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From 4 STA

After we had ordered ham omelet
and that omelet had become thing of
the past we took our coffee and played
game Of piquet with the inn cards, which
were terribly greasy. But in war times
one learns not to be too particular
Some hours later the detachment hove
in sight, as we expected. The men were
covered with mud, water-soaked like
sponges and very tired. l opened the
door and made the sergeant that sign of
fellowship and generous invitation which
no soldier in any army, least of all in
the British army, has ever failed to I'M
derstand He entered with his men, but
said with sigh:
Spirits strictly prohibited"
| had foreseen that difficulty. Strong
drinks are forbidden to the English SOL
der. So l asked the excellent landladv-
very casually, in French-to put the
drinks in the coffee. In that way appear.
ances were saved.
The men sat down. happy. As to the
sergeant, / had him come with us into
little side room. The gin mixture was
brought in smoking hot and his eyes
glistened.
We'll" | said to him without any cir
cumlocutlons, chow did the affair come
off,"
tie reflected a moment, touched the
glass to his lips, reflected again, took a
swallow and answered:
1T was very cruel for u.s.
For you?" I said, in astonishment.
Yes, sir. | have served twenty years
IN the army. l have been in twenty-five
execution squads-in India, at Malta, a.
Gibraltar, everywhere. But have never
seen more troublesome case. All the
way on the road he treated us like dirt
tie kept saying the most unpleasant
things.
What weather. he said. What
weather! What an infamy it is to make
gentleman walk for hours in such
raln-and for such purpose! A gentle
man whose little finger is of more account
than the whole body of any one of VOL
rabble. Ruffians.
Rufflans! One can see that you are
English. Only in your country are there
people capable of such refinement of
cruelty. To make man whom YOU are
gong to shoot walk for two hours in the
ram and mud! Ruffians! Pigs!'
He babbled thus in English for miles
and miles. 1t was hard on nv FEELINGS.
But finally | said to him:
GU are going to quit that, you son
OF a sea-cook. You have no heart. 7 tell
you; you have no heart If YOU had anv
decent feelings about you you would see
that we are the ones who are eatt;no tho
worst of this. We have to walk all tho
way back
A1ter | told him this, sir" said the
sergeant eying his empty glass, 'he was
as quiet as lamb, clear to the end"
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he understood English perfectly, al
though he had previously insisted that
he didn't understand word Probably
he was a German officer But he denied
that to the last. They had condemned
him under the name he had taken--a
French Flemish one, of course.
Although he was tried by the court
martial which sat at H, he was to be
shot at b; that is to say, at the place
where he had ordinarily carried on his
business. Mervil and looked at him. II
was worth the discomfort of facing this
cats and dogs weather for ten or twelve
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Lads of the High Heart

over the world our laddies 90,
~ Singing the songs of home;
Far where the tides of battle break
In crimson foam
over the weary roads of France,
Singing an old-time tune,
They go where the hills are fringed with
flame
And the great guns Groom.
Singing song, they swing along
Lads of the dauntless West
Their bayonets bright with freedoms
light,
Onward they press.
Gally they march with singing lips
Many tireless mile
And hearten the saddened soul of France
With Yankee smile
Over the world our ladies go
With rollicking song and cheer;
May we be as brave of heart and lip
Who must linger here
Arthur Wallace Peach, in Mnasey's,
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Goodby to John
Barleycorn

HH ERE'S how. Prositt Here's look
ing at you! Gesundheii! Your
good health and prosperity for twenty
five thousand years"
Hugh S. Fullerton thus launches an
article on THE Last Appearance of Old
John barleycorn" in the current issue of
Inc American Magazine" And he con-
. tinues:
Here's good night to the highball, the
o'd-iashioned toddy, the mint smash, the
Julep' the whiskey sour, the long tod the
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<<HHE YELLOW JACKET"
\ taught New York something
Of the charm and nayvetc of

the Chinese theatre In the
current number of asia" Zoe Kincaid
describes how Japan still preserves the
intimate relation once existing between
actor and audience, in the old days when
the privileged few had seats on either
side of the stage. A large part of the
action of many japanese plays of to-day
actually takes place on the hanamichi or
Flower Path leading directly through the
audience, and the author goes on to tell
how this custom became established:
Admirers of particular actors had started
the fashion of bestowing gifts upon their
favortes. According to the ceremony Of
the East, their presentations were elab-
orately wrapped up; the string that tied the
parcel was decorated with an artificial
flower. and, for the bearers of the gifts
regular path was built through the audience
connecting with the stage. This is how the
hanamichi, or Flower Way, as it was called,
came into existence.
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reentered the little inn But suddenly
Mervil, who had an idea, suggested
Suppose we take breakfast here?'
greatly preferred breakfasting at the
mess, with our friends.
"Why stay here?" I asked
"The execution squad will have to come
back this way. The sergeant will not be
above fresh bowl of punch. That COM
bats chilliness. 1t is for your benefit, in
CRATE! For l can't get sketch out
of it,"
He was right. / thanked him for con
slderlng the interests of my newspaper.
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kilometres in order to assist at his execu-
ton.
Hurriedly putting our raincoats OF
again, we rushed out into the road with
the intention of following this sinister
cortege.
mo, sirs,' said the old sergeant, po-
litely, but with military frmness "Stay
where you are, please"
He added, with a sort Of dry humor,
the police phrase so often heard in big
cities:
'No crowds allowed"
There was nothing to do but yield We
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Translated by William l.. Mcpherson

n udan1pd thumor
Tmmes" mos
nnennm@ the b~"h
dvnb Hundreds Thousands
s. sides plnq
on O. hem.
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A ND finally:

Diplomacy is the function OF govern
ment in which, more than in anv o+bar
wide powers of discretion must be vested
in those who are responsible for i+s con.
duct. We all believe in responsible govern
ment but some of us are inclined to for
get the mutual obligations it involves. If
ministers are to be responsible for their
actions, they must have the power 10 act.
and every attempt to tie the hands of gov
eminent lmpars its responsibility. The
plan has been tried again and again: in
deed when the problem of absolute SOW
erelgnty forced itself upon the national
state the earliest attempt made to deal
with II was to limit the sovereign rower
me second eXpedent was TO divide it
among various repositories which should
checH one another; the third method. which
the English people ultimately chose. was
helther to limit nor to divide sovereignty,
put TO make Its exercise matter of COM
ple'e responsibility down to the minutest
delall. Democracy cannot be capable of
oolng the work of its experts, but it can
call those experts to answer for the way
IN winch they discharge their duties The
delect In our diplomacy comes from the
failure of democracy to provide itself with
su1llclent knowledge to make that ac-
countability effective. 1t is a Jury which
refuses to hear the evidence or to make
any adequate effort to understand it: and
1T has only been saved in England from
the plight of Russia by its practical wis
dom in refusing to act and in leaving its
diplomatic case in the hands of the Judge
and counsel If it wants to try prisoners
at the bar it must learn to listen TO wat
they have to say"
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TIME pages in "The Fortnightly
n Review devoted each month
to the "Obiter Scripta" Of Frede-

"These miracles of daring in the skies
and beneath the sea fire the imagination.
The day may come when such fighting as
there may be then shall be waged not on
land but in the air, not on the water but
underneath it, when dreadnoughts will be
as obsolete as plate armor, and the only
armies will be huge flights of flying squad
rons darkening the day, like monster flocks
of Valkyrie choosing the slain. Nay, can
conceive that, if ever the civilized world re-
solve that war between nations shall cease,
vast reserves of airships, the only standing
armies, shall form sort of international
police. Then, the nations bound together to
preserve peace in the world could, by COM
mon action, menace the cities, docks and
barracks of the offending power that he
could not move ship regiment without
humiliation. One hundred thousand air
men acting together would cool the passions
of the most aggressive Junkerdom. And to
maintain them in reserve as police or
militia would not involve the cost of one
hundredth part of modern ornaments En-
durance and heroism in war can 20 no fur
Their than ours of to-day. The age which
poets have told unmanly and which
philosophers tell us is decadent proves to
excel all that history and tradition have
ever attempted to picture in poetry or in
prose, in epic or in romance"
HERE has been whole lot of talk
this spring about league of ma
tons. But why? demands Mr.. Harrison;
for
"there is league of nations now; the AL
lied Powers striving to save civilization
and secure a permanent peace. There will
never be any other such league in our gen
Grafton. general and peaceful league Of
nations will never be formed until the con
version of mankind to a purer moral and
religious form of life. In the meantime, all
wordy recrlmination about it is mischevous
nonsense, whatever eminent men may choose
to say to concilIate pacitism and fads. 1t is
one of the many devices to draw off our
minds from the task that admits of no
delay and no interruptonthe final and ut
ter defeat of the enemy of mankind At
present some 20O,oOO,0O0 men, firmly posted
in aCentraEsand Eastern Europe, are filled
with passion to crush and dominate the
West. If they to be outside the league.
how are we going to restrain their ambition
otherwise than as we are doing; which
means maintaining our crushing arma-
ments? If they are to be inside the league
we, the rest, will be at the mercy of their
incarnate fraud, falsehood and ferocity The
trifers and the tricksters who perorate
about league of nations without facing
these questions are talking random verbiage
or intentional treason"
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Obiter Scripta
l. o Ireland, o Brit
ain! 2. Miracles of
the Air. 3. The
League Of Nations.

TIME pages in "The Fortnightly
Review devoted each month
to the "Obiter Scripta" Of Frede-
rio Harrison are always sure to
be full of stimulating comment on varl-
Gus topics of the most pressing interest
and importance. In the May issue,
among other points, the three enumerat-
ed above are touched upon.
In connection with the taut Irish sit
uation Mr.. Harrison writes:
"If unity of command in Allied armies is
vital necessity, unity in government at
home is even more vital. The attempt, un-
der nvctcrate traditions, to carry on war
for very life By 3 Parliament with dozen
troops, some of them bitterly hostile, is the
road to Bolshevist ruin. Ireland with
your deep heart and your lyric brain, will
you forever stab yourself to death and heap
shame upon your name-all for the sake of
q suicidal revenge? Britain, with your
stoid sense and honest soul. will you for
ever be too late-bind to others feelings,
tactless, slow, trusting to compromise to
worry through somehow? Are we both to
descend together into chaos ?"
or the progress of aviation he says;
Of all the wonders of our wondrous time
the development of flying is the first in power
and in promise. Marvellous and incalcula-
BILE as is the power of submarines, that
other new marvel is less important. The
U-boat may be of vast influence in war, and
in all matters of naval blockade, affecting
bellgerents and neutrals alike, transform
ing public law and nsular states. But its
value in peace, in commerce and industry is
not yet evident Aviation, however, already
opens new worlds to trade, transit and in
tercourse in ordinary life in peace. Of all
this there is no need to prophesy yet But
we now that the Air Corps is trans
forming war 1t renews and overtops the
widest romance and poetry of human au-
dacity and skill. Nothing in Homer, Pindar
or Livy comes near the heroic combats in
the air. Our very fairy tales, our myths,
idylls and fablaus of medieval chivalry are
champion airmen. Achilles, Ajax, the Decii,
Siegfried and Launcelot mere chidren's
songs now. The cavalry of the air forebode
as great a revolution in tactics as when
mounted Franks and Huns, with lance and
bow, made obsolete the Macedonian phalanx
and the Roman legion. The new arm re-
peats and far extends the feats Of horse
men in the armies of Cromwell, Frederick
and Napoleon. 1t looks as if the air corps
would some day be the decisive element in
battle, even SCATTERING artillery and any
close formation of horse or foot. All that
the poet ever vaunted of the audax Iapeti
genus is far outshone. We may even adapt
the famous lines and say
Expertus vacuum Daedalus
pennis NUNC homini datis.
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A ND again:

AS people, we have generally been in
different diplomatists because Indifferent to
diplomacy. We know the names of our
Chancellors of the Exchequer, but few of US
before the war could have mentioned more
than one or two ambassadors; and Eng
lands representatives abroad occupy
dlmlnutive place in the public eye Our in
adherence has been due to our insular Sc
curlty; the Frenchman or the German, with
ms Vulnerable frontiers had keener ap-
probation of diplomatic values. and what
light we have had during the war on foreign
Iother than military affairs has had 10 be
sought for the most part in foreign journals
Brltons have not been obliged to watch their
nelghbors with the same intensity: and
diplomacy grew out of the need for watch
iulness. 1t hardly existed during the Mid
ule ages, before the rise of national states
and the decline IN the pastoral care of the
apacy' and 1t was first developed in Italy
where the multitude of rival prncipalities
on the make imposed jealous watch upon
their nelghbors. With the growth of ma
tlonal power and independence. in the
nlteenth and sixteenth centuries. the svs
tenn OF resident ambassadors was develoned
70 regulate the relations of states and to
conduct their international business TORT
torial rivalry characterized those relations
while nationality was still Auid and
,rontiers We're elastic; and in the age when
Machlaveili released government from, tho
restraint OF law the behavior of amhassa
uorS was not determined by moral cods
An ambassador. said Sir Henry Wotton. was
an honest man sent to lie abroad for his
country's good; and patriotic deceDtion
came to be popularity regarded as a prime
ingredient in diplomacy Bismarck was
not general, but the greatest of modern
diplomatists'
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Copyright. 1915 by The Tribune Association
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ElizabethtoWn Mecca for Newlvweds

ELzABETHrowN, y. V, July l3.--Eliz-
abethtown is now experiencing honey
moon drive OF unusual proportions and
In the nature of surprise attack.
Pleasant Valley, in which Elizabethtown
Is situated, has long been favored by
bridal couples on honeymoon tours, but
veteran hotelmen and Oldest inhabitants
have been unable to prove by records
that their numbers have ever exceeded
those of the present season.
The many Canadians who motor down
from Montreal and other points to eX-
change opinions on the war with
friends from New York and other cities
in this country have recently had an
agreeable surprise upon finding motor
cars of their American friends going
along the highways playing the Eng
OF contrivances attached to the engine
exhausts. Recently they have rec!pro-
Gated by equipping their cars with SINH
lar devices and playing 1.-THE Star
Spangled Banner and other tunes. To
the sojourners generally this patriotic
elimination OF the noisy motor horn has
come as an agreeable change
One OF the Canadian parties reaching
the Windsor Hotel was headed by Sir
William Read, head of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad and OF the United Loco
motive Works En- route to New York.
the party made a stay OF several days in
the Sanford cottage OF the Windsor
group.
Sir Alexander Bertram and Lady
Bertraw, who motored from Montreal
also spent several days at the Windsor.
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Golf claims the attention OF many who
are now returning and arranging for
their stay here during the season.
Among sojourners at the Windsor who
are devotng much time to the sport
are Robert Nelson. chief engineer of the
Pennsylvania Railroad who has re-
turned for the season; George II. Siege
and his daughter Miss Charlotte Siege,
OF Brooklyn, who with Mrs. Siege are
at the Windsor for the season; Mr.. and
Mrs Otto F. Struse and Miss Margaret
Struse of Brooklyn, who have returned
to the Windsor for another season: Mrs,
Orkin and Miss Orkin OF Montreal: II. r.
Hanaford Of New York. and John ID.
Whiteside of New York, who are at the
Windsor for the season.
After climbing a number OF the lesser
peaks. William +. French and William
Rolffe OF New York who have been
spending few weeks at the Windsor,
essayed the ascent of Mount Marcy.
Among the women Red Cross workers
at the Windsor interest in the work has
been stimulated by the arrival OF Miss
Elizabeth Goode OF New Brighton
Staten Island. who recently returned
from the war zone in France.
Others recently arrived at the Wind
sor from New York include q. b. Hop
kins the playwright; c, F. bliss, Miss
Maude Staples, Mr.. and Mrs C. r.
Schwarz, Miss l.. S, Young. Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph Brazell and daughter. Mrs Leon
II. Reizenwein and son. Mr.. and Mrs.
Y. e. Baredeli. Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Kcr-
mann. Mr.. and Mrs F. r. Abbey, Mr..
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GOOD GOLF AND GOOD FISHING
AT KINEO.

KINEo, Me-, July 13.-Interestins go.
increasing number OF campers goirs
into the nearby woods and lq-r,
number of cottages opened have bee,
features of the week here.
]. NICE. Bowman, proprietor o. Hs
Biltmore and member of the Food
Conservation Committee, and HE
flancee. Miss Clarice Paterson of New
York. are expected here next week
They will be guests Of Mrs Myra b
Paterson, mother of Miss Paterson. a,
her Farm Island camp. Mrs. Paterson
was formerly metropolitan golf chan.
pion and President OF the Metropol,ln
Golf Association.
A flag golf contest was won by Mrs
r. J. Jacobs OF New York. Charles
Strauss getting the greatest distance
flag. Lawrence Striley Of Boston and
Mr.. Straus won foursome from J =
Sanderson OF Hot Springs. Va, and
Chisholm Beach OF New York by u'
which attracted large Sale~y 4
Red Cross tournament this resl
brought out all the golfers on tie Pn
Children have been among the $50
cessful anglers of the week. Cn.shc.r.
Beach. Jr. landed four and a pua-ts-
pound salmon. while his sister aaus..
some beautiful square tailed trou,
Little John Curtis. son of Charles F.
Curtis Of New York. caugh, fn-
and half pound salmon. Mr. Fpa
captured the seasons record, six and
half pound salmon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Scrihner Il.
Yorktown Heights. y. y, are gue,.
at Camp Nephawin, Kineo, of Com.
modore and Mrs. Arthur r Warirr
Arrivals at the Mount Kineo HNgs4
include Mr.. and Mrs. Ross w We
Howard Phelps and daughter NJ,
Henry Hauf Mr.. and Mrs Chars,
Strauss, Judge and Mrs OTTO Ho"O 70
Miss F.. NJ. Cannon, Mr.. and Mrs )
Sulzbacher and daughter. Mr. and ~
Norris Sampler. Mrs. NJ. II Nora.y-
Mrs, NJ. Lowenbein Mr. and Mrs T.
Jacobs, Mrs, J. A. Noble AMI .-
daughter, Miss Dorothy Noble NJ
Mrs. J. krakauer, Mr.. and Mrs W
Martin. Mr.. and Mrs. Linton Hart Z
New York
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and Mrs. John L, Rose, e. Fo'tN"
Andrews. Willis j. Walsh ana :'"
Mr. and Mrs. C. EssIG, Mss Ma
Essig. Mr.. and Mrs, G, r. Van Corr
Big strings Of trout have poe
brought into Deer's Head Inn nr ,.
ward g, Flammcr and g r I.'"
New York, who arc at the i7u g..
season. accompanied by Mr.. Flame
mer and Mrs, Plant. BY the '..
Of the quartet some INTEREST,"
matches have been played,
Dr. William j, ArlitZ. wro
ardent fisherman, recently r1'r. '"'
New York and has been moc,i"s w.
good success on fishing tr.ps. %,
he joined soon by Mrs. ArlIrl ~" 'e
balance OF the season
Major T. A. Crooks. L. 5 A. "a"
on motor tour OF the Aduo'aH e.
arrived at Deer's Head I'm with NN.
Crooks, Others from New York ta'''
recent arrivals at beers Head Ir3 ~
cludc Mr.. and Mrs j. BlakC'E, "s'
r. white, Mr.. and Mrs. 5. e.. cary
Spencer and FeliN Cary, Miss N'''
Mr.. and Mrs. &. r. Peck. Mrs Fr"'h
l.. Stiles. Miss Edna +. SrlCe -"
Frances l.. Stiles, Mrs. \. : S""a'
the Misses swords. II. NJ, Walker. W..
and Mrs +, NJ. Holder Mr., and Mrs
T.. II. milford, Mr., and Mrs, George
Arents, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. J. S, nus
sell. Mr.. and Mrs, L. T. Kennard, Wa
George Wolf. Miss Bertha q. Han'e''
Mr. and Mrs, g e. Ferguson and Dr.
and Mrs. ID. u. Hill
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Mrs. Zmmerman's will, making large
requests to various public and re-
ligious institutions in New York, will
be contested by her nephew, DR.. Fur.
Miss.
A leather case containing jewels
valued at more than $1,000 was left in
the railroad station in Pittsfield by
Miss Ruth Deyo of New York, a
Stockbr!dge cottager, on July 4. This
week the Jewels were found by police
officers. The case had been found by
e station employee and turned over TO
another person, who had not reported
the matter.
Preparations are being made for the
annual outdoor anniversary meeting
Of the Laurel Hill Association OF
Sstockbridge at the old Indian council
hill in September. A committee con-
sisting of Mrs. Alexander Sedgwick,
chairman: Miss Jane Seymour. Mrs.
Charles f. Hull, Miss Emily Tucker
man, Miss Hague, Henry McBurney
and Richard r. Bowker has been ap-
pointed to make the arrangements.
This association is the pioneer Of viii
lage improvement societies in Amer
lea.
John Kendrick Bangs Of New York
made an address to the cottagers OF
the Berkshire colonies in the LenoN
town hall on Saturday night on war
conditions in Picardy. Lately re-
turned from France. Mr., Bangs gave
q picturesque description Of the war
rayaged land, touched with incidents
which relieved the gloom OF general
war picture. Mr.. and Mrs. Bangs
were guests Of his relative, Mrs. Lem
uel Bolton Bangs. during their visit.
and Mrs. Bangs and Mrs. Charles AS
tor Bristed gave entertainments to
meet them.
Fresh air children numbering 100
or more will go back to New York
carrying with them the remembrance
of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie and Miss
| Margaret Carnegie. who last Satur-
| day received the children from St.