Arizona republican., 1914-09-07
NIGHT EYES OF PARIS
KEEP SKY LIGHTED TO
WARD OFF AIRCRAFT

called for service shall offer to go to
help with the harvest.
The provisioning of Paris leaves
nothing to be desired; the arrivals
Of milk, which fell to 14IOOO litres on
August ?, are now $4,000 litres daily.
which ensures an ample supply.
Vegetables have already come down
in prices: potatoes to Is cents per
h: onions, carrots and turnips, to
20 cents per bunch; lettuce, two for
Is cents, etc, these being the shop
prices. Meat is still dea., but there
is plenty OF it.
One of the most curious and COM
forting features of the crisis through
which France is passing is the sud-
dcp diappearance of the most vio-
lent and bitter personal and party
feelings. and the reforming influ-
epce of patriotism upon character
NJ. Gustave Herve, in the "Gue.ro
Sociale.' writes that scores of bad
characters turned out of the army
ana other employment for criminal
offences throng his offices, enreat-
front and wipe off the stain on
their lives by sacrificing them.
/ The most touching episode, he re
/ l8tes as follows: "A man of about
/ fifty, looking like welI-to-do bust
ness man. came in. | held out my
/ hand. Monsieur, | am not worthy to
/ shake hands with YOU l am an es-
capped convict. For many years l
/ have struggled to reinstate myself
| by honest work and by leading an
irreproachaDle life | have home
and beautiful children. Ny own wife
does not know what her husband is,
and everybody in our quarter re-
spects me. am past the age OF
service, but | would not miss the
/ unexpected opportunity that offers it
self for cleansing my name, and
1 leaving one to my children for which
! they will not have to blush. When !
have paid my debt and given my
blood to defend the country | love
and in which my children will grow
luD, you can tell them who their faith
er was and how he died | rely upon
you to help me to die worthily You
understand. monsieur? Death in the
field is life to me, and is my resur-
rection. | promised. with a gesture
that he could rely upon me. I wa;
too touched to speak, and could onl5
embrace him.
The effect Of reading such stories
stimulates every man, and all tht
finest pens in Paris daily produc;
stirring short articles that one see.
being read out to groups in tn,
streets, while scarcely an eve is dry
Some time ago the emperor, vii
helm H., ordered a banquet of fift!
covers for himself and his staff a
one of the most fashionable Pari
restaurants, but the Parisians ar
still waiting for his majesty t.
appear.
An amusing and piquant example
of the freaks of fortune has occurred
at the frontier. The good nature,
Alsatian caricaturist, Hansi. who wa
condemned at Kolmar to a years i'm
, prisonment, after having been for
me.ly fined for burning a piece of su
gar in joke ito clear the air. in = rec
taurant after some German lie,
ants had left, naturally at once
unteered for service. He was .i
gaged as an Interpreter, and the frs
prisoner brought in for whom he ha
to act was precisely one of the Kol
mar 'junkers.' The lieutenant di
not recognize the artist in uniform
and complained that he had not bee
given the food he was accustome
to, 1T is better, at any rate" sal
Hansi. then what YOU gave me i
my cell.
Thee is an almost incredible Gag
e1ness among both old and youn
j., here, to join in the work of defens,
Professor Richet, the recent WHINE
of the Noble prize, after seeing fou
brothers and brother-in joi
the coors, is now sending off hi
son straight from college NJ. Ara
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