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?lire, uilh Wine
A tin a a carte
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?t/^C/BUP
Jthtaiiiunh
FAIRY GODFATHER
DRIVES OFF WOLF
Business Wan I ends Home
to Straitened Family
for the Winter.
PJ5POSS. SN APPEAL
BRIM.S RI SH OK AID
jl?S3 Receiu-d b) Mother to
Keep Little Girls Until father
Can find Work.
St'.'.'t i" curly haired
... . ? ?.
? ?-. dis
i chel
**-tf s hoi ? moth
I he Tribune lust
is response.
*>e fahrj appeared in the
? -> man.
?Is will :?? ? ? ? oecupy
?
. ?ho wished
\j umr u ' ? creek for
I'.W, 10 ; -.
??sal ?"?
several
I
s
?
h uve
- fam*
- ? ?
?cm?r..
; ment
id? pfr*onj ? ?heir ,
accordance
e been
.
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tk? tadsh
.HEINZ
! Tomato
Ketcttup
Free ironi IScrizcate: of t>uua
?Mumm &
PERSONAL TAX
YIELD A KYSTE
Mayor Calls listim.
Guesses, but Promis
Dodger Round-Up.
$616,608 MORE HUNG
ON CITYS BURD
Bank Shares To Be Include
Direct Assessment, Pol
Hears from Travis.
rAr mates i
-.venue coul
I the | oi -sonn
'.'
el s?,id ye??. ?
would he done to arid ever} d'.'.lar
? added.
t c~.y .-.-::; ?-.-; cssessmenti
Ij ,,ii the hooks be mero
>r Just, hut the Tax Departn
will reach out after persons who 1
erto hare eacaped any personal ta
"Tn\ , .? and all
have studied the personal property
In? as in force ierre i
il Is had mid unscien'
declared. "It is often con?scatory,
easily evaded except by estates
? able ?.. pay. P?
? ? ,?? hit Bl ?I miss atT
I at by gui and with
?
"The Ian ? on 'he hor
and it is the duty of the city ndtnii
e It
a n.ore just law and one capable
tal le ei forcement
we all rcci'i
mar.y Individuals nnd busino*s boa
i.re paying onlv a small part of tel
they should. In view ?if th.- absolt
? eceasitj for n 1 . f ?... real
in view of the exigency ereated by t
imposition of the crushing '
the direct state tax. 113,000,00(1
which the city must carry, the T
Board is making a determined effort
nach persons who have not h?rne hii
? rto their proper share of the burd
eminent.
"We are doing only what Is our du
under the law. It i? hoped our effoi
will resu'* in some measure of relie!
The i n.ter.d* to p
after n ?nal pro
erty I ? caned tax
tiofi. Under the law these things a
? la: Book-, pictures, art i
. ? ,\d merchandise of .
. ires, machinery, cai
on h; bank, bills recei'
able, notes, mortgages on New Yoi
? ? . - mpt ui
, v \.- nst tht"
are offset? of all debts, which som?
ba1an<
let The great trouble h
tha* ? ? ? eai monts on O?
r 1. It has 1 to prove ths
a man wl foui to have p?
prop. ? ? . |y had it on ( ?(
tober 1.
T>e city authorities were mue
wrong ' ' I ?rind o
the state that the value o
ould be added to th
on which the t?te tax i
? ? levied. Corp. i I Counsc
trolle
Travis and argued why such
ied.
Me pointed out that if the value o
bank shari led in the as
? ?
? tax, of whicl
-.--- C ?- a uld have to ] ay $616,
? -hare of th?
den $13,9. res are tax
able on an entir? i fron
the Corporation Counse
? ' out, and he holds it would b<
the .ta?, ta on thi
propo.*ed.
Job Primers Cut Office
Vacant Through Illness
For a Tear and s half a place
:
York County was held open ?.
The peopl?
to cut the budget
. along
Yesterday they
cut the position out of the budget.
The secretaryship ?if the Hoard of
ors was abolished, as ui
sary. It has paid $?*> 000 a year, and
has been held DJ I ' B Tucker,
if 16 Ka*t Thirt; I Street
Protesting ags ? his budget,
. -k Devoy said that if he had
ay, he would charge the Corpora*
the D -trict Attorney
for work dorn-. If they collected
ine standard fees, it would mean >.n
income of at least $160,000 s year.
salaries were reduced in ofl c?
tne County Clerk ol The Bronx. _m*
inty Clerk in New York
organised yesterdaj to protest .to the
ii<,aid of Estimate againal the proposed
cuts in the salaries of thirty-eight >.f
th? ' number.
j3?rF_ c ?v-^^?Iiillr''i,,i\iiuiiiL
.,.
g
ta
."I
Vou will discover an unusually
palatable flavor in that real whole
wheat loaf
wards njheai^earyBREAD
You will recognize at first taste that it
has a larger volume of whole wheat flour
than other loaves called "whole wheat".
You will find it will remain fresh and
moist down to the last slice.
You will be convinced after one trial that it
i* a real whole wheat loaf and the finest flavored
bread ever served at your table.
Try ?t today. All grocers will supply you
?vith it on order in 10c loaves.
Mada in the Ward Bakeriea at
New York, Brooklyn and Newark
Per MONTH ON PLEDGE
_OF PERSONAL PROPERTY
iHt PkOVlDI.NI LOAN SOCIITY OK NEW YOKK _
1%
^???Avenue, cor. 25th Street.
c'Wl? St., cor nIf,,n|.on St
?J*? Ave. bet 48tn & 4Vtb Sta?
^"Itou Av., cor. 124th SL
???K cor. Clinton St.
?aajttJSl" bet L?-*l"tton & 3d Av?.
^^?oo SL, cor, taaex SL
UKU.NX
CourUaiidt Av.. cor. I48tn St.
IIH?)?)KI VN
Smith St., cor. Livingston St.
Graham Av., cor. ?ebevolae SL
Hit Lin Av., cor. Rockaway Av.
% y PIK CENT CHAKtitLi ON
?\t\\ LtMNS REPAID Win.IN
'emt TWO WfcEKS .-ROM DATE.
Out of the Mouths of Babes Shall Be Per?
fected Praise When ?ig Mothers in the
Italian District ILearii from the Little
Mothers Siow to Car :?r ?n s.
A Nursery ira One of the F?ub__c
Schools Demons?ra?es theVirUae
of Clearaliraess by a Baby Who
Proves with Happy Splashes
a Bath 2s Not Dangerous.
The good old day* of piekles and
rhee?o f..r nursii ar?tt soon he
over in the Italian district. For the
little mothers are being taught
tary r;.--e of their charges in the pub
He schools, and the big mothers will
lean, from them that eleanlim
godly think? and that a cucumber with
: a milk diet i*. a sin.
M - Minnie Lucey, a social workei
In the Italian district In Mon'clair, N.
.1.. conducts little mothers' classes In
? ? Baldwin Street School, for which
i she uses a model nursery. She demon?
strates the b?.*t American methods of
i c!,.thing and bathing an infant,
with a life-sized bal.y doll and then
I with real bah es.
"I originated the idea of 'caching
little mothers in this fashion," paid
Miss Lucey, "in order to improve rer
tain conditions in the school which
cried out for a remedy.
"The fear of taking cold, which many
| of the foreign mothers entertain in re?
gard to the external application of
water, causes some of them to protest
vigorously against th? ministrations of
the school matron to their children in
regard to clcnnli'tjes.-. When I show
the little and big mothers a tiny baby
contentedly splashing in Its bath and
benefited by it they are really im?
pressed."
Mis, Lucey is reaching the mothers
through the children an?l is preparing
future pupils for proper school citizen?
ship.
' I had considerable assistance in get?
ting my nursery furnished?" Miss Lucey
explained. "Varions tradesmen lent me
necessary articles, some of om- school?
boys made part of the furniture and
? rls made the dolls' clothing. I
only expected to exhibit this room tem?
porarily, but Miss Louise Hinck, the
of our Hoard .,!' i
'? as de? ided that I may k? en I
for which I am very glad."
Miss Lucey's activities on the In
half of the school children are many
an?, varied, but especially interest ng
in her training of the little mothcia.
nee I began the little mothers'
?d, "I have pei
twent) of the real mothers to adopt
?implo hygienic clothing for their
?.no"' m ?-la.. of awathing then
In heavy bandage?, according u> the
n euetotn ' >ne little girl cai
'.no i!:ty t.. . a) that ! et
: loi -H r refu ke an) ehai ge in
her baby'? clothing. 'I'm aorry, drnr,'
I -ir..l. 'oui fou can'l come to the cln? ?
t'a -.1.' and the rhilil !i?ft in tear?.
for it ?vu?? her turn to dreaa and un
?Ire?? th.? baby doll, Tim foliiiwini;
da? the eamo back to ?ny that her
mother had eonaented to do n? I
; hough) be ' 1 '???-! the other
children waa moat aalutary. After
j thai ' had no difficulty."
"I>n yon believe it ri>rht that ?ho???
little mothers ahould l?o tnuirht to
eare foi the ?mailer children at such
an earlj age?" aha waa aeked, "or do
you teach them becauae it aeema ?
':? ?"
"I th ? ' ie host nn<! moat valu
alii- training that ?e could possibly
give them and that il i? nona too earl)
to hoy,,:. it." Miss Lurry replied.
"What li more Important? It is tru.
that if th?- babiei ?ra? strong the lit?
tle cirl- grow ?van, but that la becauae
they know no more how to take eare
of themaelve? than they do of their
chargea( which ia not ?t all. So I'm
inatructing them how to aave them
b] racing them to put thi
babiea down when they arc sloep
ing, beeau ?.? have a habit of ear
rying them about all the time, I nlso
try to impress it upon the real moth?
ers that these little iriris should hav
some time fror for mitcst: aifled play.
"Is it any wonder thnt there are ao
many defective children amone; the??
people, when the little mothers, who
are really the darlingeit thing?, but
untrained, handle tin babiei in any
aoii of faahion? When the babiea
cry they slap them, and if they nre
hungry they give them food without
regard to quality or quantity, ??hile
era are handed down from father i
to ?on and from mother to daughter
"The little mothers are not inten
I* eruel, for they have real af
?i for their charges, which is n
it ?if most b?n?ficiai. Greater unin?
tentional cruelty 1 have aeen pra.
in the hornea of the rich. There so
often babiea ar.' turned over entirely
to the care of trained attendants ar.d
deprived of the warmth and affection
v/hich contact with their own mothers
give*. An ideal environment for a
i-iiild ?ncludea a systematic regimen,
but aleo the influence of n mo'lier'-?
presence. The proof of this i? that i
Miss Minnie Lucey, who maintains a model nursery
for little mothers in Montclair, N? ./.
habie*- thrive be ' when 'hoy have both.
"I am bow getting in touch with the
real mothers. I felt that I should bn
help!?- . to charges without
their support, and furthermore I be?
lieve in educating those foreign par
onts enough so that the children will
not become alienated from them. The
Italian father, you know, i* a sort of
overlord, who would not easily brook
interference with his household, so I
appealed to him lint. The fathers
come to the school '" our civic club
meetings and in that way they have
become interested In the model nursen
and 1 have taught them how to make
tireless heaters and ice boxes for the
'?ale of ,'i baby's food.
"It has all worked out beautifully
bi . l'.ilian people aro so respon?
d?. ?? to a right appeal. It is a pleasur"
to help them."
Miss Lucey i* a lister of Captain .1.
F. Lucey, who servad in the Spanish
American War, and who organized the
first Belgian relief expedition, being
'ho tirs* person to dispenso food to the
starving Belgians. An inclination tow?
ard public lervice seems to be char?
acteristic of the family.
? Tf <'i?i Ssthint but f.tvn itnrt 1*?0,
htrty ? five yrari tf ?tentant tmfrtxtmtnt.
Ceittemeri
Gloves
\ "The Seville"
?\ kid glove of the highest quality for *\ AA
two dollars. Very smart with tailored ? ?V/U
suits or sport costumes.
T -"if has strong color contrast?.. II htack. it is orna
mented m white; if white, in hlaclc. Heavy crochet embronirrv
on the back, as well as pipings and (rinding*., in the contrastm.?
effect. One-?.i.'.*p length. P. K. sewn.
Special Values at the Bargain Counter, on the Second Floor.
296 Fifth Ave. , i
BAR HARBOR BUYS DOLLS
Mme. Paderewskl Conducts Sale *o
Need? Artist?, in Poland.
I T-l.-f.-aph ',, Trl? T'tt ?in? ]
Bar Harbor. Sept. 14. A sale o
Mme. Pa.lcrowsk:'? refugee dolls ?va
held this nfterr..?on in the cot'age rj
Mr. and Mrs. Krr.esto G. Fabbri fc
?ho benefit of needy -rtists in Polar.d
The affair waa conducted by Mi-re
Paderewaki and Mr?. Frnest Schellirg
Tea was served, nnd as an addition.!
attraction motion pictures were showr
of Mr. Paderewaki, I"rn??st Schell?-?{
and Frit/ Knisler, all of whom wer?
present.
Mr. and Mr?. Erneato G. Fabhr
entertained a dinner party at the Po'
and Kettle Club to-night.
Mr und Mrs. George A. Dra* ?*i
closed Guycliff to-day and left foi
Hopedale, Mass.
SHE SCORNS MERE DRESSES
Get? to Court in Trou?ers Despite
Brolher'i? Clothes Theft.
I'eprived of her clothes by her
brother, so .?lie could not go to court,
?yira, Suaie Burke, of 2* Cottage Place,
Vonkers, managed to get there ye.ster
dav by donning a pair of trouser?, a
coa- and ?touch hat.
She claimed Joaeph White, her
brother, stole her clothes when she
informed him -lie was going to court
for a warrant for him for disorderly
COnducL Policeman Ilahill found her
after White locked her out in men's
... -me and arreated her. As she once
was in a sanatorium, Dr. Benedict tVM
called to examine her. He found her
sane. White was loc'sod up and re
manded for ?entonce.
Woman Suffrage Party.
Hm? Sped? -? .'r?i.-. ** MeafeMisa B?*?***?)"**
o-j?iil??il,,ii ?? Vaut Ist ?? .111*?. l?-?Uur??it, TS
W?ll nur.-.
M'r-**t BMCtlns ?t 1- ?
I at 1 S m
i l.tiirllai'tni, ,.f intimo f*?,-ri u-,1 txitl*m* t*
: p?.- *M
W**r .?-'. A??"in'l? DMlM ir.??'lrf ?1 E?*t
-ftli ST.?-1 ?, . * i.. Air- .?a -h*Jnn*n.
Ml** r*nn la????
I TO 2 P. ??. QSMW* Borwiih Bin-Una *C
CbufthoiM*, l*~s I?:? : CHj ? .... ' Ta* K:?*f;
l?wr?r?' nlelii rtwlrsua, Mr? IV A I? rr.-i
S P. t*. IStlti Str*j?-< *n.l m. Air.? Atenu*;
, !i*Jrm?n Mit? Juli? ???Inn
1*1 P. M. M-Klnl*-. Rausn uiJ l???h Sir-??;
rhfJrm-Ji. Mr? Hmrtt?
9*0 P. n. II . I- ? uxi ISM SU****?; dulr
i,,?i h?m M? m sn.iir, w ?????? sai a
>.:
lit P. M. :?'h Ainmiblr IMitii - itK-'ln* *t
i s,u.?rT ?i Mm .In S'?tu?. ?-iitirnvi. Mr?.
M l'?rh?.
sio p. m. lio a*******) t>iitfi<?t m-??ii* ?t
lltth 8'r.--< ?-.,1 .*?-??? I. AlSSVSt iei.iet. Ml** A.
M*'li?*v??
Women's Political Union.
12 N*** lVh Se- ?t.-rl?! I>l?trlrl. T*?*n'i '-??ii-'ri
Sir-?- ?liit Klih'li .?.?huh-, wikm Mn MEN
*jw*i_ ?i. I M-?? !??? ?-'? Ti?Vf
12 ?0 P. M. ?Mil Srn?i..rl?l Dnirtrt. ll'-h
St.... ?t. I Klftli Atrnu*. tpttker. MIM AU-*
Kin.?i-.ln
S P. a. :?'?' Rmstoftal IMitn.-i. *.??-o,.i ?.,.
, B*--*n() Bflh s-T-? ?p???? \ll\? Wri u?
aftrlln
s p. m. teta s*w?i?-*_i iinmn. masts -??vu
sir.?-, uid rWnt Aft
8 P. M. |7th Sw,?i,>rt?t Dl?'rt<-*. TlilriT.????*n?h
&?--**> ?. ?I llr<?r1w?? ?p**a-T?, Mr? Rill ?..
' ?: I \l.?< K?' - Il
, 8 10 P. M. ?(...i a a ?
i ?mI Pra*p*?i ? ? ....... mt
nun Mil-I**in s?ni? ?i,,| ? ;?-.>?*?? Ar
1 10 P. M. .- -i?, l>l?lrlr: Klfl.t?.
ninth S'?ri ?i I Thirl AmilM; *p??.ln-ri. A!???n
1 .|M U? ?-..I Mta II
Work of French Women
Effaces Scars of War
Battlefield of the Marne Covered with Waving Grain,
Although Men Are at the Front.
. et he Till
Paria, A-,- 2g. A few miles
Verdun, jus? off ?he battle line, in
for the big guns could be plainly r
I -aw two women and a boy ha
wi rk tilling in a trench that ran
eld and interfered
the fall plough |
That iin-iiient illuatratea F m
?nee in the future course o
It also tell? how France
taken 'lie ?. ir into its life to be a
of the daily routine until it is ft
? ' a end that France intends
have. And it furnished the answ<
a quest ion I had been Baking in
ever sir.c?- we left Paris,
My question Wut "Where ?ire
sce.rs of buttle along the Marne?"
Three hour? out of Paris, after s
ning the country for a hundred n
01, both -id.-- of the railroad, I a
the sunn? ?question on the train,
ar.i wer then waa, "The battle here
fought too quickly for it to leave
sou s you ai <? iooki in' lor. '
It wi ? Lut it did
satisfy me, The conflict on the Mi
was too tii' li was a tun
point m history. And no matter
quickly it was over I felt that it n
have lift lOm? viaible aign. Here ?
V? rdun 1 found the answer that
eacaped me before. It was the woi
and children working in the fields
abi ence of men.
While Haired Men in I'r.ifnrm.
What I saw between Paris and
front led me on my return to Pans
travel over -iveial hundred miles
Western Prance to aee if 1 would t
the same conditions there. Ev?
??here 1 found the same thing. '1
able t.:.-il men. young, middle ag
and many of them white haired, Wi
in uniform, while fu- women and cr
dren, the cri pi nflrra ?a ???? a .!??
the men's work at home.
The scar that lies across the batt
field of the Maine penetrates il
?very corner of Franc?-. There is ?
a village that haa nol giv?
strongest and best for the life of t
..i.* on, i ol ??? farm that haa not paid :
toll. On the plains of the Tourai
and the Vend?e, in the ti?*lds of Br
tany and In the fertile valley of t
Loire it i- the women and children wl
reap '.he harvest and plough the Ian
wl ile the men are at the front, wen
.i-i the "horizon bleu."
And 'lie women of France do the
work ?'.ell. line wonders at the sight |
? ? .,:m ?' ?. along '" Ida I h ? amootl
lv flowing Marne. The edge of ?.'.
battle BWept across Me;
beyond the Army of Pans debouch?
in their taxicaba. Bat to day the grai
i high m the held, an
di pit? the historic name? one reads <j
the railroad stations one ask? th?' off
cer sitting next to one in the trail
"Have we come to the battle groun
"We nre pas-ing across it now," h
repli?.s, and in a minuta 'he whole com
I partment is awake and butting w?t
Males of those das- In Sep*. ember, 1914
i l alona lUI 'lame is reach?-.! a?
tea ??me rootlet* houses and wall
j with great, gaping shell hole?, am
after that Sermai:*?*, and one draw? i
I long painful breath.
Sermai/e Winunih Burned.
Sermaue was a villag? of POO hou-e?,
the eentr? ?>' ?. peaceful agricultural
community in the valley of the Marne.
I ?,. Gem red It without op?
position. No French soldiers were
there when the Germans came, and
there had been none there The Ger?
man? ?tayed a week and then withdrew
ia? part of the general movement of the
German army. They had .had no fight?
ing. Tho?e German ?oldier? who were
in Sormnizo had hnd a week's rest i
the tranquil homes of the French pea
ants and bourgeoisie of the villa?:
sir holiday and ?-ees
rest from fighting by burning the tow
on the morning that they loft it. (
th '.'?ui houses o? Sermaise 944 teat
utterly destroyed, ?inly forty housi
remained in 'lie town with their roo!
?.n them. Ami not a shall fell on Sei
mais? from either army, not a shot ?TI
I . ,-.i in the streets.
Is bombarded almost dai!
bj both French an.! Germans. Ont en
?.i' it may l..- .-.ml to (?? held l.v t;
French arid the Other end by the (.,
innns. When ?he Flench guns begin
bombardment the French soldiers eras
nit?, their end of the town, and th
'. mai retire from their end, Th
i.-v. i?, happens when the Germans tip
IlattUTields Look Aged?
Those are ruins not only of the da
! bnl of the minute. I saw a wall i
1 Apremotit torn from its foundation:
, beared into the air an.! dropped up?.
.!.-, and " h.-n the snioi.e lui
cleared away ?hero -,vb? no fresh an
bleeding wound to be obaenred. Th
green tields closed in upon the towi
the white road ran through its contr?
the tree*- of a lifht. > green gentl
waved their branches above the ncwl
fallen wall and the solitude of th
linttlo ground lent its cloak of age t
the lateat wrought destruction.
On the ?i.y to the front I saw an
ii'?t tow;, that, except for one housf
men eriped from the map. Wo lef
the 'rain a: Bar le Duc and went fror
'?..-re by automobile northward to Yer
dun. The war <ii?l not reach Har-le-I)u
and wo drank our coffee and consultei
???...;,* very peacefully in a little gardei
otf the quiet c. titrai square with n?
signs of the war about save the officer
in uniform who went over the map
with us and a park of Red Cro??. am
bulances. waiting for orders.
The captain from the General Stnt
who was responsible for our welfari
-,. ? 11,:. ?1-, that th.- eoffei
should 1" good. He carries a title it
private life. I believe, and is one of thi
wealthiest men in Franco, but here hi
was s captain m the army and a Frenel
I reme]*1 solicitor
for tii. comfort of a party of neutra
journalists. The commandant, who wai
to be our local guide for the Yerdur
sector, wore the Tross of the Legion ol
Honor, won in this war, and 1 under.
stoo i that he was considered one of th?
most capable of France's artillery engi?
neers.
A-nd we drank coffee under the tree?
and remarked that I.a Valliere had for
the stage to sweeter, the hours ol
the wounded in the hospitals. It was
not ery warlike, nnd nil'' could not
really call it much more warlike when
?? Bar '? Due For we soon left
the main road and struck off into the
country lam?, where wo drove for
n,lie? without nerd for sounding the
warning boater.
Absence ?if Life War's Sign.
That very absence of life was really
the surest alga of war. Hut .?. did not
seen so It leeasad as though so near
the fiont one must hear th.? crash of
the big guns and the staccato of the
rifle tire and the mitrailleuse. Instead
ped between the fields yellowinr
tranquilly under the ?ummer sun, and
.und we heard was the buzing of
flies.
And then we dropped down a hill
through a little wood and came out sud?
denly into the main street of Rember
court We stopped on the side of the
hill. The church was on our right, the
town was in front of us and on our left
I was the one house with a roof.
It was pure desolation. It was the
track of the war. The houses had been
! built of stone and their roofs had been
; of stone or slate. It had been one of
I the quaint little gray-white village*
I such as are all the village* of France.
I A year aco it had been happy and nro?.
perou?. Now it waa a scattered pi
yellowing ruins from the Mid.He ,
The house .v i t H roof, the only h
not ?truck by the shells, waa the
one that preaerved its gray-white
The streets were strewn with bloel
stone. The rooftree? lay in the ce
Half fallen walls were a constant
ace. Windows lacked th? .r wo
flames and doorways their doors.
bell tower of the church sprawled a.
the street and tin bell poised dai
oualy in a gr-it hole in the roof.
Shells Spare Cruclfi*..
We ?nt?'r?'d tl... church cautiously
was a relic of five hundred years
A shell had coma through 'he roo
? I . i Ight, dir -ctly oppoaite the crm
All around the crucifix the wall
p;**.'.| with marks of shrapnel, but
erucilix was ?pared, and the choir, ?
its car?, ed rail a-ul its carved beni
that had deeeended from the day
chur.-li was built, waa alao ?pared.
Between the hurch and the t'irst
of houaea was the small cemetery of
village. The church had protected i
one aide and the village on the ot
The church wa? ?nattered by the ah
and the row of houaea had not a -
ran aining that al >od i ighl f? ??' i
but the cemetery wai untouched and
wre.*i*hs ..f the da) - of peaci
on the eroaaea of I ha grave i.
An old man eame oui of a cellar
-;iok ? to us. lie waa the mai'.r
Rembercouri and it aole remaining
? -.t. He pointed to th.- h 111 I ?0
town and showed us where
ng . rmil ? had lain. Not a Frei
?ofdier had been in the town, he ??
1 - Germans ha.? ?helled it for f(
...... The French had been southw
and the Germans southeast. M vas '
farthest south tb? Crown Prince 1
come. The Fremh had stopped h
there and after four days had ?In*,
him back to where he now is, in I
An"-: m- ai 1 ... - . and .'a ' of Verdi
"Only a month, before," the old m
said ?.aily, "v. e had completed 0
church a'ul had mounted OH the tow
the clock we had saved for years
buy."
lie motioned toward the main ro?
where 'he bell tower lay. "I ha
never been able to And it, since,"
??a.d.
We ihooh hands wi'h the old mi
nnd wen, northward again toward Ve
dun. A fe??* miles further on we su
?orne trench?, in a tie!.! and ttmppt
briefly t?> examine them. They we
apparently ?belter? for the infant
?upporta to artillery in a hasty retrea
and While we were picking up son
clips of inuaed German cartridge? v
heard there for the ?irs* t:*ne the boo
They a < re tiring
the Argonne, our guides told u?, a:
after tha* we never lost the sound (
the artillery ur.til five days later \?
reached Bar-le-Due again on oui ????
bach to Pans.
? mil..? and we came t
Beause? irch ?here had bee
the principal target of the Germa
gunner-, [ta towel miraculously stooi
but we climbed into the church ove
what had been one of the side wall;
tad picked our wuy among the roo
beams. A shell had struck the mai
altar, while the benches for the wor
shippers v. ? 1 beneath ihe fa!
len pillars Hut the roof'.re, ?til
balanced overhead and from it hung th
main candi labmm and
pendulum ?n the gci-.t'..- br?ete
piece of wall opposite us was a paint
j ing of the Feast of I ?r, am
two candles burned before a side ?Itai
that had been nicked by shrapnel.
An old woman came out of a litt!?
i door and spoke to u? a? we went bad
to the automobiles. She told us tha'
? h.? had come back a month before fron
Har-le-Duc. Good drinking \?at?-r erai
hi rd to get, she ?aid, and they had not
over much to eat.
The house next door was a wreck. 1
looked at her house and saw that th?
top had beer, shot away.
"Why did you come back?" I asked
her.
"It is my home," she ?aid.
Only a few mile? more and we turned
once more into the main road to Ver?
dun. The sound of the gun? wa? grow?
ing constantly louder. We saw a cap?
tive balloon guarding ihe Verdun sec
' tor. Two ?peeks among the clouds were
? aeroplanes. We passed a transport col
? umn and then a troop of cavalry with
. their shining helmet? dimmed by khaki
? ?over?. W'e rolled up to ?he g?*:e? of
Verdun and waited for a regiment ju?t
out of the tranche? to pa?a. We were
at tha front.
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