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I w" ^ " ISSUSDSglir-WgKHLT. i. h aaisr s sons. PnMuhen. j S Jfami15 Jlenrspaper: j[or the promotion of the polities', fecial, Jgrienltorat and (Commercial interests of the peopt<. j Cocc?ts*"?1 RMT\RI.IHHED 1835 ~YORK,37^FKI^TA/y\ MAY 17, 19187 NO40 iniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiui I "Bride < I E liy VICTOl i ? | A ROMANCE OF TH] E FIGHTING 01 | FIELDS 0 ~ ('< !>> riiilit lijr niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii rilAlTKIt XI. * - * ' b Hfii I'y evening the rusn ui ? . , <li? <1 down. tin- hospital was beginning t?? ii-.iuine its normal atmosphere, the surgeons ha<l stopped their work until the morrow, when the less urgent o|? rations would he |<erformed. Quarti is had heen round for the new sist? rs, the general and h's staff ha<] disappeared in their automobiles foi an unknown destination, and the orderlies. save those on duty, were giver the customary leave. Ix-ave meant Ktupk-s, with its comtollable little inn. the ehatty landlady and her pretty daughter, who did a thriving business in the sale of the light country wines and a very mild among the soldiers, as well ur American tohaecos and c igarettes that had I" en proi urcd, heaven knows how, I'i'miii the base. Mark strode toward Ktaples. He had an intense longing for the lights and comfort of tin- little inn, the sight of ins companions, seated about the stove in the smoke-tilled room; he vv.inli d to be- among theni but not ol them. t<> shut out of iiis memory tlie thoughts ol that unexpected meeting. I tut In- iiad not gone more than a bundled-paces when Hartley hailed him. ' lining into Ktr.plcs?" he asked. "Ue \"ii mind my going with you?" "l-'rnnkly. yes. Hartley," answered Mirk. "Vuu won't iiiuiii my naym* so? I want to bo alone after?" "I know, olil man," said Hartley, drawing liaek. "Sorry if I bothered yon." Cut Mark swung roun S on him. "Hartley, answer me one <|iieslion," he said. "What has Miss Howard ever had to do with you? Why have you In en watching ! er for six or seven years?" "You mean?" "Vou watehed her house In Washington. And you are the man 1 saw outside the school at Tan ways, in Westchester county." Hartley begun to walk along the road at Mark's side, lie made .a eurioii.N gulping sound before he answered. "lias it oceurred to you, Mark, that tlie Kenson woman has been operating in Washington for a good time now? be asked. "I suppose so," Mark answered. "Vou know everything was prepared for years^before the war began. The part meat of the government. You know Colonel Howard was in toueh with it as far ha el. ;*s the Cuban war?" "i Soot! Isiril, yes. but?" "Ami a man is only a pawn in such a game. iSoml (Sod, don't uuestion me, Mark! I've been a tool of hers, but I'll swear that I never worked against the government. I learn si little by Iittli* of tlie whole aeeursod nest of spies. I obeyed their orders because? well. | can't tell you now?but I worked against them too. I've done them more harm than good. I had my motives - selfish ones, despicable, perhaps; hut I was never a traitor. iSood (Sod, i. hovv your faith ai.'ii'K, ii. !- > . ...... .. ? in mo has begun to make a man of nif Mark took Hartley's han<l ami gnplVd it. It was the host ami the niilx possible answer. In their tacit understanding they wont on toward the inn together. It was true; Hartley had become a different man since the beginning of their friendship. Whatever his motives were -and Mark believed that A'is. Kenson had some strong hold over him Mark no longer suspected him. Hartley seemed to have shed the slough of years since they had enlisted together in the tncdieul corps, though he was as reticent as ever as to his plans. Outside the inn they saw an auto, with a soldier chauffeur in charge. Hartley gripped Mark's arm. I)o you know whose that is?" he w hispered. "Kellernian's!" The landlady tatnc to the door. "Itensoir. messieurs." she said smiling. "This way tonight if you please." She led them round by the side, into I lie kitchen, w here they found half a doxcti privates drinking wine and teasing the landlady's daughter as she served them. There was nothing in this to the men: they were often turned out of the dining room-parlor when officers out 111 an appearance. Hut?this was Kelhrman! Mark looked at Hartley and s.iu intense excitement on his face, which he was trying most evidently to restrain. , Hi- ordered beer of Annette, and followed her toward the outhouse in which the ii<|uor was stored. The girl was a friend of his perhaps l?ecause. more serious than the rest, he treated her with tess badinage than was customary among the soldiers. As she moved out of the lighted room into the shadows outside the merriment fell like a mask from her face. "What is it. Annette?" asked Mark. "Ah. monsieur, it is tragic!" svid the girl. pausing at the outhouse door. "She is one of my countrywomen. The accent is of the south, or some outla ndish part, but she is French?ami she has come a long way to meet him. and he will not have anything to do with her. How did she get through the lines?" "Who. Annette?" "The lady with the American officer. Listen, monsieur! Listen, then!" They were standing in front of the outhouse, which was set near an angle of the old-fashioned building between the parlor and the kitchen. They could hear the imploring voice of the woman, and the subdued answers of Kellerman. Then, elusive against the dark angle of the building. Mark perceived Hartley. He was standing under the high sill of the window, in mch a way that Mark thought he could see through the chlttk between the sill and the lower edge of the blind. Eavesdrop Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll >f Battle" It ItOlSSKAU E AMERICAN ARMY f THE BATTLE>F FRANCE. \V. G. ( lutpman. ; IllltlllltlllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllUllf ping as he evidently was, Mark fell I that something Justified his presence j there. ; Annette perceived him at the same . moment. She started. and then I shrugged her shoulders. "Km bien, monsier, It is their af. fair!" she said lightly, and went intc [ the outhouse. She was too wise to In terefere with her customers. Mark . hardly noticed her departure. He was i watching Hartley. Suddenly the door opened and the . woman came down the steps that led into the little vineyard behind the inn, t She raised her heavy veil to dab a . handkerchief at her eyes, and at thai [ moim-nt .Mark recognized Mrs. Kenson. ( lie remained rooted to the ground t in astonishment. Hut it was more i than that: he felt suddenly trapped, as if the woman's presence there was . vitally connected with his own probi b ins, as if he were the victim of some tar-reaching scheme with which he . could not grapple. A minute later Kellerman appeared and stood upon the step above her, . looking into her upturned faco with his habitual sneer. "It is all over then?" asked Mrs. Kenson. i "Since you compel mc to he frank? v<.?" answered Kellerman. "It has I been over f'>r years, Ada. To think ; that you should have put us till in this danger! You haven't told me how you not here, or how you sent me that I message." "How I got here? Does that matter'.' Well, I came up in a peasant woman's dress as one of the repatriated. I sent you the message by a hoy. who knows nothing?his wits were thrashed out of him by the Germans. He left the note?he won't trouble you. And I suppose now I'm to no back." Suddenly she broke into a small invective. "I'm to go back, after the thousands of miles that I came, bci cause you are the only man In the world who has ever meant anything to me! I gave my life to you. How manyyears have you played with me? Answer me! And now you tling me from you as if I were nothing, because of? oh, do you suppose I haven't heard ot you and Miss Howard? I'll call her that! Hut take care! I can be dangerous when I am aroused, and I see cltttplj' notf; newr be fore!" Mark's blood seemed to freeze as he listened. He had unconsciously drawn near Hartley: and now a strange and comforting thing happened. ior nunley, without turning, and as if he had tu-en eonseious of Mark's presence all the time, put out his hand behind him. found Mark's, and clasped it a moment. "You are talking wildly, Ada." muttered Kellcrmun. "Are you going to ruin everyone? Do you want to hang? For you will. Ada. There's no sentimentality in war. Now I'm going to do the riskiest thing I ever did. I'm going to take you back behind the lines in my auto. IS.v a miracle of good luck I have the password for the night. I'onte! And we'll talk over matters 011 the drive back!" . lie descended another step unsteadily. with a forced smile on his face, and stretched out his arms. "You goaded me into saying thincs that I only half meant, Ada," he said in a low voice. It was aiuaidng to see his influence over the woman: how doubtfully she looked at him, and how she struggled not to give in. "funic. Ada!" said Kellerman; and then he turned sharply and confronted Mark. For an instant he stood as if translixed: then, with an oath, he leaped at hint and struck him a blow in the face that sent him reeling backward. Ada Kcnson turned and ran toward Mark with a scream. She did not recognize him. Mark could see that. The discipline of u lifetime held Mark steady. He stood confronting Kellerman, but did not raise a hand even to guard himself. Kellerman glared at him in s|ieechloss fury. And even then it seemed a little singular to Mark that Hartley disappeared, so swiftly and silently that neither the man nor the woman knew he had been there. Then Kellerman burst into hysteri cal laughter. it's the spy from the war department," he cried. "The fellow we pitched out of the army for treachery, masquerading here in uniform. A blank wall and a tiring squad for you tomorrow, my man!" Ada Kenson sprang between them. "He doesn't mean that!" she cried, peering into Mark's face dubiously. She recognized Mark now, but Mark could see that the recognition meant little to her: probably he had been only a trivial incident in her career. TJsten to me!" she whispered in Mark's ear. "He has been drinking. It will bo all right, just go oacn ?nu keep this to yourself. You'll get a fifty dollar bill by the next post, and ten every month afterward, so long as you don't see anything. Understand? Ac isn't responsible?" Mark turned away in tflsgust, but he imagined the warped mind that caught at this hope of secrecy. Ada Kenson had always taken the world as she found it: that Mark was In a private's uniform meant for her that he was purchasable, no matter what his past had been. As he turned, the woman caught Kellerman by the arm and forced him away. He went reluctantly. but too overcome by the meeting to gather his wits together. And as Mark tried to collect his own he heard the auto roll away from the front of the Inn. He went back into the kitchen. The soldiers were still there, one or two ' haled him: the Incident had occupied only two mlnutee. Annette made a I little mouth at him from the tloorwa; It signified the temperamental revivj of a young girl from an unhappy mi inent, th< invitation to rmniKtnionshi to drink, the half-innocent coqueti that was the spice of friendship. Bi Mark was searching in the room ft Hartley. "Your friend went home, I thin! moniseur Te soldat," said Annette I hunter. Mark strode out of the inn withot a word. Hartley's disappearance dl not disturb hint. Hartley was strung! hut he felt that he had relied too muc I <>n Hartley. It was for him to act. K ' would k<> to the major in charge of tf ! hos|iital, tfll his story, and do the onl thing possible. He had no doubt ar ! lonuer that Kclh rinan and the Kense 1 woman wore partners In a far-reaci ing conspiracy against his countr t bouKb ho had never before allowe 1 himself to accept the obvious dedui ' tions from the _ Washington episod His mind moved slowly. His purpoi 1 had been to redeem himself, he ha thought Hartley obsessed; now h ( meant to reveal everything. ' And suddenly out of the mist < years, be recalled Colonel Howard story of Hampton. Kellerman ha : been the chief agent in Hampton tragic fall. Suppose Hampton ha ' been innocent; Suppose that Elei 1 nor's father had been a brave and loj al man, whose hideous ruin and abon 1 Inable death might be posthumous! 1 vindicated? 1 The blood rushed to his head at th ! thought of it. The burden of th knowledge of her father's shame, an of its probable effect on her if eve 1 she learned had weighed heavily upo Mark's heart since that night in th tent in Cuba. Then the blood receded, leaving hit as cold as a stone. For he recalle Ada Kenson's words to Kellerman. S 1 the hunter was hard upon the quarr perhaps lie had already snared he 1 Eleanor had liketl Kellerman. An she had said to him . . . lie liirfl'll Ills III IIcI unii;, mruu back to the barracks, ami turned int his tent to sleep. (To Be Continued.) LOAFER THOMPSON. Maryland Law Requires That Me Must Work. Now York World. Baltimore, May 11.?.Initios Mad ison Thompson, lineal descendant < I'resident Madison. former hnnki and well known ahoiit town, into Ket some kind of a jo*h l?y Monday o stand trial in the l'olice Court 011 th charge of failing to register under th provisions of the compulsory work lav Thompson stated, when he ap|s>a 1 ed in court, that he was looking fo a' position and expected to land on< lie was Riven until Monday to niak connections with the government do imrtment which he said would plac liTin. sn.'l-vaniM Iftat tin pairi?iifl:itr would he tolerated. Meanwhile Thompson's club friend are trying to help him out of hi dilemma, for (loorge A. Muhone, Di rector of the Compulsory work lai bureau, isn't in the habit of plckinj out soft snaps when lie finds place lor the jobless. lie has placed a mini tier of habitually unemployed person on the public roads and in simila positions not palatable to club men. Social circles are amused rathe than perturbed over Mr. Thompson' predicament. Others situated as I Thompson have got positions a "bond salesmen." which Director Ma hone says will not work any longer. Thompson, when he appeared befor the magistrate, pulled out a roll o bills that made the eyes of the peo pie in the little court bulge, and askei how much cash ball would be repuirei to guarantee his appearance at th hearing on Monday. The magistral s-id that Thompson's word was suf licient. Thompson, who was at the hem of a tlrm of bankers and brokers, re tired from active business about lei years ago, deciding to lead a life o gentlemanly leisure. He is now abou forty-six years old and makes hi home at the Maryland club. Severn years ago he married -Miss Olive Gill daughter of the late Gen. John GUI who was president of the Mercantil Trust and Deposit Company. Sh secured a divorce from him and ha since married Charles K. Hisphnm. Thompson was arrested while a his mother's home In West Madisoi street, anil journeyci! to the wester: avenue police station in his auto mobile, accompanied by the police man, McGahnn, who had served th w irrant. iiiH frientl. Uoyal Gilt, when slmi larly placed recently, went into th aviation service. Thompson will no discuss his prost>ects. Baskets are Scarce?War condition have forced America to depend al most exclusively on her own resource for a supply of baskets, It is revealei in a report of an investigation of th industry niado public by the tarll commission. Importation of cheaper baskets vir tually has stopped. Prior to the wa * ttfrmauy was iiit.* im^csi marvvi u the commodity for the American trndi Then Japan, which had taken up th task after the blockade of the Germai coast, was compelled to relinquish i large export trade in baskets to thi country because of an Increase ii ocean freight rates from 13 to $3 per ton. In this country, says the commis sion's report, scarcity of labor, strikes Increased coast of material and highe wages have resulted in a rise ii price of the finished article from 10 to 200 per cent. As a result, many o the large commercial consumers ar turning to substitute containers mad of papier-mache, pasteboard and wooi veneer. Willow and rattan basket-making 1: this country is chiefly a household in dustry- The manufacture of splinl or woo4 veneer baskets Is carried oi in factories, and in this line the Ameri can manufacturers has no competi tion from abroad. Liverpool, N. Y with the sole exception of New Yorl city, turns out more willow basket than any other place in the country A pre-war output of between 10,00 and 15,000 doxen annually has bee! I exceeded materially in the last year. 5 GOING OF THE TROOPS J- m ? Story of Parting with old Cob ? rades. FORMER ROOKIES NOV SOLDIERS. k, n Scenes And Sentiments In Connec tion Of The Departure Of Troo Trains For Over There?Wives An " Mother* Requested To be oravcJ' All The Men In Good Shape Moral h ly, Mentally And Physically. 'e (fussed by the Censor.) ,c Camp Sevier, May 11?They wen away the other day?the eom|>an 'y with whom I soldiered here for si 'n months or so. Where they went couldn't say because 1 don't know an neither did they know where the td were going. But they were hopefi and confident that they were on th e- first lap of the journey "over there 5e and I guess that is where they wcr d headed. I shall never forget their go ,e ing away. I have seen hundreds c soldiers board trains here with thei y{ Knfields on their shoulders, smiles o s their taces. gladness expressed i d their eyes and a song on their lip 8 as they boarded the trains. It wa d the same with my old comjxiny. Tha l" company has over been noted to holding a straight line and as the l* inarched up the concrete road to th y ears that day, their line was neve strnightcr; the good old "Skipper" n ie tin ir head never had tnore |>cp in hi 10 step; the old company never went o' d a hike with half so mueli interest an r enthusiasm as they did on that littl n hike tliat preceded their entr 10 into the long line of I'ulltnans await ing them and the other companies o 11 the regiment. Ik-side them, or rathe d as near to them as regulations wouli " permit, walked numerous relative >' eoine to see them off and wish then r- (tod-speed. Thoie were a number n J >oi;ng wives there, one or two of titer earr; ing little babies in their arm? e gray haired mothers and fathers " beautiful sisters ami iiandsome broth ers not yet cnlled into the service There was one little codger, abou three years old. 1 should say, wn * also wore an O. 1). suit, a ininiat-ir of his dad's and at Intervals of alou n a minute he would look up into th face of his young soldier father in i manner just so proud. There wer * very few tears. One or two of ml " friends of the old company told m ' they had consented to the presence o their wives on their promise that the; would not cry. What tears there wet 0 were tears of pride. "Clod bless >oi *' boy; 1 was never prouder of you thg) ' right now," I heard one father te| ids son, a lad I well knew. "You coming back; we are eountingVti! your coming I nick, and both yoif the world will be better for your'^ " Ing." ^gJj) ' The boys got a payroll ju?ft|^mB ' or two before they pulled out and al of th< m were just "lousy" with mon 8 ey. rockets were stuffed with cigar 8 cttes and tobaccos and little nick * knacks of ont- kind and another v "Might get 'to where this kind o K stuff is hard to get," explained White; 8 Kelloy to me. "They say you eai - get plenty of cigarettes and tobaccoi 8 and even a little light booze over ii r Krnnec and I guess it's so but I aln' taking no chances on being out o r cigarettes soon. He had $5 wortl 8 stowed about hiin somehow. 3 I chanced to see my old friend Calli 3 ban, a cook, before he pulled out wit I * the rest of tin- boys. He was in : baggage ear cutting ham for sand c wiches, a glad smile on his good' ' nntared face. "S' long, laddie," h< * said. "Sorry you ain't in on tin? ' trip. Ib-re you don't get nothing t? eat in the CjM." and he handed ine r e l?ijr thick sandwich. 0 "Well," he said In a thoughtfu * mood; "I don't know where we an going lint believe me we are starting somewhere pretty quick. Helieve me " buddy. 1 am tickled, 'cause I am tiret n of cooking? chow in this old camp. ' was just wondering? the other daj 1 how many beans and spiuls and flap' 3 jacks and one thing; and another ' have cooked in this camp. Millions ' I reckon." ' "Yep, several of 'em Callic," I said 0 "Ctood too." 0 "Yep," he said, "reckon you wll 8 miss me like the dickens. Fact reckon you have missed me a heai 1 since you been in the QM, 'cause n used to let you put a lot o' bull ovei n on me so you could get something extra to cat." "You're a brick old man," I replied "Yes," he said 'and I reckon yoi bi en a friend o' mine. I ain't forgo alt them tetters you used to write fo e me and them quarters you used t< 1 slip me when you had 'em and didn't. And say, boy, if you ever go across and get hungry, why just lool s me up." 1 felt like crying a little myself n! 8 I gave the Mick's hand a good-byi d shake. e T I noted a great change that hascomi over that company of men since las _ October?their general manner am r their attitude toward military life f The National Guardsmen among wn.. , wore 100 per cent better soldiers th( e day they left than they were prior t< n being mustered into the Federal ser vice July, a year ago. As tor thi drafted men among them, they were t ? thousand per cent. Clean shaven a q clean cut. clear eyed, spry as crickets hard as nails, their faces tanned bj many a cold wind that came over th< mountain ranges here the past hnr< ^ winter, they could not have possibl: r been In better physical condition jj And mentally, and I honestly hellevi I can say. spiritually, they were bette; men than when they came Into thi e army. In that particular company u| * lo three months ago, there were a least twenty-five men who could no write or read the language the] n spoke. Now they can. There wen * a number among them who had pevei ^ l?een thrown into association wltl n their fellow men in numbers an] ' greater than might be found in * tendance on some little church In i sparsely settled district There wen some who seven months ago had pos sibly heard of Germany; but that wai r' all. They have learned a lot; the: 0 are better men for having lived h a yellow tents and for having worke* long and hard on a parade ground. - i I said good-bye to Hayes Colliei along with the rest. Hayes came intt me service last September witn i ^ number of other Tonnessi-eans. frorr his community. He was a blacksmitl in civil life and as hard a nut as evei came down the pike. His fellows usee to tell of his exploits and he was reyarded with fear for a while. It . seems that he killed a man l?ack ir p his Tennessee home anil laid anothei j away w ith his knife. When the sherifl _ undertook to arrest him. he pulled . his min and informed the officer it would take more than one to put him in the jail. A jiosse was formed and before they got the boy three of them y had hulfets in their bodies while hi x entertained several himself. Hi j "pulled" four years for the crime and d got his release by the pardon route, y When he came Into my old comd Pfiny his reputation came with him, e But he changed. Maybe It was be cause he realized that since there e were so many there wjio.se way was . not his way, it would be to his In,( terests to change his tactics. He r started to soldiering and It was only n a couple of months before he canu n to be regarded as one of the best 8 soldiers in the outfit, mentally, moral 8 iy ana pnysicany. i huh- mm ... t church once or twice and more than r one family In the city of Greenville y lias entertained him ut Sunday dine ncr, little dreaming of his past. He r was worthy of the entertainment. He t goes across a gentleman and a sure s enough soldier. n I know him well and hold a high d regard for him. He's told me n nume her of things I have reason to believe y he never told anybody else In this . camp. And I wish America had !?, ,( 000.000 just like Collier the blnckr smith, over there, j It was hard to say "so-long" to Hill 8 Held, Hill whom I bunked ami tenta ed with for three months. 1 used to f divide the boxes that I received front u home with him own as he used to !, divide with me"those his mother sent i. him from out in Tennessee, lie used . to tell me about his girl and the wealthy lad with a Cadilac S, "who is t beating his time now that ho is in o the army." "Dad burned old war e dodger," he used to say in referring t to his rival. He too goes somewhere e a better man than when he caim? a better from every standjtoint. He's e 25. and he hns yet to take his lirsl y" drink of liquor If he ever does. I e" never heard hlin utter an on in aim f fte was a top sergeant, too! And y, the only girl I ever heard him rnen0 tlon was his lady-love In Tennessee, uj Six feet, three Inches In height, & weighing 200 pounds, active as a cat, 5 Little chance will that Hun or Huns have who ever encounters big Hill P Field in a bayonet duel! | Yes, the old crowd has gone away, a I'll never forget them and my exper|p iences and associations with them, .jtbcm again?or most of them, 1 some time, some^^ZZZZZZZ^ZT It will be a greiurvuniort^^^ Another crowd pulled out for some{ where just the day before my old . company did, a company that iiulud( ed fellows ns close if not closer to s me than my old outfit because In the j company of which I atn now spcakI ing were many fellows from my home f county and state. , Among them was Hob Dunlap, "I'hilly Dunlap," his comrades call him. The big cigar that is alwajs in j the corner of his mouth when he has . a nickel to buy one was there. He hail cut the brim off of one of Vnele Sam's cast off army hats, or someone ? elne had, and he wore it on the side t of his head. His shirt was open wide } at the throat because the day was , hot and he was as happy and enthusiastic and eager to be off as I could be. ? "Well Jim," he said, "we are off for , somewhere. I guess it will be a long time before you and I drive my old I mare around the country-side any I more and attend every break-down (. dance for miles around in the winter . and all the picnics and lawn parties In i summer." k The ln.st I saw of Ifob he was standing on the platform of a coach, his . cigar still in the corner of his month, and his little skull hat-cap. too small 1 for his big head, perched on one side. I And he was waving and smiling. ^ There was Ellie Hrandon and Kip 1 Woods and Arthur Lytic and a score r of others of my friends from I'ort j Mill and Bock Hill and elsewhere. Hal Mackorell of my town was among the . number and jdst before the troop j train left out 1 wired his father to t meet the train in Gnstonla, X. O., r thinking there might be a possibility j that he could t>ent It there by auto. I I hope he did. t Yes. they all wont away smiling and < singing. As a rule the departure of troop i trains does not interest me. because ? it has become a frequent occurrence here. But the going of the two I have ? written about, did. Jas. D. Grist, t . ' About Newspaper Stories?"Where ' do you get the absurd facts you print?" is a favorite query put to newspaper men. In the view of these cynics, newspapers spend most of their " timo mispelling names, imagining accidents that never happen, and gener' ally manhandling life as it Is led. ' There is just one answer to be made to the auerv above and that Is "News papers get such of their facts as are ? absurd from the absurd human beings 1 who for one reason or a thousand f refuse to relate facts accurately." ' Newspapers, truth-telling newspapers, e spend a very large part of their time r correcting these misstatements, runz nlng them to their source and getting 9 the truth. A certain proportion ol 1 errors gets by?not cm great a pro1 portion as can be heard In any village f neighborhood gossip, for it is the cons cern of newspapers, of honest ones, r that is, to allow for errors and cor^ rect them, whereas it is the concern o( f those other purveyors of news, gos sips, to create errors whenever they i are more interesting than the truth. s The next time you find an error in - your favorite newspaper try an exper' iment Try to capture one smaU fact T yourself in your own home town, i Too will discover quickly lust how 1 wary a bird the truth is, and how very unpopular.?Nfcw York Tribune. Int the start of the expedition the Vindictive was escorted to the Belj. gian coast l?y monitors and a fleet of destroyers and motor i>oats. Kverything went splendidly until a dense t- fog came over the sea. reducing the at visibility to about 30o to 400 yards and making the Vindlctive's task of a sealing up the harl>or much more r. difficult. |n She was spotted by the enemy when two and a half miles away, and a heavy tire was opened on the at Picking flotilla from eleven, six and four CO inch guns. To this attack four monitors replied with all their guns. It was curious that while U00 shots fell around two of the monitors withIg out a hit being registered, the Vindictive was repeatedly struck and !* several casualties occurred. For r GENERAL NEWS NOTES. > 1 Record of Current Happenings Co lected from Various Sources. i r Oeorge Kirkenburst, married Chris I mas day. shut his wife to death i . Johnstown. Pa.. Sunday, t Four men held up the patrons of i Richmond. Va.. pool room last Satu day night and got away with $5,000 I ' cash and $2,000 in jewelry. The hlgl I way men escaped in an automobile. President Wilson has" decided I 1 pass the entire summer in Washlngtc ' this year, as he did last, so that 1 1 can keep in constant personal touc with nil the nation's vast war-maklr machinery. The total of British casualties r< ported in the week ending Tuesday 41,612. They are divided as followi Killed or died of wounds: Officers 20: men, 5.065. Wounded or missing | Oflirers, 2. 12S; men. 33.92$. Official figures show that the nun , her of houses in Paris damaged t (ierman aerial bombardments is one I 1,000. The insurance companies ga^ ' A AAA ' ' n nramlill lu.uuu I rants lusuruikc 1U| u of twenty francs, or at the proportio of 500 to 1. There are 107,000 women employe in the Prussian railroad service. Tl Prussian railroad minister, Von Breli enbnch, in so announcing in the Prui 1 sian house of deputies, said it was a! tonishing to see what tho wome could do. The Berlin municipal granaries net Oroslieeren have lieen destroyed I tire with the loss of 20.000 quintos < ' grain, according to a dispatch froi 1 the Zurich correspondent of the Par Petit Journal. A qulnto Is equivalcr to a hundredweight. Some of the German prisoners < war arc sus[>ected of having volur tarily agreed to their transfer froi Russian prisoner of war camps I France. This action must be cot sidered as desertion, declared Gencri von Oven in the German reichstag, at cording to the Cologne Gazette. Railway fare of one cent a mile, ir . eluding war tax, may l>e granted to er listed soldiers and sailors by Dlrectl , General McAdoo within a short tlm according to William E. Golden, i Chicago attorney, after a conferent with the director general. The redui ed rate. Golden declared, will enab soldiers and sailors to visit their homi more frequently. Mrs. Antlonett" Smith, celebratf her 106th birthday at Springfield, III , Monday, by eating candy while it vallded in bed. Her oldest son, Mar i uel, aged SO, is her only worry, st says. "Aunty" Smith was born in ti Madeira islands, In IS 12. She has foi other children and a great, grea grandchild living. Eight steel ships totalling 48,IE tons were completed during the seve days twilling Way V . foiu tetal | were launched with a total tonnage < r.7 mo. of which seven were stei with n total capacity of 32,100 ton The steel deliveries included one r< frigerator ship, two tankers and flv cargo vcsels. "My name is J. P. Raggs. I am th father of H. T. Haggs, who was one c the hoys lost on the Cyclops. I war to do something for my country." Th speaker, a heavy-set man wearin spectacles, stood before one of th draft boards as he spoke. An invest! gatlon revealed that he was a skille mechanic. He was sent to one of th United States shipyards. Count James Minotto, son-in-law < Ia>uis F. Swift, the packer, was take into custody, in Chicago, Tuesday b deputy United States marshals on presidential warrant ordering his ir ternment. A habeas corpus action wa immediately instituted in behalf c the count and he was taken befoi Federal Judge Carpenter and release on $50,000 bond. Hearings of argu inents on the habeas corpus proceed ings was set for May 20. Army surgeons at Camp Upton, J Y.. have rejected George Hell, glat negro, becauso he is too big to be soldier. George is about seven fe? eleven inches tall ("lucky comhinn lion," he says) and tips the scales ? 350 i>ounds. He had to be carried o the company rolls as two men becau* he couldn't get along on the ratior of a single soldier. m? ?n?w wo- - a pair in peace times and he polnte out the regulation equipment of thr? pairs would knock a big hole in tl Liberty Loan. The murder of Captain Hadjcjoul the Greek commander, who In 191 surrendered 8,000 troojts to tl enemy in eastern Macedonia, was r< ported to the Greek legation In Wast ington, in a dispatch from Athen Sunday. The colonel was killed by ( Greek sergeant. He had been hel with other Greeks as a prisoner I Macedonia. The murder was inspire' the dispatch said, by hatred of tt colonel for his part in the movemei said to have the sanction of King Cot stantlne, for recruiting Greeks in Tui key to fight against Greece. After escaping from bolshevik pui suers who had offered a price for h< capture, dead or alive, Mme. Leon Batch kereva, who was senior captai of Kussia's famous Battalion of Deati arrived at a Pacific port, Monda; Mme. Batchkereva is en route t France, where she will offer her sci vices to the Allies. "I am ready to dl on the field of honor," she said. With 1 price on her head, the woman soldh 1 was smuggled out of Moscow t ; friends of the Kerensky regime an taken to Vladivostok '1a the Tram ' Siberian railway. Artfvlng at Vlad ' vostok she took refuge on a Britis ship with her daughter, who ha ; Joined her, but shortly afterward tt ' two were taken aboard a second navi vessel on this they were brought 1 ' the United States. BLOCKING' OF OSTENO. ' Only Five Men Lost Lives in Darin Expedition. ' It was in the face of many dlfflcui ties and under a heavy Are from tf i German land batteries that the Bril lah navy succeeded in blocking Of ! tend harbor by sinking the cniliw Vindictive in the channel, where sli ' lies choaklng the passage, If not el ' fectively closing 1L A telegram from Dover says ttu ! twenty minute*, trying first to eastward and then to westward, the Vlnl: dietive grouped for the entrance to the r: harbor. The firing from the shore In which machine gun batteries had l- joined, was terrific. iy However, the Vindictive was got in into the channel, her nose was driven re Into the eastern pier and as the ship m swung around, partially blocking the ,n entrance to the harbor, her engine rooms and stokeholds were cleared and charges were set off to send her ie down, a mass of iron and concrete, , On setting out on her last voyage 8_ the cruiser had barely one-twentieth s_ of the complement she had when she n took |>art In the Zeebrugge raid. As soon as she was sunk two motor boats gallantly went to the rescue of ir her crew under the heavy machine gun ' v lire and t?oth were very severely pun' Islted. One of them took off two otll111 cors and thirty-eight men and safely ^ conveyed them to the flagship, where the motor bout was found to be so riddled with bullets that after disJf charging the rescued she was sunk l" to prevent her falling Into hands of 111 the enemy. !o , , , ?- THE RED CROSS MONEY ll What Went With That First Great Contribution, i- John I). Rynn, vice chairman of the >- war council, recently disci, .seil the >r dishursements of the first $100,000,noo e, American Red Cross fund and s|>okc a of the necessity for further funds. He announced that the week set apart 1- for the drive is May 20 to 27. le "We have collected ?105.000.000," js said Mr. Ityan. "We have allowed refunds to chapters?as you know, id chapters are entitled to retain 25 per I,, cent of the collections covered by the 1- chapter. They have not in all cases availed themselves of the 25 per cent, te but we have allowed $17,006,121 on ie this account. We have appropriated ir to date $77,721,018 and we have availt, able for appropriation on March 1 $10,371,217, with the addition of $3,!0 500,000 we know to he perfectly good l6 when called upon. ?J ."Tho apprfljulaHoM ha?o bw jf itiade to the different countries as folel lows: France, $30,936,103; Belgium, s $2,086,131: Italy, $3,5S8,826: Russia, $1,2-13,813; Roumanla, $2,676,368; Ser e via, $875,180; Brent Britain. $1,885,750, including $1,000,000 that was appropriated by the war council to the British War Relief, and for other for' eign relief work, $3,576,300. "For relief work for prisoners we 6 have ex|>ended $313,304, and this g work is only beginning. These approprlntionn have been mode to care for j the prisoners that we feared might lataken. Wo also spent for equipment P ? , am! expenses or ttea uross personnel sent abroad $113,800; for army I '' hospitals In the- I'nlted States. $54.n 000: for navy base hospitals in the y I'nltrd States, $33,000; for medical a and hospital work In the United l" States, $531,000; for sanitary service lit camps In this country, $103,000; for camp service in the United States, e $0,151,150, and miscellaneous In the United States, $1,1 IS,748. We have l" funds restricted as to use by the '* donors amounting to $2,530,409, and we have as a working capital for the f. purchase of supplies for resale to it, chapters or for shipment to France a of $15,000,000. We have working cash ;t advances for France and the United i- States of $4,286,000. it "People say we use 60 cents to n spend a dollar. The expenses of the ie lied Cross today are well within the is amount of money provided by mem.8 bership fees. No part of the $105,000id 000 that we got Is spent for carrying >e on the work." ie ? After The War.?If you have a boy 0 over there you can guess exactly how g he feeis by this contribution by one of lt. the editors of Stars and Stripes, the j. American army paper published on k_ the French front. 8, We Should Worry a "What will we do when we get Id back? Will the old job be open, or will ,n some nice old gentleman or nicer d, young lady be holding it down, to the ie great satisfaction of our former emit ployers? What will be our chances i- when the war's over two, three, four, r- five, ten, twenty yeani from now, to be cheerful about It?of connecting r. with regular and fairly profitable em5r ployment? ia "These and similar questions bob up n every once In a while, and there ts no reason at all why they shouldn't. We y. all want to know the answer to the o "After the War?What?" which the - platform lecturer and the magazine ie writer are always dinning into our ears a and eyes. We'll have to answer It our:r selves some one of these fine days, and >y we might as well give It some thought, d "At a pinch, we can all dig trenchea 9- That will come in mighty handy in a I- town like New York which Is being lh torn up all the time. We can all clean d streets, put up shelves in billets, and ie roll blankets. And, of course, we can all peel potatoes and lug water. If the ? cook trusts us, we can learn even more things. In short, there is hardly a thing In the street-cleaning, trenchcleaning, house-cleaning, town-cleaning or culinary line that we haven't 9 learned to do. Some of the favored ! few have become adepts at the gentile |e art of wood-chopping, and in a little while some others will have a chance ( to learn ground and lofty gardening. ,r . We should worry about Jobs when ie we get back. r. ? Mr. W. H. Hartness, editor of the Newberry Observer, has been quite Ll sick for some days. j " HUNNISH BARBARITY Thts Idea 01 far Gets Tben No Gala. EVEN TUIliHE OUT OF STNPATII Mohammedan* Of India Are More Civilized Than The Germane, And They Cannot Be Tempted To Swap British Rule For German Kulter. Bombarding Rhoims Cathedral by the Germans did more than destroy this sacred old treasure house of worship and beauty. More than anything else, it shattered the possibility of a Holy War of all Mohammedans, united under German's r.lly, Turkey against the Christians, upon which the Kaiser had pinned his hopej. Bishop Warne who had been a Methodist missionary in India for SO years, returning to New York a few days a?o In connection with the Centenary celebration of the Methodist Episcopal church says that India in common with a'l the civilised world, stood aghast when she heard of thb bombardment of Rhelms cathedral. "What kind of people are these Germans?" asked the* native Indian. "They huve no respect even for places of worship?no reverence for God Himself. If they came down here they would destroy our mosques, and violate our sanctuaries too." By this wanton desecration, Germany classitleld herself in India as a barbarian. "Aside from every other consideration," said Bishop Warne, "It was a tremendous blunder on Germany's part. If the kaiser had succeeded In organzing the Holy War he dreamed of, ullgning 67 millions in India with the Mohammedans of Turkey against the Allies, he could have annihilated a large number of English and other white people, scattered through India, and he would have had the Inestimable advantage of a friendly element in India. "But If the kaiser had had anv sense of Indian psychology, ho would have realized that this was a fatal mistake. An incident in Cawnpore a few years ago might have given him warning. It was decided to straighten out some of the important streets of the city. One of those streets ran past a Mohammedan mosque, and ran across the extreme corner of a great prayer platform which stretches out in front of the mosque. It was agreed that It would be out of the question to cut off the corner of this platform to make way for the street. But the governor of the United Provinces had ruled that this street must be made straight. As a compromise, It was decided to tunnel under the corner of this platform, and let the street dip under It, anjl come out on lie ARr side. I'heuprSar and pro^ """" "^* test that this occasioned might well have occasioned a revolution If, after considerable disturbance, the Viceroy himself had not conic to the city, and reversed the ruling of the governor. The fact thct the Viceroy did make this concession, and was willing to give this recognition to the sacredness of their holy place accomplished a great deal in winning the sympathy of the Mohammedan world, and putting them In the frame of mind which hns meant such loyal support to Britain in the war. "For the Mohammedan is tremendously Intelligent. They were quite shrewd enough to put these two cases side by side, and appreciate the coniram. 11 may ue imuKinea tnat tremendously deep Influence. were at work to cause the Mohammedan people not only to differ In their sympathies In this war, but to be willing to take up arms against each other. After this bombarding of Itheims cathedral, so strong was the feeling In India against joining the German side In the war, that an Indian Mohammedan National League was formed In Lucknow where I was living, and there Indian Mohammedans sent many cable messages to the Turks, urging them to keep out. When finally it was announced that Turkey had joined Germany, Mohammedans In India said, Well?this Is a political war, It Is In no way a religious war, and we will not be drawn In.' "It is an Interesting proof of their loyalty to England that they not only failed to Join their brother co-rellglonists in war, but that they have turned out so enthusiastically under the British flag, to flght against them. It Is an irony of fate that it should be a Mohammedan army under British officers which is today taking, winning the Holy Land away from the Turkish Mohammedans." Discussing German propaganda In India Rinhnn Wnrnp cavn It as his personal opinion that a large part of the agitations against British rule in India, masquerading as Nationalism, Home Rule, etc., Is paid tor by German spies. "I recall an incident which illustrated the prompt unquestioning loyalty which individual Indians have shown. There in Lucknow, there was an Austrian druggist from whom I had happened to buy my drugs for ten or twelve years, he telleved, at the beginning of the war that Indian sympathy would be with Germany. One night he was playing tennis with a couple of Mohammedan gentlemen, and during the game, he made remarks which showed his strong proGermanism. They finished the game. but as soon as It was over, these Mohammedans went directly to the office of the British commissioner in Lucknow. Inside of an hour his home was in the hands of the British army. By mid-night, he was on his way to an internment camp. In his homs, they found blue prints of every British fort in India. He was an important German spy, and his conversation on the tennis court had evidently been a feeler, to find out how the land lay." ? David B, Traxler of Greenville, Aivln H. Dean and Proctor A. Barbour of Greenville, and H. L. Botnar and Ira C. Blackwood of Spartanburg, have been mentioned as probable candidates against Sam Nlcholls for congress. * A