Orland Zenith, Volume 15, Number 27, Orland, Steuben County, 14 October 1914 — Page 7

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SOME FAMOUS SIEGES

Beenficial. Some nations were fighting fiercely. “Why are you fighting so?” Inquired the bystander, moved at length to curiosity. "To save civilization!” replied the I nations severely. Here a draggled figure rose from ! the mire under the feet of the cbm- ■ batants and limped lamely away. “And who are you?” asked the bystander, with a disposition to get to | the bottom of the matter, t “Don’t speak to me —I’m civilization!” the figure made answer, somewhat pettishly.

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Accounting for It“But this is such a small flat.” “Yes: I suppose that is why there is such a little demand for It.’

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European Harvest., The American tourists welleQual In j Ta ‘- ue to a good harvest andlhis year there will be a loss to Europ*. If the ivar continues ] nto the g e Jcn next year t. is loss will be serious from a European point of view. It Iscstimateo that the tourists spend afcousand dollars apiece in their tour. Sfomd go cheaper, others spend more. A is year there were 120,000 In roundfttimber. ! for ; an<1 tlle y s Pen t ! n ire than the average, c«*inly n heir lo gf ; es on baggage and itont on . ate discount of travelers’ checks are counted in, for there is afack of trunks, suit caS es and satche* at Co‘ORnc piled ten feet high aiwnd the c-l.iedral, all belonging to Africans. O'er 200,000 pieces of baggage had to be abandoned in flight. If thefar cuts om fbe touring season next year it flioa’d save at least $120,0(*C>0o for home consumption. Americans win a chance to see their own country. If there were small hotels with uare as good and prices ns reasonable as are provided in Europe there wouK be bjesny more tourists ia this CCU.j,Lr>. a* ai! seasons

Monster Aqueduct. The aqueduct conducting tie waters of the Owens river to Los juggles is said to be the largest in thoworld. It is designed to deliver a mjlinum of 258,000,000 gallons of waterjaily into (he San Fernando reservoir fee, miles northwest of the city. Nfl.jumping plant is required, as the souj| • of sup- i ply is several hundred feetajove the eity. The water will furnia a great amount of power—70,000 h'tsepower : Is anticipated—for electrlcl lighting i end other purposes. The ital cost of the waterworks will be $>.000,000, and the installation of the j*er plant will be approximately $5,000i|)0 more.

Twenty-two years earlif me 101 tress had been brilliantly foi eight months against by the Turks under Genera) itjjliains who had but 15,000 men ag\fsl 50,000 j Even these sieges, « r: - somewhat insignificant ; “ca ?.cm pared with some others. feThe ion 0 | est siege occurred in the Ainenea.. I olwiS? aiBr for i l,4?o "days, or .just over 1 • j Sebastopol, in the Crimean war, held r out for 11 months, while Genera lulor 5 don defended KhartunjCagainst-2 the ■ Sudlnese for 300 days. Tie sieges oi ■ Ladysmith, Kimberley and Watekiag. in the South African war, lasted 120, I ’ 123 and 2G4 days, respectively. There is probably, however, no siege \ which x..... l.ei ’!ko to read abopt so much as that carried out I by France ] and Spain In their endeavors to carry i | the Hock of Gibraltar, 1779-S3. Alto-'j gether the siege lasted nearly four : years, and, as the world knows, resulted In a complete triumph of British arms in spite of the fact that the 1 enemy numbered 30,000 to i<),000 men, while the defenders could only muster 7,000.

That lengthy sieges are quite possible even in these days of huge guns is illustrated by Chukri Pasha s gallant defense of Adrlanople last year for 15 •’ days. Then there was the comparatively recent great siege of Port An thur in the Russo-Japanese war in : 1904-05. which finally capff"inted after j being blockaded by Admibnl logo for 210 days. The name of General Stoes- I sel will rank with those great soldiers of modern times, i-A In Ottoman and Russia military' history there has never begi a siege like that of Plevna in IS 73 when. Os man Pasha defied the Rustilus or days, and finally surrendered on cember 10, with 30,000 inland 10( guns, owing to provision! ' munition running short. , year Kars, long the buUvjrk£ th. Ottoman empire in Asia, wjs storm by the Russians after a o * months.

INVESTED TOWNS that long HELD OUT AGAlNST FpE- ( That of Greatest Duration Mas at Richmond, Which the Cei federates Defended for Four V :ars Gibraltar’s Great Exph t. The defense of Liege by Belgians against three German army corps numbering 125,000 will so down to history as one of the most brilliant feats of arms In the annala wa*, 1 says London Tit-Bits. The Franco-Prussian war of'1870-71 was remarkable for Its sieges. Bazalne held out at Metz against the Germans for nearly two months and finally.surrendered with 6,000 officers and 1 1 >v 000 men. For this he had to submit to court-martial, and was sentence . to 20 years’ imprisomra-nt. -Afterward came the siege of Paris, which as e six months. Thousands of shells were rained on the city every dlT ® Germans, and no fewer than 01 the inhabitants succumbed to disease and hunger.

Ask Father Time If This Is True. In these days of the high cost of ilv Ing the following story is not without a decided point. The teacher of a primary class war trying to show the children the difference between natural and man-made wonders and was finding it hard. “What do you think Is the most won derful thing a man ever made?” A little girl, whose parents were oh viously harassed by the question 01 ways and means, replied as solemnly as the proverbial judge: ‘•A living for his family.

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