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The Robesonian., 1918-06-03

methods used in attack and defense,
wiring parties, mass formation, and
the procedure for pOison-gas attacks.
On the tenth day we again met our
friends "Hommes 40, Cheveaux g."
Thirtysix hours more Of misery, and
we arrived at the town Of F..
After unloading our rations and
equipment, we lined up on the road in
columns Of fours waiting for the order
to march.
A dull rumbling could be heard. The
sun was shining. turned to the man
on my left and asked, "What's the
noise, Bill?" He did not know, but his
face was of pea-green color. Jim,
on my right, also did not know, but
suggested that I "awsk" the sergeant
Coming towards us was an old griz7
zled sergeant, properly fed up with
the war, SO "awsked' him.
''Think it's going to rain, sergeant?"
He looked at me in contempt, and
grunted, "'Ow's it a-goin' ter rain with
the bloomin' sun a-shinin'?" I looked
guilty.
"Them's the guns up the line, me
lad, and you'll get enough of 'em be-
fore you gets back to Blighty."
My knees seemed to wilt, and
squeaked out a weak "Oh!''
Then we started our march up to the
line in ten-kilo treks. After the first
days march we arrived at our rest
billets. In France they call them rest
billets, because while in them Tommy
works seven days a week and on the
eighth day Of the week he is given
twenty-four hours ION his own"
Our billet was a spacious affair, a
large barn on the left side of the road,
which had one hundred entrances,
ninety-nine for shells, rats, wind and
rain, and the hundredth one for Tom
my. I was tired out, and using my
shrapnel-proof helmet (shrapnel proof
until a piece of shrapnel hits it), or
tin hat, for a pillow, lay down in the
straw, and was soon fast asleep. I
must have slept about two hours, when
I awoke with a prickling sensation all
over me. AS thought, the straw had
worked through my uniform. woke,
up the fellow lying on my left, who had
been up the line before and asked
him:
"Does the straw bother you, mate?
It's worked through my uniform and I
can't Sleep" i
In a sleepy voice he answered,
"That amt straw, them's cooties." /
From that time on my friends the
"cooties'' were constantly with me. !
"COoties," or body lice, are the bane
Of Tommy's existence.
| The aristocracy Of the trenches very.
seldom call them 'cooties," they speak
Of them as f1eas.
| To an American flea means small
t insect armed with bayonet, who is
/ wont to iab it into you and then hop.
skip and jump to the next place to be
attacked. There is an advantage in
| having fleas on you instead of "cooties"
in that in one Of his extended jumps
said flea is liable to land on the fell
low next to you; he has the TYPICAL
energy and push Of the American,I
while the "cootie'' has the bulldog
tenacity of the Englishman; he holds
his meal Is finished.
There is no way to get rid Of them
permanently. No matter how often
you bathe, and that is not very often,
or how many times you change your
underwear, your friends the "cooties''
are always in evidence. The billets are
infested with them, especially 20 Il
There is straw on the floor.
To be continued.
The Robesonian., 1918-06-03
CHAPTER II.
Bliqhty to Rest BiIIets.

The next morning the captain sent
for me and Informed me: "Empey, as
a recruiting sergeant you are wash
out" and sent me to training depot.
After arriving at this place, was
hustled to the quartermaster stores
and received an awful shock. The
quartermaster sergeant spread wa
lterproof sheet on the ground and COM
New-York tribune., 1918-08-03
Men Who Escaped

OUT OF THE JAWS OF HUNIAND BY CORPORAL
Fred McMullen and Private lack Evans. Hug
tratcd. l2mo. pp .is. G.. Z. Putnam's Sons,
The adventures Of practically all
prisoners who escape are thrilling.
They are filled with daring, pains, la
Dor, danger, and with alternations of
hope and despair. In those respects
the story in this book differs little
from others that we have read This.
however, is related with an exceptional
degree of straightforward simplicity.
There is 10 straining after dramatic
effect nor self-exploitation. Thus it
has an air of truth which not all pos
sess. We cannot help feeling that the
authors actually had precisely the ex
pericnces that they describe.
Another virtue is the excellent ac-
count which it gives of conditions in
Germany, among the German people,
as these men saw them when they were
let out to work for farmers Here,
too, the narrative is free from exag-
geration, and is Illuminating and con-
vincing. There have been more pol
ished pieces of literary work, but there
have been no stories of escape from
German prisons more potent in their
appeal to credence than this.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-03
Our Arctic Province"
Scramblings and Paddlings in
the Alaskan Wilderness

IN THE ALAsKAN WHDERNEss BY George
Svo. pp. e41 The John C Winston Company
We confess alf-mischievous fond
ness for recalling the ridicule and con-
tumely which were copiously poured
upon Seward and his Alaskan purchase
by men without the Vision; and we
welcome every new volume which dis
closes the beauty, the wealth and the
profusion of life in that marvellous
land. Such is this handsome work by
the director of the University of Penn
sylvania Museum, On river, lake and
sea, on tundra and in quasi-tropical
jungle, In native villages and in vast
solitudes, on the broad plains and in
the shadow of the mighty cone of
Denali, he and his brother saw Alaska
as it is, in its least known parts, and
with happy use OF pen and pencil and
camera he has reproduced for US much
of what he saw.
1t is a book of much interest for
present reading, as a delightful mar
ratlve of adventure, and of much value
for instruction and reference.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-03
Public Sanitation
What Has Been Done and What
Is To Be Done

Brend. Svo Up. H. s54. L. P Dutton & Co.
1t is q strange thing that while one
of the very oldest legal codes in the
world is marked throughout with full
and detailed prescriptions for the safe
guarding and promotion OF the physical
health of the community the practical
fultilment of such rules has been neg
lected, at least until within very late
years, more than almost any other de-
partment of public law. 1t is a part of
humanity's inestimable debt to Louis
Pasteur that during the last half or
third of a century more progress has
been made in public and indeed also in
private sanitation than in a dozen CEN
turies before.
A most informing and inspiring ac
count of what has been done and what
had been won in the United Kingdom is
given in the authoritative volume be-
fore us, coupled with a judicious and
convincing estimate of what more
should be done for the furtherance of
the work which has already been so
fruitful. Perusal OF it should convince
even the most pref udiced and purblind
pacifist that the best scientific and ad
ministrative attention is being turned
more and more not to the destruction
of life in war, but to the saving and
strengthening and prolonging Of life at
all times. A British work, written
about Great Britain, it is scarcely less
applicable, at least in its recommended
tions and teachings, to the United
States, and its value to practical sanl-
tarians will be very great.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-03
Technical Works
Educational, Professional and
Scientific

The Macmillan Company sends US L.
Sinagnan's formulation Course in
Spanish" All admirable work. heartily
to be commended to schools and to
self-learners alike.
The Charles F. Merrill Company
publishes Charles Edward Amory Win
slows Healthy Living" capital
treatise on practical sanitation, and
Arthur Lees lessons in English" a
new editions of the good Reed &
Kellog treatise of years ago; both in
tended for school textbooks, but useful
also for private study.
The Frederick A Stokes Company
publishes Harriette Brower's Home
Help in Music Study" a series Of
sketches in narrative form concerning
the use of eyes, ears and fingers in
music; and La Verne w. Springs
really fascinating "NonT Technical
Chats on Iron and Steel"
E P. putton e. Co. send "a Polish
Manual" edited By J. H. Freese; an
excellent manual for self-tuition in the
Polish tongue.
D. c. Heath & Co. publish DR.. NJ.
Lyle Spencer's "News Writing" par
ticularly practical and lucid guide to
good journalistic work.
The American Book Company's big
budget comprises Hotchkiss & Drew's
Business English," good, practical
treatise; Dryers Economic Geogra-
ply" devoted entirely to the United
States; and Books One, Two and Three
of Hamilton's STANDARD Arithmetic -
one of the best current textbooks in
that study.
D. Appleton & Co. publish Annabell
Turner's Sewing and Textiles" a
handbook of plain sewing for the in
struction of children or for self-in-
struction; and William UnderhilI
Moore's "The Law of Commercial
Paper" a valuable handbook for lay
men or lawyers.
The D. Van Nostrand Company lends
US "a Handbook on Piping" by Carl
L. Svensen, an encyclopedia treatise of
great value to engineers; and Essen
tlals of Drafting" by the same author,
fine work on mechanical, architect
ural and other technical drawing.
Charles Scribner's Sons send US
Horace G. Byers's inorganic Chem
istry," an excellent textbook and man
ual; and "The Nature of Matter and
Electricity" by Daniel F. Comstock
and Leonard T. Troland, an illustrated
outline of modern views on the sub
ject.
The Bureau of Public Service Eco
Monies publishes "a Municipal Expert
ment," by Reginald Pelham Bolton; an
interesting account of the operation
Of the power plant of the New York
Hall of Records, we'll illustrated
New-York tribune., 1918-08-03
With Pen and Press
What the Authors and Publishers
Are Doing

first real splash" Of the fall season
on August % with five interesting
books: Two novels by Miss Margaret
Widdemer, you're Only Young Once"
and "The Old Road to Paradise; 3"
Roman Rolland's plays, "The Four
teenth of July" and "Danton," in one
volume; Allan Updegraff's novel,
"Strayed Revellers," and Walter A.
Dyer's "The Dogs of Boytown"
The Century Company has in hand
maggie Of Virginsburg," by Mrs
Helen R. Martin; which we shall ex-
pect to find another masterpiece of
Pennsylvania Dutch romance
Doubleday, Page & Co. have in "Jos-
selyn's Wife" by Kathleen Norris. the
romance of country girl planted
to city life.
Mrs: Minnie Moore Wilson, author
of The Seminoles of Florida" pub
ligshed by Moffat, Yard & Co.. is plan
ing some new war relief fund booklets
Harper and Brothers will publish
late this month The Kaiser AS I
who for fourteen years was the Kaiser's
dentist in Berlin.
Mitchell Kennerley announces for
fusely illustrated work by Sheldon
Cheney on open air playhouses and
out-of-doors pageants and drama.
E. P. Dutton & Co. make the ex-
ceptionally interesting announcement
of the autobiography Of W. H. Hudson,
to appear in the early fall; which we
must expect TO be one of the most
fascinating works of the kind in re-
cent years.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-03
In China S Wonderland
The Gorges of the Mekong and
the Yang-tse

CHAPMAN Andrews and Yvette Borp Andrews.
iuustra:ed. S'o. pp. XIV. 334. D. Appleton
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrews have made
tine contribution to American scholar
ship and tc he literature of rare ad-
venture, for the doing of which they
had great opportunity The Asiatic
geological expedition of the American
Museum of Natural History (of which
institution Mr.. Andrews is a CURATOR
made vast circuit in Asia. which
may be outlined as passing through
Sorea and Manchuria to Peking, to
Shanghai. to Hong Kong, to Hanoi, to
61.un5-nan-fu, y. to Bhamo, to Rangoon, to
Calcutta. to Delhi, to Bombay, to
Singapore and to Hong Kong again.
Of course the most interesting and
important part was between Hanoi
and Rangoon, amid the Shan and Tib-
etan mountains and the stupendous
gorges of the Yang-tse and Mekong
rivers.
Yun-nan is surely one of the won
derlands of the world, and we must
keenly sympathize with the passion
ate appreciation of its wild charms
which Mr.. and Mrs. Andrews felt and
which they eloquently express:
AS Yvette turned from the win
dow her eyes were wet with unshed
tears. and lump had risen in nv
throat. Not all the pleasures of the
city, the love of friends or relatives.
could make US wish to end the wild.
free life of the year gone by.
Silently we left the house and
New-York tribune., 1918-08-03

mark of something approximating
genius. 1t is by no means free from
errors and blemishes, but they are all
minor and readily corrigible; while
all through it is instinct with virtues
Of the truest type. The plot is simple,
but it is epic in its simplicity. The
construction is deft, firm, coherent
The narrative is expeditions and con-
vincing. The description will be criti-
clsed by some as meagre, but we our
selves hold that to be great merit;
for it is quite impossible for any one
to-day to know precisely what the de-
tails of decoration, costume and con-
duct were in Belshazzar's day, and we
hold 1t the best art merely to suggest
appearances with few assured strokes
and leave the completion of the scene
to imagination.
The story is drawn from that great
est and most neglected Of all sources
of literary and dramatic inspiration,
the Old Testament. It tells of young
Hebrew who goes from the ruins of
Jerusalem to Babylon to aid in the
redemption of his race from bondage;
of his temptations and perils at Bel
shazzar's court and of his marvellous
victory over them; of the coming of
Cyrus and the fall of Babylon; and
OF the triumphant course, though all
the stupendous drama, of the pure
love of man and maid The
reader will not find in it the
supernatural naturalsm of "Sal-
ammbo," the encyclopedia elabora-
tion of "Bcn-Hur," or the discursive
vastness of "Quo Vadis." But if he
be judicious he will joyously perceive
in it a human vitality no whit inferior
to the best that is in those noted
works, and q net merit emitting it to
a place in their category, and that by
no means the lowest. We could point
out to Mr.. Williams number of verbal
infelicities which we arc sure he would
himself recognize and hereafter avoid;
and we could indicate various typo
graphical errors which should not ap-
pear in a volume bearing so authorita-
tive an imprint. But these are notes
in a sunbeam. We prefer to indulge
the one great thought of gratitude
that here is true historic romance of
enhancing beauty, of triumphant power
and of most auspcious promise of fur
ther literary and artistic creation.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-03
A Camping Manual

CAMPING OUT By Warren II. Miller. illus
trated l2mo. pp. 800. George II. Doran Com
pany.
The editor of Field and Stream" has
here prepared a volume which will be
OF immense interest and practical util-
itty to all who respond to the "call Of
the wild" sufficiently to go into camp,
even if it be for only short time and
in some woods near home. There is no
phase of tent life, boat life, tramping,
automobiling. camp cooking and what
not else which he does not discuss and
explain with expert authority and in a
most readable and interesting fashion.
The admirable illustrations add ma
terially to the value of a book which
is veritable compendium of Camping
out"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-03
A Current Budget
Miscellaneous Volumes Fresh
From Various Presses

The Macmillan Company has just
issued "The Abolition of Inheritance"
by Harlan Eugene Read (12mo, PIP.
312). 1t is a detailed presentation Of
the case against the inheritance of
wealth and of the millennial joys to
mankind which some think would fol-
low its abolition. Not many people
will be convinced by it, but since the
subject is bound to be periodically dis
cussed it is we'll to have that side of
the case set forth in convenient form.
F. W. Lord has published, through
the Country Life Press, d thoughtful
little treatise (16mo, PIP. 1S4) on "The
Ethics Of Contracting and the Stabi-
lzing of Profits"
Brentano's send us the fifth Of the
Fantomas detective romance series, "a
Royal Prisoner" by Pierre Souvestre
and Marcel Allan (12mo, PIP. 277),
telling of the daring exploits of Fan
tomas in trying to get possession of a
kings famous jewel.
The World Book Company has issued
a neat illustrated volume of "Insect Ad-
ventures" by the eminent naturalist, J.
H. Fabre, retold for young people by
Louise Seymour Hasbrouck (12mo, PIP.
2S7).
The Missionary Education Movement
publishes "Ancient People at New
Tasks" by Willard Price 12mo, pp
2OS, jllustrated), giving an interesting
account of the progress in civilization
which is being effected in various
lands. From the same press comes
"The Gospel for a Working World" by
Harry Frederick Ward (12mo, PIP. 26O,
illustrated), telling of the appeal of
religion in industry.
The Macmillan Company publishes a
timely little work on Swimming and
Workmanship" by L. de B. Handley
(12mo, PIP. 150 illustratedD, giving
practical instruction in swimming and
diving, lifesaving in the water, water
sports, etc.
Norah Lee Raymond has published a
little volume (1Smo, PIP. AZ, with por-
trat), of what she calls "Verse and
Worse" chiefly verse which is free"
in a double sense-in metre and in
passionate sentiment.
G. Schirmer sends Us a beautifully
printed and illustrated New Yale Song
Book" (large 8vo, PIP. 1917, containing
best songs OF Yale and other colleges,
from STARS of the Summer Night" to
"Boola," and from "Old Folks at
Home to "Bohunkus" The illustra-
tons comprise many superb views Of
Yale buildings and grounds and a pan.
Drama of the Bowl. The work is edit
ed by G. Frank Goodale. musical d.
rector of the Yale Glee Club.
E. P. Dutton & Co. publish "a VIII
lage in Picardy," by Ruth Gaines, with
an introduction by William Allan Neil
son C12mo, PIP. 1889, giving the story
Of six months of relief work done by
the Smith College unit of the Red
Cross.
The George H. Doran Company pub
fishes "An Englishwoman's Home" by
Mrs. A. Burnett Smith, best known by
her pen name of Annie s. Swan (12mo
PIP. 173). giving poignant impressions
of the effect of the war upon English
domestic life.
The Marshall Jones Company issues
1.-THE Queens Heart" by J. Fl. Hill
dreth (l2mo, PIP. $3.50. an old-fash-
ioned romance of love and adventure
in the Mediterranean and its lands
The John Lane Company sends "The
White Road of Mystery" by Philip
Dana Orcutt (12mo. PIP. 173, illustrat-
ed), the notebook OF an American am
New-York tribune., 1918-08-03
After the War
\ Plea for Settlement Based
Upon International;sm

Emo. pD s2o The NJ Macmillan IL ~1tsf compsny Il ws''
Mr.. Weyl might have taken as
motto for his book the phrase which
was long ago repudiated by its author,
Peace without victory His view is
that we should oppose the "imperial-
istic' policies of our Allies and should
responder should have responded
favorably to German peace overtures
and the peace suggestions of Russian
revolutlonlsts; seeking peace not
through a complete military victory
over Germany so much as through CO.
operation with German democrats and
the establishment of a system of inter
nationalism in which national sover-
lgntv Wi be largely waived When
the President, or Mr.. Roosevelt. de-
CARES that we must win peace through
an overwhelming victory which will re-
store and indemnify Belgium, France
and Serbia and give the freedom of
self determination to the peoples now
held subject by the Teutonic powers,
Mr.. Weyl objects that he is proposing
drastic terms, imposing onerous terms
upon the defeated enemy, and seeking
lmperlalistic aims.
w lIH tHdC we cannot agree. Or, II It
be drastic and onerous to insist upon
the righting of wrongs and upon JUS
tice for the injured, why, in Gods
name, let US have drastic and onerous
terms. If it be imperalistic to compel
Germany to withdraw from Belgium
and to indemnify that martyr nation
for its losses, then we confess ourselves
to be imperialistic. Nor can we assent
to an internationalism that would
weaken the spirit OF nationality, of alb
solute national sovereignty and of ex-
elusive loyalty to the nation. We
quoted approvingly the other day the
saying of Mr.. Spargo, that nationalism
is a prerequisite of internationalism.
We believe that man to be the best
member of the community who is most
loyal to his own household, and we be-
leve that the same principle applies
to the community of nations. Mr.. Weyl
is doubtless quite sincere in his views,
but we cannot regard them as we'll
founded, or as calculated to assist in
the establishment of satisfactory
New-York tribune., 1918-08-03

walked across The sunlit road into
a white pagoda cleaned between the
a grove of graceful, dropping palms;
trees, and the pungent odor of wood
smoke filled the air. The spot was
redolent OF the atmosphere of the
lazy East; the East which. like the
tabled Lorelei, weaves a mystic spell
about the wanderer whom she has
loved and taken to her heart, while
yet ne feels it not. And when he
would cast her off and return to his
own again she knows full we'll that
her subtle charm will bring him back
once more.
What was it that Kipling wrote 70
precisely the same effect?
If you've card the East a-callin',
You won't never 'eed naught else"
In this delightful volume even the
reader remote from Cathay may hear
the East a-calling, by Sympathetic
proxy.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-03
The Land Of
The Amazon
Nature and Civilization in the
Great Southern Republic

iIel sT.yton scigwick Cooper With map and Illus
trst.ous sro. pp. XVI 403. Frederick A. Stokes
Company.
The world must discard the old
notion that all civilization must be in
the Northern Hemisphere. Time was
when there seemed to be some jus
sifcation for it, but that time is no
more: as witness the revelations in
this handsome volume. We all know
how big space Brazil covers on the
map. This tells how we'll she fills it
with a civilization and arts of which
the most advanced Northern nations
might be proud.
The unmatched beauty Of the harbor
Of Rio de Janeiro has long been pro-
verbal But we must give the Brazil
;ans credit for matching nature with
their art, for nowhere else has fuller
advantage been taken OF opportunity
for both utility and beauty. Where
have we anything to surpass, if to
rival, the arc at Botafogo? Nor would
Il be easy to find many more salts
factory vistas than that of the Avenue
of Rio Branco in the Brazilian capital.
But Rio de Janeiro is by no means all.
Other cities all over the vast republic
have public works. public and private
buildings and other tokens of high
civilization which demonstrate that
the course Of empire has swerved to
the southwark as well as gone to the
westward.
We have seen no more complete
,onspectus Of Brazil and the Brazil
ians than Mr.. Cooper has presented in
this big, handsome volume. Practi-
cally every phase of the theme is
treated-his.orical, political, educa-
tional. socia, industrial, numerical.
and what not else, with interest and
with comprehensive accuracy, and with
multitude &C illustrations which are
q light to the mind and pleasure to
the eye.