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This, however, Wa6 illet What Mies jack -
"son did do. She happened, fortunately,
to be .at home when Euid arrived, and she
gave the girl a genuinely heartY
come,
You know you weren't lookine too joilY
'when we met the other day, although You
declared you were eo happy," the 'stied;
and. I've thought about You an awful lot,
Enid. Oli! allot stupid fools girls are to
Pe rueleing into marriage 'with the first
num they meet. Now, what 1ms 1141)13ea^
ed? Tell Me all about itt"
'If you don't mind, Sybil dear, I'd ras
ther not tells to -night. I just want you
to underetand tlifie-that I am very un-
haPPY, and that I *wee ebnply obliged to
separate from my hueband. shan't stay_
with you more than a few ddeis; but I
didn't know rattete else to go.'
"You een etay with me as long aa you
like," said Sybil Jaekson; aathough she
was really fula of meriosity, she saw that
Euld Bryant was in no condition to be
queetioned: in fact, the other g'irlie white,
tired fttee and rather forlorn look awoke
her pity.
Miss Jt-eekson WU an ardent advocate of
Woman's Suffrage, and elm saw in Enid a
forcible, example of the disastrous results
• of what she called "menenecle laws." It
gratified her pride to feel that Ehid had
turned to her. She was of a domineering
netere and loved to realize ,she was of im-
portance.
"I don't euppose,' she said to hereelf,
"thet he'll come worrying here, because
I eapPose he is only too glad to get rid
of his -wife; but if he should come it will
glee me a good deal of pleasure to talk
to himl"
Of course Enid was full of plans.
"I want to earn some money," she said
as they sat at breakfast two morniugs
later. 01 dent care how I do it, but rye
got to live.'
"Well, give you (110 straight tip,"
etsid Mies Jackson. "Don't take to teeth-
ing. There are far too many of us as it
is; and. if -I hadn't a little allowarsee from
my 'people I should have, had to give it
up menthe ago. Besides." she added,
"teaching is practically of little value, at
least, with people like you and me. I'm
not speaking of those who have made a
name for themselves. then it's quite a. -dif-
ferent matterand teaching isnot only a
splendid thing, but it becoraea a -duty!
But, my. dear Enid, to get one's living by
lessons is fearfully hard work."
Enid shrugged her shoulders a little
hopelessly.
"I don't went to teach," she said. "I
want to learn. I want to study. You
know after I met you ;the other day, Sybil,
I went to see that agent you were speak-
ing about. I played to him—and he was
very encomeiginge
"Was he?" said Sybil Jackeon. "Come,
that's good, for if Gerstein is encouraging
one is -practically launched. I adviee Yon
to go to him right away; and look here,
Enid, I hope you'll 'stay with me till you
get, on. to sere ground. What does for one
will do for two; and: I daresay you'll he
able to help me some -way or other; m
fact, I can give you some work to do for
me this morning. I want you to -write
out this report and post it to these ad-
dressee.'
Some color flashed into Enid's face. She
was so glad. to feel that she could be help-
ful; but, as she reed through the pavers,
her expression 'changed.
"Ohl" the eaid, "Are you a etiffragette,
Sybil?"
"Yee, my dear." ealel 1i -E6 Jackson, - "I
am; and it's a eplen•did- thing to be. Be-
fore I'm through with you, I shall try
and make you see things from my point of
view; but Iel tell you what you have got
to do firsts -sit down and write to Gerstein,
say that you are staying with me, and
ath him to give you a, start of any sort,
you don't care what it is."
Mr. Gerstein replied almost immediately
to Ertid's letter, but he had to regret that
he saw no immediate opening. He advised
her to come and see him in the course of
the next few days.
It was Miss Jackson who solved the pro-
blem of the immediate moment. -
When she got back one afternoon a day
or go later she had some news.
"I believe I've got a chance for, Enid,"
she said. "Do you. remember Maxon Lau-
rie, Nebo was at the Academy just When
you joined?"
el remember her very well," said Enid.
'She had a lovely voice."
"Yes, she doesn't sing badly," said Mies
Tackson. "Well, I met her slater this
afternoon, and she tells me that etanon is
out in the eountrY with a little eoncert
peaty and that the pianist has cracked
up ill, and Manon hadtelegraathed to her
easter to try and. get some one to fill his
place. I' proposed you. They tent give
very math; but til1, ites a beginning;
and they'll pay your expens.es for joining
them. Will you go?"
paid Enid in a losy yoke. "That'e
—that's just what I should like. I am so
anxious to be doing sOmething."
Well, there is no doubt about it, you're
jolly lucky," amid Miss Jacksen frankly.
ju.st, a fluke. you know. "You mustn't
run away with the idea that you are go-
ing to tumble into good things just 'when-
ever you wane them. I promised to ring
up Lucie Laurie as soon as I bad seen
you. There is s, telephone at their flat,
en Just run round to the call offiee. You,
hed better put a few things together, 'be -
mug° youal have to leave here to -night by
eight, o'clook,"
"Oh! I am glad! I am glad?" alnie ettia
to henself as her friend bustled out and
sbe was left quite 0,Ione. She hardly dar-
ed. to eonfess to herself how much it cost
her to he in London and not to approach
her husband.
ebta had been living in a curioue kind of
dream ever silica tbe moment when she
had closed the door of her little home be-
hind her, and had. turned to step forward
into e world 'unknown, -untried.
All •through the feat <lea that had fol-
lowed on her arrival at, Sybil Tecknores
fiat, her heart had. fluttered nervouely, ap-
preheneively, excitedly, for the eon-vie:tam
was strong upon her that almost at any
anomeat Julian would come and demand
an explanation from her, insisting upon
her returning: but that they paseed and
was followed by another, and etill an-
other, and yet, Julian did net eonue Then
Enid Bryant realized to the full what she
had done. With her own little hands the
had cut herself eadeift, from the cote
oreature to -whom she ;bad a right to cling,
And she wanted him! Never before had
she felt, the need of him and of his deer
,
protecting presence so strongly as in tbese
first days of her self-caw:tea oevaration
froin hint! Indeed, she hardly knew how
elm lived through the long, torturing
b wars.
She began to heap eeproaches upon bete
. . .
self: ;she eaufeeeell thet the had done
'fullest a wrong, the mere feet that the
man had fought so resolutely, had gone
eie valiantly through the lire ef tempta-
tion, proved to her that She Wa6 some-
wtloitruleimore to him, than all else in the
The arguments that she had brought to
bear on herself that •dee iwheu the had
learnt that leachael elarnock bad be-
q,ueathed a fortune to her husband seem-
ed to have loot their yelue now. TheY
were =all and wife, boned, 'by YoWS to
stand to one another; not even her yearn-
ing desire to give bath toliim something
of what had once been in his life should
ever have ,permitted her to make these
vows.
There were times when her selfssaortiko.
seemed to her not only foalish, but 'week -
ed, And yet now there wae no going
julien was lost to her, for if he bad
wanted her, eurely he -would not have
reeled, till he Ilea found heel
She was aimed of ehedding, 'tears ui
Sybil Jackson's paesenee, and though she
tappreoiatea bee more thall she could ex -
Press the ready hospitality extended to
her, the ,fact that she had to let, her hus-
band remnin under a false impresalon,
that she had to listen to abuse of him,
and that of eouree Mies Jackson -Welt a
wrong -view of their eepasation, was be-
coming almost aufbeareble. Now that =he
reelized he would not come, she wanted
to get away, far away from everything
that reminded her of their life together.
As she, travelled up, ewietly to the north
that night Enid Bryant cried till she had
reamed herself almost to n state of ex-
haustion, She WES -very unhappy, and
It was all so strange to ilnd herself as
,she did towards midnight in a little ho-
tel zoom, cut away from everything that
was dearest to her.
She looked very tired, and white and ill
the uext day, and the member e of the lit.
tie coneert party shrugged their shoul-
ders.
,1hope
you won't break down, too,"
said Manon Laurie to hers She was strong
and splendid looking, and the emphesised
Enid's fragile look. • •
"I am only a iittle tired," Enid, eeid
hurriedly. "I shan't disappoint you.' I'm
really very strong." In taet go interested
was she in the rehearse', in adapting her
self to the requirements of the ovorkeithee
by eunch-time she looked another being.
They were just a nuinber oi young peo-
ple, studente for the meat pave who had
formed theameelves into ehis little party
and who, with Miss Laurie as their great
attraction, had. been -meeting with quite
fair euccess.
The money offered to Enid seemed to her
more than adequate when she remembered
hoer little she,and Julien had managed to
live on, but the quiekly found that ehe
had many 'expenses.
Manon 'Laurie -went beck to her little
room and examined her wardrobe. She
was a kind-hearted young woman, and
therefore the put the matter as delicately
as she oeuld; but Enid realized that she
would have 10 furbieis nv some sort of
gown in which to appear on the platform.
"I think you ought to go in for the pic-
turesque stale," said Almon Lurie.
"Look here, that little grey hook, if you
put some lace on it like a fialm, I think
that will do, at least, for to -night. You
have got, such sweet, lotir, and you are
very interesting :Woking, you know; and,
my dear, you do know how to play ac-
compitnimente. My songes never went bet-
ter than -they did this -morning." •
It was juee the word of appreeinliou
which Enid needed; it ,gate her.cortrage
and it 'Strengthened her. .
Naturally the was nervous, and she re-
solutely set herself to get a, little rest
before the evening.
When the time came to &eve the hand -
lea the little grey gown tenderly. It was
one of the 'dresses that she had worn in
Venice, just a aimple little frock, made by
an unfashioueble •dressmaker; but in. Ju-
lian'e eyes it had been lovely. She could
hear his voice now whemering tender
words in her ears, she coulcbfeel hie aem
about her. It was impoeeibIe for her to
realize ' that sIte and
Julian were separated, separated perhaps
actually neves to meet again!
"If only he had -written me me word,
if only he had let me know tbat he eared,"
brokenly.
She kept baek the teens with a greet ef-
fort; she had done well in the morning;
but she had to do better at night; and
now perhaps for the first time the under.
steed that she really di.d face the world
alone, and would have to fight her Ilfeie
battles entirely on her ,own. efforts.
CHAPTER, VII. a
Mr. Tenderten was a Doan witb eertain
ambitions; he was resolved to haye money,
not a small and 'modest income, but real,
solid •money,, anrl he was infected also
with the very common complaint of de-
siring to amegle intimately with those
who moved in a higher ,soeial sphere to
hie own.
He was, a eelleanade man. The son of a
omen tradesmau in a Midland town, it,
had been open ,to hem to follow in his fa-
therie footatepe, -to !eve as his father had
clone, and to marry as his father had
done, and to be sionifortably provided for.
But he bad tamed his baok on the little
Midland town, and the small shop;
had
areieled himself to a lawyer, whohad
done business with hie father iron tirae
to time, and had ,planned out in hiamind
to read for the bar.
This Idea, however, itt relinquished when
he was Old enough to estimate shrewdly
hie own limitations; he was far better
suited at a lawyer's thieve, than to the
more exacting duties of -the bar. liCe•-work-
ed on eteadily, losing no opportunity till
cbance bad given him a place in the well-
known firm of Pleydell and Cozens.
This thence had cost him a -very fair
amount, of the money he had out together,
but be had xegarcled it as e good *pecula-
tion.
Pleydell and Cozens 'wee a very •old and
a very eetallished -firm, patronized by
clients of wealth and somal importance;
and MreTenderten intended to lose no op-
portimity of ingratiating aitneelf with
such clients.
- In a very little 'while .he found
constantly in request. Gertain people al-
ways preferred to deal -with Mr. Pies -dell
(the late Mrs: Marnook had been one of
these), but others found Mr. Tenderten
very useful, very obliging, end -eery
prompt..
-*thug these latter was Lade .Ellen
•Grooper, a Orat.ty and charming young
women who lived in, it small house in the
neighborhood of Berkeley &mere. Lady
Ellen was the ,widow of' a certain frportir4
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.eimplettely (treated in ea:tin. iwite 0046 and eibbon
trininied hat and teal shoos
and stookinge, '
• Send as your nettle and address, and -we left'
send you 30 *tete of Xentes Greeting, Peetearde, to
tell at 10 Nettie a set, (six beautiful cords 1» eaah
•set) When eel() eend ui4 the money, and ase
tend you tee dell all abargee prepaid12 yon pre,
fee it we twilS give you, a rolledlooket, and <stein
or a rolled eold, ettataved braceilet teemed of the
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baronet who had druok himself to death
115 a 'eonveniently abort elute, not how-
ever, till he had managed to squander all
his money, and a. good deal of what had
:belonged to his -wife.
Lady Ellen was in 'constant .peouniary
-difficulties. Mr. nieeden had been very
etraightforword with her, and hadtold
re
her some time befoteat she was living
considerably beyoncleher income, a feet of
waich Lady Ellen was perfectly well
aware.
"What you have to do, my dear Mr.
Pleydell," ehe bad said, "Is to show me
the way of getting some inoney! No, itie
no 'use at nal any approaching ley father;
he Ines praetkally -wa.shee• les hands of
me; none of Charle's family -will do ens --
thing for me." Lady Ellen had laughed
.here. "1 suppose I didn't slay the game,'
she eaid. "If I had made up to them and
gone to stay at their deadly dull week -end
,partiee, and bored myself etiff, they might
have made me an allowance; but life's
ear too short to be bored, you. know, Mr.
Mr. Pleydell had femal himself eingu-
larly out of sympathy with Lady Ellen
,Crooper, and when his youeger partner
had euggeeted that he should handle Lady
Ellen's affairs he luta quite willingly
passed oyer this portion of his business to
the other anan.
The change was all for the better where
Lady Ellen was eoneerned; abnost at once
Mr. Tenderten began to see poeeibilities,
to make suggestions; for iuetance, 'there
-were certaan stocks and ehteree whieh she
had regarded as useleess which, were 60
manipulated by him as to realize quite
decent •suin of money.
Lady Ellen wae singularly ignorant as
regavele the -workbags of the Stock Ex.
change; all she knew about money evae
the unpleasant fact that when she got it,
certainly -worded letter from the bank she
knew that she would not be able to draw
a,ny cheques till she had straightened out
her over -draft; and thie same overdraft
vats euch n,stupid, silly tlaing! It always
bad to be straightened out !somehow or
other! Therefore the coming of Mr. Ten-
derten into the financial elide of -.her aito
VMS a Matter of great rejoicing to Lady
Ellen.
She Was impuledye and generthie....-i-
.
"You most come and dine with me," she
had said almost at once; a.ad Mr. Tender -
ten dined frequently, on an average once
a week.
Ellen was not very sure that, she
liked him, but he talked tunueingly, and
was always well stocked with soeiety gos-
sip and ,seandal.
Needlees to say -Mr. Tenderten clung to
this intimacy with' the tenacity of a line
pit.
He meant to uee Lady Elleu ; ,he should
be the means through whkh he would en-
ter into that world in whith it was his am.
bitten to move as a person of importance;
already be had met many delightful pee.
Ple at her houee; though *he called her-
self a stamper, the managed to keep an ex-
tremely good 'cook and gave therming
dinners; in fact, everything about her was
ehaeming; she was pretty, fascinating,
and dreesed to perfection.
There -was eometeing half lusyiel about
her ellen figare, and in the frank happy
look of her eyes.
Of eourse, Lady Ellen lad innumerable
admirers; but alsears ,declared she never
intended to mainly again.
"I know yon don't believe me," she
cried ion cum oceasiorr to a certaen man
who veld her very rare visits, but who
was always iweikome whenever he did
coma.
"I don't disbelieve you, my 'dear," tilts
man said; 'because no doubt you imagine
that you are in earnest. It is always a
woman's privilege to 'change her mind,
you know."
"I wish you wouldn't call the 0 woman,"
eaid Lady Ellen restlessly.
WeB, what are You—a caneel?"
She laughed and. flung a. flower at isbn. "I hate to be considered one of a ciesee,
the staid. 'St liee to •be something a.part—
myself. You mustn't derfy me my Judie
v i du aeity,
"I will deny you nothing," said Adrian
Dewnee: he got up as •she spoke and stood
to his full .height: he was very tall and -
splendidly built. He had been a 'soldier
and a useful one, as, the empty sleeve pin-
ned to the beeaet of his coat teetilled.
Though he was young, not yet forty, his
hair was grey, and •he had a eerioue look,
Chet look iwhielt cootes int,o tbe faces of
most raen who have staeed at death and
many ugly things. -
Adrian. Dewney was a cousin by mar-
riage enly of Lady Ellen's; and perhaps
the snan hardly realized himself how
warm wee the.plece be bad in this dainty
creatures i•egasel.
Lady Ellen was tall too; but be dwarfed
her; and her hand •eeerued rislimelously
small 'eatefl the slipeed it into 'bis •strong
brawnright one. -
"And now sem. are going bae,k to the
country, to. your hens; and your pigs ahd
an the :rest of ripe farmyard; and r shall
never cee you again. Adrian!"
Tbe man laughed.
i-ae! yea you. %will. I have to -come up
as a matter of fact,`to see,Pleydell about
some business', of My inetherete I thought
ehould bave fonoe hiro to -day; hut .he
,haen't 'come beek tram- b1s,boIidy, yet."
-Why don't yoll see Mr. Teaderten?"
said Lady Ellen. "I gave no its. Pleydell
some timeeago; Inee toorespectable' foe
me, e de81, eull, et -kik -In -the -mud
statue .
ol-
2 don't quite like Tenderten,"'said Col-
onel Dawney, "He ie a. let too ptiebirig
andopericY for any taste."
"Well, it, was awfully goad -of - yee 10
Oante, Airia1 1 alWaY6 Make a !red merit
on thy calendar when , you have been to
see me, beeause 11 is thee, en importent
. •
"What are you doleg in town itutt new,
anyhow ?" DaWiTEY sketd, as she CI ook her
hand away tram bis end moved- aerates to
t twi n do w.
ehe .sltruggee her theeldere,
"I too had to he in town for etnasebusi,
nee,eie 611(1 said; "and then -oh! Well, you.
don't lutew bow fee up T erne with every
-
Oleg' sometintee, Adrian! I've filet exile
Molt f retie Et flying with Ca r troll tive,
li‘litised to be eentised :with Carrie ,onee;
new, iwell -" She ebragged is ashonldera
adding altneet immealately, '1 any not
qtvite eure that ,you 'haven't got, the best
of it, Adrian. There are ench e let of
beitetly .peopIe itt till‘ world. I lualeve real
1/111,4t he much itieer!". •
The man looked et her with a steange
expression in his (wee, enti the eligittest,
ot 'slight ',delis see:teed his lipe. Then he
tmiled in tly.
"Wity doter. you Neale do,vvrt and etas'
with me, Nell, Inc it little while?" to mtg.
gestee. -Yon &tall have the most charm -
Ing bedroom imaginable, looking out over
the old gardens and the *tabards, right
down to where the river winds away to
the sea."
"What on earth should I do at a farm?"
asked Lady Ellen; but her beautiful eyes
had a eudden eager look in them.
"Clome and see," Colonel Dawney an-
swered. He said "Good-bye" a setond
time, a,nd then with another smile that
swept aeide for an instant the -gravity of
Itis expression, he turned and 'went away.
(To be continued.)
THE GERMAN MILITARY • SOCK.
An -Experie,nee Gainea ha the
Franco-Prussian War.
The, famous field marshal, von
Moltke, once said that the Anglo-
Saxons are ,at warlike people, but
tha,t the Germans are it military
people. The Anglo-Saxon fights to
•the death when war .comes, careless
of his previous preparation; after
the war is over he drops his, arms,
dismisses all tlioughts of w,ar from
his mind, ,and returns to his civil
pursuits. The German, on the
other hand, feels in time of peace
as keen an interest in war as he
does in the midst of a coniliet. He
takes note of his errors in one war,
and when peaee •COIlleS devotes him-
self to remedying these errors.
A German officer who was visit-
ing America spoke of :the way in
which his people addressed them-
selves to war problems in time of
peace.
"Here
is an excellent illustra-
tion " he said, and lifting his foot,
he ;eel- off his shoe. From :about
his foot he then took, nob the ordi-
nary eock that men wear elsewhere;
but it eort cf napkin or handker-
ohief, which was ca-refully fekled
.about
"This," he said, "is the German
military s'oek.1t is the result of
• of sue and expeumen.ti by
the best minds, not only in the
G-erman army, but in German
science and medicine. During the
;France -Prussian War ot 3.870, when
our armies were making forced
marches eound Metz and on to Se
clan, our infantry was much im-
peded by sore feet. When it c,ame
Lo ha4inee it tcertain number of men
at it certain point at a- certain time
for it decisive stroke -,we were
usually from ten to thirty per cent.
short; because so many men had
fallen out of the ranks from sore
feet,
"We got through the war . all
right, for our eeemies were as bad-
ly oft in that respect as we were;
• but as soon es the war was over,
the government ordered every man
in th-e service to turn his attention
to ,contriving e form of footwear
that would be more Serviceable to
the man of peace when suddenly
vaned to war. It was years before
the present s-ook was adopted.
Thousamtds of dealers were spent in
experimenting. Thousands of sol-
diers marched in all kinds; of foot-
gear, tested every possible kind of
sock and stocking. After years of
• •this form. was chosen. Here
are spree of the ways in whioh it
can be wore,"
Thereupon the offieer took the -
napkin, which w -as alaout eighteen
or twenty • inehes ,square, made of
eotton a,ncl linen, and folded it
about his foot -with ,the deftness of
a tea whicling- his 'turban :a,batuit. his
head. Then, unwrapprig it he fold;
ed it about 'his foot in a different
manner, and then in still it third
way.
"There are about thirty different
ways of folding this sock about the
foot," he said, "and during his
three years in th,e 'army, the soldier
is taught to become -expert in usirig
'them asJ. Each inannel• of folding
it hae a different purpose, On.e will
relieve a ,soreneas of the heel, an-
tother, a weaannests of. the instep ;
third will protect an irritated -corn ;
and it fourith will relieve the inflam-
ed• ball of -the Soot.. -At the same
•iime that tate soldier IM taught these
different methods of wrap:ping the
sock,,,, he also 14!.erns the anatomy of
th,e fbot, and just why the different
wrapping -s relieve the different foot
ailinente.
ft e r ',Pliuilg hiS lave yeare itt
the 'army," continued the officer,
wildier goes bads to civil life,
and becomes, let us Say, a eleek'at
• deAk1oi ten yeuus. he doesn't
walk is, mile 6, day: At the end of
that thee, war breaks out, and lie 'is
e al)ed to the colors., He goes to
the depot of his regiment, and there
finds, -among his other accoutre-
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mente, two pairs of these
seeks. ,
"Next morning he starts to mereh
with his regiment. At the end -of an
hour, when- he his tramped two or
three miles over a 'country road, he
is •allowed ten minutes for rest.'
Now, the oh:a:flees are that the sol-
dier has a pair -of .very so -re feet:
Be sits clown, takes off his shoe,
diagno.sas his sore places; and, -re-
calling his early training, folds his
sock back on hie fo.ob so as to give
immediate relief. When a, few
minutes later, he fells into line he
has -virtually a new pair of feet.
.Arid this he does jus,t las 'often as
new foot troubles appear.
"The tremendous advanta,ge that
an army thus equipped has over tone
that wears the old-fashioned so.ek is
obvious. If 'getting there ev,ith the
most Men first' is the science of
war, the army with rbhe Germaan
sock- is at least one-third more effec-
tite •bhart. the other."
AT TEE END OF THE WAR.
Will Be the Beginning of a New
Creation. •
The fi.nal issue is plain enough.
When Great Britain undertook the
-muse of her allies, Belgium and
France, the defeat of Germany' be-
came eeetaie. and beyond que.stion,
writes Dr. • James R. Day, Chan-
cellor of S3iraeuse Universtity,
in Leslie's Magazine. Germany
might wii sonate , battle's but she
would not win the last one; 'With
Russia closing in from tli.at east it
became •raidneee for Germany -•
fire a gun. It meant tha,b Germany
would loee her oclonies, her com-
merce, her industrie,s and the flow-
er of bee young manhood and &at
the reigning .dynasty would lose its
throne. Great Britain has the•
greatest territorial extent, the
greatest population, the °Teats:4
taxable wealth and the greftest in-
come of any nation. The :result will
be the return of Lorraine and Al-
sa.ce to France, the repair ef all
damages and- the payment of ex-
penses to Belgium, a greet war in-
demnity to Great Britain, France
and Russia, and a great revolution
in Germany that w-illeeend William,
II. to join Napoleon 111. Emperors
and kings will not make war any
more. •ThiS is the last war among
great Christian nations for the
arbitrament of contentions among
rulers. War and peace will be
pieced in the hands of the people,
who will Tule with constitutions,
written �r unwritten, respected by
their rulers. The kings that remain
will be of the harmless and helpful
character of the ,King of Great
Beibeire This hope is the only
thing with which we can justify this
terrible war and get any comfort
from it. There should be only one
throne in the world and that is the
throne of God. No man 'eller was
geeat enoughto rule over other
men.
When the -work of this -great war
is eansurnmated in the overthrow
of the 'absolutism of Militaristn at
its only zonrce of danger, we shall
emerge into o, milleenaal epoch—'
the beginning of anew oreatio,n.
MANY WOMEN SPIES SHOT.
Germany's "Secret Service" Very;
Active in. Battle Zone.
:According to a despatch from the,
north of France, received in Parie,1
no lists or evet figures are •officiallyi
disclosed, bilk the shooting of batch-
es of spies takes place daily in the
towns of the distriet from -which ths!
message comes, and there have been,
nearly as many women shot as men. i
It is most bard for the veteran who
loathes the task ef shooting women,?
but, atecorcling to, the laws of ware
must be done. They are lined up
with men, often young girls., or 'wo-
men of refinement, at the zenith 'of
their olearm and beauty, and so, ac-,
cording to their lights, they give.
their dives for their countey, and
meen.ettheir death as bravely as any,
m
It is 'claimed that no German --1
tongue can ever pronounce ,certain
French words without betraying
their Teuton origin. It is failure to.,
pass tests of this kind which cone
demn. The despatch adds:
"I saw a women challenged in the
street, seized -and haled to the gen-;
dermerie. She was well dressed1!
and the last, type which the Grebe
nary home-sta,ying British people
would suspect of espionagee eppare
en,bly a prosperous, widow of about
thirty, leading a little boy' by the
hand, but 1 have heard since 'that
it proved it clear case, She had
evaded the WU' regulation of the
local authorities, that strangers
inust 'nett remain more •then 24 hours
in any -town in this part !Of France
without reporting personelle to the.
pollee, by changing her lodgings lit-.
erallyevery dayof the week."
i
Two officers n British uniform
recently brought to a, halt the mo-
tors belonging to an ammunition
convoy ae it was preceeding to the,
British lines of Armentieres with;
supplies. "Halt, you are running
right into German trenches," was
the command -given to the cenvoy.
The eatitain -speke to • the two offi-
cers, who were driving .a British
'automobile. After a few words
passed thecaptain noted that the
men who had issued the order spoke
with it slight accent, whereupon he
drew his revolver and shot both his
supposed comrades. , At the same
moment it squadron of German
eavalry appeared it short' distal:roe,'
away. The Bribish • captain then
ord,eeed the truck, drivers; most of
whom were London motor -bus,
chauffeurs„ to dismount with their. • e
rifles and take it Position in a ditch
beside the road* in 'order to defend
the convoy. The Germane were
about to charge and a detachment
of Germate infantry had arrived on
the scene, but from the other side A
French battalion "Peered and the
Ge.pians retired with heevy loeSeee
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