Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 175, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1915 — Page 3

lEame to a sudden finish intervention of Cyclone Ended Phy». j leal Conteat Between the "Old Man” and Sue. F “Never, never, shall I forget how that ar" cyclone swooped down on us," ' Bald the old man. "It was about three Jft’elock tn the afternoon and me an’ the old woman was hoeln’ corn down Khar* by the river. I was ahead of her about two hills an’ she hit me on the heel with her hoe. [ “ ‘You did that, on purpose to be Moan,’ sec I as I turns about. | , '■ ‘Yer dratted heels ar' too long by g t foot,* wz she, as she bristles to ■ “’Yer another!’ yell# I, as 1 drops tny hoe. '“Take it back!’ yells she, as she aplts on her hands and squares off. ‘“Never! Sue White, I’m gwfno to ■wipe the meanness out o’ yo’ or die Ktryin'!’ ■ ‘“You can’t wallop nuthln’, ole man.’ ■ ‘‘With that,” he continued, "we Clinched and that than tout was sun Ulin’ jlst awful to see. The corn was about knee high and 1 reckon we deatr. >yed half an acre of it as we pranced about. Bimeby I gin her a twist and a flop an’ she went sailin’ and jlst then the cyclone busted iu on us from the river. The ole woman ■Was waitin’ to cum down so’a to tackle toe again, when thar’ was a biff skit! •-skit!—and I never sot eyes on her again.” »| ‘‘Was she blown away?’’ I queried IF“Blowed away like a feather, sir. While I was flung down and got hold of a bush. That cyclone made a sweep over forty miles long and we never found her mangled remains, even. Poor old Sue!” L “It must have surprised her?” [ “Yes, I think it did. She had her fingers all spread out to clutch my ha’r as she cum down, an’ she war Bayin’ as how he’d make a wreck o’ me when she lighted, and then thar’ cun a whiff! whiff! and she was gone. She must have bin powerfully surprised but the Lord’s ways ar' past findin tout, an’ supper’ll be ready in about five minits.”—Chicago Daily News. a Armed Citizenry. The suggestion that the people of the United States form clubs and com p&nles for rifle practice and familiar Jze themselves In the use of weapons In readiness for protection in case of war is only new in the form of the weapons in which we are asked to become skilled. In an epistle to the sheriff of London, dated .Tune 12, T 349, 566 years ago, Edward 111 sets forth how "the people of our realm, as well of good quality as mean, have commonly in their sports before these times exercised their skill of shooting ar Tows; whence it is well known that honor and profit have accrued to our whole realm, and to us, by th® help 'of God, no small assistance in our ‘warlike acts. Now, however, the said skill being, as it were, wholly laid aside,” the king commands the sheriff to make public proclamation that “every one of the said city, strong in body, at leisure times on holidays, use In their recreations bows and arrows, •f pellets and bolts, and learn and exercise the art of shooting, forbidding all and singular on our behalf that they do not after any manner apply themselves to the throwing of stones wood or iron, handball, foctball, bun dy ball, cambuck or cock-fighting, nor Buch like vain plays which have no profit in them.” Cambuck or cammock was the ancient name for hockey or shinny. More Asbestos Produced ! The asbestos-producing industry oi the United States is growing. Fci many years we have been the greatest manufacturers and users of asbestos drawing cur raw material fr. m Can ada, but we are now getting some excellent fiber in our own country. The most notable feature of the asbestos industry in 1914 was the development of a new field in Arizona, which is furnishing a grade of fiber that c< m pares very favorably with the Cana dlan. As the mineral occurs in the Grand canyon it is frequently desig nated Grand Canyon asbestos, although the deposit in that remarkable natural wonder is not yet product;' asbestos commercially. For elent, i' installation the Arizona asbestos is even better than the Canadian product for it contains a lower percentage of iron. Asbestos of a low grade has been produced in Georgia for many years. Lightning Begins on Time. ' A bolt of lightning, shooting through an 18-lnch stone wall at the home oi William Reese, near Valley Forge, Pa., tore a hole in the building as large as a man’s head, struck a grandfather’s clock in a room where the family was gathered and threw the glass door of the clock across the room, shattering it into a thousand pieces over the head of the farmer, who was lying on a couch. ■ The bolt, stunning his oldest daughter. rendering the younger daughter deaf and shocking all in the room, discharged itself through the lower portion of the house, and a dog which lay on the floor was killed. The works of the clock were damaged and the wood splintered. Algeria's Population. Algeria has a total population of between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000, of whom only a little more than 800,000 are of ■European origin. The French have not found it expedient during this war Ito insist upon compulsory military > [Service on the part of the native Mo[hammed an population.

CHANGES IN WARFARE MODERN generals are unlike THOSE OF NAPOLEON’S TIME. Now Do Their Work Out of Sight of the Armies They Command, and Move Men as Would a Chess Player. Generalship today is about as much like generalship of Napoleon’s time as two-old-cut is like a major' league game, writes Frederick Palmer in Collier’s V eekly. The general who watches the battle from a hill will be blown to bits by artillery fire. I've never seen a general on a horse in this war. If he travels, it is in a motor car. and he travels very little. He sits in front of a map covered with blue and red penciled lines of the trenches and the enemies. A dozen experts are around him—each a specialist. He is but the chairman of the council, the silent man who listens. The others plan and organize: he nods. Photographs from aeroplanes tell him the change each day in the trenches. He works with a card-index system of lives and material. An expert in a brigade command decides whether it’s practicable to gain a few trenches; the division staff decides to let the brigade commander try, or perhaps carries it up to the corps staff, which may in turn pass it on to the great staff. A Joffre or a Von Hindenburg sits on the lid. He must keep his mind on the great main object: he must not botner with details; and he must never, never lose his head. Os Joffre they say that when re-en-forcements are demanded he is always slow- to respond. Yet they always arrive if they are needed. In one day I have seen 60,000 French troops pass over a single line of railway, for they may be sent very rapidly when necessary. Joffre is not caught napping, though he always sleeps his eight hours a day. Von Hindenburg seems never perplexed, never rushed, though he has struck such telling and sudden blows. Where Napclecn threw in 10,000 reserves and from his horse watched them double past to change the tide of battle. Von Hindenburg throws 300,000 men on railroad trains in the night into East Prussia, and everlastingly surprises and overwhelms the Russians. Meanwhile, in what seemed a fierce and desperate attempt to break through in front of Warsaw, he was only feinting. But he did not make a half feint. It cost him twenty or thirty thousand casualties. The allied newspapers were rejoicing in his repulse before Warsaw when he was preparing his coup in East Prussia. Some Germans who were taken prisoners in front of Warsaw had on their persons copies of orders indicating that the frontal attack was to be pressed. Perhaps those Germans fell prisoners very easily.—Frederick Palmer in Collier's Weekly. Eminent Scholar to Retire. Dr. Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, who is to retire from Johns Hopkins university at the end of the scholastic year, is, with the exception of Dr. Ira Ramsen, the last man of the original university faculty. His reason for retiring is his age, he having passed the eighty-third milestone. Doctor Gildersleeve, a native of Charleston, S. C„ is recognized as one of two greatest Greek scholars in the world, and has been at work on a Greek Syntax, said by Greek scholars to be the most wonderful work of its kind ever attempted, and which he has himself said he never expects to live to complete. His associates in the department of Greek of the university, Dr. C. W. E. Mtiler and Mr. Edmund Speiker, will probably finish it. Honors conferred on him by the scientific institutions of the world are many, and bis treatises on classical languages are in general use In educational circles. Dirigible for the Navy. It is announced that the navy department has ordered a dirigible aircraft from a Connecticut company, which is to be delivered within four months and will cost $45,636. fihis craft will be 175 feet long, feet in height and will accommodate eight men. The speed will be 25 miles an hour. This craft cannot be seriously regarded as a fighting machine, but is probably intended merely for practice purposes and for training operators tor possible future craft. The battle cruiser North Carolina, which has become superannuated, is to be remodeled to serve as an aviation ship, and will be sent to Pensacola, which is to be made a station and school for training aviators. As soon as it is finished the new airship will bo sent to the same place and a floating hangar is to be provided to shelter It.—Scientific American. Russian Newspaper In Stockholm. A Russian newspaper under the name of Skandinavskij Ltstok is now being regularly published in Stockholm. It is estimated that there are 15,000 Russian sultfects residing in that city, and it is the intention of this paper to meet the needs of these people. One reason for establishing the paper is the difficulty of receiving Russian papers regularly in Stockholm, owing to the uncertainty of mail deliveries. It is also the intention of this paper to devote a large part of its space to commercial interests and attempt to join Scandinavia and Russia more closely in this respect. It will bo noupoliticai as fai us possible.

PREHISTORIC WORKS IN OHIO — In the State There Are Some Five Thousand Remains of Ancient Civilization. On the banks of the Scioto, within four miles of Columbus, on its north boundary, stand two conspicuous examples of the work of the prehistoric peoples of that vicinity. One is on the old Flennlken farm, on the east bank of the river, and on the west side of the river road, about a mile north of tho water pumping station and filtration plant. The other is on the west side of the river, three miles farther north, and is on the west side of the road that skirts the west shore of the river. It is on the Shrum farm. They are mounds of the same type and of considerable size. They stand on level planes, from which they rise abruptly and symmetrically to a height of twenty or twenty-five feot. It must appear to any observer, writes H. J. Galbraith in the Columbus Dispatch, that they are artificial and not natural mounds. The owners of the properties have long placed high values on them and have not been disposed to permit them to be opened. As a mat--ter of fact scientific archeologists are not anxious to explore these mounds, for, while they admire them as examples of the work of the ancient inhabitants here, they know from experience in exploring such earthworks that it is extremely unlikely that they would yield anything worth the time and labor it would take to make the explorations. There are several less conspicuous mounds in the county that Doctor Mills, the curator of the museum at Ohio State university, would prefer to open, mounds that the general public would lightly regard, if indeed they would recognize them as the work of prehistoric peoples at all. There is a mound of this kind on the Olentangy river near Worthington that is hardly known at all to the general public that Doctor Mills has been watching for some time. “I know that mound would yield a rich store of treasures,” said he. “There Isn’t any sort of doubt about it, but I feel sure that anyone who would explore the two Scioto mounds would get little for his pains.” Counting them all, big and little, there are probably 150 earthworks ot these ancient people within the borders of Franklin county, and five or six thousand in the state of Ohio. No other state in the Union is richer in the evidences of a prehistoric civilization than tho Buckeye state is. Chilean Ties for Italian Railways. It is reported that a definite ogroement has been reached by the Italian state railways and a group of Chilean lumbermen, acting in conjunction with the Chilean state railways, in the negotiations that have been pending for some time past in regard to the purchase by the Italian railroads of 10,000,000 Chilean ties. The contract dimensions of the ties are: Two meter 40 centimeters (94.49 inches) by 14 centimeters (5551 Inches) by 24 centimeters (9.45 inches), running about 15 ties to the ton. Delivery is to be made at the rate of some 2,000.000 ties per year, to be carried to Italy as a return cargo on Italian steamers bringing Cardiff coal to the Chilean state railways. The principal ports of shipment will be Corral and Puerto Montt. The contract price is not known, but the obtaining of this contract is looked upon as a marked step in the development of the Chilean lumber industry. The Silver Lining Appears. The Association of Skirt, Dress and Suit Makers have decreed tlrat lovely woman’s attire shall be more roomy the coming fall season. This Is a bright spot on the horizon for the cotton grower. There are said to be 20,000,000 women in this country alone who wear clothes, and should the fashion require a yard and a half more cloth for a dress, it would mean a consumption of 30,000,000 yards more cloth. Fiacres do not lie. Here is a ray of sunshine that ought to dissipate the gathering gloom. Now if the Filipinos and Chinese and Cubans and other nationalities that aspire for recognition in the world of civilization should require that their skirts be made an Inch longer cotton ought to jump like it did when Sully was in the market.—Selma Times. Cows Ate Dynamite. A herd of eight cows near Columbus, Ga., is dead, and ®. E. Covington, their owner, attributes it to their having eaten dynamite, and has notified the owners of the explosives that unless they make good the loss of his cattle they will be sued. It is alleged that tho cows were browsing in the vicinity of the waterworks plant north of the city, and, on account of a fence breaking down, were allowed access to a quantity of dynamite stored in a ditch. It Is further claimed that the animals ate the dynamite, and, instead of being blown up in a spectacular way, died of indigestion. Connecting Archangel With Siberia. One of the zemstvos of the government of Vologda is handing in a petition concerning the connection of Archangel with Siberia by means of the following water route: Northern Dwina-Vychegda-Pechora-Ob. The establishment of such a water route was planned In 1909, when, by imperial order. a special expedition was sent out to make the necessary investigations. This route would be of the greatest Importance for the exportation of Siberian products to European Russia as well as to foreign countries.

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