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"OX TO PETROGRA D." Dispatch F>eclares (iernians are Iheparing March on Russian Capital. Petrograd, April 19.? (via London). German preparations to attack the northern front, supported by a German fleet, reports of which appear to be well founded, bear out the / war office warning recently issued that the enemy means to march 011 to Petrograd. The preparations consist of the massing of troops 011 the Dvinsk Riga front and the concentration of transports, warships and shallow draft ships in Baltic seaports. A portion of the German fleet is reported to have moved from Kiel to JLiDau. It is regarded here as extremely probable that the plan is to cut off Petrograd from the active army. The German efforts to spread discontent in the Russian army have developed an igneious device of loading shells with copies of Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg's reichstag speech of March 29, and firing them into the Russian lines. Future Gasoline Supply. The gasoline engine has now become so essential in manufacturing and in transportation that the possible early exhaustion of our natural supply of petroleum, the primary source of the "gas," has become a "burning question," and any data regarding substitutes and possible sources of supply are sought with great interest. Bulletin 641-L of the United States geological survey, department of the interior, on "Oil Resources of Black Shales of the Eastern United States," by George H. Ashley, just published, gives information showing the richness and distribution of certain shales which on distillation will yield oil, gas ana ammonia. The report gives the results of tests by the bureau of mines of samples of devonian and carboniferous shales collected by the survey. geologists at forty-two localities in seven States east of the Mississippi, and a rough estimate of the quantity of oil that may be obtained by the distillation of the available shale in & part of this area. The yield of oil from most of the samples examined was small, averaging about ten gallons per ton of shale?a yield too low for commercial extraction under conditions likely to arise in the ' near future. Nevertheless, the deposits are of interest as indicating the wide extent of shales of this character. The richer beds may possibly be utilized in the future in ways or through processes not now foreseen.?Bulletin of the Geological Survey. A Bit of History. When Premier Asquith took his -?* fr>f enmnions on Au 111 tli'g UVUOV vr?, gust 5, 1914, Mr. Bonar Law, then leading the opposition, immediately > arose and said: "May I ask the prime minister if he has any information he can give us today?" The prime minister replied: "Our ambassador at Berlin received his passports at 7 o'clock last.evening, and since 11 o'clock last night a state of war has existed between Germany and ourselves.'r This use of the phrase "a state of war" is not without interest just now.?Chicago Evening Post. The World's Oldest Map. Postal routes of 3,500 years ago, when the parcel post and the circulating library already had been in existence at least 800 years, are shown on the world's oldest map, discovered in the University museum's Nippur tablets by Dr. Stephen Langdon, the orientalist from Oxford university. Announcement to this effect was made by the museum recently, and it was said that Dr. Langdon considered the map not only the oldest, but the best preserved that has come down from antiquity. Dating about 1500 B. C., the map shows a survey of the region about the temple oi Nippur and indicates that the country was under intensive cultivation. Canals were numerous, serving for irrigation and transportation. They were the mail routes and a tag has been found for a basket of "books" or literary tablets sent from the li. brary of' the Xippur temple to a town about six miles distant. Shuruppek. According to Babylonian tradition, Noah lived at this town and built the ark there. The tag was used about 2300 B. C. The map shows that a field belonging to the king was smaller than that of the incantation priests. A field of reeds was open to the public. A large common provided a grazing ground for sheep and the villages were so close ? together that the shepherds could hear the horn that, according to the Hammurabi, was blown at a ia??o vi certain time of the year to stop the grazing for a period.?Philadelphia Public Ledger. Slender girls are given the preference when applying for positions as conductors on the Vienna street railways. WAXTKl) UXCLE SAM TO PAY. Gerard Discloses Facts Which Have Been Kept From the Public. Boston, April IS.?To show "the deep hatred" which he asserted Germany has held against the United States, former Ambassador James \Y. Gerard tonight disclosed facts which he said had been kept from the American people during the past two and a half'years. He was the principal speaker at a national defense dinner given by the Pilgrim Publicity association. \i- Ca?oi./1 ooirl tViot Art mi ml vnil I * UCI CLl VI oaiu tilU L ?AV?4A1A* vw* Tirpitz in thinly veiled statements and the German reichstag and Prussian parliament in open discussions proposed the institution of an unrestricted warfare against England with intention "when England should have been subcfued by hunger to come over to the United States and collect the price of the war from us." Faith in German-Americans. The former ambassador expressed his belief that citizens of German descent would prove loyal, but he added, "if they do not stand with us, I think we know where to festoon them." .J Mr. Gerard's statement that the war would be a hard one was echoed by Major Gen. Wood, who said: "We have got to send a lot of men across the sea, and we must bring back a lot of men who died on the other side. It will not be a paper war. It will be war of living men, and important as food, money and munitions may be, men will be the big factor." .Major Gen. Wood said that "those who are opposing President Wilson's policy of universal obligatory military service will be responsible for thousands of lives if their arguments prevail." Silver Market Factors. Expectation that the silver mines in the United States will make a new record in output in the current year is based upon the profitable prices at which the white metal is now being marketed and the strength of the general situation because *of the low supplies in China and India, the relatively small production in Mexico because of the political conditions, 'and the prospects that the current heavy demand will run 011 for months. The Indian currency reserves are well under those of a year ago, and as currency issues are substantial greater reason naturally exists for t,he belief that government purchases-of silver must continue in volume. Business conditions in India are unusually prosperous and payments for labor are heavy. Such payments are in silver rupees, against which the government must maintain large holdings of silver metal to meet the paper money. The London quotation on silver has advanced from 32 1-4 pence in the latter part of October to 36 pence at the present time, which compares with 3 7-8 pence last May, when the price was the highest in many years. ?Xew York Sun. Remarkable Treatment for Burns. Among the wounded on the battlefields are soldiers with horrible burns caused by bursting projectiles, liquid fire, or scalding water. On the western front the allies transport the worst of these benefits of a new treatment that has lately come to public notice. In a few weeks, "living corpses" almost without human semblance, that enter the institution, leave it without scars and more wonderful still, with scarcely any visible evidence of the torturous injuries from which they have recovered. The treatment, the discovery of a French physician, is described in Popular Mechanics. Next in importance to the almost unbelievable results it accomplishes, is the fact that it banishes a patient's suffering within a few hours. It is a painless cure for burns of all kinds, including acid ones. After being cleansed with warm water and thoroughly dried with hot air, an atomizer is used to spray the burned flesh with a preparation composed of parafin and resin, made liquid by heating it to a temperature of about 1">S degrees Fahrenheit. This gives the wound a wax-like coating, over which cotton batting is laid in thin strips. The hot liquid is then applied to the latter with a brush, an air-tight sealing thus being provided. Just What He Wanted. A wealthy old merchant had a pretty daughter called Patience. She had many suitors, but one more daring than the others thought to ask the father for her hand. 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