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PLANNED TO SAVE CASEMENT But Daring 8py Work of German Offi- cer Who Slipped Into England Proved of No Avail. The story of Sir Roger Casement'* capture and execution Is widely known, but the efforts of the Berlin admiralty to help him escape from his English prison just .before his death have not been told. An officer inTnl* navy, who could speafc English and who had visited London frequently before the war, was furnished with a false passport and landed in England, says Carl W. Ackerman in the Saturday Evening Post. He was provided with unlimited funds, and a ship awaited off the coast to br^g Casement back to Ger- many. The-foreign office watched British reports very carefully and was amazed when it learned that Case- ment had been executed. It was evi- drnt then that the naval officer's plan had failed and all hope of his retu\ was given up. Six weeks later, however, he arrived in Germany, pale, exhausted and nerv- ously broken down. He had succeeded in conferring with Sir Roger, he re- porter], and Lad talked to him an hour before ho was executed, but there was no possibility of an escape. Thon, f\-'firing that he was under suspicion, this officer underwent tfiemost drastic privations until, as a member of the crew of a neutu&l ship, he reached the continent. If thfs story Is true—and ft was told to me by a relative of the' officer—It Is one of the most daring Instances of spy work in England during the wai-. ' It is a proof, too, of the ease with which even German officers go to Eng- land during the most critical days Of the war. THEIR DREAMS COME TRUE Madam Breshkovskaya Recalls Meet- Ing With Prince When They Dis- cussed Hopes for Russia. Catherine Breshkovskaya tells the story of when, as a girl, she was go- ing up to St. Petersburg with her mother and sister, \a handsome young prince, returning from his official du- ties In Siberia,\ entered their com- partment. For hours, she says, he discussed with her the problems of the Russian people. \His words thrill- ed like fire. Our excited voices rose steadily higher, until my mother begged us to speak low.\ The hand- some young prince was Peter Kro- patkin. The years have passed, and the „ effuse to which the two ardent young politicians in that Russian railway carriage devoted their lives has been vindicated. Madam Breshkovskaya, . honored ahd free in her own country, is leading, exhorting, advising the forces ofl the revolution which she helped so powerfully to make, and Prince Kropatkin, still In England, his rt'fugc from the persecutions of auto- crnay, Is forming a committee for the better instruction of the people of Great Britain concerning that practic- ally unknown quantity which Is new Russia. The old world may well sit up, rub its eyes and stare, for dreams, in the\ twentieth century, have a way of coming true.—Christian Science Monitor. And the Jokesmith Dodged. They were discussing that joke about getting down off an elephant. \How do you get down?\ asked the jokesmith for the fourth time. \You'climo down.\ \\V;ong!\ \You grease bis sides and slide down.\ \Wrong!\ \You take a ladder and get down.\ \Wrong!\ \Well you take the trunk line down.\ \No not quite. You don't get down off an elephant; you get It off a goose.\ •—Indianapolis News. Portable Fire for Soldiers. A compact portable material for building a small cooking fire is a bless- ing to the soldier In the field in winter. The Italians have demised a home-made \fire ration\ which the people at home prepared last winter for the men in the cruel Alpine passes. The fire ration is made from old newspapers, and can- *<He ends, or other paraffin material. The newspapers are cut into little cylinders, which are afterwards boiled in the paraffin. This produces a high- ly^ compact and combustible little cyl- Indei* which can be used for heating food in the field. t Close to Home. The following story w^s told by an officer stationed at SeafordT A rather simple-looking young re- cruit.was\ seemingly bewildered by the maize of cross-questioning he was be- ing subjected to. Then came the ques- iffpn concerning the allotment of al- lowances. \Next of kin?\ asked the officer sharply^ - , The \rfecrutt dropped his voice and beenrne confidential. \I'm only wearing a vest, sir,\ he replied. \My shirt's at the wash.\— London Answers. H^avy Picture Frames Passing. Picture-framing in Great Britain has undergone j mahy transformations In recent years. The building of smaller houses made obsolete the fashion of heavy frames which were the pride of Victorian dining rooms. There are pat- terns of the Charles II, and the Louis periods which by their merit in de- sign have escaped destruction, and 'have served at; models for frames made out of \composition.\ Ohl irames of baser design have been burned that gold in the old gilding might be sal- vaged. Preserving Worn Surfaces. There arc sometimes places on the exterior <.: a house T7here the paint gets worn off and which cannot be re- touched without making a \botch job\ of it owing to the difficulty of mixing the new paint to match the adjoining .color which ha faded. To preserve the wood In such spot:: until the hduse can be repainted, apply two coats of linseed oil with a rag' This will im- proye the appearance -lso. — Popular Science Monthly. , Ate the WrmL Sandyrioh. The sudden exo Jus of seven ne- groes fivn the backroom of an uptown cafe In New York 1 rought several po- licemen to the scene to learn the cause of the ebon? eruption. Only one negro was left the cops entered, breathing hard in the room when He was found nd pawing the ground. When called upon for an ex- planation he said: way,\ he began. \Me andtseven other gents were a-playlng poker here all quiet and 'spectable but not much, and jvas laying for the bunch to make a-Mlllng. I already had three aces and was a-walting for the fourth to roll ro ird. Sure enough, here she comes. It as*countlng all the was Just the same money my own— and then I discovered that some fool negro hnd eat my sandwich. Then it was that I riz up 'ei seen them a piling \But what did you fighting—and you outer that door.\ make such a fuss about one sandwich for?\ asked one of the cops. \Couldn't you get an- other one for a dime?\ \Yes> sir, I pness I could, boss,\ said the negro gladiator, \but not like that one. You see, that sandwich o one eat when I wasm't a-looking, was the one where I w; three aces.\ Blues Sign of The blues are usually related to lim- itation. If we have that we are limited rule, it is hard foi selves of our limitations because we are so ploased with of tlu-lr pu.-wssiun. shouldn't nKirort thei them do us \-•<> mucl all I cure about In 1 \v(< hear anyone lmii; kind we may be sun wron;; roud. lie iy kind of rejector. Think of all the fine \It is just this I was a-wlnnlng, E mine, what some is a-keeping' them Limitations. them it Is a sign people. And, as a us to cure our- ;hem and so proud If we weren't we i so much and let harm. \Work is he world.\ Whi e u remark of this that lie Is on the particular foolish he d esn't du relations way of human relate U*i\ sis and enjuynie are that one of the turn \on hi in and jjfcv blow in the fucv. however, It will giv of the blues.—Exclu njjo. There's Song All speech, even speech, has soraethl it; not a parish in its parish accent—tl e* ryhthm or tune to which the people sing what they have to say.- Accent is a kind of chanting; all men hive accent of their own, though they only notice that of others. Observe, toe, how all passion- ate language does of itself become musical—with a fine • music than mere accent. The speech of a man In zeal- ous unger becomes a chant, a song. All deep things are song. Poetry there- fore we will call musical thought. The poet is he who thi iks in that man- ner. It is a man's sincerity and depth •f vision' that makes \him a poet. See deep'enough, and you see musically, the heart of nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it.— Cariyle. .re about in the and healthy ln- uts. The chances ie days work will : him a staggering Lung beforehand, him bad attacks In Speech. the commonest lg of the song in he world but has Wildcat Not Among the most everywhez-e the mei is sufficient to sugj something to fear, literary lady who, quiet, thought to d mountain section foi ing by chance that seen In the region idea because- in fear should she go out refrained from a erty because a whip rd nearby, fshe ^ just about as 'reaso puma would W) tucking a human bt summer, th;;n would fauui.—KxcimiiL'e. langerous. ntelligent people name of wildcat ;est the ld/ea of We know of a wanting exceeding ell in a remote a time, but henr- wlldcat had been |he -gave over the •f possible attack doors. Now, had cquiring the prop- lorwiil had been Hi Id have been ilile. A wildcat nore think of nt- .ng, especially in a fox or an opos- Some Queer Moneys. Iron money has been put into circu- lation recently in Germany. In Mex- ico cardboard money is In use, owing the disappearance of metal cur- rency due to the unsettled state of the mntry. Porcelain r/oney is used In Burmn nnd Sisim, nnd featl er money, manu- factured from the s ~iort rod feathers \mm -beneath the wings of a species of parrot, Is the ord nary currency of he Santa Cruz isln airy islands, which to the east of Aust for their fur money. aders. The Loy- !le in the Pacific •alia, are famous The fur, which taken from behind the ears of the so-called \flying foe,\ in reality large, fruit-eating bat, is woven into cords of various lehgths, and these constitute the ordinary currency of the islanders. Russians are Great Linguists- The marvellous m emory and fipti- ;ude for learning possessed by the Russians are shown with which they accuiro foreign lan- guages. A Russian in six months. As acquire It with ease They think no mon new language than does of learning a recitation or a new game of cards. That Wai A little boy was s to the grocery with ju to nay for her ord< candy in the show* what he wanted of I When the clerk ca ing, \Here you foi candy,\ he stopped, clerk, then at his srf coolly said, \Oh that.\ Daily Thjought All material quesi importance In com] sole object of our low amongst all ra come in contact.—Tolstoy. Aid to Partially A new microphom ing of those; partiall means of almost In appliance is so sm worn under an ordlnlary by the rapidity learn, Chinese r 6r English, they In a few weeks, of acquiring a an Englishman Easy. >nt \>y his mother mst enough change Seeing some ase, he ordered : and started out. him back, say- to pay for the looked a t the ck of candy, and .ke a check for >rgot ma: Ions are of little iparison with the life; to preserve with whom we Deaf. to aid the hear* deaf does so by islble wires. The that It can be cravat. TEACHING SOLDIERS TO SING Soldier* at Fort Shatter Learn Words And Airs of America's War Songs From Movie Screen. There is one officer, on Oahu, says the Sunday Advertiser of Honolulu, ac- cording to the Army and Navy Journal, who Is a firm believer In the value of song as a military asset to the soldier. Col. James A. Irons, commanding the Second United States Infantry, believes so thoroughly in the importance of hav- ing soldiers know the songs of the na- tion—particularly the war songs—that he has provided a means of teaching the men of his regiment just what the war songs of America are. The method which Colonel Irons has started at Fort Shafter Is one which should be used throughout the army. It consists of having'national and pa- triotic airs played by the orchestra at the evening performances at the air- drome—Fort Shaffer's moving picture theater—while the words are thrown upon the screen where the men can r read them. In this way the # soldiers become acquainted with the words of the songs, and what is equally impor- tant, they become accustomed to sing- ing together. The soldiers are enthusi- astic over the new plan and the sing- ing is worth going far to hear. It is not impossible that, sometime $vithin the service of the men who are now serving the second Infantry, that regi- ment i.tay be calJed on to march from Bordeaux to Berlin, and that the march will be made easier and* the spirit of the men at the end of the hike will be far better if it is made to the tune of \Annie Laurie\—the regimental an- them—sung by every man In the regi- ment. Cards have been Issued from the regimental press printing the words of \Annie Laurie\ find the \Star Spangled Banner,\ tind the list of 00 battles, engagements and skirmishes In which the Second Infantry took part The first was In November, 1791, at Mau- rnoc Fords, O. BIRDS AID IN WAGING WAR Their V/ork in Increasing Crop Yields by Destroying Insect Pests De- clared Highly Important. Food Is needed for our armies. Birds help the farmers produce that food by destroying insect pests, Therefore, birds may be considered as one of the allies. In the Farm and Fireside one reads: 'Birds are almost as busy as bees, and their work in, increasing crop yields Is highly Important. One of the cheapest and most effective ways to fight Insect pests that annually take crop toll estimated at $800,000,000 is to aid In the preservation of bird life. Few people realize how many Insects are destroyed by birds. A teaspoonful of chinch bugs has been taken from the crop of one quail, and an adult bird has been known to eat 5,000 plant lice in two hours. Such worms and bugs as Infest our gardens are favor- ite food for bluebirds, robins and many other kinds of birds. 'It is true 'that some Insect pests may be fought with chemicals. Owing to the great war, though, prices for mr.ny materials commonly used, in sprays, washes and poison mashes are pretty near prohibitive. But the birds work at before, the war wages. \Birds also eat thousands of weed seeds. A single quail, when killed, was found to contain 10,000 pigweed seeds. With labor scarce and high, whatever will aid the farmer in his crop against weeds is worth while.\ Bags From Banana Trees. Machinery has been taken to Hon- olulu from the state of Washington l>y four men who are making an In- itiation of the use of the fiber of the banana trunk for bag making. The investigation was brought about by an- nouncements that the sugar planters of the Hawaiiaii islands, as well as those of other sugar-producing coun- tries, are laced, with uncertainty opn- ceniiug steady shipments from Cal- cutta of bags to be used as containers for raw sugar. Ever since bags have been used by the Hawaiian sugar planters in exporting the raw product from the islands to the mainland of the United States, the Hindu bags, which are, made to contain 125 pounds each, have proved to be satisfactory. War conditions have caused the plant- ers to cast about for a substitute. Old Laws, Modern Conditions. New England, with its recollections of ancient \blue laws,\ should be In- terested in the report that war-time England has seen fit to revive a statute Chrtrles I.'s time prohibiting the transaction of business on the Sabbath, s the Springfield (Mass.) Repub- lican. As there is a shortage of labor, with the consequence that shop people are overworked, the need of providing a day of rest is acute, and numerous ihopkeepers have been arrested for do- ing business on Sunday. The English authorities are very ingenious in dlg- ginu up ancient statutes to fit some nV.v find unforseen. situation. 9 Snapper Abounds In Australia. The snapper is the characteristic Aus- tralian fish. It is found all round the Australian coasts at some time of the year, also in New Zealand and part of the Indian ocean, in haunts where the ocean bed is rock strewn or rubbly. Some think the snapper ought to have been on the Australian coat-of-arnts, because r will remain when kangaroo and emu are gone. Snapper Is the daintiest morsel to the shark, but its large, beautiful eyes take in 26 points of the compass. Puma Nearly Exterminated. The puma, the most athletic and powerful of all cats for its size, is a coward only where man is concerned. There is abundant evidence of its hav- ing tried to effect a truce with man- kind, showing a decided tendency at times toward actual friendliness, but its appearance, its horrifying cry, its night wandering and its tendency to prey on man's domestic creatures have marked it with enmity, and its persistent destruction has cleaned it out of all but the wildest sections. Bread-Making Superstitions. Regarding bread making, there are several superstitions. In Yorkshire, England, nearly all the housewives still bake their own bread. After kneading the dough and leaving it to rise, a deep cross is cut in it with a knife. This is to \let the witch out, 1 and the custom is common to this day. In Scotland they say that the yeast must be made within an hour of sun- rise, or the bread will not be light To Clearly Convey News. \One Who Splits an Infinitive Every Time and Glories in the Job\ writes: \What do-you superpurists make of this, which I take from a report of a company meeting held recently: 'The directors decided {o more than double the carry-forward?' Can the meaning be conveyed as precisely by preserv- ing the integrity of the verb?\—Lon- don Chronicle. Odor. Any substance that will not dissolve In water has an odor. It Is the actual substance itself, floating in particles in the air, as In the case of light and sound. The damper a thing is the more powerful the odor it gives off. A pleasant proof of the fact can be had by walking in a garden after rain. It is the vapor of a liquid that smells and not the liquid in the mass itself. Working 24 Hours a Day. A Chicago plumber has been arrest- ed for leading a double life. By day he piled his trade, and by night he was a robber. We don't know much about the robber business, but we have had some experience with plumb- ers, so we arise to ask the question where bis double life comes in.—Grit. Admit One Only. Peter was left in the house and told not to leave until mother returned from the store. When she came back she found a sheet of paper on the door saying: \I'm playing with Ray. The key is under the rock on the step. No one but mother go in.\ Holy Land's Only River. Jordan, the one river of the Holy Land, has a course of little more than 200 miles from the roots of Anti- Lebanon to the head of the Dead sea. Not a single city ever crowaed the banks of this river. Something No Girl Wants. The only way to break a young girl of the pickle-eating habit is to tell her confidentially that If she continues it she will have a- red nose, which is something that na_girl wants.—New Orleans States. * Passing Acquaintance. Old man Soggs says his boy Bill stops at the best hotels in New York. He does. They're on the route of the laundry he drives a wagon for.— Browning's Magazine. Ons Fish a Day Is Omit The limit catch for angler^ in B&nge- ley stream, near Haines Landing, Me., i probably the smallest of any waters the United SUUea—dally limit one h. ily fishing only. The reason. Is that this stream Is the I i-ecdLnir rV.ce. for the big Rangeley treat, and Maine sees that its stock of Lie {'.•<•;> is r.r.t unnecessarily depleted, tlif fuii:oj;3 Page ticut 'hat weighed 11 pcuDds w;;s ti.inn 1're.ni this stream in lf:OT. The- fish was the rocon! (ish :•;•.•-let iVi'ty years, the laurels than v.i- to tit?. 14 \'z -pound trout taken ir Solid Gold Image Found. A.heavy image of Buddha, judged to be four hundred years old, was found by an eight-year-old girl in the garden of her home at Sakama-cho, on a hill Just west of Uyenno Park, Tokyo. When the earth was scraped off, the image was found to be solid gold. It was 20 Inches in height The garden is on the site of a temple which fell into ruin several centuries ago and has now entirely disappeared. Many did pieces of earthenware and sculp- ture were found near by by excavators several years ago. The Better Fighter. \De man who admits dat he kin be scared,\ said Uncle Eben \generally puts up a better fight dan de man dat's allus bluffin' 'bout whalj a hero he Is.\ Triplex Phonograph. To Increase the volume of sound frotn a phonograph a Parisian has In- vented an Instrument that will play three records simultaneously. Current for Bicycle Lamps. An Amsterdam inventor has brought out a bicycle lamp supplied with cur- rent generated by the wheels of a machine, to which it is attached. Day of the Guilds. The monks carried art safely through until the guilds of craftsmen, precursors of the trust and of Organ- ized labor alike, should wax strong enough to safeguard its destiny. In- deed, as early as 1180, a powerful so- ciety of goldsmiths had existed In Lon- don, for we read in the records that a workman was fined that year for being without a license. In 1238 \six discreet workmen\ were appointed by the king to mark all silver plate with a leo- pard's head, the first known English assay mark, an epochal moment for the connoisseur and the collector, to whom the hall.marks and the record In Gold- smith's hall of every piece have made English silver an open book of facts. —Exchange. • Oh, Dearl Aunt Elvira rushed into the house, hysterical. \I've lost my hearing I\ she shouted. \You have?\ her frightened sister shouted back; \how do you know?\ \See that man out there playing that hand organ? Well, I can't hear a single note!\ and Aunt Elvira wept afresh. 'That's a moving picture photogra- pher at work I\ snapped her sister. Colored Platinums VERY SUITABLE FOR GIFTS 25c and Upward Kip's Studio AMERICA'S GREATEST RAIL ROAD EAST Q.-43 A. M. 11:40 A. M. 2:20 P. M. 7:05 P. M. 11:45 P- M. 11:40 A. M. 7:05 P. M. 11:45 P. M. WEST 6:48 A. to 11:05 A. M 3:.\J P. M 7:25 P. M. SUNDAY 6:48 A. M 7:25 P. M. In the hop counties, Oneida and Madison, new hops have sold at 75 cents a pound, and some growers are holding out for $1.00. $100 REWARD, $100 The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly influenced by constitutional conditions requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken in- ternally and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, giving the patient strength by building up the constitu- tion and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in the curative powers of Hall's Catarrh Medicine that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testi- monials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, Ohio. Sotd by all Druggists, 75C At the recent Malone fair the gate receipts from admission tickets of all kinds, automobile admissions, carriage and drays were $11,015.10. The grand stand receipts for the four days were $3,388.55; making total receipts from the above sources named of $14,403.- 65. Last year the grand stand re- ceipts were $2,421.40, or nearly $1,000 less than for the fair this year. THE HOME. or,QQQp L UMB£ There isn't any place in this gate where yo Lumber, better price* or better, mc^ \l * K er <?J S any other accommodation known to the building material line we will supply it. Isn't this THE PLACE TO BUY WHEN YOU WANT TO BUILD? ':'y-\*%£- LUMBER AND COAL PHONE S6 OAL CANTON - NM THE Fire Insurance Agency TOWN HALL, CANTON, N. Y. I now Have tine agency for the following First-class Companies: Name Liverpol & London & Globe Aachen & Munich Caledonian St. Paul American ^ Providence—Washington .. . Commonwealth Fire Association ... ..1.... Surplus .. ..$ 4,699,018 1,1 74,85 j 1,000,000 3.213.906 .... 0.252.859 1,009.216 ... . 1,182,664 .... 3,558.865 YOUR INTEREST LOOKED AFTER AS YOU WOULD LOOK AFTER IT YOURSELF.: A Share of Your BUSINESS Solicited \ r /taijwfa^ 17 TON/ COAL AND OTHER FUEL Why tH Railroad Problem Is YOUR Problem! The railroads of the United Stages transport a billion tons of freight annually—50 tons to a fami- ly. This freight represents the business activities of the nation. It is therefore of the -utmost importance to every family in the land that railroad facilities be ample to meet the burden of increasing commer- cial and military necessities. Your prosperity is at stake. , The New York Central Lines \America's Greatest Railway System\ in common with other railroads, must buy new cars and locomotives, build new tracks and ter- \ minals and in other ways expand their facilities in order to do their part in meeting the grow- ing service demands. You, the people, and the custodians of your savings—the banks, insurance companies, trust companies,, etc.—will invest, and make possible the necessary expansions, pnly as rates and regu- lations permit the railroads to pay a return that will compare favorably with other investments available THE RAILROAD PROBLEM IS YOUR PROBLEM , **%« i^^Rffc&&rr4. . .
