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
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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,
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a vague term which covers many
things from boils to more serious ail- | ¢
ments.—Philadelphia Record.
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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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