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Cor refused to favor) the claims Of this
modern Joan of Arc.
The archbishop's acts are nothing like
such hasty efforts to reduplicate the
story of the Maid. France is not. to-
day, in the desperate situation or the
deserted little court at Chinou Castle
in 1929 Also. there is the public. which
did not exist in those DAYS. So. the
archbishop put Claire with the sisters
OF the Avenue Fictor-Hugo and an
nounced that special ecclesiastical
commission would inquire elaborately
into the entire matter. Which. of
course. means Rome.
Then silence. waiting.
All France is in what you might call
whispering rumor. and the pilgrima ge
I" the Perchaud farm continually grows
and grows.
VIII American soldiers in France.
next spring, witness some grandiose
and unexpected movement. as magnif-
cent as that behind the Maid in 1929?
The Maid took time Joan Of Arc be-
gan TO hear her voices" in 1924. After
mental agonies and hesitations which
lasted four years. she yielded TO the
heavenly orders and was conducted by
her cousin Durand to Capt. de Vaucou-
leurS. Twice rebufted, she declared
that she would find the dauphin "if
she had to walk her legs off up to her
knees. This was IN 142S. At Chinou
Castle. in the spring of 1923. there was
new iuCredulty. Even after loan had
picked out Charles VII disguised as 4
page boy and told him a secret known
only to himself, the fear of ridicule
tto be led by Il girD held them back.
Nothing could be done without an &c
"!esiastlcal commission and Joan was
sent before the Bishop of PoitierS
The thing comes back persstently,
to the old story
VIII the parallels continue
NO. says the ordinarily cynical tri
de Paris win unexpected softnsss and
sweetness. Providence has no need to
SerVllcly repeat its miracles under the
same form. To save eternal France. ii
used the soldiers OF the Year II and. in
1911. the poilus Of the Marne. many Of
whom were unbelicverS. and even the
heroic descendants or the English who
burned Joan al Rheims"
. What then.
There are the people.
" anything authoritative ha, come
out Of the crowds at the Perchaud farm.
y is a saying which concerns the
Perchaud is to induce the French gov
ernM"nt 30 add a religious eInble:n in
Stik to the national standard. which is
the trico!or. If the Sacred Heart of
lesus be embroidered on #, tho. end Of
the war VIII be uear This is the mes
sage which the Voices whisper to the
girl.
Aud nov, they say. along. the trench
ine OF the French (Which still covers
800 of the $50 miles from Relfort to
the North sea-. il YOU will lool, into the
folds OF this or that glorious tricolol
flag. You viii find, in more than you
expected that the notable addition is
begun. \ tiny image of the sacred
heart is pinned there.
1t is a poor little print on "a leo
timid. shamefaced beginning.
Who pinned it"
Hands of poiluS.
If you hear France Whispering. you
VIII hear this also.
STERLING HEILIG
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Haute to Paducah.'
feelso" Abe said IT suppose at the
start he was keeping SO calm that he
started to light the cap, and probably
took one or two puffs before he noticed
anything strange about the flavor, be-
cause you could easy make a mistake
like that with a German cigar
Nh, Bernstorf,' he says at last, as
he looks at the expense account. be
fore we take up the matter of this
here eight foot shelf of the worlds
greatest fiction, ] would like to hear
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DF---A

men. They found it so dror that not d
day passed without one of them re-
peating ii. The most stupid repeated
II. as well as the most intelligent. Pal
Ions. who was 4 poor devil of 4 shep-
herd and half an idiot. used it no less
than Goullainne, who was professor in
a faculty.
Try to get killed quickly, so that we
may inherit your pipe"'
At first Journee felt cold chills run
nlng down his back. for he had no de-
sire whatever TO be killed. But after
while he got used to this specimen
of poilu ia cetiousness.
In writing TO his godmother he
passed the saying along to her, with q
certain pride in showing how general
was the opinion of his comrades on
that point. But for fear that his bene-
factress might think i'll OF his fellows
he added. candidly:
But all this, mademoiselIe, is only a
Jest"
Mile. Descossoles found the pleas
antries of the trenches rather peculiar
For her part. she could not understand
the humor of that kind Of badinage
One morning very early they asked
for volunteers to reconnoiter the en-
emyS positions. Journee offered him
self. as did three others. They crawled
to the top OF an eminence which doni-
mated the most advanced German lines
While the sergeant who accompanied
them noted the lay Of the land the men
slid down behind the ridge. which pro-
tected them. Seated there. they lighted
their pipes. Suddenly shell burst in
their midst
Journee had the upper part of his
body torn of and thrown some feet
away. The others fell. nangled by
the explosion. Only the sergeant es-
capped. He left his dangerous position
and returned slowly To fiud his COM
pany.
What's the natter" they asked
him. You are alone"
a shell" lie answered. MI killed"
And Jouruec"
''Journee is there with the others.
Journce was very popular With hiy
comrades. Their faces iecoin" grave.
Day broke tardily. pale and listl"as as
il saddened 1T :, nat it was about To
see.
When night came again the sergeant
decided that they should 20 10 look
for the dead men N order TO bury them
v thin the lines. @auy offered them
selves for that mission. Goullainue
and Pallons wished TO bring in Jour
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is so old that they're pretty near falling
down anyway
Don't give me no arguments the
kaiser says. I suppose you're going to
tell me these here
IS 5-12 doz. asstd. bombs. 49,. s., 200
was some Saturday specials you picked
up in a bargain basement. What was
they filed with? Rubies?'
Bombs is awful high. boss. Berns-
terff SAYS. ASK Dernburg what he used
to pay for bombs: ask Won -Papen: ask
anybody; they would tell you the same :
Should l also ask 'em il spies gets
paid in America the same like stomach
specialists in Germany? Look at this:
ITO one weeks salary, 1925
spies TX 0uU
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some such expert as Nicholas Murray
Butler oder the president Of the Union
Theological cemetery"
AT that" Abe said, 'T think they'd
know more about the price of gar
ments than Bernstorr did about the
price of congressman. l always give
that feller credit for more sense than
that he should try to explain an item
in his expense account by claiming
that
April 3. 1917. to sundries $4,000
was what he paid for bribing the
United States Congress"
Wei. say" Morris exclaimed. the
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poor feller had to tell 'em something,
didn't he? Here he is coming back
from his trip after losing his whole
territory to his firms competitors. and,
naturally, he tries to make a good
showing with his expense account
which. believe me. Abe. il I was a
rotten salesman like that, before l
would face my employer-and such an
employer. because that Kosher amt
got them spike mustaches for
nothing. Abel would first jump in
the river. even il my expense account
showed that 1 had been staying in a
dollar nda-haif-a day American-pla
hotels and had sat up nights in the
smoker for big jumps like from Terre
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union spies to work for you?'
That only goes to show what you
know about America Bernstorf says.
There's whole lot of people in America
which would stand for blowing up fac
tories. sinking passenger steamers. shoot
ing up hospitals and dropping bombs on
kindergartens. understand, but when it
comes to people employing scab labor,
they draw the line. And then again. boss,
spies is very highly thought of in Amer
ica. Respectable people like lawyers and
doctors gets arrested every day over
there. and even once in a while min
lister. y'understand. but spy-never.'
.'At this point, when it looks like plain
sailing for Bernstorff, the kaiser picks
out that $4,000 item, and right there
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and other papers all the alleged facts
were stated and corrected and the out
lines of them are, undoubtedly, fol-
lows:
Claire is a typical peasant girl in dress
and style, and while she helped her par
ents with the farm work daily tas did
Joan of Domremy), she has the great
eyes and mystical refinement of features
attributed to the Maid in all old pic
lures. Like the Maid, from childhood
she was known for her fervent and
faithful piety. never missing her devo-
tions morning and evening and given
to prayer when alone in the fields.
A few months before last March she
returned from the fields one day, pale
and exhausted, and confided to her par
ents that she had seen a vision Of the
Evening star., 1917-10-28
nd Morris on "Bernst0rff's Expense Account

Bernstorr makes his big uuistaiss. nres
soon as he starts that oonsrsssmsn seuay
the old man begins to dgurs that r onn-
gressmen arc so cheap and spass % daan
understand. the only thing TO d b b
call up the Pollzeiprasidfum ana tan Asm
to send around a plain clothes man sasAt
HohenIollern's bell" I
Then you really think that Bansenn
and Won Papen and all them CROOKS dsau's
spend the money over here ehaa shsy
claimed they spent" Morris said.
They probably spent it an r4sntS Abe
replied, 'but whether or not they spent
it for what they claimed thay spsua il
for. Mawruss. thaY don't know be-
cause II them fellers didn't stop ss assor-
dynamiting and murder. why should ehsy
hesitate at petty larceny?"
But what them boys did IN the way
OF blowing up munitions plants and sink
loved the kaiser SO much. and instead Of
arresting Bernstorn for the money he
spent, Abe, bet yer the kaiser made him
a thirty-second degree passed assistant
Geheimrat or something" Morris declared.
'well, there's no accounting for tastes
Mawruss," Abe said, ''and II these here
Germans is willing to slaughter, rob and
burn because they are in love with a feller
which to me has a personality as at
tractive as the framed insides Of tho en-
trance to safe deposit vault. y'under-
stand. all / can say is that I don't give
them no more credit for 1t than would
to bookkeeper who committed forgery
because he was in love with the third
lady from the end in the second row OF
the original Bowery burlesauers.'
"The wonder to me is that the lrzassr
don't see it that way. too" Morris COM
mented.
That's because when it comes right
from the end amt no moro stuck on
herself than the kaiser is on himself
Abe said. Them third ladies' from the
end figure that the poor suckers always
did like 'cm, and that therefore they
are alwas going TO like 'em, so they
go ahead and treat their admirers like
dawgs and take everything they give
'em, y'undcrstand. and the end of It IS
that either a third lady becomes 80
careless that from a perfect thirty-dx
she becomes to be an imperfect ffey-
four and has to work for a living, or
else she gets pinched for receiving d .
property which them poor bufraloed
admirers of hers handed over to her.
and that'n be the end Of the kaiser, too I
And how soon do you think that will
happen?' Morris asked. That depends
on how soon the kaiser's admirers gets
through with him." Abe said
Maybe the kaiser will quit nrst. :
Morris concluded, because you take
them third ladies' from the end. ABB.
and sooner or later, they grow terrfhis
tired of this here-now-fast lifes
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A Worms Turning.

esW OF cant be too drastic i'll your
treatment Of a nation like Ger
many" said Admiral Couden Perry at a
Cold Springs luncheon.
You've got to consider Germany as
John Nagg considered marriage.
John said Mrs Nasg, have You
read this book. How to Be Happy
Though Married":'
Nope said Nagg J don't need TO-
I know how. you see, without reading
it,
We'll. how, them said his wife.
Get DIVORCE said he"
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The Bride Goes Shopping.

IN r. HARRY A GARFIELD, the fuel
administrator. said one day to a
Williams College sophomore:
Young man. you are as ignorant or
that question as the young bride was
of domestic science.
sion dealer:
''oh. see you've got some cells! Tit
take some, please
How much? the dealer asked
Well she replied. think about twcA
yards and half
moment later she told tho ma n
shed like some butter
Roll butter" said he.
No, she said It's for bread. We
don't eat rolls'n
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Unfair Advantages.

esH ERMANY. with her SUMMARIZES
and so forth. gains. We must ads
nit, some advantages In this wan
but
The speaker was Secretary a J. Rus
sell of the Theosophical Society. He
went on:
Germany reminds mo of Q lad who
said to his father:
Father, today I earned two dollars-
the first money I ever earned In my
life
Good" said tho father. And howv
my boy, did you do it?
Il lost bet was the reply. and re-i
fused to pay up"
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what you got to say for yourself, SO
go ahead nit your lies and make it
short
- suppose you got my letters,
BernstorT begins. the ones 1 sent you
through the Swede
What Swede?" the kaiser says
lyon Yonson, the second assistant
amba ssador,' Bernstorff answers. I told
him if he got them letters through for
me that you would give him an order
on the chancellor for 4 first-class red
eagle, but l guess he'd be satisfied with
one of them old rose eagles; class Alb,
that we used to have piled up there in
the corner of the shipping room
"I wouldn' even give him an order
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pipe, the beautiful pipe. It was heavy
as stona He remembered his ghastly
pleasantly and was ashamed. How could
he keep that which had been the last
consolation of his comrade?
He drew out the white meerschauu
pipe with the laughing face OF the
Zouave, and placed 1t on the sheet
which held what remained OF Journea.
Here" he said to the volunteer
gravediggers. bury this, too. Journee
ought to have it with him wherever he
goes 1t came from the only woman In
the world who ever gave him even a
little of her love"
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and you would be playing III luck if you
didn't get charged dollar each for tast-
Ing coal. smelling coal, feeling coal and
doing anything else to coal that coal
dealer would have the nerve to charge
one dollar for
We'll. if | would be the United
States government Abe commented,
"and had got a practical coal man
like this here Garfield to set a limit
OF 81. wouldn't let them robbers pull
no last rounds of rang-doodIes on me.
Mawruss. I'd take away their chips
from 'em and put 'em right out of the
game"
Sure l know. Abe Morris said.
.aber this here Garfield amt a prac-
ticai coal man. Abe, and maybe that's
the trouble hir. Garfield is president
of Williams College. SO you couldn't
blame these here coal dealers. because
you know as well as l do. Abe, the
garment trade will certainly put up an
awful holler If. when it comes to ap-
point a cloak and suit administrator.
Mr. Wilson is going to wish on us
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had gotten so that they could see
pretty wei! in the darkness. They dis
covered in the underbrush the dead OF
the night before. They brought them
back for burial.
safs in the rear. they searched the
corpses for their identification papers
and for souvenirs.
And the pipe" said Migot. when
they went through Journee's pockets.
He was smoking when he was
killed" answered the sergeant.
They could not find the pipe. Goui-
lainne recalled that he thought he had
seen it in the underbrush.
For heavens sake cried Migot.
why didn't you pick it upy'
'loull have TO go and get it your
self"
IN go Journee has always said that
he would bequeath it to US. If he were
killed. 4 beautiful pipe like that
would YOU leave il to the Germans?'
You are a fool said the sergeant.
Are you going TO go back there now?"
In fact. the bomba rdmeut had begun
again. All the ground in front OF the
trenches was slashed with shells. Migot
shrugged his shoulders and left the
shelter. He crawled slowly and non
chalanIIy. Dawn came. one could hear
nothing hut the inceSsant roar of the
cannon. The suns rays We're reflected
on tlc D!us UPS ht lit grass
On certain large space the soil was
dug up here and there and the under
growth was destroyed. on the earth
there were brown spots.
There is the place" Migot said to him
self
He looked about him. In 4 moment or
TWO he Spied some feet away Journee's
beautiful pipe. He put il in his pocket
and returned without mishap.
lie was received with shouts Of laugh
ter
Haze you got it,
u surely have it,.
"Eut while YOU were away. we buried
the owner"
Migot walked to the place where
Gpullainue and Pallons were still dig
Sip~ Journ.e'S grave. The remains rest
ed ON a sheet. Migot looked at them.
iie felt 4 strange tuggins at his heart.
Here was another vino would never re
turn, What a brave fellow Journee
was
suddenly he felt in his pocket the
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on Mike the popular Berlin halter for
a two-dollar derby even.' the kaiser
says. 'Chutzpah. Writes we letter aft
er letter with nothing but weather re-
ports in 'em, and he wants me 1 should
give this here Yonson a red eagle yet
which costs me thirty-two fifty doz-
en- wholesale. Seemingly to you, Bern
storff, money is nothing
Here the old man grabs ahold of the
expense account again.
Honestly, Bernstorff.' he says, 1
don't see how you had the heart to
spend all that money, when you know
how things are here in Berlin. If me
and my Gussie sits down once a week
TO such a piece of meat as gedampfte
Brustdeckel NIT Observation-Disclosures,
understand, that's already feast for
us, and, as for chicken, assure you we
the house since my birthday a year
ago. and you got the nerve to send me
in an expense account like this. Amt
it shame and a disgrace:
1919 May /. bolo. ..-.......... $500
}. bolo .--....--. 600
8. bolo. ............. 81
and every other day for week after
week you spent on bolo anvwheres
from one to fifteen dollars. Tell me.
Bernstorff, how could man make such
a god out of his stomach
why what do you think bolo is?'
Sernstorff asks.
Il don't think what boio is l know
what bolo is the kaiser tells him and
a dreamy look comes into his eyes
Many a time 1 seen my poor Grossmut-
ter olav hasholom make ii. She used
to chop UP ten onions, five cents worth
parsley and big piece Knoblauch, add
six eggs and a half pound melted
butter, and let simmer slowly Now
take your chicken and
'All right, Boss, / wouldn't argue
with you. Bernstorff says, because
them amounts represent only the pre-
liminary lunches which give this here
Bolo. Further down you would see
where he gets the real, big money and
then I'll explain
well. explain this the old man
says: Here under date July I'd, 1916
it stand an item:
To blowing up munitions
who did you get to do it? Caruso?'
You couldn't blow up a munitions
plant and make a first-class job of it
under ten thousand dollars, Boss"
Bernstorff says.
rs that so?' the kaiser tells him
Well. let me tell you something, Bern
storn. I've got a pretty good line on
what them munitions explosions ought
TO cost. My eldest boy has been blow
ing up buildings in France for over
three years now. and for what it costs
to blow up a factory he could blow up
two cathedrals and a chateau
Have it your own way. boss Bern
storff says, but them chateau buildings
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the Maid He returned with a favorable
report of her religious sentiments. and
hours of questonines had failed to
weaken her belief in the vision of the
sacred heart and the mysterious whis-
perings to be UP and deliver France.
But the girl was full of modesty and
good sense. She profesSed humble
Willingness to wait for further guild
ance as to what form the deiiverance
should assume. 'All very extraordi
nary" said the Oblats father
So the bishop had Claire brought be-
fore him, and here we see the strange
analogy with the Maid continue. Joan OF
Arc, before She could convince the court
at Chinon, i'll 1929. had to be examined
by learned commission, and for this
purpose they sent her to the Bishop of
Poitiers.
So now. with Claire before the pres
ent day Bishop of PoitierS. in presence
of a number of other priests. The
dramatic scene in which she passed
over the vicar. disguised in Episcopal
purple, and picked out the bishop,
garbed as a parish priest, is too exact a
replica Of the comedy at Chlnon castle.
when the dauphin changed clothes
with the page boy to test Joan; doubt
less the bishops sense and modesty re-
fused to more than dress himself like
all the other priests. In any case,
Claire picked him out Immediately.
though she had never seen his portrait.
and though an inexperienced farm girl.
she addressed him i'll the orthodox
manner. which she had certainly never
heard or seen from anybody. These
and similar details mot toldD weigh
heavily with the clergy,
Claire persisted in her statements
before the bishop. They put her to live
n
at Chinon castle). II did not turn her
head and she continued strong. silent.
self-possessed and modest. She was
given time to cool down There was
no change. Always, she persisted.
very simply, in her story.
Also. there was something which
spoke for her.
Down there. on the Perchaud farm.
the food of pilgrims grew continually.
The news penetrated rar and wide. Now
pred orninated folks by train from dis
tant sections. All. from far and near.
brought photographs of soldiers with
them, to deposit at the foot OF the tiny
altar in the field. They did not ask 20
see the local clergy. They just knclt
and prayed. And when they learned that
Claire was gone they went away. with
out more words They left the photo
graphs.
Aud the Bishop of Poitiers sent Claire
to the Archbishop OF Paris.
You realize how completely extraor-
dinary these mer" proceedings are?
Nothing of the kind has been known
il, France for three generations. and
probably much longer. The Bishop OF
Poitiers. you Will conceive, must nrst
have deemed the facts sufficient To
Justify passing them on to Cardinal
Annette, and the latter, going over the
reports tdespite the solemn circum-
stances and the political-religious sit
uation). deemed II imperative to answer:
send the girl to Paris.
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The next day Migot. blacksmith of
rude appearance, but with sardonic
fancy, called out to him:
say, Journee, if you are killed by
the Boches we shall inherit your pipe"
This pleasantly appealed to all the
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ny MONTAGUE GLASS.

Copyright, 1917. by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
aH0 SEE where the government puts
w a limit on the price which coal
dealers could charge for coal"
Abe Potash said to his partner.
Morris Pearlmutter
Sure. l know" Morris said. "but did
the coal dealers see it, because / met
Felix Geigermann on the subway this
morning. and from the way he talked
about what the coal dealers was asking
for coal up in Sand Plains, where he
lives. Abe. 1 gathered It was somewheres
around twenty dollars a carat unset
''Gott sci dank, am living in an
apartment nit steam heat. and my lease
has still got two years to run at the same
rent" Abe said.
well. I hope it's written on good thick
wear under your overcoat when you sit
home evenings next winter, Abe, because
be giving coal to the furnace like it would
be medicine. from FIVE to ten grains every
three hours" Morris predicted, which
will admit that 1 amt a good enough
Judge OF anthracite coal to tell whether
it's fireproof. of slow-burnng construc-
tion or just the ordinary sprlnkled risk.
y'understsnd. but l do know coal dealers.
Abe. and if the government says they
must got 20 sell coal at seven dollars a
ton. understand. it'n be like buying one
of them high-grade automobiles. where
the list price includes only the engine and
the two front wheels. i. o. 3. Detroit
In other words, Abe. If you would buy
coal today at s. ton. YOU would get 4
bill something like this:
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nee. The sergeant guided them From
watching so many nights the soldiers
had gotten so that they could see
pretty wei! in the darkness. They dis
covered in the underbrush the dead OF
the night before. They brought them
back for burial.