A MINISTER’S WIFE
Always
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a Good
Word
For
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A~”
Splendid
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Mrs. O. F. McHargue, 147 W. 9th
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As a minister’s wife 1 come In con
tact with all classes of people, and
■hall always speak a good word for
Feruna. I have given trial bottles
to a few friends. Wishing you abun
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PARADTsEFOR THE ARTIST
Devotees of the Brush Are Accorded
Accommodations Without Price
] . ( at Inn at Capri.
* -
Capri, beautiful in itself as a winter
resort, offers an Irresistible invitation
to artists, since it bas an inn where
anyone, by painting a picture on the
wall, can get free board.
To the lovely island of Capri, with
Us perennial summer, its blue grotto,
and its lemon groves, came, some fifty
years ago, a ruined artist. He opened
an inn, and died rich. In his will,
leaving the inn to his heirs, he made
these conditions:
"The charge per day, two bottles ot
red Capri wine Included, is never to
be more than six francs.
"If any artist is too poor to pay he
ihall paint a picture upon some wall
space, receiving all the accommoda
tion accorded to those paying the high
est price.
"If any German artist shall come
to the inn he shall be accommodated,
end shall receive the amount of his
tare to Germany upon his promising
never to return to Italy.”
The inn is conducted today on these
eondltions. Its walls are covered with
paintings. Now and then a German
lets his fare home.
Her Memory Ail Right.
Mrs. Geddes had a new maid, and
Bhe found it necessary to repeat her
instructions several times before Nora
obeyed them. The mistress had told
her repeatedly about the finger-howls,
and one day, when there were guests
they were again forgotten.
“Now, Nora,” said Mrs. Geddes, ex
tremely exercised over the omission,
“this is the sixth time I’ve had to tell
you about the finger-bowls. Didn’t
the woman you last worked for have
them on the table?”
“No, mum,” replied Nora, “her
friends always washed their hands
before they cum.”
Eye to Business.
A young suburban doctor whose
practice was not very great sat in his
Btudy reading away a lazy afternoon
In early summer. His manservant
appeared at the door.
“Doctor, them boys is stealin’ your
green peaches again. Shall I chase
them away?”
The doctor looked thoughtful for a
moment, then leveled his eyes at the
servant.
“No,” he said.—Lipplncott’s.
Better Name.
The dog was a curious creature with
a short body and long dangling ears.
The newsboy owner was proud, how
ever, as he held it in leash.
“What kindo purp is it?” asked an
acquaintance.
“Dachsund,” replied the newsie.
“Dash hound?”
“That’s what I said.”
“Dash nothing,” the other contempt
uously retorted, "it looks more like a
hyphen.”—Youngstown Telegram.
His Contribution.
"Have you contributed anything tq
the suffrage cause?”
"Yes; two sisters and one wife.”
SICK DOCTOR
Proper Food Put Him Right.
The food experience of a physician
In his own case when worn and weak
from sickness and when needing nour
ishment the worst way, is valuable:
“An attack of grip, so severe it came
near making an end of me, left my
■tomach in such condition I could not
retain any ordinary food. I knew of
course that I must have food nourish
ment or I could never recover.
“I began to take four teaspoonfuls
of Grape-Nuts and cream three times
a day and for 2 weeks this was almost
my only food. It tasted so delicious
that I enjoyed it immensely and my
itomach handled it perfectly from the
first mouthful. It was so nourishing
I was quickly built back to normal
health and strength.
“Grape-Nuts is of great value as food
to sustain life during serious attacks
In which the stomach is so deranged
It cannot digest and assimilate other
foods.
“I am convinced that were Grape
Nuts more widely used by physicians,
it would save many lives that are oth
erwise lost from lack of nourishment.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
The most perfect food in the world.
Trial of Grape-Nuts and cream 10 days
proves. “There’s a Reason.”
Look in pkgs. for the little book,
"The Road to Wellvllle.”
Ever rend the above letter? A new
•ne appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and fall of human
Interest. 1
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FRENCH MINISTRY WAS
UNPREPARED FOR WAR
Failure To Call Out Full Fore e Of Reservists May Be Traced
Directly To Lack Of Food and Clothing For Army—Half
Starved and Barefooted Sol diers At Front Pitifully Elo
quent Of Commissary’s Inadequacy.
Paris, Special: Only a few weeks
before the scourge of war descended
without warning on Europe, a social
ist member of the chamber of depu
ties in France arose in his place to
inquire if the supposedly great army
of the country was really prepared
for actual warfare at a moment’s no
tice.
The reply came from the ministry
that the army could take the field im
mediately if need be and fight indefi
nitely with any power.
Appearances today and events that
have transpired in the past month fall
so far short of fulfilling that com
placent prediction that many are act
ually voicing .e.qepiclon of the ministry
and its motives. ^ *’
Each year since the Inglorious de
feat which accrued to France in 1870,
the government has appropriated vast
sums for the maintenance of the army
of defense. The people have stood for
the expenditures because of patriot
ism and because of a never-dying fear
of Germany. There have been but few
questions asked. Reports of modern
improvements in armament and fort
ifications have been made frequently
and those of the French who watched
the military with Interest, believed
firmly that the army of France would
compare favorably with any armed
force ii^the_ v^orld.
*'*■ French Poorly Shod.
There was one little matter that the
statesmen and socialists of France
overlooked, however. That concerned
the commissary department, one of the
most expensive and necessary depart
ments of the army.
When the war began, France showed
herself to be greatly inferior to Ger
many in the ability to mobilize quick
ly. All the reservists of the nation
have not yet been placed under arms
and equipped. It is stated on official
and reliable authority that the reason
was lack of clothing and equipment
The French of this generation had not
profited by the bitter lesson og 1870,
when hunderds of soldiers were in
capacitated by exposure and by hav
ing to march barefooted cross coun
try. The paper soled shoes, issued by
the commissary, endured only a few
days of marching.
Depended on Belgium.
Reports that have come from the
front already mention the pitiful inade
quacy of the French footgear. Every
reservist in France should have been
called out a month ago. The reason
they were not it seems is made quite
plain by those reports. Half-starved
French soldiers have been written up
by correspondents at the front. It is
no wonder that the ministry has hesi
tated about calling out reserves with
conditions in such shape.
Because the comparatively puny
Belgian army held in leash for a few
days what has since turned out to be
merely the advance guard of the Ger
man army, the French general staff,
or the politicians controlling it, imag
ined. apparently, that Belgium could
effectively hold back the whole Ger
man army until or while the French
made a sentimental counter attack in
Alsace and Lorraine.
faced. The Germans, despite the
heavy losses they have suffered,
losses estimated as high as 200,000
men In some quarters, are still in
such huge numerical superiority at
the point of attack that they may be
able to encircle the wings of the
army of the allies. By such a flank
ing movement, executed either to the
north or south, or perhaps attempted
even In both directions, the position
of the French and British may be
come not only critical but actually
Impossible.
The admirable mobilization and
transportation to French soil of the
British troops has been In striking
contrast to the slow and Incomplete
mobilization of the French, and In
this lies the second great blunder,
amounting to a positive danger.
Germans Have Plenty.
It is noticeable that all the early
stories of the hunger of German pris
oners In Belgium have petered out. Un
doubtedly these hungry Uhlans were
scattering parties that had lost their
way and wandered far from their base
of supplies. Such raiding parties are
expected in any event to subsist on
the country. But the German commis
sary has Plainly performed with ma
chine like ease and accuracy so far
the most repiarkable task of the kind
ever attempted in history.
Porta la nn (•vinnnn'nnhlA
city today, but this reppte comes only
from French quarters and is based on
the ability of the French to carry out
their scheme of defense. There are
over 100 forts in the three rings, all
supposedly equipped with modern guns
and immense quantities of ammunition,
and all supposedly defended by artil
lerists of the highest skill.
But are they prepared for the mod
ern German form of attack, if the Ger
man army forces its way through or
around the allies? This attack, suc
cessful in a few days at both Liege and
Namur, consists of concentrating on
one or more of the forts such an over
powering mass of howitzer fire that no
“bombproof” roofs can resist the rain
of shells. An opening thus made in the
ring of forts, the infantry are massed
through it to Invade the very city it
self.
The Germans have in the field now
many batteries of an enormous field
howitzer, firing a 10-inch shell, which
are moved by motor power. The
World has printed pictures of this gun
and a descriptio of it. No such weapon
for siege attack has ever been placed
on wheels before and moved readily
across country.
With this gun added to their normal
batteries, the Germans have found no
trouble in reducing such forts as they
have attacked so far, or at least in ef
fecting an entrance into such sup
posedly strongly fortified cities as
Liege and Namur, which -while smaller
than Paris, seemed equally as well for
tified for their size. So that if the
army of the allies is broken through
or routed and forced within the forti
fied lines, the Germans may find no
greater difficulty in making their way
through the Paris forts than they have
found in Belgium.
On the other hand it is well to con
sider the great difficulties and disad
vantages facing the kaiser’s forces in
other directions, for these must in
evitably have their effect upon the
progress of the war from this time for
ward. Until now they have not been
seriously felt; now they must be faced
every day, and unless counteracted by
some powerful stroke, such as the
quick rout of the allies and the capture
of Paris, these difficulties will increase
in danger every day.
Death Sonq Of Military Airmen.
To ye, O hosts who fight on land and sea.
We, aviators fighting in the air,
Make salutation, as about to die!
The Battle Gods are glutted at the last.
The Reaper Grim grows weary of the
scythe.
Not every soldier gets the bullet’s kiss.
Not every sailor sinks beneath the wave.
Not every gunner falls beside his gun.
But for us airmen it was surely writ,
“Abandon hope, all ye who enter here!”
The soldier’s gun is struck from out hiB
hand;
He catches up another and fights on.
The trooper’s horse is killed; he falls un
harmed
To rise, remount and make another
charge.
The sailor's ship is struck; he sights his
gun,
Unmindful of the other gun crew's fate.
Not thus the aviator hit in air!
onouia nave neipeo.
The French intelligence bureau
should have been better Informed as
to the strength of the Germans before
Liege, and with all the Belgian rail
roads at their disposal they should
have taken ample steps, as they had
ample time, to reinforce the tempor
arily victorious Belgians and thus pre
pare that cheerful little army to resist
further the advance of the Germans.
It should have been seen that the
check at Liege must have the inevit
able result of bringing up behind this
advance guard at Liege the whole
strength of the German army, which
was then prepared to crush its way
through any opposition that all Bel
gium could offer. A check to an enor
mous force lust beginning its forward
movement is often as much of an in
direct advantage to its mobilizers as it
Is a direct opportunity to the enemy.
The opportunity neglected, as it was
here, the indirect advantage accrues
into a positive gain—which has hap
pened In the case of the Germans.
To devastate Belgium, with only
Belgians to oppose them, was child's
play for the kaiser’s legions, and when
they arrived at Mons and Charleroi,
to face the French and British troops
for the first time, the German general
staff had gained ample time to make
over their slightly halted plan of cam
paign and to use hundreds of thous
ands where they probably had orig
inally planned to use only tens of thou
sands.
The inevitable followed. Faced by
a veritable sea of men, whose oncom
ing billows, though broken here and
there by the rock-like formation of
British troops, could not be stayed, the
allies have had to give way, have had
to forsake all the advantages which
the French frontier fortresses and the
formation of the border country gave
them, and are now interposed between
the frontier and Paris.
Profit by Emlish Example.
With such an overwhelming mass
of men pushed on to death or vic
tory by the officers of the kaiser it
would have been the worst kind of
folly and an invitation for another
Sedan had the British or the French
cooped themselves up in any large
numbers within Maubeuge or the ad
joining frontier fortresses. There are
plainly enough Germans available to
be detached to mask or surround such
a fortress and the allies would simply
have deprived themselves of so many
thousands of men. In their present sit
uation they need every man they can
get to stand between the Germans and
Paris.
The change in the French political
situation, though coming late, still
promises well, for at last the strong
est men in France are united together
at the helm of government. France
might have profited by England’s
example here at the very outset of the
war.
In that case the Alsace-Lorraine
expedition—which was of a most
hazardous kind even if properly at
tempted with a force sufficient to en
gage a strong enemj1, and only folly
in the circumstances under which it
actually was attempted, with a small
and Insufficiently equipped force—
would never have been tried.
The position of the allies now, with
their backs on the first defenses of
Paris, Is technically stronger than at
any time since the war began. Un
less the Germans break through the
French-British lines before the allies
can form a united mass defending
the semi-circle of out<*r fortifications
facing eastward from the capital, the
German advance may yet be Btopped
effectually.
And from Sir John French's dis
patches, he seems to have every hope
that the Germans will fail in their
desperate efforts to break through.
But there are other dangers to be
The soldier and the trooper may be struck
By bullet or by piece of bursted shell
Or cut and gashed by blow of foeman’s
sword.
What then, In case the Fates snip not
his thread?
Why, this: First aid to Injured, ambu
lance
Surgeon, hospital, tender Red Cross nurse,
Fed on dainties, banked in by blossoms
rare,
Made strong again by woman’s &dor*n<
eyes.
Not thus the aviator hit in air!
Thus with the aviator hit in airr
The bullet's blow is death where’er It
strikes,
A sundered stay, a broken wing is death
No less than shattered brain or riven
heart—
We pray thee, Reaper Grim, send Instant
death!—
For then we fall, Oh God, we airmen fall!
And so, O hosts who fight on land and
sea,
We. aviators, fighting In the air,
Make salutation, as about to die!
—John Dickinson Sherman.
X NOT A MAN RETURNED. X
4 R. L. Stevenson's "Will o’ the Mill." ^
4 When Will was yet a child a dis- 4
4 astrous war arose over a great part 4
4 of the world. The newspapers 4
4 were full of defeats and victories, 4
4 the earth rang with cavalry hoofs, 4
4 and often, for days together and 4
4 for miles around, the coll of bat- 4
ttle terrified good people from their 4
labors In the field. 4
4 Of all this nothing was heard for 4
4 a long time In the valley; but at 4
4 last one of the commanders pushed 4
4 an army over the pass by forced 4
4 marches, and for three days horse 4
4 and foot, cannon and tumbril, drum 4
4 and standard, kept pouring down- 4
4 ward past the mill. All day the 4
t child atood and watched them on 4
their passage. The rythmical 4
4 stride, ihe pale, unshaven faces, 4
4 tanned about the eyes, the discol- 4
4 ored regimentals and the tattered 4
4 flags filled him with a sense of 4
4 weariness, pity and wonder. And 4
4- all night long, after he was in bed, 4
4 he could hear the cannon pound- 4
4 lng and the feet trampling and the 4
4 great armament sweeping onward 4
4 and downward past the mill. 4
4 No one In the valley ever heard 4
4 the fate of the expedition, for they 4
4 lay out of the way of gossip in 4
4 those troublous times; but Will saw 4
4 one thing plainly, that not a man
■f returned.
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DESCRIPTION WAS ALL RIGHT
Not Just What Jones Was Looking
for, But Brown Surely Hod
Told the Truth.
As Brown landed on the platform he
fan full butt Into Jones.
"Where bound, Joens, and why such
speed?” queried Brown.
"Just oft to Seashell-on-the-Mud, and
am anxious to get some fruit before I
start."
"Fruit? Just the thing! Now she's
just off; jump in that carriage. I left
a fine pear in the corner.”
Jones got in and started searching
around.
“My friend said he left a fine pear
in the corner,” explained Jones, as an
old lady sniffed angrily at the way he
searched round her.
“Guess he meant that corner, my
man,” she snapped.
Jones looked and saw a young cou
ple blushing furiously.
WILL BE EXPENDED WISELY
Statement Showing How the Proceeds
of Sale of Red Cross Seals
Are to Be Spent.
For the benefit of the numerous or
ganizations who helped to sell near
ly forty-five million Red Cross seals
last year and for the general public,
the American Red Cross and the Na
tional Association for the Study and
Prevention of Tuberculosis have
framed a definition of anti-tuberculo
sis work showing how the proceeds
from these holiday stickers are to be
used. The definition limits the expen
diture of money only for the year
ending April 30, 1916.
The definition was framed at a re
cent meeting of the National Associa
tion for the Study and Prevention of
Tuberculosis and states that the term
"anti-tuberculosis work" as it relates
to the expenditure of Red Cross seal
money shall include the following ac
tivities:
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The emperor of Austria, It has been
noted, lays claim to thg titte marquis
of Antwerp, if all European sov
ereigns could make good their minor
territorial titles there would, Indeed,
be a reconstruction of the map. The
king of Italy, for instance, is officially
styled king of Sardinia, France, Spain
and England, of Italy and Jerusalem,
of Greece and Alexandria, of Hamburg
and Sicily, Master of the Deep, King of
the Earth. The king of Spain also
claims to be king of Jerusalem, king
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The Bridal Trousseau.
The old idea of providing brides
with a score or more of gowns, wraps
and hats has quite gone by. Even the
fashionable trousseau of today con
tains no more than a dozen gowns, it
as many. Styles change so fast that
by fall the gowns for the June wed
ding, necessarily made some weeks be
fore the ceremony, begin to look odd.
Some authority has declared that the
best dressed woman In Paris buys no
more than three new toilets each year,
but the opinion may be ventured that
she is altering her last year’s supply
most of the time. The vast assort
ments of lingerie have also dwindled.
Nobody provides such a multitudinous
wedding outfit nowadays as used to be
required.—Leslie’s.
Many a woman regrets that she
didn't change her mind before she
changed her name.
l. me construction of hospitals or
sanatoria for the care of the tubercu
lous.
y The maintenance of the tubercu
lous.*
3. The provision of day or night
camps for the tuberculous; the provi
sion and maintenance of dispensaries,
visiting nurses, open air schools, fresh
air classes, or preventorla for the care
or treatment of tuberculosis cases or
for the prevention of the spread of tu
berculosis.
4. The maintenance of educational
or legislative activities which have for
their object the prevention of infection
with tuberculosis.
It Ought to Be.
"What are you going to call the new
baby?”
"Reginald Claude,” replied Mr. Blig
glns.
"Isn’t Reginald Claude a rather af
fected name?”
"Yes, I want him to grow up to be a
fighter, and I fancy that Reginald
Claude will start something every time
he goes to a new school."—Loudon
Opinion.
A Word From the Weary.
"You seem inclined to favor criti
cism of the railroads.”
"Yes,” replied the weary statesman;
“I’m tired of having them criticize my
motives. Let ’em criticize somebody’s
locomotives.”
Accounting for It.
"That girl has a swelled head.”
“That’s only because she wears such
big ‘rats.’ ”
It is well to be able to talk, but
there are times when silence is more
valuable.
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