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Brother Jonathan.

S6R RoTHER JONATHAN" the term
~ sometimes applied to the United
States. especially by Englishmen, was
derived from Jonathan Trumbull, Gov
ernor of Connecticut from 1863 to 1884,
Washington highly esteemer his jude-
ment, and all who came in contact with
Irumbull learned to love the wise gov
ernor. Let us see what Brother Jona-
than says" was reported to have been
Washington's usual remark in matters
of doubt
During the winter of 17so-s1 some
OF the troops of our French allies win
tered at Lebanon, Conn, where Gov.
Trumbull resided Their commander,
the Duke of Lauzun, was quartered at
the house of the governors son. David.
In return for the courtesies extended
to him by the citizens of the town. the
duke gave brilliant receptions. Upon
one of these occasions, a dinner given
in honor of two distinguished French
visitors, the grave and ceremonious
governor was present. dressed in the
peculiar style of his Puritan ancestors.
spirited. laughter-loving French Of
ficers, most of them disciples of Vol
taire.
Yet the governor. true to his con-
viction and his custom, pronounced in
a loud tone long grace" Such were
his solemntty of manner and his evil
dent sincerity that the Frenchmen, to
all of whom grace" was a soleclsm,
responded with Amen
Once in the Lebanon meeting house
the minister announced that a collec-
ton would be taken for the soldiers.
Faith Trumbull, the governors wife,
arose from her seat and taking from
her shoulders magnificent scarlet
cloak. a present from Count Rocham-
beau, the n-chief of the
French army. advanced to the pulpit
and laid il on the communion table.
II was afterward cut into strips and
used to trim the soldiers uniforms.
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Ian Company
IMPERIAL GERMANY, And the Indus
trial Revolution. BY Thorstein
Neblen,. author of THE Instinct of
Workmanship" etc. New York: The
Macmillan Company
HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF BIBLE
LANDS, A Manual for Teachers.
With fourteen maps. By Richard
Morse Hodge, NJ. A. D. D.. lecturer
In biblical literature. extension
teaching. Columbia University. New
York. New York: Charles Scrtbners
Sons.
THE VALE OF SHADOWS: And Other
ton Scollard. New York: Laurence
j. CONNIE.
AUNT SARAH AND THE WAR; A Tale
of Transformations. New York:
g. P. Putnam's Sons.
THE BIBLES MESSAGE TO MODERN
LIFE-THE TESTING OF 4 Ma
TION'S IDEALS: lsraers History
from the Settlement to the Assyrtan
Period. By Charles Foster Kent, PHI.
D., Lit. D.. and jeremiah Whipple
Jenks. Phi. D., LII. d. New York
Charles Scribner's Sons.
HOW TO STUDY THE OLD TESLA
MENT. BY Frank Knight Sanders.
Phi D.. q. D.. and Henry A, Sherman.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
THE LIGHT FEET OF GOATS, Poems.
BY Shaemas o. Sheel New York
Laurence J. Gomme.
THE ELEMENTS OF MILITARY NY
GIENE; Especially Arranged for
Ohicers and Men of the Line. BY P.
NJ. Ashburn. major, Medical Corps.
l. S. Army. Boston: Houghton
Miff1in Company.
HOW 1T FEELS TO BE THE HUs-
BAND OF 4 SUFFRAGETTE. By
Him. Illustrations by May Wilson
Preston. New York: George H.
Doran Company.
ARE WOMEN PEOPLEf A Book Of
Rhymes for Suffrage Times. BY
Alice Duer Miller. author Of Blue
Arch" etc. New York: George H.
Doran Company.
RAIROAD ACCOUNTING. BY William
E. Hooper. New York: D. Apple
ton & Co.
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Pollock and Prof Maitland. hold that it
was epochal in that it forced upon a
king a limitation of his powers and
recognition that the law was superior
to the monarch. Limited monarchy may
not date from Magma Charta, though it
gave great force to the idea. for the
laws under the Confessor were supreme
in the land, and the charter of Henry
supplied much of the substance of the
charter.
OF all the names associated with the
event of Runnymede none is more fa-
nous than that of Stephen Langton,
Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury
at that time. He was a scholar and
statesman of English birth and French
training, and writer has said of him
that it was he, endowed with a pro-
phetic love of democratic liberty. pos
sessed of wisdom and courage of high
order and confronted by a golden op
portunity. who forced John to take the
oath to support the laws of the Con-
fessor: who recalled to the barons the
almost forgotten charter of Henry l:
who directed the form of the great
charter itself, and who led the popular
movement to enforce its acceptance by
the baff1ed king"
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ly to hold the positions gained. against
tremendous bomba rdments with shrap-
mel, interspersed with violent counter
attacks of German infantry
The heat in that deep, breathless cut
ting was overpowering. Everywhere
little pools of blood lay drying in the
dust. A great, indescribably disgust
ing smell pervaded the place. 1t was
a mixture of dirty. sweating human
bodies. fresh blood and the stencil of
that battlefield tramped back to the
road on the boots of the stretcher
bearers
! became dizzy and sick After a
while the sergeant major noticed my
condition. He proved a decent sort. for
he loaded me on the seat of an ambu-
lance and told me to get back to head
quarters. / thanked him and clung to
the side Of the ambulance, leaning out
ward like a seasick passenger at a
ships rail, while the machine tore its
way back to the dressing sta ton a mile
or SO back of the line.
At the door of the dressing station
We deposited our cargo of shattered
humanity. / got a glimpse of long
rows Of cots and tables and men at
work in aprons that had been white
but were now as red as the bare, drip
ping arms that handled the instru-
ments.
Copyright, 1918. by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc, !,
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play crowd the story. little love
story runs along beside the big adven-
ture. This romance of the southwest
has two heroes. One is a hobo. The
other is dog. And both acquit them
selves in a fashion to make abundantly
good the authors high claims for
them The wild west has, perhaps. been
somewhat overdone in popular fiction.
Be that AS it may one must give this
story credit for fair share of fresh
interest and a new turn to the sum
of its incidents and scenes.
THE CHURCH. BY John Huss. Trans
lated. with notes and Introduction.
by David s Schaff. d D., professor
of church history, the Western The
illogical Seminary. New York.
Charles ScribnerS s Sons. Washing
ton: Woodward 6 Lothrop
1.-THE Church" stands as the most i'm
portant and celebrated of the writings
of John Huss of Bohemia. the famous
preacher and patriot who was the sole
contributor of his own country to the
progress of the religious thoughts of
his day. In this treatise Huss examines
the great questions that stirred and
divided the church al that time. With
rema rkable Independence and courage
he here states his opinions and beliefs
in relation to these questions. 1t is
from this famous document that the
Council of Constance drew its charges
against Huss sentenced him as a her
etc and burnt him at the stake just
500 years ago the sixth of next month.
An introduction by DR. SchaT outlines
the life of John Huss. and makes a
brief critical estimate of his work and
influence. This is the first translation
into English of this famous treatise,
which serves to complement and
round out the life of Huss already pub
lished by DR.. Schaff.
THE STARS AND STRIPES: From
Washington to Wilson. i.77-f914.
BY Charles w. Stewart. superin-
tended library and naval war rec
ords. Washington: The Navy Pub
fishing Company
In this little volume the history of
the flag is traced in simple narrative
style. accompanied by excellent Illus
trations and many facts regarding the
Stars and Stripes not generally known
To the authoritative value of the text
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are added full ll-page Photographic por-
traits of President Wilson, who is ac-
corded the honor of the fronttspiece:
Washington. John Paul Jones and Ad-
miral Dewey. The author has con-
densed an immense amount of informa =
ton in a small space and. together
with every tact connected with the
history of the American standard. cites
the national life of the flags of for
eign nations to show that the Stars and
Stripes is one of the very old national
flags of the world. The resolution and
procla nation requiring Mothers day
to be observed by display of the
flag is given in full. and FOR children
cutting out five-point star with one
snip of the shears. An appendix con :
tributes patriotic songs and bugle calls
which are associated with the Stars
and Stripes, and in his preface Mr..
Stewart touches realistically upon
political conditions following the rev
olutionary war and closes with a plea
for the flag as the symbol of the
Constitution
THE DOUBLE TRAITOR. BY f. Phil
lips Oppenheim, author of Mr.. Grex
of Monte Carlo" etc. Illustra ed
Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
With his usual timeliness. Mr. Op-
penheim has in this tale gripped the
European situation, regarding the pos
sibility of which he has frequently in
his past works suggested. This story
has to do chiefly with the machina-
tions of German spies in London, the
chief of whom poses as an innocent
crockery manufacturer with an agency
at the British capital a young Eng
lish diplomatic attache. suddenly
brought under official displeasure be-
cause of an impulsive action in Berlin,
is seemingly drawn into the coil of this
enterprise. He performs sundry serv-
ices for the chief spy and is present
on the occasion of the engaging of the
Balkan fanatic to kill the Austrian
grand duke at Serajevo. For. according
to Mr.. Oppenheim narrative, that
crime was arranged by German agents
to precipitate the war. A vivid picture
is drawn of conditions in London just
before the outbreak of hostilities, and
some interesting personages of note
are indicated in the characters.
FIVE FRIDAYS. BY Frank r. Adam
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Illustrated by Frank Goodwin. Bos-
ton: Small MAYNARD & Co.

Like the characters in a stage farce
the various ones who people these
amusing pages assemble unexpectedly
and startlingly on an island some
where-ir would seem from the text
in the Great Lakes-ard these go
through some amazing experiences. 1t
all starts with the whirnsy of Lucille.
who is much given to feds. for a week
of fasting as a means of insuring
mental and bodily health. OF course,
Luciles young man, who is the story
teller, must agree. though it is far
from his notion of a summers week of
enjoyment to go without food. .adven-
lures and eXcitementS come thick and
fast and before the week of Self-de-
NAL is over all is Strengthened out
again. This is a clever story. well told
and entertaining, and it Is OF more than
usual interest here because of the IL
Illustrations by MIR. Goodwin. a former
resident of Washington.
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zation falls away utterly. The tribal
relation revives and civilization falls
back into another one of its many be-
sinnings. The story urfolds on the
Pacific coast. Its characters are an
old "granser' and his wild and unclad
grandsons, to whom. in mumbling 6
phrase, he tells what he can remember
of the monstrous cataclysm wrought
by the scarlet plague" The story is
not picturesque. 1t is not romantic
nor is it poetic. 1t has not the color OF
science to point the course of this re-
version. About all that one is able to
say for it is that it is a bizarre and
fantastic sport of this virile writer's
imagination.
OPEN MARKET. BY Josephine Das-
kan Bacon, author of To-day s
Daughter" etc. Illustrated by A.
l. Keller New York: D. Appleton
4 Co.
This is the matrimonial market
When handsome Evelyn Jaffray was
much to everyhody's surprise. cut off
from what had seemed perfectly as
sured expectations. she promptly turn
ed her invention and energies to the
business of finding a purchaser of her
self. The kind of husband that she
found. the circumstances surrounding
him, the form of the transaction have
no place III plpJd pliilS no pl'tCt any
where outside of pure sensationalism.
However. having forced this unbeliev-
able event, Mrs. Daskam uses it as the
basis of story wherein her skill to a
degree obScures this initial abSurdity.
Beyond this point romance of con-
siderable general interest develops,
one even that contains many points of
strength and a good proportion of
clever and ingenious writing.
NDOWN SLIM. BY Henry Herbert
knihbs. author of Overland Red
Illustrations by Anton Fischer. Bos-
ton: Houghton Mitfiin Company.
This is the story of an Arizona feud.
On the one hand is a group of COW
punchers. Off against them is a band
of sheep herders. Adventures. cram
med with danger and daring. fall over
one another in their pell-mell race for
possession of the one water hole of
this parched region. Audacious plot
and counterplot, feats of skill and
courage, and perfect wizardy of gun
Evening star., 1915-06-27
ROAD OF THE PRESIDENTS

, flee forgotten in his thirst for a sight
of the farm.
| a Washington man. Jimmy Caperton.
and a Confederate soldier were stroll
| ing along below Tenleytown, when they
met soldierly looking man on horse
ok. who stopped them to ask. where
We're you when the war ended%"
! I'VE were with Lee when he
| rendered to old Grant" they replied.
Passing on, they inquired and found
/ the stranger on horseback was Cen
| Grant. then President of the United
States. That night they went to a
| theater in Washington and there in the
| Presidents box sat the stern looking
| man who had spoken to them on the
road.
Looking around through opera glasses,
! President Grants glance fell on the two
| Confcderates, and, calling an orderly
! he showed him the men, telling him to
| bring them to his box. Not knowing
| what to expect after the mornings ex-
| perience, the two went and received a
! cordial reception. Opera glasses, cigars
| and a hearty welcome met these fol-
| lowers of Gen. Lee. who had sur
rendered to old Grant"
| Thus the stories run. until they come
| down to our day, when Theodore Roose-
I welt is the man the River road swears
| by because he chose it when it was
rough and unattractive.
kinder lonesome around here since
, Mr.. Roosevelt left" an old man COM
planned. Il used to put my chair in the
| road and watch for him to pass. Moth
| ing doing of n Sunday now"
| one little girl tells of how Roosevelt
| stopped her on the way to her grand
| mothers and asked where she went to
| school When he found she could not
| afford the tax the District puts on
| Maryland school children. he paid it
| himself. saying: That little girl must
| have an education"
| Again IL is "A man who tells of how
one day, being a little the worse for
| fitting the bottle" he took a gun to
shoot the President for trespassing.
! Roosevelt stopped the secret service
| man in the act of arresting his assail-
| ant. laughingly saying: Hes all
right"
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most at our feet, was what wetook for
small portion of him. At least. that
part of the thing which looked like
cloth. looked also much like a coat
sleeve.
The other cook a'd ! looked at one
another and without moments hesi-
tation sprinted back down the trench
toward the rear. The ditch became a
tunnel and dipped down on a deep sla mt
for few yards, and then spilled us
pell-mell into a sunken roadway,
swarmng with motor ambulances,
mounted officers and long lines of in
fantry reserves.
Protecting the road from fire. the
banks of the cutting rose sheer to a
height of thirty feet or more. Ladder
like steps ran up the bank every few
yards. and we could see that the upper
edge had been niched in many places
for observation stations and machine
gun positions. The bank on the other
side of the road was lower and less
steep, and back Of it. mounted on rest
less. sweat-lathered horses, rode a
group of officers surrounding one whose
red banded cap with its gold edged vi
sor bespoke the rank of brigadier gen
era1
Overhead shells still shrieked and
burst, and it was apparent from the
great caution shown by the observers
on the crest of the high, or weather
bank that the air vas still alive with
smaller missiles. But down in the cut
ting il was comparatively safe and
q side from the immense relief of min
CLING with hundreds of more or less
calm fellow beings, the change from
our precariouS position In the more ad-
vanced communicating trench was
most welcome TO me--and the remain
ing cook
For cheering relaxation + stood close
TO the driver of one of the ambulances
He had removed the hood of his en-
gines and was working away at it's in
ternal economy with disgust and an
ger, pausing now and then to smear
the sweat from his brow with black
and greasy hands and emit yard upon
yard of picturesque profanity. Sc
brilliant was his verbal performance
that little group of r. A. NJ G.
stretcher bearers, waiting until they
should be sent out to collect the
wounded. gathered about in admiration
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Washington Man Tells Aiding Injured While Battle
Roadway Swaned With Wounded
Dressing Stahon in Ambulance.

oblivion. but shrieked or moaned. or
whimpered like a child. It is the nerv-
Gus shock of contact with bullet or
shell fragment, as much as the agony
of the wound itself. that turns these
strong. virile men into pitiful, whining,
historical objects.
This first man brought in. for in
stance. had been hit twice. bullet
wound through the shoulder and shell
fragment in the hip, shatterins the
joint and giving exquisite pain. His
nerve was completely gone, as well it
should be. and as I helped slide him
into the ambulance his howls. impre-
cations and cries chilled my blood and
weakened my knees.
Then they began to come in by doz-
ems. by scores, by hundreds For two
hours there was never a moment when
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our ears were not pierced with the an.
guished cries of some poor lad.
There was man-and his startled
eyes looked straight into mine as we
slipped him into the mbulance-whose
whole lower jaw had been shot away
His face ended at his mustache, the
carefully waxed ends of which still
marked him as one of those good-na-
tured. staggering Tommies. fond OF
walking out" with the ladies. ! Won
der if he'll ever find any one to walk
OUT with him again.
A hundred such horrors marked my
work in that terrible gully. Altogeth-
er | must have helped handle more
than 200 wounded and seen at least
1000 taken away. And all the while,
a few hundred yards off. the survivors
Of that charge We're battling desperate
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE JEALOUS GODDESS. BY A1adge
Mears New York: John Lane Com
pany.
NATURE AND SCIENCE on THE pa
CIFIC COAST; 4 GuidebOok for
Scientific Travellers in the West.
Edited under the auspices of the
Pacific coast committee of the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science. illustrated
with nineteen text figures, twenty
nine half-tone plates and fourteen
maps San Francisco: Paul Elder &
Co.
THE HOUSEkEEPER'S HANDBOOK
OF CLEANING. BY Sarah j. Mac
Leod, instructor in care of house
School of Household Science and
Arts, Pratt Institute. Illustrated.
New York: Harper & Bros.
THE SORROWS OF BELGIUM; A
Play In Six Scenes. BY Leonid An
dreyev. author of "Anathema" etc.
Authorized translation by Herman
Evening star., 1915-06-27
Making Hair Fabrics.

TT HE making of hair fabrics is an I'm.
portant and growing industry. All
kinds of hair and f1bers are used. Dur
ing the process that is to render them
fabrics the hair or other material is
paste Is run through ar artificial silk
spinner and drawn from the spinner IN
threads. Certain of these threads are
of a yard or more in length. They can
be braided or woven like artificial
horsehair. Hair composition of su-
perior quality is kept for the manufao-
ture of wigs and braida
Evening star., 1915-06-27
A Strategist.

s6sr HE greatest strategist of the
present war" said Simeon Ford
at a banquet in New York, lis Marshal
vop' Hindenburg. But Hindenburg him.
self is nothing to a chap 1 know in
Orange.
Ford, got his salary raised a year
ago and his wife hasn't found 1t out
yet"
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| dlgious performance.
AN AMERICAN FRUIT FARM: It's
| Selection and Management for
Newton Thorpe. member of the
State Horticultural Association of
| Pennsylvania. illustrated. New
York: q. +. PutnaIn's Sons
| This is full and painstaking account
| of more than twenty-five years of sue
| cessful fruit-farmng in northern
| Pennsylvania on the shore of Lake
Erie. 1t is. above all detailed rec
ord of experience in this business. The
author gives directions and suggestions
about selecting fruit farm and feed
ing the land for such a use. well
as specific instructions for planting
and cultivating it. Nor does he become
so enSrossed in the large features of
the enterprise that he forgets its i'm
portant side issues. in this latter con-
nection he discusses The Fruit Farm
and the Young Folks "The Fruit
Farm and Old Age and Getting Along
| With Help. fine body of home
grown experience. supported by many
observations both in this country and
Europe. make up the main substance
of this volume Its author is much
more than a farmer. He is also q man
of reading and thought and reflection
These he brings to bear upon the study
animating it with an effect of drama
and touching il here and there with
pltnts of poetry. 1t is conspicuously
and thoroughly useful study to those
interested in the subject. And to the
general reader with leanings to the
life and pursuits of the open field it
is book of broad and attractive in
formation.
THE SCARLET PLAGUE. BY Jack
London. author of The Cali of the
Wild" etc. Illustrated by Gordon
Grant New York: The Macmillan
Company.
To serve the purposes of this fantas-
tic invention. Mr. London moves the
world on to the year 200o. In the early
part of this eighty -fve-year lapse he
moreover sweeps the earth with d
plague that leaves but a handful of
people under whom our present civili-
Evening star., 1915-06-27
BY E. RICHARD scHAYER
,ial Correspondence of The star.

BAILLEUL. France. May 4, 1915
- 7Y last letter described the be-
lMMl ginning of charge from the
H\VIl British trenches and closed
= W. with a picture of myself,
hugging the walls of communicating
trench and watching the troops pour
by to take up the assault, launched by
a few hundred Cameronian Highland
ers and battalion of Ghurkas.
For more than half an hour the
trench was filed with the lines of
khaki, going forward with bayonets
fixed to spring out of the forward
trench and hurl themselves onward
through that driving sheet of flying
steel Then the passing of troops
ceased and there was nothing alive in
that ditch except two reginlental cooks
and myself. Above and about us the
air and earth were shattered with the
Shrek, explosion and impact of various
metal objects made in Germany"
*
Conversation was impossible. Nor
was there anything to say. I know if
l had permitted any sound to escap ape
my clamped jaws it would have been
q nO"l OF terror anu d pray tI loI Htlp
The concussion of high explosive
shells, even at considerable distance.
shook the walls of the trench until
they streamed necessarily with trick
les of dirt and gravel. Overhead
shrapnef howled and burst with an
angry "whang'" A constant stream of
bullets "ping-ee-e-d" through the air.
Every now and then the terrific eX-
plosion of a German shell near at hand
showered US with fine dirt and bits
of rock.
! had just made up my mind to get
away from there when one of the two
cooks gave yell and started running
down the trench toward the dugout
leading to the firing line. I don't know
what started him off. Perhaps it was
one Of those undefinab BILE lunches
that come over a man at such times
TO get away from the spot on which
he is standing. If SO, it was a treach-
erous bunch. For even the cook
reached the Zig-zag turn that would
AXE him out of our sight somethin :,
happened.
I saw him throw up both arms and
disappear in a terrific cloud of earth
smoke and what-not. The blast from
the explosion knocked the other cook
and myself from our feet. Staggering
up, We looked back at the thinning
dust and smoke cloud. Where the cook
had stopped running was an impaSse
Both walls of the trench had fallen in
completely blocking the passageway )
ard bufving the greater part of the
cook under tons of earth and rock.
say the greater part because, lying al