ha wa" T i [ne » of ¢ ons | Fhe manufacture of clay pigeous | “YE Erm a ; Li industry in itself, Nun HRA ae ee Be All INiterates Will Be Drilled Men- | tally as Well as Phys- ically. Major Ferris’ Development Battalion at Camp Upton Furnishes Basis for New Activity—Splendid Results Already Shown. . sep— L. 1. the Camp gained during with the training and illiterate and non-English to be turned to account in ing of a peace-tin By direction of the ar there first “recruit educational center,” f which 00 barracks build ings have been set aside, and It be conducted the Maj. Ralph Hall Ferris when he made such a success of development bate) talion No. which went out of beir when the art i tice Wis Rig Major morale of the cente of his own pian. Upton, instruction Speakers the recruit- 1 § department is being here the and other will lines on followed by 6 gned camp commander Ferris ns officer Brigadier General comt received 8 the or 1 we : day rder and recruiting the ments of will An illiters ing recru plan wi will ing from officers born | in when years has expired. Under the draft act 24.9 per cen the men or practically quarter of them, were unable tp a newspaper or write a letter home. There 1.500 such men and they put in Major development battalion. His eastern and the army, Be Taught English. ate or non-English #1 receive addition get « his enlistment fifi read enlisted, sent here Ferris’ method were were Drilled for Water; Read What He Found De Pere, Wis~The discovery too early for the the big thirst, but Jules Dufrene says he expects to enjoy for many a day four jugs of 30-year-old cognac. The jugs bear the of Louis XIII, with the fleur de lis, and had been buried by erly traders, Dufrene found the jugs when drilling for a well the of an old Fre neh trading post. wi Cnn day of to come goals on site Ww of acted training and them educating attention hi Was General in ngton notification sent wm by Mal. Gen chief of heen to Henry Joervey, ant s1aflf, he said; A has gelected nat it is loen centrally hecause of the in English that have fice rosults connection ith , - : obtained in development battalion 8, Camp Upton.” On Angust 21, opment 18918, the Sixt unit org was who were 111i speak English, except rio} NysIcal it. The defects, were feaohiors heen orga English there manufactured however, ig for Immes The early in April for supplying writin tion Ih aCCupRiion in men are an of the 1 about two Antwerp on Malines racks are being erected at Contle the accommodation of 20.000 nt a time This is ject a little more port, The ground picked out for the Amer. is a vast plain, dry and well irrigated, and the doughboys will living and sanitary much better than in other bases which have achieved greater prestige, The Americans have taken some of the piers where North Ger. man Lloyd steamships formerly dock. el. The early work was arduous, as the piers were incombered with gravel the rand waldiors expects id to life in- into Antwerp ican base find conditions there aver m— Those Who Hire Service Men to Be Recognized. Special Certificate Will Be Signed by Baker, Daniels and Colonel Wood. Shes Washington, — Patriotic employers who perform their duty in employing returning soldiers and sailors will ree celve a citation from the government, Col. Arthur Woods, assistant to See retary of War Baker, announced, Colonel Woods sald his office has completed arrangements with both the war and navy departments for this recognition of employers who pledge themselves to take back employees who entered the service and to show prefers ence to soldiers and sailors In taking on new employees, For those who join this new legion given, signed by Secretary Baker of the war department, Secretary Dan- fels of the navy department, and by Colonel Woods, representing the war and navy departments. The certifi- Departments, United Siates of Amer fea,” reads: “This certifies that << has assured the war and na® departments that he will gladly re-employ everybody whe formerly worked with him and left to serve in the army or navy during the great war, (Rigned) Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War; Josephus Daniels, Keeretary of the Navy; Arthur Woods, Assistant to the Secretary of War” In addition to the certificate, the council of national defensd, consisting of the secretary of war, the secre- tary of the navy, the secretary of la bor, the secretary of the Interior, the secretary of commerce and the secre. tary of agriculture, will nuthorize the of hover a special certificate will be i — m— to” 3 formations the men, clementory fl genera Instruction vas given In E . Made Good Progress. three months men who coul little or profi § i both in fiissions of the proved thelr Americanism by becoming wi f i1 ls Fireproof. jee] Sweeney, a fireproof. wankbouse # motth hig come suing from found sicep ling ablaze did not reetfedl the and cout Grand Little Scheme. iw I make wire that home ri away from ize, Fusmur Gedved, street conductor, is sald linve compelled ber to ride miles and miles on hig ear. That was not so bad, but when he Jocked house and marked the bottoms of her shoes that 1 world she left the place, she objected. ear 10 her up in the “ry Tigre be able Mrs, Gedved wag given a decree when she toid her troubles in the divorce court. | eymbol that he has pledged i to fulfill his obligations, Certificates can be obtained by ap i plying to Col, Arthur Woods, assistnnt ito the secretary of war, war departs i ment, Washington, D. C. himself Had Old Bank Account. Burlington, In.—James Bryant, sev. enty-five years old, arrested here on a charge of horse theft, suddenly re called while in jail that 20 years ago he deposited £1,000 in a Burlington bank. An officer accompanied Bryant to the bank, and, sure enough, he found his account intact with interest accumulated. Bryant says he is af flicted with lapses of memory and says he! does ngt recall stealing the horse, which was taken from a Musca tine stable. Just a Little Late, New York.—“Just heard about the war and I want te enlist,” sald Ste- phen Kresney, dashing up to a marine recruiting office. He was ghite shocked when told he was too late, the war being over. ; Y REASON of its monuments iis Histor most interest ern Eur pe. Bull junction of . Metz, HIE invasion i? Seille Metis, 3 and their example During the spare cailed, by thu ginn d; the por a? ruled by : of thirteen, as well os bn cil of elders. Regained Its Independence, In the tenth century the German €m- perors appropriated Me roiled by Henry the Fowler but the independent old city soon took ad of the internal ' pt in SMa nge digsensions the prove gnlives Henry II of and and de- France gry # ended it victoriousiy against Charles resign himself to the loss of so important a and 114 cannon the which cord In bombardments at that After two months of extraor of TH000 men shots on city, Was a Ie aotze 3 g efforts, having lost by the Duke Francois de Charles V then ceded Toul and Yerdun to France. The Messing had never sought to the they felt manded love up arms against the Charles VIII. In 1557 ambitious cardinal of Lorraine obliged to take Inferior rank, to the forced cession which take French king, sithough the latter modestly assumed the title of protector, he was, in fact, master of the city, It was only in 1858 that Henry VII officially took the tile of sovereign Jord of Metz, In 1643 Louis XIII endowed Metz with a pars Vament, and In 1648 the treaty of Westphalian definitely incorporated Metz, Toul, and Verdun with France the new province thus constituted be- ing known as the Three Bishoprics. After that period the capital of Lor raine remained impregnable; vainly did Brunswick in 1792 and Blucher in 1814 strive to render themselves mas ter of the citadel. Had it not been for Marshal Bazaine's infamous eapit- ulation which, signed on Qctober 23, 1870, delivered to the Germans 178. 0 men, 6000 officers and three marshals, not to speak of 1.663 cannon and 53 flags—Metz never would have fallen nor have been subjected for 48 years to the tyranny and bondage trom which the allies bave at last of Metz plished Has Twenty-Seven Pala Metz 5s 2 fine its complete city, less aincen™ consid oe Bt ( vhich date from ifteenth centuries, are of Roman aque e Place 8. Loa : houses whic 11K of many 1 BY storical mon and xteenth centard ments whict money-cha y Byes t Dt by #8 elaesic Some Interesting Churches, Metz churches, several curious the Church ot from the end of POEKCESOR poRRCEReS among which Sigolene, dating twelflih century, icularly fine stained glass, chapel executed after the design of the Sainte Chappelle of Paris, of the old abbey of St. Vincent, 1248 is remarkable for its fine sup ported by 12 pillars, the chapters which are decorated by small columns The Church of St. Clement, all that re paine of a Benedictine monastery, was constructed In the seventeenth tury; while the oratory of the monas tery of the Templars, belonging to the twelfth century snd situsted in the BONE sry rt Mis Dave oon interest, Metz contains many picturesque re mains of the past, such as the old for century, with jis quadrangular dun geon, situated In the Rue des Trini taires. In the Rue Nexirue there i= a charming residence, and in the Rue Jurue a curious old door, which, it is gnid, was the enfrance to gan oratory of the Templars, Rue de Ia Tete a'r commemorates the famous hostelry of the same name, which has uaforty nately disappeared. It was in this inn that the most hrillisnt banquets were given at Metz during the middle ages, when both the nobles and “ruffiaps” amused themselves with tournaments, nautical festivals, bonfires, proces sions, cavaleades, and representations of “mysteries,” renowned throughout the whole region, The greater part of the remaining public buildings to be seen in Metz were appropriated during the German occupation for military purposes and will no doubt continue to be so used, now that Lorraine is once more united to France, Metz is surroviaded by no lees than 12 fortresses bulli since 1867, and chiefly since 1874 The city is, moreover, protected By a bastioned rampart, built in 1674 on the plans of Yauban and of Carmontaigne, but in which two gates, dating from the ff. teenth and sixteenth centuries, have been carefully preserved. Seven other gates give access to the stanch old city, the most curious being the gate of the Germans, built: in 1445, and through which the indomitable troops of General Mangin recently made their entrance % RAN TRUE TO FORM Nothing Really Remarkable About This Tree. Considering its Variety and the Place Whence it Comes, It Could Hardly Avoid Having a Criminal Nature. in its “Odd Items” item abit a tree fence, don’t but Borton Globe prints an The roi We have lost the this it couldn't have been anywhere near Harmony, Me., says the Lewiston Jour nal, it had, the ow never would Herve mention It In the perform. item, tree BG we where was, or is, the of had to face remarkable of a relative Our of ours, relative 1 youth, and soldier In this of hud been 8 he bought he brought it a number trees ang flowers wanderings shout when farm {0 shrubs in his collected the earth, of which 1 speak was of the Thievolinnnish variety, and came from It t set out crowded out all other growing ff for vesrs three feet gov nd in 15 LArough, ana in 39, Prussia, after it was rew rapidly a 20 feet around d vil her. and narsiage maid from HOODS £ that io ob nat he exists In the young contain. on the when wale If the maid fakes the rose the young man the arrange her parents, but If the » away the pro- withou a single word having beets exchanged between the couple, flower pot note room rd BOG vil ¥ boldly enters house to allowed to iz rejected They and We. A wounded corporal in a hospital told how, while on patrol duty, he had seen the body of a noncommissioned French officer hanging by the feet, his face bashed in with muskels, “My men and 1 furious,” he sald, “and meade up our minds that we'd do the same thing to the first German we caught. That night we found two Germans hidden in a barn. We fell on them and then as they were hungry we gave them bread We could not do what they did, for we are not of the same race -— Every hody's Magazine, wore ————— Fowls Plucked With Vacoum, A machine of the vacuum type for plucking fowls is described and Mus trated In Popular Mechanics maga. zine, Wh it, It is ssid. 8 person can remove ail the feathers dry, from an average-sized bird fn about five mine utes. A motor<iriven fan creates sue tion in a large flexible tube, at the free end of which Is a special pluck. ing apparatus. Once loosed, the feathers pass through the tube into a Inrge receptacle overhead. No Honeymoon Trip. 1 attended a wedding of a dear givl friend whose father was a well-todo farmer, After the ceremony we girls crowded aronnd the blushing bride and she was asked where they ex. pected to go on thelr honeymoon trip. Ene Depiied; "We Arent quing lo take a 1 money we would spend SU buy & hice eomSOllotgy Teil i% oi : 3 A
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