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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-09-27

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rises.
"Gcts-It," the guaranteed, money-back corn
remover, the only sure way costs but trihe
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Co, Chicago. Ill. Sold in Barre and recon-
mended as the worlds best corn remedy by
Cummings g. Lewi.--Adv
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-11-24

again the German officers established themselves In my
chateau-but this time without me.
OF the endless and varied events which crowded my
three years nightmare of captivity of the first which
struck terror us the pitiful fate of Mayors
sweet daughter whom we all knew and loved for her
gentleness and devotion.
Every one of course, knows the story OF Edith Cavel
There circumstances which made the treatment of
this English great factor in the and aroused
the sympathes of the entire world Yet Edith Cavel
only of many. When the record of what went be-
hind the German lines is complete hundreds OF Edith
Cavels will go down In history
In the town of Epinoy there lived Nile Luce Bosin.
Her father had been the Mayor of the little city and the
leader of all civil activities Once he had been rch but
his fortune had gradually disappeared with scknesses
among his relatives and too much generosity He was con-
tent however to be kept at the head OF the municipality
This repaid him for his phianthropies. Mile. Luee's
mother had been confined to invads chair for many
years Luce her constant attendant and her father
greatest pride She twenty years DID, and had refused
be the bride of any of the young men OF the canton
until she always said, "others need me no longer
When the young of Epinoy were called to the
mobilization at the first sigh of war, Madame bosn, to
whom every young in the district the same as
son. could not bear up Luce wheeled her to the railway
station that she might the young depart for Cam
brai, the mobilization point The sight and Its meaning
too much for her During the night she died Mile
Luce dsconsoate because there had been no farewell
kiss between them Her father went no more to his oc
but sat his lawn with the empty nvalds chair on one
side of him and Mile. Lucie the other.
They heard the big guns at Bouchain and soon they
knew the Germans had swept past Doua in the NORTH
and were bending down toward Paris The French
divisions at Cambria withdrawn, lest they be cut
off from JOfre s main army. The old Mayor had been
soldier He knew what these movements, they were
reported Lce and told by her to him. meant to that
part of France.
One morning the cavalrymen with the death head on
their shakOs rode into the city They not from the
west where Germany was but from the east-from the
heart of France That meant that Kluck had pushed
down from the north and drawing close to Paris
and that Epnoy and all around it. behind the Ger
man lines" The cavalry officer demanded that the
Mayor of the city be brought to him. He told the
Mayor too weak, and ILL., to walk about Bring him
stretcher, then-but bring him. the officer said
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On Nile Luce's arm the Mayor walked to his Office an
there met the German officer He received his order
with dignity and gave him pledge that his people wOu
observe all the rules of war.
The patrol rode away. woman brought the new
that her thirteen yearold had been shot because
made face" at the galloping cavalry. The Mayo
went back to his chair on the lawn
Lucie strange light in his eyes, and saw that h
not breathing he should She hurried for the ply
stefan, but she could not go fast enough When she
turned her father was dead.
So every in the little city took great interest il
Mile Luce When the town occupied the schoohous
taken over by the Germans and the children turne
out Mile Lucie helped the teacher hold daily classes il
the church 1t was her habit to remain the church. af
the classes over and the children had gone home
pray or to mediate IN front OF little tablet the t0wn
people, in the midst of their troubles had foun
time to put in the church wall in memory Of her father
One night sentry patrollng the streets to see tia
none of the residents abroad was attracted to til
church He called patrol and surrounded it. few min
utes later there shooting Then the Germans dragge
out of the church two who appeared to be Germa
solders-they gray uniforms which, unmistakabl
had seen service and their Identification tags and equiv
ment above suspicion Yet they really were tW
Canadians whose knowledge of German and Teutone az
pearance had prompted them to undertake spying ve1
ture behind the enemy lines
Evidently they had appropriated the uniforms, tag
papers and arms of dead German soldiers and had mai
aged to get through the unexpectedly by aeroplane
OF course we never knew how they had there eve
if the Germans learned but at any event they were fOu
that night hiding In the church
The next day Mile. Lueie was summoned before Maje
Magnus, infantry officer who had charge Of affair
concerning inhabitants of the immediate zone Maid
Magnus accused the girl OF completely with the tw
brave Canadians. He declared she had knowledge 4
their being in the church. and Ventured his belit
that she had hid them there When she pleaded be
complete innocence he asked her to explain her presen
in the church until late in the afternoon Of the d
previous-she had been emerging he said at dar
Mile Lucie explained that she had merely remained
pray after her classes dismssed-as she did amo
every day. And she had stayed longer than usual pc
haps because time passed quickly when she fell to thn
ing about her mother and father.
Major Mangus told her bluntly that such an texcuse
nothing more than proof of her guilt She was pr
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-11-24
CoDyrisAt, 1s1s by Star Company
CHAPTER I.

WYE lad thought the German officers were gentlemen
wv we found they than beasts. Not one
officer few, but thousands of them, revealed
themselves to us shamelessly
While the poor peasants the farms of northern
France and the workers in the factory towns saw mostly
the common soldiers had the opportunity to intimately
observe the German officers They lived in my chateau
they made me their servant
have them, thousands of them from Hindenbure
himself and the great Ludendorf down the descending
rank to young Geuenants. They occupied my bedroom
they ate In dining ROOM they held their conferences
by day and their orgies by night in my salon.
For many months the in my home which had
been my husband and mne and which were douby dear
to me because it in them nv husband and MANNED
our future during those days which followed our honey
moon were occupied by the whose name was later to
be written across the history of the Belgium deporatons
General Hurt then chief of staff for the Fourth Artl-
lery Corps Until he came my private had been
unmoested-I was permitted to retire to them when the
wants OF my unwelcome guests were satisfied
But General Hurt would be satisfied with the guest
chambers which his predecessors in the house had
yered to their would he accept the whole upper
noor which had been prepared for him when his coming
was announced. Only my personal rooms would do and
was turned out of them into my servants quarters
without minutes notice that the general might rest in
my bed from the exeon of his motor ride from the rail-
city.
With General Hurt there came to the bouse Major the
baron Won Manteuel his aide In America perhaps the
name OF Major Manteufel means nothing In Belgium
spoken as one would speak curse 1t was Major the
Baron Won hanteuffel who burned Louvan He wore an
Iron Cross That had been his reward
MAJOR Manteufel was a,young officer His first demand
upon me- after his arrival with his chief General H1rt
was that remove the small mirror in his room and replace
with one large enough to reflect the hang of his coat when
ne dressed There large mirror in my home which
already was not hung in occupied by German of
neer when explained Major Manteufel slowly smoothed
the handle OF his pistol with the palm of his hand and
replied:
''What you have not got does not interest me will
gave you thirty minutes to bring the mirror to this ROOM
ran to neighbor house and borrowed pier glass;
There was no one to help tug the lawn and up
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BIZ the Countess de GAIA Pascal

the stairs the officers room He ordered me to nut it in
place and dismissed me abruptly.
Once asked this Major Manteuffel how he could have
had the heart to destroy the beautiful city of Louvain He
said with a smile
Unbescheidenheit list cine Zerde in Lebe und Krieg
-(WrOng is right in love and war;.
year later stood at the bedside of Leonie the pretty
daughter of neighbor who had taken refuge with me
when the Germans turned her own family out of their
home In Leonie's arm nestled the baby which Major
Manteuel had left behind when he was ordered away
Unfortunately Leone had answered the Majors call one
morning after he to the house for his breakfast
coffee.
When she from his she wanted to die, but I
persuaded her to live The faheress baby another
memory of Major Manteuel. His cult that of all the
Germans-'Wrong is right in love and war;
You who read these words have such episodes in
the motion picture drama All have lived through them
In the bitter realism of real life.
You have sat comfortably in your theatre seat and
thrilled at the pictures the Screenthe tramp of armed
by enemy officers the of wicked debauchery of the
helpless of the hOusehold the pteous appeal the
struggle, the mastery by the armed invaders.
But the drama you saw on the screen was played by
actors-the the spiked helmets American gen.
tlemen of the stage And yet everything you in the
photo drama have enacted with terrible reality.
There not brutal scene not wicked episode
not one bestal orgy that you in the motion picture
drama that have not again and again in the full
horror of actual life.
The actors in the tragedies witnessed the uni
formed officers of the Imperial German army Their Shout
der straps and insignia marked the authority of life
death The pistols they carried their belts loaded
with ball cartridges when the angry brute levelled and
fred real life extinguished.
And thus lived for three long years amid such
and such episodes We prayed and pleaded with God not
to forsake At last day the distant boom of British
artillery could be heard. Our German masters in
panic and in the confusion stole away into thicke of
oh and lnudarc n6pd he
guns and last the English shells whistled and burst
through the trees For four days remained hidden in the
woods and then crept back to my chateau and with
speakabe joy was challenged by British sentry.
At once 1 made preparation to leave for Paris and
too Shortly the Germans counter attacked
pressed the brave British back swept past estate and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-11-24
Dung Nountess de Oaza-FascaI, Wnose IN
Was Occupied by Hindenburg and Other
High Command, Reveals for the First Time ii
Details Of Unsupported Savagery Behind
German Lines In Devastated France Which
Stands Unparalleled by Anything In Hist

~ fatel August
the Belgian friends husband
Joined his regiment the Second Ihaye
him since he was killed in battle fourteen months
The Germans Suddenly the Of Uh gnd into Brussels
then the Pn Guard helpless the hands Of the
My husbands chateau Epnoy northern As the German
pressed rapidly forward into France they through and beyond Ep and
was permitted to leave and
My hOme For three was the servant chateau the Inundated
slave of british taken for the headqz
the Hnug and Lndsndod
themselves there the Headquarters the General
Stat, at st. Aubet
For three commanding officers the
German military machine overheard misterd their brutal desires
and their mons executed the dOa homes and the qVeg
bodies of neighhor.
HAVE SEEN the dksE
eaprcs the officers
HAVE SEEN officers themselves household
whenever fancy
HAVE SEEN greeted
with the ribsd Of
HAVE
ucaxss and nks taken and the gold the teeth stripped from the jaws
and the bones tossed into
relatives
smoothing the and scg together the broken hsadSons
officers command the and boy! marched OF PARKWAY munon fa the
HAVE SEEN the and consencs vrs.hes
who creep back and forth through the military lines and also watch and listen and
HAVE SEEN their
heard the +
HAVE SEEN Prince E rg about the he had SAINT for
detail; things
burned the endless days
LIAINE, COUNTESS cAzA-PAscAI-
The Glenwood post., 1918-11-09
IN EVERY TIME OF STRESS

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The Glenwood post., 1918-11-09
HUNTER MESA

The flu found us, too, but no one
has died. The school is closed now.
Estes Brothers are threshing in the
neighborhood. The small grain is a
good crop.
Mrs. Delfs has been taking care OF
her sister law, Mrs. Adams, who has
new daughter. The father is cover
there, - % Somewhere in France"
MIR. Dawson and wife are working
for Chas. Burnett on MANN creek. Mr..
Burnett will make sale next Thurs
day, and Mr.. Blackmore will rent the
farm for next year.
Tom Crawford and family and Henry
Harris and wife moved to Iowa.
Mrs. Mamie Griffin and her seven
children are visiting her brother, Dan
Harris, while ON their way to Nebraska.
Mrs Griffin was very sick one day last
week.
Mr.. Oleson is running a tractor on
Hamp Haley's dry farm, pulling lots
of sage brush.
Elton Hoskins is selling off his per
sonal property with the intention CT
going to Nebraska to live The family
Will be missed.
Mrs. John Brown returned from Seat
tie where she has been visiting her son,
Hamilton Higday, who is the traffic
manager of the Port of Seattle. She
saw some wonders of the coast and Wis
tied Camp Lewis. Now she will go on
to Redstone to John and the sawmill
that sawed off Mr.. Brown arm.
The Glenwood post., 1918-11-09
PREDICTS SCARCITY OF
DRAFT HORSES SOON

''Just what the future horse market
is to be, no one can say. On account
of automobiles, trucks and tractors
there seems to be lull in the market
War demand seems to be the main
stimulus at present. Indications ara
now that fewer horses will be produce
next year. Some people think there is
danger of famine of the best types
of draft horses when the war closes. IT
is certain that tremendous demand
for horses will come from abroad at
the conclusion of the war, and there
will be no horses to spare if the present
policy to curtail horse production con
tinues,n says R. w. Clark of the Agri-
cultural college.
"Farmers will do well to save their
sound, suitable, well draft mares
and to see that every one capable of
raising colt does so. A survey should
he made for the best draft stations
and price should not stand in the way.
Farmers should heed this warning and
begin Investigating the matter them
selves before it is too late"
The Glenwood post., 1918-11-09
pONI)liHl II

night for their new home in Baker,
Oregon.
Word was received from Miss Nav
Salmon at Spokane that she is very
much in love with her new home. At
the present time she is visiting Miss
Gertrude McGinnis at Rockford Wash,
of the ''flu.' - Miss McGinnis' many
friends will be glad to know that she
is enjoying the best of health.
Mrs. Che Mullen and children left
Thursday night for their new home at
Point Richmond, California.
Mrs. Ounce Hutton and daughter,
Halle, are suffering with the "flu "
Also Ralph Hickman.
Mrs. r. c. Brenton, who went out
on Divide creek to nurse the Gardner
while there.
1t was with sorrow that the many
iiltHuS Ol y. l.. NIlchleN leHrHeu lasC
week of his death ON October 80 Mrs.
Stickley was very low at that time,
but az no other word has been re-
ceived it is hoped that she is recover
ing. Mr.. Stickley's death was caused
from the I" flu
1t was with deep regret that Rifle
people received the news Wednesday
of the death of James Mikkelson, at
the Rifle hospital. Only few days
ago he was apparently in good health
and his death came as quite a shock.
His death was caused by cancer of the
stomach. Funeral services were held
Friday afternoon. Mr.. Mikkelson was
a highly respected citizen, always very
honest and upright.
The J. y. Birch family moved the
last of this week to the w. r. Lee
property across the river. The Munro
house they have been occupying was
sold last week to the Grigor family of
Divide creek.
The Glenwood post., 1918-11-09
COME TO aLENWOOD

Glenwood Springs has the name the
country over as one Of the prettiest aud
most desirable little cities in which 10
make home. Those who have Travelled
in the east and in the west are charmsd
with Glenwood and its unsurpassed nat
ural advantages. 1t is destined to be
come THE residence city of the West
ern Slope. Why not secure for your
self home in this beautiful up-to. date
little city The new Garfield County
High school adds much to the attract
iveuess of the place as a home city.
| can offer you a bargain in splen
did residence location. -Four lots on q
corner, sixroo house in good condi-
tion; large coal house and kindling bin.
2 chicken houses with ample room and
lots for over 200 fowls; nice garden
with plenty of room for more: bearing
cherry trees. Plenty Of room for build
ing large residence or three or four
cottages. $1,000 will handle the prop.
erty and the balance can be paid in
easy installments. Remember, 4-1ot
corners are mighty scarce in Glenwood.
II you want a good thing see me abont
this. The price is right
A. J. DICKSON.
The Glenwood post., 1918-11-09
EVERY STREET In aLENwooD
Has Its Share of the Proof That Kid
ney Sufferers Seek
SPRINGS

Backache. Kidneys weakg
Distressed with urinary ills?
Want reliable kidney remedyr
Don't have to look far. Use what
Glenwood Springs people recommend.
Every street in Glenwood Springs has
its cases.
Here one Glenwood Springs mans
experience.
Let Peter z. Dow, 907 Blake avenue,
tell it. He says; 81 have taken sew
eral kinds of kidney medicine when 1
have had attacks of kidney trouble
and | know that Doan s Kidney Pills
are the best of them ALL When my
kidneys act irregularly or the secrs-
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and they help me Immediately. have
had severe attacks of soreness in nv
back when it was misery for me 20
stoop over. Doan's Kidney Pills rid
me of the suffering and / have had
very little need of them lately"
Price 60c at all dealers. Do"
simply ask for kidney remedy-ge.
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Dow had. Foster Milburn Co.,
Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. 1
The Glenwood post., 1918-11-09
CANNOT FEED RYE TO HOGS

One Of our readers asks us if farmers
are allowed to grind rye for hogs under
food administration ruling. Mr.. George
$. Clayton, chairman of the milling di.
vision of the federal food administra-
ton for Colorado, states that the rule
ia that rye is not to be fed to hogs
However, the farmer may take his rye
to the mill and nave it ground into
substitutes to be used with his wheat
flour, and use the rye bran therefrom
for feed.-Record Stockman.
The Glenwood post., 1918-11-09
PILES, Pnbs,
PILES

williams Indian Pile Ointment will
cure Blind, Bleeding and Itching Piles.
1t absorbs the tumors, allays itching nj
once, acting as poultice, gives instant
relief. Williams' Indian Pile Ointment
is prepared for piles and itching Of the
private parts. Sold by druggists, mail
SOC and el.o0 Williams Mfg. Co.,
proprietors, Cleveland, Ohio.
For sale by W. 9. Parkison, druggist
and pharmacist.
The Glenwood post., 1918-11-09
HAY FEVER

Send 10 cents, stamps or silver, for
article appearing in The Hygienist Mag
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The article is written by DR.. R. R. Dan
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Dealers or send ten cents to The Hy-
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