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The Washington times., 1918-03-25
Begin to Read Here.

Countess Gisela Niebuhr Is one OF thres
daughters OF a Junker family Of Prussia
On the death Of her father. Gisela enters
university. gets a degree IN letters, and
goes TO America as companion to the
children Of q rich American There she
meets Franz Won Nettelbeck with whom
she forms close friendship. Won Nettel-
DecK mas been paying court to a wealthy
American girl Gisela does not reveal
TO Won Nettelbeck that she Is of titled
class Their attachment continues two
years; after which Won Nettelbeck Is re-
called 10 Germany to marry a titled
woman. and GiEela accompanies her en-
pioyer on tour OF the United States. She
Is vastly impressed with the extent and
resources of the country. Gisela returns
to her native land and resumes her studies.
she meets Won Nettelbecl1 but he does
not betrRy that she had been working
mcognita in America. She receives a pro-
posal or marriage from a felow-student.
but is spurned when he finds her one of
the dete5ted Junker class. She writes a
successful play depicting the difference In
the social position Of German and AIneri-
can women. Then comes the war and
Gisela goes into hospital work The hrst
eNultation over the victories CT the army
Is followed by revu sion Of feeling over
needless outrages. II becomes apparent
that all Is notsas the war lords would
have it appear. verdun is a defeat and
the fallacy Of strategic retreats" from
the Marine and Somme are subjects Of
discussion Gisela and her girl friends are
-ANAh ~ NNAaARHb L1AhAsAcN
from overwork In crowded hospitals Glseia.
Mimi, and Heloise obtain leave to 20 to
switzerland TO recupcrate. There GiselG
meets two women she Lad known IN
America. The two Americans conceive .
plan whereby they hope to enlist the
women OF Germany against the Kaiser.
a meeting Is arranged with the German
girls, ostensibly to settle the responsibility
for starting the war. The attempt Is sue
cessful and Gisela and her companions
are convinced Of the culpability Of the
niilitarists.
Once convinced by the American women
Gisela realizes that the oHly way to save
the German people from destruction Is to
crush the Kaiser and his military punta.
As all abie-bodied men are At the front,
this must be accomplished by the woman
hood OF Germany. Gisela undertakes TO
take the leadership in the woInan's revolt.
The Socialists agree to help the women
and -GlseIa travels about Germany Or
ganizing the revolt She meets Won Net
te.beck again and Is torn between love
for him and devotion TO the cause OF
revolution,
The Washington times., 1918-03-25
ARMY LEG|SLAT|ON
TOHOLDSPOTL|GHT
|NCONGRESS' WEEK

Important PROPOSED army '1egIsla-
ton will be at the front in Congress
for a part OF the time this week.
Zest will be given II by the fact the
war with Germany has reached a
point which history may set down as
the decisive crisis of the struggle.
Interest in the Senate today is keen
in the bill to include in the draft
young men who have attained twenty
one years since June 5. As Senator
New. In this connection, Is urging uni
rversal training and has an amendment
to this effect, It is not unlikely there
will develop a general discussion of
the whole question of American mill
tary policy. The bill may be brought
up at any time.
With Senator Overman about to
press the bill giving the President
blanket powers to reorganize execu-
tive departments. the advocates of the
war cabinet and munitions director
plans are preparing 10 urge these
ideas instead. The Overman bill will
meet bitter opposition.
The question of boosting the price
OF wheat to $3.50 is still unsettled and
the threat OF a Presidential veto con-
unues to be heard. The Administra-
ton Is trying to muster a majority
Of the House against any increase.
One of the difficulties. however. is
that cotton members know that IL in
crease in wheat price is blocked,
price fixing is certain and they don't
want price fixing to cover any wider
scope than it does today.
The new Liberty bond measure,
final disposal OF the war finance meas
ure, and the measure involving sale
OF alien property, and the appear
ance Of Gen. Leonard Wood before
the Senate Military Committee will
be features of the week
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PROPOSALS

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
wASHINGTON. March 60. l9lS-SeaIed pro
pOsals in duplicate will he RECEIVED at the
department until Two O'Clock p. m. Saturday.
April %. 1915 and then opened. for the cree
tion and completion OF semi-permAnent ward
buildings. dining hail. and kitchen for 81
E.izabeth's Hospital. Washington. u. c.,
In accordance with plans and specifications
copies OF which may be obtained from the
chief clerk OF the department. The right
Is reserved TO reject any or all bids to
waive technical defects or TO accept one
part and reject the other. rs the Interests
OF the Government may require. Applicants
for plans will be required TO deposit with
the department certified check for s. pay
able to the order OF the Secretary OF the
Interior as a guaranty that the plans will
be returned I'm good condition. Proposals
must be marked. Proposals. for Erection of
Semi-psrmaEert BuiidNngs at ST Elizabeth =
Hospital" and be addressed to the Secrs-
tary of the Interior. Washington u. c s
q. HOPKINS. Assistant Secretary
I-e5.LSB
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS u r
Washington, u. C.. March 49, 1915 Sealed
proposals. viii hs received ~ this office Room
5ty, Disrrict Building. untH two o'ciocI; p
NJ. APRIL. :. 1918. for furnIs hing ard de,ty-
erinE six. more or less. pianos for tisa IN
tie public schools. Form ~ proposal and
Ep.-riacations may BE- Obus,:red from the Plr-
chasing Officer -. e. Room 32O DistTlct
Building. LOUIS BROwSLOw. W GWYNN
GARDINER. J. LOVING tActlngi Com
mi-siOners. u. G. 222S25
Richard E. Marine. IglS Calvert ST.
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New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Died Pipers Hurried
4 To the Rescue

These granaries became the brees,.
ground for myriads of mice. plapus !,
the mischievous rodents swept over u.
land like a tide, and wheat stacks crums.
and fell, spilling the golden grain in N
directions. Many Pied Pipers offered M.
services, and in time, by rebagging and y.
stacking in mice-proof stacks, the evil ",
successfully combated, but not until no,.
than per cent of the harvest had dish
peared Rain and cold weather finally A.;
posed of the greatest mice pest that An,
tralia has ever experienced.
"At this time Mr.. Hughes, the Australs,
Prime Minister, stepped into the field !,
the biggest trader in the world He b,
to dispose, if he could, of several millies
OF tons of wheat, a wool crop valued 4
millions of pounds and metal products
which is one of the largest in the worl:
He disposed of the lot to Great Brihj,
with the exception of few small deals vii
France and the United States.
During the famous conference of ItI
in Paris Mr.. Hughes was approached b
an emissary of the French government vt
had heard that the Australian Premier h,
some wheat to sell and who said q,
France was prepared to purchase. n
price was arranged satisfactorily. and th,
the Frenchman was asked how much wh,,
he wanted.
Sir, my country will take all that 70
can spare he replied with grandilouuer
gesture.
"'All we can sparev repeated Mr.. Hughe
win 100000 tons do you for the present
"a rapid calculation into French tenn
ensued, and then the emissary, with hand
raised, calculated:
Mon Dieu, did not know there VI
so much wheat in all the world!'
France was satisfied with 100000 tons.
"ln the wake of the wheat pool came Il
wool pool, all Australian wool being take
over by the Federal government and sol
to Great Britain in a single transactior
Appraisement boards satisfactorily adjusts
the values of different clips, basing th,i
calculation upon the average minimum priu
of 30 cents pound"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Up Where Gorals and
Sorrows Abound

ON Snow Mountain, a spur of the
southeastern Himalayas, gorals
and serows are to be found, says Roy
Chapman Andrews, in "Asia." And in
asmuch as he tracked and killed few Of
them while leading the American Mu-
seum's geological expedition through
Asia, Mr.. Andrews probably knows. AS
to their exact status, he continues
with the familiar European chamois,
the Asiatic serows and takins and the
sturdy American Rocky Mountain goat,
gorals form q group which represents an
intermediate stage between the true goats
and the antelopes. They are about the
same size as the chamois and have similar
habits. The plucky little brutes are splen-
did game animals, inspiring the sports
man with admiration, besides leading him
over peaks which try his nerve to the ut
"The natives are able to secure a good
deal of game even with primitive weapons,
for they depend largely upon dogs, which
bring gorals and serows to bay against a
cliff and hold them until the men arrive
The dogs are a mongrel breed, which ap-
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Lis Philosophy Is One
/ L Of Cheerfulness

The Australian soldier, unlike his an
tagonist, the Turk, is not fatalist, MI
Vaughan declares.
"He may vaguely believe that every brI
let has its billet, and that nothing he Cd
do will alter a shells predestined cours
but he is at least a cheerful philosophet
The character of his philosophy was "a
vealed by returned lieutenant who va
appealing for recruits at a meeting he'll
in marlborough, Victoria, at which | VS.
present.
If he said, you come to the recruit
ing office, you will be faced with two alter
natives-you will either be accepted or
rejected. If you're rejected, there's moth
ing to worry about If you're accepted
you're still faced with two alternatives1
you'll be sent to France and put either int
the front trenches or into the back trenches
If you're put in the back trenches, there
nothing to worry about. If you're put i
the front trenches, you're still presente
with two alternatives you'll either b
seriously wounded or be slightly wounds
If you're slightly wounded there's nothinl
to worry about. You'll be sent to hos
pital and nurse will look after you. !
you're seriously wounded, there still re-
main two alternatives--eithery you'll recov
or you won't recover. If you recover, there
nothing to worry about; if you don't ri
cover, it's no use worrying
"This don't worry philosophy brougtI
down the house.
The Australian soldier is sometims1
charged with lack Of discipline. Geners|
Birdwood, the brave Australian who b'l
came known as the soul of Anzac,' wsl
telling British general of this trait. n
gave as an instance the case of an Auij
tralian private who. in the Gallip'
trenches, suddenly called out to him:
Birdie, duck yer bloomin' block!
"'Did you court martial him. inquire
the British officer
Ono replied Birdwood. dryly Il ducks
me bloomin' block; if hadn't would /
have been here now.'"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
ldaho's "Angry Tree"

N IDAHO there exists species of the
acacia tree that is entitled to be
classed as one Of the wonders of plant
life. The tree attains height of about
eight feet When full grown it closes it's
leaves in coils each day at sunset. When
the tree has thus settled itself for a
nights sleep it will f1utter violently if
touched, and if you shake the branches it
will emit nauseating odor strong
enough to bring on headache. In Idaho
it is called the "angry ."-Dctroit
Ne1Us
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Ribbons Are Substituted
For Iron Crosses

7 N GERMANY iron is so scarce that
IL enough cannot be spared to make
all the Iron Crosses needed TO carry out
the governments policy of wholesale dis
tribution of war honors. At least, such
a condition is strongly indicated by
souvenir from battlefield that has been
received in this country 1t is a black
and white ribbon which the sender,
medical officer, asserts is one of many
that have been awarded in lieu of
crosses. The ribbon was found on the
body Of a dead enemy.-Populor Me-
chanics.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Australia Measures Up

of that cereal abroad, and merchant.
the grain from farmers only as thew ~
their cargoes in Mark Lane
'The situation was saved onlv h,
creation of government wheat noo, y
the organization of which personals :.
sisted. Under this plan the Commonws..,
government and the governments Of !.
wheat-producing states assumed contn., :.
all wheat grown, advancing to the farm.
~ cents bushel, with a guarantee NJ e..
ther payments as the crop was sh;s,.,
and sold.
"The harvests of 1915, 1916 and ,o,.
were abnormal, the three years furnish;,
the enormous total of approximately an
100000 bushels. This yield of twelve -.
one-half million tons of grain would h..
overtaxed the worlds available .merel,.,
marine in ordinary times. With war Ri
ing up the tonnage af1oat with an insati,h.
appetite, the imperative need for sto,,.
this wheat at Australias seaboard her,s
obvious. Possessing no elevator ston.
system, the states were compelled to j.
provise immense stacks, many of then
quarter of a mile in length and as his :.
their own weight would allow.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
The Symbol of an Uplifted
Foot

T is announced that pageant is
- shortly to be held at Beaconsfield,
the adopted town Of Mr.. G. X. Chester
ton, who will impersonate DR.. Johnson.
Of course, Mr.. Chesterton has filled the
role before, some nine years ago, when
the country blazed with pageants, and
he has given this diverting account of it:
'I had nothing to do with the arrange
ment, and such heeting suggestions as
made were not taken as seriously as they
might have been. Ny best constructive
suggestion was the most harshly rejected
of all. In front of me in the procession
walked the great Bishop Berkeley, the man
who turned the tables on the early ma
terialsts by maintaining that matter it.
self very possibly does not exist. Dr.
Johnson, you will remember, did not like
such bottomless fancies as Berkeleys, and
kicked a stone with his boot, saying
rcfute him so!' Now Gas | pointed out)
kicking a stone would not make the meta
physical quarrel quite clear besides, it
would hurt. But how picturesque and per-
feet it would be if | moved across the
ground in the symbolic attitude of kicking
Bishop Berkeley! How complete an al
legoric group: the great transcendentalist
walking with his head among the stars.
but behind him the avenging realist pede
CLAUDIO, with uplfted foot,"
At Beaconsfield, however, Mr.. Ches-
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

he height at which clouds riding on any
particular day is of the greatest interest and i'm,
portance to the air pilot. When he looks out al
the sky in the early morning his estimation of
the conditions which meet his eye will be quail.
hed by the work which lies before him. If his
work Is direct downward observation and photo
graphic record taking he will not mind very much
the cloudy or misty appearance in the distances:
put II artillery spotting is the order of the day
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
TNHE HON. CRA FORD
Il VAUGHAN, M. P, former Pre-

H%H f HON. CIR w F OF D
b VAUGHAN, Nj. P, former Pre-
Il mier of South Australia, tells in
"Munsey's" the engrossing story
of how Australia has played her part in
the war. She has had many problems to
face, among them the serious one Of trans
portation. Of this Mr. Vaughan writes:
"The Suez route of $4,000 miles from
England to Australia is too much exposed
to submarine attack to be of much service
during war except for fast transports and
passenger ships. Even among these the
toll has been so heavy that the Red Sea
passage is virtually closed for commercial
navigation. The Cape route and the Pana-
ma Canal offer better chances against the
underwater warfare for both the Indian
Ocean and the Pacific have only spasmodi-
cally been infested by raiders.
"Australias war problem however, has
not been so much concerned with trade
routes with tonnage. The year 1914 pre-
sented no serious transportation difficulties,
for season of drouth had left the Com
monwealth with no wheat and little wool
or meat to send abroad. Nature, however,
ever correcting her balance, made up for
her parsimony of 1914 by coming to US with
full hands in 1915, and Australia then
reaped the largest harvest record.
Gwen in ordinary year railroads
and storage facilities would have been
severely strained in the task OF getting this
lavish yield of Mother Earth to the sea-
board; but with the growing shortage of
shipping the grain piled itself up in i'm
mense stacks at inland centres, waiting for
the vessels that never came. Disaster
loomed ahead like menacing rock before
a storm driven bark; for the price of wheat
il Australia depends wholly upon the sale
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

came to love its big red leader This fine
dog could be depended upon to dig out
game if there was any in the mountains,
but his life with us was short, for he was
killed by our first serow.
"Hotenfa was inconsolable and the tears
he shed were in sincere sorrow for the
loss Of faithful friend. All our hunters
treated their hounds with kindness, and
fed them we'll, but the animals them
selves, although loyal TO their masters,
manifested but little affection. In Corea
dogs are eaten by the natives, but none of
the tribes with which we came in con-
tact in Yunnan used them for food"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

N r OWADAYS we are apt to re-
~ gard cities on the European
war map entirely from the
military point of view, when
one is famous for it's strategic value as
railway centre and another as the
scene of tremendous artillery duels. 1t
is interesting, however, to note that
many Of these towns were thriving COM
mercially in peace times and many were
historically famous long before the out
break of the present conflict. From time
to time the National Geographic So
ciety at Washington issues bulletins of
information in regard to these less
known features of some of the war cities
of to-day. Speaking of Scissors, the
bulletin observes that it was an impor-
tant centre for the grain trade of North
ern France before the war, and was es-
pecially noted for it's haricot beans.
"lts most fourishing industries were iron
and copper foundries, boiler and agricult-
ural implement factories, straw hat and
glass works.
"Soissons is of the oldest cities in
France. Before the advent of the Romans
it was the chief city of the Suessiones, who
held twelve towns of Gallia Belgica.
Divitiacus, one of their most powerful
kings, extended his sway even beyond the
sea, among the Brtons.
The clty's present status as a railroad
centre is an inheritance of MANY centuries
for in ancient times it was a starting point
of military roads to Rheims, Chateau Thier
~, Meaux, Paris, Amiens and St. Quentin
1t was at Soissons that Clovis, King of the.
Salian Franks, defeated the Roman general.
Syagrius, and it was here that he married
the Christian Princess Clotilda. Three
years after the marriage the King and
three thousand Franks were baptized
"A short distance down the Aisne, on the
opposite bank, are the ruins of the famous
Abbey of ST. Medard, where Pippin the
Short was crowned by St. Boniface, the
Papal Legate. 1t was in this abbey also
that the famous Abelard, of Abelard and
Heloise memory, is said to have been i'm
prisoned. In this vicinity, too, Thomas
Beckett, the fighting English prelate of
Henry 11's time, lived during his long So
Journ in France. Louis the Debonair one
of the most unhappy of French kings, made
two enforced stays here as the captive of
his undutful sons"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
\ Proposed Model \
lage in Belgium

\ T the initiative of NJ. F. Malfat, {
~ rector of the architectural wor'
Of the city of Brussels, specialists ~
studying at present project looS'
toward the creation, on the boundary
Greater Brussels, of q large village y
workmen which will be, as far as the 81
thorities permit, annexed to BrussI
city. 1t will be a garden city. conceT1
after the most recent aesthetic ideas
cities and especially destined for woI
ingmen and small shopkeepers. Spesl
installations will be provided for work
home.--Frorn The Belgian BuIIetin.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
The Picturesqueness of
/ Epernay

In regard to Epernay the writer goes
on to say that that city, famous as the
great wine depot of the Champagne dis
trict-
rs attractively situated on the south bank
OF the River Marine. Through its streets
runs from south to north the picturesoua
little river of Cubry, which empties into
the Marine. Almost due north of tho c;+v
at distance of thirteen miles in an air,
line, lies Rheims, but between the two
historic centres of population rises the wel,
WOODED emlnence, or more properly rance
" mus, called the Montague de Reims
tMountain of Rheims), from which French
"i''',eiy mas Tor many months been dealing
death so effectively to the Germans in.
trenched beyond Rheims. The railway line
"n'cn connects Epernay and Rheims is
nineteen miles long. About midway he
tween the cities there is tunnel two miles
iong that pierces Mont Joli which. with an
elevation Of 900 feet, is the highest po;nt
of the Montague de Rems.
In ancient times Epernay was known an
Sparnacum. From the fifth to The tenth
centuries 1t belonged to the Archbishop ~
Kheims, and it was during that neriod
'seo) that it was the scene Of one Of Tho
Two great victories won against the Nor.
mans by the joint rulers, Louis 1II and
Carolman, sons of Louis the Stammerer.
i1 was before this city also that there
was Fought great battle seven centuries
later' during which the Baron Biron. mar-
shal OF France, was killed by cannon ball
marshal biron was the ancestor of Armand
LOUIS de Gentant, Due de Lauzup. altar.
ward Ouc de Biron, who fought with tho
Americans at Yorktown during the Revo-
lut'onary War and who later was pu;llo-
tined during the Reign of Terror in par;a
lhe streets in the older section of Eper.
nay arc narrow and irregular, but in the
beautiful suburb Of La Folie tho w;d.
DouieVards are graced with the palatiaI
villas OF wealthy wine merchants. Pros
porous Epernay, both literally and fieura-
tiVely, is founded upon the chalk rock ~
champagne, in which are hewn long pal-
lerles, where it is estimated that five mill
ion bottles Of wine were laid down, an
nually before the war"
The town Of Murom, to which the
Russian Soviet is reported TO- have 20.
moved from Moscow, is described as fol-
lows:
situated on the left bank OF the impor
tant navigable river Okla, which flows north
into the Volga. the ancient town Of Murom
lies 179 miles east OF Moscow. on the Mos
cow-Kazan railway.
"Once famous for It's tanneries. Mrrom i,
still an important manufacturing centre. its
chief products being linens, soaps, -four
and iron implements. It's chief businens
however, is as an entrepot for the quanti-
ties Of grain produced in the lower basin
of the Okla. It's kitchen gardens also have
a wide reputation, and cucumbers and c.
nary bird seed are produced in profusion.
ain times Of peace Murorn has steamboat
connection with Ryazsn. two days jour
ney up the Oka. On this trip the boats
pass Yelatna, which during the middle Of
the fifteenth century was the seat OF gov-
eminent Of the famous Tartar Khan,
Kasim. Downstream it is fifteen hour