davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1917-10-25

Married man with wife Tor wild
over with children) dependent on
daily labor for support and no other
reasonable adequate support avail
able.
mariners in sea service Of mers
chants or citizen Of the United States.
Continued on page four
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1917-10-25
NOTICE.

Total for Tobacco fund. .$153.oO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Training Camp Graduates Happy Over Work

I'll some of the neophytes learn by
painful eXnerience how % wear their
decorations.
By the time this letter appears the
first camp at Fort Myer will be over,
and the barracks will be undergoing
scrubbing for the next batch OF pro-
spective officers. A lot of New Workers
who could have gone TO other camps
chose Fort Myer. None OF them re-
grets il. Fort Myer has been a cavalry
post for years. IL has the army at
mosphere, and we were lucky in having
in charge d man who refused to sac
rihce that atmosphere for a few min
utes' extra study.
Heaven knows we have had all the
work we could stand. We had 10 clean
I'D at least once day, and when we
were clean. We enjoyed the retreat
formation, the evening review and the
circle of dainty frocks and pretty faces
that surrounded the parade grounds.
Washington .was laid out with the
sole intention OF making it beautiful,
and the plan is succeeding. but as We
drift around Saturday nights and Sun
DAYS. looking for something TO do, Te
can't help comparing II with little old
New York. When il comes 10 amuse-
ments the comparison IS little hard
on Washington. There Is a roof garden
which will hold about three hundred
people. There was another roof garden.
but il did not pay last summer, so they
didn't open il this year. or course.
Washington is supposed 70 close up in
the summer. II always has before, but
Washington is typical OF the country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

if any Of the belligerents did not
drink two glasses OF grape juice al
the last Hague Conference. why, then,
no one need paw any attention 70 the
rules. of course. Turkey insisted on
drinking black coffee instead, and It IL
perfectly evident that Kaiser Bill took
particular pains 20 see that Turkey did
drink coffee, so that, with Turkey as an
ally, Germany was excused from living
I'D to any Of its promises. Gotta
hand it to the Kid; he's clever"
The mornings this last week have
been devoted to grand man9uvres.
Five hours Of trampiEs, sleeping and
getting captured II noise or appe-
tites count for anything, the man
euvres have been a great success. You
have read about apparently dead
Boches suddenly coming 10 life and
shooting some one in the back, and
Just imagine whole platoons absolute
ly dead. according 20 the umpires, sud
denly come to life and attacking you
from some quarter which you have
been informed was entirely clear OF
the enemy.
The afternoons have been devoted
20 some study, more sleep and much
checking in" Everything not actually
necessary 70 cover our ohigger-bitten
bodies has been turned in and good
cartoon Of this camp at present would
represent us in very much prepared
10 rush" attitude. with one hand out
stretched for n commission and clasp
ing bag in the other. II you don't
know what chiggers are you had better
take our word fsE 1t that they belong
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

FORT MYER, Va, Aug. l4.-Thank
God for a sense of humor! Last sum-
mer on the border we said that we
would sell everything but our sense
If bumor. but we did not really need
anything there except a mosquito bar
snd smile. Now we will sell any
thing except our sense OF humor and
our new uniforms.
In some Of the companies the lists
Of recommendation were posted days
ago. in others they have leaked out
gradually As early as Thursday gal
lev proofs Of the announcements were
being passed around camp. Yesterday
afternoon the complete lists were pup
lished in the papers, but aush, you
mustn't tell anybody. No one Is sup
posed 20 know anything until after
The closing exercises tomorrow.
The board of censors has done great
work. II is like the numerous PAM
phlets we have had issued to US
marked Confidential" They are scat
tered all around, and even those men
gbo have been fired have carried them
away with them. The newspapers
have been awfully nice about IT
though; but ye gods, how the edl-
tors must smile! II there is anything
Going on around these camps that
eould be of any possible use to Ger
many we have not seen or heard OF IT,
All this secrecy is almost as anus.
no az having US study "The Rules OF
Land Warfare" in which book you
rssd how civilized nations have agreed
10 fight. But (footnote IN small itsnesJ
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Pope's Peace Plea Accords With History of
Church, Which Has Often Swayed Monarchs
to Peace and Sometimes Has lnsti-
gated Bloody Conflicts

Rome and defined the aspirations for
temporal power in his declaration Of
the "potentior principalitas' Of Rome.
The civil state of Rome had not yet
:aken its momentous vote in the
Senate on the adoption Of Jehovah or
Jupiter as the God of the Roman peo-
pie.
A century afterward Constantine the
Great, with the sign of the cross and
the historic legend "ln. Hoe Signo
Vinces" emblazoned on his banners.
after drenching what are now the
Balkans in blood, set up the Church at
Constantirople as the first Christian
Emperor. And this once Christian
capital is now the pawn f'the last
Christian emperors.
Pope Gregory, the Great, in the sew
enth century, felt the economic power
of the Church with its ramlfcatlons
over Africa, Italy and Gaul. He Obliged
even Charles Martel, the founder OF
the Frankish kingdom, to acknowledge
the papal authority. In the ninth
century Pope Nicholas gave extension
to the supreme jurisdiction Of the
Church over the whole civilized world.
He disciplined both kings and subjects
and developed the wonderful constitu-
ton of the Church under which 1t was
to rule Europe for centuries.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

20 the ostrich family. only they hide
their heads under your skin instead
of under the sand. Iodine seems TO
be the only cure, ard just at present
every one in camp looks more like a
leopard than a human being.
At the eleventh hour They" have
decided 10 commission only few ma
jors from the entire camp, instead Of
three from every company. Just why
We don't know, but IL is pretty tough
on a lot Of men 10 be denoted at the
last minute not because they have not
made good, but just because.
We had q smoker Friday night in the
riding hall which generated into a
sort of Gridiron Club affair. Most of
our instructors were in the gallery
and for once they were the ones tina:
did not know what was coming TO them.
For an impromptu affair 1t was very
well done. each company taking its
turn in entertaining the crowd. From
all accounts. no hard feeling mas re-
suited and they will have something
new 20 talk about az the Officers Club
for many days to come.
Every one hurried 20 town Saturday
afternoon 10 finish purchasing clothing
and hardware" the collar ornaments
and shoulder bars being the hardware.
Our commissions are dated August 10,
but some Of the new officers were try
ing il out on the dogs as early as the
18th. Most of the men who will get
their commissions have been in the
army and know how to wear their
clothes, but there will be some very
amusing sketches parading around un-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

Kadir Bakch loved his son.
Finally Vermot, who was very weak,
but now completely conscious, asked the
Sikh:
What is il that you are singing
Legends" answered the khitmatgar.
"They are the legends of my country.
People chant them without knowing eX-
actly what they mean. The last one
was this: 'One day Buddha had gath
cred together his disciples. They we're
all seated on the ground, and the dis
ciples listened to Buddha, who was
showing them the way
What way" asked the dying man.
"The way TO the Nirvana-to enjoy
the supreme happiness of non-exist-
ence. All at once a terrible figure ap-
peared before them. II was silva, the
great god, my god See, have his
sign tattooed on my forehead. 1t was
silva, the unspeakable, the Destroyer
and the Creator. the Soul of the World
the war which kills and the regenera-
tor of men and things through the al
lurements Pf love. Male and female,
with three eyes, his throat blue because
he has TO poison himself drinking up
the sea. all the waters of the sea. His
body girdled with human skulls; his
head crowned with the moon-th /,
fecund moon.
"All the disciples were blinded. They
no longer saw anything; they were en-
veloped in the blackness Of night.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Gotham GleaningS

**@News ever so plenteouS these stirring days
e**Iack Mccormack the welknown tennis player sang
down at Ocean Grove last night.
a**I lieut. Wells Hawks went over to Brooklyn thurs
Wells looks great in uniform.
lieut. Tommy Ross the handsomest ohcer ever com
nissoned was pleasant caller Thursday.
***Miss Janet Wise passed through town Thursday en-
route from Budd Lake to Lake Mahopac.
a**R c. Wright OF the Columbia, S C., Record ism Our
busy midst and was pleasant caller day last week
s**Bob Benchey OF Cretwood is spending few days at
Milbury, Mass with Nathaniel Benchley his SON
*@%Hon Walter NJ Chandler representative Is send
ing We ed the Congressional Record Much obliged Walt
Everett Lee the famed automobile expert has received
his commission as lieut. the aviation section OF the signal
corps
s%*Dave Wallace got married the other day to Miss
Blanche Weinraub and will leave for Plasburg in Jew
days.
s@eParkhurst Whitney left Friday night for visit with
home folks at Rochester prior his going to Plattsbug on
he 18th.
.a*Ieut Edwin Lewis pleasant caller Wednesday,
also Lieut. Bill Lahey The boys are looking grand after
their summer at Plattsburg.
e**B Hearst is having his editorials set in such big
type that there is no room on the page for Jimmy Montagues
stuff. It's an i'll wind etc. James
ss@Murdock Pemberton boss OF the Hppodrome press
department this year his bro Brock has accepted posi-
ton with Arthur Hopkins the theatrical producer Hooray
for Emporia say
The National Patriotic Singles Tournament begins tomorrow"
and accordance with our annual prophetic custom we forecast
the final a contest between r. Norris Williams anu
Clarence J. Griffin.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

row." the wounded Frenchman con-
tinued. 81 can't move my legs any
longer. And the paralysis will spread.
| KNOWN five or six days. | have
no pain Only ! would like to see my
mother"
It took him, in fact, five or six days
to die, as he had said it would. And
at times he was delirious. Then kadlr
Bakch did not understand him at all,
because he expressed himself in
French. But, if he had understood, he
would not have been much better on.
Adrien Vermot begged for life, like
child. He was only twenty-five years
old. He said also that he could not
understand death-why he should die
what purpose would be served by the
dying. He wanted to live 20 know
whether he had been the victor
whether France had won the war. lie
wished to know if. in truth, he had or
had not died in vain-a horrible ques-
ton. which men were still TO face Tor
so long time.
Kadir Bakch discovered that he could
soothe his neighbor by chanting long
Hindoo recitatives in low voice. And
he did this-at first without any great
sense of pity, but merely because 1t an
moved him to hear such lamentations IN
a strange tongue. Yet he ended by
loving the dying man.
"He is a sahb." thought the old SOL
der, land he is just the age Of my own
SON."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

r1ADIR BAKCH was khitmS->ar'
II That is to say, sub-officer IN a
IN regiment of Sikhs, which fought
on the User in 1914. One day the
major sent one of the officers Of his
battalion. a Lieutenant Robinson, with
a letter to the nearest French com
mand. And he said 70 Kadir Bakch;
"You will 60 with him. If ne falls
YOU will pick up the letter and carry
il to its address. 1t must be delivered
THAT is good talk" answered Kadir
Bakch, whose English was rather
crude.
1t happened that Lieutenant Rob-
inson was killed outright by a shrap-
mel ball. which entered his left eye and
came out through the back of his head
Kadir Bakch had his left shoulder shat
tered. But that did not prevent him
from pjcking I'D the letter and carrying
il to the French battalion, as he had
been ordered TO do.
hat is why TINS OHM SUI N'i~~- -
though he belonged to the English
army. was carried from headquarters
a few moments later in one of our
ambulances. They thought that he was
too severely wounded to be sent back
10 his corps. And he found that his
neighbor in the hospital ward was
Adrien vermot, who also spoke Eng
lish.
"Your English is much too good for
me-" declared the khitmatgar. at IS
gentleman's English. But that VIII
make no difference"
Then he asked his neighbor what
was the matter with him. Such curl
osity is natural with wounded men,
even if they come from India.
81 am going to die" answered YER
mot, very sadly.
"Ah!" said Kadir Bakch, simply. It
seemed to him altogether natural that
men should die in war. The news did
not move him.
81 have a bullet in the spinal mar
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
History Shows Her
The Church Militant

Ohio |. the German emperor Of the
Roman world, imposed his will upon
the Pope and made his own popes.
This only had the effect of blending
henceforth the imperial with the spirit
ual authority, and henceforth emperors
went TO the Holy Father to be crowned.
Pope Leo TX in the eleventh century
was obliged to defend his authority on
the field of battle at Civitate. Church
and state fought now side by side and
now against each other for several
centuries. Even if il were safe 10 pre-
sumo that the Church was always in
the right, still history discovers her TO
be the church militant.
The church militant waged a bloody
struggle with Emperor Henry ~ of
Germany in the twelfth century in de-
fence of the war formula that the
Church had civil authority within the
individual nations.
Conflicts between the Guelphs (the
clerics) and the Ghibellines (the pro-
German or Hohenstaufen followers
devastated the cities of Southern Eu-
rope at this period. Milan, the proud
capital of Western Christendom, was
levelled to her foundations and thou
sands of men, women and children
persisted. The Church sided with the
rising municipal states against the
Saxon, Frederick Barbarossa, and for
years the Papal colors rose and fell,
perhaps always in the right. but still
militant and still in forefront at our
ancestral Armageddons.
The death of Barbarossa left the
Church supreme, and Innocent III
welded a political power more vast
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Holy ROME AS ARBITER OF WARS

Austria assumed the role OF cham
pion Of Catholicism. and PRUSSIA
.tvled herself the Defender OF the
Protestant Faith" The encyclopedia
school had undermined the faIth o.
France. and Napoleon left the Churcn
scant authority under the Coneordat'
vet sanity traditions of Joan OF Arc
Symbolic the continuing spArA o
Catholi, faith IN the French near
though the ConcOrdat has oeeh toLh
up and France Is the aposta'e' the
lost daughter NJ
In Prussia the passage OF the Nay
laws against Catholics served 10 oFihg
the Centrist or Clerical party into pc
ing. In Austria the Clerical parry
makes its political influence felt, as IN
italy and IN France. while IN Belgium
the most Catholic country IN Europe
the Clerical party ruled.
In spite of these viclssltudes, IN
spite of the stripping by young italy
Of the Papal temporal power OF all OF
its territory excepting that within the
nsrrov confines of the Vatican, the
Catholic Church asserted Itself with
nristine vigor and. back from exile IN
is49 Pope Plus TX invoked the doc
trine of the infallibility and re-
nounced not the temporal authority
OF the Chlrch.
To-day the hierarchy OF the Churcn
Yields an influence more powerful man
anv company of monarchs. William
Hoheuzollern did not think IL above MIN
10 solicit the favor of the Pope, tncugn
Bismarck had said ironically, Il VIII
-. ero 20 Capnzzc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

They were all lost in the night except
Nradzahani. the wisest of them, whose
science saved him. But he understood
only in part He saw this God, mag
nifcent and terrible, but he did not
I know who he was.
Then. turning TO Buddha, the omnis-
Gent master, he said:
~ know all the stars and all the
divinities, equal IN number 70 the
sands of the Ganges. But have never
seen this glorious being. Who is he?
And Buddha answered him: he Is
yourself
"'How was that?' asked the dying
man.
eyes. it was so,' explained KadiI
Bakch. very gravely. Every man con-
tains in himself death and regenera-
ton But no one realizes II. 1t re-
ouires an illumination TO know It
When he had seen silva and had con-
ceived that silva and he were one, Nrad'
zahani entered into the supreme bless
edness. mean TO say that he died, IN
order to escape reincarnation, IN order
70 enter into the soul Of the world
So the legend tells US.
Then the eyes of Adrian Vermot, who
was about TO die, grew soft and brill
liant. .,
you. Indian" he said-'''I can hardly
recall your name-you, Indian, | have
not understood all this as you under
stand il; but have understood. II IS
France which has revealed herself TO
herself in this atrocious war. she mas
faced il and she has not fsltered. She
mas faced it and she has recognized
herself IN lnc-in me, who am about TO
die. in all those who are to die. | can
90 now. | know"
"Sahib." asked the old Khitmatgar-
"Sahib. who resemble my son, do you
still want 70 see your mother?
Eyes. should like to see her.,
answered Vermot, very calmly. y
would repeat to her what you have said
What an extraordinary thing this Is
that you have told me! And ! believe
that you believe it, too
az? 1t is possible" said the khltmat-
gar. "All the world does not under
Stand the sense of the prayers which II
SAYS. But the sense IS IN the prayers
Sahib. shall | call the woman in the
blouse, that she may give you the IN
lection which causes Sleep"
Yes" said the wounded man, suomls'
sively.
And soon after that he died.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Church and Political
History Separated

In one OF these manifestations OF
our ancestral church militan; Richard
Cpur de Lion, King Of England, with
Frankish kings as allies, heaped up
pyramids of the women and children
which their prowess had slain hard oy
the walls of Acre, the gateway 20 Jeru-
salem.
The Papacy turned to France as It's
political patron after Pope Bonifaee
had lost much Of the temporal power
and the imperial prestige IN Middle
Europe. New nations like Eng land and
Holland were challenging the civil
jurisdiction of Rome. The break cul-
minated in the Huss heresy in Bohemia
and in the Luther schism IN Germany
The exercise of what may be termed
political power found its last strong
expression in the Council of Trent in
1545. But the Reformation and the
Renaissance were already upon Eu-
rope. From this point the history OF
the Catholic Church is its own individ-
ual record.
To compensate the Holy Catholic
Church for the dissipation of its impe-
rial civil authority. there began the
colonization and the Christianization
of the New World. The adventures Of
Spanish and Portuguese navigators
carried the priests of the Church over
the two hemispheres, until to-day an
empire of Catholicism stands in Latin
America, while French Canada and the
United States are the garden wherein
labor 100000 of the children Of the
Church. With the help of the new
order of Jesuits the spiritual empire
covered the earth IN Paraguay YER
liable Church state was set up.
Coincident with the addition Of
these gems 70 the diadem of Rome was
the loss of Scandinavia, England, Hol-
land and Prussia. But these were not
lost without a sanguinary struggle.
Charles V. of Catholic Spain ruled
Belgium with a seourge. In the wars
of the Austrian and the Spanish sue
cessions, when the Papal power in
terested itself in the succession OF
kings. imperial monarchs were proud
TO term themselves the defenders OF
the Church.
To attribute these wars and their
conduct to the spiritual church is TO
assume much. For the warning mon
archs were only too free to use the
cloak of religion. And on the other
hand the Church was often obliged to
defend itself and its prosecuted fol-
lowers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Translated by William l.. Mcpherson

Here is another of Pierre Miles brilliant stories A
little tale IN his distinguished saturated Wtth thought
man be said that the idea behind the story bigger than the
story itself True enough But is the final test of the quality
any short story that shall carry suggestion Whlch tran
scendS its OlCn content.
Looked at from the broader point of Uiec, W. Mile might
hare called his story The Religion Of Patriotism 1t employs
the philosophy of Buddhism to illuminate the mystery OF sGc-
fee II man be that patriotism does fully understand its
on religion AN the Cord does not understand the sense OF
prayers chjch says; but the IS IN the prdyer IS
Kddr BakchS sage conclusion. There is than surface
sense to his beautiful apologize.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

Catholics fight Catholics IN this man.
per: 49,.
Teutonic powers, 55,9O0,OO0; Allied
powers, 0O,O00,000.
/. The Catholic majority engaged on
the side of the Allies have in neutral
Latin America co-religionists to the
number of 70.555,000.
In the United States there are nearly
100000 Catholics out OF total
church population of 3O,3S0,67O, This
tremendous organization is admins
tered by one Papal delegate. three car,
dinals, fourteen archbisnops, lOZ
bishops. p abbots and 1894 priests:
There are 1861 American places OF
worship and SASS parochlal SCHOOLS
with $4,000 pupils.
The Universal Church holds ten
thousand courts. Its cardinal hats are
worn by spiritual princes from pole TO
pole. It's organization is the mightlest
fabric yet woven by human society. II
exhibits the possibility of international
courts. Of international authority and
OF an imperial sovereignty. o..
Long usage in statescraft enables II
20 function powerfully in international
politics. Long practice as militant
power enables it 70 speak with author
ity when the world resorts 20 the
sword.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Imperial Idea
Not New to Church

Holy Rome has often been the arbi-
ter of wars. and thrones, and success
sions, and conquests. and crusades,
and retreats. and pscts of peace
Sometimes the official champions OF
her cause have welded the sword and
have met defeat in holy wars that
bloodied Europe. In the records OF
the Vatican will be found many help
full historical directions for changing
the map of Europe and for maintaining
its status quo.
The imperial ideal is not strange to
the great mind OF Catholicism.
As early as 2O3 A. D., Victor |, Bishop
of Rome. asserted the prlmacy OF