The Lucknow Sentinel, 1918-05-09, Page 2F
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CZABACTBAL
libeseass Writes sod Trawler: he
Berlises Warts. te Stir UP
Strife Amen Hallam
Almeria= soldiers in London, are
very much disgusted over the Latest
news of German doings in regard to
their own troops in France, sew; a
Leaden correspondent.
A German airplane has dropped
rubber halls, filled with mustard gas,
ea 'the Areeriran lines in France. The
Amore:an troops ere furious at thie
latest exiunple of "dirty wailers."
Tba United States has only had a
few nsonths' experience of German
methods. Her allies have grown fa-
miliar with "ways thet are dark."
They have long palmed the possibility
of surprise„ or even auger, at any-
thing that the Teuton can contrive to
cle.
The German dose not lack courage
or persistence. But he is at heert a
"dirty fighter,"
The American soldiers come from a
countsy where fighting has its rule;
and where a quick and unpleasant
fate awaits the men -who, breaks the
rules.
Among sportsmen; such hitting be-
low the belt as t.he Germans employ
is always unthinkable. The German
• alyntys hits below the belt.
Pariah Amon the Nations.
• If the German could only have
fought fairly this war might have end-
ed with universal respect and [Mod -
fellowship, for friendship often he-
ginsewith an honeet hammer -and.
tongs "scrap." Ai it is fientimental.
lets may talk of brotherhood, but for
01, long time to dome the German will
Ise a pariah sewing the nations—and
this because of his thousand and one
• meen, underhand tricks- '
I have been reeding a newly pub-
lished book which forme an amazing
record of German crime—an astound�
ing eatelogue of sheer inhuman devil-
ry into which the German nittion tuts
• been led by ita lust for world domin-
ation.
Von der Gelb) is the Germane -spy
• who was errested in England with
false American passport, made out in
the fictitious name of Ilridgentan H.
Taylor., His real identity wcui discov-
ered by the capture of papers from
Captain von Pinion. He then confess-
ed to the detective authorities in Lon-
don that, undereVon„Papenet direction
ht America, he organized plots to
blow up the Welland Canal; and even
' ineade Canada with the aid of-Gete.
. man warehipst
Von der Goltz, in hicebook, "My Ad-
ventures as a German Secret Seevice
'Agent," exposes the .intrigue and
treachery which Berlin did not
to adopt in its efforts—fortunate-
ly unsuccessful—to set nations like
America and Japan, and. America and
Mexico, at each other's throats• .
Murder, essassination, rolibetY, dy-
namiting, the deliberate originating
tied encouragement of rebellion --each
mid all of thaw crithes were unhesi-
• tatingly committed by Germany's se-
cret agente America, with the ap-
proval, end in many cases by the di -
red incitement of the German authors
•itiee.
. Reporting to the Kaiser.
• The Kaiser's personel knowledne of
hie secret agents' criminal -proceed-
Imes. is peeved by the fact that in the
"early days of the war Von der Goltz
Wes suramoned hacks to Germany to
•eastice a specialreport en the Ameri-
can situation to the All -Highest.
"It was still, dark," he. writes,
44when at •eo'cIock; I " entered " that
roonl On the ground floor of the castle
where the Emperor of. Emperors
worked and. ate and sleptin the dim
, light 1saw him, 'bent over a table on
wilich, wait piled correspendence of
ell kinsls,. He did not seem to • have
- heard ine enter the room, and as he
• continued to work, sighing paper after
'paper- with greatH rapidity, I looked
deem aud noticed that, in my haste to'
- impair before hint on time, I had
deeseea Or61(010.41,1P SAVE ee hien-
tny liteckinefeet."
"I coughed to announce tee pre-
sence. •He looked up then, and I saw
that he wore a Litewka, that undress
military'jacket which is used by sel-
'• diers for 'stable duty, and which Ger-
Mali takersWear sometimes in their
himeae-Ant this tale that atat mime
*wiled ase aimed at al 11, 441.000
tare, fee it INA mare Jibe the eamaien-
awe ;14=VritiLli, t than that of WU.
lima
"Tbat bele as a rule so asajoaide
empresaime ems drew* and lined;
his hair was deserritaged aad showed
nanteretie held patellae which it erns
sexily covered. A.nd Ids =stinks—
for ao Many peers the tarpt of friend
and foe—which was alevsen Pointed
se arrogantly upweed, drooped down
and gave him a dispirited look 'which
I had neves seen hint weer 'before.
Cfiracter o Kelm.
Von der Golte's summery of the
Kaiser's character is interesting:
"So I left hime-this nun who is a
menace to his people, not beeause he
is vicious or front any criminal ine
tent; not, I believe, because hieper-
'tonal ambitions are such that his
country must bleed to satisfy them,
but raerely because his mind is the
outcome of a system and an education
is divorced from fact that he could
not see the evil of his own position if
it were explained to him."
Summing up the effects of Ger-
many's dastardle plot against civiliza-
tion, Von der Goltz says:
"Germany has played a consistent
game thrOUghOUt. She hes eought to
use all the existing weaknessee of the
world for her own purposes --all the
rivalries, all the fears, all the anti-
pathies she has utilized as fuel for
her own fire. Although he has plays,
•
ed. the garne with the =moat fore-
sight, with a, skill that is admirable in
spite of its perverse use; and with an
• unfailing, assurance of succeim—she
has cone* to the folirth year of the
great war with the fact of failure
staring her in the face
• "Defeat! That is the .end of this
• silent warfare, this secret under-
ground attack that him in it nothing
of humanity and honor. I think of
Germany, a country of quiet, peaceful
folks, as I once knew it, bearing no
mince, going cbeerfully about their
work, seeking their destiny with a
will that hae nothing in it of conquest.
• And I think of Germany embattled,
ruled by a, group of ikon men who seek
only their own ambitions as a goal—
who have brought upon the country
and the world this three years' Veen-
ny of hate." •
• ONE. THOUSAND DIE DAILY.
Intolerable Conditions Exist Under
, the German Regime in Warsaw. .
Conditions in the Follett provinces
.now under German occupation have
become -intolereble. This is especial-
ly true of Werner, where disease and
privatione-have raised in one month
the death • rate to 80,00eof a total
population of 900,000s Two Swiss
eitizens-Whoeheiereerecently-returned
from:Poland, where- they have been
from the outbreak of the war, brought
to the Gazette de Lausanne a very
gloomy istory of the conditions in
Warriaw,
„ They declared that all the horrible
pictures which appeared in various
papers about life in Poland are far
from being exaggerated A very great
percentage of the population. of Weir -
sew has been reduced to extreme pen-
ury. As an ellustration, they give the
fact that a well dressed personcan-
not -wait for a street car on tile' cor-
ner without soon being- surrounded by
dozen or more emaciated and rag-
ged men, * women and children,
stretching out their bands and ask-
ing for a few copeks, withewhich to
buy a piece of bread The hunger
causes terrible ravages among the
people, whether directly or through
diseases which it brings about.- - -
• In the- single month of July there
Occurred in Warsaw 80,000 deaths, of
a total population of 900,000. 'In the
following months some relief was
brought by the harvests, but the aver -
ago' daily death rate continued to' be
from 300 to 400. • ••
There are in Warsaw four to five
suicides a day. Meat of these are due
to poverty and despair, in cases of
people who were once wealthy, A
great many houses have neither win-
dows nor dome. • The tenants, befere
dying of hunger; have used them as
fuel for their stoves.
•
Nitrate of soda, three :to avo pounds
to a. tree spread under the treee about
thes time the leaves begin to, appetite_
--iiCintieeiteeeeetiiiefdefribieetheieentsee
The housewife inust ,not practise
economy at the expense of the health
of her 'family. Growing.children mug
have good milk to drink, as well as
other nourishing foe& '•
LEE IN A MAN I= ill”lariame..4.iwat 41:
friends.
PRISON COP
BRITON DESCRIBES TREATMENT
AS WAR CAPTIVE.
Priemzers Herded Into Unsanitary
Cells and Forced to do Heavy
Week Oa Poor Ratenue
Life in a German prison eanin is de-
scribed in all of its terrible details in
a letter recently received by a friend
of A.. T. Lister, of the British Army.
Ile wrote from Switzerland, as fol-
lows: sse
Confined in Underground Cells.
hope a brief resume of my ex-
periencee an a 'kriegsgsfanger) wilt
be of interest, Immediately after my
capture on May 3 we were sent to a
fort in Lille. At the station a brass'
band' awaited tui and paraded through
the principal :streets. Upon our ar-
rival at the felt we were addressed
in very broken English by a• German
dressed in the khaki of a Canadian
battalion, to the effect that we should
not be treated as °raillery prisoners
of war, but more as criminals, and
• after a period of -detention to be then
• sent into the German front line to
work under our own artillery fire;
also conditions of food, work, billets,
&a, would be very hard. Instructions
had been received from -the German
authorities that We should be put un-
• der these conditions on account of the
English government having taken no
notice of a German note regarding
German erisoneneworking in the Eng-
lish front line.
"Furthermore, they would • compel
us to write home describing the condi,
tions and their reason for it. After
ten days of dose confinement in une
derground cells -101 men in each—not
ouflicient floor space for all to lay
• down on, the concrete at the sante time
—a large tub in the middle of *e
room for sanitary arrangementsa-foul
air, food, one slice of war bread au
one ladle of thin soup' Marley and
•wurzele) and one coffee per .day—no
utensils, so we used our steel hats for
basins—no epoons, no water, it was
sickening to see the line healthr lade
becoming dazed, weak as kittens.
In a Retaliation Camp:
• "In this condition we Were sent to
work on the so-called retaliation,camp.
After it short railway ioutney, follow-
ed by a fifteen kilometre march, we
arrived, exhausted, at our destination,
at . eleven pen., and again addressed
to the same effect as above, our billet
being a dirty, vat -infested stable, to
lieedowneonetheestone-flooreswithout
straw. or. Inctekets. In theadjoining
building, two eery high chinmessensed
for observation purposes. Up at five
a.m. the following morning; breakfast,
coffee and entail piece of dry bread.
No basins, &c., being .provided, our
steel helmets and old tins were ueed.
The conditions of the work were most
severe. Eight hours continuous, from
eight a.m. to four p.m., without a
break for toed, or even 'a rest, rushed
full Speedby the guards, digging the
level main way for a railway, carry -
Ing the rails and sleepers anything up
to a hundred yards If not working
on the railway other members of the
party were carrying shells over •a
"I remained in this lassret ell Joh*,
and all July the Prisoners' Hospit-
al at Vernal. This hitter place was
more of a place foe receiving the
wounded for operationsafter the first
dressing in the field stations; also
the skk from the retaliation camps—
many of them simply skin and bone
human skeletons. In this hospital,
and also in Germany, espirin is *bout
the only znedicine available. The food
here was pretty good, thaeks to the
Belgian relief.
"In Nog* Frence, under enemy con-
trole the civilian* are very gimp**.
etie toward theprisoners,. giving food
wherever possible, but it is not allow-
ed, and I have amen several suffer in
consequence. These poor people are
to be pitied—all their men being away
since the beginning of the war—no
neva% of them—they cannot even welts
through neutral coulitries,"
• A GERMAN BATTLE HYMN.
hundredweight'each right up to the
front, under our own fire, one lad
while I was at the camp being wound-
ed. Fee euch heavy work the food ra-
tions were very slender'—per day, one-
quarter hise of bread, one 'thin .soup
as mentioned before, one spoonful • of
jam Or "wurst" and occasionally a 'raw
salted herring. My first three or four No sound of an army mocking.
days of this work is still a nightmare.
After three weeks / was congratulat- No banners wave high, no battle cry
ing myself I had trained my system Comes from the war worn fields where
they lie,
to stand the demenY The ands, in spite of blue sky overarching
legs, first, and then zny hody swelling
. •,
to an abnormal size, when I reported Ile. call sounds clearer than bugle.
I have since met lads who spent three Fromcailtrii
sick and was admitted into hospita
is silent dreantless army*. •
• l.
weeks in Lille fort• and nine to twelve
months in retaliation camp under
similar conditions Prem this time for -
weed I had a run of retearkabre good Is the call /torn tee silent *my.
Whkii. Reveals the Savage Nature of
the Teuton People.
If we wieff to know the spirit in
which a people make war, we go, not
to the guarded and fennel speechee of ,
ita public men, but to the mete that r
the poets write and the- soldiers' sing;
they come glowing' from the red-hot
furnace of emotion that sustains the
power of the nation. It is illuminating
therefore, to read this trameatien of
a battle song that was found on a
German eoldier taken prisoner in
Italy. Mr. William Rosati) Theme
the hiseorian of Italy, has made. it
Public, on this side of 'the water..
The song is worthy of the age when
the' ancestors of the modern Germans
burst out of the gloomy forests of
the north' to overthrow' an earlier
Italian civilization: It is priraeval,
savage; It tellus what the.Geernana
themselves think of•their diplomatists'
assertion, that this was for them a
"war of defense." If our readers wish
to see whae wide contrasts there may
be between the war spirits of great
nations at war, hit them, lifter reading
this; read Mrs. 110•We's Battle .elyten
of the Republic. •
Son of Germany in arms* Forward!
'Ibis is the hour of joy and glory.
Oh, our artillerist, thy •powerful
cannon, thine • invulnerable 'nether,
calls thee; Was it not made to renew
the world!? • ••
Oh, our- rifleman, behold! thou art
the force that wins; wherever thou
penetratest is Germany.
Oh, Our cavalryman,' spur, attack,
overtbrowt let thy will spur oil thy
horse like a winged victory. That
cpwardlie_flesh (the Italians) is made,
to manure the fields, which shall be
thine and thy sons', e
Sontmnytn arms, the (pea
bourbas conie.
• Life •cloeinotilniele,it passes on and
is traneformed without rest; the hfe
of the conquered is absorbed by the
conquetor;.the life of the slain borings
teethe slayer; see • then how • thou
canst gather on the breast of theeholy
fatherland the life of 'the world
Do notelienci to womanish pity to-
ward women and children; the child
of the conquered, has often been the
conqueror eto-morrow; and what will
victory avail, if 'revenge comes to-
morrow? What sort of a father
wouldst thoube if thou shouldst kill
thy enemy and shieuldst leave alive
the enemy of thy sent
• Son of Germany izr arms; forward!
Fulminate, shatter, beet down, trans-,
fix, devastate,- burn KILL KILL
KILL! •
• The hope of'glory opens for 'ue.
The Silent Army.
- •
• No bugle is blown, no roll of drums, .
"No cowards werel we, when we heard
the call, •
For freedom we grudged not to give
our all,"
fortune, only experiencing periods of
hunger, and a few' other trials.
Got Special Treatment.
"Itwas indeedta ver % good thing
'&44.-riestir-riesneheetteeend-teidefiospital
at Tempieave (sixteen kilometres
frem I was the only English-
man there, and received every possible
attention from several skilled German The men who have haled from the
doctors ,and - attendants Special men who have died, •
treatment tor. my, coinelaint; electric
•}rushed eta quietand still they'lie,.
This silent, dreamless army, •
While living comrades spring to their
tbe hugleenti-andetlfeletteteecry
Is head as dreamer and dreamless
lie, •.
Under the stars of the arching sky,
The call of the' silent army.
Alt Automobile Cure.
"Tiune's a story for you," said a
country doctor to the writer as an an-
tomobile passed and he lifted his hand
from the steering wheel to return the
cheery greeting of a bright -faced we -
Nan and her husband.
"A year ago that man called at my
office and saide 'I don't know whist's
the matter with my wife. She cloetin't
tosem to be really tick but she's so bine
and down -hearted all the time, I'm
getting worried about her. • I thought
I'd better k yon to conm
out and see if you could fix her up.'
•• The next' day I drove out to the
fame I had talked with the woman
but a few minutes lieftiee I knew 1 was
up against the. situation. Out every
country physician meet; at some time
or another. , . .
The hueband was a good eort in his
weY, not deliberately herd and selfish,
I mean, yet his wife wait in a atate of
aeute• inelancholia and he woe more
than nineetenthe to blitme for it: For
years he had been putting money int*
huitclinge, buying more livid and pule
chasing expensive raachinerse To do
thaw things he had stinted his family
of oeinforte and pleasures. and made a
drudge of his wife.
• While be was playing the interest -
INC game of making lies farm a sea-
men, his wife bad been cooking' and
tittering et home, mending arid sewing
andstaying at home, washing and
Ironing andeerubbing—and stgying at
home eagle mane
There had been variety and mental
atinvelue in the 14ams for him. For
her, just the slam 'Old routine, yetie in
and year out, end loneliness and
mental barrenness in the pitiful mo-
notony. Do yeu wonder I found her
in the condition site was?
As 1 left Ulti room the lonanind met
• me thinkaiied. he,;V:pll, doctor, what do
• you
'The* ofsher? I think elm will be in
the insane hospital iR a um* if she
doesn't iusve a change! Then I gave
the man the ehock of his life bY tells
ing him Juet what he bad. done.
He 1)114 the sense to realize I wan
right, tearsht,andthe down
art to bli
itorryae,eankds:
with
, begged me to tell him what eo do.'
, 'Get an automobile and get lier out,'
I told bine 'Take her to town, take
her to the eeighbore to visit, take her
anywhere so she will see eomething
beside& the four walls of tbe hue,
talk to somebody beeides you andtbe
hired man, end have e•caneaing•inljer
starved life besides loneliness and
drudgery.',
• The siutottiobile.was beetle; and the
man, followed my instructions to the
letter. They Were out in thiecer pante-
where almost every day. It wasn't
two months after I had first seen the
woman before every trace of inelarn
cholla 'wee gone and she was literally
a new wonlan.
The other day I saw her and she
told me that elm and her hatband hed
heen to town to a Red Cross meeting
and that ehe was going to get the wo-
mend her neighborhood to terganize a
liming club to make Red Cross sue -
plies in co-operation with the town
**Sty
e, n'on see, the automobile is let-
ting her in tench with her interest=
just as I hoped suet believed it would,"
the doctor added with obvieue pride
In his "automobile cure."
• AN OFFICER'S •.FOTtl3EARANCO.
Incident of the Diode Legion at the
tattle of Cumieres. •
• After the Battle at Cumieres, writes
Mr. Gerald Brandon, ,I4eut. Fabre of
the 'Foreign Legion was left for dead
on the field. During. the night while
he lay there wounded, a. party 6f Ger-
tnan pluederers spread over the field
and began their work of robbing the
dead Otte of them, an officer, eluding
that Lieut. Fabre was still* alive;
snatched a rifle from one of his men
and plunged the bayonet . Otto the
breast of the helpleis wounded
•Frenchman.
Bub4egitt-Fabeeedid -net-die. —He
was brought in by a patrol that had
gone out to -searclefor his body,' and
he suhsoquently recovered; but Ids
hatred for the murdering German be-
came almost an obsession.
One day when he was reviewing' a
new batch of prisoner?) he suddenly
turned pale and, stopping e German
officer, asked hint if he had been at
Cumieres on February:1.8th, and whe-
theft!) had gone, out on patrol that
night. The German replied tlute he
had been at Ctimieres; and that niost:
likely he had been one of the patrol
• Lieut. Fabre could control himself
no longer. Springing at the prisoner,
he forced him against e wall and,
pointing a pistol at hirit°,- btoke out
into a volley of abuse. °
el bete you! Assassin! Murderer!
And I Will make you pa' YOU 4o not
remember the' helpless blesse you bay-
oneted that night at Cuinieres?. How
many wounded Frenchmen have you
killed in the same way? But that
thee you missed, ,and I saw your face
in the moonlight I have hungered to
meet you, but scarcely dared hope ;to..
Say pear prayers, for you are about
to die!" „• .
The German who up to that •mo-
mente had faced the pistol without
alarm, suddenly remembered • that
night at Cumieres and fell in a heap
at Lieut. Fabre's -feet awaiting the
bullet. . A group of French Officers,
attracted' by thetumult, had come up
and were Silently watehing tbe drairia
• .
•They knew the story. •
"Shoot the pig!" said one. e will
report that he tried tonscape."
•LieuteFabre'e, Seger tightened on,
theetriggeie -"Mete ivitliseineffeet lee"
controlled himself and said contempt-
ouously:
• "Get up and talse your plate in the
ranks. You richly deserve death, but
I em a French officer, not an execu-
tioner," •.
BRUTALMES OF
GERMAN- •CAPTORS
EXPOSED NAKED EIGHT HOURS
• IN SNOWSTORM. .
'Unspeakable Cruelties ' Exercised on
• . . British Prisoners in Hun
Prison Camps.
British wounded Officers and, men
who have just arrived in Rotterdam
from .Germany, to board hospital Snips
for England after two or three years'
captivity, tell of terrible cruelties ine
flicted by- the Gerynans,--- --especially
upon soldiers and sailors who have
been taken un*cinnded., says a war
correspondent.
I have names Which cannot be pub-
lished because %he Germaine have a
system of vicarious punishment. These
men have been warned before leaving
camp in 'Germany' that if they give
out any details of their treatment it
will mean more severe punishment for
those left behind.
Drastic, Punishment. '
..
One story told Me was of a man to
whom Ambassador Gerard spoke on
hie first visit to Doberlitz in Decem-
ber, 1914. 'He was standing outside
in tite snow cleaning vermin off the
only shirt he possessed. When ques-
tioned by Mr. Gerard he said it was
hie• only shirt. • The man was exposed
cleit hill naked in a snowstorm for
eight hours for having' told this to
Mr. Gerard, whom he did not know.
' A certain Lieutenaetva
s taken.
prisoner with a bullet wou in the
ankle and Was sent to a ho tale The
first dressing was left on the wound
twenty-two days, when gangrene --set
in and the leg was amputated four
times until it was cut off elniost to'
the hip, . -
'• Men sent to work in salt mines re-
turn after a few months Ike skeletons,
with incurable running' sores . and
brain power gone. •
' „ • •
' Dutch business Men returning to
Denmark from Berlin say termeny is
short of anaesthetics and operations
are being performed without -them,
the, sOldiers sufferineeelioreible eseore
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RAZING OF RHEIMS
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F RE FINISHES RUIN BEGUN BY -01
• ENEMY SHELLS.
Cathedral Falls Stone by Stone and.
Nothing Will be Left of Magni-
ficent Structere.
Rheinte, which has been ort fire for
a week, ix now nothing but a greet
pile of smoking ruins, writes a corree
• spondeut on April 19th. During the
last week the Germane have fired
Xdore than 100,000 ?hells into the
heart of the city, aceorcling to the oar.
respondent of Le Matin, and flames
• from the burning buildinge can be ,
seen by aviaters sixty and seventy
miles away.
There are no traeeS ef streett and,
thoroughfares, which have disappear.' •
ed from view under the accumulation
of debris. • Ancient buildings in the
Place Royale end the 'market place
and the Musidans' Reuse, which dates
from the sixteenth century, have been,
reduced to dust and ashes.
The vaulting of the famous MOM.
• Cathedral, the correspondent bays, is
•falling stone by atone ancl soon there
will be nothing left of the 'edifice but
the west front and the pillars. Shane
are still bursting all around theebuild-
ing.
• Notwithstanding the terrible' bom-
bardment, forty Paris firemen are etin
in the city working to save the furni.
• ture and portable effects of the inhab-
itants, Some of them have leet their
lives, -•
Now City of the Dead.
Rheims before the war a city of
more than 100,000 souls, has slowly
but none the less surely been falling
• a victim to Gentian hate. -
• In their first advance in the fel of
• 1914 the Germans held Rheims /or
severardays, but the battle, of the
Marne stopped their adyance and they
fell back to a line a few miles north
• and northeast, of the city. Since then
the big German guns have been bone -
Carding the city and its famous .cathe-
dral.
•The population of the city until a '
few monthsage was less than. 18,000, .
bii43opersons lived te dugouts or
in cellars nd the city Was virtually
'dead. • The cathedral was one of the
most magnificent examples of early
Gothic architecture and was begun in
1212. The west facade had three
portals,which contained about 530
statues. , • •' •
,
Up to November 1, 1e16, the ter -
mans had fired thousands of shells
into the city, 1,000 of which • had -
struck ethe cathedral. - Since-
whenevet the German troops metveith .
reverses the enemy guns took up the
bombardment anew. • . •• • •
Getman military authorities have
attempted to excuse the bombardment
of elle cathedral on •the ground that it
Was being used for military- purposes
by the French.
These Are -Grave Hours.
These are grave hours, and yet we
• should not brood ' •
• On peril, rather look it in the face, .
Abjuring fear, and every lingering
• trace • -
Of darkening doubt, in an eenlied..
Let us each take-. new grip 'on•forti-
tuck.• ' ,
Let us not quail nor flinch, 'for that
• Were base;
Let us have .heart, for we are of a
• eace -
That against Wrong has ever -steadfast. °-
•stood!
. .
These are grave hours. 'Twere futile .
to deny 4
•
.Th e threat of Might, and' its .embat-
•tled pewees; .
A dreadful menace looms upon the
' sky; ,
• Nearer and nearer the black shadow
• towers;
Shall we lose faith and trust.? Nay,
let us'cry— .
"Couraget" enti."Coerage!" dneing_ _
• these grave hours.
—Clinton Scollard. •
MORE HORSE MEAT SOLD:
Increase in • Fratch Supplies
However, to, Lower Prices.
The extended sale of horse teeatle
one 6f the meanS counted upon by the
city authorities to relieve' the provi-
sion marketl says a Paris correspond-
ent. The sale of horse flesh for Many
years has been consiclereble in the
poorer quarters of Paris •and it has
increasedeeonsidetably.dureareehe wen,
Last year 43,384 horses were lcillea at
the Vaugireed slaughter houses, Tbe
indeased sinielsr of horee Meat had
no depressieg effect upon price,
°Ver. • ct
bow -
,Tho British army is now the chid
source of supply of horses for killing.
More than 12,000 horses wove reseiv-
ed front that source last year yet/ tha
prima went emit the equivalent of
• twenty-eiett cente a pound to forty
collect for ordinary cuts and from
thirty-five cent; to fifty contS a pound
for the thoice bits of horse flesh.
•• -Awkward Squa'4.
- Irate Captain—llalt there!
• Astorlished---What's• the matter /
Irate Captain-----Yonr horse's hind.
lees 530 out of step with the epee legs.