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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
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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.
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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. I
Presently a storm arose, and the}
ship founded, and they were all cast i
into the water, and the miser having
his gold in a belt about his waist, |
sank to the bottom. <
"The fool and his money," observ-: L
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a generous soul, "don't always part!"'}
After that the spendthrift swam I
to a raft, where he starved to death.; r
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