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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

another woman's; Paul a civilian in
Paris; herself alone and abandoned;
alone for all her life.
Then one morning the bell rings and
there Paul stands before her, not at all
confused, or hesitating or contrite, but
full Of ardor and passion, talking with
an energy so compelling that size no
longer knows what to think, that she
finds no words with which to question
him, that she feels herself overwhelmed
and carried along like pebble in
raging, irresistible food.
What is he saying? He has tried to
communicate with her at Mulhouse, but
has not succeeded. His letters appar-
emily never reached her. Since he has
known she was in Paris he has
searched for her, and has found her at
last with the aid Of the bureau of visi-
tors permits at the Prefecture. He has
always loved her, loves her more than
ever, has never loved any one else. His
companion of the other day?~ She
doesn't count. A casual acquaintance
whom he will never see again. When
one is too much alone he sometimes does
foolish things.
Soon he will be able to draw with his
left hand. Yes, like Daniel Verge. You
can do that when you have lost your
right hand. With careless gesture
he shows her his empty sleeve, which
she had not seensat first. Then she
notices also in his Erttonhole two little
ribbons interviewer, one green and red,
the other green and yellow. But then?
Yes. l was mustered out after the
amputation. 1t happened at the Marine.
/ will tell you all about it when we arc
married. For we shall marry at once.
We shall love each other always-al-
ways more and more. We are pledged
to each other forever"
He draws her close to him. He bends
over. And because women always for
give, because life is so dark when one is
all alone, because he is brave and mutt
lated. and also because she cannot re-
slst his conquering talk and gestures,
Odlle, INCREASINGLY, without an answer,
lays her head on the shoulder Of the
friend she has found again
But as he bends toward her face she
wells with her eyelids the mystery in her
eyes, which two tears have moistened
with joy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17
NDILE BASTIEN, having knotted

NDILE BASTIEN, having knotted
her veil and put on her gloves,
descended her four flights to the
street. Elbowed by the innumerabe
soldiers who filled the approaches to the
Eastern Railway station with shifting
panorama of uniforms of horizon blue,
she quickly gained the stairway Of the
metro" (the Paris subway.
Undoubtedly it wasn't an agreeable
neighborhood, overrun by this crowd of
furloughed men Of all descriptions and
the cquivocal world which they attracted.
Nevertheless she kept her little lodging
in the Rue Gle Strasbourg, unwilling to
quit that quarter of the city which
seemed to her to be closest to Alsace
Those trains, whose long, mournfu toot-
ings and wheezings she heard every
night, were going down there-toward
Belfort, toward Dannemarie, toward
Slulhouse
She had ahghted in this corner Of
Paris chilly early spring evening in
1915. She had left Mulhouse in panic,
terrified at finding herself alone and at
the mercy of the Germans, whose rage
against the Alsatians was without limits
from the time that the latter had re-
ceived the French army with delirious
enthusiasm.
Odlle was young, pretty and unpro-
tected. Her husband and her parents
were dead and her fance had left Alsacc.
All her natural guardians were dead or
gone.
In the train which carried her along
noisily through the dark tunnel of the
Metro" Odile thought of her brief past,
which now seemed to her envcloped in
blackness, like Mulhouse itself, that city
of a hundred factories.
Her story was very simple and, up to
the outbreak Of the war, very common
place. She was the daughter Of an ac-
countant in a big industrial establish
nent, and at nineteen years had mar
ricd young colleague Of her fathers,
Albert Basticn, who, they told her, was
AN ideal husband for her, having an as
surcd future. But the futurc-who
knows it? And how foolish it is to dis
count it! Two years later her husband.
whose health the confinement OF Office
life had undermined, died Of pneumonia.
caught while leaving the factory one Bit
ter cold night
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

him. Paul intended to join the French
army and to go to the front. She would
not see him again. She would have been
lett all alone in strange city if she
had accompanied him. Undoubtedly her
flancc would soon return to Mulhouse
with the victorious French.
But no, he was not one of the fortu-
nate ones who, transported with enthu-
slasm, were received at Muhouse by
population beside itself. He never knew
the intoxication Of that welcome-the
brilliant dream which was to be followed
by so tragic an awakening
That awakening was the counter Of
fensive of the Germans, the battle Of
Dornach, the savage reprisals at the ex
pcnse of the Muhousians, faithless sub
jccts Of The German Empire. What evil
prompting induced Odle's father to 90
out to see what was happening in the
streets and to make some indiscreet COM
ments? Stood up against wall, he paid
with his life for that imprudence.
His daughter experienced the anguish
of waiting for him in vain, the grief of
hearing of his cruel fate, the terror of
finding herself alone thereafter. facing
those unclaimed hordes, those masters
more than ever implacablc. She re-
NAMED some time uncertain what to do.
Then in February 1915, she profited by
a permission to leave Mulhouse granted
reluctantly to few women and chill
dren.
Those who don't know where to 60
whom nothing attracts anywhere else
drift to Paris, the city of mirages. 1t is
the place where one has the best chance
to ind again any one who has dropped
out of sight. But in spite of all her
efforts Odilc had obtained no news Of
Paul. The bureaus could not tell her
IN what army he served. Without
doubt he had changed his mama. as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

Odile, widow at twenty -one, felt no
very great grief, because, without know
ing just why, she had never really loved
Albert. With her widowed father she
continued to live the same monotonous
life, full Of long, empty days, until she
met Paul by chance at a friends house.
Paul! In what way was he different
from the others? Why, whenever she
saw him, did she have a novel and indie
Unable feeling, sort Of uneasiness. a
sense Of fascination? Often in reading
novels (for she had the calm and prac-
tical spirit of the Alsatans) she had
scoffed at Glove at first sight" One
should not rail at love. Sooner or later
the little god takes his revenge. This
Glove at first sight was exactly what
trapped her in her turn-her the reason
able, unromantic Odile
He was an Industrial designer, because
his lack Of force did not permit him to
become painter. SO he INDUCED in the
illusion of being an artist by imagining
for his tapestry and upholstery stuffs
richly decorative compositions with
flower motives.
She met him often. She knew that
he loved her before he told her so and
asked her to be his wife She accepted
with JOY, seeing a long perspective Of
happiness opening before her They
were to be married III September, 1914
In the last days Of July, when war
seemed imminent, Paul came to tell her
that he was going to Belfort while there
was still chance to go. He begged her
to go with him and to take her father
along. But the latter absolutely refused
to leave his beloved Mulhousc.
Il want to be here to receive the
French he said, obstinately. They could
not persuade him, and Odile, not wish
ing to abandon him, stayed behind with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

most OF the Alsatian volunteers did
Advertisements inserted in the news
papers brought no results.
Now again, on her way to 4 new
bureau, Odile turned and returned in
her mind that insoluble enigma while
the Metropolitan train ran through its
tunnel, stopped, started again, unwear-
ledly continuing the monotony Of long
gray walls, broken only here and there
by big poster or an electric light.
Another station. This time the train
going in the opposite direction also
stops, the two so close that they seem
to touch each other. From one car to
another the passengers stare across,
with the dull, repressed air Of people
who wait intentionally in some public
place. Odile lifts her eyes mechani-
cally. Suddenly she starts. There.
separated from her only by the thick
ness OF two panes Of glass, a young man
is talking to young woman seated on
bench beside him.
That face, those eyes, that brown
mustache! 1t is Paul!
Is it he really? In civilians clothes.
with strange woman?
AS if he felt that glance which de-
voured him the passenger across the
way lifts his eyes, meets those of Odile.
starts-he, too-with brief and mute
glance OF recognition and slight gest-
ure, like an appeal. Then his train
gets under way and carries him of, SUBJ
merging him anew in that bottomless
ocean which is Paris.
Several days passed-black, empty
days, without purpose and without hori-
zon, almost without thought; for one
could hardly call thought that tumult
of confused and Departing ideas which
ragged in Odile's brain. Nothing to look
forward IS: ~sS=xthine in ruin: Paul
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

torian era he had his place and throvc
after his fashion. Life was SO secure and
the future apparently certain. But he
was not fitted to stand the strain of COM
ing out into the open. He is Mortified by
the war. but in his heart he is still more
Mortified by the thought of the conditions
that will come with peace. He sees the
future | know, vast, formless threat
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

i,y of November election, he told me that
he meant to abstain from voting. He said
that he could not vote for Lloyd George,
and afraid of putting too much power
into the hands Of the Labor party. He did
not thinl; that they had yet had enough
experience OF government to be trusted
with the control of a nation.
On the hallowcd projections of the Vic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

cscapade incidentally intended as Il
shaking? Did she flaunt her wickcdness at
him in the hope of 'rousng him up? II
so, she failed, ANONYMOUSLY. Shakings of
that sort only aggravatc his terror of life.
Indeed l do not think that anything can
be done for him. If he survives the war,
the coWing of the new democracy will Ger
tainly finish him. Talking Of the POSSIBLE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

no fear in this case. Bellows considers
Vince as beneath his notice, and always
speaks of him to me as your hair-splittin'
friend
"Now that I have documented Vince
feel chiefly sorry for him, but when | am
in his company l frequently feel strong
desire to shake him. I wonder if his wife
began by being sorry for him, and if her
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

Ec sees life exposed to great gale OF
revolution. lie is afraid tha. his retreat
will be no longer available, that one day
he will find his burrow stopped and him
self called upon 10 face, and to work with,
his fellowmen.
"But, no doubt, his natural timidity
tends to overestimate the probability of
these dangers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17
lntrOVerts
Novelists Find a Field in the New
Psychology

IN lotion does not lag in making
* use of the new psychology and its
new classiications Here is j. D.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

REVOLUTIONARY art an
IN tedated the several pres
ent revolutions by good
many years. The art that has
come out of these movements of
human revolt-if these Russian
postcards are to be taken as an
indication-is marked chiefly by
its satire rather than by any great
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17
THE MEETING French War Tale
Translated by William l.. Mcpherson

dycc e,ed
~aG~ haH
and ruuu.
81 thu couusa the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17
'Allons. enfants de- Ia PaerieI''

qualities of imagination. There
are always wheels within wheels,
and even revolutionists have a
hundred disagreements between
themselves. The postcards re-
produced here are from Bolshe-
vik Russia, and they express
more graphically than words the
public reactions to the events
transporting there.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-01
. francelia Ellington repairing her car.

Francelia Billington, leading lady
for William Russell, says she'd hate
10 have an automobile that she couldn't
take to pieces and put together again.
Miss Ellington also says there isn't
4 thing in the idea that women cannot
learn machinery. She is a natural
mechanician.
First thing l remember WE'LL" says
Miss Ellington, who was born few
years or SO ago, down in Texas, was
sneaking an old alarm clock from the
kitchen table and taking 1t out to the
voodshed to take apart and find out
lcst what made the wheels go around.
] found out and put 1t together again
end didn't have single piece left
over, which l regard as some triumph
And II the motion picture business
ever busts up can go over to France
and drive an ambulance or truck or
something or other for the war.
never have to take my car into a ga
rage to find out what is the matter
with her. | merely pull on a pair of
friendly overalls. take my trusty mon
key wrench and go after the trouble"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-01
Do You Remember

When Louise Rutter. Barbara Ten
nant and Marguerite Snow played the
leading roles in THE College Widow
season after season?
When Vitagraph released Daniel
and Charles Kent played the title role
and entered the lions den?
When William HUMPHREYS CO.
starred with Julia Arthur in More
Than Queen" and later played Ma
poleon in Vitagraph's production OF
Napoleon and Josephine?
When Carlyle Blackwell and j.
Warren Kerrigan played in Brown
of Harvard" with James Young doing
the title role?
When Wilton Lackaye did THE Law
and the Man" in the legitimate, and it
was a dramatization of Les Miser-
ables"?
When Louise Beaudet of Vitagraph
fame was comicopera queen in the
eighties?
When Ruth Roland was doing COM
edy roles for Kalem, and John Bren-
nan. the Hi Holler of Way Down
East" played opposite her?
When Anita Stewart was known a
Anna NJ. Stewart, and did bits with
Vitagraph under the direction of
brother-in-law Ralph Ince?
When Gene Gauntier went to Jer-
usalem to do From the Manager to
the Cross and married her leading
man, Jack ]. Clark, in that city?
When Thomas Ricketts, produced
the famous one-thousand-feet-no4stop
pictures for Essanay: j. e., 1000, feet
of film without a stop or subtitle?
When Ethel Clayton made her
screen debut in the same?
When the late Fred Mace did "The
Wogglebug," which was listed as a
successor to 1.-THE Wizard of o." and
It failed?
When Louise Glaum was doing COM
edy roles with Al E Christie of the
Nestor company. and when she played
leads with Kalem opposite Carlyle
Blackwell?
|. When Myrtle Stedman was touring
Tas prima donna for the Whitney
Opera company, and when she went
on the road in series Of concerts?
When "The Drug Terror" was pro
duced by Harry Myers as lesson re-
garding the effects Of habit?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-01
Personal Mention.

Personal Mention.
Grin Poffenbarger of New Boston
came Monday to spend the day here
attending to business.
Cole Finch was in Rock Island Mon
day.
E. R. Petrie and daughters. Misses
Alice, Lois and Margaret, visited in
Rock Island Monday.
Sheriff c. C. Luttrell was in Rock
Island Monday.
Miss Ruth Detwiler left Monday for
Huron, N. D., where she will resume
her work as English instructor in the
high school. Miss Detwiler spent the
Christmas holidays at home with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. c. Detwiler.
Rev. and Mrs. L. H. Sailor left Sat-
urday for their home in La Harpe. ILL.,,
after spending Christmas here with
Mrs. Sailors parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G.
". Bridgford.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-01
Omaha Livestock.

Omaha, JAn. Hogs, receipts 700;
steady; heavy 16.45@16.75; mixed
16.15616.7O; light 16.40@16.70; pigs
l0.OO@17.OO; bulk .16.50@16.70.
Cattle, receipts 1000; slow; steers
S. 50m13.50; cows and heifers $500
1850; calves S.50@12.75.
Sheep, receipts 1900; steady: year
lings 11.50@1325; wethers 1000
1880; ewes 10.00@1050; lambs 1886
616.65,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-01
CARD OF THANKS.

WE wish, in this way. to express our
sincere gratitude to kind friends and
neighbors who so kindly assisted us
in our recent sad bereavement, the
death of our beloved husband and
father, John Holland. We especially
desire to thank Rev. Mr.. Van Lear for
his consoling words; the organist,
singers. pallbearers. and all those
who sent flowers through which they
expressed their kind sympathy. Mrs.
Mary Holland and family.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-01
Kansas Citv Livestock.

Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. Hog re-
ceipts, 5000; strong; bulk, 5000
1890; heavy, 16.S0@16.95; light, 1850
,6l670: pigs, 13.50615.50.
Cattle receipts, 5000; steady; steers,
9.OO@14.25; cows, 6.50@1050; heifers,
6.50@11OG; calves, 6.50@ 13,00.
Sheep receipts, 1000; strong; lambs,
15.50@16.50; yearlings, 12.50@ 14.10;
wethers, 11.50@12.75; ewes, $500
1900,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-01
LICENSED CHIROPRACTOR.

stomach, kidney, liver
troubles, constipation and other all
ments relieved without medicine
by Chiropractic adjustments. DR..
Liess, Chiropractor, 516h Fifteenth
street, Moline, Langbehn building
Phone Moline 2S13. Hours, l p. m. to
4 p. M; evenings, Monday. Wednes-
day, Saturday from p. m. to 9 p. m.
House calls attended.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-01

County Judge F. L. Church here yes
terday afternoon and were fined 81
and costs each. The complaint against
them was entered by Henry Peter
son. cashier of the New Windsor State
bank. He alleged that they dared him
out Of the bank and called him defam-
atory names and acted in a disorderly
manner. Acting States Attorney d.
A. Hebel prosecuted the case.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-01
FIVE FIV z FIN
St. Louis Livestock.
FIVE

st. Louis, Jan. Hog receipts, g.
900: steady; light, 16.55616.70; pigs,
13.75@15.00; mixed. 16.60@16,90; good
heavy, 16.SO916.90; bulk. 16.50@16S5.
Cattle receipts. $500; strong; steers,
S.O0m14.25; heifers, 7.00@15.50; COWS,
5.OO@1O.50; calves, 5.75@16.00.
Sheep receipts, 1000; steady; lambs.
1400@17O0; ewes, 10o0G11.50; weth-
'ers, 1100912.50.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-01
A. J. Lindstrom. Cashier.



Estate of John L. Brashar. deceased
The undersigned having been ~.
pointed administrator with the win az
naxed Of the estate Of John I. Drashae.
Of Illinois. deceased. hereby gives notice
that It will appear before the Han.
Benjamin Bell. Judge of the pso6ate
court of Rock Island county. Of the pro-
land, at the February term. on the nret
time all persons having olalms agalpst
said estate are notified and. requested
same adjusted. Ali persons indebted %
said estate are requested to make In.
mediate payment to the undersigned
Dated 9Th day OF December ~ ..
1917.
ROCK ISLAND SAVINGS BANK,
Administrator with the VIII Annexed.
Stafford. Schoede . Stafford. attoe-
neye
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-01
WANTED-MALE AND FEMALE.

MEN and women: experience, educa-
ton and ambition; for motion picture
work; must have some capital
OLoma Photoplay Co.. Inc, 202-203
Peoples National bank building, Rock
Island, Ill. Phone r. /. 321.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-01

Mary Pickford Corporation, Holly
wood. Cal.
Blood Stained Russia" is the name
OF new war film compiled from pic
lures taken on the Russian front by
Donald Thompson.
Natalie Talmadge is attached to
Roscoe Arbuckle-as his secretary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-01
ALEDO AT A GLANCE
Many Men Examined.

Thirty-five men were examined yes
terday by the local exemption board
for the third and fourth contingents
of the first draft. No exact figures
were given out, but it was estimated
that about thirty men passed the ply
steal test. Only men in class l were
called for examination.
The local board only passes on de-
tendency claims and those not Claim
ing exemption on this ground are
placed in class / until their cases
are decided by the district board. After
the district board has passed on their
claims they may be re-classified.
All the men in class l will be called
for examination as rapidly as possible
SO that reserve list may be main
tanned to fill vacancies. The men
called yesterday probably will be sent
in the next contingents to the train
ing camps, but men examined later
will be held in reserve.
Lundy.M00dy.
Miss Laura Lucinda Moody Of En-
poria, Kan, sister Of Rev. A. E. Moody
Of this city, and Erwin Glenn Lundy,
also of Emporia, were married last
evening at the First Presbyterian
manse" at o'clock by Rev. Moody.
The ring service was used. Only i'm
mediate members of the family were
present. A wedding dinner was served
at the manse after the wedding and
the young couple left at o'clock on
a honeymoon trip. They will be at
home to their friends in Emporia,
Kan. The bride is we'll known in this
city, as she has spent several sum-
mers here at the home of her brother.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. W. Moody Of Kansas
City. Mo-, were the only out of town
guests.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-01
Exhibit Will Remain.

The butterfly exhibit at the Mercer
township public library will be con-
tinued for another week at the request
OF several interested people. The ex-
hibit is collection gathered by F. L.
Marsh and T. A. Greer of near this
city. The collection includes speci-
mems from China, Brazil and Japan,
besides many varieties from this
country.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-01
HEAD AND HEART.

You cannot educate the head enough
to atone for lack Of education of the
heart. The. thing to do is to educate
both.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-01

Mary Pickford has started Red
Cfoss fund, and is seeking contribu-
IONS. All donations should be adj
dressed care of Mary Pickford. the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-01

ern Kansas. Address e. E." care
Argus.
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