but by the blood plasma
that reaches only the hair root. The
hair above the skin surface is- a
spine of horn, which is evap^riled
from without, and singeing its tips
has ho effect whatever on either its
nourishment or its growth.
“ It is certain that singeing the
hair is of no great value in pre
venting its fall. In fact, the. only
value the procedure has is to the
zealous hair dresser, who gets his
little fee for doing it— unless it is
worth a quarter to the seeker after
hair to think he is doing some
thing, even if he is n o t”
flight Lest and Restored.
lhanics.
Thumb* * f the Gorille.
The gorilla and chimpanaee,
which belong to the higher order of
apes, have many points of resem
blance to man, but there ia on«
“ I wish 1 had your body.”
Mr. Moody immediately replied,
*^NHah I bad your bead.”
“ Mr. Gladstone responded, “I
mean I wish I bad your lungs,” tag
which Mr. Moody again replied, “ I
wish I had your brains,”- and with1
hearty good wishes they parted.
A farmer’s wife who had had,
much trouble with her servants waa
accosted by one of them.
“I fear I shall not be able to work
much longer. 1 think I am going
blind” ,
“ Why, how is that? You seem
to get aJong pretty well with your
work.”
“ Yes, but I can no longer see any
meat on my plate at dinner.”
I. T he.farm er’s wife understood,
and the next day the servants were
served with very large and very thin
pieces of meat.
“ How n ic e r the girl exclaimed.
“ My tight has come back. I can
aea better than ever.”
“ How is that, Bella?” asked the
mistress. '
% ,
“ Why, at this moment,” replied
Bells. “ I can see the plate through
the meat.”— London Scraps.
Halley’s comet has an enviable
history, but its chief claim to dis
tinction rests in the fact that it waa
the first periodic comet whose re
turn was predicted. Edmund Hal
le?, an English astronomer, observ
ed its behavior in 1688 and made
calculations which led him to con
clude that it was the same comet
which had been seen and noted sev
eral times before. He figured it
would come back in seventy-five or
seventy-six years, and, although he
did not live to see the event, the
comet did return according to
schedule. Consequently it is called
Halley’s comet
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Belling Water.
'Why u It that water will not al
England oan claim equality with ways boil at the same temperature ?
Belgium ia the matter of possess Water boils whenever the outward
ing canals of Roman origin. Dur pressure of the steam balances the
ing their stay in England the Ko- inward pressure of the air, but the
mans cut the Foss dike in Lincoln latter ia not always the same. The
shire, probably for water supply o ft: barometer shows th at When the
drainage. The dike was deep-nod air presses heavily the steam will
and niade navigable by Henry I., necessarily have to exercise greater
and then allowed to decline unt® force to overcome it than when it
1840 , when it was so widened and is low. This is why water boils at
deepened that it now forms the a lower temperature on the too of
connecting link between the Wit It e mountain then at sea level. Water
em and the Trent.— London Chron- boils at see level gt s temperature
of 812 degrees F.
England’s Reman Canale.
Alibi Not Complimentary.
A prisoner at the sessions j,«ad
been duly convicted of theft, whoa
it was seen, on “proving pre oua
convictions,” that the accused had
actually been in prison at the time
the theft wa* committed.
“ Why didn’t you say ao?” asked
the judge of the prisoner angrilv.
our lordship, 1 was afraid of
dicing the jury against me.”—
ij Stories.
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Bit to Kill.
Grandmas guest was elegantly
but simply dressed in black cuiffon
voile hansoiuelv trimmed with silk
over lace. Little Birdie, aged four,
climbed on her lap and patted the
many gray hairs and smoothed the
soft lace and silk, then peered lov
ingly into her face and said:
“You’re dressed up good enough
to be killed, ain’t you?”— Delinee-
n
Naturally.
ittle Lillian proudly displayed
Little Minkley had talked for an
some sharing curls ghe had picked hour on the subject of evolution.
up from the floor of e carpenter
“ And now, my dear Misa Blister-
»hop. “I wouldn’t wear those,” toa, do you believe ia the missing
»aid brother Bruce. “ Why not?” link ?” he said in conclusion.
“ Yes, I do now,” replied the fair
wked the liftl* girl. “I f you do,”
maiden, “ though I didn't until I
saw you.”— Judjre.
Just opened up by Grand Trunk Pacific R ailway, now completed to Prince
Rupert on Pacific Ocean, through the g n a t Nechaoo Valley, British
Columbia. M ost productive soil, plenty o f wood and w ater, c h a s te mild
and equable, being west o f Rocky Mountains where Urn winds a r* from
the warm Japan Current.
Abundance o f outrange. A fin* fann in g
and stock country ju st being developed. G reat opportunities fo r oner,
getic men in fa m in g and «took raising. W * have lived in the valley for
even years and know it thoroughly. Can give inform ation an all condi
tions there from actual penonal knowledge. Inquiries answered fu lly
and truthfully. W o have land* for sale and a fe w fin* tracts to ex
change fo r improved W illam ette Valley lands
E. P. HAZEN * S O N
•alllnflhani
Washington
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clo sely and you w ill un derstand
w h y w e can tru th fu lly claim
su p erio rity fo r i t T h e sm ooth
s tra ig h t g ra in , th e ab sen ce o f
lu g e kn o ts, th e th orou gh seas
on in g a ll sh ow th e exp erien ced
th e econom y o f u sin g ou r stu ff.
F o llo w th e ir exam p le and p rofit
a s th e y do b y b ein g custom ers
o f ours.
H. PINNEY
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