TREAT CAPTIVE
GERMANS KINDLY
French Generous to Prisoners De
spfte Brutal Course of
Enemy.
ARE GLAD TO BE OUT OF IT
Sight of Long American Columns De.
stroys Hun Hopes of Victory Live
Like Happy Family In
Prison Camp.
With the American Forces In France.
Franco knows that her prisoners In
Germany nro treated badly, but Ger
wnn prisoners arc trentcd bumnncly
nnd even generously In French pris
ons just the same, writes Don Martin
In the New STork Herald. I nuked
nn olllccr In charge of a French prison
camp why this Is, nnd he shrugged
Ms shoulders and said merely:
"Ah 1"
Unless one could seo the gesture
accompanying the monosyllable he
would hnrdly know what meaning to
attach to It It really meant:
"Oh, what's the uso of being bru
tal to Individuals just because sonic
ono else Is? We wish we could, but
wo can't."
I have Inspected several prisons,
sonic largo and some small, and In
every ono I have found tho Germans
treated quite as well as civil prisoners
In normal times and In many Instances
bettor. Ofllcers are not humiliated In
any way. In fact they receive better
treatment, a strnngcr would think,
than they nro really entitled to.
Prisoners Live Happily.
On a low bill about 1,000 feet from
n mnln road of Franco stands n prison
Ave low wooden buildings suEround
cd by two barbed wlro fences, with
nrtned pickets nlwnys patrolling out
side. Hero aro 200 Germans, many of
them prisoners taken In the early bat
tlo of tho Sommc, but some .taken
more recently. They nro nil privates
and constitute as happy a family as
one could find whero pcrsonnl liberty
Is the ono thing desired and denied.
Tho Germans stood nt their barbed
fences hours nt a time and watched
the endless lino of soldiers. When it
was tho blue of Franco thnt was mov
ing past tho Germans worG not particu
larly Interested. They had seen that
for years. They know Franco always
has had an endless lino of everything
needed for war. But when they saw
tho khaki of America filing or rolling
by for n whole day nnd then for an
other, and heard tho muddy shufllo of
feet through tho night, there was n
chango In tho dull expression of those
German eyes. It was at this time that
I went to tho prison to lcarn-what they
thought of what they had Been. First
It should be stated that theso prisoners
sea Httlo of recent developments in
the war. They must form their opin
ions from ruch fragments of conversa
tion as they hoar from their keepers
READY FOR A CHARGE
Theso French grenadiers are pre
paring for a rnld on tho German lines.
WHY GUYON FIGHTS
TMs .French Poilu Is Regular
Flfe-Eater.
Brit's Taken Prisoner and Horribly
Abused by Huns, Escapes to
Toll Story.
Paris. Guy on's u regular Are-eater,
He has been cited six times, no wears
b crolx do guerre and a mednlllo d'hon
neur, Ho captured a German mitrail
leuse single-handed. Ho went out alone
tn No Man's Land to bring back .a
wounded cbmrado. He's been wounded
Wmdelf four times.
When he la back of tho lines, off
duty, he helps a y, M. 0, A. secretary
hand out writing paper to his com
rades 7n o, foyer du soldat. But U
Jtin't active enough for him, Slnqo
August, 1014, ho doesn't seem to need
to rest. When ho Isn't In tho trenchos
he worlss oft Mn surplus energy cuss
ing out tho way the wur Is run be-
and from, what they sec, as, for In
stance, from the long, long llho of
Americans, tho first they had scon.
In this particular prison tho new
comers had brought the news sltuntlon
up to early spring, but as for tho big
offensive tho prisoners know only thnt
there probably would bo one.
Americans Surprise Germans.
When I psked If there was a German
among the two hundred who could
speak English, a good looking young
man, with a typical Teutonic mustache,
red cheeks, n glow of health, was call
ed out. Ho stepped Into my presence
tike an automaton, clicked his heels to
gether nnd saluted tho French captain.
Ho told mo ho was a private; that ho
has a home In Lucerne, Switzerland;
that he fought eight months, but wns
never wounded ; that ho Is In tho whole
sale dry goods business In Kerlln, nnd
Hint ho does business with John Warm
maker, Marshall Field and Stern
Brothers.
"What do you think of all tho Ameri
cans you have Boon pnsr ng here recent
ly?" I asked him.
"I havo seen many Americans," he
BLASTS KAISER'S
HOPE OF VICTORY
as-
Italian Invents Canned Lightning
Capable of Destroying
Trenches of Enemy.
TERRIBLE ENGINE OF DEATH
Clalmed Invention Could End War In
Thirty Days and Allies Could March
Unchallenged Into Berlin. .
Tests Prove Its Value.
Home. Tho kaiser's dream of vic
tory and world supremacy may bo
blasted out by "canned lightning," a
terriblo death engine Invented by an
Italian scientist. Dazzling swords of
Jiro, moro ueawy man are niguest ex
plosives, followed by annihilating ex
plosions, nro capable of destroying en
emy trenches with ono blinding Aash,
according to his claims. Mine sweep
ers equipped with this dovico could
Aro mines thousands of! yards distant.
On tho land, "canned lightning" could
bo used to form a most successful bar
rage and could wlpo out tho defenders
of Gorman trenches with unerring cer
tainty.
Tho scientist is credited w(th hav
ing discovered a means of concentrat
ing and reflecting electric rays In such
a manner as to produces the results de
scribed. It Is reported that this In
ventor has proved to representatives
of his government that electric cur
rent can bo concentrated and directed
In rnys.
Testa Held on Banks of Tiber.
In describing tho results of theso
tests, held on tho banks of tho
historic Tiber, F. H. Itandall, writing
In the Illustrated World, says that the
scientist was asked to burn through
n three-Inch plank of hardwood. In
nn Instant, the writer says, tho plank
wns seared and broken as If It had
been broken by lightning.
Officials then asked tho scientist to
explode two bombs, one hidden along
tho bank of tho river and the other In
tho bed of tho stream. Within ten
minutes tho bomb along the bank ex
ploded. It required a much longer
lime to explode tho other bomb, but
this too, was Anally accomplished.
Tho entire outAt used by the Inventor
wns placed on a single small barge.
An approximate Idea of tho power
of tho arcing electricity may lie ob
tained by watching an electric furnaco
at work. It wlli cut tho hardest steel
like putty. To Hash such a llamo
through an aeroplane, submarine, bat
tleship or a trench would lenve a to
tal wreck. Mines placed In the North
sen by tho Germans could be elim
inated, and mine sweepers could de
stroy nu or tnose nwucn terrors of tno.
sea located within thousands of yards'
of tho ship.
In n graphic description, Mr. Band-
cause ho Isn't in active service ovory
minute. ,
There aro n lot of nollus like Guyon.
Get them ten kilometers back of the
front and they growl nnd roar all day.
Put them In the trenches and you sim
ply can't hold them lu.
Probably a story lies back of most
of them Just as ono explains Guyon.
When the war broke out Guyon hud
Just married. Ho nnd his wlfo were
living In a Httlo town up near tho Bel
glan border. Of courso he was cnlled
and left for tho front For more than
a year ho did not hear from his wlfo
not a word. At last he received a let
ter from her, mailed In Paris.
. She bad been taken prisoner at the
time of tho invasion and deported in
to Germany, After a year of horrible
suffering nnd abuse, sho escaped into
Holland and got back to Franco by
way of London, At last sho reached
Parh) and went to work In a munitions
factory, whero sho Is still working.
Guyon told his' story to tho Ameri
can Y. M. 0, A. secretary with typical
French calmness, nis fury against the
Bodies ho puts into action In the
front line.
said. "I wns surprlecd that you have
so ninny In France."
Another pririouor, less prepossessing!
in appearance than the 3rst, was asiisd
aoout things in general. He snoKo
English poorly. -
"I live in Berlin nnd work in a brink?
but was In tho war for two years.
When tho war Is over I am go't.jgfo
Switzerland .to live. I would go fo!
America, but they don't like Germans"
over there any more." U,'
"Why aro you going to lenvo'.Ger
mnny?" ;? '-J",
For an answer there was a shrugof.
shoulders and n half scowl, half "mile.,
"Aro you satisiteii nerov ,
..... ..... .. . . ' .
"its a lot oottcr man uemg ni,,a
grave, whero a lof of them arc." ,
-0-0-0--0-CO0-0-0Q-0-0
TAXICAB DRIVERS KNIT
BUT THEY ARE WOMEN
Cleveland, O. One of tho
least surprising thing to bo
seen on tho streets of Cleveland
now Is a taxicnb driver calmly
sitting In a taxi nt Its stand,
purling nnd dropping, while box
nnd sweaters develop before
your ycs. But the drivers are
girls, for Cleveland Is rapidly
getting a largo proportion. of its
day drivers from tho other sex.'!
-o-o-o-o-o-co-o-o-o-o-o-o
nil pnlnts a plcturo of what would
happen with this machino In nction.
Every enemy airplane or any Aect of
them would fall to earth, a crumpled
wreck. At tho touch of a button, n
bolt of electricity would suddenly
shoot forward with Incredible speed.
A few senrrod parts would bo all that
was loft of what had been a soaring
airplane c few minutes before.
A scout could lurk with his deadly
weapons, connected with the goner-'
ntors and concentrators behind the
lines, In shell holes or craters In "no
man's land." When the enemy,
charged ho could sweep tho whole lino
as It passed, annihilating each succes
sive wave of advancing Germans.
Mr. IJnndnll says that ho can't say
that this has been done or will bo
done, but he don't dare to suggest that
It cannot bo accomplished. Light,
heat and rnys of other kind can bo
reflected. , no concludes by saying:
"Onco this problem is solved there
will bo no war. If tho allies were pos
sessed of equipment that would permit
tho arcing at a dlstanco of powerful
ploctrlc currents, tho war would bo1
won In 80 days and allied troops would
bo marching unchallenged into Ber
lin" 4
GOT 84 LETTERS FROM HOME
They All Came at Once to a United
States Soldier Now Serving
In France. '
Dallas, Ore. Mr. and Mrs. 1. N,
Woods, received a letter from their
son, Laird Woods, recently, and In l(
ho stated thnt he had Just received his
Arst mail since arriving In France.
Tholmall consisted of 84 letters nnd
six packages. Young Woods together
with several other Company L boys ol
this city, were left behind in a hospital
in Now York when tho Oregon troopi
sailed for France, and ho sailed on a
Inter date but never caught :up with
tho regiment.
He wns Anally assigned to a com
puny In tho old Montnna Natlona
Guard and is serving with that regt
ment somewhere near tho Aghtlnj
front in France now.
"NO CHILDREN"' RULE BANNED
Landlords In Seattle Are Appealed tc
to Remove Signs From Their
Buildings.
Senttle, Wash. "No Children Al
lowed" signs must be removed by Se
attle landlords from their properties,
according to J. W. Spanoler, vice pres
ident of the Seattle chamber of com
merce. He has issued' an appeal to
rooming house proprietors, .hotel men
nnd owners of rental properties, de
claring that owing to the scarcity of
quarters for shipyard workers anil
others engaged In, war work the situ
ation In this city Is becoming alurmlng.
keepsakTg
Oklahoma Man Gives Up Gold Piece
He Has Carried for Thirty
Seven Yrs.
Tulsa. Okla. "1 have, (11 rl'hwl Mil a
gold niece with mo for thirtv .HA Villi
years, and I havo resisted huneir .n.i
temptation to spend it, nnd have al
ways Kept it as a treasure. However.
Uncle Sam needs It now, and I willing-
!' let It KO SO it Will holn ti hrlm vln-
tory to tho American arms,"
This was tho statement of V. H,
Martin of this city as ho deposited a
$10 gold plenum the post ofllco win
dow and asked for somu baby bonds.
1
Fine Cotton Crop.
Now Orlenns, La. Boports from
practically overy section of tho South
Indicate tho yield of cotton win hA
heavy this season. Tho stnplo selling
nt around 3Q cents a pound In the
seeding season stimulated planting,
notwithstanding tho fact that In many
localities a plea was made for tlio
planting o: moro food and feed crops
Practical Garb
There are middles, smooks, sweaters
and coats for outdooring, that Is, for all
sorts of sport and recreation wear.
And their comrades are 'skirts, bloom
ers or breeches, according to the sort
of service to bo required of them. For
tennis nnd golf, skirts that will wash
again nnd again and come out as fresh
and unfnded as when they were new,
have not been rivaled as yet by bloom
ers or breeches for some other sports,
skirts nro a thing of the pnst. With
these washable skirts plain blouses are
worn nnd swagger little coats made of
summer flannel, sergo or other ma
terials and, of course, sweater or
sweater coats.
The coat's tho thing this year, that
has almost absorbed tho attention of
those who 'specialize In designing sport
clothes. And It has been presented In
a variety of new styles so that
when It Is slipped on over n
skirt and blouse It tones up the cos
tume, lending It neatness. Sleeveless
coats of satin nnd velvet were among
these now ldens nnd have proved them
selves successful. Among now nrrlvnls
Caprices and Conceits in Veils
' Why 'tho vuilV Merely masculine
minds will novr figure out the answer
although they will havo the rest of
time to ponder the question. Veils
were and nro and will continue to be.
Thoy aro a strictly feminine Institution
nnd whether they are wpni to add
charm to tho face or to cull attention
to charms already there, or for some
other reason, these aro mysteries only
the veiled lady can solve for us. But
they make opportunity for capricious
ornamentation and for variety two
very good reasons for tho loynlty with
which women favor thorn.
Now fnco veils this summer tiro near
ly all woven with. a largo mesh; the
hexagon-shaped mesh appears to bo
best liked. Two examples of this par
ticular weave aro shown at the left of
the picture, They aro circular and
float about the face. The veil at the
trip Indulges tn the caprice of little and
big chenille dots and little pasted-on
velvet leaves, all of them dancing In
nil the wayward wandering breezes
they chance to meet, A few dots splat
tered over n lovely chin, mnke us think
twice of its delicious curves. A silk
scroll wanders In tho most aimless and
happy-go-lucky way over (ho veil ,be
low, but It Just misses the eyes und
Just hits a rery alluring pair of lips,
which goes to prove that a veil should
ba taken svrbvifily nnd adjusted with
euro.
At the left appears tho "war bride"
voll one of tho small consolations al
lowed to the srl whose sweetheart Is
away in tho service of Ids country. "It
is of navy bluo chiffon and la draped
about a jmvy Wuc or uuvy bliio and
white turbun. This ono Is finished
with a narrow silk fringe, but most of
for Outdooring
the simple but swagger little coat
shown In the picture, need not fear
comparison with coats of moro costly
goods It has some points of advantngo
over them. It Is made of summer flan
nel In any of the gay bright colors and
touched up with white In pearl buttons,
plquo collar and arrow-head flnlsh of
pockets.
Just tho skirt for this coat Is shown
with It. It Is of heavy white plquo
and fastens at the middle of the front
whero a row of white penrl buttons An
Ishes the overlapped seam. There
aro any number of sport hats that will
top off this practical and pretty out
fit. But its youthful wearer has chosen
a tarn of white corduroy, ono of
the "blue devil" models that embodies
much dnsh. Its long tnssel matches
the coat In color. Where something
more dlgnlAed Is needed, for nn older
woman, one of the coconut braids In
white embroidered with yarn or silk
flowers against the crown, would make'
a good choice, nnd there Is the perennial
Panama with handsome band or scarf
that belongs to nil summers.
them are simply hemmed. Thoy aro
probably destined to a short-lived pop
ulurlty but they are very charming.
Veils should bo tried on and selected
carefully as hats are, for some faces
look best under a plain, close mesh
without llgures. Scrolls or dots or oth
er figures lu front of tho eyes, nro
never pleasing; they look and aro un
comfortable. The Isabella' Color.
Once a Spanish priucess Vowed not
to change her lingerie till a certain
war was won, and as that took many
months, tho result was that fashion
able Spanish ladles of the time, who
looked to this princess for leadership
In the matter of dress, soon came to
adopt a yellowish-brown sort of linen
for their 'kerchiefs, tuckers, wimples
and other slmllnr apparel, The prin
cess' naino was Isabella, and thlo
fashionable shade was known as Isa
bella color, nnd one occasionally heiirs
this name applied In Paris even to
this day to a sort of yellowish-brown
thnt really does look like linen thnt
hail been dedicated to a laundryless
existence. Although wo have hud
every shade of lingerie, we havo not
yet had this color. Tho next thing to
it. and. something thnt surely wouldn't
appeal to all womankind, Is tho new
lingerie of nickel-gray that has been
nut on the shelves of ono or two of
tho exclusive women's shops. There
lu a complete set of this gray under
wear In cropo de chine.
Salvation
a Gift
By REV. J. H. RALSTON, D. D.
Secretary ot Correspondence Department,
Moody Dible Institute, Chicago
TEXTAnrt 1 civo unto them etorna,"
life-John 10:23.
Jesus Christ said that ho had comi-
Into this world that men might huv-
eternal life. Tin
bestowal of cter
nnl life was
therefore, th.
purpose of lili
coming. , A cer
tain young mat .
asked, "Good sli
what must I dj;
to Inherit eterna
life?" Christ's dls
ciples had eomt
conception of eten
nal life for thej.
said" to Jesus,
"Thou hast tlu
words of eternn).
life."
What is eternal
life? Jesus himself gave an answeii
in his great Intercessory prayer, "And
this Is life eternal, that they might
know thee, tho only true God, nnd
Jesus Christ whom thou hnst ecntl"
With the ordinary student of the
Bible, the idea of eternal' life Is n llfo
of endless- duration, tho word "eternal"
being made synonymous with "ever
lasting." But eternal life is not alto,
gether n question of duration but o
quality. The (proper conception on
eternal life embraces both quality and
quantity. Terms of inherent value and.
time measurement must be in mind.
The man who possesses eternal Ufa
then has something that is far raised
above anything that the earth has to
offer. It Is a -life that may, be realized
this side of death and lias Its thou
sands of illustrators In all the world
nnd among all classes of persons-wlth-
out respect to age, race, pecuniary
condition, education or social stand
ing.
Now the question arises, presuming
the mnn does not possess this eternal
life. How Is he to get It? The rich,
young ruler thought It was by doing
something to inherit It, or rather merit
it. Probably the vast majority of
people have that Idea. It is thought
man must do something to win eternal
life, ns a kind of trophy of his efforts
or mnke himself a worthy recipient of
It. "Unfortunntely, the nobility of man.
Is often appealed to, as If man had
something of merit to offer God. Pre
cisely the opposite Is tho situation.
Man must come to the place whero ha
will see his utter helplessness and ac
cept salvation us a gift.
Man Is not in a position to have
eternal life offered to him, and to ac
cept it or reject it, as In any true
sense nn equal of the offerer. He Is.
not .In a position to deal with God
His standing before God Is one of.
hopeless need. He stands before GoL
as one guilty, unworthy and hell-de
serving. The only thing that he can.
do Is to look upon God as offering to.
him solvation out of his mercy.
The comparison of eternal life with
what the best man could do to merit
It would be ridiculous. Some conclu
sion might be readily arrived nt with
respect to what eternal life means in.
this life, but ns before stated, the
value of eternal life beyond is far
more than man can calculate.
Besides this, there is already an
adequate .equivalent to eternal life-
presented to man in the Inflnlte mer
its of Jesus Christ himself, the Son of
God, the Inflnlte one, who lived a'
most mnrvelous life and died a most-
wonderful death. It would seem to
be something almost amounting to di
rect Insult to God to make any sug-'
gestlon that mnn could merit eternal
life, when it is clearly proclaimed in
the Word that .tcsUs Christ has al
ready merited it, nnd stands offering;
It to us. -As the text says, Jesus
Christ gives this life, and this hecause
he purchased It with a surrender of
his own precious life.
The Word of God emphatically nnd
categorically teaches us that eternal
life Is a gift. Support to our text Is.
given In that remarkable saying in.
Isaiah 55:1: "no, every one thut
thlrsteth, come yo to tho waters; yea
come, buy wine and milk- without
money and without price." Certainly
John 8:10, "God so loved alio world
thnt he guve his only begotten Sou.
that whosoever belleveth on bin?
should not perish, but havo everlastlng
Hfo" Is In place, as also the words of.
Paul, "Tho gift of God is eternnl life
through Jesus Christ our Lord." The
text Itself says, "I glvo unto them
eternal life." And another considera
tion Is that tlioso who glvo evidence
of possessing eternnl life, are those
who concede thnt what they havo has.
been the gift of God.
This great fact of the Gospel may
seem to humiliate man, but nothing Is
needed more. Wo arc living in na
age when men glory in their fchame.
They demand notice on the ground of
merit, and nothing is needed more
than something to mnke man feel his.
absolute dependence upon God; In
deed, feel that he Is deserving only
of God's wrath and tho visitation of
his Judgment. Whether men think It
or not, thoy are dally recipients of
God's gifts. The atmosphere they
breathe the sunshine, tho continuation
of life, tho health they possess, are
ull the gifts of God, for which man
can give nothing In return.
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