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UiHTS III EUROPE'S i WAR THAT GOT ΒΚ M CENSOR ! ♦ German a French Hero—Foes ♦ Joke Between Fight»—Bel gian Lancer a ; Superman. CORRESPONDENTS at the front or marooned In obscure place* while the great European con flict rages manage daily to gel through the wary censors some Uttir grimly humorous or tragic side light» of the war. Here are some of th. be*t that her» corae ever the cable or by mail: "Among the wounded men from th« flghtiLg on the Vser was a yonug Ger uniu with a bloodless, Intellects face," cubles a correspondent. "Hi head was η mass of bandages. Ht had just been taken from a Red Cros> train and placed tenderly In a bed in an improvised hospital. The nurses some In tears, gathered around him. " 'He saved the lives of neveu French soldiers.' Tills, written on a blood stained sheet of packing paper plnuw' 011 η blanket, told that the young Ger man was a hero. That was all tit· French ambulance meu found time to tell us." \ It Has Hnmoroue Side. Despite the horrors and discomforts of the situation the French and Ger man soldiers who have been facing each other for many weeks In th< trendies on the banks of the Aism· occasionally indulge lu bursts of pleas entry. Germans sheltered lu concrete Unrri quarries chased toward the French lines a horse around whose neck hnu" ■ large placard and several well thumbed German newspapers. The placard bore this Inscription: "Good duv to the Frenchmen. D<· you know f :ussia is beaten all along the line and Antwerp is taken?" The Frenchmen smiled. A French Junior officer says that in the enemy's trenches not more than thirty or forty yards away from h!s own the German try to prove which of them c*n sin the loudest. "On both sides." says this subaltern "we have excellent musicians, and they accompany their own songs—thai is, when they are not chaffing one an other across the intervening ground. "We can often hear quite clearlj commands given in the German trench es. We also frequently chaff each other and piny tricks when we can •without omitting to use our rifles." A youug English officer of the army service con» writes: "1 had my flrst experience of shell fire on Monday last. One burst prac tically at my horse's heels as I was galloping across an open space. I was glad when it was over, as they sent six into myself and my two wagons within forty-five seconds. Aue peopie nere cannot αο enougu for you. Incidentally I brought In a spy myself about two weeks ago. He was in a most wretched funk, and I felt a perfect swine for having to keep a revolver on him the whole time. "I used to wonder what active aerv Ice would be like, but the picture I drew was entirely wrong. However, It has its humorous side, and f have howled with laughter at some of the extremely funny things that have oc curred. "The conduct of the women and children in these villages Is wonderful. Yesterday when 1 was in the Ger mans bombarded the town. I only saw one woman and two children run ning. The rest were as cool as we ■were. "The noise of the shells Is devilish. It's a long drawn out whistling whine, α pause—and then bang! The worst 1s that you hear them coming and do not know when or where they will burst. Still, like everything else, we get used to them. No amount of dodging could do any one the slightest good, so why try?" In a tramway ear from Camberwell to the Elephant and Castle, London, was a wounded soldier, discharged frcV the new King's College hospital A talked about the fighting In where, he said, "I got It in the left thigli and never even seen a German"—and of the kindness of the French people he kept looking at his hands and gently rubbing the back of one hum! with the fleshy palm of the ather. "Did you get hurt In the hands, too?" t mail asked him. "No," he Mid and then, breathing on the back of hta fin gers, nibbed iil* nails upon the khaki sleeve of his other arm. "What's the matter with them, then?" his questioner went on. "They look fnnny to me somehow." The wounded ιηαη «prend oat hi* two hands palms down with the fingers spread wide apart. His finger nails glowed like pink ojmls. "There's nothing the matter with thorn," ho said, "only they've been manicured. They done It In the hos pital. 'i'he nurse done It, 'Bhoektng lingers.' she says, 'for a young man to go «bout with.' Bo she fetches a bowl of soapy water and a bo* of tool·, and this is what she dmie to them. Not hfltf Ικι·1. I don't think. Yon een t*U· It from ι ne It's the most wonderful, np to date hospital lit the world. It"* worth getting a plug in the leg to go in there and look at the place " "You'll have to rough them nails μ ρ ι Ut liefore you get home," u man la w French Officer Thrillingly Re- ♦ lates How Two German Aviators Were Killed. Î jgf + φφφφφφφφφφφφφφφφ ' the rar told Win, "or your old womai. will be wanting to know what you've b«en doing In France." Δ Super-Belgian. A young Belgian lancer who was promoted In one <lay from prlTate t<» sergeant and from sergeant to second lieutenant I* iwip?!·»''"? et In Cheshire. His name Is Renier, and he is not yet eighteen years old. He speaks sh languages. When the war began he was living at Harrogate. He took th.* first boat to Belgium and, after belli· rejected several times, was admitted to a regiment In which his brother was captain. His brother was killed early In the war. The first day that young Renier weni out on patrol he was captured and tied up. but be undid the knots, sprang on the rootry when the sentry was light irig a cigarette, cut his throat and es called, wearing the German's helmel and tunic. Ou regaining the Belgian lines he was arrested as a German, but was soon released and promoted to a sergeant. Later In the day he carried a wound ed soldier out of a hot Are and wax promoted to second lieutenant for gal lantry. Next day In α charge in which his brother was killed young Beulet was wounded in the thigh and the fore head. Battle in tne Air. How two German aviators were kill «1 In η thrilling fight high In the air i told by η French officer of high rank who, with the ι -«intending α mile.*, watched the liattle in the sky, thirty miles from Amiens. Π? said: "For miles on both sides of the roat the men of the — th array corps are busy taking the crimps out of their limbs, stiffened by the night's min. No tents, the men hare 'bivouacked.' but the fenr of Titulies and Zeppelins has prevented the lighting of eampflri* Les» than η mile nwny are the Ger mans. For ten hours, 1 am told, not η shot has been tired. IIy work is done Getting out of my car and handing my papers to uu orderly. 1 go to beg a can of coffee from a group of Moroccans. Theirs is better coffee. The French men near by. Parisians evidently, jollj me. lsu't their coffee good enough? "The conversation goes no further. Over our heads Is the whir of a motor coming front the north. Abont a thou sand feet above our heads, flying slow ly—what nerve!—comes a Tnube. A bomb drops fifty yards from my car In a newly plowed field. It doesn't ex plode. The men all laugh, then shout. From the east a French monoplane a; full speed bears straight for the Ger man. Tbe German sees him. Up he goes 6,000 feet. Up goes the Frencli man, cllmbtng faster. With glasses out can almost the pilots. Both want to fight, and neither makes an effort t" get away. '"The French machine, a Farnian. rises over the German. We hear its quick flrer quite plainly, but the Ger man circles away, and for a quarter of an hour 100,000 pairs of eyes follow the chase 5,000 feet In the air. Wit!· glasses one can see the Germans standing out of their trenches, and no< a single Frenchman thinks of fil ing ι shot at the exposed enemy. Again th·· German allows himself to be ap proached, and the qulc(c firers orncU again. The Frenchman lurches, slip* on one wing, falls a few hundred feet straightens up and climbs again. The French troops around me go wild, em brace each other, dfince, shout; then η long silence. The whir of motors can not be heard, but sound of the shot!· comes to us plainly. The Frenchman is above the German and firing neari; perpendicularly. A captain orders ns to get under cover, the bullets from our man above being Just as danger ous for us as for the German. No one pays any attention to the officer, who is too busy watfhing the duel above to Insist. German 8hndder« and Drops. "The quick tirera rattle etlll faster, niid suddenly the Oermnn seem· to shudder. stnnds Β till end begin· to drop, circling In spirals. tall In the nlr. He strikes 500 yards away, In a marshy land. In spite of «hooted order·, β thousand mon rush to the spot. I am In water up to my ankle·. The ma chine 1* η wreck. The motor 1» half burled In the mud. The wings arc smashed. A few yard· away Is thr pilot, dend. hi* head so burled Into his shoulders that cmlv Ills «yes. wide open are visible. "Under the motor, which has caught Are, the body of the 'observer' lies, enuglit by the lug·. The heat Is so In tr-nse w* cannot approach. The mnuV hands, white and soft they swemed to me—he la evidently a young officer «hake In the air convulsively, then grip the ground around htm In nn effort to «tease Ills lugs. His eye· turn toward us, but we are helpless. The hand» move again one· or twice, aud the suf fering ends. During linnet few ml nut··· net one of lis looked upou the dying men a· en enemy. W« all had a great feeling of pity for a man who had fought a good battle and lost, "Ten minute· after en automobile roll· up to the edge of tit· marsh. The general and staff commanding the army corpN have followed the Juel and come to see tho Ιο««.τ. Then come two young soldier*. privates. The general em brace* both. They are the victors, who hu<l landed after their rival had drop ped. Every one shakes hands. An old woman, a peasant who Uvps In a near by farm and has refused to leave her home to the Germans, gathers a few flowers In a Held and brine* tlicra to our two heroes. " 'You have just earned the Legion of I Honor,' says the general to the avia tor». 'You'll get it; count on me.' "A shell screams over our heads; the Qermans have started the dance. Ev ery one rushes off. The tragedy ends, and a new one begins." Mayor Hostage of Germane. After seven weeks' imprisonment as a hostage in Germany Paul Dieudonne, mayor of EInville, a Lorraine town, gives an aecouut of his experiences to ι a Nancy newspaper. Dieudonne was taken from ^Invllle with two other prominent lnhsnltant* by the retreating Germans In early September because the French bad set an example of hostage taking at Vic and Morbnnge. He says the captors gave them Jnst time to get a change of clothe* and tome money. At Cha teau Rallns they stayed twelve days with α number of other hostages, most ly peasant·. old men, women and chil dren. the majority being without suffi cient clothing or money. To Dieu donne wu given a letter by a German offlrer, Lieutenant Colonel Passu vent, whose family left France at the edict at Xante·. Thla stated that he, with his friends, had behaved well toward the German wounded at Kin ville. This proved of the utmost value, procuring for them many courtesies on the wearteotue journey by road to Ulm, on the T>an ubs, where there was α large camp of French hostages, refugees and mili tary prisoners, . Through this letter they were lodged la the fortress Instead of the open •Map, which was tMMr eoid <rwtag t»tw MUIniWs^TfcyWt wee warm til by f ii iiiu lu-ut and had other con veniences. They were also allowed to buy extra food fis long as their money lasted. Made Payment of Money. After spending a month at Ulm the letter won them their release, but they were told it was Impossible to cross the Swiss frontier without paying 5.000 francs ($1,000), which they did not have. However, Dleudonne was allowed to telegraph to a German col league. an old friend. Zundel, at Strassburg, who sent the amount needed. They were then released and took a train to the frontier, where the SwIhs Indignantly repudiated the idea that the payment of money was neces sary. When asked how tho Germans treat their prisoners Dleudonne replied that he had seen two enraps. Ulm and Mut zigeu, where the prisoners suffered from the cold because of lack of cloth ing, but they were not badly treated. "They work six hours dally." he said, "repairing the roads and railways un der the command of their own non commissioned officers, over whom are German officers who do not appear un sympathetic. They have coffee morn ings, with soup at midday and evening I and meat three times weekly. Their quarters ηpi>ear to be healthful, thanks to a flooring placed a few inches from the ground. 1 also saw some stores. ι Short Stories. Sngnr Is made In Africa from cac tus plants. Icelandic patriots have designed a , new national flag—a navy blue field marked with a white cross with a red cross Inside It. A steamer whoso rudder had been broken whs steered for several days through the Pacific by packing boxes hung over the sides. The tallest wooden flagpole is that j erected on tho grounds! of the I'anama exposition In Hun Francisco. It Is four feet In d lu meter at the base and w«lotis tht*"- \llt Averts Normal Nation. The object of the average norms! nation in to have more prosperity to raise more taxes to build more bat tleships to seek more markets to eell more goods to have more pros perity to raise mora taxes to build more battleships to seek more mar ket» to sell more goods to have more prosperity and so on until something unforeseen happens.—Life. 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This famous salts Is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with llthia, and has been used for generations to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal e'-tlvlty; also to neutralize the acids In the urine so It no longer Irritates, thus ending bladder dis orders. JaO Salts cannot injure anyone; makfte a delightful effervescent llthla-water drink which millions of men and women take now and then to keep the kldneva^and urinary or g ans '4^MhfciajLJU|voldlgK- """jSJsfc !»'V A , Upsetting Hi· Theory. "The heavy explosions of a battle a! way» cause rain, it rained after Wh terloo; It rained after Fontenoy ; tt ι rained after Marathon." "But Marathon was fought with spears and arrows, my dear." "There you go. Always throwing cold water on «nyth|ng I have to say." —Louisville Courier,Tournai. Cremation In Norway. There Is in Norway a law dealing ! with cremation. 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