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In thl» story Mr. Palmer. the
noted war correspondent, has paint
ed war a a he ha* seen li on man/
battlefield*, and between many na
tions. Hit Intimate Knowledge of
armlee and armament* ha* enabled
him to d- educe a graphic picture of
the greatest of all war*, and hla
knowledge of conditions ha* led
him to prophesy an end of armed
conflict*. No man la better quali
fied to write the atory of the final
world war than Mr. Palmer, and
he has handled hi# aubjoct with a
master hand.
(Cominaed from Yesterday.)
"You it; !,■ ii your a'raw hat and
bl«i‘ olci,sc, llioy've Keen you a man
fl(h< os ai d not I . uniform! If they
catch you it will be it drumhead and a
firing squad a' dawnj’
"That's so'” replied Keller gravely.
'But they'll have to make a better
job nf It than you fellow* did If they're
going to "
He turned away abruptly bul did not
move far. His shoulders relaxed Into
the gardeners stoop, and he pulled
hla hat down over his eyes and low
ered hla head as if to hide his face.
He was thus standing. Inert, when a
division staff officer galloped Into the
grounds.
"Wbare Is Major Dellarme?"
When he saw OeMarme's still body
he dismounted and In n tide of feel-
In* which, for the moment, submerged
all thought of the machine, stood,
bead bowed and cup off, looking down
at Dellarme's face.
"1 was very fond of him! He was as
school when f was leaching there.
But a good death -a soldier's death!"
he said. "I'll write to hia mother my
self." Then the voice of the machine
spoke "Who Is In command?"
”1 am. air!" said the callow lieuten
ant, coming up. But the men of tb«
company, apoka.
''Bert Stransky!” they roared
It was not according to military eti
quette, but military etiquette meant
nothing to them now. They were
above It In veteran superiority.
"Where's Stransky?" demanded the
atnffofflcer.
"You're looking at him!” replied
Stransky with a benign grin.
Seeing that Stransky was only a pri
vate, the officer frowned at the nnom
aly when a lieutenant was present,
then smiled In a way that accorded
the company parliamentary right*,
■which he thought that they had fully
earned.
"Yea. and he gels one of those Iron
erossa*!" put In Tom Kraglnl.
"Yea -the first cross for Bert of the |
SReda!"
"And we'll let him make a dozen '
Anarchist speech ns a day!"
"Yea. yea'" roared the company.
"The ayes have It!" the officer an
•srnmeed cheerfully. He lifted hla cap
to Marta With tender regard and
Igrave reverence for that company, ha
took extreme care with hla next re
•aark leet a set of men nf such dy
■MUßin spirit might repulse him as an
Invader “The lieutenant Is In com
mand for the present, accordln* to
Kogulattons," he proceeded "You til
Kotlr* Immediately to positions 48 and
4# A ,T by the castle road. You have
pone your part Tonight you sleep
ttd tomorrow you rest.”
Sleep' Heat! Where bad they
{heard those worde before? Oh. yes.
in a distant day before they went to
•war! Sleep and rest! Better far than
tan Iron cross for every man In the
■noznpanyt They could go now with
something warmer 1n thetr hearts
than consciousness of duty well done.
•but this time the» need not go until
| thetr dead as well as their wounded
•Were removed.
Keller started to pass around the
cvrssi’ of the h«.uae; he was confront
wd by Marta, who had come to the end
of the veranda There, within hearing
•of the eoldlera. the dialogue that fol
lowed was low-toned and It was swift
and peipltaut with repressed emotion.
"Mr. Keller 1 saw you at the auto
ti.a ic I beard whsl the wounded prl
- of rha Ureys said to you and
reellaed how true It was.”
J "He la a prisoner He cannot tall."
"I feel that 1 have no right to let
you go lo yowr death by a filing
squad she Interrupted hurriedly,
'and 1 shall not! For I decide now
not to allow tbs telephone to lematc'"
T"—he looked around at the auto
malic ravenously and fearsomalt
•'!—'•
“It ts all sliuply arranged. There
la time for me to tiso the telephone
before the Grays arrive. I shall tell
Danny why you took charge of tbs
gun ''
"I'va changed my wind! TCilt gar
4ee«r! Enter gunner! I'm going
with yoa!" he ruled In a Jubilapt voice
that arretted the attention of evary
one oa the grounds.
CHAPTER XIII.
Krosn Brown to Gray.
*You, Marta -you are still there!"
Xaaetton eartaimed la alarm whan ha
IkeA’d her vole, oxer the tunnel tele
phone ''Hut sale" he added 'n re
iwt Thank G*-« >K '.*»»«! U'M a
f 4&fI EDER!CK PfILMER
S mfghty load ray mind. And your
mother?”
"Safe, too.”
"Well, you're through the worst of
it. There v on't be any more fighting
around the house, and certainly West
| etilng will be courteous. But where
! la Guniavn?"
I "Gore!"
“Gone!” lie repeuted dismally.
"Wait until you bear how ho went,”
' Marta said. With all the vividness of
' her Impreeeiona, a partisan for the mo
-1 moot of him and Dellarme, she
sketched Keller's part with the auto
| nmtlc.
As he listened; Da.nstron’s spirit was
twenty again.
"I can see him,” he said, “It was a
i full breath of fresh air to the lungs
of a suffocating man. 1 —"
Karla was off in interruption In the
full tide of an appeal.
"You must I promised -you must
let him have the uniform again!" she
begged. "You must let him keep hi*
automatic. To lake It away would
be like separating mother and child;
like separating Minna from Clarissa
Eileen.”
"Better than an automatic—a bat
tery of guns!” replied !.anatron. "This
Is where I will use any Influence I
have with Bartow for all It Is worth.
Yes, and he shall have the Iron cross.
It la for such deeds as hia that the
I iron crosa waa meant."
"Thank you.' she said. “IBs worth
something to >nak’ a man as happy ah
you will make him. Yes, you are real
flesh and blood to do thla, lamny."
Her point won with aurprlstng ease,
when she had feared that military
form ami law could not be circum
vented, she leaned against the wall
In reaction. For twenty-four hours
nhe had been without sleep. The In
terest of her appeal for Keller had
kept up her strength after the excite
ment of the tight for the redoubt was
over. Now there seemed nothing left
to do.
"That’s fine of you, I.anny!” she
| said. "You've taken It like a good
stoic, this loss of your thousandth
! chance. You really believed In It,
didn't you?"
"Forgotten already, like the many
other thousandth chance* that have
failed." he replied cheerfully. "One
of the virtues of Parfow's steel au
tomatons ts that, being tearless as
well aa passionless, they never cry
ovar split milk. And now," ho want
on soberly, "we must be saying good-
"Good by, Izxnny? Whv. what do
you mean?” She was startled.
"Till the war 1* over," he said, "and
longer than that, perhaps, If 1* Tlr
remains in Gray territory."
“You epeak as if you thought you
were going to lose!"
"Not while many of our eoldlera are
alive. If they continue to show the
spirit Dial they have shown so far;
not unless two men can crush one ’
man In Ihe automatic gun recoil age.
Hut 1-a Tlr is in a tangent and already
In the Grays' possession, while wo act
on the defensive So I should hardly ]
be flying ov«r your garden again."
“nut there’s tho telephone, lainny. 1
and here we are talking over it this
very minute!" the expostulated
"You must remove It," he said “If
the Grays should dißcover It they
might form a suspicion that would put
you lu an unpleasant position."
The telephone had become almost a
famll'ar tuelltution In her thoughts
Its secret had something of the fasci
nation for her of magic.
"Nonsense!' she exclaimed "I am
going to be very lonely 1 xvant to
learn how Feller it doing—l want to
chat with you So 1 decide not to let
It be taken out And. you see, 1 have
the tactical situation at you soldier*
call It. all In my favor The work
of removal must be done at my end
of the line You're quite helpless to
euforc* your wishes Aud, Danny, If
1 ring the bell you'll answer, won't
I you?"
"I couldn't help tt!" he replied,
"Until then! You've been fine about
everything today!"
"Until then!"
When Marta left the tow or she knew
only that she was weary with the
mind-weariness, the body-weariness,
the nerve weariness of a spectator who
hns shared the emotion of every actor
in a draws of death and finds the ex
cltement that has kept her tense no
longer a sustaining force.
As she went along the path, step*
uncertain from sheer fatigue, her sen
sthtlltle* livened again at the eight of
a picture War. personal war. In the
i former the giant Htranak.v was knock
! lag at tiie kitchen door. Hla two-days*
I old beard was malted with duet and
; there war* dried red spatters on hts
I cheek War s furnace flame* seemed
| to have tanned him. war seemed to
1 he breathing from hit deep chest; hts
big nose xvas wars promontory. But
th# unexposed space of hts forehead
, neemed singularly white when he took
off his cap aa Minna came in answer
! to hts knock Her yielding lips were
parted, her eve» were bright with In-
I qulry and suspicion, her chin wsa
| firmly
i - ’i cam© 'o >«# !f »*u would let ina
1 your hand again," said Stransky,'
; qMinting through his brows wistfully.
'i see your nose hns been broken
once. You don’t xvant It broken a see
tid time. I'm stronger than you
think!” Minna retorted, and held out
her hand carelessly as if It pleased
her to humor him. /
He was rather graceful, despite his
ir.e, as he touched his lips to her fin
gers. Just ns he raised his head a
burst of cheering rose from the yard.
"So you've found that we have gone,
on brilliant Intellects!” lie shouted,
arid glared at (he wall of the house In
the direction of the cheers.
"Quick! You have no time to lose!”
Minna warned him.
"Quick! quick!” cried Marta.
Htrannky paid no attention to the
urging*. He had something more to
say to Minna.
' I'm going to keep thinking of you
and seeing your face—the face of a
good woman while 1 fight. And when
iho war Is over, may I come to call?”
he asked.
His feet were so resolutely planted
on Ihe flags that apparently the only
way to move them was to consent.
"Yes, yes!” said Minna. “Now,
hurry!"
“Say, but you make me happy!
Watch me poke It Into the Grays for
you!" he cried and bolted. ,
Within the kitchen Mrs. Galland
was already slumbering soundly In
her chair. Overhead Marta heard the
exclamations of male volcee and the
tread of what was literally the heel
of the cotiqperor--guests that had
come without asking! Intruders that
had entered without any process of
law! Would they overrun the house,
her mother’s room, her own room?
Indignation brought fresh strength
as she started up the stairs. The
head of the flight gaP* on to a dark
part of the hall. There she paused,
held by the scene that a score or
more Gray soldiers, who had riotously
crowded Into the dining-room, were
enacting. They were members of
Fracasse's company of the Grays
whom Marta had seen from her win
dow the night before rushing across
the road Into tho garden.
When, Anally, they burst Into the
redoubt after tt was found that the
Browne had gone, all, even the judge's
son. were the war demon'B own. The
veneer had been warped and twisted
and burned off down to the raw ani
mal flesh. Their brains had the fever
Itch of callouses forming. Not a sign
of brown there In ttie yard; not a sign
of any tribute after all they had en
dured! They had not been able to lay
hands on the murderous throwers of
hand-grenades. Far away now was
barrack room gpnlallty; In oblivion
were the ethics of an Inherited civili
zation taught by mothers, teachers and
church.
But here was a bouse--a house of
the Browns; a big. fine house! They
would see what they had won—thla
was th© privilege of baffled rlotory.
What they hsd won was theirs! To
tba victor the spoilt! Pall mail they
crowded into the dining-room. Hugo
with th« rest, feeling himself a straw
on the crest of s wuve, and Filter,
most bliter, most ugly of all. his short,
etrong teeth and gums showing and
his liver patch red. lumpy, and trem
bling. In crossing the threshold of
privacy they committed the act that
leaves the deepest wound of war's In
heritance. to go on from generation
to generation In the history of fami
lies
"A swell diningroom! I like the
chandeliers!" roared Pllter.
With his bayonet he smashed the
only globe left intact by the shell fire.
There was s laugh as a shower of
glass fell on the floor. Even the
Judge s son. the son of the tribune of
law, joined in Pllser then ripped up
the leather seat of a chair. ' This in
troductory havoc whetted his appetite
for other worlds of conquest, as the
self-chosen leader of the Increaelng
crowd that poured through the door
wav.
"Maybe there'* food!” he shouted.
"Maybe there's wine!”
"Food and wine!"
"Ye*, wine! Were thirety!"
"And maybe women! I d like to kite
a pretty maid servant!" Pllter added,
starting t oxnard the hall.
"Btop' v " cried Hugo, forcing his wsy
In front of Filter
He eat like no one of the Hugos of
the many psrte that his comrades hsd
teen him play. Hi* blue eyes had be
come an Inflexible gray. He was stand
ing half on tlptea, hie quivering
muscles In tune with the quivering
pitch of hi* voice:
"We bnve no right In here! Thla la
a private house!"
"Out of (he way. you white-livered
little rat!" cried Filter, "or 111 prick
the tummy of mammas darling!''
What happened then was so suddsn
and unexpected that all were vague
about details They taw Hugo In a
catapultic lungs, mesmeric in Its swift
ness. and they saw Pllter go down, his
leg twired under him and his head
banging the floor Hugo stood, half
ashamed, half frlthtened, yet ready
for another encounter.
Rvacaaoe, entering at this moment.
Mas text iaU'ix; xut bis laUtsioo to tog
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
sider the rights of a personal differ
ence between two of his company.
"There's work to do! Out of here,
quick! We are losing valuable time!"
he announced, rounding his men to
ward the door with commanding ges
tures. “We are going in pursuit!”
Marta, who had observed the latter
part of the scene from the shadows of
the hall, knew that she should never
forget Hugo's face as be turned on Pil
zer. while his voice of protect struck
a singing chord In her jangling nerves.
It was tha voice of civilization, of one
who could think out of the orbit of a
whirlpool of passionate barbarism.
She could see that he was about to
spring and her prayer went with his
leap. She gloried in the Impact that
felled the great brute with the liver
patch on bis cheek, which was like a
birthmark of war.
Then a staff-officer appeared In the
doorway. When he saw a woman en
ter the room he frowned He had rid
den from the town, which was empty
of women, a fact that he regarded as
a blessing. If she had been a maid
servant he would have kept on his
cap. Seeing that she was not, he re
moved It and found himself in want of
words as their eyee met after she had
made a gesture to the broken glass
on the floor and the lacerated table
top, which said too plainly:
"Do you admire your work?”
The fact that he was well groomed
and freshly shaven did not In any wise
dleslpate in her feminine mind his
connection with this destruction. He
had never seen anything like the smile
which “Vent with the gesture. Her
eyes were two continuing and chal
lenging flames. Her chin was held
high and steady, and the pallor of ex
haustion, with the blackness of her
hair and eyes, made her strangely
commanding. He understood that she
was not waiting for him to speak, but
to go.
“I did not know that* there was a
woman here!” he said.
"And I did not know that officers of
the Grays were accustomed to enter
private bouses without Invitationst"
she replied.
“This Is a little different," he began.
She Interrupted him.
"But the law of the Grays is that
homes should be left undisturbed, isn't
it? At least, It is the law of civiliza
tion. I believe you profess, too, to pro
tect property, do you not?”
"Why, yes!" he agreed. He wished
that he could get a litt'e respite from
the Bteady fire of her eye*. It was em
barrassing and aa confusing as the
white light of an Impracticable loglo.
“In that case, please place a guard
around our house lest some more of
your soldiers get out of control,” she
on.
"I can do that, yes," he said. "But
we are to make this a staff headquar
ters and must Btart at one# to put the
house In readiness.”
"General Westerling'a headquar
ters?” she inquired.
H# parried the question with a
frown. Staff-officers never give infor
mation. They receive information and
transmit orders.
"I know General Westerling. You
will tell him that my mother, Mrs. Gal
land, and our maid and ciyself wa
very tired from the entertainment he
has given us, unasked, and we need
sleep to-night. So you will leave ue
until morning and that door, sir, 1* the
one out into the grounds."
The staff-officer bowed and went out
by that door, glad to get away from
Marta's eyes. HWi Inspection of the
premises with a view to plans for staff
accommodation could wait. Wester
ling would not be here for two days
at least.
“Whew! What energy she has!" he
thought. “I never had anybody make
me feel eo contemptibly unlike a gen
tleman In my life."
Yet Marta, returning to the hall, bad
to steady herself in a dizzy moment
against the wall. Complete reaction
had come. She craved sleep ae if it
were the one true, real thing in tha
world She craved Bleep for the clarity
of mind that comes with the morning
light. In the haziness of fleecy thought,
as slumber drew its soft clouds
around her, her last conscious visions
were the pleasant ones rising free of
a background of horror; of Feller’s
smile when he went back to hia auto
matic for good, of Dellarme'e smile as
he was dying, of Stransky’* smile at
Minna gave him hope; and of Hugos
fact as ha uttered his flute-like cry of
protest. ln*her ears were the haunt
ing calmness and contained force,of
Danstrons voice over the telephone.
She was pleased to think tbat she had
not lost her temper in her talk with
the staff-officer. No, she had not flared
once in Indignation It was aa If she
had absorbed some of Danny's own
self-control. Danny would approve of
her In that scans with an officer of the
Grays. And she realized tbat a change
bad come over her—a change Inex
plicable aud telling—and she was
tired—oh. so tired! It had been ex
hausting work, tndeed. for one woman,
though she had been around tbs world,
making war ou two armies.
The general staff-officer of the Grays,
xx ho had tasted Marts'* temper on his
first call, when he returned the next
morning did not enter unannounced.
He rang tha door-bell.
"I have a message for you from Gen
eral Weetarllng." he said to her. 'The
sensral expresses his deep regret at
tha unavoidable damage lo your house
and ground* and hat directed that
everything possible be done Immedi
ately in the way of repairs."
In proof of this tbs officer called at
'antion to a group of service-corps
«aen who were removing the eazxd-bagt
from the first terrace. Others were
at work la the garden eetitng uprooted
plants bsckjnto tht earth
(To be lontir.upd Tomorrow.)
HERBERT E. GYLES 18
WORTHY OF SUPPORT
OT LABORING PEOPLE
Mayor of Aiken, Candidate For
Legislature in Second Primary
Tomorrow, Showed His
Friendship For Working Peo
ple When Previously in Leg
islature--Horsecreek Valley
People Know Him arid Will
Give Him Their Support
Aiken, S. C.—ln the second primary,
to be held tomorrow, Hon. Herbert E.
Gyles, now in his second term as may
or of Aiken and a former member of
the South Carolina general assembly,
is a candidate for the legislature, op
posed by E. A. Austin, a merchant of
VVagener, these two gentlemen having
secured in the first race a vote that
differed very little in their totals. It
was in the early spring that Mr. Gyles,
having reached the conclusion that he
could give more efficient service to
the people of Aiken county in the
house of representatives, where he
would have wider opportunities for
service than as mayor of Aiken, de
termined to offer himself as a candi
date; and doing go, he entered the con
test as the beginning of the. county
campaign arid made a clean and digni
fied race. Two of his opponents, Mr.
L. Toole and Mr. E. E. Brigham,
were nominated in the first primary,
Mr. Gyles and Mr. Austin being left
to run over. Now that the, contest
has narrowed down to two men. Mr.
Gyles has continued as he began. Since
the first primary his protracted cam
paign has been just as dignified and
as gentlemanly as before; he has con
fined himself strictly to the issues,
and never at any time has he deviated
fro mthig course to deal in personali
ties. He has taken the people jnto his
confidence and told them what he pro
posed to do as a member of the Aiken
county delegation; and his platform
and his past record, both as represen
tative and as mayor of Aiken, make
Mr. Gyles the leading candidate in the
contest to be decided tomorrow. Mr.
Gyles and his friends are confident of
his nomination.
Friend of Laboring People.
Diving close by, coming in closer
toucli with the people of Horsecreek
Valley and having served their inter
ests before when he was in the legis
lature, Mr. Gyles knows the needs of
the working people.
Working for the ten-hour laxv, who'll
in 1907 and 1908 he served in the gen
eral assembly, and throwing his hnrt
and soul into his work, helping to pass
it. Mr. Gyles performed a service fc•
them which should rally the laboring
men to his support at this time. But
thßt is not all. He introduced and
worked for a bill providing for the re
covery of wages due by manufactur
ing concerns to employes—a bill to
prevent the mills from holding back
the pay of employes when they left
ttie manufacturers' employ.
These two things in Mr. Gyles' rec
ord stand out, prAving him the friend
of the working man, as does also h',s
declaration that he favors cutting
down Ihe expense of the state govern
ment Instead of raising the tax rate,
for it is a very well known fact that
It is the man with little propertv on
whom the burden of taxation falls.
Laborer Worthy of His Hire.
Mr. Gyles considers that a laboring
man is entitled to a Just and equitable
return on his capital—which in his
time and his service—Just as the capi
talist Is entitled to a* Just return on
his capital—which is his •money. In
other words, that the laborer should
be paid enough to permit of the "li'e.
liberty and pursuit of happiness”
which is guaranteed under the consti
tution of the United States, but some
times denied by the greed of eorpori
tions. He proposes to prevent, by the
enactment of the proper laws, com
bines of capital, like mill mergers,
which tend to destroy competitive
force and to beat down and grind tho
laboring people under the heels of
capital. This. too. proves him the real
friend of the working people.
in addition to the bills already re
ferred to, Mr. Gyles, when previously
in the legislature, introduced and
worked for the Gyles-Harley two-.tn l
a-half-cent railroad rate bill, an ag
ricultural contract law', a bill . > se
cure greater uniformity of studv in the
public schools and the local ounty
goveriment bill.
Other Important Matters.
Other important matters included in
Mr. Gyles' platform are government
aid for building good roads, to which
he pledges himself to work to secure,
and an extension of the educational
system of the state so that more and
better schools will he provided not
only in the cities, but in the mill vil
lages aud in the country districts as
well. He favors every encouragement
for the farmer through the depart
ment of agriculture.
Throughout the Horsecreek Valiev
there are many men who know Mr.
Gyles as friend. Some of these do
not know him personally, but they
know he has helped fight their bat
tles. They know that the man who
has stood by them In the past la the
man who will stand by them In the
future. They can trust him, became
he has more than once proven hla
sincerity of purpose and has shown
that he will always work to the Inter
est of the laboring class of people.
The same thing Is true of the farm
ers. who know him and will give him
their support, for he has lived for
many years at Aiken where he has
come Into contact with people from
all parts of the county every day, ani
he has demonstrated the fact that ne
known how to work to the farmers'
Interests as well as to the interests
of the laboring man.
Mr. Gyles ia equipped by education
and training and by experience lo per
form good service for all the people
In the legislature; and the indications
are that he will receive a handsome
majority at th* poll* tomorow
TO CORN CLUB BOY?
Crawferdvill*. Ga.—Boys contesting
for the corn club prizes must adhere
strictly to the following rules
Those contesting for the prize* must
not be under IS or over SI years ot
age. The acre for the prize must be
on upland and the corn must be good
dry when gathered Two disinterested
parties tnxist measure the com and
th- acre and must also *••* the corn
gathered.
Just About Three Weeks More and Our College
Athletes Will Proceed lo Fracture
Each Other’s Bones
New York.—Just about three weeks
more and the bulk of our refined
young college athletes will proceed
about the business of fracturing each
other's bones so as to add more honor
and glory to their Alma Maters.
They prey the lid off the football
season with a number of high school
games and two real games—Carlisle
vs. Albright at Carlisle, Pa., and the
University of Maine vs. Fort McKinley
at Arono, Me.
Short following, about a score more
of the big colleges will stage their
first games, and the schedule for the
3rd of October shoxvs that every insti
tution in the country will have its
gridiron army in action.
Biggest Game.
The biggest game of the year will
ibe the Harvard-Michigan combat at
Cambridge on Oct. 31st. The Harvard
outfit xvith Brickley, Mahan and a half
dozen other of the 1913 champions will
have a team that .should rank as won
derful as any tbat ever battled for the
Crimson.
Michigan lost Craig, its wonderfull
half-back of 1913, through graduation,
and several others of the 1913! team
will be missing, but 'Hurry Up” Yost
feeis confident that he can weld to
gether a team that can give the East
erners a reamrattle—and no alibis if
they lose.
“The game with Harvard this year
will determine Michigan's standing for
the past 15 years and the next 10
years," Yost told his pupils. “In meet
ing Harvard we will meet the best
there is in the East. We will encount
er a style of play that is different
than ours, and different thaui we have
met before.
“Michigan's reputation in the foot
ball world is at stake in this game.
A decisive victory for Michigan will
hear tis out in our contention for
twelve or thirteen years, that the
Westerrifootball teams on the ax'erage
are superior to the best in the East.
A defeat, even if our team is not up
Germany’s Vast World Trade is One of the
Prizes oi War Which England is
Trying to Capture
London. Germany’s vast world
trade is one of the prizes of war
which England is trying to capture.
While Great Britain's army ia fight
ing the Prussian military advance in
Belgium and the British fleet is op
posing the Kaiser's warships In the
North Sea, and with Germany’s com
merce swept from the oceans, those
remaining behind in England are in
itiating a movement of greatest Im
portance to capture the German and
Austrian trade by invading the world
markets to procure for Great Britain
a great increase of the earth's com
merce.
The vastnesS of Germany’s exports
demonstrates the oportunlty whlcn Is
at hand and suggests the possibility
that the United States, too, may prof
it commercially by the great war. It
is obvious that German commerce will
be paralyzed for many montn*, p< «-
sibly for years during which time the
far reaching requirements of the
xvhole world, hitherto largely met by
Germany and Austria, must still be
met. If the w-orld's wants heretofore
filled by Germany and Austria are no
longer so filled the work must be
done by others. England is alrea 1y
after her share. The United Btates.
too. probably has an eye on the situa
tion.
British Movement.
The British movement to capture
Germany's trade is being tazen tip
with great vigor and the British gov
ernment Is giving its full official sup
port. The Board of Trade, which In
England is a government department,
is doing everything possible, while
the colonial office is gathering all
available inforrmstion from the do
minions as to the character of all
previous German imports. The Cham
ber of Commerce, at the same time is
arranging meetings between the
manufacturers and ertswhile import
ers of German products.
Another spur to the British ambi
tion to capture German trade is tne
NEGRO GUI READ
FROM WHITE 11
Black Decapitated Thomas
Morrisey, of Macon, Sunday.
Glaims He Was Shot at.
Macon, G«.—After killing and decal •
Hating Thomas Morrisey. a white man.
at Ha home on John l,ong'a farm, four
rnlUe below Macon yesterday morn
ing about 1 lo'clock. Frann Johneon,
a negro, locked Hip the houae, came to
Macon, turned the ke.va over to A. J.
Lniv end John I.ong and old ‘.hem
what he had done. They were elov
to believe hi* story, but took him into
custody and turned him over to Sher
iff Hlcke. who placed him In the coun
ty Jail. %
Cluing to the Long farm they found
tlie body of Morrisey lying prone on
the floor of a two-room houae, where
lie made his home, his head lying about
Two feet from hie body.
A wound on tho head showed that
the man had been at least stunned b:
the blow of the axe the negru used and
the nature of the severed head made
It appear that a handsaw had been
used. The negro, however, contended
that he used the same axe In cutting
off the head
Claims Morrisey Shot at Him.
In telling bis story the negro said
that Morrisey had fired at him with
his shot gun. blowing a hole Through
the door. The negro lived in one r< om
01 the shack, Morrisey in the other.
The negro said he secured an ux».
wtnt into Mcrrisev’a room and tei'ed,
h>m by a blow on the head He then
pi*r<eded to cut off the head.
To some who talked with him the
r.rgro said he and Morrisey had ore.i
shc iting a great deal during the past
f w days, using knot boles, spots o:i|
SEPTEMBER 7
to the old Michigan standard, shat
ters our contention. So we must not
lose. We must win.” j
"Discovered.”
Quite a number of college coaches
whose proteges have been beaten up
in other years by the Carlisle Indians
now Beem to have "discovered” a good
excuse to duck out of scheduling a
game xvith the Indians in 1915.
The Injuns are tainted!!! They get
real money for playing. Honest, they
do. And the strange part of it is the:-
aren’t ashamed to admit now, and
never liax'e made any secret of it in
the past. Probably the rival coaches
wouldn’t get so exercised about it if
those Indians had given their teams
half a chance in past football argu
ments. But they haven't. They just
met the while enemy and walloped
them untill they were tired. Then they
rested and renewed the walloping.
The fact that the Indian players get
a divvy of tile gate receipts never has
been disguieed by Coach Glen Warner.
The school, being a government propo
sition, does not feel that it can con
seientously accept the big sums real
ized from football for the general
maintenance of the college. The foot
ball expenses each year do not total
over $30,000 —sometimes less.
Warner took a contract to coach the
school. He did it on something like
a commission basis. He agreed to take
all the receipts and pay all the ex
penses. The rest was to be his for
his services. But Warner never has
kept all the residue. He has deducted
for himself each year a portion that
would be equivalent to what he would
get in the way of a salary, were he on
a straight salary. The balance he has
proportioned equally among the team
members. These facts are public prop
erty, as the books at the Indian school
will shoxv just what the football re
ceipts hsx'e been each year and just
xvhat disposition has been made of the
funds.
fact tiiat war is causing a loss to the
English market from Central Europe
and this deficit must be made ip else
where. The most likely places are
those where Germany and Austriia
formerly predominated.
When England, shortly after the
start of the war, began to investigate
the situation, figures were produced,
which astounded the public. It was
shown that Germany's total extorts
were nearly *2.500,000,000 annually,,
which was rather disconcerting to*'
those wiio had been taught to believe
complacently that England was real
ly the greatest manufacturing coun
try in the world. It was also shown
conclusively that England had been
importing large quantities of good A
made in Germany, even such products
as could be manufactured in the
United Kingdom.
One characteristic jolt was a dis
covery of which the general public
knew nothing, that Germany export
ed twqce as much cutlery a 3 England,
which heretofore had been held up
the world over to predominate in that
line.
The government and tile business
men are now entertaining the idea
that Great Britain's loss of trade in
Central Europe, due to the war, can
more than he compensated by Invas
ions elsewhere, by capturing world
trade heretofore held by German.'
They are even discussing the possi
bility of England taking over the
German trade with America, tfiro'unl
ing to $170,000,000 annually.
Another thing that is being em
phasized is England’s opportunity in
China particularly Kiatiehau, which
has the distinction of being Ger
many's greatest colonial commercial
center. The German toy trade, on
xvhieh it ha* had almost a monopolv.
is another field which England cer
tainly will invade. It runs into many
millions. England alone Imports
millions^of dollar? worth of German
toy?
uees and other object* as target*. Hr
said he fired a load of shot into a
c hzii and tiiat Morrisej threatened to
btec. him for ruining his chair.
Tlat the negro is either mentally de
rm, ped or very vicious Is the opinion
ot many, but the generally accepted
belief is that he is crazy.
Johnson, in the county jail, ta’ks
freely of the affair and does not ap
l eur to ho perturbed over big act
tie possible consequences.
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