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The Man Who Lost
Himself.
Continued from Seventh Pase.)

THE Russian--but you thought Il
was him then"
Perhaps" said she. dreamily. but
I thought 1t was unlike him-do you
understand"
II don't know. I understand noth-I
ing but that have got you to care
for always, to worship. to lay myself
down for you to trample on
Good night" said she at last.
She was standing, preparing to gol
1.-THE family know the truth, at least
they are sure Of the truth, but as yo,H
say, they can do nothing. ImagineI
their feelings when tell them what
we have agreed on! With me on youTt
side they are absolutely helpless"
There Is, fortunately enough. nd
law preventing two married people,
being remarked. privately. the good
old lawyers of England consideringR
no doubt, that a man having gopf
through the ceremony once would
think 1t enough.
All this that have been telling you'd
happened SOME years ago, year}(
marked by some very practical anal
brilliant speeches in the House Oh
Lords and the death of the Hou0
yenetia Birdbrook from liver CONN
plant. 1t Is a queer story, but mol
queerer. than the face Of the Dowagel1
Countess of Rochester when she read
in private all the nice complimentary
things that the papers have to san
about her son.
The End.
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was in the train returning to Sidi-
bel-Abes.
At the barracks he was placed
promptly under arrest, and he march
ed of to his cell with that terrible
lightheartedness which Is q legacy
of the legion, inherited from crime.
AS no single item of his uniform
was lost, he only received months
imprisonment. and at the end of the
month the legion was marched OF
south. where the Arabs were kick
ing up dust. and hard fighting
helped him to work Off the stiffness
caused by imprisonment.
He seemed to have forgotten Cas-
mir. who had not been recaptured,
and the dog, which was never heard
of again: yet, In the great battle that
was fought that month near the
Oasis of the Three Palms. an old
legionnaire--the same who told me
this story--fighting beside Radoub.
was amazed, even in the heat of bat
tie, at the fury of the latter.
HE was working off the dog" said
the old fellow. "It Is always SO with
1.-THE legion, and that Is what makes
the legion 80 terrible in battle. They
are not SO much fighting with the
enemy. monsieur: they are bayonet-
ing the past and what the past has
done to them.
Copyright. 1918, by Mcclure syndicate.l
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Giving Himself Away.

zen. PERSHING said ina Y. NC. Al
~ address in Paris:
"A good soldier reveals himself at
once. You can tell a good private by
his salute. a good captain by his
knowledge of tactics, good general
by his strategy.
"Contrariwise a bad soldier gives
himself away at every turn. He's like
the ignorant quack. This quack was
called In to see a sick man and the
wife said:
My husband has been very Ill, but
I think he is now convalescent, don't
your
Tho quack felt the sick mans
pulse and looked at his tongue.
Eyes. he said. the poor fellows
convalescent. all right But don't be
alarmed, ma'am. I've got a remed6
here that'll cure the worst case 81
conyalescence in twenty-four hours"
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and about $50 telephone operators,
janttors. messengers, etc, making a
total of 962.
Throughout the war. in all seas. the
United States Navy has lost one
cruiser, two destroyers. one subma-
mine sweepers, one collier and two
coast guard cutters. Its greatest war
zone tragedy was the torpedoing on
September rs. in the Bristol channel.
of the coast guard cutter Tampa,
based on Gibraltar. She carried 10
recovered of her but the body of one
American sailor and some wreckage
marked Tampa.
Probably the most heroic episode OF
our Nays participation falls to the
credit OF another coast guard cutter
the Seneca, also based on Gibraltar, but
in peace time. based on Tompkinsville
Staten island. N. Y, and used latterly
In winter ON the International ice pa
troll in the North Atlantic On Sep
TENDER 16 an officer and seventeen
men of her crew volunteered to board
the s. 8. wellington (British), one Of
her convoy. which had been torepe-
doed. In an effort to get her into port
Heavy seas made their task impos-
slble and the freighter went down be
meath them. Eight of her volunteers
were finally picked UP by an Ameri-
can destroyer from Brest. Ten Of
them went down with the ship they
had. volunteered to save.
BY the reason of the fact that 1t is
a small service and that on the out
break of war 1t is automatically swal-
Logged up in the Navy, the coast guard
Is apt to be overlooked when the Navy
comes home. 1t ought to be received
at home as one of the nations heroes.
Copyright. 1919. by Edward Marshall.
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u. S. Navy's Part in the War

Der "a. 1918. OF the Army coal base at
Cardiff. with the Army authorities In
charge OF the movements of the col
liers and Navy. supplying the coal. In
the week ending November 16. 28,047
tons We're shipped to I'll Army needs
from Cardiff
Mention should also be made of the
present personnel required to oper-
ate United States naval headquarters,
which now occupies row of build
ings In Grosvenor Gardens, London.
s. w. Here Admiral Sims has an office
force. which numbers 1872 officers, 3SS
enlisted men. 100 typists. So marines.
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We All Know It.

A REPRESENTATIVE. apropos OF
the aircraft situation, said the
other day:
IAN aircraft Official. 1t Is announced.
has resigned Office on account of in
fiuenza. Well, I have heard Of that
kind of influenza before. 1t comes
from cold feet due to exposure"
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CONTINUED from First pese)

built, naval officers do not look on
them without enthusiasm. They have
been distributed as follows: Gibraltar,
IS; Queenstown. 80; Plymouth, "a to
66; Corfu, SO; Portland. G. They hunt
in packs. stopping their engines at ir-
regular intervals to man their hydro
phones. They have reported total of
~ contacts with enemy submarines,
4S OF them contacts by sound, IL of
them contacts by sight and Is con-
facts by both sound and sight. They
have tracked enemy submarines by
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the horse, brushed Il carefully with
mothers brush and hung 1t over =
chair back--just like mother.
And mother-with an understanding
OF the vandalism that had set her UP
as an omnipotence to be followed
closely-must have had mighty sense
OF her responsibility as she hammered
that name on the neck where 1t be-
ionged--which Is the way with
mothers
But. after all. straws. like the stars.
only incline; they do not command.
wherefore: 1t is just as likely that
the embryo barber win grow up into.
say, President of the United States,
or. maybe, into the best newspaper
man ever.
Which is a whole lot higher and
better job any way you look at 1t.
THE platform swarmed with people
waiting for a car that wouldn't
come. And everybody was mad to the
extent known as hopping.
One war worker complained that she
had to wait three-quarters of an hour
every day. regular. counting mornings
and after office.
1T wouldn't be so bad In the after
noons"-the amendment came from a
ample-si man--''if only they would
put a diner on"
Which is good suggestion. with
no string to 1t.
A PISTOL shot means excitement.
- Excitement Is the salt of life.
And 1t sounded exactly like pistol
shot, only 1t wasn't, which didn't mat
ter until the crowd found it out.
Bangl It was such sharp report
that every man and woman in the
street stopped short before turning in
the direction of the sound.
The next instant more men and
women began to swarm out Of stores.
of cars and around corners in a mad
skeedaddle to see what was doing. and
a policeman cropped up from dear
knows where. Then voice was lifted
SauI-like:
Busted tireT'
And woman who was skirtlng the
edge of the commotio noticed that as
the crowd broke up in human bits to
scatter in individual direction. the
face of nearly every man and woman
was labeled with the same express
SION
Disappointment!
X
y 4
A CRIPPLED man was crossing a
"A street.
A youngster, wheeling around the
corner, called out with fatherly assur-
ance:
Don't be scared. I won't run over
you"
The cripple smiled and waved
friendly hand-and that was all there
was to 1t, except that
The smile must have touched even
the ee.ngs of that dreadful old
woman, Fate, who decreed that a mans
body should crawl through life on its
knees.
A WOMAN died and a young man
L \ came from New York to attend
her funeral. After it was over he took
the first train back. He is not In what
one might call easy circumstances. so
that the trip meant a tax in money
and loss of time.
1t also stood for gratitude toward
one who had held out helping hand
to an alien boy who wanted to know
more of the God she worshiped and
the tongue she spoke. She taught
him both.
That the seed had fallen on scrip
tural good ground" was evidenced by
the presence of the young Japanese.
could not know about lit; but, after
all. perhaps she did know There is
never any tellinG--not in this world.
MAMIE LANCASTER.
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BIZERTA, TUNIs.

sound total OF 172 hours and they
have dropped 377 depth charges. Ex-
cept for the two submarines they
sank during the raid on Durazzo. how
ever. don't know Of any credits they
have won. There are. however. plenty
Of ways to annoy enemy submarines
besides sinking them.
Three American mine-laying bases
were planned. one of them. the BIZ
xerta base, not being ready to be
commissioned when the armistlce was
signed. The base at Invergordon was
commissioned February 8. 1918. and
the Inverness base three days later.
A squadron Of nine mine layers, re-
pair ship, two tugs and twenty-three
mines carriers. used between home
bases and Scotland. was attached
here. The drst excursion was be-
gun June 5. and thereafter an aver
age of 4.343 American mines were
planted In the North sea mine bar
rage on every excursion. The total
number Of American mines laid In
this greatest of all mine fields was
66.447. The total cost of our share in
the unfinished mine barrage was
$48.275,000.
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1F straws really do show which way
the winds Of inclination blow, there
10 one small boy In this town who has
already flung to the future two voca-
tional symptoms of sidestepping the
path of opportunity at his feet in
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A WASHINGTON woman. in maxi
Y ing the rounds Of Walter Reed
Hospital. visited the colored

WHIVs "H0I1 tICt % AIPdIHyI Ut
one point, was enlisted by a District
soldier whose brown and pain distort-
cd face showed for the thing he had
him:
POO. fsllowI You were badly wound
cd. wern't your"
And the District soldier answered
with the patience that our fighters are
making historic:
'Oui. Madame"
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The naval railway battery which has
been operating with the American ar
mics on the western front, consisted
Of five fourteen-inch naval guns, man
nod by thirty officers and 4s6 men. The
first shipment reached st. Nazaire on
July rs. 1913. and the entire battery
reached It's first firing point on Sep
TENDER 20, since when It has fired 69s
romnSs.
The Army's demand for coal brought
about the commissioning on Septem-
The sun., 1919-03-15
ASSAILS CONFERENCE
FOR IGNORING POPE
Father ellis Says Christianity
Is Ruled Out in Paris.

The Rev. J. NJ ellis In n lecture las
evening TO non-Catholics in the Church
OF St. Paul the Apostle. Columbus ave-
avenue and Sixtleth street, alta cked the
Peace Conference for ignoring" the
Pope and charged that the commission
e RS have ruled Christianity out"
Father ellis spoke under the auspices
Of the Knights of Columbus.
THE only living power in the world
which has had actual experience OF n
League of Nations is the papacy," he
said. 1T is odd. to say the least, that
this only experienced organization
should be ignored If the diplomats are
really in such desperate predicament
as Mr.. Wilson's rather cryptic utterances
seems to Indicate they may yet find 1t
to their advantage to ask the Pope to
speak n word to the 800, 900, 900 OF peo-
pie who recognize his spiritual SUI
premacy.
Are they leaving him out because he
might dominate the conference? IT -
IL big enough to dominate the conference
isn't he too big 10 be left out Of IL? IL
on the other hand, the delegates consider
the Pope to be comparatively insignifi-
cant they might invite the Anglican
Archbishop of Canterbury or the Patri-
a:ch Of Petrograd to come with the
Pope's representatives and let the three
voices speak for Christendom. But they
have ruled Christianity out. They have
not even permitted prayer in the coun-
Gil room"
The sun., 1919-03-15

that the irresistible restlessness of the
human race has resulted in great mtgra-
tons from time to time ana conditions
economic and political have changed nc
cordingly"
Many of the problems which face the
United Sites to-day. Senator Wadew1rth
continued. have grown out OF o. OF
these migrations directed toward our
shores during the last sixty years. and
the American people demand that the So
luton of these problems be left to them
alone
Neither by Article 10 OF this treaty.
nor by any law. written by man" he
said, "can you put a straightjacket on
the human race. That IA what we must
think OF before the United states enters
into a contract to protect the territorial
integrity Of foreign nations"
The sun., 1919-03-15
MAY FIGHT
OVER HIGHWAY JOB
Asks Attorney-General to De-
fine His Present Status.

ALBANY, March l4.-Edwln Duffey.
Highway Commissioner. whose successor
has been nominated by Gov. Smith, re-
quested the Attorney Generals Office to-
day to furnish a formal opinion as to
whether his term has expired.
Il am ready to abide by whatever conr
clusion the Attorney General reaches"
the Cortland man explained tonight.
III he finds that the point raised by the
Governor in naming my successor Is
well taken ! am ready 20 quit when the
name Of my succeN5or Is confirmed on
the other hand. II II appears that l
legally am in Office l see no reason why
1 should resign until my term expires"
The name Of Col Frederick stuart
Breene of Nassau, appointed by Gov.
Smith to succeed Mr. Duftey, is before
the Finance Committee OF the Senate
and will not be acted upon until an opin-
ion is furnished.
The sun., 1919-03-15
CANADIAN OFFICER
ASSAILS BEITISHER
Col. Peck Scores Sir Charles
Ferguson; Lduds Currie.

OTTAWA. March 14.-Col. G. W. Peck
OF the Canadian army, member of Par
Lament for skeena, Il. c., charged in
the House OF Commons to-day that
throughout the war the Canadians had
found British authorities "unsympa-
thetic," and declared that he would
make the name OF Sir Charles Ferguson,
Military Governor of Cologne, stink In
the nostrils OF all patriotic and honest
men"
He specifically charged Sir Charles
with having issued nm order Insulting
to the Canadian forces. quoting from the
alleged order that owing to continued
misbe havior of Canadian troops Cologne
would have 10 be put out OF bounds Z"
Investigation by Canadian officers
who resented the Insult" he declared.
showed that the number of Canadians
charged with offences in Cologne was
very much lower than the number that
would normally be charged among n
similar body OF men in the same time"
"Sir Charles Ferguson" he declared,
was married to a woman of Cologne,
and that may account for some of his
strange sympathies for the Inhabitants.
He commanded the Seventeenth Corps
at Arras when II went out of the town
and we had to be rushed down there
on that account
~Sir Charles Ferguson gave up
Monchy. Who retook Monchy7 The
Canadian troops"
Col. Peck declared that ''nany things
happened in the British army about
which nothing was known" In 1911.
he said, he entered a town where there
were 10000 British troops and found
1000 of chem in open insurrection.
Canadian troops, he said, were taken
in to guard the railways and bridges.
Col Peck made vigorous defence OF
General Sir Arthur Currie, commander
Of the Canadian overseas fo7ce. who
was mentioned recently In connection
with the charge of Sir Sam hughes,
former Minister of Militia, that certain
Canadian officers had sacrificed troops
for personal glory.
The sun., 1919-03-15
PARSONS WEIGHS P. S. c. OFFER
Asks the Governor for More Time
Before Deciding.

ALBANY. March 14.-Gov. Smith re-
celved to-day cablegram from William
Barclay Parsons, an engineering officer
with the American EXpeditionary Forces.
who was sailing from overseas, announc-
ing that he would desire more time be-
fore giving a definite answer to the Gov
ernOrs offer to appoint him Rapid Tran
SIT Commissioner Of New York
No decision on tho request has been
announced
The sun., 1919-03-15
BLOND HAIRS CAUSE SUIT.
wife of Al Raimo, Comedian, Asks
for a Divorce.

Charging that her husband, Al Raimo
n comedian. frequently had blond hairs
on his coat, his wife, who has played ut
the Winter Garden under the stage name
Of Anita Merrill, asked Justice Hendriek
in Supreme Court yesterday for a di
vorce Mrs Raimo is a brunette.
Miss Ramos sister, Miss Helen Man
zillo, told of helping in an expedition
to a hotel in April, 1915, when she found
her brother-in-law with another woman
The Ralmos were married in 1913 and
have one son. Mrs, Raimo lives in 206
Mest rortN-thlrd street.
The sun., 1919-03-15

WASHINGTON, March 14--Oficial ad-
vices to-day from ConstantInople said
the Committee for Relief in the Near
East had established bases in Asia
Minor at Trebizond, Erivan. Karput and
Alexandretta. from which food and
clothing were being supplied to Ar
menians, Greeks and other sufferers
The sun., 1919-03-15
STEADY JOBS AT HIGH WAGES

Men who work and
In addition the regular
will during conditions
day.
Wages paid III hour for hrstthr
the
with time and a-haIf for overtime.
This that each worker
conditions at least $500 day.
This bonus will be paid to all women)
operating the all
poyee OF the who their
bonahde applicants for work who PERMANENT
EMPLOYEES.
THIS OFFER DOES NOT APPLY TO PROFESSIONAL
STRIKEBREAKERS.
The will employ professional strikebeaker
will make legitimate effort fill with
permanent employees that full schedule
Furthermore, every working every one given
employment count jobs
only those who steady work and will
ployee in their position in the days to
Applications for employment will be Service
Offices and Public Service Car houses
Hoboken Edgewae Engewood Hacknsack Rutherford
Passaic Orange Montcar, Elizabeth Panfed Dunelen,
Somervlle New Brunswick Midtown and Perth Amboy all
Jersey.
PUBLIC SERVICE RAIL WAY COMPANY
The sun., 1919-03-15
state Restores Death penalty.

OLYMPIA. Wash, March It.-Gov.
Louis F. Hart signed to-day a bill passed
by the Legislature intended 20 restore
the death penalty in Washington for
first degree murder. The bill is subject
to referendum for ninety days.
The sun., 1919-03-15
WRECK MOTORMAN
IS CALLED GOOD ONE
Fellow Employees Tell of See
ing Lewis Operate Trains
Skilfully.

with both sides asserting that the
first OF the b. n. T. manslaughter caseS
growing out of the Malbone street tuna
wreck will go TO the jury Monday mo
defence of Thomas +. Blewitt, indicted
division superintendent, was opened yes
torday before Judge SeeGer In supreme
Court at Mlneola with testimony show
ing that Anthony Lewis, the motorman
of the train wrecked at cost of ninety
two lives, had run passenger trains IRE
auently before and run them skilfully'
Despite the assertions Of theN many
compan, Employees put on the STAND
Yesterday that Lewis was skilfui
motorman the District Attorney brought
from them the admission that Lewis had
neither q motorman's badge nor GER
tificate Of qualification and that TINS
was a violation OF the company's rules
the first such violation that the witnesses
had known in many years connection
with the company.
Employed ms Guard in 1919.
Isaac r. Oeland, attorney for Blewitt.
NAL opening statement. He put on the
witness stand Albert A. Brovost, d. r.
T. employee, who produced the badge
and rule book issued to Lewis when he
was employed by the company as
guard in June, 1915.
Martin s. Murray. a train despatcher
at Fifth avenue and Thlrty-eixth street
produced what seemed to be the most
important testimony of the day. He
swore that on October 30, the day be
fore the wreck, Lewis had made three
trips running a Bay Ridge train during
the rush hours. Blewtt, seeing Lewis
in the cab, asked Murray If Lewis were
competent.
Il told him Lewis was qualified. Lewis
told me he had been broken in and Ger
tilted by Mccain. the instructor OF
notormen," Murray testified.
He admitted. however, that 1t was tho
first time in his twelve years with the
company that he had seen man per
mitted to drive train without motor
mans badge. Murray himself ran n
train the day Of the strike and wreck
and admitted that he had been given
$50 bonus and a raise In pay for It.
The District Attorneys efforts failed -
establish that all the substitute wee
similarly favored.
better Than Regular MotOrman.
Thomas H Clifford. a motorrnan, said
lie had seen Lewis operating trains be-
tween Coney Island and Thirty-eixth
street forty times last summer. He said
Lewis had often run the train of which
he was in charge and that he had done
II we'll. He admitted II was against the
rules to give up his train to another. but
said that Lewis was his superior. John
Smith. conductor, testified that Lewis
ran tho trains he substituted m hatter
than did the regular motorman.
During the course of the day Mr.
Oeland cleared up the question of Lewis's
name. He is referred to in the indict-
ment as Luciano. alias Anthony f
Lewis" He is down on the company's
books as the latter and is so known to all
The company men. A brother OF the
motorman, a chief nuartermaster in the
navy. to-day produced the naturalization
certificate of their father. under the
name OF Lewis, and the attorneys agreed
TO drop the matter OF the name here
after.
Court was adjourned at 315 and the
trial will be resumed on Monday.
The sun., 1919-03-15
Would Govern Whole Earth.

If this league is once erected II will
become the governing power of the
earth. embracing hundreds OF millions of
Christians Mohammedans. and Buddhists
Of the white race, the brown race and
the black race. The lea que will be moth
ing more then superstate. every mem
Der of which enters into a compact with
every other TO defend the territories OF
each. II we. concede that the political
geography has been settled, for all time
then II were well to protect that settle
ment with n guarantee. But history
repeats itself and history demonstrates
The sun., 1919-03-15
city TO Have Aerial Police.

The transatlantic flight. the droppipg
OF Colonel-formerly Major-General--
William l.. Kenly as chief OF military
aeronautics and the establishment Of a
separate Department of Aircraft were
subjects which Gen. Menoher dismissed
with a shake of the head. II was for
recommending a separate department or
Independent bureau for aircraft that
Major-0en. Kenly was reduced to his
former rank and transferred to the ar
tillery, according to Washington des-
patches.
Inspector John r. Dwyer of the po-
lice force. one OF the visitors at the
show, asserted yesterday that n plan 10
fiji in the reservoir in Central Park for
use as landing field for planes Is be-
ing considered. that the city will have
an aerial police patrol in the future and
that the Allied in ground along Riverside
Drive will be used for hangers for sea-
planes.