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Picardy Birthplace of
the French Nation
The battle in which the Allies and
the central powers are engaged in
northeastern France often Is referred
to in the dispatches as the "Battle of
Picardy," although as a political sub
division the province of Picardy no
longer exists. Since the division in
to departments was made, Picardy
was cut up into the departments, of
the Somme, Pas-de-Calais, Aisne and
Oise, says the Kansas City Star. In
the ancient days when it existed as
one of the great historic provinces of
Franco its boundaries extended from
Hamant and Artois on the north and
from Champagne on the east to the
province of Normandy and the Eng
lish channel on the west, with mari
time frontier running from the
mouth of the Aa to the cliffs of Caux,
and it included within its boundaries
the whole of the basin of the Somme
river and a great part of that of the
Oise.
Under the Romans, it was inhabited
by the Morini, the Ambiana, the
Yeromandui, the Bellovaci and the
Suessiones, whose names are still
preserved in the modern cities of
Amiens, Vermandois, Beauvaia and
Soissons. It was 'a battle ground in
Caesar's day and the Romans built
military roads through the province
and erected defensive citadels along
the banks of the Somme.
It was in Picardy, too, that the
first nucleation of France as a nation
took place, under th"e Merovingian
kings in the fifth century. "The his
tory of ancient France says Mich
elet, "had its sources in Picardy."
Here Clovis made his first capital at
Soissons and Charlemagne founded
his at Noyon. Famous battles were
fought within its borders long before
the first Prussian set foot upon its
soil. Crecy, where Edward the Black
Prince Won his spurs, and Agincourt,
where Henry of England, with his
bowmen, wrought such havoc with
the French army the bowmen whose
spirits were said to have rendered
miraculous assistance to the allies at
the battle of the Marne.
A Land of Beautiful Iiaxulseapes.
A land of beautiful landscapes Is
the land of Picardy or-was before
the devastating Hun plowed up its
fair fields, tore up its roads and laid
low its forests and its famous aven
ues of aspens and poplars as "Pic
turesque Picardy" it was known to
poets and artists and waiters and
travelers. David Murray, the famous
Scottish landscape painter, gave its
pastoral beauties to the world in al
most tnree score of his canvases.
Many of Carofs finest landscapes are
laid in its valjeys of the Oise or
Somme. Ruskin and Robert Louis
Stevenson have glorified it in art and
literature. But oday it is a scene of
jum, ravage and desolation. Many of
Jts age-old towns have been made
level with the plain; some' of its his
toric cathedrals and chateaux are
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shell holes mark the face of the land
As Lord Byron said of Greece, " Tis
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the BoauUtul Oofl" ,i JtI,edral ot
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its construction only bvtP? 0f
Ruskin mTSSSST
that Tmf;' nd hia lecture under
tton of itlB T an lnterpreta
figSres and 5 0l?8anda , of sculptured
in stones " manIfld "seronS
The cathedral was built chiefly be
tween 1220 and 1288. Ite Mitert
of a nave nearly 140 feet high, with
wiSthSalate5al Chaels' a &2St
with aisles, and a choir ending in an
apse surrounded by chapels. The
2lfial ifffcIlia 4Ga eet t bread
ilLJxl Th facade' wbJ is
X2 ,by ? Sauare towers thout
spires, has three portals decorated
with a profusion of statuary, and
over the central portal i3 the remark
able statue of Christ, of the thir
teenth century; which has given to
tnis entrance the name of the "Porch
of the Beautful God." Surmounting
the portals are two galleries and
above these a" fine rose window.
Wood That Iasaps Like Living Flame.
Ruskin went into rantnr n
the wood carvincR nf tha ni,i-
Whatever you. wish to baa. m ro
forced to leave unseen, at Amiens."
I Tin oofd "fo i, ,.,. .
UU.4U., i4. mo uvervvaeimjng pos
sibilities of. your existencA ami
inevitable necessities of precipitate
locomotion in their fulfillment have
left you. so much as one-quarter of
an hour, not out of breath of the
contemplation of the capital of Pic
ardy, give it wholly to the cathedral
choir. Aisles and porches, lancet
windows and roses, you can see else
where as well as here but such
carpenter's work you can not. it
is latefully developed flamboyant
just past the fifteenth century, and
has some Flemish stolidity mixed
wim me piaying Frencn fire of it;
but wood carving was the Picardys
joy from his youth up, and so far as
I know, there is nothing, else so
beautiful cut out of the goodly trees
of the world. Sweet and young
grained wood it is; oak trained and
chosen for such work, sound now as
400 years since. Under the carver's
khand it seems to cut like clay, to
fold like siik, to grow like living
flame, Canopy crowning canop. pin
nacle piercing pinnacle it shoots
and wreathes itself into an enchant
ed glade, inextricable, imperishable,
fuller of leafage than any forest and
fuller of fatory than any book."
Ruskin. notes that the dominant
tone of the sculptures that so pro
fusely decorate the cathedral is that
of Peace and Hercy, and of the
famous Christ the "beautiful God"
over the central portal, he writes:
"Throughout Ihe sermon on this
Amiens raottnt, Christ never appears
as the crucified, or is for a moment
thought of as the incarnate word;
as th present friend, and aa the
everlasting king in Heaven. What
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SINCE tho discovery of organic Iron, Nux
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It Is conservatively estimated that ovejr threo
million people annually are taking: it in thin
country alone. Most astonishing rosults are
reported from its liso by both physicians and
laymen.
Dr. Ferdinand King:, a New York Physician
and Medical Author, when Interviewed on
this subject, said: "There can bo no sturdy
iron men without Iron. Pallor means anaemia. Hm'iii
Anaemia means iron deficiency. Tho skin of
anaemic men and women is pale; the Ileah
flabby. The muscles lack tone; tho brain fags
and tho memory fails arid often they become
weak, nervous, irritable, despondent and mel
ancholy. "When the iron goes from the blood
or women, tho roses go
from their checks.
"Therefore, you should
supply the iron defici
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using some form of or-
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would use salt when IBnw:
your food has not
enough salt."
Dr. James Francis Sul
livan, formerly Physi
cian "6f Bellevue Hospi
tal (Out-Door DeDL).
New York, and the Westchester
County Hospital, says: "In my talks
to physicians I have strongly em
phasized tho great necessity of
their making blood examinations of their
weak, anaemic, run-down patients. Thou
sands of persons go on suffering year
after year, doctoring themselves for all
kinds of ills, when the real and true cause
underlying their condition is simply a lack
of sufficient iron in the red blood cor
puscles to enable nature to transform tho
food they eat Into brawn, musclo tissue
and brain. But beware of the old forma . .
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metallic Iron simply. I suppose, because who were ailing all the while have
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His life is, what His commands are
and what His judgments will be, are
the things here taught; not what He
once did, nor what He once suffered,
but what He is doing now, and what
He requires us to do.
Keeping, then, these things in your
heart, look back now to the central
statue of Christ, and hear Hfe mes
sage with understanding. He holds
the book of the eternal law in His
left handr with His right he blesses,
blesses, but blesses on condition.
"This do and thou shalt live,"' nay,
in stricter and more piercing sense,
this be and thou shalt live; to show
mercy is nothing rthy soul must be
full of mercy; to bo pure in act is
nothing thou shalt be pure in heart
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Who Buflfc It?
Summing up his interpretation of
the Amiens cathedral, the "Bible of
Amiens," Kuskin asks:
"Who built It, shall we ask? God
and ;nan is the first true answer.
The stars In their courses built it,
and tho nations. Greek Athena labors
here, and the Roman Father Jove,
and Guardian Mars. The Gaul la
bors here and the Frank; knightly
Norman, mighty Ostrogoth, and
wasted anchorite of Idumea, The
actual man who built it scarcely
cared to tell you he did so; nor do
the historians brag of him. Any
quantity ot heraldries ot knaves and
faineants vou may find In what they
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ably the first time you ever read the
name of Robert of Luzarches. I
say he 'scarcely cared;' we are not
sure that he cared at all. He signed
his name nowhere, that I can. hear
of. You may perhaps find some re
cent initials cut by English remark
able visitors desirous ot immortality,
here and there about tho edifice, but
Robert the builder, or at least tha
master of that building, cut his on
no stone ot it."
JULIET V. STRAUSS
(The Country Contributor.)
A plain, woman; a simple life,
And ever a humble heart.
A hard road, and a noble strife,
And always her honest part.
Far-reaching voice and. ringing-true,
And ever an. eagle mind.
The lowly folk of earth she knew.
And reckoned herselt their kind.
And theirs is the grief for her today,
And theirs is the eager ear
That listens ift vain along the way
For the voice that brought such
cheer.
A plain woman, and a simple life,
Making smooth the road mentrod,
Lightening their woes, lesseninf
their strife.
And pointing the way to God.
May 24, laia.
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