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Is- BRITISH IN THE TRENCHES AT LIEflRE

Trench fighting, as depicted in the photograph above, has become on of the most distinctive features oz modern warfare. Accordingly, most of the military operations during the great war spectacle, War in Indiana, to be staged at- the" Indianapolis motor speedway, Monday, September 0, will revolve around entrenchments. Filled with infantry and machine gun platoons, these ditches are expected to blast forth sheets of flame that will

mnihilate everything belore them.

Prohibition's Support By James C. Kelly Prohibition is not an innovation. For almost a century it has figured in political and social experiments. The alternating adoption and rejection of the prohibition theory by various commonwealths and its failure to win the universal approval by the masses after these years of experiment constitute one of the strongest evidences of the fallacy of the whole prohibition scheme. Prohibition boasts today of the territory it has conquered and yet the shrewd leaders of the movement realize only too well that with the assistance of none but the prohibitionists their gains would have been impossible. In other words, prohibition is not getting ils main support from those who condemn liquors and their use, but from persons who object to certain features connected with the dispensing of liquors and who, in the absence of any other remedy, turn to prohibition. Were this conclusion false we would not find the professional "dry" agitators so careful to frame their prohibition legislation so that it does not interfere with the consumption of strong drink. Prohibition is getting the votes of many classes of people, who arc not at heart prohibitionists, and for many reasons. First there is the man who is disgusted with law violations by : jme engaged in the liquor trade. ' Then there is the man who objects to the saloon in politics, but who probably does not realize that the saloon is not in politics of its own choice. Still another class, which judging the many by the few and more conspicuous, unjustly associates the sale of liquor with crime and immortality. From such as these, who cherish no prejudice against the use of liquor or who have no desire to destroy the industry it represents, does prohibition get its votes. Remove the cause of their complaints and the prohibition movement will decline. Adv.

A WAY up in the mountains of Western North Carolina are the beautiful and attractive resorts of Asheville, Black Mountain, Hendersonville, Brevard, Lake Toxaway, Saluda, Waynesville, (Lake junaluska), Flat Rock, Hot Springs, and Tryon. Spend your vacation at one of these cool and delightful places or at Tate Spring, Tenn. Round trip Excursion tickets are on sale daily, good until October 31st, via iH. COUTHJERN iLWAV JVwtor Carrier of the South Stop-overs allowed at all points. Three special Low Rate Excursions will be run during the summer. Ask for details. For full information see Ticket Agent. Southern Railway, or write P. H. Todd, District Passenger Agent, Louisville, Kentucky.

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Indiana, Friday, AUGUST 20, 1915,

25 PURDUE EXPERTS AT THE INDIANA STATE FAIR A staff of about 25 experts from Purdue University will spend thoi week of Sept. 6 at the Indiana State ;Fair, giving their entire attention to ! helping Boosier farmers witk their home problems. This is one o the greatest educational forces at the In- J diaxia Fair, and is one of many educa-j tional features that the exposition al-! ways offers to the filters of the soil, state. The Purdue exhibit is being entirely re-erganized for the coming, Fair and it as well as 5 the instruction will keep pace with the advancing mterests of people from toe farms. The Purdue dairy exnibii. demon-' strations and discussions will make this kind of instruction of still more benefit to men and women from the

farms who come to the Fair The Indianapolis. state-wide enthuPurdue chemists will instruct the , - ir j. farmers in the sale of feeding stuffs aBm " manifesting itself regarding and fertilizers, as the new state law the mllltafy tournament and war requires, and an extensive exhibit of spectacle, "War m Indiana," to be fertilizers will be shown. Soil and stagtd at the Indianapolis motor crop improvement, rotation f crops, speedway, Monday, September 6. farm drainage, cultivation, and many Not since the days of the Spanishmore subjects win be treated by the American war has such vital and Purdue men. Fighting hog cholera, abaorbin4? interest in military affairs garden and orchard pests, Paltry be(m nt raising, and other lines of farming . ... activity will be other kinds of instruc- 7he purpose of the production, to tion available. The Purdue instruc- lBe money for a building fund

tion and exhibits will, in fact, make snort cuts to scientinc iarmmy cnat every farm man and woman may go home from the Fair with new ideas. ine state rooa commissioner win have a umque d.aplay shöwing

illegal kind, sanitation in keeping s universal appeal, foods, fraudulent medicines and drugs. Twenty-flve hundred men, mcluding a troop of United States cavalry, STATE FAIR RACES OF eralb iJ2& THE HIGHEST ORDER entire infantry of the Indiana national guard, and hospital and signal Indiana State Fair harness races, in corps,, will combine to make this the which the horses have an honest most gigantic war spectacle that has chance to show their speed, and in ever been produced, which the entertainment of the spec- Every effort will be made to rotators is made paramount, will be of produce in detail the various phases the usual high order the week of Sept. .f. , v, " 6. Purses and stakes abrogating f tltac cffllc nw, & ln $30,000 will be awarded, t program EuroPO- , The trench fighting, the for each day being as follows: attacks through barbed wire entangloMONDAY, Sept. 62:28 trot, purse, ments, the long range artillery duolß, $1,000; 2:12 pace, ?1,000; 2:16 trot, and th devastating Are of machine $1,000; 2:2p pace for 3-year-olds and gUiw, idl will be seen in operation at under, $1,000. the speedway. nnnU9 9?AY,SM Many features not ordinarily 000; 2:25 pace, $1,000; 2:25. trot for ,.fU. V. a A T,iiOM. a'

5-year-olds and under, $1,000; 2:07 nace. $1.000. WEDNESDAY, Sept. 82:17 pace, $1,000; 2:14 trot, $1,000; Western Horseman stake No. 6 for 8-year-old rmnnve v1 flflfl 9 91 f ivf t1 11 Afl THURSDAY, Sept. 9-2:16 puce, $1,000; 2:11 trot, ?10'0; Western

vXnnvC is nnn. 9.1 n nn. 1 nn a L- Bumbotiffh, the noted aeronaut, Wircnc.raic act naa Doen repeaica. FRIDAY, SepT 10 2 :18 trot, Jlr wil1 9 forth on bomb dipping ex- and, a verdict of wülful murder bav000; 2:20 pace, $1,000; 2:08 trot $1,'- petitions. ing been returned against one Ool000; 2:03 pace, $1,000. Armored motor cars, mounting ma-'W the chief instigator of the a-

uuring tne races tne Indianapolis Military Band will give concerts at tne grancistanu ana tnc following open air vaudeville bill will be seen: Collicr & Devvalde, performing wonder- ! fi fnf. nf fnnU nnH fvw.f cVBHn.. Weber sisters, rapid fire ground aerobats; Freres DeKock troupe of sensational hurirlers of human belncrs: Howard's animals in mirth-provoking tricks by bears and dogsf the Whirlwind Genoas, lightning pyr&miders. rZ ,.u c Officers of the Fair. The officers of the fair and department manairers. who are all memhfrR i" ' " of the State Board of Agriculture, are: President, Warren T. McCrav.

Kentland; vice-president, Charles H. " ' . , , . , Anthony, Muncie; secretary and treas- In hn0' nof a idetai1 v!" be nogurer, Charles Downing, Indianapolis; lected to make the event, from the Superintendent of admissions, W. G. point of view of the spectator, visuHimmelwright, Frankfort: grand- ally perfect. An attendance of from stand, Cornelius O'Brien.. Lawrence- fifty to seventy-five thousand is exburr; speed, Charles H. Anthony; pCCted. horses, Dan C. Reed, Attica; cattlu,

Clem Oraves, .bunker Hill; sheop, John L. Thompson, Gas City; swine, Mason J. Niblack, Vincennes; poultry, Harry M. Moberly, Shelby ville: art. S. F. Spohn, Goshen; horticulture, John . Haines, Lake; agriculture. I.. B. t?,.. ni-iin. n,un:ni ' TT, o

Tuel, Corydon; concessions, Sam 0. stamed part with, warm water withDungan, Indianapolis; coliseum, John out' soap, then ruh with ammonio Isenbarger, North Manchester; amuse-1 m.i with warm water. If no'

muntb, unancb iruvib, uayecte. Would fcult Him Bettp, Aunty-Willie, an angtl brought your mamma such a nice new brother for you last niSht ; Wonldn't you Ilk. to Me the deir little baby! TT Hii-w i w u m a u umck

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r BJ ... Peopift Manifest Gf0at Interest rn u Canau 1,1 war opöCiaCre. MEN TO JOIN BATTLE n CjiyaJ rf ' II . --f Dpict European Warfare. ..1 which will reBult in the erection of nauonai guara armories tnrougnout the state, so that the defense of the nation may be better administered, is being Hpsed in the popular eye by, th spectacularity of the proJect wi jf 1. 1 4 U1Ü,"U1,U invii nut wie jyvunuiiüHi troojRt 1R the state hax been added by the management. An aeroplane squadron, trained by the celebrated loop-the-v,- Tn T UJ HPU ;,n do scout duty, whü dirigible bal-1 j,p0n8 under tko guidance of Captain emn un, an arisen oy sucn notea 1 racinf pilote.as Barney Oldflekl and, Hwdy Wilcox, will inject themselves uÄ Q.:iDT.Kr ...if speedway being particularly Butted movement of these bulky vehicle. To make the scene as realistic an

possible, European villages will b In terms of his relations with the erected on the ucene of action, to bo'nhvsinal world.

subjected to shell fire and finally iblovvn in at?ms uß'bthi con; centrated action of artiUery and aerial attacks. Mines wiU be placed kill UUkHUUV l.VU4Va W OIIUVVl tho columns of the onrushing ini.. tttlni on Ltather. Stains from leather are removed Kv fha use of naraftin. It likewise Jna . lHlionf nleVi Tn tattiovp j i : -u i-v. lUfmr and Bimp sUins wash the ' aA nlnfc Forced to Surrender. The young man had asked the father for his daughter and been refused. "Then you will not give me Jane?" he hoarsely demanded. "I didn't speak in Yolapuk, did ?" sneered J ane s father. The young man paused at the door. "I am considered a good looking fellow " he said. "Ladies turn and ßtare after me as I pass along the Btreet. Your cook smiled at ine jonight while I lingered at the side door. I returned the smile. Now I will follow up this favorable impression. I will make love to tht cook. In a week we will elope!" The old man turned pale. "Don't talk like that!" he gasped ; Ycm wouldn't 1 cruel enough to , , Qf mv Cf)ok, N noj jff.t j . :mi. Pl; n..i

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WITCHCRAFT IN, iflGLAND. t4 Th Last of the Judicial Prosecutions and Executions. Sir Matthew Hale, it is true, had

hanged two poor women at Cam-Bpofce Are you aware, sir," she bridge in 1664, hut a few years later- ben, "that one hand of the BarLord Chief Justice Holt set him- tholdi statue measures sixteen feet

eelf strongly against such charges and in every ease tried before him directed the jury to tpng in a verdict of acquittal. Inva celebrated trial at Guildford in 1701 not only was the supposed witch found not guilty, but her false accuser, one John Hathaway, was condemned to a year's imprisonment and to stand in tho pillory three times. Yet, horrible to relate, a woman, named Hicks and her daughter, a child of nine, were hanged together at Huntingdon on July 2 1716, for raising a storm of wind in league with the devil. The last judicial sentence for witchcraft in England was in 1736, one Jane Wenham being actually found guilty, according to the indictment, of "conversing familiarly with the devil in the form of cat." The Judge, howevdr; procured a reprieve for poor old Jane, and Ehe was ultimately released, to end er days in peace. riaJ hn wifnnrrnff irf wn rntv! p uus btnue veai. -tt waa-uxtc time, for only nine years earlier, in 1727, a woman was brought before Captain David Eoss, deputy sheriff of Sutherland, charged with "causing her daughter to be shod by the devil," and bo making her lame both in hands and feet. The "fact having been proved to the captain'a satisfaction, the oldoman was put into a tar barrel and burned at Dornoch. The weather being cold at the time, we are told that ehe "sat composedly warming herself by the fire prepared te consume her while tho other instruments of death were getting ready' - The last attempt to execute a witch in England ended disastrously for the perpetrators. In 1751 ai Tring two old people named Osborne, man and wife, beinep suspected of witchcraft, wero seized by a .crowd, stripped, cross bound and m, V- Both died of ! brutal treahnont. But the tault he was in duo COUTSO tlifd ' a LACmhm MacraW .d hanged. Cornhill Magazine His GVaVWe!ght. Nothing expresses better the importance of a person flMfcis own or In the world's eyes than to state it , Oliver Wendell Holmes, it will be ' recalled, remarked that the axis of lt nJ nL-m A,mr na the earth sticks out m every man s .. m j, .. . similar kind is recorded of Wash ington Irving. The conversation was turned on the pomposity t a certain American diplomatist.' "Ah, he is a great man," said Irving, "and in has own estimation a very great man a man of great weight. When he goes to the west the east tips up!" Not Afraid of a Ghoat. In a village in England man went running into an frui &t 9 o'clock at night and cried out that there was a ghost in his hack There wero fourteen men in tb. inn, and not one of them dared to home with the man and invesligo gate. There was a person who üared, however, and that waa the landlord's daughter, a girl of fourteen. Some of the men followed her at a distance, and sho went into the yard and up to the ghost, flapping its arms about, and discovered & man's white shirt napping on the dothesline in a strong breeze. Thatf s about the way all ghosts tura wil Exchange. The Unwitting Jetr. Here are some gem -nsvrer. to questions put in recent - history

examination ' large private chool : "Simon de Monrf ort i'onnpd what was known as the ral -parliament. It was something the same as it is at the present day." "Cromwell raised a famous body of todiers known to history aa the Iromclads.' " "Mortmain tried to stop dead men from leaving their land to ckurciiea' London Tatler. V. n , LX H il 'I II"' I - -

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reasons For Being Indlgnint. There was something in the at mosphere which told him that things were not exactly the same. Silence followed soon after th 'usual greetings, but at length sho five inches?" "So I have heard," he nodded, happy to be addressed agaim 'The thickness of the head from ear to ear," she pursued icily, "is im feet." N "Yes." " "The nose is four feet six inßhea Ions." "That's right." "The mouth is three feet across "I believe so. Just imagine it." "The waist thirty-five feet around." "Y-yes. Why?" "Then will you kindly explain( sir," she continued, "why you stated? in the poem which you addressed to me that ) reminded you of tho Goddess of Liberty ?" Ladies' Homo Journal. ' Street Lighting. The street5; of Iew York were first lighted in 1697, the lighting being done by a lantern suspended from a pole bi retched out from the window ol every seventh house. The lighting of streets with gas was iirst tried in 181 G in Baltimore. At Philadelphia a theater was thus lighted on Nov. 25, 1816, the first place of amusement in America illuminated in that manner. Gas was first used for Hunting houses in. Boston in 1822. It had been used thirty years before at Cornwall, England. Scrap Boot In the Clouds. Tho Butler We've got a burglar tm ihe kitchen, sir. The Professor (absently) Ask aim o come again. I'm busy just now Ro. nesting PU For years Kossinfs body relied in Pero Lachaise, and then city of Florence asked that it might be transferred to the Church of tho Holy Cross in that city, whero the bodies of Galilei, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Al fieri and other gxeat Italians are entombed. Consent was received from the ixmicipality, but the master widow, Dona Olympia, would consent to tho translation only .on condition that when her time came hr V-ly might be placed rrr to that of her husband. This rc .t was bluntly denied, for the leason (hat only, Italians "who had achieved greatness" could rest tl -re. In 1S78 tho widow died and before her death consented in writing to tho removal of her husband's body to Florence, provided her body bo placed in th gTave from which his would bo taken in Pere Lachaise, and after a t long time for consideration tfcia s done. Farcy Bore-Lot you? Why. Im yw from tfca ward Mio,w

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