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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-5-30, Page 6LAST HOURS OF by a shell which 'killed all the mem- pants, inducting Sub -Lieut. Angus II, BRITISH FLAG ma,.1.3,4ilan, and the upper and lower THE "VINDICTIV aa bridges and the ehartroom, Comman- der Godsal ordered the officers to go with him to the conning tower. They "ties to Weetern nweetnus as tangible I te. atrium of former ! The party mated lineal meats, IN BIBLE LANDS potetoes, and dates. and planned -- to lag fewl, egge and native bread en ecnite Ileeittes the heal, of the suit, , observed through the observation slit . they has matisionally to endure camel, SCARRED CRUISER. that the eastern pier was breached VAST CleaIN1 ATTENTION. , roadway. Animal lite on the dose: some two hundred yards from the sea- wae rare, but. mansional villages lit ward end as though at some time a ; the palms gave relief, though not pat, • Painting Our tsar. FIT'FING E,NI) FOR 13ATTI,E- tn the steel wall of the eonning tower eaaa Ea me )111)1)11: of tiny, biting Mee that imee trent the ship had been in collision with it. ,.., hire tieularly barmy change. Storke \vete _ --. , Admiralty' Story of Ostend Operation They wait the front ef the town sil-; flattish Officer Gives Gliumees of 1, the chief bird;‘, and their :testa were is Thrilliug Account of Beraie houetted again and again in the light ! in Palestine and Mesopotamia, elatimeteritaie sights in the village, The Admiralty has issued the fol- darheese. i A British soldier's letter, "'tail"' the ages for trade between north and while if the whole family buckles into eleet Wool and sandpaper. : night was a patehwork of fire and 1 The route has been popular through ing it, may he aecomplished in a short operation: • "Immediately after paseiea ow ger in which Christ was born in Betn. smallest part of the work. It le clean- The body was cleaned in a some - "Dunkirk, May I 1.--aftte Sirius lies breach in the ; ' • c! lehena the advance of the British be-, ! tract people of Western tastee. The . the paint was removed with the bladea Kurds are alight people, blue-eyed, ing rho car and getting it ready for what :dinner manner except that ell lowing graphic story of the Ostend Conning Tower Hit. 1 that he is on guard at the very Man- . , eolith, but there is little now to at- the work. The actual painting is the in the surf some 2,000 yarde meet of sal lett the eonniug tower and went on yowl Jericho, and the further vietor- Mel. Commander God- ! and commonly with flaxen hair, Their e paint that. requ les the mot, win c. the ' e f• 1:1 •t a of flat knives. This wns the most .I 1 deck, the better to wateh the ship's : les in Mesopbtamia, .. 1 again to the historic.. scenes of the ! all call attentinn! chiefly . . from the be the use of a turban of blue cotton. tenger ear whieh was'purchas 'cc' rlaw :ankh, then sandpapered, and rubbed laborious part of the work. The :mauve was rubbed firmly with the steel wool until it took ou a shiny the entrance to Ostena arbor, which chess del e rs the .hubs'Last year we painted our five -pas - Deeds of Naval Men. Of the guns that blazed at them. The Where Armies Advance. Strange Villages and Peoples. Painting your own motor ear may .seem like a thankless task to many, end while somewhat of an uudertak- pieked out of the corners with tho point of a knife. Where the paint on the ch osis was firm and in good venation it was len, but Was rubbed thoroughly with the TIE BRITISH IN MESOPOTAMIA HARDSHIPS ENDURED BY OUR GALLANT TROOPS. Courage of Towashenda4 Men—Eye- witness Gives Account of Gen. Maude:4- Tragic Death, "When Great Britain goes to War, she goes constructively,in direct con- travention to Germany's method; of eompleto destruction and annihila- tion," It was this point Mrs. Egan. said she wished to impress upon her hearers at a recent meeting in Philzte morning. the Virelietive groped her ming towel his order to starboard the ; great war. It has been truly flial- that , built of dark sandstone, and has a had been repainted, and no doubt the!, practieally dean with a dry cloth. It took delphia of the Red Cross. illuetrating ale failed so gallantly . movements. c , toee a p . . when in the early hours of yeeterday ' called in through the slit of the con_ ! Middle Fleet which ere centres in the ; The large market, town of Klan 18 in 191.3, It was the first time It way through the smoke screen and helm. The Viedictive reepontled and; the war ie a tremendous lesson in geo-, bazaar, roofed like those of Bagdad, task would have been much easier had, When this Was done the car was ready the improvements in Mesopotamia since British occupation. Everything though the old -Malting ship k. ) a" k° pier and prepared to swing her 320 use his opportunity he can brush n a, 1' noel., is it dirty, unattractive city, it near the latter part of May becausol two days to clean the ear. there bee been done with the idea of headed for the entranee it wile. as laid her battered nose to the eastern! granbY. and if the general reader will' trough snuffler. Kerku.,.., i farther it been done a year earlier. We did to amt. "A eoa.stal melee boat had visited „It wae at this moment that a shell Recently a British officer has writ-; ,with stucco. It is distinctly Turkish, not much dust in the air. ; that were on the ear originally, gray 1 We used tbe..same colors of paint no temporary buildings, no mike - and Leaked on. feet of length across the aliened. his hietory• amazingly. ! with holism; of stone, mostly covered the weather was warm and there was permanence, she said and there lire , her and hung, a flare •in her sleek and from the shore batteries struck the ten his impressions on visiting Jertiit.: and has a population of 1,10,000. The The tools required were putty, shifts deemed good enough for the t , ri •ginr and that eye of un- • conning tower. Lieut. Sir John Al- salon and Bethlehem after the' • , principal mosque in the city contains knives for scraping off old paint;1 for the chassis and black fur the body. We thought it would be lees difficult time aemic. ! capture by General Allenby's foecee. to make a presentable job than if dif- the tombs of Shadrach aid Abeclnego, where necessary, thin -blades, casetercet colors were used. Otte reeeon Heat, Dust and Insects. knives, steel wool far removing Mrs. Egan, who is the wife of First we took the ear apart, mum- Tast, fur our success, I think, was due to. and paint, and sandpaper. 1 the facet that we used the best tutu -1 Maurice F. Egan, former U.S. Mini - 'Mobile paint to be obtained. Good! ster to Denmark, knows Mesopotamia ing the top, mud guards and feeders! paint has a guarantee of service be -1 thoroughly, knows eon:Maine under from the body, and the body from the, hind it, and is the cheapest in the end.' , which the British have worked, knows chassis. The body was put on a pair! The first coat was rubbed on th-or-' the obstacles they have encountered, of trusses in the garage, and the! oughly, and allowed to harden about!! ,She was in Bagdad with General chassis pushed outside to clean. The; !four days. It was very hard and dry; Maude and with Min at the now fain - fenders and mud guards were taken when the second coat was applied. As ous dinner when the general drank apart so that every particle of rust the weather was dear and warm, it i' the cup of courtesy from which he could be removed. It is useless to, hardened qtalealy. When the second ; died. . try to make paint stick long to a coat had dried there was not much! "To begin with," said Mrs. Eeen, rusted -surface, and once begun it pays gloss to it, but it had covered uP ,"the heat is terrific. For eight to do a thorough job; smoothly all the scratches and in-, months of the year a temperature of The fenders and wheels were the equalities of the body. A thbal coat' 110 is considered (mai by the nativee, only parts that had any water used in was applied to the chassis, fenders,! for •very often 1:30 is the mercury's cleaning; all the rest was dry cleaned, and mud guards. Wherever a tap' registration. Sun belmele and spine These were first washed with a.uto-, was removed the threads Were daubed. pads are worn by all the soldiers, 519 mobile soap, then• with clean Neater,' with paint before putting on the tap' of whom died from the effects of the and allowed to dry. The knives and to hold it tight. !heat last season. steel wool were used to remove the About four days after the painting'. "just as the terrible heal le abating rust and chipped paint, after whieh eves all done the entire ear War. given! the dust comma a fine, peuetratieg, ir- the surfaces were smoothed down two coats of a high-grade 'varnish., Halting dust that resemblee Fuller's first with coarse and then with fine; This gave it a fine glossy appearance , earth. It gets into (meat eyes, grinds sandpaper. The grease about the' which has helped greatly in proem,- ' its way into one's shin, permeates " h every nook and cranny, until every steady fire, meting in the blaze of star leyn and Lieut. N', A. C. Crutchley . shells or reddening, thraugh the drift were eta' within. Commander Gadsal of smoke, watched the whole great was vitae to the tower outside. Lieut. enterprise from the moment when it Alkali was stunned by the shock. burg in (Mat to its ultimate triumph. Lieut. Crete/dee- shenuezi through the ant sueeess. slit le the commander, and receiving "The planning and eeeratiou of no aeswer. rang fee port engine full that suerees had been entrusted by speed astern. to help the swineang Viee-Admiral Sir Robert Kee ee to ship. By this time she was lying at Commodore Hubert Lynes, who tiaa , an =ail* Of about 40 degrees to the reeled the previous attempt to block pier and seemed to be hard and fast, the harbor with th" Sirius and pan- ' so it was inmeseible to living her fur - liana Upon that mansion a emu- !tiler erouna. binatien of unforeseen and unforeeee-; ea:rum working the engines :ante eale eentlitioes had foaght against minute. Lieut. Crutchley gave the him. Surprise Perfect. "Upon this. the main problem was 1“ secure the effete! of a surprise at- teek upon an enemy who was clearly. fan; his aseertainea aleposiiiens ex.- ; Struck by the necessity cif coming peeling him. The and Brilliant ! at once to the rescue of Belgium, in had 'him baffled by the displacement her now desperate plight, the Belgian of the Strom Bank buoy. whieh Relief Committee in Canada have de - mark; the ehannel to the harbor en-, cided that the best way to help is to order te clear the engine room and abandon ,hip. according to the pro- geamme previously laid down." Belgian Children Without Bread Mance. But elate!, then aerial recon- take meter their Care chola David's Tower, while Meshach also is said to be bur - "Our first point of interest," he ied there, though the place of his in- . says, "watt David's Tower, whieh torment at forgotten. There is also I believe, the oldest tower in Jena, Kerkuk a strong colony of Jews, salem. We visited an Armenian; who claim to be the children of the monastery Showing two plaees where; captivity of Nebuchadnezzar. St. Peter was warming himself, a piece of original mosaie pavement cock that crowed stood. After this FRANCE AIMS Af and a piece of a 'pillar on which the we went into the room in wheal the; Last Supper was held, with pillar_! and arches, so that except for it, be-! BIG WHEAT CROP ing on the upper fluor it did not 1 — agree with my childish imagination.' . . „ , :LNI.SED LANDS EXPECrED TO I was told One interesting thing, and' that was that the directions given' HELP RELIEVE SCARCITY. by Jesus to his Disciples to find the 1 — room were very definite, because in 1 this country no man ever carried ' Plan to Take Agriculturists From the water unless much carrying htia to I be clone, it always being done by the! Army is Favored Though Not women, so that when they Were told; Possible Just Yet. to look for and follow a man bearing! a piteher of water there would prole! No economic subject is of more im- . t the French than that of pot naiesancee had established that Ger- Belgium; for this purpose the follow- ably he only one man doing it. • wheat and bread. Crop conditions mails had removed the buoy alto- mg two courses will ba followed. gether, and that there were now no 1. Establishment in Brussels of a guidirig marks! of any kind. They had Canadian Bureau, This bureau will also cut gaps in the piers as a. pre-. be administered by Mr. 13aetens, a eaution against a landing, and, fur- member of the Commission for Relief titer. when towarde midnight on in Belgium, who will look specially Thursday, the Alps moved from their after the numerous orphans of Bele anchorage, it was known that some glum, whose condition beggars de - nine German destroyers were out and . scription. Charity will be given in the were at large upon the coast. , name of Canada and iu this way Can - Night Favorable. , adian donations will not lose their "The solution of the problem is best identity, iudieated by the chronicle of events. ' 2. Active help to the thousands of it e as a night that promised well for little Belgian children who have so the enterprise --nearly windless—and suffered from privations as to have what little breeee stirred came from a their health critically impaired. These point or AO tr-2St of north. The sky children are taken out of Belgium was letaci blue, faintly star -dotted, with into Holland, Switzerland and France, no meon and a still sea for small where they are looked after under the meta meter launches and coastal mo- supervision of Mr. Berryer, Minister f the Interior of Belgium to whom Garden of Gethsemane. have much to do with the tempera - "We wandered out to a portion of meet of the French workman and rep- tile old wall from which we looked italist alike. across the Valley Kedron to the The French are doubtless the great - Mount of Olives, and the Garden of est eaters on earth, and this means Gethsemane." he goes on, "This gar- wheat bread, and white if they can den is disillusioning, for now it is get it, which at the present time they made up in neat paths and flower cannot. It is said that the only towns beds, whieh is not what I pictured, It in France where white bread still has eight cypresses and some very old exists are those in which British and olive trees in it, one being said to be American troops are quartered. an original one, and is surrounded by Senator Fagot of the invaded De- n wall. It is quite small and at first partment of the Ardennes, a big scale one does not notice it, for one's eye farmer himself, has given to the pub- is attracted to the large triangular lie some remarkable observations re - garden above with a huge, and to me, cently on the state of the wheat pos- unsightly, ehurch in it. This proves sibilities of France of the future. to be the Russian Church, which was Frankly he admits climatological and built as near to the garden ae pos- sible." wheels was cut with gasoline and ! ing the paint and le aim g . cumstanees of the moment may not THE SACKING OF LOUVAIN. allow this, but demands that the pro- ject should have more consideration than it has had up to now. Changes Wrought by War. A veritable revolution in the pro- cesses of French agriculture is certain if France is to bring back her wheat crop from thirty-eight or forty mil - one is nearly insane. Then comes the rain and everything turns. to mud. "In addition there are the Insects, Brand Whitlock Describes Desiree- the best-known and most deadly of Hon and Murder by Germans. which is the sand fly, a villainous lit- tle beast which inoculates its victim Brand Whitlock, former I.Tnited States ambassador, says in a recent die• article that some of the scenes he has Difficulties Beset British. been familiar with in Belgium simplyma ! 'nation.Those who "At the outset the British encoun- lion quintaux to something more than read his description of Louvain's fate tered great obstacles because of the app double. Argentinian and American will understand his point of view. lack of transportation faciles. But and Australian crops are keeping the "All over the city the soldiers be- I have always been of the opinion that Frenchman supplied with his daily gan firing wildly at the facades of no other nation could have done bet - bread at present, but with the data- the closed houses; the people Tan to , ter. A hurry call was sent out to the culties of transport and other econo- their cellars in terror; the soldiers little river steamers, like those that mic conditions the bread is gettMg beat in the doors, turned the people' navigate the Thames, and eleven darker and darker every day from into the street, shot them down, set' started from that one river, but only fire to the houses. There were rider- ! five reached the Tigris. Six had their less horses galloping about; a mad,! backs broken by the heavy seas, Other a blind, demonaie rage seemed to !boats canie from the Nilo and other have laid hold on the Germans, ztnd , Macre until 000 miles of communiea- •h thestreets kill- tion by boat had been established." meteorological elements which arebe- Hie addition of other ingredients. yond the power of man to control, and tor b..,atA, N't lime? work was done class Butter is the natural accessory of mod - inshore, the Canadian donations will be sent At Samson's Home. for this reason all the eltill of the bread, though tate French never eat "Faze the tlestieger served direct. "On arriving at the home of Sam- ure -len it eon con - ted to beat bread and butter as Amerce -es do. inventor should be teoxeaid• velso the eommodore fer a flagship the re- ! We need not dwell on bow urgently son," the officer says in another let- /!t All the same, for the average person they we one from death, the cry "20 Days the squalid native village with a! . . morning breakfast roll. Now it too is turieg ancl massacring, and for three' men from England, Mrs. Sagan talked it was the accompaniment of the ing, slaying, burning and looting, tor-! As an example.of the bravery of the He proposes three salient proce- ! acreage, increase the quantity of farm! !labor, either manual labor or tractors,1 cooking, in these establishments. It and increase the quantity and eft}- 1 lbas gone the way of soft cheeses. I eiency pf fertilizers used. It is still to be found in the shops, =tinder of the reeve were visible only funcle are requited to Base these htt e ter. "I could rt :a help contra ;ding let -;editions, as silhouettes of blackness ---the de- stroyers looming like eruisere in - darkness, the motor beats like dee' Please send contributions to Central stroyers, and the coastal motor boats Relief Committee, 50 St. Peter Street, showing tilt -met -Ives ai, racing hillocks aloeteeal Flax Seed Production. Bread" ' eloquent enough. of foam. ---a--- I Melding fol. Goal. "Erten Dunkirk a sudden brief The Colonial Secretary has request- ed that publicity be given to the fact of a pillar about two feet in diameter flurry of ganfiee annouaeed that Ger- that an arrangement has now been in one of the narrow streets, as if be- . . made with the Wayland Company of longing to some prehistoric period. "It is quite possible for las to in- mate airplanes were about. They were actually on the way to visit Winnipeg to carry out the British This is probably one of some Greek crease our wheat lands in France, as his lump of sugar, but he may not or - Calais, and over the invieible coast of Government's programme for flax temple Or even of a church of the Cru- suitable soil in quantity is still uncut- der it in a restaurant, not even as a ° seed cultivation in Canada. It is re- seders, for many traces of the Greek tivated. Driven from my own region hors d'ceuvre, of which it usually Flanders the summer lightning f restietts artillery rose and fell mono- presented that the present situation temples are being unearthed, one piece by the invaders, I have not been able formed a part. tonously. 'There's the Vindictive, ' in Russia and the greatly increased of mosaic of beautiful design and col- to learn what might be done there in The same bread ration of the re - Muffled seamen and marine:, etanding national demand for aeroplane fabric or in particular having been unearth- this respect, but I have taken the op-Istaurant-100 grammes if your meal by torpedo -tube= and guns tuened at make it essential that every effort ed. This one is supposed to have a portunity of studying other regions of : costs six francs, about a dollar at that name to gaze at the great black should be put forth to increase the representation of our Patron Saint, our belle France. I have seen vast , the present exchange—is supposed to ship eeen mistily through the smell- cultivation of flax within the British St. George, and at present it is not de- wheat lands, which for obvious pee-! melee possible under the present dila- ing smoke from the rleetroyere' full" Empire, Great importance is attach- cicled whether it will go to Australia, sent day reasons are left uneultivat- i cult conditions of revitaillement giv. tells, plodding silently to her goal and ed by the War Office to the success of whose pone, claim to have found it or ed, but I have not seen any fallow'; ing every house dweller his regular end. Pholographe had made familiar Colanel Wayland's efforts to the end to the British Museum. I hope the land which has not been turned over; 300 grammes a day. The war has that, high -elided profile, her tall fun- that the cultivation of flax seed in. former 1 -awe it, as it is only fair that in an effort to produce some sort of a brought many changes in habits, but vele with Zeebruggee scare, always Canada receive all possible AM and the young countries who have fought crop where cultivation had been prac- none more notable than this !in bread - few dirty inhabitants to the palace as depicted in the opera, `Samson and Deliah.' I can conceive him pull- ing down any part of the village to- day, but. not the huge marble pillars, as was supposed. Yet all things are possible, and I eertamly saw t a. says in part: . Big Increase Possible. lures to accomplish this: Increase the h 1 tl d taurant terrible days the vast and awful! of General Townshend's feat of hold- " !absent from t e e an res ; mg his own for 143 days and then table and allowed to be used only for tragedy_ was enacted, "The people were assembled in ; surrendering, not to the Turks, but to tragic, groups between the tottering! starvation. At the time of the sur - walls of burning houses; marched • render, she said, the men, those from through choking, suffocating streets !England and those from India, wept that were strewn with Lhe dead bodies: like children because they were not of men and of horses, the women and' permitted to resist, although they children weeping, screaming, implor.! were so weak they had to be carried ing, and the soldiers compdling them away to walk with their hands up, or gate- When Mrs. Egan went Lo Bagdad, ing them kneel, or run, or kicking General Maude met her as she step - them, or striking them with theira ped from the boat. Mrs. Egan said fists or with the butts of their guns, • the general was the meet incletatig- herdiug them through the greets, in able worker she ever had known. the midst of the smoking ruins; while Ono day he said to Mrs, Egan: other soldiers, with wine bottles under "How would you like to see the chil- their arms, went reeling past, crying dren of Israel who are descended from out at the captives: Mud! Scheweiul left -overs of Babylonian captivity Schweinhundr play `Hamlet'?" "Sounds complicated, "And so, for another clay and an- but interesting," replied Mrs. Egan. other night the madness went on, the "Let's go." murder, the looting, the sacking, the "The room in which the play was riot and the burning and the lust; given," said tales. Egan, "watt the most with soldiers pillaging the houses, wonderful I have looked upon. Every - bearing the \vine in great baskets out where concealing the walls were beau - of the cellars, to be guzzled in the Maul Turkish carpets, the flagging street, while men and women and was covered with therm rich and col - children were shot down and their orful, with bright lights hanging in bodies left to lie in gutters, or on the festoons across the rooms to bring out the colors. The guests were attired in brilliant colors. The gala attire and decoration had been ordered as a When a cake of soap is worn near- terriabiuneted tforoGmenaetrtaelndMitli;elaci,i yttiti•ilino,re - When , at ly !thin enough to ',reale stick it to the which he would be lionized. UOW cake by putting both in quite wenn water, then press firmly toge- ther, When cold it will be one solid "The general and I were conducted cake. This does away with small to a seat at the head of the Teem and pieces of soap and there is no waste, a small table placed before us, with ...eater...ease the customary pot of coffee and two mugs of milk upon it." Mrs, Egan drank the coffee black, but General 1VIatele took tip the mug of milk and ! His own personal views are worthy' , as are the cheeses. The argument in all French farmers' consideration. Ile' as s home feeder will have at at itis disposi- tion, and if he likes he may take a pat of it to his restaurant, as he does ilan of rationing is that the with the background of the pier , ea1a care from the fanners concerned, In D"ver agal" which she 'AY ''° "a' the present circumstances the produe- fittzel•for her last Melt. Nor was add- Hort of flax seed is regarded as of oat:, her the environment of night and equal importance with that of wheat eee end the greatness of the tragedy atrA• 1 V cereal. ef lite mission. - In Smulze Screen, I &Iiik is the chief food for lime. It "eine receded into the night astern, is much richer in this than other com- as a destroyee racer' on to lay a light mon foals, one cupful of milk contain - buoy that War to be her guide, and ing six and a quarter times as much these ori board saw her nn more. She lime as one egg and twenty-one times peeeed thence into. the hands of the as much lime as two slices of bread. small craft iellope mission was to Lime in food is particularly needed by realde hal' ir. baa violas of a smehe children because it builds hone and levee% • teeth._ A little is also needed for the "After lee! ararei ;tete detriolietuel blood and other parts of the bodyi for us should have some relies of the tised before. eating France. "It is probable that Lille uncultivat- ed land is less favorable to wheat growing than the other, which is al- ready growing grain, and this is per- haps the chief criticism, But all the same these lands should be put into seed as soon as possible, in the near future at any rate," As for the question of -farm labor, the authority is of the opinion that as many farmer soldiers as possible should be demobiliZed to aid the wo- men and the old :folks, who are large- ly responsible for such wheat crops as are being grown. He admits that etre past, and surely we have enough.' Valley of the Tigris. Six hundred miles to the east an- other British column is pressing its way up the valley of the regale to- wards Mosul, by the ruins of ancient Nineveh. Here was the palace of Sennaeherib and the reputed tomb of Jonah, with all that these names mean in the history of the world. , These hot, dusty lands have had few visitors in modern times except men • bent on scientific missions seeking to uncover the past and bring memen- wr fra co it ma. 430 If+ i.oa ) Ni • Tom You WE Doter WANT I alter PilOiet"TO Oar IN DAD /401el LISTEN. You coMt RlaelT ALONG, Ill w WILL Esla GLAD -to HAve you FOR DINNER flovo.1 You FELLOWS! MAKE. a(OURSEtsfES matt AT tiOtaaa- ! 11).L'i-rHE WIPE YOU'ate L'ai_4ff ." - Our Common Task. Now no man's loss is private; we share all. Oh, each of us a soldier stands to- day Put to the proof and summoned to the One eitwillone faith; one peril! Hearts, alostbewIllig when the hour is darkest! Come The et may, The soul in u is found, and shall not smoking ruins, or thrown into foul cesspools," bUT H6.51,14570, THEY'RE NoT F'HseN, ANY 41.1) 110116 WIL°L P -MAI DO YouTHINkT1i1S MAce 15, A NOIR'. THAT YOU CAN BRING A ri.oCK Or YoURPRiatIPS IN AT Awl OLC. TIMM' IN Nor PREPARED ewcerfAt tz.b•NiN'T .AY BOIS, t dUass '1041. HAve TO EXCUSE. 'file, wife TH1,5 EVeNING, SHE'S SICK IN tieD AND olnk MAO LEFT VEaTaRDIal, bWFUI aSs1 0P.124". ,•0•00.0.1 “..i,110 "....0*.... 1'. 0000, er ,00.000,01100 0 1 .100 000 tai poured a little coffee into it and in forty-eight home he was dead," There had been an epidemic of a mild term of cholera in the city, hut the form that attacked the general was so virelent in mffure that emin- ent physicians have given it as their opinion that such a severe attack could not have resulted from ordinnry contact with a receptacle that had been in naO, Mra. Eg.111 said that this epidemic has been enlarged upon and so distorted that historians tho present day have the general arleing in all his 6 feet 3 of splendid inan•• hood and dramatically lifting the glass on WO, crying, "If any ono must die, let it be II" Mrs, Egan said nothing of this ItInd occurred, aid there was no thought in the general's mind that the mug e# villa had beon tampered with.