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THE BOSTON GLOBE-WEDNESDAY. MARCH TO? IRT2, VMitUio rir-it Msreh TnK osi on vnpat I'irzt iMiuert O. 14, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1915. SLiPscinri'jnN uatks THE PAUT (Ifn On? rwr luonili. I'-r nrU-f- -r prr copy- lui' PMi.T GL-n-F Om rocr.

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(i by oOo a mnnth. TllF bUNPAY C.l.OUK year. iuepald. THK GLOr.K COMTANJ Washington BoibW rt tJis Poatofftcn, matter. Manuscnpfs io the Glohc r.ot be considered unless: return post- a-jc is enclosed.

Tppeu'rittcn copy alu'oys have the preference. A WASHINGTON CALENDAR. Kavlncii and phlloaophy ot Waah- iBZton which have been coPated ml addreasea. and dlarlea; and each date in the calendar 1 the date of the document or from which the extract Is taken. March 10, 1777 I am informed that Gen.

Putnam sent to Philadelphia in irons Maj. Stockton, taken upon the Rarton, and that he continues in strict confinement. I think we ought to avoid putting in practise what we have so loudly complained cruel treatment of prisoners. to Gen Horatio Galen.) causes? Wo hear little dissent nowadays from the assertion that those causes nrc largely economic and tn- cidental, and not inherent In the nature of things, and are, therefore, removable to a very great degree. No student of Government financea has put this fact more forcibly and clearly thun iMr Frank H.

Pope, the former State Auditor. He sees in the growing State appropriations for charitable, reformatory and correctional purposes one channel of waste that might be stopped at the source. He believes that many hundred thousand dollars should be spent now in order to prevent the rapid increase in the number of the, feebleminded, who should be segregated and not allowed to propagate; in order to eare properly for the fast growing Insane population; in order to deal wisely with tuberculosis and other communicable diseases, which threaten the safety of whole communities and are not reached by the abolition of the roller towel and the introduction of the individual drinking cup. Conditions produced by the feeble-minded, the Insane and the diseased represent great economic losses, and Mr Pope remarks pointedly that is, indeed, appalling that the State continues the expenditure of millions in fighting effects, but fails to strike a decisive blow at the the time for further experiments in lowering rates. EDITORIAL POINTS.

such a bea.Utlful Spring flay in Hoston that it harrt to izp that men were busy over in New York working to dear the streets of WASTING THE MONEY CONOMY' in Government expenditures has become a byword and more or less of a joke. When a politician talks about economy the people understand that it Is with many mental reservations, that his tongue is in his cheek and that he winks the other eye- Every sound political platform has an economy plank. Each political party itself to economy and denounces the other party for extravagance. They all swear by economy, w'hlch is one of the pious fictions of American politics. Meanwhile the cost of Government, National, State and municipal, in- cieases out of all proportion to the increase of population.

All manner of explanations are offered, but three four will suffice, namely; The necessary expenses of the progressive Government of a progressive people are bound to increase. The people demand more of Governmeni, and Government has therefore become more elaborate and compll- ceted and thus more expensive. Legislatures waste money in their attempts to solve new social problems forced upon them by changed conditions. We are getting to regard Government as a rather In dnigent father with a large family. His children expect him to take care of them.

Another explanation of the waste of public money is afforded by the fact that Legislatures have as yet devised no scientific system of making causes. There's the rub. Heroic measures are necessary if one is going to etrike at causes, and heroic measures hurt. So legislators prefer to deal with effects, even though they incur the blame of wasting the Uncle Dudley. InrlrtmtnUy.

aiitoinobPo show is providln-'- of psiwscnRers for Oen nnrwroffs F.verx- rttpartment of tho TIomcstcart works of the Steel Company is now Hi live about 4000 men having just been put to work. Times are getting better al! around. Ts it only a roineirtenee that right after the artjourmnent of Congress busi- nes.s generally is starting up? had my says Vice Fresi- rtent would repeal nine- tenths of the laws wc have on our statute hooks and take particular care to see that W( livert up to the other one-tenth," It. would be Intereattng in know whtch tenth tho ice President would preserve. All of fresh are coming in from the least, sonu' of them were frt ali when thct started.

With all tho expert testimony iTTat is bound to come In the trial in which Harry M'haw's is going to be tho Issue tiie Jurors wiil he lucky if hetore they get through they have attacks of or show general symptoma of incipient dementia. Fome rash person in l.ondon—a member of the Brooks Club -has bet i-k) to that the war will he over before five years. The man who took the £5 end of tlmt hot nuiBt hr a pessimist. money. THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR MEXICO TODAY istory is repeating Itself quickly in Mexico.

A year ago our battleships were lying in force off Vera Cruz and now they are about to renew that duty on the same extensive scale. Judging from this outside manifestation, many persons are saying that conditions in Mexico are no better than they were a year ago, in spite of the removal of Huerta, and that what Mexico needs is the rule of a pow'erful centralized Government. Conditions in Mexico are bad. To deny it would be foolish. There is one important phase of the whole question which must not be overlooked.

Mexico was never a real democracy. It grew up to be a sianized despotism. Suddenly, by force of revolution, the despot was removed. Then another despot came and he was removed. We sneer at the Mexicans because they show sucli inability to govern themselves.

They do not even seem to he able to agree that tomorrow will be Thursday. Their popular Government has been torn and twisted into a mass of conflicting authority. Of course it has. Nothing else could happen. The task of government-and even It qucsHbn.whetlmr.

or whoti, the Prcsirteiit will get to ttie San Frjinciseo Exposition, but our (hillfornia friends need not be entirely rteprosse.rt. Sec JosephUK Daniels says that he is going in July, and that he. is going to make tin' trip on a wiir.ship. by way of the Panama ('anal. It must be a great disappointment to not to be able to lead a grand proccHHion of warship.s, as he expected, making our bigge.st battleship his flagship and hafted and on the piow.

Of course that just the way that Jane it. Carranza Is certainly a lot'ely character! RECUPERATION. Today I have boon prensed and urged I II lUFin ever bear; Now thnt 'fis rtlpiu, 1 woiilrt be purged Of every Itiought cff care. How kind has Nature been to ihose Who more than aeif have to iralnlsln, Uy giving theiri repoee In which eirenglh to regain, Tor with each morn (here citnea anew I'reeh tasks wo nnist arise to meet; Wlio ibese to victory would pursue make his plans complete. sharp Ibe conflict is today.

All of one's powers are ptit to test; all who bravely win their way e'er he at (betr l)eal. And happy he wbea comes nlgbt. When foK ts and nun Ima sot. His cTenlijg l.amp can cslmly light Ami cares forget. Through resi of bfxlj and of mind.

Ih'spite wluit other arhools may teach, Is the bent way that man can find The end he to reach. Lyhn, Thomas K. Porter. WHAT PEOPLE TALK AlOUT. Anonymous communications will receive no attention, nor will any notice be paid those of undue length.

Denominational or sectarian questions will not he aceetitable. John Philip Sousa. Kdltnr rolumn -Please print a short of Juhh Philip ihe bandmaster. South Swansea. j.

c. Hoy. Philip Sousa waa liorn In Washington, Nov fi. ihp Hon of Antonio and Nllxatii'tli (Trinkhatis) Sonsa. He studied music and was a teaeher of music at 15 and a eon- diirtor at IT: one of first violins of offenhuch's orchestra when the latter was In the Pnlteil States.

He was band ieader of the lilted Stales Marino IS8O-3802, anti since then the leader of Honsa'-; Unnd. tVlth his tiiuni he Kurope In lilOl, 1W18 and IU0.5, and made a tour of the world in J910 11. Tiie Niw York ftapeta note death of Wiiliam iieiiry Pinkney Phyfe, vvho.se book, Words Commonly did not give the proper pronunciation of his name. according to Dr Wilcox, medicine Is today iJ percent science and 2ti percent guesswork. Instead of vice versii us in the days of old.

If this is true, the experienced, skilled physician now has three chances out of four of knowing what the matter is with his patients and what to do-which is encouraging. If you let your mind dwell pnduly on the fourth chance. New York Sun: Even a $50 passage rate to Europe will not dissuade some citizens of these United States from seeing America first this year. A good many people may be surprised to learn, not so much that New York handles more of the import trade of the United States than all of the other customs districts combined and 40 percent of the export trade, but that Galveston ranks next to New York in the amount of export business handled, followed by New' Orleans, Baltimore, Detroit, Buffalo, Bo.ston, Philadelphia and San cisco, in the order Boston is second in the amoumt of'Imports, is the name of a new hat material, in which the girls arc expected to be interested, but Just why It is called that does not apijoar, because it is a shiny black straw, pressed quite flat. appropriations.

A Wt-or-miss method education was Kept prevails. One branch ot the Govern-1 from tho people by the despotism. ment grants the money, other branch-' Having no responslbllitieB of govern- es spend wc do not always know how. Illustrations of this fact In Massachusetts w'ould make a long and not altogether pleasant chapter. And while w'e are w'asting at the bunghole we also waste at the ment and brought up In ignorance, the mass of the Mexican people could not rise to the hight of managing a liighly developed republic night or In a year.

They w'ere not capable 0 the National intelligence de- A in the New York Herald reads: come back and talk it We hope it addressed to you. Another landmark will disappear with the destruction of Theatre over In New York. There have been so many changes in Manhattan that the man who been over there since 1876 might have some difficulty in finding his way around. spigot. The annual sessions of the'iranded to run a country as large Massachusetts Legislature cost the as Western Europe efficiently, hav- taxpayers about $500,000, and the ing not had the training, the experience, and not possessed with adequate governmental machinery.

Diaz kept the Mexicans ignorant in order to exploit them. The country is now paying a double penalty for its former misrule. Tbore are no mines or to in- terfore with our uouum'ni' into South American Press. And yet our commerce seem to be getting there to any great extent. San Francisco, too, has shown itself unable, or unwilling, to support grand opera, the company that has just shut up shop prematurely being the sixth grand opera companj' to go bust there In the last nine years.

Is the trouble with grand opera itself, or with the taste of us crude Americans? Music for the People. Kdltor of the fact that Bofiton has Nation-wide reputation for being the music center of America, It Is how limited the opportunity for the common people to hear good music at a low price. Tho younger cltlca of the West seem to bo far ahead In sui-h respect. In Chicago I lie City Women's Club is rcspomdhle for two IFOpular (Mim-erts given every afternoon in tho Art at Ihe price of 10 cents. The Chicago (Jrchestra have tbelr popular concert Satiirila.v nlgbt, and not as they have it here In l.L>s!on, on Friday afternoon, when the majority of people arc working, cities like Milwaukee, and St Paul (liey are away ahead In giving the ooin- inon good educational music.

Why not the City Women's Club of Boston get Interested In this matter? Norwegian. Boston, About Irving Bachelier. Editor tell me something about Irving Bachelier, when and in what part of the country was he Iwrn and where he lived during his young manhood? His stories located in the northern part of New York and Vermont are true pictures of the existing conditions of some half century ago as I remember them. Somerville. L.

Desmond. Irving Bachelier was born In Plerpont, near the St Lawrence 111 ver, 26, 1869. He graduated from St Lawrence University, located at Canton, in so that the first 20 years of his life were spent in Northern Ne'w York. Tic became a reporter on the Brooklyn Times, and later established a newspaper syndicate. He has written several novels, notable for originality and for fresh and fascinating pen pictures of American life.

Ills home at pre.senl is at Btversldc, PicrtFont Ls one of those small rural communities which in ISO.q had a population of 423, and has steadily doellned at each census, until in 1910 tLfdpopulatlon was only 1628. Boom and Consume, m. "BOOM AND CONSUME AMERICAN Though born in the city or born In the woods, Let foreigners boast of their titles so grand, But make them give way to American And show them how well and becoming our place When leading tho world in tho mercantile race, lipt foreign-made products completely alone And show U8 the loj'alty due to our own. TiOt foreigners rant with clique and their clan, But to the country that makes you a MAN. Though born in the city or born in the woods.

"BOOM AND CONSUME AMERICAN aoops." Hugh J. Kingsley. THK interesting announcement thnt the esteemed Dr Woods H'utchlnson Is to address next meeting recalls G. S. recent whimay.

does Dr Woods Hutchinson attend to his While the Doc, is about It he might Inform the class w'hy he always Insists on spHlling his infinitives. Or you read his fascinating articles? Irrltotfntc Iiiterrogntlona, "W'hat number were you calling, THERE was a little blaze in one of Hugh field offices, Monday, which would be nothing to make light of except for the fact that on figuring up the darriage It was discovered that there you might Nawn. Words at Meeting in Park-St Globe. Well, this Brimstone Corner? GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS. Picking at the, first shot the spot in Park-st Subway where your fortable will stop.

Canning a contribution from the Boss. Serving in any office in any club and escaping with less than one kick per member. Slicking close to your work while there is a new talkaphone in the house. ENGLISH as she is-the suggestion Is M. R.

In a Summer-st store: Coats Open the Church (From the Evangelical AUinnco meeting.) a cry of be a Rev Mr Knotts replied: rather be a sorehead than a THE WAR DAY BY DAY WHOLE TOWN Fifty Years Ago. FIGHTS FIRI Ten Buildings in Groveland. March 10, 1865 A Confederate Army Under Gen Braxton Was Repulsed After Three Days of Fighting Near Kinston, by a Federal Force Under Gen J. D. Cox, Moving Inland From FirSIHSII FSllS OH VOlUlliOBr Newbern to Meet Sherman, Both Taken to Hospital.

Two Barns Burn, and School Damaged. GROv ELAND, March 9-Ftro mcnaccl the easterly section of ttie afternoon, caused damage to tlie Ct gregational Church, the Alerrlniil School and several residences and dl stroycd two large barns. A attended grass fire is thought tp hat been responsible for the start of flames, which raced across the fields between King and Garrison spreading in all directions. Aid was sent from FTaverhill and til whole population of the town joimf forces with the firemen In fighting til flames At one time 10 buildings we( ablaze. George W.

Walker of Cot bination .) ConqiHny of Haverhill, whl) clinging to a brick chimney directing chemical stream, fell feet when tlj collapsed. He landed on ti shoulders of Paul Erickson, aged 17, Groveland volunteer, badly Injuring hit Both were taken in aulomohllee to tl Haverhill City Hospital, where It wsj found that fireman Walker had rccoivt broken ribs and a broken foot, Erickson had been bruised and hts heii and face lacerated falling bricks. large barn cti the William T. PH estate and anotlier on the Bastol grounds on Garrison st were destroy (I with a I 0 8 of $1500. The flames wef stibdued after four fighting.

GEN BHAXTON BRAGG. C. S. A. (Right), GEN D.

H. COX. U. S. A.

(T.oft), AND SCENE OF OPERATIONS AGAINST GOLDSBORO AND RAI.EIGH, C. (Photos from War-Time Negatives; Map Based on the Official Records). Arrows Indicate the Federal Concentration Against Goldsboro, Column from Newbern, a Supporting Column from Wilmington, and Army Moving Against Fayetteville from the Southwest. Cross Indicates the Kinston Battlefield. HONOR SOMERVILLE CLERI THE Water Front department speaks 0 the Leyland Line steamship Etonian.

Should the line desire to make a bid for the patronage of the printing and publishing trade it might rename it the Etaoin. Defends War Relics. Editor People's the Globe of Saturday, March 6, I find a commuuication tho head Evidences of Strife," stRned Capt I.omuel Barter of Barters la- hiud, in which he says: my mind it would bo, a gwd thing if every flag carried on either side In the Civil War were destroyed, together witb tho monuments marking battlefields In that etc. Does the captain really mean what he says, or does he say It on tho impulse of the moment? I have no doubt but what ho gave valiant service during the war, and ihat he has a grand record, but it docs seem strange tlmt he should so strongly express himself. The grand old flag Is what we so gallantly foiight for and which we struggled so hard td bring back to our native State.

The moiminonts, In many cases, mark the last rest Ing places ol those who gave their Uvea that the Nation might be preserved, one and Inseparable. Docs ho want all these honorable murks of patriotIsni I am afraid Cupt Barter will bring strong of condornuatton from every comrade by (liose expressions, and I hope that every veteran of the Civil War will stand up for the prosorvatlou of those sacred memories. The destruction of our flags and monuments would not to my mind be the means of blotting out sectional feelings, or causing any of us to forgot the terrible times from to Cambridge. Eben W. Pike, (Late 1st Hergt Co 56 Mass.

Vet. Begt.) A WORD AS TO WORDS. (Prom the Philadelphia Inquirer.) And now comes along Bo.ston, of all places in the world, to say that we have too many words. An ejducator has been matting an investigation into the matter of spelling in the public schools and he comes to the conclusion that the children are not as proficient in that branch of their work as they should be. He says that the total number of W'ords used, by eighth grade pupils In their written work is about 2100, and that the spelling books contain about 10,000 words.

As a result of this a spelling book is to be compiled which Is to contain words nearly suited to the It appears that the words which have given the youthful highbrows of Boston the most trouble are and If it is any consolation it may be said that these words have given some older persons trouble, too. However, the purpose at the Hub seems to be to supply the children with fewer and better words. Whether this is good or desirable eah not be determined offhand. A large vocabulary Is usually regarded as a mark of culture, although it must be said that the important thing Is to write and talk in the way that can be best understood. In short, as has been said, get 100 percent out of your words Do that and it makes no difference whether you use a few or many words legislators spend nearly or quite as much time in considering utterly futile and superfluous measures and in unmaking laws as in making them.

Or they consume whole days jin the discussion of a hatpin law, for instance, which somehow gets on the statute hooks and Is laughed at, but not enforced; or a red flag which causes derision and contusion; or a taxation law, which only adds to the existing chaos; or an order for an investigating committee or commis-iOOW to keep the Postal Service self-solvent is According tq Government statistics there were ten billion riders on the street cars of the country last year. The Government has no statistics showing how many of them got a seat. The 16,000 men In the Navy who are now under instruction in the academic branches established a year ago are learning something besides seamanship and practical mechanics and the art of The responsibility for the chaos in war. Under the new plan, if we can stay at peace, the Navy may in time become one of our greatest universities. Mexico today can he directly traced to the oldtime despotism.

RETURN FIRE THE GLOPE. Some clever work that, on the part of the New York detective who-caught the anarchists in the act of exploding a bomb in St Cathedral! Honor to whom honor is She Sees In Lowell Courier-Cltizen. Women could have done no Globe. They probably could not have done so well. Is our brother a mite on that particular She Sees It, in Low'ell Courier-Cltizen.

1 "Over in says the i Philadelphia Press. Why not "up In 1 Philadelphia NO TIME FOR ONE-CENT POSTAGE to How many lay minds can conceive Bion, which spends the public money! asks the i study. Postmaster General Burloson Kutland Herald, referring to the appro- presents a report that few people received a letter from Chair-1 priatlons of the recent Congress. True read. These are some of the leaks at man Moon of the House Postal Com-' enough.

Even some editorial find KiiiALA difficult to form a concept of it. the spigot. us the foxes, the mittee declaring that only strict econ-1 ----------little foxes, that spoil our vines, for will keep postal expenditures! Kew York people who postpone teie- within the amount of last bill. I phoning from pay stations now until our vines have tender grapes, shortage Is laid to thei-fter July can save five cents on each call. The Boston experienced State House man looks to see the Legislature prorogueci in May, and adds "that record will be the best In So it will be if we get It.

Not since 1905 have we seen a May adjotirnmeut and then the dale was the Republican. One of the bright, mild days last week a Pittsfield girl went into a department store. When she entered the sun was shining all its luster: -when she came out, after buying a couple of Summer hats, a fairly vigorous snow.stqrm was in Boston Globe. (3ne good thing; the Evening Eagle. tbepoetlEtbeSoEgof Solomon, but I of first-class mail due to no OE6 has ever yet captured the Legislative foxes.

The little leaks and the big leaks that are visible are, however, not so serious as the invisible leaks. To tbe interruptions from the European The printers of New York's new telo- war to general business and Its cor- Vink of paper, respondence. I binding wire, and the total edition Whether this cause can be safely weighs nearly 2000 tons. The new direc- assigned to the shortage or not, it lory is a striking contrast to the first evidcpt that the part of put it paradox, a vast amount of qom is for the Postofflce Department containing the names of K2 sub- public money could be saved by to hold fast to those revenues which stribers. Utterback of Bangor says.

it. What looks like waste a season all; in public Ilnnnce may poBulbly be tbe (-cent rate Now. economy. for first-ciass postage. As it is, there is bound to talk back to Utterback.

Instead of spend- intimation that the rural deliv-. ing enormous sums every cry stnvice may have to be curtailed. How that increase alarmingly fast and and promotions and increases in the to to the Pair when are you going to start to the Francisco Impertinently asks the Boston Globe. Some of us, perhaps, when the walking gets (Va) News-Leader. The New Hampshire Senate refused to concur in the action of the lower house in abolishing fast day and substituting Day Instead, so that Massachusetts people who feel that they must attend a fast day service have to go down to Boston Globe.

They come here any Breeze IN a Lynn barber shop: Leafing Here After 4PM Waiting to Have Work Done." "Wbr Bread Loaves Are Smaller (From an ad. in Somerville Journal.) machine sifts automatically all flour used and frees it from foreign such as string, wood, mice, dirt, THE following contribution is advises a contrib, it is written for your and we hasten to assure him that it hit the wicker. SPEAKING of neutrality, the Shamrock Press drew on the Boston Typographical Union call room the other day for a compositor to slick Yiddish type. Congestion at the Dud- ley-st Globe. Alleges? IFTY YEARS ago today a Confederate Army, under Gen Braxton Bragg, was repulsed after three days of desultory fighting near Kinston.

by a Ifederal Array, under Gen Jacob D. Cox, which was moving inland from Newbern to effect a junction with Army. This was the final attempt of the Confederates to call a halt to the ITederal operations along the Atlantic CoasI, the recent object of which had been to establish a permanent base of supplies for use when he should com-, plete his march northward from Savannah throngli the two Carolinas. While the battle of Kinston was being fought Gen Sherman was marching upon the town of Fayetteville, on the Cape Fear River, about 85 miles southw'est. After Gen retirement from the field .50 years ago today, the Confederates were to confine their efforts to attempts to check Sherman.

As a result, the were to penetrate further into the Interior frpm Newbern, and when Sherman was to finally open up the way northward by defeating the Confederates at Bentonvllle, on March 21, were to be in position to handily effect a junction with him. With the establishment of the -fwti 1 0 division, the 15th Connecticut and the 27th Massachusetts, under Col Charles L. Upham of the 15th, were placed nearly a half-mile in front of the Federal line to impede the first advance of the Confederates should they attack. als at Wilmington, Feb 22, was practically insured. Yet Wilmington was not the best point at which concentrate stores for use.

The harbor at Morehead City, on the coast below Newbern, was much better adapted to heavy-draft vessels than was the Cape Fear River, and furthermore, the railroad running Inland from Newbern was in much better condition than that from Wilmington. There was rolhng stock at Newbern and not any at Wilmington. Hence it was determined to maintain a tight hold upon Wilmington and at the same time to make a determined effort to push into the Interior along the railroads from Newburn. Gen John Schofield, the Federal department commahder. ordered Gen Cox to proceed from Wilmington to Newburn tb direct the operations.

Cox Moves Inland. At Newbern were gathered several thousand convalescents on their way to rejoin Army, and a division of new troops under Gen Thos. Ruger, assigned to the 23d corps, which waa.at Wilmington. The convalescents and members of the Newbern garrison were at once formed into two divisions, under Gens I. N.

Palmer and S. P. Carter. Gen Cox determined to waste no time. On March 1 he ordered the bulk of his force to move out along the railroad toward Kinston, about :10 miles iniand from Newfiern.

A position was taken UD about 16 miles out of Newbern, and the engineers proceeded to rebuild the road, which had been wrecked by the Confederates. A.s the work progressed word was received in the Federal camps that the were gathering against tiiem Hence, on March 7, in order to eain the lirst adv'antage, Gen Cox seized a position within three miles of Kinston, at Wises Forks, a junction of the main road.s in that section of the and divisions trenched along the main front, facing Kinston, while division remained in the rear. Two regiments of 27th Massachusetts Captured. Gen Bragg, the Confederate commander, had, on March 6, been placed under command of Gen Joseph E. Johnston.

The latter, at solicitation, granted permission to make use of parts of the old Army of Tennessee (which had been almost shattered In the battle of Nashville, in December, 1864), which had come from the west and then were near Smlthfleld, on the railroad, 45 miles from Kinston. When Bragg found his own small force, some men, under Gen R. F. Hoke, confronted by advance, he summoned the available part of the Tennessee army. This, numbering about 5000 men, now in command of Gen D.

Hill, joined Bragg at Kinston, and in the morning of March 8 the Confederates moved out to attack. The first heavy assault fell upon the outlying regiments under Col Upham. The whole field of action was swampy and cut up by narrow roads, and in the first Shari) fight all but seven men of the 27th Massachusetts Regiment were captured. Col Upham, with his own regiment, managed to make his way to tlie main line. Being in doubt a.s to the extent of his first success, yet probably believing that he had made an Impression upon the main Federal line, Bragg at once ad- usted his ranks and launched another Tieavj blow at the This time he ran into their main line of which had been further strengthenied by the arrival of division from the Bragg was repulsed.

Again on March 9 there were other minor attacks. Gen Schofield came up that day and urged that a general offensive of the be delayed until the arrival of the 23d Corp.s, which was then marching overland from Wilmington, 85 miles distant to the southwest. Gen Bragg, receiving otlier small reln- forcemertts, prepared for a sudden blow the next day. Associates Entertain W. P.

After 32 Years of Service City. William P. Mitchell, who retired clerk of committees in Somerville Dtl 31, after 32 years of service, was guest of a complimentary bamjuet la( evening at the Boston City f'lub, which 169 were present, Including paJ and present members of the City eminent. Mayor Z. E.

Cliff, to whosj Mr Mltcl ell tendered his resignation, theslded an presjented to Mr Mitchell a silver lovin cup. suitably inscribed, and a bounj autograph book containing the namt of those present. Those who testified to their appreoiij tion of Mr service comprlsti Selwyn Z. Bowman, first city in Somerville; Ex-Mayors Albion Perry, George O. Proctor, EdwajJ Glines, Charles A.

Grlmmons, Woods, Leonard B. Chandler an! Charles A. Burns, Ex-Dist A tty Johl J. Higgins, representing the past presj dents of the Somerville Boards of Al dermen, CltY Treas Joseph S. PIkJ Walter S.

Glidden and David H. FuJ ton, president of last Board Aldermen. The arrangements cdmmlttee cor prised Mayor Cliff, Bx-Aldennen II. Ifulton and Joseph Hlllson, Repri sentative Joseph li. Perry, Aldermel William Fleming, George W.

Pratt Oscar W. Codding. Fred E. Durgln, Ci.li Clerk Frederic W. Cook, City MessenI ger Fred E.

Hanley and Fred Ela Wart ren, the secretary. I Present at the banquet -were Mr elTs son and grandson. Mr and Mr Mitchell sail tomorrow tor They return to Somerville followini a visit to Panama and later in the will maek a trip to California. WILSON OR A REPUBLICAN. Bragg falls Back.

On March 10 the Confederates hit hard. But the Federal works proved too strong for them, and after a heavy fight, with considerable losses on both sides, Gen Bragg withdrew his troops. He had received news of the approach of the 23d Corps from Wilmington, and, fearing that his retreat might he cut off, fell back to Goldsboro, miles in the rear, that night. Before retreating Gen Bragg destroyed a partly ed Iron-clad that lay moored at Kinston. The Federal losses were 322 killed and wounded and 935 captured.

Confederate losses In killed and wounded are believed to have been more than twice as large as those of the they lost 266 men captured. After Kinston the Federal progress was rapid. On March 21 Gen Schcfleld was to march into Goldsboro, at the junction of the from Wilmington and Newbern, and there to join forces with Sherman two days later. Tomorrow: Sherman ut Fayetteville, C. Bach numbers for one year can be obtained.

(Copyright, 1915.) A DAILY LESSON JN HISTORY. HIS HIGHNESS MAHARAJAH SIR SAYAIJI RAO GAEKWAR BAHADUR OB' BARODA, WHO HAS SENT HIS BEST TROOPS TO fight in FRANCE. Bom in Baroda, Inilia, in 1862. SayV (PersotiaT in London tVlFB he very pleased to write to any lonely Officer at or going to the Box 36, The TlmeB. RATHER high-handed work, you might call it, when one gentleman invites another into the Custom Hou.se Tower and matches $12 worth of away from him- THESE seem to be busy also, for Ben Haines.

E. R. DIES SITTING IN CHAIR. Elroy C. Nickerson of Saco Was Formerly Employed InNSoston Studios.

(SACO, March C. Nickerson, of Boston, where he was employed by leading photographers, died As a puzzling question the Boston while sitting in a chair at his home Globe asked: How rnany worcls in the English language end in ough. And more than a thousand paragraphers immediately dashed off dough to start the list. There seems to be something in Bee. tbe State tax and make the the effects of Everybody wishes to see the Postal a nniv think! A week from Sunday It as efficient as possible Siv Spring! poverty, disease and crime, why not everybody also wishes to see it self- Service gpend more on the removal of the maintaining.

Obviously this Is Addams Nation to Stand Funeral of Cohasset Woman. COHASSET, March funeral of Mrs Ellen Fuller, who died here day was held this afternoon at the Beech wood Congregational Church, Rev Francis Moon officiating, Mrs Fuller was 75 years old. the widow of George W. Fuller, who was a veteran Hubma- rine djver The pallbearers were Jud- Rmifh Levi P- Edwin w. Rites and Rufus A.

Bates, and the birial wM in Beecbwood Cemetery. last night. Ha had appeared to be in his usual health during the day. He was born in Saco 47 years ago. He learned in Biddeford and afterward in studios In Boston, New York and Providence.

He leaves a mother and one brother, George P- Nickerson, both of Saco. Dinner of Alexander Hamilton Club. Advertising in various fields and the underlying principles of bu coj'- respondenca formed the subject of a talk which Kenneth MacNlchol gave at an Informal dinner of the Alexander Hamilton Club In the Boston city Club last evening. H. E.

Mesident of the club. Introduced Mr MacNlchol and tbe attendance numbered about 50. A large number of the native troops sent to France from India came from the Maharajah of Baroda, one (jf the most important of the Indian Princes, who ascended the throne when he was 18 years old. His uncle was deposed by the English when the present Maharajah was taut 12 years old, and from the day he was given full powers to rule he has been faithful in every regard. In Baroda he is called Gaekwar.

which means for this was the title of his family before they became kings. Maha means and rajah is so the Gaekwar Is Great When he was selected to become the King of Baroda he was educated by English tutors and English professors, his servants and attendants were English and he was surrounded with English friends. He was not cut off in any way from his own people, however, and he was encouraged to hold faithfully to his religion and its teachings. His State of Baroda the most advanced one in India, for the King Is eminently pro- eresslve and a reformer. He abolished infant marriages his realm, making 12 years the minimum age: he cut off the taxes that for hundreds of years had kept the common people in poverty; education was made compulsory, and modern colleges and museums were established, while railways were built, and trade and andcommerce have given industries prosperity to the people.

After a tour around the world that the Maharajah made with his Queen and a special suite, he became so impressed with the good that can be accomplished with money that he- melted a gold cannon that was one of the royal treasures, and from It produced $500,000 in gold coins to put into circulation. There were two silver cannon that had been made by an early Gaekwar, and In order to outdo him, a later one had two gold ones made that cost $500,000. These guns figure in all state processions and are drawn by mlgniflcent white oxen covered with hangings of cloth of silver and gold. The natives believe the guns to be sacred and bring peace offerings to and these they place above the muzzles. Two remarks made by the Maharajah are memorable.

Asked in this countrv by a reporter if he had any hobbies, he said: have only one and that is, the best interest of my The other remark was also made to a reporter in the United States: wouldn't mind a good Republic in my Clark Believes President Wilt Bj Reelected If He Makes Kitchin Broad Minded. If he makes good. President Wilsoi will be renominated and reelected In 19h in the opinion of Speaker Champ Clatl of the National House of Representu lives, who passed through Boston yes terday on his way from Manchester where he addressed a large aufl ence Monday night, to Washingtqi Speaker Clark lunched at the Hole To'uraine with Mayor and Mrs leaving for Washington at 5 m. "1 have before, and 1 repcr declared Speaker Clark, the President makes good he will renominated and reelecteil. If li doesn't, then the Democratic norninatiioi for the Presidency will not be worth tin paper it is written 'The Speaker insi.sted that New Eng land manufacturer.s will liave no leasoi to fear Claude Kitchin of North Caio Una as chairman of the Ways aiu Means Committee of the House.

ew England manufacturers will gel he said. looks political and economic (juestlons irom i National standpoint. To be sure li cornea from the Soutli, but he look.s a all questions in Congress from a broade When asked his opinion of the Meui can situation, Speaker Clark declare that when Diaz left Mexico, the coun try lost Its abie.st citizen. he said, "was one of th ableyi men In the w'orld. The land ques tion the big trouble down there you never can have a stable Govern mvnt and a satisfied people unless the own the land and have a In th Government.

Mexico, after all. Is only a so-called Do you think the United States ought to the Speaker was we had four years of war here among ourselves, beginning in was the reply, nobody interfew. We would have put up a big holler if they had, I guess. The only difference between Mexico and the United States is that we were bigger and more Mr Clark expressed the opinion that the President had handled both Ih Mexican and European situations with remarkably good judgment. MILITARY PREPAREDNCSS.

ABE MARTIN SAYS. Stew Nugent is his mother till times pick up. all good listeners when money talks. WHAT WORD IS THIS? answer; Army Corps, Prof Thomas N. Carver Tells Harvard Students What Might Happen If a Foreign- Foe Comes.

Harvard students to the of 100 attended the meeting of the Harvard National Security League in the Union last evening when the organization was perfected. Prof Thomas N. Carver addressed the students on necessity for military preparedness and told what might happen in this country if a foreign foe landed on its shores. He expressed his doubt, however, about the efficiency that is claimed for some of the belligerent armies. Congressman Augustus P.

Gardner, who was to have addressed the students, was unable to be present. The Harvard organization is a single branch of a league that is being formed In most of the principal colleges and universities of the country to arouse sentiment in favor of a rapid Improve-t. ment in the military and naval resources and armament of the United States. Prof Carver said in part; knows where the lightning la going to strike, but even if one cannot designate the spot, there is no reason why we should not be prepared for it. It is the part of wisdom to be prepared for the Nation which abandons the conflict of diplomacy aroJ goes to war.

One crime iq weakness one virtue Is strength. Until we are sure that we have the Nations bred up to a sincere respect for international law the conflict la likely tp degenerate Into wtur and the weakest power will Dr George B. Rice Lectures. Hr George B. Rice, professor of diseases of the nose and throat in Boston University School of Medicine, lectured on at Evans Memorial last night In the series of weekly public health talks under the auspices of the Massachusetts Homecqjathio HospitiUw.