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The Absent-Minded Bishop.

rAIRFAX HARRISON of the Southern
u railway, head of the central COM
mittee of five that will supervise Amer
ica's transportation throughout the
w,r told at a dinner a story about one
Of his ancestors, a famous am . bishop;
sont.minded. On a train one day he
couldn't find his ticket an tT The s @S,1s Ss
searched his pocket. then the man said:
TITS all right. bishop 33; You You're rep per- r.
THANK you. my good friend
I'm half an hour the conductor re-
turned. The bishop was still searching.
He had turned his pockets inside out
His face was as red as beefsteak and
a sweat of agony believed his fore
head.
ductor in a soothing tone. I know
you. sir. Even If you can't nnd your
ticket at all, it will be all right
INDEED it won't. be all right them
said the bishop furiously. I must find
INV ticket Haven't I got to know
where I'm goingr."
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Horses by the Hwmdred Thousand for Uncle Sas ARMY

over recruits to the medical officers
for physical examination before ac-
ceptance. We must determine that the
horses are sound and free from infec-
ton. and apparently without vicious
habits.
Capt. John s. Fair Of the quarter
master department, and to whom as an
organizer L respectfully remove my
hat. was ordered to make ready to re-
ceive the animals. We did not believe
1t possible that they could come in
such droves as soon as they did. Our
were expecting 500. when they began
to come by the thousands. In a month
we had at Fort Sam Houston 10000; in
two months. $4,000. and inside Of three.
10000. One. to realize the work ac-
complished. must see in his mind
vast open country well out of the set
Element and not near the railroad
Capt. Fair had to employ civilian
labor, procure wire and the cedar posts
for the fences Of the corrals. where the
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ers out Of the sheep business There need
be no trouble. however. about swine. so
long as there is plenty Of corn with which
to feed them. One hundred pounds Of
pork can be produced with from 400 to
$50 pounds of corn as the principal ra-
ton. 1t would cost. therefore. about $38
selling at 1852 a bushei. and the hog
would bring $4s at the present market
price. which is, approximately. SIS a
hundred. on the hoof in Chicago.
products were exported in 1915. Nor
mally. Americas best customers for pork
are Great Britain, Germany. France.
Italy. Norway. the Netherlands. Belgium.
Canada and Cuba Germans in the past
have bought large quantities of lard in
this country. There has also been con-
siderable export trade with hams, the
fame of which has practically gone around
the earth.
Nine. Joffre, as her husband, the mar
shall. informed Mrs. Wilson, wife of the
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draw the supply wagons that mako up
the wagon train.
"Cn the arrival Of a consignment Of
animals to the remount camp the sound
ones are put in the corrals, but any
that are sick with infectious disease
are isolated, and those which have train
fever-and that includes about 80 per
cent-are treated accordingly.
'-Glanders Is the nightmare Of the
veterinarian. and he must always be
on the watch against 1t, for it will get
ahead of him IL he does not If 1t does.
the Medical Corps will have no further
use for him. and the loss in animals to
the government will be serious.
Every day a veterinarian rides
through each corral and inspects the
animals within it. always keeping "a
sharp lookout for the first symptom Oh
the dreaded CHAMBERS. II he detects
symptoms of any contagious disease he
points the animal out to one of his sew
eral assistants. and he ropes the crea-
ture and takes him out for inspection
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rs Complete Destruction of Rheims Cathedral

which Amerigo vespucci has discov-
cred, and which. for this reason. we
call America"
st. Die Cathedral Is a wreck.
Three times in three years the Ger
man long-range guns tried to reach 1t,
and finally succeeded 1t was a task of
the incest difficulty to obtain and cal
culate the "elements'' to blow up a lit
Jewel of a cathedral), sunk in the bot
tom of a mountain valley. twenty miles
in the French interior. They could not
hope to take St. Die by twenty years
(and are) twenty miles Of pine forest
mountains in between. held by the
armies of France, with railroads and
automobile trainsi
I give St. Die for clearness.
Let us have clearness.
The final destruction of Rheims Cathe-
dral will make a great stir in the
world, when the news Is offlcially an
nounced.
The German high command will claim
accident by the necessity of the situa-
ton. and. doubtless. long attempts, long
successful and (of course) with mar
vellous skill to tenderly spare the sa-
cred edifice in the midst of necessary
cannon f1re-and that. finally, 1t must
be Frances own fault!
I'VE have taken under our fire." says
the German communique. French bat
teries observed by US in Rheims and
environs."
Batteries in Rheims!
AS Tor "environs." the cathedral Is not
in the environs, but in the center of
the ancient crowded city.
AS early as May l. a private letter of
the Archbishop of Rheims. Cardinal Luz
con, circulated in Paris. On May 5 the
censorship permitted its publication. I
quote:
"Fyiday-Infernal bombardment, 1850
shells.
Saturday-Systematic Smelling Of the
cathedral with great shells. of which
many BOSS. fired at regular intervals,
the time necessary to load one of those
giant engines in the place of the pre-
the cathedral. A large number have
reached 1t. and others fell. here. there,
to right or left, or in the ruins Of the
archbishop's palace.
THE cathedral Is assassinated. The
apse is massacred. Three flying but
tresses went down today, most Of the
pinnacles are Topped off. the ciere-
in great part blown to the ground. The
walls have great breaches which i'm
peril their solidity. The towers have
been gravely hit. Finally. the vaulted
roof has fallen in, in five places-in the
south transept. in the chancel, which
is ruin, and in front of the pulpit.
1.-The baptisma1 fonts are crushed. The
high altar. buried under the debris of
the roof. Is no longer visible"
Tuesday" continues the archbishop
IT was at work in my office. The house
shook and the earth trembled at each
305-shell, which began, again, to fall
in ten-minute intervals. Each time
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President, is especially fond of Amer
lean ham. and so. when he sailed for
France. a ham from Virginia, gift
from the White House, was among his
baggage. These Virginia hams. cured
in a peculiar way. have been privately
sold for, about century. A farmer
named Todd started the business, using
hogs that ran wild in the woods and
lived on roots. berries and nuts.
The same breed Of hogs. razor-backs,
as they are called, Tong -nosed. slab
sided and long-legged rooters," as a
native describes them. still produce the
original Todd. They roam the forests
Of four Virginia counties. but each Is
fed an ear of corn in the morning and
at night ito keep them to the CALL" as
their owners explain.
In the autumn they are turned Into
corn. potato and peanut fields. after
the harvesting Of the crops. and later
are placed in pens and fed on corn and
bedded with pine needles gathered in
the woods. They weigh from 1875 to
smoked with hickory or red oak, av-
erage about ten pounds in weight and
are sold, mostly. in Baltimore. Wash
ington. Philadelphia. New York and
Boston, although some go to Paris and
London.
The methods Of Todd have been cop
led ny other farmers and the industry
as whole has become celebrated wher-
ever white men live who like and can
afford to purchase luxurious food. 1t
would be disastrous, the Virginia ex-
perts say. to refine the razor-back hog
The meat of other hogs, cured by the
Virginia process, they say. entirely
lacks the real razor-back delicacy and
flavor. And the best of swine, blood
considered. when taken into the woods
and let loose among nuts and berries.
fail utterly, to reach the razor-back
quality.
Every swine raiser in the corn belt
and out of It has his favorite breed.
There are national associations unal-
terably pledged in their loyalty to
Chester Whites. Poland Chinas, Duroc-
Jerseys. Yorkshires. Berkshires, Hamp-
shires, Victorias and Cheshires. There
are black hogs, white hogs, red hogs
and hogs splashed with all three col
ors If any man wants to start a
fight in hog community all that he
has to do is to eulogiZe some hog that
is a favorite elsewhere.
The Chester White originated among
the Quaker farmers in Chester county,
Pa. in the year 1920, with bears
brought from Bedfordshire, England,
This was a great hog in his day. and.
when fattened. weighed from 500 10 500
pounds. Occasional specimens weighed
rs much as half ton But the skin OF
the Chester White Is thin and sensi-
tive, 30 Il 10 alleged by the Champions
breeds, and is easily blistered
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What the Common Hog Has Dome for American FARMERS

by tho sun and irritated by the high
prairie winds.
Poland Chinas, black. with white feet;
white markings on their faces ana
white tips to their tails, were developed
in Butler and Warren counties, Ohio,
by the Shakers. This. also. is large
animal, Weighing at maturity from
500 to 1000 pounds. The Poland
Chinas, with their variations, are more
widely distributed than any other kind.
But they are being rapidly overtaken
in number by the Duroc-Jerseys, a red
hog that can now be found in all
parts of the United States, Back In
Reds were imported from Spain and
given their American start in Burling-
ton county. About the Same time the
Durocs. natives Of England. were es-
tablished In Saratoga county, N. Y.
The Jersey Reds were large; the
Durocs were of medium size. Breeders
Of both came together and, waving
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one more shell either above or at the
side will bring 1t all down. and, with II,
all the arches which rest on the capital
of this bundle of columns. one OF the
four pilasters UNFOLDING the vaulted
roof"
Do you understand? Do you graspf
Do you appreciate the dosed and
measured revelations for the greaA
French public?
The words of the cathedral architects;
IT fear that the north tower is about
to fall" are like ono OF those notices
they send to bereaved families that the
son Cor husband) has been seriously
wounded"
These extracts from the letter OF Car
dinal-Archbishop Lucon are like the
visit of the priest which follows-to
prepare France to receive the final. IA
tai tldinge!
Adieu. Rheims Cathedral!
STERLING HELLO.
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culture. "are in the east and in the
mountain and Pacific states"
Such. then. is the hog map Of the ma
ton. 1t can easily be seen in the mind
and remembered. Corn alone makes
this the greatest pork producing coun-
try in the world. Previous to the war,
and it is the case now, there were more
swine in the United States than there
were in Argentina, Austria Hungary,
Canada. France, Germany, European
Russia and Great Britain, all combined
as to their totals.
Iowa. with 100000 head. on January
Spain and france. Illinois. with 4,444,-
900 head. had a million more than
Great Britain. Texas. with 3.22s.000
head. had more than Canada, and Geor-
gia. with 2.585.000 head. more than
Italy.
Germany is a sausage. pork and lard
eating country. 1t had 25.600,000 swine
in 1913. That number. perhaps, has
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On the Retreat.
ssRH INDENBURG'S

ssHT INDENBURG'S 'genius-retreat.'
III as the Germans call It, bids fair
to become a genius-rout." said Gen
Irving Lefevre at q luncheon in New
York.
Yes. the genius retreat will soon re-
semble that civil war retreat where the
commander-fn-chfef. squirting madly,
said to his aid-de-camp:
whats the composition Of our rear
Kuardr .
"Galloping along. the aid-de-camp rsa
piled:
posed exclusively of the men who have
the worst horses.'"
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OUTSIDE RHEIMS. May 80. 1917.
o. FEAR that the north tower Is
OOI about to fall"
So spoke the architect Of
q Rheims Cathedral.
When. a week later. the Paris papers
were allowed to quote them. all knew
what 1t meant The French public must
be prepared, little by little, for the
blow struck at it's heart-the final de-
struction of the Incompatible old ba-
silica. which stands for the purest
splendors of French history. from Remi.
Clovis and the Outstanding of the
land, to Joan of Arc and the GROWING
Of the kings.
Thus, when a soldier has been killed.
they prepare the family by printed
form notice: Your son COR husband
OF brother) has been seriously wound
Three days later. the Paris papers
were permitted to quote LEcla1reur
de rEst. still then printed in Rheims:
1.-THE bombardment continues furious
~ against the cathedral district, with
the use of their heaviest shells. 1t Is
impossible to estimate the numDer'
even approximately. On FRIDAY, the
Smelling continued day and night On
Saturday a calm of a few hours; then
the bombardment recommended more
violent than ever. notably between noon
and 8 pm, and and pm. Sunday
succession of smaller shells all day.
with fury
All will, doubtless. be known before
these lines can be printed. There have
been days when 10000 shells were
counted. 100 shells. 1850 shells.
Rheims was practically empty; yet an
average of from six to eighteen persons
were killed daily. One morning, h1teen
women were killed together like flies.
by poison-gas Shells in the street OF
the cloister beside the cathedral.
Now we come to the remaining ques-
ton.
On the battle front-miles and miles
beyond-they found German picture
postcard, all trampled and soiled. II
represents. in three colors. amid a city
in red flames and yellow explosions,
Rheims Cathedral standing, purple
and glorious, marvelously intact and
spared.
A common German feldgrau. resting
on his rifle. watches in the foregrouno.
BY the reverent expression OF his race,
It is clear to see that. il the valorous
German knows how to fight, he also
knows how to appreciate and spare the
marvels of art, history and faith. To
make sure that the Interpretation shall
reach all minds, even the weakest.
these words Con Powered device)
above the f1ame-framed cathedral:
Den Deutschen elm Hetligthum! "a
thing sacred for GermanSD"
This is how the German government
and high command explain Rheims
Cathedral-and the cathedrals of Sois-
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for are collected and let out to the train
in groups Of i've and two, for a horse car
holds twenty-five horses packed In. hall
tefless, in a box to keep them from fall
ing The cars have been inspected to
make certain that they are free from
nails and splinters. clean and disinfected-
The train must be stopped once in twenty
four hours to feed. water and exercise
the stock.
-'Our men became so expert in loading
these animals that they would have 500
horses aboard with their halters tied to
the roof Of the car within thirty-fve min
utes from the instant the train pulled UP
to the platform by the switch.
Attendants went with every hundred
horses and remained in charge of them
until the one in charge delivered them to
the officer to whom they had been con-
signed and from whom he took q receipt
Tor their safe delivery.
IF the border experience called for ami
mails for a hundred thousand men ono
can only imagine what will be seen when
we are supplying an army Of a million
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men. However. there will not be the
same rush. the animals will not all be
sent to the one remount camp. and with
this opportunity for preparation there
should be no confusion and no great loss
OF stock, for there will be better oppor-
tunity to inspect and reject all infected
animals before they reach the horse
camp"
Maj. Griffin is a veteran in the regular
service and one of the best informed men
In the world on the care Of individual
horses. which he considers the small
thing, and one OF the most capable sani-
tarians of animals for military use in
camps. which is the great thing.
When a remount hospital has beef es-
tablished 1t is not satisfactory to him
unless everything runs smoothly. like the
movement Of a well oiled piston rod.
Under the able administration of Capt
John s. Fair, commanding officer Of the
Fort Sam Houston remount. official and
personal intercourse of the force was de-
void Of friction. The losses of animals
from disease were the smallest known for
such a number assembled.
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The Recruit.

MALE HOLDEN. the railroad opera
III tor, said at Chicago reception:
gwen war can't hurt the gayety of
youth. ,
met a young man hurrying gayly
sta tinnward the other morning with q
gripsack.
".To Junk the jupkers. he answered.
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horses that did not have to go to the
hospital were gathered to the number
Of 500 IN each open Enclosure. erect
the convalescents and storehouses for
the forage. He had to build a railroad
track out to the camp and erect plat
forms for loading and unloading the
cars as they left or took out their loads.
He had to get together the force of men
to care for all these animals and to ad-
minister the affairs Of the whole camp;
and he did it,
"All animals that arrived in good
condition. after branding on the
shoulder and having their number
burned into their hoofs. are turned loose
in 500 lots in the corrals. They are not
groomeo ana are leLt quite free to roam
will.
"A horse Is very like a man: he will
not take any more work than he has to.
and about all these fellows do ia to
wander around or run or jump when
some other fellow gives them a bite OF
q kick.
I'VE give them about five pounds Of
oats and eight pounds of hay a day. The
men put the forage in racks and
troughs in the corrals and each horse
goes for his share. Being like men in
this respect. some of the strong get
rather more than their portion, but it
-.
The animals are grouped in three
classes. three of horses and three Of
mules. The cavalry horse weighs about
a thousand pounds. is about fifteen
hands and an inch, and should be- a
stanch. springy animal, for he must he
able to carry his load twenty-five or
thirty miles day. and that load, which
is made up of carbine. saber, pistol.
horse kit. personal kit and forage. with
the weight Of the rider. will be 2so
pounds at the start of the day. and The
horse cannot tell what it seems like ha
fore the day is done.
THE field gun horse weighs a connie
OF hundred pounds more and must have a
good strong neck to come up into fhe
collar. His type would make a FOOD
horse for an express or delivery wa ron
and a team of six of them taking a S,r
into action is a sight once seen neyar
forgotten. In teams of four thew banI
the heavy caissons or ammnniticn
wagons, and as there are six Of thasa
to each gun and caisson 1t takes lax
Tor each battery. and under the feer
full strain of war these fellows do Mt
last at their best for a very long tinne
The big horses, 1.400 pounds or mnre
In teams Of eight. draw the heavy Guns
and howitzers.
Mules are the sturdy pack animals NJ
moderate size and Of docility and in
telligence, the heavy wheelers and the
lighter leaders that in teams of four
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been diminished one-ha1f. Nebraska
with 100000 head. Missouri with
4.2so.ooo, In nSa with $4,000. Ohio InG
Wisconsin with 100000 Alabama with
1.S50.0o0. Minnesota with 1.733.000. Mis-
sissippt with 1.698.000 and Kentucky
with 1.5S9.ooo had more hogs on the
first day of this year than Germany
possessed on the last day Of it's chafing
peace and the high prosperity it was
about to squander.
And Louisiana with 1.5s4,000 head,
Arkansas with 1.575.00o. North Caro-
lima with 1.55o.0o0. Tennessee with
1.4S5. 200. South Dakota with 1,432,0o0,
Oklahoma with 1.372.000, Michigan with
1.345.000. Pennsylvania with LII, 900
and virginia with 1.023.o00 had as many
as European Russia.
More swine are bought, sold and
slaughtered in Chicago than in any
other city Of the world at any time in
the history Of the world. The record
week. 1.227.5os in one month and
s.1ss.224 in one year. Chicago, stating
its pork transactions in another way,
slaughtered. within twelve months, as
OF France and the greater part of Can
ada.
The second largest American swine and
pork packing center is Kansas City. Kan
Joseph. Sioux City. St Paul, Indianapo-
lis. Buffalo. Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
Cattle" Mr.. Holiness the man Of figures
says. ARE hardly increasing in number
throughout the world, sheep are declining
and swine are increasing.
IF comparisons be made" he points out
with increasing population, sheep are
far from maintaining their numbers, in
some small degree cattle are failing to
do SO. but In the case Of swine there has
been some gain above population in re-
cent years. although a small one
The hope. then. for an abundance Of
meat in this country, sold at reasonable
prices. must be conferred on the DETAINED
but seif-complacent swine. "No animal
increases and multiplies SO rapidly and
probably as does the hog, when given
proper treatment" asserts Foster d. Co.
burn. long famous as the secretary Of
the department OF agriculture in Kan
sas. expert judge Of fine live stock, au-
thor. editor and farmer and especially
distinguished for having declined an APP
pointment as a senator in Congress.
A female pig. he shows, at the end Of
four years will be the mother, grand
mother and so on of 502 daughters and
granddaughters and SOL sons and grand
sons" 'or enough hogs" as he robustly
pictures tho achievement, descendants
from one SOW pig. to pay for good
Cattle must have. pasturasa WORTHLESS
rural AxzNnnlh un1ysde-ef sfhyU.
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broken. The destruction was far
graver than I had dreamed possible.
returned desolate.
This morning (two days later) re-
turned to the cathedral, in company
with the architect. What terrible.
breaking spectacle! 1t Is the
image Of desolation.
and the apse has been so blown in shat