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away he continued. as an officer OF
the guard came up to the buzzer sta
ton.
The buzZer box began to hum with
renewed vigor as the story was flashed
back. The signal detachment was
ready to disconnect the box in an in
stant. upon tn, approach of an enemy,
and eSta bliSh a new station on the
ridge. There could be no sense in stay
ing too long.
The thin gray streak to the eastward
had broadened and changed to saffron.
In the faint light of the coming dawn
the streams and ravnes to the front
gave off ghostly mist through which
nothing could be seen. The clothing
of tht men was soggy with the night
damp, and something of the chill SEEM
ed to have crept into the very marrow
of the bones, made more susceptible to
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came a shot and a hoarse cry. indis-
a scattering of shots. at which every
sentry along the line started up with a
swapping of safety lock on rifle, and in
a moment two of the cyclists dashed up
to the post on the road, one with no
rifle and an arm hanging limp, while a
dark stain crept across a hand and
dripped to the dusty road.
They got Bill and the corporal said
the unwounded one. Ran smack into
a whole bunch of them in the field to
the east of the road. Report the enemy
advancing, sir, about half a mile
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period the bureau was just develop
ing the work of aiding American en-
porters to extend their markets. This
work grew under Mr.. Baldwin, and two
years ago the bureau of statistics.
which had to do merely with assem-
bling statistics of trade and commerce.
was consolidated with his bureau and
the new bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce was created to take over
the activities of both. Mr.. Baldwin
became chief of the new creation.
Since then the bureaus growth in scope
and usefulness has been rapidly in
creaSing.
Though still young in appearance Mr..
Baldwin has behind him thirty years
of government service He is product
of that service, an example of what
the civil service can produce and of
the rewards it offers to those who can
demonstrate their executive ability
1t was in 1884 that Mr.. Baldwin
tered the employ of the fish commits
sion In a minor capacity, his salary be-
ing $50 a month. Then followed years
OF service in the commission-now TIL.
bureau of fsheries-in the Department
of the Interior and in the Department
of Agriculture. Bit by bit he worked
his. way up the rounds of the civil
service ladder, gaining reputation at
each round. AS his city developed
he was charged with various govern
mental missions away from Washing
ton. As early as 1893 he was at Chi
exhibits.
The Paris exposition brought him
similar employment. At the Lewis and
Clark centennial exposition at Port
land, Greg, he was in charge of the
exhibit of the Department of Com
merce and Labor. and at the Alaska
Yukon Pacific exposition at Seattle in
1909 he was in charge of the great
hibit of the Post Office Department. All
this gave him opportunity to show
what he could do working on his own
initiative.
Then the Post Office Department be-
gan to use him in arranging large con-
tracts and leases. He. for example.
assisted in the negotiations which re-
suited in the lease. on advantageous
terms to the government. of post Office
space in the Hudson terminal in New,
York
In 1909 he became chief clerk of the
census bureau to plan the work of TAX
ing the census in 1910. In the last
named year he was promoted to be
chief clerk of the Department of Com
merce and Labor. and few months
later. the work attracting him, he be-
came chief Of the bureau of manufac-
lures.
All this indicates a taste for busi-
ness and for executive work-and' the
indications are not wrong. Still-but
this is a secret-time was when Mr..
Baldwin was suspected of possessing
the artistic temperament, which is not
at all conapatable with the business
temperament. now one of his chief pos
sessions. .,rI
Born in Connecticut in 1855 Mr.. Bald
Win left. his studies at Yale to become
a student for three years at the Ecoie
d'Beaux Arts In Paris. In his leisure
in early manhood he did much Illus
trating for magazines and book pub
lishers, and illustrating of high or
der, but long ago he dropped all this
for the-to him-more Inviting work
of being an administrator. business
executive and a highly successful or
ganizer.
It all exhibits the many-sidedness of
the man, this first of American COM
mercial attaches abroad.
ASHMUN- BROWN. Z,
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weather influences by the long weeks
of campaign which had gone before.
Then, too, there was something of the
chill of waiting, as the sentries and
supports crouched, ready to fire at any
thing that moved. Waiting has always
been the hardest part of an engage
ment, for deprived of any activity of
body, the mind runs riot with unbidden
pictures and a restless impatience for
the coming of the storm to break the
suspense which has often been eX-
pressed as, my God; why don't the
fools come on
In the rear of the line of resistance,
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supports lay the nozZles of wicked ma
of a pressing thumb. to release their
soaring streams of lead and steel upon
a toIling foe.
Officers skunk and crept along the line
of sentry posts and cossack posts, in
Specting their men to see that they
know their orders, the position of
neighboring posts and pickets. and the
location of the supporting trenches
upon which they were to fall back with
the coming of the attack.
At the double-sentry posts, the two
men stood or crouched, concealed to
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these attaches are accredited the at
taches attitude for a period must be
one of watchful waiting. His services
will be none the less valuable for that.
He will have to be more watchful,
however. than waiting.
Here are the men who have been
appointed to these new positions and
the embassies to which they have been
accredited
Albertus H. Baldwin until the time
of foreign and domestic commerce of
the department of commerce-London.
C. w. \. VeditZ of Philadelphia, "a
famous economist-Paris
E. w. Thompson of Charlotte, y. c.,
writer on commercial subjects. civil
engineer and economist-Berlin.
Henry d. Baker. transferred from
the post of American consul at Bonn
bay-Petrograd.
Julean H. Arnold, transferred from
the post of consul general at Nankin.
China-Pekin. China.
Prof, Lincoln Hutchinson of the Uni
versity of California-Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil.
DR.. Albert Hale. author and observer.
UP to the time of his appointment con-
nected with the Pan American Union
Ruenos Aires, Argentina.
\. I. Harrington. formerly in the
Philippine service, formerly the repre-
sentative of American oil interests in
the Straits settlements-Lima, Peru
v. L. Ravens of Nebraska. civil en-
gineer who has lived for years IN
Latin American-Santiago, Chile.
Four, it will be seen, go to Europe;
four to South America, which bulks SO
big today OF the possible trade map
and one to the orient. More attaches,
il is expected. later will be appointed
as the need arises and as legislation Is
Forthcoming.
Secretary Redfield had hardly warm
ed his chair in the Department OF Com
merce last year when he began 10 az
tate this natter of establishing COM
Inercial attaches abroad AS manu-
facturer who had studied export trade
for himself and who had spent much
time abroad, he knew the possipie
value Of the new service. Just when
the plan took form in his mind no one
knows save the Secretary.
One theory is that it was after he had
got to know Mr.. Baldwin. whom he
found in the department conducting
the bureau of foreign and domestic
trade. Somehow, Mr.. Baldwin looks
lust like man to whom the title COM
mercial attache should be attached. See
him and one wonders why he was not
commercial attache before this. lr
his manner and bearing there is 8
touch of the dipiomatist. touch OF the
long-trained government official. q
touch of the efficient observer
Anyhow, in planning and organizing
the new service Mr.. Baldwin was the
Secretary's right-hand man: and &c
) when the service was fully formed HI
was sent to the most important post.
Before he started for London Mr.
Baldwin talked to visitor at the de
partment in regard to the new work
THE establishment of the corps o
commercial attaches at this time II
singularly opportune," said he, "be
5 cause the currents of internationa
, trade are now more or less interrupt
ed and the possibility exists of ther'
being a radical Encouragement of then
5 during the coming two years. To
e considerable degree, the worlds trad,
is being made over. The more care
a fully we watch. the making over pro
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COMMERCIAL. at.

at
tache, 1t is a
new term in Amer
lean diplomacy, a
new designation
on Uncle Sans
pa yroll. There
were recently ap-
pointed. under a
law enacted earlier
in the year, nine
commercial at
taches of Ameri-
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their wheels, while the corporal in
charge trundled his machine to the
shadows of the roadside. whence a
more shadowy figure with ready rifle
emerged from the gloom
From a clump of bushes behind a
fence there came an odd faint musical
note an intermittent, metallic whine,
which could he heard only few feet
away.
Anything new" asked the corporal.
after responding to the challenge and
establishing his identity
The signal sergeant in charge of the
field telegraph held up silencing hand
while. with averted head. he listened
TO the nggg-ng-ngnggn" of the
huzzer
The darkness was pitchy black un-
der the cover of the wood. except
where Il bit of velvet heavens lay be-
youd the tree gaps. There, silver
points of stars glowed and blinked
as the night hung heavy in oppressive
stiffness The darkness which comes
before dawn was about ready to break,
for, off to the east the thinnest i'm
aginable line of light showed above
the hills in the distance. down the
avenue of the roadway. Yet, despite
the rich quiet. there was strain of
some sort in the air. as though each
shadowy object ahead might suddenly
change to an appalling menace and TIE
ground might open up beneath the
feet of the sentry post.
New outpost on the way. said the
sergeant. Those people out in front
will be hopping on US any minute
now. Haven't missed a morning yet
for some sort OF attack
The cyclists pushed ahead. down the
road. as noiSeleSsly as the flow of a
quiet river. Scattered in loose forma-
ton. so that in case of an ambus-
rife fire to return to tell the tale, the
PATROLS duties required that it almost
be sacrificed in gaining first news of
an approaching enemy. Yet under
standing this as they did the men of
the patrol showed no sign of nervous
ness. but went gallantly on. in the full
nursuit of their duties. Each shadow
along the roadway was suspiciouslv
examined, the members of the patrol
halting momentarily to prop them
selves by one foot on the ground.
without dismounting, while fingers
curled about the triggers of their
rifles that even in the moment of
death they could release an alarm.
The line of observation of the out
post lay in advance of a curving ridge
upon which the trenches of the sup
ports, the line of resistance, were
carven. Half mile or more to the
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CYCLIST patrol
halted at a cross
road at the low
spoken yet sharp
command of a
hidden s q n t r y.
Three of the four
men who had rid
den up in dia-
lnond- shaped for
nation which COW
cred the entire
road leaned on
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This Is the fifth Of q series Of pom
pictures Of modern warfare by an Amer
ican army officer who himself has seen a
lot of hard fighting. The sixth article
will appear in next Sundays Star.
Evening star., 1914-11-08

can embassies abroad, observers in
foreign lands of the trend Of COM
nerce and trade. highly trained COM
mercial scouts. men who know an inter
national business situation when they see
it and know how to detect in it any ad-
vantage or disadvantage to American
business.
Their appointment is all part of the
general policy of Secretary Redfield of
the Department of Commerce to build up
the American export trade.
But" mutters the pessimistic person,
this is fine time, isn't it. to send COM
lnercial attaches abroad in the interests
of trade, when international trade is shot
10 pieces by reason of the war;
This irony is in reality the truth. 1t
is n fine time to send them abroad never
has there been a better. To a considera-
BILE degree the worlds trade is in state
of fiux. Existing channels have been dis
iurbed. There are enormous possibilities
of change in their courses. No man can
say precisely what will happen Hence.
# ever there was need OF skilled COM
mercial observers at the great world CEN
ters that need exists today
Evening star., 1914-11-08

All business wants to know what is
going on in the worlds industrial and
commercial countries. what steps are
being taken to pick up the scattered ends
of commerce, what all the nations are
doing.
In some of the countries to which
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such organizations of capital as the
Standard Oil Company, the harvester
and agricultural implement manufac-
turing concerns, have made notable
successes in the foreign fields and have
Morris tribune., 1914-12-18
WHENCE COMES THIS HATE?

monstrous hate seems to rule the world at this
Christmas tide The of half the world engaged in
the grim business of war; entailing misery which
can conceive, much less describe.
We are told on all sides that this is 'peope's war, "
and it in each country. the people united
determination that their nation shall in and patient
ly undertake the greatest sacrifices.
Yet from the battefeIds stories of the brother
hood of man breaking thru the of hate Men in
opposing trenches while they swap tobacco
for Coffee sitting watching another they join in
singing the same
From the hospitals of all armies also comes the same
story of lack of Wounded of the cared
for as tenderIy as the wounded friends Prisoners of
war are treated with the utmost consideration, and
eapors and capves fraternze on terms of corday and
friendship.
War. then. does not and cannot arise from the in
dividual hatreds of the individual soldier
But we are told that arise of hatred or
business rivalry. But the peoples which at
war dwell together in the United states-and very often
are business vasbut they for that go
and shoot one another.
Or take the of man mentioned by one of our
exchanges One of his cousins is married musician
in Berlin and he serving in the German army another
cousin married in Belgium two boys the Belgian
army another cousin the French army and still
two other cousins that emigrated TO Edmondn Canada
are now at the with the Canadian troops that went
over in October.
Has either personal hatred hatred or business
rivalry these out to seek each others lives?
OF course not. Then whence comes this great hate
which drives man fight man, and nation to fgh
nation?
We don't know.
Perhaps the devil something to do vito it.
Morris tribune., 1914-12-18
STOP BUYING EXPENSIVE
COUGH REMEDIES
Make the Best at Home

Money spent for the old style, ready
made, cough syrups in bottles holding
only 2 to 21s ounces is very largely
wasted, because most of them are
composed principally of Sugar and
water. Yet you have to pay the sans
price as if it was all medicine. Stop
wasting this money. You can make q
better cough medicine at home at one
fifth the cost. Merely go to j. Be
Kruegers Drug Store and ask for z
ounces (50c worth) of Schiffmann'S
Concentrated Expectorant. Mix this
with one pint of graduated sugar and
one half pint of boiling water, which
makes full pint &c ounces). This
new, simple, pleasant remedy is gua-
ranteed to relieve the worst cough or
cold. Also excellent for Bronchial
Asthma, Bronchitis, Group, hoarsenes
and whooping cough. One bottle will
make enough home made cough
medicine to probably last the whole
family the entire winter. Children
like it, it is so pleasant to take and it
positively contains no chloroforms
opium, morphine or other narcotics
as do most cough mixtures. Keep it
on hand in case of emergency and
stop each cough before it gets firm
hold. The above druggist has been aua
to return the money in every
single case where it does not give
perfect satisfaction or is not found
the best remedy ever used. Abso-
lutely no risk in run in buying this
remedy under this positive guarantee
Morris tribune., 1914-12-18
IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?

Following is the correspondence between little girl
and great editor. answering perennial question of
childhood
''Dear Editor am eight years old, Some of my
little friends say there is Santa Claus Papa says
if you see it in your paper it is so. Please tell me
the truth. Is there Santa Claus? Mary"
Mary, your little friends are wrong. They have been
affected by the skeptcism of skeptca age They do
believe except they They think that nothing be
which is not comprehensive by their little minds. All
minds Mary whether they be mems children's.
little In this great universe of ours, is in
Sect an ant in his intellect compared with the boundles
world about him. as measured by the intelligence capable
of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes Mary. there is Santa Claus. He exists GER
tany as and generosity devotion exist and you
that they abound and give your life its highest
beauty and joy Alas dreary would be the world if
there were no Santa Claus 1t would be as dreary as if
there were no Marys There would no chidike faith
then no poetry no make toleabe this exist
ance We should have enjoyment except in sense and
sight The eternal light with which childhood fills the
world would be extingushed.
Not believe in Santa Claus? You might as we'll not
believe in fairies You might get your papa to hire men
to watch all the cnimneys Christmas to catch
Santa Claus but even if they did not Santa Claus
coming down what would that prove? Not everybody
Santa Claus The real things in the world those
that neither children nor see. Did you see
fairies dancing on the lawn? Of no; but that's
no proof that they not there No conceive
or imagine all the things that and unseeabIe in
the world No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives and
he lives forever thousand years from now. Mary nay
ten thousand years from now he will continue to make
glad the hearts of childhood.
Morris tribune., 1914-12-18

slower. fauh automobiles. giant
motorcar, whose ordinary speed is a
mile in two minutes and costing
$4,000, is mere bagatelle to spoiled
beauty who tires of her motors as
when pampered little beauty she tir
ed of her dolls. She wants ever lar
ger, faster and more wonderfui car. and
it was in obedience to her wish that
the car as large as a Harlem fat, with
folding bed, table and separate com.
partments, came into being and added
to the family expenditures $27.0U0.
And after automobile architects the
jewelers. Diamond tiaras at 100000.
the statesmen in the diamond houses
say, are not uncommon purchases at
Yuletide. aud diamond tiara is a poor
affair that does not cost approximately
S100,OOO
Morris tribune., 1914-12-18
THE CASE OF FLOWERS AND GORDON

Our readers will appreciate the following very fair
statement of tn issue between Mr.. Flowers and Mr. Cor
don in the for Speaker of the House of Represent
atives 1t is from the pen of G. Bjornson chairman
of the Republican committee member of the egis
ature Lyon county editor of the Minneota Mas
cot He says
The newspapers of the state been busy electing
speaker for the House of Representatives of the 1915
legislature, the past month.
Of course, the members of the house will probably
insist having something say about the matter bur to
listen these papers, one would think the election of
speaker closed incident.
Misrepresentation and palpable colorng campaign as
far newspapers concerned and the public has
had but small opportunity to learn the facts
Mr.. Gordon and Mr.. Flowers both who have
rendered the state faithful public service.
Mr.. Gordon stands for county option. Mr. Flowers is
against county option Mr. Gordon from county
where dry sentiment is strong. Mr. Flowers halls from
district where the people not drought stricken
Either man will nc doubt do mis- level best to serve
the house well as speaker.
Mr.. Gordon, president of the senate, has record
that it will be difficult for any of his enemies to discount
He has shown that he has and backbone and
that he is not afraid to fight for his convictions
Mr.. Flowers has clean and honorable record in the
house of 1913 In opposing county option he thinks he
best represents his constituency and doubt feels
that the question is involving economic problem and
not fundamental moral principle and hence deems the
right lie in following the wishes of the majority
of those whom he represents
But be the present attitude of the two candidates for
speaker what may the fact remains that the contest
they engaged in where the county option forces
will line up side and the anti county option forces
the other There WILL of course, be exceptions
but not many.
1t would have been just we'll had it been possible
to eliminate the county option fight from the speakershp
contest for matter of fact the speaker exercise
but small influence the destiny of that The
members elected upon that ISSUE very largely and
speaker even should he foolish enough to attempt
it, could change votes from side to the other.
This paper favurs Sam Y Gordon for speaker but
for giving Mr. Flowers credit for all that
coming to him in spite of the fact that he is 'ou
candidate.
Morris tribune., 1914-12-18

Why all this talk to the effect that the big fight in
the approaching legislative session will be the adoption
law in line with the recommendations of the efficiency
and economy commission? So far as we have been able
to observe the people from of state to the
other heartily in favor ofand in fact demanding
the enactment of law of this kind If there any
opposition it has not manifested itself except possibly in
the minds of few politicians who the imeght and
hope gain personal prominence by building up straw
to knock down. The plan submitted by the com
mission may need slight alterations but as whole
it promises to be the popular that will
introduced during the humble opinion the
greatest danger be guarded against sly on the
of OF those gentlemen who talk oudest about the
prospective big fight. Wheaton Gazette Reporter
Morris tribune., 1914-12-18
ANY kind Of fool propoaition can alwasa fnd sol

Any kind of fool proposition can always find some
supporters An association the southern part of the
state is advocating the amendment of the Dunn road
law SO that all money raised in locality shall be spent
there and the surprising thing that the idea is ap.
proved by the farmers there Under the present law
the big cities of the state pay half of the money
raised and the small cities and villages pay another good
share and yet every cent of this money is spent on
country roads. To change the present law would be to
throw this entire burden on the farmers
Morris tribune., 1914-12-18
COSTLIEST CHRISTMAS GIFT.
Morgan's Present to His Son Was
House. For Which He Pad S6OOOOO

Morean's Present to His Son Was
House. For Which He Paid 100000.
1t was the late j. Pierpont Morgan
who gave the costliest present ever be
slowed in New York ON a Christmas
eve, says the Broadway Magazine The
gift, to his son, was a brownstonp
pile OF hundred rooms, with fifteen
rooms for servants on the top floor. at
the corner of Thirty-sixth street and
Madison avenue. l'he deed of gift
contained twice the name of }. Pier
pont Morgan for the 6nancier pre-
scented the third house in the Morgan
colony on Madison avenue TO his son
On one corner stands the original Nor
gan mansion. banked ON the right by
the magnificent marble museum and
art gallery filled with treasures gath
cred by the elder Morgan from among
the great art St0rehOuSeS OF Europe
Next TO the Morgan homestead stands
the home of Mrs. Herbert Satterlee
Mr. MOrgan's daughter, and adjoining
Mrs. Satterlee's nome is the home of J
Pierpont Morgan, Jr., the costliest pres
emf ever made on the island of Manhat
tan. representing an expenditure OF
S6OO,OOO
After houses. in the esteem of those
upon whom Christmas rains a golden