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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-08-05

The remarkable increase in suicide
among women in Germany is blamed
on the development of the women's
movement. During the last 20 years
the number of women suicides in
creased from S.3 to 10.6 per 100000 fe-
male population. The greatest in
crease is shown in Berlin. where near
ly 4S women take their lives to every
100 men.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-08-05
UNsIGHTLY PIMPLEs ON FACE

New Sharon, Iowa.-"Two or three
years ago pimples began to come on
my face and | had dandruff. The PIN
pies made a. very unsightly appear
ance. They were red and numerous,
some came to a head and festered and
the itching caused me to scratch them.
The dandruff on my head could be
plainly seen.
81 tried several remedies but they
only temporarily relieved me l had
been bothered with the trouble two or
three years when I decided to try Gu
ticura Soap and Ointment. q, sent
for a free sample and / noticed relief
from them, and l bought more. used
two cakes of Cuticura Soap and two
boxes of Cuticura Ointment and am
now free from pimples and dandruf."
(Signed) Clyde Firebaugh, May II. IA.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
fl ee,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post.
card "Cuticura, Dept. L. Boston."-Adv.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-08-05
Three Woods in One Tree.

Civil Engineer F. T. Moore, presi-
dent of a scientific society of Win
sted, Conn, reports an unusual find
in the woods of Barkhamsted, where
he felled a tree containing three spe-
Gle in one. The butt of the tree
was oak, the middle chestnut, and the
top hemlock. Mr.. Moore is also q
church member.-Boston Herald.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-08-05
Warming.

Constant vigilance is the price of
enduring beauty" said Lillian Russell.
Diet, exercise. sun baths, massage
constant vigilance she repeated, is
the price of enduring beauty. Many
splendid beauties pass their youth
recklessly killing time. Then, before
they're forty time turns round and
kills them"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-08-05

YOUR OWN DRUGGIST WILL. TELL YOU
Try Murine sye Remedy for Red, Weak, Watery
Just Eye Comfort. Write for Book of the BYE
by mail Free. Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-08-05
Not a Buffer.

Silas-l read that old Seneca said
no possession is gratifying without a
companion with whom to share it.
Hell guess Seneca never held a
joker and two bowers.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-08-05

But It Can't Be Gathered.
A Berlin professor estimates the
commercial value in electricity of a
flash of lightning lasting for one
thousandth of a second at 20 cents.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-08-05

Who'll Volunteer?
ct is proposed to give the maiden
aunt her due"
"At the altar?"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-10

MUST OBSERVE RULES
Old Lady-Well, now that l have
paid ticket for the dog, I suppose
he's entitled to a seat in the street
car?
COnductor-Yes; mum; but he
must conform to the rules, and keep
his feet off the cushions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07

sat in the salon of the present-day squalid tenement house of Eylau, The survivors passed the night in robbing the dead and dying, stealing from the surgeons while they were absorbed in their humane tasks, riiiing the pockets of the ifeless and the helpless living, ripping off the gold braid and jerking off the toots from stricken officers. tearing open collins and graves. soldiers at Eylau were thieves and burg lars. At any rate, season of privation had brutalized the army and left It's bet ter nature winter-lSillod.
 When morning came only the Cossacks remanied before the town to guard the retreat of the Russian army to Konlgs- berg To have baked and escaped the great captain was victory enough for the foe, and the Russians and Prussians were filled with rejoicing they marched away from the bloody scene.
 The King of Prussia unhesitatingly rejected the more liberal terms which Napoleon now offered. The young Czar at St. Petersburg, shifting victory from afar, came on to visit the King and Louise in their retreat at Memel. whose one street facing the sea thrilled with added pride in the presence of an im- perial parsonage as well as of royal guests. As Alexander embraced Fred erick William, he declared. We shall never fall singly. fall together or not at all" And the two monarchs reg istered a VOW that neither would make peace until Napoleon had been driven beyond the Rhine. which is a march of 700 miles,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
Fortunes Warning to Napoleon
Eyau reminded me that Fortune might abandon me.

general, Bennigsen, determined to take advantage of Napoleons retirement into winter camp and steal around him. At first sign of Bennigsens activity, however. Napoleon started to creep out of his hiber- nation and throw himself upon the enemy's center.
 Four times he faced the Russians and squared off to deal his blow, and four times they stole away in the night. For 10 days the man hunt went on like a game of blind mans bluff over the fields of Old Prussia. as level as the prairies of Illinois. For 10 days. the two armies wound up and down the narrow lanes in the teeth of blizzards more dead ly than storms of lead the poor, benumb- ed soldiers resting their heads on one an others shoulders. sleeping as they marched. Behind them in long lines lay their fallen comrades in their tombs of snow.
 And everywhere that the hosts of Ma poleon and the Czar went they left a wake of misery more terrible than their own. For the advance of the armies was as desolating as a cyclone. spreading ruin all about. The fruits of generations of toll were swept away as if by a conflagra- tion. Not COW or pig, a handful of grain, potato, copper coin, hardly a shred of clothing was spared and the peasantry abandoned to long winter of hunger and cold, died at rate five six and 10 times greater than the normal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
EEIEDzAMo AMD Lrs R1NxR Zo0ay

man or beast in the villages, but also the villages themselves deserted, all the in habitants having fed
 The peasantry, with nothing to spare from their scant provision against starva- ton in the long winter, buried the little they possessed at the approach of the army and took to the woods. Raiding sol- diers flew at the wretched. depopulated villages only to have their hunger mocked by disappointment.
 It rained or showed every day. Muddy roads, in which horses sank to their bellies and wagons to their hubs, delayed and sometimes defeated the supply train.
 A Winter of Discontent
 A mutinous murmur rose and spread through the ranks The soldiers had not seen a pay day since the war began At first Napoleon only daughed at the cries for bread which were raised as he rode past his weary. furnishing, marching col umns or he went by them singing as if he had not heard their shouts. You must have bee in your bonnet" grenadier yelled on one occasion, ito lead us over such roads without bread to eat" At last he turned savagely upon the growlers in his guard and told them: 'T shall keep you under arms until wou are S0v' Not a few soldiers, in their despair, resorted to suicide The victorious troops of Aus terlitz instead of being led back to France in triumph and enjoying their well won glory by their firesides. found them selves after a year marching farther and farther from home into the depths of bleak desolaton. where they plowed through mud by day and were assailed by wintry blasts at night.
 His majesty marches them every day, which reduces every one to despair and brings the general misery to climax, :" wrote Baron Percy the surgeon But the Emperor has purposes beyond our ken
 never was the French army so un- happy. The soldier, marching always, bivouacking every night wading up to the ankles in mud the day through, had not an ounce of bread a drop of brandy. not even time to dry his clothes. and he fell and died from exhaustion. Many were found in the ditches where they gasped out their lives The Emperor's heart must have been rent by these sights: but he marches steadfastly upon his goal, to fulfill the great destiny that he prepares for Europe"
 Meanwhile the Emperor only grimly said as he goaded his army on, q alone know what I have to do.'' Mar shal Lannes. the blunt Gascon, blurted out to his masters face, The blood of one Frenchman is worth more than all Poland"
 Well" the Emperor replied, If you are not satisfied, you can go away
 "No."s the candid but faithful follow CT said. you need me here"
 While no commander ever excelled Napoleon in his attention to the needs of his troops or eqraled him in his ability to provide for them, it was. however. his maxim to make war sup rort war; and now he was in coun- try which could not support it. He drained its resources to the last drop and even employed s0.000 captured tents to make shirts for the sick. He cared nothing for tents in themselves, holding that they were unhealthful and that 1t was much better for the soldier to bivouac in the open air, for there he can build a fire and sleep with warm. feet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
Victory at Friedland

With the coming of spring the war was renewed. Napoleon had built up his army to total strength of 175, ,000 men, for he had wide front to cover. and facing him were 120.000 Russians and Prussians. Both armies having rested and found food. were in far better spirits than when they dragged themselves to slaughter at Eylau.
 The decisive battle in this second campaign came on a hot day of June at Friedland. only few miles across the country from Eylau and little more than 30 miles from konigsberg. That pretty village. with it's shady streets and well tended gardens. Is one of the most awkward battlefields that the chances of war ever chose, perched as 1t is on bluff and hemmed in between the River Ale. on one side. and creek on the other
 As the French endorsements hurled up. Bennigsen tried to escape by cross- ing the river. but the fire had grown so hot in his rear that he had to turn and accept battle in earnest at , o'clock in the afternoon when 6U.000 soldiers<of tho Car began to wrestle with S0.0O0 troops of Napoleon. with village for the prize. Soon the 60.o00 mon were fighting in a line only the length of three city blocks
 Ney hurled his force through the first and second Russian line only to be driven back by the Cars Imperial Guard, when Victor pressed through the retrating ranks and smashed the winded Russians. For that feat Napoleon promptly reward ed his old Toulon comrade with a mar shal's baton
 Friedland was now m flames from the French shells, but the Russians fought on amid the burning buildings with Russian stolidity until darkness fell, by which time Bennigsen had withdrawn as much of his army as he could save on the op- posite side of the Ale. He left behind, however, 20000 dead and wounded and captives, while other thousands flung themselves Into the river.
 The French entered Konigsberg. but Napoleon allowed the broken army ol Bennigsen until he had driven 1t across the Niemen. by whose banks he sat down at Tilsit to await the surrender of tho Gar.
 Copyright, 1s1s-14 by Sames Morgan0
 Next Sunday: Napoleon and the cmR on the raft at Tilsit--Queen Louissre on. peal to the conQucror.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
From Eylau's Tower

Out of the theatre of that war of flideous memory there rises the stone church tower of Preuss Eylau, so named to dis tinguish 1t from the Eylaus and Deutsch Eylaus/of Germany proper. From that tower one looks upon village of half a dozen streets almost as silent as the churchyard itself, where in their narrow cells the rude forefathers of the hamlet slept their untroubled sleep while the soldiers of many distant nations fought over their graves
 It was after a chase of many days when Napoleon, alighting in February afternoon by a tree on a hill across the now er-studded meadows--the hill and a lone tree standing on it continue to bear his name. Surveying the scene from the hill. he saw the Russians posted in the village and at once few at them. The first wave of that horrible battle of Eylau surged against the churchyard wall at the edge of the little town and crimsoned its headstones. Flowing onward into the town,Ait broke over the wide stony mar ket place and there in front of the dirty village tavern, the cannon of French and Russia, racing over the bodies of the dead belched at one another with their muzzles only 50 paces apart
 Tartar and Gaul, French and cossack hunted each other like rats from house to mousse ana iouBnt III ndnu- to- nanh combat for the possession of the poor little town. The French took 1t at sunset. the Russians retook 1t in the evening dusk, but only to drop 1t in 30 minutes and retire into the black countryside, where they slept without fire to warm their feet lest their turk ing place might be disclosed.
 Napoleon, thereupon, recaptured Ey- lau without striking flint and selected the largest house in town as a suD- stitute for the ,Tuileries. There he as- sembled his marshals in his salon, now filtered with featherbeds and all man ner of rubbish, while his dinner was cooking and his camp bed being made up in what are now the rooms of an untidy tenement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07

leon on the field of Jena in the autumn of 1906 are personifed to the sympathies of posterity in the beautiful person of Queen Louise.
 The amazing wreck of the proud king dom of Frederick the Great and the dis dressing plight of the royal house of Ho- henzollern are not easy to imagine. That awful disaster, the swiftest and most complete that ever befell great mon- archy, is best<measured by taking jour ney of 700 miles along the path of Queen Louise's flight to the little stretch of sand by the Baltic which at last was the only refuge left her beneath the Prussian flag.
 First going to Berlin. whther she drove in an open cart, Louise was warned by the commandant of her capital that to escape capture she must leave the next l morning. While hurriedly packing her special treasures. her nair fallen over i. her shoulders and her eyes red with tweeping, she could hear the sullen rum bling of discontented populace gathered beneath the windows of her palace and hoarse cries of indignant protest against a war precipitated by a court which had shown itself incompetent to defend the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
NapoIeon al Carrets

He had small sympathy with fault finding soldiers in that terrible win ter campaign of 1sO6-7 because he shared their hardships and was thriv- ing on them. He always felt better in the worst camp than in the most iuxursous palace Writing to Fouche in Paris, he said. let the rumor spread that 1t will not be long before the Emperor arrives in Paris. My headquar- ters here is a wretched garrett"
 While living on prtncely fare at Warsaw he suffered from violent con- yulsions In the stomach which he feared were the symptoms of cancer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
Louise,s Last Refuge

The French had Ia abored up out of Po- land and were now on the broad Prussian plains some 50 miles to the south of Konigsberg On his own responsibility the restless Ney did indeed threaten the city. whose gates were barricaded, but defend- ed by only a small force. The place war filled with panic, and Louise insisted. al though still low with fever. upon being moved from the menaced town. She de- clared to her anxious physician who was reluctant to risk the journey. T would rather fall by the hand of God than into the hands of those men
 It was in the depth of winter, with storm sweeping in from the Baltic and beating against the windows of the cas- tle when the sticken but still resolute Queen, lying down on cotton bales in carriage. resumed her iong flight from Napoleon. The thirty people. who had lent their furniture to the castle, did not wait for the royal family to leave, but on hearing of its intended departure, they came with their carts and began to carry away their belongings.
 Leaving her husband to join the army Louise. was driven away in the cold and the snow to the one refuge left her in all her Kingdom. the little town of Mem ell on the Baltic, near the Russian border, and the last dot on the map of Prussia. The road followed a narrow strip or sand that forms breakWater between the Baltic and the Kurisches Haff. great lagoon. That slender strand was cov- cred with a forest a few years before and occupied by many fishing villages. But the Prussian Kings in their greed had lately cut down the trees, and there- upon the big sand dunes, often dfsing to a height of 200 feet and more, began to shift, overwhelming and burying the vil- lages, until this strange tongue of land was left virtually depopulated. The dunes are on their travels 70 this day along the desolate shore, the celebrated amber coast of the Baltic.
 For three days and nearly 90 miles Louise was driven over that wild and dreary track ip snow and sleet, with the waves of the Baltic often threatening to engulf her coach. One night she had to sleep in a wretched tumbledown inn, through whose broken window panes the snow blew in upon her bed Her phy- sician, who had followed her all the way from Berlin. looking back with horror on that expsrience, sighed. Never did a Queen know such want" Arrived at Memel, where no provision had been made for her, she was lifted in the arms of a servant and carried into the house of the Danish consul.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
A Wakc of Misery

Prussian corps having been pieced together out of the widely-strewn frag- ments of the broken army and Joining in the Russian operations the Russian
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
In the Path of Napoleon 100 Years After His Doofa

The 700-mile flight of King Fred erick William and Queen Louise, great-grandparents of the present Kaiser William, from Jena to the Bal tic and to the last town left them in their kingdom, and Napoleon's long pursuit of them and their Russian al- lies, through the mud and snow of a Polish- Prussian winter to the border land of the Czar, form one of the tragic spectacles of history.
 The story of that terrible winter campaign of 1907, when Napoleon said that he was first reminded that fortune might abandon him, is a moving tale of the horrors of war.
 The faraway and seldom visited battlefields of Eylau and Friedland as MT. Morgan saw them in his jour- ney "In the Path of Napoleon"
 DATES AND EvENTs-AGE ss.
 October IS, 1sos-Flight of Queen Lou ise from Berlin
 October 20 1S06-Russia Joined with Prussia.
 October 2s, 1sos-N Napoleon entered Ber- lin.
 Novhember 21. 1sos-The Berlin decree. November 27, 1S06-Napoleoi at Posen. December g, 1S06-Louise at Konigsberg December 26 1S06-Franco-Russian bat tie at Pultusk.
 January l. 1S07-Napoleon at Warsaw. January 5. 1s07-F'light of Louise to Memel.
 January ', 1S07-French ordered into winter quarters
 February 7-s. 1so7-Battle of Eylau. April ?, 1S07-The Czar at Memel
 April Is, 1S01-Czar and King swear to drive Napoleon back over the Rhine June 14 1s07-Battle of Friedland June Is, ls07-French took Konigsberg. June 1s. 1S0-Napoleon at Tilsit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07

the disease that caused his fathers death. But in the midst of rigorous campaigning he wrote to Josephine: q have never been so well. You will find me much fatter' Yet he was eating soldiers rations and sleeping in foul novels. where he dared not undress. Through one period of 14 days in that campaign he did not take off his boots. Marshals of France were glad enough some nights to lie on manure pile and enjoy its warmth.
 After a month of much marching and some fighting Napoleon relented and put his dispirited army In winter quarters in east Prussia, where the soldiers stripped the country of build ings and trees to make huts for their own shelter. The Russians, too, after steadily falling back, seemed to be settling down to a close season on fighting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
A Day of Blood

At dayhreak Russian cannon in hid- Ing on the snowy nelds back of tho
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
Louise at Konigsberg

The royal family now had been hunted beyond the confines of Germany, as it's boundaries were then defined. For at konigsberg they were in ,that Old Prus- sia or Prussia proper which originally was a Lithuanian duchy and outside the German world, although it was destined to give it's name to the dominant state happier day.
 The Queen found the castle, whose tower had risen these hundreds of years above the River Pregel as it flows through the city of Konigsberg, big, bare barn of place. Only by borrow ing beds and chairs and tables from the wealthy merchants of the town was it made habitable.
 But at last Louise had her children around her, and that was sufficient to make the cheerless castle a home. Her oldest boy was II, and he was to grow up to be King Frederick William ". The second boy. William, was nearly 10. and 1t was written in the book of fate that. on the death of the elder brother. he too would be crowned King some day in that very castle of Konigs- berg, and be more than King-the first Emperor of new German empire which was to rise from the ruins that then confronted the royal family.
 Through his long life.' William never forgot the New Year gift he received at Konigsberg. the uniform of the Prussian Guard. But it must have been an un- forgettable disappointment that his mother could not see him on the parade ground. For the weeks of grief and prf- walton had made Louise an easy prey to. typhoid, which was raging through the. town and the camps. and the court feared for her life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
A Woman's Instinct

The ambassador correctly named the quality which governed Louise in that dark crisis. It was her woman's instinct For that amiable princess was not a politician, skilled in political intrigue, as Napoleon was portraying her in his un- gallant bulletins, nor yet martial nature with the spirit of an Amazon. She was only a simple loyal woman, born and brought up in the provinces, whose gentle bosom was agtated with the emotions of German patriotism, thing unknown to the Prussian royalty and arstocracy as a whole
 Another powerful instinct animated Louise, the maternal instinct. For the Queen was a good mother, who, although only 30, had left behind in her flight the new-made grave of her eighth child To her the kingdom was not mefe political institution, but a heritage to be preserved and transmitted to her children. with whom she was reunited at last when she took up her residence in the ancient castle at Konigsberg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07

HE sorrows of the kingdom of Prussia in the humiliating years that followed it's sudden col
 lapse under the blows of Napo-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
The Polish Campaien

Napoleon's armies had advanced unop- posed and without pausing from fortress to fortress, from river to river. He had swept down below the line of the royal flight, entered Poland, and at Warsaw, which was then part of Prussian Po- land, he had freed the serfs and rallied the patriot Poles about him as their de- liverer from the hated rule of Prussia.
 As a Russian army moved upon him to drive him out of the kingdom of the Czar's ally, he left Warsaw and opened the hardest campaign he had seen since he emerged from an Oriental desert and the hardest he was again to see until the invasion of Russia in 1872 The frozen wastes of northern Poland were hardly less barren of food for soldiers than the Egyptian sands. Even when they could get bread 1t was in loaves of black dye. which the French could neither enjoy nor digest. Sire" Murat wrote, fit Is with pain that have to bring to your majes- ty's notice the saine heartrending picture that probably every marnhale has already
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07

Next Sunday: Napoleon and the Car on the raft at Tilsit- Queen Louiss's aus peal to the ccnQueror.