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MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1915.
WAR, THE OUTLAW.
The laws of war seem to be what
those who wage war choose to make
them. Governments enter into sol
emn agreements to mitigate the hard
ship of strife, but in time of war
there is no army officer who cannot
set aside ‘heir word on the plea of
necessity.
Most of the atrocities reported from
tlie scenes of hostilities in Europe
had their origin in a common circum
stance. Non-combatants protected
their families and homes. Because
they were not in uniform when they
fired upon the duly apparelled enemy
they were treated as outlaws. In
fight no quarter was given them. If
captured they were executed. This
brutal and cowardly military law sup
planted the law of humanity and
courage.
Yet these uniformed and properly
commissioned heroes do not hesitate
to make war upon our civilians. They
go up in the air and drop bombs up
on defenseless cities. They strew
the open seas with mines. They bom
bard towns without notice. They ap
proach unfortified coasts in the night
and with their shells carry death to
women and children, not one of them
in uniform. They rake cathedrals and
hospitals and kill and maim those
whose garments suggest only piety
and mercy.
This is no indictment of any one
nation. It applies to militarism in
general. Let those who will attempt
to fix the blame in particular instan
ces. The solemn fact is that war
in the twentieth century recognizes
no law. It is as brutal as it is un
fair and craven.
What a pity it is that so many
brave men are called upon to socri
fice themselves in support of an insti
tution so unworthy.—Ex.
DEADLY POINTED BULLET.
Dr. J. Hartnell Davis, late Director
of the British field hospital for Bel
gium, and Dr. H. S. Souttair, assist
ant surgeon in the West London hos
pital, contribute to The British Med
ical Journal an article relating their
experiences in the treatment of the
wounded, in the course of which they
say:
"The destruction of tissue in bul
let wounds is so great that each side
has repeatedly accused the other of
using dum-dum bullets This is based
on an entirely mistaken reading of
the evidence. Our opponents do not
use such bullets for the very good
reason that they have discovered
something far more deadly at long
range.
“Ther pointed bullet is carefully
constructed so that its centre of mass
is far back. On striking any tissue,
soft or hard, it turns over and passes
through backward, the uncovered base
musnroommg as « advances. ine
point of the bullet is under these cir
cumstances unaltered. In the course
of operations we have repeatedly met
with specimens demonstrating the
correctness of this view. The minute
wound of entrance, the great internal
destruction, the position of the bul
let and its mushroomed base, admit
of no other explanation**—Ex.
_L*. ”_
Washing His Hands of Responsibility.
A sturdy little Lancashire lad went
to a recruiting station to enlist.
He was much disappointed, accord
ing to Londcn Tit-Bits, when the of
ficer told aim he was too small and
too young.
“Can’t you find me some job in the
army w*-at I am big enough for?”
anxiously asked the lad.
“No, I can’t, I’m sorry to say," re
plied the officer.
As the lad turned sorrowfully away
he said:
"Well, don’t blame me if th’ bloom
in’ Germans lick t’ lot an yo’; that’s
all!”
’Twas Ever Thus!
The Elm—What was your ambi
tion?
The Oak—As an acorn I planned to
grow up to be a Christmas tree.
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GERMANS OCCOP)
OTJF KIELCE
(Continued from page 1.)
ing 350 young Belgians to reach Hol
land and join the Belgian army in
France.
“The general at the trial,” the cor
respondent adds, “asked for a death
sentence, saying he disliked imprison
ment. He told the court that Emper
or William was a rascal. The gener
al was sent to Glatz, Prussia, to the
same prison where Burgomaster Max
of Liege is being held.”
Austrian Steam'r Sinks.
LONDON, Jan. 26—An Austrian
merchant steamer was sunk in the
harbor at Pola by striking a mine.
It is believed the mine drifted from
its moorings into the channel.
Austrians Repulsed Near Sanok.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 26.—The Aus
trian forces made a determined at
tack upon the Russian troops east
of Sanok. The enemy aimed to reach
Przemysl and relieve the besieged
city. The attack was defeated after
a battle that lasted for ten hours.
The Austrians lost heavily and the
fate of Przemysl is now sealed.
Russians Occupy Jakobeni.
The Russian troops operating in
Bukowina have occupied the city of
Jakobeni near the border of Molda
vra. With its capture the last city
in Bukowina has fallen. The Aus
trians are concentrating in the Car
pathian passes to block an invasion
of Hungary. All of the territory west
of the Carpathian mountains is now
in the hands of the Russians.
Saw No Horrors of War.
LONDON, Jan. 26.—Some soldiers
at front escape the horrors of war as
shown by a statement of a returned
artillery officer who has been active
ly engaged with his battery for weeks.
He says in all this time at the front
he has not been in a trench, has not
seen a single German and few dead
soldiers. This is accounted for by
the fact that the artillery keeps back
from the ac'ual firing line sending pro
jectiles over the trenches which are
often more than two miles from the
large guns.
Trained Nurses Protest.
LONDON, Jan. 26—The trained
nurses of this city have made a pro
test to Lord Kitchener against the
large number of society nurses who
interfere with the soldiers and do
more harm than good to the “Tom
mies.” Young women of means and
social influence, attracted by the sen
timental side of nursing at the front,
have stormed the hospitals and have
in many cases obtained positions not
withstanding that they knew nothing
of the work. “If Lord Kitchener had
asked for 500,000 nurses to enlist for
service instead of 500,000 men,” said
a trained nurse, “he 'would have had
the number the next morning.”
Such being the case, according to
the allegations of the nurses’ coun
cil the rush of amateurs has pushed
aside the Competent, greatly to the
misfortune of the wounded Tommy,
who has to submit to “fussing” and
patting at the hands of pretty, un
trained girls, which, while sentimen
tally appealing, do not go very far
toward ministering to his real needs.
The agitation against the incompe
tent nurse was raised early in the
war, but only just now have the or
ganized nurses, numbering about 6,
000, brought the matter officially to
the attention of the war office.
Makes Surgeons Hostages.
PARIS, Jan. 26.—The following
statement was given out here semi-of
ficially today:
“The French government announ
ces that because the Germans are
holding French surgeons and nurses
it will hereafter expatriate German
surgeons and nurses held as prisonei s
only in proportion to the return of
French surgeons and nurses who are
prisoners.
German Protest To Spain.
MADRID, Jan. 26—The Wilhelm
strasse is formulating and will pre
sent almost immediately to King Al
fonso’s government a protest against
the employment of Spanish laborers
in the dock yards of Gibraltar.
This is another piece of Germany’s
diplomacy which may well result in
the administration to Berlin of anoth
er such snub as rewarded its outburst
over the sinking of the German arm
ed merchantman, Kaiser Wilhelm der.
Grosse, said in Berlin to have been
effected in Spanish territorial waters.
In colloquial English It ran like this:
"Oh, so the British sank a ship of
yours In our territorial waters, did
they? Well, we should like to know
what right your ship had to go into
our territorial waters to get sunk.”
The launch Weasel arrived from
Port Wells today.
CONQUEST OF THE EARTH.
Man’s Battle For Fruitful Fields
Against Nature’s Barriers.
Nature has set up four kinds of bar
riers to man’s conquest of the earth
mountains, forests, deserts, rivers. The
first he cannot remove; so be bores
boles through them for bis railways.
The second he has, most unwisely,
largely cleared away altogether. The
third he is beginning to treat like the
forests. The fourth be is shifting to
suit his purposes and to regulate their
flow at will.
Man flies now over all boundaries.
He cuts through isthmuses to remove
the barriers between the seas.
Into the deserts man sends rail
roads, telegraph lines, irrigation en
gineers. The Great American desert
marked upon the atlases of our fa
thers has ceased to exist. The vast
desert of northwestern Canada has
become a prairie of waving wheat
The Landes of Gascony are now much
more than half covered with pine
trees. Over 22,000 square miles of the
Algerian desert has been made fruit
ful by artesian wells. The Australian
desert is rapidly being Irrigated and
turned into grazing land. Almost 70,
000 square miles of desert in India
have been reclaimed. Operations are
now in progress for reclaiming 19,000
square miles of the delta of the Tigris
and Euphrates, and more than 4,000
square miles of the Gezireh plain be
tween the Blue and the White Nile
are being transformed into cotton plan
tations.
Thus is man by obliterating natural
barriers improving upon nature.—St
Louis Post-Dispatch.
STARTING A LIBRARY.
A Selection of Ten Books That Might
Serve as a Basis.
Laura Spencer Porter, seeking to
show how the ordinary person can be
gin founding a personal library, makes
this suggestion as to ten good books to
begin with:
“For those who are beginning a
library and have little money to spend
I would suggest that there be bought
say, one book each of ten great au
thors. It does not matter who the
authors are so long as they stand high
and their books are well known and
standard ones. Let us take as an ex
ample the following ten, chosen at ran
dom from a catalogue of standard
writers: Emerson. Eliot. Bronte, Rus
kin, Carlyle. Dickens, Thackeray, Low
ell, Shakespeare, Keats, and as a se
lection of ten of the books of these ten
writers let us take In the same order
Emerson's ‘Essays,’ Eliot’s ‘Mill on the
Floss,’ Bronte’s Mane Eyre,’ Ruskin's
‘Sesame and Lilies,’ Carlyle’s ‘Heroes
and Hero Worship,’ Dickens’ ‘David
Copperfleld,’ Thackeray’s ‘Pendennis.’
Lowell's essays ‘Among My Books,'
a complete volume of Shakespeare or
any one of the Shakespeare plays,
preferably ‘Lear’ or ‘Romeo and Ju
llet’ and Keats’ ‘Poems.’
“Here you have ten books by ten
master migds, books widely varied in
subject, style, treatment LA those
ten suffice for a time. Read them.”—
Woman's Home Companion.
Burial of Sir John Moore.
The death of Sir John Moore at Co
runa is probably the best remembered
fact in all the checkered history of the
peninsular war, for a good reason.
There are poets, like Shenstone. whose
fame is secured by a single quatrain
The poetical reputation of the Iter
Charles Wolfe, who eight years after
the event wrote "Tile Burial of Sir
John Moore.” rests on that one produc
tion alone. Ascribed, before its author’s
name became known, to such well
known poets as Campbell and Byron,
the poem took firm'hold of a notion's
heart Dying of consumption at the
early age of thirty-two. Wolfe’s mem
ory will ever be kept green by Just that
one piece, which “Ingoldsb.v” parodied,
-which a million schoolboys have recit
ed, which Lord Byron pronounced to
be “the most perfect ode in the lan
guage.”—London Spectator.
What’s In a Name.
How we like to hypnotize ourselves
with names! Take, for example, the
case of the muskrat, an animal or
most clean feeding habits, whose flesh
is sweet, tender and of delicate flavor.
In the winter months muskrat meat
is in considerable demand in the mar
kets of the middle Atlantic states, but
It sells best as “marsh rabbit” or “wa
ter squirrel.” So, too, the students of
the old Latin quarter in Paris when
they expressed a mild doubt of the
possibility of rabbit pie at so modest
a price were renssured by the sugges
tion that it might be the “rabbit of the
roofs."—Youth's Companion.
Breaking the News.
“Sis won’t be able to see you tonight,
Mr. Jones,” said her little brother.
“She’s had a tur’ble accident"
“Is thnt so? What happened?"
“All her hair got burned up.”
“Good heavens! Was she burned?"
“Naw; she wasn’t there. She don’t
know about it yet”—Llppincott’s.
Opinion of an Actress.
Miss Ellen Terry at a reception once
talked about the innumerable women
who ask her to help them get on the
stage. “The fact is." she said, “every
woman under thirty believes she is an
actress. And every actress.” she add
ed. “believes she Is under thirty.”
Responsibilities.
“What arc a diplomat’s responsible
ties?" said the inquiring young man.
“They vary,” replied the experienced
official. “Sometimes a diplomat is the
man who starts the trouble, and some
times he merely takes the responsibili
ty .“—Washington 8tar.
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rMamma, ^
[tPMON^
"I see that a Chicago woman has
taught her dog to say ‘mamma’ and
‘lemon.’ ”
“I don’t believe it”
“Don’t you believe it is possible for a
dog to speak such simple words?’’
“It may be, but if the animal is
taught by a woman he will say ’papa'
and ‘lemon.’ ’’—Chicago Record-Herald.
Too Polite For Words.
He—You refuse me and give no rea
son! You are cruel! She—No, pro
fessor, only kind.—Washington Star.
TIDE TABLES PORT OF VALDEZ.
Compiled from the official tide u •
bles issued by the Coast and Geodet
lc Survey. The time for high and
low water is for the Port of Valdez
and is Valdez time. Immediately fol
lowing the time of high and low wa
ter is given the height of the tide
in feet and tenths:
Tuesday, January 26.
High water 8:15 a. m.. 11.0; 10:40
p. m.. 8.6.
Low water 1:23 a. m., 4.1; 4:04 p.
m., 0.9.
Wednesday, January 27.
High water 9:14 a. m., 11.4; 11:20
p. m., 9.0.
Low water 2:43 a. m., 4.1; 4:49 p.
m., 0.3.
Thursday, January 28.
High water 10:10 a. m., 11.8; 11:63
p. m„ 9.4.
Low water 3:49 a. m., 3.8; 6:25 p.
m., 0.3.
Friday, January 29.
High wa*er 10:49 a. m., 12.3.
Low water 4:40 a. m., 3.4; 6:67
p. m., 0.7.
Saturday, January 30.
High water 12:23 a. m., 9.9; 11:30
a. m„ 12.7.
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WEATHER BULLETIN.
Valdez, Alaska, Jan. 26, 1915.
STATION Above Below, Snow In. WEATHER CONDITIONS
Paxson’s . 1° 12 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Hogan . 0 12 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Gulkana . 5 14 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Copper Center ..... 0 10 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Tonslna .. ' 0 24 Foggy, calm, trail good.
Telkhell . 5 21 Cloudy, calm, trail heavy.
Beaver Dam . 0 85 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Summit . 18 40 Cloudy, calm, trail drifted.
Wortman’s . 11 40 Clear, calm, trail open.