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near Namur. Their father and worked Id a Belgian factory nntll the German* took It Over; then he quit.. He did not get enough to eat, and last winter he died. Their mother worked in one of the municipal kitchens uml made a DURING THE SNOW SEASON ON WEST FRONT £n<vvX<w.-: hare living so, hut not quite enough for all three—-so she sent. them otit to France to grow {at and happy while she tolls olTIn tht^souiTR11Chen.—- •y'i< weepy as they told their story, hut they brightened quickly. It Is always morn ing if one Is young enough. “We're going to good friends,”* they, an nounced, . ^ “Do .vou ( kiio\MJkSj.iere you are going?” **No,” they su» 1 (4-f‘_“lxu^ J^tfs sufiep-tQbje like this, mid they'reigning to hh ‘good - friends..” -'J- ^CARPET BAG AGAIN IN VOGUE Scarcity of Leather Brings -Back An cient ’Satchel, Says Chicago s Merchant Ne\V York I'he high cost and short-, age of I uy-fh eE_AvHi-.be responsible for u revival of, the old-fysllioneil carpet hag, according to .1. N. Daley, a leath er merchant. of t’hleago. Mr. Daley declares that the carpet hag already is appearing in some of the western cities he has just visited. 'They are pruviug popular, and .he ex pects Xo see them iu the Hast shortly. “The war,” says Mr. Daley. “Is go ing to revive a lot of discarded neeessi- <i) Wrad-rn N.-»>.i-.n»i Union Motoreyele web 1«*::«!< d w>lh American soldiers making Its way through u •nowstorm hark of the lines iu Fnir.ee." ties , of our forefathers carpet PROCESSION RIVAL OF PIED PIPER’S hag will he one of the first. The.short age »>f leather will eventually preclude the making of leather valises and grips if it continues, and there will lie noth !ng else left hut the old carpet bug— aud it may. prove |n-u as serviceable as the mony modern equipment." Five Hundred Little "Children Refugees From Belgium, Tramp Into Allied Village. HELPS DIRECT RAILROADS Ison with the momentous happenings that* daily occur oti the western > war is hplng conducted In Mesopotamia. A -British,,-army i> steadily rther and farther lido the'desert. While .the .Tommies tighting In the ;y rtieir rrnnrfutes itt tlte ''Httphfqfes-Tigri'- valley, the men lighting in i* more heat-than they can stand.; tin* arid desert is intolerable to while itisli official photograph shows one of their lug field .pieces, just as it MAKES SWEATERS FROM RAISING SHEEP ON UP Seattle, Wash.—Six heavy J sweaters which recently were • giv^jn to tiie Sedro-Woolley * branch of the U<d\i'ross were • made at home in the old-fash- * loned way. Mrs. S. D. Benson • raised’tlie sheep from which, the £ wool was taken on her farm at • Siskiyou. / J While experimenting with hark • preparations Mrs. Benson dis- £ overed a way to dye the yarn • in the regulation shades of gray • and khiyKi, and finally knit tlie J sweaters herself. , , • tli^ desert are not having a picnic. They Yet they are keeping at it, and Mil tired, making the Turks step lively men was FRENCH TROOPS WITH MITRAILLEUSE DRIVING BACK GERMANS Worn by Hunger, Tired, All Sing Na tional Anthem—Big Celebration at Evian for Them—Glad to Escape Germans. hundred lit Evlan-les-Bnins.— Five tie children, a Trifle tired-looking, per haps a little hysterical because worn by tlie strain of three days on the train, tramped joyously up the street, their wooden sabots pattering a triumphant tuttoo on the hard pavement, skipping, some of them, to the blare of the trumpeters who led the way, uud„cry ing “Vive la France” at every welcom ing tri-color. 'They rushed 'up by doz ens to shake hands with anyone-who was on the street to see them at five o’clock in tlie morning. Each of them wasKdressed in tiis or her Sunday host, and rating a home made pack. All tiie time tip* six old ex-Boil us tooted away on their trum pets .as they led the bobhetty proces sion. It reminded one of the Bled Bi- per who piped strange tunes iu llume- lln ’and led away all tlie village chib dren When their elders refused tq pay him for rhldiug tlie town of its nits. These trumpeters were leading Bel gian children to a warm meal at Evian. Five hundred children, who had left their mothers and fathers in the land where food is scarce, were on their way ton big refuge i n't he ohl Chartreuse tnonustery at I,e Ginndier. days, when the trains bring in’tlie Frpneh repatriates. There was a lug celebration in the Casino. The mayor of "KVlari’ made a speech, hut most of the children were obviously much too tired to try' to puzzle gut his big, words. They were much more interested in the hand. The hand played “The Savoyard,"*the anthem of Evlmi's mountain -province, and then it played the "Brabiineonne," CLtrtfDINSr the national hymnnf Belgium Those children stood upon thetah’.cs to uppbmd ami wave their Imndkeq. chiefs! They knew it. every one of them, ultlmugh they had not been al lowed to sing it out loud for three years. Some of them weye so sinalf that they must have learned it behind dpsed shutters. Off in a corner half a dozen * little girls joined hands and danced. Too Tired for Candy. But they w ere tired nut; there were Miss Frances Hawthorne ' Brady daughter of Thomas Grayson Britdy'of Washington, I>. <’., is the first and only woman tin the staff of the rHrei-trrr gen eral of railroads, William CJ. McAdoo. Miss Brady's capabilities make,her a most handy person in any organiza tion where directing ability,, and crea tive. ideas .. are. needed. Miss Brady was selected because of tlie ability and efficiency she has shqyffi in Liberty loan work in the treasury! She ia_ihe second appointee of Mr. McAdoo as director gcneniDof railroads. , f Since leaving a fmisliing school in- Wasiiington Miss Brady lias been prominent in all the affairs of tin* younger set, but when the wijr started Wt-ilfr n one or two the candy placed beside them—and that is very tired, And in tin* middle of the second verse of the “Bruban- conne,” one small son of Belgium laid liiS’ head jrm his- arms, and went to sleep. A^id before the “Marseillaise” was sung there •Arere' sleepy, little groups, oblivious to tiie noise about them, at every table. _ , It*was daik when they enternl the M’asino— inueh too dark for tiie pic tures that oijght to have been taken of them—and it was still very gray .twilight when they came out. One of the America united Dross, nurses 'who- was Helping—«rare for them saw two little girils arguing sleepily about something -or other. " Vest-ee. pas?" the tinier of tin' two and has mow ed- rimrir nraTn^ mitrailleuse at the foe. , Not Enough to Eat. They were pot orphans—just chil dren who were not getting enough to eat. Buck in Ijelgium a^ Belgian com mittee had picked them but as under nourished and asked their mother* to let them go to France, where wheat and sugar are not too plenty, but where thy rations are-more liberal. The commission for relief in Belgium brought something to -them in Bel gium, but.-especially since tiie Ameri cans left, it had Pi lie stretched a-lorig way. 1 • X “Aren’t., you hungry? 1 *" smile one asked om;.<^.the Belgian children. "Why, no," tlie tnn-yeiVr-old replied. *‘I ate yesterday." 'GERMAN WAR BREAD AND SOAP HAD HONEYMOON TRIP ABOVE THE CLOUDS she felt the > all for patriotic duty and offered her services to t tic* government. Conductorettes Capable. — New York.■-'Throe hundred women conductors on New York street’ cars are. making*good. Bresident Theodora B. Stionts Of t 1h* Interborough -1 {-rrtl- road company, has announced that tlie conductorettes are as efficient, as men, equally honest and more polite. soir? Till* trumpeter is morning, isn't it? It’s not evening?" Later, when the children were pass- ing tin American Ited Dross doctor, who examined them for contagious diseases, tiie -nurse learned ’more. Lu- eleiine and Louise, sisters, came from Casino, where the women 'of Evian IijkI laid <»ut a* luvukfast. Six oi* m*vcii children, too weak to stand tlie mile’s walk, were carried in the big Ameri can" Bed Cross ambulances that trans port' the old men. and women week SAVES SEAMAN’S LIFE' with his hand Amateur Surgeon Amputates Leg With Clasp Knife. riioio ealcrn N*w»p«prr Union] Uejiatrfated. ’ British soldiers who lufve returned to England to recuper ate have brought home numerous Souvenirs from * Herman., detention camps, some-.nf w hich give an idea-of •^he treatment accorded emimy. troops. Steward Is Decorated for One of Most Br*'V«~and Remarkable Deeds of the War. < Tlie photograph shows Sergeant Spoft- der,»a Lewis gunner, with his daily ration, of German sawdust war, bread and ar piece of German soap made chiefly from sand. .London.--For amputating u man’s , wounded m:m. Mr. Fumhaiix also leg with a claspknife bdt stHI saving his life, Alfred Wiljiam Furnpux. a chief steward in tlie mercantile marine, lias been decorated by the king. The stofy of I»is. heroic conduct and skill fortu one of the most remarkable of the many tales told since the beginning of the war. The following is an ac count of the services for which he re- tf«lved the Albert medal in.gold: tn April, 1917, the steam ship in which Mr. F urnenux was serving waa torpedoed by the enemy, and the l^gs of a Lascar, who was on the spot where certain deck plates had buckled and broken, were caught so firmly bo- jnyit niitijiBn ji.no me spifHf m H. Wallace. ’’I’he insertion of tlie b>^ j bone-.-running from the middle to tlte I back of. the neck, .has cOtripJetcly cured ! Wallace- of tutTPrcntnsts of the spine, I from which he Imd suffered for a long time. . . , ‘ * About the Only banger They Face. "Heard auXtlung of tlte kaiser's sons lately?" \ POOR LUCK AS STOWAWAY Wilt Have Rabbits' Feet Japanese Laborer Tri4e to Steal Pas ; sage and Makes Trip W4th \ Hands /Tied..:, fHutehinson, Kan.—Kansas negroes who go against"the Bodies will all have tlie famous darky'charm, the left hind, fixit of a raldiit; to keep him safe from Teuton bullets. K. C- (Kroon) Beck, "raitblt VC of Kunsqs, has agreed to etfery ficfro deaf ted mao “ltcniarkable how'well they ke^p in the great war; isntyit?" i “Yes. They st*em to He rather well protected. The only* thing*the kaiser has to fear for them is tf&t one of them might get up Tn the (Wk and nd wife (formerly Miss WTnifred Allen), who • j>h lit. I^iw reiie« ; -B. Slurry were the first to experience a rled couple left YJovernor's Island apd airplaned their way to Massapequa LJ I., the Sperry home, in 24 mintftea. Thfy Claim thls ls the only way tt San .Frandsco.-i-Because he tried to steabpassage on a Japanese liner from the Orient to America, a Japanese la-1 borer was forced to make almost the in the state a rabbit foot. drink out of the w rung bottle.' Hy enjoy a wedding trip. gntftrwsttd's Ucdtrwccd WRTtSS OrFIPAL TH0T01