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Show CIVIL WAR BREAKS OUT IN BERLIN FURIOUS GMTING OCCURRING IN STREETS. -- formation, fuijs. phonic messages from tin Ucrmau capital. All the bunk) are barricaded and a great number of 'the public dmlldlng are tn the hand of the Flairtacati, or extreme radical group. Thousands of nrmed workmen of the Kpartavus faction the enrreajxmdeiit rciort, ifre crowding tin streets and at several point firing lias begun. The sound of much i ue gun fire could be heard from all parts of Berlin, Thtf Independent Socialist, w imse lenders were recently dismissed from tite government, are rcjmrtd to have gone over entirely to the Fpurtncuns. These two groups have lssuinl.a joint proclamation, det luring that the final tight to preserve the revolution must iiuw be fought. , The message reported the Intention of the government to make an effort to storm the building of the iolice guard Inter In the day tmd take possession of all the machine guns and cannon there. . Dr, Karl Llebknefht, the Spurt a can leader, has been keen about the city organizing hlT roups for the final fight which, the corresjsmdent says, Is ex pected to begin very soon. 1 are reitortrtl Hundred of jersuu flying from the city. t Bird Law Declared Invalid. Washington, The federal migratory bird law of 0t3, tinder which the gov - , ernment for the first time exerted authority over prescribed closed sen nous' for wild birds which habitually migrate from state to state with the varying seasons, was tn effect declared Invalid on January T by the supreme courL which dismissed on the govern-nient'motion an appeal from a decision of the Arkansas federal district court, holding the statute uneonstltu thmal. j , a 4 , Cow Makes New Milking Record, Woodland, Cal. Tilly Ancurtra, registered Holstein Cow, was found to now worlds record for .have made milk production when results of one year's official test Were compiled, , January 7? Tillys production of the lacteal fluid was 33 4J4.8 jsmnds, 8he takes the honor from a Washington Holstein," Lutacke Vale Cornucopia of Cldmncum, which made a record of 1LL240.9 ounds two year ago. Stephana Attacks I. W, W, Sacramento, ChL "Unless lgorous-lI. W. W. stamped out, the will destroy lalmr as completely as It will destroy every other existing thing which la honest, noble and right, William I. Stephens said in his y ao-rall- Gov-ern- ' r the California assembly and Wilson Cable Hi Sympathy. Oyster Bay, N. V. Mrs. Roosevelt received on January ? cablegram of " sympathy from President Wilson, dated Modune,w tdetriwon the Prams Italian frontier, reading a follows; "Pray accept my heartfelt sjmpnthy on the death of your distinguished bus band, the news of which has shocked ' me very much. s l:4tfi or O INDIVIDUAL group of Individual can step Into the limelight and stay any time without becoming the subject of criticism of one sort or another. And the Amerl can soldier during hi comparatively short tldpatlon In the great world war baa come In for hi share. One of the most outstanding criticism of the American soldier a a , fighter de that he. doesnt know when to reckless , atop, that he tn his courage and seemingly devoid of all 4 fj&Hsw care as to his personal or safety in the accomplishment of a given object. These qualities of the Yankee,, fighter were shown recently at tne capture- of the town of Sergy by the American ' forces, - It was mornSunday ing. A platoon of 60 men was ordered to go into Sergy and to hold a certain street. The German were still in the town and were raking all road approaching with a storm of machine gun fire. The platoon emerged from a Wooded shelter on the north bank of the Ourcq a sloping field toward and made its the outskirts of the village. There it wa met with a withering hall of bullets that Immediately began to thin the ranks, but the men kept on go. well-bein- How English Aviator Exercised . , Y -- -- How Former Circus Clown Bore . J His Message Through Barrage . z Veuel Sink Off Virginia Coast Baltimore. - The ocean-gointug Piedmont sank off the Virginia coast slnce wt have all been old enough to . crew behind the things we see we have EVKU of ten died of exposure and a fourth as we have watched the antics of a man is not expected to live. The rest clown circus just what kind of a man he really Is of the crew, including the captain, mate and the first and second engi- when out from under the Mg tent and moving around In the everyday life of the ordinary man. neers, were rescued. It isnt likely, however, that we ever thought of as being of such stuff as heroes are made, clown a Plant Tree a Memorial. Is the story of a former circus clown w ho here New York. In order to give perma- but a real hero in the great war. became nent expression to all Cohmd Booso Klein of Brooklyn, X. Yn became a Charles xelt siood for, the ""Boy of the Na- member of the American, expeditionary forces. tion, 1(5,000 troops of the Boy Scouts In the spring, before General Foch turned Early mem-heof America, coinprlsing 440,0X1 the Germans and. have been - Instructed to. plant upon to drive them began one or more trees with suitable Inscripback to where tion and ceremony in memory of the came from, Kirin they was former president. detailed to the motorg tot-cycl- , - Iron. o The actions of this engine of destruction recall Victor Hugos great description of the gun which breaks loose from Its moorings on -beshipboard and comes . - some the, pi telling; goes, seems meditate; resumes Its to. comes, pauses, course, rushes along the ship from end to end like an arrow,, circles about, springs aside, evades, . ' , rears, breaks, kills, exterminates. sized charge, was a depth bomb The regular weighing hundreds of pounds, and it would hav been impossible for anyone to have lifted It and carried it to safety oven if one- of the crew had cared to take the risk of catching It in Its wild rushes and rollings about the deck. So the officers and men stood for a time watching the charge as It thrashed madly about wondering what to do, and not knowing what minute the infernal machine might explode and send all hands 4 flying Into eternity. cried someone The pin has com Suddenly ' out! ' Whether Mackenzie had been in some other part of the ship until that moment or whether he had been standing with the others staring in hopeless wonder and was only aroused by the cry, reports do not say. But it Is recorded that less than a second after the shout was raised the plucky Yankee boatswains mate dashed down the deck and flung himself on the rolling bomb, much after the . fashion that football players throw themselves on the ball. Thrce titnes he bad his arms about it, but each time it tore away, once almost crushing him as the roll of - the ship hurled It upon him. The fourttrtime,- however, he got a firm hold on it, and with almost superhuman effort heaved It upright on one flat end. Then Mackenzie sat down on the deadly charge though even in that position the bomb might have exploded and blown him to atoms- - and succeeded in holding It until lines could be run to him and the charge lashed safely to the deck. The commanding officer' of the Remllk la his be report recommending that the medal of honor -- conferred on Mackenzie, says; . Mackenzie, In acting as he did, exposed his Ufe and prevented a serious accident and probable loss of the ship and the entire crew. Had the depth charge exploded on the quarterdeck with the sea and the wind that existed at the time there Is no doubt that the ship would have been -- g Yes, answered the boy. Then go over the side and swim for all youre worth, But dont you want me to stay and help you? persisted the boy. Get over the side, commanded the pilot sharply,-- and - good-by- , sonny. It Is my privilege, you know. About 200 yards away the boy paused and looked back at the disabled plane. The pilot was crouched on the top of the under plane just over the bomb rack with a heavy wrench In his upraised hand, ready to strike a blow. mile away the first f the German destroyers was tearing the sea In Its haste to take the broken plane and get away before the British patrol should appear. The boy turned and swam away from the tragedy which he knew was about to take place. A few moments later there was the mighty roar of an explosion, and he heard the swish of the air blast along the surface waters and the rush of 'the approaching wave from the sea disturb-- suddenly indescribable, supernatural beast. It Is a machine which transforms itself into a. monster. This mass turns upon Ite wheels, has the movement otJb' - rapid , billiard ball, rolls with the rollfhg. pitches with - - , lost." r kIackpnzlc jj a natiTe.of Massachusetts. home Is South Hadley Falls. Hi Y. M. C. A. IN DARKEST USSJA. stone-quarryi-ng HER VOTE. - Tlow how yugbTng to vote, Grace? Depends on the weather. If It rains I suppose 111 have to vote In s mackintosh," Judge. -- ES&KlSSrSA & SK5TSJ th, fomtUla .f.rooth.-- naatut CMiiriaa-- c n rm, w ck, uu uk, Ct, EXPERT KODAK Finishing EHmRS HEirmira SuppUoa K?s swsS Lgk.sss."!; jKrr.15 a good fi officer tew week. commlaaion. CH or wrtle. Molir'SSC Crihnrea gWeatTempe St.. Salt FOB CONTROL OF UGLINESS tcienee Should Be Capable of Rem. tdytng or Preventing Defect, Either Physical Or Mental. that One member of a fam- or Imperfectly developed, while all the others are practically Why Is It . Ily la ugly perfect In form and features? Nearly every family has it ugly member. If the defects happen to be physical the afifferer will be known as the runt of the family, or if the defects are of the morals, as the black sheep. -- ' - . There are good and sufficient cause for all physical and moral ugliness and there la no reason why these cause may not be discovered and controlled. Why should one member of a fam- Ily be made sick by eating the same .food the others eat and that he hut eaten before? To say that it doesnt happen to agree With him may be satisfactory to some, bat Jo the Intelligent, Inquiring physician It Is not. There ts something wrong with the human machine or It would produce proper results. To the mechanical engineer Improper results are suggestive either of a tack or of a perversion of energy. The organ or portion, of machinery that ha failed to do Its proper share of work has not been supplied with Its proper share of nerve force. May we not apply the same rules to the building up of the body and of th mind also? ta J BOHEMIA UNO OF PATRIOTS Popular Idea Concerning the Country and Ita People Has Been Far From th Truth. When Shakespeare' wrote of the sea coast of Bohemia" he showed no cheerfoller disregard of fact than most of a now do when we think of that richly ktoried country as a land of gypslea forever bent upon gay or Bohemian ha wildsome adventure, stood for many an age as n appellation for carefree wanderers; yet as originally applied by th French it probably referred of the Bohemian martyr, 'John Hass. Spiritual and patriotic fervor rather than lightheartedness are the traditional marks of this of people, who after, long generations comar Subjection to Teuton Austria ing Into their own. Bohemia was the home of th" Czechs for hundreds of years before Gemianlc Invaders broke In upon Ite happy freedom, as early. Indeed, the sixth century before Christ The Czechs love of country and of liberty and their sense of Slavic JdnsMp with their oppressed Slovak brethren dwelldimmed". ing near by never died or Despite tyranny and persecution They have dung to pride in their- pa standi to bop for their future; they have cherished the!r language, their literature and custom, thelr common faith and Ideals. Atlanta Journal. -- silver-tongue- , e ISNT recorded that John Mackenzie, chief boatswain's mate In the United States naval reserve force, was once a great football playhe was recommended for an honor medal but er, and a gratuity of $100 for doing one of the greatever stunts est football reported. The navy department report shows that on the morning of December 17 a depth bomb on board the destroyer Remllk broke Moose from Its position on the stern of the craft, and, bursting Its boxing, went bouncing about the deck. A heavy sea was on at the time; in fact, the waves were breaking far over the stem of the destroyer, and the rolling and pitching of , the little craft sent the big bomb flying backward and forward to port and starboard, ..crashing into the .rails of the vessel and hitting everything upstanding on the deck with a force , that threatened to explode It feat any, moment and m G 1 errv Auto Gould the shade sf Henry Clay, roused from the The rural group (of the American I. M. C. A. in Russia? dealt with another need of slumbers of more than threescore years by the national pandemonium as HX) engineers tied down their magnitude. .The mighty Volga basin, covering more than half a million square whistle cords and shrilled forth exultant shrieks, miles, ts even In normal times wholly to feed theunable .have trod the atmospheric space from his haunts hug In the Blue Grass country to Sault Ste. Marie a population It holds. E. T. Cotton tn Association Men says a floating exhibit was made few weeks since, and looked with dull eyes on to visit and Impress the teeming riverside up the newly finished engineering feat spread out befcommunities ore1-Ms astonished gaze, he would have been ' toPortwe of more sowing, better pro duction amt fuller conservation. A staff forced to admit that his declaration back tn 1840 of 35 w'as was at least shortsighted, organized to demonstrate with models, moving lantern slides, charts and lectures such n!cS It Is a work quite beyond the remotest settleJure, neg-ttment of the United States, If not fa the moon, Se!ectlon. cultivation, dairy-rrnsaid Henry. Clay on that memoaabte occasion, Jl?ri Cn tWe an,mal husbaniry, bee keeping, d when by the power of his oratory r?fty ,lf for children and other be Influenced the congress of the United States to . aspects rnon,y community welfare. defear a measure hy which a canal could be dug This association conception and undertaking around St. Marys falls. von Instant recognition,, the government farnlsh-- , He ws believed, and the project that now In steamboat, a barge and some funds. finished form ranks in world Importance far greater than the Sue canal, and la some minds greater ..I,; FINDS FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH. than the Panama canal, was condemned as Impractical. It was not until 12 years later that No place in the United States or Canada congress saw Its mistake and yielded to the perlower death rate than Kelleys Island, Lake has a suasion of Influential citizens of Michigan and according to Dr. Iaul Fitzgerald, chief of an eastNevf York to grant an appropriation of land ern Insurance companys bureau of statistics. whereby the state of Michigan could finance the .The island, the home of a large excavation of a canal. J. rani Chandlei ia Detroit Industry, is the home of approximately 5,000 Free Press. peo th ,nsaranc company Ms Men In- - - 1 - FJJTURE HIDDEN FROM CLAY. 1 te of JEMVELRy $ I r, cycle squad as a disWoman Bandit Attired as Man. patch rider. Tacoma, Wash Three negroes, one One day early in May, a woman attired as a man, were cap- Klein was sitting in a tured by military police, after an ex- dugout watching the big change of shots, and flOOj) taken in shells at they went the robbery of the army bank In the sbreamtng and whiscantonment was recovered. tling overhead. But while Klein was Many . Killed Jn Explosion, bombardwatching Between fifteen and ment he received orIlttsburg. twenty peroMis, mostly women and der to report to' the girls, were killed and more than a commanding officer of the unit to which he was zeore of others Injured here late Tues- attached. This officer gave Klein a message to de- day when an explosion wnccked 8 film liver at once, the carrying of this message meaning that be would have to ride straight through- a hot exchange building. that had just been laid down. barrage Dynamite Explosion Kills Four, Without a moments hesitation, with eagerness Pinole, Cal. Four men were killed even, the former clown a mighty serlous-mlndepound of courier now took the message, mounted his roe y the expUadon of n r.e In e : jrii k gels dpi aed started on his perttousxlder ji jnlxln gjl a t of the II miles rowdur'campatty. There racket sounded as though a hundred The The boiler factories had broken loose, v ere no olhei a ill the building. said Klein later, detonation wa heard fm mile. f IT curely? In-hin- d Deadly blow' the boat to scrap VIATORS were often compelled to destroy their own machines to prevent the Germans from obtaining some Jealously guarded secret about the new type of aircraft This Is a story of aa aviator who did that at jthe cost of his own life,, There were two men the pilot and his observer In the latest flying boat which" Englands aircraft builders had turned out. The two flyers were' well out to sea when a fog came down and cut them off from their companions. The pilot headed for home, but the engine suddenly died. A hasty examination showed the 'pilot that only a repair shop and a squad of expert mechanic could hope to make the engine run again. He told the observer so, and the two men the observer was really little more than a boy sat down to watch and wait with the hope that a British patrol boat would come along and pick them up. The night came' otTand the young observer fell and asleep. The pilot sat on the listened all the night through. In the morning the fog lifted and the observer, looking put over the waters, caught sight of a little black smudge on the horizon, which grew steadily in size, and behind It another smudge and another. It was a .patrol flotilla rapidly approaching them. The boy was elated. ; : It is German, ray son, spoke the older man In : a quiet voice, as be turned his eyes from the smudges to his rock- -' Ing craft Have you your life belt on sedeck-coamin- a Depth Bomb and Saved a Ship -- . j Tackled How Man , i the Commanders Privilege wny-acroxs -- I w g As the little company drew nearer the town the fire from the German machine guns Increased, ft became so deadly accurate that by the time the platoon had entered the tillage only 20 odd of the original 50 men remained, and James Ily-land of Brooklyn, N.-was one of those 20. on Immediately entering the town the platoon made Us way to the street It had been ordered to hold. The men sought shelter behind a pile of debris at the head of the thoroughfare, a poor shelter Indeed and one swept by machine guns' and sniper from three sides. But the Ueutenant In command, who Is flour dead, decided that Inasmuch as bis orders were to stay there until relieved, there he would stay. ' Every Hun In that end of the town seemed t be directing hlf undivided attention to the llttla Ita flimsy shelter. company of Americans The snipers were everywhere. A particularly deadly fire cam from machine guns placed In a Bed Gross building; so fierce was it that the men spent nearly all of their ammunition trying to get those guns, and finally rushed the building, but they had to come back. Foodless and waterless, they stayed there all that day. As the hours dragged on, the, gallant band grew smaller and smaller. By afternoon rll e officers had been killed and-th- e privates elected commanders, who one b one Were shot down. When relief reached them at seven oclock that evening Hyland and one comrade whose name Isnt given were all that were left of the 60 who Mailed out In the morning. Hyland was In command, and the two men . weyfl shooting their last cartridges at the machine gunners up the street they had been ordered to bold. JTKJLET BARGAINS IN USED CARS . & - ing. too MAM knew no more. He was still sobbing deliriously when the British patrol boat picked him up an hour later. The pilot had exercised his privilege, my machine. Bung! Another exploded to th left of me, and I put on some more steam. Then a whojqwr hissed over me Just missing the top of my tin derby, hut I kept on going. Say,- once I rode a white mule In the, circus that no one else could ride he broke my arm and tattooed me with cuts and bruises. The mulea name was Snowball, and that animal seemed to have a hundred heels every time I tried to get on her back. But, believe me. one Boche shell Is worse thin a hundred Snowballs, It the hardest work" I ever did to dodge the holes In the1 road.' - Bing I A shell plunked behind meant) ripped off my back tire. Bing) A piece of shrapnel knocked off my helmet, but never touched me. Then I began to smell mustard gas. My eyes watered so that It was hard for me to Bee. I dont know how I did 1L but I delivered my message, and when I woke tip I was In the hospItaL Talk about mules In a circus! Mustard gas Is mighty rough stuff. I'm telling you, and It doesn't help to make speed on a motorcycle, either, And then, because of his smile and his ability a an entertainer In the hospital, Klein was nlcks named Sunny Charles. , of-th- of senate. . How Two Yank Soldiers Held Enemy Street Till Help Came . tnM80 MAKERS - 4Hi4k -- f - , i ance. The wave engulfed him Just as he began to hear the splash of the tailing debris, then be Jmt I put on full steam, and the old motorcycle ahead like a kangaroo. leaped -Bing! A big shell busted only ten feet from Heroes w ere made every day during the tear. Thousands of Armed Workmen of Unusual deeds of I ravery became so common ' Spsrtacus Faction Are Joined by that Utils attention was paid to them. SomeIndependent Socialists in Fight times they found their way into official disAgainst Present Government. patches, tut often no one heard of them. But now many stories of these brave ads are being Berlin H la a state of x Copenhagen. complete anarchy and civil war has told, usually by the pals of the men who dared begun there, according to the Munich end died for their country and for humanity. ccirreepondeut of the I'olltikon. His In- Below are a few of these unusual stories: Is bused on telehe -- - ' gantn-jl- CanaIT gjtjr At Canton, the oldest city In southern CMaa, the river ts. tn effect, n tied, and th shipping H heavy fW varied. The water Is deep enough as ships of 1,000 tons burden as far up come boats the dty, but foreign miles only as far as Whampoa, nine are to the southeast, where there tensive flocks. Here the loading and unloading la don by Batlve boats. Vessels of deep draft II outride tbs bar. Forty miles below is the Boc the Tigris (Mouth of the Tiger), ed water widen into a wide estuary-te- r divides the old from the new tows and surrohnds the Island and the sub nrba, where the European live, that Canton ha an abundance of Plc" turesque water life. Including houseboat population. the Title. artist tells of According to A well-know- n ' amusing colloquy which took plaee aa art gallery between two yovf Glet women about a copy of Millet ra. On of the young voo tarried sway by her enthusiasm. How beautiful 1 Hew wooderfuL Above aU,JJf art she exclaimed. r eatural r JhenT hHcfi what are those people doing?" Drtw Ing Beam- to read the title, she ! - . ' Il""j f enlightened.- Ing millet ! beautiful F- - Oh, now I seel Dow wonderful I ' . uo . |