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The Washington times., 1919-10-02
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Copyright, 1912 international Feature Service, Inc
IT'S THE LOSER WHO DOES THE KICKING
Nv NFTTRJOY
By J. J. MUNDY.

Automobile engines knock going hA always knock
when they going down hll" says writer.
Do you get the application?
Do you grumble and luck when you the
downward slide?
Do dwell too much the thought Of ill luck and enough
the belief Of brighter days come?
that it along with without regtances
cipal reason why continually up against it..
It is foolish for the Of thinking
under link" and it to try to break its spell.
Rouse yourself from ndecison and make
that won't be down and will note
condition
Suppose it is long, hard pull to make yourself
Amercangrt and bought years
half and with your shoes
Then watch it solve itself.
The Washington times., 1919-10-02
Frederic j. Haskin, Cyclopedia
Ask The Times Queston-See If You Can "Stck"
~ the Information Bureau.

Wa good for Inflammation caused By poison by?
Wha Is tie IoHgea canal N the E2oTldf
Did any 81 the Disciples die natural deathf
What bls become Of Wild Dge0BsS
Wte & as origin Of gypsiesf
Hon many men named Smith there n the armyS
Who taFeHtsf TIE gasoline engine?
Where and WhsH dd jim Is6s knock Ou Boo FHzsimmoEs9
Is al amy corps larger thag divis0Hs
Who originated TIE daylight saving plaa3
How many stars are fhere3
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Gets Little Advertising.
aOur old ianitor lay EagPing his
life out On the eellaF-moFtally
stricken (AFterial diseased When he
fell Two of us On different phones
imploFoi TIE Emergency Hospital %
send re amhulance.
"Iho hnfrf, unnclalant Felly
we DON'T TAKE EMERGENCY
CAaEa-rrnd f1r 3 d1ciof' Cfarll ]
un went h'n FranIrcF
"hNaF hagInH sent tho dying nan
In n1'.rn amhn'ance e. Nf.
mnn'r II raIirH rHnrfIrlr rn.rNl
h i naa
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Absence 81 8 nan C llth and G
streets yesterday caused little iall,
through which 9 business tElcE,
driven 81 8 mere boz, vent darsils
- reckless sneed. walter keniolc
1ho vas trying Go Get aero88 with
out creating excitement vas nearly
I'm aaun.
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poLc1 le1aEllenE wise lo1 Been
ec ai1ing etoas conellt1g q te
lepFeAs lcR qe g enc
t1CuEh be lives in t1a negln1t ho
seems @ have been tEan-lslge1 loF
aUiy over ~ tie western touloarE
of the city.
WILLIAM klAktlLA-N, veteran lL
the ciFil var, % nearly blind. and
har a. interest Is people Afflicted
49, ~ ~ tsnu -. tsars n
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RE. s. complains that there is 10
llaffe ofaeef g 18th and j streets;
also no officer at several ether dan-
gerous crossings
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Riehmond-WheEe . Rlshnslil

RiehmOnd-Whsre i RiehmOndl
Answering J. B. TUBBS, Of Rich
mond, regarding Whsther or not
washington Is on the map, win say
/ know many people from Richmond,
and while they are good scouts, eat
well, and sleep well, they have no
desire for work, with few exceptions.
As to the individual who did not
salute the American Flag, win say
that saw Just such . picture my
self, and Immediately thought It was
one Of nv friends from Richmond.
Can't blame Washington altogether
for lust that sort Of thing. People
came from all over the country 70
see the First Division parade. On
the other hand, the fact that the Of
fcers were saluting does not inqi-
cate that they were saluang the
Flag. They could have just IS well
been saluting some officer of q
higher rank.
AS 70 the cheering, I am quite
sure that all who witnessed the dem
onstFations on the occasion Of the
First Division parade, and al otneI
patriotic demonstrations ever held
In washington, win agree that
.''Tubby" Is drifting in the air.
probably due to the fact that ne nas
10 spend such an exciting day every I
Sunday in Richmond. HAhh4'
(Put this in, Willya)
The Washington times., 1919-10-02

Great hsekl Tt took FRED HAS
KIN, my neiVhbor Just . the LETT,
to discover Old Nan Wminsy'a cider
paFlor..
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We 90 gots q lot 81 anrErrrr1
laiieFl, but heneFeF SO a1 e
Nous De trfuTo l1.g lrrl ~ WIZ
lho auhrrTinrf we ir l E'
berry rrrfrr ral n Sd m
ani uuT drrnr1f fnaaE
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They brought the unfortunate man
to me- His abdomen had been pierced
by bullet and he had only few more
hours to live. Moreover, he had lost
consciousness while being carried in. I
administered an injection of caffein and
ne came to- He gave me look which
shall never forget-a look full of
atloclous anguish, but at the same time
of infinite gratitude Then he said. in
very pure French
81 am going to die. But don't leave
me! Don't leave me!'
Then | understood. He was RESIGNED
TO death. What he had suffered from
unspeakably while he hung those forty
eight hours on the barbed wire was the
Idea of dying alone, absolutely alone.
one can support everything but that.
The condemned on the scaffold
criminals, at least have human beings
around them-even to the last minnie
II they reflected they would say to the
eXecutioner: My brother, l thank Won
tor being here Nevertheless, l could
not remain always at the bedside of this
wounded man. There were others to at
tend to-and Frenchmen But when I
oDhged him to loosen his grip on my
hand his eyes protested so pteously that
MADE sign to an orderly. The latter
stretched out his big paw and the other
chung to it.
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7 WAS Marlis, the surgeon major

I WAS Marlis, the surgeon major
with two stripes, won by three
years service on the Alsace front,
who told me what | am going to tell
you. | shall try to reproduce his own
words, without adding anything to them.
II have no need to describe to you
what this war has been on the SUBMITS
of the Vosges, at an altitude of 600
feet, and what it will be soon, when we
descend into the valley of the Rhine |
suppose you know that we fought in the
woods, in the cold and the snow In four
years we advanced hardly half a klo-
metre, and were never driven back more
than that. Nowhere, save at certain
points on the Verdun front and near
Arras in 1915, were the trenches so close
From the two sides of little valley,
about as big as a handkerchief, the op-
posing forces sniped and spied
~ was there, at N, with bat
talon of Alpins, in little hospital,
three-quarters sunk into the ground,
rooted over with trunks of trees, on
which a covering of earth was spread.
Every day they brought me two or three
men, usually wounded by shell fire, rare
ly by bullets.
Ono morning-or, rather, one night,
for the fighting there is generally done
before dawn-the Boches made an at
tack. They succeeded in clearing the
trough of the valley. They cut our first
line of barbed wire and got footing
on the slope. But they were driven back
by our rife and machine gun fire to
their starting point, and lost many men.
They left a wounded man suspended
in our barbed wire entanglements--
poor devil Of private soldier, who cried
out despairingly sometimes in German,
sometimes in excellent French without
an accent. This led me to believe that
ne was student, or some sort of in
tellectual. And he was very young. One
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But that was not all. 1t went fur
Their back His grudge was more ancient
and stronger. This Friedrich Weckel,
of Zwickau, died in the night The
next morning [ began to decipher his
notebook. | found there the prose poem
which follows:
Near the spring-near the spring
which flows out from the grasses-in
my own country, in the old beech wood,
met my we'll beloved. My beloved of
long ago.
And she had the same smile as be-
fore. She took my hand in her hands
as before, and said to me: you love
me, don't you, as you used to do?"
And Ii answered: "Of what use
are these eternal oaths? 1t is war.
DO you believe that can love always?
The dead do not love- I shall be
killed tomorrow And tomorrow Won
will forget me-"
She wept-my we'll beloved All,
how she wept! Then she asked: eff
NV AoNS YOU WN6n YOU are
gone, whom shall l love? For-I
swear it could not love any one
but you"
And | said to her: at seems so
to you! But, for the rest, it makes
little difference. In what wav can
mfldelity matter to the dead? All that
l ask of you is not to love, but to
hate. To hate those who have killed
me and who have assassinated the Ger
man Fatherland-our rich, proud and
peaceable Germany. But do not 90
to seek them where I have fallen.
They are all about you
This is what was in the notebook, Of
Friedrich Weckel," Marlis concluded.
And if tell you this story it is that
you may comprehend that even eighteen
months ago there lurl1ed in Germany. in
certain souls, deep bitterness and burn
ing resentments."
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didn't need pair Of glasses to distin-
guish that; he was so close to us.
II thought at first that his company
would come to look for him. If he had
been an officer or even a feldwebel,
am persuaded that they would have done
so, under orders. We should have in
terposed no obstacle, for his cries cut
US to the quick. But he was only a
private, without stripes-human ma
terial-and the Boche command cares
for It's human material only as you care
for your money. They want to spend
it to the best advantage. Thew made
this calculation, | imagine: If we at
tempt to rescue him the French will fire
on us. We shall lose three or four men
trying to save one. That is bad bust
ness
The man, therefore, remained there
all day and all night and all the follow
ing day, never stopping his grooming
and calling, although his voice was be-
coming weaker and weaker.
The second night some of our Alpins
went out to release him. Our men are
made Of different stuff from the Ger
mans, and their chiefs would have
biushed to forbid them this imprudence.
Those cries, those horrible groanings,
prevented them from sleeping. Yes. we
nave more nerves than the Germans
have-which is only another way of saw
ing that we have more heart.
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"At last | had time to open his letter
case | learned that his name was
Friedrich Weckel, from Zwickau, in
-SaXony q student of Romance languages.
lie had also in his knapsack some let
tiers, some photographs and a notebook.
IN which he had kept a sort Of journal
and written some verses. | was too
much occupied at that moment to read
all these things.
Toward evening administered new
injection of caffein. He aroused him
self from the torpor into which he had
fallen. His tongue was thick but he
took my hand. | was about to saw to
him:
Reassure yourself; shall stay with
you
But he protested, as if he had OWNED
my thought:
"'l know. I thank you. But do not
forgive them.
Il believed that he meant the men
who had shot him, our Alpins.
They did their duty said to him.
And they rescued you
With a gesture he denied that he
thought of them except to thank them.
MOI he said, the others-down
there Do not forgive them
What was he trying to say? fam
cled understood. DO not forgive those
who cruelty left me there to suffer. while
you, the enemy, attempted to save me-
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time to betray US. The King is not yet
here.
He is coming.
ICHTHARION
But the Prophet is not here.
LUDlBRAs
No, he is not yet come.
EEnter the King]
KING KARNOS
The Queens maidens have persuaded her
that there is nothing to fear They are
quite excellent they shall dance before me.
The Queen will sleep; they are quite ex-
cellent. All, Ichtharion! Come to me-
Ichtharion.
Why does the King send for you?
KING KARNOS
You were wrong, lchtharion.
ICHTHARION
Your Majesty
Ludibros qratches.l
KING KARNOS
You were wrong to think that Thick is not
very lovely
ICHTHARION
Yes, | wrong and I am much to
blame
KING KARNOS
Yes, it is very beautiful at evening.
will watch the go down over the
orchids. | will never see Barbul- ell Sharnak
any more. | will sit and watch the sun go
down on the orchids till it is gone and all
their colors fade.
ICHTHARION
1t is very beautiful now. How still it is!
I have never seen so still sunset before
KING KARNOS
1t is like a picture done by a dying
painter, full of beautiful color. Even if
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

~ are IS m 1Utt suing. me one long
play OF the bill is Lord Dunsanys
piece. "The Laughter of the Gods" 1t is
thing Of atmosphere, consunumotely
ochieusd, of thrills and chills and pas
sGges Of supreme beauty. The plot Is
tgpicdl Tco ladies, Tharmia, aUife of
Ichthorion and Arolind, acife of Ludibras,
teorf'llY plead Nth thei, husbands to
persuade the King to return to has palace
az Borbul- el-Sharnak and leaue the jln-
gle city Of Thick, lOherc the court is noaU
stationed, and achere the ladies haze dis
corered they cannot buy any mea0 hair,
or eren any gold dust to put on the
AdW they brought acith them out of the
centre Of the aoorld. Ichthurion and
Ludibras coerce prophet, kao1cn here
as Voice-o -the-Gods, and he finally
agrees to prophesy that the gods a0U
orerthrow Thek If 1T is not evacuated By
every Hr'ng soul aoithin three days. The
King is not particularly moUed BIZ THIS
prophecy. In fact, all saue the Queen
are skepticdl. 1t is decrced that the
prophet shall die at sundoaUm Of the third
day if the prophecy pyoves false. We
pick up the dialogue about the middle of
the last act and carry it through to the
final curtain.
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falsely and the gods will have lied NY
death cannot atone for it nor the punish
ment of others.
lIchthdrion and Ludibras start
1CHTHARION
He will betray US yet.
VOICE -THE-GODS
why did you let your voice come
through my lips? Oh why did you allow
your voice to lie? For centuries it has
been said from city to city "The gods can
not lie" The nomads have known it out
upon the plains. The mountaneers have
known it near the dawn That is all over
now. King, let me die at once For
have prophesied falsely and at sunset the
gods will lie.
KING KARNOS
1t is not sunset yet No doubt you have
spoken truly.
Enter Queeu.1
How we'll the Queen looks. Her maidens
are quite excellent.
LUDIBRAS
To Ichthorion.]
There is something a little dreadful in
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all these orchids died tonight yet their
beauty is an indestructible memory
LUDIBRAS

all these orchids died tonight yet their
beauty is an indestructble memory.
LUDIBRAS
A side to Icktharion.l
The Prophet is coming this way.
ICHTHARION
Your Majesty the Prophet walks about the
palace, and the oXecutoncr is close behind
him. If the Queen saw him and the execu-
toner would it not trouble her? We're it
not better that he be killed at once? Shall
| whistle now to the eXecutioner?
KING KARNOS
Not now. said at sunset
ICHTHARION
Your Majesty, it is merciful to kill man
before the set of sun. For it is natural in
a man to love the sun. But to see it set
and to know that it will not come again is
even a second death 1t would be merciful
to kill him now.
KING KARNOS
I have said at sunset. 1t were unjust to
kill him before his prophecy is proven false
ICHTHARION
But, your Majesty, we know that it is
false. He also knows it.
KING KARNOS
He shall die at sunset.
LUDIBRAS
Your Majesty, the Prophet will pray for
life if he is not killed now 1t would be
pity to grant it,
KING KARNOS
Is not kings word death? I have said
he shall die at sunset.
Enter Prophet. The Erecutioner
creeps along close behind him.
VOICE. OF-THE-GOD
the gods are about to have lied The
gods will have lied. have prophesied
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Translated By William l.. Mcpherson
Copyright, 1919, By Nev York Tribune, Inc.

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VOICE GODS
| wish to die.
LUDIBRAS
No, no.
VOICE OF-THE-G GODS
Because of me the holy gods have lied;
they that have spoken sooth through thou
sand prophets. Because of me they have
lied. They will be proudly silent for
more and inspire prophet again, and the
nations will wander bindly and fall un-
warned to their doom, or stray away and be
lost in uuchronicled time Or though they
should speak again yet how shall Man be-
lievc them? | have brought a bane upon
the generations that have not yet known
the world.
ICHTHAR1ON
No. No. Do not say that
VOICE OF-THE-GODS
And my name shall be a curse upon the
lips of many nations crowding to their
DOOM
ICHTHARION
DO not be unhappy. All men must die,
but to die unhappy
VOICE OF THE GODS
have betrayed the gods who spake
by me,
ICHTHARION
10 not be unhappy.
VOICE OF-THE-GODS
say to you that l have betrayed the
gods.
ICHTHARION
Listen to me. Do not be so unhappy.
There no gods. Everybody knows that
there no gods. The King knows it,
VOICE OF THE-GODs
ou have heard their Prophet lie and be-
lierc that the gods are dead.
LUDIBRAS
There indeed no gods. 1t is we'll
known
VOICE OF GODS
There arc gods, and they have ven
eeance for you. Listen and l will tell
you what it shall be. Aye and for you
also. Listen. No. no, they
silent in the gloom of the hills They
have not spoken to me since l lied
ICHTHARION
You right; the gods will punish US
It is natural that they should not speak just
now; but they will certainly punish us 1t
is not therefore necessary for any man to
avenge himself upon us, even though there
were any cause.
VOICE OF-THE- GODS
IL is not necessary
ICHTHARION
Indeed. it might even further anger the
gods If man should be before them to
punish us.
VOICE F-THE-GOD
The gods very swift; no man outruns
them
man would be rash to attempt to.
VOICE OF THE-GODS
The sun is falling low will leave YOU
now. for | have loved the sun at even
Ing I go to watch it drop through the
gllded clouds, and mako wonder Of IA
milar things. After the sunset, night, and
after an evil deed, the vengeance of the
gods
Enit R.
LUD1BRAS
He really believes in the gods
lCHTHARION
lie is as mad as the Queen; we must
humor his madness if we ever see him
more. think that all will be we'll.
An erecutioner steals after the
Prophet; he is dressed in crimson
81 leather belt and carries the are of
his trodel
LUDIBRAS
HIS voice was angry as he went away. 7
fear ne may yet betray u.s.
ICHTHARIoN
IL ls not likely. He thinks that tn. code
will punish us.
LUDIBRAS
How long will he think so? The Queens
fancies change thrice an hour.
1CHTHARION
The executioner keeps very close to him
no~. He comes closer every hour. There
Is not much time for him to change his
fances.
LUDIRRAS
He has the will to betray us If that fancy
leaves him.
ICHTHARION
The execuiioner is very eager for him.
He invented new stroke lately. but he has
not mad man since we came to Thick
LUDIBRAS
do not like an eager executioner-
the King sees him and it makes him
iCHTHARION
Look how los the sun is; he has no
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CE-OF-THE- GODS
ICHTHARION

ICHTHARION
No, no, we will pray the King to pardon
you.
VOICE OF-THE- GODS
wish to die.
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When the Gods Laughed Across a Sea

HTUART WALKERS Portmunteau
season at the Punch and JUDY The
~ atre is IN full sacing. The one long
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LUDIBRAS
ICE-OF-THE-GODS

Because of me the holy gods have lied;
they that have spoken sooth through a thou
sand prophets. Because of me they have
lied. They will be proudly silent for ever
more and inspire no prophet again, and the
nations will wander blindly and fall un-
warned to their doom, stray away and be
lost in unchronicled time. Or though they
should speak again yet how shall Man be-
lievc them? have brought bane upon
the generations that have not yet known
the world.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
GLAD COLONIES ARE FREED
Native Chiefs in Former German Pos
sessions Hope They Will Remain
Under British Rule.

London.-German cruelty exercised
toward the natives of her former col
onies is outlined in the statements of
native chiefs in the Samoan islands,
the Kameruns, Togoland, Southwest
Africa, and East Africa, in a white
book published by the colonial office.
The statements show that the natives
everywhere hope to remain undCr Brit
ish rule.
In a few cases the chiefs said they
were afraid to say anything lest their
land be restored to the Germans, who
had threatened them with what they
would do when the war was over. This
fear, however, failed to prevent a vir-
tually unanimous appeal for retention
of the British flag.
The horrors of the German rule in
Southwest Africa, the white book says,
already are too we'll known to require
repetition, but the same system of
tyranny was found in other German
colonies in a greater or less degree.
TIE burden running through all the
statements of the natives of Togoland
and the Kameruns is 'fiogging, fog
ging, flOgging,' especially in connec-
ton with forced labor on plantations.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
IN OSTEND
Correspondents Get First Made
There in Four Years.
Hotel Manager Tells of Sufferings at
the Hands of the Ger
mans.

American Press Headquarters, Brit
.sh Front.-The first pancakes made
In Ostend in four years were served
the other day at the Crown hotel. But
the American correspondents got them
under false pretenses.
They had had a very good lunch of
vegetable soup, roast beef, Drowned
potatoes and peas.
"What have you for dessert?" was
asked the exceedingly attentive wait
ress. Her face fell. "There is moth
ing, messieurs," she said plaintively.
NO fruit, no sweet"
In a moment she was back with the
manager, who had been lowering near
the door.
"The manager and the chef will be
happy to make you pancakes" she an
nounced delightedly. "We got some
milk and flour from the British ships
today, and are able to make pancakes
for the first time in four years." Then
she added solemnly: "The manager
and the chef will do it, because you
are English"
whoever cOOh0u the puuCdheS uuu
lost no mastery of the art in foul
years. The American correspondents
were served four pancake master
pieces each sprinkled with sugar.
They were so good that we had no
qualms later when we were told that
the roast beef of Ostend was really
roast horse.
The Crown hotel, Ostend's finest,
had suffered at the hands of the Ger
mans. The manager showed us
through two floors, pointing out where
wall ornaments, chandeliers and ev-
erything of copper had been torn off.
All wool had been plucked from the
mattresses. Nine thousand bottles of
wine had been carted away. But the
hotel had receipts for everything
stoleni
Nor was this all. The hotel was
set apart for German officers, and it
had been a great trial to endure the
tyrannical mood of most of them.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
"WlCKEDEST CITY" is DEAD
H%opewell, Va, Which Sprung Up Like
a Klondike Town, Dies
Sudden Death.

Hopewell, Va.-Hopewell, the "wick-
eldest city" which arose out of nothing
like a town of the Klondike three and
a half years ago, has died a sudden
death.
The great powder mills of the Du
Points, which provided sinews of war,
are being dismantled. Forty thousand
inhabitants of the town have begun
an exodus. In a few months the corn
fields from which the town sprang
will be restored. Only stories of the
great fires of unbelievable vice and
pistol duels will survive.
The e. [. du Pont de Nemours Pow
der company built a $75,000,000 pow
der plant and Hopewell grew up with
it in a few months. Destroyed by
fire once, it was rebuilt. Cornfields
sold for $4,000 an acre. Dance halls,
gambling rooms and saloons brought
desperate men into the town. Re
volvers were a part of every mans
equipment. A woman did not dare &c
IN the streets u~nescorted. The Oh
strong-arm law of the Wild West da7
prevailed. And now the inhabita
are scattering to the four cornc.
the country.