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BIG GEIJMAX SPY PLOT. Plan Was to Send Men to England as Xewspa per i"orresjtondents. New York, March 2.?Participation in an elaborate spy plot organization to send men to Great Britain under guise of being American newspaper correspondents, but whose real purpose was to serve as spies and supply Germany with forbidden information as to civil and military .conditions in England, was charged against Albert A. Sander, Carl W. Wunnenberg and George Vaux Bacon in indictments frmnri hpr today bv the federal grand jury. Arrangements were made in this city, the indictments allege, by which this information could be sent out of Great Britain through the use of a writing fluid which remained invisible until certain chemicals were applied to the paper containing the writing. Bacon, it is charged, was hired to go to England as a supposed newspaper correspondent. Supplied With Names. He was supplied by Sander and Wunnenberg, it is charged, with names and addresses of persons in Holland and Denmark, to whom letters on apparently trivial subjects i could be written in visible ink, wnne information of military value could also be written in the invisible ink, to be forwarded to Germany. It is alleged that Bacon obtained an American passport and succeeded in going to England and carrying out the plans formulated in this city. The information thus transmitted, it is charged, had to do with sailing of merchant ships, conditions under which the civil and military population of Great Britain were living, the apparent amount of food available there and the amount of distress that might be caused by prevention of passage of ships to British ports. Bacon, it is set forth, was given at least $1,000 to defray his expenses. It was said additional indictments have been found against other German agents in this city to be filed when expedient. The grand jury is to continue its investigation of spy evidence. rsnri Wnrmenbere late to day were released under bonds of $5,000 each. SHE ANSWERED NAPOLEON. And Her Brave Reply Subdued the Angry Conqueror. Napoleon, the rough and ruthless conqueror, considered women as of no importance in national affairs, and he was always resentful of their interference. But in at least one instance on record, as a recent writer has pointed out, it was otherwise. When, after the battle of Jena, Napoleon entered Weimar, he oroceeded to the palace of the duke to make it his headquarters. The fighting and plundering in the town were not yet over when, toward evening, he entered the hall. As he did so the duchess, who had been waiting in her apartment, appeared at the head of the great staircase to greet him. "Who are you?" he demanded roughly, in surprise. "I am the Duchess of Weimar," she replied, with dignity. "I pity you!" he cried fiercely, "I am going to crush your husband!" The next morning when they met again he inquired, with brusque displeasure: "Madame, how could your husband be so mad as to make war against me?" "Your majesty would have despised him if he had not," was the reply. "Kow so?" asked Napoleon. "My husband has been in the service of the king of Prussia upward of thirty years," replied the duchess. "Surely it was not at the moment that the king had so mighty an enemy as your majesty to contend against that the duke could abandon him." An answer at once so spirited, noble and tactful softened even Napoleon's arrogance. In the 'conversation that followed the duchess was able to secure promises of consideration for the duke and relief for the townspeople. At the close of it the conqueror said to her, ''Madame, vou are more worthy of respect than any woman I have known. You have saved your husband. I pardon him, but remember it is wholly on your account. As for him, he is a bad case!" That was merely Napoleon's opin-1 ion. The duke, at any rate, wasproperly appreciative of his duchess, for when the document that secured the independence of Weimar was brought to him by a French general he refused to take it into his hands, | but said simply, "Give it to my wife, the emperor intended it for her."?: Youth's Companion. The possibility of photographing j objects several miles distant with aj moving picture camera has been in-, vestigated by the United States bu-' reau of standards, with successful results. SUGGESTS "QIIXIXE DAY." How Dr. Brabham Would Hid Orangeburg of Malaria. Orangeburg, March 2.?Quite a novel method of exterminating malaria in Orangeburg county has been devised by Dr. V. W. Brabham, director of rural sanitation, and it will be put into effect as soon as practicable. The plan is to induce every person who has suffered with malaria to take a dose of quinine every Saturday from March 1 to August 1. Dr. Brabham declares that this plan, properly carried out, will rid the county entirely of malaria. He prescribes graduated doses as follows: Children up to five years, five grains; from five to ten years, ten grains; over ten years, fifteen grains. Saturday will be known as "Quinine Day" all over the county. Tobacco Next? Representative Madden, of Chicago, created a sensation by declaring, during a hearing on the Bankhead bill before the house postoffice committee that he never had seen a woman drinking and smoking in a Chicago cafe, or in a cafe elsewhere. Mr. Felder, of Georgia, invited the supposedly verdant Mr. Madden to come with him and be shown. Mr. Madden declined the invitation. What is more probable than that Representative Madden was telling the truth? The cafes of New York and Chicago are not kept up by New Yorkers and Chicagoans. By what stretch of congressional imagination is the smoking and drinking of women in Chicago cafes a matter to be inquired into by the house com mittee on postoffices in connection with a bill which proposes to prohibit newspapers and periodicals carrying advertisements of alcoholic beverages from crossing State lines? Is it, perchance, the intention of the distinguished gentleman from Alabama to follow up his anti-liquor advertisement bill by one forbidding the newspapers to advertise tobacco? Is he awaiting the time when the State-wide prohibition of tobacco will provide him with an opportuni! ty? The prohibition of tobacco would be approved by a considerable number, if not by a majority, of the State-widers. Laws to forbid a Kentucky newspaper from advertising | tobacco in West Virginia or Tennesj see would be endorsed by the "bone dry" contingent, which holds that a law abolishing traffic in liquors is ! insufficient, and that the individual must be forbidden personal indulgence. It is not as an anxious chaperone, surely, that the house committee on postoffices solemnly sits? The women to whom Mr. Felder could have led Mr. Madden are not "spring chickens," necessarily. It cannot be that the house committee on postoffices is worrying about girls in their teens who may be led into bad habits. Is it the idea that ultimately, the corn cob pipe may be legislated out of the mouth of the grandmother who fries bacon and bakes cornbread in the backwoods cabin in Kentucky because Mr. Felder finds that there are women in cities who smoke and drink in cafes? It appears that Mr. Felder, of Georgia, knows where to go to get shocked, and does not, like Mr. Madden, of Chicago, know where to go in order to avoid being shocked. What is more likely than that congress will try to regulate the personal indulgences of women in the District of Columbia so that Mr. Felder cannot see a woman smoking unless he repairs to the flatwoods of Georgia and becomes acquainted with the cracker element of his State's population? And what more likely than a bill by Mr. Bankhead making it a felony for the Courier-Journal to advertise cigarettes in Georgia so that Mr. Felder cannot be kept awake o' nights by the disturbing possibility that the cracker women who do their chores with a reed pipestem between their teeth may go in for cigarettes, and for the gay life of the sort of cafes and the sort of women Mr. Felder has been grieved to see, and could show Mr. Madden??Louisville Courier-Journal. Cured by the Telephone. There is a popular character in Pendleton who has a slight impediment in his speech. He talks eloquently. but lie stammers some. He recently iocated in Pendleton because he admires Missourians, and he has found the right kind there. The other day he went to the telephone j to talk to a friend in Portland. When the talk was finished the Portland man said: "Well, old man, you seem to talk! better since you went to Pendleton. You do not stutter anything like as j you did." "Xo," said the Pendleton man, i clear and straight as a bell. "A man j cannot afford to stutter through a | telephone when to talk costs 75 cents, a minute."?Pentledon East Oregonian. THIS TOY HAS AIDED WORLD. I ! Designed as Christmas Present, It Has Revolutionized Commerce. Tinkering in his machine shop to design a- novel Christmas present for one of his boys, Elmer A. Sperrv, a few years back, stumbied onto a half dozen new applications of what had Dreviouslv been regarded as a mere lv interesting mechanical curiosity? the gyroscope. Now his inventions will keep a ship from rocking and the passengers from seasickness; an airship from air pockets, and furnish the only true compass that the mariner, guide or air pilo^ knows. Making the gun deck of a battleship as steady a gun mount as may be had on land, the gyroscope eventually will double the efficiency of the navy, it is said. Anything that needs stability, excluding possible Central American governments and street cars, needs a gyroscope, Mr. Sperry told a Detroit audience. The use of submarines and airships has been made possible largely through the gyroscope. Before the stabilizers were put aboard the un- , dersea boats, because of their cigarlike shape, rolled so frightfully that no man could live in them. With one of the little "tops" aboard the Deut- ' schland can ride as evenly as a mam- ' moth liner on a smooth sea. The . principal advantage to airships has been in the gyroscope compass, which possesses the advantage of always pointing north. An ordinary mag- ' netic compass, in practical use under stress, points anywhere from northwest to northeast?and sometimes southeast.?Detroit News. Campaigns and Weather. February may be said to be a propitious month for the waging of war on nearly all of the fronts. In a rocky highland region such as the greater part of the line in Eastern France, from the Argonne to the Swiss frontier, offensive warfare may be conducted more or less con-' tinuouslv from February throughout the time when mud and high water make lower territory impossible. In the severer Russian winter the ground and waters become deeply frozen by February, while the increasing power of the sun hardens the snow cover. The month on that account is favorable to operations of < limited duration in Russia. i February, 1915, witnessed one of Hindenburg's offensives against Warsaw, that from the north. The Rus- : sians carried on their siege of Przemysl in February and took the place in March. In February, 1916, were conducted the British opera lions in .Mesopotamia tor uie lenei of Kut. In February, 1916, the Grand Duke Nicholas captured Erzerum, in the Caucasus. Turks attacked the Suez Canal in February, 1915. February fortunately permits simultaneous offensives on many fronts; Verdun may be said to dominate the entire strategic plan of the war on either side. The French have made a generalissimo of their most able Verdun commander, Gen. Nivelle. He knows that Verdun rules the war. He is prepared to fight it out on the Verdun positions with the whole available power of France behind him. The withdrawal of the French forces from almost the whole of the Somme region leaves the Somme operation chiefly to the British and makes perhaps 400,000 more French men available for Verdun's needs. The French lines at Verdun are little more than thirty miles west of Metz. South of Metz the French line runs within fourteen miles. The intervening space lacks natural defences. Metz commands the way to Alcona hv tlid nnrthprn in^rftss. around the extremity of the Vosges barrier. It also protects the flank of . the Germans in Northern France. Its f loss would probably give the French ? the two provinces they lost in 1870. | It might force a withdrawal of all German forces in France west of the Meuse. Under these conditions the continual efforts of the crown prince, who was recently promoted to field marshal, to better his position before the supremely important fortress, are readily understood.?Des Moines Capital. A Pessimistic Parable. It so chanced that the miser and the spendthrift took ship together. En voyage the spendthrift bought much wine and sat long at the gam- | incrtuMfi ? "The fool and liis money soon ? part!" sighed the miser. 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