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YORKViUE ENQUIRER. ISSUED ggail'WggHLT, l. h inrsr s 3oss. Pabii?her?- j % cJfainilp Jlcirspapor' i ?ot the promotion ojf the political, Social, ^pricultural and (Tonunfrcial Jfntfrtsts th$ |)f0pty. surout c<?pt, mm cents. iuTiniiMHRD lfiiSfi york,S. Cm TUESpay,"april7K)~ 19187 ~~ NO. 35 miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim j "Bride oi c II) VHTOIt 1 A ROMANCE OF THE i FIGHTING ON I FIELDS OF - I <>|>>ri^lil l>) \V niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii rii.MTKi: vi. I*ut M;uk Colon*! I loward's I invitation to lieeome his guest, :ili-l I avoid**! the Iioiis*: in MassachusettsI -ii?-! as much as lie could with ?I?-- I' * < ||?- was courageous enough to I aiialv/*- his reasons and he did notli conceal the i? suit from himself. Il?- want* d Kl*-anor with all thcji I** lit - Hi* lunging of th*- <l*-ni*-*I years in 11 l|i* do* it. Ills love was the strongest!' passion that ti?- hail ever l> li, and yet, 11 .?traiiy<1 \ lor a man of his years, ill' had in it much iiioi*- of th*- |*aternal|l < huii-nt than of the lover. All his life!I In had heen almost kinh-ss. his otilx I' sist* i was (lead, h*- want*'*! Kh-anoi's I I<i .-- ii*-*-. Khanor witli him, to seel>i< i iviij <lay, whit In i as wile oil-' daughter. N>t lie was l*ra\e noiiitli I' to ackhow|eiln* that this love, soilless!' in a measure, threatened to liocome a I' eolislillillig passion it he did not hold I ' liimsoll i 141dI> 111 etc ck. I' II*. t Ii* middle-aged * a plain, audi' Khanor. witli h*-i slation. h< r pios I P* * ??'. and her Inautj it was an im-|' pi.s il.h dream. 01 mil' thai would ruin 11 tin mil's lit*- 11. in some w ild iiiomeiit, 11 she made it 11 lith. I' IP- liail his reward in Khanor's in I aliasing i* stiaiiil. In r *|iiile visihle 111 Idimiatioii. The\ had fallen apaitl' again, alter tliat single meeting. Ill was a pom i* w.il*l, l-ill i lie- sort that!' Jdaik ti.nl ii r- i\* *1 all Ins lit*- from I' loitlllie. I' I tut there were Ion* I y nights when!1 life seem* <1 unheal aid*-, ami tie had to!' ? X* 11 all his will power to keep him-|: s* |i in clu-ek. Maik had rented a lit- J th- furnish**! apartment in tin- north-I wist -eelmil, oil' I'* nnsylvaiiia avenue,!1 an-l in- lind found the desert morel' companionable. 1 ' '* ..*i*l dil' his I ' i Mie muni ii'- " i< ?< powers. That was alter a milling das ' in (Ik- war olliei. kik- of those days ' that sometimes conn- in Washington ' low a el llic iiii'ldl'- of S'-|i|i'|iiIm-i- svIh-ii everything is as sticky as tin- asphalt ' sidewalks. It liad l?-?-n a day of i-vil portent ' I "sides. Colonel Howard, who hail 1 seemed of late to roller! Klositior's ' eoolti'-ss in soii'e measiii''-, had greeted him with a wry fare wln-n he came in ' "The devil's to |?iy, Mark." lie said. 1 "Draw up your chair. There's a leak- ' age in the department." ; t~ "Things sue getting known?for Instance. our ih-iilinirs with the shipping |R-ople. They've found the exact 1111111her of si i|es we've iei|uisilioiu-d. You know whom I mean hy 'they.'" Mark iiodihsl. The cosmopolitsin in11 ii'-i ii - in Washington. whose rauiill- ' cations extended to tile cllds of 11ll caitli. or sit I'-ast, across the Atlan- ' tie, were busy m every drawing room 1 <\tiacting news, the tiniest and least ' reliable ol which was not despised, since many such single items make up ' a coherent story. "The brigadier's wild ahout it," eon11iiii'd tin- colonel, pulling al his tuns- I taelie. "And it seems impossible to ' iletect how the leakage occurred. It 1 must have hen through tin- shipping ' com|kiiiies, ol course; yet they couldn't have pieced tile tiling together without ' eoncerted action, which is out ol the 1 i|ii'-stion. Let's pi through the pa- ' fiers." ' They Opened the sale and went ' through tliein one l>y one, I nil nothing was missing. 1 "Damn it!" growled Colonel How- ' aid. ' I've been through this before, 1 Mark you know that, lit that hi*' ' tin ic was a traitoi at work. Wr l'oun?l ' him. In this ? ise there can he none, at least, in the war dep: rtinrnt. And '' I've told iIn- brigadier I'll answer with in> place lot ilisi nvering where the * leak lies." He closed tin- sale and strode otT ill- ' ao Ki licrin ni's room. to rf *irn with Kelli-iiuan. looking angrier than I e- ' fore. \ "What are we going to do, Keller- ' man?" In asked. ' Kelleinian pursed out his lips. "Well, colonel, von know as much ahoiit it as ' any of us." he answered. "There's al- ' ways hccii two of us present night and mornings win n the papers were trans- J ferred. I'll vouch for you. Wallace will. I presume, vouch for inc. and you. I presume, will vouch for Wallace." ' The sinister look on his face affected Mark more disagreeably than ever. ' Mark l<-lt nettled, though the words had been fair. ' "If there's been a leak." In- said, "it ' seems to me it's up to the brigadier ' to discover it. It's outside: it isn't ' our business to locate it. We're doing our part-?what more can we do?" : "t'onte along and tell the brigadier ' that." suggested Howard. Mark, nothing loath, accompanied 1 him to the general's room. Hut the 1 brigadier was more furious than Howard. > "I don't know how it happened, col- ' oncl. and I don't care!" ho cried, thumping the tnhle. "No great harm has been done so far. and of course none of the departmental clerks can lie suspected. Hut it's got to stop, and t we've got to find out how It orlginat- i ed." < It was on that night that Mark felt I at the end of his powers. It was early, he had dined and was i sitting disconsolately in his apartment, nothing seemed of any value to him at t that moment, and his thoughts were 1 ranging round their eternal subject. I Had it been necessary that he should < have treated Mrs. Howard and Kleanor boorishly, to protect himself? I lie put on his hat and went out. meaning to pay them a visit, or. at i least, to walk toward their house while ? making his decision. He had not de- i cided by the time he reached Massa- ' chusotts circle, and. as he stopped In doubt, he snw n man across the road. : staring up at the house. Of a sudden Kltaour's story recurred s to his mind with vivid force. The man 1 was obviously watching the house and i he meant to stay there. 1 iii1111111111111i1111111111:11111111111ii11111111111 i\ f Battle" I. lcorssKAt; r AMERICAN ARMY | *; THE BATTLE- 1 J ' FRANCE. | x . ii. ( ttapman. E [( lllllllllllllllllfll Illlllll IIIIIIIIIIIITX r; lint as Mark started toward htm. % tin man seemed to take f<-ar, and shambled away. Something in his gait I >1 OI1U m ll.'lfK lO S IIIII1U 111," ir[ oll.ction of the man whom he had ai seen outside the Misses Harpers' ^ school. And he began to follow him. It was ni a role that he had never played before. fl hut justified, in his mind, by the necessity of discovering the fellow's (: Identity. Without any very clear inten- I'1 lion in bis mind bow he was to accompiisii this. Mark made his way after 81 the solitary figure, keeping well be- '* liind it. a' It soon became clear that the man. ,s It hough be looked like a tramp, had i definite objective. Mark pursued liim toward I'ennsylvania avenue, until lie -v< liscovered that he was Hearing the ^ least desiralde pjut of Washington. v< whose location, so near the residence s' it tlie chief executive, has always been '' the wonder and scandal of visitors. lie was in one of those streets that ' shirt bravely in the city and debouch -V( into the low-lying land in that Internedlate and hardly reclaimed region liordering the I'otomac. The houses " lierc were old. many appearing vacant w ind tumble-down, and for the most " l?nt standing each in a little garden. " Mark was beginning to think of s,! lackling the fugitive, who. unconscious i>l pursuit, was about fifty paces in ' front of him, when suddenly the man ''i Iurned in at the tiny garden of an tipliarently deserted house and knocked it tlie door, which was opened almost " immediately, Mark heard a subdued scream, and *' I hen tin: man's voice in angry altorcalion. lie was talking to tin- woman who liad opened the door. She looked ibout live nnd thirty years of age.and q Iter face, distinctly visible against the light in the hall, was well-bred, it' not attractive. She seemed one ol' those .'osmopolitans who frequent tin- enpilid: .Mark was still uncertain whether ^ her house was one of those residences that are still occupied in this district | bv the original owners, or whether she . ... ui was the mistress ol one ol those gamlillng establishments that flourish of necessity along the avenues of the earlier alphabet. The man seemed to be pleading with her, his gesturat were growing franticT looked about five and forty . ol years of age; his face struck Mark with a certain odd familiarity, though lie had never seen him closely before, uul bore traces of breeding, blurred > 11 her by dissolute habits or by mis- ^ Tort une. The woman answered him in tones if <|iiick anger, and made a gesture of lismissal. The man held his ground t| loggedly. tin voices became angrier. "No! No, I tell yon!" the woman 'Hiil, "I don't know who you are! ^ Will you go?" II Suddenly a man came along the w passage behind her, carrying a walklug-cane with a heavy handle. He t| raised it and Wrought it crashing down ;1j n tile other's head, ;l, The man fell to the ground, evidenty half stunned by the blow. The man (j( with the canc raised it and brought it town again and again upon the other's lead and face, in a succession of sick- t| ning crashes. t.( Mark ran to the garden gate. The m nan with the stick paused, raised his s| lead, and looked at hiin. Mark reeog- ?j ii/.ed Kellerinan. As Kellerman, in CJI urn, recognized him, an angry sneer |? spread over his face. H "My dear Wallace, wiiat the dickens s| ire you doing here?" lie demanded. js 'Are you trying to kill this man?" isked Mark. I,, Kellerman seemed nonplussed for w he moment. m "I ho|M* I've given liim his lesson.' nj ie answered. "He came here and de- t,( nanded money, and nearly frightened S( Mi-s. Kenson out of her senses. Let mo present you?" Mark looked into the keen, appraisng eyes of Mrs. Kenson with dislike A uul disgust. "You'd better let him go. Major Kclerman," lie said. As lie sjtoke h?> saw j,. Mrs. Kenson bite her Hp vindictively. j8 "Oh. I'll leave him to you." responded Kellerman airly. "You'll excuse mo. . | M iVallace, I'm sure, t?ut Mrs. Kensons w into will l?e here in a low moments. pi Mark, hot with indignation, answer d nothing, hut raised the man from lie ground and got him outside the j -at.. As he did so he heard the door . >1 the house close softly. The trump was half unconscious, *" in<l muttering vaguely. Hlooil stream d from two cuts in his head. Then,vas a great spreading bruise u|>on the 'e oi-ehead. .Mark tried to staunch the (': deeding with his handkerchief. *s' The man stared at him wildly, and suddenly burst into a tit of hysterical IX vceplng. 'n "After four years!" he muttered. \fter four years! And hint?the * Inckguard!" "See here!" said Mark. "I'm going ' ' o help you to your home, if you have 01 tny. By rights I ought to turn you 111 nor to the police, but you seem to 1)1 lave got what was coming to you." But the man only stared at him and ^ vent on muttering. "Four years since I've seen her." he * mimbled. "I didn't want money. Only I* :he word. God knows 1 wouldn't have *"* aken money from her as he said, the l-s :ur?" "Was she your wife?" asked Mark, di hinklng that he saw light. ^ "God forbid!" ejaculated the man J' vith conviction spontaneity. "Who ?re you. anyway?" he demanded, look- 1" mg at him directly for the first time. 'What were you doing in that placeT' He grasped Mark by the arm. "Are ol vou another friend of hers?" he asked. Ic 'Or didn't you know that It's the k< iwellest gambling house In Washing- d< ton? Lord. I guess some of those sen- G Mors and congressmen Inside would di tkate to have a flashlight taken! And m H- oil) trie ks!" Mark twik tiiin by the shoulders, that's your name and whi-rc <!<> you vt-T' h<- aske-el. "I haven't time to aste em you. hut I'm ready to help dii if 1 can." "My name? Hart I v. flooel enough [tine isn't it? Uvc I haven't lived ?r more years than I re-member. I'm corpse?see? | wanted to live, hat's why I came here when I heard ie was in Washington. Walked from e-w York. Why should she lie here aw, unless the re's anothe r poor young ?ol like- me fe?r her? Where the- cariss is. there are the- cagh-s?or is it ultures?" Mark drew the man's aim through Is nnel leel him away. Presently a ih came crawling up. He hailed it rid gave his address. Perhaps his intive was altruistic, but he had not >rgotte-n Eleanor's story. And he leant to learn all that was possible om Hartly. He took him homo and played the e>oel Samaritan, washe-el his wounds. Instcre-ei them, anel gave the man a el in his living room. Hartly hael ihside-d Into a state of frightened sines'. He- looked dubiously at Mark I the while he was receiving ms mmt rat ions, anil would say nothing. "Now. phase understand," said [ark, "I've brought you lu re because au seem to me to be up against it. In- door's unlocked. And I'm trusting an with my tilings. Those cups are Iver, llartly?1 won them at West uint. That little picture is by (iriittn nil worth about seven hundred, hat's about all, I think?but I want an to understand you're live, and I'll dp you if I can." llartly blushed rather oddly, Mark lought. but said not a word. Mark cut back into Ids bedroom and shut ie door. It was a foolish act, lie lOllglit repeatedly before lie fell deep; but lie must win the man's antideiice if he was to learn the mys ry. And lie was satisfied that his iterest in Kleanor's movements boded a liui in to her. In the morning, when he went in, artly was gone, as lie expected. Hut f> had taken neither the cups nor the let ure. (To Ho Continued.) SUGAR FOR CANNING. onsumers Can Get What They Need on Proper Application. Columbia, April l!0.?The form of rtillcate. upon the signing of which tail dealers will be authorized by the iod administration to sell sugar for >,<ni?ir .-iii.i iserving in larger uiiun ti<-s than tin- regulations now periit consumers to secure, has been dermincd upon. These certillcates reail i follows: Date - 191*. I hereby declare to the United States lod administration that 1 desire to trtrhgae iroin ?.-nrtnjirir> ' dealer) an amount of. lumber of itounds) of sugar for my <e for preserving and canning fruits id vegetables only, and that I will turn to the dealer any surplus sugar do not use for those purposes. Name Address .. The food administration will work trough the county and district food luiinistrators in handling the sugar tnation during the canning season, agar certllicates will be furnished te retail dealers everywhere bj the unity food administrators, and the tail dealers will be required to have tese certificates properly signed by I who purchase sugar for canning id preserving, and to mail the signI certillcates to the food administraun at Columbia once a week. Unless certillcates are signed, gro rs are prohibited from selling more tan two to live pounds of sugar to Misumei's in cities and towns, and ore than from live to ten iMiiinds of tgar to people living in rural commutles. The sugar secured 011 certitlites for canning and preserving must returned to the grocer from whom is bought if there should be any irplus after canning and preserving done. Through this regulation it is hoped > the food mlministration that there ill be a supply of sugar sulticient to eet the needs of the people for eailng and preserving, which is regardI as a very important means of connation of food. MONEY NOT EVERYTHING merica Must Put its Real Spirit in War to Assure Victory. The following article by Hurry A. arnshaw was published in a recent sue of the Tobacco World: "The population contains a large iMventage of persons you have to ind up at the side with a key. Such crsons are loyal, though, to be sure, hey say, 'What's the matter with >u? Ain't 1 doing my bit? When icy came to me I subscribed to the iberty Loan. When they asked me I iu< money to the lied Cross. I have jught war-savings stamps for my llldren. 1 never eat meat on meatss days, nor wheat on wheatless i.vs. Whenever they play the 'Star tangled Banner' 1 stand up. What ore do you want?" "What more! Good God. do such yrsons realise what this war means? 0 they realize after paying all the ixes and buying all the bonds and ?nying ourselves every luxury and ting all the other things wo are aak1 to do thut we will still have to mltiply our sacrifices by a thousand ?fore we even approach the price lid by the people of Belgium and ranee? "Every man who isn't taking this ar home'to himself and making it a irt of his life is a nonessential, very man who does not make the iuse of his country the subconscious lought back of every action of his lily life Is not living up to the posbilities of his citizenship. He is not jing his part in the glorious work for ie liberation of humanity from desDtism. "The shooting must stop, and the tooting begin. We can afford to leave T singing the 'Star Spangled Banner' >ng enough to go out and work to eep that holy ant\ sacred flag from efllement in the dirty paws of the erman kaiser?the paws that are ripping with the blood of murdered ill! ions." BLEASE IN CHARLESTON Candidate For Senate Makes A dress To Large Audience. HAS BEEN BADLY MISCNDERSTOf Former Governor Says He Has Nev Criticised President Wilson a Stands Ready to Back Him to t finish. Charleston American. Friday. At the artillery hull last night am much enthusiasm former Govern enniiidate for t United States senate, delivered u ma nifleient, inspiring and loyal addr* before as representative an audien as ever greeted any candidate. T large hall was filled, many standi) in the doorways and along the wal Many ladies were among the crow which voiclferously cheered the appea ance of the former governor, who w introduced as one of South CaroliHi most loyal citizens and the next Unit Stales senator, by \V. Turner Loga Mr. Blease began by reiterating f friendship for Charleston, whose pe pie he had always loved. In this eo lection he said: "In days gone by when Chariest' was attacked it was my privilege ai my pleasure to take her part. A f< years ago a very importunt lnstit lion in your city was designated as dude factory, it was said thut all was good for was to turn out paten leather cigarette smokers. There w danger of the appropriation fallii llnough. I investigated the institute and it was my pleasure ai mui u> to defend and save the appropriate for the Citadel. As governor I hi tin privilege of signing the largest a proprialion the Citadel ever had, ai the pleasure of signing the hill makii possible the additions which now ma such a handsome structure. Another instance 1 atn proud < A few years ago the Medical colic was assuiled as having served Its po pose. It was my pleasure as govern to send a tncsage to the senate, wi the result that the Medical college w saved to Charleston. "While others have said 'destro it has been my pleasure to help building up. When others fought put Charleston In the black distrii I fought against it." Proves His Loyalty. Referring to charges brought again his loyalty to the government, 1 stated that in his i'omaria speech ov a year ago he had taken the sati position witli reference to the war i'resident Wilson took in his rece address at Baltimore, reading extrac from both to substantiate bis stat meat. Continuing lie said: "It has been charged that I ha criticised the president of the UnKi rtmtwi. 'Tlila?ig nbffliattiy iinrTubT was against the nomination of Wooi row Wilson In 1912?I was for Judsi llannon, of Ohio?but when Mr. WI son was nominated I urged all of n friends to register their votes for hii i have never criticised the preside! I stand ready to back him to the fli ish. "I was opposed to America cnterli the war, as were many more loy citizens. If you an- going to app tin- acid lest, what of Kttchln, \niili Carolina, leader of the Demi cni Im in the lion si*, wiio voted again war? What of Fitzgerald, of Ne York; the venerable Joe Cannon, at the other members of .congress wl voted against war? Are they chargi with dislo>ulty? They were not dt loyal, and neither was I, in opposii America's entrance into the war. For Political Purposes*.." The newspaper editors churmng hi with disloyalty were denounced by M I {lease, who said, "Any editor wl wrote that I was not loynl to the go' eminent knew when he was writing that he was writing a lie. He kne that I was loyal, but for political e feet they let the lie go. "When South Carolina and oth southern states seceded from the I'nii Uobert E. Hoc was an officer in tl i i.ion army and was opposed to si cession but when his native sta signed the declaration of secessio I.co resigned from the Cnion arn and took command of the Confedera forces. Where is the man who wou dare charge Lee with disloyalty b cause he opposed war between tl states? One ot the strongest opts nents to War of Secession who spol against it and wrote nguinst it wi chosen, when war was declared, to I the vice president of the Confederac Alexander H. Stephens. Were th< disloyal? No. But, forsooth, beeaui I was opposed to this war It was great crime." He stated that since the declaratb of war he bad done all he could b the interests of his country. While 1 had opposed the draft law, he had ri fused to test it in the courts, althou; friends had urged him to do so, offe ing to put up all the money n?*ed< for the purpose. He had advised the ugninst it. When the famous Dick law fir came up In regard to white soldle saluting negro officers he opposed and fought it as long as he coul Hut when It became a law, he told h friend:* to 8tnnd by it. He opposed tl passage of a similar law in this stat but it is on the books. "A compar of white soldiers, whose white office have been killed, will have fight under a negro officer, If he ha| pens to be next in rank, and you ct thank your so-called governor for th law being passed in the state of Soul Carolina." Palmetto Boy* Scattered. "Where are the Palmetto boys ,t< day?" he asked. "Scattered to the roi winds of the world, sent here ar there to fill up gaps. When the hii tory of this war is written you wl read of such and such a brigade, U dieated by numbers, making a gallai fight. Perhaps your boys were 1 this regiment, but their Identity lost. You can thank Manning for n having a third regiment in this sta and keeping the Palmetto toys in unit" He told of his going to Washlngt* when wax wan declared and calling < General Crowder personally, offerli to raise a regiment In this state. 1 go anywhere ordered. General CrQf der thanked him for the offer, bi it could not be done at that tim And the other day when things looked dark on the front, he wired his offer again to General Crowder. who replied d thanking him and saying that he would keep him in mind. A Liberty Bond Buyer. He had done and would continue to do all he could. He did not have mucft jU money hut he had bought bonds. At Q the outset he had borrowed a thouer sand dollars to buy Liberty bonds, and p ncj the other day he had won a suit which he gave him a fee of $.,5u0. Every cent of this went for Liberty bonds and is |still in Liberty bonds. , j "If any man sa>s that I have ewr ' id or written a disloyal word he? ^ ( there being ladies present?he is t ^ slanderer. Where are my slanderers; are they fighting for their country? J They are sitting Dehind desks, study- ^ j ing up what they can say against me. n and. where they can, emptying a bottle a . " to give them courage to write it. They ^ ' say they are over age. My friends, f ' man never gets too old to fight foV ii"- . . ? a his country. ^ He gave a brief resume and comi s , s _ pariaon of his administration as governor and the present administration. ^ He said the present governor was 11 lauded as a great law enforcer, but '' ' during the present administration ( more murders had been committed than there were during the two pre- ' , vious administrations; more white ml s ^ women had been assaulted than during ^ | all administrations since lSSiO. He _ pointed out that there was hardly n ( day that one could not read of crime ( being committed in the state. He also ( referred to the fact that tiie state * tlS o taxes were now over SO per cent higher than when he was governor. . Speaking of the vaunted influence of some he iisked: "What did you ^ I think of this great influence when the ( shipyard was lost to Charleston the '' other day?" The shipyard was lost. he said, because Charleston had no ( one in the senate to look alter it. The New Navy Yard. ^ ( He denied that the influence ol ^ 1 | Senator Tillman put the navy yard in ^ Charleston, stating that it was through ' the recommendations of two different . or h committees. which at different times ' Investigated the facilities on the ports ' us of the Atlantic. He declared that what CharleAon v now has here is not getting the attention it should have, and advocated j , better pay for the inen at the navy j yard. "Why are other navy yards p getting more for wages than the ^ Charleston yard is getting?" lie asked. |( "It is because of lack of representa' tion in the United States senate. Ex- . or it Governor Swanson, of Virginia, now a j( IU senator, was seeing to it tliat Norfolk n*s was taken care of, and Norfolk is get- ^ nt ting what Charleston should have in ' t H /I face of the fact that Norfolk wtis with'* (but recommendation by the investituting committees, while Charleston s v<" Mas declared to be the only place suit- L fr,r " "avv vnrri?Hf tl'J nm J blame Senator Swanson, he said, but South Carolina needed a representa- ^ five who was comjietent to look after ' I " the interests of the navy yard here. II Si Mr. Hlease closed by congratulating) ^ the iROple of Chaileston for furnish-' ing the state with a lirst-class news J 11" pa per. m ^ P 1|f ATTENDING THE WOUNDED M a I cl '> French Soldiers Head and Shoulders ?> ?' Above Others. An English otlicer is authority for a 81 the statement that the French field H w amj base hospital service is as near P 1,1 perfection a? possible, to "The French," he says, "h.-ve Intro- p duced the more orderly and systematic 11 H" of methods into handling the wound- " ed. Their doctors and stretcher bear- n crs work close to the lines. Their work 'J is extraordinarily rapid and good. The " m physicians are selected for quickness & 'r' of perception. It is remarkable how h 10 rapidly they work. Immediately upon " k" examining a wound.d man a tag is ^ " placed on the soldier that designates 11 Av the character and seriousness of his J' wound. Thos^ who may recover are " taken up and hastened to the hospital Pi p| nearest the s|>ot. Whatever is pos)n silile to relieve the sufferings of the M 11 mortally wounded Is done at once, but (l l " they are not removed until the Held is n cleared of all whose lives can be saved. n The treatment of the wounded has '' j* been reduced* to a science. In cleans- 11 ing and dressing wounds there is not only precision but a speed that is 81 ^ amazing. I have been in many hospitals near and back from the front, but 0 ^ I doubt If there ure any to compare '' with those the French have furnished. " , They seem to have selected the best De w y surgeons of France for work nearest the lines so as to give the best possible S(, treatment to the wounded soldier at w a the earliest possible monent. w "And the nurses! they are wonder>n ful- si ur "The percentage of recoveries is ex- tJ 1(. traordinarily high. It wasn't so In the L* c. beginning, but it is now. The Ameri- n cans have been of very great aid to t( r. the French. I doubt whether you a ?,l know how many American surgeons j, m and nurses have been serving In ol France, not alone since you came in- w 8t to the war, but since the war began. s| rs Another thing that has helped is the it, immense stores of medical supplies 0| d. you have sent over and are sending w is over. tl ie "We hear a lot about German effl- w e, eiency. It Is over emphasized. In the Ci i) conservation of life in this war the rs Germans have some things to learn f to from the French. So have we. I be- b [>- lieve the French system will be adopt- n in cd by the British. p is "What percentage of the wounded F th are saved? I have not seen any of- w flclal reports, but I have been told that p the French approximate 90. In the tl J- first year of the war, I am told, It si tr was below 70. Isn't that a magni- h ?d rtolent achievement for the medical It ' men of France?"?Commerce and Fl- f< I" nance. w i- . m & il Hugh C. Wler of New Rochelle, N. si 'n Y? Is suing Rev. Billy Sunday for a 15 $100,000 for alleged breach of contract. & ot alleging that he had contracted with If Mr. Sunday to write a series of books, a the first of which "Great Love Stories a of the Bible," had been written by him. o >n m a >n After long conference between wool rt ig growers and the price-fixing commit" b to tee of the war Industries board it was F r- announced that the government had tl ut deckled to Ox the price of wool the m e. Mine as It was inly SO, 1917. b ENGINEERS INJRANCE merlcans DO Big Things In Big way. EST80Y VILLAGES AND LEVEL HILLS oundation for Victory Laid With Pick and Shovel?The Bigger the Enterprise These Men Have to Carry Through the Less that is Said About it Until After it is Done. Today, writes an American corre pondent from a French rort. it is 1mossible to tell the people of the Unitd States specifically what the Amer an engineers are doing In France, ut generally the work may be sumled up In one line: They are guarnteelng victory for the American i my in the figuring u.Gml.b ahead. This Is a big thing to say, but these re the days of great deeds and great orks also, with the hope of the world et on the accomplishment of the .merlcan army. Its Job is Just beglnIng. The job their brothers of the ick and hammer and shovel and rlvter began a few months ago has beome so extensive, so gigantic In plan nd realization that it is not the heat f patriotic fire, but the cold facts of lecl and connote and wood and stone hlcli inlorm the astonished eye that he men of the rear are winning their alf of the war. And yet the generals and the coionIs and the captains who with a sweep I the hand and a nod of direction, orer the making of cities and the detraction of villages in their way, and ilio have seen hills torn down and ocks sprung up and locomotives arIvo which were ordered by mail, say lerely, "the work Is going on." as if o blanket the enthusiasm of the viator. And the boys fresh from home, oung lads, whose hearts still beat in he states, all those thousands who long with their officers want America o know what is going on in France, ecause they are proud of their work, ralize that for the present the facts lust remain behind the curtain of lilitnry secrecy. For several days I have been visitig all the camps and works In this 'reneh port, und of the things which hnve seen and of the operations the ngineers are engaged upon, little can c told, for the greater they are the 88 must be said. This is a thundertig city. It is an American city, roartig with work and with tratllc, and tiland for many miles in a line that nids eventually stmight across the eart of Prancr to its battle front, the .merlcans are at work. Itnilroads, wharves, docks, terminals, X'omotives?some have been built, ome are under way, some are yet on lue print paper, and it is because the j\, Is atlll uftfltlldhM. ^ud Will oft tSt everal months, that the men whose uty it is to build characteristically rown upon enthusiastic reports and ay "wait until we are through, and ave moved out of here to the front." Concentration on Supplies. AH" energies are concentrated on rcparing supplies lor the American riny. Tonnage, urtny tonnage, inludes nlmost everything in the world f peace and war; "of shoes?and hips?and sealing wax?of cabbages nd kings," modernized into something ke "of tanks and trains and tooth asle tins?ol chewing gum and guns." Provide lor tonnage for 12,000,000 ion?that is the problem of the engieers. Twelve million, because they gurc that if the nation puts 2,000,000 len into France, it will require exact, six times the amount of supplies per lan that would lie required for civilins at home. The soldier eats more. e wears out more?una ne snoots on illllons of tons of steel and explosive. 0 If there are to be 2.000,000 men in le army in France, they will need ist as much in weight and bulk as all ie inhabitants of New York city, Chlago, Philadelphia and Boston or ittsburg?the food, equipment, housa, furniture and traveling accommoations of a city or nation of 12,000,000 len, and the engineers are preparing ar the day when such an army will e here, and preparing in such a manor that there will be no delays, no reakdowns, no stoppage in the vast apply. At the port which I can describe nly In part, the work under way rovldes for only part of the army, nd the rest will be cared for at and om many other ports at each of hich there are already Improvements 1 harbors, docks, wharves and termlals. In this one anonymous port the arehouses alone will hold several eeks' reserve supply for the army. The colonel of a certain regiment tatloned here introduced me to a capita whose most famous work in the nited States was the building of the illroad along the Florida keys. He >ok me to see the work here, not s a spectacle to impress strangers, ut In the course of his daily round f supervision. First we went where ere the docks of the city, with huge iiips unloading their cargoes from ?? V* n&opA utoi'u/lnrou In tho im-nta wiiai iicriv oiv?vviw. ... Id t". S. A. uniform, sinking as they orked, and the cranes creaking and lie loads falling uninterruptedly and ith heavy sounds into the freight ars or the dock. The dock was an American dock, he cars ran on American rails, laid y American engineers, for one of the rst jobs was to revolutionize the old eacc-time French rail system. The rench used little turntables, which ere good enough for small cars and lenty of time. The Americans knew ley had to get the loads out of the hips quickly, for tonnage depends irgely on speed In loading and unlading ships and getting them ready ir a return trip. So a loop system as built for big cars, and arranged [> that many ships continually are upplled with freight cars which roll way Immediately as soon as burdend, to be immediately replaced by mpttes. In these docks and yards are sererI of the sixty cranes which were rdered in America several months go and which are now some of the easons why this port will be the lggest and best equipped In France, torn a distance these cranes, with le old ones of before the war, reunbio a huge forest of waving, swayig, giant trees and the puffing and creaking and clanging is a deafening chorus of American industry?the sound of the great wind blowing B through thtir brancnes. In the harbor the dredging is continuous. The two years' accumulation of mud and debris which was hindering large ships has been cleared by e the American engineers. All along the docks there are some minor works g going on. u As we left them we motored along the new railroad lines connecting with (-1 the great yards the engineers are ^ j building for the direct supply of the American army. We passed a group of ri surveyors and men putting in a new fr switch. The captain got out of the si Inor InoknH ov#>r thtf* iob. ot "Yes," he said, "that's so. Right ti through. Through that brick house. s| | You go right through." e< It was a little red house on the out- t] skirts, the hearth and palace of some French workman, and It had to go. jj because the engineers car.not alter t] railroads for sentimental reasons. But C( they can and did pay for that red ,j brick house before running rails t( through Its ruins. "Do you have many cases of this t, sort?" I asked the captain. Village Cancelled. lt "Well, no," he replied, "but further R| up a little we had to cancel a village because we had to have that ground fc- part of the main yards, and these Milages In France are so thick you a) can't build anything without bumping (( Into one or two." t) The villuge Is no longer there. In its place are miles of new track and cars and materials for war. There will he 150 warehouses, each , 81 .* 0 by 400 feet long, each built on con- ^ ciete plies and with concrete floors ( .i.t.l steel roofs and sides?75 kllometeis of metalled roofs, a sight to amaze H the birds and the aviators. w Significant of Achievement. It Railroad yards are railroad yards, the whole world over, and the yards ? we soon entered in this center were t like those In many American cities. a But while the work is the same, all a the difference lies in the fact that ev- j erything here is operated by men in khaki, who, like all the materials they ^ use, came from the states. This is a u wonderful thing. A carload of locomo- ? tive parts is no special marvel in |( Altoona or Fort Wayne or St. Louis or Butler, Pa., but here it is significant ,j of achievement in ocean transports- ^ lion, a success over the submarine, a (( promise of long and vital ass'stanco t] to an army. The electric crane in this ^ yard picking up an acre of kegs of ^ railroad spikes becomes an instrument g of war against the common foe and therefore n thing of fear and wonder. ^ There Is also this difference, that everything completed means greater t odds and handicaps overcome than face the engineers at home. For ex- g ample, it is notorious that locomotives a."? huL Nut. Uju wK ur P this place Is not only unfit for hu- a man consumption, but it is dangerous ' to the health of the engines, so one a day the order was given to build a reservoir along a creek where an 11 ample supply of good water could be obtained. That was done. They now e have 1,000.000 cubic yards In the re- u T servolr. Extensive as these yards are, the ^ mode of operation is to be on a very ^ simple plan. The entire traffic is to go w along a loop, the stores for the army entering from the seaport at one end and departing for the American front r' on main line connection at the other ? end. In between will be the 150 wnre- 01 houses with rows of track between, where by day and by night there will l< l>e loading and unloading, sorting and packing and the making up of train- h loads to the order of the staff of Gen. i Pershing. " While I was at this center, I saw a train made up and dispatched to the d American front. b Between this port and the ultimate tl destination there are other centers of U warehouses and storage plants, more tl complete than this. In one town, for h instance, the ready warehouses will ci hold more food and other materials tl than the Pennsylvania freight terminal tl In Chicago, that new and enormous tl building. At this inland center, also, I the foundations have been laid for the it largest refrigerating cold storage n plant in the world, and construction is c< proceeding. The manufacturing capa- e city for ice will be several hundred p tons, thousands of tons of fresh beef u will be handled daily and besides there g| will be a storage capacity for more ^ thousands of tons of beef and addi- ,] tional thousands of tons of other edi- u bles, thus assuring the army with fresh foodstuffs at all times. ^ In this center there are being erect- 1( ed a number of huge storage houses for ammunition and other Inflammable e materials, and the buildings are of hoi- g low, fireproof brick, all made in Amerlea, and a fireproof system is being built safeguarding the munitions and involving a pipe system of hundreds of miles. h All this work has been and is being tr done by one regiment of engineers, ci one regiment of foresters and com- 01 panles detailed from regular regi- aj ments. No boom munitions town in |c America ever grew faster. And, of a< course, there are other ports and oth- ?l er inland towns in which similar pro- di gress has been made. ' " 1 o; Colonel Winston Spencer Churchill, |r minister of munitions, told the British m house of commons last week that although England had lost great quantl- d ties of munitions and between four , ? Q1 and Ave thousand machine guns to the Germans in the great Picardy-Flanders T battle, all these losses had been made h good by Increased production, .more n than twice as many guns being ready ^ for the Allies as have been lost. He also said that more airplanes were be- t| Ing turned out in one week now than were produced during the whole of 1914. Women are producing ninetenths of the shells. Concluding the munitions minister said: "The first tc limiting factor of artillery will be w gunners, not munitions." B m tl German newspapers received at Zu- tl rich say that two large powder fac- ol tories at Glasenbach, near Salzburg, k 156 miles southwest of Vienna, Austria, w have been destroyed according to a b dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph c< Company. The explosions, which are tl believed to have been caused by in- di cendiarlea, are aaid to have resulted in tr heavy casualties, si RAID ON ZEEBRUGGE ritish Captain Give* Details of Heroic Achievement. Aboard II. M. S. Vindictive in Doer Harbor, April 25?A correspond nt of the Associated Pre* visited le cruiser Vindictive today as the uest of t'apt. Alfred F. B. Oarpen>r, who commanded hc-r In the excdltlon last Tuesday arainst the ermun submarine base at Zeerugge on the Belgian coast. Captain Carpenter received the cor?I>ondent with his arm in a sling om a shell splinter wound. The lip showed Innumerable signs of >nflict. her decks and super-struclre being covered with the scars of lells and machine gun hits. The immander during the attack was at io end of the bridge in a am&ll steel ax or cabin which had been special constructed to house, a flameiru3'?r In the course of a long acount of the part taken by the VlnIctive In the raid. Captain Carpen?r s.ild to the Associated Press: "Our chief purpose In the expedlon wus to distract the attention of le battery while the block ships ran i, especially the battery of 11-inch una which occupied a commanding osltion at the tip of the mole. Our uslnesa of landing soldiers on the ioIc, which Is of stone 40 feet high ad 15 feet above the Vindlctlve's >p deck at the stage of the tide when te attack took place." "We had a special sup *r-structure rer the upper deck and three long angways or 'brows' which were deigned to tuke the moil yp to the >vel of the mole as soon as we got longsidc. Kxactly according 10 puui. ie ran ulongside the mole, approach?g it on the port side where we 'ere equipped with specially built ufTers of wood two feet wide. "As there was nothing for us to tie p to, we merely dropped anchor here while the Daffodil kept us gainst the mole with her nose gainst the opposite side of our ship, n the fairly heavy sea two of our hree gangways were smashed, but he third held and 600 men swarmed p this on to the mole. This gangray was two feet wide and 30 feet >ng. "The men who went up it Included 00 murines and 160 storming seamen rom the Vindictive and 60 or so om the Duffodl. They swarmed up he steel gangway carrying hand renades and L?ewla guns. No Oerlans succeeded In approaching the angway, but a hard hand-to-hand ght took place about 200 yards up he mole toward the shore. "The Vlndlctive's bow was pointed award the shore so the bridge got ie full effect of enemy Are from the hore batteries. One shell exploded iflinnf ttc nwnawi mm mm? 11 of Its 10 occupants. Another burst 1 the fighting top, killing a lleutennt and eight men who were doing iccellent work with two pompoms and iur machine guns. "The battery of 11-Inch guns at the nd of the mole was only 300 yards way and it kept trying to reach us. he shore batteries also were diligent, inly a few Herman shells hit our hull ccause it was well protected by the 'till of thu mole, but the uppertrueture, masts, stacks and ventlla>rs showed above the wall and were Iddlcd. A considerable proportion of ur casualties were caused by splint's from the upper works. "Meanwhile the Daffodil continued > push us against the wall as If no ittle was on, and If the Daffodil ad failed to do this none of the jembers of the landing party would uve been able to return to the ship. "Twenty-five minutes after the VlnIctivo had reached the wall the first lock ship passed in and headed for ie canal. Two others followed In lisurely fashion while we kept up ie light on the mole. One of the lock ships stranded outside of the anal, but the two others got two or hree hundred yards Inside where hey were successfully sunk across he entrance. "One difficulty we had in preparig this expedition was that we could ot have open practice of what we ontemplated doing for fear the nemy might get information of the lan. Our preparation, therefore, was rnited to a certain amount of intenve training at night fighting and ombing, while officers were carefully rilled in dealing with all exigencies kely to occur. "All the men were tuned up to a Igh pitch and It was with very anx>u* hearts that we waited for a suitble time to strike, knowing that very Jay we waited there was a reater chance of our secret leaking ut. A Strike That Oidn't Go.?Several undred German prisoners employed i the handling and discharging of irgoes at a French port recently went n a strike because they were asked to wist in handling supplies from Amer a to be used against tlieir country, ccordlng to officers of an American lip which arrived at New York a few ays ago. "The strike was instigated by some f the German officers who were actig as foremen," one of the Americana ild. "It did not last long, however, as a ozen or so Americans doing police uty, assisted by French soldie-s, romptly took the matter in hand, he German officers responsible were ustled away and the business-like ight sticks about the sixe of a baseill bat carried by the American lilitary police conveyed conviction lat It would be better for the Gerlans to reconsider?which they did." "I regret that I have but two sons > offer my country." This sentiment as expressed by Mrs. J. A. Wells, of ryn Athyn, Pa., on receipt of news uit her son Leroy had been killed In ie battle of Picardy, and that her ther son had left for France. "I had >oked forward to the day when Leroy ould return from France victorious, ut now that be has been killed In his iuntry'a service I am quite satisfied iat his life could not have been defeated to a greater cause. My sever is to give my other son to the ime great cause." I l i .... >. v