, ,; . ...of St fSf --JJm '4 4' ,1- &, .A kjJ r . .'. . V ' 10 PUB.LIC LEDGER COMPANY CIBtJS . K. CUHTIB. PSUIDIXT Chrle ir. Ludlntton. Vlea Preeldenti John C. Martin, Secretary and Treaturen Philip 8. Colllne, John D. William. John J. Spurrron, P. H. whilir, Slractora. EDITORIAL BOARD! Cracs H. K. Ccaiu, Chairman. P. H. WHAIXT Editor JOHN C. MARTIN. .Oentral Bualneea Manager Publlehed dally at Pcsua t-rnots Xlulldlns Independenc. Square, Philadelphia. Ledoex CcvtsaLi . Broad and Cheetnut gtreete ATlutTiC OTT rrt-Vnlon Building Ntw ToiK. , 200 Metropolitan Towr SsTXOIT . .40S Ford Uulldlnc ST. Loiit inn Kullerton UulMlnjr Cnicaoo 120: Tribvut Building NEWS BUnEAUS: WAtnlTOTOX none ... Rltia gulldlnr Th rimta Building ...60 Krltdrlchatraaee Marconi Home. Strand 32 Rue Loula Is Orand NS1P YORK BCBXAB BiiLiK ln-tric Loxpo.v Bcnic Pun Beaut;. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS . The ETItlxo LtDorn la acrvad to aubnerlbera In Phlladtlphla and eurroundlnc tonne at the at ot twelve (12) centa per mK. pay.ibla o tha earrltr. Br mall to point outalde of Philadelphia In tha United Statu. Canada or United Statea poa aeailona. poetete tree, (lit)- 130) centa ptr month. Six (0) dollara per year, payable In advance. To all forelrn countries ono (11) dollar per month. Nonet Subecrlbera wlihlnc addrcen chanced Sautt slve old well a new addreea. BELL. XXX) WALNUT KEY5TO.NE. MAIN iOW ' BaT Addrttt all eenmuntcntione (o Kventna Ledger, Independence Square, I'Mladtltnln. rvTEDtD at the rniLAPEtrnii roTorrici At (eoond-cj.au hail mattik. PhJidtlphli. Monday, Junr S. 1417 "BOOZE" IN ITS TUMBREL rpHEKE Is no great love for "booze" In Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. The greater part of the State Is dry by pref erence. It Is notorious that within the city the vehicle of electoral commerce Is the low saloon, tho graveyard of aspira tion and ambition and tho nursery of tragedies. To do abnormal things most tnen must be abnormally excited. In the Intoxication of battle, Induced by tho rolling of tho drums and the thunder of the guns, men lovingly grapplo with death for the glory and safety of their country. "Booze" furnishes abnormal ex citement, but It' Is not an Intoxication fruitful of patriotism. It excites, instead, the animal Instincts and clovatcs the brute to supremacy In tho personal cosmos. It drives men not against a common enemy, but against tho Innocent. It lures them to crime and they become easy dupes In tho betrayal of tho Insti tutions which their votes and their en deavors ought to support, and probably would support In normal circumstances. Without the "boozo" shops organized political criminality would wither up In Philadelphia within a decade. But thero is a vast difference between the system labeled "boozo" and tho use by the human race of light wines and beer under scientific regulations. We can well doubt the wisdom of abolishing traffic' In these beverages by national enactment, without reforenco of tho question to the people. Tlio London Times announced on Saturday: The Government has decided to allow an Immediate Increase In the output of beer Tho barrelago alroady sanctioned for the summer teim Is to bo Increased 33 1-3 per cent, and provision Is to bo made for brewing light beer In place of the hea-y beer now brewed. This may raise the Increased output to somothing like SO per cent. This decision on tho part of tho British Government followed tho discovery that its reduction of authorized barrelago had been entirely too drastic and that somo concession to tho public was Imperative. The American people are ready to make any necessary sacrifices to win the war. They are not enthusiastic about works of supererogation. It Is not good policy to Induce dissatisfaction with living con ditions among thousands of skilled work men, who are sober and Industrious even If they do like their mugs of beer. Tobacco In the trenches has been a godsend to the troops. The Americans now with Pershing In Paris were enthusiastic when put on French rations, which include a small quantity of light wine. Will they bo more efficient and more contented than their brothers in arms If they find that their trenches are a Sahara between oases which they cannot reach? The normous psychological strain at, the front demands relaxation for fighting men, and that Is why the Y. M. C. A. Is asking for millions with which to pur chase talking machines, magazines, etc., for the use of the troops off duty. The Barkley amendment to tho food control bill, prohibiting manufacture of alcoholic beverages, la mandatory; the Webb amendment authorizes the Presi dent, at his discretion, to seize all stocks of alcoholic beverages. It is a power which the President might use to control prices, but would scarcely enforce at once otherwise. The mandatory provis ion, when considered in the Senate, should be rewritten to apply to spirituous liquors only. Its effect otherwise will be to mul tiply enemies of the food-control bill, to render enforcement of tho latter more difficult and arouse reeentment among thousands of perfectly good citizens. A sensible policy at this time Is a wise policy, and we submit that It is not good Judgment but fanaticism which under takes to burden the food bill with an un necessary prohibition that ts certain to be disastrous In Its application. REAL AID FROM BRAZIL APMIRAL. CAPERTONS swift and .powerful squadron sails past the fa mous Sugar Loaf Mountain, then under the shadow of lofty, serrated Corcovado. ad freely casts anchor In the sheltered nutter it Rio Se Janeiro, queen of harbors b wlV world pyerv The fleet would be W.M MT. 1M r. Ysckee Island no warmer than that emanating now from our Brazilian allies. Any doubts that may have existed con cerning the precise meaning of Brazil's way of outlawing the Teuton and forging anew the link of Pan-Amerlcanlsm. with out yet declaring actual war on Germany, should be here laid at rest. American warships at Rio enjoy all the privileges of a Brazilian squadron. Our vessels are no longer neutral craft thero and their movements along the coast of the great South American Republic are hampered by none of the restrictions of the neu trality laws For all Intents and purposes Rio now becomes a United States naval base. Under such circumstances tho chance of a raiding Mocwe making hay and reaping death along these shores be comes as highly Improbable as a Ccrman capture of Paris. The practical scope of Pan. AmArlrnnlsm la thus strikingly man ifested. It has triumphantly passed the stage of more pretty speech-making. RED HERRING NO. 591 CONTEMPTIBLE as was tho method pursued by Aron and his associates In their efforts to kill tho Salus bill, which must evon now be enacted If the House Is to retain a vestige of good reputation, tho destructive and deadly enemy of rapid transit for Philadelphia Is House bill 694. Tho object of this bill Is to break open the port and transit treasure box and ox tract tho funds, which would mako rapid transit a financial Impossibility for years to come. It li tho real nigger In tho woodpile It is tho bill which tho Mayor says he must have passed by all means, because tho money Is needed for other purposes than transit and port. Possibly ho needs cash to put thoso aeroplane detecting oars on Father Penn. although tho aural appendages ot tho great Quaker himself had nono of tho attributes of tho Jackass. BOOMERANG METHOD OF ARGUMENT 1 r'PnTlTV TlinmnBftii tnvnr rtf f?ht. AXcngo, lias given the saddest exhibi tion of nlncompoopery ever seen in America Whereupon an eager ami- suffragist rushes Into print to cry: "This official was elected by tho women of Chi cago! What an argument for votes for women'" Ho was elected by tho Republicans of Chicago! What an argument for votes for Republicans' It is Just as well not to pursuo this line of logic fuitlicr. BACK UP WORDS WITH DEEDS JUST about a year ago there was a lot of big talk. Millions of young voters weren't for Wilson because he was not "firm" enough, or because he had no "fighting blood." And they wanted Roose volt, not Hughes, as the alternative, many of them, because they were afraid Hughes wouldn't be "firm" enough with Germany. Other millions who were for Wilson replied that tho President mado the Kaiser back down In tho Sussex case, and would beard tho lion In his den again and "fight. It necessary." So everybody ought to be satisfied. The' Re publicans got a firm President after all, and the Democrats elected Wilson, and ho proved to bo the real fighter they said ho was. Therefore, we tako It that between now and Saturday tho 70.000 army Increment sought for by tho President through vol unteer enlistments should bo heavily "oversubscribed." Or wab it all talk? Did the young gentlemen who mado a hit with! tho ladles by calling Wilson "weali and vacillating" think they could get away with a bluff when thoy demanded a "fight ing President"? Perhaps they wish now that Wilson had gono on writing those notes which they professed so utterly to despise! Either we give our quota of thoso 70,000 recruits about 1400 for Philadel phia or else wo must admit that tho "man In tho street" right hero In this city was an outrageous hypobrlto durlnc tho last presidential campaign. For Phil adelphia turned up Its noso at the slogan, "Ho Kept Us Out of War," and voted for "Poaco With Honor," which meant "Poaco By Fighting For It If Necessary" and It turns out to be necessary. You can't have tho penny and the cake. Thero have been several campaigns re cently Llbeity Loan, Marine Week, Red Cross Week. Thero have been days when It was like pulling teeth to got tho young men who howled loudest for war to make good. Success crowns tho efforts after a tussle, hut It appears that It Is tho folk who havo been quiet all along about "firmness" and "fighting" who finally put up. Thero Is an urgent need for a prompt filling up of tho ranks of the troops who aro to see active service in Franco with in a few months. It will be a long time before tho selected army will bo ready. Thero aro many times 1400 men In town who should this week ask themselves whether they themselves havo not been "weak and vacillating." Von Buelow Sees Peace in 1917 With Indemnity. Now headline. Belgium would gladly agree to this. If England can hold on sea and France on land, America should bo able to settle it In tho air. The mailed fist which, "with God's help." will restore Constantino, Is not bringing tho rain to parched Germany. Red Cross contributions may prove to have 'been . given for other people's sons. And then again they may not. Tho French artillery seems to be exceedingly unsentimental concerning the Boche's recent attempt to revisit his "Alsne countree." When unaccompanied by lower prices, the reduction of food portions In restaurants Is certainly the "most un kindest cut ot all." The news that on Philadelphia's Fourth of July "oratory Is to replace noise" Is not wholly reassuring. The two things are often synonymous on our na tional holiday. Considering the weak political health of certain monarchs, crowied and. discrowned, Abdul Hamld, once the "sick man of Europe" acquires almost the status of an Interesting Invalid, who tnnlt hla mnrtlnlnA kn urlv Im Ua .. iZZKTTT.": jf&. " ". '"V" sui, v yasyBeyiattssriiiaf Uat EVENING FOOD RATIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN The Time Is Drawing Near When the Government Will Have to Take Complete Control By GILBERT VIVIAN SELDES Special CorTtefomtenet Evening Ltio'r LONDON, May 30. M" L'CH ado about meal tickets has been on the stage all this month, and the first act has not been a happy one. The news one gets Is rcant, but the reports are all too full. The newspapers, as Is trje custom, ser-a up a dish compounded of facts, theories and their own principles, all In the guise of news, end this potpourri Is about the only food you can have as much of as you want. From this confusion It Is hard to make any prophecies whatever The certain thing is that neither food tickets nof any other scheme of compulsory rationing Is yet a definite part of the Government's policy Presumably the food controller Is ready to put a system Into operation, and hat the machinery ready, but ho is making a strong stand against the powers which are clamor ing for immediate rationing of tho whole population The reasons for It are pretty plain Perhaps the best I that Germany hasn't weathered tho storm of popular dis content with rationing. Tho Germans were better situated to Institute the system and the German people wero better suiud to stand the Imposition. If they failed, how much worse will It be here? How Infinitely worse would It be for those In power! The British Government Is today, for the first time, responsible for the food of Its citizens By gradually taking over sup plies, by controlling flour mills, by regu lating Import and export of food, by Its monopolies In certain foods, such as wheat flour and sugar, by directing the movements of all vessels fitted with refrigerators for storage meat, the Gcvernment has mado Itself directly rerponslble to tho people If there Is a shortage of food, and most par ticularly If there Is a breakdown In dis tribution, tho people will know exactly whom to blame. Problem of Distribution Now what the Goernment has to do, and what It Is trying hard to do In this crisis, Is to Insure distribution. The authorities seem to be convinced that If the supply of bread is popularly distributed that Is, with not too much to any Individual there will bo enough for all It has. up to this time, concentrated on only the first part of this problem It has tried to limit consumption and hoarding, so that no small group luxu riates In unlimited sugar while the marsos go without And tho talk of rationing the people has all been on this ono point. People write to the papers begging to bo given tickets or, rather, begging that other people should be given tickets entitling them to buy so much bread per week, or per day. or per meal. But only a few people have realized that If you glvo a man a ticket entitling him to four pounds of bread a week, you must be prepared to give him his four pounds when ho presents his ticket. That part of the rationing scheme Is always left out In tho cold. It Is the essential part, and If tho chance of war should bring the United States to the point where she will have to control her food directly, that will be the part which the experience of Europe will tench us to emphasize. Because within three months tho Impossibility of any negative scheme will be shown In this country, If such a. scheme 13 ever begun here. The last throw against It Is tho "Honor System " I have Just teen two examples of It. Tho first Is in Muswell Hill, virtually a part of London. This community has re duced Its bread ration far below the four pnund per head per week allowed by Lord Dovonport When tho report ramo out that the unusual community of Kelghley (pro nounced Klethley) hnd consumed only a little over three pounds per head per week, several other towns decided to mako a race for suprtinacy. Tho thing was done with out prcarrangement, but the local pride of the towns was aroused and a considerable saving of food was effected. The people enjoyed It, for once. But I happened to be lunching In Muswell Hill Just after the rec ord was announced, and I think there will be a relapse, unless tho spirit of rivalry Is kept up. I Details excised by the censor. Registered Orders Ono Idea which has found some support In the large cities Is that of registered orders. This system combines the two parts of the rationing scheme It limits con sumption and at the tame time It guaran tees to each person the right to buy a fixed quantity of food With tickets or without, this system will never disappoint, because essentially It consists of knowing In ad vance how much breed, for example, will be needed each week, and of supplying that much bread If the bread Is available. That Is, the Government accepts tho responsi bility as soon ns it Imposes a restriction. Registered orders work in this way: The housewife, whatever she lives, places an order for so much bread, meat, sugar and tea with her respective dealers every Mon day. The dealer fees to It that no order exceeds the amount allowed by the food controller. Then he totals his orders and sends them In to hin wholesalers Hotels and restaurants and co-operative stores do tho same The food controller then allots the required amount to each wholesaler. It next week the supply Indicates that the nation must eat 25 per cent less, the food controller Issues only 75 per cent of the orders and the retailei or shopkeeper gives each customer three-quarters of the amount ordered With a little leeway for people whose families are suddenly Increased (as by men on leave) and for those who forgot to order, the system can be worked with a minimum of aggravation. An established limitation of prices on the foods so rationed removes the last vestige of profiteering. I have some reason to believe that this scheme, or a variant ot It, will presently be offered instead of the haphazard system of Issuing tickets, which serve to limit the amount consumed, but do nothing to guar antee each Individual his minimum. There it very little talk now about the people "not standing" for rations. What the people want Is a certain amount of equality, and, above all, they want the right to buy with their money what other people are buying, ten minutes or ten miles away. That right Is x,ow being denied, be cause the Government has addressed Itself chiefly to the problem of limiting consump tion without . distributing available quan tities of food under ary rationalized scheme. The country feels the pinch, but not so seriously nc to become ugly about those who are responsible. For a short time the Admiralty will be tht butt of criticism for not stopping the submarines. But if ho nil equate adjustment ot provisions is made and no system ot distributing what there Is can be put Into action, thcrs will be the sort ot tournets which leadu straight to asuoii -auo iuiurei r i, present Govern' ifivsiv aayonua up urairrnipaji. LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1917 Tom Daly's Column Roses She wears sweet roses, and the air Around her Is perfumed With fragrance, wenderful and rare The souls of flowers that bloomed; And when at night, In silken robes She plucks them fresh again, She wears them prisoned In her hair To win the hearts of men. She makes cloth roses red In hue In some low dingy street, The dye in them if she but knew Is poison; and the heat Of steaming cloth and filthy air Steals her young life away; But she must work (If she would eat) Ten hours In every day. Milady sleeps; and gentle dreams For her but sweeten sleep! Fair gardens, meadows, running streams She sees in slumber deep. And roses, roses everywhere Piled high about her head. Her pillow Is their soft cool leaves: Their petals are her ced. She, too, who -makes cloth roses, sleeps; Iter eyes with tears arc tcct; She, even In her slumher, weeps For she may not forget. The roses, hundreds, millions flood Her dreams with dread dismay The roses, red with her life blood. She makes for bread each day. VARLEY. INDOOR SUMMER SPORT The Poor Man Actually Enjoys the Fashionable Summer Resort There aro certain ultra-fashionable re sorts Into whoso proud purlieus we havo nevpr expected to Intrude our hobnallod brogans. One of these, until last Friday, when what you might call a trade-wind blow us thero, was Narrow-Glancc-at-Peers. That name In the society news had always overawed us. Wo would never havo gono If we hadn't been asked. But tho big hotel was expecting us and wo wero assigned to a room on tho fourth (and top) floor. Everybody else in tho houso was a banker, or a banker's wife or daughter; for It was a convention, but they needed a non-banker to talk to them at table. The banker rolk wero nice, as we expected them to be, for we long ago discovered that there aro bankers who aro yet poor enough to be awed by fashion able hotels. Well, our room was very cute; neat bathroom, too. Wo laid out our clothes and went out for a stroll. Glorious sea! glorious weathcrl Wo should havo enjoved It without reserve, but we couldn't help feel ing that wo didn't belong. Everything was so luxurious, so smooth; It was too good for us. Wo got home from our walk in prlmo humor for a cold sea-water tubbing be foro dressing for dinner. Tho banquet was set for 8. We had plenty of time. Wo even spent a couple of minutes before tho long mirror admiring the cut of our new whereabouts. No doubt, thinks wo to oursclf, old man Dee, of the B. V. Deo Company, could afford to stay here for a month at a time. Wo yearned for the gurgle of salt water cascading Into the tub. With a dexterous twist we turned on tho "hot salt" spigot. Nothing camo. Oh, very well, we'll take the cold. Nothing doing. Nor was thero any tesponse from the "hot fresh" or tho "cold fresh." Wo thought of Moses, but even If ho were within call we probably would not havo been permitted to sum mon him. Thero came a knock at tho door. Wo opened It partly and peered out. "Towels," said tho chambermaid, and handed In a half-dozen or so; fine, big Turkish ones. Wo tried to speak, but couldn't. Wo went to the telephone to complain. Wo couldn't understand tho operator or make oursolf understood by her. We dressed and went down to the desk. "No water In the bathroom," we said. "No water?" said the under clerk, looking at U3 sternly. He conferred with the head clerk, who came over and Inspected us through shell-rlmmcd glassos. "No water?" he demanded suspiciously. Wo began to feel that we wero at fault. Then a bellhop, Issuing from below stairs, re ported: "Luko, do engineer Bays all dem fourth floor people'll have to wait for water till he kin git his pump fixed." It was now half-past sevei. "We feel far from frivolous," we said, "but could you make Luko warm a llttlo water for our very necessary shaving?" We were gravely assured that It would be done; and when the bellhop brought It It was no nearer hot than we had asked, Still, there's comfort In a shave, with a nice electric light directly over the glass. We may have said that to ourself aloud and the light may have been listening. At any rate, It we,nt out. We borrowed a candle and finished the business before us. Then the electric light stopped sulk ing and came back. At the dinner table we found many new relatives "ono touch of nature," you know After dinner there was dancing, but we turned In; and, we thought, surely Luke will have his pump fixed by morn ing. We missed our guess, We man aged to make the telephone operator un derstand that we wanted water for wash ing. When the boy brought It we gave him a quarter. We were delighted. Now, we thought, it we could only manage to get a bad egg at breakfast we'd take that 7:05 train with a perfect score. We tared better than we had hoped, We got no breakfast at all. The kitchen fire hadn't been lighted early enough, or something; we didn't have time to listen to the alibi. Our taxi failed us at the last minute and we had to walk to the station. By this time we were tickled pink. No, really, we were! You see, the dear old resort had given us more real Joy than we could possibly have had It she had been prepared for us. It was like catch ing a pompous, precise queen dowager' with her hair off and her false teeth In a glass1 ot water. Her name In the society news will never frighten us again! And very likely commencement day for correspondence schools was rusbed foi Wax a bit.-- T4 Ids belna-. vnn'n mi. "BUT, MISTER, DIS IS CROOL AN' EDMOND AUGIER, HERO OF FRANCE Shot Against a Wall by a Boche Firing Squad, but Escaped With His Life to Happiness By HENRI BAZIN ta,Gr Correspondent of the Evening Ledger (n France. PARIS. June 8. THIS Is one story among the unwritten million of France. And It came to me around Robin Hood's barn, through an exigency of warfare, which necessitated a weekly trip to an old town close to Paris In order that I might revel In clean linen. For the existing coal crisis has closed many a laundry, and It was only by chance I was able to find an old lady in Boulogno on the Seine who agreed to render me regular la very. All winter she has served me faithfully. And I have come to know her passing well. Tho other day upon my weekly call she shyly Invited mo to a wedding breakfast. Her daughter, who had been a nurse in a Paris hospital, was about to bo married, and after the ceremony at both church and malrle, a modest dejeuner would be served In the garden under a whlte-hlo&somed, sweet-smelling acacia tree. Would "Mon sieur honor me with his sympathetic com py?" jind I answered, "Out, Madame, et avec plV'slr." And so I went to Boulogno this June day with a bunch of roses. And I met the eight guests and the bride, a pretty, dark-eyed girl of gentle demeanor. And her husband, a reforme, In the uniform of a sergeant of chasseurs. He was about thirty, brown haired, brown-eyed, the right leg stiff at the knee, the right arm withered, across the forehead from temple to temple a livid scar. Romance That Began in a Hospital Ho had met his bride In the hospital, where she had nursed him. And the little god with the arrow had done the rest. They were going to a Brlttahy village, where the husband had a little farm and where they would live out their young and, I pray, old lives. After the meal, over the coffee and cigar ettes, he told me his story, while all tho company listened, and his young wife held her arm about his neck. During the telling there was silence save his olce, the gentle sighing of summer breeze through the aca cia and the occasional song ot two canaries whose cage hung from Its trunk. His name Is Edmond Augler. He Is a Breton, a farmer's son, hardy and strong, one of those ot whom It Is said In his native province that they have "soul riveted to the body, and whose heart Is of oak" 'Tame chevlllee au corps et en coeur de chene." He had been a sergeant In the Bat talion of the Chasseurs. In February, 1916, he was on patrol outside the French lines. His work lay In the open, close to a shattered wood. He heard a noise, and In investigating was separated from his five companions. Advancing cautiously, he found himself suddenly confronted by eight Uhlans. Turning quickly, he endeavored to escape, but finding this Impossible he stood ground behlng a tree and dropped three ot the enemy with revolver and rifle. The other five, furious at resistance from a single man, fell upon him, and after capture tied him to the tall of one of their horses, drag, glng him at a slow trot within the German lines. wounaea, urutsea ana exhausted, that destination was reacnea. Augler's clothes had been torn open on the way, and In untying him his captors saw he wore a scapular about his neck. "This one. Mon sieur," he said to me as he opened his unl. form. One of the Uhlans struck him In the face, saying, "See how It has protected you I" And then he was taken before an officer of ths Boche, who, after hearing his tale condemned him to be shot against a wall' Without either food or drink, h . thrown Into a cellar, and at daybreak ths next morning led forth for execution with four fallow victims, all civilians, all old ,. (a mysr a -- vtit. f-WHHii ' 'ii i TV too, with five bullets In his body, two In the right leg, two In the right arm and one through the right shoulder. Ho had ready wit enough to sink limp to tho ground, as If death had come to him ns It had to the others, and ho lay perfectly still, despite pain, despite tho awkwaidness of his posl tlon. In which his' wounded arm was under the body, and his cheek touching tho newly dead shoulder of n fellow victim. In u mo ment tho German officer camo up clone, looked nt the five prostrate men for n sec ond and fired live hhots from his revolver, one in each body. The bullet Intended for Augler furrowed a ridge to tho bonis ncro33 his forehead. He felt Its burnlm passage, tho trickling blood, but lay still et, if truly dead All day ho laid there In tho cold, suffer ing, but with gritted teeth waiting for tho night. Would they come and bury beforo darkness? Ho did not know. He only prayed to Our Lady, thought of his Brit tany home, of his mother, of tho scapular about his neck that ho was certain had saved his life. Crawled Away in the Dark With the early dark ho cautiously raised his head and oeelng no ono crawled way, finally after what seemed hours diagglng himself to tho opon beyond the illage Thero ho was found unconscious by a Ger man patrol during the night, taken for a member of a French patrol that had been wounded In a skirmish and removed to a field hospital. On tho way ho asked him self If ho would meet tho olflcer or any of tho bquad that had executed him. Anil with his sound hand ho touched tho scap ular about his neck. In the hospital lio was given medical treatment Tho (Jerman surgeon looked at his wounds and said tho arm would havo to bo amputated. Augler answered he did not want It done. "But It will be useless and you may havo blood poison ing," was tho reply. "Let It be, bandage 'it, but let It be," answered tho soldier from Brittany. And ro he was- sent to tho rear and later to a hospital In Germany and after ward to a prison camp. lie suffered the tortures of hell during tho Journey And ho reached his prison "home" with his forohcad healed, but showing a livid scar, his leg usable with a stick, his arm a withered thing. Thero ho remained until four months ago, when ho was exchanged through Switzerland as one of the hope lessly wounded. And when he reached Paris he was sent to a hospital, where the five bullets wore extracted. Thoso In the arm had destroyed nerves and ligaments. Muscular power was forovcr gone. So after two operations that have left him slightly less a cripple than when he en tered, he was discharged. That was a fortnight ago Today he wore a new uniform upon which were tho Medallle Mllltalre, tho Croix de Guerre, the Legion of Honor. And the old sweat-stained faded scapular. And oven while war still wages he will begin to live again, to take his bride to his little farm In Brittany, to the quaint old stone houso that was his father's before him and where, with his wife and his mother, he will, I pray, reap life's reward In happiness, which after all is sweeter than high honors. As I kissed his bride upon both cheeks and shook his hand In parting, his old mother-in-law said to me: "You will come as usual next week, Monsieur. For I will stay here, I hope to die here, since I have lived In this house thlrty-four years. And there ore two In Germany to come to.lt after the war and keep me company." COMMEMORATING A REVOLUTION During the present decade there are con stantly occurring in some ot the South American republics centenaries of revolu tions which led to political Independence from European rule. It was approximately 100 years ago that a number of South American countries fought for and secured their national liberty. One of these uorls. lngs took place In tho Brazilian State of Pernambuco In 1817. It was followed bv others In the succeeding few years until In 1822 Brazil freed herself from Portugal This Pernambuco revolution ot 1817 Is now being commemorated postally by the nm. zlllan Government A correspondent sub. UNUSUAL!" What Do You Know? QUIZ la IVIiern 1 the Ukraine, now In revolt ar&tait I the rule nf Hit Itiifsliin Duma? 1 2, IVho Is tlio prefcftit (uinmnnder-lD-thlef off tho Amerhun lie ft In tho South Atlantic f I 3. Who U rnnkr.l ns the lradtne compowr of 1 romr.nporar) of ritun) . 4. Wlut tincMiiCH fciinkpn In Trplnnrl? fi. Ulint Im uronK ubout thU familiar quoU t.ori, "Uhut'ft In a name? A rose by nor im it jieiinn m oiiiii fciueu a weei"T ft. whit Spanish klnr once chiltuetl the Entllu tliriiiiR'' i. What a the real name of Lewi Carroll, Hiilnor of "Alice In Wonderland"? B. nlut Is the illllcrence In meanlne between the uorJ "picturesque' and "plctr esaue"? 0. What nr In our era Is the Year One ae (aniim: (o th .Molummeuan calendar 7 10. Ulint J the Urzest city In Nev Jeey? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Albert Sldn-v .Inhnatnn uhnu lnna vu IrrciMirublc to the fouth, was killed U I me iMine or Minoii in ihuz. S. Ulllijm De.in Howell wrote a "camp&Ua life" of Abrahim Lincoln. 3. General Maude U In command of tbe Drltua nner.iiioni in iMefeO.iotauuu. , ,, , 4. I) Iff I) Hell, the American comedian, died last urek. 5. The new llnelUh title of Louli of Hitter. liirtr la f.milu nf Afnnnf ltttttn C, Fenllnnnd of Uulrnrla Ift the only remtla Ing Cziir In the world. . The rrendi expression "laUsez falre Ut rrally mean 'permit to do.' AnsoeUted with the word "polio " or "method" It tiltm f'n. l Hut rf . nP itritnn 8. Kdwanl (ilbhon In hi? "Decline and Fall of the Itomm Empire" rote. "HUtorl I. tnflml llttlft mnrn flinii tliA rfZllter 01 ( rimes, iollie unU misfortunes of bid Mini. 0. Montevideo If the capital nnd chief neaport nf Irucuaj. ihe word In bpanlsh for 'I X.1 l..i ..n...Al tt "CC l III' I1I1MIM lt Ilia .. a 10. Tim Ullmot I'rmlMi wn ft clause afflie hy IMilil wrmnt, of IVnnwIvanla, to a mncri'Shlonil hill In 1810 that prouded for the purlne of territory from JIM Ico. 'Ihe addition,.! clause, wmen wi f.luer) ti tlie new IjmN ami vtil source ot Healed political uiscumon. THE DEATH OF ROBESPIERRE History In the making has no breath" Ing spaces It moves right alonr. shuttling men off the stage the moment they have becomo useless, to be forgotten tor years. But history In retrospect Is anoUef matter It baa leisure to pick up and re unlto broken threads and give new value to personalities that had been scorned anl cast off by their contemporor'es The day after ttobespleri-e's death he wl an lnslgnincant failure A couple or yer later the fame of the young BonapsrW swept him out of men's minds And It w not for nearly a generation that he wil "nlaped" nnd then onlv os a monster( aa nrch-murderer. Many more years had to elapse before men came to see tnat u"' last one of tho great Revolutionary leader! had acted In what he believed to M lofty, patriotic manner We think of ourselves living at a rapljl nnr-ft tnilnv Tint tUn mn rtf the FrCIlCB devolution lived much faster UterslbA Nearly all of tho great figures died (usuaui bv the trulllotlne route! before or about tM age of forty the King and Queen, Mlrabeau. Danton, Desmoullns and Robespierre, w died at tho age of thirty-six At about tho tlma that tha last-named was pontln- eating at the first rites of his strange M church, the Reolutlonary Tribunal wi tending to tho guillotine 200 vlctlml . week. Once let this orgy of blood anjwj out all the enemies of the State, 1 Robosnlerra. and Prance would be able. J7. anlni n .Ann m V.a1,i,A OYA ilUlO cence. Once let the corrupt be exlermin. in.l nn. nnlil.l ulnnr. In oniA Tlllt ha. t&f titan schemer of a new unlverae, aia n' sleep. It Is said that In the last mpnw. ot that fevcted life he did not could W rlnKA Vitu bvm fnr nna- ahnrt hour. li maddened brain, screwed up to the breaVttlj point, could not relax, " In July, 1794. he thought that one BiM necatomb or victims would clear awajr "T remaining leaders who stood In the W72B the "reign of virtue." But It was JB dreamer against twenty men of action. 5IB intended victims raised a storm in ma ventlon and at last seoured the arreit"! Robespierre, All was not over then. J .-vuuouai uuaras or fans rescueu """ , his friends Installed him In the City HW All night with his friends he comerrj there. Had Robespierre been able to u quicniy no migm etui nave won. ,.'a Insomnia had probably clouded his M"7 Instead of going forth and rawing "J T uuaras in revolt, he Waited until p t aiiacKea mm. He was shot dpwn, or i lilmaAlf ii h,ti k.,tU,,n hit 4aw m was hurries to toe inIiyttn amid tJJ mm H awvrom tpa vtjr I TlPiSjWakiBfBiig!, ftfr- .J"' t6mSWi3ffSlmT aHsarKaVlLa3at PH9 MWIHMasg aajiaij n-.,,.w w m k tafSASlsa -aT. h ' -T ' "" "jww v fuiso. patti w '.-".SJE'VS.???!!! 125. ?. wW 11 hut werlhtMat
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