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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-20

Isn't that my AFFAIR."" she asked.
Aren't you willing to leave even that
to me after all you have been telling
how you are to make a redoubt of our
lawn. inviting the shells OF the enemy
into our drawing-room?"
What could he say? Only call up
from the depths the two passions of
his life in an outburst. with all the
force OF his nature In play.
Il love this soil. my country's soil,
ours by right-and love you! would
be true TO bothl"
Love! What mockery to mention
that now!" she cried chokingiy. ITS
mOnstrous!"
II" He was making an effort
to keep his nerves under control.
This time the stiffening elbow failed.
With lurching abruptness he swung
his right hand around and seized the
wrist of that trembling, injured hand
that would not be still She could not
fail to noice the movement, and the
sight was a magic that struck anger
out of her.
"Lanny, am hurting you!" she cried
miserably.
"a little." he said, will finally domi-
nant over its servant, and he was
smiling as when, half stunned and in
agony-and ashamed of the fact-he
had risen from the debris of cloth and
twisted braces. IT'S all right" he con
cluded.
She threw back her arms, her head
raised, with certain abandon as il
she would bare her heart.
'Lanny, there have been moments
when l would have liked to fly tc
your arms. There have been moments
when have had the call that comes tC
every woman in answer to a desire
Yet I was not ready. When l really
go 1t must be in a fame. in answer t
your flannel"
You tnean-I-"
But IL the fame were about to burs
forth she smothered it in the spark.
"And all this has upset me-" sh'
went on fncoherent1y. We've boil
been cruel without meaning to be, ant
we're in the shadow of nightmare
and next time you come perhaps al
the war talk will be over and-oh
: this is enough for today!"
She turned quickly in veritable fligh
and hurried toward the house.
''If 1t ever comes" she called, an
let you know! I'll fly to you in
chariot Of fire bearing my flame-I ar
that bold, that brazen, that reckless
For am not an old maid, yet. They'v
moved the age limit up to thirty. Blu
l you can't drill love into me as 20
drill discipline into armies-no, n
more than can argue peace int
armies!"
For q while, motionless, Lanstro
watched the point where she had diI
: appeared.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-20
A REBELLION
Food Demanded.

The human body will stand Lot Of
abuse, but sometime it will surely re-
bel and demand proper food in place
of the pasty, starchy greasy stuffs on
which it has been made sick.
Then is the time to try Grape-Nuts,
the most scientific and perfect food in
the world.
A lady of Washington says: Three
years ago I was very i'll with catarrh
Of the stomach and was given up to
die by one doctor. I laid in bed four
months and my stomach was so weak
that / could not keep down medicine
or hardly any kind Of food and was so
weak and emaciated after four months
Of this starvation that my daughter
could easily lift me from bed and put
me in my chair.
"But weak as my stomach was. ic
accepted, relished and digested Grape
Nuts without any difficulty the first
time that wonderful food was tried.
II am now strong and in better
health than for a great many years
and am gradually growing stiil
stronger. / rely on Crape-Nuts for
much of the nourishment that get.
The results have certainly been won
derful in my case and prove that NO
stomach is so weak it will not digest
Grape-Nuts.
my baby got fat from feeding on
fro no. Nufs waa afraid I would
have to stop giving the food to him.
but guess 1t is a healthy fat. for his
health is just perfect" Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book. "The Road to Wellville.~
There's Reason"
Ever read the above letterf A new
| one appears from time to time. They
Hre genuine, true, and full Of human
| Interest
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-20

next morning. He wrote his answer;
the orderly saluted and departed at a
rapid pace; and then, as matter of
habit Of the same kind that makes
some men wipe their pens when lay
ing them down, he struck a match and
set fire to one corner of the paper,
which burned to his fingers ends be-
fore he tossed the charred remains
away. Marta imagined what he would
be like with the havoc Of war raging
around him-all self-possession and
mastery; but actually he was trying to
reassure himself that he ought not to
feel petulant over holiday cut short.
II shall have to go at once" he said.
Marta, If there were to be war very
soon-within a week or two weeks
what would be your attitude about Eel
ler's remaining?"
ITO carry out his plan, you mean 2"
YES"
There was a perceptible pause on
her part.
Let him stay" she answered. 81
shall have time to decide even after
war begins" AH
But instantly war begins you must
go!" he declared urgently.
"You forget precedent" she re.
minded him. "The Galland women
have never deserted the Galland
housed"
81 know the precedent. But this
time the house will be in the thick OF
the fighting"
ut has been in the thick of the fight
ing before" she said. with gesture OF
impatience.
Marta. you will promise not to re-
! main Z" he urged.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-20
The :. LAST Shot
FREDERICK PALMER
(cOpyright. 1914. BY Charles scribners sOns)
SYNOPSIS.

At their home on the frontier between
che Browns and Grays Marta Galiand and
her motha-, entertaining Colonel Wester-
ling of the Grays, see Captain Lanstron,
stan intelligence officer of the Browns.
injured by fall in his aeroplane. Ten
years later Westerling, nominal vice but
real chief OF staff. reinforces South La
T1r, meditates on war, and specHlates on
the comparative ages of himself and Mar
ga, who is visiting in the Gray capital
westerling calls on Marta. She tells MIN
of her teaching children the folhes OF war
and martial patriotism, begs him to pre-
vent war while he is chief of stan, and
predicts that IL he makes war against the
Browns he will not win. On the march
with the SD of the Browns Private Stran-
sky, anarchist, decries war and played
out patriotism and is placed under arrest.
Colonel Lanstron everhearing, begs him
off. Lanstron calls on Marta at her home.
He talks with Teller, the gardner. Marta
tets Lanstron that she believes Feller to
be- spy. Lanstron confesses 1t Is true.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-20

she asked. 81 thought you were TO do
pend on them for scouting"
I'VE shall use them. but they are
the least tried of all the new re-
sources" he said. "a Gray aeroplane
may cut a Brown aeroplane down be-
fore il returns with the news we want.
At most. when the aviator may descend
low enough for accurate observation
he can see only what is actually being
done. Feller would know Westerlings
plans before they were even in the
first steps of execution. This"-play-
ing the thought happily-"this would
be the ideal arrangement. while our
planes and dirigibles were kept over
our lines to strike down theirs. And,
Marta, that is all" he concluded.
IF there is war, the moment that
Feller's ruse is discovered he viii be
shot as spy?" she asked.
Il warned him Of that said Ian
stron. He is a soldier, with a sol
dier's fatalism. He sees no more dan
der in this than in commanding bat
terry In crisis"
Suppose that the Grays win? Sup
pose that La Tir is permanently
theirs?"
"They shall not win! They must
mott" Lanstron exclaimed, his tone as
rigid as Westerling's toward her sec
ond prophecy.
yet if they should win and Wester.
| ling finds that | have been party to
this treachery, as | shall be now that
l am IN the secret, think of the posi-
ton of my mother and myself" she
continued. HAS that occurred to you
friend, in making our property, our
garden, our neutrality, which is ouI
only defense, a factor in one OF your
plans without our permission?"
Her eyes. blue-black in appeal and
reproach, revealed the depths of g
wound as they had on the terrace steps
before luncheon, when he had beer
apprised of feeling for him by seeing
1t dead under his blow. The logic o.
the chief Of intelligence withered. He
uOW W iOi
was, indeed, more sacred than patriotic
passion. He realized the shame o
what he had done now that he wal
free Of professional influences.
you are right, Marital" he replied
ut was beasay OF me-there is no ex
cuse."
He looked around to see an orderl,
from the nearest military wireless sta
ton.
Il was told 1t was urgent, sir" SAT-
the orderly, in excuse for his intrusion
as he passed telegram to Lanstron.
Immediately Lanstron felt the toucl
Of the paper his features seemed t
take ON mask that concealed hi
thought as he read:
take night express. Come direc
from station to me. Partow."
, This meant that he would be el
nected at p9rtOw's office at eight tn
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-20
CHAPTER VII.
MAKING a War.
appeared

Hedworth Westerling would have
said twenty to one if he had been asked
the odds against war when he was
parting from Marta Galland in the
hotel reception room. Before he
reached home he would have changed
them to ten to one. A scare bulletin
about the Bodlapoo affair compelling
attention as his car halted to let the
traffic of cross street pass, he bought
a newspaper. thrust in at the car win
dow that contained the answer of the
government of the Browns to a dis
patch of the Grays- about the dispute
that had arisen in the distant African
jungle. This he had already read two
days previously, by courtesy of the
premier. 1t was moderate in tone, as
became a power that had 100000 SOL
diers against it's opponents 100000;
nevertheless, it firmly pointed out that
overtly invaded, on the pretext of Sc
curing a deserter who had escaped
across the line, by Gray colonial
troops who had raised the Gray flag in
place of the Brown flag and remained
detiantly in occupation of the outpost
they had taken.
AS yet, the Browns had not attempt
ed to repel the aggressor by arms for
fear of complications, but were relying
on the Gray government to order a
withdrawal of the Gray force and the
reputation of commander who had
been guilty of so grave an international
affront. The surprising and illuminat-
ing thing to Westerling was the in
| spired statement to the press from the
Gray foreign office, adroitly appealing
to Gray chauvinism and justifying the
"intrepidity" of the Gray commander
in response to so-called pin-pricking''
| exasperations.
At the door of his apartment, Fran.
co.'s, his valet and factotum, gave Wes-
| terling letter.
J Important, sir" said Francois.
Westerling knew by glance that 1t
was, for it was addressed and marked
Personal in the premier's own hand.
writing. A conference for ten that
evening was requested In a manner
that left no doubt of its urgency.
Curiosity made him little ahead OF
time, but he found the premier await.
ing him In his study, free from inter.
ruption or eavesdropping.
In the shadow of the table lamp the
old premier looked his years. From
youth he had been in politics, ever a
bold figure and daring player, but
now beginning to feel the pressure OF
younger mems elbows. Ponder even
of power, which had become habit
than in his twenties, he saw it slipping
from his grasp at an age when the
downfall of his government meant that
he should never hold the reins again
He had been called an ambitious dem
agogue and a makeshift opportunist by
his enemies, but the crowd liked him
for his ready strategy, his genius for
appealing phrases, and for the gam
bler's virtue which hitherto had made
him good loser.
you saw our communique tonigh,
that went with the publication of the
Browns dispatchf" he remarked.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-20
Likes Sensible Women,

Montague Glass, the author of Peri.
mutter and Potash" says that he
would not marry a woman who did
not have sense enough to want equal
rights for her sex He has a wife
who, needless to say, comes up to his
expectations of what sensible wom-
an should be.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-20
Qualified Rebuke.

Five-year-old Marie likes to see the
funny pictures. She had the paper
spread out on the floor looking at 1t
when her father turned out the light.
Mary was angry at this, and said.
You've got your nerve" but as she
realized Immediately whom she was
talking to she hastily added. But you
know your rights"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-20

There are few really great men on
earth, but there are lot Of others
who are willing to admit their great
ness.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-11-20

The man who makes good doesn't
wait for opportunity to knock. He
has the door wide open
Arizona republican., 1914-09-04
SUNS PRESSURE ON THE EARTH

Both by theory and from experiments we are satisfied that light exerts pressure and this press ure when exerted on the earth by the was cal culated by the late Professor POynting as amount ing to 10000 tons. This property of radiation has lately been used by Professor Langevn in illustra- tion of of the flaws which perceptble in Newto/an mechanics For example, according to Newton's third law of motion, action and reaction are equal and oppositey directed reactions But the forces created by electrified body do not conform to this law. This is especially evident when radiation also occurs.
 Suppose that an incandescent body is giving off light-that is to say, electro magnetic radiation uniformly in all directions. By reason of the symmetry of arrangements of these. departing forces they exert no resultant force the source from which they set out. But if the perturbatons, in the form of a light wave encounter an obstacle at distance then the object will be subjected to a force due to it's absorption of part of this radiant emery. The pressure of light pushes the obstacle away in the direction in which the light r being gated and the action thus exerted on the distant body is not compensated by reaction appearing in the on any other portion of matter. We have thus without reactions, II matter alone is considered.
 It remains to be pointed out that in a general way the assumption which arises out of tft new mechanics, that the of body varies when it gives out heat light, does not lend itself to measurement For example if known masses Of hydrogen and oxygen are exploded ln closedNe se to form water. then, since an immense amount of energy is radiated away, the mass of the water must be less than the combined masses or the tWo gases. But the calculated decrease in mass IS only Ve-billionth part of it. and thus entlrey LOO small to measure it.-London Post.
Arizona republican., 1914-09-04

spots the globe It exports s400,00O0O0 worth of goods each year and raises almost enough produce it's eorner-lo farms and pocket gardens to feed it's population Everyone works in Belgium. Even the dogs have to draw milk carts, though when Belgian farmer has valuable dog he does risk it in hot weather He makes his wife draw the cart.
 Belgium produces coal, lace, porcelain, sugar, steel. and old in immense quantities. It also does fourishing business with tourists. Ant paintings pavements and smells, and no American is satisfied until he has gaZed upon the works of Rubens and Van Dyke. Both of these great paint hailed from Antwerp, and the city is prouder this than it is of the fact that it is the second greatest seaport in the world
 Belgium is monarchy. but is not about it it when old Leopold II was devastating the theaters of Europe The Belgans pro- fusey and send representatives to their magnifi- capitol at Brussels, but they noted scholars. Almost 30 per cent of them have neglect ed to learn to read and write But coaxing veg etablcs out of the ground few nations compare with them
 Belgium is composed of Flemish and Waloons and for many centuries run over by the great CT nations if it had been merely chicken in the road. Thousands of battles have been fought Belgian soil with the Begians innocent bystand- CTS. Waterloo fought within fifteen miles of Brussels, and forms great natural resource of the
Arizona republican., 1914-09-04
THE FRIGHT" TO PURCHASE SHIPS

Much discussion has recently been indulged in concerning the possibility of merchant vessels der foreign flags being admitted to American reg isry A proposition made in congress a few days ago to provide for such admttance has been met by the declaration that the nations of Europe would not respect such transfers of prop erty allegiance made after the outbreak of hostili ties.
 law and a former member of the American dplo- matic service expresses interesting and more favorable opinion. It is. in brief. that
 According to the British and American prac- tice neutral vessels could well be transferred to neutral flag before after the outbreak of war, and lost thereby their enemy character, provided that the transfer took place bona fde, was moi effected either in blockaded port or while the vessel in transit, the vendor did not retain an interest in the vessel or did not stipulate right to recover repurchaSe the vessel after the con clusion of the war, the transfer was not made in transitu in contemplation of war"
 It is further stated by the same authority that many purchases of American ships were made by British subjects during the career of the Confed- crate cruisers and like purchases were made of Chinese vessels by Americans during the Franco Chinese war" Mir Taylor expressly points out that other nations have not observed "the British and American practice
 reasonable conclusion is that in time of such prevails international public law is a tissue of formalities which offer as surances of any kind. The United States had bet ter build new merchant vessels than invite trouble by appealing to law" about which the lawyers dsagree-Washington Star.
Arizona republican., 1914-09-04
Wars Barbarities

Probably the stories of horrible barbarities of which the European combatants accusing each other in part congregations, they have all ways been Even in medieval times there a difference between the cruelties actually prac ticed and those described by historians whose data could not be gathered from disinterested parties. War at it's best is much more cruel than is neces- sary. There of individual excesses but we may believe them to be much more rare than they are reported to be-
 Non-combatants in war-scourged region subjected to unavoidable hardships and suffering but they comparatively seldom excite the vengeance of hostile soldiery, who too intent upon fight ing their armed foes to devote much time to the punishment of helpless and unoffending popu- lation.
 In the civil in this country there little complaint of unnecessary cruelty except along the borders, and such excesses committed there were the work either of cowardly private citizens irreguars. In the Russo Japanese there was little or no complaint of cruelty, and
Arizona republican., 1914-09-04
Women Voters

Just what the ratio of the registered vote in this county is to the whole vote We do not know It is supposed to be about 30 per cent That is much lower than it ought to be. But whatever it may be, it should be ncreaed in the next registra tion period before the general election, to 50 per cent of the total registered vote. Women should be as deeply interested in the character of the officers O be elected They equally in terested in the legislative measures which have been proposed
 And here is another thing: An intelligent pression depends upon intelligent electorate We forced to admit that in the past the active electorate has not been wholly intelligent. There many who by reason of partisanshp, vicousness and ignorance do not vote ntellgently, but such always registered and always vote They generally active at the polls The who has been too busy to register who has forgotten who for reason another has not gone to the polls, is a who would have voted ntelligently if he had voted at all.
 Of the great number of women, say seventy five per cent, who have not yet registered. there are many hundreds to offset the partisan vicious and unntelligent vote which considers neither the laws and amendments
Arizona republican., 1914-09-04
Peace at Home
By WALT MASON

We who infest this favored land should happy be- and doubly grateful we need not at chief S command engage in warfare, grim and hateful. No cannons thunder shores, fierce, bloodthirsty faces but do our daily chores. and be shot in fifteen places. No reckless sol diers fire barns, tyrant OCT the wreck joices and says he doesn't three darns. when protest, with wet voices. Oh. everywhere is balmy peace, in this fair and beloved of heaven, and man, who elbow grease, may earn three bucks maybe Sleep has for it's priS- tine charms; go roost, our prayers once spoken; danger here of night alarms; we wake at morn, legs unbToken. We feed old DObbin in his stall, milk the COW and herd the outlets; we are backed against a wall and then shot full of rusty bullets. So let thank our divers gods, that we may live lives sereney, work out our plans increase wads and die in bed, in man. ner cleanly
Arizona republican., 1914-09-04

the Franco -Prussian not marred to any great extent by unnecessary acts of cruelty. cording to the testimony of -combatants in the war zone.
 Prisoners in modern generally well treated. In conflict there marked cases of cruel treatment at Andersonve and Libby due in part to the nhumanity of governors and in part to the inability of the south a late stage of the to properly for either it's prisoners or it's soldiers
Arizona republican., 1914-09-04
Scrvian soldiers in trenches.

According to recent reports from Paris and London, little Servia is proving a very troublesome foe to Austria These reports have it that in several important engagements the Austrians have been defeated, and that a Servian army has pene- trated far into Austrian territory.
 Military critics everywhere admit that in matters of discipline, leader ship, adamantine spirit and elan, there is no army it's size in the world that can make better showing than the Servian army made during it's wars with Turkey and Bulgaria" says a statement recently issued by the National Geographic Society at Washington. "It is fighting force that is conceded to have every qual- ity of strength that a military ma
Arizona republican., 1914-09-04

The Publishers Weekly fears that the will have depressing effect upon the book publishing trade If that were all, would welcome the blessing rather than We have altogether too many books. They litter the na- ton. We could survive without suffering if not another book were published in the next ten years The dumping of the millions and millions of vol umes of nsipd, silly, time destroying and intel lectdwarfing fiction ought be stopped even if it takes a to stop it.
Arizona republican., 1914-09-04
IS North First Avenue.

country today the sale of souvenir cards and bullets being enormous. For hundreds of years Belgium as territory handed around from nation to another and in the last century it given to the Dutch. This much After the Dutch had tried to compel the Belgans to learn the pc cular and Terrifying language, the latter revolted and became a separate nation
 Belgium also produced the famous Belgian hare, which seems be the only citizen of the country who knows how to
Arizona republican., 1914-09-04
A PARABLE

young artist persuaded Whistler to come and view his latest effort. The two stood before the canvas for moments in silence. Finally the young asked timidly: Don't you think sir. that this painting of mine is-well-er-toler- able?"
 Whistiers eyes twinkled dangerously
 What is your opinion of tolerable egg?" he
Arizona republican., 1914-09-04
Belgium
By GEORGE FITCH Author of "At Good Old Siwash'

Belgium. which has lately surprised the world by holding Germany with all the fury of Ill., pound quarter tacking a Percheron fullback, is an enlarged Wheatfield into which 700O000 people have been stuffed by industry and entire lack of race suicide.
 Belgium is bigger than congressional dis trict in Kansas and energetic automobile can cross it in two hours But it is one of the busiest