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The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-07-08

And poor old Russia, .c1siveIy de-
feated and put out of the war thous-
and and one times by the daily press
still shows spark of life. Russia,
CULVER bound by the Lilliputians,
may yet break the slender thread that
seems to bind her fast. The main
trouble with Russia is that she is mis-
understood; her ideals, purposes and
most of all, her leaders, too hastily
condemned by an unsympathetic
world
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-07-08

The nation has been in suspense for
week or more over the telegram
and telephone disturbance. The ac-
ton OF the employees this morning
relieves the suspense and puts the
whole thing in way to a speedy and
satisfactory settlement. A strike at
this time would have been almost
criminal. In waiting for the Congress
to make its decision the telegraph en-
ployees justify themselves to the pub-
lie and we are sure that their patriot
&c stand will bring them more success
than any other action could have
done.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
The next instaIIment relates
how two artiIlerymen put one
over" on Old Pepper.
CTO BE CONTINUED
vAPQR BATHS IN LAPLAND
Writer'S Strenuous Experience Of
Cleansing Process Finishes With
Being Bastinadoed.

In Wide World Frank Hedges But
Ter describes vapor bath In the land
Of the Laps. He says:
The bathhouse is small wooden
structure generally situated some way
from the dwelling house. 1t Is divided
into two compartments, ono to undress
in, while the other contains the oven
which produces the steam The oven
is arched with large stones or pebbles,
and heated by a fire placed beneath.
Undressing In the first room. one en-
ters the heated compartment After
short rest on wooden form or bench.
which contains a Pace for the head.
the attendants come In and battle you.
Cold water is thrown over the stones
and the kissing vapOr soon sends up
cloud Of steam. The higher you sit
from the floor the greater the heat. As
more water is thrown over the red-hot
stones the vapOr becomes so intense
that one can hardly breathe. We were
soon gasping for breath and covered
with prOfuse perspiratiOn which is
sued from every pore Of the skin.
Hanging up In the room were tender
branches or twigs in green state and
retaining their leaves. Dipping these
in water. the attendant began flashing
and whipping me across the legs,
shoulders, loins and back. till my body
seemed quite red with the switching.
The bastinadoing over. l was then
vrffh
with soap. after which a jug of the
coolest water was thrown over my
head and body.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
REACHED END OF PATIENCE
Army to Be Made Permanent
Bird-Tender.

A western bishop, just back from
France, where he spent some time at
the front, tells the following anec-
dOte as illustrative of the fighting
spirit of the Americans soldier:
again and aaain. whenever his regi-
ment had any orders for activity. it
fell to the lot of one 'Yank' to take
charge of a crate of carrier pigeons for
one of the officers. Always the same
private was selected for the mOnOt-
Onous. unexciting task. 1t became Il
standing joke in the regiment. and the
pigeon tender became more and more
disgruntled. At last. on the eve of a
battle. he again received orders to
take charge of the pigeons. He could
contain himself no longer. With an
air of absolute resolve he walked bold
ly to the tent of the commanding Off
Ger and very firmly placed the crate
Of pigeons mt the door. On the crate
was a note:
"'Here! take your d birds-I
am going to fight"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
Use for Ciothespins

Clrthespins make sn excellent play.
thing for babies. They can be used for
babies or soldiers, or to make fences,
trees. log houses and many other inter-
esting things. Playthings that can be
taken apart and put together again are
good to have; also blocks with which
the child can build all kinds of objects
engines that he can push along the
floor. balls to bounce und throw. doll
carriages. washing sets. etc. Dolls with
clothes that button and inhibition and
come of may be used to teach the chill.
dren how to dress and undress them
selves.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
LEMON JUICE
TAKES OFF TAN
Girls! Make bleaching lotion
if skin is sunburned,
tanned or freckled

Squeeze the juice@f two lemons into
a bottle containing three ounces Of
Orchard White, shake well, and you
have a quarter pint of the best freckle,
sunburn and tan lotion, and complexion
beautifier, at very. very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter will supply
three ounces of Orchard White for a
few cents. Massage this sweetly fra
grant lotion into the face, neck, arms
and hands each day and see how freck.
les, sunburn, windburn and tan disap-
pear and how clear, soft and white the
skin becomes. YesI 1t is harmless
Adv.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30

targets in front of us but unable 10
send over shell. We heartily cussed
Old Pepper. his orders, the govern
thing in general. But the Boches
didn't mind cussng. and got very care
less. Blime me. they were bally in
sulting. Used to. when using certain
road. throw their caps into the air 40
taunt ut our helplessness.
"Cassell had been telegrapher in
civil life and joined up when war was
declared. AS for me. l knew Morse.
learned it at the signalers' school back
in 1910. With an officer in the Obser-
kind of conversation that's usual be-
tween two mates. so We used the
Morse code. To send, one of us would
tap the transmitter with his finger
nails, and the one on the other end
would get 1t through the receiver.
Many an hour was whiled away in this
manner passing compliments back and
forth.
"In the observation post the officer
used to sit for hours with powerful
pair of field glasses to his eyes.
Through eleverly concealed lOOphOle
he would scan the ground behind the
German trenches. looking for targets
and finding many. This officer. Cap
tain A by name, had a habit Of
talking out loud to himself. Some
times he would vent his opinion. same
as n common private does when he's
wrought up. Once upon time the
captain had been on Old Peppers staff.
so he could cuss and blind in the most
approved style. Got to be sort of a
habit with him.
About six thousand yards from us,
behind the German lines. was road
in plain view Of our post. For the last
three days Fritz had brought cOmpa-
MES of troops down this road in broad
daylight. They were never shelled.
whenever this happened the captain
would froth at the mouth and let out
volume Of Old Peppers religion
which used to make me love him.
Every battery has a range chart on
which distinctive landmarks are noted,
with the range for each. These land
marks are called targets. and are num-
bered. On our battery's chart. that
road was called Target II, Range
6COO, 3 degrees go minutes left D 23S
battery consisted of four As hOwit.
GERS, and fired 35-pOund H. e. shell.
As you know. 81. E. means high ex-
plOsive.' l don't like cumming up my
own battery, but we had a record in
the division for direct hits, and our
boys were just pining away for a
chance to exhibit their skill In the
eyes Of Fritz.
ION the afternoon Of the fourth day
Of Fritz contemptuous use Of the road
mentioned the captain and I were at
our posts as usual. Fritz was strafe-
ing us pretty rough. just like he's doing
now. The shells were playing leap
frog all through that orchard.
Il was carrying on a conversation
in our tap code with Cassell at the
other end. 1t ran something like this:
"'Say. Cassell. how would you like
to be in the saloon bar Of the Kings
Arms down Rye lane with bottle Of
Bass in front Of you. and that blonde
barmaid waiting to fill EN- up AGAIN.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
None in Sjoht.

A rookie just sent in to Fort Riley
from the Ozark country was put on
duty as barrack guard. The officer of
the day Glanced to pass him late at
night and was permitted to pass I'M
challenged. He turned and asked the
guard if he was on post there and re-
ceived an affirmative reply.
The officer, thinking him to be a
member of the guard, said: do you
know general Orders?"
Rookie gave him this reply: "Say.
mister, L hain't seen nary u general
since l come here"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
an --N1r 1u- q SOLD
1MI1INr'1I IL JG/>S\IMIII ITIu1(9 For MALARIA,
M 4@1nlT5N1HSss e: :: T.: :; ::
N Il DRUG
Consolation.

Cleveland III. Dodge. during the
presidents visit to his Riverside man.
sion, talked about certain war pre-
ductiOn disappOintments.
Consolation in these disappoint-
ments?" he said. "Well, l don't take
much stock in consolation. 1t always
seems to me rather unsatisfactory.
"Yes, consolation always reminds
me of the judge who said cOnsOlingly
to the transgressOr whom he had just
sentenced to % years:
"'Oh. well, you know, my man,
we've all got to be somewhere
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
Why Bald So Youno2

Dandruff and dry scalp usually the
cause and Cuticura the remedy. Rub
the Ointment into scalp. Follow with
hot shampoo of Cuticura Soap. For
free sample address, "Cuticura. Dept.
K, Boston. At druggists and by mail.
Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 5O.-Adv.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
One for Each.

Mrs. Houlihan-Wan divorce would
be no good: Oi want two av them.
Lawyer-What do you mean?
Mrs. HOulihan-MOike do he Twin a
DOODLE loife.-BOstOn Evening Tran
script.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
Still, He Gets AIonQ Pretty Well.

One FellOw-It seems to me an I'M
dertaker is placed under Il big handi-
cap so far as modern business etiquette
is concerned.
The Other FellOw-Why so?
One FellOw-He can't greet Gus
toner by saying "Glad to see you"
when he calls at the establishment
and he can't say "Call again soon"
when the customer leaves.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
RED CROSS BALL BLUE.

That's the idea. A pure blue, true
blue. no dope. Gives to clothes a clear
white, whittier than snow. Be careful,
use the best. Large package. sold by
good grocers only, cents. Ask for 1t
today.-Adv.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
The Appropriate One.

'Tramps lead sort of vegetable
life. don't they?"
"Well, naturally; aren't they all
beats?"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30

Most people are two-faced. and a
few are three-faced.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
Pessimistic.

"What do you think of these light
less nights?"
well, they have dark possibilities. v
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
They Shall Not Pass.

Knicker-lt is suggested that New
York name street for Joffre.
BOcker-NO German could cross it.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30

Electrical apparatus for Analysing
and registering the quality Of furnace
Rasas has been invented In France.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30

WATERFOWL, Mass, will tear down
Galen tavern, built in 174O, in which
Washington was once q guest.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30

A man may be able to fool himself
as to his Importance, but the neigh
hOrS are different
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30

The man who takes up lot Of your
valuable time Is seldom able to take
hint.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
EHPEY GIVES A DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK ON 0SSER.
AToN POST DUTY.

SyncPsire by the sinking the Lustana with the loss of
American lives Arthur Empy Jersey City.
England IL the British After
big
makes the Coolies training
falls. death turks
Chaplain distinguishes himself wounded
a
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30

1t takes wise young man not TO
write n love letter.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30

The Strong Withstand he Heat of Summe,
Better Than the Weak
ud people who are feeble and younger people
who are weak. will be strengthened and enabled tc
go through the depressing heat of summer BY tab.
Ing GROVES TAS'TEL ES5 chill TONIC. Ii purinea
and enriches the blood and builds up whole sys.
ating hnect &c.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
= Groves chill Tonic Tablets

You can now get Groves Taseess chill Tonic in Tablet
form well Syrup the kind have always bought The
Tablets are intended those who prefer to swallow tablet
rather than syrup and convenience for those who travel
The tablets are called GROVES chill TONIC TABLETS and
contain exactly the same medicinal properties and produce
acy the same results Groves Tastess chill Tonic which
out I'D in bottles The price of either is 6Oc.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16

ing Paris from the north The last is
the great forest south of the Nonette,
but from the north bank Of the Nonette
the Germans would be within range Of
Paris with their siege guns and the city
could be destroyed at will.
Once the German right wing, west of
the Oise, had passed the river, south of
the Aisne-that is, about Compiegne-it
would be possible for the centre to ad-
vance and play it's part, while at the
proper moment the left flank, between
scissors and Chateau Thierry, profting
by the retirement of the French centre
out of the high ground and woods from
Villers-Cotterets south of Scissors to
the Disc, could push on over the level,
open country, which saw the great Battle
of the Ourcq in September, 1914. AS
they stood on June 5, when their main
advance was checked on the Soissons-
Chateau Thierry line, the Germans were
hardly a dozen miles away from the
northern corner of this battlefield, where
Maunoury defended Paris and to which
taxicabs brought French reserves in a
critical hour.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16

route, passing west of the high ground
and crossing the Disc about Compiegne,
while the army of Bulow pushed south
between scissors and Rheims. But hav-
ing reached Senlis the Kluck army in
clined to the east, made it's turn away
from Paris and drove down through
Meaux across the Marne, Offering it's
flank to Paris and inviting the blow
which began the Battle Of the Marnc.
After the Marine the first concern of
the French was to pursue the Germans
across the Aisne and drive them from
the high ground between the Aisne and
the Disc and the forts of Laon and
Rheims, which formed the basis of the
second line Of French defence of the cap
ital, the third line being the forts of
Paris itself, now proved to be worthless
against German siege artillery. This
was the main significance Of the first
battle of the Aisne and of the desperate
fighting about Rheims in September and
early October, 1914.
In this effort the Allies failed. They
passed the Aisne about Scissors; they
occupied some of the high ground in the
angle between the Aisne and the Disc;
but the Germans held the northern forts
of Rheims, the high ground south of
Laon and north of the Aisne on the
Chemin des Danes and the high ground
just west of the Disc about Noyon In
1916, in the Somme campaign, the Brit
isb and French endeavored to clear this
barrier to Paris by an attack on the side
of the Disc salient. They did compel
retirement which cleared the Noyon
heights and much of the high ground east
Of the river, but the Germans still clung
to Laon and the St. Gobain Plateau, east
of the Disc and north of the Aillette.
In 1917 the French, under Nivelle,
made desperate effort to drive the
Germans out of Laon, seeking to take
the town and thus force an evacuation
of the st. Gobain Plateau, from which
the supergun is now shelling Paris. At
the same time French attack east of
Rheims sought to clear the Germans
out Of the forts to the north of the town,
Of which Brimont was the most famous.
But this offensive failed; Nivele was re-
tired, and the Germans were left still
securely lodged in the second line of de-
fences of the French capital, defences
which, in the main, were supplied by the
nature of the country, not by artificial
forts.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16

tween the Disc and the Aisne to make
it impossible for the German centre, fac
ing Paris, to advance, while on the east
they occupied the Chemin des Danes
and the high ground Immediately north
of the Aisne and south of the Aillette.
West of the Disc their line faced La
Fere and seemed to rest securely on high
ground all the way north to the Scarpe,
east of Arras.
But on March 2l, in their first and
greatest operation, the Germans cleared
the Disc Valley as far south as Noyon.
Retaking this town they also opened the
roads west of it, which descend from St.
Quentin and Amiens to the Disc, which
cross at Creil and Pont Ste. Maxence.
These were the roads that Kluck fol-
lowed. They lead over fairly level coun-
try right to Paris. On these roads the
Germans were temporarily halted about
April 1. Thereafter they shifted the
weight of their blow and sought to cut
between the British and the French, but
were checked before Amiens.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16

and in all the period of his wars Paris
had been defended at the frontier. This
continued to be the case in the early
wars of the French Revolution, and
these Notifications corresponded to the
Observation-Disclosures line, which was
intended to be the bulwark of French
defence in the north in later times. But
actually the enormous cost of modern
Notifications and a reliance upon
treaties which declared Belgian soil neu-
tral led French parliaments into the cap
ital blunder of leaving the northern
frontier unguarded.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
On the Second Line
OF Defence

Thus, in August, 1914, when Germany
chose to advance through Belgium, she
was able to reach and pass the frontier
defences with practically no difficulty,
once she had won the opening battles of
Neufchateau, Charleroi and Mons. In
point of fact, the French made no stand
on the frontier, and Maubeuge, after a
gallant but hopeless resistance, fell while
the Battle of the Marre was in prog
ress. Thus the barrier which had saved
Paris at the time of the Revolution
played absolutely no part in protecting
the capital in 1914.
Behind the frontier system, which ex-
listed only on paper, the French had
sketched second line of defence; this
rested upon the cities of Rheims, Laon
and La Fere, and was prolonged to the
sea by the Somme River west of St.
Quentin. Actually it rested upon ccr-
tain natural defences, namely, the high
ground between the Disc and the Aisne
in the centre, the Somme River on the
west and the high ground and forts of
Rheims. This high ground between the
Aisne and the Disc is so great an OBJ
stacle that all the important railways
and highways pass east or west of it,
coming south either by the Disc Valley
or by the depression between Scissors
and Rheims. And in theory the Disc
Valley was covered by the forts Of La
Fere, the gaps between Scissors and
Rheims by the fortress of Laon, tho in
trenched camp of Rheims and the de-
tached forts between these two cities on
the high ground north Of the Aisne; but
again, in fact, these forts were obsolete;
they were survivals of another age and
without contemporary value.
Accordingly, when the Germans came
south, in August, 1914, they passed the
second line of defences of Paris almost
without resistance; Rheims and Laon
were evacuated; the line of the Somme
was not defended. and the Germans were
thus able to advance east and west IF
the high ground between the Ofse and
the Aisnc without opposition and ulti-
mately to reach and pass the Marnc.
In this invasion the army of Kluck
came south by the historic northern
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16

cordingly, after two days Of advance
southwark, the main German thrust was
changed to southwestward direction; in
word, toward Paris. In it's turn this
advance was checked westward of line
between Scissors and Chateau Thierry
in the first days of June.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
The Old System
OF Frontier Forts

10 begin at the beginning, French mill
itary commanders had in the period fol-
lowing the Franco Prussian War care
luily fortified the eastern frontier of
france against German attack. The his
tor'c routes of invasion, those leading
through Verdun to the Champagne Plain,
through Nancy from the valley of the
Moselle to that of the Marne, through
oehort to the Seine, were barred by 4
system OF intrenched camps and detached
iofts which has, with single excep-
uon, survived the four years of war
oniy between Verdun and Toul, on the
'ront where some of our American troops
arc now on duty, have the Germans been
sOe to take even one fort in the French
system, that of Fort Camp des Romans,
above st. Mihiel, and the narrow gap
maae here was quickly closed.
On the north, on the contrary, the
situation ~ has been quite the reverse.
theoretically, the northern and easiest
4oao&o France was to be guarded by
ssnes OF forts and intrenched camps,
sny svnoiiy comparable to the eastern system.
ule' Maubeuge and Mezieres were to
the centres, as Verdun, Toul and Epi-
.a' are on the east, and between them
''acned forts were to cover other roads
aa railways passing between the main
.'a.res OF population and Of resistance.
aa on any military map you may still
-. ~ tnese forts and camps marked as ex-
ns' but in reality they existed only
sne map. save in the case Of Mau-
when war came four years ago.
= the time Of Louis XIV Vauban, his
sa. engineer, had erected series Of
taons covering the French from
4xom ths North Sea 70 Switzerland,
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Paris Becomes
The New Verdun

Next Sunday mean to discuss in de-
tail the development of the German blow
on the west side of the Disc, which is
just beginning to take shape as / write
on Tuesday, June II. But at the mo-
ment am most anxious that my readers
should grasp the larger aspects of Ger
man strategy. Now, as always, tho
Allied armies-not Paris, nor any other
fixed position-remain his detectives.
But the Allies have put price upon
Paris. In a word, they have decided that
Paris is worth so much to the Allied
cause that it must be defended to tho
limit. And this means that the Allies
will oppose their main strength to Ger
man advance between the present front
and the French capital. They havo ac-
ccpted the gage of battle and obviously
intend to make supreme effort to hold
the city.
This decision recalls the Verdun cpl
sode. At the outset the French had the
choice between evacuating the hills east
of the Meuse and accepting battle in the
restricted territory between the Douau.
mont Plateau and the east bank of the
river. They chose the latter alternative
and Verdun became decisive battle,
continued over six months, during which
time the Germans endeavored to destroy
French military power by annihilating
the divisions and corps which were stead
lily poured into the furnace. They failed.
Verdun was saved. And the German
are accepting the battle once more within
fixed limits, with their backs this time
to Paris, not to any river. Meantime
the Germans are following the Verdun
parallel, attacking first on the right
wing and then on the left, as they at
tackled first at Deadman's Hill and then
about Fort de Vaux in the second phase
of the Lorraine campaign.
The present offensive, begun on last
Sunday, is the third step in the campaign
for Paris. The first was the March 21
offensive from st. Quentin. The second
was the May 27 attack from Laon. This
third attack, on the Montdidier- -Noyon
front, is an effort to open the northern
roads to Paris which come down from
Belgium through st. Quentin and Amiens
first to the important railway and high
way junction of Estrees-St. Denis and
then TO the crossings of the Disc at
Croil, Pont Ste. Maxsnes and about
CompaegnA -.