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HIWFOM JOOTHTA1 AKU WM1CLY MIW1. MtUUY, MAIOH 1. FAOIftVBV ST. VWTOMMf. bad twn Ulktd of for WMks tn point district, anl a big crowd was on jha.nd to me the humbled; Jbut, alaj, it was the youncattrs who 'TM 0 nd the Joy of th hcg dnp i51 nl n.

Crlmoon twm were L. CrowtH, an old-tlmo centre; "Dinky" DennU, a forwttrU who loyt nono of and only a little uf his "Game" Pahlow, frenzied QutntH Tnmi Cleyne demands to knou how time was The Y.M.C. A. Attack Withers Before Superior Play. Ttirni Crimson Flvi 9t.

Seniors. left to play betokene the he was fn; "Peg" Arnold, the present instructor at St. John's, who had the pleasure of participating on a winning team after many former seatons with the Young Men's Christian Association the St. Mary's In the City league, and Friend, whose team uncorked a biff tt 1be resembled that ago. in the second half of its game with youngsters compfite with Younff Men's Christian these veterans was "Sam" West, who evanlnc in the tatter's 0 and proved that a ability and better condition, and as claim to thu of city amateur USU al the masterly game triumphed.

champion by defeatlnc the Association. I AT THE QATES OF VERDUN. i to show some of its ability, which been I ffarnod upainHt Bri dee water and BVeryWIterd a AtTOClOUS OCCne and Confusion in the tliu W. lj. Douglas team of Brvckton, but tho aujjeplor play St.

Mary's ivas 100 much, and i nut end of coming Lack In tho second nestilun attack witht-red llku paper in a fire, A big crowd, evenly divided as to siuputhic'S, saw the matoli. Through the flnrt half the Association held its own with the much touted- Woods. Ihe The ground at Verdun made me think of tho craters one sees on photographs representing the surface, of the ng. it'different distances the ground Of the woou then; remained nothing St. Mary's quintet.

The ptey moon. The underbrush ihaa been ripped of the down-toivn team seemed to and chopped- The.re remained nothing have a decided effect in the last half, but shreds. The had all been cut for all the Association players with the- off. smashed; not one did I see stand- exception of Captain Tarry Oxx inj. They i shaved clean off failed tOiut up the game expected aitd Tvc-re apparently content to allow St.

Mary's tho honors, once their uppoiiento but an indescribable confusion of were out in front. "While it was said trunks and 'oranchcs, broken, crushed. that the AKSOcmtiou did not try in splintered. Bui an this is only a setting for an atrocloue scene. The ground is strewn with corpses- Poor mutilated bodies! To odious profanation they have been submitted! Here is utie which had.been sheltered by a tree; the tree has been cut off, and In falling the trunk has crushed him to the earth.

This other one had his head flattened, without a wojind. aa If It had been rnft'lo nf cardboard. That one over them lias had his staved In. :i.rii] his a.nnn ruitl letrs Uissr.vered Here sume. bodies whicli Jiavebc'-n hurled into the tredB and are there, pathetically, like old ruga.

Here und thero are parts of human bodice-intestines clinging to the branches from which blood ruim iu a horrible Jiiffht here ia a human trunk without a head, nor nor legs, which is jjluod to a treo-trunk, Ilatteni-d out and split open. TCverj'-- is an alrociiun-mixture of fles'i second half, tli-e fuel remains that Bt. Mur iilt-d up the score almost at This, in view of all the great last- hahf rallies tho Aiisoclatlon has uncovered this year, did not look well tfor the home loam's efforts. St. Mary's played tho firood -swmv expected of it in way.

Tho five (rtarp wJio oomjwsed the warn worked Tveli toffotlier. four doing fhc antl the fifth the bulli of Uw suaird Severj.1 shots by- Ccn- n-uUy, aiul J. Alii.rt.hi and th-e pae.siag: all iZtini ooull be In contrast. t'hu AssocLaOion went well in spells and Kt-umpeU -in Tlw ibftat single of oonteet -was -by when a after five anen dtatl touched the ball in a rapkl 'loftii Uic Thero miidti exci'tameat during half, oom- p-eted occk and neck for tlwj honors. At the etart tha Aaeoafcalkm won a on t-wo goals by Whita tuiid two foul allots by Oxx, aga.lrwsL a foul and a.

field goa4 flay St. Mary'a saan cut tlawn tltte narrow ma-rgui, an-1 the raced riilons, riret one and tlien the other In front. MujrUn's field goal, last oil" the 'half. Hemt St. out in front by ii 1-5-14 scare at half-time.

POP i wljlio during tlij iieccsnfl i'. looked like oiiybody'is ffamc, until Ihc wntLre teaan with the ox- ooptlon of Oxx fell away t3ie oon'liiJYuaJ liaTnTncrmg 1 t-f tliolr OJits. Oxx tried to invtlll 'life ipto Jils jncri by scoring but, un- aMed, could not keep up witili fact traveling HL team. Martin, CcHiTiolly and Kenney isMJed up 18 poiTuta for St. Mary's this half, against nine for the all nine registered tyy the Oxx.

Wi th tw minutes perststont to play Conntrton wis to Showers for and Martin shared hUcih scorer on the Sullivan honors for the st, Mary's rwttth Connolly a close -secon'd. The inxlivMual scorer of the fiaimc! wua Oxx of the AEoolation. The line-up and summary: St. Mary's. 1TI410 Goala Koivney, r- f- SulIUian.

1. i. J. Martin, c. Connolly, r.

g. Connorton, 1. g. Cremin, g. Toltofson, r.

Dunn, 1. f. WOiitc. c. Oxx, r.

e- I 4 0 0 16 XL C. A. 0 1 3 4 0 and blood, over which Klokenliig upor- lloata a fetid, AVIATION LANGUAGE. Accepted Terms Should Express Their Meaning to the Common Mind. The IMew York invention and development of Eoferee--Dunn.

Timer---Clifford, halves. Soorfir--Austin. Time--20 1 Inu te With vtreet rtvenge their minde, because of the defeat handed them earlier in the ieason. the Colonial quintet went House School Tueday afternoon and trimmed the first team by the score of 38-19. The team work of the Colonial hoys showed much improvement over their first appearance.

They passed well, despite the fact that tlmy have had no oppor- i to practice together, but as the baskets at Cloyne Houce are' rather difficult the score was not high. In the first half the Colonials out- ihfelr opponents, Graf ton and Whooler contributing four goals each, while Armstrong found tho "net" for three. The second was much faster, the Cloyno boys trying hard to overcome the big lead, but the Colonials were alao going at a faat clip and o.ithough the Cloyno House athletes covered well and played a strong defense game the Ncu-portera drove through the lines and again out-poialed them. 34-11. Pur tho Colonials Grafton.

"Wheeler Grant displayed a fast brand of floor game and also shot well, Wheoler ueorliiK seven baskets from The floor. Armstrong antl W. SuHivn.ii alao played the automobile have placed many new words in the dictionaries. Tho word "automobile" itself aroused inuc.Ii hostility In the early days of self-moving cars, because it was an improper compound, becauee It was obviously an adjective rather than a noun and because it was not English; but it hau survived all opposition and Is in the English dictionaries. So will "aeroplane" survive, though it may never be properly pronounced as a word of four syllabled, the diaresis having omitted, first by the printers, who always.aim at simplification, and later by common concent.

But the Aero Club Is giving attention to needful revision of the uorrxn- clature of aeronautics, and Mr. Henry Woodhouse attention to the report of advisory committee on aeronautli-H, w.hleh containn 111 terms used In connection with air "WqodhousG himself lias accumulated a collection of 2,500 terms 10 relating to this subject. What Is aimed at Is simplification. is desirable that the accepted terms relating to we call aviation should be Euch as express their meaning to the common mind. It is well at the 34 beginning not to leave the vocabulary entirely to usage.

Mr. Woodhouae obviously prefers aeroplane to the often suggested We have aero- drome, aerostatics, hydro-aeroplane 6 i Air squadron might be as serviceable as 15 'aero iquadron, it is likely that in 0 most ot the already long-established I terms we shall tick to the "aer" even we pronounce, it as a single syllable. Air service, however, will always acceptable, but Mr. Woodhouse objec.tr to the employment the army of the terra "aviation section" to cover both the lighter and the heavier than air machines. The Signal Corps, he thinks must have an aviation section and an aerostatic section.

NEW TREE! AN! PUNTS. TO REUEVIKLIIANS, Many Foreign Importations Be- America Contributes $1,801.33 ing Tested in America. by Tin Box Fund. A Wide Vtriety in Introduction Uraed to Continue Gtnirout dent Maintained by Department of Agriculture. A wide variety ot promising foreign plants are now Aid That Work May Go Forward.

THE NITRATE SUPPLY, New Process Will Utilize Cheap Source in the Air. Can be Extracted From and Will Double the Cropi ol American Farms The much discussed Issue erf a future abroad tested by government In the plant the Tin-Box tund that clow to African Itoptrd. It 1. and powerful animal. In of the tropical forut of South Araerlo i coal black jafuara occur, and trhllc nvreMnting merely a color phase ttjny supposed to be much riercor than the ordinary animal.

Although 10 target and powerful, Uie Jaguar has or the truculent ferocity ot the African During the years I spent in ita country, mainly in Uie opon, I made a careful Inquiry without of a. single ewe where one hid attacked human In locality on the Pacine coast of Guerrero. I found that the hardier natives had an Interesting method or hunting tha "tigro" during tne mating been period. At such timea the male has the 1 tabit of leaving its lair near the this soriKiny and distributed Btatt 1 stations aiul 'thousands of ana" urecdura throughout thy country. At tho present tlnu-, an arlidui Tho Children's Tin Box won originated as a scheme to aid tho commission for relief In Belgium, 120 liroadway, New in their lite that strickra land.

Its propar liavu as delicate many dates. It is fruit and Jiaa lehii been China. Tho Chinoso flavor Kood popular In lio another irn- any land at any time, by order of its officers. Tho sign upon the boxea may -but the work will go on. auuuHir purtatlun wlilch tms suggested lin rl tho fur uso as an avenue tree ThouBaudB of children, whose charity 0 0 0 300 alld This fund ia, so to tlio affair the man in the street, of the tvork- trity saving a The $3.000.

and $3 man has been approached, but iiot tho throe- cent man. This scheme gives him his chance to tiike o. part uf his country's responsibility upon himself, and in the short time -since tho tin box fund bo- Kan existence, ho haa Justified Us be- On November 1910, the first box nviia placed In a eliop Iti Bristol, R. tho hope-tiTuit a few 'iniph; Itf. secured.

At the miiw Unit' letter r.v;m published hi UrdsloJ newspaper, addressed to boys and srlrls, teJl- them of the sad plight of children in oilier lands. Before Chrintmaw over of fi-uc Verse. What his wan- wore that night unions lo parlts throughout tho country this purpose. One advantage of this tree Is Die great agu to which it lives For the production of nuts the variety of pistacho found in central alid orn Asia is being tried. At preuuii' the entire supply of the nuis used il Uie coloring and flavoring- of Jco criMin and candy coupes from abroad, but Is mild thai thi-re (H nu this country should nut its own supply.

The anil Sui. Joaquin vullfys In California appeal to be well suited to the industry- A aplondld specimen of the tetanus bacilli, the gift of a proofreader who had been on duty curing the campaign in Russia, was lured Into volume de rings uncut iKLb'es we carmof say. ho released It wfcs evident that his reason and his -itlng g-onu Wu let hijn (jo and it Is rumon-d that he killed hiinseil! in opuu window week. poralimnoiiR and Chiucne chestnuts aro also being tested. It ia believed that tine Chinese chestnut may -prove exceptionally valuable be- oauso of power to retrial the cheat- jtul disease, which doing much damagT! jtmomr the native chtwt- ivuts, it is thought, ruiglil grown commercially In Call fomla SLIM! In tliotto sections Ln tho South wilitTO -tho temiK-niture does nol fall iivm-h bvluw In China und Japan drk-d persimmons are a.

staple food ajid lliccru sooniiii to uv Jio reason why Ih-ey gliouid not 'be oaten In tflie future in this country, Still another iiirpartatirfn Is an early oherry which has bwni Introduced from Ta.nffl.Al. China. This may prove profitable to grow ere an early FRANCE HAS CHANGED. Inhumanities of War Now Reflect Some Resurrected Hope and Joy. Uie second time the Parisian cartoonists havo opened their annual ex.

hEbitlon under this UUo. The paramount interest of the visitor to the galleries in Hue do la Bottle lies In judging to what extent the attitude of France has Jhorvrod urine th year. Fur thero is 10 bettor barometer by whioh to gauge the fluctuations ol' puitlie oijlntwi thu.ii t-litwo sketches reooniing from day to day the emotions of tho pooplo. IJLUL yoar llio keynote of tho exhibit, with aJmoet savage fury, lioii-or, Indignation and holdJnff the Cloyno furwardv in at the Butchery, incendiarism check. S.

Kerr Lamb and Kaufman antl ruthlessnoss of the Cmrmaii tn- at a rred for 1 he Cloyne House team. The line-up and summary: Colonials. timrton, r. f. 4 0 Orant.

1. f. 4 1 o. 7 I Sullivan, r. y.

0 0 Anntitjrong, 1. g. 3 0 Cloyno House School, Ijujtiib, Stires, 'f. u-ibson, j. Kcrr.

r. H. Turner, r. 5. Kaufman, i.

s. vasion. Ono left it oppressed as on awakening from a dream too terrible for human Th4s year, though nomo gloomy fic- ures--such at, Stoi-nlen's "rferbia f(ed, which dominutriH tho (whole exfliJ- bitlon--rftill hold bwforo our eyes tho iuhuma-miiy of most of them re- 6 a ray of resurrected hope joy. Ono mlsht almost call this 8 apotheosis of "lo he tit' ie wlio fonna tho teenier around fl which the pleasantries and tho tondor humor of our artists revolve. It scums aa though French art had discovered 0 that slm know but Imperfectly the 0 sons of her own soil, anfl with flrwinr lovo had Steinion'u Poulbot'H, Forain's.

Abel Faivre'i voted to the olde of the third LV tiic i buiiu Thompjoiv. Thomp- republic will remain raonuroent even halves, precious to comins Raffets "grofrnards," the Farmer players who composed the old St. in the, days when in la one of the leadlnff tea mi ot the city athered affaln Tueady even- the lilers," aa the old piaraB of the Napoleonic era wtro affectioaatuly ntuned. Sherman L. "Whlpplo of BoBton will for thn of playiur the JIfi.tmo fAr thn work of bimoelf preiont St.

John's Seniors. Tlm old- and asHiaUinta an counsel to tlm went under the name of tho rules commit in the peace note "leslt" ifcon Five, and prbvtd that inquiry- Tho fee was unanimously ap- not materially affect ability, proved by the committee. The total defeited their younctr and cost of the inquiry, Chairman will not $50,000. ohwry for th-e eoe' ern rftark-ots. A number of new too, are now twing tested In, tne plan.t In- troduclon gardemfl.

A.tnontf these are chai'otte from tropical America. -vine iproduoes pear-Bliaptfd fruit In abiwidanoe in the fall. They wwHuit resemble in flavor sammer or vegetable- uauiTovv, aivd ino.y he utioJ oa a fresh v-ftgoia-'ble tlirouirii- out the wiriitor. Tho ulo If. a salad plant from Japan tliat be erowji in pntcti- rally every Btatv.

This Is grown in much the same war as asparagus ajid may -be cooked as -well tn tlui same nay. A plants of udo, says article should be in every home gar- AFFECTSTHE FLAG. Washington Novelty Dealers Withdraw Merchandise From Sale. That fully J1GO.OOO worth of merchandise, ordered specially for Inaugural has been withdrawn from Washington stores as a result of the approval by the President of tho law prohibiting tho of the American nag In the District IE tho estimate of local dealers who lanolo novelties. Pillow tops and pennants, platae, weights, countless aluminum pieces and other articles engraved or stamped with the shield come undor the provisions ot the law and will not be offered for sale tho inaugural period or at -my uiher time- While as the of this etock vary, several dtal- ers aro of the opinion that it is in ex- Jiw.ooo.

Washington merciianta. practically without oxcoiHioii. are indicating a dc: to co-operate with vho aulhorl- in 'brhiginK about enforcement of the law. in return the district attorney's office haa announced that its -icy will not bo to extend tho urohi- jition to the wale of ithosw which tho law evidently did not intend to reach, though they might come tlie prohibited class if tho lottec ol! the law was strictly followed. For example, tlie American flag ia printed on the cover pago of the official suido of Washing-ton.

Several merchant withdrew the guide from cheir stock of publications, 'but by tho dittu-lct attorney's oftlcc tliat, though 'it mlg-ht barred under a enforcoment of tre law, no action would be taken, tho spdrit of the law manifestly did not uend that tho sale oj such punlica- ion should be prevented. One dealer ordered a lArge atock of pictures of government building's, printed on glass and framed, with each building, ihowlnff a Kovornmenl flag above ft. I developed that the sale of morchandise wouJd not 'be prohibited. Inasmuch as the law doee not provide a period In which merchandise which it is directed may tn innter places an expert native with a short wooden trumpet near the mouth UlQrL TVCFUUt-'Il 4 of tho canyon to imitate the "URre's" Naval officers point out that of call as soon as it is heard and lo ro- I special skill, trained to the minute, peat the cry at proper Intervals. Afte-'i would be required aa pointers lias bewi MUcoverL-d and put in UBU tluil Ls Kidd to ifxluce i Iwrao-power required '-xiract a given nouut of u'itrogen to twolCih of fonnor proportion TJio result of tills will probably 'be t.hat In, the yoa'pa Lo come worto find clieaper sourco of rig-lit hand hi Uie air ever found in HIP nitrate betKs ol" Chili.

It lias also bi.Hiii fouiid tliat through the ooMntf process big- rfupplics of JU- can U' exit-ractvU from ooal. -ors now Uiat if were COUHTY A Complete Oonaolidation of Organization to be Brought About. lo ooko an nuicli coal aa we have post, wliioh would still loea five per of our VOt'U out- ut, titie Ti4trogv.il tluit wo oould secure tliorefroin wuul-1 be -tlum m-ouffh to meet all our necdii as a nation, either In peace or in wiu-, Lu tlio coKiag ot coal a eubaruuico is recoverod wldch is "by t-he dlioaniat. Tlie "Xp'TiseJJ of recovery oru nut exeesffivo- ly at the time wJion uur gCA'crament was tiiax. them was no uiU'ate dcjHwrit onijiwherv siphl ol" the United Suites of reoHy important the of the IhUior from the air ol' the ts I'or recovery trom coal have timely.

Perhaps the most thins all about the war across the Atlantic is that'part that nitrogen 'commission" government in cilies --Is well under way in several states. In WaalUngton it coines portly from an official oource, the state osaoclution of county cmmlsfllonera. who out ot their own practical come lo realize the ineffectiveness of the organization through which they have attempting to redeem their responsibilities. An influential group loaders routerins In unit; IH respuiiritblo for a vigorous LWid for a coniUtutionul convcn- actuated in very large measure a desire to secure privileges jilacwl in Newport and jiiltroireu atoau the moy.t patrician ot rlilGnce. n.

In Concord, K. in all Harbor, Maine, aiKl in two other sma.11 placet). On Januai-y 23, 1917, the UailboH. haldron's tin 'box fund had sent to the cumin tesio for relief in Belgium $1.630.33. collected from the boxes and 175.00 from donations, anoiUng a Lot--U smn of $1,801.33.

da to the fund 'has betui nlaited In Hangor, Porflajid, and South Wotit Koi'Kor, tMaine, iu, MorriaiLowii, N. iWooiiBOflket, R. Boston, and; New York city. The letter ad- dreaaod lo cJiildren has bowi i-ead in albout 120 Sunday Sclioola of de- iiomi-nutionti, iriated In children Jtnvo In Itoston LTie wording on the fomcfwhat 1 and tlio mg aiidi-d: "'Under the uuspicos of the Now England Belgium Relief and awing to thu khid'iess intereHt of this orca.niza.tio'n. deeilc.

room has been giv6ir us in their headquarters, Madison Avt." We have both in ing to interest of Miss Anne Morgan. itTw "Co-operating nrtth Vacation War Relief 122 Madison We have boUi tn Boston and New York the Assistance of the Belgian consuls and many others. For the expenie fund the commit aro dependent on contributions, as not one cent talcen from boxes is iwed for any cause save the feeding of the suffering childrfin. We have the satisfaction of jf that $1.801.33 has gone to Belgium. Wo Phall cmitiijiuo the work.

We Amerlcaim cannot lot them grow to deficient mujiUood and womanhood. (ham starve and tilt, while our children arc safe and happy, clothed ,1.11,1 fed. Three cents, only three cents. will five a child 'one meal, and who can tell when our own little ones may need such help. If that day comes, we are cure that wherever the Children's Tin Box fund is established the children's cry will be heard and answered.

an3 we earnestly beg all those whose rclp and Interest have- fiSven us eo rruch encouragement, to continue their jtentrous aid BO the work may go forward, gainlag In strength and giving abundantly. E. O. H. Lamed.

President Children's Tin Box Fund. NEW DEEDS FILED. Tlic following- tfMds liave ulei the city elbrk's office: Marat Hazard de Vans to Rhode Island Estates Corporation-- Her in- In die tract of land bounded easterly on Sohool oLreed, 95.5 feet; southerly on land of hoLrs doviaece of Hannah M. Woodc-us, 53 feet; erly on laaid now or lately Clara Swasey, a.nl Vuid now or formerly of Susan IJ. Knulin.

9H.5 feet. northerly on lanJ nofw or 1-Uely foot: aJatx tho nortliwiwiL'-rly on of l-'uid i vay arrool; nortlu'-tatorly on 10 Unitaria.n or 'ktUily of or ClHiroh; so calKni, ajid partly on land or i'omnerly of Kdmiuul Wlilto aisd partly on land Viseid- .1 ftlrcul whort opt.nt; i Kay strcot, 4-s Ursb-il-c-y and 1 al Trust trustee to Vrthur Curli'Sa lortliwesterly on iand of Kra.ntee. 47s "eot; oaatcrly on of-her land of feet; northerly on other land of 31fl feet, aiwi eaMcrly, 'b'. aoulhorly, and rly fbj' Beacon HIH road, lo a bound and nortlwxiartorly opair. feot to o'Jier Lmil of and veatwiy aguiu 000 in all T.liri acrwi.

Sar.ili K. Xorman to Korin.ui lyt-r wt vilih nort.h- It never descends to earth unless driven there iiy the tliun- the -it. bwsoni uf tho raindrop, gets Into Uie soil and starts aJi widths ruund of jombinations with tho atoms of other L-lt-mi-iittj, some more und some less distuateful to 'it, but none after Its own Hking. it is lin-ked up with others to form tJic KTJLS.S arid the Brain, now united with others in the flesh of the animal world und now going bac't lo (crows again. But wlitn tho chemist i-OiiieH and -imprisons it along with other whose company it rem-nbi, the prfeou cotton eanh, It awaits its first to make a bold dash for liberty.

ThiA opjMjrtunlty usiKilly (wmea the tonating uf fulminate of ur soJiie other aulxstuui. 1 and tin result iin terrific explusion. The nitrogen atom, at last from its inifcny makos a bold Aiah back into the carcmnain'bient and the violence of the explosion is the measure of the repulsiion it feels toward th nwi-jhbors with it been a forced prUontr. Not only wiill the new procesees of extracting a bountiful supply of nitrogen from, the air ajid from coal be an to us in matter of defending our country, and in putting it upon an independent basis from a world standpoint, but it will be an im- nietise advanta.tfe to u.s In our ayrioul- turo. Tlie most expensive oloment that wt- have to put Into tho soil to farm prof.ltii.bly is nitrogen.

AVe ordinarily buy it In the of nitrate, ground bun-, or de-composed mutual and tint farJiiur'M fertilizer Viil wiiyg lieavy if Jiv (o crops. A source of nitro- pe, such as rnigfht exiieot from system of cheap fixation the air, will T.ablft the AJnf-ricaji farmir, as his may havo been in th fe past, to produce two "bushels of where formerly -he productd ont, and to holp feod a rapidly expendins world population. LAND OF OPPORTUNITY. The Philippines Offer Fortune to Those Who Can Resist Pleasure. Sentmf For the young Am-ertcan studiously apply i and not alloTv his ambition to become by climate there ajx unlimited opportunitief: in Majvila on-i tlie Philippine Islands, in the opinion of Duffy, vice president oi Nc-abit in t'Jsat Mr.

Putty, "is thai 3w iuilo-3 from a man must to liin iropioil eoJd SKIUUIINNUSNUKI, Required as Pointers for Antisubmarine Work. Wtapons and Mounta Sufficient to Arm Reaionable Number of Amirican According to in official statement, I Navv now has stored iead of "a footh'lii 1 1 at navy yards guns and mounts sum- early In the evening and following I tn to arm any number of down th. canyon for some distance ai Am(rlc4n merchant ahlpa. Efficient tho lunner. are how.v.r.

they are taken from active ihipa, which can ill spare them. close quarters- mated that not more than 100 would apply for guns and take the risk of crossing the German submarine zones. Thero will be no dlfllculty in furnishing that number of vessels with weapons, but aupplyinu trained gunners for JO') i guns would take tha many valuable (men away from lighting ships. i There are about 1,000 men in fleet reserve, of whom approximately 100 were trained gun pointers when OaruMtson. in the 0 thy actUxjbUst Moet of Review of Koviews.j are oldyr mftn and none havo As tlio year opens, a definite a anj recent pnictice in gun point- of'ing.

It is said that no sufficiently I If. movement for rountiea-anothor by-product pointers for work on merchant- could be obtained from that source, although some ammunition handlers und other membcra of gun crews might be obtained. Of the 1,000 reservists about one half havo been drilled in gun handling, other than pointing. Navy officials construe the President's language as asking for authority wide enough to take any measures to defend American ships. That might include iiiival convoys, but the opinion of naval experts is against such a both bromine it could not Irjaun; the convoyed ships against submarine attack and because tho efllcleucy of the -y of home rule and simplified govern- flftpt as a fighting macliiue.

would bo in counties. In Kansas the county queaUon comes 'before tilio i ut-Tic scat iously impaired if its lured for convoy duty. units were at nominal support of The available guns range up to six wiui at nomna botli the Republlcaais and the Demo- cnitH who an: committed to an attempt to a butter county organisation, if need be, by ooiisltutlonal amund- inent. Governor Captier emphasized the imporUtnco of tliU Ownond with considerable vigor in Uia to the 1915. Thtwogliout Ksnsafl.

by tlm way. commission government hus been adopted a larger po-oporUon of the citiea tflian in any state. Perhaps tho most prea- iit effort hi the fiekl of county ernmont i contains the coTWidorable cilies of Oakland, AlamLMlo, a.nd Berkeley, llore i.s a commmilty in which rapid a vances 'in popukvUon In tlio yoo-Ts havo loft plan of Ivx'al gov- as unequal to faoe present con-ditions as the Merrimac to face i mofJem "What w-aa onoft little more than a. of isolated siibunhajn an-J truck farms has yrown into a or Ifss compact metropolifl, ha.vtnr a population of Twtween 300,000 and Mean-white, county govemnwit has fitood sill'. Numerous offices overlap in their functions at various -points, Kith the usual confusion, and waste, creo-tltiff a job-holders' adisc.

of -local pride in munitMpalltlM. it has "beon impossible to bring: uboul complete isnlUIation of i and ooirnty or- iLlzation. To meet this situation a plan of federation has "bcMi worked out permits t.he central ooun ty to talCA over functions kfe police, fire and Jiealth protection. 'hich are obviously common mtwww. hilc the "horouifhs (to consist of exlst- inc munioipalitieB) wcmld still control culihpj.

Most of them are o''i Fjls. but have ample range and power for the work desired. Rantjo and rapidity of fire are vital factors In operations. It is important that the under-water i-rat be aaHallecl Ixifore she cornea Into goo-i torpedo rang-o- The majority of cae-js reported show this lo be 500 yards or less, and the skill of the gunners 'fe sufficient to make it dan- gerouH for a U-boat to show herself 5,000 yards. Navy officials aro not inclined to discuss the change in tho status of a merchant til.lp which might resul' craw on boa.nl.

is under way in Alair c-ounty Oalifornia. which just VranHwo "fora placing a Hit- lw- Stuj JYancitco WhethJer crewp placed i the orders of im-rchanf. fiLptaitii, or whether naval command thy PJIIS antl determine liow and when they should be UBexL is not ruade a militia, more than could not be dra-tvn upon for gunners 'necauss of its militia The under which tnc men could be called out for aclive sen-Ice are limited by the constitution to suppression of Insurrection, repellinp invasion and enforcing the laws- In addition to guns now held il at navy yards, the Navy I)e partment has many smaller weajKms building under contract. These coum he hastened to completion at need, for use on board merchant craft, but there Is no present Indication that they will required. THE May Take Place of That Now Fashionable and Comfortable.

tain matters as struts anrf Marfrareft GouJd in Woman's public works. The sidminie- I Homb At very moment fashionable starts are comfortable, there, Is a i ATI of the depArtmenta mid he the control of a single ma.Taii:er. follow- In- lead of the Dayton flroup of I talk of the barrel skirt. Thia ia the I old pojf-top WML, you knoff. thft ftkirt jtha-t bulges out like a barret luid narrower -toward hem.

Cal- ilot, ovr.r a yfrir ag-o. it, but a-L Work and ProDpeots of THE KILKENNY AREA. National Forest Reaerva- tion Oommiggion. The national forc-st reservation com-1 By -way of description, let me say 'barrel sUrt ia of only two CTtadUis of material- sored a.t 'bottom, with a aearn at goring gives the curved line of the -barrel. mission has approved the purchase by I SCORES ABOUT THE the governmfcnt of 59 tracts land, with a touil of 6S.80 acres in tlie Appulacliian mountains.

Or tliis. scree iti i AVERAGE. The acores made by the Newport so-caMed R)flo Club in tlio sixth match of the ooun- ulie disposed of. It T-'lll be Uie policy of UKI iu to apply tho epirlt of law as far possible, nu order that Injury may not 3O done local merchantc. Many of tlie iH6Tchanti that they will lie able to arrange with manufacturers from whom they purchased the to have it returned or mid in is no tar 1o the one tn operation here.

T'hat novelties, barred oy he law, may be offered for eale on the by coming into Wann- Kjton, at ifcaJ. tissc and not ware of th- pxlvtftnce of the Ian ituetlon that ia antlclpevtM by on land of 100 on lanJ of Wallace Martland, 0 foct, wvX westerly oo Tylor stroert. IOO feet. Marco A. HUPCO to I3rmtnio Lino id, with buildings and other im- provenientu, boundcil northerly on I of grantor, UK" feet; easterly on land now or formerly of I.

1'oel: southerly on land now or former.y of William II. Hunter, deceased, li0 and westerly on Butltr 50 feet. A. Condon and to Samuel Booth and wife--Land, i buildings and bounded aouUiwcat on avenue, t6 feet; ulroet. 70 feet north eat) on iJi.nd now or formerly of Mary D.

Shea, f-G feet, and ie a 'he! A. iK to be York. only atoul arc Amencn.Tin he wii: thj'Owii much 1.1)^ i it bo necessary for him r.vviitusiJly take thtmi up n.s his :L.S tlioy aro all tropioa! tlKse younr; AJnariiun is his TSurk, -him GUI Liio oasv loving poiiu- to work." rays tin- odiico.uxl Fillpisios and -he orwners do not, want t)io of 1'niieil ritatow takon "They iv.UIro." lie "tliat Uioy are a nation ot S.OW.OvO to 9,000.000 'porsons reeiJizo, -too. Ilia; iiiitioiu; tti'j Mii-'it 1 sources f-f country, also they fcnos- Ilgferring -uo tlio aUxwl car a'steni in Duffy ttnirft aro firs; ioii lo i up aa nearly solid governm may through buj-inf only I t-t-rlaiii specilii-d Among nt evening were nlmut th" avoragft. Tho Newport Club is still in fifteenth plane entered.

The scores which nru designutc-d purchase i as follows: Thu i a D. Chase ia ti iH the "WhJtt: mountain arwi" on iho north, und is on uiijrshi'd of the Contu-cticut rivt-r. land now npprovrd for purclia.so lirat to be acquired in tlio Kil- arou. About 17.00U acres uf the i mountain art-o WHS H. Spooncr r.

Hay I. Chaso, Jr. R. Anthor.y uiiU-inps ulie a This In ml lies for tin- must J. ry liKOly to forget rt un the weal slept of th-j a i R.

Chaso Peck ham Blvsel iMr. 1SG ntr, 18S 1S8 135 1S4 I7S Rtmddlans-oo-tlie-Clilfs. Furnished cottages to for the iKoiy 10 ior iu un So thei appor- Irangi-. and practically complete the I N. Kluddt-r purchases in tlie liortht-rn T.

portion of the Whltt: a i With this laiid a lota.1 of Oys.l'Sti acres in tho ntountains has IWMT, uc- inired. Smaller tracts were purchased in thi- southern mountains, tlie largest total on any bc-ins that of acres In Trant- ylvnniu county. convenient. All modern rounUcy. N.

on tJie Kooiu-. I nnd Mount i Approximately acres of the landu are 11 Polomac, Slunandoali a i a Hridge areas in VirKlnia; ait acres in Kabun and Union counties. I 42 CHURCH STHCET, near tho beach and trolley. irw. anl ancond olitss rolriulea.

anil a remaining 5S6 acn-a arc in com ia tho ixiomr hftforc 7 o'doiik ilic mor.xi.iK. that IK It a-s n.n intnrwl- inff fact tK-u noariy aJI of tJio nativus' UVKW. nif-u anu Ti.e remaining oob acri-a arc in tho ixomr claMOe Monroe and Sullivan countitss. Twin. IflVltC Afl USpCCtlOn 01 Desks, Tea Tables, Book :innli.K The recently lat-Hl the of tho 01 van not yponl In th bcgi authorities.

be given A -bill traavUnff A penrion of a LARGEST AMERICAN CAT. The Jaguar Bigger, But Mot so Fierce as the African Leopard. Geographic T1)c jifuw "ol it generally koOTTi! II by the police 3.11 ImoniUi oo tho tie Puwnmi been IOM of Major GonoraJ hindsom- deep of American citn. IU yellow color, profmely mtrked with lvi It if the and which conaoquently to the treasury. This money, according to the officials In charge, will uded mostly to round out tlio lands already acquired, so that they may be easily and economically administered.

Tn making future it ia stated that the policy will bo to select thoee tracts which block in with lands ul- nvtdy purchased and which arc offered at tlw uiOHl prices. The acquisition of landu begun in 1911 undtT HO-uillcd "h'ch pcrnuttrd the to purchiue, for national foreitt purposou, luiidn on this hftttlu atcrw of navlpablo ctrvamti in tho mountains and Appalachian To date 1,396,367 01W Work in all its branches. Faraiture and Crockery packed and shipped. Furniture stored. WATER, rV.rsOHB of havinf water introduced iftto rildenceD or placet of burnings should application at the of tbn NtfWpott Water 5 an4 7.

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