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_ KOVNO ATTACK LED ; By VON HINDENBURG German National Hero Takes Personal Command of Troops i Making Assault. - !" I AIRSHIPS RA1I) ENGLAND. Crown Prince Continues Kffortsj to Pierre French l>h?es in the Argonm*. London, Ang. 13.?Field Marshal! Von Hindenburg has taken personal command of the German array at-1 tacking Kovno, and, according to to-; night's German olllclal report, has! gained new successes against the Russians. The selection of Ger-1 many's national hero for the duty of capturing Kovno, which stands be tween the Germans and Vilna. and the Warsaw-Perograd Railway, indi-i" cates tlie importance the German; general staff attaches to this operation. \T/x...n *!.?* 4L- 1 ncno mill lll?: Civilians IlilU DflRllll, to evacuate Kovno, as well as Vilna. " ^, had led to the belief in many quarters that the Russians either had decided to Rive them up or had no hope of holding these points. Now, how-! ever, they are fighting hard to retain both cities and Petrograd claimsi the Russians have repulsed German attacks, except at one point, where a desperate artillery engagement is in progress. Farther north, between Poniewesch and Dvinsk, where Gen. Von Buelow a week ago was advancing rapidly toward the railway, the Germans apparently have suffered a setback, for the Russians now speak of pressing them and declare they have reoccupied Tovlny, considerably west i of the point to which the Germans1 had penetrated. DEVELOPING SLOWLY. South of Riga also the Germans i c.re said to be doing little more than; holding their own, so the talked of j advance toward Petrograd seems to I . be developing very slowly. On the other hand, the Germans continue to drive the Russians north-' east and east of Warsaw, and, with the capture of Siedice, are within a! short distance of Bug river, one of! ine main supports or the BhestLltovsk line, which it was believed the Russians originally intended to hold, but which the German often-j slve to the northeast may prevent. Field Marshal Von Mackensen,| who commands the Germans in the' southeast, again is reported to havcj been held up by a Russian counter-' attack. Military critics disagree as to the, probable line on which Grand Duke Nicholas will stand, but most of them consider it hardly likely that he will) try to hold the Brest-Litovsk front. CROWN PRINCE S EFFORTS. , The German Crown Prince continues trying to pierce the French line in the forest of the Argonne. lie has had a few local successes, but his losses are declared heavy. The Germans also have attacked in Artoi.-t. but without success, according to the rrencit. Two Zeppelins last night visited the Knglish roast, dropping bombs. Six persons were killed and twentythree injured. Fourteen houses wore seriously damaged. This is the sixteenth air raid on (England since the beginning of the war, and in all seventy-six persons have been killed and 175 injured, while two Zeppelins were destroyed. Hp and one of those which took part in last night's raid is believed to have been damaged. Negotiations between the Balkans are proceedings, but thus far there i* no sign of any settlement of questions at issue. i From the Scrap Heap. Fountain Inn Tribune. After the Creator had made the skunk and the hyena and the rattlesnake and the buzzard, there was a little pile of scraps and trimmings left. "If I leave these scraps here," said He, "they will ferment and rotj and cause a disagreeable smell. Just; to be rid of thorn I shall make them I into a man who will sit on the street' and make dirty remarks about women.' ' And the man lived and goi others! after his kind. Taking No Chance* At a Scotch waterlog place one sum mer, Macpheruon waa found stretched In a contented mood on the sands putting his old pipe. ('onie on, Mac," said his companion, who hud jnst coinej rrom town, let s ro ror a Hail. Na na," replied Macphoraon, aiowly slink lug his head, "1 liae hud a guid din I ner at t!l? CUHt ? thrue and uuxpence an1 1m takin norKUe TOLD OF QUAINT COUNSELOR 1 Of Course It Will Be Recognized at * .Fable, Since There Is None Like Him. F Olw.i. ........ .. ?r? ? ..w vt|/v/n u vim*~7 ?u uuiui luuaiv traveler fell off from the top shelf of j. a sleeping car and dented his left () kneepan quite a good deal. He forth- ^ with hied him. limping and lamenting, to a lawyer who was reputed to be so 1 honest that he preferred to tell the truth even when a lie would do just s as well, and would not accept a re- h tainer from a client unless the latter n had a Just cause for action. He also a had plenty of time to practice on the ? violin. _ "I choose to sue the soulless corpo- { ration for $10,000 damages," qouth the injured man, "both because 1 really am damuged fully $10 worth and also t because $10,000 is the only sum for c which anybody ever sues a corpora- v tion." c "i'ish. likewish tush!" returned the attorney, reaching out for his faithful flririlo i??nM t ..wv.iv. i v/u numu uui. ntiaif JUUI time and mine, for the counsel for the 11 defense would make you a laughing 1 stock and cuuse your dreams of av- a arice to turn to ashes in your mouth, c by proving on your own testimony that ;l you were lame from your berth." Ah, was he not a queer lawyer, thus to carelessly throw away an opportunity for a fee, merely to make a sad ' witticism??Kansas City Star. PLANT LIFE WORTH STUDY [ Men of Science Have Ascribed to : Them Nearly All the Attributes of Humanity. Occasionally a writer bobs up who ( ascribes to plant life nearly all tbe attributes claimed for humanity. Recognized scientific authorities are pain- ? fully silent on the subject, as must be ^ the case with all who have had an intimate acquaintance with plants, yet % plant life reveals many wonders to ' those who study it closely. A magazine, whose name we have ' diplomatically forgotten, contains an g article on the "Passions of Plants," { in which occurs the following: "In y the light, moreover, of the new knowledge we have regarding the joys and ?nrrr?U.U 4,f hlwU mill Klnacnmo .?.??..? ^ can be said in defense of the heartless ' race of florists and horticulturists? Every year?nay, every month!?they deliberately snip ofT from the parent , plant thousands and thousands of un- ^ offending blossoms and Innocent buds. , who are thus brought to an untimely end. And for what? Merely to beigh- ' ten, perhaps, the beauty of a ball- ' room!" - | Interesting Find In Attic. t Attica In old houses are always In- i terestlng places. The cleaning of an < attic in Wilmington. Vt., resulted in the discovery of a record book dating back to 1795, in which year there was organized a "social library," with con- 1 stltution. by-laws and subscribers, manifestly a forerunner of the free 11- i braries that are now foilnd in every | community. Entries in the book show s that fines were assessed whenever , one of the precious volumes was even slightly soiled by fingering or marred by the turning down of leaves. That there was much reading by candle < light may he inferred from the fact s that Israel Lawton was fined 17 cents # for dropping tallow on book No. 93, j and ^imothy Castle six cents for get- j . ting a single drop of tallow on book | .no. n>. It is an interesting glimpse of days when books were rare and " their perusal a privilege for which the studious paid gladly. Wisdom. Wisdom is not the same with understanding, talents, cap&Hty, ability, sagacity, sense or prudence: not the ; ' same with any one of these; neither 1 will all these together make it up It t is that exercise of the reason into a which the heart enters; a structure i of the understanding rising out of , the moral and spiritual nature. It is ; for this cause that a high order ofi wisdom?that is, a highly intellectual ! wisdom?is still more rare than a ] ' high order of genius. When they ( reuch the very highest order they are , 1 one; ',ow each Includes the other, and ! c intellectual greatness is matched with j i moral strength f Senior Among Nations. Italy may fairly claim to he senior | . aiuuu^ itin nauuii.^ ui nuiujjr, su rai , as Its name is concerned. The penin- | sula has been "Italia" almost as far 1 1 hack as even legend reaches. Accord- j 1 Ing to Mominsen the "Italt" proper * were the inhabitants of the southern , I part of the country. As to the origin j r of the name, there Is the normal le- ' f gend of a King Italus; but his nuinc j f must have been pronounced Vftalus J or Vitulus, which means a bull calf, and It Is easy to recognise In it an j ! allusion to Italy as the land of cat-' 1 tie : i French and German Languages. Tho French. Spanish, Italian and r Portuguese languages (known as tho ' * "Romance" languages) are offshoots . of tho old Ijutln, and are, to a censid- t erahle extent, founded upon It, while ( the Herman and TCnuliah tongues fjrevv up quite apart from the Latin. That la why the Scandinavian, Dutch, (?erlnan and KiikIIsIi landmines t which,1' like the yooplt-a themselves, ar< close ly related) ur. s'> ?"nnt in Latin * words and derlvuti. aa, t * i; THE LANCASTER NEWS + SOCIETY. + 'ountaln Inn Tribune. I don't know what the explanation s, unless it be that snobbery is a [Uality as naturul to humans us a .veil sense 01 smeii is 10 Hounds, mt it is an accepted fact that most eople have a sort of craving to "be oniebody in society." "Being someiody" in society does not by any neans necessitate the possession of ny unusual degree of intelligence; lelther is it necessary that one be lossessed of money, or official postion, or even "ancestors." 1 know that it is generally assumed hat the thing we call society is omposed of persons who possess lit, high position, distinguished anestors and unlimited wealth. But that assumption is almost enirely wrong. As a matter of fact, natiy persons who have great wealth lave tried for years to become an .ccepted part of "society," but witli ut success. And nearly all men nid women of exceptional wit aim utelligence shun "society"?not beause they are too serious for relaxition, but because they see the lollow mockery of it?the frantic uuoo LUI aiiiUQL'liirill, I (1 f ^ t'OIlSI l\ 11 T day-acting. the essentially childish nunin for showing-off before one mother. Moreover, the accepted dols of society are sometimes lackng in money as well as wit, and are lard put to it to find even one ances01* on whom to hang their claim to 'blood." There is no definition for the word lociety. It is merely a state of mind? t mental disease that attacks those vhose skulls are not entirely full ot >rains. London smiles at the thought of 'society" in New York; New York ineers at Chicago; Chicago lords it >ver Pittsburg: Pittsburg "society* vould not open its doors to the selficknowledged swells of- say. Green rille; and Greenville society probablv las 110 place for Fountain Inn'5 'four hundred." Not that the people of any out section are essentially better 01 vorse than those in any other section <ot that. Rut they all find pleasure n thinking that they are. better, and hat explains "society." Why. I have no doubt there art >eople here in town who pleasi hemselves with the notion that the> ire socially above people in th? ountry! Most of us here in town art lonest; most of us pay our debts ind there are a few who actually lave bath tubs in their homes! Rul f there is anybody in town with n <eener wit or a truer honor thar some of the chaps who come to town vearing overalls. I haven't met him ?or her. The truth of the matter is, mosl >f us?of both sexes?are asses. Wc spend our youth on a farm, handling stable manure and swinging a hot n a decent and honorable vocation md then, when we have made a lit le money, we move to town to "In somebody." Can you tell im* wherein the >usiness of wearing a white collai ind whittling a dry goods box on Wain street ntnkes us more of ;i 'somebody" than we were on th< arm? Can you point out to me the "eason why Mrs. X. here in town .vith manicured nails and a new ind unpaid for gown on her unfash onable figure, is better or mor< .vorthy than was the same Mrs. X n calico, chopping cotton? If yon 'an, you will solve a problem i:i sociology. We need more social intercourse lere in town. We need to neglect >ur selfish business of evenings and ?o "set a while" with the neighbors icross town. We need to get to{ether at grown-up parties. But man, dear, we don't need anv 'society." We don't need women vho dress beyond their means and iffect a broad "a" when they get heir glnd duds on. We don't need mobbish little girls who avoid other ittle girls whose dads have lese noney. We don't need men who eel that they are really too big for i town of this size, or men who have i secret longing to don a dre<s suit it sotno evening affair just to sliov ho natives what a real superior bins? looks like. Tn fuot, all we need is just a little ommon sense?enouprh ,at least, tn ealize that we are all pretty much dike, all faulty, all in need of travel ind education, all in need of cleaner icarts and more kindness and loss oneeit. May the Lord help us not to make tsttes of ourselves -lie asses and slw is sea! lures Ota Sores, Ctl.ar Remedies- Won't Curt "he wor?t cn?e?. mtti-?tt-rof liowlontratnndirt ire cured tiy Mi- wonderful, old reliable Z>> 'or'cr'a y.t?i<- IIhiI'iik Oil. 11 reii?-y*< *mla and -- ?' Ilm? ;V Sir AUUUST 17. 1915. rEEL THEY HAVE GRIEVANCE! r Certain Class of Swiss Who Have No i Use at AH for Visitors to e the Country. y v Swiss patricians plume themselves ( un being the must exclusive aristocracy in Europe. So exclusive are they. a j indeed, that of late years they have been reduced to associating solely (> ; with one another, for they are for the tl i most part not rich enough to travel, ?, I on.l ? 1-. ? i ?i.vi ?. ici/ iiut'i; Happens, in mese | topsy-turvy days, that anyone goes to (| Switzerland who has a long enough I ( lineage to bo permitted to asBoctute with them. Besides, they have a marked dis- 1 I like of foreigners, because, as one of them was kind enough to explain, for- v ! eigners, although a source of profit to h ! innkeepers and the like, are to them u I a source of positive loss. ? I Before the tourist took to stalking ! about in their midst living was cheap " I there, it seems, and servant maids > were plentiful. Now living is terri- '' bly dear, as they count dear, and not ' I a servant maid is to be had. Nor is that all. Although the tour- " ist does nothing for them but step on their toes and annoy them, they | must pay higher rates and taxes that j I he may have good roads to walk on v and spiral railways in which to travel. " This, at any rate, is their tale. I Thus, if they scowl when they meet | him?and they certainly do?it is not ' without reason.?New York Tele- ? grapn. I v I I SAWDUST TO PUT OUT FIRE * Probably Most Valuable of Extinguish- ' ers In Dealing With a Small Blaze. s We are not accustomed to regard .1 sawdust In the light of a fire extin- 1 ( , jguisher. On the contrary, moBt of j< . I us look upon It as fuel for the flames and would never dreum of throwing \ it upon a fire which we were anxious 'l to put out. Nevertheless it is very valuable in- , s deed in certain fire emergencies, es- ' pecially in cases where little volumes * of gasoline or other inflammable | 1 liquids have become ignited. The i motorist in particular will be gjad to ; , know that there is perhaps nothing , 1 within reach more effective in such | ' cases. The principle upon which saw , duBt works is obvious Combustion ' . ceases as soon as there is not enough i ' t ua)kcii iu support 11. i nat ib tne rea, son that one may extinguish a small j Are by pimply covering it with a cloth. I ' ' 1 The sawdust, Indeed, works precisely t In this manner. Its particles adhere . I so closely together that they effect>! ually blanket the burning body upon v .! which they are thrown, thus robbing ?j the Are of the oxygen necessary for Its support. ^ _ Cement for Uce In Glass. Here is a very valuable formula for 1 \ a cement for joining glass. It may ?| I, be used in making or mending aquarl- j l! urns, or things of that sort. This ce- ^ , ment contains nothing Injurious to ; , either animals or plants, and will re- ^ i sist the action of both fresh and salt j water. Take one part of measure, say a ? ' gill, of litharge, one gill plaster of H paris. one gill of dry, white sand, one- ^ - third of a gill of Anely powdered j . resin: sift and keep tightly corked un j til required for use. when it is to be ?j made into a putty by mixing in boiled linseed oil with a little patent dryer added. j Do not use it until it has been mixed i . with the oil over fifteen hours The .j . tank can be used immediately, if nee- j 1 essary, but it is better to give it 1 Ihrno i\w ^ai.m * ? -1 ? - - < ? w wi ivaii 111JUI n ill UI7 . i Appreciative. <j Two country darkies listened, awe- j struck, while some planters discussed ~ the tremendous range of the new Or- 3 man guns. ?j "Dar. now." tftclaitned one negro, j when his master had finished expatiati.ing on the hideous havoc wrought by ^ ja 42-centimeter shell, "jes* lak I bin' tellin' yo' niggehs all de time! Don' lea' have no guns lak dem roun' heah! Why, us niggehs eould start runnin erway?run all day. git almos' home 11 free, an' den git kilt jus' befo' supi1 peh!" "Dat's de trufe." assented his companion. "an' lernme tell you' sumpin' . else. Bo. All dem guns needs is jus' -- - for venre with our eyes shut.. We know meat. We've studied md talked and dreamed meat tin til we can see a .ode of beef ten aides away with our eves shut. We guarantee choice, tender roasts, the kind that makes your meals i iov instead of a dirge. City Mea How to <?et Your Fertilizer Free. 'rogressive Farmer. Every spring, if you pay cash, o- ( ver fall. If you buy on time, hasn't our commercial fertilizer bill sorely worried you? Haven't you many ' ime8 wondered how you might avoid t least a part of this burdensome ' ax on your year's work, only to de- 1 ide that keeping your yields up to lie mark demanded the continued ' se of fertilizer? But there's a way out, friend; you 1 t on't have to continue to Imv 1, ? * I uantities of fertilizers every spring, or buying them will you run the j isk of short crops. On the other 1 and, there's a way. a sure way, bv ' i rliich you can cut your fertilizer ills in half and at the same time take bigger crops than you are now 1 laking. This sounds unbelieveable, ou say? We answer that thousands 1' Progressive Farmer readers are 1 roving every year that it can be 1 one, and that it is up to you to prove o your own satisfaction the truth ' r falsity of our own statement. In the air all above the earth are ' iterally billions and billions of dol- ' ars worth of nitrogen, the element on get in nitrate of soda and cot-! ons.-ed meal, and for which you pay j rom eighteen to twenty-five cents ; i ' >ound. A crop of crimson clover.! 1 [rowing in winter and early spring 1 vlien your land would otherwise be die and barren, has the power of ' Irawing down this nitrogen from the sir. $10 to $2.r> worth for every acre n clover, and, when plowed under 1 n the spring, of storing this valuible plant food in the soil for the orn crop that follows. We only ask that you give crimson lover one trial as a corn fertilizer. Uudy carefully all that is being said n The Progressive Farmer this week ibout how to succeed with it, and hen plant some. When you have seen the rank growth of corn that it nakes, so rank, as one of our friends says, that "You can see lightning nigs in it in the day-time." when you tave seen how mellow and loose it nakes your soil and how it increases rtelds for years afterward, you will jless the day you found it, and your >nlv regret will be that you did not liscover it sooner. rhe Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head icciust 01 its tunic and laxative effect. LAXAriVK BROMO QUININK is better than ordinary )uinine and does not cause nervousness nor ' ingit.g in head. Ketuember the lull name and J uuk (or the aignature o( K. W. UROVK. 25c. |r COME TO ( \ NEXT A \ WM First?Because we sell Pur Second?Because we give t t Third?Because our Measi y doubtful. h Fourth?Because our good? I. to-Date Brands. ? Fifth?Because our line is a Sixth?Because we sell the - WORK Cream Freezer. * Seventh?Because you can : K Mill make Fresh Peanut Butte j. Eighth?Because we are pr< L of our firm :irp wnrlfinor r ? "'"fr iII^?1' I," Ninth?Because we believe - caster. Tenth?Because we need tl a dollar's worth every time. * Call for New Seed Rye. ('rims* ? Seec ! BENNETT-T I Roast Rarity * * O.OOD roasts of choice beef, veal, etc., are as rare at some butcher shops as a cup race without a Shamrock. But not here. Wo linvpn't Iwiaii li 11,. i i 111..- n.?. >? von address. dat's all; jes' giv'em de address an' they'll Kit you.'."?Kveryhody'a Magazine. A Wasted Plea. "Your honor, this man accuses me ' of trying to pick his pocket, but I was only trying to put a card In his pocket | advertising a pressing club." i "The gentleman says he found no card iik his pocket." "It must have dropped out." 1 "Have you another card?" "No, your honor That was the last one I '.:ad and the reason why 1 i bungled so was because 1 was in a | great hurry to finish up and go homo." "Ahem! You would make a good war correspondent." said the judge '> Whenever You Need a General Tonic . Take Grove'* The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless 1 chill Tonic is equally valuable as a , General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic propcrticsof QUINI>"K and IKON. It acts on the biver, Drives ont Malaria, Knriches the Blond and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. 3_ for h More I'lan iojil Form of Fducnt Ion. Progressive Farmer. As a matter of faet. of course, everybody knows that The Progressive Farmer insists in season and out )f season upon the need for a syseui of education that will carry inspiration and richness and color into lie daily tasks of the great masses )f our people. Nor need we be dis airbed by those who say that in raining ior work and for efficiency, lie schools will become less useful 11 building character or in developng genuine culture. There is just is much culture and character-trailing in learning how to calculate a 'ertilizer formula as there is in leaning how to calculate latitude and ongitude, just as much culture in earning the food value of the varOU8 vegetables as there is in learnng to parse French sentences, just is much culture in learning how \.: ight the bacterial invaders of one's iwn body as in learning bow some toman Kniperor repelled martial invaders two thousand years ago. The den that character and culture <anlot be found in anything that has to lo with sweat and horny hands, with he hiss of steam, the smoke of factories. and the smell of plowed e-rilllllil thic iu ti inlioritoii..!. t I he dudes, fops and perfumed dandies of royal courts that we have no more use for in democratic America than we have for powered queues, gold snuff boxes and velvet kneebreeches. A World of Love. Do you ever stop to think how full this world is of things to love, if your heart is Just big enough to let them In? We love to live for the beauty of the things surrounding us and the joy we take in being among them. And it is my belief that the way to make folks love us is for us to be abl? to appreciate what they can do.? Gene Stratton Porter. Unreasonable Boarder. Mrs. Stnithers, if you are unpatriotic enough to hoard your foodstuff. that is a matter for your own conscience; but please remember in future not to give me a hoarded egg for breakfast.?Punch. Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days Ifour druggist will refund money if J>AZ? DINTMKNT fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Blcrdinir or Protruding Pile* in Mc 14 days. The first application gives Hase and Kest. bitc. IUR STORE ^ iVEEK II ?i -1 V? _ ^ . A e Poods. * ;? he Right Prices. -? ires and Weights are nut t -A i n an l.i Vv.il 1 -1 ...iAU * 1- * * t me laucucu Willi lllf L p- "f lways Fresh and Complete. J new and up-to-date NO- ? ?f *ee our New Peanut Buttei \'l r while you wait. Dmpt in service. The heads "' * in the FUTURE of Lan -t > le money and will tfive you i?n Clover. Rape and Turnip i. :: ERRY CO. I ? ? ' / n J t Market 4