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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13

Miss Alice Gunther, who has beer
working ct Norway oil winter, has 10
turned to her home.
We are glad to note Mrs. Straw's and
Mrs.. Wiley's return from Fsllsmere
Florida, where they have been spending
the winter, 40 IL their wont. They re-
turned May 2, and reopened their home
here.
Miss Elizabeth Chapman, principal oil
Dixfeld high School, spent Sunday,
May 4, at the homo Of her brother, a.
N. Upton.
An accident occurred at the Grand
Trunk station Saturday, May 8, when
three freight cars were derailed, tearing
OF quite part of the platform.
As one of the Inn teams was disposing
of rubbish In tho Androscogg;n River, q
portion OF the bank caved in, throwing
horse and cart into the river. The horse
was rescued Immediately, but the wagon
was lost In the current. A reward was
offered, and few days afterward the
wagon Was found.
Edwin Wilson, one of our soldier boys,
was discharged at Camp Devsns, April
20, and has returned to his home In
Bethel, and plans to stay at home oil
summer.
Miss Ada Bean of Middle Intsrvale
has been visiting her aunt In Portland
for while, but has now returned to her
home.
Ernest Bisbse has started clerking for
Rsmsell & Co., beginning Mays.
Quite pretty memorial service was
held Sunday, May 4, in honor Of George
Augustus MuIdt, who was killed In
action in France last August. Quite q
goodly number of his relatives were
present, and full house. There was q
large display of potted plants. While
not q member of the Congregational
parish, he was q graduate OF Gould
Academy, and 1t was fitting that all the
students should 90 as body, and that
Mr.. Hsnscom should deliver the ad-
dress. Mr.. >Hauscom spoke briefly and
we'll, as be always does. He was fol-
lowed by Rev. w. G. Curtis, who said
q few words of comfort to the mourners.
We are glad to learn that he was
member of the Y. N. C. A., and was
Christian young man.
At the Methodist church last week
the Ladies' Aid had seven day wonder
sale in the afternoon, q 8 80 supper, and
an entertainment In the evening.
Mrs. Abbie Taylor and son Harold
from Portland visited friends in town all
last week.
Miss Agnes Chapman has been visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Peter Watts of Port
land.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, which has lain dormant all
winter, has started to have meetings
again. The first and annual one will be
held with Mrs. F. S. Chandler Tuesday,
May Is.
Mrs. Fitzmsurice Vail and her three
children are visiting at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. o. A. Buck of
swans Hill.
Mr.. Vail came with the family but
home Tuesday.
Eight of our boys who went from
Bethel were at the Memorial service
May 4-seven soldier boys, and one,
Eugene Van Dan Ksrckhoven, q sailor.
One of the soldier boys, Howard Tyler,
had seen service in France for eighteen
months.
DR.. and Mrs. r. B. Tusll are spending
! few weeks with relatives in Massa-
,husetts.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
Albany.

George Common got moved Monday
They like very much.
Eddie Gross has taken MP the hard
wood floors, taken of the clapboards
taken of the doors and castings, and
hauled them of. He has the founda
ton laid to set It on. When that ID
gone there will be another farm with.
out house, they say. George ID
going to take the barn TO his new home.
Mrs.. Calvin Cummings received word
Thursday evening that her brother, Dana
Bartlett, had passed away. He was In q
hospital In Lewiston. Funeral ct Nor
way ut O'Clock Saturday.
8. g. Bean has ten young pigs.
Mrs. w. I. Becker went to Pomona
with her brother George and Alta Cum.
mings.
Miss Davis, the teacher at the Town
House, went home Friday night, her
folks coming after her with An auto.
Arthur Cross 10 setting ont strawberry
plants.
Mrs. Calvin Cummings has two men
ct her house who are working
Tor Lyman Wheeler on the Hiram Bean
lot.
Arthur D. Bean took bis auto home
ast Saturday.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13

There Is more Catarrh in this section
Of the country than all other diseases
put together. and for years 1t was sup
posed to be incurable. Doctors prescribed
local remedies. and by constantly failing
to cure with local treatment. pronounced
It incurable. Catarrh IL q local disease,
greatly Influenced by constitutional con-
ditions and therefore requires constitu-
tional treatment. Halls Catarrh Medi.
cine. manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co.. Toledo, Ohio. IL q constitutional
remedy, II taken internally and acts
thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces
Of the System. One Hundred Dollars re-
ward II offered for any case that Halls
Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials.
T. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, TIC.
Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
Hast Bethel.

@. 7. Rioh, Nn. 8. 3. Rich, Miss
Barbara Rich, Robert Rich, Mrs. Clara
Gale and Miss Thelma Gale from Berlin,
n. g., were Sunday guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. n. Bean.
Mrs.. r. G. CLARK Of Lisbon WAS last
weeks guest Of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. n. Kimball
Erlon Dutton is moving into Mrs.
Carrie Bartletts rent on the Locke's
Mills road.
Carl Swan IL moving to Looke's Mills,
where be has work.
Ralph Richardson ID moving from
Hanover to his farm here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ceylon n. Kimball are
receiving congratulations on the birth
of q son Friday afternoon, May End.
Mrs. Charles Rawson OF South Paris 10
caring for Mrs. Kimball.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13

Doris Leslie has gone to Rangeley to
work In the Hesld Camps.
Sherbie Leslie has recently purchased
horse OF Will Crockett.
Carl Stevens has bought q cow Of
Henry Davenport.
Mrs. Stella Davenport and children
were over Sunday visitors at Mrs. Guy
Turner's.
Everett Coolidge has peas planted.
Percy Davenport was an overnight
guest Of his uncle, Henry Davenport,
Wednesday last.
We were recently donated . ''pair" OF
suckers which made very fine eating.
Quincy Stimands and family have
moved to Livermore.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
North Buckfleld.

G. B. Keene will spend the summer
with bis SOD, G.. G. Kesne.
Irving Smith has moved into the late
David Record stand.
c. q. George is visiting his daughter
Mrs. G. NJ. Keene.
Mrs. E. A. Mason has returned home
after spending the winter with her niece
Mrs. L. A. Kicker.
The scholars hung maybasket to
their teacher, Miss Thelma Jordan,
Wednesday night. They were treated
on ice cream and cake.
Several from here went to Buckfield
to see the trophy train Monday night.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13

A celebrated Bucksport board OF health
case vas finally disposed Of 10 the
Supreme Court Ut Ellsworth last week.
Elmer r. Ysrrill, principal Of the Ea't
Maine Conference Seminary, ignored .
closing order Of the Bucksport board OF
health during the influenza epidemic, as
be took the ground that the seminary
Was not town Institution and not sub
ject to On order Of the local board OF
health. In the municipal court be Was
found guilty OF violating Q municipal
ordinance, and took an appeal. In the
Supreme Court the judgment was affirm
cd, and the fine and costs were paid.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
North Waterford.

Linwood Flint played violin with the
orchestra for the May ball at Norway
Lake.
The drama, "The Chsperon" was
played here Saturday night and at
Lowell Tuesday night and Bolster's Malls
Thursday night. 1t was presented by
the Rebekah Lodge at North Waterford.
Mrs.. l.. A. Knight and Mrs. Herbert
Lord and families are getting their goods
packed, as they are going to stop at their
cottage at Pappoose Pond the greater
part of the summer.
Mrs. Catherine Grover is at home here
at present.
Mrs. G. E. Farmer is getting better.
Ezra Lebroke has finished work 90
night Waterman, and Is now working on
the road.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
ESTABLISHED ISIS.
South Paris. Maine. May 10. 1919
ATWOOD 6 FORBES,
Editors and Proprsetors.
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Otherwise es.oo year. Single copies 4 CENTS.
ADvKRrIsxa6xNrs:- All legal ADVERTISEMENT
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per Inch In length Of column. Special con-
tracts made with local, transient and yearly
advertisers.
JOE PRINTING New type. rsst presses. electric
power, experienced workmen and low prices
combine 70 make this department. Of our busi-
ness complete and popular.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
Sumner.

Hattie Varney, who has been visiting
her parents, has returned to her home
in Rumford.
Alton Andrews and Lionel Bowker,
who were members of the 10Sd Infantry,
26th Division, in the worlds war two
years, have received their discharge
week.
b. A. Sturtsvant 10 In poor health.
Mrs. W. E. Bowker is suffering with
neuralgia.
G. L. Hammond went to Wilton We'd
nesday to attend the funeral of his uncle,
Moses Hammond.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
SUPREME Judicial Court.

The May term Of Supreme Judicial
Court for Oxford County opens at Rum
ford Tuesday Of this week, with Chief
Justice Leslie C. Cornish presiding. As
far as can be judged, there will not be q
long term. The amount OF criminal
business pending Is not large. nor Ia
there q prospect Of large number oil
civil trials.
Grand and traverse juries will be In
attendance, the grand jury having been
empsneled at the February term. The
Jurors are:
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
Coming Events.

MAY l3-Supreme Judicial Court. Rumford.
May sl-Oxford County w. Q. i. U. Conven-
ton, West Paris.
Patriotic Association, Grand Army Hall,
South Paris.
June l-Graduation West Paris High School
June 20-Graduation Paris High School
July 23s7-Community Chautsuqus, county fsir
1ronnds.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
Oxford.

Donald Partridge OF Norway will
deliver the Memorial Day address.
Evangelist Walton of Massachusetts,
Is holding a series Of meetings at the
Advent Chapel.
Herbert Dunning, who is employed In
the Portsmouth navy yard, is at home
for short time painting his house.
DR.. E. B. Holden IL suffering With
ip1ammstory rheumatism.
Lieut.. Ralph Parmenter, former
principal of the high school, was In town
recently.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13

Eugene King. . York county black
smith, formerly Of Ssco, now OF Ken-
nebunk, began horse shoelpg half .
century ago this spring, during which
period be estimates that be has shod
more than 100000 horses. he 10 still
as spry - many of the younger black
smiths of the county and be expects to
keep working st his shop In Kennebunk.
where he has been located sinoe 1878,
for some time 10 come.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
SINGLE COPIES.

single copies of THE DEMOCRAT are four cents
each. They win be mailed on receipts Of price by
the publishers or for the convenience OF patrons
single copies Of each issue have been placed on
sale at the following places In the County:
South Paris, Towards Drug Store
Shurtlef-s Drug Store.
Norway, Moves Drug Store.
stones Drug Store.
Buckdeld, A L. Newton, Postmaster.
Paris Hi, Helen r Cole. Post Once
West Paris, Samuel T. White.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Brown. Buck q Co
2. /. Merchant.
ChAs II. Howard Co.. Ads.
The Norway National Bank.
South Paris Savings Bank.
Household goods for sale.
Paris Trust Co.
Wanted.
Wanted.
2 Bankruptcy Notices.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
Here and There.

According to Secretary of War Baker,
the millionth man of the American Ex-
peditionary Forces will be brought home
this week. That 10 certainly good speed,
bringing home a million men in six
months, and indicates that another six
months will be sufficient to get the other
million home. And perhaps by that
time they will get caught up with the
casualty lists, so thar we shan't be
shocked by reading Of the wounding of
our boys who are at home and in good
health.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13

"Tsn mills make one cent" is the first
line of Q table that we learned In school
more or less years ago. At the present
rate Of increase of prices and sxpend-
itures generally, the line will before long
be obsolete. We sbsn't need any such
small thing as a mill, even in reckoning
tax rates.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13

Dwight Oldham had o party Tuesday
night on his eighth birthday. Those
who attended were Dwight Gordon,
Cornslis and Roland Sturtsvant, Audrey
and Bernardine Putnam. Dainty refresh
ments were served OF Ice cream and
cake, fruit and confectionery, also q
birthday cake with eight candles. A
nice time was had by all.
John Wyman has returned from long
visit In Weld.
Ralph McIntire and Herman Fuller
we're in the place Thursday night. Ralph
IL working In Mr.. Paul's mill ct Rum
ford and boarding with Herman Fuller
Mrs.. David Chenery and Mrs. Jim
Sanders were In Rumford Tuesday. Mrs.
Sanders had q number OF teeth extracted.
Isaac Sesrlss took . hayrack full Of
young people to the pictures OF the
shurch Thursday night. "The Riders
Of the Purple Sage" we're the pictures.
Season backward, but not the thunder
lhowers.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
.Pythian Building Association.
ANNUAL MEETING.

Notice IL hereby given that the annual meeting
Of the stockholders Of the Pythian Building Az.
ISOLATION. for the election Of oicers for the en-.
business that may legally come before said
meeting will be hold ai the South Paris Savings
Rank on Monday. May 18th, at three O'Clock, r.
GEORGH N. ATWOOD.
17.ls Secretary PythiAn Building Assn.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13

Four hundred and eighteen millions
In the past fifteen months is what the
deficit in the operation Of the railroads
by the government amounts to. This
shows that the Democrat was not an exact
prophet when 1t predicted at the time
the railroads were taken over that 1t
would take q billion dollars Q year in
taxation to pay for government opera
ton. But the Democrat did not know
at the time that passenger and freight
rates were TO be marked up as they have
been.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
GRAND JURY.

Stuart W. Goodwin, Norway, Foreman.
Clarence 8. Alley. Hartford.
Elmer B. Austin, Buckdeld.
Frank r. Bartlett. Bethel.
Charles II. Brett. Oxford.
Aldaps Brooks, Upton.
Eben K. Chapman. Paris.
Charles W. Harrington. Fryeourg.
Wilson NJ. Morse. Waterford.
Herbert Moulton, Hiram.
Bernard K. Patterson. Canton.
Frank Perkins, Andover.
Leslie II. Poor, Brownneld.
II. o. Virgin, Mexico.
Mertice l.. Walton, Dixneld.
Everett Wentworth. Porter.
A. ID. Woodreau, Rumford.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
TRAVERSE JURORS

B. L. Adams, Canton.
Ralph n. Bacon, Woodstock.
Harold z. Bennett, Norway.
Manley Blanchard. Rumford.
K. c. Bosworth. Sumner.
George J. Brown. Mexico.
Frank b. CONN. Giead.
George II. Conant, Peru.
Allen Il. Cummings. Albany.
Enos A. Farnum. Milton Plantation.
II. T.. Flake, Greenwood.
Robert L. Foster, Nevry.
Fremont II. Field. Paris.
r. G. French, Andoyer
W. A. Givens, Mexico.
Charles L. HodsdoD, Byron.
Earl II. Hoyt. Magall0way Plantation.
Charles NJ. johnson, Paris.
K. o. Kedder, RumfOrd.
Leon Narcotic, Oxford.
Eden c. Mills, Mason.
B. ID. Mitchell, Rox bury.
Charles ID. Morse, Waterford.
Harold K. Parsons, Hartford.
II. Arthur Robbins, Norway.
Burchard j. Russell, Hanover.
Samuel A. Russell. Oixheld.
Leon l.. Smell, Hebron.
Hugh ID. Thurston, Bethel.
Gilbert W. Tilton. Buckfeld.
Wesley Wheeler. Bethel.
Five are now in Jail awaiting the acti
u this term Of court.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
Tractor
Demonstration

The Cleveland Tractor will be demon.
strated In general farm work, road build.
Ing, woods work, etc., etc.
Education costs money. Don't lose
this opportunity to get 1t free.
You know that to make. your farm
more profitable You must do more work
ct same expense or what you arc now
doing ut less cost.
Think 1t over. We are ct your SER
vice. For information call phone 27.6 or
65.3. (rhIs is the tractor built like the
famous Army Tank
Demonstration at Rowland Stock
Farm Tuesday afternoon, South Paris.
At Norway Wednesday afternoon at
O'Clock on Pride field back of lumber
yard.
Come everybody.
Auto Exchange 4 Express Co.,
Norway, Maine.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
Olckvale.

Business Ia good at the birch mill.
They are saving about sixteen cords per
day.
Elmer Child is here, homo from over
seas, and We are keeping him busy tell
ing rs war stories and answering ques-
tions most of che time when he 10 awake.
81. e. Bowker has moved 10 the Ira
Wing farm.
Vernon Fsrrsr 10 still In the stove
wood business.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13

II the weather bureau doesn't provide
some respectable weather for flying
pretty soon, this rivalry between British
and American avistors for the honor Of
the first transatlantic fight will get
into the we'll known condition OF prize
fight on paper.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13

One Of the amusing things Of the
present day Is the attempt that booze
dealers are said to be about to make TO
prove that the prohibitory constitutional
amendment is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-13
Arbor Day the 10th.

Five are now in Jail awaiting the action
Of this term Of court.
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master criminal as a barrier behind
which he might hide and beat back his
pursuers. But American boys and
English boys and French boys broke
down that barrier, and they have to-
day arraigned that criminal at the
worlds bar of justice, where he is be
ing tried for his crimes. The Ameri-
can people are part of the jury that
is trying him, and l have tried to pre-
sent but small fraction of the evil
dence against him.
1t is safe to say that the verdict may
be left with the American people, with
the French people, with the English
people, with the Belgian people, and
that they will sentence the Boche to
pay and pay and pay for several gen.
erations until there has been bred out
of him and his children that idea that
might is right and that he can over
throw the civilization and the free
dom of the world to crafty his own
selfish purposes.
The crime is greater than the Boche
can ever pay for. 1t is really greater
than the world will ever know, and the
items in the long account of the crimi-
nal record of Germany will never all
be recorded.
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Besides those painful attacks of in
digestion; that awful bloated. lumpy
feeling after eating and, downright
stomach misery that you who have
experienced it know so well; besides
disgusting belching. food-repeating
sour stomach and distressing heartburn
besides all this, ACID-STOMACH
undermines the health and saps the
strength of millions.
If you don't get rid of those stomach
miseries there is no telling where your
stomach troubles will end, for it is a
well known scientific fact that many
serious ailments have their start in
an acid-stomach.
Start now-this very day-to get rid
of your stomach miseries. Take
EATONIC-the wonderful remedy
that absorbs the excess acid from the
stomach and brings INSTANT relief.
You simply have no idea how much
better, stronger and brighter you feel
at once. 1t drives out all the gas and
bloat, puts an immediate stop tobelch-
ing and heartburn, ends stomach Suf-
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CAPITAL RENTALS ARE HIGH
Sum Paid by President Washington
for Residence Would Not Be Con-
sidered Extravagant To-day.

Rentals of $500 to $4,000 a year
are not remarkable. There are hum
dreds of apartments in this city which
rent for more, a great deal more, and
it is likely that the new constructions
in the best apartment-house sections
contain no suites as cheap as $500.
When New York was the capital of
the nation and Washington the chief
executive there were few who paid as
high as $1,000 year for homes. Rec
ofds show that George Washington
paid $1,000 a year for the use of the
McComb mansion on Broadway while
president of the United States. As
first citizen of the country it was al
lowable that he should pay so high
rental, but only the president paid
anything like that amount. He got a
good deal more for his money than
the man who pays $500 for an apart
ment today.
The McComb house was one of the
finest homes in the capital. 1t was
built by the best architect In the
colonies and great care and no small
amount of money were spent in the
construction OF the house, which was
large and had many splendid rooms.
1t had beautifully laid out grounds
and from a business standpoint was
ideal because it was only d short dis
lance from Federal hall at the north
east corner of Wall and Nassau
streets, now the subtreasury Wash
ington extended himself when he paid
this rental, although one of the rich
est men In the colonies
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GERMANY MUST PAY
Cruel Marauders Destroyed Fer
tile Farms and Fruit Trees.
MANY VILLAGES WIPED OUT
Stumps of Orchards and Graves of
Thousands of Soldier Dead All That
Remain of Once Fiourishing
Somne Fields.
BY WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.

Can the American reader imagine
transforming the fertile fields and
prosperous villages and towns and
cities in states like New York, Ohio,
Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kan
sas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wisconsin,
Texas, or any other of the rich agri-
cultural states of the Union into an
uninhabited desert?
That is what the Boche did to the
Somme country of France. Before
the war this section of France was
looked upon as one of the most pro-
ductive sections of the world. 1t was
covered with fertile farms, splendid
fruit orchards, thriving villages and
towns and prosperous little cities.
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No Evidence of Many Villages.

The American people, and especially
those of the rich agricultural states OF
the North or South, of the East or
West, can look about them at their
own happy and prosperous communi-
ties and easily picture in their minds
the Somme section of France before
the war. But 1T is impossible to pic
ture that same section as 1t is today.
1t is impossible to put into words the
terrible devastation that has been
wrought because of the ambitions and
lust of a selfish people.
Every one of the two or three hum
dreds of thriving farm villages are
gone, the great majority of them gone
so completely as to leave no evidence
that they ever existed; the material OF
which they were constructed carted
away tnat it might be used In the con-
struction of the Notifications OF the
famous Hindenburg line behind which
the invaders sought refuge; its cities
completely demolished, their magnin-
cent churches and cathedrals, the
work of the master builders of centu-
TIES dkOt SlOuAu " PONASA ~ S>~~~~'
the wonderful trees lining the road
ways torn to splinters; the people OF
the valley homeless and scattered to
the four winds.
Like many thousands OF Americans,
l had failed to believe possible all of
the things we had been told were the
work of the Boche. / had read with
considerable reservation the descrip-
ton of the destroyed orchards where
the fruit trees were said to have been
deliberately cut down. But as l rode
for miles and miles and miles over the
Somme valley could not fail to be-
lieve what my eyes saw, and there
were the stumps Of what had once
been orchard after orchard from which
France had renped her harvest Of
fruit. Each stump was cut square
with a saw. and each stump Of almost
exactly the same height, Is though the
depredat0r had measured each With :