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A SERBIA WR»Elt'S"" GLOWING
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Great Britain's Sera Power tli
Soul of Resistance
to Germany. ,
Tho following eloquent tribes e,,,t_
England, moving in itteeekeisicin of
the :dee) faith which the smaller
nationalities have in our country, and,
inspiring in its incontiye.to°aot'',•'in
the present according to„the tradition
of a great past; is from -the pares/Lew
Serbian writer, Mr, Lhuare• Kossovac,
and has been contributed„ to the -de
ficial Serbisle j urnal,"5'amouprava
The French, pt egple„lero. silent; het
it . is xemar ricalel that when these
northern- men begin to speak t e
aro more" eloquent-thanwe "off t e
southe—M•ors eloquent- Lie-Macaula
thee,Mirabeau, and Carlylethen.,Re-
e4, drid Gladstone;"tk%an )12azzipi,,,As
s ,rho c'hrkl northern. •mists,.pressed
uPRA
.tee.mouth, their , ,thoughts come
to„theetongue and leo back •from'the
tongue •;'gain unexpected:, Englishmen
orearise silent- and thoughtful ” "Never
wits" this lelend more' "ellen£ ; `inure
thoughtful, or meee-besi than A i$
aces "The'' Wee 7tQs gee—in—to tl e, whsle
of Gi'eat ,Britain a; solemn aspect,. Ag
I stepped, upon _Britieh,•soil at Folke-
stone,, I felt as though I had .elrtered
Westminster Abbey. ••All this' island
is transformed• into •'an• abbey; 'every'
man is silent; thbuehtful' and busy:
•• Determination.Increased ,.
'In the Daidanellee
e h.ia" s”.'have fivegrea
t *ire;
gone down. Ia the smith -
ern lands such lessee would. cause
Englishmen to become only more sil-
ent,-thou•ghtfal and busy:- In the
Atlantic there was committed the
'asuperman" crime of the Lusitania;
which silos- other vast sarcopleggus
wale7txid"on tlrerflbdr'of•t11e deep. But
in England, as the news arrives, lips
are only pressed more -tightly, the
brain.ismore intensely concentrated,
and.-teske- are-..mora-bravel3r..,seized.
The Zeppelins make daily competition
with -thew brothers the -submarines in
the` destruction of private property
and of unarmed end 5 neeent people.
At 'home -poisonous -bombe -may-fall
from' airships, while poisonous gases
choles tlle_heeuec leen.-in the- trenches.
Day by day appear the long columns
of .killed .and w'ound'ed.• But the
granite,island is silent,, thoughtful
and busy. Thus" it makes answer to
all'oaMamity. "
Roiling the Waves. '
The English have to -day a veritable
sea dominion from. Pole to •Pole.. , If
their duty to the allies' was to free
the••waters,they have done that duty
.To -,clay a,Serbiareeen em-
bark at SaImlike, and travel through
Suez to the Antipodes, around the
globe and back througe.Gibraltar••to
Salonika again. During the whole
journey he well- 'travel upon the
friendly English green sea -fields, Eng-
lish pewee, upon the waters was never
realited in -such measure -and so ef-
fectiefely as"ioef: ' 'Never' wasthere
in history.. pon-land'such power' -as
the ,Bnglish,pre exercising, now, upon
the 'seas. , You will say, "The 'waters
are :onIy''a' Iiigh'veert teething 'mare."
No,, the waters are more than a high-
way: '
ighway:' Tlieerrepresent 'niheetenths of
the -quest- strategic • positions; •whieh,
teepee, to, these, Britons; are now in
our liossessione. but which, without
thesi "Britons;"had"certainly been in
German hands.' ' - •• •
Can't Be S'theeed."
A leee• liigliwey ed the sea preserves
the allies from •"starvation, • makes
possible the transport of men and
Munitions, and transforms transforms what
would be otherwise widely -scattered
parts Into. a -Weil -knit and inseparable
whole. Imagine if it were not so;
imagn e-if•-the-Gernrans-had-such clo-
minion on the waters, :Their bettle-
shilfe".Weel'd" film be at Salonika,
Kronstedf;-Vladivostock, at Naples,
Marseilles arid Odessa, at Jaffa and
who knows how many tribes and na-
tions would not now be fighting
against' us on 'the Prussian 'srde?' 'I't
is; •indeed, -our -happiness- that. :these.
nine -tenths of the best strategic posi-
tions the English-are:'holding now steed
net the Ger-Mans. • -'
•
June tend Its Battles. •
;It appears that rune stands out
conspicuously in world history as a.
Month of battles:: Henkel Hill Vies'
fought on June 17th, 1775; Napoleon
Wes defeated at Waterloo. -on June
18th, 1815. The United States decler-
ee waren Britain on June 18th, 1812.
In the Ainericaii revolution' the bat-
tle of 5ionmouth, occurred on. June
28th, 1778. The ]trench took the
Mamelon Earthworks at 'Sebastopol
on June,7th,., ,l85e,.,in the Crimean
War. ' June lith, 1545, witnessed the
Battle of Naesby=she final defeat of
Charles 1. bei-GroMweli," ,Tune -14th,
1800, was the date of Marengo. June
14th, 1807, saw the Russian over
thy.'own by Napoleon at Friedland,
June •14ti1, 1.809, Napoleon beat the
Atstrians at Reale, At Bolin,, June
1i; th, 1757, the ustrians defeated
Feederick the Great. June 28rd,
1157, Lord Clive won et Pinssey 'the
vibtory which made Great Britain'
mistress °of-Irtlia, ' and;' „deubtleso,
there ,are many, more reat battles
ushlic'lated with the moist.'
�.x
1N'TeeeeWeeK>; of 'sn,T'r•i,e.
•- • A hillside at the'eastern•ereet•aftetee Ilius ieneHarg"e fowl`nvthe deed,
,a• desperate,• attach againspobitton bald by_ti ent.
test as they -fell, who" were killed hi
, .,. ,.. ,.•t .e .
GERNYANi ,SkAl:W;ljl3, '<Oa,
,
INC ON WAR,
ANCIENT BARBERS.
•',EPIDEMICS IN RUSSIA.' '
Could •P'eril'rm O >f d?ratieta Cu ry o nt' ''
o Nob. •Fes- Feels; Less of 1?hyaicians at
milted elini;To days' ,,, a)te Front, , ,
••Ir1'•the'time of' Louis -XIV, acid' of Cdnditions'lii'It1Se5ia brought:Abele%'
Henry VIII.; says the Naw"' 'York by a .scarcity, of medical, prestitioirere
Medicel geureele h zeeeellisof dieferen- are describedan,.alt]cle.. in•,,,the
s, u
Batton wander yyay, for there were Medico]. Journall. winch ettacke•,xigor-.
Bien ]sailers, or perruquiers Kerber ously the administration of the,'Ruse
sergeons.and,.surgeons..- The barber slam •war •hospital' arrangements: '
surgeonswerie'inade•to.confine them -L "Itewas a fact wtll•7cnow]r-'in Ruse
Cyd Abeet Tt' 11luch
a
..seIve
edern
iinor•
•b
pe
rdtions -of, blood-
sia:
-
previous to
o th
eou
tbreek
of
„ . letting and drawing oftestht while n hies," the writer saYe"he e hossu
t
i
puld'B Build • t e other"hand'"the"sitteon e_ap1Yof doctors'fellfarshort'o ,the etI-
-
House, . hibieeir from" liarbery" or shaving." ,ual needs, gf the,; empire, • This , de -
Ties distinegeni has'begn broldeiedigwn ,ficlency is now, • aggravated,'.• by the
In an lni!erytgvs Title ,epriesppn: in;recent.years by.,ths,•surgeon,,, who'.eircumetance that, the••repzesentative
dent, a.`leussian„gensral..whe.fought must frequently'act.as,barber.before 'members of the"profession have been•
m the Galician battles has • -just, woe undertaking his -more,epecralized'sot- summoned• -to the •seat•bf war, while
plained the German plan of campaign ivities.- , " •i' •'••' •, • ' " 'the'doetors et 'home' 'have'abad'doned
which has resulted so successfully The barbor's.sigrrtw0 uenteeies'ago .'their ordinary tluties'to wait ;uponthe
thee- mmere ednsis'ied of 'a stfiped pole 'with;elhalf'milhoii;sick and wounded soldiers
He •said the ,Germans plan battles. basin ei se eiiijed, free rt "Both' the ;in yeripus. parts of the, interior. The
as btiiiders-plan houses:"•,A buikjer basin and thieetripeindlcated that;liso public., is. thus , compelled... . in many
gete:-together his blue prints "and
his estimates, engages; „ a',bfficient
f "w
number oorlcn and "a certain
quantity of material_ and sets tp
work.° i5b doesn'f is `to build a
bigger house than lie- has materialeer
labor for. , •.Gf•,eourse; ,aeeidents- or
bankruptcy may prevent the execu-
tion •of. bis .plan- i•, ,, .,-
Similarity the"Geinians plan that
a certain thing shall bee done,- they
bring' lib- the neeessa"ry. soloaieres and
surgical, fpnction was, of - special im-
portance, for the forer represented
th'e.seeeptacle for -blood-arid the latter
the •ribbon•for'wrapping the arm dur_
ing and after'bieedinn,• The basin leas
diitinpeeee'd'frog the sign, but the'
stri"ed,Iigle is of histozic signifieancen
places:to•preseribe for itself, and its
empirical'•'treatment; by ,no means
successful at the best of times, has
'beers Yendeted all' tits more uncertain
•why' the 'extraordinary seed, of,
. "Official reports isseed•bythe, enure -
to t e
uni-tote pean.se.piedieme,and lle,should „cipal. councils -of -Zhitamir,•Berditchef,.
humble.hiniself before,yt,as he. enters . Bialystok, Nikolief and Zvenigorodka
the: tonsorial..parlors.. ,Whether • the show ah appalling mottalitje from epi=
alternating red and white so- •often• demic diseases. Scarlet fever, small-
seen'were signtfrednt•of a white hand= pox, typhus and; typhoid are the Most,
the necessary guns, shells ..an - age;abeut A l arch we do ribt'kri3w, Put, revalent a eye, if anything,-th ra e
ry g d--bul sy _ g:
lets, with a margin for,tniscalculation; it "ihig"Ht well"have been the case, with.greaterl intensity in ;the ,coen„try:
but no more and never less.,•,• _,. 'Until, the :time of Lister doubtless, than;ip the town,; -Writing from .Vos-
They may, through accident tee. pug- , both .barker; .Asti], surgeon were, alike,
calculation, fail. But they never start ! equally„aseptic, and septic:.Then.came
fighting -on the principle of 'doing the' a separation. in.this.•resped, but more
best with the men and shells you! recently the wielder of Heg el: zei- and
To revert to the house parallel,
the house 'may ebllapse driving- con-
struction, owing to a mistake. But
the builders ;will, ,not, deeidg.,suliden-
ly that they have not enough,materi;
al and dock the house pf one storey
nor they will not abandon ate house
half- built; because of"la'ek of `work-
men or material Tliey'know what
they want to do. The battle,pjeerned
and prepared for months in advance
is a precise work:•• .• ,
An Instan"ce. - -
The whole, eastern campa gnAheWe
this. When -the •Germans won at
Tannenburg'they"plaifned the march
on - the Iower Vistula, which ended
near ';Ga"rsavv.' ' - Hardly hair they're-
treated when they -tried a new vast is ,a ,cleanser of tele outside oe. the'
and clear -cut, -operation • from:Therm booty, The„jiarller, lull] elourisll.when
When that stagnated .on.,%he. stem a the .aupgeon has . faded., under.. the,
they were prenaring,the„ battle qi:, the glare of the rising sun of sanitary and
Mazurian Lakes which was a ,}rest hygienic -knowledge, . which; by ex.:
ample, the former is even.now helping
to foster. •
nesensk,: a,• newspaper. correspondent
states' that the- Cherson • district has
experienced the enormous loss of
thirteen .hundred -.children-since_•last,
shears' is- also-. finding,.•partlyfront February.
compulsion„; 'that•••d'leahl'pees' •makes "Among adults .deaths. fromtyphns
,
himm bre• godly',sn iizs,trade' ' ,. fever, cholera and typhoid have been
While the ]larder now Amite Hie' sur- . correspondingly numerous. For this
gicej prlictice,to • •squeezing ,nut -eel mortality the peasants themselves are
black beads or: extracting bureewing � greatly to blame. Jeeviiig„ `on feed”
hairs, he on the medical, aide applies which no decent human . being can
faciat massage and attempts to 'cure 'touch, filthy in their habit's and havve
ing no conception of the simple laws
of sanitary science as practised among
peasants in more enlightened coun-
tries, the muzhike-lay.themselves-open-
to the reception of every •epidemic
that passes over the land. The -sup-
pression of the vodka has also given
seborrhea', -alopecia' and 'ringworm:
Cleanliness' inside' tied ' but is an' tee-
sential of health, and, so far as" edit
be accomplished by- external treat-
ment, the barber m
xcight, with suffi-
cient training eel the dermatologist„
who only prescribes, •
The barber,, though„ his • fees.are rise to many fatal cases of poisoning
small and his working hours long; is from methylated spirit. These evils
still working in line -with-the 'prouder are largely augmented by the removal
manipulator of the scalpel,, Ido' `the' bf' doctors from the provincial towns
latter is still -but -a"clennsee 'of" the to the military hospital's, and still
inside df the '1fbdy.` 'And the' fbemer more so by, tie ceiel'ess wanner ' "in”
'which the invalids from, Galicia are
being transported through the' coun
victory, and hardly was over when
they were sending' tireirarmies'•s'outh'
to assault,the,Dunajec'-' .,>.
"The Germans in short," said the
general, "never start fighting on the
principle "61 *5 'have •so inane> 'Meir;
so many . guns ,let us have,.a shot
e•
'Where `Round Robin"' Originated.
The•name "round-robin," given -to
at the foe and da hien as much harm a written petition or protest, and sigdl-'
as .wa-can-•with-thesemen-and"-guns.- ed by a'numt Lir of persons in' cireuinr
They_.plan the shot first,see,thetthey, form so''thee it.iitayl nbt, appear`- Who
have the men and guns to execute the 1 signed it first' is fiupposed to; ave or-
platf,'acrd'Yibhrot tdifell it 1dn Whittle [ iginated among the ancient Greeks,
from the first plainly .beyoed their ,;It later, was, used by the Romans.
stre gkh - govern-
,
The officials of the' French
-Cannot Gish-W,itole Army. %meet used • the • "round robin" in
"Thus :they never once tried ---to ,medieval' times. 'r As for - the name,
btuhthat 'is of vei+y uneertaieeelerivatiori
, "Unless the reports in the Russian
prdss are greatly exaggerated train -
'loads of men suffering from typhus
fever, smallpox, cholera, typhoid and
tither infectious -diseases pass daily
along the lines -and remain fol'' hours'
in the stations without anyattempt
being made by the authori les In. pre-
vent the spread of infection. The
great conflict has also served to bring
out in disgraceful prominence the de-
ficiencies of Russian hospital arrange-
ments for the troops-in`the
There have 'lived in •Hartlepool,
England, side by side for many years
is b ',wo s, ,rend rubaie ,a round rLUbon, of doubtful age. Their. houses were
their technical superiority and good 'buf'th'i"s is ,not• at ,allprol?ahle,,, In g '
ire not
nr isupply, they would-want,''sorde .parts of, Englend..a•,paneake .is. 'on speaking terms. ut ,the owners
storyy of how
'+Crush us by •one opera called.a round, robin; and•the•question - i
s we Wa thecircular petitiond ,their quarrel arose is safely locked in
Bomh•Rleasantries„• •• •
beyond
rheum asEven �admit•ptingi'..,.0 , say it ebmed frgm' the Fr:eneh'a cranky old bachelor 'and a spinster
tion,at leant -aa -man$+ menu have. ':ts s ' m cu Lir' tamed
their own breasts: Suffice it to say
Their way is to plan relatively small ° Lime
iiMeiations, is toe, attack only one sec- i,,Prem•'or 'did' it give the pains to rise that their mutual aversion to each
tion of our front, in the hope of de- pancake? other's sight and habit, of life has
p It' ha also iieelt' suppdsed that; the furnished manyan winning incident
stroying , this section. ,before we can ” etitidn was named r i g
p fo some person to the neighborhood.
• strengthen' it. n btheode. Tho Lime r de
"The battle of the Dun tee show 'peculiar
method_
if dealariig .,theiirine her cats and the defence of his
I'that, the enemya1 s method .'of declaring ,.their: , parrot had afforded many a
planned to take .sentiments,rand•.Ilrobin is .s••proper ..mouthedst:ene of violent outburst of loud tem-
itheee cines aid to reach the Sats. Ile .name, an old and familiar •for:it 01. per and abusive language. Then
something overed ,ng, der did not intenand d to itobert Andother eunjectnre however; came the early morninrid of; the
, m�et arras er to Lid ne, When given by Wheeler hi his Fetelliaeeeelt' German cruisers, He was just out of
lye reached thet to. Lemberg,
bierg,to ate 'fusions, has' h*e ether probability: , , his bath, enwrapped in a. towel, and
P The smell pieces, of,,ytirn a „Xnar• she had just disembarked from the
Litt part from our ettehtpfs to counter
" Lick• line first tire;iised to confitle,tha upper. deck of her our este when ci'ashl
„ edge .of,.6.. sail;to.,the..yard. o gads are neater i
Citen ,he brought up, no doubt, ;called rope -hands corrupted :b 'eai1- �. a fearful' ooin, nd Met dd the like the
if tr , chaeta of doom, and 'blit the blinding
s
operlation a an treated the ext next ;ers'to'rolitinds; or'robbins," Neve. 'a duet and falling -rubble they•wmeredege
P 'erobbin •of this•bert•gneirclrrig n'ydiid .'covered each to the other, only a few
melee as a self-contained thing, and bearg'a' ne ieile' recogh hble, "the,•rigli feet separating them, prostrate on
until it succeeded or failed he would;melee f irieieele iesen1'614 a to a, their respective floors -. £rein ...shock
dttcmntrldi more; ' Also he will not -ring inclo i a, stili'
s �, P 4i} � ex other but..otherwise unhurt, for the parts'.
attempt a modified plan. of he feels ,writing..- As 'round ...rpbins',are . ere -',tion wall between them' ,had been
too weak he -Mel ti• s retiring nee, rqueptly -spade: gae•pf: by British salsa,, blown down. Fate hatf''sa,ed '",oir
w ieh„exceeding,. to ,his, judgment,, is ,•ors, it is quite possible that this ' is
withhi t h ” byes but had' laid them 'atmos in
m s s ren
. the true origin of the name.'mice other's arms.
NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOI N
BUIL AND 'q >i'k1.OPLE.
Occurrences In the land That
Ipigas; Supreme in the', Coto•
meroiai 'World. 1.
M
ReAohdGpe: 'an.t:hrax inwhasben`rported`.Littleborough near
Post'ag'e ,$fainee of the; reign of
Qu n Vite were not valid after
95 end M theoris month.
The ondon Board'of'frade fig-
urea for .Juno show an iperease in
impeits ':el $89,180,000.
Three Chester magistrates are
working during their spare hours pro -
diming munitions of war. ': '
y'. Women workingon railways are sex•Reg'iment who; were Bort erly,'
,epee peadtnitted to:membership of the stationed foe a time in the town, but.
National Union okelseelevaymen. aro now on active service' in the, Dare
Iiellietl`lela }water famine has setdandles:
'n •and-twor-'ammunition-wbrks"haye`1` The Rt Wm Towler;, eingsley,,
had to close down Awing, to;a,scareity who was rooter of South Kensington,
of water,. Q. >•d.CNorth Yek ksefee, elpe&,18551.haeejust
At, Spalding ,a.ssumber• of•boy#s;feoso •celebrated the. 0Oth ar ev re . of
the ..Grammar,•,•Sc1Yoo4 are ^to•'atilizo �'tfis blit]], ,.,,,1"is fatl?el<!.,W#4s pewee.their' ',holidays "by -assisting" ia'imeet et'Zfaterloo:asan•armysurgeon. ••i
east farmers iii'lialvosting hay or
cern.• a b d ,4, M•
Mount •Felix, Walton -on -Thames, a
mansion standing `iil pilitureeque'
grounds obs"rloeliing°'fhe` Iver;"as be-
ing fitted up asa hospital for the
reception df wounded' Nee ''ealand
soldiers,' ' ' ••
Coiiiplete lho♦or..cony menet
ing vans, lorries cycle aro, to
be equipjied by the. No end Derby
Miners• and Colliery f .ers and pre-
sented .,to the -War fiAce for, use ,at
the front, e. • +,. ,
Banbury, residents have purchased
an X -Ray •;apparetus"for••the'•I:et 'E's
with the harvest. Order fo}, rL en'
s :•of;Over.60'unnap?aizedGermae, A;, wool mens shits andpants
per.
rested'the pastBirmingham,, extent]; have, been. .placed shy' the', War
trays , beety,sept,,,ttethe internment. Oflice; with ]]lessee ,Mgsley'a, the bps -
camp at; Cheshire: ' •+aery..manufaeturers of•I'7ottingh-in
am,
Efforts. are being • made et ^Hull to•I preparation for '
i p P tht3 coriiiug wmtiei``
raise, volunteer aviator eorps,for t e. taxripaigii
•
'defence of ' the nertheast coast A very mterestip?' ' S th o d' n.
Ze el`a
raids' "-
g._.g9_ r ,}.his
Zeppelin e
r
soiialit"`
"s-
• .P a s d
'�lt aw
Y.
ie
Lie h
A'field�kitchen'"witha cob an .bar- .101styear in the
d death of Mrs. Mary
nese comple£e ;is,behng sent "out from, •Adkins._of .:Brixton, who „=was„ born
Work, ing, .Surrey, .to the Belgian'sol-• •three months . before the battle of
diers in. the trenches Waterloo, and `echo lived in'six reigns
The British Government has 'del and remernbored fgur' coronations.
bided that it 'can»ot inti
creaks' 'eto'd'
pay compensatiori for losses at seA"Remarkable Achievement.
due to the actioh of the enemy The story of how ,the'British Army..
The Earl of Granard, who . was at the" feat hue's' suppliedk
with black.
Master of the Horse in 1907, has net respirators inside three days is
been appointed a Knight Greed,, now being, told' ineloedon 'wholesale
Crose of the Royal"Victorien Order "steady c]relesee en instance of,:wha;
The London„(Royal; :Free Hospital) ."can 6e done industry by British indust ender
School Of Medicine for Womenis to -rho stimulus of a little "push and go.” t
be enlerged,at•a cost of $150,000, of Ten or',twekve°'days'rwas•the"'answer, i
which 470,00 has already been' sub= given to the War Office when that De-
scribed. • I pertinent" Brit "inquirpd"as ' to. 'When
The borough 'surveyor,'medical offi- a delivery of. plain ;black net. to the re-
cer, and manager of the electric sight i;quired amount -the exact figures can -
works, connected with the Vuneaton,inot be divulged, 'but thee'are enorm-
Town Council have been ,released for•.ous-cmild"'be' made' It' Was then
Military. duties.. -- that ;tlfe"`dp'ush end, go". policy. was Put g
Dr, Charters Symonds, -the".well- to the test. A certain person was a
known consulting surgeon to 'Guy's "given carte blanche; and in a few
Hospital, has left England for Malta;" h urs.he-had •bought up alT'available
to minister to the' wounded e soldiers` ;stocks of plain net, and arranged with n
and bailors there' : elthe dyers to .give the 'net 'thus pur-
• Oawestry:Town Council has deeid-•,.chased: he nece'esary.•blackness. 'fie h
ed to oppose a scheme proposed by material was dyed, 'dried, and de-
the-SaIoli comity Council for 'the 'ere ,,spatched to London by passenger' v
P p ckages
' wei bed pearl
ha' a
g
If a
y torn a e
Surbito a and th
n Urb n Council. ,
has. �re-
A Jiiiiiese trafden
In the warmth of all, A»ri1• sunshin 1
a cherry tree spread •its boughs over'
a f6Yin;teif5' Linda pathway and ix einigay,
bush in a Japanese garden, and cObl. ,r
shadoWs felt oyer' the °pathway allyl'
the; f eeentain, and the rosebush, awhio ., ,
grew near the 'cherry tree, '
A mats "and a maid' walked'hand in
hand, ,down the. itath,way and sat o,i
en old stone bench, by the fountain
and they whispered to each other of
a love: that would never die. i
The• rosebush•heard the music of
their voices, and to it was recalled the
necromancy of a perished, a long fel-
gotten passion-bf co'dntless bridals in
the dim ages- of the •past.
And the cherry. tree awoke from its
slumber and recalled days when it,
too, had livedih'.,epmely."bodisseeted:'.'
liad,foved."and: had been loved, and' it:,
blossomed when it heard the tale the
lovers told'whi§peringly. ' a••
A red 'thee- came into- sbud-on•••the('
rosebush, and it whispered to the•'sofe • •
wind, and the 'wmd wlnspered to the
cherry tree' of the love. that wife: 'Ai'
the heart ,of„theered••roset...
J. Stones• which lay by the side of
the pathway and the little carved ism
.aages of the Bubbha and of Dai-Donyo
'whispered and. gossiped of the love,
.of the ose forathe-cherry"tree'-'of the.
passion that was an -,the heart of :the
flower-eand ,;the cherry," .•,bl'ossoms
blushed at the sensualness of the
message thee.they• heard: •
Elves,played in' 'the garden, and
their elfin -flutes were attuned to the
melodies fn til' Hearts "of the red nose
and the eherrytree. -'"
LoveYs went td the'gbiet places of
the garden and sat under the cherry
'tree n ""i•ed
a d the res"
ii e.
Y
Spring assed into summer,- summer
P gP
su m
into winter; •an l many""springtimes-- "•
came anti lengthened -,into summer-
days,
ummer
days, which -waxed and waned with
lentor inexpressible; •
Days unnumbered passed and lov-
ei's, bent and gray and singly and in
pairs, went out of the garden into
he cobble -paved "street-einto Etern-
ty and the Crucible, :wherein ,go the
good and the evil that men do' and
fFom •which, the great God takes the
good and builds it into the smile of
wise siren who go-• to • Nirvana; into.
At-Onement with the Infinite.
Decay's effacing,fingers touched the
arden where Love had been reborn
nd cradled. •
Rosebush, 'cherrytree, stone bench,
fountain -all dissolved and were seen
o more. '
But the song that had been:. in the
hmeet of the red rose lived, and from
the•petals' which had fallen to reju-
enating. Earth was born the Spirit
of Love; and from the stone wherein
as the heart of the cherry sprang
maiden whose lips were'red and
whose blush was like the blush of the
cherry blossom. 0.
The Spirit of Love saw her' and
knew her; and memories of days long
ead came baok to him, and he wooed
he cherry maid with words and with
ongs that told' Of beautiful and
the young limbs to be loved.
And the' Spirit of Life throbbed in
the pulse of his wings, and he threw
off his fairy garments and lived, re-
incarnated, to love and to hold in his
arms the maid who was a cherry bloi-
soni when he, was a rose,.
ection ata cost' "oi $100,00'0' 0.14e train within. a•, few; hourseef-getting
isolation hos ital.'' ' the work, ' Sonic of the a
eeived two tattered- and worn' British
coat of carriage 'is said to ,have run;
flags, found on woundedsoidiers;'sena,into'hundreds of "pounds.., Arran e- .
by Serge W. Christman, ., a former menta had been meanwhile made in
member of the Council. London for the rnanufa"cedes of the re-
1]
spirators; and„as.fast as the net Was
received it was made up.. • In .that
way•the••men at the front were equip=
ped against, poisonous . gas within
The Kingston -on -Thames Battalion
'of the 'Surrey Volunteer 'Training
Corps has offered to furnish men, up
to 100 in number, if required to as-
e
• - -' three days.
(IT'S, A FOOD)
The consumption Of CitDairy , ice...Cream C,rea., is in-
creasing
y y .bel ikl-
creasing every seasen. The lociitdealer has riot the ` '
facilities, - besides he 'mak es so little that he cannon
turn out a unlfor n' ei Crean'.' biscriminatin shu•
• ]teepees," everywhere are selling City : hasty, Ice
Cream' insteadof their ,own make, and their Ifatron-
age . is increasing because • City DairyIce' Cresol' is
better and the quality is uniform
,
We want en Agent in every town.
,
THE BRITISH ARMY.
•Frenchman's Praise of the "Tom-
mies” 'and Officers. '
•A French correspbiident who has
•bean fora •short, time:witlythe. British •
Force in France,writes in warm praise
61 the "Tommies" in general and of
• 'their officers.' The halting place was •
',inn locality which is nof'out of reach
of,German guns, and in, spite of the
havoc caused )ey,the enemy.there is,
he notes, &revi}al.of life and activity.
in the devastated district. Numbers
'of women' and girIs, he remarks, .
whose dwellings havebeen burnt, and
who axg.without work, eying to the „__
destruction of factories, aro employed
'by the British troops es laundresses.
They wash, iron and mend the under,-
linen
nderlinen of spleiers 'andegrateful• 16 be
,thus enabled tp'earn thole living. The
discipline -Mid-insatiable good -humor
,of; the British soldiers are described
as admirable by this 'French" observer,
who else greatly admires the aim-
'pli0ity and urbanity of the .British
General he ni'et whilst in; the clis-
'teitt.• Little children, he saws, were.
not intimidated by his presence. On
the. contraryj-barefooted-urchins, went
straight' up 'to him, making the mils- "
tary salute at a hint that 'a foe sweet-
meats"were"expeoted:- The little -lads
with a kindly word from the General
went -away, -their hands full,. of -.cakes-.•
end chocolate, kept in reserve by the
excellent:"'Tole hies" for children of
the poor;` The Petit Parisien's Cor-'
respondent• remarks that in speaking
about the Germans one heard no ex•
cited language from the British. "Oh,
't'hey are a despicable race," is the ver -
diet with which they are dismissed, as
unworthy' of .a loyal soldier's atten-,
,tion. From 'a military standpoint,
,however,"there was ho attempt td un-
derrate the value of the enemy,. but
•in alluding to their barbarousmeth.
ods of carrying on the war n General
remneked; "It not war;. it is simply.
rtegassination,"
There's one thing to be tail abort
;the bartender -you never hear hint
bragg;ng abqUer the week lie is °elaipg:
Every year about 1,800 men and
bees nre,lddllod in the collieries. of' the
'
,;united H:ingdom,, while about 170,000
Mei injured badly :enough to 'aitiblu'
them fo+ over seven days.
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