The Clinton News Record, 1918-8-29, Page 3BRITISH ADVANCE i NEW DRIVE
CAPTURING TOWN OF ALBERT
Germans Are retreating Front
Pressed by Victorious. Al:ln
Section to South of Arras Hard.,
les of Field Marshall Haig.
A despatch from the British Army
in France Saye; --There Was fierce
fighting on Thursday along a large
section of the Vi•itish front, to the
south of Arras," virtually trough to
the River Somme.
Again the British ha'l'e been victori-
ous, The battle meth of .he Ancl'a
heavy lighting continslea,
Qn the northern half of the battle.
fi'o t the British stormed' the enemy
positions and captured them, Millets
1 ing terrible losses on the enemy, They
then pushed eastward at various
points. They occupied Ilainelincourt
trench, well to the east of the em -
raged all day long, while ten thou- bankment, and• were reaching out
sand yards to the , south 'another similarly at other points, ,at the same'
British force, which crossed the. Aucre time beating down desperate attacks
during the night and opened an at- launched by the enemy in an effort to
tack at.daybreak, was driven steadily regain bis valuable lost positions.
into the enemypositions on the high s Albert is a town in the department
ground between. Bray -sus -Somme and of Somme, 18' miles north-east of
Albert and had already eapttred a Amiens, It is situated on the Anere
thousand prisoners, River and is se railroad centre. Be- 0
The Germans are retreating from fore the war it had a population of
the section'between the two points more than 7,000.
where the British armies are hammer- Albert• has been the scbne of some
ing them and where they are threat- desperate fighting and in the recent
ened With being left in a pocket. The British drive the town was surround -
town of Albert has fallen into the ed on three sides by the armies of
hands' of thh--B.r)tieh, who are press- Field Marshall Haig, the villag@ f
ing the enemy hard. Avelny on the north and Meaulte on
Along the Arras -Albert railway ern- the loath having been reached by
"'' bankment and on both sides of it _them.
Markets of the World
Breadstuffs,
ltoroato, Aug. 27.—Manitoba Wheat
i --In store, Fort William, nominal (in-
cluding 21/ao tax); No. "1 northern,
No. 3 northern, .
$2171; No. $18.00 to $19.00• select hogs ori' cars GERMANS DO NOT
eat $2 10
$2.231/x; No, 2 northern, $2;20r/z•
Montreal, Aug. 27. --Choice, steers,
$10.00 to $10.50; good steers, $8.50
to $10.00 choice butcher cows, $9.00
to $9.50; good cows, 38.00 to $9.00.;
canners, 3 50 to $6.00; butcher bulls,
$8.00 to $9'50, according to quality;
canners, ..6.50 to 37.60; milk -fed cal-'
ves,00 to $1fi, 00; grass-fed, $7, 00
to $8.56; sheep, $12:00; choice lambs, THE DRUM AND THE Bol'
GER.MANS RET AT RAPIDLY, BEFORE
THIRD AND TT FRNC. ARMIES
General Man& and GeneralHumbert Capture Thousands .of.
Prisoners and Great Qufintities of 'Trophies,
A deepatolt front the French Army
in 'ranee says; --The retreat o1 the
Germans before bops the 'Third and
Tenth French eimilea contilated' on
Thursday, with increased speed, ester''
a largo part of filo battlefront, and in
eons° erica 111' disorder, ,
General Mangle's men are approach
ing the Oouey forest thud are noarlysen
the lino held In April aloe g the Rivet'
Ailette, They have alio widened thole
hold op the Oise to liretigny, midway
between Noyon,and Chauny, been taken since Worllleeclay evening
The Frontal advance towards tbe' and trophies in such great quoutitlos
reads leadhtg Ito' Oltauny adds another that it has been imposaiblo then far
menace to thou' lino of retirement, mid to count them also have boob can.
explains the acceleration of the tared.
enemy's retreat. 13ourgiguon, St. Paul- General 1'langiu'a smogs, advanced
l•aux•13oia and Quincy fell ]iiia the hand seven guiles during the night and
ot the ]Preneli ori Thursday, giving thio ittorning were rushing the enemy's
thein command of the valley of the rearguard so energetically ,that the
Ailette•'from the region of Couey.le- retiring columns were throwlt into
Chateau to the Oise, confusion.
Oeuorel Humbert's:troope also a're
!n'easing the 0110n»y vlgourcuelyi 'Lev -
leg occupied the height of, Plentont,
Just seiner of Isassigny, which t11ey
surrounded on Wednesday, they have
captured 'l'hleseourt, which oontpletee
the cottcluost of the group of 1)111s
known ata the Thtoseourt Musser. ',Che
enemy now have but. a preca:lotte
11o1(1 on the valley of the Divette
River, in which the Freud' cavalry is
uoiv operating,
Several thcueand 'prisoners have
CANADIANS SUFFER HOWC ASSEURS
10,482 CASUALTIES TOOK �.SSIGNY
130 Officers and 1,474 Men Have Gallantly Stormed Devitte Wood
Been Killed in Action. and Drove Out the Enemy.
.__---__-- -- A despatch from Ottawa says:— A despatch from the ii'reneh Army
Manitoba Oats—In store, Port Wil-
liam, No, 2 C,W,, 92%c: No, 3 C.
W., 88�'ac; extra No. 1 feed 88s/4c; No,
1 feed, 843.4c.
American Corn—No. 8 yellow, kiln
11 $19.50 to $20,00; sows $17,50 to Power of Music on Character of An
$18.00; roughs and heavies down to
$16.00.
A TYPICAL GERMAN
An Officer—But Not a Gentleman,
wOntario Wheat—No. 2, 32.22, basis Was This Prussian
in store, Montreal. In writing of the battle of Vimy
Ontario Oats -New crop, No. 2 Ridge, Lieut. Andrew M. Naismith
re to
--N
white, N -Ni alNo.. 3, 7(i to 77c. describes an incident that suggests the
Baena],sort -.of autocratic domination that
Barley --Nett' crop, malting, $1,43
to 31.05. the military caste of Germany seek
Ontario Flour—Winter, in new bags, to impose upon the world. About
prompt shipment, was quality, 310,85, two hundred and fifty Germans were
Montreal, prompt shipment.
Peas—Nominal.
Buckwheat—Nominal.
Hay—Track, Toronto, No. 1, $18 to
captured, he says—typical infantry-
men who had been through the usual
Prussian trainin
g, and a handful of
$19; mixed, $16 to $17, Straw— officers. When I had a chance I went
Car . to look he '
t mover.
lots , 8 to , 8.
Millfeed Car lots, delivered, Monet- It was mess time; they had just
real freights, begs included: Bran, started to issue he bully beef and bis -
per ton; 335; shorts, $40. cuit. First they came to one of the
$10 Manit ba Flour — War quality, officers, who 'looked like imperial5,
Prussia incarnate. He took his share
readily enough, but when he saw it
was the same food that his men were
getting, he threw it into the mud,
"Give me something better!" he
said insolently. As a result, he had
nothing. A few hours later I saw
him again. His hunger was begin-
ning to get the better of him. An-
other ration was being given to his
men, and he was getting nothing.
What did he do?
He went to a private and held out
his hand. •
"Give me that!" he demanded.
•rPhe soldier obediently passed over
his food.
The officer turned to another man.
"Give me thatl" he said.
He got what he demanded,and put
it into his pocket for, future emer-
gency. Facing a third, he demanded
and received his rations also; then,
turning on his heel, he went away to
fill up on other men's food.
TAKE OVER QUEBEC BRIDGE
WITHIN A FEW DAYS
A despatch front Ottawa says:—
Severe tests made of the Quebec
Bridge on Wednesday are regarded
by the Railway Department as very
satisfactory, The .bridge will be
formally taken over by the Govern-
ment with in. a few days,
For the past six months the Rail-
way Department has been operating
trains over the bridge. Wednesday's
test was regarded, however, _ asthe
severe to which- the bridge could be
put.
• Outcast Child
That wonderful/worker among the
outcast children of England, the late
Dr, Barnardo, once wrote a most in-
teresting letter, in reply to the ques-
tions of the editor of a musical journ-
al concerning the use of music in th
Bernardo Homes. Music is, he wrote
to the undeveloped souls of thos
children of poverty, misery and trim
what bread is to their starved bodies
As $b its effect on charattter, Dr.Bar
nardo told this story:
One of the very roughest lads I eve
had, a boy who was perpetually get
ting into hot water, and whose glor
it was that he could fight—and often
"li "
ek'—his master, t provided ed
a rad
iant example of the power of »Tusf0
XPECT TO WIN
Prisoners Captured by Cana-
dians, Though of Splendid
e Physique, Lack Morale.
e A despatch from the Canadian
e Army in'the Field, says:—It is prpper,
to make. a brief record of the remark.
- able work being done by the Intern-
'
gence Branch of the Canadian force.
e Unremitting and unflagging, this
▪ great military detective force does its
y work silently and without any sort of
public recognition; but through exer-
tion
s the Canadians t
d ns rave the infinite
n ee
advantage that instead of fumbling in
' We found that he had a good ear,and
put him into a band to play a side
drum. From that moment his evi
spirit was exorcised, as indeed, in the
olden times, spirits were driven out
by music. It became the object of
his life, first, to play his drum well,
and then to learn the cornet. That
involved a self-restraint on his part
to which he had hitherto 'been a
stranger, and of course a radical
change of conduct. IIe became
steady, orderly, painstaking. Event-
ually, he was apprenticed in our
Homes to the shoemaking trade, and
he blossomed out by degrees into a
very admirable cornet player and all
round musician,
Op leaving the institutions he car-
ried with hint his altered] character
and prospered accordingly. He is
now the leader of a band in one of the
Midland counties, and, I learn, the
instructor of every bandsman on his
own instrument, Besides that,he tan
score music for every single instru-
ment in his band. A Iittle while ago
I heard that that band had been yoked
to the services of the village church,'
ancl that my quondam lad was at
once precentor and choirmaster, and
organist tho. He lately came up to
see me, and I found him a fine, well
grown fellow, married, with two
children—aid with music written all
over• his face,
"Ah, sir," he said, in the course of
our interview, " I gave you a lot
of trouble when I was young! But
it was that band that saved me."
Country Produce—Wholesale
Eggs—No. 1 candled,, 48 to 49c;
selected, new -laid, 50 to 51e; cartons,
52 to 54c.
Butter—Creamery, solids, 45c; do.,
ihrfresh • made, 46 to 47c; choice dairy
prints, 41 to 42c; ordinary dairy
prints, 38 to 40c; bakers', 16 to 38e.
Oleomargarine (best grade), 32 to 34e,
Cheese—New, large 2314, to 24c;
twins, 2874 to 242,4c; spring -made,
large, 25114, to 26c; twins, 26 to 261/c.
Beans—Canadian, prime, bushel,
$6.50 to $7.50. Foreign, hand-pick-
ed, bushel, 36,75 to 37.
-Comb Honey—Choice, 16 oz., $5 to
$5.50 per dozen; 12 oz., 33.50 to 34
per dozen; seconds and dark comb,
$2; 50 to $2:75. Bulk, 25 to 26e per
Maple Syrup—Imperial gallons.
32.25; '6 -gallon tins, $2.10 per gal-
lon. Maple sugar, per pound, 24 to
25e.
Provisions—Wholesale
Barrelled -Meats -Pickled pork, $48;
mess pork, 347.
Green Meats—Out of pickle, lc less
than smoked.•
Smoked Meats --Rolls, 32 . to 33e;
hams, medium, 38 to 39c; heavy, 80
to 31c; cooked hams, 53 to 54c• backs,
plain, 44 to 45c; .backs, boneless, 48
to 49c. Breakfast bacon, 40 to 41c.
Cottage rolls, 35 to 36c.
Dry Salted Meats—Long clears, in
tons, 30e; in eases, 301.4e; clear bellies,
28 to 28%c; fat backs, 25c.
Lard --Pure, tierces, 3036 to 31c;
tubs, 3034 to 3134e; nails, 31. to 31%4c;
prints, 82 to 321/ac,•Shonteni:-g, tierces,
26, to 26%c; tubs, 26 1/4 to 26%c;
pails, 2654 to 27c; 1 -lb, prints, 27x4
Montreal Itiarkkets
,fr{ Montreal. -Aug. 27.—Oats--Cana-
tan Western, No. 2, 31.02 to $1.03;
extra No. J. feed, 99c to 31.00, Flour
—New standard grade, 310.95 to
311.05. Rolled oats—Bags, 90 lbs.
35.20 to 35.30. Bran, 335.00. Shorts,
$40.00. Mquillie, 367.00, Hay—
No. 2, per ton, car lots, 315.00 to
$15,50,
Live Stock ,Markets
Toronto, Aug, 27.—Extra choice
heavy steers 315.60 to 316.25; choice
heavy steers, 314.50 to 315.00; but-
chers' cattle, choice; -$13.25 to 318.75;
do„ good, 312.00 to 812.50 do,
medium, $10,75 to 311,00; clo, com-
mon, 39.00 to 310,00; butchers' hulls,
choice, 311 ,.00 to 311.25; do, medium
bulls, $10.25 to $10.60; do. rough
• bulls, $7.50 to $8.50; butchers' cows,
choice,. 310.25 to 31.0,50; do, good; i
39.25 to $9,50; do, medium, 38.25 to
$8.75; do common, 37.25 to 38.00;
stockers, $11.00 to 310,50; feeders,
•310.50 to 311.00; canners and cut-
ters, $5.50 to $6.50• milkers, good
to choice, 390.00 to $125,00; do. tom, 1
and elects..$65 00 to 876.00; springers,
890,00 to $1.25.00; light owes, $1.3.00
t6 $15,00; yearlings, $15,00 to $16.00;
spring iambs, 20t%s 16 213bc; calvea,
hood to choice, 313,50 to $17.25; hogs,
fed and watered, 319.60; do, weighed 1
off cars, 319.75.
ITALIANS HARVESTED GRAIN
UNDER FIRE OF THE ENEMY
A despatch from Washington says:
—Itailian soldiers and civilians have
suceeedecn in harvesting the grain on
the right bank of the Piave River,
under fire of the enemy, according to
official reports from Rome, The'
entire district was swept, while the'
harvesters worked, by the enemy's
.Artillery fire.
20,000 AUSTRIANS,
2,500 BRITISH LOST
6
A despatch from London soys:.—
Austriat losses on the 'British front)
n Italy between June 15 and August'.
15 were 20,000, according to' advices.
received here, British eavuelties in
the same period totalled 2,500, it is
said.
00,000 PIIISO.NERS
SINCE JULY 181
A despatch rronn Paris says:—'.7he'
Allied armies have taken more 'than,
00,000 prisoners since July 18, soya'
Marcel Rutin in The Echo de Paris.
i
the dark, it can walk straight in the
'light of day.
l ; Since August, 8, the exact number
1 of enemy divisions identified by the
allied armies on the Amiens-Montdid-
ier front approaches forty witit,the
addition of "milked" battalions from
another division.
1 Of these divisions some eighteen
have been drawn from German re.
serves. The fourth" army, with
which the Canadian Corps Is incor
1porated, alone has captured prisoners
from twenty-six divisions.
While there is no doubt. that the
enemy resist our advance in some:
parts of the field with great bravery,'
!there is yet a marked depreciation of.
I his morals as compared with that of
!prisoners captured earlier in the year.
The belief seems• prevalent both
among his officers and men thater-
many cannot win the war.
Since then' French offensive of the
Marne it has been brought hone to
1 them that American troops in large
1 numbers have given a very good ac-
count of themselves on the battle-,
field and that thus the U-boat cam-• g
paign has failed. Nevertheless,.the
physique of prisoners in extraordin-
arily good. It is their moral resis-
tance that 'is sapped.
Hon. Martin Burrell, Acting Minister on ,the Oise, says: --Tho fall of Las.
of Militia, in a /relent statement• to signy at noon on Wednesday followed
the Canadian Press, referred to the five days of incessant fighting in the
recent Canadian offensive: I trenches of the old positions - Which
"Since the first of August," said; were abandoned by the Germans in
the Minister, "the Canadians have, March, 1917. Grenades, mine -throw -
marked their entry into the fifth year ers and all. other means of trench
of the war by achievements which warfare tamer again into play, and
have confirmed the reputation of the l
hand-to-hand fighting took place fro.
Canadian corps as the meat formid quently,
able fighting force of its size on the, The Germans -made a stout stand in
Western battlefront, The recent Devitte wood, which bristled with ma -
advance made by .our men has been i chine guns and made an almost int
important fn its results and brilliant pregnable position. A battalion of
in execution. In the past three I the famous Cha�sseurs; however,
weeks they have captured 10,000 psis-, stormed the wood and took ft yester-
oners, 150 guns, and. thosuancls of day morning, thereby sealing• the fate
brief period they have suffered 10 482 of Lassigny.
s s in ci ec, wounded and Masseurs,
missing, 130 officers and 9.,474 inc
1
having „
vn been ki l
e n
1 ed n action n
machine gans.During this same
' br ung e 1 11 1 While the officer commanding the
at the head
of his
men
n and -with a rifle •he his hand, led thein
-.._ to the surnneit of the height to the
east of Lessignv pad_ pleated 'the
p 002 RECRUITS
French flag t11er•e, an infantry regi -
9 UI1°S ntent, advancing. from Plessier-de-
a Roye, turned the famous Plemont
AUGUSAUGUSTTO 15 height to tete north.
T 1 Thus Lassigny not only had fallen,
but its poesession by the French was
Casualties Were 1,436, IA Per made secure by the encircling of a
strong position from which the Ger-
Fit ,. spans plight have delivered counter -
Again in 6 Months. attacks,
A despatch from Ottawa says:—A In the fighting at close quarters,
net gain to the Canadian Expedition- hardnd while the Germans i >s were pressing
ary Force of 1,115 recruits is shown in at one point in superior num-
the recruiting figures for the eriod bers, a French lieutenant fell while
p directing his men. The men were
between August 1 and 15, given 'out determined not to allow the body of
by the Militia Department. The total the lieutenant to fall into the hands
number of recruits secured in Canada, of the enemy- They had exhausted
the United States and England was all their rifle and machine gun am
4,002, while the total wastage report- munitions and grenades,
ed was 2,887. It is estimated that With nothing else to fight with
45 par cent. of the casualties will they grabbed the picks used for dig -
within a period of six months. be fit ging trenches and drove back the
fo 1
r genera service, I'Germlxns until the body of the ]ieu-
For the period mentioned enlist -1 tenant could be recovered.
mints in Canada numbered 8,144; in:Most of the fighting around Las
the United States 849, and in England signy was in stifling weather, and
The wastage of 2,887 men includ- men were seen in the trenches strip-
ed overseas casualties to the number ped to the waist throwing hand gre-
of 1,436, nailes and working the machine guns.
To Prance --e---
To
0 daughter of the morning! on thY If I should know the joy
brow That lies before,
mmor•tal be the lilies thou hast won! If I could open now
ternal be thy station in the sun, The future's door
]tat shines not on a splendor such And count the treasure waiting there
for me,
General Gouraud has asked that the
Cross of the Legion of Honor be
given to sixty volunteers who held 1
advanced posts along the line east of E
Rheims until the Germans were upon T
them.
Consumption
Ont.
art°
Quebec
Novo
Scotty
Alberta
as thou] How dull, how hard, how long
To -day's set' tasks would bel
A strength is thine beyond the ar-
ProddctiotJi mored prow,
1 And past dominion of the lance and
guns
Tho' now thou stand, as battle
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consumption of coal in Canada put into concrete form. I env can the
'evasion of distribution be solved'?
If I should know what tears
Would blind my eyes,
tliundels stun, If I could read just note
Heroic,on the fields that cannonplowThe stormy skies
,
Triumph be thine, 0 beautiful and To -morrow's dawn may usher in for
dear! me,
Whose cause is one with Freedom and To -day would lose the light
her name. Of its felicity.
The armies of the night devise thee
wrong,
But on thy helm the star of Truth is
clear,
And Truth shall conquer, tho' thy
.cities flame,
And -morning break, tho' note the
night is strongl
Mother
Whenever I look in her ]rind eyes
.1 think of the wide still sky,
Where the breath of God lilt°
beauty lies
And the clouds are sailing by.
Whenever her care -worn face I see,
Or feel her lips on mine,
I thinkof the tears she has stied for
me,
Silently, 'without sign.
Whenever she holds me to her breast
To still the aching pain,
My heart i$ lulled to a perfect rest,
And—T am a child again! -
i know not—yet I know;
The future's veil
Is kindly to my eyes,
With joy I hail
Whatever Life sends down the path
to me
Because I know so well
Both smiles and tears shall be
The best, the very best; if.aweet,
If bitter or if tasteless prove
The portion I must quaff,
Sererie`I onward move
Sustained by trust no doubt can mar
That all will priceless prove.
•CZECHS IN SUCCESSFUL
ATTACK IIN THE VOSGES
A despatch from Washington says:
—Czecho-Slovak troops in France
have participated in a successful at-
tack<txgalnst German positions in the
Vosges, according to a despatch to
ceived on Thursday at the headquar-
ters here of the Czecho-Slovak Na -
ono cane•
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to 1 C 1.
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µHI'Ll11NQ THE WAR BLIND
Suiprlaringly Numua Are Ute ()con.
pot•tions''stat Can 13o Entered
Recent experience has taught that
mon blinded on the battlefield liter-
ally have to learnt to -live their lives
anew,
!'hey aro taught typewriting—net
as an occupation, but to enable thein
to cemmuiticate ideas through a me-
dium other than .speech, The hand -
Writing of a blind man rapidly dete-
riorates ---as of course, ]night he ex-
pected,
Itis lmportant to give the blinded
soldier as many points of contact with
his fellow being as possible. As for
the typewriter, one should remember
that the inarument was originally in.
vented to enable persons blind from
infancy to write—an art which would
otherwise be impossible for them to
acquire,
The tnost important problem is. to
enable the blinded soldier to earn ax
livelihood, He labors under a very
aeriaus handicap, but it may be over-
come. Most of the men thus afflicted
are taught cobbling, They do very
well at it, L1 six or seven months a
blinded man can learn to sole and heel
a pair of shoes as well as anybody.
Other employments usefully avail-
able for the blind are basket making,
rug and carpet weaving, chairmaking,
brushmaking and joinery, They are
not taught to be all-around joiners,
hut to make small furniture, corner
cupboards, teatrays, ornamental ta-
bles and the like,
Learning is greatly accelerated by
the employment of blind teachers,The
more intelligent and apt of the blind
pupils are retained in the military
schools as instructors; and it is easy
to imagine how stimulating• it must
be to a newly blinded man to find his
first fumbling efforts directed by a
teacher Who himself was blinded on,
rite battlefield a few months pre-
vioueiy,
Poultry farming has proved
surprisingly successful as a pursuit
for the blind. Sightless soldiers are
taught the business on practical and
up-to-date lines,
For those blinded soldiers who are
of the highest intelligence and best
educated, three occupations are pre-
ferred. One of them is massagework
(greatly in demand at the military
hospitals), at which they prove ac-
tually more efficient than "sighted"
operatives, The second is telephone
operating. The third is shorthand
and typewriting.,
This last might seem to be for the
blind an impossible kind of work,But
it is accomplished by the help of an
itigenions little machine that takes°
down the Braille raised -point script
in a contracted form at a speed com-
parable to that of an ordinarily clever
stenographer. Blinded soldiers ac-
quire the art with 'really remarkable
rapidity, soon attaining a speed of
more than 100 words a minute.
NEW USE FOR THE TELEGRAPH
How the Turks Regarded This Wes-
tern Invention
When Western civilization first -be-
gan to make its way into the Otton-
man Empire, it`provoked some very
interesting reactions upon the Orient-
al mind. One story that Sir William
Whitton tells in Turkish Stories and
Parables shows how unquestioningly
even the wisest of the Turks attri-
buted the triumphs of Western inven-
tion to magic or diabalism.
During the Crimean- War, says Sir •
Williams the fihst Telegraph was es-
tablished in Turkey. This wonderful
invention created tremendous aston-
ishment among the Turks, who were
quite unable to understain its work-
ings. _ Among the more intelligent
the discussions were not concerning
tho scientific principles that lay be-
hind it, but whether it was good or a
bac] thing for humanity.
To solve the question it was at last
decided to have a full debate by the
ulama of the province of Synnrna,over
which at that time a very wise old
mullah presided. The meeting • was
held, and fierce was the contention.
Half of the ulema declared that the
telegraph was'a.good thing, because
it quickened communication; the other
half asserted that it could not be
good, because it was an invention of
the devil.
There seemed to be no way of ar-
riving at a conclusion, when some of
theTurks perceived that their chief,
the old mullah, had not yet express-
ed an opinion. Both parties, there.
fore, eagerly pressed him for his view
on the subject and agreed to abide by
his 'decision, The old mullah replied:
"My children, the telegraph is a
good thing."
"What?" said the conservatives in-
dignantly, "Do you mean that it is
not a work of the devil?"
"Oh, yes," replied the old man.
"Assuredly itis a work of his; but why
are yon so dull of understanding, my
children? Can't you see that, 11 the
devil is occupied going up and down
the wires with each message sent,he
will have less time to trouble us mor.-
tags on earth below?"
All the ulema acknowledged the
wisdom of their chief.
Those Who Know Us Best
The world may publish all our faults,
And magnify the sauce,
May gloat o'er all our failures,
And vilify our nano;
While any virtue we may havo
Will prove a stranger guest,
Except to those few golden hearts,
Who seem to know us best,
How sad is all the worldly strife,
When fame and honor clash;
When purest principles aro made
Subservient to cub:
And what a struggle life ovottld be
0 By evil tongues possessed,
Were not for a few true frieuda
Who seem to know us best.
When all the ups and down,) of life
Are histories of tho past,
And we are called before the Bar
Of that Great .fudge at last,
'Phare may appear to 'Vouch for us,
The plead for Heaven's rest,
A few of those thee -honored friend(
Who seem] to know us best,