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Big shells for a French 22o
millimeter gun.

voice convey to them the object OF the
patrol and again repeat my Instructions
| propose to carry the patrol as "A
whole up to the objective. marching
them in Indian file back OF myself. I
prefer TO march ahead so as to choose
the line OF approach.
On the right OF the "tranchee du nord''
and running uphill toward the woods il
a line of brush four feet high and
very dense. We run. bent low. arm a
Ia main. bayonet al canon" toward this
brush, and, following II, make our way
cautiously up the hill. Two hundred
of a small ridge. We turn to the left
and follow a high slope to a line OF trees,
turn again at right angles and emerge
upon "A grassy field.
| lie down and the men follow suit.
On the other side OF the field are the
ood about $50 meters distance. In
the middle distance Is a lone tree with
a capote or jacket. hanging in its
branches. 1t is there hat two men got
theirs while on %patrouille the night be-
fore.
! tap my rifle butt with a cartridge
and the whole line begins TO move toward
the woods. every one worming his way
slowly and noiselessly forward. All at
once the man on my right pokes me with
the bayonet and points forward. I roll
over TO him and look. I am somewhat
surprised at what | see. Immediately
in front at two or three meters Is a bare
spot Of ground covered by about
ten or twelve men lying down.
Two taps on the gunstock and every
one lies still. With the man on my right
! crawl up slowly. automatic in hand.
and taking my man rife I swiftly and
forcibly thrust the bayonet into the
body OF the nearest. Not a move. II Is
the leavings Of some former patrol.
German and French dead.
We are now only fifty meters from the
woods and $50 from the "fortin," which
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beautiful yellow spat tinted 20 match
the delicate glove on his remaining hand.
Fortunately Il is the right arm and
the left leg that are missing. so he bal
ancos nicely IN his peg leg without
clutches. His real leg and his real arm
will be done in "A fortnight. when
he will go back to shirt making.
\ man without arms or legs is davo,-
ing himself in Vienna to the task OF
cheering up the badly wounded and
teaching them TO use artificial arms
and legs. The celebrated one armed
pianist, Count Geza ZiChy. is another
good Samaritan who is working on the
same lines.
Rudolph Gurt"lschmied, the first men
toned, was an electrical adiuster in
spokane, Wash, in 1907, when he lost
the use of both his arms and both legs
by touching "A high tension cable. : All
four were burned to a cinder and ampu-
tated. Four months later he was ntted
with artificial members and in five DAYS
he could use them.
Now, after eight years experience, he
walks the streets with the utmost con-
NdenCc n can d. his ten or twelve
miles Afont. He goes vi ana down
stairs without a m sits or lies down.
bends and raises himself, jumps, takes
several stairs NJ a time, climbs up lad
dors, rides u tricycle. and IN fact does
Just what every one else does. His
clcvcl ness with his ARTIFICIAL hands is
wonderful lie eats with n knife and
fork, carries heavy loads, writes hoauti-
fully ana himself fixes his apparatus
when necessary, His artihci1, memhc, $
cost $3.50, ana h" sim uses the first
u'ht he had. They are So simple hat
any workman can repair them.
H.. 49,. -.-l
kept 4 tobacco store I'm his native town
but an increase I'm the rent made him
civ" It up. Tho war has supplied him
with a new profession.
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WAR
OF ALL CONVERSATIONS
Skill in Use of Remaining Members, Coupled With
Popular Sympathy, Makes Life Profitable for Semi
Legless and ~Semi-Armless Chauffeurs and
Messengers.

The chasseur at the Buuf a N Mode
restaurant back of the palais Il, val
has only one arm with which. to gather
clients hats and umbrellas. lie too has
the military medal M the War Cross.
HIS artificial arm does not work very
well, so he wears 1t only three DAYS q
week. hoping thus to get used to Il
slowly and without annoyance. This
boys tips are double what they were
hefore the war. II the restaurant man
ager Is pleased to have him back. for
the public thinks well of a restaurant
which takes back it's mutilated en-
ployees,
On the terraces of several cafes along
the grand boulcvards there are peg
legged walters with medals on Their
aproned breasts whose tips have in
cluded In them additional elements to-
ward the purchase of real artificial legs
with joints In them. OF an afternoon
In the Champs Elysees me may sec
~promenadIng a young clerk from u smart
shirtmaker's who before the war bore
a certain fame ms n person II elegant
appearance. He Is Just AS smart now,
his remaining foot being set on by q
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FRENCH GENIUS SUFFICIENT.
Will Triumph over German Ma
chine, Says Paris Writer.

PARIS. Aug. 20.-"when will ",
French begin to be half way fair t. our.
selves?' asks "Polybe' In lie Ei1aro.
why should we wish to be something
else than what we are? We are tia
great PACE of individualists. and we hay,
always been so-from ~VercingetoriN 10
Joan OF Arc, from Rabelais to Voltair..
This individualism has not been with
out its drawbacks; 1t has led us .r',
mistakes; but 1t Is, and always has
been, our virtue. our stamina. In lines
OF peril II a been our salvation.
nevertheless. some among us seem
10 see superiority in the ponderous cul-
lectivism, the gregariousness of the Ger
a race. See how Germany has force
seen everything! War is her national
business. For fifty years all German
industries have been shaped to War,
and this IL true both Of foreign COM
merce and domestic trade Her travel
lers are her spies. DO you see that in
,nocent looking buoy? You thin 1t ~
intended To guide III mariner, but q,
serves another p Under cover ~
night a German submarine APPROACH ,
the cap of the buoy is removed, a piur
Is lowered. and oil or spirits pumuol
into the vessel. They have thought Il
everything in advance.
True. we have been much less fay
seeing. We have lacked essential ,..
ganization in many things. The
torian will record all this. But do r.,
think that the French genius is c,r- :
TO "A raft tossed in "A sea of d..u
It's footing Is sure; II will rcspo.. Pr,
every demand.
The German machine is alwa,- q,
midable. Its boilers are fun. .tul
great wheels performing their fur,f
with the utmost precision. But JET
least little part break and the w'u,
mechanism will stop, break, crumh', ...,
scrap iron. Such is German coll,riN 1.
Is 1t this that you would hv. - Fro .-
men?
They have forcseen everything E..
everything but the eternal, divine q.u-
ity that will bring victory To- Us
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straight up the hill between the Forth
and the 'Ouvrage Blanc" I place one
mar on the high bank on the right and
one on the left side OF the road and tell
then to crawl up TO n lone tree sill
houetted against the sky. II they meet
anything they are to return with the
information.
After ten minutes ! proceed with
the patrol and find the scouts at the
tree. We are now I'm line with the
Forth and the Outrage Blanc" The
Germans are having "A good time in
the fort. singing and shouting.
Here ! leave the sergeant with six
men facing the Forth and place a cor
poral with four men more to the right.
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WAR DEPLETES ROLLS
OF GERMAN STUDENTS
Percentage at Front LARGE. but
Most Institutions Com
tinuc Courses.

f'ff wv 80 -.
BERLIN, Aug. 1.-The p~crccr'Hr. ..
German students actively engaged H'
wal is greater by far thar i'm 5ry o. !
war In history. And wlthaL with 20
ception OF four forest academic. a' 90.
man colleges have maintained t.,.. .
ular winter n summer Sessions
lists OF matriculated students, uut...
have been markedly depleted
In the fall OF 1914 there were u.t..
lated at the Country's - Ur.N,.
IL technical colleges. . business ,.l
3 veterinary colleges and i agr.rH.
n mining colleges Gi,7lu -r.. .
while 1907 students WrIo a''.. -
the 80 German high schools. ,t
matriculated students There lIy.
enrolled in the army 3i,Ouu ur ,
students. 5000 technical, G.uUu ,
900 veterinary, 300 agricultural ..
mining.
OF the 1000 female students
mately COO have become sic. ..
From koenigSherg, which ~Coutrh...
largest contingent OF student.
of 1850 went to he front. Dt
meal students taking part lu O..
Danzig supplied the larEcst uyu.
63 out of ~ students. or go pc. On,
The students matriculatcd at Oh.
lin University for the current >u
term or SIX months, or a semester '.
bered h,Olb, compared to $50, u .
summer In reality only 2,y.
n female students uClull., "
the university, In Munich ..,..
dents are matIioulatcd tuls .
semester, of which number $3.50.
granted leave of ahscucc 90 ...
thc army or sanitary corps.
ThuSf far the mortality ifn.Hg
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facing the "Ouvrage Blanc" Then ]
take two men and crawl 10 the left OF
the Courage Blanc and about thirty
meters back OF II.
In the dark it Is hard to tell the ma
ture OF the works, but 1t looms up very
impressive. ! can see the parapet OF q
trench that runs into il at right angles
We h crawl slowly To the right. now
right up the trench, and very slowly
ana carefully We pur our heads over
and look. Nothing to be seen.
We listen intently. Nothing To be
heard.
| take my automatic in my teeth and
slowly lower myself into the trench. II
IL not deep, only about one-haIf meter
and is evidently Just "A beginning.
send one man back for the corporal and
the ten remaining men, and when they
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arrive place them in the trench. some
facing the woods on our right and others
facing the Forth or our left and slightly
In the rear.
explore the trench down 10 the
courage Blanc which I find is merely
n pile OF white chalk rock presenting a
surface ~ about eight meters high and
twenty meters long, and is probably the
beginning Of another Forth. Also I
follow the trench to the bar wire of the
Forth until l can see two German SEN
tries.
! return 10 the men and have begun
giving orders to descend, when one man
Judges me n points to the woods.
There, near the woods but moving
toward rs, ! see a group of men march
ing cdrelcSsly. talking loudly about some
affairs from home. There are about
twelve Of them.
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wounded Captains HeroIsm.

These letters, written spontaneously,
give one a clear idea of the hcroism of
both officers n men which is n char
acteristic feature of the present war and
is taken quite as a matter OF course. \
soldier writes as follows about his Can
ain
w had advanced very cautiously up
the slopes of a mountain, and we knew
that the Austrians We're strongly in
trenChed m the other side, When we
reached the top our Captain, who was in
front. ordered US to rush the trench and
led us ON, shouting. viva rltalia - We
threw ourselves on the ground , and
started to cut the entanglements, while
the Austrians, completely taken by sur
prise, bolted, but rallied after a short
while and opened fire upon us.
THE captain remained standing, en-
couraGing us tn make haste and charge
the enemy, and continued shouting viva
iltalia He WAS first wounded i'm the
leg and sank on his knees, hut kept ON
shouting, Again he was wounded I'm the
hip and fell down. but he still continued
Ia Yell viva ritalia' At IN, m, my hoys,
Don't you mind me We took the posi.
ton and the Captains voice was still
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~ SERGEANT MORLAC.

The scene IL the terrain between the
French and German lines at c,
where the distance separating the two
lines IL from zoo to 500 meters. From
our lines a hillside stretches upward tn
n height Of 22O meters. on the very top
are the German lines in the shape OF a
reversed V. the left point Of which is n
very strong defensive position. built
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upon a rocky prom
ontory. while the
right shank OF the
" Is known as the
F'lytrap. Between
these two n is
"a plateau about
500 meters wide,
covered by a little
wood not over $50
meters in extent
each way.
The hillside Ia
rough. cut up In
all directions by
German
trenches. studded
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NIGHT ON PATROL IS
FUN FOR AMERICANS
Sergt. MOrlac and Comrades
Enjoy Experience, Despite
Its TerrOrs.
HAVE BRUSH WITH ENEMY
Special Correspondence 10 THr srS.

'VtV'WT VT''"PV""'"'' To NV ~"
PARIS. Aug. 2O.-Sergt. Morlac. with
the Americans in the Foreign Legion.
sends an interesting account Of his own
experiences at the head Of a night scout
patrol which went out TO r~econnoitre the
German advance lines. The difficulties
and dangers OF night reconnaissance are
here wildly pictured. Morlac's account
fnIlnua.
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Glad Of AssIgnment.

Yet as I read the order all the way
through I feel a little tickled. ] am
given a "Patrouille de Combat which
would ordinarily be commanded by a
Lieutenant. ! am ordered TO AXE eigh-
teen men. two corporals and one SER
geant and reconnoltre the famous 'Ou-
vraye Blanc" situated on the top of the
hill between the Forth" and the Fly
trip.
Returning TO the trench | break the
news 10 my section. The only response
| get Is groans and curses. Much
against their will | arouse the men /
want out Of the blankets, muster them
at the foot of the hill and give them
their instructions and the password.
The night is rather dark the noon,
at the half, is constantly hidden by fly
ing clouds. \ sharp breeze IL blowing
directly from the German position into
our faces. a very favorable night.
The patrol proceeds, arm a la bre-
telle, past the front trench, through the
village and enter the communication
trench leading to the "tranchee du
nord," our most advanced post, mounted
during the night only. Here / again
form the men in a circle. and in a low
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80
lined with rows and clumps of brush
and groups Of trees. The terrain IL
called upon the maps OF the Fiat
Major Secteur No. 3.
We ave lust row been relieved by
Battalion ID from the petit posts in
from Of our main line. nave arrived at
the reserve trenches. 200 meters back
OF the front line n are expecting n
whole nights rest. Ii Ii s i. NJ, mus
ter is over and the candles are getting
fewer and fewer. Zinn IS already snor-
Ing.
| arrange my mutton skin. get my
blanket OF the rack and am in the act
of loosening my shoestrings a little
when some one sticks his head into the
trench and yells, Sergeant Morlac, Ser
geant Morlac, the Captain anti YOU
out ! fly and at the heels OF the or
derby. descend the hill and enter the
Captains d%ougout. salute,
The Captain. without saying a word.
hands me. a paper to read.
| glance at the heading and feel a
little weak at the stomach. No rest
for me tonight. 1t is an order for a
patrol and signed by the Colonel at
that.
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A Sian Of Rain.

An east side girl says she has come
upon an infallible weather indicator.
She can tell if it is going to rain with
out ven glancing at the sky or cast
ing her eyes over the weather fore
casts in the daily papers. And it's the
simplest thing in the world-just the
disappearance of all umbrellas in sight.
"Umbrellas are perfectly safe in our
office up to twenty-four hours before a
storm" said she. explaining. "You
can leave them anywhere. Even the
pearl and gold handled ones are i'm
mune from abstraction. Indeed. one
can hardly chase them away. So If I
want to know the weather for a day
ahead l must glance at the umbrella
racks. If I find them becoming empty
I make a bee line for the best rain
shade Of those that are left and make
all other necessary plans for RAIN
Columbus Dispatch. ~
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STRUGGLES OF AN ARTIST.
Story Of tho Peasant Painter MilIet and
"The AngeIus."

Tho AnseIus."
1t was only after long years Of strug-
gle and dire poverty, through which
Milet was consoled and supported by
his wife. that the peasant painter was
able to take the three roomed cottage
at Barbizon aid "try to do something
really good"
1t was then that he began to paint
that most beautiful poem Of poverty,
1.-THE Angelus," which is today one of
the most valuable pictures In the world.
Again and again he threw aside the
picture in despair Of ever finishing it
to his satisfaction, and as often his
wife replaced it on the easel and in
duced him to continue.
On one occasion he vas SO incensed
at not being able to produce a certain
effect that he seized q knife and would
have destroyed the canvas and ended
the matter once for all had not his wife
fortunately seized his hand and in
duced him to give the picture another
trial.
Thus it vas that ut last 1.-THE An
gelus" found a place on the walls Of
| the Louvre. The success it won en-
couraged Millet to paint many more
pictures and thus place himself among
the immortals in art.
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LIFE AMD LONGEVITY.
Simply Prolonsins Ones Days on Earth
10 Not Real Living.

10 Not Real Living. II,
What really constitutes life? Is it
action. or is it merely existence?
Who is the more useful, the man who
gives his all in energy to service or he
who conserves his forces and thereby
prolongs his days? He lives most who
accomplishes most. Activity in useful,
productive or constructive effort is the
real test of life. Length OF years may
content some, but restless, energetic
souls will press forward, regardless of
time. striving for a goal they may new
er attain. but always. striving. and
these only really live.
Life insurance presidents, being in
terested in the p%rolongation Of exist
ence of risks, bend their efforts to the
teaching Of elements of living, the
avoidance Of excesses, exposures or
unnecessary risks of any kind and in
this way really serve the world be-
cause they increase the productive
years Of man
As a result of modern methods man
really lives longer and better. but this
is not the all in all of life. To live is
to be active, to have a part in the Gre
alive effort of mankind, regardless Of
whether the span be long or short, so
long as it is busy, for "an end is an
end. whether it cometh on the winged
heels of a week or the dull stretch Of a
century."-Omaha Bee.
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Scene PAINTING.

In the past halt century and more,
especially since the Improvement of the
electric light, scene Sainting has be-
come very elaborate aid very expen-
sive. Instead Of being kept In Its
proper place as the decoration Of the
drama, as a beautiful accessory of the
action. it has often been pushed to the
front, so as to attract attention to it.
self and thereby to distract attention
from the play which it was supposed
to illuminate. Shakespeare has been
smothered in scenery, and the art of
the actor has been subordinated to the
art Of the scene painter.-Brander Mat
thews in Scribner's Magazine.
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FARM THAT WAS
!: MADE TO PAY
,

A significant instance of what pro-
per methods Of farm management can
accomplish is afforded by a certain
500-acre farm in Central Michigan.
For ten years this farm failed to pay
interest on the capital invested. One
year after the owners had
been induced to make certain radical
changes the farm paid all the expenses
Of operation and returned a S per cent
on an investment of 100000. The
changes which accomplished this fl
nancial revolution were as follows:
/. Four horse machinery was sub
stituted for 2-horse.
2. The improbable cows in the
dairy were weeded out and sold and
the money received for them invested
II better stock.
3, A silo was built,
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SnaIlinu,

Phonetic spelling was evidently In
fashion in the sixteenth century, when
even Shakespeare could not spell his
own name consistently. There Is a let
ter dug from the correspondence of a
lady Of the sixteenth century in the
book Of the "Cotswold Family"-the
Hicks Beaches. Juliana writes-it is
q matter of debt between the cautious
widow and My lord a Kalder"-"My
lord Ammaril and your wife l honour
and love. but your false swearing and
promise l hoterle a PORE" What she
really meant was utterly abhor."-
London Telegraph.
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!. How Sha Looked.

Il lost a dollar at the matinee this
afternoon" remarked the feshy wo-
man to her husband, land I never was
SO angry in my life
"How'd it happen?" asked the man
II dropped it In the AISLE" she an
swered shortly, land l looked for it.
That's all l could do"
"Did you look goodf" persisted 1e
head of the house.
did l look good!' shrilled the wom-
an, really angry now. II looked as
good as a fat woman crawling around
on all tours eve does."-Collier's
Weekly.
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The foreman was allowed, in ad-

4. The foreman was allowed, in adj
dition to his salary, 10 per cent of the
net income from the farm. The ex
penses Of operating the farm, but not
the interest on the capital, We're de-
Quoted from the income before the
formean received his percentage.
1t was this last suggestion which
met with the most opposition from the
owners Of the farm, but when it was
pointed out to them that every dollar
the foreman got under such an ar
rangement they would got 80 they
yielded.
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Mr.. and Mrs. la Webster of Spo-
kane, Washington, have been spending
some time visiting Ramsey county
friends. They were formerly resi-
dents of this county, having located in
Odessa township in the early eighties
and farmed there until a few years
ago when they moved west and retir-
ed. Mr.. Webster still owns his fine
farm and comes here each year to look
after his interests.
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Simply Fooled Him,

Il understand he let you in on . get
rich quick scheme"
"No. Do you suppose I would be an
cry at him for that?"
"Then what was it,"
HE made me think 1t was a get rich
quick scheme, but It wasn't"-Hous-
ton Post.
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Fifty-ffty.

links gives his wife half his salary
every week."
"And what becomes Of the other
half?"
"she still has to get that In the old
way-out of the pockets OF his trou-
eers."-Richmond Times Dispatch.
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Truthfulness consists less In stating
true facts than in conveying . true
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Quite a Difference.

ibid l understand you to say the
woman Dubbins married is well orr
mo she Observation-Disclosures Age
Herald.
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It Is an aboninable thing for . wan
b commend himself.-Sterne.
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Tho Uncomfortable Part.

HAS Brown a comfortable lncome1'
Large. but not comfortable! His
wife knows just how much it Ia
Puck.