Bellefonte, Pa., November 29, 1918. I ES MADE IN GERMANY. In the duys of peace for the world of trade, They stamped their mark on the goods they made; But mever again will they flaunt their name, For they have made a badge of shame. They’ve stripped it bare of its outward pride And shown the greed ard the lust inside, And men will shudder whene'er they see Hell’s label red: “Made in Germany.” Before their eyes dead men will float Who were left to die in an open boat. To the end of time will pictures rise Of demons high in the summer skies, Seeking the haunts where the wounded lie To murder them as they hurry by. Nor all their skill nor their art will- hide The captive boy that they crucified. A little child with his right hand gome Will live when the years have traveled on As the sign of the German heart and schools, With the crimson blood of the babes in pools. And the innocent dead, with their faces fair, Bombed by the cowards high in air, Will rise long after the war shall cease To shame the Hun in the years of peace. Made in Germany! Men will start As they see that badge of the German heart; On whatever that stamp of shame is seen There will be the curse of a thing unclean. They have fouled, with sin, what was once their pride, And they shall live by the world denied; For wherever that mark through the years is met, There will rise the scenes that men can’t ferget. PROSPERITY OF EMPIRE CRED- ITED TO WILHELM. Whatever the estimate of Emperor William II of Germany as a military leader and whatever the judgment of posterity on his influence on mankind, is greatness still stands secure on the enormous prosperity of Germany in the first quarter-century of his reign. rom 1887 to 1912, the population of Germany increased from 47,000,000 to 66,000,000 Emigration dropped from 66,000 a year to less than a quarter of this figure, and the latter was more than balanced by foreign immigration into the empire. The production of hard coal rose from 60,- 000,000 tons te mearly 177,000,000 tons; pig iron from 4,000,000 tons to nearly 18,000,000. Foreign trade trebled; railroad mileage rose from 39,000 to 60,000; railroad tonnage trebled; letters sent by post rose from a billion to six billions, and the ton- nage of ships went from 18,000,000 to more than 60,000,000; deposits in sav- ings banks increased five-fold. The State railroads were brought to pro- duce a greater net income than the total interest and sinking fund charg- es on the debts of the Empire and the German States. More than any other man he will receive the credit for the marvelous advance. He was the personal leader of his people. He took an interest in every phase of their affairs. He work- ed hard for them, believing he had a divine commission to rule and deter- mined that he should rule wisely. Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia, reve of Brandenburg, Burgrave of Nurnborg and Count of Hohenzollern, Wilhelm, was born in Berlin, January 27, 1859. He was the son of the Emperor Frederick and Empress Victoria. Princess Royal of England, a daughter of Queen Victo- ria. His grandfather, William I, the first German Emperor, was crowned at Versailles in the midst of the Fran- co-Prussian war of 1870-71. OVERCAME IMPAIRED HEALTH. Emperor Frederick succeeded Wil- liam I in 1887, but was carried off 99 days later by cancer of the larnyx, a malady which William I was at var- ious times rumored to be afflicted with. Empress Victoria died with the same disease. William II was born with a wither- ed left arm. In his youth he was sub- jected to such severe study that fears were entertained for his general health. But he overcame these han- dicaps. Born with a love for military life, imbued with a sense of the power of arms, he gave to the world before the death of his father the impression that he was a vain, theatrical sort of outh, consumed with a desire to leap into the centre of things and win for Germany and himself a martial glory with full stage effects. As Crown Prince he took a bombastic attitude much like that of his son. He led all to think that his one great desire was to emulate the example of Frederick the Great, his ancestor, and carry glo- ry before him with a drawn sword. But for 27 years of vast prosperity he did no more than clank his sword and shake his mailed fist. The youth of the Emperor was spent in a training school to fit him for his exalted position. To the age of 13 he was taught in the palace at Berlin. Then he went to live with a German tutor in the Potsdam, where he and his brother Henry romped in the grounds of the “New Palace” when not engaged in their studies. He went to public school after a course under his private tutor. He was the first German boy of his rank to attend a public school of his native country and play at boyish games with others of his age without regard to titles. POPULAR WHEN A STUDENT. Dr. Hinzpeter, his early tutor, in- sisted on plain diet. He acted on the principle that hard work was a con- dition of happiness, and the young Prince had plenty of chance to test the theory. He was stuffed with Greek, Latin and mathematics. In- deed, so severe was his mental train- ing that, in spite of physical exercise he was allowed to take, he became pole and emaciated at the age of 18. e grew thin-chested and short of breath, and Court physicians who ex- amined him looked grave. They fear- ed he would collapse. But William possessed a constitution stronger than the physicians dreamed. He gradual- ly regained a large measure of strength after his public school days ' ended, and he entered college ready ; to take his place with others. : He attended the University of Bonn, ! where he joined the students’ society | called “Borussia,” the ancient name of Prussia, and was an active mem- ber. He insisted upon being treated ust like other members of the corps. e took part in fencing bouts, giving and taking hard blows, but there is no record of his having been wound- That he was popular appears from the fact that when he left the Uni- versity at the end of the summer term of 1879 a solemn Komitat (feast) was tendered him. The streets of Bonn were gaily decorated and the students marched in procession to the Hotel Kley, where the banquet was spread. Soon after his graduation from Bonn he married Augusta Victoria, daughter of Duke Frederick of Schlesswig-Holstein, who was three months older than her husband. She bore him the following seven chil- dren: f FATHER OF SEVEN CHILDREN. The Crown Prince Frederick Wil- liam Victor Aguste Ernest, born at Potsdam, May 1, 1882. Prince William: Eitel Frederick, born at Potsdam, July, 1883. Prince Adelbert Ferdinand Beren- gar Victor, born at Potsdam, January 26, 1885. Prince Auguste William Henry Gonther Victor, born at Potsdam, Jan- uary 26, 1887. rince Oscar Charles Gustav Adolph, born at Potsdam, 1888. Prince Joachim, born 1890. Princess Victoria Louise Adelaide Mathilda Charlotte, born at Potsdam September 13, 1892. She married the Duke of Brunswick, heir to the claims to the obsolete throne of Hanover. STUDIED UNDER BISMARCK. The days between his college career and his ascension were passed for the most part at work in the government bureaus learning the routine of official business. He was getting his prac- tical education to fit him for the work of reigning. The Iron Chancellor, Ot- to von Bismarck, was the tutor much of this time. William was watching his tutor and noting his traits of character quite as much as the Chan- cellor was his pupil’s. The work in- volved instructions in the making of treaties, the devious ways in which to entrap and detect suspected officials, the diplomatic steps that would lead to war or a conclusion of peace; the theories of State socialism, the argu- ments pro and con as to protection. All the economic ideas of the day and the benefit of the vast experience in statecraft possessed by Bismarck were given freely to his young pupil. They were absorbed as rapidly as they were given. At this time the pupil was not even Crown Prince, for Emperor William I still lived. He formed the acquain- tance of all Bismarck’s associates. He asked them many questions as to their duties. He became familiar with all methods employed in governmental matters and the diplomatic usages in dealing with other countries. This was the condition in 1887 when his grandfather, the much-loved Wil- liam I, died. His death, followed three months later by that of the Emperor Frederick, put William II on the throne at the age of 29. ENJOYED TRAVEL AND SPORT. Emperor William II did nothing much. He felt his way with utmost caution. He visited his neighbors. He made the acquaintance of the leaders of other countries. He went to Petrograd and came away disap- pointed at the want of the warm sym- pathies that Bismarck had told him would be his in the Russian capital. He found an anti-German feeling there and in France. In Austria he also found that the aged though still stern counsellor had been mistaken. In England, where he had ‘been told he would meet insult, he found a ge- nial welcome. His travels made him an enthusias- tic sportsman. He joined the lists of British outdoor clubmen. He went to Norway and Sweden aboard his yacht. He also visited Turkey and Greece in this manner. His travels had much to do with his consistent de- termination to take advantage of all the resources of modern civilization. He noted that his country was far be- hind the times in many ways. As one of his moves he had a modern train of cars built, with sleepers, dining cars and all the accessories found in an American express train. This he used to travel about Europe when not aboard his yacht. He encouraged all industrial pur- suits. He began to build up and im- prove the public institutions. With his very active brain, he also found time to delve in art, literature and the sciences, and sought to advance his country in all of these. His interest in education was shown in the remod- eling of the curriculum of the higher schools of Prussia. He also brought about the interchange of professors of American and German universities, which began in 1906. One of his most extensive works was the con- struction of the Kaiser William II (or Kiel) ) Sao Canal, connecting the North and Baltic Seas. OPPOSED CONSERVATIVE IDEAS. One of the greatest triumphs of his reign was the passing of a law pro- viding for compulsory insurance of working men. It is said that this ban- ished pauperism from Germany. In many other ways he showed his keen interest in the working classes. But although he protected the Socialists from Bismarck’s severity, in the lat- er years of his reign he pursued a stricter policy and repressed them with harsh methods. In all that he carried through he had to fight the conservatism that had obtained under Bismarck. The con- servative element hampered him in many ways. He began to look in a critical way at the acts of Bismarck. His discovery that the Iron Chancel- lor had been mistaken about some of the countries of Europe in their atti- tude toward Germany led him to think that Bismarck might be mistaken as to other political matters. One of the first differences between the Emperor and Bismarck was caus- ed by the latter’s attitude toward So- cialism. William I had given the po- lice extraordinary powers as to So- cialism, urged thereto by Bismarck. Socialism had gone ahead fast in spite of this. William II noted this and when Bismarck asked that the same stern policy be removed, he declined. He reminded the Chancellor that more than a million votes for Socialism had been cast in the Reichstag and that it had been a stern protest against his own severity toward the Socialists. FIRED THE IRON CHANCELLOR. This was in 1890. The Chancellor’s ! resignation was not yet accepted at | that time, but when a few months lat- | er he warned the Kaiser that he must | not repeat his action in seeking the counsels of a certain German poli-! tician on pain of the Chancellor’s res- | ignation, the Kaiser promptly repeat- | ed the offense and then sent to Bis-! marck’s house to ask why the resig- nation was not forthcoming. After that the only course left for the Iron | Chancellor was to bow to his fate. He | sent in his resignation and Count Ca- | privi was appointed to his place. Then | followed many changes at which the! more conservative element in German | official circles looked on aghast. The Emperor weeded out all old and | incompetent officers in the army, and ! replaced them with men in the prime: of life. He instituted a vigorous drill | of the rank and file. He insisted that | the army should be not only abreast of the armed forces of the other coun- ! tries of the world, but ahead of them. | He insisted on the building of more | warships. He built up the navy of | Germany. He demanded that the of- | ficers and crews should be drilled | thoroughly and that target practice and naval maneuvers be kept up. | Many changes took place in the offi- | cial life of Germany and Prussia in' the years that followed the appoint- | ment of Count Caprivi. He resigned | in 1894, and Prince Hohenloe succeed- ed him, to be succeeded in 1909 by Count von Buelow, who later gave | way to von Bethmann-Hollweg. Dur- | ing the 12 years from 1888 to 1900 | there were besides the three Chancel- | lors of Germany, 19 Prussian Minis- ters and eight German Secretaries of State. | MADE DEALS WISH TURKEY. William II inaugurated changes in | the public school system. He insist- | ed that an easier method of instruc-! tion should supersede the antiquated | and harsh measures to which he had been obliged to submit as a boy. While William followed the Bis- marck policy in keeping up the Trip-' le Alliance, he deviated from it by taking an interest in the affairs of the Orient, cultivating relations with the Ottoman government and push- ing German activity in Asia Minor. In the far East he was similarly ac- tive. He reversed a Bismarck policy by cultivating the friendship of Great Britain. This led to the exchange of the Island of Helgoland for an exten- sion of British rights in Zanzibar. Then came the day when Japan, tri- umphing over China, sought her re- ward. Germany, France and Russia, but with the Kaiser as the leader, checked the conqueror. The results immediately were Russia’s seizure of Port Arthur and the occupation of Manchuria, the seizure of Kiao-chao by Germany and the leasing of Wei- hei-wei by Great Britain, but the more distant fruits were far different, the participation of Japan in the gen- eral war of 1914 against the Kaiser. The affair of the Armenian atroci- ties followed. The Kaiser saved Tur- key from Russia and was paid in rich concessions, including the right to build the Bagdad railway. The latter came after the Greco-Turkish war, in which the Kaiser did much to assure Turkish success. NEAR WAR WITH BERLIN. The Kaiser was a man of rapid im- pulses, and these often came near in- volving Germany in serious difficul- ties. There was the affair of his tel- egram to Paul Kruger, in which he lauded the Boer leader for his fight against England. In 1910 the Empe- ror gave an interview to a represen- tative of a London newspaper, which nearly got Germany into trouble. It became the duty of the Chancellor, von Buelow, to make a journey to Potsdam for the purpose of “muzzling the Kaiser.” He did this effectively, but lost his official head in conse- quence a short time later. His suc- cessor, Dr. Theobald von Bethmann- Hollweg, bowed to the wish of the au- tocrat while presenting an adamant front to the Reichstag. When Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina, and again when Germany sent the Panther to Algeciras, the Kaiser shook his sword so fiercely in the face of Europe that there was well-founded apprehension of a general war. But the time was not yet. It was to come after a Bos- nian youth, Cavrio Prinzio, assassin- ated the heir to the Austro-Hungar- ian throne in Serajevo, the German capital in the early summer of 1914. The assassination plot, according to the Austrians, had been hatched in Servia. He followed his armies in the field and directed the campaign from the headquarters of the General Staff. While the Kaiser became his own Feld Marshal and devoted himself with remarkable energy to directing the wide flung activities of his armies, he showed his good judgment in at first subordinating his opinions to the notable group of war experts known as the Great General Staff. CONSTANTLY WITH HIS ARMIES. The Great General Staff is the di- recting brain of military Germany. To it, according to general belief, even the Emperor bows. It is a board consisting of about 500 of the bright- est minds in the German army. By it all plans of campaign are made. It decides all great questions of military policy and then sees that these are rigidly carried out. The Kaiser was almost constantly in the field. He moved with great rapidity from one theatre of war to another. When important questions of State called for his attention, his civil administrative heads usually journeyed to his quarters near the attle line. He seldom came to Ber- lin, although keeping in constant touch with the pulse of the nation. While stern in eliminating all com- manders who had been proven unfit for their positions, beginning with Count von Moltke in the early days of the war, he was equally active in dis- tributing merited praise. With his own hand he pinned the coveted mili- tary decorations on the breasts of the brave and the efficient. In the field of the Kaiser's life was Spartan. He rose early and worked late. In the winter of 1914-15 he had an attack of sickness. Through it he continued to confer with his chiefs. His recevery was quick and he was soon traveling about the battlefields with his wonted energy. Again in December, 1915, he was officially re- ported ill, this time with inflamma- tion of the cellular tissue, or cellulitis, 1 a vague term which covers many things from boils to more serious ail- | ¢ ments.—Philadelphia Record. | 1 | i Who Started the Childs’ Restaurants. ; Childs’ restaurants of which there | : are a large number extending over. the country, as far west as Denver, | ¥ have been admired and patronized by : & high-grade business men because of | § their cleanliness, order, system and | § food at popular prices. | 8 As the system has gradually ex-' tended out from its birth bed—New ! York—the question is often asked if | there is or ever was a man named | Childs connected with the business. Yes, there are six of ‘em—count ! ‘em—all farmer boys originally from | Basking Ridge, New Jersey, the sons | of William Childs, a very prosperous farmer of that town. They are Sam- uel, William Jr., Luther, Fred, Hey- | man and Ellsworth. The restaurant system was built up | by William, Samuel and Ellsworth Childs, William now being president of the company. : All were farmer boys and Fred, Heyman and Luther are still farmers, | but they are a part of the restaurant | system as their farms are a part of’ its operations, supplying dairy pro- ducts and garden truck for the New York and Philadelphia locations. Fred Childs has charge of the milk supply for all’ the restaurants and op- erates a very large dairy and cream- ery in New Jersey owned by the sys- tem. Samuel Childs, the oldest of the brothers, a West Point graduate, a civil engineer by profession, came in- to the business after it had assumed considerable proportions. | William and Ellsworth Childs are | the real founders of the Childs’ res- taurants. ; They were first employed by Den- nette, in New York, really the origi- nal quick lunch man, and the Childs’ boys worked with white coats and afterwards became managers. The Dennette system was founded about 40 years ago and at one time assumed considerable proportions. They were the first restaurants in the country with white tile lined interiors and a pancake griddle in the show window. Much of the original tradition in the Childs’ restaurants was obtained from Dennette, including a butter cake, a sort of sour milk biscuit, now one of the most popular items of food preparation and standard in all the Childs’ restaurants before the war. Dennette was a very religious man and over his place at 25 Nassau St., New York, he had a room equipped with church seats, a pulpit and an or- gan and all the help were required to attend religious services every morn- ing. Downstairs he had signs up not only expressing religious sentiments but advertising certain food items. For instance, “Try our corn beef hash,” and right under it, “Be ready to Meet Your Maker.” It is generally gossiped around the country that the Childs’ restaurants are really owned by Standard Oil, but, restaurant men around New York say that this is only true in the sense that the stockholders in some cases may be the same in both corporations. The first and original enlargement of the business was very largely financed by the supply houses and jobs in food supplies around New ork. The whole or very large economy of this or any like business system is in quantity and standard buying of not only food supplies but the gener- al furnishings and equipment. It is stated that while the general and even individual overhead is more in the case of each unit of a system of restaurants than of one individu- ally owned and operated, yet this dif- ference is made up by a large profit in standardized and quantity buying. _Then, obviously, there are larger dividends in an aggregate of small profits on a large volume of business than in large individual profits on a small volume of business. The Childs’ people have gone in for long time lease-holds on their loca- tions and have built and rebuilt the buildings that they occupy, investing much capital—more than could be ob- tained outside any center of finance. U. S. Loses 100,000 in the Great War. Washington, Nov. 26.—Officials here estimate that the total casual- ties of the American expeditionary forces in the war will not exceed 100,- 000, including the men killed in ac- tion, wounded, died of wounds, disease and accidents and missing. It was said it probably would be several weeks before the record of casualties can be completed. It is re- garded as almost certain that many of the casualties in the recent heavy fighting by the First and Second American armies have not yet been reported. Lists also must be compil- ed of unreported American casualties in British and French hospitals, es- ecially from among the United tates forces brigaded with allied units. Deaths from wounds also prob- ably will be reported for some time, while lists of slightly wounded being sent by couriers may be delayed. The daily lists for several days have consisted of approximately 1100 names daily. Secretary Baker has in- dicated a considerable number of re- ported casualties remain to be given out, but that these will be released as rapidly as newspapers can handle them. An unofficial tabulation of publish- ed casualty lists, including those of November 12, shows a grand total of 71,390 men. Careful estimates, based on knowledge of the battle conditions faced by the First and Second armies in the days immediately preceding cessation of hostilities and on the av- erage lists heretofore, lead officers to believe that all unpublished and unre- porvea. casualties will not exceed A Father’s Foresight. Some one noticed that Pat used both hands equally well. “When I was a boy,” he explained, “me father always said to me: ‘Pat, learn to cut yer finger nails wid yer left hand, for some day ye might lose yer right hand.’ ’—Ladies’ Home Journal. “My, isn’t the ocean blue?” “Well, wouldn’t you be blue if you were confined in your bed the way the ocean is ?”’—Cornell Widow. Prescribing for Paul By JANE OSBORN by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Aside from any considerations of patriotism—and he really was as true a patriot as any in the county—Paul Dedham lenged to join the colors and lamented the youthful bookishness that had made him too astigmatic as to eyesight to be of militury use to his country. This secondary feeling of discontent in mufti was frankly due to the fact that he felt completely snubbed in the once-doting circle of his own family, snubbed by the. young women of the community by whom his mother had once assured him he was regarded as quite a catch. For the young woman, who . somehow : sent . strange thrills coursing tlirough one’s little community of Marden was with- | in short range of an encampment and Marden was doing its best to create a “desirable -home:atmosphere” for the boys in khaki. Meantime men who still wore gray cheviot, or blue serge. or pepper-and-salt business suits were negligible. You don’t mind not having any sugar on your baked apple,” Paul was as- sured siveetly by his mother at break- fast. “We are making apple pies for the canteen this morning, and those apples were so tart that we had to use all the sugar we had on hand.” And when Paul, his mouth in a pucker, ' for two days. put his hand out for the sugar bowl for his coffee his mother passed him a nice little jug of sirup, assuring him that he was going to enjoy using that in place of sugar because they had used practically® their entire quota of cut sugar and they would henceforth have it only when they had soldier boys for dinner. veins when she felt one’s pulse, and for lack of a stethoscope she had to lay her golden-crowned little head against his heart for full three min- utes at a time to find out the state of that organ. But, anyway, there were advantages in this new embar- rassment. At least she was taking him seriously—even though she re- ceived a fee for doing so—and that was more than any woman had done since the encampnrent was established near Msrden. She told him that he surely did need treatment, but that she would have to think the matter over before she could prescribe. Meantime Paul went home encour- aged and Doctor Kate cultivated the acquaintance of Paul's sister and mother. She had suspected something and she found it to be true. Then she laid out a plan for a cure and pro- ceeded to apply it. But the cure did not come in any pill boxes or medicine bottles. The first dose was an invi- tation to dinner at her house, on the pretext of meeting her mother. And Doctor Kate watched with satisfac- tion that was not all professional as Lie accepted his fifth muffin—they were made with as much wheat as the Hoo- ver regulation . allowed—and watched him eat the dessert to mdke which she and her mother had foregone sugar Doctor Kate had a won- derful way of finding things out, for Paul himself never told her about his socks. But -before many weeks had passed he was actually bringing his socks stealthily to Doctor Kate's mother, who assured him she had a perfect passion for darning, and since her own boy had gone to the front she had had none to do. Then Kate prescribed some sort of electrical treatment for her patient that had to be administered every morning in her office before breakfast, - and she also assured him that the good “The boys just love cake,” his sister ! assured him, “and it does seem a pity to use any substitute in it.” Then with moisture in her eyes—*“They’ll be | in France so soon the least we can do is to let them have our wheat,” and Paul gulped down a soggy bullet of a corn muffin and sipped eautisusly the | insipid mixture of his coffee. sured that he was a “perfect dear.” That was after he had signed a check for his mother for the Red Cross, or when he had paid the bill for a hun- dred pounds of candy for a soldier spread at the canteen. He was a “nice boy,” too, sometimes, and was assured | that he was one by some of the girls who had once rather vied with each other to meet him on the temnis court or golf links. But to earn that title he had to sit for an hour or more on someone’s front porch holding hanks of yarn or winding them from the backs of chairs, while he was actually deserted for a man in khaki. “If you should happen to get any- thing the matter with you,” his sister told him one morning when he was feeling especially dejected over the cook’s most recent attempt at war muffins, “I do wish you'd let Doctor Pratt have a try at you—not, of course, that I want you to have any- thing—but if you should.” And on inquiry as to who Doctor Pratt was he was informed that Doc- | tor Pratt was Kate Pratt—that Doctor : Peters, being a skilled surgeon, had volunteered for the war and that Kate Pratt, his niece, just from medical col- lege, was going to handle his practice. “And she has quite a lot of money, so she is going to give all her fees to the Red Cross or to the canteen or something. That is confidential, of course, but I have it on good author- ity. So it would be awfully nice if you did get something the matter with you to go to her. She's been quite successful. She set Priscilla’s chow’s leg the other day and the blessed dog didn’t even whimper, and she fixed one of the soldiers’ ankles at the ser- vice club dance. He was dancing with that fat Baldwin girl and she tripped him and he strained his ankle and Doctor Pratt fixed him—but of course she didn’t charge for that.” To Paul there was something odious in the idea of letting a woman doctor prescribe for him, but he kept his opinion to himself and merely made some comment on Priscilla’s chow, effects of the treatment would be off- set if he went out afterward without eating. Having breakfast with Doc- tor Kate and her mother therefore be- came part of the treatment. And Paul recovered rapidly. He re- gained the lost pounds, and presently his case was spoken of as a feather in the cap of Doctor Kate Pratt. Gos- sip had it that he was in an actual decline when she took him in hand. No one knew just what the treatment ; i had been, but it had required many, Occasionally, however, Paul was as- | many visits, and the fee that was handed over to the Red Cross as a result was enough to buy all the yarn that Marden women could knit up in a year. And the funny thing was that when Paul sued for Doctor Kate's heart and hand and gained them both Mar- den women folk were a little peeved, even to Paul's own mother and sister. “It’s always that way with eligible men,” was the comment. “The girls in the home town can pet them and pamper them for years, but the first nice girl from out of town is the one they marry.” For Marden. failed to see how piti- fully susceptible Paul Dedham had be- come as a result of the neglect he had suffered. ALL HAVE DREADED GHOSTS Spirits Play a Most Important Part in the Lives of Primitive Peoples of the World. Ghosts are extremely ancient. The people of old who dwelt in caves were well acquainted with them. In the lives of primitive peoples of today a very important part is played by ghosts. Their world is thickly populated with thém. When a man sleeps his phantasm, which cannot sleep, goes a-traveling. With this phantasm he is quite fa- miliar, because it visibly attends him in the daytime. It is his shadow. Sav- ages are usually more or less afraid of shadows. To the savage, not only animate but even inanimate things have their ghosts. Concealed within every object is a mystery—a noumenon lurking be- hind the phenomenon, as a psycholo- gist would express the idea. In any rock there is fire hidden. One has . only to strike {it with another piece of and hoped that he was much better. Meantime he had a new worry. He was wondering how he could get his socks darned, for his mother and sis- ' the hills. ter knit soldier socks now to the dis- | regard of the darning bag. At first he had bought new socks as he needed them, but he had now accumulated three or four dozen pairs and it didn’t seem the best solution. He was wondering whether he could arrange with some seamstress to mend them without letting his mother know—he didn’t want her to feel offended, of course. So Paul’s spirits and his appetite waned, and before long his mother and sister noticed a lagging note in his step and a stoop to his shoulders that had not beén there before. He neg- lected the unsweetened apples and the coffee with corn sirup and they decided he had no appetite. “Well, any way, it will be a case for Doctor Kate,” his sister told him, and because Paul was actually becoming alarmed over his own dejected condition and because there was no other doctor in the place, Paul made a special appoint- ment for consultation and went to see her in old Doctor Peters’ office. Paul had realized before that there would he difficulties in consulting a woman physician, but the difficulties were different from those he had ex- pected. For Doctor Kate proved to be a most radiant and bewitching rock and sparks fly. Among the most appalling spooks that haunt the Iroquois is a carnivor- ous ghost that feeds on men. Echo, in their belief, is a phantom that re- peats their words mockingly among Particularly malevolent are certain huge heads, without bodies, that go flying about. Where Americans Lead. "The American is fascinated by novel problems, by ungauged and ungauge- able difficulties. He glories in build- ing a Panama canal after Europe's most famous engineer had failed. Be- cause Europe had never ventured to build skyscrapers that is no reason why a Woolworth should not rear a structure more than 50 stories in the air. For centuries man had dreamed of flying, but without suecess; yet two obscure American lads, nothing daunted, experimented until they con- quered the air. The original MecCor- mick was a farmer, not a mechanic, © but that did not deter him from mak- ing up his mind to produce a machine which would cut grain, and he did not give up until he had made both a reaper and a fortune. Army Supplies. Since April 1, 1917, the army of the United States has been supplied with 5.377.000 overcoats, 8,(69.000 woolen coats. 10,507,000 pairs of woolen breeches, and 5.858000 pairs of woolen socks. Motortrucks to the number of 17.988 have heen sent over- coax and 9.560 motor ambulances have hoen provided. ?
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