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That very canny person, President
Kruger, was once called upon, as King
Solomon before him, to pass judgment
in a matter of ownership. The case was
that of two brothers. who had been left
a farm and could not agree as to the
division which had to be made. They
agreed that, rather than take the mat
ter toa the courts, they would let Presl-
dent Kruger decide. President Kruger
appears to have hesltated about cs lit
tie as King Solomon did. He instructed
the elder brother to make what he con-
sidered a fair division, and then he
gave first choice to the younger BROTH
er. A solution like Solomon's. both
mastery and simple.
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FRENCH SOLDIERS ARE SLAUGHTERED WHEN, SUR
ROUNDED, THEY THROW DOWN THEIR ARMS

in
ing
ing their frontier Civiansmen chdrenare driven
the forncaon The Germans
soldiers tried aid helpless
a
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slant and horrible death reaulted-
Oftentimes this horrible weapon be-
came embedded in the breast Of vic
tim so firmly that the attacker. who
had to have back his sidearm again
would be obliged to place his foot upon
the breast of his victim and use all his
force to recover the murderous ipsstru-
ment.
condition lay all around us. The'moans
OF the wounded men would have soft
ened a stone but not the heart of 4
Prussian soldier.
Not all the soldiers approved this
senseless. .wanton murder. Some OF
those officers who had ordered us to
kill the French were themselves killed
by mistake In the darkness of the night
by their own men. Such mistakes are
still being repeated almost daily and
Gould cite many names and places to
bear out this testimony.
On this particular night a captain
and a first lieutenant met their fate. A
second-year infantryman stabbed the
captain In the abdomen and the first
lieutenant received a stab in the back
Both died in a few minutes. Neither
OF their slayers felt any remorse and
none of US felt inclined to reproach
them. We all knew that two murder
ers had received their Just deserts.
Another instance requires me to run
somewhat ahead of the sequence of
events. As / talked to comrade of
my company the next day 1 asked him
for pocketknife and in reaching into
his pocket he pulled out three car
tridges. was surprised that he should
carry cartridges in his trousers pocket
and asked him IL he had no room In
his belt.
'T have" he said, "but these three
have a special mission. There are
names Of the intended victims ON these
bullets
Some. time later after we had be-
come good friends / asked him again
about the three cartridges. He had
only one left. I thought about it q
great deal and in my mind went over
the noncommissioned officers, who, be-
fore war was declared had treated us
like animals and whom we had hated
as only human fiends can be hated
Two of these had found their grave In
France.
Ine murQer OF tr6nCnmen VINO naQ
surrendered continued as long as an
enemy was alive. Then we received
orders to determine Il the enemies
lying on the ground were all dead and
unable to fight. If anyone was found
Stimulating death it was ordered that
he be killed. But the soldiers had lost
some of the fever which had seized
them during the battle and refused to
obey this order. How they felt about
it was illustrated by the remark of \
member of my company:
1--WE had better look once more and
see If the two officers are really dead
and if not they ought to be killed with
out mercy for a command Is a conn
mand."
We now advanced quickly but our
tire French line had retired to mako
a fresh stand. two kilometers west of
Sommepy. The city was mostly In
flames. The enemy artillery lombard
ed the town without intermission and
shells burst all around.
Several hundred prisoners were cor
rallied In the market place. Several
French shells struck the prisoners but
they were obliged TO remain where
they were. An officer of my company.
Lieut.. A. r. Neesen. remarked that no
harm was done as the prisoners knew
TASTED.
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Civilian dead strew streets Of
sweep on toward Paris. The
author deseribes these scenes az
well as the pIunderinb Of homes
and stores in the next INSTALL
nent.
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marble tablets On which are inscribed
the names of the men who gave their
lives to the city during Napoleon's
invasion.
Just outside the Kremlin wall stands
a house which always interests the
visitor. 1t is the old home Of the first
Romanoff. the founder of the dynasty
OF which the recently deposed Car
was a member. Gar Michael Theo-
dorvitch, the founder was born there
and also his father, Theodore XXI
tisch. who became a patriarch under
the name OF Philaret. The house is a
perfect specimen Of the dwelling
houses of the old boyars Of Russia.
It contains many relics of the Roman
off family.
Moscow has fine Libraries. a Uni
versity and a remarkable picture gal
lery in which war pictures of the
most bloody type seem to FREEDOM
mate. AS it is the western terminus
of the Siberian railroad 1t is the great
commercial center of the country.
City OF Wealth.
There is considerable social life in
the city which is naturally one Of
wealth and during the winter there is
opera, theatres and winter sports.
During the summer many of the
wealthy people leave town but amuse-
ments are plentiful. vaudeville shows
flourish in the suburban parks. these
shows sometimes having so many
numbers that the entertainment does
not close until two A NJ. The hotels
and restaurants serve elaborate meals
even in wartime few dinners being
under seven to ten courses. The new
regime in Russia may change the liv-
ing in Moscow, but Russian tradition
and superstition are too much a part
of the lives OF the people to change
the aspect of the city and the Kremlin
will always be looked upon with a
sort of v~eneration. Socialists and ever
Anarchists may sit in the palaces
while Russia is working out her new
condition but Moscow will always re-
tain that charm of barbaric spIendor
and the people will still cling to the
traditions of this great city from
which Russian Cars both good and
bad held sway over Russia for so many
years.
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complete without some mention Of
the great bell which stands in the
Kremliu Square. To provide a bell
for a church has always been regard
ed as a m%eritorious iact in Russia. so
the Queen Anne decided to have one
cast which by it's great size should be
known as the Queen Of Bells Il
vas cast in the year 1886 and weighs
twelve thousand pounds. During one
of Moscow's numerous fires 1t fell
from a burning beam and a piece was
broken from 1t. 1t lay where il fell
until 1886 when Nicholas the First
had it placed where it now stands.
Close by is the worlds largest mo
"a perfectly useless mass of brass,
which has never been fired. Several
cannon balls each Weighing one hun
and twenty pounds are beside
the cannon and quite as useless as
the machine for which they were de
signed.
In order to get the best view Of
Moscow one must climb the bell tower
of Ivan the Great. where the view ex-
tends over the city far into the sub
urbs. The big orphan asylum. where
eighteen thousand orphans are re-
ceived each year comes into view. the
huge bazaar building with its six thou
sand shops where the east and the
west meet in cree is in the fore
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Eyes Of the Nation Turned Upon the Capital = Big
Men Who Are Working for Uncle Sam In His
Hour of Need Protection of the President
Modelling the Nation Brain Power.
~Copyright III ~ ~

~N ROUTE FROM the Middle
West to Washington recently.
the writer OF this article, merely
~ TO satisfy a curiosity. talked
with every passenger in his Pullman.
There were no women in the rowde
car. Two Of the men were tent and
awning manufacturers. one represent
&c a firm of steel shell makers, n
was a partner in a fuse manufacturing
concern. two were millers from the
Northwest, three were coal operators.
another was a wholesale dealer in
soap. one represented a knitting mill
IN Chicago. one a rubber company in
Central Ohio, one a truck and wagon
factory in Indiana, another readily
gave the information that he was an
inventor" and the remaining pas
sengers were officers and enlisted men
of the Army and Navy. called to
Washington to receive war orders.
Smoking room conversations are
quite likely to become confidential. so
when the writer made known the fact
hat he was acquainted in Washing
ton, his popularity was assured. There
was no beating about the bush: the
desire of his fellow passengers was
apparent
was there an inside track to this
official. or a su~bterranean passage to
of1cial2"
ment'sr tenting-do you know him ?"
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second, having added over two thou
sand names within the past six
months. It is probable that another
thousand workers will be taken on by
this department before the end Of the
present year as a result Of recent &C
ton by Congress. It is estimated that
these Will be needed by the internal
revenue bureau to care for the in
creased war tax provisions. The &C
~tivities of the Treasury Department
are so varied that defnite figures of
rapid growth are impossible.
The Departments of State, Labor.
Agriculture and Commerce have taken
on their quota of extra help, while
the Post Office Department is the only
one which cannot trace any increase
directly to the war. Over two hun
dred workers have been added because
of recent changes in the railway mail
service.
The Civil Service Commission has
examined over two hundred thousand
applicants in the present calendar year
n has certified sixty-fve thousand
of them for places in the government
service more than a third of them be
ing for positions in Washington.
War work in the nations big print
shop. the Government Printing ONCE,
has reached large proportions. Vast
nupbers OF orders covering every con-
ceivable class Of printing and binding
have been taken care of and rushed
through to completion. Working
forces were augmented as rapidly as
possible to meet the demand. and the
shops linotypes and presses do not
stop when the six O'Clock whistle
blows. The worknen are divided into
several shifts and the factory works
through the full twenty-four hours of
each day.
Uncle Sans Official Bulletin. con
Quoted BY the George Creel Bureau Of
Information. Is a new publication
printed by the Government Printing
Office. The first issue came out on
May 10. 1917. 1t has eight or more
and over eighty thousand copies
are printed each evening.
During a single month. the govern
print shop. aside from all other
work Of the various depart
ments, Congress and the bureaus.
printed twenty-five million registra-
ton cards. together with eighteen mil
lion certificates of registration, blanks,
vouchers, kilograms. instructions. etc,
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in connection with registration total
ing approximately four billion copies.
The first Liberty Bond issue required
large quantities Of rush work. One
million copies of posters. printed in
two colors, were delivered within the
space of a few days. -Four million
copies were printed OF what is known
as the boy Scout Poster" and ten
million copies of it were printed on
circulars. applications. etc.
"Cranks'' Flock To Capital.
The war has sent "cranks'' and their
pet schemes to the Capital in droves,
and they have caused considerable
trouble to the police. But the latter
handle suspicious cases in a business
like manner, and. considering the
number of these added creatures who
have descended upon washington, h
police have wonderful tact and de-
termination in getting rid of them. a
large number of the suspicious strang-
ers are sent to the Government Hos
pitaI for the Insane for examination.
There they are put through severe
tests and allowed to explain their
schemes for bringing the war to a
sudden close or capturing the kaiser.
A Mobilization OF Brains.
There are a hundred or more men
in washington now working for the
government at nearly double union
hours whose time the government has
never been able to buy in peace times.
The names on the various war COM
mittees are those of men who in pri-
life command bigger salaries or
receive bigger incomes than 500, 600.
They are prototypes OF Herbert c.
Hoover, and the story of his energy.
ability and sacrifice is a household
tale here and abroad.
The list of names of big men who
are working for Uncle Sam in his hour
Of need IS growing longer each day,
and it has been stated that it resem-
oles a series of pages from Who's
Who" Virtually all of the men have
real sacrifices. either in homo
life. money. business interests or per-
sonal comfort, TO 90 to Washington.
There are no heroics about it. or
hand. the average citizen could not
ten of them. Most of them viii
never get their names in the news
Dapers. except for a passing mention.
0ut history Will show how big q part
hey played in the struggle to make j.
he world safe for democracy" ?
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~ A0A@oAE-
Ever meet General Blank. of the
Quartermasters Corps, who has charge
OIL the Army clothing supply? What
KIND of a fellow is he. anyway
Every one of the passenger OF that
particular Pullman. with the excep-
ton OF the soldiers and sailors and. Of
course. the Inventor sought gov
eminent contracts for materials
some Of them war materials and soma
OF them materials tina their makers
thought should be war materials
whether they were or not. And this
Pullman was no exception: all cars
entering the big Union Station in
washington average pretty well along
the same line. The proportion rem
resented by the inventor can be
classified more appropriately under
the caption of crank"
Changes About The CITY.
Washington. heretofore rather
lethargic and fguratively inclined to
sit back and view events with a crit
ical eye, has awakened with new re-
sponsibilities. The city, with an esti-
mated increase in population of some
where between s~eventy-fve and a hun
dred thousand persons, suddenly finds
itself a thing of Importance to the
nation, the point from which all war
activities radiate. with many new
branches of government service open
to workers and with business OF all
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The Treasurer of the Kremlin con
tains the crowns of many of the
earlier rulers OF Russia and each one
is studded with Jewels of the purest
quality. All sorts of rare plate used
at the coronation f~easts, rich enamel
bowls and chalicas of solid gold.
sceptres set with diamonds and rubies.
gold and silver horse trappings used
by the princes together with the
coronation robes of the Cars and
C~zarinas, are spread out in cases
where the public may view these rich
relics OF Russia's splendor. Russia
las preserved some queer things in
its museum as well as rich ones, for
here may be found stuffed and mount
ed with the rarest skill of the taxider-
mist art the favorite horse of Cath
crime the Great. while close by is h
biudgeon said to have been used by
the Terrible, when he murdered
his son, and these things in the same
roo with the rare jewels. Truly
Russia is a land Of contrasts.
on the wall outside one is shown
the place where Ivan the Terrible
to watch the executions which
were carried out by his orders on the
old execution block which still stands
in the Red Square outside the Krem-
lin. Russian history is filed with the
crimes OF This ruler and #
makes one shudder TO look upon the
place where his orgies OF blood were
carried out.
Queer or Bells.
No write up NJ Moscow would be
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ground with its hundreds of droskies
parked before. The entrance to what
is known as the Chinese city, where
the warehouses and Office buildings
are located is in plain view. Mag
nifcent homes n great churches
with their richly co1ored domes are all
about Two of these churches are par
ticularly notable, 81. Basil the Blessed
and the Church of St Savior.
Splendid Churches.
The former is one of the most orig
inal buildings in the world and has
a style of architecture all it's own.
It was built at the command of Ivan
the Terrible as a thank Offering for
the Conquest OF Kasan. There is n
tradition that when it was completed
it was so beautiful and so wonderful
that Ivan had the builders eyes nut
out so he could not build another lik
it. There is another version of the
tradition which tells how Ivan asked
the architect whether he could build
a more beautiful structure. and hen
the man replied in the affirmative the
Gar ordered the executioner to cut
off the architects head so that the
structure might remain unrivaled for
ever. The church has a number Of
domes or towers which appear like a
bunch of upturned beets in shape,
each of which Is surmounted by a
golden cross. The carving on them
IS little short of marvellous, the color
ing Of which is indescribably beauti-
full. The interior consists OF eleven
different rooms in one Of which repose
the remains of St. Basil the Blessed.
In 1911 the church was ransacked by
Polish troops and in 1912 Napoleon
used it as a stable for his horses. In
1889 1t was restored to its former
beauty and is today the pride Of Mos
COW.
The Church of St. Savior is more
modern and was built as a thank Of
fering for Moscow's de~liverance from
Napoleon. It was begun in 1897 and
completed in 1888. As the church is
the highest building in the city and
dominates the sky line and its dome
is covered with solid gold it can be
seen for miles. The interior is richly
decorated with paintings by native
artists and has over one hundred
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all strangers being closely watched.
At night the mansion is watched by
soldiers " III are stationed a few feet
apart around the white House
grounds. The gates are doubly
guarded.
Cannons Were Spiked.
One of the most peculiar incidents
of the protection of the White House
is in regard to two antique cannon
adjoining the east side of the State,
War and Navy Building, which is just
west Of the Presidential mansion. The
two guns long out of use, were cap
tured during the Spanish-American
War. When they were taken to
Washington they were placed at n
top of the steps leading 10 the east
entrance of the governments great
est Office building. that Of the state.
War and Navy. The muzzlcs Of the
cannon point directly at the White
House. When a state of war was
declared with Germany, the guns
were spiked. their interiors completely
filed up. SO hat there was no pos
sibility OF their being fred. This IS
only one of the many precautions
taken to safeguard the life of the
chief executive
The Capital has also become the
center of activities for big cuisines
men. They are devoting themselves.
their time and their to the
work OF cooperation with the govern
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each other until they reached the
gate. They ceased and removing their
hats drove through in silence oniy to
renew their quarrel when inside.
Remarkable Relics.
The Kremlin which rises in the
center of commercial Moscow is the
most sacred spot in Russian history
for here all the Cars have been
crowned for centuries. and here the
most sacred relics of the country are
preserved. Here are the palaces and
churches, monasteries and military
barracks. and museums where jewels
of the rarest beauty and purest quail
ity are preserved. 1t is also the last
earthly resting place of the Russian
~patriarchs, whose bodies are in vaults
beneath n OF the churches. The
church of the Assumption. where h
coronation of the Cars were held, is
one OF the most richly decorated
places of worship in the world and
its treasury contains many venerated
relics, among them a written copy OF
the Gospels dating from the twelfth
century. a nail said to be one of those
used or the cross and a thorn said to
thorns worn by CHRIST
The Palace is so magnificent that
all the royal castles OF Europe pale
into insignidcance when compared to
it. In decoration, in floor covering
and IN size the Kremlin Palace stands
preemincnt. 1t has several hundred
roomse each one vieing in richness with
the other. Modern Russia. however.
has seen fit to make use of some of
these great halls and during both
the Russo-Japanese War and the pres
ent conflict the throne room of Alex
ander has been used as Red Cross
headquarters and here each day WON
en- OF all ranks meet to make band
ages and clothing for the wounded.
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kinds on the boom.
on the day a state OF war was de
clared between the United States and
Germany. the Capital was given i'm
petus. All of the gigantic schemes
that go toward putting a nation on a
wartime footing and entering into the
greatest conflict of the e were con-
ceived and formulated in Washington.
where. in most instances, h~eadquar-
ters were established and thousands of
workers placed on the payrolls. Mr..
Hoover's Food Administration IS an
example of this. When his plan was
decided upon. before the passage Of
the Food Bill by Congress, his entire
force of workers consisted OF a secre-
tary. There are now almost \ thou
sand men and women employed in the
Food Administration alone. Efforts
to interest millions Of women through
out the country in food conservation
have been successful. and a saving Of
$4,000. oo0. 600 is expected within a
year.
The Capitals wartime increase in
population-enough in itself to make
a good-sized city-has changed the
outward appearance of Washington to
a certain extent. All public buildings
are heavily guarded. admission TO
many of them is refused sightseers.
and government employees are required
TO show their identification cards, con
tanning physical descriptions and
photographs. when entering or leaving
buildings where they are employed.
officers OF the Army and Navy. to-
gether with the enlisted men. throng
the streets at all hours and give the
city a true war setting.
The White House. always a Mecca
for tourists and sightseers. has been
closed to their inspection. 1t is guard
ed by both the military and the police,
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ment in the prosecution of the war.
The man best fitted for the particular
lob to be accomplished. whether it
be to facilitate the subscription to a
loan. to extend and make more effec-
tive the work of the Red Cross
throughout the world, to bring rail
roads into coordination with h gov
ernment's requirements, 10 invent
means to remove the submarine men
ace or to mobilize the raw materials
and manufacturing products, has
found his way to Washington and has
stepped into the place where his serv-
ices are most needed.
About fifteen thousand names have
been added to the governments pay
roIl-all of these working in Wash
ineton-since the entrance OF the
United States into the war. Fully as
many have been added to take the
places of regular employees who have
Joined the military forces. taken more
lucrative positions with other employ
ers or left government service for 9TH
er reasons. While the Civil Service
Commission has been unable 10 keep
pace with the unprecedented number
of employees who have been placed AZ
work. within such 4 short time, Off
cials OF the Commission estimate that
over thirty thousand new names ap-
ear on the p~ayroIls.
Naturally the greatest increase in
the personnel has been in the War
Department. where the normal force
Of eighteen hundred civilian workers
has jumped to almost six thousand.
The division devoted to ordnance
claims the greatest increase. but not a
single branch of the departments ac-
tivity has escaped considerable expar
The War Workers.
The Treasury Department figures