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Newspaper Page TextDear Children : Your enthusiastic letters til! me with pride, and the thought has come to me that for such a band of loyal workers there should be a motto or slogan, whichever you care to call it. Nearly every letter speaks of a will ingness to “do our bit.” and we all realize that every bit counts big. So I want a suggestion from one and all as to a good motto for the top of our letter box. something that will show our patriotic spirit, something that will inspire us all to do even better work. You know that every bit of food that you raise or help raise for your own home use and for the market means more food for our soldier boys. Everything and every way that you help save in your home means not only a help to your people, but a help to your country; so now, my dear band of willing workers in this great cause of ours, send me your suggestions for our motto. Lovingly, AUNT JULIA. Deer Acnt Julia: I wrote to you once, but <l><ia't see it in print. •» I "ill try again. A« tie otter cousin* describe themselves. 1 wtD. too. if you nil fca’t scream and run. So hero I go I have blue eyes, auburn hair ar.l rate ■cmplextoc; weigh ninety-fire proind«: str. five feet h-.rt and thirteen years old. Who has i»v birthday—Septetnbe- 3? I eaa crochet and embroidar. but can t tat or ►est I like to read very mueh. Kobe-t Ward's and Odell Harrell s letters were Jurt fine Come again. Alaa Herbert Horton » < I here two sisters and one brother, but he rat oM enough to I u-le Sam service. I win .-kwe with a riddle: When ate needles »»e pretty gtri«? Rwni a cousin and niece. Punta-'’. X. C. GEORGIA MORGAN. V. 8.— Harry up. Tarheel kids, and don t let tbar states beat ns. Dear Anat J sila anl Couains wm ya i inase admit a poet from stay up north t» enter your happy corner’ Like many others. I find many interesting letters here and spend many a pleasant moment looking over the letters, "ell. folks, spring is shoot here, and I sup -wwe you ire al! real happy to welcome it. The te’ng to do now is to get those seeds ready and PELLAGRA Thta new dmease is spreading over the south with a 25 per cent yearly increase, leaving hor ror and death ta its wake. Ton will want to rend the story of bow nine years ago I discovered the cause of this dis hm and now thousands of pellagra sufferers have been restored to good health by a simple houno treatment Take no chan es with harm ful drugs or guesswork doctoring You are en titled to know the truth. The whole story is given in thia wonderful BIG 30-PAGE BOOK FREE! Malted in Plata Sealed Wrapper FREE to all who write for a copy. 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Millions are using Cioverinefor cub, burnr.eU. \3Cr—l YOU CAN ALSO EARN J A BEAUTIFUL DINNER SET S J aetorcbag to our latert offer in new premium list. Our plan i* the M-9 \. W «-w*fK , absoi i rtdyaauare. Write qurck—Pictures and Saha sent Xik ft 1 r«np<iy. port-pssd. Be Frat in your town. ™ E WILSON CHEMICAL CO.. mwMan De P », >• help I ncle Sam get a big crop for this year. Komember that food is going to win this war. nnd if you raise your share of it you will be doing your duty towards your country. We enn’t nil go over to France, tut we can all help ain the war, first by raising nil the food we ran and then by being living with it. 1 have written a poem especially for this cornet, and hope you will all like it. if you are real sad and want to feel glad Just reed Aunt Julia s corner. It life’s not worth while and you want a smile. Just read Aunt Julia’s corner. You'll find before you’ve read real long TDM life will be j :st like a song: So. any time that things go wrong. Just rend Aunt Julia's corner. If tt rains ail day and you cannot play. Just read Aunt Julia's corner. When there's no one home and you are alone. Just read Aunt Julia's corner. lou'll find the time just flies away. And you'll be happy all the day. 80. any time you want to feel gay. Just read Aunt Julia’s corner. I will close by wishing you all much Happi ness and also trusting to hear from some of you. Hinsdale. 111. CHARLES WAGBXBK. Dear Aani Julia and Cotndna: 1 have been a ►Uent reader of The Journal, but I am in the navy now; not for enjoyment nor for my health, but just because my country needs my help. Will describe mjseli. Herr goes. Sixty-five inches tall, fairs complexion: eighteen years old; weight. 154 pounds; have dark hair. Here is the »>ng we all sing. Gues.’ you all know it already: Good-bye, Broadway, hell) Frnace; We’re tea million strong. Good-bye. sweethearts, wives and mother. It won’t take us long; Dot t you worry while we’re there; It's for you we’re fighting, too; So good-bye. Broadway, hello, France, We're going to square our debts to yon. So, bye. Would like to correspond with some of you cousins. JESSE W. GRINER. Company 123. L'. S. Naval Operating Hospital. Hampton Roods. Norfolk. Va. Hello. Aunt Julia and cousins. Brother takes The Journal and I sure do enjoy reading the cousins' letters, especially the soldier boys, as 1 have a dear brother in the army. He is stationed at Camp Belvoir, Va. I have five brothers and two sisters. One of them is married and two brothers are married. Well. I will descriue myself, so you will know bow ugly I am. I have dark hair and eyes and a very fair complexion. I aru seme beauty. I tell you. Please accept me into your Letter Box. and I wculd like to hear from any of the cousins. Find enclosed 10 <-ents lor club button. With love to Aunt Julia and cousins. 1 am LEO BAILEI. Route 4. Lawrenceville. Ga. Dear Aont Julia and Cousins: Please admit a new cousin into your happy band. I live in dear old Alabama. We nave a pretty home in the country and like country life fine. We have splendid pike roads and the state highway, t have been a silent reader of the dear old Letter Box for some tin»«-. 1 surely enjoy read ing the letters. Itertba Powell, I, too. disagree with Ora Nelms in describing ourselves. 1 think it uuikes the letters far more interesting and gives us an idea how one looks. I am 3 feet 5 inches tall and weigh about 12* pounds. I have violet-blue eyes, fair complexion and golden hair. My age is a tittle over nineteen years. Will leave it for yon to guess. I help mother with the htnarwerit and sewing. I think every girl should learn to sew, eveu if it is not necessary, ior pastime I 'rochet, tat and knit some. I bad rather tat than do at>y kind of fancy work. I have made about forty yards of tatting during spare moments thia past winter. lina Short. I enjoyed your letter and will gladly exchange samples of tatting with yon. I am very fond of mus>". Can play most any thing. I can sympathize with you cousins who have brothers in tbe war. I have two cousins, cne at Fbrt Oglethorpe and one at .Macon. I have pne brother in tbe draft age. He Is ex- NOW RAISES 600 CHICKENS After Being Relieved of Or ganic Trouble by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable - Compound. Oregon. 111. —“ I took Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound for an or- ganic trouble which pulled me down un til I could not put my foot to the floor and could scarcely do my work, and as I live on a small farm and raise six hundred chickens every year it made it very hard for me. “I saw the Com pound advertised in our paper, and tried it. It has restored |i|||l||LJllll! ' ! ! 1 i nSfU ‘wi i my health so I can do all my work and I am so grateful that I am recommend ing it to my friends.” —Mrs. D. M. Alters, R. R. 4, Oregon, 111. Only women whohave suffered the tor tures of such troubles and have dragged along from day to day can realize the relief which thia famous root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, brought to Mrs. Alters. Women everywhere in Mrs. Alters’ condition should profit by her recom mendation, and if there are any com- K” tions write Lydia E. Pinkham’s cine Co., Lynn, Mass., for advice. The result of their 40 years experience is at vour service. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA. TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1918. j pec-ting to go any tunc. Although I loie my I dear old country and its freedom, it is sad to part with our brothers. Homer D. Fussell, your letter was fine. Coinc i again and tell us more about the canal zone. Aunt Julia, enclosed you will find 10 cents in coin, for which please send me a club pin. 1 win be glad to bear from sonic of yon cousin* or readers. Will do my best to answer • li. With best wishes to Aunt Julia and cousins. Your new cousin, NANNIE ELIZABETH GLKN'N. Route 1. Ashville, Ala. Dear Aunt Julia and Couains: Will you admit ! another Georgia girl into your happy band of i girts and boys? This is the first time I have written to yon and the << usins. We take The Journal. 1 enjoy reading the letters tine. I can hardly wait till the paper comes to read them. Well, cousins, what do you do for pastime? 1 1 am going to school Igoto s< Imo! nt Tip ; petteville. I am in the seventh grade. My teacher's name is Mrs. 8. R. Singletary, and l my music teacher's uame is Miss Tievo C. ' Senger. I love them both. Now I wiil ciescrilie myself. 1 have light brown hair, brown eyes, fair complexion; 4 | feet 2 inches high; weigh eighty-fiv? pounds; I fourteen years old. I will close, as my letter is getting long, i With best wishes to Aunt Julia and all the • couains, and also the soldier boys. ALMA A. TOMBLEY. Tippettevilie, Ga., R. F. D. No. 4. ; P. S. —En-losed find 10 cents, for which i please send me a elub button Hello Aunt Julia and Couains: Will von lot a little Alabama girl Join your happy band of boya and girls? My papa takes the Journal, and I enjoy reading the cousins' letters so ; much. I am a little girl of nine years. I ; live on a farm. I Like farm life fine. We have a nice orchard. The peaches, pears and plums are in full bloom. They are sure pretty. F’lenae print this. Aunt Julia, as it is my . first letter. A new cousin. EVA ANNE WARREN. BlmmUrviße. Ala. Box It. P. B.—Endosed find 10 eenta in stamps for which please send me a club pin. | Hello. Aunt Julia This is such beautiful I spring weather I think every one should get I ont of the house and enjoy it. 1 go to school I at Ringgold. Ga.. five miles from my home. I board with my aunt, and just get to stay at home from Friday afternoon unutil Monday morning. My school will be out the third day lof May. I have, a garden with peas, onions and radishes growing tn it now. I don’t have ] much time to work in it, but I will when school is out. I am fourteen years old and 1 would ' like to write to anyone nenr my age. With I love to all. GLADYS HULLENDER. Ringgold. Ga.. R. F. D. No. 3. Hello. Aunt Julia and Cousins: How are you all these beautiful <rays? Aren’t we hav ing some fine weather now? What do you cousins do tor pastime? Guess most of you all are going to school, aren’t you? Aunt Julia. ! I am sending 10 cents tor a club button. 1 see most everyone of the cousins are sending i for one. and of course I don’t want to be a slacker. I want tn enlist in Aunt Julia's army lof cousins. Well, I guess I had better de j scribe myself. I am 14 years old. 4 feet 8 I inches high, weigh ’2O pounds, have black ! hair, fair <-omplexion aud blue eyes. Will an ’ swer all cards and letters from the cousins. Hope this may escape Old Mr. Wastebasket. I remain, your cousin. BOYD L. KIMBREL. Ball Ground. Ga.. R. 5, Box 59. Dear Aunt Julia: Will you please let an- I ether Alabama girl in your happy band? I I guen you al! would like to know how I look. I am 5 feet tall, blue ryes and dark hair, j and fair complexion, and 12 years old. Igo !to school and am in the sixth grade. We have a fine teacher; his name ts Mr. Craton Hall. I like him fine. I don’t live on a farm. My papa is a section foreman on the Southern railroad. We take the dear old Journal, and I like it fine. so. Aunt Julia, if Mr. Waste basket comes in. slap him over with a broom. I will close. Please. Annt Julia, print this, for I want to surprise mamma and papa. Aunt Julia, please find 10 cents in stamps; please send me a clnb button, as I want to become a member of your happy band. So good-night to all. Your new cousin. ROSA LEE CREEKMORE. Fa rill, Ala. Dear Atari Julia: Will you admit another Georgia girl into your happy band of cousins? I have been reading the cousins’ letters for sometime. I do enjoy reading them very mueh. What do you couains do for pastime? I crochet and go to school. I am in th» sixlh grade. Well, I will describe myself, so here goes. I am 5 feet tall, weigh 110 pounds, brown eyes and brown hslr, fair complexion, am 14 years old. Who has my birthday, March 9? From a new cousin. LOIS WHITAKER. Statesboro, Ga., Route fl. p. S.— Flease find enclosed 10 cents in stamps for which send me a club button. I would like to correspond with the cousins. Dear Auntie and Cousins: Permit me to join your happy band. T am a little country boy, and Hke country life fine, as it is so quiet. I I live near Marietta. Ga. It is a very nice | little town, the county scat of dear old Cobb, as some of vou know. 1 go to school at Sardis. My teacher's name is Miss Berta Fnll en—-a very sweet lady o' about twenty-two years of age. I am nine, bnt weigh only forty ' eight pounds. I like the Idea of poultry farm ing. as 1 noticed you all were di.’cussing it in your letters, I would be delighted to race wirti you cousins and see if I couldn't beat you raising chtrkens. Auntie, cateh Mr. Waste basket by the pan' B ,p g. for he is coming with an open month. I am going. A new cousin. JOSEPH nTCKERSON. Marietta. Ga., Route 3. Box 32. Dear Aunt Julin »nd Cousins: Will you pleas.' admit » north G»org’* boy Into yonr happy hand of coorins. I live on a farm, but don’t like it much. What do you rousing think of this war? I tntnk it is just dreadful. I hope the U. S. A. will win. 1 think everybody on the farm ought to do ail they ran on the farm to help win the var. Well, Annt Julia, please send Mr. Wastebasket elf until 1 get in. . Wonld lik» to exchange cards and letters with the cousins. Will answer all received. I am rear new cousin, ♦ Rome, Ga., Rt. 11. ANDREW CONEY. Dear Aunt Julia. Will yon please allow a North Carolina boy into your happy clnb of consinal We take TYic Journal and like it fine I live on the farm. I bad better d<k | senbo myself. I have Lark hair, dark eyes, light complexion, am 4 feet 10 inches high; I weigh 10“ pounds. ‘ I bad better close. Tell the cousins to write me. Look out, waste basket. Good-bye. HOMER FORE. | Whiteville. N. C., Rt. 1. Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here I come again. This is my second trip. 1 would be glad if you cousins would give me a seat by Ai.ut Julia, as it seems most all want: to sit by Per. If I can’t be right by her 1 want to be as close to her as I can. 1 live on a farm of 100 acres. I like country life fine. I am the | baby child. I have two sisters and two broth era dead and three sisters married, and 1 am too only one at borne. so yon may know I get j lonesome. Some of you cousins come over to I sec me and we will go car riding, as papa has a car, and be said be would learn me how to j urive it. I will answer two of Clara Sue I'iacber’s riddle—What is it that a man I doesn’t want, but when he gets it he doesn't I want to loose it’ Is this right?—a bald head. And whv does a miller wear a white bat? To cover bis head. Jessie Atkinson, the answer to your riddle. Why is a Horse like a stick of caodv Is, the faster you lick him the faster he goes. I will ask a riddle. Traveling over the country like a king, yet visits each year the most humble hut. Enclosed find 10 cents, for which please send rne a club button, as I want to be a member of your club. I will close, hoping Mr. Waste basket has joined the army. With best wishes to Aunt Julia anu all the cousins. I am Yonrs very truly, KULA GLADYS WYATT. Dover, Tenn.. R. R. 3, Boa 30. Dear Aunt Julia: Will yon admit a little I Georgia girl into your happy band? I have j written twice before, but my Irtters were not printed. 1 live on a farm and enjoy farm life fin*. Who has my birthdav —liecerober 15? Well, i I will answer Myrtle Briley’s riddle. Why does a miller wear a white hat? To cover his bead. Am I right? ► Well, as all the other cousins describe them jelves, I will do likewise. I have brown hair, ’•lack eyes and fair complexion: am 5 feet 4 luches ingh; weigh 115 pounds, and am four teen years old. ' Enclosed, 10 cento Please send me a clnh button. Ijovlngly. Cutt'ane. Ga. DELLA HARPER. ‘ I‘. S. —Would like to . orre.pond with some of ' cur cousins. Will answer all received. Hello, auntie and cousins! Wil! you please j aomit another girl from the dear old state of Georgia into your happy hand of boys and girls? ■ I have been a silent reader of the letter Box ' for some time. 1 live on a farm like most of I the cousins, and like farm life fine. I live three and a half miles south of Nashville. 1 ' went to *ehool there in the fall, but am going ; to school at White Pond now. about two miles ; from here. As most of the cousins describe themselves. I I will do likewise. I am fourteen years of age. I hnvc dark curly hair, lair complexion, blue i eyes; am 5 feet 4 incites tall and weigh about : a hundred pounds. Who has my birthday—February 1? Bertha Is Powell, your poem was Just fine. 1 have two sisters younger than I am and one brother, eighteen years of age. This war is just terri- I.Jo. I think everyone should do their part to win, which we surely will. Isn’t the weather henuttful? Aunt Julia, find enclosed 1<» eenta, for which please send me a club pin. A’lnt Jnlfa. please ■end Mr. Wastebank** eU Dant let Mas The Truth About Belgium (Continued From a*a«t Issue) Sixth Installment. MR. GIBSON and Mr. Nasmith were up all night sending off the Germans. Mr. Gib son had driven away from the lega tion that evening with the German- American and his wife and little boy to the Cirque Royal, the wom an cowering all the way in terror in the bottom of the car. Her fears, of course, were ground less, the Belgians being by nature kind and generous, and when the motor drew up to the Cirque Royal and the crowds pressed around it. Mr. Gibson took the child and held it aloft and said: “Les Beiges fie croquent pas les bebes!” (“The Belgians do not devour children!’’l; A big gendarme put forth his hands, took the boy and said: “Mais non! Ni leurs meres ni leurs peres non plus!” (“No, in deed: nor their mothers nor their fathers! ”) And so he and the child led the way into the great Cirque. There nearly five thousand Germans were gathered, twice the number ex pected. They were, of course, all in excitement and alarm, and Mr. Gibson had to go about reassuring them. The officers of the gen darmes and the Garde Civique, with their own money, bought chocolate to give to the children, and later Mme. Carton de Wiart, wife of the Belgian minister of justice, came with hot milk and other comforts for the’women and children. The Belgian authorities promptly provided additional coaches, and after midnight the transfer of the refugees to the station began. It was carried on without incident, and that morning at daylight the last of the four long trains drew out of the Gare du Nord, bearing the Germans toward Esschen on the Dutch frontier. But the Germans continued to gather; we had to provide another train that night, and trains for several nights afterward. Mr. Ethel bert Watts, our consul general, had been in France on his vacation when the war came on, and only succeeded, after many adventures by sea and land, in returning to Brussels, coming around byway of the coast, Knocke and Ostend. He then took the matter in charge, and with the aid of Mr. Gibson. Mr. Nasmith and M. de Reval, finally sent off most of the Germans to Holland. There had been 5,000 that first night, and there were 500 the ‘ next night, 1.200 the night thereafter, 400 the next, and so on in a diminishing ratio until all of those who wished to go had left. The action of the Belgian gov ernment in this emergency was su perb in spirit and In execution and the population nobly generous and I could not resist the temptation to write a note to Monsieur Car ton de Wiart expressing my appre. ciation and admiration. Not a Ger man was -injured during those days, and no more serious harm was done than that resulting from the breaking of windows in the first ebullition of excitement. The Ger man proprietor of the great depart ment store known as Tietz did in deed consider that an auspicious moment to adorn his place of busi ness in the crowded rue Neuve with German flags, and they were prop erly torn down. The bourgmestre of Brussels. Mr. Adolpe Max, issued a proclamation appealing to the population to remain calm, while the minister of the interior pub lished a statement explaining the laws and customs of war. And that day, Friday, a state of siege was proclaimed. This is the proclamation of Bourgmestre Max: “Nous addressons un aouvel ap pel au calme et an sangfroid de la population. • ‘Toute atteinte porte a la pro priete de sujets allemands toute vio lence contre ceuxci, pourrait etre le pretaxte de grave represailles. “Ives citoyens Beiges qui commet tratent de pareils actes, so rendraient done coupable d’un veritable crime contre al patrie. “Il convient de s’abstenir de tout sevice a I’egard des sujets allemands qui seraient soupconnes convaincus d’espionnage et qui devraient etre arretes de ce chef. Il est de plus haut interet de laisser a I’autorite militaire seule le pouvoir d’exercer les chatiments qui comportent de samblables feints.” (“We address a new appeal to the calm and self-possession of the pop ulation. “All ‘attacks on-the property of German subjects, all violence against them, might be the pretext of grave reprisals. “Belgian citizens who commit such acts, then, make themselves culpable of a veritable crime against their country. “It is expedient to abstain from all assaults on the dignity of Ger man subjects who might be sus snatch this, and I won't stay so Ion; next time. Some of yon consins please write to me. I will enrwer all earrls and letters received. Ixive to all. • A new cousin. CAI.LIE MAE FUTCH. Nashville, Ga.. Route 2. Box 72. Dearest Aunt Julia and Cousins: I have been reading your letters for quite a while, and I enjoy them very much. This is my first letter, and I wish to see it In print, as a surprise to my schoolmates. T attend school at Jasper High school, and jnst love the work. I especially love m.r music teacher, whose name is Miss Claric Tyson, from Thomasville. Ala. How many of you cousins enjoy reading? 1 think it’s grand to bo supplied with a library. Among my books I like best ••'i'he Modern Tomboy" and "The Boy Scout Series.“ which contains six books. I also read several good stories for girls in my mother's magazine. What do you school children have for games? We once had a basketball elub and tennis court, but owing to such small grounds we had to dis continue both, and suggest a game that all could join in. Although wo never have time to get lonesome, see, onr Red Cross work keeps us very busy when we’re not in school. I also work as clerk in the pootoffvc, which is very interesting work. I will give a description of myself, as Fm gneeslng all are looking for the conclusion of my letter. I am a girl of "sixteen'’ and brunette; blue eyes, auburn hair and am •"> feet 2 inches in height. Knclosed is 10 rents in stamps for a club pin. Hope to be receiving letters from the cousins of about my ago soon. With love and best wishes, a new cousin. JEWELL Jasper, Ga. By Brand Whitlock ! pected or convicted of spying and who are bound to be arrested on this head. It is by far the better part to j leave to the military authorities ; alone the right to practice chastise ment which is allowed for pretense of this sort.”) 1 had a call from Ouang Yong Pao, who, with one of his secreta ries, Snu Tze. came to me to ask what the colleagues had decided to do at the meeting the night before. I explained and told him that 1 would remain in Brussels. He said he would do as I did. Snu-Tze, the little secretary’, spoke of the dangers ! one might incur at Antwerp, but 1 reminded him of his diplomatic ex traterritoriality and privileges. He leaned forward and his face wore a I curious smile as he said: "Mais les canons n’ont pas les yeux!” (“But cannon haven’t eyes!”) An incident occurred in those early days of August that I may as well relate here, though for its se quence I shall have to anticipate the chronology of events. In the early evening of Saturday, the eighth of August, there came to me from Dr. Van Dyke a message saying that*he had been asked by his German colleague at The Hague to request me to present, on behalf of the imperial German government, a message to the Belgian govern ment. The message of the iruperiai German government was in German and en clair. M. de Leval tranlsated it while we waited impatiently. It was this: “The fortress of Liege has been taken by assault, after a brave de fense. The German government most deeply regrets that, bloody en counters should have resulted from the attitude of the Belgian govern ment; it is only through the force of circumstances that she had, ow ing to the military measures of France, to take the grave decision of entering Belgium and occupying Liege as a base for further military operations. Now that the Belgian army has upheld the honor of its arms by its heroic resistance to a very superior force, the German gov ernment begs the king of the Bel gians and the Belgian government to spare Belgium the further horrors of war. The German government is ready for any compact with Bel gium which can be reconciled with their arrangements with France. Germany once more gives her sol emn assurance that it is not her in tention to appropriate Belgian terri tory to herself and that such inten tion is far from her thoughts. Ger many is still ready to evacuate Bel gium as soon as the state of war will allow her to do so.” M. de Leval finished his transla tion and handed me the text, stand ing there with an. inquiry in his brown eyes while I read it. I was standing there by Mr. Gibson's desk in the room of the secretaries: I read the dispatch over and over; looked at Mr. Gibson, looked at M. de Leval, looked at Miss Larner, amazed beyond any words. I stood there with the telegram in my hand. I looked at the English and then at the German words. What hand bad written them? What mentality had conceived them? Were there after all In this world no such words as honor and faith? I let the dispatch fall to the table, one thing at least decided, namely, that no such offer should soil my hands. But how to manage it? After all we were charged with the represen tation of German interests. And I began to think about a dispatch to Washington; I would point out what the President and Mr. Bryan, of course, must already realize—■ that this war is but the old struggle between democracy and autocracy in the world, and that little Belgium is just no’w holding this Thermopylean pass for democracy. And I sat down at Miss Larner's desk and began to write a dispatch in these «tei;ms, try ing to make the view accord with our declared neutrality— a some what difficult task, as I found. Mr. Gibson was standing by. still studying the telegram. After a while he said: “There are no cipher groups here.” “Then, perhaps,” I thought, “it is not authentic.” I thought it over a long while: it was, after all, strange that diploma cy should send such an amazing pro posal en clair. for all the world to read. Perhaps one would be justi fied in giving the imperial govern ment the benefit of a doubt that gentlemeh would construe as gener ous. And so, not without a certain reluctance, I tore up the dispatch I was writing and wrote another tele gram to Washington, pointed out that the remarkable message bore no cipher groups or other evidence of authenticity and asking for in structions. We were all night put ting the messages into cipher. Meanwhile the Belgians were holding on at Liege and perhaps the allies were getting up. I'told Mr. Gibson he might tell Leo d'Ursel—- j if he wished to do so —and he did. | Count d'Ursel. he reported, was: much impressed and had run at once I to see Davignon and de Broquevflle. | The beautiful dawn was breaking as I went to bed. The following morning. Sunday, the 9th, I had a telegram from Dr. van Dyke at The Hague, whose sym pathy and prompt friendly compre hension did so much during that try ing time to make my task less heavy. The telegram was brief; it said that the message from the imperial Ger man governent was authentic, and, though that was abouf all that a neutral diplomatist could say of ft, he added one other consolatory word: “Congratulations.” On Monday I had a telegram from Mr. Bryan reserving instructions un til the genuineness of the message should be established. On Tuesday, the 11th. I learned that the message had been delivered by the German minister at The Hague to Mr. Lou den. the Dutch minister for foreign affairs, who was requested to hand it to Baron Fallon, the Belgian minis ter at. The Hague, which he did. and Baron Fallon sent it to Brussels. Count Leo d’Ursel came over from the foreign office with word from Davignon that the Belgian govern ment was preparing a reply that would be a refusal to entertain the proposal. This reply was sent to Baron Fallon to be delivered to the German government through The Hague on Wednesday, and was as follows: “Brussels. Aug. 12th, 1914. “Please communicate the follow ing telegram to the Netherlands minister for foreign affairs. “ ‘The proposal made to us by the German government repeats the proposal which was formulated in the ultimatum of August second. Faithful to her international obliga tions. Belgium can only reiterate her ’•jpiy to that ultimatum, the more so as since August third her neutral ity has been violated, a distressing war has been waged on her terri tory, and the guarantors of her neu trality have responded loyally and without delay to her appeal. ‘ “DAVIGNON.’ ” (Continued tfext Issue) Copyright, by Brand Whitlock, 1918, under the title “Memories of Belgium Under the German Occupa tion.” All rights reserved. Copy righted in Great Britain, Canada and Australia. All rights reserved for France, Belgium. Holland, Italy, Spain. Russia and the Scandinavian countries. liSSIiOME Topzcj xondveteo pu PLANT PECANS Everybody that owns their home and who expect to live on it, and hand !t down to those to come after them, should plant a few pecan trees. Some years ago I was entertained at a lovely Valdosta home, where a magnificent pecan tree as large as an oak tree, grew in the yard. My hostess told me its history and of the splendid nuts it had been contributing to the family for many years. It was then full of nuts. Before we entered the house I picked up a few and brought them home and planted them in my gat den. The sprouts cameup promptly and grew off well. The nuts are as fine as I have ever seen; they have borne for two or three years. A grove of such trees would yield several hundred dol lars to the owner, for pecans sell high and last for years and years. On a farm only a few miles distant, there is a magnificent pecan tree, than seventy years old. that was grown by planting a small branch that had been used as a riding switch by a traveler who stopped for a night’s lodging. As if by a miracle that twig took root, and there is not a more beautiful tree in Cherokee, Ga. The farm is still in the ownership of the gentleman’s chil dren who planted the twig and cared for the tree until his death. I rebuke myself that 1 was not foresighted enough to plant a pecan groxe, even twenty years ago. EARTHQUAKES In Guatemala City, it is said, there are continual earthquakes. The Panama canal, which was built despite great approval of the Nicaragua proposed canal •route, and the Nicaragua scheme lost out because Nicaragua is addicted to earthquakes. It is not im possible that the giant locks of the Panama canal may be later tested by such earthquakes. My first personal acquaintance with earthquakes came along when 1 was not more than seven years old. It impress ed itself on my memory, because every body was talking about the one that came along near the time the West ern and Atlantic railroad had been near ly completed from Marthasville to Ma rietta. in 1847. It was a sensation like the comet that made its appearance a little earlier, and the comet terror ized the people, because it was said the world was coming to an end. I remem ber hiding my face in my mother’s skirts lest the blazing comet might shoot something - down on us. | But the biggest earthquake that I now recall was the one that played havoc in Charleston, S. C. The damage in that city equaled a conflagration, where the shocks felled houses and other structures to the earth. At our house we were all in bed that night, and 1 was awakened by a floor movement. ' After I was wide awake, I noticed the pictures on the wall were swinging front, then back. Then 1 quit the house and sought the yard, as it was a moonlight night, and as cairn as it was ever. It looked right funny to see my little family out of doors and ac tually afraid to go inside again. It is the queerest and most uncanny sen sation to feel the foundations under your feet quivering and working to and. fro and unstable. * SOMETHING JOEW IN OLD GEORGIA ‘SAVANNAH, Ga., March 12.—Because of inability to secure men for section gang work the Central’ of Georgia rail- ; way this morning put on a gang of > eighteen negro women to serve in that capacity. They began their labors put ting crossties in position to be used in ' repairing the roadbed. The women are > prov;ng excellent laborers and the first ■ day’s work has been satisfactory to the management. They draw practically the ; same pay as the men. There is a white j man foreman over them.” The newspaper clipping shows what Savannah is doing to solve the labor : problem. These negro women about I Safeguards Health of The Children Constipation, or inaction of the bowe'.r. is a greaa menace to health. 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Those who live in towns' are a delicate order of feminines. They could not 1 handle cross ties. In* sal very times tire great majority of slave women were stalwart. They made excellent plow hands, were good drivers of ox carts and were strong as to muscle, and were efficient in all gen eral lines of plantation labor, but the slave men were the dependence for heavy strain in lifting or digging. The labor famine will draft everything tha. can perform manual labor, and the strong colored women should have equal pay with equal work with the men of the race. The shortage in labor wiil call for all the house help that is available. And as other drafts are made on the men of the country the women who can do farm work will be heartily welcomed. ! TELL YOUR WIFE I ! CORNS LiFf off i i • I ! Doesn’t hurt a bit to lift corns | f or calluses off with | ; fingers |* Not a twinge of pain or soreness before applying, or afterwards. 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