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An Interesting feature of artillery
Ore is the curtain or "barrage'' fire.
This means simply keeping up such a
terrific fire on a certain area that an
enemy cannot or will not cross 1t.
When an infantry attack Is launched
u barsage on the ground beyond the
enemy's front line prevents his re-en-
forcements coming up while the at
lacking infantry are having 1t out with
The defenders OF the trench. III the
attack carries beyond the first line the
artillery OF the defense promptly In
teyposes a barrage to prevent its reach
ing the second line. IL the attack on
the first line fails the defending ar.
tillery puts a barrage behind the at
tacker's line to prevent re-enforcements
coming up to II and to enable the vic
iorlous defenders to comternttack and
destroy the enemy In his own trenches.
Il Is merely a Wholesale development
~ a long established method OF sup
porting the iHfantry.-Major z. d.
Scott in National Service Magazine.
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most dangerous post, and handling the
reserve cars for wounded in the town
itself. The whole world is passing
here-French, Americans; living,
wounded and dying.
"a long, heavily arched corridor,
with stone steps leading down to 1T;
two compartments off to n side, lined
with wine bins, where u reserve men
and d few French b~rancardiers
(stretcher bearers) are lying on their
stained stretchers, some snoring; be-
yond, n door that leads to q little sick
ward-the most pathetic little room l
have ever seen-with four beds Of diff
ferent sizes and kinds on one side, and
six on the other, taken, evidently,
from the ruined houses near by; and
one tired infirmier Hospital attendant)
to tend and soothe the wounded and
dying.
an the bed nearest the door a
French priest, shot through the lungs,
with pneumonia setting in, his black
beard pointing straight up, whispering
for water.
"Next to him q little German lad,
hardly nineteen, and small, with about
six hours to live, calling-sometimes
screaming-for his mother, and then
for water.
"Next to him a French captain of
infantry, his arm off DIT the shoulder
and his head wounded-weak, dying,
but smiling.
"And next to him a tirailleur (infan-
tryman) in delirium calling on his
colonel to charge the Germans.
"The infirmier is going from n to
the other, soothing and waiting on each
in turn. He asks me what the German
is saying, and I tell him he Is calling
for his mother.
"Ah, this is a sad warr he says, as
he goes over to hold the poor lads
hand.
"a ~brancardier comes in with a mes
sage: A blesse Ga wounded many at
Belleville-very serious.
"This is q reserve car call, so one
slides out and is gone like a gray ghost
down the ruined street, making all the
speed its driver can-no easy natter
with no lights. In twenty minutes he
Is back. The brancardiers go out.
They come In again bearing the wound
ed man on a stretcher and place 1t on
the floor. One OF them, who is a priest,
leans over him and asks his name, and
his town. On answer to the question
what his wife's name is, he whispers
Alice while on the other side an
other b~rancardier is Sitting the
clothes from his body-and i SILVER
with the pity of 1t at the sight I see.
'sThe surgeon comes out Of his little
operating o Weary with the
nights tragic wo-k-after so many,
many other tragic nights-he donses
his head In a bucket OF water. He
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-13
~ u. S. AMBULANCE
CORPS READY TO GO

Twenty-seven ambulance companies
have been organized by the American
Red Cross in this country for service
in Europe. Some OF them have already
gone abroad. The list is:
No. Pasadena, Cal, DIR. Charles
d. Lockwood; No. university of
California, Berkeley, DR.. Alvin Powell;
No. 3-University Of Chicago, DR.. FL
bert Clark; No. 4-ClevelaAd, DR..
Ralph X. Updegraff No. washing
ton, d. c., DR.. Ryan Devereux; No. 6
-Fordham university, DIR. Joseph Dom
nelly; No. New York university, DR..
Chester f. s. Whitney; No. S-Detroit,
DR.. Charles Barton No. 9-Northwest-
ern university, Chicago, DR.. Stephen
Balderston; No. 10-Columbia univer-
sity, DIR. William II. Rockwell; No. IL
Battle Greek, Mich, DIR. James T.
Case; No. university of Washing
ton, Seattle, DR.. David @. Hall No. 10
-Pitts1eld, Mass, DR.. Robert j. Car
penter; No. 14-University Of Oregon,
Eugene, Ore, DR.. J.. z. K~uykendall;
No. 15-Grand Rapids, Mich, DIR.
Thomas d. Gordon; No. 16-Fredonia,
Kan, DR.. Edgar G. Duncan; No. r.
Boston, DR.. Edward A. Cunningham;
No. 1S-Indianapolis, DR.. Mason B.
Light; No. 19-Portland, Ore, DR.. Err
nest III. STREET.; No. 20-Atlanta, DIR.
Leo p. DAILY; No. 21-Flint, Mich, DR..
Walter III. Winchester; No. 22-Char-
lesion, w. Va, DR.. Timothy l.. Barber;
No. 23-Portland, Me-, DR.. Ernest B.
Folsom; No. 24-Kansas City, Mo-,
commander not yet named; No. 25-
Rutland, VT, DIR. William Stickney;
No. 26-Coluinbia, s. c., DR.. Marion III.
Wyman; No. 27-Salt Lake City, DIR.
Hugh B. Sprague.
Several of these units are already
on the way to the front In France, and
the prospect is that all will see early
service. Not only Is the Red Cross
preparing to care for American SOL
diers and sailors when they move into
the firing line, but France needs help
badly with her hospitals, and America
is giving 1t as rapidly as possible.
The German policy Of sinking hos
pital ships with their thousands OF
helpless wounded is making 1t neces-
sary to care for the British wounded
IN France. and 1t puts a terrific strain
on the French hospital service.
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Doing il the Right Way.

For every right way TO do a thing
there are ninety-nine wrong ways.
Take the apparently single matter Of
loading sugar In, cars or putting It In
storage houses. The difference be-
tween any one Of the ninety-nine
wrong ways and the ons right way is
o sufficient reason for the worlds big.
gest sugar company to issue a book
about It.
An amateur wouldn't dream there
could be so much science In rolling $50
barrels OF sugar In a box car. But
this little book, oiled with diagrams,
Is a school Of instruction for all en-
ployees. There they learn to do it
the right wGy and to avoid the ninety
nine wrong ones.
The fellow who learns to load sugar
the right way 0 finds out that the
thing contains higher mathematics,
chemistry and finance.
The American people eat just about
their own weight in sugar In a year,
and even the tiniest saving ON each
pound achieved by this scientific ham
dliig is quite enough to pay all salaries
and leave a snug margin to boot.--Gi-
rard IN Philadelphia Ledger.
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ONE WASTE OF WAR.
Genius That Perished Before II Had q
Chance to Mature.

The waste of war is not entirely TO
be figured In dollars and cents, ruined
churches and barren crops. IL we may
accept the opinion Of the New York
Tribune. Its greatest losses may be
those things which never were allowed
to live because their authors-to-bs got
no further than the first line of
enemy's trenches.
America ut times points with pride
TO the following notablcs. They were
all at some time during the war be-
tween the states If enlisting age and
yet for some reason or another. per-
haps Ill health or service Of other
kinds, they never were actively en-
gagged at the front. Had they gone
into battle "a literature and public
life might have been poorer. certainly
by some Of them. perhaps by all, for
fifteen men are not many Ia a Gettys-
burg.
Mark Twain. With the exception OF
q short term of service within the bor-
ders OF his home town. was In the far
west during most Of the war. Among
others for whose presence we have
since had opportunity 10 be more or
less thankful were Thomas Bailey
Aldrich. Grover Cleveland. Bret Harte.
John Hay. Bayard Taylor. s. Weir
Mitchell Artemus Ward. Phillips
Brooks. William Winter and William
Dean Howells. Thomas A. Edison.
although a train boy OF thirteen when
the III broke out. might wel have
been among tile thousands OF sixteen
year-old lsuys WIN were IN nameIess
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VIVID DESCRIPTION
OF FIRST-AID WORK
BY RED CROSS men
In American Pictures Scenes in
Subway Dressing Station
Near Trenches.
SURGEONS LABOR ENDLEssLY
Captain, Priest, Private and German
Lad, All Dying, Get Tender Care
From Overworked Hospital
and Ambulance Aids.

The work Of the Red Cross surgeons
and %stretcher bearers at the front in
France was never more wildly illus
srated than In a recent letter forward
ed to America. It was written by
Philip o. Mills to Mr.. Eliot Norton,
head of the Volunteer Motor Ambu-
lance corps which Mr.. Mills was serv-
ing. The communication was private,
but was made public because of the
c~learness with which it sets forth the
scenes amid which the surgeons and
ambulance workers labor, day after
day. The text follows:
Tonight I am sitting in a small UNI
derground cellar Of a public building,
acting as a sort Of timekeeper for the
cars (ambulances) going up to our
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turns to the wounded man, gently feels
his nose, lifts up his closed eyehd, and
at his nod the stretcher is again lifted
and the wounded man is carried into
the operating room, and o o after into
the little room of sorrows.
"In answer to my eager question, the
surgeon shakes his head.
"tNot q chance
"a b%rancardier and I gather the SOL
dier's belongings from his clothes to
be sent to his wife, but even we have
to stop for a few minutes after we
see the photograph Of his wife and
their two little children.
San hour later, as nights work
Is Stacking up and several cars have
driven up and been ~unloaded, the In
firmier comes In from the little room
and says something to the brancar-
diers. Two of them get a stretcher,
and in a moment the 'blesse from
Belleville" m past us with a sheet
over him. They lay him down at the
other end Of the room and another
~brancardier begins rolling and tying
him in burlap for burial. AS I look
he changes to q shapeless log. Then,
out to the dead wagon with 1t.
"Soon after, I go into the little ward
again to see how the others are COM
ing through the night, and am glad to
see them all quieted down. Even the
little German seems In less pain,
though his breathing still shakes the
heavy bed he lies on.
Through a chink 1 see that day Is
beginning to break, and l hear the
| chiefs car coming in from the sap, and
know that the nights work is over"
This Is not a sketch from the imagi-
nation Of a novelist-it is the actual
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try We're recognized. when Albrecht
aud Rudolf Pagenstecher induced their
cousin, Alberto Pagensta, her, to build
a mill in this country aud financed the
purchase of machinery and the build
ing of o mill.
The choice Of location fell to Curtis
vile, now Interlaken. Mass. where the
outlet Of Stockbridge bowl seemed to
supply an adequate amount of power
Tie mill was built and ON March 8.
1867, the first ground wood pulp was
produced.-New York Globe.
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occurrences of a night behind the
front where the French, the Belgians,
the British-and soon the Americans
hold at bay the German invader. This
is the nightly work of the men who
care for the wounded.
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His comahs,ck.

Mrs. jawback suppose you %
slider your Judgment far superior to
mine. Mr.. Jawback- NO. my dear. We
proved the contrary when we those to
marry each other.
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'rhe most sublime psalm that can be
heard ON this earth Is the Iisping OF q
lsiinan soul from the Iips Of childhood.
: Victor Hugo.
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raves before the war ended.

graves before the wal ended.
Had these men gone to the front the
law Of averages would have been no
kinder t. them thar to others. How
many Mark Twains. Bret Hartes and
Edisons were there who did go and
who did not come back?
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Happiness.

Happiness rarely is absent, II Is that
wc know net of its Wescnec. The
slcatest felicity avails MS nothing II
we IN " ngt that we are happy.
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Fuller's Ea,-th.

Euller's earth - now used in iileac;
Ing. Clarifying or fltering watts as
rarely for filing cloth. the l'arigSe To
which II was e%mployel originally.
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CHEERING Him us.

DE Broke--So the tailor called again
with his bill? Did you say I was QUIT
His Man-Ycs. sir. and I told him that
] thought he was too.
Evening star., 1917-11-17
WANTS u. S. TO MAKE WAR
ON AUSTRIA AND TURKEY
Theodore Roosevelt Thinks It Is
Only Way to Make World Safe
for Democracy.

PRINCETON. n. J., November IL
Theodore Roosevelt, in an address here
last night, declared that to make the
world safe for democracy" demands
an immediate declaration of war by
this country against Austria and Tur-
key. He urged that the United States
take some action toward establishing
and compared pacifists and pro-Ger-
mans to disintegrating forces in Rus
sia.
1--WE announced that our purpose was
to make the world safe for democracy"
said Col. Roosevelt. This pledged us
to immense sacrifices in a hard and
dangerous crusade, Immensely right
eous, but for an object in which our
own concern was slight. Our grievance
is against Germany and we could
with honor have Joined with our allies
to war against her until she was over
thrown and then make peace in such
fashion as to guarantee justice to
them and to US, and to make the world
a little safer for all of us in conse-
quence. But a pledge to make the
enga cement to smash the two ma
tions which most conspicuously make
democracy unsafe within their own
borders, Austria and Turkey.
This war has shown that Austria
has become a subject ally of Germany
and an enemy of freedom and civiliza-
ton. Unless we resolutely intend to
break up both Austria and Turkey, and
insist on liberty for the subject races
in the two countries, our talk about
making the world safe for democracy
is sham"
Evening star., 1917-11-17
WHOLESALE MARKET REPORT.

Prices in the wholesale market this
morning ranged about as follows:
EGGs-Fancy. strictly fresh. Sass; av-
erage receipts. 52a53; southern West vir-
ginia, 81
cHEEsE-New York state factory.
new. 27a2S.
BUTTER-Elgin print. 471s: Elgin tub.
46lk; process. 4s: store packed. s4a3s
POULTRY Live hens. per lb.. %;
roosters per lb.. IS: turkeys. per lb..
80: chickens. per lb.. 25a2e: keats. young.
each, 4oa50.
DRESSEC PoULTRY-Hens. choice.
per h.. "a; spring chickens: 27a2s per
per lb.. 1sa2o: geese. per lb.. 13a15.
GREEN FRUITs-Apples. new. per
bbl., 200a6.50; per box. 50a2.75: Califor-
MIA oranges. 4.00a5 90; lemons. 6soa6 90;
Concords. Alb. basket. 1oa1S: pears. bas-
ket, 5oa25O; grapefruit. crate. S.75a4.25;
chestnuts. Gas lb.
4.5o per bbl; No. 2 potatoes. 1.50a2.7S; 3;
sweet potatoes. 1.50a3.50 per bbl.; No. 2.
LOCAL so per bbl; sweet potatoes, S5a
LOO per basket: string beans; per r. basket @
per crate, 2.25a35o: radishes. per 100.
.50a2. 90: cucumbers. basket. 3.5oa40 90;
eggplant, 3.ooa4.0o crate; cabbage per
100 lbs, 1.75a2.00; beets, per bunch,
3a5; lettuce, 1.loao.oo per pashee' q
cry, 30a75 per doz; celery. crate. 2,50a
$50; romaine lettuce. LOCAL. so: squash.
2.00a2 so per crate; tomatoes, 1.00a3.00 per
box; spring onions. 1:5oa2.oo per 100
punches: onions, per sack, 3.00a3.50; spin
ach, 2.0Oa2 so per bbl.: kaie. 1.25a1.50 Dbl
turnips. per box. 75aso; per bbL. 2.5oa3. so.
LIVE SToCK-Sheep. per h.. 7as;
lambs. spring, Is: calves. per lb., 16, /,
medium, per lb.. 15a15h: common. per
h.. l2a13.
PoRK-small. % lb.; medium. 22a2s lb.: :
heavy. 20a21 lb.
SEEDS-Red clover. is 0oa16.oo per
bu.: alsike clover. 14.50a15.00 per bu.;
othy. 3.S5aA00 per bu.: red top, 14o0a
1900 per 100 lbs; bluegrass. 3.0oa3.6o.
GRAIN-Wheat. milling. per bu., 2.l0a
. %. corn, per bu.. 2.00a2.0 .05: oats, white,
SsaIo: mixed oats. 67a6s; hay. No. 1. 2Sa
27: No. 2. 24a25.
Evening star., 1917-11-17
CAR SHORTAGE AFFECTS
WEEKS GRAIN PRICES
Oats Instead Of Corn Becomes Mar
ket Leader at Times in Activ-
ity and Strength.

CHICAGO. November 1T.-Scarcity o.
cars available for the movement Of grain
into commercial channels has had de-
cidedly bullish effect this week on prices
Corn gained 21s to 3 net. oats - to SIS
and provisions II TO so.
Oats. instead Of corn. became the mar
ket leader at times. both IN activity and
strength. Free buying Of oats for sea-
board account drew special notice to the
relative smallness Of the amount Of oats
on hand here-less than a quarter OF the
total a year ago
Reports that railroad equipment was
necessarily being utilized to the utmost
to dispose Of huge quantities Of soft corn
that might otherwise rot seemed to have
made producers extra cautious about sales
of oats TO arrive foi nearby delivery
Despite announcement Of measures to
hurry forward largo numbers Of box cars
to protect federal requirements for feed
oats yesterday jumped to the highest
point yet this season.
Corn dealers gave special attention to
meagerness Of stocks Of merchantable
corn at leading terminals. Bulls. how
ever. were checked considerably by off,
cial warnings not to overtrade and by the
calling Of several leading spectators be-
fore the federal district attorney.
Talk Of making the minimum price Of
hogs SIG helped to lift provisions.
Evening star., 1917-11-17
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. November IL
Harry B. Cation. who for thirteen years
has been police Justice Of this city, to-
day rendered his resignation to Judge
Louis c. Barley Of tho corporation
court. Judge Barley has designated
Luther H. Thompson to fill the vacancy
until a successor to Mr.. Cation is ap-
pointed.
Mr.. Cation resigned to take up special
Washington, and he also will continue
to be associated with his father. James
r. Cation, in the practice of law in this
city. Luther H. Thompson, who has
been designated to fill the vacancy un-
til permanent appointment is made. is
mayor of the city. For many years he
has temporarily filled the position dur
Ing the absence Of Justice Cation.
Miss Mary Wallace Phillips, daughter
and Charles Page Waller. jr.. both Of
this city. were married at IL o'clock
today In st. Pauls P. E. Church The
ceremony was performed by Rev. DIR. P.
P. Phillips. the rector. The bride was
given in marriage by her father. She
wore dark blue suit and hat to match
and carried bride roses The maid Of
honor was Miss Della Virginia Phillips.
sister of the bride. who wore a beetroot
suit and hat to match and carried La
France roses.
The bridegroom had for his best man
Wilmer Joyce Waller. his brother. The
ushers were George Bryan Pitts. DR.. "
P. Berry, William Lewis Allen and j.
Randall Cation Mr.. and Mrs. Waller
LETT for northern bridal trip, and upon
their return will reside at 21s South
Lee street
At the Second Presbyterian Church
tomorrow morning Rev. DR.. John Lee
Allison pastor. will take for his sub
1ect at the morning service Investment
in Honeland."
At the evening service Private Will
liam F. Muten. 4th Battalion, Canadian.
1st Division, will speak in the interest
Of the Y. NJ. c. A. work and its value
TO men in camp and in the trenches
Private Mutan was wounded at Ploedg-
stert woods, Flanders. At the morning
service he will speak at the First Bap-
tist Church.
The autumn festival at the Lyceum
Hail. under the auspices Of the congre-
cation OF st. Mary's Catholic Church,
attracted large number of people last
night. This festival will be continued
next week, ending Wednesday night.
Each night some church society attend
in a body.
Judge L. c. Barley of the CORPORATION
court, has appointed Richard B. Wash
lneton collector of delinquent capita
tion taxes in place of Walter C. Foster.
Alexandria Tent, No 2, Macabees. will
nominate officers at it's meeting Mon
DAY night. 1t is also expected that
there VIII be an initiation.
Evening star., 1917-11-17
Pleasure Craft Being Interned,

Having completed minor repairs at a
local boatyard. the power launch
Marjorie has been lowered from the
railway ready for service. It Is stated
her owner will keep her in service for
a few days for a hunting trip to the
lower river. A number Of the locally
owned pleasure craft, after being used
for q duck hunting trip or two on the
Potomac. will then go into winter
quarters. At the local boatyards prep
arations for hauling out the smaller
craft are about completed.
The power launch Ann. belonging to
a Washington owner, Is out on the
marine railway at Regan's for minor
repair work that will take . day or
ia to oomplAtA
Evening star., 1917-11-17
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT.
Arrivals.

Arrivals
Schooner w. H. Hackett, slab wood
from a Potomac point. at 10th street
wharf: schooner Richard Tall. at 18th
street wharf with lumber; schooner
Orbit, at 10th street wharf with cord
wood from Aqua creek; schooner John
Branford, with lumber from Potomac
point for dealers; barge Mob5ack, At
washington barracks with coal for
the government.
Departures
Schooner S. T. White, light. for .
Maryland point to load cord wood to
return; schooner Nellie. light. for a bay
point to load lumber; schooner NJ ~
Roberts. light. for the lower river to
load and return; schooner Clara Leon-
ard and Oscar, light. from Alexandria
for NominSscreek to load pulp wood 70
return.
Memoranda.
Schooner Centurian Is chartered to
load wood at a river poins for Alexan-
dria Dealers; schooner Sfrnmons 10
chartered to load crushed shell at q
Potomac point for Alexandria: schoon-
er Clara Howeth Is at Alexandria with
lumber: schooner Josephine Smith viii
return to the Potomac oyster beds sft-
er oysters for this market
Evening star., 1917-11-17
SEEKS LAW TO HALT
RECKLESS DRIVING
Auto Commissioner Baughman
Wants Long Jail Terms for
intoxicated Operators.

Impelled by the many fatal accidents
which have occurred recently at Dead
Mans curve on tho Washington-Bal-
timore boulevard, Automobile Commits
sioner Baughman Of Maryland today
told a reporter for The Star he was
preparing drastic amendments to the
laws against speeding and operating
automobiles when the operator Is
under the influence Of liquor. These
amendments will be submitted to the
state legislature as soon as 1t meets.
and tho legislators will be asked to act
promptly in the matter.
Speaking Of the number Of fatal acci-
dents on this boulevard, Automobile
Commissioner Baughman said:
IT have been hoping each day or week
that there would be q decrease in the
number Of arrests made for violating
the motor law. In this I am disap-
pointed.
Evening star., 1917-11-17
BETTER TONE
SHOWN IN STOCK TRADE

NEW YORK, November 17.-While
tho stock market was slow from the
start to the close and the sales for the
two hours totaled but $4,000 shares,
tho feeling was decidedly better and
some substantial advances were scored.
The street considered the foreign
news more favorable and found some
in the reduced loss of ship
ping by Great Britain, this being prob
ably the best bit of news, although
close readers found some encourage
ment in the belief that all was not well
in Germany and that socialism might
possibly be worry to imperialistic de-
signs.
While there are those who grow i'm
patient with the delay in the hearing
on advances In rates for the railroads
in the country and over the admission
that government aid in financing might
be necessary, the feeling in security
assured, and. while the delay is irk-
some. the commerce commission Is not
given to making speed records.
Specially Strong Spots
The specially strong spots in to-
days slow trading were Reading in
the rails. with an advance of X. and
Steel common, 1 point gain: Generat
Motors, \ gain; Baldwin Locomotive.
8 points advance, and Crucible Steel
with about point held to the close.
although at one time the shares were
points better.
Shipping shares were also favored.
Delaware and Hudson made a new
low at 90, Southern Pacific gained LIS,
while most of the rails. other than
those mentioned. held their own.
The close was strong and not far
from the best figures of the day.