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A----- 4Ig the war. bea* & common t Co m t oe m BSom e intoaci di. had of thin. But M bra are being a ua e who dared b &sad fr humnanity. r ~TuHhip Came or gowp d'at Inlduala t Uaiguht ead asty any ate th s biJt of another. And the A erl rattlvelylrt Par d war has cons in for ttanding ils the American sldr as a asgter is that he doesn't know whia to stop, that he'sekes In He courage u agly devoid t ll care as to his personal well-Wdng or usfe to the aeceumpllnt at a give objeet. The- e qualtes at the Yankee .Sh er were shown recently at the capture at the town at ery the Asseran It was Sunday morn A platoon t 50 gy and to bold a cr still n the town and iblag with a storm at toes eaerged from a bank at the Ourcq a pinlg fold toward lTb.e it was met b lltsa that Ioeediately hat " asne ke pt .a go dw nearr the town mseb gous anreastd. that by the tim he vilage oly 20 odd " -1 and Jauis Hy was n e t thoe 2L the t th platoe it hai.has ordere to ibellar beided a pile of uegeg, a poor ba t th s t t o deaded that tlm to stay ther ntl re I fth tme senemed to to the little: Its IlM shelter. A. psrtlularly gas pleed In a was It that the men trla to s get the b alsa bat -, the plant y afternoon al and the privatees tb eme were shot ,ene o'deock that itea t the i8 who was In ce hedu g their last up the street -4* -e euno -gh to me mse we bave won the satlicso a a men he really is tent sad moian *eor dley meL. we ever theosgt ot as heroee are made, rn it. ., became a Somedrl Iek tro ed tait to which he was a meesage to de message meaning through a hot onuwladed 8 hundred eta later, - *' NG I 20,000 atate la the ene of *Sw qs $ \ : "but I put on full steam, and the old motorcycle leaped ahead like a kangaroo. "Bing! A big shell busted only ten feet from my machine. Bang! Another exploded to the left of me, and I put on some more steam. Then a whopper hissed over me just missing the top of my tin derby, but I kept on going. "Say, once I rode a white mule in the circus that no one else could ride-he broke my arm and tattooed me with cuts and bruises. The mule's name was Snowball, and that animal seemed to have a hundred heels every time I tried to get on her back. But, believe me. one Boche shell is worse than a hundred Snowballs. "It was the hardest work I ever did to dodge the holes in the road. Bing! A shell plunked behind me and ripped off my back tire. Bing! A piece of shrapnel knocked off my helmet, but never touched me. Then I began to smell mustard gas. My eyes watered so that it was hard for me to see. I don't know how I did it, but I delivered my message, and when I woke up I was in the hospital. "Talk about mules in a circus! Mustard gas is mighty rough stuff, I'm telling you, and it doesn't help to make speed on a motorcycle, either." And then, because of his smile and his ability as an entertainer in the hospital, Klein was nick named "Sunny Charles." How English Aviator Exercised the Commander's "Privilege" VIATORS were often compelled to destroy their own machines to prevent the Ger mans from obtaining some jealously guard ed secret about the new type of aircraft. This is a story of an aviator who did that at the cost of his own life. There were two men-the pilot and his observer- in the latest flying boat which England's aircraft bullders had turned out. The two flyers were well out to sea when a fog came down and cut them off from their companions. The pilot headed for home, but the engine suddenly "died." A hasty examination showed the pilot that only a repair shop and a squad of expert mechan!cs could hope to make the engine run agq n. He told the observer so, and the two men-the ob server was really little more than a boy-sat down to watch and wait with the hope that a British patrol boat would come al6ng and pick them up. The night came on and the young observer fell asleep. The pilot sat on the deck-coaming and listened all the night through. In the morning 'he fog lifted and the observer, looking out over the waters, caught sight of a little black smudge oe the horizon, which grew steadily in size, and behind it another smudge and another. It was a patrol fotilla rapidly approachlng them. The boy was elated. "It is German, my son," spoke the older man in a quiet voice, as he turned his eyes from the smnudges to his rock ing craft. "Have you ' ryour life belt on se S curetyr' "Yes," answered the boy. "Then go over the side and swim for all you're worth." "But don't you want me to stay and help you " persisted the boy. "Get over the side," commanded the pilot sharply, "and good-by. Ssonny. It is my priv Ilege, you know." About 200 yards away the boy paused and looked back at the dis abled plane. The pilot was crouched on the top of the under plane Just over the bomb rack with a heavy wrench in his upraised hand, ready to strike a blowv. A mile away the first of the German destroyers was tearing 0be sea in its haste to take the broken plane and get -away before the British patrol should apsear. The boy turned and swam away from the tragedy which he knew was about to take place. A few momenta later there was the mighty roar of an explosrion, and be heard the swish of the air blast along the surface waters and the rush of the approaching wave from the sea disturb FUTURE HIDDEN FROM CLAY. Coald the shade of Henry Clay, roused from the salumbers of more than thrnescore years by the pandemoalum as 100 eugineers tied downm their whistle cords and brltled forth exultant shrieks, have trod the atmospheric space from his haunts in the Blue Gja country to Sault Ste. Marie a few weeks sire, and looked with dull eyes on the newly flathed enagleering feat spread out be fore his astmolshed gae, he would have been forced to admit that his declaration back h 1840 was at least shortlighted. "It is a work qlte jbeyond the remotest mettl meat of the United States, if not In the moon." said Henry Clay on that memorable oecasion, when by the power of Ms alver-tongued oratory he ianfleanced the congresm of the United States to defeat a measure by whiblch a canal could be dug around St. Mary's falls He was believed, and the proect that now In finished form ranks in world Importance far great er than the Suez caal, and in some minds greater thou the Panama canal, was condemned as Im praeCtieal. It was not untll 12 years later that congree saw its mistake and yielded to the per Ssuslion of Influential citisens of Michigan and .'ew York to grant an appropriation of land r whenreby the state of Mclhigan could fnance the Sexcavation of a canal.--J. Paal Chandler in Detroit Fnre Prees. SHER VOTEL "How how you going to vote, Omraee?" "Depends oen the weather. If it rains I suppose . I'll have to vote i a ma Celktatosb."'-Jude. AbOUt enO alt the popIslatio of Turkey is un able to reed r write. It has been temapted that eight or ten rabbits eat or daestrt s uch as grass as one sheep. In 8pain Me 1,0000O bee hilves, from which 0 the annul Pledea ot bomey is around 28,000. e O( pomndsv d at about MO.6 An eja t4 J Margep investion is g ttred by asi . to meale a wbrer ' to esalpalate ash e eheara artles, Resemblng en fs btei 5 a ~elmfur asr -~ b·hSe asl bam tuhat eamb inlmg'r r~ ar ance. The wave engulfed him just as he began to hear the splash of the falling debris, then he knew no more. He was still sobbing deliriously when the Brit ish patrol boat picked him up an hour later. The pilot had exercised his "privilege." De How Man "Tackled" a Deadly Depth Bomb and Saved a Ship IT ISN'T recorded that John Mackenzie. chief boatswaln's mate in the United States naval reserve force, was once a great football play er, but he was recommended for an honor medal and a gratuity of $II00 for doing one of the great- on est football stunts ever reported. we The navy department report shows that on the sW morning of December 17 a depth bomb on board we the destroyer Itemlik broke loose from its posi- vi tion on the stern of the craft. and. bursting its ca boxing, went bouncing about the deck. A heavy wi sea was on at the time; in fact, the waves were se breaking far over the stern of the destroyer, and the rolling and pitching of the little craft sent en the big hbomb flying backward and forward to port 1 and starboard, crashing into the rails of the ves- sic sel and hitting everything upstanding on the deck 4a with a force that m threatened to explode it aJ t any moment and * blow the boat to scrap be iron. ha The actions of this th engine of destruction recall Victor HUgo's great description of the gun which breaks loose ur from its moorings on shipboard and "be - comes suddenly some re indescribable superna- to tural beast. It is a ma chine which transtforms itself into a monster. This mass turns upon its wheels, has the rapid movements of a billiard ball, rolls with the rolling, pitches with W the pitching; gocs, comes, pauses, seems to meditate; resumes its course, rushes along the ship from end to end like an arrow, circles about, springs aside, evades, rears, breaks, kills, exterminates." I The bomb was a regular sized depth charge, weighing hundreds of pounds, and It would have been impossible for anyone to have lifted it and carried it to safety even if one of the crew had cared to take the risk of catching it in its wild rushes and rollings about the deck. So the of- - sera and men stood for a time watching the charge as it thrashed madly about, wondering a what to do, and not knowing what minute the in fernal machine might explode and send all hands fying into eternity. Suddenly someone cried "The pin has come I out!" lh Whether Mackenzie had been in some other at part of the ship until that moment, oz. whether t he had been standing with the others staring in p hopeless wonder and was only aroused by the N cry, reports do not say. But it is recorded that less than a second after the shout was raised the p plucky Yankee boatswain's mate dashed down the a deck and flung himself on the rolling bomb, much , after the fashion that football players throw li themselves on the ball. Three times he had his arms about it, but each A time it tore away, once almost crushing him as the roll of the ship hurled it upon him. The L fourth time, however, he got a firm hold on it, and with almost superhuman effort heaved it up- I right on one flat end. Then Mackenzie sat down b on the deadly charge-though even in that po- t sition the bomb might have exploded and blown ' him to atoms-and succeeded in holding it until b lines could be run to him and the charge lashed safely to the deck. r The commanding officer of the Remlik in his b report recommending that the medal of honor be b conferred on Mackenzie, says: "Mackenzie, in acting as he did, exposed his r life and prevented a serious accident and prob- I able loss of the ship and the entire crew. Had I thefdepth charge exploded on the quarterdeck C with the sea and the wind that existed at the time r there is no doubt that the ship would have bees t lost" Mackenzie is a native of Massachusetts. His home is Soath Hadley Falls. Y. M. C. A. IN DARKEST RUSSIA. The rural group (of the American Y. M. C. A. In Russia) dealt with another need of national magnitude. The mighty Volga basin, covering more than half a million square miles, is unable even in normal times wholly to feed the huge population It holds. E. T. Cotton in Association Men says a floating exhblhit was made up to visit and impress the teeming riverside communities with the importance of more sowing, better pro ductlon and futaller conservation. A staff of 35 was organised to demonstrate with models, moving pie tures, lantern slides, charts and lectures such neg letted subjects as seed selection, cultivation, dairy ing, horticulture, animal husbandry. hee keeping, domestic economy, play life for children and other aspects of community welfare. This assoclation conception and undertaking won instant recognition. the government furnish. nlag a steamboat. a barge and some funds. FINDS FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH. No place in the United States or Canada has a lower death rate than Kelley's Islatnd. Lake Erie, accordllng to Dr. Paul Fitzgerald. chief of an east ern insurnnce companny's hureu of statities. The island, the borne of a Irre stone-quarrying Industry, is the home of apiproximnately 5.000O peo ple. For years the insurance comnan.v has been in muring a large percentage of the population but never has been called aupn to pay a death claim, says Doctor Fltzgerald. who in his report to head quarters will refer to the island as "the head of the fountain of youth." Natural gas has been discovered at Velse, province of Overijsel, Netherlands. It Is beig sold at four cents a cable meter. A Canadian whallag company has been canning whale meat for a number of months Ia British Oblmbla. Castor oil is used In Japan In cottop spinnlng. In the manntacture of artlfeial leather, as a lubricant and when riewd as a drug. Accordia to e stmat. of the Swiss agtf-. -' Imr ml llSIl o.!U ,. LILLE KISSING ORGY PICTURED BY YANK Pretty Maidens Lead in Oscula-. tion as Correspondents I Enter City. d PEOPLE ARE MAD WITH JOTY Delirious Women Surround Newspa- P per Men, Among First to Enter Freed City, and Smother Them With Kisses-Meant as an h Outburst of Gratitude a to British. By GEORGE T. BYE. o American Headquarters, British n Pront.-In the early morning we set out over the south route into Lille by It way of Merville, Estairs and La Bas- r see. There was a heavy mist that , would have prevented any distant f, view, but luckily we pressed on. We C came across some balloon observers o who had descended because they could p see nothing. tl Artillery was moving forward, an L encouraging sign. Racing on over the d fine cobblestone La Bassee road we slowed up through a little village and II saw a brigade headquarters in the c methodic military act of moving. "We're going on to Loos," a major v said. He had heard nothing of Lille t, beyond a report that British patrols a had established themselves beyond c the city. Willing to Take Any Chance. a Our map showed Loos to be a sub- b urb immediately connected with Lille, P and we hurried on in great expecta- u tion. A military order forbidding en- 1 try by troops would not apply to cor- b respondents. We were roused enough to declare we would swim canals and walk miles for the chance to pene- I trate France's fifth metropolis even if I we had to dodge enemy outposts. d The British engineers already had a t pontoon bridge across the canal at Baubuordin, and at Indisreet speel we clattered over it. There were some t shboting, crying people of Haubour- I din who wanted to clamber aboard the a car, but we wouldn't stop. By following street car tracks we rnched Loos In a few minutes and I had the first taste of what was to fol- I low. We slowed down to inquire dl rections, and a mob seemed to rise magically In the street. People fought I to reach us' nd then climbed over the I back and sides of the car to embrace I and kiss us, crying continually, "Btr. I rah for the English!" to which we could only respond in rencaeh, "Good day! Good day!" Boys Lead Kissing Squad. Some little boys managed to squirm Into the back of the car, and, stand Ing on our typewriters, gas masks and uneatem lunch, tried for a monopoly of the kissing for a minute until we pushed them out. Our hands were pised and kissed. The Tommy driving eus was half pulled from his seat by a hysterical old lady who cuddled him as if he were a baby and cried: "My dear Eng lish boy !" He had to wipe her tears from his face when she released him. And the car was kissed. "Please, please. We must hurry into Lille. Which way, please?' One tragically happy girl, whom I had to seise by the shoulders to keep her away from me, finally pointed up the road and said: "Straight away. There are no boches in Lille. They have gone." Ihe was still talking when the driver frantically twisted his klaxon and we Sbegan to plow through the Jam, which had collected far ahead of us. We finally backed onto a circuitous Sroad which Jpd up to the Port des - Poetes, the southern gate to Lille. Here we were to leave the British E captai. also the driver and ear,. and exerrlse our civilian privilege of m i tering the city. Litle had had no notice of German DEDICATED TO THE BRAVE PO This statue of a French n d ruing to his home has Jul m meted In Paris neer the Grand dedicated o brave Pous France. THINKS HER j IS STILL ALIVE D.pHit War Inmuraneo le Cnviamed Her soy Net Dad. Kneaaexl Tam.--Te. enata ! reorted b01td lb 33eM. Nita..[ job= amI1 .M 1rR W evacuation beyond the terrific explo sions at six o'clock that morning when the bridges were blown up. Many sol dlers had been moved from their bil lets in Lille homes. However. it h'id been the experience of four years to have the city alternately tilled with Germans then suddenly emptied. When the explosions had brought the people into the streets they were im pressed by the complete disapplear ance of the enemy. About nine 'celock a brave soul went into the headquar ters of the kommandantur in the large a' building, of the prefecture of police at and found it vacated. c British Flyers Over City. British airplanes began to fly low at over the city. but not a British Tom- I l my was in sight. th After tense minutes of anxious wait- tit Ing three things happened. Charles Delasolle, Jr.. a French aviator and son of the mayor of Lille. flew over from Dunkirk and lighted on the u` Champs de Mars. Two correspondents tl of the Petit Parisien and Le Matin of st Paris trudged, after a long walk, R through the Armentieres gate into cI Lille. Mellett and I entered the Port ti de Postes. Who was first probably hi will never be settled, nor is it at all tt important that it should be settled, ex cept to the entrants. hi If we were beaten by a few minutes, 7( which we dispute, we know we had w the only parade, a procession that le went through the heart of the city. ti covered a mile, lasted an hour and in- st cluded many th'osands of dancing and at singing celebrants. If we had not m been rescued in the Place de Is 'Re- m publique and hurried inside the gates of the prefecture the parade might w have ended only when Mellett and I had reached the swooning point. 0 Hundreds Encircle Car. When we reached the Port des d, Postes, with its several traffic aisles, j hundreds of people came running out t of the gate, a never-ending stream ki that tightly encircled our car. "Le Anglailses sont lel! Vive lea w Anglaise I" was what they shouted as *( they tumbled toward us, and we even 94 heard it being taken up in alarming crescendo on the other side of the city B wall. B As soon as the kissing started Mel- tl lett surrendered his face and hands, w but, with his mind still on business, f managed to slide out of the car. I un- t wisely established a precedent for b lifting up babies, kissing them In the p Preach fashion on either cheek, giving al them a little spank and tossing them tt back to the first woman In sight. This was unwise in a way because it at tracted hundreds of mothers who wanted their oepretng kidseI and spanked by the bogus great English man, and undoubtedly resulted in many delirious mother extriaesting themselves from the mob only to find themselves tn possession of a strange lautes% fe i th e- ssemnt or t t bi moment I could take no responsibility for making correct returns. Kissed by Swarm of Maids, Yet it showed that I had a family heart, and, while I was paralyzed by the sea of babies surging up to me many of them back for a second go, no doubt--still there was the satistac tion of seeing that among the babl were the flowers of Lille. the pretti mademoiselles. Mellett, in the I time, was struggling with a swarm buxom housemaids, who were b a Shim four and five at a time. In he had all the La Bassee mud off one ear. I remember his tussles with t ant r girls quite distinctly, and the s tion always flashes upon me he ki h happens to mention my graelo to En the bearded gentlemen. my a "For God's sake, climb we to s are lost " shouted Mellett. per- ant . mitted severa of myli ties Ca b to assist me diamoant, a few I warm oscalations, and, the - the loveliest on either argedt pu ftorward rea a The crowd gave way a shout. abi ebeek from he War Ik Iaramree bmreas Two letters have recetdy bees weceived by the mother teulhg - bhs ezpeeaes whek MOn her be Lot that he Is sIw. YIe War I1k b- re was Imigm .i te ~ taa e , aeme the mother thet w abe - emM kotan as Camp Wheeler Soldiers Plan Immense Farm Camp Wheeler. Macon. Ga.- Arrangements are being made to p rovide a 40-acre farm for Camp i Wheeler next spring. The tilling ) ý of a 100-acrie farm last summer . was pironouniced a success. When ) } the soldiers first went to the ) f farm they had the regulation ) A: : mly tents. 'lToday they have a Slarge diningti: hall with beamed - eI 'ciling, rough hewn chairs and ) i tabls in closte imitation of an oL early colonial homle. and tumnled Ibak throu.gh the gate ahelad 'of us as tii heralds of our pro cessionl. Seeinll that it was unwie\\ for Mellett and me to he too distintly sep lGtrated. I unhllooked, two of the girls and Mellett took the arln of the one between Us, Mile. lierthe I ullh:l:ts, by the way. France never mltade 'elI pret tier than Mile. tBerthe. Everybody Wanted Two Kisae. The enormity of what was ahead of us was not realliet until we were through the gate. Our heralds were shouting "The English are coming!" Wave upon wave of Iltmenl, wolinll and children bore down lupon us and at times there were collisions that must have hurt. Everybcody wanted at least two kisses and a handshake. The dear old ladies of Lille had the highest average, going at the rate of 70 in a possible 1(l1. The younger I women (and I am not referring to Mel t lett's contingent) wanted to do the thing tenderly and gently and as a re suit often got rely a little hump I against my nose or ear, the second kiss missing fire or ricocheting to one of my winsome escort. The only trouble with the escort was that they could not tell us where we wanted to go. We just staggered on, pushed and pulled at from all dl rections, sometimes almost carried down by the weight of some wildly joyous person who would spring at us. t throw both arms around our nec i kim us rapturously. As we were entering Rue des I we heard a booming voice call I "Can I help? Just a minute I l get through these bltnking girls. He was M. Auguste Vonhe a SBelgian tailor, formerly of Load1 Because he was sixty-four yesis Ild the Germans had not fared A to work. He had kept hbi s~d hdd fe four years, bt, he rid, "the lttd fool" inalsted fnalsly t. getting ot sad had r been seed md takes away by the t Germans when they deported all the l able moaeoo, even yonths in mid Steem ntlbefore thevaeuatio. a t.V e tntrodued as to M. r a d as, Lille representative Sof the 1 -lectric company of I ch N. , S-take s through S-t a rstreetsmct- to mayor--mack--and back m to our ear-- ismek we .b.tween ukss. two turned about and talked , astto the m.A way opeed f and we ta All went well Stwo minutes, a fresh battal of kisses went the top and cut Haniaus off all communica with us. We ever saw him Ribbone, S Rosettes. We now began be entwined with red, white and b (and many badges and rosett re pin to us. We also got ba s eof red. w and blue paper Sowt, There was noth mores about the kisses. They were given by old and young to the "good English." One trim mademolaselle in my retainue kitsed me once for the alwes, once for . England, once for myself and onme dir my wife. (Note-I am not addlg tls to square myself at home. This tre and accurate history of the reat casion must be complete In al What happened to the they had hattedsd theidr parade sad nalti reach? They abreasut and danced or bhebid as. When we got found it The British captailn either knee, nad between him and driver had gives time ago and over his mat in a reach of short or more cheertul to The brave later d~d get tlon from the city. tries when we returned t their guns held by girls and decked with garlands and fed cakes. We msw other Tommlies ha their gunam and packs carried by L drls. It is a pity that the first taneons outburst of gratitude to British should have been centered two Tank correspondents. HOLDS THRIFT STAMP RE Kansas Grl Obtains $500, Makles Her the Champint o the Stats. Hutchinson, Kan-Miss Marjoie E. Stauffer of this city holds the state, it not the national, record for Thrift Stamp msales. When a stranger ap proaches her news stand in the BI sonte hotel, here, she asks him if he does not wish to take part of change In Thrift stamps. Pri to tober 1 she had sold 15,000 worth, in November she added 81.500 her record. Seven- okfWd TiOppd Beam to be the I -sra