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Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-21

| trous campaign, for on the last day of | March NapOleOn's enemies entered Paris. and before many weeks had
 passed he had been exiled to Elba. Chateau Thierry was taken and re
 taken in 1914 Just hundred years
 later it's walls looked down upon the | retreat of the enemy before the victOrs
 of the Marne.
 | Visiting there in the spring Of this year you would have found Chateau Thierry a town set in a fair and peace full countryside, proud of its sheep. crowded pasturages and rich in its vines and cherry trees-a little town of seven thousand people, no larger than Rochester, Minn., or Red Bank, New Jersey.
 And this town is the shrine for French pilgrims, not because of the battles fought in it's streets. but be cause it was the home of the master of fables, La Fontaine. Very much as 1t was in the Seventeenth Century, you can see today the house with its out side staircase and its moss grown well where this most beloved of French poets was born.
 Walk an hour or so up the road that leads to the northwest and you come to La Ferte-Milon. the home of Racine. Jean de Ia Fontaine and Jean Racine they are the poets of that region at the heart of the country which is known as He de France, the poets whose work. in it's simplicity, it's mod esty. it's eternal common sense. gives to the French spirit it's finest, it's pur- est expression.
 La Fontaine at Chateau Thierry
 The French of all ranks and ages. lcve their poet of Chateau Thierry When, in the early stages of the reyc- lution, the infuriated mob in Paris gave themselves over to the Septem- Der massacres of bloody memory and thousands of prisoners were butchered one woman was spared for no other reason than because she was the granddaughter of La Fontaine. French children hear his fables in the nursery and know them by heart their moth CTS and fathers find summed up in them all their philosophy of life.
 It was at Chateau Thierry that La Fcntaine was Master of the Waters and the Forests. It was there he made friends with the wanCering dog. the toiling ant. the mounting lark-all the animals of the countryside who move in his fables. It was there he wrote The Wolves and the Eve" of which the moral is the motto of his people in this year of trial:
 ''We can conclude from this that one must war continually with the wicked. Peace is all very well in itself l ad- init, but of what use is it with enemies who are faithless?"
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-21
Poets Corner
AMERICA THERE!

J. ROYAL, Warren America never will need a Napoleon, A Jackson, a Grant nor a Lee She has others. and others in plenty For Hun hunting over the sea Washington skeedaddled the Hessions And Dewey gave Henry a chill. She has more than enough of the
 peppery stuff To slam-in the slats of the Kid-Killer
 Bill John Pershing himself is no busher And March is a bear at the gun she has millions of others, all of them brothers
 Horsing to hurdle the honorless Hun We hand it to Haig and to Foch Some go getters, no error there. They ever will play, as they always
 play,
 A game that is good and a game
 that is fair. But list to the swat of Americas bat She tops the league-She has taken
 the lead, See "Old Glory" fly to the breezes
 highi
 Pass Prussia. pass. Bleed Germany,
 bleedi Across the Rhine: Right into Berlin Straight as a string her millions
 shall roam. Ohl Roche. Oh, BOche the Devil and
 kin Are arranging for changing their
 home sweet home.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-21

feel their gentle attractiveness. And you know, too. that behind their sweet and compelling smile there is a sturdy manliness and a brave heart. And of this rare and splendid type was Sil- verthOrn. This simple newspaper mans depression and Encouragement and i'll feeling fell from him like a mantle every time he met Silverthorn, and after word with him and a clasp of the hand and a good bye, he was braver and brighter and better for hours afterwards.
 And now his friend has gone. An. there are so few lamps along the way of shadows; so few men who are both gentle and strong; so few good lriendsl The silver cord is broken. An, how well those words fit the pass ing of Silverthorn. His character was as bright and beautiful as a silver vase There was a thorn in his name but none in his nature. How vain are mere words. The newspaper mans heart is sore this day; he grieves for a friend Somehow, the principal parts of the newspaper mans religion are composed os friends. Like his old com rade, Wat Mason back in Kansas, he would sing:
 T don't care for snowy gowns
 Or for harps and golden crowns. And I fear that endless songs would
 be a bore;
 B.E I'll meet my dear old friends Where the sky of Aidenn bends
 And we'll visit on a star forever
 more"
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-21

|, the counts of Champagne. the castle changed hands again and again through the early centuries.
 English archers took and held it in 1421, toward the close of the weary Hundred Years War between Eng land and France. the interminable war which finally brought Joan of Arc up out of the fields of Lorraine to lead the armies of the king and which, at the end, lost to the English crown all its rich French jewels save only Calais.
 Germans Had it of Old
 In the first half of the Sixteenth Cen tury. while adventurers on the other side of the Atlantic were exploring with fear and wonder the mysteries of the wilderness known as America, the Old World shook with the trampling armies of Francis l, king of France, and his enemy, the mighty Charles ". emperor of Germany, who had made pact with England for his undoing.
 Then-and not for the last time-the dwellers along the Marne saw an army corps of Germans march upon Paris. For, leading his troops through Cham pagne, Charles pressed his invasion to within twenty-four leagues of the cap ital. and in that invasion the Germans took Chateau ThieTry.
 A half century later the Spaniards sacked it in the course of the terrible wars of religion, when Catholics and Hugenots fought such bitter battles for the control of France that in the rourse Of thirty years one millian Frenchmen perished. Spanish troops entered France as allies of the Catholics. Those were the days when a Spanish garrison held Paris, nor, for all his sieges. could the Protestant chieftain. Henry of Navarro. enter it's gates till he had marched through crowds of joy ous people to the Church of Saint-Den- is, and there, in the presence of the prelates, asked to be received into the pale of the Catholic Apostle and Roman Church"
 Greatest Battle in 1874.
 It was in 1591 that the Sapniards fell upon Chateau Thierry. but it's greatest battle was fought in that desperate February of 1914 when England. Prus- sia, the German states. Spain, Portu- gal. Russia, Sweden and Austria-a crushing alliance - joined hands against Napoleon From the south and the east they invaded France and, hemmed in on all sides. the little em- peror was forced for the first time in his life to fight on the defensive.
 Fighting with only 10000 young and untried conscripts, he fell upon and smashed at Chateau Thierrv an army of 50,00O Russians and Prussians. It was a final flash of the old success, a shining victory in the midst of a disas-
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-21
Second Battle Of Mdrne

And still the second battle of the Marne rages with the allies still on the offensive. And what Is more important still, they have taken the offensive upon the south leg of the Marne salient, which is to say west of Rheims, where the Germans tried the hardest in their last drive. What the German staff has up its sleeve we do not know, but, up to the present time, it has been outguessed and outfought It Is still too soon to jubilate or make many claims, but 1t is late enough to congratulate our troops upon some splendid and successful warfare. And oh, if the British would strike now, with the Germans drawing reinforce ments from the north. But 1t is mistake to accuse the British of voluntary inaction, as some folks have thoughtlessly done in their talk in front of The Review bulletin boards yesterday. They are doubtless wild to be unleashed, these bulldogs, these Scots and Canadians and Irish and Australians. It is for Foch to say when they shall strike. And Foch will give the word when the time Is ripe.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-21


 CFrom the Stars and Stripes, France)
 Written down by the soldiers of the A. E. F.. one by one there are appear ing. for the first time in the pages oi American history, the names of old French towns. They are towns rich in the memories of a thousand years and scared with the half forgotten wounds of hundred wars. Theirs are names | that French children have conned for centuries and which now your children and your children's children will read | in the schoolbooks of America
 Such a name is Chateau Thierry. Ii was there that the German armies, in the great thrust for Paris they began May 27, first met the resistance of Yankee troops.
 Chateau Thierry is a little town on hill. Past it's foot flows the slow, untroubled waters of the Marne. From the gray stone, red tiled outskirts on the other side of the river, you cross a l S-arched bridge of stone to mount, by winding paths, to where the ancient church lifts it's Sixteenth Century bel fry to the heavens House by house and street by street, the town has grown up through the centuries around squat. deep dungeoned chateau. Of this chateau only two vine hung gates and the fragments of a thick set wall are left to tell the story of many bit ter siege.
 Built by Charles Martel
 Tho oh hraflf in Zon hU Charles Martel, the great Hammer of the Franks and grandfather of the still greater Charlemange-the same Charles Martel who saved Europe for Christendom when. twelve years later, he met and vanquished the turbanned hosts of the all conquering Saracens in the battle of Poiters. Little remains of the castle itself, but you can still see the base of the tower where one of his feeble successors, Charles the Simple. was held a prisoner
 When, in the early days of June, 1918, men once more fought hand to hand in the narrow streets Of Chateau Thierry and the thunder of the guns stirred ancient echoes in the crumb- ling ruins of the castle, history was but repeating itself The river valleys converging upon the plain of Paris and finding there a barrier of hills, have ever turned that basin into the final battle field of an invasion with the capital as the goal. That is why around Chateau Thierry, reared like a stub born bastion on the rim of that basin, the soldiers of many a forgotten cause have fought and died. It has always blocked the path to Paris.
 Now held as a watch tower by the dukes of France, now as an outpost by
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-21

dear little lassie came up to his desk the other day with a smile that light ed the office like a lamp and asked him to look at her poetic contribu- tiOn to the cause of freedom. she gave her name as Kathryn Ashby and was proud of her fifth grade rating at the Lincoln school. And the news paper man is proud of his poet friends and their little visits to cheer him on his weary way Kathryn's heart is truer than the meter of her verse, but the sentiment could not be improved upon by a Longfellow. Kipling or a Tennyson. Her verse follows: Dear America, we will win Because Liberty's soldiers will never
 give in.
 And Liberty stands with her torch in
 her hand
 To tighten every sailor that leaves
 this land.
 And she says these words to our boys
 so true,
 As they sail in ships on the ocean
 blue:
 Make Kaiser Bill unhappy in his sin And drive all Germans from their
 parks in Berlin"
 President Wilson and Secretary Baker and General March have de livered many stirring addresses to the soldiers of this land before they went down to the sea in ships, but in none of these splendid orations has there been a finer. grander course mapped out for these doughbOys than that traced by Kathryn Ashby of Bisbee in her eight line verse.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-21

solemnly and sedately and seriously accepted all these attentions lavished upon him as a matter of course. He just stood there in the back yard as still as though he had been carved out Of mouse colored marble. He was neither sad nor gay. Just immovable Except for a twitching ear and the fixed and melancholy gleam of his eye there was no life about him.
 And then the next day came four other small boys, each mounted on a festive burro, and grouped themselves in the newspaper mans front yard, as strange cayalcade as ever graced or disgraced the court of cottage or castle in this world below. And the news paper mans son got his burro and dragged him around front. And all the boys talked all the time and scdf- fled and ran about and climbed on and off the backs of their strange beasts and were never still. But the burros did not talk and did not move. Most vivid was the contrast between these silent, immutable, immovable beasts and their small but lively masters.
 There is something darned strange about a burro that the newspaper man does not pretend to understand. The other night one of these animals turned over the garbage can and paved the back porch and got so Ob- streperous that the newspaper man went out there and bounced a big rock off his back. And that burrO, unlike any other animal under the sun, did not move, either in retreat or attack, under the blow He just stood there and looked reproachfully and grateful ly at his assailant. Blamed if this newspaper man did not feel as though he had struck a human being, and he came pretty near begging that burro's pardon.
 But when this strange and silent ami nal is moved to expression, he simply breaks the entire atmosphere into small pieces. His trumpet blast as- cends to heaven and is long sustained. Seems as if the roof is coming off every time a burrO brays nearby.
 And now there are five of them hanging around the newspaper mans house Five strange, sad, solemn, seri- ous. ssnctimonio-s. simple beasts. And they are not to be driven away. The son and heir Of the house has SO dccreed And besides no gent can bear tc club or stone any breathing thing with such a sOrrowful and human look as any one of these crafty and s.olid burros can assume at will.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-21
BURDENS GREATER
 THAN HE CAN BEAR

There is a certain business man in the Warren district whose wife went away to the coast for her summer va cation and left him with burdens great CT than he could bear, and so he had to call for help. And this man is considered one of the big and success ful and forceful business men O. this section, too.
 Strange, isn't it, that man capable of handling large and varied business interests and bossing lot of men and carrying great responsibility, should fall down flat on the job of taking taking care of two pups and a parrot for a month and have to call :or help.
 The newspaper man went over to visit a friend and his wife in Warren the other evening and found green parrot and a black and white pup on the porch. Expressing surprise at these new and strange pets, the lady of the house explained. They be- lend to our friend and neighbor," she said. His wife has gone to the coast and he came over here the next night and declared that the parrot and the pup were causing him more worry and EIlcI lAdu dil HIS DuSihCoo 4hNoiC CoNo combined He looked so sad and seemed to feel so bad that we took pity on him and agreed to care for these pets until his wife returned. He frightened up right away from a broken down pessimist to gay and cheerful citizen.
 'The next morning early he drove up in front of the house with the pup and the parrot. And when we had taken them in he sighed so loud and so long in his relief that his breath stirred the leaves on the trees in the Vista park. And for my part, eau not understand why he should take on so about these dear little pets. l cannot see that they are a bit of trouble"
 But the newspaper man can see. He is himself taking care of brindle pup these days, and it is more trouble than the newspaper, And as for a
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-21
A WAR TIME PRAYER

Each red-tipped zephry winging.
 Across the eastern sea. A hallowed tale is bringing
 Of tragic things that be; Where trampled lilies are signing. Meath ruined cathedrals lying, And brave men bravely dying,
 A writhing world to free. To crush the old tradition
 King-craft alone can rule To end the superstition.
 Mere man must be a tool And back OCT the eastern ocean
 Great ships are speeding fast. Proving a lands devotion
 To dies her mOulders cast; Their bulwarks full are ringing. With khaki-clad men singing, Aloft their loved flags swinging.
 Swinging proudly from the mast And the starry folds a-swaying
 Catch the soft whisper Of Wet winds and wild waves saying
 "God speed the flag we love" And winds and waves are praying
 For that which nations pray; The granting meaus, the laying
 Of mankind's broader way; The way of the humble and lowly That climb the long road slowly. Yet on them there rests wholly
 The dawning of the day; The day when the golden sunlight
 Over the worlds wide span. Shall rise from the ashes of night
 On the Brotherhood of Man.
 Wm. A. Dell. Lisbee. AriZ
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-21
A GERMAN SPEAKS

Dr. w. Muehlon, ex-director of the great Krupp gun works at Essen, who resigned his official position and renounced his many honors, dignities and friendships in German officialdom, and exiled himself to Switzerland, gave out most notable inter view recently to correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, in which he arraigned Germany more mercilessly than any Englishman, Frenchman or American has ever done. Every phase of German diplomacy and militarism and internal pol icy was wholly condemned by this German who is in position to speak with as much authority as almost any German official alive today Dr. Muehlon declares that the socialists and independents of Germany are just as bad as the German junkers. All Germany, he says, from peasant to prince, in their heart of hearts, have been led oft after the false gods of power and dominion. They seek baubles from the hand of the masters, the nobility. They have been. seduced from principles and from kindness and gentleness and charity by the offer of medals for slaughter and gold for ruthless ness and honors for cruelty.
 Dr. Muehlon closes his terrible interview as follows:
 Fascinated by the lure of conquest and profitable peace before winter, the German people have gone forth to death on new fields of frightful slaughter, but when it at last realizes that these materialistic dreams can never come true, and that, on the con trary, poverty, impotence and ultimate utter economic and military exhaustion are in store for it, there is going to be great crisis in Germany.
 This moment of dreadful awakening will come sooner than most people think, for the general economic situation in Ger many Is already today more desperate than it ever was before and forms an absolutely unnatural contrast to the positions the kaisers armies hold on the war map of Europe.
 America is destined to deal Prussian militarism and materialism a knockout blow on the battle fields of heroic, devas- tated France; and remember the former Krupp directors prophetic words: Ger many will not stand much punishment; once she is down she will give in quickly; and the kaisers empire will topple like house of cards
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-21
CAR SHORTAGE

In the light of experience with transPor- tation difficulties during the winter of 19I7-i8, chiefs of the United States rail road administration consider additional locomotives are more necessary now than additional freight cars.
 Discussing the decision recently an- nounced to build 100000 new cars for American railroads during the present year, railroad administration officials say the number was fixed only after every loco motive existing facilities could turn out during the year had been ordered.
 It was not a shortage of cars that brought about congestion in the past, it IS said at the railroad administration. In
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-21
A FRIEND PASSED THEN

When one Of the owners of the Fair Store stopped the newspaper man on the street Friday and handed him a fateful yellow slip of paper apnounc- ing the death of J. l.. SilverthOrn in California, 1t was as though he had been struck a sharp blow. He did not even know that SilverthOrn had been III. And, standing there in the bright sunshine of the busy street holding the Western Union death message in his hand, the newspaper man suddenly be- came thoughtful and sad. He is a new conner among the old timers oi this district. having been here only a little more than a year, and has only a few friends and not even as many acquaintences as he would wish. And here was word that one of the best of his new friends had gone to the coast on a journey to search health. and failing to find it there, had gone on to the invisible shores of another coast to find the peace that passes all understanding. And though this newspaper man wait in this district until the storms wear the mountains down to a level with the plain, yet this friend will not come back again to greet him with that pleasant smile and friendly glance and happy word as ot yOre.
 He was a brave. gay pilgrim In this valley, was J. l.. Silverthorn. and he little knew how much he helped this lonely newspaper man by his kindli- ness and friendliness.
 There are a few men. scattered here aud there over the world. who have the gift of a smile aud glance that win hearts to them instinctiyely yOu
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-21
Resigns, MarTies,
 Goes On Journey

J. '. Berry for the past several years connected with the Phelps-Dodge store. as advertising manager and win dow decorator, resigned his position last night. That is not all he did. He was married to Miss Ivy Raymond Perry and left on the Golden State limited for Los Angeles, Cal. on a honeymoon trip.
 MT. Berry has been a resident of the district for about eleven years and is one O. the we'll known business men of the community. He has made rec ord in the position that he held with the P. D. store and has received mum erous certificates on his display ad- vertising and window decorations from the trade journals, etc. It is his in- tention to take a rest in southern cali fornia for a short while. He may he called to enter the service of his coun- try shortly.
 Miss Perry is one of the efficient teachers of the local schools and has been a resident here for some time and has been making her home on Quality hill.
 The couple carry with them the best wishes of their many friends in the Warren district. fO ra most happy and welded life,
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-21

With the guns of the allies battering the rail connection over which the armies ot the German crown prince drew their re- sources for offensive around Rheims and Chateau Thierry; with Germans abandon ing their positions along the south bank ot the Marne, who can doubt that General Foch at last struck his stride and the cause of the allied nations is the gainer of bril- liant tactical and material victory.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-21
AN IRRESISTIBLE INVASION

The newspaper mans small son came home in triumph the other day. leading a mouse Gplored burro behind him And he fed that burro and water ed him and petted him and talked 10 him and seemed Co be supremely hap py in his company. And the burro
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-21
MORE POETS

This newspaper man is adding to his circle of little sirl poets. Another
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-21

The Slifcrd ess0Ciation has placed loans with the farmers of the Gila valley Co the amount of Sl00.000.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-21
Chateau 7hierry, Little TOWn On
 4 HiU, Where Ydnks Nude History

in 2Oand ties and Sg and Been Ruled by Many Masters Lands Before the Amer
  Virginia; Napoleon Fought There