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MflDFORT, MATTJ TTCTTONK MF.T)FORT. OK1WOX, TTTCRnAY. NAROIT Irt. t!)ir
FRENCH REPORT PRIDE OF NAVY,
GAINS BY
10 SURRENDER ON
DEMAND OF ALLIES
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FORGOTTEN CITY" NOW PORT OF HALF OF EUROPE
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ALLIED FORCES
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MARY BOYrE O'REILLY IN NORSELAND
SMYRNA
REFUSES
SHOWS
WORLD'S
LARGEST
WAR HIP LAUNCHED
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PARIS, March 16. Tho events of
jestordny on tho Franco-Uclglau (rout
hro described tn a statement from the
war office this afternoon. The Bel
gian army haa connollilnlctl Its gains
of tho lost few days. Tim Rrltlah
army, after having retaken St. Klol,
has also recaptured trenches to (he
Multicast of the village ami com
pelted tho enemy to evacuate trenches
to the touiheast of the wimo point,
which have been complotety demol
ished liy the artillery.
"In Champagne rre-.li progress has
tecn made to tho south of Soualn. In
the forest of l.o Prctro wo have re
captured from the Germans tho re
mainder of tho trenches won by them
yesterday merning: or, to be precise
the nit of these trenches for defen
flvo work haa been completely shat
tered by mine explosions.
"On the southern slope of great
IlelcK Askorkopf, an attack by the
enemy yesterday carried the trench.
We Itavo retaken It and made some."
A TALE OF THE
GrtwttfM Experiences In
Told by Arch Gerhnnli
To Jack JUnEraeyer.
We were in tho gloomy "rain for
ests" near Victoria Falla, la northern
JtlioileMii n weird jungle Hingulnrly
fre'o of" animal aud blnMlfe-and con
stantly dripping- with tho condensed
mist sweeping in from tho falls near
by. Tijjpie is Bomstlnne; luexprcss
nlily eerie libout it.
I headed a geological -snrvcy party,
n motley group of whites nud nnlire
curriers. A turbulent stream had
claimed the life of the carrier who
packed our raxor, and our beards
hung long. Lugubrious in upjiear
nucc and weighted down by some in
explicable foreboding, wo htirrjcd
through the forest with increased
precautions.
On every side the gigantic lianac,
vines iih thick ns n man's teg, droop
ed from tho mahogany .trees, their
origin lost in the cathedral dimness
of the jungle room. Monkeys would
lime reveled in those living cabc
extending from the ground to tho tree
tops. Hut tho monkey, wo soon
found, had abandoned this strip of
jungle.
Time after time, ns we marched
along, spread out in fan shape ac
cording to the fust mlo I had laid
down, that overpowering sense of im
pending peril the feeling of fiomo
malign presences lifted tho hair on
my neck.
Then IM forgvt it thinking- about
a pretty girl buck in Johannesburg.
Suddenly two hhots rang out in
quick succession off toward my left.
Knocking the Hyphen Out
of Aknerican Citizenship
liy Hecbart. Quick
Court Is In session. Tho docket
has been called. Soroo Influential
person cornea forward with two or
threo rather nervous-looking men In
two. Evidently they aro foreigners,
and equally evident tho Judge recog
nizes tho type.
t $afx foreigner is askediqme ques
tions as to his qualifications for citi
zenship, lie Is asked if he is well
disposed toward the Institutions of
this country, and ho declares that ho
is, His fttends swear that they be
lieve that he will make a good citi
zen. Then the foreigner Is mado to
hold up his right hand In token of
his appeal to God, and tho workman
from Marsolllcs, tho first to bo ad
mitted to citizenship, takes the fol
lowing oath;
') do solemnly swear that I will
BUpport tho constitution, of tho United
Statea and of this stato, and that I
do absolutely and entirely renounce
"and adjuro all alleglanco and fidel
ity to every foielgn prince, potentate,
state or sovereignty, and particular
b' the ropubllc of Prauce, of which 1
was forniorly a citizen."
., This nian is now no longer a for
lKHr, He Is uu American.
A Itusslan Jew pomes next. Ho
renqiiHfcs nil alleglanco and fllcllty
to foreign elates, pai tlcularly to the
wwr.
Then conies a Gorman, Ho ro-
iMWHMfi all "alleglanco'' and "fldei-
, Ity" to all foreign powers and stutes,
a4l particularly ho renounces them
kg far as the kaiser Is concerned,
Hvwy naturalized foreigner In
triOklied StatofiaVlakoii such an
XCWPOIIT XKWS, March 1G.
Tho now drcadnaught Pennsylvania
was successfully launched hero this
morning shortly after 10 o'clock.
Tho largest engine of naval war
faro In the world slid down the ways
while a prayer was uttered that alio
might ho a messenger of pence rather
than a weapon of destruction.
Christened by Miss Elizabeth Kolh
of Germantown Pa., ns Secretary
Daniels gavo a signal, tho monster
hull slid Into tho James Rtvcr ami
the swell tossed the German con
verted cruder Prlnz Kttel Pried rich
less than a hundred yards nway.
The Commodore Thlorichcns, com
mander of the sea raider, sat In full
uniform with tho official party on
tho platform and mingled with Amer
ican naval officers throughout the
ceremonies.
A gray haired woman approached
tho German commander as he stood
under the towering bow of the Penn
8)lvanla and grasped his hand. She
was Mrs. M, P. Thomas, of Deacon,
X. Y., a member of tho Society of
Friends.
AFRICAN VELDT
Transvaal "Rain Forest"
I swung up my gun and wiiitcd, peer
ing into the gloom. Then I saw n
horrible tiling.
What had seemed a giant vine, gro
tesquely crooked, lashed out in great
coils and begnn to drax down around
one of my white assistant engineers,
From his lifted shotgun drifted wisp.-J
of smoke. lie seemed unable to move
rooted to the spot.
And all the time those hideous coil
were dropping slowlv nbout him, fold
on fold. 1 thought they would never
end.
I, too, wns held spellbound. Xot n
man of our party moved to the en-
ineor's aid for perhaps half n min
ute. Those seconds of sipcn.e sf cm'
cd tin eternity.
Someone screamed horribly. A nn-
tivc raced forward with leveled gun.
That broke the spell. We leaped to
action. From tho undulating folds
we pulled the ashen-faced engineer.
And almost instantly the squirming
ceased
Moth shots fired at five yards had
gone home. Before us lay the largest
python I have ever seen. It took
eight of us to stretch the monster
snake out.
It measured 2.1 feet in length, was
lO'j inches thick, with a jaw expan
sion of 2(5 inches. The fangs, non
poisonous, protruded two inches.
Only the detection by the engineer
of n slight movement and his sure
aim had saved his life after he had
stepped within sweeping distance of
thoso deadly coils. Iloth sho's bad
penetrated the neck of the pvthon.
oath. If there is any country whose
immigrants Into this country cannot
or will not take this oath, they can'
not becomo citizens. If they take
this oath and still maintain fidelity
or allegiance to any foreign prince,
power, potontate, state or sovereign
ty, they are perjurers.
Tho peoplo of this country have
welcomed 'to Its citizenship millions
of immigrants. They havo roqulred
this oath for the purpose of endeav
oring to mako suro that the man tak
ing it has converted himself into a
real American before becoming a
citizen. It is a solemn oath. , It
means much.
The splendid citizenship of our
immigrants proves that mom of them
live up to the oath.
The Idea of the oath is to knock
tho hyphen out of citizenship. The
man who Is a Ilrltlsh-Amerlcan, or a
Piench-Amorlcan, or a Japanese
American, or a Gorman-American, or
a llulgar-American, should cure him
self of It. Tho hyphen is a bad symp.
torn. It Indicates appondtcltls of tho
citizenship, it requires un opera
tion. This nation which has admitted tho
naturalized citizen does not caro for
tho hyphenated sort of Americanism.
It demandi) of Its citizens puro and
stmplo Americanism.
Tho naturalized citizen ought to
ho a better American than the aver
age of us who wcro born hero, for ho
has choBcu his citizenship, while wo
had outs forced upon us by the fact
of birth.
There aro eomo temptations Just
now toward appendicitis of tho citi
zenship, us Indicated by tho hyphon.
Cut U out, fellow-Auierlcuns. Cut it
out!
ON HER WAY TO THE "NEW RUSSIA" SHE VISITS
ONLY EUROPEAN FORT FOR WHOLE RUSSIAN
EMPIRE OF 180,000,000 PEOPLE
Mary Ituylo O'Kellty, the lirilllmit daughter or John Itojle O'ltollly,
famous IiUIi (uitvtot mid poet, who is on her w' to lluvdn to write n "ei les
of nrtlcles on Hint country for the .Mali Ti Ilium', Mohh1 oter In Voiwny.
This story on tho unique city of llorgcn Is tho first of her series, seieinl of
which will tlenl with tho Sraitdliunlitii countries. l.Mttor.)
OH LAND THAT IS MOSTLY ROCK NORWEGIANS RAISE CROPS
f
f
The sturdy farmers of Norway, on laud that is mosllv Ikmo
rock, niutinge to raise more grain, hay nud potatoes" to the acre
than most American farmers. They do it by scientific funning
nud hits of, hard walk.
Their average yield of wheat is US1! bushels per aeio, while
here in America we only rnie on an average of lu bushels to the
acre. They also taise 2:1,000,1)00 bushels of potatoes n j ear. This
in a country nbout the size of New Mexico.
Theirs is the "Land of the Midnight Sun," for nearly a third of
the country is north of the line of winter dn light, and in the rone
of the summer days whose sun never sets.
Kven in Christianin, the capital, which is in the' south, theio
are but six hours of daylight in the middle of winter nud in mid
summer there is almost no night.
(Ily Mary Iloyie O'Reilly.)
Staff Correspondence (hv mail).
IIRRGKX, Norway, Feb. 23. From
the snowbound inn parlor in which I
wns trying to melt away the chill of
a North sen parage I watched the
burgomaster of Hcrgen stride down
the new paved Strnudgndcn of his
1000-ycnr-old lown.
Three of my fellow guests marched
at his heels. They were Andrew Mc
Dowell, leather dealer from Liverpool,
Abraham Uasnnsky, n New York com
uiisMou merchant, and Abdul Mnhnni-
mpd, shipper of Egyptian maize. And
ns the quartet advanced solemn cit
izens of Hcrgen looked at each other
and smiled.
Hcrgen in Norwnv is n small city
on the North sen, wheie nothing ever
happened. Gottcnhurg grew, Chris
tiania attained capitalistic sire, but
Hergcn remained just Hcrgen.
Tho Town of Hcrgen
An absent-minded world forgot the
little town buried in a crater of tho
bleak gray hills. Fish from Hcrgen
was Hold at Hillingsgate, else the very
name had sunk from popular speech.
"Wait," admonished the burgo
master, "just wait. Koine day Her
gcn will come to its own. Nor shall
it be found wanting."
This burgomaster of Hcrgen held
office from ycur to year, and from
year to enr accumulated funds from
his civic economics slowly to develop
the poit of which he dreamed, foil
some, cobbled streets became smooth
with macadam, aro lights supplanted
oil, docks grew longer and wider, and
the burghers npproved.
"Suppose von vote another kroner
(20 cents) to tho tnx levy," suggested
the burgomaster.
Fecljiig more prosperous, Ihuy con
sented to pay. ,
"Wo nre not big, but we can be
busy," said the burgomaster, "and
being busy makes ono contented.
Sineo we cannot go into the woild,
the woild must come to us. Let Her
gcn remain wholesome, inexpensive,
old-fashioned. Strangers seek
qunintness."
Studying" languages
For years which have left no toe
ord tourists came and went in Hcrgen
bringing new ideas, leaving wel
come kroncrs. Patents, no longer
hopeless prisoners of poverty, began
to dream dicams for their children.
Then someone suggested Hint Hcr
gen children study modem languages.
"Let them study in connection with
commercial courses," urged the bur
gomaster. "Two hundred commercial couisc
students, injHergen! Absurd 1" com
mented tho critics. Hut tho money
an pVKimrimnxi:!) wick
If tho work that women do and tho
pains they suffer could bo measured
In figures, what a terrible array thoy
would present! Through girlhood,
wifehood' and motherhood woman
tolls on. often suffering with back
ache, pains in side, headaches and
nervousness which aro toll-talo symp
toms of organic dciangemonts which
Kydla 13. Plnkham's Vegetablo Com
pound mado from roots and herbs
can undoubtedly correct. Women
who suffer should not glvo up hopo
until they hnvo given It a tilul.
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f
.
needed was forlhcoin'ng and, before
the moon dipped from Soguc fjord to
Ilnrdnnger all the little towheads
were bent over new lesson honks.
"Why not," insisted the hurgomus
ter, "forehanded is fat sighted. Sum
mer travelers come where thev foM at
home. Who knows hut our llorgcn
mnv vet be n winter port for all the
world?"
Then, without much explanation, he
asked for another kroner on the tax
Jevy. The thrifty Norsemen paid f f
in ways beyond their insight, day
dreams had become real. They no
longer felt troubled because dredging
plans lay in the burgomaster's safe,
beside n surprisingly complete scheme
for better railroad facilities. What
harm if Hcrgen wiis prepared to be
gin dredging and track building to
morrow! Plniin are not so costly.
Christiaiiia and Gothenburg might
quibble about trifles; Hcrgen could
afford to pay.
Ciiinpo nt War
Thousands of frightened travelers pleads a case iilicmlv won. "Note
fled to Hcrgen and safety. From that half Kurope and half Asia i
his official residence in Christiaui.i Russia. One bundled million Huh
the self-forgetting American minister sinus need food, gold, munitions of
hurried to the rescue. What his ox- war. Yet today Kiimdn is cut off
ccllcncy said to the hiirgherx of Her-' from the world. The Dardanelles
gen their children's childcr probably inc. blocked, German iuu Austrian
will repeat. Inns, homes, town iiisti-' fiouliuis deadlocked, the Ilaltio fro
tutions opened hospitable doois to en. Neighbors, theic reuuiins onl.
homeless strangers. "Welcome, for the North xea and Heigen,"
wu have dear ones, alone, but notj And then they saw-,
friendless in your Amcrien." I The oldest burgher of them all
r
JUST GOT BACK FROM
AMD SAY THATS A YlSE LITTLE TOWM . WEMT INTC) A
CIGAR STORE FOR A PACKAGE OF CIGARETTES -"GinnE THE
BEST YOU GOT, SAYS -- MOT CARIhG WHAT THEY COST
'YOU HEAM THE OASIS, MISTER, "SAYS THE CLERK-
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NORWEGIAN WOMEN DO
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1 i I'Mifiri TTiT ''i. rt - AvH
Stixing and lirnity from outiloor life, count iy women In Xoiwny
Inl or In the fields in I he Inijliig mmiii, tiiltU gnats and ioks and tend tho
Isiruyanl fowls on faints is-rtheil high In the iiiouiitnliis.
For a mouth the forethoughtful lit
tlo town hummcil with the nrriial of
Ntrnngers.
Then the burgomaster suddenly de
manded that threo kroner (78 cents)
be added to (he taxus! The startled
burghers assembled for dictision.
"Why must o much be spent I "
"Heciuisc wo sliouhl begin (hedg
ing and suitclihuildiiig tomorrow."
Heroines Impoitnnt I'ort
He fore them n h- mup of uoitheru
Hiinqic lay tttirollcil. "Look ou,"
i urged the burgomaster us one who
AMD HE WAS RIGHT-
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KB 1HI MJLfV
MAN'S WORK ON FARM
.
lugged nut his bulky wallet with uu
air.
"Man," he said, "I did you wrong.
It is we that were the day dreamers.
Ilcgiu what work you will on the mor
row. Now that Hergcn is In bo the
poll of all the world, it shall neer
ho said we denied our burgomaster
three kroner."
And that is why tin biirgotuitsle
of Hergcn walks the new paved
Straudgadeii of his HlOtl-year-idd
town with Andrew McDowell, leather
duller frniirLiicrpool; Abraham Itas
uiinsy, tin) .New iurk commission
merchant, and Abdul Mohammed,
shipncr of Kgvpiiau maize, all hiimb
ly to heel,
-M I I - W
Ni:V YOltIC, Mm I'll l(t. -Cidumhia
uiiiwrsity him definitely deeidcd
ngaiust sending n crew to the Panama
Pacific exposition at Sail Francisco,
An invitation to compete in (he ex
position races was iccciwd, but the
expenses, estimated at $."10,000, was
considered piohihitlvc.
rfYORK
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THE EXCEPTIONAL
CIGARETTES
VALUABLE
COUPONS IN
EACH PACKAGE
jfefft?1jWu Uvm
WAHIIINOTON, March H! - Tho
purl played by American (ilploiiiiitln
and consular toprcitontntlU'H In tho
iioKotlallons limiting to thu sitrroiuler
of Hnoina lu Ashillo Turl(iy, which
failed Is told Is dtspatchen Just re
ceived by tho Mato dupuitmeitt from
Ihrt Anunlenii legultoii nt Athens,
(tiHcccc Tho moHKiinos diilo Huuday
stated that tho bombardment of
Hui) run by the Crouch Heel had con
tinued flctecly fiom Maich ft to
March Ulh when tho American lega
tion was adilnud by wireless that Ad
miral Pierce had a couimiinlnitlon to
deliver lo the Ottoman authorities' at
Hyutrna and asked that It bo trans
mitted tlnough tho American milium!
general here. Consul tlctmrnl Mor
ton went to Voiirlah, near .Smyrna,
and hoarded the llrlttsh flatiHlilp Ihir-
MiIun. Ilex hod a statement nil-
dressed In tho gurnor general say
ing that If tho dismantling of all tho
foitlflrathms. no further effort would
be made to html the placo cniitlntto
under Turkish rontiol. Money for
the relief of war nuffeiers wan also
promised,
Consul tlennial I lot ton reported
Hint tho Turkish governor lU'nnral'n
wns a ft.it ref until wbcruution tho
bombnrdmenl was rotiHuued uu tho
tlth.
Climate Failed;
Medicine Effective
HulToret m fr flu I ulir ulcinin ndnii
think I tin I nii.llcllin will lint lirlu
them I'lmli mi ri'Uill.tr linlillii nml
finuil fiMul alii in iiaturliiu li.mUli,
iui mum la titlnti im.lnl .Mm
hits u Iiuuii icilnrnl In lirnllli liy
Kihiiuiho AllPIHtive llrml tliH -(rliluH.
III.
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lriiMirn(nlll I Unr l.rrn Hr.l
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FROM $25.00 UP "
Also Cleaning, Pressing and Altering
128 E. MAIN. UPSTAIRS
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VJlCOfOW
E. C. NORRIS
formally with !', C. Hart of Tacoma
Ih tho now watch repnlrcr and being
an oxport wo uio prepared to do all
repairing with piomptnosH and guar
antee all work. Wo aUo do diamond
nottlng. mauiifnctiiilugi agato cut
Hug, mounting, engraving, oto,
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