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OUAKERS BUILD FRENCH GIRL
- HOME FOR HER FOUR SOUS
One ofMany of Their Works Enables Little
Refugee to Bring Mother and Grand
mother From Abode In Cellar.

houses a week. But later they expect
to manufacture at wholesale entire
villages at time.
Will Reconstruct Country.
In the meantime they are making
ready for them by cleaning up the
devastated countryside. They have
an agricultural department which be-
gan with a Notwithstanding campaign
tracts of land through the spread OF
weeds" says an official circular. lis
one of the problems now facing
France" And the Quakers have been
sweeping away the weeds by the use
of every kind of help available.
They even introduced goats. because
goats will eat them. At the same time
they have been supplying the seed. the
implements and the initiative where
with to put In good new crops in Their
place. They have also established de-
pots. where farm machinery can be
repaired. obtained on loan or pur-
chased at minimum prices. Last yea1
threshing gangs OF young Quakers
did their part in saving more thar
900 tons of Marine valley wheat fol-
the granary.
But some of the work is to be even
more lasting. The government OF
France has asked the Friends unit
ton in France. What has been done
in many other countries in Europe
even in Bulgaria-the Quakers are to
try to do for a whole great farming
section west and south OF Verdun
Even up to the breaking out of the
war the French peasant had been
man much exploited. He was In the
grip of a dozen different vested in
terests. And he and his fellows had
never learned to protect themselves
by standing together. Now Quakers
are to give at least those Verdun peas.
ants a chance to learn how to do it
and to help them while they are learn
ing.
Show Farmers the Way.
It is too big story to be told in 6
few lines, but they will hereafter be
able to buy their farm implements
their clothing and salt and sugar sir.
tually at cost. BY acting together
they will be able to sell their grair
without going to a middle man. They
will become self-insuring, will have
farm-loan facilities. and all else thai
can be provided by cooperative banks
The government puts itself behind the
experiment financially. Our Quaker.
| will show the way. And unless the
small farmer of France is very differ.
ent from those beyond his borders
in the future he will enojy an indie
pendence and security he had never
dreamed of before.
From America, too, our farmer
Quakers have carried project that i,
altogether American, a big centra
experimental farm, It will be lik.
those of SO many of our middle anG
| western states. In it will be tried ou
every agricultural possibility of tn,
district. It will be made center fol
social life and study as we'll. And, IL
case you think of the farm as only {
vision. it can be said now that already
one big-handed American has offered
| to stand good for all its equipment
and machinery.
for it.
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ADAM A. WEscHLER. AUCTIONEER.

AUCTION SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
FARM AND COUNTRY SEAT.
BY virtue of the power contained In mort
gage the undersigned MORTGAGE viii ,offer for
sale at public anct.on. on MONDAY. THE
NINTH nay OF SEPTEMBER. 1918. AT
FOUR O'CLOCK PM. all THAT piece or parcel
Of ground. containing forty-fve acres Of land.
more or less, occupied during his lifetime by
the late John f. Powell. This beautiful tract
is well located on the Iiv;n:ston road and
borders the District Of Columbia line. It
is improved by q large and handsome dwell
ing. with ALI modern improvements. large
barns and other outbuildings. tract Of ISM
acres adjoining. but lying in the District OF
Columbia, will he sold at the same time. For
further particulars snply to WILTON ~.
WEST. MORTGAGE, Station H., D. C.. Route b
Phone Marlboro 1H-F-4.. 1t
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AUCTION SALES
: TOMORROW.
s- - q
D.. NOTES, Auet.


Contents of Cigar and Poolroom at
auction. By order of owner, who
is retiring, we will offer for sale
by public auction on the prem
Uses, 1923 9TH st. NV, Monday.
September 9, 1880 am. the en-
tire contents, consisting in part,
stock of popular brand cigars, in
boxes; cigarettes, pipes, tobacco,
cash register, two pool tables,
cigar wall and other show cases,
etc, etc. The above will first be
offered as running business and
if no satisfactory bid obtained
will then be sold in detail.
D. NOTES, Auct.
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French Lad Murdered.

For some unknown reason. there had
been no shootings in Camp Holzminden
when l last heard. In a nearby camp
at Binerbach, / well remember the
shooting of an eighteen-year-old
French lad. in the summer of 1917.
Because for an instant he stopped
work, his guard, stupid. half-insane
fellow, pointed his weapon at him and
fred. The whole garrison was highly
incensed by the killing. But when
the general was told of it. he came
to see the guard, slapped him on the
duty" Shortly afterward the guard
received promotion.
Among the prisoners, mono were
more badly treated than the group
Of young Russian students. Of which
was one.
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Thus. J. OWEN & SON, AUCrIONEERS.
TRUSTEES SALE OF A VALUABLE TWO.
STORY BRICK DWELLING, NO. 62a
(FORMERLY NO. 500 MORTON STREET

FORMERLY NO. 620) MORTON STREET
NORTHWEST.
By virtue of a decree Of the Supreme Court
Of the District Of Columbia, passed in Equity
tion. in front Of the premises. on TUESDAY.
THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER.
1918. AT FIVE O'CLOCK PM. the following
described land and premises. situate in the
District Of Columbia and being part Of lot 80 in
Francis W. Miller, trustees. subdivision Of
Pleasant Plains" called Bellevue" as per
plat recorded in the Office Of the surveyor for
the District Of Columbia, in Liber County g.
at folio 128. beginning at point six feet east
east along the south line Of Morton street
Is "a feet, thence south along the west face Of
the west wall of premises No. 61S Morton
street and prolongation thereof. $3.50 feet.
! thence west 1894 feet. thence north to the
beginnng, with the improvements thereon.
Terms of sale: One-third of the purchase
money to be paid in cash and the balance in
two years from the day Of sale. and to be rep
resented by the promissory notes Of the pur-
chaser. bearing interest at the rate Of per
centum per annum, payable semi-annually, and
secured by deed of trust on the property sold,
or all cash. at the option of the purchaser.
One hundred dollars deposit required upon ac-
ceptance Of bid. All conveyancing. notary
Of sale to be complied with within twenty
days from day of sale. otherwise the trustees
reserve the right to resell the property at the
risk and cost of defaulting purchaser after i've
days advertisement of such resale in some
newspaper published in Washington, d. C.
J. BARRETT CARTER,
Westory building,
Columbian building.
Nr Truq
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KEEN FOR PROTECTION
BY Il. PERCY NOEL.

BY e. PERCY NOEL:
Cablegram TO The Sunday star and
Chicago. Daily News. Copyright. 1918.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY AT
THE FRONT. September Tin allthe
territory over which the fighting ar
mics have passed since August there
is scarcely an acre that. retains even
a hint. of its erstwhile physical cha rm.
Everywhere nature has been replaced
by manmade horror Even If .one
lives for months in this atmosphere. it
is impossible to avoid feeling de-
pressed by It,. One thinks of Ba-
paume, Albert and Chaulnes with in
tense interest and .hurries to follow
the troops into them, only to be dis
appointed Except for slightly differ
emit piles Of stones, they are all alike
hopeless dust-covered ruins through
which the odor of decay Is often
waited.
In the past some of the places had
some distinguishing feature like the
Albert Cathedral. from the tower
leaned SO long; or the Bapaume town
hall, where two deputies were killed
by timed explosives left behind by
the Germans on a previous evacua-
ton. But these and other places
have practically lost their distinc-
i've character. and objects like
those named now mingle with the
rest of the rubbish under the
crumhled ma Sonry
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She was a very little girl, and she
came to the young monsieurs from
America who build houses to ask
them how much their houses cost. She
was of Vailly. She lived in a cellar
with her mother and grandmother.
And she had begun to feel that it
was doing them no good. She had
saved up six sous-which is almost 8
cents-and II the young monsieurs
from America could build her really
good house for that she woulds like
to order one at once.
What did they do about it? They
told her, without a smile, that the
cost of houses was something you
could never be sure of. Sometimes
they cost more. sometimes less. 1t de-
pended a lot on the sort Of house you
wanted. But if she would tell them
that, and then come back next day,
maybe they would know about it
then. And when she came back they
told her they had found they could
build the kind of house she wanted
for four sous. They built it. The little
girl from vailly was eminently salts
fled with 1t. She paid over the four
sous. got her mother and her grand
she had been spending her money.
and they have been sharing that four
sou mansion ever since.
Many Are Over There.
The young monsieurs were Quakers.
members Of Americas first Friends
unit" They went to France in July,
1917. Others have followed. They in
clude not only home builders-me-
chanics and carpenters and architects
but farmers and civil engineers.
doctors, social workers and man and
woman nurses. All have had pre-
Nminary training course at Haver-
ford, the Pennsylvania Quaker Col
lege. About $50 are now in France.
Others are in Russia. They are CO.
operating with units or missions of
English Friends. who have been in
the field since the beginning of the
war. And it is a part of the deep,
long thinking Of the Quaker that
one thing they are planning bids fair
to outlast even the best house ever
built for four sous.
gagged in civilian relief. They have
nursed and fed and clothed unnumber-
ed war refugees. A fund of more thar
100000 and a constant supply OF
clothes and bedding from home have
given them the means for 1t. They
maintain two general hospitals at Ser
maize, maternity hospital al
Chalons. convalescent homes and chill
dren's homes in the Vosges, a home
for old ladies at Charmont, and they
are arranging to build a hospital OF
200 cottages for the tubercular in the
Juras.
That will be one part of their house
building. At present they are building
the portable kind. In factories which
they operate at Dole and Ornans they
make the familiar interchangeable
sections, and furniture as well, from
lumber supplied them by the French
government. And just now they are
producing and building" about flfteer
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British Fire Accurate.

The accuracy Of the. British fire is
appreciated when one sees in a few
hours scores of horses dead in the
roads. Sometimes the wagon they
were hauling stands with its tongue
down between the dead animals.
Often the wagon had been. blown of
the road by the force Of the explosion.
II the horses were killed 1t is unlike
1y that the driver; escaped. Tho Ger
mans do not bury animals even when
well back Of their own lines, but they
remove the harness even in the hurry
Of the retreat and under fire, for
leather is scarce in. Germany.
This Interference with the enemy's
retreat supply columns is largely ac-
cohhp1isfed by high velocity guns and
also by airmen, who use bombs and
machine guns with much effective
ness. An example Of this was the
bombardment OF two Of the .enemy's
most important ammunition dumps
near the Somme river on the original
British line. They included q number
Of magazines which exploded without
fgniting the others because they were
tar apart and chiefly within irregular
holes. Few Of the shells were above
ground. The enemy was unable to re-
move the. ammunition because low
flying bonbers did accurate work. =
noticed that the rails on tho light
railway lines and also on tho main
lines from. the dumps had been twisted
and broken by the bomb explosions.
In several. places ON the standard
gauge military lines sections from q
foot to . yard in length of the rails
had been Clearly cut by the bombs.
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Propaganda Is Found.

Quantities Of propaganda literature
were left behind at the rest billets. to-
gether with number Of field libraries.
The dissemination Of suitable litera-
ture indicates that an effort is being
made to overcome the discomfort OF
the troops. It does not seem to be
REPRESENTATION when anything is left
It the biilets it includes these propa-
Randa booklets. =.
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Stew Left in Pot.

In a little. villa outside Of Lihons,
from which the officers inhabiting it
had departed hurriedly; the stew waa
still in a pot on the stove. They had
evidently been playing cards when the
warning came. These had been left
behind, but. unless they had done NO
before. they had taken time to dam.
the trenches, the ,dugouts and tho
open was. an abundance Of French
furniture. including upholstered
chairs. ,
At the roadside near a captured
divisional headquarters was a hand
some carved oak table under the
trees. 1t was at the Same place. that
the German staff had been forced to
leave behind four automobiles and one
motor cycle. The tires of one Of the
cars had been manufactured with four
layers of fabric covered with a thin
coating of rubber. The Germans evil
IDENTIFY planned to stay indefinitely at
Vermandovillers, for the headquarters
there were well made and below the
ground. >.
The enemy's shortage Of man power
Germans leave, their dead horses un-
buried, as they do everywhere. For
four or five miles along the road that
follows the tAncrer valley between
Miraomont and. Beaucourt there is
on the aterageone reekinG dead. horse
for every three yards. All through
buried horses from mere skeletons to
those killed few days ago lie in the
fields and roads. It seems to be part
Of the German religion mover to re-
move a horse from the place where
he dies. The stencil Of decay does not
seem to have bothered the Germans;
for many Of their camps were reek-
ing with it. 80 ,
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FUTURE DAYS.
ADAM A. wEscHLER. AUCTIoNEER.

TWO-STORY, sIX-ROOM BRICK DWELL
ING. no. 1911 9TH STREET NORTH
WEST. RY AUCTION.
BY virtue of authority vested in the under
signed will sell by public auction. in front Of
the premises. on THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER
TWELFTH, 1918. AT FIVE O'CLOCK PM.
lot 1l5. square 500.
Terms: Subject to a building association
trust Of 81 200. balance cash. or all cash. al
purchasers option. One hundred dollars de-
posit at sale. Terms to be complied with IN
twenty days. Conveyancing, recording, reve.
me stamps and notarial fees at cost of pur
chaser. ADAM A. WESCHLER, Auctioneer.
Sa2-d&do
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Leave Rubbish and Filth.

In exploring the cellars in these
cities where the enemy was but re-
gently one will see few interesting
traces Of the German occupancy. what
and rats. These cellars are not pleas
ant. to explore and, my experience In
them is limited. The most interesting
thing I saw in Bapaume was "a nine
or ten inch German shell, which mad
been; left standing upright. A New
Zealand engineer had 1t conveyed into
a cellar, under some ruins, where 1t
would not be likely to cause harm II
it exploded. 1t was thought that 1t
might have time fuse, like SO many
other shells left behind by the cum
ming enemy.
Supply and ammunition depots on
the outskirts Of the town and hundreds
Of painted military signs in German
were the. only obvious traces OF the
German occupation. Most pleasant were
the small mountains Of coal which had
evidently been dumped there. Bapaume.
Albert, Chaulnes and the scores of vii
lagos between the Scarpe river and the
Amiens-Neale road which l have vis-
tied in the. past few days had nothing
new to tell. The enemy's abandoned
camps, headquarters and former bill
let's. isolated houses screened by trees
and the scenes Of battles won provided
more interest even than to look down
from. a hilltop on the ruins OF Peronne
or 10 see the Somme Qlmly through the
traffic dust close to its banks:
In burriedly evacuating their quar-
ters the Germans left broad traces of
Themselves in the territory gained by
the British 4th Army south of the
Somme. At quartermaster's supply
depot the enemy had saved the tent.
but left what was under it, including
a pile Of testaments and prayer books
for issue to the troops and about a
score Of looted French stoves, which
from the marks on them had been
manufactured at GuiZaisne.
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CLARENDON, VA.

ONLY MILES OUT. 8 BLOCKS TO
ELECTRIC. ON MACADAM
NEW. groom BUNGALOW type house;
bath: furnace; electric light and gas for cook.
ing; concrete cellar: laundry tubs; air-pressure
heater; maple floors; sub-hoors. sub-weather.
boarded and storm papered. Large lot and
shade. Located in fine residential section.
Price. s4,s5O. Very attractive and will sell
quick.
STONE & FAIRFAX,
TASK for Crossman.)
CozY LITTLE DETACHED BUNGALOW. r.
most convenient NV, D. c.. suburbs: 8 rooms
square from cars 20 min. to Treasury: built
Of red "Fishlock Tapestry" brick: new: I'M
mediate possession. :
Price. $4,000 Tsrms
c. o. LACEY. Foxall Heights. D. q.
Adjoining Georgetown University Grounds.
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TIKONA PARK HOMES.

TAkOMA PARK HOMES.
R0V baagalow, leased at $500: price, s., 900;
fssss. 5000. rooms. $500. s-room
es.r,n Sos cd asns 10 ' tsens
49, up 70 d.ts. over acre land. near cars.
s:seens. 8 issse III. ss.i5o. Bask. 8
s rooms 0S Baths, 80 I RsSn. lot se &c.
04A % g. TAkOMA PARK REALTY CO..
sc1~1z19W. Takoma Park. D. g.
S5se1LOW5 s., hMs;: FUR Me-, HEAT -; A;M =;
tsTHs. -Phone OWNER. North 4oo7-w
THRH6- HAIF-ACRE BUNGALOW SITES,
frea District line: high wooded hill: nne view view:
$3.50 each half-acre lot. JULIA B. PEARCE,
~ Kearney St ne.
~ nedssn convenience; SOS, from Rhode
3sla.d ave. carr; 8. Oak. and Carlton ayes.
Is p ae e sps IS E1.ss: 10 For
yf0o &Hr4. Nd. ad5oining the state college, on
.Vesatagtoa bsSlevafd. e now 70. .als;
$500 az Il xso; o. S sssss q ns
JOHN H. bRHYak. - "
1e0s D. Baltimore at. Ralumors. 14s
&H600H1 G1OON FRAME DWELLING
{" % niautes from 18th st. and Avenue;
SSfEeuiafs and photographs. address JOHN D.
y0AM0YLE. OF Carter Broa.: Alexandria. Va.
Y6S. gALB-1-ROON HOUSE. AURORA
1skAts; Gas, electricity and furnace heat;
t1-f, In q. II. : at q. 3se: Immediate possess
-: 0rmS reasonable. ASHTON c. JONES,
Aiszasdria Counts G. H.. Clarendon. We.
0k1b0. I'd. 10 NINGTEs By PENEA.
n r. from Warrington: large Groom house;
80 npaiP; bath. water; lot 214x4So IT,. !;
- shade, garden. shrubbery. barn. other cut
hahitp1s; water tswef taak Of 500 gallons
e6paelfJ; a. 500; terms; bargain to close an
Saata ~ Columhas I'd. Phone Col. 1921. Sc
g 49, FRO9 9TH N vIRGINIA:
I11 Hy.f hSSs 1n9s bunealsI; Z resns
G 18th; tasvs sifsAe md solps n1it trees:
Ns - sasAa sehssas and churches.
1InAHaaeiisoos4sns etA l
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142 Manipulating Acres, $3.50
3 Horses. II Fine Cows,

- 4XOl SD, l Il lin SO"Sy
2 heifers, calves, brood SOW, wagons. har-
ness, tools; mile and half to town. in nne
farming section; 90 acres machine-worked
fields; meadows cutting hay for . cowss
spring watered: 6O-eow pasture; woodland;
much fruit; good S-room. house. big stock barn.
hay barn. corn. poultry. grain houses, etc. To
settle quickly. $3.50 takes everything; part
cash: bet.ils page ~ st1out's Fan Farm
makers: many nth stesk, tooa:. crops: nstlsd
1s3. Land Title building. Philadelphia, PA.
FOR sALECFARM, % $500 A0REs; q
room house, good barn: will lease By the
year; partly furnished: II miles from WASH
inGton, on Pa. R.R-; s minutes from station
Apply to owner. C. A. REICH. Glendale, Nd.
BIG BARGAIN-l0o-ACREF FARM. MONT. CO.,
Nd, two miles District, on pike. near railroad;
sr. house: necessary outbuildings; 1.0o0 fruit
trees: woods. stream, spring. r. WALKING.
lincoln Hotel. city.
FARaf AND SUBURBAN PROPEKTIES OS1
NeLACHL.EE BANKING CORPORATION,
y. <S2. tRaal Etats Deptl 10th ard 30.
100 ACRES. NEAR STATION on PA. R.R. !:
so acres cultivated, balance timber; 10 aefes
room bunsalow tenant house: 6afas: 81. 900.
Arthur II. Common, Room 224. 516 l4th
60 .l0RES TERTIIE L6AN;. eTRKAN; 9
asans; we'll; six m1les, Nd. 11.B00.,. Aalf
esah. GEO. q. KAIxEA Ksaois bldg. m
G46s0s 49,. ..-.- -----E.a - III
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A!Choioe Suburban Property.
Ten acres. with q good frontage.
the Baltimore boulevard. about 10
miles from the center of the city.
Improved BY large ten-room house.
q high elevation: two baths: con-
: crete cellar: stationary tubs: piped
for acefylene gas: garage and chicken
house to accommodate Loco head.
For Sale or exchange for city
property at $4,000.
McLACHLEN BANKING CORPORATION,
n. 4G (Real Estate DeptD, 10th and q SITS.
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&C ACRES. sEyEN-RooM HOUSE. ON CAR
line, with hourly car service. fronting on pike,
in Va. Cheap for cash easy terms. Ad-
dress BOX 232-R, Star Office.
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SUBURBAN PROPERTY.
FOR SALE.

pIATE POssEssION-10 ROOMS. III
anil; 8 SOS. to cars; Sc to city. Price.
S60o; terms OWNER. Phone Line. 3053.
&fSHR LOT BEST RESIDENCE SECTION
&,Hocky1lls: exceptional value Mt 500; $500
E Address Boz PISA. Star ONCE. 10s
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Pigs More Interesting Than Men.

Camp Holzminden was frequently
visited by Gen. Haehnisch and other
officials. However, they never looked
at the prisoners quarters. except in
the most perfunctory way. They
merely strutted through the barracks.
watched the laborers at work, and
then directed all their attention to the
camp pigs These pigs, the especial
interest of Col. Gallus, were royalty
treated in their pens, and certainly led
a much happier life than the prisoners
until they were slaughtered for the
officers mess.
Even the women are not spared.
Lately conditions have become still
worse, I am told. The women are now
forced to do all sorts of burdensome
things. For instance, they are put aS
braiding and unbraiding fish nets, ana
the only purpose Of the taskmasterd
seems to be to make their fingers sore.
Every Sunday a weird walk is under~
taken to a wood about six kilometer1
away, from which they bring back
wood on their backs. Hundreds OF
men and women are put at this work
every Sunday, although it could easily
be done by a wagon and two horses.
If any of them dare to complain, they
are confined in an extraordinary cell
called the bug room," a place filled
with old straw mattresses and sacks
which simply swarm with vermin and
lice.
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FOR SALE-VACANT.
!. 14room house, one acre,
large barn, large pavilion,
good neighborhood, one car
fare; must sell; big bar
gain. Price, S5,250AEasy
!. C. F. WARING.
301 Southern Bldg,
Franklin SSH.