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CHRIST/IN FLANDERS
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We had forgotten -1k a or very nearly,
You did not seem to touch us very nearly.
Of course we thought about You now and then,,
Especially in any time of trouble,
We knew that You were good in time of trouble,
But we are very ordinary men.
And there were always other things to think of;
There's lots of things a man has got to think of -
His work, his home, his pleasure, and his 'wife;
And so we only thought of You on Sunday,
Sometimes, perhaps, not even on a Sunday,
Because there's always lots to fill one's life.
And -all the while, in' street or lane or byway,
In country lane, in city street or byway,
You walked among us and we did not see.
Your feet were bleeding as You walked our pavements.
How did we miss Your footprints on our pavements?
Can there be other folk as blind as 'we?.
Now we remember over here in Flanders
(It isn't strange to think of You In Flanders);
This hideous warfare seems to make things clear.
We never thought about You much in England,
But now that we are far away from England
We have no doubts, we know that Youare here.
Yeti helped us p. es the jest along the trenches,
Where in cold; blood we waited in the trenches
You touched its ribaldry and made it Ane.
You stood beside us in our pain and weakness,
We're glad to think You understand our }weakness,
Somehow it seems to help us not to whine.
We think about You kneeling in, the garden,
Ah, dodl the,egony of that dread garden;
We know You prayed for us upon the cross;
If anything could make us glad to bear it,
'Twould be the knowledge that You willed to bear it,
Pain—death-the uttermost of human loss.
Though we forgot You, You will not _forget us;
We feel so sure that You will not forget us,
But stay with us until this dream is past;
And so we ask for courage, strength, and pardon,
Especially, I think, we ask for pardon,
And that You'll stand beside us to the last.
—London Spectator.
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GREAT BRITAIN' IS
A VAST ARSENAL
THERE ARE 4,000 CONTROLLED
MUNITION PLANTS.
High Tide of Output For War Pur-
poses Not Yet
Reached.
The enormous stride made by Greed
Britain toward solving the problem of
munitions was made clear fn the
Constipation
51m bane of old ase
is not to be cured
by harsh purga-
tives; they -rather
aggravate the
troable. For a gentle, '1
but sure laxative, use
Chamberlain's Stomach
and Liver Tablets, They
stir up the liver, tone the
nerves and freshen the
stomach and bowels just
like an internal bath.
Woman's best fi lend.
From girlhood to o d ago:
these little red health re-
storers are an unfailing
guide to anactivelivorand
j' a clean, healthy. normal
stomach. Telco a
Chamberlain's Stomach
Tablet at night and the
sour stomach and fer-
mentation, and the
•t 1, headache, have all
gone by morning.
All druggists, 25c.,
or by mail from
3,tt
Otenherlain Medicine
Company, Torantst:
T ere i6 a
Cod ay ot$irng
Who not prepare for it'by
ordering your winter supply'
of Lehigh Valley Coal. Nom
better in the world.
Geese Phone 1.
Unice Phone 40.
A. J. HOLLOWAY
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OF .- a•�4in ®L.
a,
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/ just as they me -"in their in-
door play, or at their cancer
play—they are constantly .,f -
tering temptattous fur -hs•
KODAK
Let it keep, them for you as
they are nose.
Let it keep many other hap.
penings that are a source of
pleasuro to you.
BROWNIES, $2 TO $12;
EODAUS, $7 TO $25.
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Also ful'l stock of Films and
Supplies, Wo do Developing
and Printing. Remember the
place;
THE
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LLS
H AToR
lem, and In two or three months they
produced .a height finder which gave
rapidly and exactly the height of a,
Zeppelin.' It is an importantdiscovery,
but the problem is only 0110 of hun
dreds which are continually cropping
THE SITUATION IN GERMANY.
By Chas M. Bice, Denver, Colorado.
Much /depends upon the outcome of
the "great drive" now in progress' on
the various war fronts, not only as
concerns the Gorman military force,
but in the political' Affairs of Ger-
many.
It is difficult for any people at war
to cope with politics and the ambi-
tions of the diplomatic force; and we
find that Grmany is now divided in
her foreign; policies.
If reports are true that escape the
German censors, there le formed in
that country an alliance between Lib-
erals, Socialists and Catholics for the
first time in history These are sup-
porting Chenceiler hollweg hi his
opposition to the submarine naval
policy, formerly pursued by 'Admiral
von Tirpitz, backed by Conservatives
Agrarian , element which demands
that aggressive submarine warfare
to be Germany's only hope to win. Of
course, .this policywould annul the
Teuton promise to the. United States
and would doubtless embroil the, re-
public in the European conflict, "But
what is that to a nation that can dis-
regard treaties when they stand in
the way of whist she considers her
military necessities?
As tineexcuse for this policy of pir-
acy it is urged that Germany made
the promise to the U. S. to cease
this barbarous form of warfare only
upon the condition that the U. S.
should exact the recognition of in-
ternational law and rights' of Great
Britain on the seas, which it is claim-
ed has not been done.
The leader of the Conservative -
Agrarian element is former Admiral
von Tirpitz, who resigned his posi-
tion when forced by Hollweg to sub-
mit to the American demand.
The strenuousness of the situation
has forced Hollweg to organize a
publicity campaign in which he is to
go through the principal cities of
Germany personally and explain his
policy. It ie claimed that this has
been made necessary especially since
the defeat of the German navy in
the North Sea battle—the truth of
which is just becoming known to the
people.
The Chancellor's attitude towards
peace and ,its essentials will be fully
explained , o the people in this whirl-
wind spedch-maki-ng campaign.
Of course, he expects Germany to
win, or at least he will pretend to
believe it, for any other attitude
would menace his office as Chancel-
lor, 'tvhich'is the next highest official
position to that of the Kaiser. •
But he is opposed to any notion of
territorial aggrandizement at the
expense of either France, Belgium or
Russia; and the strangest thing
about his policy is that he is desirous
of retaining British friendship after
the war.
He is antagonistic to any proposal
that would interfere with such an
understanding with Great Britain, for
ho has in view a fraternal combina-
tion or working agreement between
Germany, Britain and the United
States, and this is why he has work-
ed so persistently to avoid •a break
with Washington.
We all recognize his position, of
Chancellor as one of supreme im-
portance, carrying with it responsi-
bility for
esponsi-bility"for imperial acts and policies to
a large extent,' and it has been sur-
mizbd that possibly the Kaiser him-
self is back of the course he is pur
suing,
Ills prerogatives are so far reach-
ing that a .change In the Chancellor
at this time would be interpreted by
the German people as .a rebuff to the
Kaiser, and might involve radical
changes' not only in the foreign office,
but in every department of adminis-
tration of internal affairs, so that
any new incumbent of the office
would mean opposition to the wishes
of the Kaiser himself.
If the allies should • continue to
win, as they have since "the drive"
began, the Chancellor may find it
hard to make any impression favor
able to his policies, upon the German
people,. and a crisis is liable to be
precipitated in Germany similar to
that which France witnessed in 1871.
The Entente powers are watching
events with keen interest, and stand
to gain in any event.
Denver, July 31st, 1916.
BY WAY OF ILLUSTRATION.
Defendant Shows How He Pushed
Complainant.
It happened in the court room dur-
ing the trial of a husky young man
who was charged with assault and
battery.
Ttlronghout an especially severe
cross-e::amination the defendant
stoutly maintained that he• had mere-
ly peelied the plaintiff "a little bit."
"Well, about how hard?" queried
the prosecutor.
"Oh, 'just a little bit,'" responded
the defendant' -
"Now," said 'the attorney, "for the
benefit of the Judge and the jury, you
course of a speech recently delivered
by Is. Kellaway, Parliamentary secre-
tary to Dr. Addison (Parliamentary
Secretary to the. Ministry of Muni.
tions), Mr. Kellaway said the most
prominent fact of the war was that the
price of victory was unlimited muni-
tions,
unitions, says a London correspondent.
"The British army in the early days,"
he said, "was so out+munitioned that
the British soldier ought to have been
beaten before the fighting began. But
he proved' that he was a better fighting
man than the German. What he lack-
ed in munitions he made up In devil,
in initiative, and in endurance.
"I do not think anything that Ger-
many has ever done equals the work
this country has accomplished in the
way of industrial organization during
the last twelve months. Great Britain!,
which has throughout been the treas.
my of the Allies, has now become their
armoris, There are now scattered up
and down the country some 4,000 con-
trolled firers producing munitions of
war.
"The vast majority of these previous
to the war never produced a gun, a
shell or a cartridge • yet in ten
months the Ministry of Munitions has
obtained from these firms a number of
shells greater than the total produc-
tion of all the Government arsenals
and great armament shops in existence
at the commencement of the war,
Increase dF Arsenals.
"Speakingan.,the house of Commons
last year Mr. Lloyd George startled the
country by saying that eleven new ar-
senals had been provided, To -day, not
eleven, but ninety arsenals have been
built or adapted. Our weekly output
of .303 cartridge is greater by millions
than our annual output before the war.
There is a certain machine gun being
produced by the hundred every week
in a factory ordered, planned and b It
during the past twelve months. Th
output of guns and howitzers has ih-
creased by several hundred per cent.
"We are not yet at the frill flood of
our output of guns and shell. If the
Germans cannot be driven home other-
wise, our army will have such a sup-
ply of guns that the limbers will touch
each other ina continuous line from
the Somme to the sea. France, Rus -1
�
sin and Italy have been supplied by or
through Great Britain with many of
the most important munitions of war.
Many thousands of tone of .steel have
been and are being sent to France.
"Our Contribution toward the equip-
ment of the Belgian array has been
continuous, and the Serbian army has
been reequipped• and restored to a
magnifieient fighting force very largely
by the workshops and workers of the
United Kingdomn.
"The labor situation has been to a
considerable extent saved by our wo-
men. There were 184,000 women en
gaged in war industries in 1914. To-
day there are 643,000, The total num-
ber of war workers in 1914 was 1,198,-
000. it has now increased to 8,500,000.
There aro 471 different munition Mo-
uses upon which women are now en-
gaged. The women of Prance are do-
ing wonders in munition making, batt
our women•,ntunition workers beat the
world,"
Work of the Scientists.
Referring to glass Mr. Kellaway
said :
"The problem facing the Govern-
went is, first, to discover the forn'lula
of glasses, and having discovered it,"to
establish the industry. It is fortunate
that in this crisis we have available a
few scientific men who have been -
working for years `almost without re-
-cognition, and we have also institu-
tions suchas the ISnperial College at
South Kensington and the Na:.ona1
Physical Laboratory at Toddington.
The Government went to these men
and asked them to discover the feaml-
ula used by the Germans in their pro-
duction of optical and ,chemical glass.
"These British seientisis, after a few
weeks' experiments, disco :eyed many
of the formulae, and it '].sn became
possible to , begin manufacture en. a
commercial scale. The result was that
within a year after the outbreak of the
war the anima of optical glass in this country was multiplied icer and nt half
tines, It has now increased to four'•
teen times the output Previous to the
war, and there is good ground for say
• inn that by the end of the year it will
' have Multiplied twenty -told.
"The Ministry of Munitions has, befit
03' is building, housing aeconamoda-
tions for 60,000 persons, and canteens
and Alcon rooms 1r1 munition- works!
now provide decent accommodation,
W1101.0 500,000 workers take their ideals
every day,
"For a long time our antiaircraft
gunners have, been crying out for an.
improved Ileiiiht finder for Zeppelins,
the existing height finders being slow,
clumsy and having a margin of error
of huluh'6as of feet. Yoe will realize
how that bansilaappecl our panniers in
their attempt to bring down Zeppelins.
"Throe men set to work on the piob '
SUEZ EXPEDITION
A TURK DISASTER
GERMANS DID NOTHING
HELP TIIEIR ALLIES.
TO
Ottoman Troops. Mostly in Rags and
Nearly Out of Medical
1 Stores,
A neutral who saw . the prepara-
tietis for the recent German -Turkish
attack on the Suns Canal In .Egypt,
which the British 'repulsed, describes
them in the London Times as fol•
lows l
"The expedition was carefully
planned and executed. It was a
Movement on which the Turks placed
great store. The preparations for it
were made even more carefully than
tot the expedition hist year, When
the attack was' being planned the
whole country was overrun with
Germane and the Bagdad Railway
wits Mated to Its uttermost.
"One of the most striking features
Was that the Germane never frater-
nized in the slightest degree with the
Turks, The German soldiers wake
well clothed and well fed; their com-
missariat was run along Prussian
lines and the men wanted for noth-
ing, The Germans had plenty of
Medical stores and doctors; but with
their unfortunate allies it Was differ-
ent.
In a Desperate Plight.
"Their stores were always low, and
they had almost entirely run out of
drugs and medical necessities. In this
respect they still are in a 'desperate
plight. The Germans did nothing to
help them, either with stores or with
men." Their two systems of supplies
are run on entirely separate lines.
"The Turkish troops are in strange
contrast with the Prussians. Many
of them are in rags, without any
semblance of uniform. They are pro-
vided with a good aluminum water
bottle covered with felt. Their rifles
also are good, but many of the men
are without boots and some without
headgear. The majority, however,
wore a cloth helmet, with string to
tie it under the chin, said to have
been designed by Enver Pasha and
called Enver.
"In camp the Germans and Turks
might have been on the opposite side,'
of the earth as far as any communi-
cation between the two was concern-
ed. The Germans strongly discoun-
tenanced any attempts at familiarity.
Conditions in Syria.
The writer says the condition . of
the people of Syria is past all be-
lief. Many hangings ' have taken
place. They are not exactly hangings,
for the victim is suspended with his
toes barely touching a stool, which he
often kicks -from under him.
It is estimated that 80,000 to 80,-
000 have died from starvation in this.
country. The people who are deport-
ed are made to give up their belong-
ings. The Turkish Government then
sells the land and promises them sim-
ilar allotments in the north or in An-
gora, They are then sent to Sivas or
some similar town, where they find
the Government has done with then.
In some villayets there is no Arab
spealcing Christian left.
This neutral says that one of the
good works of the American Red
Cross was clearing Serbia of typhus
as far as humanly possible. The Ger-
mans did not help, he says, but wait-
ed until the Americans had accom-
plished things and then settled.
REMARKABLE CONSCIENCE.
Memory of Stealing an Apple Any.
thing But Pleasant.
A little knowledge, one recalls, is
a dangerous thing. So, too, may be
an apple which you may have inno-
cently purloined in your earliest
years. It may cause you to feel the
prick of conscience for many decades.
That, at least, has been the experi-
ence of an Edinburgh denizen. Once,
in the remote and shadowy past, he
took that which was not his—to wit,
one apple --from a stand in the Cow-
gate. The fruit was enjoyed, but the
memory of the furtive meal proved;
to be anything but pleasant. The
consumer left the Scottish capital and
in time Fate carried him across the
Atlantic. Fresh scenes and activities
engaged him, but the thought of that
apple clogged him everywhere. He
might have been a second Eve. At
last his overloaded conscience could
bear the strain no longer. Nothing
short of written confession to the
Lord Provost of Edinburgh would
appease the gnawing at his heart, So
—40 years after the dark deed had
been done—the letter was written and
conscience money to the extent of one
dollar paid.
Russia Prosperous.
Russia is said to be the only war-
ring nation whose people are actually
growing more prosperous during the
conflict, prohibition answering for
part of the change and the forced de-
velopment .of new industries explain+'
tag the rest of it.
GET RID OF HUMORS
AND AVOID SICKNESS
Humors in the blood eauQo inter-
nal derangements that affect the}
}whole system, as well as p1nmhlot
boils and other Sruptions, run( ere
responsible for the readiness Witi?
W eh many peepio eontraet diseaff ,
or forty years Hood's Sarsa,:ptc
villa has been more suggoessful theft
.)any other medicine f expelith ''
humors and removing their inward
and outward elects, Got hood's,
Ne other medicine acts like it.
TURKEY DESIRES
SEP II '. ATE PEACE
INFLUENTIAL OTTOMANS AND
BULGARIANS HAVE SOUND -
+D THE ALLIES.
A -despatch from Rome says: Ro.
parts are coming from east, wast,
north and south concerning efforts b
Turkey and Bulgaria to snake a se':
Ontoteace with he allies, Ho
p
ever, the papers warn the public nets
to put too much faith in such minors
as, while there it a grain of truth in
them, the Governments of theee court.
tries Nave taken no steps to that end,
The fact seems to be that certain in=
fiuontial persons of both Turkey anti
Bulgaria have bounded England and
France and even Russia, for the puri
pose of ascertaining on what tonne
separate peace would be granted, but
that the allies replied evasively, intim-
Ming that they could, only treat with
the responsible Governments and on
the understanding that the countries
desiring peace would fully acknow-
ledge the victory of the allies. Real
negotiations are still along' way off,
but interested Bulgarians and Turks
are working for this result.
•
BRITISH ZEPPELINS
ATTAIN GREAT SPEED.
New Airships Are Superior to the
German Dirigible.
A despatch from London says: The
Daily' Express features an article by
its naval expert on "our new Zeppe-
lins," which says: "During the past
week I have watched the great Brit
ids airships at work, and, although'
I am unable to make practical corny,
parisons with the German Zeppelins,:
our new airships certainly seem mar.
vellously rigid and beautifully de-
signed. Mariners who have made
close observations of German dirig-
ibles consider, our new airships cap- ,
able of being handled more readilyl
of finer model and altogether less
cumbersome than the German type,
The British airships, moreover, ats
tain an amazingly high speed.
AUSTRIAN LOSSES ARE
BECOMING COLOSSAL,
Men Taken from Garrisons in Serbia,
Montenegro and Albania.
A despatch from Rome says: , Ac-
cording to an Austrian source several
battalions of Landsturm have been
taken from the Austrian garrisons in
Serbia, Montenegro and Albania, also
from the cities of Prague, Budapest
and Vienna and other towns, to be
sent to the Italian front, where the
Austrian losses are f,iuly colossal.
Archduke Eugen has assumed direct
command of the forces on the Isonzo -
Carso line:
TO FIX CENTRE SPAN
OF, QUEBEC BRIDGE.
A despatch from Ottawa says: It
is expected that between Sept. 14 and
16 the great centre span of the Que-
bec bridge will be floated into posi-
tion. This will pave the way for the
opening of the structure early next
year.
AUSTRALIA SEALED
AGAINST ENEMY AGENTS.
A despatch from London says: No
person over 15 years old will be per-
mitted- to land in Australia after
September 1 without a passport issu-
ed or approved by British authorities,
it was announced on Friday. Persons
sailing from foreign countries must
have passports vised 4 a Br;tisk
Consul. J^
Belgian Troops Capture Karema
A despatch from Havre says: A
brigade of Belgian troops has cap-
tured and ocqcupied the Port of Bare-
ma on the ee.stern bank of Lake Tan-
ganyika, German Haat Africa, says
an official Belgic announcement.
Karema is about 125 miles eolith of
Ujiji.
A Slight Matter.
"I don't see you at Miss Golder's
receptions any more, old man."
"No; she and I had a little differ-
ence of opinion."
"Nothing serious, I hope."
"Oh, no; only 3 thought I was the
man she ought to marry and she
thought I wasn't."
will please step clown here and, with
me ,for the subject, ilhrstlatc just BRITISH'
�°,° �p Q�
.how hard you mean:" SJJ, ,�!1 is . M Rita ' GUNS
Owing to. -the unmerciful badgering •
which the witness hacl just been giv-
en the ,prosecutor thought that the
yotm • man r^onld perhaps overdo the
nutter, to get hack at hint, and thus
1.'rr mi rnte himself.
-
TM :Id:ma:Int dceeonded es per
scitoclu)e and approached the waiting
attorney. When the reached him the
spectators were astonished to see him.
slap the lawyer in the face, Icicle him
in the shins, seize hila bdtliy, and,.
finally, with a supreme effort, lift hhn
from the floor and hurl hint prostrate
across a table,
Turning from the bewildered prose-
cutor, he faced the court and ex-
plained mildly:
"Your honor and gentlemen, about
one-tenth that h n'dl"
7'lae average woman swallows flat-
tery, just as a baby swallows buttons,
regardless of the trouble that may
follow.
UNITED 'IN THEIR THUNDER
German First Line Was
the ,5ccond at
Broken Everywhere and
Many Points
A despatch from the British Army
in France says;. With the shies clear
for artillery observations, following
the heavy rains, the English and
French ettaariaNd the German lines en
Friday afternoon along the entire
front from the Anap'o to the Somme,
where their blows during the past two
weeks have broken the German first
lino everywhere and the second li;ie
at many points,
Frons the ridge above Pozieres,
where the battered stone ruins of a
tYnchnill stand,.10 the highest; point
on the horizon, along the edges of
bloodty High Wood, and thence along
Deiviile o1' Devil's Wood to the lower
levels of the river valley, where there
has been no cessation in the fighting
cv1• the pounding of the guns, day after
day, there :was. a continuous cloud of
smoke from the bursting shells pe the
British and Freneh guns united in
their thunders.
The British made gains on either
side of Guillemont, whore the (ler-
mans still hold the fortifications of
their old second line and have their
heaviest concentration of guns,