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pers for wine bottles were wads of
hemp or cloth soaked in oil. By the
happy substitution. of cork for cloth.
he made the lucky discovery of the gas
capped.
When fermentation is complete the
wires are cut. The force of the gas
blows out the cork and the sediment at
reflled. The process is known as dos
ing" 1t consists of adding mixture
of candied sugar and a certain proper
ton of fine old wine. Each manufacture
er makes his own special blend to pro-
dace the particular brand of cham
payne he sells. The amount of sweet
ness is indicated by the terms sec
(dry). "doux" tsweet and ''brut,"
which originally meant unmanipulated
wine. but today simply indicates a
one to three per cent of 'Iiqueur"
The great cost of the best brands of
champagne is due largely to the
enormous waste. During the several
stages of fermentation the bottles have
to be carefully watched to prevent the
sudden accumulation of gas, which al
ways results in the breaking of at lea st
10 per cent of the bottles. 1t is said
that in seasons of great heat or sudden
changes CT temperature. often as many
as 20 or even % per cent are broken.
TIE widow Cliauot. accounts at Rheims
tell lost 100000 bot,,es by the great
heat of April. in 1913 before tons of
zee could he secured at Paris and the
caves flied to reduce the temperature
The principal French champagne
vineyards are all within district
about twenty miles long. from Rheims
on the north to Vetry on the south
The wine is classed as wins de la RI
Were" (wine of the river) and Wins
de la Montague" (wine of the noun
tain), the vineyards on the banks of
the Marine being credited with supply
ing the finest champagne in the world.
Before the war the Argonne region
had the well cultivated look SO typi-
cally French. Long lines of fruit trees
bordered the well titled fields on each
side Of the beautifully kept roads.
which are such a constant surprise and
delight to American autoists. In
Argonne almost every field has a his
tory, and every acre shows the intl-
mate association of generations of
thrifty French peasants with their
native soil. Wherever it is possible
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~ spite Of the terrible conditions
caused by the wintry weather and
The consequent suffering which it
entails. according to the latest
official reports. the Germans have
made repeated attempts to cross the
Aisnc in the Al onne region.
While the Fighting from Newport
through pixmude and on to Ypres is
reported to be almost confined to can
uouadiug, the German and the allied
armies IN the Argonne are again en-
@aged IN active combat all along the
line Near Valley, the German trenches
are said to have been blown up by
cleverly concealed mines planted by
the French In the vicinity of st. MI
hiel, Paris dispatches state, after hav-
ing made successful advances, the
French troops withstood the shock of
the enemy. who had received strong re-
Inducements. At the small town Of
Chauca ucuurt. it is said, the garrison
was blown UP by the Germans when
the French We're about to capture it,
but Notwithstanding. French dispatches
relate. the enemy's lines were forced
back upon other troops massed in the
same locality.
x
The ArEoune region is a most impor-
taut portion of the long line of con-
nict now raging all the way from the
inundated territory between Dixmude
and Met port on the North sea, down
10 the end of the curving line of battle
20 the southeast at Muelhausen and Alt
kirch. near the Swiss frontier. The
valleys of the Aire extend longitude
nduy through the Arsonne district,
which Is Il fact of the utmost impor-
tauce, as the region forms natural
bulWsriI for the protection of north
eastern France.
Many forests clothe the rocky Ar
come plateau. which extends along
the borders of Lorraine and Cham
payne, nd forms part of the depart
T.ieut OF Ardeunes. Strictly speaking,
the ArEonue region is about sixty-three
mics il. length and between nineteen
and twenty miles wide. 1t stretches
in 4 southeasterly direction between
the Aisue and MeuSe rivers, forming
the connecting link between the pia-
teau OF Haute Marine and Ardennes. us
AVERAGE elevation is estimated to be
about $50 Ieet. Among its numerous
forests the beautiful forest of Argonne
is especially well known. The region
contains many steep and difficult denies
which materially Increase their stra-
teclc importance These defles lead
from the basins of the Meuse TO that
of the Seine. district already famous
from the Argonne ctilpaign OF Dumou-
rieZ IN 1872
The f'russians under the Duke OF
brunswick were disastrously repulsed
at N1lnly, little village thirty-siN
miles southeast OF Rheims. The bat
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Nandemont. Antoine Nandemont and
his wife and others. From the nave of
the church opens the Chapelle Ducale,
often called simply the rotunda. 1t is
marbles bearing the arms of Lorraine
and Austria. 1t was erected as a
funeral chapel for the dukes of Lor-
raine and was SO used from the
twelfth to the eighteenth century.
During the French revolution the cof-
fins of the dukes were taken up and
thrown into public cemetery. The
church and chapel were desecrated and
converted into warehouse France and
Austria in later years Joined in restor-
ing both.
At the extremity of the Faubourg St
Pierre is the Church of Notre Dame de
Bon Secours. which occupies the site
of the old edifice built by the Due Rene
to commemorate his victory. The story
runs that the old building. having fall
en- INTO ruips, it was rebuilt in 1898 by
King Stanislaus. 1t contains his tomb
and that of his queen. The king lost
his life by his clothes catching fire and
being burned to death before assistance
could be given him. But many of his
fcrebears suffered even more terrible
deaths at the hands of assassins
Ecouen, beyond the forest of Montmo-
rency, is noted for it's splendid chateau,
which was built in the sixteenth CEN
fury. and is typical of the period. 1t
is now utilized by the French govern
Elent as a school for the daughters of
the members of the Legion of Honor
of lower rank than those who are edu-
Gated at st. Denis.
st. Die. between the Nosges noun
tains and Nancy, was wiped out months
ago. 1t was picturesque town of
about 10000 Inhabitants. The pride OF
St. Die was once the famous old mon
astery. said to have been built by st.
Deodatus or Diedonne God given) in
the sixth century. 1t in time became a
famous collegiate establishment. In
1857 a terrible fire devoured the town,
which was rebuilt on more regular
plan by the very same Stanislaus Lesz-
cynski, who was Duke of Lorraine and
King of Poland, and who rebuilt the
church at Nancy in which he is buried.
Bar-leDuc lies exactly south of the
great forest of Argonne, and it is also
south of Verdun. which has already
been the scene of repeated hestilities
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tie of Valmy, fought September 20,
1892, is often classed as one of the
most decisive battles of the world
AS beautiful as the Argonne region
is admitted to be in the piping times
of peace" hardly more desolate and
awful picture could be imagined than
the accounts reported of it now. The
horrors and misery portrayed in the
letters taken from the bodies of the
dead are heartrending. Multitudes of
fields and forests, their bloody gar
ments having frozen them together
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clumsy. running men and women
clinging to them flop down and lie
still. with their torn clothes all smol-
dering. Arches drop, the masonry of
buildings falls in with rumblins
sound of coal shot to the cellar. Dust
and black smoke pour into the street.
and faint screams answer loud
screams.
In the Zeppelins, up there. they are
merciful, in spite OF all. The great city
must be wrecked to force the Eng
lish to withdraw from continental
Europe and to cease combating. What
are 10000 dead civilians compared with
the prompter ending of a war so muir
derOus that I'VE Germans. III the little
corner of Dixmude alone, lost $1,000
killed and 10000 wounded in two
days?
In the Zeppelins. up there. despite
their intense evaporation, they seek
to be moderate. They will give Il mem
orable lesson, with a minimum waste
of London citizens and expensive ex-
plosives. each torpedo costs $4,000
They maneuver, sixteen Ieppelins In
column. slowly, from Trafalgar Square
to the city. a cold blooded slaughter,
in which the ones who launch torpedoes
are neither excited nor tas they affirm
in advance) in Ranger The popular
German song. The Zeppelin" repre-
scnts the inhabitants dixie those of the
cities of the plalnl eating ana drink
irg:
Muttonchop and STEAK and peas.
Strawberry Jam and Stilton cheese
Schmeckcu Tom und Ress und Fred
How many Germans are there dead:
Piisch und Patsch und Plomerompom!
Wo sind Bess und Fred and Tom:
Eusted kurz and busted Klein,
Torpedo from the Zeppelefn!
:: :
In the muck OF smoke and flames the
citizens rush from their houses, to be
aost beneath collapsin;: walls. They
smash the Strand and Fleet street as
blocks. They leave a long line of ruins.
CONGREGATIONS. heaped and scattered
dead-men, women and children.
Now will England yield"
The torpeGoes are six to eight feet
Ions. Some are one-thrd full of COM
pressed benzine disks for malicious
hre-raising. about the size Of Il silver
dollar: flung everywhere by the great
explosion, they burn Niciously four
minutes each. The chief explosive is not
trinitrotoluene. but new descriptive
agent, nameless.
The torpedoes are so heavy that
nothing else can be carried. This ex-
plains why they are building airship
sheds on the coast of Flanders, and
would run them up at Calais. From
Antwerp, and even from Metz, they can
operate, matter when, all winter;
but the shorter the bee-line to Lon
don the more torpedoes can be car
ried. and return trips for munitions
be more rapidly effected.
What will stop them?
The new-type Zeppelins exist
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to bring in the wounded to the feld
hospitals until after nightfall. In nu-
merous cases it is admitted the wound
ed have actually died from starvation
and cold more than from lack of treat
ment A relative of Senator Bristow
living in Des Moines, Iowa, says that
when leaving France she was told by
a French soldier that he himself had
lain for twenty-Seven hours on the
battlefield under the body of one of
his dead comrades.
Violent cannonading is again reported
along the right bank of the Aisne.
Shells are once more working havoc
in Rheims. The latest accounts state
that the priceless, beautiful altar in
the ancient and historic old basilica
has been wrecked by a shell.
While Rheims is principally noted for
its famous cathedral, it is also one of
lies on the Nesle. in the department of
the Marine. and was originally the
Gallo town of Durocortorum. the chief
city of the Remi. from which its name
Rheims. or Reims, is derived. 1t is one
of the leading commercial cities of the
republic and the principal center OF
the manufacture and export of cham
payne.
1t is interesting to visit one of the
"chateaux de commerce" in Rheims, as
cellars in which the golden beverage
is stored. They are chill and damp
underground warehouses often seven
ty-five feet below the street. The long
lines of cavernous labyrinths are weird
and gloomy in spite of their neatly
kent whitewashed walls and the scru-
pulous care bestowed upon every bottle
of the precious liquid in the endless
rows and rows of long dark vaults.
Each corridor boasts a name, such as
New York" "Strassburg' st. Pc
tersburg," etc.
:;
=
Champa sne was accidentally discov-
cred. it is said, by a famous old monk,
Dom Perignon of the Abbey of Haul
villers, near Epernay, where he had
charge of the brothers famous wine
cellars, about the year 1870.
Near Epernay today, at station
called Damery Boursau. on a wooded
height may be seen the castle of the
Champagne Queen" as the late Nine.
Cliuuot has been humorously styled
The Gothic castle has two tall towers.
which have been declared to be IN
tended to represent bottles of cham
payne 1t was built for her son-in-law,
Monsieur Montemart. who long con-
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BEAUTIFUL FACADE OF DucAL PALACE. NANCY.

the abbey and church of st. Michael
have portions dating from the seven
teenth century. In the church is seen
more or Richer's work. a really fine
statue of the Madonna is imputed to
be by him, and near by. in the choir, is
the figure of a child surrounded by grin
ming skulls, which is SO truly horrible
it is evidently the work of the same
artist.
Before reaching Verdun the valley
again contracts. The deflles are here
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to raise crop. a crop is raised. and
every particle of tillable ground is
utilized.
All the little French towns and viii
lagos seem akin. The relationship OF
one to the other is evident, exactly as
in the great cities of France. Even in
the metropolis of Rheims there are
quaint bits of old France that are de-
lirbtfuly reminiscent of medieval times,
and seem IA portion of some vanished
village The Maison Convert, or cover
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The nameless explosives exist
And. as the poet says:


And. "a the poet says:
The force Of nature could uo further 10
j" make III" third. Sic joined the other
that is to say, the aerial torpedo.
What Is Tier. to stop tnem2 British
guns and the aeroHautical corps of
the British army. When Count Zeppe-
NJ. accepted = CON mission the Ger
man air corps, ne said: "EEglandS
turn VIII come. in due time" BY rea-
son OF TINS threat London has been ea-
pectins N effort. al least. to intiyni
date her by bombs from on high but
nothing like these Wholesale prepare
lions We're deemed practica BILE.
There seems one sure way 10 stop q
Zeppelin.
do not imagine for Il single moment
that they are going to have il all their
own way says British aeronaut
There are coura seous men in the fly
ing corps, who have already been pay
Ing their respects TO the sheds at Dus
seldorf. and some of them are pledged
to do q much more daring deed. If the
Zeppelins can be approached by aero
planes they ere prepared TO sacrifice
their lives in MASKING up the German
airships by iasniug their aeroplanes
into the body Of the Zeppelin. and to-
sether coming To the earth"
The remaining Resource is airship
cannon.
New hish-angle frers. carrying
formidable s.. 5!Us4ve projectiles. are
devised weel.ls. Two such. from which
much is hoped. shoot most peculiar
ores. These projectiles contain. neatly
folded up, what look like telescope
graphing irons. that open and spread
in the al. When any part of them
touches 4 solid object the impact is
communicated 20 a cordite charge, and
the hole in the Zeppelin's armored
sausage is extensive. Its range. or thu
other hand. is less, for there are air
ship cannons that can carry higher
than any possible altitude which Yep
pelin would dare risk.
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Quoted the manufacture of champagne.
In Rheims, in one of the "chateauX
de commerce. are stored three million
bottles of champagne Men with lights
pass up and down the long, dim cor
ridors all day long. They constantly
give each bottle dextrous shake to
work any sediment it may contain into
the neck
The old monk Dom Perignon is also
given the credit for having discovered
corks. Before his day the only stop
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in hideous masses. Natures soft.
white winding sheet. kindly fall OF
snow, London dispatches explain. comes
at last to cover these symbols of wars
barbarism. The biting wind and driv-
ing snow, the cold and wet are now re-
ported TO add new misery to the mar
tyrdom of the often half-starved. shiv-
ering soldiers :in the trenches.
According to the recent reports, the
constant Smelling of the bridges over
the Aisne often makes it impossible
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other art treasures. dating from the
middle ages and the renaissance.
The handsomest point of the ,-ty is
Place Stanislaus. The square ia sur
rounded by handsome buildings, and
the entrance to the park, known as
La Pepiniere, is adorned by the beau
tiful Neptune fountain and handsome
iron gates and ratings which date
from the eighteenth century.
In the Church of the Cordeliers, at
Nancy, are the tombs of Cardinal
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between the intrenched foes. Barbecue
is the ancient capital Of the Dukes Of Bar
and before the present war was esti-
twenty thousand 1t is beautifully sit
uated on the heights of the Ornain, and
is an odd and quaint little French town.
The principal building is it's fourteenth
century Church of st. Pierre. The por-
tai fanked by a tall tower. was not
erected until the next century. But st.
Peters is most renowned for it's sepul-
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targets. The young officers give them
the names they Westminster Alb
hey, Bank of England. Kensington Mu-
scum, x Il Palace Hotel
With full-charged torpedoes-but l
hate to tell you. You know, they are
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chral monument of Rene de Chalons
Prince OF Orange. who fell in the siege
of st. Dizier in 1914 The marble statue
on the monument is the work of Ligier
Richer of st. Mihiel. who was pupil of
Michael Angelo.
ST. Mihiel is a little town whose name
the present war has put upon the map.
1t has been the center of repeated en-
gagements. The town grew up around
the ancient Abbey of St Michael, which
now is utilized for municipal offices. Both
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Si,-cIal tHrFvSf lg'!rutt ni Tue >tal.
BASEL tGerman-swiss frontier). switzer-
land. November -. 1914.
~ ROM the steamboats, plying Lake
Constance terrific sight can he
- witnessed
High in the air gigantic Yep
peiins naueuver. on the sur
face OF the lake. toward F'riedrichshafen.
float great RATS of heavy logs.
The service steamboats, keep at a safe
distance Other craft are not allowed 10
ply 1t is the danger zone-of prepare
tion TO wreck London from the air.
From d Zeppelin darts diagonally
downward what looks like 4 tiny Zeppe-
lin-4 metallic spindle. Sin feet long. per-
haps. glittering in the sunlight. When
it hits a raft the devils of the deep are
unclaimed. and the great logs are kin
ding wood
YOU behold the real thing. Hereto
fore bombs dropped from Zeppelins were
not tined 10 destroy. but merely to
produce moral effects OF terror. anxiety
| and warming Even the most noisy
| dropped on Antwerp, and but few of
them at that, wrecked scarcely three
l houses apiece. \ misery. 1t was so
! wilied Put now for London and the
British feet there ~ 10 mercy! All,
bare feet Albion. YOUR time is near
He who spoke was a German of su-
I.ersor education. correct. affable, one of
those new social inspectors who are ev-
rrywhere, ruoldiug public opinion and
eepIug a discreet eye ON foreigners who
requent the lake boats. mostly Swiss
Another glitterIug spindle shot down In
the sunlight,
When il struck the raft the lake boiled,
5he raft simply disappeared amid ter
Jific crashing. and. in time, great waves
~ndshed up against the boat, ankle-deep
or; the lower deck, ana casting spray
a bove. When, row and then. one missed
a raft, column of water shot up thirty
feet high.
''Torpedoes.' said the gentleman. (IIis
lard said civil engiueer) "One could
Isrnstsh hole in any dreadnaught's decks.
md three can wreck a London block. /
say no more
He said more. all the same And what
le said VAS SO astounding, reeking of
Hood and detached members, MANNED hu-
nanity. falling houses, streets impassa-
lie u - traffic laid low. that j wondered
but, 70, up there We're the circling Yep
-elin.. and you should have those
ats of massive logs disintegrate.
Yet IL Was Nothing, for ] learn that
he torpedoes are not tenth charged
Fne true practice work is handling the
punching tubes. The RATS are merely
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What else would stop them .

The opinion of the world"
Gen. Won Disfurth has just published
in the semi official Tag Of Berlin
what looks like the German armys re
ply, in advance. to any criticism of this
other conceptions of warfare.
1T is beneath our dignity, writes
Gen. Won Disfurth. ito defend ourselves
against criticism. Our men and our
selves owe no explanations to anybody:
we have nothing to justify. nothing TO
excuse. Whatever we may do. to in
fiict harm Oh the enemy. to attach VIC
tory to our flag. will be well and good
and everything is justified in advance.
or at least, we ought to consider 1t as
such. We have not to bother ourselves
with the opinions of other countries,
even the most neutral
They call US barbarians. What mat
ter? Mars is master of the hour. not
Apollo.
Now George, would you like trip to
London? STERLING HELLO.
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new type explosive, called descriptive.
mortars of AGO." which permit the
Germans to reduce any fort, has just
blown itself up. By error. they put in
too great charge. the nineteen spe-
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OF mile
shoot tits range
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Yet it WAS Nothing, for ] learn that
he torpedoes are not a tenth charged.
rhe true practice work is handling the
punching tubes. The RATS are merely
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P ~ spite Of the terrible conditions
caused by The wintry weather and
The consequent suffering which it
entails. according to the latest
official rrportS the Germans have
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KILLS WOMAN AND SELF

KILLS WOMAN AND SELF
Mrs. Mabel Probest, formerly of S.
Chicago, was shot and killed by Chas.
Danielson, a frenzied admirer, in
lonely graveyard at Manitowoc, Wis,
yesterday after the latter had broken
up her home. Danielson committed
suicide.
Mrs. Probest was divorced from
her first husband ten years ago and
given the custody of her two daugh-
tiers, Florence, II, and Elizabeth, IA
years old. About a year later she
became the common-law wife of Ed
ward Gossick. Later Danielson came
to board at the Gossick home with
the result that Gossick left as well
as the two daughters.
A letter from Gossick caused a
quarrel between Danielson and the
woman She left him and sought her
common-law husband. Danielson fol-
lowed, waited in ambush, shot her
dead, then turned the gun upon him
self.
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MERELY COMMENT

A Kansas man died leaving an acre
of scrap iron as a monument to his
memory. -.
Not bad idea. That's what the
average monument amounts pile
of junk.
If all the dough put into monu-
ments and all the kind after words
were given to some men while they
were "stil among us"-well, how
does it strike you?
There is one thing about that
stockyards smell-whenever the
wind blows it to bat in the various
sections Of the city it always bats a
thousand.
And the pesky wind has quite a
habit of bringing it to bat.
Being between the ocean and the
deep blue sea, or between two fires, is
like being between the stockyards
smell and the stockyards odor.
Tuesdays game between the Cubs
and Giants indicates that baseball |
game can be burlesque show.
If that was baseball, we'll take !
checkers.
The whole blame ''WhirI of the |
World" company was in the upper
stands.
Maybe that's what was the matter.
Both teams were in the whirl.
It's about time to lock the barn |
door after the horse is stolen in re-
gard to elevator accidental deaths.
Instead of where there is an eIe-
vator accident there is a will" it |
ought to be where there is will there
is way to prevent such accidents.
Anybody who would knock the
weather man nowadays sure has got
a mean disposition.
And still the tax mess remains in
our midst
We can stand it all right until the