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French War Graves Are Marked
With Care.
Authorities Aim to Have Complete
Roster of the Fallen Soldiers-Liv-
ing Pay Tribute to the
Dead.

London. - Interesting details re-
garding the manner in which the
graves of soldiers who have fallen on
the field of battle are identified are
given in the following article, trans
lated literally from the Paris Matin:
Leave for minute those trenches
and earthworks. Let your gaze wan
there in that orchard or there in that
copse, or yet again on that crest.
See, one, two, three, twenty little
mounds. On every mound wooden
cross and on every cross little
khaki or red cap. The orchard IS full
of them; the copse is studde& with
them; the brow of the hill is fringed
with them.
Now cast your glance toward
those two soldiers sauntering along
with their pipes in their mouths or
watch that cook hurrying along with
the soup.
Suddenly they come before the
little mounds and they stop abruptly.
At once the smokers take their pipes
from their mouths, and the cook lays
the pot upon the ground, and at once.
silently, solemnly, reverently each
right hand goes up to touch each
forehead in the military salute.
Its only for moment; the tribute
to the great dead is paid, and then
they go on their way again.
Along the whole battle line from
the wooded mountains of the Vosges
down to the sand dunes of Belgium
every single sector has been placed
under a separate officer, whose sole
duty it is to identify and collect mat
ter concerning every one of those lit.
tie mounds.
Not a single piece of information
is allowed to slip by uncatalogued /;
each cross has it's own humble chron-
icle all written down and indexed and
catalogued
Each tragedy once chronicled is
then copied in duplicate, one always
accessible in case additional informa.
ton should crop up and the other de-
posted at the nearest general head.
quarters.
Nothing is omitted which could
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gas and bombs the infantry charge
across.
Sometimes the machine guns
haven't been knocked out and they
take a big toll of life, and always
there are plenty of men whom the
bombardment fails to knock out.
There is never a soul to be seen.
There is only terrible roar Of guns
and explosions, and the perpetual
swapping of rifles and rattle of ma
chine guns. There is view of some
broken walls. trees without leaves or
branches, and trenches everywhere.
you would think there was no life
anywhere If it were not for the row,
and yet one knows that If you put up
head thousand eyes will see it and
half a thousand fingers pull trig.
ger.
at is all very destructive, very cost.
ly and very useless, war, but it brings
out all that is best in men. No doubt
1t is for good purpose which we dc
not realize at present, when we only
see the ruin and the killing and the
waste.
Sometimes the world wants clean
ing like the pistons Of a motor to
make it run smoothly, and this is the
way it comes about. You boys later
on will reap the benefit of 1t all"
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Traversed All the Main Thorough
fares.

yer that has kept me an invalid for
over six months. Everything is blur
from the moment | was sitting sway
ing to and fro on rock by the road
side when a young girl and an old
lady in the Paisley shawl passed by.
/ fell sideways, exhausted, just then.
They got me into their house-a yell
1ow-painted story and half cottage.
They led me upstairs to an attic bed
room. They brought me food and
drink and then | slept. ] recall wax
ing up in the morning half delirious,
not sensible of my real surroundings.
/ remember dressing and putting on
an overcoat hanging across a chair
and leaving my own worn undercoat
in it's place. l recall stealing down
the stairs, and in my lightheadedness
chuckling that l had a covering now
to fight off the biting cold and keep
me warm-warm! Since then a
blank, till | wandered into the house
here, burning up with fever and in
wild delirium."
ITO find that old coat is to recover
papers that will prove our joint own.
ership to property worth fifty thou
sand dollars" said Wallace seriously
"A story and half house-painted
yellow-an old lady with a Paisley
shawl he added memorizingly, hall
to himself. 81 shall start on my quest
at once"
So, first, Wallace Briefly went to
Springfield. He had secured an au.
tomobile and made regular business
of his difficult task. For three weeks
he traversed all the main thorough
fares leading out like spokes in a
wheel from his starting point Alas!
the fashion in houses had not changed
There were any number of one and a
half story structures, and many OF
them painted yellow. But the fashion
in wraps had changed. Only some
ancient dame retained possession OF
that olden badge of dignity and sub
stantiality-a Paisley shawl Few
wore them, however. They were heir
looms relegated to obscurity, and this
the chief clue. utterly failed to ma
terialize.
One day-ah, he would never forget
it! He had arrived late Saturday eve
ming at little town called Fairview
He was wearied and undecided, almos,
discouraged, as he awoke the next
morning. He loitered around the no
tel till about noon and then strolled
along the pretty main street of the
peaceful town, more for the sake o.
exercise than with any investigatory
spirit just then.
A church ended it's services and the
attendants were dispensing as he
neared it. Farmers from a distance
were driving off in wagons and anti
quated Surveys. Two ladies had JUS
been helped into an old-fashionet
phaeton. The weather was quite Girls,
and chilly. AS the elder of the tive
ladies took her place she drew gu
from under the seat cushion a shawl
A Paisley shawl And having
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-12-30
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WALL NEED NOT BE UGLY
Builder Who Works With Good Taste
Can Achieve Results That Are
of the Best.

There is no reason why brick WALL
should be SO dull and monotonous, for
there are numerous methods for prlck
walls of which any clever architect
or bricklayer might make use, says a
writer in the Dayton Journal. Some
times there is clause in the speciti-
cations calling for more or less orna-
mentations of otherwise blank walls.
In Holland, where much brick is
used in domestic architecture, brick
men take delight in showing their
skill in making brickwork and nearly
every cottage shows specimens OF
their handicraft.
It is not the best thing to do to
select bricks for facings If the bricks
are sound and right in texture. 1t is
pretty safe to say that labor put into
that special picking is worse than
thrown away, is positively injurious,
and that all those slabs of raw, harsh
color might have been rendered soft
and harmonious by using the bricks
just as they came out of the kiln, with
all the perceptible and imperceptible
graduations of tone conferred upon
them by the accidents of burning.
Your great bare spaces will be full
of variety and interests of what paint
ers call quality" but without preju-
dice to the breadth of treatment, be-
cause the smallness of the individual
bricks distributes the variation Of
color so subtly over the whole surface
that only those who are Gin the know"
can realize how it came about. And,
of course, the larger the surface the
wider the diversity of color that can
be introduced without disturbing the
general tone.
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WHAT WAR is LIKE

peep over the others trenches and
shoot men; and the trench mortars get
busy and send over high-explosive
bombs, or someone more daring than
others crawls out and throws hand
grenades into the trench.
Behind these front trenches are
other trenches, which lead in zig-Zag
way to the front, or hold more men
ready to help If the front trench is at
tackled This is really the nastiest
place to be in, because the German ar
tillery are always ready to shoot at
them, and do shoot at them when there
is any excitement.
Hidden all along the trenches are
machine guns, which fire f1ank-wise
and are very destructive. Then come
the artillery, and behind them again
the big guns-the very big ones which
drop shells tremendous distance and
blow blocks of houses to bits. They
say one of ours not long ago dropped
big shell into the middle of an in
fantry regiment-a German one-and
blew 500 of them into little bits. Dot
ted about around the country where
they are most needed are the antiair-
craft guns, whose shooting at BIRDS
as they call the aeroplanes, is very
pretty-and very bad.
Away back behind all these are the
aerodromes and captive balloons of
our own watching the front, where all
the roads are busy with motor trans
ports feelings the firing line with grub
and ammunition. You would never
think how many men and how much
transport are necessary to do all this
properly.
"a battle starts with terrific artil-
lery bombardment, sometimes for days.
and when the enemy's trenches are alb
solutely destroyed and their men dazed
with the rain of high explosives and
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HONOR THEIR DEAD

possibly afford a clue to the dead
hero's identity-name, surname, regi-
ment and rank-and then each grave
given number corresponding to the
document.
Often the number is burned on
with red-hot bayonet for fear by any
chance the rain OF mud should oblit-
crate the treasured mark.
Suppose, then, after the war. a
family English or French, or Belgian.
wishes to trace the sacred soil where
lie so many buried hopes. All they
will have to do will be to address
themselves to the civil authorities Of
the town where all the plans will be
gathered together and they may OBJ
tain information as detailed and as
complete as if they had themselves
been present upon those terrible bat
tlefields and will be guided to the
lonely grave, be it lost amid some
forest or hidden amid the quarries or
simply one of forest of similar en-
blems upon some open field.
1T is holy ground, each little hum
BILE grave-ground which was not
bought by gold or by work. but by the
mans own blood that has mixed with
the dear earth that gave him rest
there just where he fell.
rs it not all marvellous? When
ever, too, some poor corpse is dis
covered during the course of the noe
turnal patrol along the front of the
trenches, outside the lines, there is
no rest or respite till it is brought
back to safety and to love-often at
the cost of yet another new corpse in
the rescue.
Gould any parent do more? The
soil of France is the French soldiers
birthright, and they feel as If the
dead could not sleep the great sleep
if German feet moved above the heads
of their comrades, and so the chaplet
of miracles goes on, each corpse max
ing another hero.
Weep not, you mothers, you wives
you daughters, though the days seem
long and sad away from those spots
of sacred soil whittier your sorrows
would bid you rush and mourn.
mo, weep not, but rather rejoice
in your glory, you mothers and wives
and when the day comes, as come il
must, when you will clasp these
crosses to your bosoms before you
take the sacred soil away-they will
seem light crosses indeed, for in that
day all your sufferings will have van
ished before the strength of your Joy
the joy of victory that will give
lasting peace to whole world"
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A MAYORS TESTIMONY.

Mayor James r. Hanna Of Des
Moines, Ia, gives his personal testi-
mony to the advantages of prohibition
as follows:
"The saloons were closed on the
18th of February. All the desirable
locations were picked up by other
businesses within the next few weeks
following. A few out-of-the-way loca-
tons are still vacant.
'T cannot see that there is any ap-
preciable effect because of throwing
men out of employment and certainly
no increase in demands for charity. In
fact, it is exactly the other way. The
men who lost employment have gone
into other lines. Some of them have
followed up their former calling in
other cities, but the men who were
spending in the saloons the money
which their families needed are now
buying groceries and shoes instead.
The consequence is very much bet
ter tone in every way. In the first
place their families are not now in
want and in the second place, they
are paying their bills for the ordinary
necessities. This is making collec-
tons noticeably better in other lines,
so our merchants report.
"Our experience proves that a de-
cisive policy can handle the bootleg
ging very effectually. There will be
some Illicit sales, to be sure, but they
can be reduced to very small mini
num-"
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white center and "curlicues," and a
fringe Wallace Briefly sprang into
action as if shot from gun, but the
phaeton had started up. Before he
could overtake it the rig had turned
corner and was lost to view, com
mingled with other vehicles.
That phaeton!" he painted, rushing
up to the man who had helped the
ladies into the vehicle-"the lady with
the Paisley shawl"
The man whose arm he had seized
in his fervor of urgent excitement
stared at his wild-eyed, GREATNESS in
terlocutor in profound surprise.
why, yes" he spoke slowly, Mrs
Esmond and her daughter"
"Do-do they live in story and a
half house-painted Yellow" bolted
out Wallace unanimously.
They do, one mile down the road,
where you saw them turn" was the
rejoinder, and then the informant
found himself alone, staring marvel
ingly after the erratic Wallace, who
had dashed away forthwith.
Mrs. Mary Esmond, widow, and her
daughter, Leila, pretty as picture,
were quite astonished half an hour
later to be overtaken. just as they
were putting up the old family horse,
by the GREATNESS, perspiring Wallace
Briefly. He apologized for his urgen-
cy-"one story and half house.
painted yellow"-"Paisley shawl
did they remember fevered, hun
gered tramp who had. fallen at their
doorstep such and such length of
time back?
why, yes, the poor fellow!" replied
Mrs. Esmond He made me think of
my dead son. / put out his old over
coat for our unfortunate guest The
next morning he was gone"
And often since l have hoped it
kept him warm, and that he found
home and friends" spoke Leila Es-
mond, and Wallace Briefly, reverence
ing her for her gentle pity for be-
loved brother, thought her face wore
the divine glory of some angel.
He was my only brother" spoke
Wallace. HE left his old coat behind
him here"
ut is in the attic now" explained
Leila. There were some papers in it..
They bore no address, so l placed
them carefully away, thinking that
maybe some day they might be
claimed"
Il claim them now" said Wallace in
tone OF deep gratitude and satisfac-
ton. "They mean to my poor, mis-
guided brother and myself a new,
grand start in life, after many bad
mistakes"
They restored the papers and made
him stay to dinner. He would never
forget that peaceful, enjoyable after
noon. He babe them farewell with
full heart
Three weeks later Wallace Briefly
called Unexpectedly at the Esmond
home. He had learned of mortgage
on the place, Of the worthiness of the
owner of the Paisley shawl. I$s
brought to her present in ready cash
that would free her home from debt.
And then he found it hard to get
away. Leila was the loadstone that
lured him to delay, and then to con-
fession of love.
1t was quiet ceremony. their we'd
ding, and as the happy pair started
off on their honeymoon Wallace Bri-
erly insisted that his bride wear the
Paisley shawl.
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Women's Duties.

For the women of an earlier time
their duties were not only well de-
fined, they were unacceptable. For us.
they are not only rather readily es-
capable, they are not even defined.
This is, indeed, broadly true of all eth
les, whose entire emphasis seems to
have changed. The older moralists
occupied themselves with the diff
Guilty of doing ones duty. The mod
ern ones, if they want to hold our
attention, must rathcr consider the
preliminary difficulty of finding out
what ones duty is.-Elisabeth Wood
bridge in Atlantic Monthly,
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A WORLDWIDE WAR.
the National Woman'a
Tennerance Union,)

"a world without liquor nation by
l930"-this, said Daniel A. Polling, in
an address delivered at the Panama
Pacific exposition, this is the goal of
the National Temperance council. The
membership of this organization, OF
which he Is president, is made up OF
leaders from 81 national religious and
reform societies and its activities are
to be international in scope. The first
great word of it's declaration of princl-
pies is unite, the second educate, and
the third exterminate. "The temper
ance fanatics today" affirmed Mr.. Pol
ing, ARE not preachers and women,
but railroad presidents, owners of steel
mills, scientists, popular novelists and
war lords. Medical authorities are lay
ing charges against the door OF John
Barleycorn that the most rabid tenn
perance orator Of five years ago never
dreamed of making.
"Chief Actuary Hunter of the New
York Life Insurance company has
claimed prosperity in human life Tor
Russia as the result of the prohib1-
ton of vodka that takes away the
breath of third party Prohibitionist.
Sam Blythe is writing temperance
articles for the Saturday Evening Post
that discount the Union Signal.
civilian Jennings Bryan, delivering
a temperance address in Cooper Union
New York, has used language that yles
with the choicest epithets John b.
Cough ever employed.
"The Carnegie Steel works is strict
er in it's total abstinence requirements
for its employees than is the average
church for its members.
"And just now Emperor William and
Gear Nicholas have, in the trenches OF
Flanders and on the plains of Poland,
Galicia and Russia, the greatest tenn
perance societies in the history OF the
race.
There is white ribbon around the
world"
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Use Telephone Directory.

The telephone directory has almost
displaced the city directory, because
of the completeness of the former and
its accessibility. The last New York
city telephone directory contains $780,
900 listings for $4,000 telephones in
the city. The first telephone directory,
issued in 1878, consisted of a card
containing the names of 252 subscrib-
ers. The present directory has $40
pages, and an edition of $4,000 copies
has been distributed. The preparation
of the directory consumed fifty car
loads of paper, seven tons of ink and
230 miles of binding wire.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-12-30
The Paisley
Shawl
By
MILDRED CAROLINE
GOODRIDGE
Copyright, 1915, by W. G. chapman.)

copyright, 1915, by w. G. Chapman
Think hard, Eustace-try to re
member!" urged Wallace Briefly, hut
his invalid brother shook his head in
helpless, melancholy fashion.
ITS no use, Wallace" he declared
Its all kind of blur, all except the
quaint little story and a half house
painted yellow, and the sweet-faced
girl who was SO kind and plying, and
the lady with the old-fashioned Paisley
shawl. l can see it nova white cen
ter and the figure in quaint curlicues
and saffron-colored fringe. Find that
shawl, Wallace, and you find the pa
pers."
IF they have not been destroyed
yes" nodded the brother, with seri
GUS sigh. 1--WE are an impetuous, poor
ly balanced family, Eustace. l lost my
share of the fortune left to us by ia
Their in speculation. You wasted yours
and you are now paying the penalty OF
your folly. l fancy we have both
learned sense. We will have to begin
business life all over again. We can
do it with good, strong capital, If we
can find those lost papers"
81 never knew their value" spoke
Eustace Briefly when l took my
last thousand dollars from the safe,
the envelope they were in, discov-
cred later, held a couple of preten-
tiously legal-looking documents. l sup
posed they were some old deeds of no
value"
You are sure they were in the coat
you wore the day you exchanged that
garment for the overcoat you tell
about?" pressed Wallace anxiously.
Positively, and about all there was
in it at that time" declared Eustace.
II had long before spent all the money
took away with me. 1 remember
leaving Springfield and striking out
for home here on foot. was half
starved, nearly frozen, as l tramped
through village after village. That
day we were talking about l must
have had the start of the wasting fe-
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-12-30
OLD LADY DRIVES AN AUTO
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Iowa Woman
Holds the Record In Her
County.

Estherville, Ia.-Estherville now
claims to have the oldest lady auto
mobile enthusiast in the state. If not
in the whole country.
Mrs. M. e. Jehu, aged seventy
three, proprietress of the Baskerville
greenhouses, last week purchased a
car, and after few lessons from a
demonstration, took charge of the car
and expects to drive it regularly.
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Best Substitute for Wisdom.

An acquaintance of the late Josh Bill
lings was one day talking with him
about the remarkable increase of imi-
tations and substitutes for original
articles, as oleomargarine for butter.
celluloid for ivory and so forth, and, .
said he, many of the substitutes so
ahead of he real thing. guess in
time there will be a substitute for
everything-though don't know about
wisdom"
mo" replied the humorist, up to
the present time. at least, there is no
really good substitute for wisdom. But
silence is the best that has been dis
covered"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-12-30
MONTANA WAKING UP.

Richland county, Montana, gave a
vote of two to one against the liquor
traffic in the first county option cleo
ton in the state. The liquor men put
up hard fight with five orators work
ing overtime to hold the territory.
Montana, one of the blacklist states on
the prohibition map, is waking up, and
the days of the liquor traffic in the
state are numbered.
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MO LIQUOR ON TRAINS.

Since July l it has been impossible
for travellers ON trains in Idaho to OBJ
tain liquor in dining and buffet cars.
The ban on liquor was ordered by the
stringent liquor law passed by the
Idaho legislature. In complying with
the law the Oregon Short Line rail-
road extended the dry zone to include
its lines in Utah.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-12-30
A Moving Spectacle.

Berlin, Wis-After being bound and
gagged and knocked unconscious with
a mop handle welded by thief who
ransacked the house and obtained
1910, Miss Anna Boelter managed to
get on her feet after regaining con-
seriousness and summon other mem
bers of the family by placing her chin
over the rope of the dinner bell and
ringing the bell.
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THE PROOF.

A gentleman was riding on the
street car the other day, when he saw
on the advertising spaces, printed in
large, clear letters, these words:
Pure Rye Whisky-Tones Up the
Body, Brightens the Intellect, Invig-
crates the Soul" After reading it his
eyes dropped involuntarily to the seat
beneath the advertisement, and there
was drunken man. His eyes were
bleared, his face bloated, with red
lines of dissipation in it, and his body
slouched down in sort of collapsed
way common to men under the influ-
ence of liquor. The drunken man was
an illustration of the advertisement,
and proved the falsehood Of it. Wine
is mocker."
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PUPIL REFUSES TO SQUEAL

mate returned and said ne mad gone
as far as Louisville with him.
The schoolmate said the runaway
intended to go to Memphis. Tenn. The
father then went to Louisville and be-
gan a search Tor the hoy The no-
lice are searching all through the
South for the lad.
The school authorities have been
making rigid investigations of Gig