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Ijôhere World Peace May 6e Concluded - " 1 /X W X. » B Ü ÇZ i ll IP jMDS IP wr }* t » - xrp> -rm> owiizerlanc) Likely to itaöeConfeverica. L That Will Énd Wat isSf^u, • v. •••■ . T' r-.-^ *,-■;.■•■*> *'~v*-*',i yi'DZRAI, FA2<&£E AThttZ?y. 't~*' OT long before the present war was begun (lie kaiser attended a shooting festi val in Switzerland during the grand inenenvers in that country, lie was naturally attended by a Swiss general, to whom he plied his questions. "How many men could your coun try put in the field in a week?" in quired the German emperor. "About five hundred thousand." an swered his guide, slightly exaggerating the real number. "What if I should come against you with a million men?" "In that case, your majesty," suave ly replied the Swiss general, "we should have to shoot twice." This anecdote may or may not be authentic, but it serves to show the true military quality of the Swiss army, which for its size and cost is one of the finest bodies of marksmen |n the world. From the days of the mythical Wil liam Tell and the apple the Swiss have made shooting a national sport. Prob ably no army in the world can show so high an attainment for sharpshoot ing as the Swiss, and during the last three years the knowledge of this quality no doubt has not been entirely without effect in the preservation of the Swiss neutrality. Surrounded by belligerents sine*» the war was begun in 1914, Switzc* and has been able to maintain its moral ity. and this despite the fact that With in her borders are opinions that sharp ly favor one or the other of the coun tries at war. While the cantons which border the German empire are, so far as the issues of the war go, profoundly pro German, and while the inhabitants of the majority of the cantons speak nothing but German, this favor does ■not extend further than the borders of the country. Switzerland as a country is a neutral state, and has refused to enter the war on either . t, ■ preservation pu,y» a great part in this view, no doubt, for were the country to align itself with the cen tral powers it would soon be overrun from the south and west by the troops of the allies, only too eager to find a more direct route into the center of Germany. On the other hand, any attempt to ally itself with the entente powers would result in having German troops pour over the eastern borders in such numbers that the little country could not expect to escape suffering. The part assigned her in tin» great war has been recognized by all the bellig erents as that of the Good Samaritan. And there the little country stands in the nlidst of war's alarms, serenely on guard, but otherwise playing the part of the neutral and the friend of all. One of these days there will be a peace conference, and as almost every civilized nation is now engaged in the war on one side or the other, indica tions point to _ Switzerland as being the logical country for a round table talk of the powers, and, furthermore, the capital of Switzerland, Berne, un doubtedly is the place where such conference will be held. Berne is one of Hit* most fascinat ing cities in Europe. its founda : 1 I I ! ; ! j I j j j I ; j j j 1 j j ■ i j CONDENSATIONS Denver it is estimated that there 10.000 women who speculate in oil, probably 500 who keep a close ,• watch on the markets, vo crops of rice, known ns the lg and winter crops, are raised on ly in the Foochow district. Pittsfield (Mass.) druggist refused *11 a woman cough drops oil Mon beeause he didn't know whether were considered drugs or candy lie did not wish to violate the law. ! I j j ; j ! j I I I tion dates lac k to Burt hold von Zah : risen, who in the year 1291 erected there a stronghold. Since the early days of the fatal month of August, 1911, and especially again in the last 1 few months, it has been frequently referred to as "The City of Diplo I mats," for there are now more diplo I mats, special envoys, peace apostles ! (and also spies are plentiful) in ; Berne than there ever was in any ! other city in the world. Berne has j come to be considerd as the most prob able place for the conference which I will follow tiie war. j The keen recognition that the coun try lay in the midst of nations that never have lived in neighborly love made Switzerland for centuries a mili tary country, although the conscription law now in force does not date hack beyond the revolution of 184S. Even in its military relations the country is truly democratic, because it has no standing army, for no canton may have more than 300 armed men permanently ; yet It has a militia sys tem, by which every man between the ages of eighteen and fifty-two years j is in one or another of the classes j likely to be called to the colors, and I the mere training begins when tlie ; hoys atteud school, for from the early j age of seven the Swiss boy is taught j to hold a rifle and to shoot it, too. The value of the training and the j system which has been in force in 1 Switzerland since the last military up heaval in Europe in 1S4S was strongly j shown when war began in August, 11914. It was Switzerland which first mobilized her troops. She had hire ■ bodies of men on her frontiers evon before France had mobilized complete ly and even before the German mob ilization, with all its perfection of effi ciency, was accomplished. For the next six months the forces on her frontiers were constantly strengthened until there are now per haps 400,000 men of all arms defend ing Switzerland's democracy. I Pity for Unmarried J When we consider the ordinary lives of unmarried men, we must give them j our pity, for they have deprived them selves of anxiety, says \Y. L. George, in Harper's Magazine. Nearly all earn as much as they need, and nearly all, in their isolation and purposelessness, learn to need all that they earn. Their work done, tlieir pockets full enough, there is no mortgage on their time, no compulsion ns to tlieir resi dence, no demand that they should in terest themselves in the occupations or ideas of wife, or child or friend— in anything, indeed, except themselves, a limited field for one's interest, for soon one can know one's seif too well, and intimacy may breed contempt. Marriage releases you from the un real by giving you many real things to think about, by satisfying your need for association with the solid earth. That need satisfied, your spirit is fret* to wander in the unreal, in abstract thought, in artistic desire, instead of ■ being bound by the continua! aspiration i of the unmarried to the real things j they do not possess. j I ! Austria's production of raw sugar during the 1917 campaign amounted to 530,000 metric tons, or about 200.000 tons less than in 1910. Hungary's out put is placed at 130,000 tons, ns against 200.000 tons in 1910. Prices are high er in Hungary than in Austria. In Auburn. N. Y., an altar of ice was used at an outdoor service of the Church of SS. Peter and Paul, which was held for the purpose of demon strating that fuel is unessential In con nection with worship. The service also included baptismal rites x than in Germany of tin* daily life the t he Even mor army a par Swiss. With this spirit of militarism a part of the daily national life there is noth ing of militarism in the attitude of the people, because all the preparation and system of training is purely for de fense and not for aggression. At the same time it is believed that the train ing given boys and men is of the great est service in raising the standard of the Swiss manhood and in improving the health of the whole population. Nothing is wasted in this land of thrift, and the old remark of the hum orist that nothing escapes the Chicago pork packer hut the squeal could not he truthfully said of the Swiss efforts toward efficiency. It is doubtful If even the squeal would he wasted. The Nobel Peace Prize for 1917 has been awarded to the international Bed Cross committee in Geneva. This com mittee has, since the outbreak of the war. thanks to the Swiss and untiring efforts of its president, Gustave Ador, lately elected federal counselor and chief of the political department of the Swiss Confederation, achieved such a remarkable and enviable success that Switzerland today Is generally re ferred to, as Mr. Stovall, the United States ambassador to Switzerland, himself said, as the "Good Samaritan." The most remarkable of all tin* vari ous humanitarian undertakings in the world war, organized by this commit tee, is the agency for prisoners of war at Geneva. The huge amount of work performed by this in- itution and titer benevolent organizations in rland is rebooted by tin* latest out by tli" Swiss postal authorities. This shows that since the beginning of the war until the end of October. 1917, 33l.772.Osi letters and postcards and 02.210,(540 small parcels have been taken fiver and reforwarded to the prisoners of war of both bel ligerent groups held in the various countries. Latest in Artificial Eyes. To make an artificial eye practically indistinguishable is the aim of a Brit ish army surgeon who is experimenting with a hall made of carliliage as a substitute for a metal or glass one. A sphere of such construction when put in place establishes connections with blood vessels and the surrounding tis sues. When thus fixed in the cavity it is supposed to bo capable of move ment corresponding to that of a nor mal eye and furthermore fills the space so that there is no depression, as is in variably the cast* where a shell is used. Although time must yet prove the prac ticability of the scheme, there is rea son to expect that tin* war has brought forth another triumph in plastie sur gery.—Popular Mechanics Magazine. , i,/ t . port' Get Your Full Share. Are you getting your full share ol good out of the tilings around youl A sunset will make an artist happy, and a poet will draw from a common wayside flower ''thoughts that lie too deep for tears." t Do not lie one of the people who having eyes see not, and having ears hear not. Beinember that ail things have good in them, and that a share of it is yours.—Girl's Com panion. Why, the Brute! "<41i. have you lost your dog?" ex* claimed the visitor sympathetically. "Why, I didn't sec anything about it in tin* 'lost' column." "No," replied Mrs. Leonidas \V. Van Quentin. "My husband put it among tin* cards of thanks."—Kansas City Star. Big Hat, Bigger Bill. •*My new hat is pretty big." "I thought so, too, but when Ï got the hill for it it made your hut look ime the head of a piu," NO SECONUABLE This Man Has Gone Back on Time-Honored Institution. Event of His Youthful Days, in Which a Parson and a Barrel Stave Fig ured Prominently, Soured Him Permanently. "Wonder if that measly custom of maltin' children wait whenever there is company at the table is in force anywhere in civilization today?" asked "Dune," the barber. "Why?" asked the customer, who knew Dune's tailing. "That does not concern you now, does it?" He was about to say something else, hut the lather was too close. "Not directly," replied Dune, "but I was a victim of tin* cussed tall timber style so many times when 1 was a kid that I never have forgotten it." That was enough. The customer, a regular, knew that Dune was in a rem iniscent mood, so lie closed his eyes and let the yarn unravel. "I never could understand the sense in such a fool custom. I never eared to cat with company. In fact, I preferred not to, as their presence interfered with my freedom of motion. I used to eat by the 'touch system;' that is, I never had to look. My lather said I was a walkin' allegory of hunger. I have been intendin' for forty years to find out just what he meant, but some how I haven't had the time. "Weil, anyway, if mother had just given me a handout, anything in the 1 orm of food, 1 would have been willin' to eat it in the kitchen or the wood shod. But, no, we must wait and wait nice. There were live of us, each one just us empty as i always was. But if tiie children didn't wait nice the family wasn't in good staadin' when I was a kid. "The worst lickin' I ever got was for baw lin' out a preacher when lie took the last piece of chicken. Five of us were on the firing line just outside the dinin' room. I was in the first line trench, lookin' through the crack. Af ter that salamander had finished his pie he said: 'Sister Beezer. you cer tainly cook tiie best fried chickin' of anyone I know. I'm not goin' to leave any for manners. I'm just goin' to take this lust piece.' "And it was the last piece and I knew it, for I had counted 'em from where I stood. I had that piece set and intended to grab it at the first charge of the bread line which I head ed." "Why did he call your mother Mrs. Beezer?" asked the customer. "Y'our name is Duncan, isn't it?" "Duncan McCarty Beezer," replied Dune proudly, "that's it. Well, any way, I let an awful yelp out of me. I was hostile and told the preacher he didn't have any manners to leave. I got a wallopin' with a barrel stave, and nothin' to cat at all, and I always have been sore about that. "I swore then that if ever I grew up, got married and had children they'd get theirs if the company had to do on half rations. And I've kept that oath. The four Boozers at my house never had to wait for tlieir chow." Clemenceau's Way. M. Clemenceau, in his capacity of minister for war, is setting itis house in order. No matter in hand of less than first-rate importance—-and then lie deals with it himself—is to take more than three days to settle. It is not a reform, it is a revolution, is the remark of those who have experi enced the circumlocutions, delays and red tape of officialdom. "No longer is the head of a department to ask for written reports front itis subordinates on insignificant questions, when a few minutes' conversation would settle tiie whole question. No longer Is pen to he put to paper, and stacks of docu ments collected, when a simple tele phone call would suffice." And as final proof that the order is griffe du Tigre, the Tiger's own mark, it may be added that departments are to be subjected to supervision when least expected, and that disregard for the three-days' rule will result in severe penalties for the persons concerned.— Christian Science Monitor. How He Got His Uniform. He was a recruit in an aviation camp in Texas. Uniforms were short there, and many were forced to wear civilian clothes. One young man. who was es pecially resourceful, was missing from inspection one morning. "Where's Blank?" asked the lieuten ant. "In his tent, sir," replied a friend. "He has no clothes." The lieutenant made haste to get to the tent. "What are you doing here without your clothes?" he shouted. "I borrowed the clothes I wore down here from a friend and promised to re turn them. Last night I boxed them up and sent them by express to his home." Needless to say the lieutenant soon "dug up'' a uniform for the recruit. Put Ban on Chocolate Candy. Tin* I'aris Association of Chocolate Manufacturers, because of tin* short age of sugar and as the result of an Interview with the minister of food supply, lias decided hereafter to make Ciily tablet chocolate and to abandon entirely the production of the vurioui forms of chocolate candy. It has also requested that under these circum stances the importation of such prod mis be likewise prohibited. ctesM d d 11 Vf ä O LW as yd i y ■■■# SUIT WITH CLOSE FITTING COAT. There is a choice this season in the line of the silhouette. We may dis avow curves entirely and wear a coat or dress that is straight from neck to hem. or go to the other extreme and choose a bodice or coat that is fitted in to the figure closely, or stop any where between these. Half way be tween seems to be the happy medium that Is most generally becoming. But the possessor of a very good figure may go even farther than the semifit ted coat with fine effect as is attested by the coat suit which reflects this place of the style as shown in the pic ture above. This hrahl and button trimmed suit of serge sets snugly to the body above the waist where the lines of the coat flow out into ripüles at the hack and sides, but are almost straight at the front. Parallel rows of narrow silk braid, stitched across the sides and back of the coat, end In a row of small bone buttons at each side. This is a novel placing of braid which is char \ Bmo£ .-„v,. ; V HAT STYLES SAIL TOWARD TRIMMING act eristic of this season. Correspond- i lug rows of braid, endfhg in buttons j ire placed on tiie sleev ,______ _ There is a shawl collar and an over-collar of washable white satin. In order to preserve the snug lines about tiie waist this coat is fastened ( with three buttons at the front. There i are several ways of arriving at this closely fitted effect by means of in genious cutting. They are novel hut , not more successful than the simple j and direct methods shown in the pic- ; turc. : Tho style of the skirt in this suit ! may bo taken as a criterion for the j season. It is a straight-line model, j fitted about .he hips, with waistline ! very slightly lalsed and it could hardly j be simpler. These are the Ideals that j all skirt makers seem to have in mind j Just now. Millinery shops are radiant with Joy- j otis Easter hats all proclaiming that j styles have taken a new tack and are j sailing in the direction of bright trim- ; tilings anil plenty of them. Flowers- are , sprouting all over some shapes, others ! are fully covered with foliage. Gibbons ; are nothing if not abundant, made up j into all kinds of fanciful and beauti- ' ful garnitures and applied in novel ways. Ornaments, after a long, par tial eclipse, have emerged and are given a conspicuous place of honor in the millinery firmament. This return to favor of millinery trimmings comes as a surprise, for hats have been so meagerly ornament ed f"* - *wo seasons, that we were about to pronounce the obsequies over those lovely furbelows—the flowers and feathers and ribbons and laces and ev erything—that seemed to have lan guished to the point of death. There is no telling what will come to pass over night In the world of millinery, for here they are again, ready to form a joyous Easter parade proclaiming the eternal feminine. The three hats pictured are typical styles. At the center is a wide-brim med model of leghorn braid with its crown covered with crepe. Having gone this far last year the crown would consider nothing more expect ed of it. But now it is first dotted ■' ,l1 "'Z' 1 ' heads and then its auua* , :, .v in tin. new style adds as many tight roses of folded silk as it can cir ri' without concealing the heads. Rose 1 tag* lies in a flat wreath about the nm ' , U iH on " 'he hats that trim mers class as belonging to the "bumpy" style. Below, at the right, a poke bun te t cevun .,1 with crept* georgette, is f:ic ' ;,i ' vith J'wWn braid. It has a long snsh of ribbon that wanders over the mown and through slashes j n the brim. lie ends loiter along their wav. which b'mls them half the length of the tig ore. A cluster of cherries and leaves are Joined to the shape with chenille stitches that are disposed to divide at tention with them. I he satin-covered shape at the left is tiie simplest of the three models. Ex cept for folds on the side-crown the satin is put on plain. But there is method in tills madness, the hat is merely a foil for a large ornament of eut crystals mock amethysts—set in metal and elaborated with beads. cTZU'W. / 7