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Huns Increditable Cruelty

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 Frightful! If any one is inclined for a single moment, to doubt reports of the lust for cruelty of the Hun, let him read this extract from a letter that one of our readers has sent us. It is a letter from a brave man, Capt Malcolm Fraser, in active service Hith the Red Cross with the American expeditionary force in France. The writer is an artist of rare ability. He tells the truth in all the se- verity of plainness His letter to in timate friend contains the following in credible as it may apepar:
 My escape has been something to be thankful for Even today, a man who has been running a moving picture ma chine came into the hut and after talk ing a while, went outside. Close to the hut he picked up box and opened it out ofscurosity. Then his hand was blown off and he was cut about the face and part of the finger of the other hand is missing. It must have been one of those traps left by the boche For months I have been living in the world of lives we lived in the roar of guns and flash of machine guns, but what we thought of was the saving of each others life and the lives and homes of those in America. We were the wall of living bodies between the living danger and the lives of those we loved. And so we loved each other and helped each other to live that there might be no breach in that living wall through which the enemy might enter. Once we found cross by the wayside. The boche
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Industrial Art

From What Ails Our Industrial Arts ?''
 by Dr. J. P. Haney, in the Scribner.
 Our memorials to our soldier and sail
 or dead are to be an index of the de-
 velopment of public taste. Undoubtedly
 this taste is growing keener and bet
 ter, year by year, but the progress is
 slow. As an industrial people we have
 yet to realize that we have very little
 in the way of an industrial art
 Europe forged ahead nightly in her industrial art schools from-1S90 to 1914,
 while we all but stood still. Some of our art trades indeed have not even held their own. Fine lithography, for example, has fallen from it's high estate until plants that once boasted of many presses now see their machines re- duced to few, while the choicest work has to go abroad for reproduction What a commentary upon American in- 1tative, ability, and artistic prowess. This is not, however, to be a pessi- mIstlc review, but rather an attempt at what the medical fraternity would call "a diagnosis" with a suggestion | regarding a cure. Whats the matter with our industrial arts? Why are they as they are and how can they be bet | tered?
 l In the first place we've been busy busy for hundred years in setting oul | house in order, in making our fortunes | out of agriculture and mining in ex. l plotting natural resources, in doing l what our practical people like to cal | practical things" We've gone timidly
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THE BOOK SHELF
By THE BIBLIOPHILE

"AMERICAN LABOR AND THE WAR" (By Samuel Gompers. George H. Doran
 Co., Publishers, New York City)
 Samuel Gompers in this direct, clear cut statement of fact about American labor and war conditions speaks with the authority of his position. He makes perfectly plain where labor stands today, and where it must stand tomorrow with malice towards none, with charity towards all" In every line of these now historic addresses Mir Gompers is the patriot, the man of international vision. the earnest leader of a cause No Sde who has conscientiously read this vol ume can impute to the American labor any disloyalty, for Samuel Gompers never speaks without proof or with tran scient passion. The appendix contains the official record of the American fed eration of labor in regard to all war is- sues.
 Samuel Gompers' position as president enables him to know whereof he speaks in the matter of labor conditions. He defeated single-handed every attempt or the socialist and pacifist elements to alienate American labor from the pa triotic endeavor to which it had definite ly allied itself.
 One cannot read Mir Gompers' words without feeling a great pride in the WhoIe-hearted support which labor gave to the government in time of national peril.
 MT. Gompers sets forth clearly and with unquestioned authority the facts in the case.
 This book contains three historic utter ances by MT. Gompers-an address ip London, one in Paris, and a third in Italy. Speaking for labor in the United States, MT. Gompers stood before Europe In . very real sense as the voice of American democracy.
 The official record of the American Federation of Labor in the War, includ- anR all the vital war measures and reso-
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By DOLLY DALRYMPLE.

0T seems to me that before the war
 an anniversary on the second Sun Jt day in May set apart for Mothers
 Day" was all right and good enough; then things moved along smoothly and Sunday out of a year was all sufficient to most people for the celebration of beautiful and lovely day known as Mothers Day." but somehow since the war the terrible heart breaking days of the war, when the world like an hysteri- cal woman seems to be suffering from nervous prostration and every mothers heart has been wrung by pain and suffer- ing-almost more than she could bear it seems to me that every day ought to be Mothers Day in our hearts. and l believe it is!
 Today-set apart as Mothers Day for reverencing the qualities and accom- plishments of mothers, means more to us than ever before in the history of this appropriate celebration, for not until the past four years of grim warfare has so great a demand been made all at once upon the nobles qualities of mother love, mother heart, self-sacrifice, courage, ten derness, patriotism and strength!
 During these. terrible years, by the hun dreds and thousands, mothers have been impelled to speed their sons-the idols of their hearts-into the incalculable perils, hardships and agonies of war;
 Bone of their bone, and flesh of their flesh, they have sent them forth to serve their country. dismissing them with smile and an encouraging word
 For the boy who was going out to fight for his country this meant spur to his ambition which speeded him on his way; the sweet gentle, mother "whistled to
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tening gallery of Europe" The gathering
 tension, especially the increasing strain
 of Germany (for Copenhagen is nearer
 to Potsdam than New York to Bostcal
 could be felt in that diplomatic battle
 ground as storm can be detected m a
 barometer that is falling. It had always
 been one of Dr. Egan's most cherished
 dreams that we should purchase the
 Danish Antilles. Again and again during
 his ten significant years as ouH, repre-
 sentative he brought up the question in
 Copenhagen. The Danish government al
 ways seemed ready to sell, but at the
 last moment he found the matter myste-
 riously dropped. It was the machina-
 tions of WilhelmstrasSe who could com pei Denmark to do anything, and WHO
 thought of the Monroe Doctrine as an
 other scrap of paper Dr. Egan writes of
 the royal visits of foreign monarchs t5 Copenhagen, and contrasts the visit of
 King Edward VIIs-with that of the ex- Kaiser. pr. Egan's book is one that will interest every American, as it is a study in what downright, American spirit can do in the maze of politics. and because it is among the notable contributions to the history of international relations.
 Maurice Francis Egan, J. U. D., LI- D., Pm D.. was born at Philadelphia and
 educated at Catholic schools and col lege sat Georgetown, D. c. He taught English in the University of Notre Dame and the Catholic University of America.
 He was editor of McGee's weekly and the Freeman's Journal, and is noted as 2 writer of poems, novels and juveniles. He translated Coppees "Pater" and the sonnets of Jose Heredia. In 1907 and for 10 years following he was our M. P. ! at Copenhagen. It was largely due to his efforts that the sale of the DanlsN West Indies to the U. S. was put through l in spite of the German efforts to block the transaction In 1917, after a varSed
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keep up her courage" while her boy went, like Don QuMote Fin search of adven- lures and windmius;" the lure of novelty, was he, very man among men, uphold ing his flag and fighting for the proud name of his beloved country!
 But what did it mean to the heart broken lonely mother?
 Picture after picture, flashed before her eyes; her home desoate and bare, she is left with only her thoughts, for
 "One stays-to remember
 One goes-to forget,"-
 and the boy had gone, while she sits crooning beside the fireside and the days fftt- by, as she remembers her boys childhood and she almost cries out in pain as she thinks of him still as "her baby" his firm, pink flesh, his dimpled cheeks, his chubby hands-his shapeIy limbs-what if these should be marred by shot and shell-torn into smithereens by shra pnel, or charred by liquid fire?
 She thinks of the summer days of the long ago, when he arose at 5 o'clock in the morning and ran out to the tennis courts before the days work, his laugh ter ringing out as the golden sun rim came up over the buildings that walled the courts!
 Somehow 'her boy and the sun was all ways pals"
 And then her memory fits back again to the period of babyhood and she re- members him at her knee learning his little "A. B. C.'s," his cunning boyish prattle over the mysterious letters of the oping into we'll tnined beautifully edu. cated intellect in all branches of learn ing and she stifles a cry as she pictures
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all this activity of thought forever stilled
 by the bullet of the foe.
 And then this Mother O Mine, s he always called her, that brave. Chris tian gentlewoman with the prema- turely white hair and gentle brown eyes from whom he inherited so much of his charm and personality, remem- bers so vividly his first days in busi- ness-active the manage ment of his office-all the days work just as much as game, a keen, honest game as the game of tennis he played and how he used to tell Mother O
 Mine" all about it.
 And the dances, too, she recalls!
 How many an evening does she remem- Der him, so handsome he looked, tco, in his immaculate evening clothes--so
 slender and so erect-so like his fath- er-with a spring in his step and chuckle in his voice-that echoed the
 gleau in his brown eyes.
 Yes he was debonair, this boy of
 hers--and all the girls (and the older
 women, too-mothers who had boys of their own couldn't help turning their
 heads to look after him as he passed. And then she remembers how he al-
 ways, laughingly, said that, he was
 cut out for a bachelor" and how it
 pleased her so, but those who knew him
 best believed it just jest, which cov-
 cred VOW he'd made deep down in his
 heart never to marry while his Moth CT O Mine" lived because he must look after her" and the three father less sisters of his-all younger than he-left for him to stand sponsor for at the fathers death.
 And then her mother mind and moth- CT heart would turn to those cold, ach- ins, pestilential trenches-of wounds
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Li'l Honey, hits CT LONG ROAD whar dar ain't no little Sweet, gentle, Angel faced MOTHER CT waitin' fer You! Yassum.

of lingering death in "No Mans Land" of shell shock-and wrecked intellect --of shrapnel wound=-and gassed brain and she stifles a sob and wipes away all tears and mother that she is, she straightaway arises and leaves her llt- tie fireside and goes to the little old fashioned desk in the 'parlor," and opens it, gets out pen and paper, ink and blotter. and writes to Asr soldier boy a letter full of neWs-neighbor- hood news-city news-national news "a letter of good cheer without a word of heart sorrow. her dismal fore bodiLgs. her vain regrets.
 ShG writes him, does this Mother O.
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FRECKlF
Don't Eide Them With il Veil; Re- move Them With Othine-DOuble
 Strength.

This prepa ton for the removal of freckies is usually so successful in removing freckles and giving a clear, beautiful complexion that it is sold under guarantee to refund the money if it fails.
 Don't hide your5 freckles under yeil get an ounce of Othine and re- move them. Even the first few appli- cations should show wonderful inn provement, some of the lighter freck- les vanishing entirely.
 Be sure to ask the druggist for the double strength Othine; it is this that is sold on the money back guarantees Adv.
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had torn the Christ from off the cross and replaced Him by an American soldier. There were bayonets thrust through his wrists and legs. and these with a rope around the middle and another about his neck held him to the cross. He was shot full of holes. It might have been you back in America if the Germans could cross the Atlantic. And we thought of those things, and fought on up through the Argonne Forest"
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THE WHITE HORSE AND THE RET
 IuATDU.n GIDU,,


 THE WHITE HORSE AND THE RED
 HAIRED GIRL"
 By Kenyon Gambler. George H. Doran
 Co.,, publishers, New York city.
 One of the 'romances of escape" It is the story of the underground rail- ways by which Belgians, French, Eng ish and Americans caught in captive Belgium, were spirited out of that country during the rule of the Ger mans. The story opens with a young American aviator in French service whose machine has fallen behind enemy lines. He is met on the street and em- braced as her husband by a pretty and strange English girl who takes him to dinner with a Belgian woman who flirts vioelntly with German officer. The American plays up to the role as his only chance of escape, and. as it proves, of the girls only chance. He soon finds his simulated love taking deeper roots than he had intended. The final plunge of these two through the with the girls wounded brother whom she had come to fetch, and his Bel gian fiancee, is one of the most ex- citing scenes. The sense of the immi nent perial in which the Belgian peo- pie continually lived for four years Is strong undercurrent throughout the book. It is the sort of story that is in- tended first of all to hold the reader as an out and out adventure story, and as such takes it's place. It has humor and atmosphere as well. It ran dur ing the past year in the Saturday Even l ing Post.
 1.-THE VANISHING woRLD~ | By Alfred McCann. George H. Doran
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diplomatic career in which he had made the acquaintance of many statesmen fn all countries, he returned to the U. S. A. He is now featuring throughout the country on his experiences. He has re- stunned his psofessorship at the Catholic University of America
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rfmful of brave. sturdy, encouraging

While today is Mothers Day." ap- propriately and beautifully so-a "once a-year' celebration of a wonderful sentiment and a wonderful ideal, yet somehow there comes to my mind the sweet thought as 1 write that
 Every day is Mothers Dayr
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Mine,' this most wonderful of mothers, about all the sweet, pure, ennoblins things of life-of how she is waiting for her boy to come back and how proud she will be of him when his division marches down the main thoroughfare and "her boy" keeps step to the martial music and his tall, erect form towers gallantly above the oth- ers-and his sweet smile greets her once more.
 Don't you think that the mothers who did this during the war deserve to have more than one day out of the year devoted to them?
 I do.
 Oh, our wonderful, wonderful moth CTS!
 What would we be without them without the memory of those who in spired us, who helped us over the diffl- cult rocks on the highway of life and smoothed out the wrinkles and fur rows and baby cares and perplexities. and afterward the heartaches and bit ter disappontments and sorrows?
 "All that I am, I owe to my angel mother,' rings in my ears, and re- sounds in my heart of heart on this beautiful anniversary day and l think many a soldier boy and "the girl ne left behind him" can say with me that but for the splendid spirit of our still more splendid mothers the war would never have been won, for they impart- ed new impulse to ambition, a new vision to patriotism.
 How could any nation keep it's lofty ideals if our wonderful mothers had ever shown "the white feather?' How long could our American armies have stood in 'the poppy fields of Elan ders' if the letters from home" from our wonderful mothers, had not beer
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Thirty thousand Italians are to be put to work in the devasted regions of France.
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Sugar making is one of India's most ancient industries, but the loss of three- fourths of the sugar value of the cane bv use of primitive machinery and the muddy character of the product, because religious prejudices forbade the use of, ,an- imal charcoal for refining. have CO., fined India's sugar to local consumption With nearly 100000 acres under cane, producing considerably more than a third of the worlds total, India nevertheless exports no sugar. On the contrary, in addition to her own stupendous produc- ton, she also spends s25 ,ooo,oOo for sugar annually. With new methods of refining there is now a steady development of centralized plants, and soon India-the aboriginal home of the cane-will doubt
 less take a place as a sugar exporting land commensurate with the size of her cane crop.
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lutions of the federation, are added the appendix.
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1.-THE VANISHING wORLD By Alfred McCann. George H. DoraA Co.,, publishers. New York city. Do you know that dogs. chickens, Of
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and a little shamefacedly, into what our manufacturers call the "art side :" We've borrowed talent from ahroaa when we've needed it, and scarcelv given a thought to it's production in our own schools.
 Art in this country was born If tbe painters studio rather than of tba craftsman's ateher This has led to many untoward results. Put briefly if mas given us as a nation, a wrong an- peroach. If painter and craftsman were stlH one. as once they were, the ont come would have been far>different. hut With our studio teaching. reaching down through studio trained teachers even into our primary schools we have come to think art primarily matter q paint or clay, and not thing which. through color and design, touches us at every hour of the day, in our dress our homes, our business products. our advertising, and our countless civic ventures in parks and bouleyards. in pupic buildings and in private dwell lngs. Our teaching in the public schools IS better now, but the change has come late and the adult of today reflscts the teaching of a generation ago.
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Most of all the other beauti- full things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hun dreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in all the wide world." Kate Douglas Wiggin. .
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THE WATERBOYs AND THEIR
 COUSINS"
 By Charles Dickens Lewis. J. B. Lippin- colt company, publishers. Philadelphia In order that children may understand
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1919-10-15
The Most Ancient Equ.

Just before the war began, during
excavations In the ancient Mogunti.
acum, under the auspices Of the Archie.
illogical society of Mayence. there
was found q hens egg which was es-
timated to have been buried in the
earth for something like 10 centuries.
Moguntiacum was built by Drusus,
the son Of the Roman emperor Angus
tus, In the year II Is. c. Upon the
site Of the ancient Roman castrum or
cncampmcnt near the city the excava-
tions in question brought to light many
interesting relics, including some wa.
ter clstens Of Roman make 1t was
In one of these. which was located
some 20 feet below the surface, that
damaged Roman claypot was discov-
cred containing the shell Of broken
egg and also whole egg that had
been kept from being smashed by a
shred Of the damaged pot, which COW
cred 1t. The ancient egg was dcpos-
tied in the municipal museum.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1919-10-15
The Eathead.

1t surely would be imprudcnt to ad-
dress that formidable creature the
swordfish as Fathead, yet the term
would be quite appropriate. The heads
Of 100 average Sw0rdfish will yield
siXty-five gallons OF an oil that has
high market value. Refined and sun
bleachcd, it Is indlstinguishable from
whale oil, and fetches the same price.
In fact, commercially. 1t IS whale oil.
Whale oil Is obtained on much
larger scale from halibut heads, which
are treated in the same way as the
SwOrdfish heads--i. G., cooked to a
pulp with steam and pressed. A short
ton OF them will yield 40 gallons OF
soii Boston and Gloucester (Mass)
NAnnually produce 10000 gallons OF re-
r,nNad oil from halibut heads.
Away back In the seventies some
BODY Xsssc0vercd that salmon heads
were r},eh in oil, and since then the
productiNen OF It has been n consider
able induNAtry in connection with the
Pacific saI&pon fishery. BY 1895 the
annual OUTPUT had risen to 10000 gal.
Ions.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1919-10-15
EXPLANATION Of Humidity.

Humidity, technically speaking, says
the Philadelphia Press, Is the amount
Of water or vapor moisture In the air.
given space at given temperature
can contain only definite amount Of
water. If 1t contains less 1t will en-
dcavor to fill up by evaporation, II
1t contains more the surplus water
will condcnse. When mass Of air
contains all tire moisture it IS capable
OF holding 1t is said to he saturated
The higher the temperature the more
moisture il takes to saturatc the air.
If 1t contains less moisture than
would saturatc ii at n given tcmpera-
ture, then the lower temperature Mt
which this would sufficient for satura-
tion is called the dew point. The per-
centnge Of moisture in the air to what
1t would hold if saturated is called the
relative humidity. Thus, If the air
contains one-half the moisture neces-
sary to saturate It, the relative hu-
midlty IS so; If only q third, 1t is 80.
It Is OF course. ut It's maXlmun when
at 100 and fog forms and mist falls.