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SIX TtIC4.(IST-SHOr-5 eQPY/?/<?//7; <t>r C/tA/VJJ J(Y?/SWrtJ Jar*j £✓ F BEDE RICK PALMER 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 j / I JSjFM 70 I \ &£ £ I / \\ o+-C/CM7 f I V \ ASOOT/f/X f I \ \ r/fAO / I X \ cat to keep harm from you while you 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.