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Washington, lapkr. 26.
Kares sekretorius Baker
pranesa, kad Suv. Valstijos
tu1i pakaktinai savo karei-
viams ginklu.
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master at Chicago, ILL.,, on November
2c, 1917, as required by the act OF
October 6, 1917.
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26, 1917, as required by the act Of
October 8, 1917.
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sUNAIKINO 1,O3O LAX.
STYTUVQ.

Paryzius, lapkr. 26.:
Praejusiais 10 menesiais
prancuzai kares fronte su-
naikino 1,O30 vokieeiu lax
tytuvp, anot oficialio prane-
simo.
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VOK|ET|JA NEPAS|T|KI
RUSV ''BOLSEv|KA|S." "
TeCiau tariasi apie gink|Q su-
d6jima,
KAUKAZAS ATSIMETE
NUO RUSIJOS.
ITALAI STOJO UZPUOLIMAN.

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26, 1917, as required by the act of
October 6, 1917.
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master at Chicago. ILL.,, on November
26, 1917, as required by the act Of
October 6, 1917.
REIKALAUSA DAUGIAU
$4,000, VYRU JUREIVI-
JON.
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FL Paso, Tex, laplr. 26.
Felix Diaz gaminasi w
pu1ti Meksikos sostine Mex
leo City ir nuversti Carran-
EOS vyriausybe.
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Buffalo, N. Y, lapkr. 26.
Amerikos Darbo Fedora
cijos konvencija Federaci-
JOS pirmininku isnaujo is
rinko Gompersa.
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He was continually suffering from
colds, influenza and fevers of one kind
and another, and in between these he
also had such things as measles, small
pox and rheumatism. The mosquitoes
that swarmed from the Potomac
marshes about Mount Vernon probably
accounted for much of the fever. Or
Braddock's Inflated advance against the
French Washington was so i'll that he
had to ride most of the way in covered
cart. After starting on later eXpedi-
ton he was compelled to return home by
a violent attack of dysentery and fever,
and he was laid up for three months.
During the Revolution his eyesight be-
came poor and his hearing defective.
Shortly after his election to the Presi-
dency he had bad attack Of anthrax
that nearly carried him off.
But his most persistent trouble was
something that remained to plague him
TO the end. His teeth were poor. He
began to lose them in his twenty-second
year, and thereafter they expired at in
tervals, one by one, after periods Of IL
tense torture. Dental science seems to
have been unknown in the colonies.
Washington seems perpetually to have
been tinkering, with instruments or
dered from London, at that bothersome
graveyard of his masticating apparatus,
but he never accomplished much.
Finally he got set Of false teeth,
but they were a poor fit and gave him
great annoyance. When Stuart painted
his famous portrait" says Mr. Ford, "he
tried to remedy the malformation they
gave the mouth by padding under the
lips with cotton" The result was not
wholly successful.
In spite of these physical disabilities,
Mr.. Ford shows US that Washington got
much wholesome enjoyment out of life.
In addition to being an ardent huntsman
he enjoyed fishing and liked TO attend
horse races, and even cocdights. He
had passion for the theatre, and went
whenever opportunity offered. Dancing
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AgoHized Voice from the Bathroom
Quick, George! Get up and come here!
safety-pin has gone down Baby's throat"
You arise, somewhat dazed, and stand in the
middle of the room, looking with your one good
eye to see what is the matter.
The Mother enters, carrying small Child
over her arm, like a steamer rug.
Quick! Quick! Do something Can't you
see he's choking?'
Although he seems more like baby who IS
Yelling at an insult than one that is choking
on a safety-pin, you realize that this is no time
to argue; so, Selling the child by the heels, you
tip him upside down and wave him about this
course having been recommended in the Boy
Scout Manual as treatment for people who
have swallowed something impractical.
Strangely enough, the child resents this, and
makes no secret of his resentment
Put him on the bed Put him on the bed.
I've got to reach down and see if | can pull it
OUT"
So he is put on the bed. You sit on him as
people sit on a fallen horse, while she puts her
entire hand up to the wrist down the babys
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Indifferent kind of people | ever saw.
and he wrote of the men as exceedingly
dirty and nasty" But later at Valley
Forge, he had learned to respect them.
NAKED and starving, as they are" re
wrote, I'VE cannot sufficiently admire
the patience and fidelity of the soldiers
Professor Wilson tells US that when
called to the Presidency Washington
was loath1to accept, doubling his own
capacity. But he was accustomed to
carry his duty through Once IN the
chair. he was a great stickler for the
dignity and ceremony Of his office.
When he felt called upon to snub high
foreign ambassador he administered a
truly. regal snub. But in his ordinary
habit he was democratic enough.
The capital was then in New York
MANY fine afternoon he was to be seen
walking, an unmistakable figure, upon
the Battery, whittier all persons oil
fashion in the town resorted for their
daily promenade, his secretaries walk
ing behind him, but otherwise unat-
tended. Better still, he could be seen al
most any day on horseback, riding in his
noble way through the streets"
He faced stormy weather over his for
eign policy, but he outlasted opposition
and had his way. The French Revolution
broke out. France was facing alone the
allied kings of Europe. 1t seemed, 20
most of the people and many OF the lead
ers in our public life, clear case OF de-
mocracy against despotism, and there
was great agitation to go to the aid oil
The French people. But Washington
nointed out that our nation itself was
still only "in a convalescent state from
its own struggle "He could not under
stand nor tolerate" says Professor WI
son. "the sentiment which made men
like Jefferson eager to fling themselves
into European broils." The author COM
roends the Presidents GOODNESS and IN
dependence of spirit.
II is a curious fact that PROFESSOR
Wilson refers to Washingtons robust
health. Paul Leicester Ford IN Inc
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throat. At this the patient threatens to burst
with indignation.
my goodness, / touched his tonsils! Oh,
where is that pin?"
Are you sure he swallowed it?7
ooh, don't be silly. Go into the bathroom
and get me spoon"
You go into the bathroom and find the pin
on the floor.
Hysterical laughter and congratulations
from everyone but the baby. He maintains
that joke is joke.
"And TO think Of shaking him upside and
down, when he hadn't done anything at all"
Screams Of laughter.
"And jamming your hand down his throat
till he got red in the face."
Roars of laughter, joined by the Child.
This continues for several minutes, until the
Mother suddenly thinks that maybe that was
another pin on the bathroom floor and that he
may have the original one inside him after all.
But you can't 90 on like that all through
life. You've got to leave something to Fate,
or whatever it is.
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Where are you going, like this, Tonin?'
"Mariette," he answers, 81 am now sailor.
! have come to tell you that love you. have
not dared TO do so until now. But being obliged
to 90 away this evening has given me courage.
Listen know that Victorin pays court TO
vou So | have some fears. And | ask you
not to give me an answer right away. Take
your time! Reflect! Study him and then
choose. Adieu, my little Mariette. We shall
see each other again. haven't much property
TO my name. But have little. Think about
it. But wait, let NE I'll your pitcher and
carry it home for you"
NO." she says, "Victorin would hear about
il. II is true that we are not yet engaged. he
and l. But it is certain that like him and he
knows it very well. Adieu, Tonin. would
rather carry my pitcher alone"
She started off, carrying her pitcher by the
handle, like basket-her green, glazed pitcher,
gittering in the last rays Of the sun. But she
was troubled. Her heart beat visibly under her
corsage. Tonin felt that he had made some
thing Of an impression on her and called to her
from a distance:
Before the end Of the year, if you decide for
ne. send me in letter, on board my ship
leaf Of the ivy which covers your we'll. You
need not write anything. I shall know what
you mean TO say, Msriette. Because the ivy
leaf has the same shape as heart
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It is just twenty years ago that life
Of George Washington was published,
written by Professor
v. ". on G. W. Woodrow Wilson, of
Princeton Collie &c.
Strangely enough, the biography is not
now as interesting as it might be. for II
Is a conventional chronological story,
rather than an Interpretation.
Professor Wilson gives Us fine pict-
IRE Of Washington's life on his Mount
Vernon estate after his marriage. The
yuuthful Father Of His Country is de-
cribed as a man who covered hot tenn
per with a manner of peculiar dignity
and restraint. He was a meticulous man
Of business and a fine manager. Habitu-
ally ne rose at dawn, and was busy all
day at the superintendent OF his es-
tate He was fond of the outdoor sports
Of the time, particularly fox hunting,
and on rainy afternoons he was not
ayerse to playing cards for money. In a
hard drinking society he was markedly
abstemious, and, like later President
drank little more than DR.. Lyman
Abbott.
Professor Wilson unconsclousIy
makes a further comparison, for ne
notes that at the outbreak of the Revo-
1tion Washington appeared before the
virginia House Of Burgesses and OIL
'ered 10 raise one thousand men, enlist
them at nv own expense and march
myself at their head for the reile1 OF
Boston At this period he was gener-
ally called "the Colonel from the rank
Ne had won in the French and Indian
Var.
Before the Burgesses he is also re-
Drted 70 have said that "he wished 10
god the liberties of America were to De
determined by single combat between
annseif and George" The George re-
ierred 70 was the poor German boob u
@n think Of TO nicer term) who hap
Vsned TO be King Of England. For some
reason Professor Wilson deprecates this
speech.
when he first took command OF the
american army Washington was pes
,.'ast'e about the calibre Of his forces.
'As 0fhcers he referred TO as "the most
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was also favorite recreation, and this
pastime was shared by his wife. In 1896,
at the age of siXty-four years, he was
still tripping the light fantastic. But
three years later, invited to the AleXan-
dria Assembly, he wrote: ALAS our
dancing days are no more"
He enjoyed the company Of handsome,
vivacious ladies, a trait which his biog-
raphers seem to assume is peculiarly
characteristic of gentlemen of Virginia.
1t is also characteristic Of gentlemen OK
Tasmania, Iceland and Beloochistan.
Mr.. Haworth gives an interesting
picture Of the open-handed hospitality
of Mount Vernon. It was big house,
and there seemed always
Farmer to be a crowd there. Rela-
Washington tives or friends would stay
for weeks at time. In his
latter days Washington once wrote
casually TO a neighbor that he supposed
he and his wife had not dined alone in
twenty years! Mrs. Washington was a
poor speller, her few surviving letters
indicate, but she was a powerful house.
wife, and there was always plenty for
all.
Mr. Haworth makes it plain that
Washington had no real desire to be a
soldier or great figure in public life.
His grand passion was for farming, and
he was a good farmer for his day. In
fortunately, scientific crop rotation was
not in vogue then, and his land was poor.
An Englishman who once came over to
rent one of his farms told him bluntly
that ne wouldn't cultivate such
wretched land if it were given him.
Tobacco was the staple crop of the
time. 1t was a crop that impoverished
the land. After few years the yield OF
tobacco from Washington's fields dimiii-
lshed, until finally he gave it up. His re-
turns on his total investment in land,
slaves and machinery were meagre even
in the best years-probably not more
than per cent-but he loved the lie
for its own sake. He was always glad
to get back to Mount Vernon, and he in
variably left his simple rural existence
with reluctance when he was called to
greater affairs.
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Trouso,ed b Introductory Comment BY Hian l. Mcpherson
Bv NJ. JEAN AlCARD

She turned about uncertainty, and in spite Of
herself, afraid of losing too quickly hope of
love, she threw him Kiss with her free hand
Some months later Touin, the fusileer Of
marines, lay on a couch IN the nava. hospital
Of Sainte Anne, at Toulon. TENN was one Of
the heroes Of Dixmude The poor young man
had shown there a most admirable gailantry.
But. wounded by a shell explosion. he mad been
obliged to submit TO the amputation of MS left
arm And though Tonin. before mis- comrades.
preserved appearances joked and made light
Of his affection. at the bottom Of his heart he
felt profound despair. From the beginning.
and with reason, he had said that, thus dis
the Mariette who was so physically attractive.
Of the pretty little girl with the wiIlowy body.
so full Of graces, Of the Marlette Of the well,
the well covered with ivy
Oh! That ivy shading and guarding the
we'll There had been nights Of fever in which
Tonin saw it again constantly, stirred and
rufned by the wind and taking a thousand
changing. fantastic forms. Now faces made
grimaces at him from between the clusters OF
foliage, and they were the faces Of German SOL
diers peeping at Tonin sentinel far away
from his comrades Now he seemed to see the
mouths Of cannon thrust from the verdure,
then bursts Of fame; then he heard the sound
Of pebbles rolled by the sea which the machine
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guns make. Sometimes al the ices and all the
angry wasps which rove about the ivy and the
WEI. n which they find something TO eat and
drink, p-ecipitated themselves on him in
swarms and all, all CT them, set TO singing his
eft arm, his mutilated arm in which he now
telt these nlyr!ads Of bites.
NO. No. Poor me! Il is certain that
can no longer be husband worthy Of her."
He kept repeating this 20 himself in me-
cnanical way. and sometimes, when he felt him
selt alone IT the vast hall where his fellow
patients slept. Touin put his head under his
Gee covers and wept
Nobody paid him a visit. Tonin was an or
pnan. There remained Of his family only his
o.t grandmother. who was now very feeble and
altogether incapable Of quitting, in midwinter,
her poor corner by the fire So Tonin, fusileer
IT ire infantry of the marine, who had borne
himself Ike hero on the banks Of the User,
wep: ike a little child.
lie had reason for doing so. For at that
very moment Marietta was shuddering with
horror at the idea Of seeing him again, mu-
tilated with his arm cut off. Her imagination
pictured the poor empty sleeve, hanging free,
and she turned away her head 10 look at some
thing else, as if what she saw in imagination
was really there before her eyes
Then Tonn's rival appeared to her in more
advantageous light than ever. She met him
and smiled at him from afar, calling to him
even before he called TO her. Without doubt,
the military CONSUMPTION law would take him,
too, after while. But who knows? The war
,;r,L4 And hp
present, after all, that counts. What is in the
future is unreal and may remain unreal Tonin
belonged now TO the manned and the halt. Vic
TORN was sound in body--a man like all the
rest Of the world.
So when Victorin came to say TO her, Before
going away to service / should like to know,
Marietta, whether, on my return, can count
on our being married" she had replied: "Come
tomorrow TO see my mother; she will give you
an answer"
And Victorin had gone away, completely
happy.
The old grandmother is incapable of writing
letter, and without knowing that Tonin has
courted Marietta she sends for her, because
Marietta is clever And Marietta comes.
Good day, grandmother
"You have heard Of our misfortune?"
eyes, grandmother, l have. And am sorry
for you"
81 have sent for you 70 ask you to write for
me little letter to my Tonin, who is still in
the hospital at Toulon."
Mariette begins to write. The grandmother
dictates:
my poor Tonin, cannot 20 to see you in
your hospital, because my legs will not carry
me- But think of you often. And this is
to tell you that | want for nothing; for you
have left enough to support me and the
notary delivers my allowance regularly. Our
neighbor Catherine helps me as much as she
can. 1t is a shame that she doesn't know
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lizard uses as a subtitle for his
u gitls story, "The End Of Gol IdyH IN
-, sf War." Il is an idy'l--d pastoral 'oith
NE " .,,.;pO. u tcould be hard to sag 'chether
80 ,sol 4 makes IS due more 70 ats Gtmos
~ ,,,stieity or to its insight into feminine
~, Ia, ,,pdsr the stress OF aCar. Pity, pity
~ - - the modest emotion Of tCur time
S'y -, hearts. II is then more than eUer
i,rs,5nnsr Of lore.
~ ~ a;onyd. nolc near his seUentisth year, IS
~ -, ,,ost distinguished lcritsrs in France.
'F~ ,,,nber of the Academy and an officer
go. L,oion OF Honor. For many years he
.,,iSsrt OF the Society Of Men Of Letters.
E~ noet drunatist Gnd a novelist, and
:" 80, successful IN oil three fields.
-EE Southern spring time had all the
srdors Of summer. 1t was June al
i ready. The reddeuing wheat stalks
..d the harvest and, over-weighted, bent
80 bsads toward the earth, to which the
= yrsins. in order to grow again, wished TO
..r,n all the more promptly. For all that
- lives must die in order 70 be requickened.
They were very heavy, those wheat heads,
= balancing themselves, they touched one
'.o,bsr armorously, caressingiy - and that
de Dc a little rustling noise. A song Of love,
-.-r,rrine rhythmic, came from them as they
-.-s stirred by the evening breezes and that
90 entered into the hearts Of the young girls
- toward evening. went to the covered well
-oeu with fresh water the glazed pitchers
-hi,b q day Of sunshine had made lukewarm
-, +, the shade Of the farmhouses with their
suffers drawn.
Vsriette comes to the well. She holds By the
.,,de. like basket, the green pitcher on the
55ss of which the setting sun outlines spark
ing reddish squares. The well is covered from
!, 10 bottom with verdure. An ancient ivy,
,,-v thick. which draws the bees, envelops it,
"a over the dome its loose stems wave like
,umes. Under this cupola little door opens,
ne stone beneath which forms a sill. It is like
title rustic temple, dedicated to the spring,
/, the water sprite who lives at the bottom Of
his fresh cave, dug vertically by the hand
man.
Narette opens the door. The fresh breath of
irprlsOned water mounts 10 the HgnJed OPEN
i,g. 1t wishes to be freed, to exhale itself into
he radiant warmth Of the summer, which is
already at hand.
Mariette always rejoices to open the door
through which comes to her that caressing
freshness, which spreads across her visage and
,snetrates her whole body. Water is the treas
ne of warm countries. One locks it up jeal-
yusly and at the hours when it is liberated one
Enjoys voluptuously all its charms.
That Is why, or drawing toward her the
bucket attached TO the pulley, to see if it is not
Inhabited by some pretty tree frog, Mariette
miles with happiness. Then she releases the
acket. holding the rope firmly with her strong
7ung arms The bucket descends to the joyous
gheezing of the old iron pulley.
The bucket descends, strikes the water and
Els. The young girl, bent over, her body
rbrant, tugs at the rope. The bucket mounts
hsaviy. She leans with both arms upon the
ape, releases it with one hand in order to
gasp It further up with the other-so graceful
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in ali her movements that she reminds one OF
wild animals in freedom, who believe that they
are entirely alone and unobserved in one Of
their native Businesses.
She believes that she is alone. But she is not.
Behind pile Of wood, under the neighboring
she'd some one has approached very stealthily.
It is Tonin, the young sailor Tonin, who likes
her very much and who wants to marry her.
She also likes Tonin, but she prefers Victorin,
who is two years younger. VictOrin is only
eighteen years old-just her own age She pre-
fers Victorin, or at least she thinks she does.
Victorin will not be a sailor. He doesn't love
the sea, but the land which one works and
which gives in return its yield. And then Tonin
has never told Marietta that he loves her. Only
she believes that things stand that way, and
the eyes of young girls can see love even when
it thinks itself unseen. Love always re
veals itself.
The bucket rises and is getting heavier and
heavier, one would think. Tonin advances softly.
She doesn't hear him and suddenly she feels
herself grasped about her body by two strong
arms which hold her fast. In her surprise she
lets go the rope. But Tonin has adroitly taken
the precaution to put his foot on the serpentine
coil of hemp which lies unrolled behind the
young girl. So the bucket doesn't fall.
Let me go, Tonin! shall tell my mother"
He smiles and kisses her on her lips, on her
neck and on her hair. She slips between the
fingers of the young lover and escapes him.
Pull up the bucket as a penalty"
He obeys. The wooden vessel rises rapidly
j. oft he Et+la doOr hal
anced, oscilating, letting pour over its rim, in
denied by usage, little chaplets of water drops,
transparent pearls, all smiling to see the light
of day.
Thank you, Tonin"
"You pardon me, Marietta"
Eyes, because you are brave at heart. |
know it."
With us Grave" means good and well-be-
haved.'
"And then" she adds, II have never before
seen you dressed as a sailor. 1t is true that
you are a good looking fellow, like that, al
though with your shirt, with its collar open to
the breast, and the pompom on your cap, you
look something like girl
"A girl" he answers. Girls like me you
want to beware of, Marietta. But not of me;
for it is with a good motive that have come
to see you"
All" she replies, dreamily.
Now the bucket is placed on the margin of the
we'll and the water looks so fresh that one is
eager to drink it. Like bird Mariette bends
over and drinks
1T is lucky, the water that you drink, Mari
cite" he says. And you yourself are so fresh
and pure that you resemble it. One could
drink you up in glass Of water
And when the lips of the young girl have
quit the rim of the bucket he places his own
there in the same place. 1t IS love that they
drink at the close Of this spring day.