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earth as they stumble along in the
da rkness. Some of the outfits never
rea ch the town.
Down there the reserves are comm E
up in compact mass. They keep to
the right of the road for there is more
protection from the Shrapnel breakin 6
over The town. The returning equip
ment train passes by on the other side.
while other wagons bringing up fresh
supplies take the middle The bran
cardiers. pushing the wounded into
town-they are now coming down in
great mum bers-get through some way.
The dressing stations of the various
regiments along the street are taxed.
Rows of shriekins. moaning men lie
on the floor. Excited branca riders run
about binding wounds, atfiXing tags and
admin istering coffee or water. little
at a time. while the wounded cry out in
their agony.
Steadily they are taken out packed
carried back, while others return from
the hospitals III the rear and fill their
places. The last ambulance has been
sent for except two reserved at the
base town in case of bomba rdment. and
everybody works at white heat.
1t is the same at al the stations long
the road. Comrades lying side by side
give little means. 1t is hard to stop
the blood. The floor is sloppy vita ii,
and the saggins canvas OF the stretch
ers fills with it. One can the men
paling from loss of blood as they stand
there.
When the men die while their wounds
are being dressed they taken
some here ont OF the way. As the
ambulances arrive in the town of the
hospitals. some seven miles back. the
bodies of those who have died in the
cars during the ride down through the
blackness are showed away into cor
ner until time can be given to their
disposal. Here and there are numbers
of dead lying disfsured and mangled.
With last strength some of these fell
lows have torn their clothes and pulled
away the bandages.
The shaken nerves of the wounded,
who after months of the terrific strain
of hoping for the best. to be slightly
hurt. now realize the terrible reality
of lives crushed forever. go to pieces.
They say frightful and incoherent
things. The troops going by on their
way up see the stream of mangled
things coming down from the direction
of the ghostly glare over on the hill
and shudder. for they are young men
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-20
USE FOR TOBACCO STEMS

6sT coSoM1Es in the tobacco BUSH
ness are carried to as fine a
60 point as in the other big and
successful industries said a man
identified with that line of trade.
Economics are of especial Importance
in the tobacco business. where so many
of the sales are of amounts Of only a
few cents Small economies make a
gigantic aggregate of saving. and the
tobacco manufacturers have carried the
efficiency of their plants to such a de-
sense that any tobacco or any part Of
a tobacco leaf is not utilized.
Take the matter of the stem. or the
rib of the leaf, in the big cigar fac
tories There was time when no use
could be found for it. Then some man
hit on the idea Of grinding the stems
to dust for use as an insecticide. and
that opened useful field for what
hitherto had been factory waste
and using this infusion to .saturate
leaves and other things that were not
tobacco. so that they had the taste and
effect of tobacco and were probably
sold as tobacco or as adulterants of
tobacco.
THE commercial value of tobacco
stems is we'll established today One
of the largest cigar making plants in
the United States bales the stems and
there is a ready market for them. our
understanding being that the stems
are thoroughly softened by steaming.
are then rolled out so that each piece
of stem is as fiat and thin as a piece
of leaf tobacco. and that they are then
cut up after the fashion of cut plug
for smoking tobacco. They are not sold
outright as plug-cut smoking tobacco.
but the treated and manipulated stems
are used as filler. or an adultsrant
for smoking tobacco of the very cheap
est kind. Cheap tobacco suitable for
making into pipe tobacco of a very in.r
ferior grade may be bought for s or 8
cents a pound. but the stems can be
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natural machine of Imagination.
Ir pounds on the ears, eyes, face:
everything shoots through the head
and benumbs the senses. The soldiers
standing around awaiting orders feel
q sort of citation, mighty sense OF
projection. as the roar OF the guns
continues.
Evening comes-1sn aud the lombard
ment goes on The Germans reply
to the fire and try to exterminate
the men in the first trenches. know
ing that hundreds are gathered there
ready to spring out at the finish of the
BON bardment. Come orders for more
men to fill the places of those spiat-
tered OUT Of existence.
The road now far back as the
eye can reach is packed with troops
the march up. There are wagons
of every description. numbering motor
trucks jog by, sta # cars filled with offl-
GERS rush past. motor cycles and the
irou-Wheeled ammunition transports
rushing up more shells to the bat
teries skid along behind long teams
of painting mad steeds dashins along
with the fury of .overeXertion.
To prevent the supplies from reach
ing their destination the German guns
now spout death over every part of
the road The Americans by their
cars crouch low shells burst about
them. In turn they answer calls that
begin to come in. picking up wounded
here and there and rushing back to
the dressing station. The wounded
from the trenches have not yet been
brought down. The fire is too hot.
Night comes on, and still the bonn
bardment continues. Then, sudden
j. as it began, it stops. A stray re-
sounding report here and there, fol-
lowed by the muffied explosions OF tn"
shells bursting on the hill. and for A
few GREATNESS seconds there is no
sound. Oue.catches ones breath from
irving to listen.
Then through the heavy. choking air
comes a new blast Of sound, Sha rp
countless reports of bursting grenades
and Il din of thousands of tick
tacks German rifles and scores of
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machine guns wither away the French
ranks as the crack men of the iron
DIVISION spring from the first line
ana. with the bayonets fixed on their
flneS. charge across.
The distance is Unfortunately long
seventy yards, perhaps. and it seems
AS though it can never be covered
fheE fall in heaps. while those behind
stumble on and also fall Their dis
'orted and yet eNpressionless faces
glare of the scores of rockets. These
are the men from Paris and Lorraine
the best soldiers in France. doctors.
lawyers. school teachers.
The French artillery again opens up.
1t is mostly the 10 guns now. because
accurate range is imperative. In eff
forts to finish the men at the machine
guns in the German trenches shoot
ing from the batteries at least mile
back must be good. There are only a
few feet to spare now, for the French
are in the barned wire before the Ger
man trenches. already scattered by
the previous fire
The German artillery also opens up
and the soldiers face wall of fire a s
seems certain death: but still they ad-
vance. their faces despatched with the
torn remains of their fellows and their
gasping threats full of it.
Dirty cows and swine. they call
out in front. They also yell with de-
lirium. for they are insane. They are
finding their way through the spaces
of barbed wire. Always they fill mp
from behind. Nobody knows exactly
what he is doing.
Meanwhile. in back of the first French
line certain of the connecting trenches
are cleared and lines of silent men
walk the other way with burdens.
Many are priests. From high over
head a star looks down, very bright to
penetrate the smoke clouds. and ii
throws little light on wild -looking
things. beings that shake and twitch
as they are borne away. They are
beginning to get the wounded.
There is place some distance in
the rear where the wounded are taken
from the trench hammocks and placed
on stretchers hung from light two
wheeled carriages. While the bearers
return to the first line for fresh loads
another crew of soldiers bear the
wounded away to the little town in
back. Shells tear and rip open the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-20
The Average Critic.

ID ETLER GLAENZER. the New York
W poet. essayist and critic. said a a
banquet at the Players Club. in Gra-
mercy Park:
The average critic of poetry reminds
me of the young explorer who listened
for the first time to Longfellow's beau
tiful Day Is Done, as recided by
young lady.
1.-THE explorer nodded with great APP
probation when the young lady re-
cited
And the night shall he filled with music,
AMI the which infrst the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And silently stesl away.
BY Jove.' said the explorer. That's
something like, Something in that.
know those Arab beggars. you know
and, by Joye, they'd steal auythlng""
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ca ton for the people Of a considerable
section of Prince Georges county with
Alexandria. that city being nearer to
much of the population of the county
than Biadensburg, or even in later
years Washington.
When the branch of tho Berry family
came into possession of the Addison
lands. bordering the Potomac, the
name Of the ferry was changed to
'Bcrry's ferry" Then. for long time
it came to he known as the Lower
ferry. \ civil war map Of that part
Of the country shows Two ferries. one.
the Upper ferry. being between what
now the grounds Of the BellvIew
magazine and Shcpherd' Ia udinG. Nat
urally. the one farther down stream
was called the Lower ferry.
The Berry family leased the ferry
rights to a man whose name was
George Fox He put into operation a
little steamboat called the Alice Fox.
Operated in connection with the ferry
and on the east side of the river was
a tavern The structure IN which the
drinking was carried on WAS a small
frame. and this endured until two OF
three years ago. when. in state Of
decay, II WAS blown down during a
storm. stone causeway was butt
from the shore to point in the river
about 100 yards out. and at this the
Alice Fox used TO land. The causeway
is still in existence, but in a dilapi
dated condition. George Fox and the
steamboat Alice Fox went out OF the
ferry business. and a foot ferry. or
a row and sail boat ferry. was set up
bS two rivermen- named Wheatley and
Griffin
About the year of The Philadelphia
centennial a body Of Alexandria busi-
ness men formed a company to restore
The ferry. not onIy for the money to
be made out of the ferry business. but
also for the purpose of bringing trade
TO Alexandra. They set in operation
a little steamboat called the Virginia
and capt. Griffin ran her. The fats
continued to shoal, the little Virginia
had precarious existence, and al
length took fire and burned to the
waters edge. and then the hulk went
down. That happened III the sos.
A few yards to the right. or soutf
of the land end of the ruined cause
way, Is a stone that is thiCkly crusteo
With river weed and slime Al full tide
il is under water. Al low tide one may
examine it, Much of the original in
scription cannot he deciphered. and j,
has been ruthlessly Clipped and mckee
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their teams back to safety once more
If they are forced to remain here ii
would be different. perhaps but the
drivers are glad TO get back again and
lose little time in their work. Tomor
row they return, but that is another
dav
Suddenly come number Of canvas
bodied ani,ulauces along the street
-, - H. ,,,
iheS pun '"'o ''"' o''e 'E ''0
pull up at the rlght-hand side OF the
road near a string of low buildings
- - sI -. 1900 ,e, =;
"
tact by the sheils that na'leF 'heif wa
into the town daily. The cars are
dr.,,-,, nm ,yi,h intervals he,veen them
,..
III case Oh Suuoeh poihpa oi'eH''
Soon there is a line Of d dozen am
n,Ifaure. and more are coming TIL.
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BY WILLIAM T. MARTIN.

E(1HERE is something sinister in
the incessant rumbing and
clauking as the endless line of
q overladen vehicles bears into
town. The train rolls in over the
sloppy road from the horizon in the
rear. Passing through the village the
consuming rattle of chains and the
weighted. drawn-out creaks of heavy
wheels stif1e the senses.
The soldiers passing along the road.
sitting at windows or standing i'll door
ways feel an ominous tenseness in the
monotony of it. and the mur!ly. chok-
ing atmosphere sinks deep in the chest
and suffocates with a feeling of an
Impending crash.
For the last four days the long line
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ARMIES OF MEN EMlpla DYED BY RAILROADS

common on roads whose stockholders
have forgotten what a dividend check
looks like
Within the last few years there has
been a marked increase in the wage
list of railroad operation. not only due
to increasing the number of employees,
but to increasing the pay of those
classes of workers included in the four
tween 1910 and 1914 total of $780,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-20

900, 900 was added TO their pay rolls for
the same number of men. Another in
tereSting statement by railroad au
thority is that since 1907 upward of
$1,000. 5000 has been invested by the
railroads in new facilities. Vet the gain
in net revenue for 1915 was only about
$4,000. 900 more than it was before this
money was put in, the return repre-
sentinG less than l per cent on the
money invested.
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crashes and the thousands of managing
grenades tossed from trench to irehch.
Tbera is nothing individual now.
Everything is lost in the terrinc mum
der. the horrible pounding. swish. roar.
tear and shrek that blends into great
pulse, heating swiftly and regularly,
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II is the groaninc of men not in their
right minds To know the French SOL
diers is to nav them Difference second
they bear their pain as they fght-in
silence.
odd man. old man, have mercy on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-20

NaHEHE is an awakening OF paer'-
otic interest in the boundary
q stones Of the district Of Column
bia This interest touches the corner
stones and the intermediate boundary
markers which today are IN various
degrees of preservation or various de-
-rees Of dilapidation. while some OF
them have disappeared. These inter
mediate stones were set AT intervals OF
one mile along the four sides OF the
ten mites square on the east and the
north sides of the Potomac river. and
also along the west and the south
sides. 4 number Of those which were
Sc, up to mark the lines of the terri
tory which the state of Virginia con
tributed 10 the federal government,
territory which later was receded TO
virginia. have vanished and there are
missing markers on the Maryland side
Of the river
Patriotic women Of Falls Church and
adjacent parts OF Virginia have become
interested III the preservation of the
vest end. the west corner stone of
the District, which is still standing
bout mile north of the old church
which gives name to the village of
the west angle of Alexandria county.
that part of the District of Columbia
which was south and west of the Po-
'omac, having been taken out of Fair
fax county, and on its retrOcession TO
Virginia was erected into new coun
~ called Alexandra.
One OF the intermediate boundary
stones of the District which has suf-
fered much exposure and many dan
gers. and which has brsveiy survived,
but Is nearly ready to pass from view.
10 the last marker of the southeast line
of the District II stands the river
shore at Foxs ferry. Before and dur
ing the American revolution there was
ferry at that point which is directly
opposite the central part of the Alex
andria water front and very nearly OPP
poeite the foot Of King street. the main
east and west street OF Alexandria. In
those times il was called Addison's fer
~ from the fact that the surrounding [,
land was in possession Of the Addison
family. The ferry afforded commune
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my misery. Mon vieuy.'' some one
pleads. But it is hard to find out who
il is until "A second later the voice re-
peatS.
In the town fresh troops arrive. The
tension is relieved somewhat II will
be SO now for several days.
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POMBARDMENT the CmaThe Line Ambulanchen Mines
II ExpoHeay Guns Do Not Firing With Dess the Dressing Stations
the Various Trenchh and the Cold
of Morning.
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Close to the trenches in the last
wreck of town before the wilderness
Of utter devastation the frst-line men
auartered here while off duty also feel
the strain. Here il seems TO embrace
everything. In the air there is some
Thing that is not dust. for it has rain
ed for many days, but that seeks
10 strange with its heaviness. 1t is
the result of the heavy bomba:dinE
Of the last few days.
The sun through the yellow haze is
sinking blood red. 1t has been thus
for four days past Sometimes d soldier
reels across the road, unsteady with vlm
rouge which thing is Il rarity even
among the soldiers.
About half a mile to the right tnroug h
the forest of blackened stumps and torn
earth run the trenches. Fighting has
been terrible here for five months b;sci:.
In the. last attack. hardly more thad =
week ago. thousand soldiers were
wiped away while trying to take III"
crest of a little hill now vaguely seen
from the road at the end of the village
Since then the Germans have been
bombarding the first line They are
tearing yaWning holes many feet across
with mines. wiping trenches out OF eA
istencc and ALL in them. hen fh''
mines explode the town sha kes as
though in terror. Tic men say that AT
present il is . land of crashing teeth
and the strain is almost too great 10
bear
So occa slouallx. almost pcrl"dIca ti\ E..
hey lead or drag INTO town from tn"
road that leads down from the trenches
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FRENCH GRENADE THROW Err. WORRIED on PRINCIPLE

of wagons passing up to the trenches
with supplies has been doubled. and
the soldiers say there will he an at
tack. The younger of the reserves of
the famous Iron Division III the town
six miles back would rather face it
at once. The hard strain is printed
on their faces. Among the thousands
there is a little common speculation to
relieve thought somewhat and the
writing of many letters. The last mails
nave been big ones
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-01-26

At the request of Covington minis
tiers, bill was introduced by Repre-
sentative Green, of Carroll County,
prohibiting the use of screens and
blinds which now protect the interior
OF saloons from public view 1t is
claimed that the bill will enable the
"drys" to better handle the LIQUOR
problem in that locality.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-01-26

The bill to reimburse Kentuckian
for cattle destroyed in stamping GU
the epidemic of foot and mouth di,
ease is expected to pass both House
with little opposition. 1t provide
S6S.000 to cover these losses sustaine
by farmers. Similar bills have bee
passed by fourteen States.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-01-26
THE ANTI-PASS BILL.

The prohibits members of the Legislature and all
other officials from riding free railroad 1t ought to have
been incorporated in long time with penalties for Its
violation The provision of the constitution made part of the
Democratic firmly of the that IL
should he passed by this Legislature. both because party should
redeem pledges the people and because the Constitution de-
mands But constitution did mention
other private citizens in it, provision the platform does not
that either why the law should beyond what
demanded of both Certainly the should have the right to
transportation for advertising and 20
prohibit would the of the Legislature
the newspapers which they should be far from having The
press does deal for the State aud also for those who are
elected office and all ask fair If does get
that has of its sending politicians the bone yard
of oblivion ElZabehtown News.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-01-26
BEING ON TIME IN CLOvERPORT.

There is nothing that helps community more than to have CIT
liens longer considered stylish to
late people take particular pains to be on
church. public meeting and at social event
early the slogan and this popular effort Is reaching
Covepor irving form the habit of being on time
go-no but making point
ready and he ready time Hardness has been sappng the
life of the Covpo schools for the last ten years and gene
after generation has school late But through
the Parent Teachers Association the I'M
being time school is being nsted in the minds OF
the boys and who school today To he welcomed ne
in business he time to make your home
ready for the meals the best example 90 late
church. Better late than the worst possible excuse and
the do be best is to be late Being on time
Coverpor church. school, home the lodge and at the
club what all trying Go early and not fail
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-01-26
HABIT-THE SERVANT.

Correct habits depend largely sefdiscpne and often self
denial bad habits like weeds spring up unaded and unframed to
choke the plans Canadian thistes allowed
seed fair meadow, have zone days seeding, years
wedding How fortunate that the science of forming not
generally known by parents and taught schools colleges
and universities 1t compared with which other depart
of education Every repeated,
makes likely perform that and discovers in our won
deu mechanism tendency perpetual repetition whose facility
proportion the repetition Finally the original
becomes voluntary from natural reaction. All through
lives the brain constantly educating different parts of the body 10
form habits which will work automatically from reflex action
Men areey payfuy get into habits of speech which be-
natural that they speak they do not intend to their
discomfort.
Beware of small sins' Or white lies
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-01-26

Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, President
of the Illiteracy Commission, will
probably address a joint session of
the General Assembly Thursday, Feb
ruary II, as a joint resolution was
offered in the Senate by President Pro
Tenn. Combs inviting her.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-01-26
ACTIVE SPRING TRADE.

In recent issue of the New York Sun that Indications
reported for active spring trade Except in isolated
there evidence that high eenng consumption
and it significant that the prevailing disposition is still
ahead Many travelling statesmen sending orders
usual and in sections forward business developing with
ceptona pdty Tis only indicates depleted merchandise
stocks distributing channels hut also affords convincing proof
general confidence in the future
All signs point active spring trade while de-
mand for heavy weight apparel and other seasona goods
stimulated by continued cold weather wide
try Wholesale trade spring goods opening earlier than usual
satisfactory road statesmen report marked in booking orders
and the outlook for thriving such
dissenting
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-01-26
DOLLAR DAY FEBRUARY 80.

The Dollar Club has been established by the Kentucky Sunday
School Association of Louisville for the purpose of strengthening
the and district organizations the
school membership of the You
by contributing dollar before February o. 1916.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-01-26
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