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tell at first whether 1t was the feet of men or horses that he heard. He stood up, tottering a little, but still clutchlng in his hands his bluets.
 Then he saw, rushing town upon him, horses, more horses than in all his life he had ever seen and, mounted on them, men, different from any men that he had ever beheld Did he 'ook for the tricolor? Did he know that only under the tricolor might friends be found? High above his yellow head he held the bluets.
 Perhaps it was only fate, perhaps it was the God to whom the grandmere's prayers were rising, but the man who saw the baby hands and the blue corn flowers was the man of war. A sud- den word and there was sudden halt of all the pounding hoofs. Bending down from his horse, the man of war took the blossoms, and on his lips was word the childish ears had never heard spoken in a tongue he could not understand: "Kaiserblumen!"
 "Honneur, Patrie, Gloire." The va- lian& words rested curiously upon the baby lips, but in an instant the intel feet before which the entire world was trembling understood. Honor-Glory--- Fatherland-the same in every heart for which every man must lay down his life, whatever helpless atom be might leave behind him.
 There were orders quick and clear and then the pounding hoofs passed on, but around the fields of Mere Craquette was a double cordon com posed of the flower of the army, the emperor's personal staff. It was theirs to obey, whether it might be phalanx of fellow creatures that was to be moved down, whether 1t might be conflagration lighted by their own torches that was to be stayed
 The August moon was well past the full, only little crescent of gold that
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 He realized he should be mixing dough, for the men in the trenches would be hungry. They must be fed so they could fight again.
 But even as he turned back to take up his work there came a shout. Men were running about among the wagons, horses were being harnessed; already some of the vehicles were moving away.
 For moment Stephen stared be- wildered; then, after glance toward the west, he, too, broke into run.
 Stephens driver was backing the traces when he arrived, and started the team with shout and swing of his whip as his comrade leaped to the seat of the big oven. The crest of a hill to the west was swarming with gray-clad figures. The English were fleeing before them. The line had been broken by force which had charged up the steep banks along the Marne.
 Whether the Germans could hold the position under the fire of the Eng fish batteries and could cut off the force entrenched on the little plateau
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MAKES ATTACK ON DESSERT
Ohio Newspaper Classes It Among the Undesirable Superfluities of
 Human Life.

A man has come to this country from abroad to advocate vegetarian ism. He is hale and hearty fellow who has never practiced anything but vegetarianism. It is good thing and we are in favor of everybody not eating any meat who doesn't want 1t. But there are other reforms just as good. We might discard the dessert and fare better. The reason for re- sorting to dessert Is to enable one to eat more than he ought to eat. For instance, after eating roast beef, po- tatoes and bread, can a man resist piece of pie? Morally he ought to, but physically he couldn't
 Eating too much is materialism in it's worst form, and it does more to blunt the senses and to squelch noble aspiration than any of the other habits, and the dessert is it's guardian angel. So dessert is a superfluity, if one has had enough of the piece de resistance ct cetera, and the super fiuities are the danger points of life. More than enough is a moral, social, physical III. Socrates was against the dessert when he prayed: 70 God, grant me what need and no more"- Ohio State Journal.
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Every Shell Added to the Confusion

to get transferred to the infantry, I'm rather sure they'd be glad to get a hundred thousand like you"
 You think so?" Stephen spoke eagerly. 'sI'm going to make applica- tion as soon as I can. I sure would like to get into just one battle"
 A slow grin overspread the doctors face, and he ran his eyes over Stephen as though taking an inventory.
 That's too bad he said dryly; sand you're not likely to be able to have chance soon. You've a hole through your right thigh, bullet in your left shoulder, a superficial fur row of the scalp, the calf of your right leg was drilled twice, and you have three minor flesh wounds.
 You've been mentioned in dis patches for that ammunition stunt of yours, and the chance are you'll land nice decoration that many a staff officer would give his left leg for. Yes, it's tough you never had a chance to get into battle."
The Pulaskian., 1915-03-19
Squirrel Wisdom.

The squirrel knows better than to depend on luck from day to day to bring him his food in the season when that food is to be found only in stor- age, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The squirrel has lesson to teach his proud but shorter-sighted brother of the human race. All the fall the bushy- tailed fellow, what time he could spare from eluding the guns of hunters licensed by law. gathered nuts from tree and ground and put them away safely for the winter use. He knew, somehow. that long season was at hand when nuts could not be found, when 1t would be impossible to roam at large in search of provender
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The Bearing of the Men cheered Him.

an opportunity to take hand when the big battle started. He knew how slender his chances were of ever reaching the firing line, but thor ough appreciation of the situation didn't make it easier to bear-didn't soothe his resentment against the fate that kept him mixing dough while others did the real work of war.
 If only had a chance!" he thought. "I wouldn't mind walloping kettles the rest of my life, if could take just one crack at them. Tomor- row or next day the boys will be hav- ing it out with Kaiser Bill-and I'll be wrestling with camp oven."
 For a moment he was silent as he watched the infantry deploying along the river; then he nodded his head. Yes he said, they're going to stop and fight and right here.'
 His belief was soon justified by the activities of sappers and engineers. The infantry was put to work dig ging themselves in' along the south bank of the river, Battery after bat tery wheeled into position on the hills; the signal corps was running wire along the lines for field telephones;
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being scared, to analyze his emotions. The men up on the plateau must have cartridges or they must surrender and the loss of that hill spelled dis asteri
 The pace of the heavy draft horses was slow-cruelly slow-and the need of haste was vital They had not gone hundred yards before bullets from the German infantry were whining past, and Stephen stood up to lash the numbering animals.
 Now they were only quarter of a mile from the English trenches, but the bullets were flying thick, and shrapnel was dotting the slope with fieecy, white balls!
 Now they were at the bullet-swept summit, with only a hundred yards to go!
 Could they pass through the storm of lead unscathed?
 Stephen yelled encouragement to the laboring horses, swung his whip in an effort to urge them to greater speed. The man beside him suddenly slumped in his seat, and quietly slid off to the ground stephen felt a shock and his left shoulder went numb; his cap was dashed from his head; something warm was running down his wrists and making the reins slippery.
 One of the horses lurched in it's stride, but he lashed it on to a quiver- ing, last effort. Only a hundred feet to go-now, then!
 One horse went down; the other was thrown to one side. The twist overturned the wagon, spilling cases of cartridges on the ground
 There was a sensation of flying through space, and blackness swal- lowed Stephen!
 He awoke to find himself lying on the trampled grass near the trenches, swathed in bandages, very stiff and helpless and weak The sound of the guns had receded. English guns were slamming shells into the rear ranks of Won Kluck's army, which was al- ready beginning it's retreat to the north.
 Some one leaned over him-a gray haired man who wore the straps of a colonel.
 "So this is the chap who drove half mile through hell to bring the car. tridges," a voice said. Well, if he hadn't it's hard telling what would have happened today. Holding this hill is all that saved us' Several days later in a field hos pital Stephen, with the petulence of a sorely wounded man, interviewed the brisk, capable young physician who was dressing his wounds.
 You think they'll take me in one of the active regiments when get out of here?" he asked "They put me in the commissary where a chap has no chance to get into the fighting. It's tough"
 The surgeon nodded approval and understanding. He knew what it was to remain behind the guns dressing wounds, when he would have pre- ferred to be making them
 "Yes," he said, 'it is tough to be tied down where you can't grab gun and wade in. AS for your being able
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(Copyrlght, The Frank A. MunSey Co)
 Stephen Barrow paused in his work of mixing dough to listen to the dis tant pulsing of the battle. The rasp- ing rife volleys sounded from a point nearer at hand and he knew that there had been changes in the posi- tions of the batteries, too
 Yes, the troops were retreating again. From the hill he could see cav airy already crossing the Marne.
 Well, that had been the regular thing since the English expeditionary force had bumped into the German le- zion at Mons, far to the north in Bel gium. Stephen could hardly recall how many days had passed since this steady retirement had begun. It seemed to him that it had been going on for months-years.
 He had been disappointed in the campaign from the very outset-from the day he had accepted the kings shilling to fight for the union jack. Neither events nor his part in them had come up to his expectations In the first place he had been transferred to the commissary department to mix dough and bake bread instead of fight ing, and then he had seen the army hurled back toward Paris in the initial battle-and since then the English had been retreating to new positions as a matter of daily routine.
 But bitter as the constant retire ment was to the men in the battle lines, it was doubly so to Stephen. Occasionally they had an opportunity of turning on their pursuers, but he was everlastingly mixing dough with out chance of feeling the kick of a rifle against his shoulder.
 Now they were retreating again.
 Infantry in small attachments was crossing the bridge over the Marne, and the tops of the hills beyond were dotted with white puffs of smoke which marked bursting shrapnel A regiment moved past toward posi- ton on the river bank, and Stephen studied it casually.
 Somehow the bearing of the men cheered him. They were grimmer, leaner, dirtier than when they landed in France, but they were still full of fight and confidence
 Every man seemed waiting impa- tiently for the day when he should turn his face north and help even the score with the Germans.
 And the time for the stand was near at hand they believed and SteDhen did too. The imperiled left wing rest ed against the forts of Paris; the river provided strong line of defense, and to retreat farther meant severing com munications with the capital. Yes, without doubt, the allies were about to stop and fight.
 But the thought deepened Stephens gloom.
 He was a tall man of twenty eight with a jaw that jutted forward at a pugnacious angle, and he yearned for
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preceded by few hours the rising of the sun. It looked down upon a scorched and smoldering territory. To the north, to the south, to the east and west it stretched, but in the cen ter stood Bibi's home, the small thatched cottage, surrounded by It's field of grain, trampled, perhaps, a It. tie under the feet of its jealous de- fenders-fallen here and there-but sheltering everywhere clusters of bios. soms blue as heaven itself, Bibis blu. cts, the "Kaiserblumen" beloved by the man of war.
The Pulaskian., 1915-03-19
English Batteries Went Into Action.

English Batteries Went Into Action. was yet to be decided; but, meantime, the vicinity was no place for a com missary train.
 At the foot of the ridge a road ran east and west, and the wagons took it at the top speed of their numbering shorses, camp kettles sloshing and splashing, iron ovens changing as they jumped over the stones.
 A cloud of dust appeared in front, and the wagons turned aside into shallow ditch while battery whirled by, gun after gun; the rattling cais- sons, and after them cavalry, all in from rout.
 At the same time the air seemed suddenly full of shrieking things that burst with thunder-claps and scattered death! The Germans had brought guns across the Marne, and they had the range.
 When the battery and cavalry had passed, the commissary wagons turned back into the road and raced on in an effort to get beyond the zone of fire; but disaster quickly overlook them. A shell struck heavy van, the vehicle following it toppled over into ditch in an effort to drive past the wreck. and the road was blocked, while German field-pieces continued to rake the train from end to end.
 Every shell added to the confusion. The road quickly became a litter of smashed wagons and dead horses Drivers were cutting loose the ami mals and riding away. It was obvious ly impossible to extricate the train, and Stephen was about to follow the example of his fleeing comrades when around turn came black ammuni- tion wagon, it's driver flashing his horses
 Plump into the piled-up mass of wreckage it drove!
 Stephen reached the scene as the driver, who had been hurled from his seat, staggered to his feet, and from his blasphemous comments he learned the reasons for the others haste. The infantry on the plateau was running short of ammunition.
 There had been a bungle some where, and the word had been wig wagged that unless ammunition ar rived soon the troops would be help less.
 It was then that Stephen qualified as man in an emergency The am
  of it's horses was down with broken leg; but nearby stood a big wheeled trough, in which dough for the camp bakery was mixed. It's horses hal not been touched as yet by the rain of shells.
 Promptly Stephen took command of the situation.
 NO off1cer was near, and the men followed him as promptly as they al ways will natural leader whether he wears shoulder-straps or not. Willing hands ripped passage through hedge which surrounded an adjoining field, while others hastily transferred boxes of cartridges from the ammuni- tion wagon to the camp bakery trough.
 When the gap was open Stephen took the reins, the driver of the am intuition wagon swung up beside him, and they drove through the hedge. Shells were bursting around them. Any moment one might hit the wagon!
 There was more than half mile of open country, swept by bullets, to be crossed. It was his first experience under fire; but he did not hesitate.
 There was no time even to think of
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SauinQ Beluian Beets.

Many of the Belgian beet sugar fac tories are operating, notwithstanding the war. The manufacturers, it is an- nounced, state that they have no ex- pectation of making any profits, but they are doing great work in that they are saving $6,00O,0O0 worth of beets and are providing employment and livelihood for their hands.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15
WIRELESS STATION
At SAYv|LLE TAKEN
RADIO PLANT TO BE RUN BY GOV.
LATlONS CHARGED,
UNDER EXECUTIVE ORDERS
Secretary Daniels Says President Di
rected That One or More Stations
Be Taken Over-Commerce De-
partner mt Refused License,

Washington, July 9.-Captain Bull.
lard, government radio chief, notified
the navy department at 1:15 p. m.
that he had taken over the Sayvi!ie
wireless station.
Washington, July 9.-Secretary Dan.
iels announced he had appointed Cap.
tain Bullard, head of the government
radio service, to take possession of the
Sayville wireless station in the name
of the United States It was said that
the station will be run by the govern
ment like other government stations
under it's control The Sayville sta.
ton is the last direct, privately own.
ed, service to Berlin.
Neutrality violations were given as
the reason for the step.
Acted Under Executive Orders.
Daniels said he acted under the ex.
ecutive order Of August 5, in which
the president directed that "one or
more of the high-powered radio sta
tons within the jurisdiction of the
United States and capable of trans
atlantic communication shall be taken
over by the government of the United
States and used or controlled by it,
to the exclusion Of any other use or
control, for the purpose Of carrying on
communication with land stations in
Europe, including code and cipher mes
sages."
The secretary said the Sayville sta
tons private management had applied
to the commerce department for a Ii
cense, which was refused Daniels was
informed Of this refusal by Secretary
Redield, and accordingly instructed
Captain Billiard to take possession of
the station.
Lieutenant G. r. Clark. u S. NJ, was
placed In actual charge Of the station.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15
WOULD HURRY PROHIBITION
Anti-sa'oon League, in Convention at
Atlantic City, Plans to Put More
Energy into Campaign.

Atlantic City, N j., July 8.-Action
to hurry along the movement for ma
tional prohibition through the amend
ing of the federal constitution was
taken by business men connected with
the Anti-Saloon League of America,
which has opened it's sixteenth con-
vention here. It was planned to ap-
point committee of 100 men promi-
nent in, business and manufacturing
for the purpose Of raising funds and
to otherwise further the movement for
the action of the Acknowledgement
amendment to the constitution.
Thirty-five states, it was announced,
were represented at the luncheon
where this action was taken.
The Rev. P. A. Baker, general super
intendent of the Anti-Sa1oon League,
outlined the plan to put more energy
into the campaign. He said it was
the object to have the prohibition
amendment inserted in the national
Constitution before the next congress
sional apportionment following the
census of 1920 is made.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15
CHEER KING AS SHIP SINKS
Crew Of Torpedoed italian Cruiser
Amalfi Gives Remarkable Exhibit
ion Of Courage and Discipline.

Rome, July (via Paris, July 9.)-
The italian armored cruiser Amalfi
was torpedoed and sunk at dawn by
an Austrian submarine while taking
part in reconnaissance in the upper
Adriatic: it was officially announced
here by the ministry of marine. Most
of the members Of the. crew were
saved.
The text of the statement in part
follows:
"A reconnaissance in force was &C.
complished in the upper Adriatic. The
Amalti, which took part in the recon-
naissance, was torpedoed at dawn by
an Austrian submarine and soon list
ed heavily to port.
1.-The commander, before giving or
ders to the crew to jump overheard,
cried, Long live the king! Long live
ltaly!' The entire crew, drawn up
along the stern, echoed the shout, Civ
ing remarkable exhibition of courage
and discipline.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15
SlAvS CHECK TEUT0N DRIVE
HALT AUSTRo-GERMAN ADVANCE
TOWARD LUBLlN RAILWAY,
Strong Russian Re-enforcements Ar
rive and Cars Troops lnf!ict
Heavy Losses on Invaders.

London, July 9. - BY the employ
ment of strong re-enforcements, the
Russians, temporarily at least, have
checked the Austro-German advance
toward the Lublin railway, which, if
successful, would imperil Warsaw. The
Russians claim to have inflicted a seri-
Gus defeat on the Austro-G German army
in the region of Krasnik, south of
that railway, while the Austrians state
that the battle was invigorated by the
participation of strong Russian re-
serves.
SIavs Have ADVANTAGE.
So far as communications are con-
cerned the Russians now have the ad-
vantage of positions as they have
splendid system Of railways behind
them on which they can quickly move
troops and guns to the threatened
areas. This battle, one of the many
since the Austro-Germans commenced
their drive through Galicia, has only
just commenced, but according to dis
patches received in Geneva from Aus
trian sources the Russians have thus
far had the best of it and since Monday
have inflicted very heavy losses on
the invaders. These dispatches state
that thousands Of wounded are con-
tinually arriving in Lem berg, Przemysl
and Jaroslau.
Germans Win Trenches in West.
The much heralded German on
slaught i'm the west has thus far been
confined to the Woevre region, where
the army of the German crown prince
is on the offensive and making efforts
to regain the ground which it lost to
the French in April, when the latter
attempted to force the withdrawal of
what is known as the St. Mihiel wedge.
The Germans have won some trenches
at the tip of the wedge, but III other
points, according to French accounts,
they were repulsed with heavy losses.
Artillery combats continue from
Arras to the sea and it was stated
that az a result of German lombard
ment Arras is in flames and its cathe-
dral destroyed. The Germans also
claim to have retaken the trenches
which they lost to the British north
of Ypres. However, the fighting here
appears to be desultory, despite re-
ports from Holland Of the arrival of
large German reinforcements for an
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The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15
Steel Industry More Active.

Pittsburgh, Pa, July 9.-The steel
industry is more active in this locality
than it has been any time since the
autumn Of 1912, according to state
ments by officials of the United States
Steel corporation. The mills are get
ting behind on orders and prices are
becoming firmer, they said. Manufac-
turers assert that little of the business
is war ORDERS" but that the bulk of
it is domestic, caused by the absence
of foreign competition.
Additional men are being out to
work in coal Mines,
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15
Italians Destroy Austrian Works,

Rome, July italian artillery, all
along the Tyrol-Carnia frontier has
wrecked modern works erected by the
Austrians, at a cost of many millions
of dollars; according to stories told by
Austrian prisoners.
General Cadorna reported that Aus
TRANS captured in sorties from NAL
borget report most of the forts badly
damaged by Italian gun fire.
AS fast as new guns have been
mounted in Fort Hensel, one of NAL
borget's main defenses, they have been
silence1 by Italian shells. :.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-15
President Studies Dispatches

Cornish, N. H., July 9.-President
Wilson has received additional dis
patches from Secretary Lansing at
Washington. bearing on the forthcom-
Ing German note on submarine war
fare. The messages arriving here did
not convey any further word from
American Ambassador Gerard concern
ing his informal conferences with Ger
lin officials about the note, but orig.
mated in Washington.
The President kept indoors by a.
driving rain. spent virtually the en-
tire day. studying the dispatches.