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BULLOCK PENSIONED BY GREAT BRITAIN ing them out to his chagrined compan ion, he exclaimed, "My Job is d on e!’’ and hurried out to join the troopers. Colonel Guespereau, who command ed the cavalry forces, entered the cha teau and demanded to see Muckensen. The marshal, furious at having been outmaneuvered, sent hack u flat re fusal. Guespereau said quietly: “ Tell hlin unless he consents to See me Imme diately I shall have my Bpahls break down the door o f his room.” Mackensen gave In and received the colonel forthwith. The Frenchman saluted him and sa id : "Sir, you are uiy prisoner. . I have called on you merely to assure myself that you were here. That Is all.” "I understand,” the Field Marshal replied in low tones. A week later he was remove^ in a special train to the Chotek chateau, where he will remain interned until the conclusion o f peace. : Through the ' i Looking Glass \ i j By EVELYN NESBIT Have you ever seen u chicken fly? Or a waddling duck look longingly in to the sky and try (Copyright, 1819 . by Western Nowepiper UniunJ her wings? July 14th. Try as they Mr. Amos Giles. may, they cannot Dear Sir: I have berti greatly incon reach the clouds. venienced since moving Into tlie house They cannot do rented from you a week ago—by a what every saucy leakage in the roof directly over tlie sparrow and ev cook stove. Also, the stove cannot ery black crow be made to cook. Will you kindly can do. send your agent, immediately upon re All of whlcli ceipt of this, to attend to the matter, goes to prove and ablige, the new tenant? that if you are a BELINDA BUIGGS. chicken don’t try to be a sparrow. Lyndeuvllle, July 15th. BUILD 300,000 BRITISH HOMES And If you are a Belinda Briggs. duck, don’t try to Dear Madam : I understand that A Government Adopts Plans to Settle the be a crow. my agent stated, when renting the c a n n o t chicken Housing Problem and Abol This bullock saved a bl« gun from the Turks in the British campaign on house, that it was otTered at present even be a ’ duck. ish the> Slums. the Tigris. For this the British government has aiioted it a pension of two low figure, because of its impaired The chicken has cents per day for life. condition, the uu''“ rstanding being forcibly to mind this fact brought ______ '____ t s ______ London.—This country needs Imme I that occupant could ufToril needed re- diately at least 300,000 dwellings for every time it tries to swim. It is good to have ambitions, but ! pairs because of the decided reduction Its working classes, according to Dr. | in price. This is still condition of Christopher Addison, president of the nature has imposed certain limitations agreement. Truly yours, on every human being. You cannot local government board, whose housing . _______ % AMOS GILES. scheme has just been'hpproved by the have M a y Jones’ nose, no matter how much you despise your own button of British war cabinet. A bill outlining Lyndenvllle, July 16th. his ideas is to be presented soon to a nose. You console yourself with the Mr. Amos Giles: fact that Mary Jones could not hnve the house o f commons. No one could possibly agree to have State assistance will be given only your beautiful curls uml your sweet rain pouring on their victuals ut any disposition if she angled after them tected at any moment, and such a dis within the next 12 months to schemes Interned in Hungary Upon Allies’ low figure. The deceiving man who covery would impel Mackensen to submitted to the local government for a century. It Is waste o f time for a woman to rented your house, suggested merely, Demands, His Guards leave at once. board and must be carried out within long to be a sparrow if she- Is a duck. that desired alterations might be ac The marshal was nominally In the the next two years. Were Friendly. Let her make the most of her duck- complished with the reduction of rent. custody o f Hungary, but the Hunga Housing commissioners are being ap rian guards posted at the chateau pointed to htdp the various authorities, like qualities, and she will beat the What are you going to do nhout It? B. BRIGGS. were favorably disposed toward him each commissioner to have a staff, sparrow anyway. Be ns ajnbltious as you can be. Am and quite ready to see him get away. including an architect and a surveyor. July 17th. bition Is the axle grease that makes Genevrier knew that the officer com Fittings are to be standardized, “ but the world go round. But misdirected Belinda Briggs. manding these guards suspected the this does not mean,” Doctor Addison's ambition Is like pride— it “ goeth be Dear Madam: Will send man to fix French Lieutenant Cuts Wires and presence in the vicinity o f French statement says, “ that houses are to fore a fall.” It fills the wttrld with roof. Any further difficulty'will have agents, and that If he heard of Maek- Entertains Guard Officer Until be built on one pattern. The govern grumpy, discontented fools, who do not to be remedied at your own expense. ensen’s trouble with the telephone he ment is anxious to avoid any such ca Cavalry Arrives— Marshal is A. GILES. realize how well oft they are. would immediately deduce th a t, tlie lamity.” Furious at Being Balked. Frenchmen were the cause o f it. In order to do away with “ slums” It July 20th. The lieutenant therefore determined LINEN TEA CLOTHS CHARMING Dear Mr. Giles: Paris.—From one o f the French offi- to entice thd Hungarian commander is proposed the same financial aid be cers concerned in the affair a New away from the guardroom on the out given for clearing and improving In It Is now the bedroom roof which sr.nitary nrens ns for building new Table Spread Combined ♦fith Filet leaks. Damp sleeping rooms are bad York World correspondent obtained skirts o f the chateau. Crochet on Quaint Mahogany Fur houses on new sites. tlie hitherto unpublished story o f the for rheumatism. Will you send your Marshal Is Peeved. niture Is Greatly Admired. extraordinary capture of the German workman over agnin ns soon as pos While he' i\*ns regaling Maekepsen’s Too Much Realism. Field Marshal von Muckensen, nt pres jailer-ally In the village Inn with tales BELINDA BRIGGS. A linen tea cloth combined with filet sible? ent a prisoner in a chateau near Tent of that dear Baree which In bygone New York.—Edward Dillon, director crochet on a quaint old mahogany eavar, Hungary, belonging to Count years the latter had known and o f moving pictures, says he’s oft table was recently the subject o f com July 20th. Chotek. adored, Lieutenant Genevrier heard scenarios calling for holdups. To make ment and praise at an afternoon ten My pear Mrs. Briggs: Under the terms of the armistice the sound of galloping hoofs. He went one realistic the other day, he hired a and the hostess said: "My store of It will be Impossible for me to at signed with Austria-Hungary the al to the door and saw the Spahls charg former stick-up man. .Now he has no linen was small—just n roll or two—■ tend to any more repairing. Why lies insisted that Mackensen and Ills ing up to the chateau of Foth. Point- watch. but It was homespun by my two grand can’t you send your husband up to entire 'army, which had lied from, It«u- mothers. Both these dear ladles loved fix the leak? A. GILES. mnnia to Hungary in a vain effort to tell tales o f their early days. One to reach Germany, should be interned had spun her linen In New England July 21st. by the Hungarians. The marshal him and the other in Old England, and 1 If I had a husband, he never would self was quartered in the castle of determined to enhance my heirlooms have rented this house. Only a lone Foth. with my own handiwork. woman could be so Imposed upon. I Toward the end of December, learn “ This tea table cover hns only a 12- am going to move out. ing that Mackensen was planning to inch square o f linen in Its center, but BELINDA BRIGGS. escape to Germany, Colonel Vlx, com the fllet lace Is broad enough to make manding the French mission in Buda It seem of considerable size. The lace July 22nd. pest, applied to French hendqunrters American Lieutenant on Outpost to business only. There are other con motif Is the crown and scepter In Miss Briggs: in Belgrade for permission to pince veniences, too, including electric lights honor of my British ancestry. Another Some other place will probably be Duty at “ Stepping Off” him under arrest and for the force and running water, and a wonderful cover I value Is made from the ends more conducive to the Improvement necessary to accomplish this end. stove reaching halfway to the celling, o f an old homespun sheet. I re-en of your rheumntic condition. Place. My Meanwhile he surrounded the castle and at the bottom the old German forced It on the under side with fine agent failed to Inform nje that he had o f Foth with French secret agents. maker's name and the date, 1704. But stitching before I made it into a dinner rented the place to an elderly woman From the latter came reports that Has Quarters in Great Castle at to the lonely lieutenant even the fire cloth. It has some insets of fllet and living alone. Will you forward key at Mnckensen’s baggage had already In the stove sometimes seems almost wherever it had to J>e cut or punched 1 once, as I wish to take possession of Coblenz, and Under Anti-Frater 'been sent off and that the marshal cold. strengthened the linen by running a the house myself. nizing Order He Cannot Visit A. GILES. himself intended to get nwny in an Lieutenant Scott’s nearest American little embroidery stitch around It. This With Other Inhabitants. automobile at five o’clock the next aft officer neighbor Is five or six miles made-over linen has been re-created July 22nd. ernoon, December 31. Coblenz.—In a great castle on a hill away out across the 8,000 acres owned In odd moments and Is a treasure to Mr. Giles: Cuts Telephone Wires. and with a count and countess and by the count. After dark visits are out me, and I know my daughters will ap Enclosed find key. Would like to Colonel Vlx Immediately dispatched their four daughters ns Ids nearest o f the question. And so, when over preciate it and add to It as I have add, that I might hnve made my com Lieutenant Genevrier, an exception done.” nelghbors^wells today the lonesomest come by lonesomeness and weariness plaint less peremptory, hnd I known ally able Intelligence officer, to Foth American in all the occupied territory from reading, the lieutenant tumbles that you were an elderly Invalid. You by motor. The lieutenant reached his o f Germany. He Is Lieut. John W. into a seventeenth century bed which BEAUTIFUL AFTERNOON FROCK were pointed out to me only this morn destination in the night and immedi stands in the same position it hns been Scott of Detroit, commanding Com ing nt the post office. ately cut all the telephone-wires con pany K, Twenty-eighth infantry, on all these years. And within ensy rench May I suggest the south bedroom necting the castle with the outside outpost duty at .the “ stepping off” Is the telephone, by which he knows as tlie most healthful In your house? world. Thus Mackensen was unable place o f the Coblenz bridgehead where eventually will come the welcome news Sincerely, to commurUcate with his genernl staff for which so long he hns been longing BELINDA BRIGGS. and the other elements of his nrmy. it skirts a beautiful valley stretching — “ We've been ordered home.” P. S.—Have tnken for the summer, His isolation, however, was not discov away toward Berlin. Just across the hallway from the the small cottage across the way. ered until an hour or so before the B. B. time set for his departure next day. quarters of the lieutenant on the sec MRS. BALINE BEALE Mackensen wanted to send a final ond fioor of Uie castle. Count and July 29, message to his staff. When he found Countess von Walderdorf have been Lyndenvllle. the telephone "out o f order” he de allowed to remain by courtesy of nrmy My Dear Miss Briggs: cided to wait in the chateau until com officers. But the Germans keep to themselves, looking upon the Ameri Pardon what may appear Imperti munication 'Could be re-established. nent curiosity. Was It not the white This was extremely fortunate for cans as Invaders, and an army antl- eottnge opposite, which you hnd rent Lieutcnnnt Genevrier, for the re fraternizatlon order prohibits Lieuten ed for the summer? And was I not enforcements, without which the ar ant Scott from visiting them. given to understand that you live Spends Evenings Alone. rest could not be carried out, had not alone? Yet this afternoon, a young yet arrived. Four squadrons o f Spahi On the first floor of the castle 50 and beautiful girl suddenly faced me cavalry were on their way by train American soldiers have their beds and from the window seat of my own liv from Belgrade,-but there were unfore mess and a large living room where ing room, beneath which she explained, seen delays, and at five o'clock In the they play cards and enjoy each other’s she had left her music while occupy afternoon— the hour o f Mackensen’s company during the long winter eve ing this house; possessing the music, intended flight— the lieutenant had no nings and tell of their war experiences, news of them. Moreover, the cutting and of all the wonderful things they In she passed out of my house and di o f the telephone wires might be de- tend to do when they get home again. rectly over to yours. I may also add that I have Inadvertently noticed the Lieutenant Scott spends his evenings, young woman from time to time In alone, devouring book after book. your garden. Was It by your author Visitors are few nt this furthermost ity, Miss Briggs, tlint she came for WHISTLER GOT EVEN FOR fi I outpost across the Ilhlne twenty miles the music? Respectfully, * ONE HOUR’S SENTENCE 5 from Coblenz. During the day the lleu- AMOS GILES. X ____ X I tenant makes his rounds, visiting one $ One o f the units at Camp £ sentinel after another, always alone. July 29th. »3 Lewis. Washington, had In Its $ At the foot o f hm crowned by the Dour Mr. G iles: X ranks a chronic whistler. In X . castle o f Molsberg Is the village of Am returning answer by messenger. »3 barracks, at drill, everywhere *} Molsberg, o f which Lleutennnt Scott Is I, Belinda Briggs, went for the music; X and all the time, this soldier X mllltarY commander, but he talks to I must be your "young and beautiful i whistled. Suggestions, threats, V townspeople only on questions of girl.” I never told you that I was old t«*rn N * * ip o p « r X sarcasm In regard to his musl- ► *« business. And so, day after day, the tZXSl A . - * «■ « - ■ ... A Il ni itA n n n t etn Vita or rheumatic, but merely mentioned cal efforts all rolled off li>m like X lieutenant meets no one excepting his the fact that damp Is Injurious to water off a duck’s hack. There ¡J soldiers and the civilians on routine This Is a dainty afternoon frock of rheumatism. I’m working out here on was no stopping his whistling. X mn,ters duty. gray chiffon with chenille striped satin a hook of children's stories and my Finally an officer took the £« The meals o f this loneliest o f Aroer- of same shade used as banding. bulldog is my sole companion. But man In hand. X ! 'cans are served In his quarters, where this Is very perplexing. It was a “ You stand out there at at- ¡*J j be dines, alone, with giddy green war- Furniture Cleaner. youngish man who faced me at the tentlon.” the officer commanded, f i rlor tapestry figures gazing down upon Í '* T o save time and labor while doing window scat today, you, I did not see “ and whistle for nn hour." X ll,m irom ,helr P,ace* on the w" lls- honsecleanlng try putting some olive at all. Perhaps my spinsterish name »J j just where they were hung something The soldier grinned oil In a pan o f Jnkewarm water which made you think me old, that's why I J H X i Wk® 800 years ago. The figures of one C OWK A EWBK X obeyed. has been made sl.ghtly soapy with a like to call myself Just— For one hour he stood In the £* j panel picture a gay and-jolly party and pure soap. Use this to wash furniture, LINDA. all the others suggest companionship company street, whistling "The Mrs. Baline Beale, who was Miss then polish with a dry soft cloth. g Star-Spangled Banner.” % In some form. Harriet Blaine, daughter o f the late Woodwork, leather and all will look July 29th. And for an hour officers and »3 Phone for Business Only, James O. Blaine, Is ward visitor at like new, for the dive oil feeds, while Miss Linda Briggs—by same mes f i soldiers stood at attention with X The officer has a telephone which Walter Reed hospital, Washington. the soapy water cleans, and there are senger : * him. * reaches to Montabnur, the 1st division The wounded soldiers find her both no Injurious chemicals to eat the var The youngish (make It young) man headquarters, bnt its use Is restricted gracious and companionable. nish. who faced you today at tbs window Von Mackensen Planned Escape FOILED BY ALERT OFFICER Is L o n eso m est . Man In Germany m a ar s was your late landlord— though I'm not a “dead one." In Yact—I never felt so in love with life before. Old Amos is my grandfather, aud I guess he handed over this old rookery to me. In compensation for Ids ancient name. I hoped to sell the house and cut short my enforced stay in the village. But now—I want to have my car sent out—and linger In this beautiful spot. I confess I never realized Its full glory until today. May I come over to apol ogize for my rudeness? Please say yes. Yours. A. GILES. Mr. Giles—ugnln by same messenger: You may come. The bulldog ap proves. “ LINDA 1” DAMASCUS STEEL LONG BEST Old City for Many Centuries Led tha World in Producing and Distrib uting Finer Grades. Before the use of gunpowder, weap ons of steel, such as sword and spear, were the soldier’s chief reliance; and In making nml distributing the fiuer grades of steel Damascus led the world. The knight who owned a “Damascus blnde” had the very best thing of Its kind, still unsurpassed, though the sword has goue out of fashion. According to a writer In the Journal of the Itoynl Society of Arts, this high-grade steel came originally from Indiu and was the result of a process devised and developed by Hin du artificers. “ One of the many articles which con tributed to the world ilnportnnee of Indian trade was the famous Indian steel,” he writes. “ It appeared in western Europe during the middle ages, under the names of damascene, or Damascus steel. By another trade route through Persia and the Cau casus It found Its way Into Russia. “The Iron and steel Industry was highly developed In ancient India. A witness to this exists not only In the fumous wrought-iron pillar of Del hi, but in many other specimens, some of • them at least being undoubtedly high .carbon crucible steels. “To this Inst category belonged the wootz, or small aakt-s of enrbon steel, from which the damascene blades were manufactured. Some of such cakes were Investigated by Reaumur, but he found nobody in Paris who could forge them. Some others were presented to the Itoynl society by Doc tor Scott of Bombny, and brought to this country by Doctor I’enrson. Fara day took n keen Interest In them, and his investigation of alloy steel, con ducted in conjunction with Stodart, wus the result. HAVE CAUSE FOR GRATITUDE People of Today Enjoy Luxuries Not Thought of Only a Few Short Yeara Ago. “ Have you ever thought o f the fact," said the middle-aged man who always takes the same table In a little restau rant in Herald square, according to the ¡)fcew York Herald, “ that ns regards in ventions and discoveries the last twen ty-five years nre the richest and most momentous In all the world's history? Of course you haven’t. We take nil such things so lightly. When I was a boy we hud no motion pictures to en tertain us, and tlie only amusement we hnd was to be tnken occasionally to a dime museum or u Punch and Judy show. “ Just think of what the children now have compared to that. We used to ride in dingy horse cars, with straw on the floor in winter and a little stove In the corner. And It was Impossible to rend In those cars by the flickering oil lamps. Now, Just let me give you a list of a few things that make for our com fort, convenience and entertainment to day—nil of which have come to us within a quarter of a ceutury. Here they are: “The electric light, the telephone, the automobile, the electric enr, the motion jdeture, tlie phonograph, the airplane, the sutnvH.vs, the tubes under the rivers, the typewriter, duplex tel egraphy, wireless telegraphy, the air brake, the typesetting machine, the col or press, sanitary plumbing nnd a bath tub In almost every home, antiseptics and marvelous advances in pho- teg?raphy. Now, my friends, thk;V this over nnd you will he nmnzed how much farther ndvnnced this generation Is and whnt comforts and advantages we en joy to which we give so little thought. Surely we have reason to bo thankful.” Twenty Year» In One Room. If we devote, .on nn average, eight hours to sleep, says Sir St. Clair Thom son, the English throat and nose spe cialist, a third nt least of our 24-hotir day is spent Indoors, nnd each individ ual who reaches sixty years of life will have passed no less than twenty years o f his existence In the one and only room where he Is likely to be sole ar biter of the ventilation. Unless there are exceptional conditions, the win dows of every sleeping room should he wide open all night nnd every night. The blinds should he drawn up, other wise, from their vnlve-like action, thay will only permit Intermittent nnd un certain Ingress of fresh air, while the only egress for devitalized air is by the inadequate route o f the chimney. O ld 8ongs. Who can fittingly describe the warmth o f feeling, the awakening of tender memories that come to us when we hear nn old song—one that we have known and loved In other years? aaka David Blsphnm. In this we find a sentiment at once true nnd deep— a sentiment It mny be of the romantic, weaving Its magic In uniOmantlc Uvea like our own. f