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Evening star., 1918-08-01
Predicted Five-Month War.

How long do you think tho war
will laRt, them" I asked
The war win be over by Christ
mas! Yes, you may rest assured:
will be home by Christmas!''
asked him whether the country at
large was behind the war.
ITO a mani. It's wonderful the way
the socialists have come in. Many
thought they would prove a STUN
bling block and impede US. They came
in as a man. without q dissenting
voice! Why, when I came into your
house today. your porter's wife came
out to ask me to enlist her boy. who
is not yet of military age, and enlisted
him here, right at your door! It's a
most remarkable thing how readily
the mothers of Germany are giving
their boys to~the war"
Just before Christmas Of that year
saw the prince again. and reminded
him Of his prophecy regarding peace
by Christmas.
You promised US peace by Christ
mas" said. "Are We going to have
it?''
"WeIl, mot this Christmas, but next =
he replied, with just q shade Of disap-
pointment in his tone. Things have
not gone Just the way we expected,
but you may be quite sure 1t will be
all over by next Christmas, at any
rate
On one Of his visits shortly before
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Prince Rather Democratic.

ET1uce haCnef democratic.
When the prince arrived, my Ill
humor and preconceived ideas as to
the type of man he was disappeared
simultaneously. I found him to be
about forty-eight. more English than
German in appearance. his slightly
dropping moustache contrasting con-
spicuously with the upturned ap-
pendages favored by most of the Ger
man ar:stocrats and others who aped
the kaiser.
This prince was every inch a sports
man-another point in which he diff
fered widely from the general run of
the German nobility. He was perma-
been thrown from horse while hunt
ing.
In his actions and conversation, he
was one of the most democratic Ger
mans have ever known.
When war broke out he continued
to come to me, and his remarks from
that time on made a particular i'm
preston upon me, as I knew he was
in almost daily contact with the high
command.
The firt time I saw him after the
war started was on August S, 1914.
The prince was attired in the full uni
form Of a high German officer. I had
never seen him thus attired before.
ne came III SmlIluS ana 1ull OF con-
fidence. i
well. the great war is on!- he de-
clared, as he entered my office. II
leave at once for the great army
headquarters in the field You will
learn tonight that England is go
ing to declare war on u.s."
Great heavens!" exclaimed. 'Ts
that possible?"
"Yes. DR.. Davis. the English am
bassador will ask for his pass today
and it will probably be given him to-
day or tomorrow. It's quite all right.
We're only too glad to know where
England stands. We had to know.
II our fleet had gone out before Eng
land declared herself, it might have
been cut or from it's home base and
then it would have been lost It is
very fortunate for us that England
showed her hand SO early in the
game"
"But. prtnce," said. you'll be
blockaded!"
We're not worried about that. It
is not SO easy. There are many chan
nels and many islands and our boats
will always succeed in getting
through. Anyway. the war will be
over before England has q chance to
accomplish anything in that direction,
and we have vast supplies of every
thing, which will outlast the war"
Predicted Ffve-Month War.
Evening star., 1918-08-01

throughout Germany that the Eng
lish wives Of even the most promt-
nent Germans could not repress their
pro-ally leanings. Lam sorry can
not say the same thing Of the Ameri-
may have been exceptions. sim
cere1y hope there were. But 1t Ii a
sad commentary that not single
American wife of German noble
man ever aroused the slightest sus-
denotes, and most Of those with whom
came in contact were without ques-
tion more pro-German than their hus-
bands!
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More Honest Than Kaiser.

Prince Won Pless was more honest in
his statements than the kaiser. I re-
fer to the kaiser's complaints against
America for supplying munitions and
money to the allies.
"We haven't leg to stand on" he
frankly admitted when we discussed
that question. why, in the last TWEEN
Evening star., 1918-08-01
Predicted Ehe-Month War.
Said U.Boat Would
Beat England.
PEACE NOTE A FAKE,
THE PRINCE ADMITTED
American Wives Of Hun Nobility
Are Pro-German, Dr..
-. Davis Says.
BY ARTHUR N. DAVIS, D. d. ..
Copyright, 1918, BY the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
CHAPTER XI.
Prince Won Pless.

One of my most distinguished pa
tients in Germany was Fuerst
(Prince) Won Pless. Although he oc-
cupied no position Of state, he was
SO close to the kaiser and enjoyed his
confidence to such supreme degree
that I always regarded what he told
me as more or less an echo of the
kaiser's own sentiments.
Besides being a confidant Of the
kaiser, the prince was one of the most
influential men in Germany. Next to
Fuerst Won Henckel-Donnersmarck,
he was probably Germany's largest
landowner.
The princes wife was the daughter
Of Mrs. CORVALLIS West. She was
ono Of the most beautiful women in
England and quite the most beau
tiful who had ever come to Germany.
1t was the princess who first came
to me as a patient-early in 1909.
Shortly afterward ! received a long
distance telephone message from the
prince to the effect that he intended
calling on me at my office the fol-
lowing afternoon, which was Satur-
day.
1 had previously arranged to go
out of town for the week end to par
ticipate in a golf match at Leipzig.
Naturally. when he arrived I was
not prepared to be particularly cor
dial to him. I had pictured him a
typical German aristocrat whose self
ishnesS never allows for the con-
venience Of others.
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American Wives Pro-German.
These rumors about the Princess
Won Pless gained ground the more
readily because it was we'll known
Evening star., 1918-08-01
PRINCE Won PLESS ECHOED VIEWS
OF KAISER IN TALKS TO DIR. DAVIS

= - 1854 1
nitions to warning nations than any
other four countries in the world put
together!
Despite his overweening confidence.
which at times approached bragga-
enough to admit his mtscalculations..
and while he was German through
and through in his convictions that
might makes right and that ''Deutsch-
continent, ne had much in him that
distinguished him from the rest OF
I complained to him on one occasion
of the manner In which the royal
family played havoc with my prac-
day. sometimes without much pre-
vious notice.
Davis" he said. .'you are foolish to
tolerate it. It's all right. Of course.
to accommodate the kaiser and the
kaiserin. and the crown prince and
tied to similar consideration. but as
far as the other princes and the mo-
bility are concerned. If were you. I
certainly wouldn't allow 1t. They
may object terribly at first. but they
will soon fall into line!
That was about as democratic q
viewpoint as had ever heard from a
German prince. He was q nice fell
low, but poor guesser and must
have proven poor adviser on diplo-
Wife reported a Spy.
Despite the fact that the prince was
SO thoroughly trusted by the kaiser.
the princess was the subject of the
most alarming rumoys which. because
of her English birth and associations,
were not difficult to spread. It was
remembered that when King Edward
visited Berlin in 1910. shortly before
his death, and was taken sick sud
denly while attending reception. it
was the Princess Won Pless who ran
to his aid. She had studied nursing
and knew just what to do in the emer-
gency. She recognised the monarch's
ministered first aid. and 1t WAS said
that her presence of mind, saved the
kings life. incidentally. it was COM
monty reported at that time that had
King Edward died on that occasion,
war between England and Germany
Berlin would have been blamed for
the tragedy. But as the kings illness
occurred in the English embassy such
an accusation could hardly have been
made.
At any rate, the princess was re-
pOIGcu 10 UC d spy dHu ~ was Sfh0
she had been arrested. In -corrobo-
ration of these stories it was pointed
out that she was no longer seen at
the palace. The truth was that she
was serving in hospitals as q Red
Cross nurse.
She came to me in her Red Cross
costume one day and I told her of
the rumors had heard. They seemed
to amuSe her very much and she
asked me to repeat the stories to her
husband when he came to see me.
'It will amuse him immensely" she
declared.
Later on a rumor gained ground
that the prince himself had caught
her with discriminating papers" and
had murdered her with his own
hands!
American Wives Pro-German.
These rumors about the Princess
Won Pless gained ground the more
readily because it was well known
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Christmas. 1915. reminded him again
Of his prediction
"Dsvis,"3 he replied, ,laughinRly, Il
don't think the damn thing will ever
endr'
I saw him on February 2. 1917. and
his old confidence was quite restored.
Many things had happened In the
meanwhile, one would have thought.
to affect his optimism, but he was
just as certain that day that vic
tory was in plain sight as he had been
when the war started. that 1t would be
over by Christmas.
Evening star., 1918-08-01

For Sale
A Valuable Store and
Residence Property.
Owner retiring from busi-
ness will sell this valu-
able property at a sacrifice.
zoo Rhode Island Ave.
Over 100 feet on Rhode
Island and Florida ave-
nues northwest.
The building is thoroughly
we'll constructed A large store
room containing about 1000
square feet, and a cellar of about
the same size. In addition, there
are 10 rooms, an up-to-date
bathroom; hot-water heat; two
stairways; large closets and
pantries. Every room a front
room. Garage.
THIS STORE HAS PROVEN
A MOST PROFITABLE ONE
FOR THE PRESENT OWN
ERS, WHO HAVE PAID FOR
THE PROPERTY OUT OF
THE PROCEEDS FROM THE
BUSINESS AND SAVED
! CONSIDERABLE IN ADDI-
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This is an opportunity seldom
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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-02-28

serves an authority, that with the
yards covered with several inches of
snow that exercise could be obtained
in a dry open-front house by judi
cious feeding of scratch grain in
deep clean litter with more satisfac-
tory results in good egg production.
For three or four months during the
winter season fowls will accustom
themselves to such conditions and
will not suffer much in vitality and
will surely lay more eggs, particu-
larly if the winter is unusually Sc
we're.
All these things are true as ap-
piled to pullets that are being kept
primarily for egg production, but in
the case of yearling hens or early
Matched pullets that will be used for
breeding stock next spring vitality is
Of tremendous Importance and egg
production is secondary, and every
thing that can be done to increase
the vigor and hardness in such
birds will be reflected in the hatch
ing power of their eggs and the vi
tality of the chickens which are
Matched from them.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-02-28
FUR FARMING.

While every ones attention was
detracted by the war, the fur-farm-
ing industry of Canada has been
growing out of the speculative stage
and into that of production, cites the
Chicago Journal. In Prince Edward
Island the fox ranchers are taking a
very large number Of skins and get
ting good prices for them-as high,
in a few instances, as $1,000 per
pelt. About 1000 fox pups have
been raised on the ranches. No fig
ures are available from fur farms
farther West. In the case of rubber,
the cultivated product has gained a
clear supremacy over the wild ar
ticle. 1t does not follow that the
Same will hold true of furs. Some
of the finest pelts come from animals
that no one has yet attempted to
raise in captivity-seal, fisher, mink,
beaver, marten. A few of these may
be "domesticated'' later, however
but even if fur farming stops with
the fox, the reindeer and the Kara
kul sheep, it will be an important
industry.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-02-28
BLUEPRINTs FOR FARMERS.

Blueprints for plans for farm
buildings can now be borrowed with
out charge by farmers in California
by writing to the agricultural extern
sion division of the University of
California, at Berkeley. Since this
opportunity was first offered more
than seven hundred blueprints of
farm buildings have been lent with
out charge to farmers throughout
the state. These plans were designed
with special reference to California
conditions. The greater demand has
been for plans for poultry houses,
septic tanks and hog houses, There
has been large demand also for
plans for dairy barns, milk houses,
general barns, implement sheds and
appliances for the sheep grower.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-02-28
LESSON IN MANN ERS.

This is the way the agent got les
son in manners. He called at bust
ness office and saw nobody but a
prepossessing though capable-appear-
ing young woman.
"Where's the boss?" he asked abb
ruptly.
"What is your business?" she
asked politely.
"None of yours!" he snapped. 81
got proposition to lay before this
firm, and | want to talk to somebody
about it."
"And you would rather talk to a
gentleman?"
eyes"
"Well," answered the lady, smiling
sweetly, $50 would l. But it seems
that it's impossible for either one Of
us to have our wish, so we'll have to
make the best of it. State your bust
ness, please!"- CleVeland Plain
Dealer.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-02-28
BOXES REQUIRE MUCH WOOD
Lumber Men and Mills Have Big Job to
Provide Containers for Apples
in Washington.

Some idea of the important bear
ing the lumber industry of the state
Of Washington has on the fruit in
dustry may be gained from the fact
that in this state alone there are re-
quired annually 100000 apple
boxes, to say nothing of the other
fruits and the packing cases for can
merry output, says the Spokane
Chronicle.
Each apple box contains 4.3 board
feet of lumber, or 100000 feet
are required annually to box the
apples of the state.
1t takes a large, well-equipped
mill to cut 100000 feet day and
an army of workmen in the woods
to keep logs supplied. Such a plant
running every day, single shift,
could not furnish enough lumber in
a year.
The value OF the logs used, Just as
they are delivered into the water,
would range from $35O,OOO to $780,
900.
With this in mind many of the
box manufacturers are urging the
standardization of a box that will
eliminate the large percentage of
waste which now takes place. Ex-
cept in rare cases the box manufac-
turers must purchase from the saw
mill lumber cut on 12-inch basis,
with the result that outside of every
box factory will be seen huge piles
of narrow strips which are ripped
from such lumber to meet the di-
mansions required under the present
custom.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-02-28
PAYS TO CHANGE SUBJECT
Discussion of Pleasant Things Far
More Interesting Than Talk Of
Gloomy Happenings.

A few weeks ago I met, a man,
writes a great literary light in Eng
land, who Immediately after making
the polite salutation, commenced
recital of his troubles of that day.
He caressed his troubles so that he
magnifed them, and there seemed
no happiness for him except in re-
membering them and dwelling upon
them.
After more than half an hour of
listening to his tale of woe, I
thought he had gone far enough with
these messages of misery, so 1 inter-
rupted him with the remark, "Now
tell me some of the good things
which have happened to you today"
1t took him minute or two to start,
but with encouragement he brought
out many favorable happenings with
favorable surroundings. His mood
changed very quickly.
If we must keep our minds on
something, and talk about some
thing, why not choose the happier
and brighter things? They are
much more interesting.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-02-28
StOMANSE or TIE METALS.

Perhaps when peace comes some
studious person will give us TO-
nance of metals and the part they
have played in the war Among the
newer kind, recites the London
Chronicle, none is figuring more
prominently in the production of mu-
nitions than aluminium. Prof. T..
Turner of the metallurgical depart
ment of the University Of Birming-
ham tells us that the output of a
single foundry in the Midlands to-
day-and there are many such foun-
dries-is equal to that of the whole
world 10 years ago. 1t is recorded
that baby's rattle was the first ar
ticle to be made of aluminium. This
was in 1856, and was intended for
the infant prince imperial of France.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-02-28
STOP STALE BREAD NUISANCE
Bakery Business and to Aid In
Complying With Conservation.

If all the regulations which may
be established to govern food produc-
ton and conservation can be meas
ured by the request of the council Of
national defense that the bakers at
once put a stop to their ancient GUS
tom of accepting returns of stale
bread, it is clear that the food bust
ness is going to have thoroughly
salutary house cleaning, says North
western Miller.
The prevention of waste is, in the
long run, directly beneficial to the
producer, and the government is evil
IDENTIFY going to help him to do what
he had long wanted but been unable
to do. The stale bread nuisance has
for years been one of the chief
plaques of the bakery trade. Every
body recognized it for what it was: a
wholesale waste Of good material do
ing nobody any good, main
tanned only because each baker
was afraid Of his competitors.
The retailer who wanted a dozen
loaves was induced to take two dozen
on the ground that he could
return the unsold ones; the
baker paid the extra cost, knowing
that if he revoked the obnoxious
privilege some other baker would use
it as a means for getting the retail
er's trade for himself.
The return of unsold bread was
long a favorite theme at bakers con-
ventions; its evils were published
abroad and the trade was urged to
"do something about it" But the
lurking competitor around the cor
ner kept that something from being
done, and the baker kept on supply
ing the retailer with bread he did not
want and gazing day by day at the
surplus and practically unstable
production which was deposited on
his hands.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-02-28
THAT SIZZLING PARAGRAPH.

A noble and high-minded gentle
man of Lancaster write us, with full
specifications, that we have sent that
truly great paragraph Keeling, re-
verberating, ripsnorting, sizzling,
whizzling and SWELLING down the re-
echoing corridors of time, but no one
else seems to have noticed it, and we
guess not much general interest is
being taken in the higher forms of
literature in these days of stress and
strain.-Ohio State Journal.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-02-28
CAMELS AND OXEN IN WAR
Hump-Baeked Animals Especially Use
full and Egypt Has 10000 In Army
Service In the Deserts.

Far the most interesting and curl
Gus use to which an animal is sub
jected is the use of camels chosen
and trained because Of their strange
coloring and height, says war cor
respondent. Small groups of them
have been stationed among clumps of
acacia trees with a spy mounted on
The animals neck. This is the safest
place a person could be, for the camel
or giraffe, standing with only his
head above the trees, looks precisely
like a bit of the foliage in the dis
lance.
Camels are especially good for
desert warfare, because they can go
without water so long and can easily
carry loads weighing from 400 to
800 pounds. In the last Afghan cam
paign the British lost over $4,000
camels and today in Egypt there are
10000 in army service. They are
especially used for transportation
purposes. Great numbers of oxen are
used in France today. They do not
lbalk at autos and seem to know no
fear from torpedoes.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-02-28
RAISED A QUESTION.

In his distress a needy man bor-
rowed $25 from wealthy acquaint-
ance. The same day he was discov-
cred by his creditor in a restaurant
eating dish of salmon ith,mayon-
naise. The creditor reproached him
in these words: "You borrow money
from me and then order salmon with
mayonnaise. Is that what you need
ed the money for?" 81 don't under
stand you," responded the debtor
"When l have no money l can't eat
salmon with mayonnaise. When l
have money l mustn't eat it. Well
then, when shall | ever eat salmon
with mayonnaise !"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-02-28
TIME TO DANISH "KNoCKER"
FaultHnders Can Best Serve the coun.
try at Present by Maintaining
Silence, Declares Writer.

At all times he is despicable
character, but especially at such a
time as this. In normal times he
may possess some slight value in
awakening the Indifferent from their
Ilethargy; in times of pressure and
emergency like the present his only
possible service would be silence, says
milwaukee journal. We refer, of
course, to the ever-present 'knocker,"
that creature who is continually tell
ing how something might have been
better done, after it is done; who al
ways overlooks hundred virtues to
get at a single fault who, like de-
structive child, finds his pleasure in
tearing down what others have
ibuilded.
The task Of the "knocker" is an
easy one, for it is hard to find article
or individual that is criticism per-
feet. The fault-fnding mind finds it
easy to ferret out some imperfection
jim everything on which it focuses
especially in those things about
which it knows least. For it is char
acteristic of this type of mind to ex-
press itself with authority on all sub
jects.
There is room for the constructive
critic at all times; he is helping to
build up. The "knocker" can be
tolerated in normal times, but he
must be silenced in times like these,
not because his criticism is well
founded, but because it requires
BONE ones precious time to reply to
II. Let's down the "knocker."
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-02-28
KILAUEA VOLCANO ACTIVE.

'Kilauea volcano, one of the great
natural wonders of the world, lately
became active, and the molten lava,
surging upward from the depths, is
now close to the brink, affording a
spectacle of awe-inspiring grandeur,
John M. Ross of Haklau, Hawaii,
said, according to the Seattle Post
Intelligencer. "The vast flood of
boiling lava regularly rises and falls,
continually spouting fountains of
flame, flowing in swift currents, ed
dying and boiling like the sea, or
breaking and tumbling like surf in a
tempest" Mr.. Ross continued. "a
strong sulphur odor permeates the
air, and the glow of the volcano
transforms the night sky into a fire.
spangled mirror of incandescent
beauty"