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quality. The patriotism of the Kng Ushman Is undemonstrative. Th' Britisher surrounds his home.ana his snrrien with a high brick wall, con? ceals his tiner feelings from his closest friends, an.l when ho sfltars his elub on Fall .Mall ami disappears behind tho threshold, the door is closed upon a tomb. The American's patriotism Is largely academic; nat? ional safety through isolation breeds contempt for danger. The time was when his love of country was vocifer? ous on the Fourth of July, but th s enthusiasm has died down, until he is now ready to extinguish even a I firecracker. The occasional spvakei deals In historical statements about the four wars fought by our coun? try. But the Frenchman's love of country has a tender, gentle, wooing aote. Ms speaks of I?a Belle Franc ? as l.Hinto spoke of Beatrice, as Pe? trarch spoke of laiura, and the name of France linger* upmt his li|>s i. mu#tc trembles in the air after tin song Is sung. The re ison. doubtless Is found In tho fact that the French people have carved the hillsides and ?moothe.) the valleys and adorned the ridges and luoutalns with vine > a ds. until the whole land is a thing of radiant beauty. It is lov that has made France beautiful. Just as the kirk, after completing th? neat, makes it soft and warm by put', tng tho down out of her own bosom. Tho French people love France as an artist loves his own canvas, ns Pclllnl loved the missal he had II lurrniuted. and a> that young archi tec loved the little Uoslyn chapei upon whose delicate capitals he bail lavished his very* soul. W?ould you have an emblem of Franc?? in th? month oT June, with wld \ fat valleys, her green pastures and the hillsides up which tho pines climbed in serried regiments? If so, take a great robe of green velvet lying loosely on the floor, the creases a no velvet ridgos answerin,; to the riv?rs and the valleys and the hii'.s, and then Hing a handful of rubles, pearls and sapphires down, so that thes--* gems will He within the creases as Ihe lovely Fron? h cities at the foot of the hills and beside the rivers, and you have France. the beautiful France, tho mother of the modern arts and sciences; Frame, full of sweetness and light?that Franco con eerniig which Heinrich Heine ex claiinod "oh. Fram e, thou daughter of beaut) ! Thy name Is culture!" The three groat enemies of farms and towns and cities have been flro. flood and earthomiko. Witness th city of St. Pierre. An Interior ex plosi??n blew off tho cap of tho moun? tain and a Mood of gas poured down upon the lovolv city, asphyxiated the ?StIsens, and left not one house stand? ing. Witness that mighty convulsion In flan Francisco, that brought thou? sands of bricks crashing down In ruins. Witness the flro in Chicago, that tamed the great city into twist? ed irtn and ashes. In New Zealand thare la a lake called Avernus. the birdleesj lake. Poisonous gases rlM from the black flood of water, and ?o?m xwm lark, with lt? song, and the saglo. with Its flight fall Into the poison >us flood Bet all these I maces are quits in*1 ?OVfuate to explain the desolatton. I the devastation of Francs upon th retreat of the 'lermans. About 4 mils* rorth of Parts one strikes th'. rained region. Then hour after boor ptsses. while w.th slow move-1 ment and breaking heart one Journ? eys .*e? miles to tho north and 2>g sags III miles South sgaln through that black region. The time was when It waa a wild land, rough, with forest niled with wolves. Th-.n the French? man entered the scene. He subdued all the wild grass* s to which Julius Caesar referred in his s? sjjf of his war in Fran -e; he drained the valleys and Widened the stre.?11,-4 into canals. He enriched the fields, and m.ole therci wave with gold. He surro undsd the muadow* with aassfssji hedges, and hanked where there had BejSSj gl swimp with perfumed ?hru? ? Slow ? ly he tlirew archeH of sr< n. across IE* sxretms and i . ? ' tie bridge* unfil they were h In art, while everything made for use was carried up to outbreaking beauty. The roof of the d o n had i '\.|y lines, tin- ap? proach to the heSJat was u)>oh a curved pmkI; the highway* were shad e?l lfjr two rows of nolde Ire? s The Stony hillside was t'-rrac! d. and then the vines grew purple in the sun. How simple was his life' What a sanctuary his little hone With what rich cmhroid. ry nf wheat and corn he covered all the hills! He was prudent vlthout belmr stingy, thrifty without Icing mean. Jl saves against o|#| nife with one hind and distributes to hH children with the other. And. having lavished all their lov npon tin- little farm house, the granary and the barn; hiving pruned tho graveplnos with their clusters at whlto urn' purple until cob scene l like a friend, dear as that miracii lolls picture u i. to I*.mi is .mil Philo men. hi. in* at last Sauds ifft to l>e shapely, their little world \ Invest- I with affection and beauty. Pg y m renumber how tint Fhn cutilie nrtliit after his d i> h stud ,\ . none, tolled upon his studio, slowly ?irving- the capitals, collecting it lil ? tie terra-cotta from Cypius, an old manuscript from Athene a lovd\ head of Apollo from Kphesus, and iridescent glass from 1 tirate, with a hit of old Tyrian purple lending a spot of llame in one Corner ami a Uttll mosaic from Thebes colored an other, when ho saw the end was approa? hing, while on a visit to Kgypt. asked that he might be car? ried home to tile in the stfudio, which lie made rich with his soul .' What the Hideous Hun lias Done. In some sucji way as that tie French peasants loved their land, and then lost It. CMeJ morning the ene? my stood at the gate. The farmer with his pruning knife was no match for it Gorman with a machine gun. and doWU he went under the plum tree he was pruning. 'I he devas? tated legions of Fiance are like UUlJ a devil world, All tin pear and plum troae have fallen over Ulldei the stroke of a Herman a.\e. and arc dead and dry. Here and there one ?c.s an occasional treu where a hali .nib of bark remains, and. sympathis? ing with the peasant s sorrow, the roots have sent a Hood of sympa? thetic tears and sap out into one lit? tle branch amidst thi death of a hun? dred other boughs that flamed in .May its rose and pink of bloom, then in August gave its red glow to clust? ered food, Hut as for the rest, it is desolatioi . Hone all the (beautiful bridges? hey have been dynamit? ed. (Jone all the lovely and majestic thirteenth century church? es, (lone all the galleries, for every city of ?.hiu people in France has its quarterly exhibition of paintings sent out from i'aris, and some of the linost art treasures in the wo.Id have per? ished. T* :e land has been put back to where It was when Julius Caesar described it 2,0 mi years ago?a wild land, and wast,-, growing up with thorns and thistles. That eroclama tion on a wall tells th" whole story: ? Let no building stand, no vine or tree. Psfori retreating, lot each well be plentifully polluted with corpses ami with erseoote.*' The spirit was this: 'Since we Germans cannot have this land, no one else shall." Vonr syOS dovct saw a more ex? quisite bit of carving for tho cor? ner if a roof than this (a Spray of Ifiyrtle leaves, carved in stone, after the Hermans had destroyed the Cathedral or Arras. > Look at this firebrand. Beery Oer man company of soldiers carried one automobile lorry tilled with these flrobtf?mis. with a tank of gasoline hanging beneath tho axles, ?nie of the historic chi* eaus is that of Avricnurt. rich In no? ble associations of history. It was on< of the buildings specially oovsrd bj a clause in the international agree? ment bottrassj Fngiand, Germany, France, ihe Fnited States and all the civilized nations, sat "guarding his? toric buildings. For many months it was the home of Prince Kite 1, the Kaiser's second son. For ed to retreat, the age,; French servants, who understood the electric lighting and the gas plant and serv? ed i-atei during his ocesjpanoy, wit**i the Judge and jury held the trial at the rums of the ( hut. hi State I that they heard the (Jerm ui officers tell? ing Kitel that he would disgrace the German name If he destroyed a building that had no relation to war and could be of practically no aid or comfort to the French army, ,<ind hfl would make his own name ? name of shame and contempt, of obloquy and score), Hut the bum would not yield. He brought in great wagons and mov? ed to the freight cars at the station absolutely every object that was in the splendid ? bateau. And. having promised to leave the building unin? sured, he Stepped .his Oar at the en? trance und exit gates of the ground, ran back to the historic building with ? can of oil that ho had secreted, tilled the S?hesten in this ball of per? forated iron, ran through the halle and v. 11ted until the Haines wa re well in progress, and then ordered his men 'o light the fuse of a dynamite bomb. All the letUltMHI) was taken Imme? diately afterward from aged servants ind from tho little children, and the degeneracy revealed has not been surpassed states the Bret chapter of Kornaus was- written on the unnatural crimes of the ancient world. There arc the oeplse of the affidavits. In the ruins, had beside tin ?d ick mar? ble steps, i peeked up this firebrand with which Prince Kitel assassinat? ed a building that belonged to tie civilised world, l hop., to rive long enough see (brmany forced to repay at least one debt, in addition to 10, . others. Conceived by the (!oth> architects, after Iff >??.,)? of neglect, the Hermans, about 181 ., completed the Cathedral ot Cologne. When this war is Oy. ,-, every stone it, mat cathe? dral should be searfced, German pris? oners should be madi to pull those stones apart, Herman cais be made to transport SVOfS pgAR* lo Louvniu. and Herrn.hi hands made to set up the Cathedral Of Cologne in Hoiivain or Arras. For a unlgm, m day is conn || tn Hormuny, ami. though dull and lieuv) minds doubt il, men of vision ? .1 1 mm" percoIvo Its Incidents and outline^ yJ road) tailing shape. Hut Qm ruin of rill bridges, pis sohoolhouse, his churches, his farm houses, his vineyards nnd orchards li the least of his sorrows. In o lit lls village, near Ham dwelt n man who ha?i sated a fortune far his old ago 100,000 frone*. When the Invading arm) iii<c ? black wave was approach Ihg, \u> burled bii treasure beneath the largO flat stones that made the walk from the road UP to the fron' step Of his house. Then, Wltll tin other villagers, the Old man fled. Many months passed by, While the Hermans bombarded the village. At last the Herman wa\e retreated, and ones more the old man drew near p> his little Village. There was nothing, nothing loft After a long time he located the street, which was oh the very edge of the town, but oould not und the collar Of his own house. Oreo! shells had fallen. Exploding In the eellar. they had blown the bricks away. Other shells had fallen hard by and blown dirt to bll what once had boon ? cellar. The small trees in front of ins house bad been blown away and replaced by shell pits. In Paris Ambssador Bharn told ms that the aged man had up to that time failed to locate his house, much lei his treasure. I!ut what Hilles light as air art houses! At the Officers' chateau late om night after returning from the front B general and a captain wen- recount? ing their experiences. Among oth? er Incidents was this one. Durlns the winter of 1915, months after the Germans had occupied that territory, several Bnglish officers and a young French captain were recounting (heir experiences. In saying the farewells l SfDre each man went out to his place in the trenches to look after his men, the English boy exclaimed: "Next week at this time I will be home. Five more days and my week's leave of absence OOmes." Then sud? denly remembering that the French captain had been there a long time, he asked wheOj he was gcing home. To which came this low answer: "1 have no home. You men do not un? derstand. Your English village ha never been invaded. W hen the Ger? mans left my little town, they de? stroyed every little building! My wife and my little daughter are both ex? pecting* babies within a few weeks I, I-? I?" and the storm broke. Tin two Englishmen Red Into the dark night, knowing that there was a night that was blacker, that rain Was nothing against those tears, for all his hopes of the future were dead. His only task was to recover France sind transfer all his ambitons to God' in heaven. That fs why there will be no Incon? clusive peace, Do not delude your s? if. Whether this war goes on one year or live years or ten years, it will go on until these Frenchmen are on German soil. Nor will the Gorman ever learn the wickedness of his own atrocities and the crime of miltar ism until his own land is laid waste until he sees the horrors of war with his- own eyes, ami hears the groan Of his own family With his own eais, am sees his own land laid desolate. W? may believe that vengeance belongs unto Hod, and we may argue and plead for forgiveness, but it will not avail. You will remember that pas? sage in ProvorhOj In which the pen? alties of nature become automatic. ami where an outraged brain and nerve gnd digestion are personified and Hp ak to the transgressor: "1 warned you, but ye would none of mj reproof l stretched oul my hand and pleaded, but ye would not listen. Now 1 will laugh at your calamity; I will mock at your desolation, when desolation comes as a whirlwind and fear ami destruction are upon you." The dam that held I ack the black Vaters has broken, and it was the German who dynamited the dam and released the flood of destruction upon his own pgople and bis own land Whether it takes another summer or many, there is no British nor Ca? nadian Officers, no French nor Italian whose fa*.- does not turn to granite and steel whenever you suggest that he will not walk down the streets ol Uerlln and institute a military eourl and try a Kaiser and bll Staff for murder. That is ono of tin- thing* that is settled, and about which dls mission |g not permitted by voldler regiments. Priceless Rheims OnthcTlral Deliber? ately Destroy* d. One of the things thai has horrified tin- civilized world bus been the full of Ithelms Cathedral. Germany, ol course, was denied tin- gifl of Imam nation, it belongs to France, to Italy ami to Athena Heinrich Heine, her own poet, says that German appreciates architecture so little thai il is only a question ol time w ben "witii^ his giant hammer, Thor will at last spring up again :< 11>I : batter to bits all I lot bie cat In Iii |l " Tili gifte,I lb brow b id lb - \ i-urn thai llteriuily sum the Germans pounding to pieces the Cathedral al Louvah und Ypres, In Arras, in Uuupauiue, in HI. Quentln ami it holms Tin- German mind la a bent,, me Moore mined that can multiply and exploit the invention! ahd discover" of the other races. The German? contributed practically nothing t?> th invention of the, locomotive, tin steamboat, iim Marconigram, the au? tomobile, the aeroplaine, the phono? graph, the sewing machine, the reap? er, the electric liuht. Americans ln? vented for Germany her revolver, her machine gun, her turreted st|ip and her torpedo submarine. In retrospect, it Beams absolutely incredible that Germany could have been so help? lessly and hopelessly unequal to the invention of the tools that have math her rich. Bui that is not In r gift. II Sheffield can give her a model knife Germany can reproduce that Knife in quantities and undersell Sheffield. The Gorman people keep step in a regi? ment, In a factory and on ??? Ship, and therefore are wholesalers. Tin French mind is ereative; stands for Individual excellence*?and is at the Other extreme from the- German tem? perament. The emblem of the Ger? man intellect is beer; tin- emblem of the English intellect Is porl wine; tie emblem of the French mind is cham? pagne; the emblem of an American intellect, like Emerson's, is a beaker tilled with sunshine?my knowledge of these liquors 1? based on hearsay. It is this lack of imagination that ex? plains Nietzsche's statement that for years Germany las been the enemy of culture, while n< InMch Heim declared the name of culture was Franca, It is this total lack of mental ca? pacity to appreciate architecture that explains Germany's destruction ol some of the noblest buildings of the World. She cannot by any chance conceive how the other races look Upon her vandalism. Her own for? eign government expressed it pub? licly in one of her stnte papers: "tiet the neutrals cease chattering about cathedrala Germany c*oea not care one Straw if all the galleries and churches in the world w? re destroyed providing we gain our ends. GuiSOt in his history of civilisation, pre? sents three tests of a civilised peo? ple: ? First, the) revere their pledgee and honor; second, they reverend and pursue the beautiful in painting, architecture ami literature: third, they exhibit sympathy in reform to? ward tiie poor, the weak and the un? fortunate. Now apply those tests to the Kais? er and his war staff, and you under? stand why Rheims Cathedral is a ruin. No building since the Parthe? non was more precious to the world's culture. What majesty ami dignity in the lines! What a wealth of statuary! How wonderful the twelfth century ?-.lass: With what lightness did these arches leap Into the sir! Now tin great bombs have torn holes through tin* roof; only little bits of glass re? main. Broken are the arches, ruined some of the Hying buttresses; the al? tar where Jeanne d'Ars stood at the crowning of Charles is quite gone The great library, the bishop's palace, all the art treasures are in ruins. Ancient and noble buildings dt not belong to a race; they belong t< the world. Sacred forever the thresh hold of the Parthenon once pressed by the feel of Socrates ami PlatOi thrice sacred that aisle of Santa Croce in Florence, dear to Haute ami Savonarola; to be treasured forevei the solemn beauty <d' Westminster Ah bey, bedding tlie dust of tin- met ot supreme genius. In front Of the wreck of the Cathedral of Rheims all blackened with German lire, broken with the German hammer, li the statue of Jeanne d'Arc. There she stands, immortal forever, guiding th steed of the sun with the left hand, lifting the banners of peace and lib? erty with the right B) some ftrange chance no bomb Injured that bronse. < ?h, beautiful emblem of the day when the spirit of liberty, riding in a chariot of the sun, shall guide ;, greater host made up of all the poo plea who revere the treasures of art and architecture ami law ami libert: ami Christ's poor, and will ride on to a victory that will be the sublimert conquest In the annals of time! "Either God is Head or Germany ?> Doomed.*' Over against the greatest military machine that was e\er forged and controlled by merciless and cruel men, who have given up all faith in God. who practice the Ten Com? mandments with the "Not" left out, who have .stamped out of the SOUls ,,! their .soldiers every instinct of pity ami sympathy, are our aibe; Here Is Belgium, after ail her agon\. read) to die to the last man i.iiln i' than submit to a cruel master. the Kulser, And here is England, and a II her < ulonlcS, I low gloriole Hils land! " Che la ml of such dear' Hauls, this' dear. dear land," as shakespeaie ..lid. sin- has already - m i Un ed om : bu d ol her lota I wealth, a million of her sous, and bei e i:. FrU in r, UOl lilt ? W lllte. bll! tired aiier three years of grievous imi Her bunkors arc tired, bet business men are tired, the women und Ilm bub children are tired, for lbe\ haVC true; led unto blood slriv lug .omul i a ? i m i militarism for 1 which they were unprepared. The French boy is like unto one who carried food and drink a long way unto perishing n en until the heavy burden forces ins lingers to re? lax? hut give the youth a little time, and lie will take up his task afresh ami bring water to the thirsty sol-1 di? i-. The coming of the American! troops lias been a tonic to France and rested her weariness. Said the French wife as she sent away her young husband with smiles and words ot pride: "I give him gladly; 1 am only Iiis wife?Frame is his moth? er." And here is Creat Britain, whose licet today holdl the German battleships behind the Kiel Canal ami safeguards ollr republic, New York and Boston. On one side of the silver dollar write these words: ' In God we trust," and on the other side of the dollar write the words, And In England's navy." Every force that makes toward Justice, humanity and liberty is on our tide. Soon or late, an unseen Providence will take off the wheels from the chariot of the enemies of Truth and Justice. That dying German Officer in Uoye packed the genius of a moral universe into a lew words. Wounded last Winter through the spinal cord, unable to move the lower part of his body, for weeks he waited for death. Two aged French women cared for the dying man. Little by little the wings ol the- Angel of Death fanned away tht mist before his eyes. One day the Herman officer sent for the village priest and told him that the Von Hin denburg line was nearly complete; that tho order to retreat had beer given; that the home of "these age< women who had cared for hin. s< tenderly would be burned; that no one church, house, barn vineyard 01 orchard would be left. The new: .crushed the old priest. In his dyth| hour a righteous wrath Idled th< ? heart of the German prisoner. Thest are Iiis last words, as I transcribe* them from the lips of that man o God, standing one day in Noyon "Curses upon this army! Curses up on our Kaiser and his War Staff: Tei l thousand curses upon my country ? Either God is dead, or Germany i , doomed!" The officer had come t< understand that soon or late th wheels of Cod will grind to nothing ness those who wrong- Cod's children 'Woe unto the man who offends on of My little ones. It were better fo him that a millstone were hange? about his neck, and that he wer drowned in the depths of the seas.' Vision of a dust and J.aslmg Peace 1 letter days are coming. We ma: have to enter the wilderness, bu soon or late the pilgrim host will en tor the Promised Land and hang ou I the signals of victory. Truth i stronger than error, liberty is strong er than despotism; Cod is strenge than satan; right makes might, am ' must prevail In this faith we mus strive on tor a peace that will safe guard democracy, defend the fron tier lines, vindicate the rights of lit ' the hands, destroy militarism and an ' tocracy. During the January snow a dear friend and noble surgeon a 1 the head of a hospital at the fron wrote me a letter which stays m heart as the anchor the ship In tim of storm. The ground was deep wit] snow, many wounded men had beet carried in from the field, but at mid night, when his work was done, th' physician wrote me this letter: "This war is of Hod. Sometimes i is peace that is hell. The soldier*! life is a life of poverty, obedience self-sacrifice; WO know what the civ? ilian's life is. But for the chastise man! of this war, Berlin and Vienna London and Pars would have descend ed into hell within three generations 1 once spoke in your Plymouth on tin blessings of peace; if ever again 1 have that privilege, 1 shall speak or the blessings of war. i never dream? ed th.it men could he so noble. Pol three months 1 have slept on tin stone; for three months before that in a tent! for six months 1 have not been in a bed; but 1 have never been so happy, l have acquired the fine freedom of a dog:, and, like a dog-, 1 wear a nodal tag around my neck, so that they may know to Whom 1 be? long when it happens that l can no 0 longer speak. And never was a man engaged in a cause so noble. 1 have seen Belgium; I have seen a lamb torn by the wolf; 1 am on the side of the lamb. 1 know the explana? tions the wolf has to offer?they do nn? at this battle for your own good, for right here at this Western front this war will be decided, just where all the great wars of history have al? ways- been decided, it is decided al? ready, hut will take tin' enemy some time yet to lind it out." W hat does this noble m holnr mean .' History makes that meaning plain: No wine until the purple clusters are I crushed. No linen until tim Max is bleeding ami broken. No redemp? tion without shading of blood. No rich soil for men's bread until the rocks are ploughed With ice glaciers ami subdued with tire billows. Five forms of liberty achieved by our lathers, for which they paid Over ;'.,00Q battlefields, blood down. This war was not brought by God. but, having dorm, let us believe thai His providence can < vermle it for the de? struction of gU wag. When Hennany is beaten to her knees, beeomes re? pentant, offen to make restitution i >r her crimes, then, and not till then, can this war stop. Autocracy, too, inust go. Then is no room left in the world for a Kaiser or a sultan The hangman's noOM awaits the peas? ant murderer, and already the hemp is grown to twist into the noose for a Kaiser s neck. At all costs and haz? ards, we must fi^ht this war through to a successful issue. Our children must not be made to walk through all this blood and muck. The bur? den of militarisi 1 must be lifted from the shoulder of God's poor. Any state thai will not. forever give up WOT n.ust be shut out of the world's clear? ing-houses and markets through ance and trade. Geologists tell us that the harbor of Naples, protsctod by islands, was or.ee the crater of a volcano like unto Vesuvius, but .hat Hod depressed that smoking basin until the life giving waters 01 the Mediterranean stream Sowed Is and put out that lire. I di, beautil tl em'dem of a new era, when God will depres-s every battlefield and every dreadnought and bring in tl |i life-giving waters of peace. Then will come a golden age, the Parliament of mankind, the Federation of the World, a little in? ternational army policing the land; a little international navy policing the was; a great International court de? eding disputes betWOOSj Germany and France* To this purpose let our sons ledicate themsel es, to the end th .t we may achieve a just and lasting leaee between 01 vseiveh and all na ? lions. Jjpt us co seer ate not only the income of our rieh land, hut also all our property. Hack of our boys' bay? onets lot us put our own bonds. Let our subscription.1: to this Liberty loan I l e so vast that v. a will have the right 0 say to our em my: "You shall not rush the hopes of Abraham Lncoln. You shall not gi, id mankind beneath IS iron heel of militarism. You shall iot make government of the people f ;r the people, by the people, now or Over, to perish from the earth. Ilaiow 'en Party. There will be a Halowe'en party at Graham sehdol house Friday night, ?Jetober 2C, at :P0. Every one is Invited to attend and urged to come ii asked. Admission will be ten cents for adults and five cents for children. DRAFT JEItRY MOORE. Ifjjde ICcvord of 4 urn IU Ising in I9i0 ?Was Livin;. in Louisiana, \ Jerry Moore is .o go into the army. H * has been drafted from Florence county, and has l een certified by the district board to the county board. Recently Jerry h * been living at I >( doon, La., but is name was drawn from Florence county. He stood his physical examination at Dodson, and has been accepted. It will be recall? ed that Jerry Moore made the world's reiord for the best yie.d of corn on an acre, 228 bushels and three quarters, in 1910. London, Oct. 10.? Two German rai b i s attacked a convoy in the North Bos on Wednesday and sank tw< of the British -eoutie.g destroyers, . ?ras announced officially today by the British war office. Patron Houge, La., Oct. 19.?He lalru Carriers was hanged at the State pen tentlan for the murder of Sher? iff ." larion .Swords in lOlf. Carriere was executed whlb ?offering from a dangerous cut In the neck, self-in Mctcd last night. N. w York. Dot >.?Several women were overcome when jostled in a crowd attending the Liberty loan meeting on the steps of the sub treasury. They were attended by hospital physicians hurriedly sum? moned at the ofltoOl of J. P. Morgan ('omi any. New York. <>et 13.?An alleged plot to blow up or damage a United states converted transport is believ? ed to have been frustrated when the' police arrested a Scandinavian, who Is che 'god with attempting to bribe a ship i lechanlc to allow Mm to go aboard. Washington, I >ct. 22. At least thirty- right million men are now bearing arms in the war. Twenty seven I nd a-half million are with the allies ami the balance with the Cen? tral powers, accordtat to war figures. Russia has nine, Germany seven, Prance six, Bmgland live and Italy three n illions. Chicago, Oct. 22>- Robert Fltz slmmons, onO of the most remark aid, in? n ever hokl tig the heavy weight championship, died this morn? ing after five days' ittneaa of pneu? monia. Physicians mid his physique omi wil pbwar kept htm alive lonjf ait.i all hope was (rone.