By CAPT. FERDINAND TUOHY.
NE toward the
close of October, 1917, a |
staff officer attached to
general headquarters in |
the fleld Egyptian expe |
nary force, rode out
No Man's Land
direction of
sheba,
afternoon
The distance between
the Turk this desert
end of the line wa
as eight
and ourselves at
miles
rols were
I this particular
in that Allenby's push for
th was due to start from day
Followed by an orderly, the staff
officer rode about for some little time,
now ¢ his
map, scanning with feld-glasses
the unending camel serub and
Suddenly-—zip, zip, zip !—several ri
onsulting leather-encased
now
sand.
fle
shots rang out, and the officer half
from horse, then recoverin
about,
apparent
ish post,
second
the
of
and
word
direction which bh
te
ceed,
Before following him, however, the
imes In an effort to recover his haver-
sack, which had dropped to the ground
as he had tilted over when
the Turkish fire was becoming more
rapid, he apparently was getting
weaker, Finally, the haversack had
ti left there on the sand under
the noses of the Turks.
In the course of the evening a
G.R.O. something In this style was cir-
culated thr-ughout the three corps In
line:
hit. jut
and
be
patrol In No Man's Land this after
noon, about x 21 d 4, 8, a staff officer
lost a haversack,
sack Is to be returned forthwith to
general headquarters without being
opened or [ts contents examined In
any way.”
Later an encipbered wireless mess-
age added:
“Determined efforts are to be made
tonight by troops in the sector In-
volved to recover the lost haversack
mentioned In G. R. 0. No. 102.”
That night the writer messed at a
corps headquarters and was greeted
somewhat after this fashion: “Oh,
Lord! Mere's one of these GH.Q.
wallahs ! Nice business this after.
noon. Can't go out on patrol with-
out glvinge the whelse ghow away to
the Turks! Found your blessed hav-
ersack yet? 1 should say not! Not
likely to, either! The old Turk's
fairly gloating over it by now. Con-
tained the whole plan of the push, 1
suppose? The fellow who dropped It
ought to be strung up! Prancing
anhout up to the Turk with operation
orders in his pocket!”
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On the Gaza front at this period
the British line extended from the
a
a
JN
THE CENTRE
SOITERILIS GALE JERISALEDS
coast to the vicinity of Beersheba, 00
or 70 miles Inland toward the desert.
In push for Jerusalem, i
Allenby's grandiose plan
if not entirely, on
reduction
the General
hinged main-
the swift and
of Beersheba. Unless
the whole action
re
were
od in
effected,
danger of fizzling out
the Turks got w
4 thy" dan, and shortly
“Z"' day—the day of our
”
they livision from Gaza
be
Oofien-
moved a
shout balanced the opposing
Beer
fibeo.
3 omething to
cause the Turks to move this division
back to again or, for that mat-
ter, to any part of the line as long as
from Beersheba.
The head of the enemy's intelligence
gsorvice was Captain
Schiller.
An intelligence service exists to find
numeric , In the vital
sector, became
Tes te “ ~ cp
utely necess
(azn
if WAS away
opposite one
{ deing next,
{ It now behooved our intelligence to
make their—the
believe that there was nothing to fear
the Beersheba sector, that the vi-
attack was coming elsewhere,
Scheme after scheme was weighed
in
| tal
slipping by.
i that one hope would be to devise
| means of getting “faked” documentary
evidence through to Schiller himself,
{ and so to set the stage that even that
| wily customer would be taken in. It
{had been purposely conveyed to him,
{ that, in
| better far have left the whole affair
{ most severely alone. But now, to re-
{ count thls queer tale through its de
{ velopment, let wus reconstruct the
| scene In Schiller's office, as we belleve
it to have been enacted, that’ October
night following the discovery of a
British haversack by a Turkish patrol.
Schiller opens the haversack and
finde inside some sandwiches, an elec
teic torch and a flask, a map and a
wallet and notebook combined. He
rends intently several pages of serib-
bled pencil notes written in diary
form, then pushes back his chair and
Inughs outright:
“Ha, ha! Das ist gut! Specially
dropped for us to pick up! They're
getting quite clever, these English!”
A signal officer announces:
“The English have just sent out a
pT [
GEYEREL, ALLEY ™
| wireless message
fort 1s to
ng, that they're going
{Gaza first, not at Beersheba?
i notes refer to all Allenby's conferences
onutl I'm certain
Why, look what
prisoners told us only
ne
| for
they're faked. those
And
thelr
less act!
“There
wallet,
still
nid
are BOmMe
the younger
rasps the other flerce-
tone: “Gott in
we got here?
papers in the
officer.
,
“Ist mir egal I”
Then, changing
i! What
» reads:
have
Sorry we must delay
as I'm running down
fow Back
Yours, Allenby.”
let.
“Dear K— :
our little shoot
to Cairo for a
November 4
days’ rest
E
slowly from
calendar,
jritish offensive
Sehiller looks the
ter
The
for October 28, and
chief going away on
+}
to the
ish commander-in-
leave!
“Donnerwetter!™
“1f this
| what is It" this
just entered.
man becoming-~ Yes
{ *®
nan, i8n 1
to nn }
{ If anyone found it, he was not on any
| account to open it. but was to send It
| direct to headquarters.”
| Schiller doesn’t answer as this fur
{ Eagerly, almost
{in endearing terms, and a letter,
rambles on in that tender language
{her own. The letter is crinkled and
| hundred times; It 18 a letter in a mil-
| lion. Its loss could only be accl
| dental,
80 reasoned Schiller!
The division that had been hastily
moved into reserve at Beersheba was
as hastily moved back to Gaza.
On October 28 we attacked the
weakened Turkish position at Beer
sheba and, as all the world knows, car
ried everything before us,
And the letter concerning the first.
horn—the letter that saved hundreds,
possibly thousands, of British lives
and went far to giving us Jerusalem,
and ultimately a whole country?
Has the little hospital nurse at El
Arish, ‘with the girlish handwriting,
forgotten all about it?
Calls Women Unmusi
Women are naturally mechanical,
therefore no woman is really musical,
contended J. Swinburne in an address
before the Musical association in Lon-
don.
“It is commonly belleved that wom-
en's brains are just like men's and
that they can do everything that man
ean do just as well,” he sald. “The
assumption Is quite unfounded. Wom-
[en are nowhere In sclence, although
| welentifie training has been open to
| them for more than a generation.
“T't» cultivation of music by women
hinders the development of the art,
{One effect of the supposed musical
| gifts 8 women is that girls are taught
musie, while boys are neglected In
this training.”
Rivers That Are Salty.
There Is a salt river in Australia.
and another, the Rio Salado, In the
Argentine Republic ip South American,
The Athabasca river of British North
America has two Important salt
tranches, one of which rises in a nat.
ura! salt spring and the other has its
source in the Cariboo mountains,
which contain vast deposits of salt
rock. Another salt river, having its
origin In a similar formation, is one
kof the tribataries of the Great Slave
river. .
There is something the matter with
any woman when she Is willing to
let a man do all the talking.
CENTRE HALL, PA.
MRE. MOUSE & MR, FROG
NE day Mr. Mouse, who hand been
driven from barn he
Hved by Mrs. Tabby and her family,
ran across the road the
and wandered down by the pond.
“I may as well jump in and drown
myself,” sald Mr. Mouse, feellug very
sad and discouraged. “There
place 1 where that cat does
the where
to meadow
is no
gO
is
“What
seem so sad?” Mr.
asked
MR MOUSE WOW THAT HE
ULINE LISTENER,
who sat
heard
“Why
you
this
Mr. )
Ing
troubles
far away
Mot
108
Mr,
on a
thant
you
all is bad
need
lise on
Bach
“But
hamp
“and maybe
home,
1d Hye on
Oa ve on
th
i
n't | it when
EENCE
da olda
da war
country
queeta fight
seema lke noe
Lasa week I reada on do
Da papar say
over here for getta some
match. 1 tink ees preety tough he
gotta come tree thousand mile jusa
I dunno eef dat guy smoka da cee
Eef 1 gotta go
We gotta too many people deesa
country now wot looka for da match,
Everyday fiva, seexa guys aska me for
da match and bouta tree dozen for da
ceogarette. But eef dat guy come all
Sa way from England for jusa one
1a da bum more as we know,
Dat priza fight guy no gotta bees
ness to smoke anyway. Da smoke
But I po tink dat priza fight
guy gotta moocha head. Eef he wanta
smoke go bad he could getta fired from
Sees job and mebbe lighta hees smoke
an da fire. 1 dunno.
When 1 reada dat plece een da paper
f feela sorry for one ting, 1 weesha
my boss was dat guy een da olda
sountry. Eef he no could finda match
for lighta hees pipe da people wot
worka for heem could have leetle
pleasure and no go moocha smell. And
¢ef 1 hava somating to say about, he
sure hava hard time come over here
for a match, too,
Wot you tink?
: wal Pinsissinnt
Madness in a Dream,
To: dream of madness, although you
were the sufferer, Is sald to signify
f MILDRED HARRIS CHAPLIN
| CHGTGOGO SIS O
ii
Httie and I'll come right
Mr. Frog,
It n't a before he was
back again, and Mr. Mouse rolled off |
the ground, and gasping |
for breath, |
up,”
Wis
second
choking
“Why, you did not even get to the
bottom of the pond. You pinched al-
most as soon ag we started,” said Mr, |
“i
know
I did.
never
once that |
water for a |
I knew at
like the
Mr. Frog, |
ig, “There are no cats here and |
to eat”
“There nny
“I can't see why,” said
-
I
there |
have |
that |
in away ly
Cx
| wae cos
cats, but
cnts, I
Why,
are worse
sald Mr. Mou
found.”
from Puss
not
if I look sharp,
from the water
can 1
water?
Mr. Fre
KE to the barn and
with Mrs, Tabi
f
nny folks there are |
rin away
BON Low
Mildred Harris was well known as
a “movie” actress before she became
the wife of Charlie Chaplin, the film
comedian,
Vil,
They were married in the
Mr. Frog he waiched | fall of 1918. Mildred Harris
ut of it. “He'd rathe in the limelight the silent
‘ell, | and is well liked by the mill
| see her on the screen,
is still
drama
icns
in
1 than in 1} who
By Edna Kent Forbes
PERFUMES
K
ign
iki
al
GREAT STATESMEN.
why it
i read
elLher i
ne albotit
‘ i 143
ists carry
it
one Frangi-
who lived i
was
i We find, In stud;
These sialesmey
great
That
An
hey ou
About thelr own
That ought, it seems,
Ing
It merely makes them sul
reform
sing~
them
wt
! orm!
i
{One time we fell fo. 1)
And though helr very hearts
| On what
mensions
{ Have my 3
! We find that what they really
ot the righteous thing.
elr pretensions
were set
al A
aelir ai
shrunken regret
long for
per se,
g they are so strong for
Is having great things done “by me”
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FINNIGIN FILOSOFY.
Ivery man goes t'ru a sta-age
whin, if some frind don’t wurrk
airnistly wid ‘im, he'll have a
pitcher ta’aken wid ‘is head
la-anin’ on "is band.
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Buses (U Silent, as in Mud).
| Buses are of three kinds: Omn?,
| $itney and incu.
Sometimes the first two become the
latter, and then there is a “for sale”
ad,
The omni is perhaps the commonest
kind, takinz the towns by and large,
! especially by.
The | The regular village omnibus is a
or! cross between a milk-wagon and a
es- | hearse,
3 the thin
Perfumes Have a Reviving Effect]
Upon Tired People.
in the time of the Crusaders
listed ingredients are all spices
olls: Extract neroli, 1 drachm,
sence royale, 8 drachms; ofl of laven-| It Is as springless as the Sahara
der, oll of cloves, oil of rhodium, 5 | desert, and is lighted for the trips to
drops each; powdered civet, 10|the night train with a seventeen.
grains; rectified spirits, 4 ounces, | skunk - power - one - sixteenth - candle.
The formula I obtained from an old. | power kerosene glim, whose chimney
{1s in deep mourning.
i The jitney bus is of newer vintage,
| but is already sccumulating a charae
" | teristic perfume,
CROSBY'S KIDS In fact, It has always been In bad
success \n your life's uns “akings.
> ve * |odor with streot railway companies
{ | cad thelr stockholders,
| The incu kind may be almost any.
thing from a wife to a carbuncle.
The plural of incrbus is Incubl.
| And while an incubus is a singular
thing, It is almost always in the
| plural.
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TOOK HER AT HER WORD.
Ehe sald she'd "not a thing to wear ™
1 quickly left the place.
Were she to dress thus, I'd not dare
To look ber In the face.
What the Sphinx Says
“A man
who will sell
his honor for
i song gets
mil it {a
worth.”