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Nation Will Never Be Able to
Make Amends for Damage.
FERTILE SOIL IS DESTROYED
innumerable Unexploded Shells Will
Make Cultivation Precarious
Doubtful If Land Can Be
Reclaimed.
By WRIGHT PATTERSON.
What must Germany pay for?
That question can be adequately an-
swered only when it is remembered
that Germany started the terrible fcon-
flict in Europe for no reason other
than that of conquest and loot; start-
ed it only to satisfy the selfish ambi-
tions of a selfish people for world
domination. That is being admitted
today by what Is left of the German
nation; it is admitted by those who
were directly responsible for the war.
And it is because Germany started
this conflict for no reason other than
that of conquest and loot that Ger-
many owes to the world full payment
for all the devastation which the war
has brought, not only in so far as she
can pay now, but in so far as she can
pay for generations yet to come,
Among the many, many sections of
Belgium and northern France that I
personally covered, following closely
on the heels of the retreating Hun
army, was that which lies between
what were the cities of Ypres and
Menin, approximately 20 miles apart,
Here, before the coming of the invad-
lng Boche, was what was considered
the most productive soil of the world,
and the most intensely cultivated.
Here in a number of farm villages
lived the Belgian peasant families,
happy, thrifty people, each family cul-
tivating the small fields which {it
owned. No fences separated these
fields, no hedges cut them off {rom the
Ground Pulverized by
roadways, and the families that cult.
vated the fields lived not on the little
farms but in closely bullt villages of
from 100 to 500 people each.
Devastation Is Complete.
It is hard to realize today that these
villages ever existed, that the land
along this long, straight road was ever
cultivated, ever produced foodstuffs
for a people. In fact, it Is hard to
realize today that this was ever an in-
habited country.
Of these peaceful villages, the living
places of these farm people, there is
no trace left. There are not even piles
of debris, of broken brick and stone
and lumber, to mark the spots where
they stood. There is no single thing
by which the returning peasants, wear
fly dragging themselves back fo that
spot which had been home to them and
to their ancestors for almost countless
generations, can mark the place where
not only their home but their village
had stood,
I have seen old men and women,
wearied by four long years of exile,
stand beside this road and gaze long-
and Menin, on both sides of that long
straight road, I am sure I did not see
one square foot of soll that was not
a part of a shell crater. What had
once been the richest soil of the
cause Germany sought world domina-
tion. This soil has been destroyed by
actually one upon another, each dig-
very subsoil has been turned over and
the land made worthless for cultiva-
tion for years to come, if Indeed it can
ever be reclaimed.
Unexploded Shells Buried in Soll,
There lle today on the surface of
this land many thousands of unex-
ploded shelis, and there are buried In
the soll many, many thousands more,
each one of them a menace to any
farmer who attempts to put a plow
into the soil in an effort to reclaim It.
;And this land is destroyed, as the
homes were destroyed, because of Ger-
man ambition, of German cruelty, of
German lust, of German wantonness
and German brutality.
risk destruction that it may again be
put into condition for cultivation, that
it may serve the purposes of the hu-
man race? Shall the peaceful Belgian
peasants, who had no part in the start-
ing of this conflict, suffer their loss
without compensation? Shall these
peasants who have endured more than
four long years of homeless agonies,
who have suffered not alone the loss
of homes and land but the loss of
relatives and friends as well, be the
ones to risk destruction in the effort
to again bring these lands back to a
condition where cultivation is possi-
ble? Shall they be blown to bits by
the bursting of these shells, hidden as
they are beneath the surface of the
ground, when the plow strikes and ex-
plodes them? If undisturbed, those
shells continue to be a menace for
years to come, but who are to risk
their lives in removing them?
Could the American people gener
ally, and especially the American farm-
ers, have seen the sights I have seen
along this long, straight road between
Ypres and Menin, they wonld say, as
I say, 1t Is the German who must pay:
it is the German who must risk de-
struction in the effort to put this land
again into condition for cultivation.
I believe that one condition of the
peace treaty should be that Germany,
either as one nation sor proportionately
from the severhl small nations that
may be formed out of the German em-
pire, should call its military classes to
the colors each year as it has done In
the past; but In place of putting guns
into the hands of these men, and train.
ing them for the purposes of war—a
war of conquest—that it should put
these men into the territories she has
devastated, to reclaim the soil and to
rebuild the villages, the towns and
cities the Huns have destroyed. Let
these Germans, under guard of Bel-
gian troops, take the risk of destrue-
tion; let them guide the plow that may
strike the unexploded shell, and let
Germany pay them the meager wagen
of the German soldier while they are
doing this,
Should Pay and Pay and Pay.
in an effort to locate some familiar ob
ject that would remind them of the
spot they had known all their lives,
and then turn away with tears on their
cheeks because they could not find
even one small object that would tell
them of the homes, the only homes,
they had known.
It was German ambition, German
cruelty, German lust, German wanton-
negs, German brutality, that were the
cnuse of the destruction of these
What can possibly compensate these
for their loss, for the misery
they have suffered and must still suf.
fer, for the homes and the associations
an accounting that Germany can ren
der to the world, but she should «pay
people to pay who have so ruthlessly
pay, and pay, and pay, until they have
learned beyond the shadow of a doubt
that war for the purpose of conquest,
for the purpose of loot, for the grati-
possibly engage in.
And rem that the devastation
to be seen al the road from Ypres
to Menin is but an example of all the
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and is, in fact, under way, that the
business of furnishigg apparel for
southern tourists is a more important
| factor in merchandising than e®er be
fore. Nearly all these birds of passage
C among us mortals are people in easy
circumstances, to say the least, and
many of them are in a position to com
mand the best in apparel, as in every.
thing else that money can buy. It is
an educated, discriminating and ex.
acting taste in clothes that designers
must satisfy when they undertake to
| suit the fashionables that congregate
{ under sunny skies in midwinter. They
{are there to see and to be seen, and it
| Is not likely that there Is any, greater
fashion parade anywhere than in our
own famed American winter resorts,
In millinery there are hats that have
_ thelr try-outs in the South and become
established as styles for spring; they
are, therefore, Interesting to every
woman, A group of three of them ap-
pears above, one for dress, one for
semidress and one for gding-about, the
Inet having a light wrap made to
match it
perstraw, bound at the «dge with a
narrow fold of satin,
in the most
At the front
it and tied at the back
casual way imaginable,
the satin.
in reality, a difficult affair to make,
for each separate littie straw has to
curacy. A hat of this Kind might be
colors with facing in black,
has a crown berufiled with hairbraid
lace and a border of it falling from the
brim edge. A bouquet of spring flow.
ers 1s posed against the side crown. It
is a picturesque and summery eres.
tion—a forerunner of wide brimmed
models that may be expected to arrive
in farce next summer, .
The sailor shape with soft crown,
shown at the right, has no adornment
but a big tassel. If is developed In
belge color, with braid brim and satin
crown. The wide wearf has a long
turned-back velvet collar and Is gath.
ered at the back, from which long
heavy silk tassels are suspended,
OLD PRESCRIPTION
OR WEA KES
|
Have you ever stopped to reason why
it is that so many products that are ex.
| tensively advertised, all at once drop out
| of sight and are soon forgoften? The
| reason is plain—the article did not fulfi)
| the promises of the manufacturer. This
| applies more particularly to a medicine.
| A medicinal preparation that has real
| eurative value almost sells itself, as like
| an endless chain system the remedy is
| recommended by those who have been
| benefited, to those who are in need of it.
| A prominent druggist says, “Take for
| example Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, 2
ip ration I have sold for many years
| apd never hesitate to recommend, for in
| almost every case it shows excellent re.
| sults, as many of my customers testify.
| No other kidney remedy that I know of
| has so large a sale.”
| According to sworn statements and
verified testimony of thousands who have
| used the preparation, the success of Dr.
| Kilmers’ Swamp-Root is due to the fact
| that so many people claim, it fulfills al
| most every wish in overcoming kidney,
| liver and bladder ailments, corrects ur-
inary troubles and neutralizes the uric
acid which causes rheumatism.
You may receive a sample bottle of
Bwamp-Root by Parcel Post. Address
| Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., and
enclose ten cents; also mention this paper.
Large and medium size bottles for sale
at all drug stores.—Ady.
Lights Beautify Garden.
The terrace in front of a large lann
dry plant has been beautified with a |
peculiarly beautiful sign which is the
combined electrician’s |
and a gardeners skill Each
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Those of us who are past middle ag=
are prone to eat too much meat and in
consequence deposit lime-salts in the
arteries, veins and joints, We often
suffer from twinges of rheumatism or
lumbago, sometimes from gout, swollen
hands or feet. There is no longer the
slightest need of this, however, as the
new prescription, * Anuric,” is bound
to give immediate results us it Is many
times more potent than lithia, in ridding
the impoverished blood of its poisons
by way of the kidneys. It can be ob-
tained at almost any drug store, by
simply asking for * Anuric” for kidneys
or backache. It will overcome such
conditions as rheumatism, dropsical
swellings, cold extremities, scalding and
burning urine and sleeplessness due to
constant arising from bed at night.
Bend to Dr. Pierce's Invalids’ Hotel,
Buffalo, N. Y., for a 10c. trial package.
Frevesioxsstunc, Va. ~~" suffered with kidney
trouble for about four months. | would have
pains across my kidneys and lunbeago, and when
I would stoop over I could scarcely straighten up.
Then at times it was impossible for me to stoop
st all, and | became so bad thet | was simost
down and out, when | ssw Anuric advertised and
decided to give it a trial. It was only necesssry
for me to take one bottle to completely cure me
and 1 have not felt the slightest trace of kidney
trouble since, 1 recommend Ancric to all those
suffering with backache or kidney aflments of
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