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of the men who made her. but, also,
they were early Christians, and they
feared that she might be mistaken for
an idol by the ignorant, and SO they
sacrificed her. But she wasn't an idol.
and they knew she wasn't. The Venus
of Milo was. and you behold the diff
ference-she went running to Toulouse
at the first sign of danger"
There is just one other difficulty.
The statue was discovered in the
island OF Samothrace in the year 1853
In 1854 she was brought to Paris. She
was in Paris in 1870.
why did she not protect Paris from
German bombardment in 1902"
asked.
The old guard grunted Indignantly.
He had his answer ready: She wasn't
on her feet yet. She was all in
pieces. and France was not a republic"
A queer story.
Isn't II a queer story? Considering
how well known the Winged Victory
is to all Americans. 1t is interesting.
striking.
Could there be some foundation for
the story. really among the learned
men OF the Louvre direction. or q senti=
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The Butcher Bird.

1TH1S is a rare bird known as the
L shrike. but it is usually called the
butcher bird" on account of its Gus
tom of keeping its dead prev in a sort
of miniature meat market
A resident of New York state WAS
privileged to witness, near Albany. a
characteristic proceeding on the part of
the butcher bird. A great outcry and
disturbance among the sparrows was
heard and the observers attention was
Immediately called to a tragical scene
being enacted upon the snow in his
garden. bird, in size and appearance
resembling mocking bird, but of more
vigorous movement, had sayaeeIv seized
a sparrow, thrown il upon the SNOW
and, standing on the sparrow's back.
delivered with it's beak a rapid series
OF blows at the baee of the brain Of Its
Vict1m, which in few minutes eased
to struggle.
The butcher bird. having assured IT.
sself of the death of the sparrow, rapid
iy flew away with 1t. Shortly after
ward the shrike came again and killed
other sparrows. and, becoming embold-
ened. at length established his meat
market in the garden, with the evil
dent intention of stocking it with as
many sparrows as he could
1t has been said that il is the habit
OF this bird to use the large thorns of
various bushes for the purpose of inn.
paling its collections of dead birds and
lnsects. II was, therefore, with inter-
est that the observer in. this case a..
voted himself to careful watch of
the shrike. 1t was seen to seize upon
and destroy sparrow and carry il to a
pium tree in the garden. This tree was
or variety possessing sharp spines al
most equivalent to thorns, and it seem
ed possible that the butcher bird might
endeavor to impale the dead bird unon
these thorns. The thorns were, how
ever. too dull for its purpose, but the
shrike was far from dull. 1t was Quite
equal to the occasion. 1t chose a tree
in which the small, stifr twies sepa
rated at narrow angle in sets or
three. 1t deftly punched its sparrow
between the twigs. springing them
apart SO that the carcass might be
held tightly.
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of the two grandest antique Greek
marbles which the Louvre possesses
or the world"
Some prefer her to the Venus of
Milo" l said.
He made an asserting gesture, as IL
he could easily understand it, She is
unique" l said He wagged his brown
beard gravely. 1 told him how thou
sands of American households possess
her little plaster replica. He said 1t
shops of the Rue de Rivoli. her photo
graph sells above all others. She is
priceless" he said.
Why. then. was she left to risk bonn
bardment and capture?" asked, when
so many lesser objects were removed ?"
He made an evasive gesture.
She is very large" he said. (He put
it tentatively. as II asking: viii that
my head. She is composed Of 120 frag-
ments," I said. AT need she could
easily have been taken apart in sew
eral pieces"
There is story" I said. "of her be-
ing charged with fate and victory
victory, supposedly, for the city which
possesses and holds her."
Etienne Michon replied not a word.
You understand" I said. at is very
interesting II I can tell 1t. A senti-
ment, feeling. an old legend"
The great savant looked almost en-
barrassed.
His manner struck me. It was SYM
pathetic, hesitating.
There is one objection" said THE
Winged Victory was discovered at Sa-
mothrace in the year 1863. When was
she brought to Paris?"
I'm 1864" he answered.
''Why, then, did she not protect Paris
against German bombardment in 1870?
The old guard downstairs says that she
was not yet on her feet. but was all in
pieces"
Now the great savant surprised mo
more yet.
She was not on her PROV in 1870"
he corrected. gently.
WAS she all in piecesT
mo, her body had been put together,
but she did not have her wings in
1870"
And there you are!
It Is exactly what he said. He said 1t
In those words. the great and sober sx-
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MARBLE WHICH DISCOVERED
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tory stood, in the little island of free
dom and independence. She was erect
ed near the antique port of Samothrace.
nearly 200 years after the defeat of
Xerxes, the war lord, to commemorate
another naval victory gained by To-
cal admiral, one Demetrius Poliorcetus
BIC. 305-another victory of independ-
ence and freedom.
Originally. she was blowing a trum-
pet. She stood on a marble prow--as
of an advancing ship-her wings out
spread. the wind futtering her drap-
cry. she blowing the trumpet of the
victory of independence.
And see how 1t grows. stronger and
stronger.
I'm 1853, her body was discovered,
in 100 fragments" said Curator MI
chon. "In 1864 the fragments were
brought to Paris and were put together.
BY this photograph you can see what
there was of her in 1870"
He showed me an old photograph.
You would not recognize her. Destiny
was simply getting ready!
I'm 1879 another expedition found
her prov and her wings"
The wings of victory.
l meditated.
Etienne Michon medItated.
1T is queer" l said, the coat-of-
arms Of Paris for 1000 years has been
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pert, the man Of learning who is prac-
tically master of the Louvre. AS he
left 1t to me to get his meaning, SO l
leave 1t to you.
In the sunny room of old French
kings, he told me her story-he, the
French republican Of France. defending
her soil.
Samothrace was the ancient Greek
name of a little island half way be-
tween Gallipoli and Saloniki, and
scarcely thirty miles from either. Sa.
mothrace was republic. Is not that
queerly significant?
The little island belonged to the
Turks just before the great present
war; but she doesn't belong to them any
longer. Isn't that significant? Take 1t
in connection with the victory OF the
Marine and mediate.
The Turks captured Samothrace in
1852, but in old times she was famous
as a little island that had always been
independent, even independent of clas-
steal Greece. Samothrace sent her own
ships against xerxes. BIC. $50. and one
OF them distinguished itself gloriously
in the battle of Salamis. which decided
the fate of the world.
History tells where the Winged VIC
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nNLY One of the Priceless Statues and
y Art Treasures to Be Kept in French
Capital as Germans Advanced-Sterlin
Heilig Tells Queer Story of the Relic.
Considered by Many the Greatest of An
tique Greek Statues-Is Supposed to Be
LOADED With Fate, Like an Electric Ac-
cumulator" "A Visit to the Bamicaded
Palace of the Louvre.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-25
1erbertKauf1nan'sW eeklyMessage
You're never SO right
as when you admit
you're wrong
Kitchener

THE Sirdir lives. That bit of truck,
Lost somewhere in the ocean muck.
Was but passing phase. He came
Awhile to teach the splendid game
OF sacrifice, and then went home.
His brothers held the banks of Rome
And fell upon the Persian sword
When NerNes thrust a bearded horde
Against the Lacede1non WILL
His memory will last until
The waters wash the cloud-swept hill
They do not die-such men as he
Are scions of Eternity
The children of the stars His name
Is song deep in the throat of Fame.
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Pity the Poor

HE old who rode past specazes in trusts banks
milk and mush But his cash counterfeit 1t won't buy
what he needs He can't digest his meals his money.
Would you trade places with him?
Well then how about the blind man there the corner
He the flash the hills of Dawn looked
the face of his mother.
Or perhaps you think the old who your
apartment house pet of Providence But did you know
that she deaf that she can't hear the bird chpng out
side her window and of all the songs mned in the
golden threats of the troubadours reached her ears
Your boss is eating his heart in the stark emptiness
of chdess home and his featherheaded wife has not mag
ination enough to find happy for her income.
Putocras like you pause occasionally and consider
,the unfortunate. Most folks not nearly we'll off,
Pity the poor! Pity the poor!
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,seaai Correspondence of The Star.

PARIS, June II, 1915.
q HAVE visited the closed and barri-
caded palace Of the Louvre. in
Paris.
q have seen the Winged Victory
alone, in the dark. In her triumph.
In thousands Of American homes a
plaster or marble reproduction Of her
stands on the mantlepiece.
You have seen her SO often that you
Go,not notice her.
Go, gase on her again.
The Winged Victory Of Samothrace.
treasure Of the Louvre Museum, consid-
cred by many to be the greatest of an
tique Greek statues. not excepting even
the Venus OF Milo, is having strange
things said about her.
She IL gigantic. She Is priceless.
The4enemy would rather capture her
thsnnGhs Venus of Milo or the Mona
Lisa.
Yet sfas remained. In Paris when they
deemed Paris in grave danger. The
others 6ed. The Winged Victory re-
mainDd.
1nkhstsst days of August. 1914, when
thg,Germans were sweeping down on
fhe.capital from Charleroi, the French
authoritfes removed 900 precious OBJ
eec<s from the Louvre. The Raphaels.
Rembrsndts. Titians. Leonardos and
other world famed paintings. the unique
tapestries of old French kings. their
historical furniture and decorative art
treasures ana the grand Greek statues.
led by the Venus Of Milo in special
automobile van. were rushed down to
Toulouse. to save them from lombard
nnenx and capture.
Tho Louvre was closed and barri-
eaded.
And the Winged Victory most
precious object OF them all. perhaps
Naa left behind!
She did not bulge.
In The empty. darkened palace she
Gpread her white wings while the
snemy advanced on Paris-to the bat
tie Of the Marine: that is to say, defeat
and rout. so that they had to trench
themselves afar of.
"a sign and portent" says an old
euard. who. with his fox terrier and
two great vicious mastiYs. has been
promenading UP and down the echo
years since. "a sign and portent" he
says pointing TO the nuttering white
white wings at the top of the Daru
Staircase.
81 don't claim that the statue watched
or kept guard. or protected Paris" he
says. Such talk il superstitious. All
Speak! Out with it, i told him.
There's lots to know It," he said,
Fright up to the learned men of the
direction. And who knows IL better
than /, who've been alone with her in
the dark for two years? The statues
loaded.
Loaded, charged. chuck full of fate
and happenings! She's charged with
fate and destiny. like an electric ac-
tumulator is charged with energy. Do
you see what's in an electric accumu-
iator? No. Is 1t alive? No. It's just
full of juice and juice Is invisible.
The Winged Victory of Samothrace Is
loaded with victory for freedom. She
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Trials are but files
to rasp men into
form
The Molasses Attitude of Mind

INDIFFERENCE is the inveterate enemy of progress.
There's way handle people who constantly sidestep
Issues shift ground yield for the moment and forthwith lapse
back to their old notions. Passivty impossible antago
MIST Like molasses can't be marked by method but
absorbs every attempt make impression and
its placid unchanged surface.
Don't give-ahangness mpregnable 1t doesn't want to
Improve 1t isn't sufficiently interested 1t has eel mind
noargument hold it.
'Whats the USE" and 1T can't be DONE. and eff and
Perhaps, and "Were getting along we'll enough as it is
these the little eeches which drain the extant red blood
out Of enthusiastic endeavo Thousands of splendid plans
tedaiy, only because of inert support They can't get
fry-out. Pessimism wet-bankes them.
YOU always stand show with who takes stand
and combats you-when he's whipped, he's
But these human quagmires these istless slippery
pcent of socalled conservatives simply smother the
bulk of the worlds ideas They're the trying problem
of business who can't get their broad conceptions
cuted They're the of the Republic Their thought
1essvotes continually elect the wrong important of
fees How wrestle with jelly-ish. or build with
banca1nange?
Enough dynamite will knock down mountain. but
mountain of dynamite won't disturb the equanimty of
quicksand
Nothing is utterly exasperatng and dscouraging
the se1f-sashed multudes who won't bother themselves
sufficiently to be convinced of their necessities
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the winged victory left behind: why
was she. most precious Of ALL aban-
doned to the risks of bombardment and
hastily removed to the south of
France? Why this distinction? Her
loss would have rung through the
world. Was there. possibly, queer
Paris-that the will Of God had made
her sign and portent, as 1t were, a
kind of ticket to republican victory?
l went to see Etienne Michon. vice
the more so as the Winged Victory is
in the department of his special COM
petence.
Up the back stairs of old kings.
A trip In dim light, almost darkness
The Louvre is closed and barricaded
not because there is any danger re-
naming. but simply because the
guards and workmen are modified.
bags. mattresses. etc. which protect
10000 minor art objects will be prac-
tica1ly impossible until the men re-
turn from the war. Today only two
small sections are open to the public
twice a week.
The vast palace is dark and silent.
Up A narrow. winding staircase, in
the oldest dwelling part of old kings
The steps are worn and easy. At the
entrance door, below, I passed a guard.
in a dark chubby room whose walls are
eight feet thick. Here and there. as I
go up. are little old iron doors. Down
this staircase, old King Francis 1
sneaked for his stunning revels in old
Paris. Up these stairs they carried old
King Henri w when he was stabbed
by Ravaillac.
Up. up. 1t is part Of the Louvre
which the public never sees. Nothing
seems to have~been changed since the
time of King Louis XIV. The later
monarchs Inhabited the Tuileries.
These are the old back corridors of a
forgotten world. a veritable warren,
not the great parade apartments I al
most expected to see the royal dust
pan. forgotten in a corner.
From an interminable corridor, old,
shabby. whitewashed, neglected, I en-
tered most beautiful spacious and
sunny room. with carved wood walls
and a litter of precious bric-a-brac, like
an office.
Etienne Michon, vice curator, the
grand savant. with his worn face, long,
narrow brown beard and gentle man.
ner. told me about the Winged Victory.
Undoubtedly" he said. "shs is one
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hen Paris Was Menaced Winged Victory Remained

an antique ships prov. 1t is all queer"
] medftated. Samothrace, her old home.
is but stones throw between Saloniki
and Gallipoli.''
ana down below. in the dark hall,
beneath the spreading white wings. the
old guard, beside his dog and lantern,
meditated likewise
STERLING HELLO
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What They Didn't Tell You At Commencement
By HERBERT KAUFMAN


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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-04-12
BROTHERS KILL BROTHERS.
Two Peculiar Cases Occur on Same
Day in Georgia.

Chattanooga, Tenn, April O.
Shan J. Nelson, a merchant Of Shaw,
Ca, near here, was killed this af-
ternoon by his brother, Mack Nelson.
While the merchant was whipping
his i-year-old son with a hickory
switch Mack Nelson is said to have
protested and provoked quarrel
The father told his brother to ego
home and he went home and re-
turned. witnesses say, armed with
two shOtguns.
Shan J. Nelson fell dead in front
OF his store. his body horribly mutil-
atcd by the discharge OF both guns.
His assailant. it was said, approach
ed and without warning put a gun to
each shoulder and fired.
Mack Nelson was arrested and
committed to the Walker county,
Georgia, jail at Lafayette.
Near Chipley Also.
laGrange, Ga, April 9.-J0hn
Strickland shot and instantly killed
his brother. l.. Strickland last night
in quarrel in front Of the latter's
home, four miles from Chipley, Ga.
The two brothers, prosperous far
mers of Harris and Troup counties,
after spending the day in Columbus,
returned to l.. Strickland's home,
both under the influence OF liquor. it
is alleged.
The quarrel began, it Is alleged,
when John Strickland refused an in
vitation to spend the night with his
brother. This refusal so angered l..
Strickland, it is stated. that he drew
pistol and opened fire, hitting his
brother John in the hip. After fall
ing to the ground John Strickland re-
turned the fire, two bullets lodging
in his brothers left leg and a third
in the head. causing death an hour
later.
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$. S. Institute Program.

The Sunday School Institute Of the
Beavcrdam Baptist Association will
meet at Long Creek on Saturday.
April 90. Following is the program: {:
Morning.
9.30--Song service. Mr.. Durham,
rf Westminster.
9.i5-~-DeyOtiOnal service. u, I.
Henderson.
10 H0-"What is q standard Sun
day school?" #. J. or II. NJ. Failaw.
10.30-"Possibilities Of the Cradle
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-04-12

Roll and How to Organize" C. f.
Hetrick or G. G. Mangum.
11.00-"Is Grading the Sunday
School Necessary for Efficiency?" n.
J. Watts or Y. l.. Smith.
11.30--"The Home Department"
II. NJ. Galphin.
11.45--"Training the Sunday
School in BcnevOlence.' G.. d. Boyd.
2.30-Intermission till o'clock.
Afternoon.
2.00-Song service. Mr. Durham.
2.l5--Devotional service.
2.30- miscellaneous business.
3.00--Open parliament.
Sunday Morning.
10.00-SoEg service. Mr. Durham.
10.30-DiScussion Of the Teachers
Training Glass and presentation Of
awards.
11.00,-Scrmon by Dr.. e. NJ. Po-
teat, president Of Furman Univer-
sity.
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Knights Of Pythias.

A special meeting Of Walhalln
Lodge, No. 07, X. OK r., will be held
at the Masonic Temple next Monday
night, April l7th. at s O'clock
Work I'm Rank OF Knight.
Every member urged to be present.
Visiting Knights always welcome.
j. w. SIIELOR, G. G.
~. B. SIIItLOIt, IS. Il. q S. (adv.)
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A Regular Communication OF Blue
,1,h Ridge Lodge, No. 90, A. f..
iKN NJ, will be held. next Fri
ssa's@s'S day evening, April l4th,
1916, at 7.30 o'clock.
JOHN A. ANSEL, w. NJ.
w. O. WHITE, Secretary. (adv.)
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leman. The remains OF Mrs. Sharp
We're inferred at Garnet yesterday.
Rev. Sharp was buried III North Caro-
lima.
Mrs. Catherine Casey died at the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. NJ II. Hub
bard, OF the Picket Post community,
last Sunday, April 9th, after a linger-
ing illness OF some three years. About
five weeks ago Mrs. Casey suffered Il
stroke of paralysis. which was the i'm
mediate cause OF her death. Mrs.
Casey was good woman, a devout
Christian and a consistent member OF
the Pleasant Ridge Baptist church.
The deceased leaves only one cnild,
Mrs. John Duekett. There are scve-
raj grandchildren and host OF
friends to mourn her death Funeral
services were conducted Monday, the
10Th, by Rev. J. b. Tramel, the in
termcnt following in the cemetery at
Pleasant Ridge. We join with others
in extending to the bereavcd ones
sympathy in their sorrow.
improved Marlboro Prolific Seed
Corn: one year from Coker's pedi-
greed seed. Bred on our own farms.
50 per bushel, in the ear c. w, &c
J. r. Bauknight, Wa!halla.--Adv.
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(gOrtiesuns fOIgt.)

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