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    THE SEMI WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
Dark Uowns Embroidered in biay
TREAT YANKS AS
ONE OF FAMILY
DR. BALTASAR BRUM
Three Needs
of Christian
Workers
Somewhere In France. Many
American slithers are having the
unique opportunity, its well ns tlie
pleasant experience, of learning
French customs and seeing French
homnlife by being billeted right In the
houses of their Gallic hosts anil host
esses. In one of the vlllnges of central
Frnnce, high up among the hills,
whore one can get a mngnlfleent view
of the surrounding "peaks," the val
ley nnd the winding river below Is
billeted a regiment of American nr
tlllory Inds. Most of them are from
California, 'others are from North Da
kota, Montana, and other states of the
Northwest.
Coming up the road from the rail
way station one crosses the mill raco
with Its ancient stone bridge, passes
the "monlln nolr" and entering the
village after' "recall," sees the soldiers
lolling about In the houses or seated
about the tables In front of the wine
shops talking to their French friends
whose guests they are.
From one of the village streets
clear through the town the houses
are marked with the number nf
Americans billeted there. One place
may have painted nt the side of the
door, "24 men" nnd another "2 of
ficers, 14 men." Down In the narrow
side streets are more billets and from
these winding pnRsageways the sol
diers come In scores aftor the eve
ning mess to wander along the "main
drag" and visit billets of their friends
In other bntlcrles.
No Formality There.
Life In very Informal In this vil
iage since the Americans came. Tho
doors nnd windows of the home-bll-lets,
opening right Into the streets,
reveal the soldiers' beds made up In
ship-shape military manner, the
tloors scrubbed spotlessly clean and
everything as neat and tidy as a home
might bo expected to be, In many
places, sanitation, crude In' most
French towns, at least, from an Amer
ican's standpoint, lias been Improved
and living conditions Improved not
only for the soldiers but for tho
civilian natives as well.
"How do you like living in billets?"
was asked a raw-boned gunner who
said his home bad hen in Idaho.
"Ail right now," came tho response.
"We did not think much of It at
first; wo had to go too far for mess.
Tho cook shack Is nwny tip there on
the hill In the square behind the
church. And In our billet we lmd to
climb n ladder to get Into the hay
mow. I'd rather live In it tent, es
pecially In tho Rummer, But wo all
Ray, like the French, 'C'est la guerro'
and let it go at that.
"Hut wo're learning a lot about the
French, getting a lot of Insight Into
their lives which wo could not get
otherwise. We're learning to sympa
thize with thorn more than over. T
bollcvo'lt makes us better soldiers.
I know for sure that It mnkes us
keener to light the Germans when wo
hear some of tho facts tho French
people tell us. Why, In our houso
nlono the old man and old woman
who llvo thero have lost throe sons
In tho war and another Is a prisoner
of the Germans.
"Oh, wo get nlong all right. Tho
MACHINE GUNNERS GALLOPING INTO ACTION
Hiitisli inactuno gunners are particularly actvo In thu great Franco-British-American
drive In t'lcnrdy and Flanders. This Hrltlsh olllclal phuto
graph shows somo of them galloping Into action.
BOMBING ENEMY'S DUMPS
Behind tho British Lines in France.
The British aviation communique
freouentlv contains n brief line to re
cord Unit "direct hits were obtained
upon an enemy dump" at some point
behind tho German lines. This color
less announcement may seem to tho
reader In America nothing more than
the record of n dull piece of routine,
but the deed Itself Is different from Its
record.
A British airman, Lieut. W. A,
Barnes, tins given the Associated Press
tho following account of a recent r8
niluuto raid on n German dump ns
characteristic of this form of activity :
"On this particular night thero was
not enough moonlight for a long raid,
ho the target given us wai a German
ammunition dump.
"Dumps aro by no means easy tar
gets to find nt night, for they aro sel
dom -Itunted near any definite land-
i
I' i nun fit I if 1111 11 tnnt.m.
lb
ttidy of maps and pho-
women do our washing and mending
and they're always anxious to do a
lot of extra things for us. We sure
will miss these people when we niovo
from here. It will be like leaving
homo again."
Music and Craps.
The black troops are bringing Amer
ica's folk songs to Knrope. Whether
he Is In the overalls of the stevedore
or the olive drab of tho fighting man
gol;ig over the lop, tho American ne
gro sings Just as he does In the rotten
fields of the sunny Southland or the
dock along the shores of the Great
Lakes.
The nearness of the wnr, the whizz
of tho bullets and the roar of the
cannon fall to mar the eternal non
worrying attitude of the American
negro.
Their barracks at night are alive
with music. At least one man In every
squad has managed to bring a banjo
along or made enough shooting craps
to buy one In France. Speaking of
craps, it's the great barrack room
sport of the negroes the first tiny
after payday. And every niche they
can get In out of sight of their white
oillcers sees n crap game going. Then
when one or two men In the regiment
have got all the money In camp they
go back to singing the old-time songs
and playing them on their banjos un
til another payday rolls around.
If morale follows In the footsteps
of music, then tho colored troops must
be "Jess full of It, boss I"
MUTINY GROWING
IN GERMAN ARMY
Officers Are Defied and 20,000
Deserters Are Said to
Be, in Berlin.
TROUBLE ALSO IN THE NAVY
Four Torpedo Boats Are Seized, and
Attempt Is Made to Escape,
but Two Aro Sunk by Pur
suing Battleship.
Loudon. General demoralization of
Germany's population and widespread
nnd growing disaffection In tho German
iirmy, accompanied by mutiny and de
sertions, are described In u dispatch
to the Daily Telegraph from Its Hotter
dam correspondent.
Tho correspondent says that Infor
mation reaching hlm Is so sensational
as to Inspire skepticism, but declares
ho has received undoubted corrobora
tion from authoritative sources.
Ho asserts that the Germany army
Is illicit with despondency 11111 seeth
ing with mutinous spirit, mid that
alarming outbreaks liave occurred In
several units, principally Hiivarlan and
Milesian.
One Incident on the Arras front
tornphs. however, we had protty well
located tho position of this one, and
started out on the'rald with high hopes
of success.
"Wo Hew almost due east from tho
airdrome. At the end of the CO min
utes we could just make out the out
line of sheds. This was good, but we
let out a parachute Hare to light up the
ground, am! make sure ve were over
the target. This promptly dispelled all
doubts, for the Iluu searchlights
opened up at once, and a hall of ma
chine gun bullets leaped up from the
ground. Anti-aircraft guns had been
firing for some time, but the shells
were bursting well above us, and glv
I.i if no trouble.
"Tl-c parachute Hare proved a real
friend, because both searchlights and
machine ruiis concentrated upon It,
giving us jufit iyllToint time to dive
swiftly, ri'leom- .r lotahs, switch on
the engine and start climbing
"When wo turned to observo results,groatest source of nrorry." .
The visit to the I tilted States or Dr
Baltasar Hrum, minister of foreign af
fairs of Uruguay, has tremendous Im
portance In the affairs of the allies
Doctor Hrum Is largely responsible for
the change of sentiment In Uruguay
from being pro-German to being neu
trnl, then openly pro-ally. Doctor
Hrum Is a strong advocate of free
democracy and Ills Influence In tlie Lat
in American countries Is a powerful
factor In favor of the allies.
terminated in a whole Bavarian divi
sion being disarmed and transported
to Bavaria, where It was -placed In u
prison camp, and the mutiny of one ot
the Slleslnn regiments resulted In uea
ly 100 of its men being executed.
Desertions Are Heavy. ,
A huge number of desertions are
occurring, tho correspondent says, ami
it Is estimated that there aro more
than 20,000 deserters In Berlin alone.
Largo numbers are scattered
throughout the country and tho author
ities aro having tho greatest dllllculty
in trailing deserters owing to the con
nivance of the working classes. Never
theless hundreds havu been arrested
and generally these have been sen
tenced to 10 years imprisonment A
great number of Imprisoned deserters,,
broken by solitary conllnement, have
been released and sent back to tho
ranks.
Disobedience and defiance of oillcers
Is common at tho front, nccordlng to
tho correspondent's Information, and a
similar spirit is shown in the munition
factories, where tho workers deliber
ately aro slowing up, with the result
that tho output has been seriously de
creased. Heavy Cannonading Heard.
"It was reported from various places
on the Danish and Norgeglan coasts
threo weeks ago that heavy cannonad
ing was heard from the North sea,"
says a dlspntch from Chrlstlanla to the
Times. "A few days later the bodies
of German marines were washed up,
most of them on the const of .lutlaud,
but no lighting was reported on either
tho Hrltlsh or German side.
So thero was much speculation about
these lloatlng corpses, which bore life
belts with the figures and initials of
two different German torpedo boats.
An explanation is now given by the
Aftenpost's correspondent at Copen
hagen, who says a report was received
yesterday from across tho German
frontier of a recent mutiny. German
navy crews refused to go aboard tho
U-boats to which they belong, and
seizing four torpedo boats set a course
for Norway.
They wre overtaken by a German
warship und a regular light ensued,
with tho result that at least two tor
pedo boats were sunk and the crews
drowned or killed.
The finest variety of asbestos Is
known as itmlutlius, and the most beau
tiful specimens of this come from Tar
antalse, in Savoy.
we witnessed tho finest fireworks dis
play I ever saw. Ammunition was
eracHni? off at record speed, dense
clouds of snioko were rising and highly-colored
Humes were leaping a hun
dred feet and more from the ground.
"We watched this pleasing exhibi
tion for some minutes, until tho cough
of an 'Archie' burst near by to remind
us that we were still over llunland,
and so turned and steered for home.
"Tho whole Job occupied 58 minutes,
but It must have cost Germany hun
dreds of man power hours In muni
tions works."
New Cure for Cooties.
New York. "We've got a new
fangled disinfectant for 'cooties' which
Is line," writes Private Fred G. Motten
to his mother here.
"It Is a sort of .wash that you put on
at night. Then you sleep llko a log
and dream that you are home.
"They Issue It to us every night for
a soother. And us It sure keeps tho
'kaisers' off one, you need have no
worry about ma Cooties were our
By UEV. B. B. SUTCLIFFE
Extension Department, Moody Bible
Iiutitute, Chicago
TEXT Uo of good courage ana let us
behave ourselves valiantly, and let the
Lord do that which Is good In his sight.
I Chron. 19:13.
.Tonb, the commander In chief of
David's army, found himself between
two fires. Tho
army of tlie Sy
ria n s opposed
him on one side
and tlie army of
t h e Ammonites
on the other. Em
ploying tho host
tuctlcs he knew
nnd placing his
army to tlie best
advantage, li o
mude an address
to ids men on the
eve of battle. The
text Is pari of
that a d d r u s s
which reminded
them they were
about to light for their people and
the cities of their God. His oxhortu
tion might well be pondered by all
Christians today and especially those
who aro more or less directly engaged
In Christian work.
Thero are threo things ,upon the
surface of tills text.
I. The Need of Courage.
It Is said of some regiments in liu
iiiiui armies that they aro so foolish
as never to know when they are beat
en. It is not foolishness that Is tho
trouble, hut a high-hearted courage
which will not admit defeat or which
takes ii defeat and wrestles It Into a
victory. Tlie Christian worker, above
all others, should have such good
courage. He bus u Leader who is
possessed of all wisdom and knowl
edge a Lender who knows tho secret
plans of tlie enemy. He is aware even
of the secret thoughts of the enemy.
He Is never taken off his gunrd, or
by surprise. He is fully Informed of
every movement. He gives promise
to his people thnt no weapon formed
against them shall prosper. He' Is u
Leader who not only has nil knowl
edge, but all power to use his knowl
edge. Ho Is tlie Invincible One
Sometimes a mnn finds himself la
possession of valuable knowledge
which is valueless to him because oi
a lacK of power. He has not the abil
ity to use what ho knows. But untc
our Lord has been given all power In
heaven and in earth.
Be of good courage, then, no mnttei
what odds we face, knowing there Is
more with us than with tho enemy,
The message of the snlnt of old l!
well worth remembering "One with
God is always a majority." This Is
still true. God who gave the victory
to his people In olden days Is the
same God. There Is no change in oui
Leader. He Is the same yesterday, to
day and forever. Following him, the
Christian is assured of ultimate vie
tory. It may seem as though w
were hedged in by overwhelming
forces and defeat Is certain, but w
may have good courage as we look
away from the opposing hosts to the
ono whom we follow.
II. The Need of Valiant Behavior.
The ltevlsed Version renders this
by "play the man." It means simply
to "do your best." To do one's best Is
to behave valiantly. No matter if
others may do better than we, the
need is to do our best. We aro to
"piny the man" and not be like chil
dren who become discouraged because
someone else does better thau they
can do. Wo must just keep on do
ing our part to the best of our ability.
Much was dependent on each man of
Alonb's army behaving valiantly. Much
, more depends on each Christian doing
his best. We must "play the man"
for the honor of the nnmo of hlm
whoso we are and whom we serve,
lie docs not expect us to weakly sur
render but to stand up to the flght,
behaving ourselves valiantly ; we must
meet his expectations.
Then again, tho well being of the
church depends on each doing his
liest. The church is tho body of
Christ and we are all members of that
body. If ono member suiters, all the
others suffer with It. When one mem
ber falls to beluivo valiantly, all tho
others nre Injured. On the other hand,
all the members nre blessed each
tlmo wo do our level best. Again our
own personal growth in grace follows
such behavior. If wo would be strong
In faith, and experience the delight of
the approval of our Lord, we will go
fortli to "play tho man" in tho uamo
of our God.
- III. The Need of Trust
"Let the Lord do that which Is good
In his sight." We are not to think
thnt results from our work shall bo
in accord with what wo imagine' they
should be. Ho may Jinve purposes to
fultlll by our work other than wo
know. Wo aro nnturally eager to ob
tain results which are good In our
own- sight. Wo may make serious mis
takes, not knowing all our Loader
knows, and desire results which would
not be good In Ills sight. We need to
trust hlm fully; to bellevo he knows
what is best ; to revel In n hlgh-henrt-cd
courage which grows from tho cer
tainty of flniil victory; to keep on do
ing our best and allow hlm to do that
which is goon in hU sight, Irrespective
of whether It Is good In ours or not.
Black frocks embroidered In gray
yarns and black embroidered In sil
ver are among the foremost successes
In the season's showings of new Ideas.
It Is a sedate combination even when
the embroidery Is elaborate nnd In n
bold pattern, and It proves to be as
effective when very dark blue called
night blue Is used Instead of black.
The lovely gown shown in tlie picture
above employs this deep blue In a dress
that Is rich enough for the opera and
quiet enough' for anything else. Cos
turners are giving much attention to
gowns of -this type, for their tnsk is to
achieve designs that couple distinc
tion with quiet colors.
In the gown pictured there is an
underbodlce and a skirt of night blue
satin with a bodice of georgette
draped to simulate a belted coat and
waistcoat, over it. There is a soft
girdle of the georgette and, at the
left side, an unexpected and pretty
touch In two long ends ench of narrow
moire ribbon.
Much of the embroidery, which Is
an Important feature on this season's
dresses, Is done In long stitches and
easily .worked. The effect is good
Novel raps
Only a few of the coats anil wraps
for fall and winter lay claim to novel
designing. For one thing, designers
restrict tin amount of materials to be ,
use,d to dellnite lengths that do not J
allow anything for merely decorative
additions to these wraps, and for an
other simplicity Is the fashion; the
public generally likes It.
One exception to the rule that al
lows a scant measure of goods for a
coat appears In the handsome model
shown at die right In the illustration
above. Tills is n heavy, castor-colored
garment of pom pom cloth, with a
shawl collnr aii'l deep cuffs of otter.
It Is made with the approved double
breast, fastening to the left, near the
waistline, with handsome buttons.
These are square and match the coat
in color, with rims In the dark shade
of the fur. Four of them are set on
each sleeve and one on each pocket.
The coat Is straight, but Is drawn to
the ilgure at the waistline by a soft
girdle of the cloth. Tho designer
might have considered the coat com
plete If nothing more had been added
to It ; but there was the temptation to
add the charm of the straight panel
and the smart suggestion of a military
cape all nt one and the same time
and it wns done. Therefore there Is
11 lnnu. narrow capo, banded with fur
unit finished 'itn buttons, which puts
and the work goes quickly, but the
wide bands on the handsome gown
pictured are not embroidered In this
way. Many of the stitches are short
and set close together. This pattern
Is striking and exactly suited to the
yarn used for working it out. The
dress Is simple in design, nnd needs
to be, since the tilings to be empha
sized In It aro the lovely color combina
tion and the bold and rich em
broidery. A dress of this kind calls for a hat
thnt will play up to It, and a broad
brimmed model, in velvet, or velvet
and georgette, of the same dark blue,
can hardly be too simply trimmed.
Such a hat Is shown in the ptcturo
and might bo In black with as good re
sults. The pumps are of black pnt
ent leather.
Satins Will Be Favored.
Satins promise to be the greatest
favorites among silks for fall.
Separate Skirts.
Separate skirts have hems of con
trading material and color.
and Coats
i this extrnvt aunt and beautiful coat Id
a class where It has few rivals.
For mild climates, or fall wear,
there are some scarfs and capos sultei?
to between-seasons that are often clev
er combinations "of two accessories In
one garment. The cape shown in th
Ilgure at the left of the picture con
trives to extend itself Into n broad
girdle with sash ends that aro finished
with a handsome yam fringe. Fringe
is u much coveted decoration these
days and these sash ends aro further
eitrlclu'd by embroidered dragons that
match it.
Capes Are Stylish.
Capes are very desirable and verj
stylish. Hut If a girl can have but one
wrap outside of the regular raincoat, a
warm wool coat Is the best choice.
Those for this season are, for the most
part, belted, double breasted, having
patch pockets, collars which can bo
rolled high and the coat reaches tho
edge of th dress ut the bottom. Ma
terials are much the sumo as they have
been In the last two sensors; wool ve
lours, duvetyn or other .voolly sur
faces. Bolivia Is u beautiful material,.
but Its wearing quptltlos ive somewhat
! doubtful.