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Australia is building for itself a wonderful cupltul city In a region hitherto uninhabited, and the designer of this future city and supervisor of its erection is an American. Jessie Ackermann, P. R. Q. S., thus tells of the great project and her visit to the chosen site, in the Pittsburgh Dispatch: When the colonies of Australia federated and the country established a commonwealth government, thev nat urally bethought themselves as to jfgwhat they should do with it. From the day of federation, for almost ten years, the matter of the locality of the capital was a vexed question, which hinged entirely upon sectional Jealousy and ambition. The bitter fight waxed fierce between the states of Victoria and New South Wales as to whether Syduey or Melbourne should have the honor and advantage. In order to bring harmony out of chaos, it was determined to found a city in some new place where Australian building Ideas and characteristics could be molded and fashioned into a monument of local coloring. The country In general aspect, fairly pulsated with possibilities of originality. The groat soul of Australia breathes an atmosphere all its own. Still there is nothing whatever purely Australian in type or character which the people have produced?neither in art, literature, architecture or poetry. Of course, the country is young, but, even so, there are no evidences of originality, with the exception of the Idea of building a great city in waste places. Yats-Canbarra Valley Chosen. The question of a national capital somewhere at sometime having been settled, the struggle of "where" hecame positively bitter. As New South Wales was the oldest colony, a sense of fitness led the government to agree that the Mother State was Justly entitled to the city, provided the state donated the territory on which it was to stand, specifying that sovereign rights should be vested in the federal government. At laat. a majority vote selected the 'valley of Yass-Canbarra district, as the spot where the unborn city should be built. Ry a strange irony which often weaves itself about the Individ v. _ tGE.NEKA.L VIEW C ual, one of the members who most bitterly denounced the situation of the site by exclaiming, "The wastes are so bleak, the spot so barren and dry, that a crow never flies across the place without carrying a water bottle," became head of the department under which the city will be built. The report of tho commission appointed to visit various sites, says thin of Yasa-Oanbarrn: "It forms a perfect amphitheater In which the city vould bo surrounded by glorious hills." It was decided the world should have a chance to compete In a plan to lay out the city. Descriptions of the area were worked out to the most minute detail. They were drawn by the surveyor general to the commonwealth and sent to the British consuls of the world, with the result that hundreds of plans from many countries poured into the department before tho time limit expired. These were studied and sorted out by a committee, which reduced the real competing number to about half a dozen. There were three prizes offered. The first was carried off by an enterprising young architect from Chicago, Walter Burley Griffin, who is under three years' engagement to the Australian government to put Ills plans Into execution. In order to see something of this greatly discussed place. I decided to pay a visit to the territory and look over the very beginning of things for myself. The site is still rather cut off from the most speedy communications by travel; but when the railway connects tho place with other lines. It will form I the trunk between Sydney and Melbourne, shortening the present disjUnce by some eighty miles. I An entire night on trains, or waiting for them ut stations, brought mo, long before daylight, to the nearest point by rail, when two government officials took charge of me and I was conveyed 1 to the site, where I was to camp in government tentn until I """ 1 something of the reservation. 8et In the Foothills. Eight miles over good roads led to j the foothills that form a setting for the new city. The valley is backed by the more distant range of mountains, which change their garb cf color between daylight nnd darkness, so fre- ^ quently as to throw almost a spell of s witchery over the landscape. From t this area of 900 square miles, 12 N . square miles have been surveyed as | the actual site of the city. The spot t [ will certainly become of Intense interi est to those who watch the daily build- i i I ing of a new and modern city, spring- c j Ing from the very mountains of this ; oldest of old lands. ? In five days we drove 190 miles over i the reservation. Viewed from every j I point, beauty increased and possibili- t ties enlarged with each hour of driv- (] ing. The secretary of the department c chanced to be on the spot, also the ( ' Furveyor-in-chief of the common- a wealth. Maps, books, desiens, literature, explanations and details were I all on such a largo scale us to almost1 ^ | bewilder the mind of a mere woman a An immense gorge in tho mountains j i will form a water supply of such vast c ' extent and- capacity that tho water v j question of the city, should the popu- j, lation reach unheard-of numbers, is settled at the very outset. This is the t great advantage of the whole situation t j ?the certainty of a water supply will f strike a note of security. The district j will be governed something after the methods of the District of Columbia. The people who dwell within the boundaries will, practically, bo dlsfran-1 a chlsed. No land will be sold and the i government will manufacture all ma- j terlal to be used in building the city t at various places under the supervl j. sion of that body. ! | Two hundred miles of splendidly j; built roads are now completed, and work will progress probably slowly, for lack of funds, but the completion a of the city is an assured fact. The r I present generation of builders will not r fcr^J fc ^rw^V'4-- >^ \ '-^ ".I,L ) J^p" r.*^ ?r the: new City live to see the city in any sense com- i pleted. It must be the labor of many years, but it is the hope of Australia that gradually there will appear upon I those hills one master-stroke of architecture after another until a world-tri- t uinph will stand 111 the lorin of a modern city, suited to the climate, of I ( which the oncoming generations will t bo proud. Prosperity Is Astounding. f Australia is a great land, a country ? of sunshine, fruit and flowers: an t island so rich in natural resources as i to astound the world with its recent 1 years of unprecedented prosperity; I Wealth abounds. It la the natural ; i I home of the working man, the field of t opportunity for women, reeking In a 1 spirit of undirected democracy, ex- 1 i perlmentlng In Impossible and wild J legislation, for which the people must j pay in one way or another. c The Intention Is to make It a work- I lng man's paradise; not a bad Idea at c all. No reason why the toiler should I not have his Just share of production ( ?he should; but untrained, Inexpert- t cnced men cannot hop from unsuc- ? cessful ventures of his own Into t skillful management of the business of ; t the nation. There Is a great lack of leaders. There are plenty of clever men 3 1 In the country, but politics has a bad reputation. Able, capable men decline f to become mixed up In It. ? I ? Reciprocal. "Woman," says Dr. Anna Shaw, "over has been man's companion, 1 sharing his exile, ospouslng his cause and buckling on his armbr." And man ever has been woman's companion, 1 sharing.her happiness, espousing her < when she would have htm, and button- . l lng her up the back. < 1 # HMif OtLltl; mjm m 3elgiah's Love Story Shows Old Feminine Spur to Carnage Surviving. rROPHY FROM SLAIN FOE 3elglan Chauffeur Had No Desire for Trenches, Willing to Serve Country Elsewhere, Till Louise Marie Spoke. By EDGAR A. MOWRER. (Correspondent Chicago Dally News.) Paris.?"Love can only say what It vants by the language of life, action, long, sacrifice, ravishment, death and lie great panorama of creation."?Edvard Carpenter. Love of women is playing its part in his war, just as it has always done. "Take me to Dunkerque," 1 said, irandishing my pass. The Belgian haufTeur did not look at it. "What are you going to do there? It !oes not make any difference to me so ong as you have a pass. And if you laven't the sentinels on the road beween here and there'll have you out luick enough. I've got to get some lil for my lamp. It's getting dark, 'ome back in ten minutes and we tart." Had Fled From Antwerp. A quarter of an hour later 1 was siting beside the chauffeur on the front eat of the taxicab with my baggage aside, while the two cylinder motor hugged along the international highway trom Fumes, Belgium, to L)unlerque, in France. "Where are you from?" I asked after i while. The evening mists were (lowing in from the North sea, mufling the deserted fields in layer after ayer. "Antwerp." "What is yonr trade?" "Driving a car. That ib, 1 used to be i taxi driver, but now I'm in the poice, or W88 before the war. That's low I can get such good speed out of his old two-lunger. Of course I had a tetter car than this at the beginning. >ut it got left when the 'boches' came nto Antwerp. I escaped In this one." Red Cross Painted on Car. "You're In the sanitary services. I uppose," I hazarded, referring to the ed cross largely painted on the glass ront. "Yes and no. You see, we haven't nough cars. Sometimes 1 transport vounded and sometimes I bring back lails; just anything You'd better get >ut your pass. There's the frontier ind the tirst control just uhead. And iay. I don't know the password?only ip till noon today. T forgot to ask for t at Furnes. Hut don't worry, 1 won't lave any trouble." Faster motor cars than ours, great imousines and roadsters full of French md Belgian otllcers raced by in the lark with few lights showing. We vere forced to stop some distance rom the military post at the French rontier and wait our turn to go hrough the narrow "S" formed by tarricades erected in the road. Burly Sergeant Quiets Down. "Passes, your passes, please," cried l burly sergeant of French territorials, hining a light in our faces. He eximined mine and handed it hack. "Where is yours?" he demanded of he former taxi driver. "1 haven't any," replied my companon, "but don't look at me like that! t's a beautiful thing, isn't it, terriorials like you who've never looked a ifie barrel in the eye having the right 0 stop men like me who haven't nissed a tight for three months? Can't rou see my friend here is on a special nission and mustn't be delayed?" The sergeant was wavering. "Why haven't you the password?" ic asked finally. "Now. that's a fine question," splutercd the Belgian, sitting up straight. 1 only left Dunkerque this morning, had the password then, all right?up ill noon?'Carlo' for the French find fIa:-ton' for the Belgians. But when I jot to Furnes, where 1 expected to itay a little while, here I found I had o take this gentleman back to DunEcrquo. Fine chance 1 had to get a lassword." "You can co on," grunted the sergeant at lust, and with much grinding >f clutches and brakes we moved slow y beyond the flare of the sentinel's antern. Colonel Shows His Authority. The scene was repeated at three )ther controls. It is unforgettable? he lanterns, the reflections in the :anal which borders the road, the aces, the darkness the excessively :old wind blowing in the mists from he sea. At the third control we were ibout to enter the "S" when there was i clatter of hoofs and flying stones and i voice sliced the darkness: "Oet back there, ! tell you, and wait rour turn." In an Instant a grizzled French Inantry colonel was uikw us. His horse luddenly kicked, champed and pawed he earth. "Get back. 1 say,'' the officer cried. 'Not a carriage will pass until my nen come through." "Wft saw no men, but there was no ise trying to argue with the colonel. ,vho would have taken the tongue out if us if we had dared to protest In hree minutes we were the head of a luarter of a mile of waiting autos. Some of the flrct arrivals tried to push 1 In his horse ntid sat IffimoBtHTlflSslJW the barricade, greeted the audacious ones with such a fury of oaths that the holdest were co\. ~d and obediently foil in behind us. ''ut win re were ; men? A minute parsed; perhaps tv.o. Then we heard u tramping sound, dulled by distanceit grew louder. The lirst company wound past the barricade and entered the urea of our headlights. Tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp. A regiment 011 the march stretches out into a phenomenally long organism. It was 25 minutes before the last of the four pieces of artillery, which brought up the rear of the 3,500 men, had gone beyond us. Dunkerque and Louise Marie. Despite jockeying ou the part of the drivers of faster cars behind us, my nhm.ffn... 1 ? >- - - -* i vuiiuuciii n^jn. uih piuce in me line and we were the tirst through the con trul. As we neared Dunkerque, al| though he had said little up to this time, he knocked the ashes from his , pipe. "I'm glad to be going buck to DunI kerque," he said. "It's a line town. ! Tliey know how a fellow feels when he has been forced out of his own coun| try. Here in France the women and i all are so good to you they make you | forget how far it is from home, with I their wine and candy and fruit they give you. "A fellow wouldn't be much without women, anyway. When we get there I'm going to hunt up Louise Marie and | take her to dinner. You haven't an extra silver piece or two, have you? Thanks. Well, 1 suppose you've been in love. But it's mighty funny what a difference it makes. Here I was up to a week ago without any desire at all to go into tiie trem lies. 1 didn't envy the infantry; seemed to me foolish to go and get killed when you c^uld serve your country just as well doing souietning else. "Then, one night, down in Dunkerque here, 1 met Louise Marie. We liked each other from the start. Say, I felt more like a man that evening than I have since the dirty German I crew entered Antwerp. After we'd had dinner 1 asked her what I could do | for her to show I had feelings, too. The little beauty (she isn't really beautiful) said she was crazy for a Prusco's helmet. Wasn't Afraid at All. " 'Louise Marie,' baid 1, 'I'll get you one.' "And I did. I got a chum In the Seventh infantry to change places with me, he in my car and I in the trenches all filled with mud and water, with the 'boches' about three liuni dred yards away. And I was lucky. "That niglif tho Germans attacked. For a time it was hot, but finally they began to retreat. I saw my chance. 'Charge 'em, boys.' I yeiied, and jumped out of the trench and ran forward in the dark, feeling my way until I cara^.to where.. Borne German dead were lying. "For a minute I thought I was doing a little one man act, but pretty soon here came our fellows. It was beautiful. Somebody told me our soldiers took a lot of prisoners. Anyhow, Louise Marie has her helmet. The most amazing thing is, I wasn't afraid at all." IN FRENCH TRENCHES * ;f (leneral Blager of the French army with his staff in tlie trenches. Notwithstanding the presence of enemy aeroplanes, French generals never lower their standards, but always keep the colors Hying. ANTWERP IS FINED $10,000 Punished Because Posters Announcing German East Prussian Vic- . tory Were Damaged. Amsterdam, Holland.?The municipality of Antwerp, according to the Handelsblad, has been fined 50,000 francs ($10,000) by the German authorities because posters announcing the German Kast Prussian victory were damaged. The population of Antwerp has been warned, the newspaper adds, that in future the inhabitants of nouses near where posters are damaged will be held responsible for the damage and severely punished. Lives on One Acre 59 Years. Hiawatha, Kan.?To live on the same acre of ground for 59 years is ; the record of J, S. Taylor, a ninetyi year-old fermer of Walnut township, | near Faivvlew. He settled on it in 1866, but now owns 999 acres additional. : i 1 1 '' |^' near-?For the convenience of the inhabitant of Poland tin1 Gorman army jv.h lishos newspapers and displays tlieni en the trees. These papers couiait news of all itie world, sent on front Merlin Trade Week for Lancaster Don t forget we are in the swim. Many Special attracrions far next week. We call attention to special offers for DOLLAR DAY next Saturday 17th. Instant. 16 lbs Granulated Sugar .. ..$1.00.5 large Mottles Heinz Catsup.. $1.00 8 lbs Good Parched Coffee .. $1.00 I 10 Larue Cans Haked Beans- St 00 i 9 lbs Green Coffee $1.0.) r, dozen Good Oranges .. ..$1.00 i 20 lbs Rice $1.00 2 Peeks Winesap Apples ....$1.00 40 lbs Grits $1.00 16 Grape Fruit $1.00 4 Gallons Good Molases . . . . $1.00 f, lbs Pure Cream Cheese . . . .$1.00 1 Bushel Meal $1.00 i >-lb Pail Snowdrift Lard ....$1.00 13 Plugs Red J. Tobacco ....$1.00 2 "> Bars Octagon Soap $1.00 12 3-lb Cans Best Tomatoes ..$1.00 i'int Bottles Welch's Grape Juice 12 2-lb Cans best Corn $1.00 for $1.00. 6 2-lb Cans Grated Pineapple $1.00 We have many other BARGAIN'S '10 Cans Pink Alaska Salmon. . $1.00 for this occasion space will not alio Cans Spanish Peppers ....$1.00 low. Cash must accompany the pur5 3-lb Cans Desert Peaches. . . .$1.00 chases. Bennett-Terry Co. 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WATCH THE DATE & COME & GET A TICKET Remember it don't cost you anything to enter my store in hi eacn unie you enter you get a Lieaet iree. oome one is going to get the lucky one. And the holder of the lucky tickeet will get a Twenty-Five Dollar Florence Automatic Oil Cook Stove, without cost. If you haven't a Florence Automatic Stove it will be worth your trouble to see one. Come any time and we will be glad to show you through one. REMEMBER THE DATE, APRIL 15 TO MAY 1. Hoping you will have a cool summer with a Florence Oil Stove in your kitchen, I am, yours truly, J. B. MACKORELL -w