i i- 4s fe fj 7 i 10 & y d SSjSrT PtfBLIG LEDGER COMPANY CTHVS Ifc if CtTtTtB, frititfiii. enh C. MrtHln, frti)teri Churl 11. Lurflnstftn. Pt(tfr t, ftlltt. Jnnn a wllllum, Dlrrtnr MDrroniAi, board Otsre lit 1C, Clitii, Chairman. I-, tV WHAtnt neiitlv Editor ISi lltfC &U.1TIN, . . .Gnerl I!uInc Msnicer riiUlitini OAlIr at rmtio Ltpor.u Bu.IJ.ng, IiUetSoriJiine Bustre, rh'l&detphla Jmth CeMroit .llroa.l and Chcttnut Strtete ArLAVWC Citf rrciJ-t.WoM lJulldinf Ksw roK ITO-A. Metropolitan Tor Cnk'ino. SIT Itotr InMi-ance llulMIn lJ.WM Waterloo Plato, rail Mall, S TT. N'CWSIlUItEAfS: fjifiieiirt tli nl-Jd Th-. rvifrtnf rtiillllf r Wimllvimut tlrm'iu 'fh f'nl llnllillnc Trt TltkHtu TM TM't llulMinr (HCftiy tlunKtt . . .... no pHMrkliitrsfM l0ixfi IliRr.AH 2 I'all Mill KM. It VV, fUM DIbSac . . . 33 lu Louis Ic arand suncninrtONTEnMs . B? earrltr, tixii r 0lt, l etnto ny mull pnoipu'd eo(We of Phllftdflnhls. ftcrpt ithr toirlm poiinitt itnvilrd. Ditv OW.T, one month, twtnty.flv ctnli Dilir ,OMt on ymr, hrt dollar All mall nub- ?ripuona payauie in advance MiX, 8000 WALNUT 1 i .ii i KEYSTONE, IfAIN 3000 IP- Aildnt all comrnuKlcalloni t Evtntng itrfger, Indfpsnttence tquare, Dilladttphta. Nttntn at tnt rmUDitrnU roiTairics it utooso- Ctil illlt. M TTCT. n.luMlf.U-lllA, WEPntJUAV.. thlinUAl.t a. IVll ITuit about the time you decide that the office cannot act along without you, the office will decide that it can. Politics mi (I the Police NO LEGISLATION la needed to take tho polfco out of politics. Thoy aro not In potties now and hnvo not been for the Pit three years. The IHnnkenburn Administra tion, elected by voters who had grown weary of the use of every department of tho city government In the Interest of pang politics, look tho police, and Are departments out of politics. Tho men are now serving the city In tho Interests of all tho people. The way to keep the police out of politics Is to elect another reform Mayor. Unless this Is done no law which can bo passed at HnrrlBburs will be effective, even If tho violent assumption bo mndo that the bill now before tho General Assembly Is Intended to divorce the pence officers from politics. Efll clency In government is not a matter of laws, but of men. Upright public spirited officials can give us good government with bad laws, but bad men -will not be decent, no matter how good tho laws may be. Wake Up and Got Busy M" fK. 8CHWAB would not have had orders that Justify buying a whole vlllago In the Bethlehem district and spending JJ5.000.000 , in en'urglng his steel plant If he had not gone out In search of business and got It. South Bethlehem will be prosperous this year because of the energetic Initiative of Birr Schwab. Circumstances have favored him, but the same circumstances were lying around loose for anybody to harness to his business to bull It out of the ruts. Mr. Schwab saw them and got busy. There Is business awaiting other men In the steel trade if they will go out after it, be lieving that it is there. It Is possible today to quote figures for structural steel so at tractive that a man with foresight and cour age who happens also to possess uninvested capital will find It impossible to resist the t temptation to put up groat bul'dirgs for the - -accommodation of the expanding needs of , the great cities. All that is needed is' an energetic, alert campaign to get business, and It will come. But If tho big producers are timid they cannot sell anything in times like these. Wake up, as King George said to the Brit ish, on a famous occasion, and get busy! Whisky Is a Poor Pilot WHEN the Board of Commissioners of Navigation decided to revoke the licenses of Delaware River pilots who got drunk, they followed tho precedent set in every other board charged with the safety of tho travel ing public. Whisky Is a poqr pilot, either on a river steamboat plying the Delaware, or in the cab of a railroad locomotive, or In the englneroom of a great factory, or In any pther position of responsibility. The unwillingness of peoplo to intrust their lives or their property to a man be fuddled with drink has done more to pro mote temperance than all the exhortation of the, lecturers for the past hundred years. The law of the survival of the fittest Is in oper ation, The drunkard Is unfit and must go, or stop drinking. Those with any will left are becoming sober. Pay! Pay!! Pay!!! WHEAT sold Jn the Chicago market on November 2 for 11.14. On November 19 It brought 1.1E. It had risen to $1.16 on December 1, and two weeks later it wan oelllng for Jl.18',4. On January 2 the market price was J1.29H. On January 15 it was tl.45. Monday It reached the outrageous figure of J1.E8V4 and yesterday it rose to $1.66. This unprecedented rise of 514 cents in three months has come In the face of the tilggest wheat crop on record, a crop so big that it promised cheap flour and good bread far the succeeding 12 months. War prices are not only draining the country of its wheat, but are bringing hunger so near that It confronts hundreds of thousands of tho very poor In the large cities. flaw Ions is this condition to be permitted? How long are our food reserves to be ex hausted, to feed the -warring nations while our wn people suffer? These are questions that Are pressing harder for an answer with every increase of a cent a bushel In, the price at-wheat, while the energies pf the Admlnls- 'tnUlon. aro being exerted to force Congress t ta authpriso a shipping commission to buy L-rfjMre of international quarrels on tho pre- fjs. W?k v epjargsng ine mrcnan? marine. Putting Art to tbe Test mftSHEi are poets' poets and paJntera' XltUHertf, just as there are men's men and ' women. But (t ic notorioua tjiat a mum' ma Is sWom popular with the wsroen, and that a poet's poet is read only Vjf that small and seleat company who take M Wkwg of ver as one ot tbe most Wrietw eacujftatlefts of 'life, And paintings Vtfck t)i ma.ktx ot pictures like are ofjen M1 that the iubUa passes by for some 9)m 4tfattta M the annual exhibition of ! XsAAemy the Sine Arts, which pn 4Hfft Suuly, sr t be nbteted to the test mj : if pularity, and &at one whlofa ts approved 4jrft mr f vWtorg u te receive Sfljir MiM rw4il Ay a loaat patr of art. wn - t5 fteubt ha value ot ua t, Mr tt St wently arui that tiu 1 am t.ii fRumft Ukf MtJss mind, asMt -t i mw gfci'Mftfft toftfttsta that EYflffltftf MBaER-HILADELMlA, WEDNESDAY, FEBBTTABY 3, 19l5 be true then art Is reserved for a smalt colerlo of specialized minds and has no popu lar abpeal. Many persons with faith in the soundness of the insto of the average man will dispute any such doctrine of excluslvoness, Tho painter who has a group of the funda mental emotions, who Is a man of like pas slons with the rest of us, will translate his own concept ons of beauty Into terms which the eonihioh mnn can understand Tho great paintings which have aurvlved are Understood by the man of ordinary training Every fre quenter of the galleries knows that there nre paintings on tho wall before which men hiul women uith no nppnrent external signs of aesthotlc appreciation stand In rapt atten tion, while they pa others by without a glance Thcro In a soul of beauty in ihe humhlost and a kinship between thoughtful persons of all degrees of education. Whatcvor one may think of tho verdict of tho expert, If a pnliUer bus touched tho soul ot tho mass, he has achieved somothtng worth while. The Ctly Watches THE eyes of the city are on Finance Com mittee of Councils. The ordinance1) which will give metropolitan transit facilities to I'hlladelphla and stimulate prosperity as It cannot othsrwlflo bs stimulated are In Its hands. It and it only can obstruct and hold up the great enterprise In favor Of which the people are practically unanimous. And It cannot obstruct without e;poslng Itself to suspicion, for there can be no reason for de lay other than the Insidious influence of spo clal Interests determined to rob Philadelphia of her future. Tho Finance Committee is expected to make a, report, a favorable report, tomorrow. Men export in the intricacies of municipal poli tics openly aver, nevertheless, that there will be no report. The bills are safo In commit tee, they mockingly declare, so let them stay there. Vet Philadelphia, on mora than one occasion, when about to bo deprived by po litical machination of things on which she had set her heart, has taken puny Councils In her teeth and shaken It as a terrier would a rat. So fur and no further can ahe be thwarted. To be for a March election Is to bo for transit; not to be for a March election ts to be against transit. That Is the test by which Finance Committee and Councils as a whole shall be Judged. The city Is watching and It will not be fooled. "Hog Wild" for Common Sense TEXAS elected .a man by the name of Fer guson to be Governor. Texas got some thing worth while. At least a bravo begin ning poInt3 that way. For this virile speci men, who has learned that prosperity comes to tho man who works for It, has been preaching a new doctrine to his peoplo. Lis ten to some real truth as he gave It to tho Texas Legislature: "The Government can do much to pro tect property, but only tho individual can produce property." "You, as a Legislature, can regulate, many things, but you cannot produce wealth by statute." "No law can be passed that will provide against wasteful extravagance, excessive expenditure or Incorrect living." "There Is real danger of somebody going hog wild about higher education." "When you try to do something with an abuse you hit a soro spot on some politician's neck." Governor Ferguson will do Texas a lot of good, but the place, that really needs him is Washington. Too Rotten to Stand Calking WHEN tho ship purchase schema ran Into a little honest argument It reeled and shivered In tho manner of a 2000-ton freighter up against a mile-long Iceberg. Patient tho donkey Is, and of late ho has been decidedly docile, but there are a few Democratic Sen ators willing to kick over tho traces when the Impossible Is demanded of them. There has not been such a panic among the Ad ministration servants since tho party be came ascendant In the Senate. They were not prepared for the rebellion. Now they have spread molasses for a few Progressive Republicans, who seem very willing to be trapped, and it Is expected that some Kind of a substitute measure, a real hybrid, may be rushed to adoption. But the scheme Is one which cannot bo made good by com promise. It Is like Sid Hawkins' old scow no use trying to calk It, the planking's too rotten. The Bell Will Stay Here IBADERB in Councils have decided that It J would be "bad politics" to send a Junket ing committee of Councllmen to San Fran cisco to escort the Liberty Bell to the Panama-Pacific fair and to stand guard over it after It got there. They deserve congratula tion for their ability to perceive the obvious and their discretion in refraining from doing that which would lead to their political un doing. But the abandonment of the councilmanlo Junket is not enough. The plan to send the bell itself across the continent must also be abandoned. The political fate of a few local politicians is all that Is affected by the de cision that tbe Councllmen who go to the fair must pay their own way or Btay at home, but the fate of the bell Is involved in keeping it in Independence Hall, The belt Is a national possession, entrusted to this city for safekeeping. We are re sponsible for preserving it as an Inspiration, to all who vtslt the Cradle of Liberty, Coun cils la expected, therefore, now that the Junket has been abandoned, to take the large view and reject any proposition ta move the bell. A,nd now- tt is, ho, the poor cockney, whose terrified mind ses Zeppelins in the cloud and hears them in the wind. J. EJpont Morgan does not pretend to b whTie isn't, and tt J Ereatly to his cr41t. The bakejs will earn.tbe gratitude ot thlr customers by making the 6. cent loaf as long, as well as, big, a possible. Art b looking up In Philadelphia. Nearly ISM mire persons visited the galleries of the Academy ot the Fine Arts in 1914 than saw tin paintings th ar before. rin French are not half so delighted at Dm lst ef an AlwtUa stork alighting an in fUtu f Lny ta Pari as they would muaMt tfMtsr AilU ovr tb 1m Matal ssisstki PfHiiirsn CAMPAIGNS IN FRENCH FOR SEAT IN CONGRESS "Uolr Brotissard, of Louisiana, Ono of 435 Representatives of 435 Types df Amrricnniem Washington Is Making n "Book" on Presidential Possibilities. Df EDWARD W.TOWNSHND ACOUPLB of years ngo or so the French Chamber bf Deputies adopted a resolu tion ot appreciation for something Mir Con gress had done, and a. copy of the resolution was forwarded to Speaker Clark, Ono morning, after the chaplain had prayed for us, the Speaker civllcd to tho desk Mr. Pujo, then a member from Louisiana, and asked him to read tho paper to the House. Mr. Pujo promptly read the paper in French and then read It Into English, to tho evident surprise of many who heard him. It Is occasion for greater surprlso easunlly to come tpon a group of Louisiana members, say, Estoptnal, Dupre, Broussard and La ziro, and find that In their Intimate friendly chat all aro speaking French, None, In ad dressing the House, aponka with a. trace of French accent, except that Broussatd, If very earnest In a speech, will pronounce the ending "Hon" "clon," as "administration." "Bob" Broussard goes to the Senato next March after having served In tho House 16 yearn. Ho was elected to tho Housa eight times without opposition for this reason: His district has sevoral parishes In Which French Is tho Inngungo of ordinary Inter course and English Is understood very llttlo, such parlihcs as Assumption, Lafayette, La fourche, Terribonne The French crcolo pop ulation adotes "Cousin Bob" Broussnrd and Is Indisposed to vote for any one olse for any office. They think It safest not to tako a chance. Always for "Comln Bob" There Is a otory of a spellbinder who spoke no French going Into Broussard's district campaigning for a Democratic nominee for Governor. Ho felt he wns making no head way, so sought a straight tip from an Indi vidual ha picked In his audience as seeming to have some Intelllgcnco. Tll'o creolo lis tened politely to tho song of praise for tho Governorship cnndldnte and gavo nnswer, "No, I vote for Cousin Bob." "But," exclaimed tho spellbinder, "Cousin Bob Is not running for Governor. He's a Congressman." The Creole took this as pleasant, even If Irrelevant, news, but rcspondod, "Well, me boy, to mak' sure always vote for Cousin Bob, an'way; might mak' mlstak' If not." General Estoplnal, of Louisiana. Is now the only man In tho House who hold a gen eral's commission in tho Confederate army, and, like General Sherwood, of Ohio, tho only Union soldier who held a like commis sion, Is almost a phenomenon physically. His abundant black hair, his military mustache show merely a suggestion of the frost of years, and his walk well, you'd have to bo to the West Point drill ground and search for a cadet more markedly showing the sot ting up Instructor's points of perfection, "Head up! Chin in! Chest out! Stomach In. slrl" No Autos for General Sherwood But. thop. General Estoplnal Is only 70, while General Sherwood Is 80 years old. The Ohio veteran preserves his military carriage, but he does not walk much, devoting most ot his leisure to driving Nono of your gas oline contraptions for that Ohio youngster, who was In 42 battles, who was made brevet brigadier general by President Lincoln "for long and faithful service and conspicuous gallantry nt tho battles of Resaca, Atlanta, Franklin and Nashville." No limousine lux ury for him! He brlnga to Washington with him a stablo of high-bred, fast roadsters, the envy and delight of all Washington horse men. The General's pleasure is to hook up two spirited roadsters to a rig that is little more than a racing sulky and take a 20-mile spin over tho hills of Virginia or Maryland. Thus refreshed he Is keyed up for a day's hard work In his committee, room, Thus you may go from Louisiana in the cloak room to Ohio in the corridor and havo tho conviction come to you that In the pouth end of the Capitol you encounter 435 men ex pressive each In his personality of the Ideal of good citizenship and characteristic Amer icanism determined by 435 groups of Amer icans, averaging 211,000 population to the group. What Makes tho Houie Interesting That Is what makes the membership of tho House Intensely interesting to one who cares for the Btudy of types. You may approve or disapprove of Individuals, but their study Is none the less Interesting or Instructive. In some of his characteristics, his intellec tual qualities, each reflects a big bunch of American people; dwellers on tho coast of Maine, maybe, or of the Bald Knob Moun tains of Missouri, or some sun-kissed, vine clad valley Jn California. Nono gets here by drawing lots, by having an election wished on him or, except very seldom, .by a fluko. He gets here because at election time he characterizes those qualities most es teemed by a majority of the voters of his district. In a few years tho Senators will thus rep resent State ideals, when the operation of the direct election amendment to the Con stitution shall have filled all the seats In the north chamber of the Capitol. It is yet very different. Senators represent the selection by State legislators. Whether tho change will result In improvement or otherwise Is oh yes, Indeed quite another matter, A Chance for an Author OId-t(me mwoera and correspondents have been keeping tab on the Senate dead lock. There, were conjectures, eyen hits, based on. the probability of any member ot the Senate equaling the long-distance speech made when Arthur Poo, Porman, of Mary land, led the famous filibuster against the so-called force bill. Xn that struggle Faulkr ner, of West Virginia, held the floor for W hours without help, and Senator George topk almost as long to rad into tho record th rejected manuscript of a novel. By the vv ay, what a scheme to be worked by an aspiring author, whose merits pub Ushers simply will not seel When the genate tha silver Benatpra fili bustered sgalnst President Cleveland's de. mand for repeal of the sl!vertpurchas law Allen, of Nebraska, spoke he did not r$ad-, for 11 hours. Mighty effort" at being mads to set up a. new record in the present tour, nament, but the Allen mark; although tur dlly assailed, atlU stand1. Senator Bmoot cams down th homestretch tVKug last wesk. but at the 11-bour W-nuu $wt lost bis winning stride and quit seme fans ar trying to K.t up Ses&tor La, FolUttsa peforanc in the Vrejag4-4I4, rich currency till !wu.Heli- Bui that ntef$ Juts nYr kttjt tlkmmA, La yaiwtt was disqualified, although technically he hold tho floor for 16 consecutive hours. There wero several flaws or, so to say, violations of tho rules In his performance. He would send up a bunch of printed matter to be read at tho clerk's dejk, thus gaining leisure In which to rest his voice. How tho game should be played was shown by Senator Smoot. He was a Jerry Travcrs on tho senatorial link. During his entire 12 hours, minus 25 minutes, he asked no help from the clcrlts, arianged for no restful in terruption, never left his place in front of his seat. Odds on Leader Mann It may surprise some of tho folks back home to learn that In tho winter books being mndo down here on tho Republican Presi dential nomination tho odds still favor James H. Mann. Thore Is something oddly persist ent In tho way the wise peoplo hold tho mi nority leader favorite. But with the samo certainty of conviction with which they do claro that Wilson's name will be tho only one heard In the Democratic convention of 1016 they keep tho betting odds favorable to Mann. The latter will have none of It, I mean that for publication at least, ho says there's nothing In It all bunk. Ho said something like that to me the other day, and I asked "Why?" "Well," he replied nfler a smiling pause, "In my work on tho floor here as minority leader 1 play no favorites. I'm accused by members of my own party of rocking the boat, of spilling tho beans. I'm not in a good position to play for popularity," Then he dropped his Jollying mood and said seri ously: "There Is nothing in the work of a minority floor leader that Is spectacular: that appeals to public Imagination. It's Just con stant, hard grind with no grandeur. A mi nority leader's name is not associated with any big legislation. He has not tlmo to make after-dinner speeches, publln addresses, I don't expect the nomination, am not look ing for It." Um-m. All the same, James R. is putting some forceful campaign material, as Repub licans view It, Into the record. Ho will have the committee assignments for the big Re publican minority to hand out after tho Ith of March next, and his borne Stato has a powerful lot of electoral votes to gj down on tho tally sheet of 1916. These chaps who make up the winter books do somo mighty clo80 flgu-ing. They aro not In business for fun, and it is seldom noted that thoy chaso rainbows. Wisdom From a Wsiter Tram th MlnnpolIt Journal. "Until a man forgets where h came from and remembers X here ha Is, he Is not all on American." That-eplgrammatlcal utterance was let fall In Chicago by a waiter, born In Scandinavia, to a customer the other day. It Is exprsstlve of a great truth. A man born in Europe may have every inten tion of being an American in this country where his children are to live after him. And if he cherishes a fond affection for the particu lar old sod across the water whence he cams, who shall bamo hlmT That he should do se ts b"t natural, and Indicates a proper heart In a man. But Eurode no longer Is his home. His for tunes are csst here, How purope fares, may wsll Interest him. But how America fares, uTeVtirwm effect' tho"s',"ot hi. eh .1 nVhc . II..-. 1. - J iii i . . . ' TMw are to live here and Will be Americana. And how fortunate the lot that has brought him to America, whers hs Is mora sure of living his days In peace than he could be anywhere In EuropH The chances are small that any sudden destruction such as has fallsn like a bolt upon the Belgians wjll assail him here. The opportunity for him to eat unmolested the bread that his own hands hv tarned Is here better, far better, than anywhere In ail the world. Th probability that what hs is able to save his children will enjoy hers exeseds what appertains to a,ny other cornsr of the earth. Hers bs can build In security, hsre ha can-lay up store; hr he can descend to a decent and a ChrUUsn grave, Therefor, every Inducement for being first and foremost an American oltlsen, considering exclusively America's interest, 1 presented to our pewest Immfgrant as well as to the scions of our oldest stock. Ut us not, fisht the battles of Europe here, or fk t Influence our country's polioy to favor sonj belligerent abroad, Th lines of tru American policy are well determined. A City of Seventy Lknguaei Vroncs tils) JjoaAon CbfcsUCtlt TiOi. which the Csr Jt been visiting, and terming ' peart pf the Busslan crown " ws Usortb4 by James Pryce some 40. ar sines as "a hurosn melting pot. a eity of contrasts and mixtures, into which elements have been poured from half Burpp and Asia, and la which they as yt show uo signs of com. binlng " To, description holds b4 tpday, for tbera are said to fe 7 butmaMS bi In Uia Atrsatw ot ihn inoUnt y V fjpMsa UUve or fs tots? ttaUUt. LISTENING 1 , I BEES OF THE NIGHT Life in the Trenches Descrihed by Strenuous, Strange Existence in the World of War. "TTTE ARE like the beasts of tho forest VV prowling by night In search of food, crouching by day In terror of bullets, sleep less day and night In tho raln-soakcd mud of tho freezing trenches." It Is a letter from world of war to tho world of peace. It is the story of a teacher turned soldier, tho keen Impressions of J. Norton Cru, for six yeari instructor In French at Williams College, who returned to Join his regiment at tho outbreak of war, and who writes to a former colleague in these terms: "Wo llvo hero apart from tho civil and civilized world, In a military and subter ranean waste, and wo are so happy to re ceive news' from your -world, from Will lams, which survives in such contrast to our trenches This reminds mo that a fow months ago I was a teacher, a peaceful citizen de voted to his studies. A teacher? I hatdly re semble one now. My long beard, uncut for four months, gives mo an almost wild appear ance; the mud of tho trenches covers mo from my heavy boots to my well-worn kepi: my garments aro torn and aro falling to pieces; my faco goes unwashed for a week a't a time (onco for two weeks); all of which Is scarcely professional. When tbe Moon Comes Out "The life that I lead Is hard, very hard, but I And within myself latent reserves of stoicism and healthy vigor, the existence ot which I had not oven suspected. V havo been at tho front since tho 16th of October, First we were Bet to digging trenches for our com rades, lator wo occupied trenches mado by others. Yes, I havo directed a squad of men with picks and shovels. And thrilling it Is to do this work on a dark night opposite tho German trenches which are firing upon us. Then you fear tho moon, for as soon as it comes from behind a cloud dzlnn, dzlnn, comes a volley of rifle bll3. We are ordered not to Are, not to reply, but to work fast, very fast. Ah, these bees of tho night which buzz In your ears, what a horrid sound they make. As soon as wo hear the first one, we throw ourselves flat on our Btomachs, our faces' close to the ground, and wait until It is over. Then back to the picks and shovels again. "For more than a month'wo were in a vast forest whero the hostile aeorplanes could not see us. We built huts of branches, whero we lived quietly enough, in splto of the shells' which flew over our heads, destined not for us but for others. One evening, however, as I was finishing my ration, a sharp hissing noise followed by a deafening explosion filled us with terror. It was a shell of great cali bre, a 'marmlte,' as we call them, that had fnllfln nearby. In a few minutes we were all in the deep holes that we had dug near our huts in anticipation of Just such an exlgenoy. It was lucky for us that we had these re treats, for other 'marmltes' followed, whose enormous fragments mowed down branches and small trees all about us. No one of us was Injured. Like Deaits of the. Forest W "SlnM th6n We haV0 m0Ved an W9 R" now rnft tat tm Vvr1tin TV a wkbm eiinnA.l.l.. - not far from Verdun. We pass successively a period of four days In tho trenches and four days in, a village somewhat In the rear, yet not beyond the range of tho German shells. The. hostile, trenches are at distances from our own which vary from 600 metres to scarcely 10 (less than SS feet) in certain cases. At the point where I am stationed a broad valley separates the two lines. "Our life in the trenches Is very curious. We are like the beasts of the forest that hide during the day and are active only at night when they come out in search of fopd. Dur ing the daytime wo watch without daring to show ourselves, for if a head appears but for an instant above the ground, thero la the hiss ot a bullet and anqtner poor fellow has paid with his Ufa for his Imprudence, As the tranches are not vry deep, there are only a few spots where It It possible for a man to stand upright without exposing his head. Therei are arteries of communication whldi connect the different trenches' and In them you bftvei to walc almost bent double. It Is very tiresome to remain four days without bslng able to strttch your limbs or to lie down to sleep We are forced to remain in a sitting posture, cronahing low, with cramps In our legs and unbsarabla numbness in our artas. gome men p & mtis during tb day. THAT BUZZ AND a Teacher Who Turned Soldicr-iJ as corporal would prevent mo from dolus In any event. "At night we aro freer to show ourselvff i vuviiiy i-ajiuui bcu uo unu lira m ranuoo or do not flro at all, In order hot to wtlir thelr ammunition. It Is during the night tfiF "moBt of tho work is done. Wo wlden,vtK? trenches, deepen tho connecting passagewi or construct now ones, stretch barbed tflrt . . . . A. . J1 uoioro our ircncncs, eio. sometimes on oar right or on our left an attack Is going ct Then wo watch In perfect silence, ready to to our part If called upon. Ono or two kilometre! away wo hear the crackling of the fusillade? the noise of the grape-shot, like the whirr cl n .nffan Willi n ml nt.Al.a nit 1. n n1..!! ..'. .. t,u,,uu ,4,11,, HIIU UMUVU Ull tlV UUII W(U V, the cannon. Then all dies away into sllesci and the next morning wo learn that we btvi captured a trench or lost ono. But d6n worry about me. I urn In a regiment Of W men,' from S5 to 42 years old, and we ari given tho loast exposed trenchos, "It Is also at night the cooks bring Kt our provisions, but tho soup and coffee tt cold when wo get them after a, long carrff on a winter's night. Sometimes we can wara up mo stow over tho utile cnarcoai DrasiM provided to keep us from freezing. We UH tho charcoal because It gives neither fUtgt nor light. It Is tho only Are that does iwt betray Its presence. It sometimes happbl that we do not have even this meagre heU nt a time when wo most need it. Then il suffer veritable tortures. Wo endured U3 from the 18th to the 22d of November ahdM a fow men had their feet frozen. In feenert we can protect ourselves from the cold, Tim against tho rain wo are powerless. M Rain and Clay aj "From the 4th to tho 6th of Dece"mbr n had four days of rain in tho trenches In'J Boil of clay. Just Imagine the coating of nM that covered our garments and oven pjg hands and faces! I thought at the time tjjit If I had appeared on Spring street thus fc smirched I should have caused a sensaW And to think that I havo not caught peffi monla after all these dronchlngs. Truly til i. ...,.. i - -u i......... nn., (n vnnmtri ll miraculous. TO "Duty calls ma and I must stop. In W llfo of a savage, of a barbarian that 1J here, I can scarcely over write; so pleas tfi member me to all my colleagues. Say lj to those students who may still ask about 2i that I often think of them and that " la not forgetfuness." Tacts About Servla, Wnm tti Maw il 1 a M flraiB Servla acquired as the result of 'trie war territory to tha extsnt of la sqiMtt miles, with a population of 1,451.614. The H area of the country today Is, vbrr.VJ!j nil... .nil.. n,l,h a tntnl nnmilntlon Of 4.HJ,. -H.v ....,, .,.. r ---7.-7i-J- ii ! une new territory nos Deen uiyiu" ; zi tnllllatrnlltra rilntrlr.tl. maklni a tOtSl Of W miulstrative dlstrlots in the whole country. THEOCRITUS Ayl Unto thee belong The pips and song, Theocritus t . Loved by the satyr and the faun To thee the olive and ths vine, To thee the Mediterranean pine, And the soft lapping seal Thine. Bacchus, Thine, ths blood. red ravels. Thine, ths bearded goat! i-' to(t valleys unto tnee, ,, And Aphrodite's shrine. 1 And malijens veiled in falling robes of lffi uuv unto us, to us. Tbe stalwart glories of ths North! vurs i (ne DvuiiQiut, iiipiu And ours the voices uttering forth By midnight round these, cliffs a mlW W A tala of vjswless Islands In ths deep Washed by the wave's white fire. ur mariners rocKq asieep In the great cradle, far from Grecian I' Of Neptune and hU train: The dark-leaved shadow n'nd the shining bij The niijht of gold though hollow vooB drtven, ... Soft dyns ot the year wth many a sign. These, all, to lis are glvi! And eyes that eager evermore shall "JAI The hidden seed, and searching find w Unfading blossoms of a fadeless sprll" These, these, tq us) The sacred youth and maid, Cuy and half afraid! The sorrowful earthly psJl. Winter snd wintry rain. And autumn's gathered m' ,, With whispering muslo In tbt f- Ths unto us I And unto tbse, Theocritus, Tq thse, .j, Tne immortal caUdbaea t y5r Tk lauabina- wtbn as tWM , 4d tcfeoto lal e.?. mm uiu. rw hi) n, a uu qui yip as au our- i Uw t few df v Jn tH tares!! My gUs I r$U, flJtt .
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