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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-18
PLEDGE Full AID ru
NATION DURING WAN

Concerning tie "a cNIzcnrie.. MS
is oaid We most heartily iudcrse q pol.
icy Of active supper, ana e9.upcra ua7
of the Nirg!nia state liiehtay Com.
mission "ith the 80 eminent Of the
United states Whenever ana n.here>c~
1T is necessary 10 ei'c aid Do tho build
tng of roads .~ithu nc STATE fcr mill
tery purpose! Further thtrc Is in
this country Large auuGcr Of pri.
oners OF war not engaged IN eny usefr.l
occupation. We JON win the s,aic
Highway Commissioner and with ,hc
American Association Of State IHgh-
way Officials in urging the eecretar,.
3of War to permit tic use 81 such pris.
sonars in come form OF highway con.
*struction
$ss The conventton adopted tho foregoing
with little discUsslop. and 4 vote o.,
Thinks was tendo-ed the resolutions
con,mtttee FOR It's comprehensive ana
( valuable rcsuits
These head officers ~erc voted upon
4 motion: president, Wade Ma.sie; nrsi
yice-president, J. e, Wood secon0 vice
&president, II. r. Coward; .ecre.ary and
frsasureT. =. 5 Scott
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-18
BUllDOZlNG OFFICERS
THRASHEO BY GERMANS
AFTER THEIR CAPTURE

Continued from Firat rarcl
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-18
PUNISHMENT TOH MJTINEERs
- OF SESERES'r I<ISn

The result is that In the army we
nave had 10 establish a post of our
orn. and thus VIC obtain news Of how
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-18
PLANS FOR
SYSTEM OF STATE ROADS
Virginia Good Roads Convention
Ends Interesting Session
49, in Richmond.
.soAiE IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS
Lights on ill Vehicles Using State
Roads at Night and Tan, Based on
Width of Tire. for Horsc-urawn
Vehicles at Night.


The close OF the Virginia Good Roads
Convention yesterday ended. what state
Highwa! Commissioner Coleman de-
scribcd as tho best meeting ever held
in Richmond"
The morning meeting was devoted
to talks OF good roads. state senator
Fl. p. Drcwry, chairman OF the Com
mission on Efficiency and Economy in
the State had for his subject Eff
fciency and Economy in state and
( Local Government II was a constitute
tive and interesting lecture.
Senator prewry was followed by \.
G. BatchcldcT. OF the American Auto
mobile Association. whose theme was
Traffic Regulation" His talk, he
apologizcd, was hardly appropriate TO
SO very little traffic because of poor
roads. MIR. Eatcheider told of the
troubles in New Jersey in matters re-
Earding her highways and her rather
discouraEing attempt TO issue bonds for
their construction and maintenance.
In reference 10 road Improvement.
Mr.. Bachelor asserted, millions OF
dollars will como over the road into
Virginia just a. soon as she eQuips
herself with system OF main artery
highways. which viii connect her with
adjoining States. Thousands OF people
II.
American Automobile Association tour
ing bureaus in Now York City and
Washington have been compelled TO re-
port again and again that Virginia
lags in road building, and that ones
travel depends In "a great degree upon
the weather conditions"
RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE
PRESENTS IT'S REPORT
In the afternoon the sum total OF the
conventions efforts was presented in
the form of the final resolutions offered
by the resolutions committee. J. 5. CAL
lssou, who was reading in the stead OF
F.5W. Moore an interesting paper. Tho
Toll System in Augusta County was
interrupted in ordc: 10 give time for
thc reading Of these resolutions
In tic main, they arc an adopti.n OF
tho plan suggested Tuesday bv state
Highway COMMISSIONS Colcman--that
Of the division of the highways in Nir
ginia into three groups. The first class.
designated as class "a" arc the main
thorouEhfarcs OF tho State and derive
their support from the Commonwealth
with such aid "a may from time to
time be obtained from the national
government OF other availatlc source.
Class "E' roads arc tho highways TO
be laid out by the county authorities
with the approval OF the state Highway
ComnlissioHcr. These roads arc 10 be
improved and maintained Jointly by the
State and county FUNDS under the super
vision Of the county authorities.
The third class. designated as &C.
class roads are tho roads not ihcludcd
IN either OF the other groups and Shall
derive their maintenance and construc-
ton from tho county and district
authoSitc-.
RECOMMEND Ns111ITIONAI
tCIIARGE As 10 BuhD IssUE
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PILLBON CAPTURED.
RIFT FEW uINS ,rAr< 4,

That was coming it pretty lowdown.
But It is only part and parcel. after
all. Of their Idea OF fighting. No doubt
Evening journal., 1918-09-13

Robert A. Shank, Arcsnun. o.
Frank Swiskoski, Jr.. La Sale. ILL.,
Guss A. Tucker, Monette Ark.
Benheard T. Zerk. Hanover, n. d.
Raymond L. Knapp, Hartford. Conn.
Frank Mizdrak, Detroit, Mich.
Mechanic Alexander Olbweszki, Troy
n. Y.
wagoner olian Popp Fairmount, N
n
Privates-
Henry Anthony, Riohmand, Cal.
Albert ). AthertOn, ldalia, Mo.
William z. Bankston, Concord, Ga.
Frank Beischl, Allentown, Pa.
Erik G.. Brattsrom, Seattle. Wash.
James r. Brown. Cloversville, n. Y.
Milton Brumbaugh, Shelton, Wash.
Locas Charifson. Russia.
Charles Coyne, Philadelphia, Pa.
Dewey IIobson Craddock, Leslie,
Mich.
Nirtus Cummings. Plerson, Ia.
Henry Dea, Lakewood. n. J.
Frederick A. DENNIS. Peabody, Mass.
Henry r. Dlette. WOonsocket, n. /.
Augustine Douglass, IOakum. Tex.
Norman ID. Emerson, West Bend. Ia.
Burton Eugene Estes, Detroit, Mich.
Nate !. Fair, Pleasant Hill, o.
Salvador p. Falco. Hoboken, n. ].
James FalcObe, Behevlle, v. ].
Euclid Fcrland. Mddlcbury, VI.
James L. Fields. Portland. ore.
Gust ]. Geros, East Syracuse, Y. Y.
Frank GiestiLg, Tower, Ind.
Stanislaw GTela. Chicago, III.
John Hall, Gladys, Va.
Evening journal., 1918-09-13
Alksli Makes Soap
Bad for Washing Hair

Most soaps and prepared shampoos con-
tain too much alkall. which Is very iniurl-
Gus. as Il dries the scalp and makes the
hair brittle.
The best thing TO use Is lust plain mulsi-
fed cocoanut oil. for this Is pure and en-
tirely greaseless. It's very cheap, and
beats the most expensive soaps or any
thing else all TO pieces. You can get this
nt any drug store, and a few ounces viii
last the whole family for months.
Simply moisten the hair with water and
rub It In, about a teaspoonful Is al that
Is required. II makes an abundance Of
rich. creamy leather. oleanses thoroughly.
and rinses out easily. The hair dries
quickly and evenly, and is soft. fresh
looking. bright, FUZZY, wavy, and easy 10
handle. Besides. n loosens and takes out
every particle OF dust. dirt and dandrun.
Evening journal., 1918-09-13
JAMES KEENAN, ASKS
SUPPORT FOR OFFICE

James keenan, asks the support OF
the Republlcai voters at the polls to
morrow for the oflce OF Levy Court
Commissioner, Second District that
part Of Wilmington west Of Market
street.)
Mr.. Keenan, has never held public Of
fce. He is a Wilmington business man
Of 30 years experience, record which
he thinks qualities him for the oflce OF
Levy Court Commissioner, and II he Is
elected he promises TO give the Office
the benefit OF his business experience.
Mr.. Keenan, lives at No. 1901 West Six
teenth street. He has always been a
Republican. He is a member OF Corin-
THAN Lodge, A. T. A. NJ, OF ST. Johns
Chapter, r. A. NJ. Of the Bedford Club
and OF the Eleventh Ward Republican
Club.-Adv.
Evening journal., 1918-09-13
Fireworks That Play
Big Part In Battles
American Aviators Have Flares Giving
100000 Candle-POwer.

The old time Fourth Of July evening,
with its pinwheels and red flares,
Roman candles and rockets, has be-
queathed all its pyrotechnics TO the
service Of the American soldiers in
France. Fireworks-most OF them
made by girl workers in New Jersey
are playing a vital part in the war, and
Yankee ingenuity has devised many new
ways OF employing them.
For instance, our aviators on night
raids are now equipped with a new
giant parachute flare that hangs at
height Of 20OO feet and with its 10000
.candle-power beams lights 9i.776,560
square feet Of enemy territory so
brightly that no objective can hide
from the aviator's bombs.
There are pistol rockets. ground
flares, smoke signals, fireworks OF all
sorts, in nightly use. How they are
employed is told in a most interesting
article in the magazine section Of the
Philadelphia Public Ledger next Sun
day.
The same issue tells how Wonder
Man" Holden, as head Of the central
supply station in Philadelphia, per-
forms administrative marvels in feed
ing, clothing and equipping a large part
Of our overseas forces.
The issue will also contain the latest
dispatches from Raymond G.. Carroll,
describing the activities Of Pennsyl-
vanla troops at the front, and many
notable special articles.
Reserve your copy in advance, notify
ing Anderson, w. Leonard, J. 0'Brien.
w. Wilson, T. Kramer, NJ. Lundy, Yer
non Brothers.
Evening journal., 1918-09-13

Albert J. Harnois. Keene, n. II.
Frank Helminsky, Chicago. III.
William H. Hudson. Chicago, III.
Jeremiah Hurley, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Ben JarOinnak. Wyandotto Mich.
Norman A. Johnson, Crosby. MINI.
Eccleston Barnett, Baltimore, Md.
Wilbur S. Jewell, West Haven, Conn
Jack kierski, La Sale, III.
Sylvester Massaro, New Haven, Conn
Tony Natuzalem. Akdon. O.
John ]. Mehlhaff. Gardena. N. ID.
Joseph Mendlcino, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Steve Mlnski, Newark, n. j.
BERTHE Moseley. Hartford, Conn.
George A. Mundt Bethel. Mo.
John V. Ritter NIidletown, Ind.
Raleigh Frederick sheldon, Summit
Lake, Wis.
Walter Evert Teter. Ralston, Okla.
Edward Roy Tyler. Blnghamton. n. Y
Raymond Van These, indianapolis
Ind.
Russell n. Jones, Carlisle, Ky.
Dan McKavanaugh, Anaconda. Mort.
Frank kcigent, La Crosse, WIS.
Clarence Zastrov. Algoma, Wis.
Andrew Westergard. Cando. n. D.
Dillon Wheeler, Keokee. Va.
John Wicker, Lackey, Ky.
William Wood. Dewitt, Neb
Pandel Ya.OglOw. Greece.
Ross d. Young, Howard. S. d.
Henry J. label, Harrisburg. S. ID.
Wounded in action Degree Undeter-
mined.)
privates-
Ivan Fred Everson, Crawford, Neb.
Evening journal., 1918-09-13
U-BOATS PEEVE
j. S. SAILOR BOYS
Tars on Destroyers Kicking
Because Fights Are
Scarce
LIKE SPEAKER WHO
GROWLS ON WALKS
by HAROLD L. BECHTOL


Enterprise Associstion.)
LONDON, Eng, Sept. i3.-The Yam
KEGS on the American destroyers over
here are grumbling.
It's not the food-the meals are ''llke
Mothers"
It's not the long turns. the exposure,
the bumps they get sloshlng about on
the "rolliest" OF rolling craft in the
maddest OF seas-they glory In that.
It's Fritz's growing cautiousness-
his widening yellow streak" as the
Yanks put it.
Like Passing Iris.
Sighting a submarine Is TO a Yankee
destroyer crew what time at bat is TO
Iris Speaker. And every baseball fan
in the States knows how iris will
growl II the opposing pitcher deliber-
ately passes" him.
The Germans have learned 10 respect
the aim Of the men behind the Amerl-
can destroyer guns.
The word seems TO have been passed
around among the U-boat crews that to
stick up a nose within range Is likely to
mean an excursion to the bottom OF the
sea.
A Healthy GrumbIo.
They seem to have learned that II the
tip Of their perlscope is sighted by an
American destroyer, no matter how far
away, the sea in that whole neighbor-
hood will become a churn, with depth
bombs booming like a package OF fire.
crackers; that the destroyers will be
shooting all over that area rolling of
the depth charges like marbles.
The officials Of Admiral Sims staff
confirm this. and they know the Yam
KEGS are growing about It. But they're
not worried. They regard II as a
healthy grumble."
The Germans wariness increases the
determination OF the destroyer crews TO
hunt 'em out"-just as a frightened
pitchers efforts 10 pass" Iris Speaker
causes Speaker TO lean across the plate
and smash out a wide one.
Evening journal., 1918-09-13
A Sweet Hope for All
Written for THE EVENING JOURNAL
BY JAMES Y. CROUER.
In Kennett Square.

II trouble comes into your home. my
friend,
Just look upon It for the best.
II you are right when you reach the
end,
You are sure Of a perfect rest.
In that home above where no nights
come,
And a home where you'll be with
God;
A blessed place and Christians home,
When your body goes under the sod.
That is JOY. this world can't give or
take,
From those whose hearts are right
What a blessed thought, it's for Jesus
sake,
We are sure to be safe in His sight.
How 1t cheers our hearts as days go by,
To know we are safe. in Him.:
And we shall not be afraid TO die,
He has cleansed us from all our sin.
No thought IN this world so sweet
to me,
As the time gees swiftly b..
10 know in Heaven where l shall be,
on that hope csn sure rely.
Moro precious 10 me is that hope To-
day,
Than tons OF silver and gold;
And a truth from the Bible there Il
does say,
IL IS where we shall never grow old
Then help me Lord, to be true and
good,
And to be Just what profess.
A soldier for Jesus and understood.
By all who know me, guess.
I know I am always in His sweet care,
No matter where that may be;
Asleep or awake, or anywhere,
/ know lie looks after me.
Evening journal., 1918-09-13
dead in BATTLE
FOR DEMOCRACY
Continued from page fvo,)

Continued from page nVe)
more. Md.
Frederick w. Remanl, Crockett, Cal.
Willie Steadom. Admission, Ala.
Wounded Severely.
Lieutenants:
Harry C. Barnes, Jr., Tulsa, Okla.
Harold II. Street, Flushing, y. Y.
Howard A. Mathews, Tulsa Okla.
Sergeants:
Alvin l.. Denton, Brockfeld, ~ Car.
William A. Kay. Philadelphia. Pa.
William L. Conoyer. Hamilton square,
n. J.
William Kline, Brooklyn, n. Y.
Edward james McHugh, Detroit Mich.
Wilfred W. Morgan. salt Lake City,
Utah.
Alfred r. Warburton. Milwaukee,
Wis.
COrporals-
Mike Borski, Detroit, Mich.
Fred D. Byard, Kansas City, Mo.
William Duotwal, lronwoOd, Mich.
Theodore Thomas Gariepy, Detroit,
Mich.
James Krugar, Milwaukee, Wis.
Carl w. Let's, Balbeck, Ind.
Homer 5. Richardson, Dickson. Tenn.
John j. Schneider, Duncott, Pa.
George w. Shambley, East Durham,
n. C.
Evening journal., 1918-09-13

james L. Sacra. Quincy III.
Fred Sohroyer. Indianapolis. Ind.
Harry Stumbaugh, Grayhorse, Okla.
Missing in Action.
Privates-
Clessie C. Brazle, Lakewood. III.
John Channon, Cincinnati, o.
Roy n. Lewis, klamath Falls, ore.
John Link. Kaylor, S. d.
Ben Robinson. Louisville, Col.
Knohel. Spencer. Midtown. Ind.
David +. Taubert. Clinton, Mass.
Evening journal., 1918-09-13

. A n AT .ss p n :
Evening journal., 1918-09-13

Teofil Tops. Chicago III.
Adam Yanchis. Fort Griflth, Pa.
Eugene McAuliffe, San Francisco, Cal.
Basil McGuine, Milwaukee, Wis.
Stanley Mnecn, Scranton, Pa.
John Muslalik, Uniontown. Pa.
Benjamin Powell. McGaha. Ky.
Wildly z. Simon, Oberon, n. d.
Evening journal., 1918-09-13

John Simowitz, Kenosha. Wis.
Elmer NJ. Thorsteim. Thompson. Ia.
Joseph Warwick Jersey City, N. J.
Frank Winohradcky, Syracuse, N. Y.
Armine o. Young, Independence. Ore.
Prisoners.
Lieutenant David C. Calkins, jack
sonville, ia.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-05
Tighter and Longer Skirts,
Cause Order for Lower Steps
On the Spokane Street Cars

Score another for the women. This
time they have made two big trans
portation companies see the error of
their way. They have compelled
tardy recognition of the fact that the
length of a skirt offers the only proper
rule for regulating the height of street
car steps.
The women of Spokane did it. They
were confronted by fashions latest
edict of longer, tighter skirts, and
street car steps twenty inches from
the ground. Something had to give
way. Obviously fashions decree
could not be changed, hence the at
tack on the high steps.
But the street car companies could
not see 1t. The same steps had been
in use for years and it would cost
money to make the change. Protests
by the women were aired in the news
papers and gravely considered by the
nickel gatherers, but no action re-
suited. Then the WOmen's Good Gov
eminent league got busy with an APP
peal direct to the public service COM
mission of the state. The commission
listened to the argument, considered
it reasonable and promptly ordered
lower street car steps. The trans
portation companies bowed their heads
and the car steps are now dropped
to a height of fifteen inches from the
ground,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-05

GREAT LAKES NAVAL TRAINING STATION BAND ON PARADE
pieces They greeted everywhere by the greatest display of patriotic
hundred
a
nothing accomplished
buejace firm of erect carriage fighting inch them
of twOsted
them
William
the
rendered the Great Lakes Naval Training
alton
of named country seemed
highway
Americas meed of
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-05
THE THINGS THAT COUNT

Now. dear. it isn't the bold things,
Great deeds of valor ana mght'
That count the most in the summing ~
Of life at the end of the day.
But 1t is the dong of old things,
Small acts that are just ard right:
And doing them over and over again. NO
matter what others say
In smiling at fate when you want TO cry
and in keeping at work when you
want to play
Dear. those are the things that count.
And, dear, it isn't the new ways,
Where the wonder seekers crowd,
That lead us into the land of content, OF
help us to find our own.
But it is keeping to true ways,
Though the music is not so loud.
And there may be many shadoweo spot
where we journey along alone;
In floating. a prayer at the face or rear
and in changing into song groan-
Dear, these are the things that count.
My dear, 1t isn't the loud part
Of creeds that is pleasing to God,
Not the chant of prayer, or the hum OF
hymn, or jubilant shout or song
But 1t is the beautiful proud part
OF walking with feet faith-shod;
And in loving, loving, loving through all,
no matter how things go wrong;
In trusting ever, though dark the day, and
in keeping your hope when the way
seems long
Dear, these are the things that count.
Ella Wheeler WILCOX.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-05
Great Lakes Naval Training Station Band
Famous Military Musical Organization Which Aided n Third Liberty
Loan and Red Cross Drives

drive it the
the the dollars out of
subject
wide today William Mofet commanant of the Great
Lakes originated this
Today this vision reality the
propaganda Ameranim
brought
The organization is made thousand musicians all
enlisted world They
under the direction of Americas premier bandm Lieut. John
In These
three cities Philadelphia Cleveland ST.
Milwaukee
Michigan
Mexico,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-05
Cottage Cheese Dressing.
cottane Cheese Sausage.

Take a cupful each of cottage
cheese, a cup of dry bread crumbs or
rice or a mixture of both, two table
spoonfuls of butter or sweet fat, a
fourth of a cup of chopped pecans'
or peanuts, a half teaspoon OF pow
dered sage or poultry dressing one
teaspoon of salt, q tablespoonful OF
milk, a third of teaspoon OF soua
dissolved in the milk, a tablespoonful
of finely minced onion. Cook the
onion in the fat until tender but not
brown, then mix all the ingredients
together and form into balls, roll In
broad crumbs and brown in frying
pan in little hot fat. Serve not gar
nished with parsley.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-05
Crowded Washington

When one stops TO think that about
the time America jumped into the war
whirl there were, all told, only about
So persons in the offices of the ord
nance department, including everybody
from the boss to the office boy, and
that before the following Christmas
there were in the same department In
Washington about thirty-five hundred
souls. which promises to be closer to
ten thousand by the time these lines
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-05
Bathing Is a Luxury, Not a
Necessity, According to
Arctic Explorers Theory

IT is not essential to one health that
one battle frequently, according to the
hypothesis expounded by Vilhjalmur
Stefansson, the arctic explorer, in
philosophical discussion of scurvy In
the Medical Review of Reviews. Mr.
Stefansson asserts bathing is purely
an esthetic principle and that the
value of cleanliness to health has not
been established by the medical prac-
titioners.
Mr.. Stefansson's pronouncement
will be greeted with jubilation by the
elements which possess an ingrown
dislike for hydrogen and oxygen in
PROPORTIONS of two to one. 1t has been
accepted as dogmatic by the Mexican
pelados for years, who as a religious
function, battle only on st. Johns
day, which is celebrated early in May.
''Much of what the ordinary practi-
toner tells you about bathing for
health is either not yet demonstrated
as true or else is demonstrably I'M
true" declares Mr.. Stefansson. "The
fact is that, according to the point of
view, cleanliness is matter of esthet-
les or else of taboo observance rather
than of health"
The explorer makes an apology I'm
the article for his attack on medical
orthodoxy by declaring he has been
divorced from medical books and jour-
nails for more than ten years. Mr..
Stefansson wrote the treatise while
in the arctic region in 1916. He was
reported as dangerously i'll from ty-
phoid fever on Herschel island.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-05
Interesting Facts.

Grass seed terminates in from
IA to Is days.
Motorcycles and bicycles are
becoming popular throughout
Siam.
Chinese peanuts are usually
hand sorted by women after
being sifted.
China sends thousands of
tons of peanuts abroad each
year. and so does India.
In high or rough water, in
angling for black bass, light
colored and bright flies are most
effective.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-05

was to get down on her hands and
knees and scrub the floors, and then
cry: "Now, the strongest to the wash
tubs!" They were needed. Such
washing of bed linen as had been done
had been done in cold water, and as
it came back Florence Nightingale
burned it.
The doctors and officers objected to
her. Books written at the time by
the men who helped to officer the Crl-
mean army show with what scorn they
met her.
Little by little she got her stores to-
gether until she became the feeder and
clother of the army at Scutari. She
provided $4,000 men with shirts and
great numbers with other clothing
she provided all the things that were
missing from the hospitals. II have
met only two men in the Crimea, and
one of them was Miss Nightingale" said
a traveller.
She worked 20 hours day. She re-
ceived the wounded, she dressed their
them in hand. She washed and
clothed and comforted them. She sat
with them, encouraging them before
an operation. She gave them life and
hope. She made them feel that
mercy had come on angel wings into
their bitter lives.
Drunken OrderIies Vanished.
Her nurses were here, there and
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the doctors
would allow her to send them. The
rough drunken, unskilled orderlies
vanished from the nursing and skilled
and tender hands took their places.
Florence Nightingale herself was the
Lady of the Lamp.
When the long days work was done
she would go to her little stuffy room
to begin her correspondence; then.
after time, when the surgeons had
retired and the wards and corridors
were dark, she would take her little
lamp and steal quietly through the
silent rooms among the sick and dy-
ing men. She would kneel by bed
after bed to speak a word of comfort
she would give medicine here, food or
drink there.
No wonder the men wOrshiped her,
though at first they were little afraid
and shy. Never be ashamed of your
wounds, my friend" she would say in
her gentle, musical voice. Her gen.
tleness made poets of some of these
rough men.
There was a giant Highlander who
wrote home of her and her work
What a comfort it was TO see her
even pass! She would speak to one
and nod to another, but she could not
do 1t to all, you know-we were lying
there by hundreds-but we could kiss
her shadow as it fell, and lay our
heads on the pillow again, content"
1t was a beautiful idea, and this
soldiers letter travelled round the
world. Longfellow used it in his poem
on "The Lady of the Lamp"
She stayed the winter at Scutari
and made a revolution. Whereas the
deaths had averaged AZ in every 100
they were now down to about two in
every 100. So in the spring OF 1890
she went to the Crimea itself to attend