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In this story Mr. Palmer, the
noted war correspondent, has paint
ed war aa he has seen It on man?
battlefields, and between many na
tions. His Intimate knowledge of
•rmles and armaments has enabled
him to produce a graphic picture of
the greatest of all wars, and hla
knowledge of conditions has led
him to prophesy an end of armed
conflicts. No man Is better quali
fied to write the story of the final
world war than Mr. Palmer, and
he has handled his subject with a
master hand.
(Continued from Yesterday )
No member of tlia staff was moro
frequently present at Marta’s teas
than Bouchard, who was developing
bis social Instinct late In life by sit
ting In the background and allowing
others to do tho talking while he
watched and listened. In his hearing,
Mnrta’s attitude toward the progress
of the war was sympathetic but never
Interrogatory, while she shared atten
tion with Clarissa Eileen, who was In
danger of becoming spoiled by officers
who had children of their own at home.
After tho reports of killed and wound
ed, which came with such appalling
regularity. It was a relief to hear of
the day’s casualties among Clarissa's
dolls Tho chief of transportation
and supply rode her on hie shoulder;
the chief of tactics played hldoand
aeek wllh her; the chief engineer
built her a doll house of stones with
his own hands; and tho chief medical
officer was ns concerned when she
caught cold as if the health of the
army were at stake.
"We mustn’t get too set up over all
this attention, Clarissa Eileen, my ri
val." said Mnrta to the child. "You
are the only little girl and 1 am the
only big girl within reach. If there
were lots of others It would be dif
ferent."
Bouchard was losing flesh; his eyes
were sinking deeper under u heavier
frown. His duty being to get Infor
mation. he was gaining none. His
duty being to kesp the drays' secrets,
there ww a leak somewhere In his
own department. He quizzed subordi
nates; he made abrupt traasfers, to no
avail
Meanwhile, the drays were taking
the approaches to tho main line of
defense, which had been thought rela
tively immaterial but had been found
■brewdly placed end their vulnerabil
ity overestimated. The thunders of
batteries hammering them became a
routine of existence, like the passing
of trains to one living near a railroad.
*fbe guns went on while tea was be
ing served, they ushered In dawn and
darknees; they were going when sleep
came to those whom they later awak
ened with a start. Fights as desper
ate as the one around the house ho
onme featurus of this period, which
'was only a warming-up practice for
the war demon before the orgy of
Impending assault on the main lino.
llarta began to realise the Immun
ity of the chessboard and of the
forces engaged In more than the hare
statement of numbers and distaucae.
If • first stack ou a position failed,
the wire* from the Qallaud house re
poatod tbelr orders to concentrate
wore gun* and attack again In the
•nd the nrowna always yielded, but
grudgingly, c«U ulatlngly, never be
ing taken by surprise The few of
them who fell prisoners said, "God
■with us! We shall win In the end!"
•nd answered no questions. Gradually
<he Gray army began to feel that It
battllna with a mystery which
fighting under cover, falling back
under cover a tenacious, watchful
mystery that aeut sprays of death Into
•vary Atget of flesh that the Grays
thrust forward tn assault
“Another position taken Our ad
vance continues,” waa ths only newt
that Westerllng gavn to ths army, his
people, and the world, which forgot
Its sports and murders and dlvorcs
«aset tn following the progress of the
first great KuropeaJi war for two gon
•rations. He made no mention of the
coats, hla casualty lists wars secret.
The Gray hosts wers swseplug for
ward as a slow. Irresistible tide; this
hr Partow's own admission. He an
nounced the loss of a position as
promptly as the Grays tts taking He
published a dally list of casualties so
meager In contrast to their own that
the Grays thought It false; he made
known the names of the killed and
wounded to their relatives. Yet the
seeming candor of hts press bureau
Included no straw of information of
military value to the enemy.
Wsaterllng nevsr went to tea at the
Gallands' with the other officer*, for It
was part of bla cultivation of great
ness to keep aloof from hla subordi
nates His meetings with Marta hap
pened casually when he went out Into
the garden Only once had hs made
any reference to the “And then" of
their Interview In the arbor.
“I am winning battles for you!” he
had exclaimed with the thing In hie
eye# which she loathed.
To her It was equivalent to eaylng
that ahe had tricked him Into tending
men to be killed In order to please
her. She despised herself for the
jraj he coufldeg in_ her; vet, she had
to go on keeping his confidence, re
turning a tender glance with one that
held out hope. She learned not to
shudder when ho spoke of a loss of
“only ten thousand." In order to rally
herself when she grew faint-hearted
to her task, she learned to picture the
linen of his face hard-set with flve
agalnst-three brutality, while in com
fort he ordered multitudes to death,
and, In contrast, to recall the smile
of Uellanne, who asked his soldiers to
undergo no risk that he would not
share. And after every success he
would remark that lie wa« so much
nearer Engudlr, that position of the
main line of defense whose weaknens
she had revealed,
"Your Engadlr!” he rame to say.
"Then we shall again profit by your
information; that Is. unless they have
fortified since you received it.”
"They haven’t. They had already
fortified!” she thought. Khe was al
ways seeing the mockery of his words
In the light of her own knowledge and
her own part, which never escaped
her consciousness. One chamber of
her mind was acting for him; a sec
and chamber was perfectly aware that
the other was acting.
“One position more—the Twin Boul
der Redoubt, it Is called,” he an
nounoed at. last. "We shall not press
hard In front. We shall drive In
masses on either side and storm the
flanks."
Tills she wan telephoning to Laa
stron a few minutes later and having,
in return, all the uewa of the Browns.
The sheer fascination of knowing what
both aide* were doing exerted Its spell
In keeping her to her part.
"They’ve lout four hundred thousand
men now, Lanny," she said.
"And we only a hundred thousand
We’re whittling them down,” answered
Lanstron,
"Whittling them down! Wliat a
ghastly expression!” she gasped. "You
are as bad as Westerllng and I am
worse than either of you! I—l an
nounced the four hundred thousand as
If they wera a score—a score In a
game In our favor. I am helping,
Lanny? All my sacrifice Isn’t for
nothing?" she asked for the hun
dredth time.
"Immeasurably. You have saved u*
many lives!” he replied.
“And cost them many?" she asked.
"Yes, Marta, no doubt,” he admitted;
"but no more than they would have
lost In the end It la only the mount
ing up of their casualties that can
cud the war. Thus the lesson must
be taught.”
"And 1 can be of most help when ths
attack on the main defense Is begun?"
’’Yes."
"And when Westerllng finds that my
Information Is false about Kngadtr—
then-—”
Bhe had never put the question to
him In this wn before. What would
Westerllng do f he found her out?
"My God, Marta!” he exclaimed "If
I'd had any sense I w ould have thought
if that In the beginning and torn out
the 'phone! I've been mad, mad with
the one thought of the nation inhu
man In my greedy patriotism. 1 will
not let you go anv further!"
It was a new thing for her to be
rallying him; yet this she did as the
strange efTeet of his protest on the
abnormal sensibilities that her acting
had developed.
"Thinking of me—little me!" she
called back "Of one person’s com
fort when hundreds of thousands of
other women are In terror; when the
destiny of mllltona Is at stake! 1-anny,
you are tn a blue funk!” and she was
laughing forcedly and hectically. ‘Tin
going on—going ou like one In a
trance who cau’t stop If he would.
It’s all right, 1 undertook the
task myself. 1 must sc* |t through!"
After she had hung np the receiver
her buoyyjcy vanished. 81ie leaned
against the wall of the tunnel weakly,
Yes, what If she were found ant? She
was thinking of the poealbtlity seri
ously for the first time Yet, for only
a moment did she dwell upon It be
fore she dismissed ft In sudden reac
tion.
"No matter what they do to me or
what becomes of me!” abe thought.
“I'm a lost soul, anyway. Ths thing
Is to servs as long as I can—and
then 1 don’t care!"
CHAPTER XVII.
Thumbs Down for Bouchard.
Haggard and at hay, Bouchard faced
ths circle of frowns annual the pol
ished expense of that precious heir
loom, the dining room table of the Gal
lands. The dreaded reckoning of the
apprehensions which kept him rest
lessly awake at night had come at the
next staff council after tlie fall of the
Twin Boulder Redoubt With the last
approach to the main lino of defense
cleared, on- chapter of the war was
finished H t the officers did not man
ifest i* elation that the occasion
called for. which la not saying that
they were discouraged. They had no
doubt that eventually the Grays would
dictate peace In the Browns’ capital.
Exactly stated, thetr mood was one of
repressed professional Irritation, Not
until the third attempt was Twtn Boul
der Redoubt taken. At far a* results
wers concerned, the nicety planned
flffl assault might hava been a stroke
f strategy by the Browns to drive
the Grays Into an impassable fire zone.
"The trouble Is we are not In
formed!” exclaimed Turcas, opening
his thin lips even less than usual, but
i vt Istlng them in a significant manner
hti he gave his words a rasping em
phasis. The others hastened to follow
his lead with equal candor.
"Exactly. We have no reports at
their artillery strength, which we had
greatly underestimated,” said tbe
chief of artillery.
"Our maps of their forts could not
he less correct If revealed to us for
purposes of deceit. Again and again
we have thought that we had them
Bouchard Faced the Circle of Frowna.
surprised, only to be surprised our
selves. In short, they know what we
are doing and we don't know what
they are doing!” said the tactical ex
pert
There the chief of the aerostatic di
vision took the defensive.
“They certainly don’t learn onr plana
with their planes and dirigibles!” he
declared energetically.
"Hardly, when we never see them
over our lines.”
“The Hrowns are acting on ths de
fensive In the air as well as on the
earth!”
"Hut our own planes and dirigible#
bring little news," said Turcas. "I
mean, those that return," he added
pungently.
"And few do return. My men are
not wanting In courage!" replied the
chief aerostatic officer, "immediately
ws get over the Brown lines ths
Hrowns, who keep cruising to and fro,
are on us like hawks. They risk any
thing to bring us down When we de
scend low we strike the fire of their
high angle guns, which are distributed
the length of the frontier I believe
both their aerial fleet and their hlgto
angle artillery were greatly tinder
estimated. Finally, I cannot redace
my foroe too mach In scouting or they
might take the offensive."
Another case of not being fn
formed!" concluded Turcas, returning
grimly to hts point.
He looked at Bouchard, and every
one began looking at Bouchard. If the
Gray tacticians had been outplayed by
their opponents, If their losses for the
ground gained exceeded calculations,
then It was good to have a scape
goat for thetr professional mistakes.
Bouchard was Westerllng s chotoe for
chief of Intelligence. Hie blind loy
alty was pleasing to hla superior, who,
hitherto, had promptly silenced any
suggestion of criticism by repeating
that the defensive always appeared to
the offensive to be better Informed
than itself. But this time Westerllng
let the conversation run on without a
word of excuse for hts favorite.
Rach fresh reproach from the staff,
whose opinion was the only god he
knew, waa a dagger thrust to Bou
chard. At night hs had lain awake
worrying about the leak; by day he
had sought to trace It, only to find
every clew leading heck to the etaff.
Now he was as confused tn hU shams
a* n sensitive schoolboy. Vaguely,
In his distress, ho heard Westerllng
asking a question, while he saw all
those eyes staring at him.
"What Information have we ahont
Bngudtrf*
”1 believe It to be strongly forti
fied!” stammered Bouchard.
"You believe! Y’ou have no Infor
mation?" pursued West rllng.
"No, sir." replied Bouchard. “Noth
ing- nothing new!"
"NVe do seem to get little Informa
tion.' eatd Westerllng, looking hard
at Bouchard tn silence—ths com
biQ£d silence of the wholj staff,
To be continued tomorrow
USE HE&ALD W-iNT ADS.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
Today’s Puzzle-Can You Read II?
lubtrset and ndd as Indicated and get a word meaning attenuated
Yesterday’s Puzzle and the Answer
r Wken. unll tke kou.se Le £ln.isked?
Tr lt took 4- montks on.tke
one . Tioo tkirds of tke u?ork. Vki, ;
When will the house be finished? ?
one month.
THE TWO SISTERS.
Once upon a time there were two
sisters whose parents died and left
them a great deal of money.
"What shall we do with this
wealth?” asked the elder sister.
“We will build a grand looking
house and dress in beautiful clothes,"
the younger sister replied."
“But that will only last for a little
while,” replied the older. "When we
are dead the house will decay and
people will forget our beautiful
clothes. Let us do something that
u ill live after we are gone.”
“We will go to the witch who lives
in the woods and ask her,” said the
younger sister. So they went to the
witch. "What shall we do with our
money that will muke us remembered
after we die?" they asked.
“Build a house of stone and have it
furnished with iron furniture," said
the witch, ”und 1 will give you a black
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live ami the house will last forever.”
But the sisters illtl not like the
l ouse or Iron furniture, eo they went
to an old hermit who lived in the
mountain*.
•'What shall we do with our money
that people will remember u* after we
are dead'.'" they asked him.
•'lJve as 1 do.” replied the hermit. ”Tt
la the only way to live in comfort and
nothing you can do will make people
renumber you after you are dead
Take my advice and do not try.”
tin their way home they met a poor
man carrying a hag on his back. "la<t
us help him,” said the elder stater So
they took the bag: and carried It be
tween them, and when they reached
tl.eir home they took him In and gave
him food and a place to sleep.
The next morning the elder sister
said: “We will start out again today.
Perhaps we can find some one today
who can tell us what to do with our
money, so that we may be remember
ed alter we are dead.”
The old man whom they had helped
heard what the sister said.
“Why do go about asking when you
have a Book that will tell you what
you wish to know ?” he said.
“If you read it you
will have your .question answered
The Book tells us ‘Seek and ye shall
find.’ Your kindness to a poor old
man may not make you remembered
long on earth, hut it will be remem
b< red elsewhere, never far.”
As the old man went out the door
there seemed to be a ring of light
about his head. The sisters stood
looking after him in silence and then
the elder said, "We should have
read in the Book as the old man told
us, let us do so now.”
The two sisters did much good with
their money while they lived.
When they died two big trees that
stood at the entrance to the park
were called “he Sisters," and under
these the good sisters were buried.
Copyright 1914. by the McClure News
paper Syndicate. New York City.
RUSSIANS BUY ICE CRUSHER.
..Fort William, Ont.—The Russian
government has bought from 'the
Great Rakes Towing and Wrecking
Company a big Ice breaking tug,
which will leave Immediately for
Montreal to cross the Atlantic. It is
believed the Ice breaker is wanted to
assist In keeping open the Russian
White Sea port of Archangel, of great
value because of German domination
through the Kiel canal, of the naval
situation In the Baltic.
CRUISER COALING.
Mobile, Ala.—Unconfirmed reports
that the German cruiser Dresden was
coaling In the Gulf of Mexico off Pen
sacola, Fla., was brought here today
by officers of the United States tor
pedo boat Somers. The Somers left
Key West Saturday. No other ships
were sighted.
AMUNDSEN TO WAIT.
Christiana—Roland Amundsen, the
discoverer of the South Pole, who was
to sail on hls North Polar expedition
next summer has postponed his ex
pedition for a year, and if the war
should lust very long he may give up
his plans entirely. The members of
the expedition are all enrolled as sol
diers
MRS. VAN DYKE COMING.
Amsterday, 3:15 p. m.—Mrs Henry-
Van Dyke, wife of the American min
ister, with her son and daughter, will
return to the United States on the
New Amsterdam, sailing tomorrow.
Mr Vun Dyke Intends to remain
until the era! of the war as the lega
tion is overwhelmed with work in
caring for American and other refu
gees.
CARRANZA NAMES VILLA.
City of Mtalcoe—Francisco Villa, re
cently appointed genera! of division by
General Carranxa will be assigned to
the army destined for the Isthmus of
Tehuanteptc This announcement was
made In a stitement Issued by General
Carranxa yesterday.
THE WAYS OF THRIFT
(Copyright, 1914, American Society
for Thrift).
UTILITY OR STYLE?
To the question: “What does style
cost the average business woman?”
the answer was made, “Frequently all
she earns.” Nowhere in the world is
the belief that “clothes make the wo
man" so flagrant as in Atherica.
See the young women going to the
stores and offices in the morning In
what should be holiday regalia, or for
evening wear; white gowns, white
shoes or dancing slippers with fancy
buckles, showy hats ill adapted to
business wear. As each advance in
the season brings out a little variation
of the predominant style the models
in the store windows seem almost
instantaneously copied in cheap mate
rials and displayed on the streets and
in the offices all over the large cities.
The small salary and position of the
wearer seem to have little relation to
the matter of style, w-hile quality of
materials, appropriateness and dura
bility for all sorts of weather are
seldom considered.
The American Society for Thrift
was represented at the opening of the
“Style Show" In Chicago. Here Is
part of the report made by a woman:
“Nearly all the styles exhibited were
very simple and practical, and in the
making will take less material, less
work, less time, and they should be,
therefore, less expensive.
One model, a business woman’s
dress, was the, most sensible style for
a business woman ever put on the
market. It was a style that could be
worn several seasons without being
‘out-of-date.’ But most of the visitors
and seekers of ‘advance styles’ passed
it by without interest or comment.
£IEEPYTp
STALES
THE FRIGHTENED CAT.
Once upon- a time the mice gave a
ball. It was a very large ball and
the mice came from everywhere.
It was given In the attic of a very
largo house which was the home of
some little brown mice. Their gray
friends were invited and for days
fore were smothing their gray fur so
that it would look nice and silky.
They hoped they would look as fine
as the brown mice and they were sure
they could dance as well.
In the house where the ball was to
be given lived Mr. and Mrs. Cat. They
heard the mice scampering around,
and Mr. Cat said to Mrs. Cat: “Ahem;
I think the mice are getting ready for
their hall. We must find out when
it is going to be for there will be a
big feast for us.”
Mrs. Cat squeeked out: "Yes. I am
sure it is going to be very soon, for I
heard the mice talking about it one
morning not long ago.”
A few hours later Mrs. Cat came in
quite excited and said to Mr. Cat: “It
is going to be tonight and all the gray
cousins are coming. I just heard that
family that live in the nest under the
burn talking about it. They have
been carrying cheese and other things
all of the imorntng up into the at
tic.”
That night the mice began to come.
They scampered up the stairs over
floors and around the attic until the
owner of the house said: “I never
heard the mice make such a noise
before. I am going to put the cats up
in the atttic and see if that won’t
stop them.”
But the cats were already on their
way up the stairs and both of them
were Just creeping in the door to
pounce on the poor mice when what
do you think, the mice turned and
rushed at the cats, big mice, little
little mice, brown, and gray mice.
They all jumped at them and did not
give the cats a chance to spring.
The cats were so frightened at see
ing so many mice they ran down
stairs as fast as they could, and do
you know that even now the cats will
run if they see a mouse.
They felt quite ashamed when they
heard their mistress say the other
day: "Those two cats are no good
at catching mice any more and they
used to be fine mousers.”
Now tlie mice laugh and nibble at
tlie cheese and other things right un
der the casts’ nose and they say: “We
frightened the cats and that is more
than any other mice have done. Now
we can have all we want to eat and
not be afraid we will get eaten up.”
NEW ORLEANS SAFE.
Washington—Surgeon General Blue
of the public health service, said to
day when his attention was called to
tlie fact that some conventions which
were to have been < held in New Or
leans has iieen postponed, because of
the bubonic plague infection there,
that there was no danger whatever
in the city. “The city of New Or
leans is perfectly safe and healthy.”
said the surgeon general, “and there
is no reason why anyone should avoid
it.”
How They Sell Hellos
In New York
The New York Telephone Company is a large and
aggressive newspaper advertiser.
It advertises its service; it preaches courtesy; it
shows new ways of using the telephone.
Now it has taken another step and linked the store
windows of the retailers to its newspaper advertising.
Attractive window forms have been gotten out
which impress the advantage of ordering by tel
ephone.
The stores are showing the displays, the newspaper
advertising is going on, and the business of the tel
ephone is increasing.
The co-operation in this campaign is a striking
example of the way the retailer is impressed by ad
vertising in his home newspaper and how he wants to
assist in selling the goods.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
It did not attract the business women
for whom it was intended.
“One remarked, ‘What a plain dress!
Nothing new or stylish about that.
Three years ago we wore dresses like
that,’ and she passed on, looking for
something more elaborate. Farther on
was a display of models, fussy and
extreme in style, requiring more ma
terial, more work, more trimming—■
more expense and a short-lived fash
ion. Here was the admiring crowd!"
One of the manufacturers at the
Style Show said: “The American
ladies are always looking for some
thing new and different in the line of
styles, and the manufacturer has to
meet the demand with new ideas in
order to please his customers.”
Cost what it may the American wo
man, especially the business woman,
will have style, "the latest thing.”
One girl, coveting a new suit at the
Style Show announced to her friend
that she was sure she was not going
to wear her last year’s suit: it was
out of date. She would bring her
lunches from home, and her lunch
money with the balance of her salary
would pay for the new suit. “Mother
will have to wait for her board
money,” she said. Wise expenditure?
Ask her mother.
Ida Tarbell, in her recent volunme,
“The Business of Being a Woman,"
aptly said: “The folly of woman’s
dress lies not in her instinct to make
herself beautiful; it lies in her ignor
ance of the principles of beauty, of
the intimate and essential connection
between utility and beauty. It lies in
the pitiful assumption that she can
be the thing she envies if she looks
like that thing.”
APPROVES DISMISSAL.
Washington. —President Wilton has
approved the sentence of dismissal
from the army and three years’ im
prisonment in the penitentiary at
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, imposed
by a general court martial at San
Francisco, upon Captain Joseph H.
Griffiths, of the quartermaster corps
o£ the army. Captain Griffiths was
charged with embezzling about SB,OOO
in government funds at Seattle,
Washn
THE FIRST PARIS BOMB.
New York. —C. P. I.abon, a passen
ger on the French steamer Flandre,
arriving today, from Havre, said the
French gendarme upon whose beat in
Paris the first German bomb was
thrown from an aeroplane reported
the incident to police headquart«r3 in
tbe following cryptic message: ry
“Some unknown person threw "swill
in the street, contrary to the orders of
the police.”
20,000 PRIESTS IN ARMY.
Paris, 11:10 a. m. —The Figaro says
there are about 20,000 priests serving
in the French army.
Low Cost of Living Menu
By MRS. RAY
SUNDAY
BREAKFAST
Liver and Bacon Grilled Potatoes
Toast Coffee
DINNER
Potato Soup
Roast Lamb with Mint Sauce
Browned Potatoes Peas
Celery Salad
Creamed de Mint Cream
.. SUPPER
Tuna Fish Salad
Cream Toast Filled Cream Puffs
Coffee
BREAKFAST
Liver and Bacon —Plunge the liver
into boiling water. Drain and fry with
thin slices of bacon. Serve together on
a hot platter.
Grilled Potatoes —Cut cold potatoes in
thick slices lengthwise. Broil on both
sides over a quick fire.
DINNER
Potato Soup—To one cup of hot mash
ed potatoes add two cups and a half of
hot milk. Boil together one minute and
serve without straining.
Roast Lamb - Sprinkle with pepper and
salt and a little flour. Place, in a hot
over and bake until thoroughly done. To
make the mint sauce chop a bunch of
mint, pour over a cup of boiling hot
vinegar and a heaping tablespoon of su
gar. Serve with or without straining.
Celery Salad —Cut the inner stalks of
a bunch of celery in inch pieces. Mix
with a mavonnise and serve on lettuce.
Cream de Mint Cream—Mix two cups
of cream, two cups of milk, one cup of
sugar, and half a -up of creme de men
the. Freeze and serve in glasses with a
sprig of mint on top.
SUPPER.
Tuna Fish Salad —Chill a can of tuna
fish. Mix with a mayonaise and serve
on lettuce with a garnish of chopped
beets.
Cheese Toast—Mix a cup of grated
cheese with a tablespoon of butter half
a teaspoon of dry and a little
salt. Have ready buttered todst. Spread
on it the cheese mixture. Place the
slices on a pan and brown in a hot oven
until the cheese is entirely melted. Serve
verv hot.
Filled Cream Puffs —Buy the cream
shells and fill with whipped cream.