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Breslau, capital of Silesia, the stal the Russians, and has been prepared BERLIN CONFIDENT AND N Contrary to the reports that have | been circulated in the United States, Herlin Js not demoralized and panic stricken by the war, according to Philip H. Wood, an American who re cently left the German capital. In Herlin conditions are almost normal, Wood said, and things are going on with little change. There is little ex citement. "Life is going on practically the same as usual," he said. "There is MAY BE BESIEGED BY tely city hall of which is here showu, is for a stubborn defense. !H MITRAILLEUSE IN AC IMM JD BARRICADES UNOC35fWOW^:^ 'S WITH COLT GUN OT AT ALL DEMORALIZED no more difference than there is in London. The price of food is the same ; as before the war; the cafes are all 1 open and have their bands playing; there are almost as many concerts; c many of the theaters still have full houses, and save for the suppressed i excitement, there is very little to show < that Germany is in a state of war. I I never saw any refugees. < "The general view was that If the 1 Germans don't win, they will make it 1 RUSSIANS ia some danger of being besieged by Private J. J. Rousseau of the Fourth egiment of Belgian chausseurs cheval s one of the heroes of the war by rea son of his capture of Count von Bue ow, son of the German chancellor. In he photograph he is wearing the Mil tarv Gold Cross, presented him by the Belgian king, and is to be the re :ipient of the Order of Leopold. Rous seau was injured by a kick from Von Huelow's horse. He took from the :ount his dispatch box, his uniform md lGf.,000 francs which he turned >ver to the Red Cross. Four Sons of Rival Arms Die. Bordeaux.?A Swiss woman living ai iasel married a German. Two sons vere born to them. Afterward she narried a Frenchman and had two nore sons. All four of her sons were railed to arms, two on each side. Tho nother has just received news that all our have fallen in battle. i draw. They are satisfied that their -'" oi- ho hontori anii that irmy can ikici uv ..? he most the allies can hope for is a stale-mate. Even if they have to re reat from France, they are confident .hat they will be able to defend their )wn country for an indefinite time. "I asked two officers if they had con sidered the possibility of defeat, and ane said: 'Yes, it may be just possi ole; but if so, we should not be here, ind in all Germany there would not be more than 50,000 men left between the ages of seventen and fifty.' " JOKING WITH DEATH British Sing and Laugh in Midst of Fierce Combat. American Chaplain Gives Vivid De scription of Battle of Mons, Where He Was With French. New York.?A vivid description of the manner in which the English forces faced death on the battlefield, of the jokes they cracked and the prayers they said with bullets sweep ing their ranks, was brought to New York by Rev. James Malloy, a native of Trenton, N. J., who served as chap lain for several weeks with one of the British regiments in France and re turned home on the Mauretania. "In a modern battle there is an over powering sense of unreality," he said. "The business of seeing men kill each other seems mechanical because of the preponderance of the machine ele ment in the affair; the human element simply bleeds and dies, but the ma chines continue in their perfection of Biaugiuer. "The conduct of the English and Irish soldiers in the trenches was sur prising. There those men stood be hind shoulder-high mounds of dirt, fac ing level sprays of death in front, yet cracking jokes and singing snatches of music hall ballads between volleys. Stupendous bravery, I call it, or stu pendous absence of nerves. "I've heard men under the crashing fire of the terrible German guns and with comrades dropping all about them unite in roaring 'It's a long road to Tipperary' as if they were in bar racks. Sometimes I'd hear a big Irish man call out to a neighbor in the trenches, 'Well, I winged that Dutch man, all right.' The business of kill ing, with them, seemed personal and to resemble a sporting event. "But how the Germans did pound that British line at MonB! They came on and on and on, never stopping, nev er faltering. It was like the waves of a blue-gray sea rolling up through the fog. One wave would break and die away, but another would be right behind it, pushing on inexorably. The German commanders threw their men into the face of British fire with abso lute recklessness, counting on the sheer weight of numbers to overwhelm us. "To see those German lines move ? J nlnnnnn urn r. lflrA luiwaiu lliiuugu giaooco r* ao watching regiments of toy Boldiera pushing across a table. You'd see a long row of pale blue blocks, topped with spiked helmets, break from cover and come rushing at you. Then a British gun at your elbow would speak, a shell would fall right in the midst of that blue block, a great hurling up of smoke and soil and?the block would be gone! Nothing left but a few little men madly running back through the haze of powder smoke. "But the German shells kept coming and coming. They are terrible, those shells! I have seen one shell enter a little hill and there explode, carry ing away the whole top of the hill. I have seen a company of British wiped out by the explosion of a single shell. "Perhaps the night fighting is the most weird and terrible to see. In this the forces of the allies had the superiority, through their preponder ant equipment of aeroplanes. The al lied forces had 35 aeroplanes, which were busy day and night, but espe cially at night. "You would hear a whirring of in visible propellers overhead and by straining your ears could trace the direction of the night flyer over the German positions. Gunners stand ready behind their pieces keyed up to a high pitch of efficiency. Suddenly a spark appears in the heavens; it falls. The airman has dis covered the position of a German bat tery and his falling torch makes the range and the position. Instantly the British guns roar and a shower of shells soars up to follow the line of that falling star." WARNING TO THE CIVILIANS Germans Protect Private Property but Will Severely Punish Hostility by Non-Combatants. By HENRY L. PERRY, International News Service Staff Cor respondent. Bordeaux.?Proclamations have been posted in all towns of France that are occupied by the Germans, stating that private property will be protected and peaceful citizens will not be molested, but that any civilians acting in a way detrimental to the Germans will be shot. One of the proclamations given out by the war office reads as follows: "All authorities and the municipal ity are informed that every peaceful inhabitant can follow his regular occu pation in full security. Private prop erty will be absolutely respected and provisions paid for. "If the population dare under any form whatever to take part in hostili ties the severest punishment will be inflicted on the refractory. "The people must give up (heir arms. Every armed individual will be put to death. Whoever cuts telegraph ABBE'S GRAVE FIGHT Tried Vainly to Save Cathedral at Reims From Fire. Then Heroically Kept Enraged Frenchmen From Driving Wounded Germans Back Into Flames. London.?The correspondent of the Dally Mail gives a story by the Abbe Gamu of the terrible scenes in the cathedral when it was set on fire. He said: "It was all over In an hour. There were two separate fires. We put the first out with four buckets of water, all we had in the place, but soon an other shell struck the roof, and the wind drove the flames along the raft ar? Insiria thf> nave. We rushed UD again, but it was flaming all along and as we could do nothing we hur ried down. "There are holes in the ceiling of the nave and sparks began to fall through them into great heaps of straw ten feet high and twenty yards long the Germans had piled along the north aisle. We tried to catch the sparks in our hands as they fell and those of the German wounded that were able to walk helped us. But the first spark that fell on the pile set it blazing. "There was time to think of noth ing but getting out the wounded. They screamed horribly. We carried many of those that could not walk, while others dragged themselves pain fully to the side door in the north aisle. Those who had only hand and arm wounds helped their comrades. We got out all except tnirteen, wnoso bodies He here. "When at last I came out of the blazing building I found all the wounded huddled together around the doors. Opposite them were a furi ously hostile crowd of civilians of the town and a number of soldiers with their rifles leveled. "I sprang forward. 'What are you doing?' I cried. " 'They shall all burn,' shouted the soldiers in answer. 'They shall go back and burn with the cathedral or we will shoot them here.' "'You are mad!' I exclaimed in re ply. 'Think of what this means. All the world will hear of the crime the Germans have committed here, and if you shoot these men the world will know that France has been as criminal in her turn. Anyhow,' I said, 'you shall shoot me first, for I will not move.' "Unwillingly me soiuiers luwereu their rifles and I turned to six Ger i man officers who were among the wounded and asked if they would obey 1 me and do everything I told them. They said they would, and I asked them to tell their men to do the same. Then I made them up in a solid body, those who could walk unaided carrying or helping those who could not. I put 1 myself at the head and we set off to the Hotel de Ville, which la only a few hundred yards away. "Well, then the crowd, mad with grief and rage, set on us. I can't de scribe It. You never have seen any thing fin dreadful aa that scene. They beat some of the Germans and some of them they got down. "'Can't you help me?' I called to a French officer I caught sight of. " 'You never will get to the Hotel de Ville like this,' he replied, so I forced my wounded through the gateway of a private house and we managed to close tne gates after us. "They had been roughly handled, some of them, and they stayed there a day and a night before we could move them again." NO THOUGHT OF SURRENDER German Warships Sunk Off Helgoland by the British Went Down Fighting. London.?A gun-room officer in a bat tle cruiser that was in the engagement off Helgoland writes: "The particular ship we were en gaged with was in a pitiful plight when we had finished with her?her funnels shot away, masts tottering, great gaps of daylight in her sides, smoke and flame belching from her wires, destroys railroad bridges or commits any act in detriment to the tleriyans will be s'.iot. "Towns and villages whose inhabi tants have taken part in any combat, | or who fire upon us from ambush, will bo burned down and the guilty shot at once. The civil authorities will be held responsible. (Signed) "VON .UOLTKE." Admired a Good Fighter. At a certain well-known garden res taurant in St. Louis the proprietor had a parrot that often furnished a great deal of umusemeut. One evening when the garden was tilled a tiny fox terrier pup slipped in. I'olly happened to be off of her perch, walking in her pigeon toed manner as fast as her chain would allow. The pup spied her and -nade one grand dash for poor Polly, ;rabbed her, and gave her the worst halving she'd ever had in her life. A'hen they were llnally separated everywhere. She speedily heeled over and sank like a stone, stern first. So far as Is known none of her crew was saved. She was game to the last, let it be said, her flag flying till she 6ank, her guns barking till they could bark no more. "Although we ourselves suffered no loss we had some very narrow escapes. Three torpedoes were observed to pass us, one within a few feet. Four-inch shells, too, fell short or more ahead of us. The sea was alive with the enemy's submarines, which however, did us no damage. They should not be under-rated, these Germans. They've got 'guts.' That cruiser did not think, apparently, of surrender." Black Cat Saw Sea Fight. London.?How a black cat saw the British fleet sink several German war ships off Helgoland is told in a letter from Alfred Bishop, who was in the fight. The cat is the mascot of one of the British cruisers, and was on deck throughout the engagement. She is immensely popular now and in dan ger of becoming spoiled. "Our dear little black lucky kitten cat sat un der our foremost gun during the whole of the battle, and wasn't frightened at all, only when we first started firing. But afterwards she sat and licked her self. We all kissed her afterwards," writes Bishcp. Polly, standing in the midst of her ruined iinery, cocked her saucy head on one side and exclaimed: "I like that pup." For Forest-Fire Workers. A special type of steel windmill tow er has bt-en adopted us the standard lookout tower for forest fire lookout purposes. The platform on top of the tower iB Inclosed to protect the look out from sun and wind, and is large enough to provide room ,'pr his bed and working equipment. *Tls better to be skilled in making salad, Than versifying sweetest song or bal lad, For man, 'tis said, is but a hungry sinner, Devoid of sentiment 'till after dinner. So, if the way you'd find unto his heart Essay not verse, but culinary art. THINGS WORTH KNOWING. How many housekeepers appreciate the value of boric acid? A half tea spoonful of the nnwripr dissolved In a pint of water is a most desirable dis infectant to wash the baby's mouth, and also its eyes. Each b|t of absorb ent cotton should be burned after using, and a fresh piece should be used for each eye. Buy a fourth of a pound of the powder and keep it in an air tight box. Two ounces of the acid to a quart of boiled water can be bot tled and kept for use in different ways. If a burn has to Be treated, saturate a cloth in the solution and keep it wet This will take out the fire. It i3 a good disinfectant for any cut or wound. A simple dessert and one which is most wholesome is a graham mush made by adding enough graham flour to a quart of boiling water with salt, stirring until a smooth mush is made. Add a few raisins and serve with sugar and cream, either hot or molded in cups and served cold. Heliotrope sachet powder which has lost its freshness makes a good de odorizer. A coal dropped in a cup with a tablespoonful of the powder will send up a fragrant incense, con tinuing to burn for some time. A most delicious pie is made by baking an undercrust, having it rich and tender. Fill the crust with well strained apple sauce mixed with whipped cream, sugar and flavored wun nutmeg. A rocking chair should never be al lowed in a sick room except for the use of the patient. Some one has said that there should be one chair in a 6ick room, and that so uncomfortable that visitors will not linger long in it. If all use sugar on oatmeal, try add ing it when cooking and see how much the oatmeal is improved thereby. The traveler owns the grateful sense Of sweetness near, he knows not where And pausing takes with forehead bare The benediction of the air. SEASONABLE DISHES. There are some who find it neces sarv to cultivate a taste for eggplant, others like it at first taste. It looks so attrac tive in its natural state that even the prejudiced will be persuaded that it is good. Peel the plant and cut in half-inch slices, set under a weight to ro ot the juice, then egg, bread and fry in hot fat until well done. Serve hot. This is one of the move some favorite ways of serving it and the one best liked. A most satisfying apple-cake or cof fee-cake may be made by taking three cupfuls of bread sponge which is light and foamy, add a- quarter of a cupful of melted fat (butter is best), a quar ter of a cupful of sugar, a well-beatpr. egg, all well mixed with a half cupful of milk and flour to make a dough soft, but not sticky. Set to rise, add a half cupful of raisins when knead ing it for the flat loaf, cover with but ter, slices of apple, sugar and cinna mon and bake when twice its bulk. Cottage Pudding With Raisin Sauce. ?Beat half a cupful of butter to a cream; add a cupful of sugar, add two yolks and one white, well beaten, then alternate one cup'ful of milk with two cupfuls of flour sifted with three teaspoonfuls of baking powder; add a fourth of a teaspoonful of salt, beat well and pour into a shallow pan to bake a half hour. Serve cut in squares ! with Sultana Sauce.?Simmer a half cup ful of raisins in a cupful of boiling water until tender, an hour will be aHH a level tablesDOOn- I IlUlic tyj\j ?<-?**&* ? . , ful of cornstarch mixed with half a cupful of cold water and let cook ten minutes; add two tablespoonfuls of i butter, a cupful of sugar and a tea- j spoonful of vanilla. Fresh Fish Balls.?With a silver fork pick some remnants of cooked fish and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Pass through a vegetable ricer a few hot boiled potatoes, to these add a little fish stock or sauce or cream, also salt, pepper and beat as for mashed potatoes. To the fish add just enough of the hot potato to hold t' e fish together. Shape into balls, roll in crumbs and egg, then in fine crumbs, and fry In deep fat. Four Greatest Ports. The four greatest ports are New York, Hamburg, London and Liver ?i Tiio figures for these four ports JJUU1. A WW * o in foreign commerce, exports and im ports, are as follows: New York, $l,96G.22(!.niS: Hamburg, $1,960,779. 855; London, $1,SG0,930,7S2; Liverpool, $1,S16,983,279. Daily Thought. The happiness of your life depends jpon the quality of your thoughts, :herefore guard accordingly.?Marcus Aurelius. Daily Thought. I tell you?it may be for the hun dredth time, but it is the very truth? that this is the working day; that this is the watching hour, and that our su preme duty is to work until the day is done and darkness falls upon the ield; to watch until the hour is ende^ -Raleigh. Madagascar Raising Ostriches. Madagascar, where ostriches were imported ten years ago, threatens to become a formidable rival to Cape Col ony iu the feather industry. Rub-No-More is the slogan of the up-to-date woman. She uses RUB-NO MORE WASHING POWDER because it cleans clothes quickly without rubbing and disinfects them at the same time. RUB-NO-MORE WASHING POWDER is a sudless dirt re mover for clothes. It cleans your dishes, sinks, toilets and cleans and sweetens your milk crocks. It kills germs. It does not need hot water. RUB-NO-MORE RUB-NO-MORE Washing Powder Carbo Naptha Soap Five Cents?All Grocers The Rub-No-More Co., Ft.Wayne, Ind. Genuine Chinese Lncky Coin foV^cm^pieS! Mafci'* novol natch charm. Prepaid for 10 cents. M & N SUPPLY CO.. Fillmore. California REMEDIES FOR POTASH SHORTAGE By Prof. H. A. Huston. Various suggestions have been made in regard to the steps to be taken bj farmers in reference to the shortage of Potash in their fertilizers, caused by the greatly reduced shipments of Potash from Germany since the first of August. Most of the Fertilizer Com panies have endeavored to make the Potash on hand go as far as possible 'y by selling for the present brands of j complete fertilizers containing only 2 or 3 per cent of Potash and withhold ing from sale brands containing larger amounts. The suggestion that some or all of the Potash be replaced by phosphoric acid is absurd, for every schoolboy knows that one plant food cannot take the place of another. There are some indirect fertilizers, such as lime, gyp sum and salt that can release a limit ed amount of Potash from some soils that contain hydrated silicates of Alu mina and Potash. But if these soils have already been treated with lime or have received repeated dressings of the usual forms of fertilizer con taining soluble phosphate with its ac companying gypsum, then the Potash in the hydrated silicates has to a large extent already been replaced and the use of more lime or gypsum or salt could not be expected to release much additional Potash. Ground limestone or oyster shells act too slowly to be used as Potash releasers. The residue of soda left in the soil by nitrate of soda is more effective in releasing Potash than is gypsum and hence goods, in which the nitrogen is largely in the form of nitrate of soda, may have a special value in the pres ent emergency. It is often stated that decaying or ganic matter releases Potash from the soil, but there seems to be no direct ^ evidence of this. On the contrary, Dr. S. Peacock states In the American Fertilizer of Sept. 5, 1914, "Several thoroughly competent researches have shown that decaying organic matter has little effect on converting inert mineral plant food in the soil into available form." In any soil the amount of Potash capable of being released by these in direct means is a very small fraction of the total Potash in the soil, most of which exists in a form about as soluble as window glass. There is no nwAfifnKlft fnr rondpr. Ituuwii ujvvuwm . VM?w. ing this inert Potash of the soil avail able fast enough to provide for profit able crops. Whatever temporary ex pedients we may employ in the pres ent emergency, we must keep in mind that the Potash thus removed from the semi-available soil reserves must later be replaced if we are to main tain the soil's productiveness. There is danger in the statement 1, that farmers have been using an ex- 1 cess of Potash. Crops use on the av- ^ ^ erage about two and one-half times as . j much Potash as phosphoric acid, while j the average fertilizer sold contains } only half as much Potash as phos phoric acid; yet no one claims that we are using too much phosphoric acid. The Potash remaining from pre vious fertilization is practically noth ing except in the limited areas where a ton or more of fertilizer has been used per acre on truck crops. Very rarely is half as much Potash applied to the wheat, oats, corn or cotton crop as the crop removes. The Potash mines are so numerous and the stocks on hand so large that supplies can be promptly sent for ward, as soon as European conditions permit freight shipments to be re sumed. An Insane Remark. "Well, well! I see you are back strain " "Nonsense. Can't you see I'm still out of the city?" For nail in the foot use Hanford's Balsam. Adv. It's Also Tense. "Pa. what is an eloquent silence?" "That's the kind of silence that en sues, son, when two pillars of the church sneak into a saloon through different doors and meet face to face <1 at the bar." Only One "BROMO QUININE" To eet the genuine, call for full name, LAXA TIVE HROMO QUININE. Look for sicnature ol E. W. GROVE. Cures a Cold in One Day. Slopi south and headache, and works off cold. Zic. How It Happened. "How did they get into the scrap?" "Trying to preserve their neutral ity."?Detroit Free Press." 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