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AN EXPLODED "ATROCITY."
Remarks on the Genesis and Demise Of
the dying british Nurse" story.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: In
THE SUN OF November 4 appear the fol-
lowing headlines: Dying, British Nurse
Tells OF Atrocities. Pens Pitiful Farewell
Note as Hospital Is Set Afire by Ger
mans"
This Is followed by more than a third
OF column of detail taken from the
Dumfries and Galloway STANDARD aud
Advertiser under date of September l6,"
which publishes letter written Just be-
fore her death by Grace Hume. Dunn
fries nurse, whose killing by the Germans
while on duty In a field hospital at VII
vordc, near Brussels, on September 6, al
ready has been reported by cable"
a little lower comes the letter written
| by Grace" who tells OF man having
his head cut on and her right breast be-
ing taken away also the statement by
tho bearer OF the letter that our camp
hospital at Vilvorde was burned TO the
ground and out OF 1917 men and TWEEN
| ty-thrco nurses only nineteen nurses were
saved, but $40 men managed to get
away"
II you will turn to the London Times
81 September is you will find In column
OF the editorial page a leading article
headed "a Matter for Investigation"
stating "a story which attracted par
ticular attention. both because OF its pc
culiar atrocity and because OF the cir
cumstantal details which accompanied IL.
was told In several OF the evening papers
on Wednesday II was first published.
We believe in the Dumfrcs STANDARD on
Wednesday morning" Here follows a
paraphrase OF the story as you give II.
Further" says the Times, "the Dunn
fries standard published facsimile OF a
letter said to have been written by the
murdered nurse. when dying. to her sister
in Dumfries.
'"rhe story therefore appeared TO be
particularly well authenticated. and, as
we say, was published by IL number Of
London evening papers OF rcpute, includ-
Ing the Pnli Man and Westminster Gu
setcs, the Globe, the star and the Eve
ming standard. but late on Wednesday
mght II was discovered TO be entirely un-
true, since the nurse in question was
actually I'm Huddersfield and had never
even been in Belgium. though she had
volunteered FOR the front The remaining
fact IL that her sister in Dumfries states,
according TO the Yorkshire Post. that she
was visited by Nurse Mullard. profess
ing 60 be a nurse from Belgium, who
told her tho story and gave her the letter
from her sister in a handwriting that re-
sembled her sisters ."
Does not this stupid and cruel hoax
mark tho need OF stopping the publication
OF such stories? They are offensive to
truth and right feeling and have a most
Injurious effect upon people who won,
take time 20 think or whose mentality is
not sufficient 10 sift truth from untruth
even in obviously untrue statements
| hope you will give as prominent a
place to this denial AS did the London
Times F. T. CuAnwtcK
TWIN OAKS. NEWPORT, r. l.. Novem-
Der 6.
The article from tho Scotch news
paper 20 which Admiral Chadwick re-
fers appeared only In one edition, the
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Suggested EXPLORATION.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: II
IS rumored IN these parts that the Colonel
Is going TO fix up a combination with
the same old Bill" for the purpose OF
exploring some well known unknown
river. May l suggest Salt Creek. and a,
the same time wish them a very long
ana pleasant trip?
The Colonel's Biblical comment N his
(, feat reminds one Of the old Irish lady s
criticism OF IL Hlbernian parade: They
were a :o!ne lookn' body OF men. but
every wan OF thin was out OF sthep but
me Dinny." j.
BOsToN, November G.
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There is something like a fatality
about great astronomical events. They
almost invariably bring hazy or cloudy
weather. Rain falls where It hardly
ever fell before II "A band OF observers
chooses the spot 10 set up its instru-
ments. Clouds veil the sky for a single
day or night between spells OF clear
atmosphere in the regions whore perma-
nent observatories keep watch and ward
on the sky. Nature seems 10 be jealous
OF ner secrets and shrouds herself IN
mystery just at the moment when the
scientific intruders think they are on
tho point OF learning something real
Yesterday was a tantal.2ing one for
such great occasion as the transit OF
Mercury. At least in these parts. The
sun shone just enough 10 be provoking
and the golden mist which gave New
York such a fine London hue was Just
dense enough TO make exact observa-
tions hopeless as the little black spot
made It's way across the shining disk.
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The llmel!ght is apt to display those

The lmelight Is apt TO display those
who emerge into II IN their true colors.
Mr.. MEYER LONDON, who to the general
surprise. no doubt including his own,
has just been elected Congressman from
the Twelfth district of this city on a
socialstic platform. reveals himself to
tho public In this declaration.
when l go TO Congress l will try TO
have law passed under which no work
man will be allowed TO marry a working
girl unless she has a union card"
1t is hard to decide whether to ad-
mire this more as n bit OF sentiment, a
new canon in eugenics or an exponent
OF Mr.. LoNDoN's understanding OF the
powers and duties of the body to which
he has just been elected From any
point of view II is interesting and In
structive as showing the true quality
OF freak popular leadership.
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DOmcstics as Typhoid Carriers.

In recent issue Of The Sun the
danger from hitherto unsuspectcd
sources, the kitchen and pantry, was
emphasized by citing the fact that
about per cent. Of the population
Of Manila were proved cholera carriers
and most of these were engaged in
handling food. Now comes the an.
nouncement in the JDurHdI of the Amer
lean Medical Association of two cpl
denies Of typhoid fever. The state
Depa=:mcnt Of Health of Pennsylvania
discovered in recent invest igation ~
a typhoid fever epidemic at Lchlgh
University that forty students were
infected 10y kitchen employee who
though long since recovered from an
attack of typhoid fever st,il carried the
germs.
The director of the IIyglcnlc Labora-
tory Of the California state Board ~
Health furnishes instructive details ~
the infection Of niucty-rhrcc persons in
IIauford, Cal, where among the women
fulmi Shlng food cooked AT their own
homes and served by them at n church
dinner one woman was discovered To he
the source of Infection after all others
lad been carefully tested ana excluded,
though some had suffered from typhoid
fever several years previously, ana the
carrier, G3 years of age, had never
been in contact with this disease cN-
cept thirty years previously when she
nurscd her daughter. She had pre-.
pared only one dish, spaghetti with a
Spanish sauce, The latter. though
boiled in her own kitchen, was handled
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Tstng-tao.

The defence Of Tsing-tao by the Ger
mans was forlorn hope. 1t presented
even in miniature no such military
problem as Port Arthur in the Manchu-
rian campaign. II the japanese have
taken their time about the reduction
Of the town, II is the japanese way.
General IAN HAMILTON, who was with
their army on the Yalu ms an observer
for the British War Department, found
KURoKIs dispositions for the assault
upon KAsHTALINsKl' Inferior force
tiresomely elaborate. At first the British
General thought the japanese were NOT
sure of themselves, but he concluded
that their strategy was such as TO eS-
clude any doubt OF success. Taking
Tsing-tao was a comparatively light
task to an army that sustained casual
ties of $4,000 men In the investment
and reduction of Port Arthur. The pas
sage OF time was not important before
Using tao. Once 1t fell the Kiao-chow
campaign was over, and fall II must,
for the German garrison was not more
than 5000. counting volunteers, while
the besieging force was 10000 and had
the support OF a powerful squadron OF
wRrships.
The stubborn defence OF Tsing-tao
will he tradition in the German army,
hut there was no other answer possible
to the japanese demand TO give up
Klao-chov. German prestige required
n spirited resistance, and people much
less militant than the Germans woult
have held out TO the last.
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In message intended for the Amer
lean people FRANcisCo VILLA, who signs
himself General in Charge" announces
the choice OF General EULALIo CUTTER
RE- az Provisional President of Mexico,
and promises to sustain him with force
OF arms" AZ VILLA. backed by his SOL
dlers, makes GUTIERREZ Provisional
President and has the power to seat
him In the National Palace, II follows
that the President elected at the polls
will be tho Generals man. That he will
decide to take the office himself may be
suspected. II Is inconceivable that the
strongest man IN Mexico will put aside
tho ambition.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sr: Is
II not unfair to William j. Bryan to
charge him with responsibility for the
spread OF the hoof and mouth disease +?
He Is carrying a sufficient load OF
obloquy as the just recompense for un-
fortunate but unreasonable mistakes
without having that charge saddled upon
him.
In the first place, while IL looks as II
he personally had had the hoof and mouth
disease for some time. It has not been
proved, In tho second place II is not
known that, travelled as he Is, he has
been recently enough in the section where
cattle were first stricken 10 make him
the efficient cause OF this new trouble.
BosToN, November 6, JUSTICE.
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Foot and Mouth.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: The
Government quarantine due 10 the cpl
demic OF foot and mouth disease sug-
gests to one OF your contemporaries that
some day there may be like activity
and a like expenditure In suppressing dis
ease among human beings"
II one Is not already started a good
beginning might be made In the case OF
The prize stock" OF the Chautauqua
talk yards. JOHN T. DAWN, NJ. ID.
NEW York, November 7.
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a Lunar Rainbow Over broadway.

|, the old dead moon.
white In the sun
Back Of the drifting ciouds.
Look down upon
You and your teeming life.
o Babylon.
Jewelled In red and gold
Night after night.
Wheels your Kaleidoscope
or broken light
Color OF strife besot,
Peace being white.
So on these circling mises
strange colors glow.
That speak Of storm ana strsss
Long, long ago,
In the forgotten life
used TO know.
N, v Buutrl.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-08

There seems to have been an impress
sion In the past that the referendum
was a sure means OF getting measures
of social Justice" adopted regardless OF
their effect on capital This notion
seems TO be in a fair way of being dis
PEELED by remarkable proofs OF the ex-
ercise Of cool reason and sense Of fair
play by tho voters. The defeat IN
Missouri OF the full crew" law was a
striking instance; hardly less emphatic
is the killing in Montana Of work.
mans compensation law whose main
purpose was TO penalize the Anaconda
Copper Company TO the tune of about
$4,000 a year. The State II Washing
ton also voted down an eight hour day
law by majority OF 10000. 1t looks as
II the people realized quite clearly that
business has at least the right to live.
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OYSTER BAY.
\ Boston View OF the Psychology OF
the situation,

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-S,r. Had
Il not been for the European war Il would
have been psychological holocaust.
The Lord be praised for shutting of
the drlught AT oyster Bay.
Tfcor!st No. will get attention IN
.9l6. BEACON HUI.
RosTDN NOVember
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To THE EDITOR or THE SuN-Sir. Judg-
Ing by votes cast on November T. X.
Is not the hero in that touching, beautiful
ballad entitled Hes a Devil in His own
Town" FELIX FILKINs
Fort PLAIN, November T.
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Duck hunting aviator fned.-HeddHns.
II seems to be taking a mean advan-
tage Of the ducks to pursue them into
their own element with so horse power
machines.
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THE EVENING SCN, Fer Month. .;
THE EVENING StN. Per Netr........ ~
THE EVENING stN ,ForcIguI Per Mo. I u,
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All checks money orders &c. to be mad.
nay able " I'm GU
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The article from tho Scotch news
paper 70 which Admiral Chadwick re-
fers appeared only in one edition. the
earliest OF THE SUN OF November 4.
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Subscriptions by Mail. Postpaid.

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The Princeton union., 1914-09-17
:
Mr.. Lee Has Business Ability.

The address of Hon. VIM. E. Lee
at the county fair last week was a
revelation of the business ability of
the candidate. Mr.. Lee has today a
better idea of the resources of this
county and the necessary require
ments to advance our material inter-
ests, than a majority of our own
people. He has given diversified
farming close attention and he real
ICES that what this county and this
state needs is honest government
and an economical administration of
public affairs. Mr.. Lee made many
friends at Garden City and it is ap-
parent that he will receive a large
vote in this county, in fact there are
those who believe that he will carry
it.-Mapleton Enterprise.
The Princeton union., 1914-09-17

1t is pleasing to the Union to know
that Hon. Donald Robertson of Ar
gyle is a candidate for the house
from Marshall county. The writer
had the pleasure of serving with Mr..
Robertson in the 1911 legislature,
and we always found him to be
frank, open and above-board. He is
one of those men who will stand
without hitching. No ''big inter-
est' had any string attached to him.
His voice and vote were always for
every remedial measure in the in
terest of good government. Donald
Robertson is one of those sturdy,
fearless characters it is real plea
sure to be associated with. We sim
cerely hope he will have no serious
opposition at the polls in November.
The Princeton union., 1914-09-17

1t is difficult, under the Minnesota
law, to pass constitutional amend
ment by popular vote. Such amend
ments are submitted to the people
on the same ballot which carries the
names of individual candidates, in
whom the voters are especially inter-
ested.-Minneapolis Tribune.
Constitutional amendments are
not submitted on the same ballot
with candidates for office. On the
cWntrary the constitutional amend
ments are printed on a separate bal
lot and on pink colored paper, while
the state ballot, containing the
names of candidates only, is printed
on white paper.
The Princeton union., 1914-09-17

William E. Lee delivered his key
note speech almost exclusively to a
city audience at Marshall on Monday
evening, although a large attendance
Of farmers was expected But the
farmers,could not come to the meet
ing because the roads were impass-
able. In his speech, as published,
Mr.. Lee devoted only a brief para
graph to roads, and declared for
"lucal control and supervision. as far
as compatible with a broad policy of
state Improvement The fact that
the people he particularly wished to
reach were deprived Of the privilege
of listening to him on account of bad
roads should have inspired him to
have made ringing declarations in
favor Of better roads.
The Princeton union., 1914-09-17
Woman Suffrage Coming.

While prophecy is not our long
suit, we do not think it needs the
vision of a seer to see that in the
future, and the very near future at
that, sex will no longer constitute a
distinction in the privileges of citi-
zenship. We confess we don't like
it but we are fully aware that for all
that we or any one else can do, the
effort to stop it would be as futile
as it would be to sit on the banks
of the Mississippi river and try to
stay it's on-fowing flood by whittling
shavings off pine shingle and cast
ing them into the torrent. 1t is
surely going to come to pass, it is
written in the stars, and really the
only reason why we are against it is
because of the inherited prejudice
handed down to. us from our barbar-
ic ancestors. Prank Eddy in Sank
Centre Herald. :ss@@ : !
The Princeton union., 1914-09-17

Frank Day thinks Congressman
Hammond should come out in a
square-toed statement defining his
views on county option. Hammond
is taking the very same stand on
this question that the late Governor
Johnson took, and in those days
Frank pretended to believe that it
was the proper course. 1t is graft
flying to note that Mr.. Day no longer
believes in candidates of evasive
tendencies. Mr.. Lees fair and
square stand on the various issues
now confronting the public cannot
help but appeal to fair-minded
voters.
The Princeton union., 1914-09-17
ENGINEERING FEATS.
Clever Tricks With Which Emergen-
! cies Have BeensMet.


Engineering is filed with so many
tricks to meet emergencies thatamost
of them pass unnoticed, but two have
recently attracted the attention of en-.
gineers because of their real oddity.
One was scheme for stopping
blazing leak in a big high pressure gas
main in San Francisco. Some unknown
men who wanted to make trouble set
off chemical preparation on the gas
main. with the result that in a few
seconds hole had been melted in the
main. the. gas poured out and great
fame shot twenty-five feet in the air.
1t was then after midnight. and it was
very inadvisable to shut the big main
off. so it was decided to make an at.
tempt to stop the leak without shutting
off the gas.
An oil we'll trick was used. An iron
pipe six inches in diameter and twenty
feet long was stood on end beside the
gas main and then by careful manipu-
lation placed directly over the leak.
This sent the leaking gas shooting
through the pipe and flaming out at the
top twenty feet in the air. Some gas
leaked out at the bottom of the pipe.
but this was easily stopped, so the only
flame was that at the top Of the pipe.
Ropes had been attached to the pipe.
and finally at a given signal the ropes
were yanked and the pipe was thrown
many feet away from the gas main
The pipe carried the fame with it. The
leaking gas then shot directly into the
air from the main. but as there was
no fame near it did not burn. 1t was
then comparatively simple task to
plug the hole until permanent repairs
could be made.
The other scheme was to get to the
top of a high chimney without using
scaffolding or other expensive methods
The chimney rose two hundred feet be-
side Missouri power plant, and it was
proposed to attach sign running up
and down it's side. A little parachute
! with a stout cord attached was pushed
into the chimney at the bottom. the
| fue gases carried it to the top and
then out into the air. 1t fell on one
side. dragging the cord after it. Then
by means of the cord rope was pass
ed up outside of the chimney and down
the inside and the chimney top was
accessible.-Saturday Evening Post.
The Princeton union., 1914-09-17

The scientist who boldly stated
some time ago that Newton's law Of
gravitation was null and void, has
started to explain his theory. So far
he has merely asserted that the ap-
parent fall of bodies to the earth is
an optical illusion Of character
similar to the apparent motion of
the sun around the earth daily. The
article is as devoid of clear ideas as
the editorial page of the Anoka Un-
ion, and only a trihe more interest,"
ing.
The Princeton union., 1914-09-17
DEVILED SHIRTS.
When Dumas Really Thought He Had
Started a New Fashion.

When Dumas Really Thought He Had
Started New Fashion.
Alexandra Dumas, the famous
French romancist, was as recklessly
extravagant as he was abnormally
stout. and more than once found him.
self in awkward straits. Indeed, he
was often enough without the CON-
monest necessities. even of dress, as
when anxious to attend an ambas-
sador's reception he discovered he was
without single clean shirt among his
linen. A friend who chanced to be
with him at the time volunteered to go
and buy one, only to find that none of
the shops had in stock a garment suf
GENTLY large to encircle the novelists
generous girth of neck and chest.
At last, when on the point Of relin
gushing his search. Dumas friend
came upon shop where shirt called
1.-The hercules was advertised The
name struck him as being one of good
omen. and he entered. But, alas. they
had nothing approaching the size re-
quired. unless, indeed, their customer
would care to take one made to order
Of a very corpulent Quarter Latin
student, by whom it had been left Of,
their hands. Although covered with
little red devils careering about in red
flames, it was q case of Hobson's S
choice, so the shirt was purchased and
taken home to Dumas, who, doubtless
entering into the humor Of the situa-
ton. resolved to wear it at the recep
ton.
"You would hardly believe it." he
said afterward. "but my costume was
an immense success, and really think
| have started a fashion of deviled
shirts for evening wear" ."-London Tit:
Bits.
The Princeton union., 1914-09-17

There is considerable talk among
the discontented anent the lack Of
these days. In this
connection an eastern editor re-
marks: ':This talk is unworthy of
any self-respecting man or woman.
Just as great opportunities for the
deserving, the thrifty and indus
trious can be had now as ever. The
trouble with the GROWERS is they
seek a royal road to wealth and fall
victims on a highway strewn with
remains of victims Of get-rich-quick
schemers. ,,,~-<.. ss,
The Princeton union., 1914-09-17
Confessions of "Wind-Jammer."

SOAAA~SSA~AeS
We have probably done as much
campaigning as any man in the
state, yet we never believed in it,
but we were compelled, or thought
we were compelled to do so, because
others did it. We have always be-
lieved, and still believe, that the
voters of the state are intelligent
enough to vote right without any
instructions from spelIbinders or
iurid articles in newspapers: We be-
lieve that the day of stump speak,
ing is past and we are glad of it.
We believe that if not single CAM
paign speech was made the result
would not be changed, and we are
considerable of political wind
jammer at that.-Frank Eddy in
Sauk Centre Herald.
The Princeton union., 1914-09-17
The Spanish Flaq.

The red and yellow of the Spanish
flag is said to be derived from this oc-
currence: In 1878 Charles the Bold
dipped his fingers in the blood of Geof.
frey, count of Barcelona. and drew
them down the counts golden shield in
token of his appreciation Of the latter's
bravery. The shield. so marked. be-
came the arms of Barcelona. which be.
came part Of Aragon. and its arms
were taken by that kingdom.
The Princeton union., 1914-09-17

The late r. G. Ingersoll. when he
penned the following, administered
a just rebuke to the autocrats, who,
in order to secure place in history
that their mediocre talents as states
men could not assure them, precipi-
tate conflict like the present war
in Europe:
"a little while ago I stood by
the grave of the old Napoleon-a
magnificent tomb of gilt and gold,
fit almost for dead deity. I
thought of the orphans and widows
he had made-of the tears that had
been shed for his glory, and of the
only woman who ever loved him,
pushed from his heart by the cold
hand of ambition. And I said I
would rather have been a French
peasant and worn wooden shoes; I
would rather have lived in a hut
with vine growing over the door,
and the grapes growing purple in
the kisses of the autumn sun;
would rather have been that poor
peasant with my loving wife by my
side, knitting as the day died out of
the sky with my children upon my
knees and their arms about me. I
WOuld rather have heen that man
and gone down to the tongueless
silence of the dreamless dust than
to have been that imperial imperson-
alton of force and murder.''