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Connecticut western news., 1915-10-14
DrIJnken Elenhants

The fruit of the umganu tree of South Africa yields strong intoxicat- ing drink. Elephants are said to be very fond of it. becoming quite tipsy. staggering about, playing antics. screaming so as to be heard for a mile and sometimes having tremendous and sometimes fatal fights.
Connecticut western news., 1915-10-14
A Deserted Schoolhouse.

In the center of it found one Janny, or, rather, his marble bust, breeding over a minute iron railed garden of half dried asters opposite a shut up school, which it appeared from the description Janny had founded some where in the arid thirties. It was pre- cisely the sort of school that Janny, by the look of him, would have invented. Not even French adaptability could make anything of it. So Janny had his school with a faint perfume of var nish all to himself in hot stiffness of used up air and little whirls of dust.
 And because that town seemed so barren I met there a French general whom I would have gone very far to have encountered. He, like the others, had created and tempered an army for certain work in a certain place, and its hand had been heavy on the boche. We talked of what the Frenchwoman was and had done and was doing.
 'They said she was foolish; they said she was frivolous; they said she was worldly-and now you've seen. haven't your said the general.
 We extolled woman in chorus for her goodness and her faith and her splen- did courage. When we parted I went back and made my profoundest apolo-
Connecticut western news., 1915-10-14
Went Unnoticed,

What is your opinion of Boston?" ''I was agreeably surprised on my first visit to that town"
 "Yes?"
 Just for an experiment I split an in- finitive, but there was nothing like a fiot precipitated d"-Birmingham Age Herald
Connecticut western news., 1915-10-14

Spokesman of Group of Hoboes- "Please, mum ye remember sendin' some brandy to feller we saved from drowndin' last Toosday? ?"
 "Yes; What of it ?'
 "He fell in again today. '-Life.
Connecticut western news., 1915-10-14
The 0utlook-

New Boarder-How's the fare here? every morning.
 That's first rate. How is it servedY' "In the shell"
Connecticut western news., 1915-10-14
Cross of St. Andrew.

Russias cross of St. Andrew has a remarkable peculiarity attaching to it. All who are decorated with 1t have the right once to demand pardon for a Russian subject condemned to death.
Connecticut western news., 1915-10-14

o-ed or mRtilatcd or used as Il pgotcc- tion against bullets. it Is not that these men are angry or violent. I1ey do not waste time in that way. They kill him.
 Talk List,e of Atrocities.
 The French are lcsS reticent than SC about atvb ilics committed hy the hoclcs be uuse those atro ities have formed an integral part of their lives. They are lot tucked away m lcports Uf commissions and vaguely referred 10 as "too awful" Later on pe.haps we shall he uErrscryCd in oEr tugn. But they de not talk of them with any habbling heat or L'o2t OF make funny little appc k to pG..lic opinion that, like the boche. has gone underground. It occurs to me that this must be Lc- cause every Frenchnan has his place and his chance. direct or indirect, to diminish the numLvr of boches still alive. Whether lac lies out in a sand wich or damp earth or sweats the big guns up the Crests behind the trees or brings the fat. loaded barGes into tho very heart of the city where the shell wagons wait. he is doing his work to that end. If he is a civilian he may, as he does. swear at his government, which. after all. is very like other pop ulnr goyeInmrnts
Connecticut western news., 1915-10-14
Town Has New Aspect.

The pale, overwhelmed town did not now any longer resemble n woman who had fainted i'll public, but one who must endure in public all manner of private woe and still with hands that never cease working possesses her soul and is sanely strong.
 The guns began to speak again amon- the hills that we ,dived into. The nii grew chillicr as we climbed. Forest and wet rocks closed around Us in tue mist te the sound Of waters trickling alongside. There was q tang of wc fern, cut pine and the first breath or autumn when the road entered tun- nel and new world.
 "Alsace," said the governor of thosr parts thoughtfully. "rhe main thins was to get those factory chimney" smoking again"
 They were doing SO in the little hats and villages.
 You won't see any girls, because. they're at work on textile fabrics. Ies. it isn't bad country for summer ho tels. but I'm afraid it won't do for viii ter sports We've only d meter or snow. and it doesn't lie except when you are hauling guns up the noun tains. Then. of course. it drifts ant freezes like at Dayos. There's our new railway below there. Pity it's toe misty t0 see the view"
Connecticut western news., 1915-10-14
Fifty Dogs Catch Fugitive.

Fifty dogs-hound, collie, bull, poodle and bird--tracked and captured an es- capped convict after bloodhounds had failed fin South Carolina.
Connecticut western news., 1915-10-14

Jonah read of oil on the water to cloud the submarine.
 "It's no good. J he cried, "I tried blubber myself. ''-New York Sun.
Connecticut western news., 1915-10-14
EAST CANAAN

Batting average of East Canaan base ball team for season. This shows why the team won so many games.
Connecticut western news., 1915-10-14
City the Kaiser Needed.

We found a city among the hills which knew itself to be a prize great ly coveted by the kaiser, for truly 1t was pleasant, a desirable and an in solent city. It's streets were full of life. It boasted an establishment as big as Harrod's full of buyers, and its women dressed and shod themselves with care and grace, as betits ladies who at times may be ripped into rags by bombs from aeroplanes. And there was another city whose population seemed to be all soldiers in training and yet another given up to big guns and ammunition, an eXtraordi- nary sight.
 After that we came to a little town of pale stone, which an army had made it's headquarters, a sort of forgotten provincial subcenter that in the dirty old days some materialistie novelist would have exploited in 900 pages. Now it looked like a plain woman who had tainted in public. It had rejoiced in many public institutions that were turned into hospitals and offices. Wounded men walked its wide, dusty streets; detachments of infantry went through 1t swiftly and utterly bored; motor lorries cruised up and d~Yn roaring. I suppose, for something to look at or talk to-
Connecticut western news., 1915-10-14

One has no protecting power save prudence.-Juvenal.
Connecticut western news., 1915-10-14
IDEA
 kIPLING ASSERTS
Noted Author Describes AL legged Types Among Cap
 tured Germans.

gies to .Janny, who must have had q mother
Connecticut western news., 1915-10-14
Then nobody laughs.
The Missing Wine.

Or a fat old lady making oratioD against some wicked young conscripts who, she says, know what happened to certain bottle of wine, and l meant it for all-yes, for all of you this evening instead of for the thieves who stole it-yes, tell you, stole it.' The whole street hears her. So does the officer who pretends not to and the amused half battalion up the road. The young men express penitence. She growls like thunderstorm, but, soften ing at last, cuffs and drives them af- fectionately before her. They are all Gne family.
 Or the girl at work with the horses in a plowed field that is dotted with graves. The machine must avoid each sacred plot, so, hands on blow hilts, her hair flying forward, she shouts and wrenches till her little mother runs up and swings the team, out of the furrow.
 Every aspect and detail of life in France seems overlaid with a smooth patina of long continued war, every thing except the spirit of the people. and that is as fresh and glorious as the sight of their own land in the sun shine or the Frenchwoman.
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An Old Monastery.

The great building must once have been a monastery. Twilight softened its gaunt wings, in m angle of which they hnd collected fifty prisoners pick cd up among the hills behind the mistS. They stood In some sort of military formation preparatory to being march ed off. They were dressed in khaki the color of grass that might have be- longed to any army. Two wore spec tacles, and I counted eight faces of tho fifty which were symmetrical, out of drawing on one side.
 Some of their later drafts gave us that type" said the interpreter.
 One of them had been wounded in the head and roughly bandaged. The others seemed all sound. Most of them looked at nothing but several were vividly alive with terror that cannot keep the eyelids still. and few waver- ed on the gray edge of collapse. They were the breed which at the word of command had stolen out to drown wo- men and children; had raped women in the streets at the word of command and always at the word of command had sprayed petrol or squirted flame or defiled the property and persons of their captives. They stood there out side all humanity. Yet they were made in the likeness of humanity. One rec alized it with a shock when the bnn- daged creature began to shlver and they shufIled off in response to the or ders of civilized men.
Connecticut western news., 1915-10-14
Medals His Only Decoration.

But for his medals there was noth- ing in the governor to show that he was not English. He might have come straight from an Indian frontier com. mand. One notices this approximation of type in the higher ranks, and many of the juniors are cut of the samr cloth as ours. They get whatever fu'l may be going. Their performances are as incredible and outrageous as the language in which they describe them afterward is bold but convincing.
 I overheard the taf1 end of a yarn told by child of twenty to some other babes. It was yelled in the obscurity of the French tongue, and the points were lost in shouts of laughter, but imagine the subaltern among his equals displays just as much reverence for his elders and betters us our boys do The epilogue was as old as both armies.
 And what did he say then? Oh, the usual thing. He held his breath till thought he'd burst; then he damned me in heaps, and I took good care to keep out of his sight till next day"
 But officially and in the high social atmosphere of headquarters their man ners and their meellness are of the most admirable. There they attend devogtly on the wisdom of their sen iors, who treat them, so it seemed, with afrectiunate confidence.
Connecticut western news., 1915-10-14

there a town and the fields around it gave us glimpse of the furious indus try with which France makes and ham dles her material and troops. With her, as with us, the wounded officer of eX- perience goes back to the drill ground to train the new levies, but it was .al- ways the little, crowded. defiant vii lages with the civil population waiting unweariedly and cheerfully on the un- wearied and cheerful army that went closest to the heart.
 Take those pictures casght almost anywhere during q journey-a knot of little children in difficulties with the village fountain or high handled pump. A soldier. bearded and fatherly or young and slim and therefore rather shy of the big girls chaff, comes for ward and lifts the ball or swings the handle. His reward from the smallest babe swung i'll the air or, if he is an older man, pressed against his knees is a kiss. Then nobody laughs.
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KILL THE BOCHE IS OF THE FRENCH, 'Boy NapoIeonS" See Litt''e Chance of MarshaPS Baton
 In This War.

We present below the fourth of six articles from the pen of Rud- yard kipIing, under the general title of "France at War on the Frontier of Civilization" describing the inn pressions of visit to the fighting line in France.
Connecticut western news., 1915-10-14
Little Human Rubbish There.

@AkNAN AsA9hA@A AAANANH
 A lifetime spent in watching how the eat jumps does not make lion tanners. But there is very little human rubbish knocking about France to hinder the work or to darken counsel There is, too, the sure knowledge of what has happened to ones own flesh and blood in the power of the enemy a few score miles away. Above all, there k little thing called the honor of civilization" to which France is attached. The meanest man feels that he in his place is permitted to help 10 uphold it and. I think, bears himself therefore with dig nity.
 This is written in a garden Of smooth turf under a copper beech beside n glassy millstrcam where soldiers of Alpine regiments are writing letters home while the guns shout up and down the narrow valley. .#
 X great wolfhound who considers himself in charge of the old fashioned farmhouse cannot quite understand why his master, aged six, should be sitting on the knees of the marechal des logis. the iron man, who drives the big car.
 But you are French. little one" says the giant, with q yearning arm around the child.
 "Yes," very slowly picking the French words, 'T can't speak French, but l nm French"
 The small face disappears In the big hoorJ Somehow | pnnst imunfnp the marechal des logis killing babies, even if his superior officers, now skctching the scene of the war, were Co order it.
Connecticut western news., 1915-10-14
The Front That Never Sleeps.

When the days reports are in all along the front there is Il man. an ex- pert in the meaning of things, who boils them down for that cold official digest which tells us that there was the usual grenade fighting at -; we made an appreciable advance at -" etc.
 The original material comes in sheaves, and sheaves where individ- ual character and temperament have full and amusing play. 1t is reduced for domestic consumption like an over whelming electric current; otherwise we could not take it in. But at closer range, say at any general headquar- ters, one realizes that the front never sleeps, never ceases from trying new ideas and weapons, which us soon as the boche thinks he has mastered them are discarded for still newer annoy ances and bewilderments.
 ''The boche is above all things ob- servant and initiative" said one who had counted 5000 boches dead in front of his sector.
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By RUDYARD KIPLING.
Copyright 1915. by the Sun Printing ana
 Publishing assocation.l

Publishing asSocntion.J [N TE passed into the zone of an AN/ other army and a hillier coun- V try where the border villages
 lay more sheltered. Here.and
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-11-20

quite sensation hns lately been ,r.
Died hy tho ruling ut Judge H0auiu uf
the circuit court nI Paris. Ip,. m
reference tu marriages in the TERRITORY
He rules that thyr. is no law. neither
uNll or ecclesiastical by which legal
marriage ran hv sUlvmnizod between non
citizen. OF tur flV. civilized tribes This
uff'ct, hundreds of marriages In the
northern tier or tho counties VI Texas. %,
th" nation has been the Grytna Grecn How
VIII % affect the marriage performed
Ia oklahoma
Hrothcr uClmtoyk. editor ur thr ru..,
Herald was iu the city Yesterday % dnlr.
guiu Go ihr ruNusitr conventions
We had the plrnsur, uf forming thy
acuuulntanDr " hr tuftrrvll of Guthrl,
who va, here nt the installation Of the n
LOT 4.
Yesterday afternoon sixty knights ~
INthlas aud candidates assembled uf
Castle Hall and arranged The preliminary
work for organizing the first * of y
lodge IN oklahoma They marched No %
body 10 the depot ana met the deputy
supreme Chancellor. John I Diue lusi
tuition ceremonies commenced promptly
al p m and continued until q n IN The
election NJ officers resulted, T.. &. q
NJ. lpshawi g. g. Mort L. BlNler. y
e. win DarrOugh. prplnir X n Fisher.
master of finance J = Roylr. master of
rNrchoquer l.. A Gilbert. keeper NJ
records John .. White, master ~ arms.
John Wand, inner guard Ur Johnson
outer guard, i, II lIehard; trustees. "
! poltcr, II n Haley and I W Raldork
We had almost forgotten tu mention the
banquet which vas set at the Avenue
hotel whore OIL the members partouk ~
. the NAtN IhIurH uifh which Ia. F.I.
loaded
Y g. Hough keeps The ugs that thr
dudes Ike to drive
Having resumed control " the Little
/ All Right restaurant I hope ~ meet
/ all oi my old patrons ana mAuy new
ones. A NcFadden
| Don't forget 60 register. but register
early Remember it costs YOU nothing
7 We urge the voters not TO paw any NJ
/ tshtun tn the Evening Iup FLOP nor
the morning Screw Fly Who are tryinv
/ 10 draw party l.no tiH true that Ur
/ llealr is nrmuout but that does hot
cut any iguf" u {. D. movement IN tuyuf
/ u honest government when you vote
/ tur lr BrAly you urr voting tor un honest
/ men VII" VIII mnk. au honest mayor
/ Mr. " % Beard was yu unfortunate az
/ to spraiu hi. ankle Rsi evening Hr would
not miss the gpremuN'rH ut the X =
( lodge. hoNrrrt and Vns carried NO 10
/ the room pud Witnessed the ceremonies
. although hr could take no part in them
! capt lllgclp found valisp the other
/ day while hunting that contained some
popers helonglng 10 p Mcdowell owugi
uuu have th' same by calling on cant
Hlgsie corner of Broadwu and Main
street
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-11-20

tin 1uu want of him
"Nu be- come cher. %. 300 lo Dol.
uum,t
"H.U rumr here first I -upro.n
aaid the doctor thinking OF Dur u
It9u- which Leigh bad taken with
him
.'-h him to alj me- up" the ,ui.,
responded IT. important AnI M"
mr number iu tine Suyyr-mJ ,.
change
What's ul mi. about" Townsend
D.woudrl huD the mani on the other
"ud of the wire adhered a. his lrulat.
iu- nrnlt uf ignoring questions
py the Wny he said what Ua7
tlr other doctors name
4 don sry that that's any Of your
husluc~. ,uid Townsend Hugrlly
"Nr, idon what my business isf7
To BE- Continued
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AFTlSRTllD lDUG1lTS

lpn WIry> notion or % guod practical Joke IS lO' ''
taf recently yu,t is urrUclutur $40
lf YOU hear the alarm yuyh when u g''. "Ii 30 '"
morning that {, O sign you are uo longer Young
A .u,d mHn, men tuuuap, to keep their uome, before
th. puni. without observing the lormultU ~ INST s"
curing % prrleNt
", day b. long cuou4h ior rnr nus, mon n"' -N'"
enough f0r the luater
lt 4. the uuu who u.. succeeded bon Gorhe h'. huI
who uuula, about nluu,...
Nu.t ~ the -lrpd records muur h} Vd"NrI#. JW'
u.i o.. uutomuhi,s us yuu may have Imagined
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ran I stop me. ''o l"n see J mn
II"allik away
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siblr 4" follow III" -I"IN from Doctor
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from rrallH !" uTrom'ond, aud Dee
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plncss nor sorrow, nor p"rpIrNltirs
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that hour ms associate. Doctor IoWR
Sehu' was sun III tue region "h'rr
there are decisl'N' 10 h' made ANA
he was engaged III luoN'UE one Nhl'h
Is the recurring nuisance "i home.
less me lt was N"'''Il"g Nh'rr u'
should eat ms 'ln"''. Possibly There
are many poor Iu''' Nl' W"uln h' en-
lious ot hlm w 'u,h SITUATION Tor
Townsend 'ould AFFORD 10 dlnr any
wher' ne pl'HS'u, ne trouble - lhnt
Whcn you can o''oru you "'n please
'Blost the lucS J SAID Townsend
WIN Il sIo"il. N"Vl'''' " nave I"
20 10 Sherrys
lhls was NOT w lhr least degree a.
reflection oh lhe establishment select
rd. hut only on the gnhllrmnns own
method "t existence sun Rruhhlllls'
he began to dress, when the telephone
interrupted him Nm unfamiliar voice
which did not seem to come 4" HIN
, uul ~ the firsi circles ot Socleiy. m
| uuired
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continued from Page rRm
Leigh Can hr hold mrH I'm pretty
weak. with this poison"
In his dull aud wandering mind he
began lu make plans fur ou escape
and hc had nearly fuIlru asleep iu this
pNeuIsp. hut recurring terror slll held
him from slipping over upuuon 3
brink. lie resolved tu take the chnuce
Slowly and cautiously hp ughipnpd his
grip ou the arms ur the chair then
,uuncdly springug up hef lung II
backward The two rough hands
closed upon his throat as he had OK
pectcd, hut they missed their hold npd
hr was free
The room whirled and tilted. he
seemed to rush for the door uphlu
II was built to open inward llr made
mo- attempt 10 touch the knob kpov.
iug that death was at his heel. lie
hurled his great hulk against the
wood which burst with shook he
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0' w. didn't ,rc him uu, more llr
.. ..u- mr up. and uu matter how
d...'vu-trl / tried To appear nu ,'ill
persisted la his attentions. Tie called
Huu. mr one afternoon last vrrk and
N."n Indignant hrcau,r wouldn't
u..u zoo his love mukiug hudu {
.# Nim ftt several day, until vr,trr
a". when ! accidentally met him ou
Ju -.rr-t
nn seemed so sincerely sorry for
Dds u.,nrhayI,- that / accepted his
'u.Wiuu to luncheon ilr said hc
MI .unrthing hc wanted Ju Duufide
60 u' ma ryactrd my promise nor 10
,oI luIu II was then he told mo- he
$500. going 10 marry MiIdrI Marshall
100 mm today She, % singer m a
broadway cabaret
3. lhW a'lr asked Justin
lr. don't you hate mr uuu Jhor
l'. b.d you
This I how hate you be- au.
rwl and he took me u his arus
mN kissed me.
l'ur Justin said freeing nay
n.f what can doi'
.lw mr see hr said uuushrmIIy
"po ,un know anything about the
IIt
"lf you mean anything AGAINST the
.Iru mo-. nothing except hrr appear
mr nut She i.u't the eIr0 ror uirk
Nu, mr who knows him could see
that
We'll n hr Z. Young and head
sum, said Justin "you cannot prr
vent him marrying h,r b, telling him
hr Iu't the glrl Tor him ANYWAY
h. sister should know ur MS mlru
tluu. Where Is be- Stopping
N lhr BoIteu hotel
Well. / must bee uu my way tu Nh,
office You leave the matter fp me
lNl think of something lo du"
wonder what 1t with be
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nm rIMEs Henceforth 4.

An Institution that shall always b" found hghii--
for desrncy In the public service. regardless oi pau
san considerations constructive Ia all is policies aud
While brOn cling TO no party. opposing with hS might
the dsmagogues VI all, hghtinE for progress hnd
practical reform; opposed to special privilege and the
custom Of Improperly influencing making and
enforcing bodies whether by predatory put"ornc'
Or nredatory poverty. whether 10y Capital or Labor
devoted . the publc welfare every resource CON
sant strained present the acCutatri, and TO
discuss II impartiAlly5 willing to correct INSTANTLY an
Injustice done the most humble, set too proud 10
IpOlogiIe 10 the most high Tor policy sake
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TTlIl[ES0 SP1[LlNlgAW

.ruur.o ulr liucou County Herald tu -cJ hN with
it because II any ur challenges the authenticity of t'
sion, aNmal the Cil, uf Che Mus" hr win hn dtspNNWg
uu fact That hr can't pronounce the names
uu, page ulugen,.' Item m dNe Iallhiu lrlnw"
SAYS e. 4 Anderson found purse with money and lac b.
luukug for the owner
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However The Times doesn't spell 1t " Goor
uam