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DOOMED TO FALL WHAT?
Noted Historian Suggests the Organization of a Small
State, Under Guarantee of :the Powers, That-' Gould
Constantinople Instead of Being a Political '
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CITY, WOULD- BECOME CENTER OF A VASJ TFjADE
The accompanying artfcle"" by Gugllelmo Ferrero 1b written on the assump
tion that tfce allied attack on Constantinople will be successful. Withithisiin
view bis suggestions .relative to the ultimate disposition of Constantinople are
the more interesting. .- , i . : . .. .. . .
1 is notj eay to describe to American readers the stupor and anxiety
raised jin Europe by the Franco-English fleet to force 'the Darda
rielles. 1 For a month past nothing else has been spoken of nothing
else thouzht of. Who pays any more attention to the cruel battles
of Poland land Flanders? Everybody is only wondering if the English-
French will gain possession of Constantinople I
The taking of Constantinople will be th "most important eVent of
those firsttnine months of war. It will be a' more clamorous event even
than the battle of the Marne, that made such an impression becaus it de
stroyed the illusion held by so many after the war of 1870, that the Ger
man arms Iwere invincible. v. .. i .. 1 ,;
The interest in Constantinople is not . to be wondered at. After
Athens and Rome, Constantinople is the most celebrated of ancient cities
Like Rome, although in a smaller way, Constantinople has always been
one of theigresat seats of history from the day, 1003 years ago, when Con
' stantine fdunded it "jubente Dei" by the command of God. The! pagan
status rif fortune which the-founder carried in .his hands in the solemn
Christian procession at the celebration has never deserted the city, not
even m the days ot most bitter strne. .
. . i New Grandeur for Constantinoole.
- Even today in the midst of thtff terrible war that is about to change so
minv destmies. the world is looking with anxiety toward Constantinople
already shrinking hot from the imminent ruin of the empire that for five
centuries' has had its scat in that city, but from the new grandeur and
power that will replace it. No one knows what this new grandeur and
power will be, but no one doubts that the moment when the halfmoon will
gink down (below the tranquil waters of Propontide a new radiant ,sun will
rise from somewhere to illumine those shores, i
What has reen the reason of the greatness of Constantinople?!. Why
- did Constantine take his crown away from Rome, and bear it to the city
that he called "The New Rome, on the shores of the narrow canal that
separates Europe from Asia? Historians have tried to explain this act
' one of the gravest in the history of the world with many and complicated
.reason; some i political, some military, the great number rehgiousi But
they were wot right, because the principal reason was geographical.
Th alfi-penetrating eye ,of the great emperor was able to read in that
'enigmatical' book the eartH's surface that on: the shores of the Bos
porus was the best place for the capital of an empire partly in Europe
and partly in ) Asia, whose richest and most populated provinces were in
Asia Minor!. and on the Balkan peninsula: .. 1
' The capital of the. empire had remained in Italy three-centuries, be
cause under Augustus, Gaul developed so admirably- and became, next to
fEgypt, the most florid province of the empire, so that the empire had im
frnense interests in Europe and in the Orient, on the Rhine and on the Nile.
Italy was in an excellent intermediary and central position to be the
office pf the great cities and their outputs. But in the third century the
provinces of the weM. and especially Gaul, decreased in poulation grew
poor and began to be seriously menaced by the invasions of the Barbarians,
while the Balkan countries and eastern provinces remained in muqh bet
ter condition. While the west retrograded, Asia Minor remained- a land
relatiyely thickly populated and-prosperous; and in the Balkan countries
a vigorous warlike population flourished, from which, the worn-out empire
recruited the flower of its legions. The center of the empire was then out
of place. So Constantine moved the capital of the empire into the heart
of that which was the most vital part between the provinces that fur
nished him his money and the provinces that furnished him his soldiers.;
For the same reason. Constantinople became the Metropolis of the Otto
man empire. In the days of its splendor, the Ottoman empire was an em
pire partly Asiatic and partly European. Constantinople by its splendor,
its memories and its' position, was the capital indicated by history and geog
raphy. It was a most safe and comfortable capital, because being on the
sea it enjoyed all the advantages the sea offers for communication with the
world, yet it could be as easily defended by blocking tip the straits of an
inland city.i Constantinople has remained the metropolis of the Ottoman
empire a long' time after the naval power of Turkey has only been a
memory. t
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HATEKFKONT IN CONSTANTINOPLE.' " EVEN UNDER TURKISH RULE MORE TONS OP SHIPPING ENTER THIS
PORV IN A YEAR THAN ENTER LIVERPOOL, HAMBURG, ANTWERP OR MARSEILLES.
If the reasons of Constantinople's greatness are the foregoing, must
we conclude -that the ancient city is in danerer of definite ruin? If Constan
tinople is the natural capital of an empire placed astride between Asia and
Europe, occupying Asia Minor on one side afid the Balkan oeninsula on
the other, so must a country having its capital at Constantinople be a
country possessing vast territories in Asia Minor and in Europe, Or its
capital will not be centrally located. Consantinoole cannot lonir remain
tne capital ot an empire whose trontier toward Europe is Adnaaople. So
there seems to be no other way than for Turkey to win back the territory
that Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia took away from her in the last war in that
way to, again-become an European power, or in the better of the hypothen
even admitting that her last hour as an Asiatic power has not yet struck
she must move-her capital into Asia, as it seems very improbable, if not
impossible, that Turkey can again become an European power. 1
The Future of the Imperial City. J
So the conclusion must be that the allied fleet in the Dardanelles is
destroying the little that remains of the city of Constantine, and the day
when we see Constantinople fall into the allies hands, it will fast decline
into a modest provincial city, resting on its memories of the two empires
and the two religions that within its walls dictated the laws to so many
peoples. Clothed,in the few remaining tatters of its imperial purple,, the
once proud capital can only wait till the Greeks or the Slavs grow powerful
enough to make it the center of another European-Asiatic empire. That
.It will be a . spectacle reserved for our
will surely require centuries
descendants.. - ! ' . j
But they who reason in this way, believing in the ruin of the ancient
capital, are wrong. Those who are right are those who believe in the
eternal future of the old city. Constantinople is on the verge of falling
tinder the blows of the French and English, but only to immediately arise
again to a nev life. It can tranquilly await the ruiir of the 'grand empire,
of which for more than four centuries, it was the mertopolis, because it-is
sure of not remaining buried under the heaps of waste; because already
for two centuries, while the power of the Turks was waning, and with it
the splendor of Constantinople, '"Fortune" in silence has been preparing
for her Tavorite city a new destiny of prosperity and grandeur.
Now the time is ripe and this new destiny is about to be attained.
The English and French cannon with their powerful voices are .crying it
out, to the world at least to tlfem who understand their clamorous lan
guage. During! the centuries in which Constantinople shone under the
emperor aild under the sultan as the capital of a vast Europeo-Asiatic em
pire, the Black sea was, so to speak half deserted and uncivilized. " The
immense territories to the north of the Black sea were inhabited by poor,
barbarous tribes. - - !
Crimea was for a long time the last limit, of civilization. During the
last 200 years a great change has come about. Under a government nara
and despotic yet vigorous and active, the population has grown, -agriculture
has made progress, mines of all kinds have been discovered, new roads
have been opened and long railroads constructed.- That which the ancients
called "Scizia' is now one of the most florid. DODulated and rich parts of
the! Russian empire that produces every blessing of God (cereals and met
als above all and that has need of exchanging its products with the world.
.1 ! ' ; l The Benefits of the Bosporus. j i:
. lAt the same time'on the western- shores of this sea, two .little nations
grew from the most remote antiquity the Bulgarians and the Rumanian.
Qn the southern shore a people live the Armenians that are gifted with
great quafcies, and who will make their way when permitted to develop
freely. Now, for .all these peoples, and for a considerable part of the im
mense Russian empire, the most rapid neans of communication with the
world is to pass through the Bosporus: j- .
Constantinople,- even under1 the Turkish government, for some time
has been the largest port of the Mediterranean. In 1911 more than 20,000,
000 tons of shipping entered that port, while tiie port of I London counted
18,000,000. that of Liverpool 14 that of Antwerp 13J4, that of Hamburg
13, and that of Marseilles ;10. It is not to be wondered at. The world
must cross the Bosporus to provision itself -in the rich grain stores of
Russia, and in the fertile southern provinces of the empire that send their
cere'als from the great seaports of the Black sea Nicolaieff, Rostoff,
Odessa and Novo Tossik. The world must cross the 'Bosporus to secure
the petroleum of Bakou, that the pipe lines pour out from the bottom of
the Caucasus into the cistern of the ports of the Black sea.
Across the Bosporus the products of the mineral basin of Dometzuno,
among the very richest in the world, are sent. It is enough to read the
statistics of maritime commerce to follow the rapid, economic development
of the Russian empire and'the little states along the Black sea; to give a
glance at the map to understand what the -future of Constantinople will be
as soon-as the Turkish empire will have fallen, or been dismembered and
interned in Asia. , ! , !
Then Constantinople will be the most important, richest and largest
station in this great new road of humanity that the English and French
warships are opening with their cannonade this road over which the im
mense wave of men and riches of southern Russia and the peoples of the
clack sea will pass to break upon the world. Constantinople will not then
be the political tie between the Orient and the Occident, but a commercial
tie between the north and the south. . -. . j .
lit will no longer be the seat of an empire nor "a state nor a political
city, but a great center of business, and culture, a kind of general capital
of finannce, religion, studies for all 'the Christian peoples mirrored in the
Black sea Bulgars, as well as Russians, Greeks, Rumanians -and Arme
nians. It will not be an European city, neither will it be altogether Ori
ental, but a mixture of the two, governed with European laws and insti
tutions. Its task will be the marvelous one of uniting1 the principles of
modern civilization with the most vital traditions of the Orient, too deeply
rooted in history tcr disappear in a, few years or decades without leaving
any traces. '..-j ' . . , j -.
iThe world will then see a new Byzantium, greater and more glorioui
than its predecessors, at least unless the rivalry and jealousy of the Euro
pean cut it off from this marvelous future. , " I
And what can be done to keep this from happening? From what we
have said it is clear-what Europe should do with Constantinople the day
it wrests it from the Turks, who have held it for four centuries. It should
pot be given to any of the states that for some time have been secretly
watching, the cupola of Saint Sofia. A little neutral state should be placed
on the European and Asiatic"sides, from the Bosporus to the Dardanelles,
under the guarantee of the powers a state like Belgium, that could watch
over and guard the straits according to the principles of liberty and equal
ity for the commerce of all peoples, and would take upon itself to make
Constantinople the seat of business and culture when Asia and Europe
will blend- Under, Ihei protection Vf a newly .renovated i Europe, that will
give he the necessary safety, with the immense riches that the passing of
the great' commerce will deposit in the straits,' this little state could do
such marvelous things as the world has not yet seen, j
This seems to be Constantinople's future, i And if such is to really be
the city's future, the happenings which are now developing in the straits
should be followed with great interest in America, as well as. in Europe
The effect. of the change in the historical destiny of Constantinople willt
make itselfifelt even over there in the new world, because when Russia will
be able ta do better with her products, especially-with her grain and pc
troleum,she will enter: into competition with the two Americas.
IN THE TRENCHES 100 YARDS FROM THE FOE-THE EXPERIENCE OF HERBERT COREY, WAR CORRESPONDENT
(Copyright. 1915, by'Herbert Corey.) you have ever seen a hunter on!a deer - . - t . ! " . , ; , I f . Kanle tne Engliflh mast re- hind me ' After that I watched mor
VttSSSiSzrJZ K.ra?aBS HE VISITS THE GERMAN TRENCHES AT LA BASSEE THROUGH! .''?"f ?.vs;s I AjzVyTSs X:
understand.! ' nervous elasticity inhis pose. 7 f ,V".,UU O; - UHOOl-L- I I I I V V3 1 I on wJUn our pryUlR and peer J tw,BtInff turnlnJr. . Kxperiwic." ha!
We. hd been walking through the
- front trenches at La Bassee. . The day
was hot. The- ditches were so deep
that we could not by no possibility see
over . the ' embankments. Under foot
the plank runway was slippery with
mud. . We knew we were the first
party of ' correspondents to be taken
into the trenches opposite the English
positionnow and then we could hear
an English - bullet whistle overhead
but on the whole the adventure did not
seem " promising. We Jested about a
romp to the front as we toiled along In
- our heavy overcoats. .
Then we came to a man looking
through a porthole. He did not 'turn
to Took at our rather noisy party.
- We had come to a part of the trench
that was both wider and deeper than
the approaches through, which we had
been laboring?. There were more men
In sight. Some of them were carrying
flour sacks, filled with earth, with
. which the- embankment walls were
made higher. Some were sitting about
smoking. .Others were squatting on
the floors of the "unterstands" the
timbered caves in the-trench walls in
-'which they live and take refuge from
bells and ..peered out at us. Their
faces were on a level with our knees.
They seemed quiet and rather tense.
I got. an Idea that our laughter jarred
on them. Here the rifles were racked
outside the bomb-proofs. The men
could seize them as they came out of
their shelter.
There was something about the back
of that man who, looked through the
porthole that held our attention. If
Lime Starvation
Causes Tuberculosis
- The Medical Xteeord (New York) of
December 13, isosv contains an article
on "The Treatment of Pulmonary Tu
berculosis, Based on the Assumption
; that the Dietetic Cause of the Disease
is Urn Starvation," by Dr. John P.
Kusseli, wao says: "The condition
which is recognised " as preceding the
active development of tuberculosis in
the adult may be considered as due
to lime starvation. Among
.Inorganlo substances lime salts ap
pear to be ef special physiological lm.
portance but if the salts
are not in organlo combination it Is
r difficult to suppose that the cells can
appropriate thean for food."
Tears of i widespread use confirm
Us in the belief that the success of
Eckman's Alterative In cases of pul
monary tuberculosis (consumption)
r and chronio - throat and bronchial
' troubles is due in large measure to its
content of lime, so combined with
other Ingredients as to fee easily ap-
: propriated by the cells. -
, . Doubtless- this has had much to do
. with the results obtained in many
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Hckmaa Ziaboratory, Philadelphia.
(Adv.)
We looked again, and saw that be was
nestling to the cheekpiece of a rifle.
He was watching the enemy through
the eyehole In the port. His! orders
were to fire if he saw a head. Our
laughter, died out rather suddenly'.
War had become a grim business to us.
We knew now why these men i in the
trenches watched up with a certain
disapproval as we Joked. Death was
too near. . I " !
looking Through a Porthole. !,
"Ixok through the portholes'," said
Captain Kliewer, of the general staff,
who was our official chaperon. i
The sentry saluted and stepped back.
I put my eye to the slit In the steel
port. At first nothing could be seen
outside, except sunshine and bare.
gray-brown earth. My vision was dis.
tortea because my eyes- were Just
above the level of the earth. Lie upon
the ground some time and raise your
nead so that your chin Just clears. You
will find that things look oddly I differ
ent to you . i !
"Do you see Mm? asked the teentry.
There was no one in sight.- It
seemed minutes the time was per
haps to be measured in half seconds
before; I found the thin line of I yellow
clay that marked the English trenches.
It was about 100 yards away. These
trenches are three months old, so that
the tints of the upturned earth have
merged with those of the background.
Between the-English and the German
trenches lines of barbed wire run, and
they confuse, the unaccustomed eye. I
might never have found the English
trench except for . a sparkle of light
which came from near the surface of
the ground. It was the suri shining on
a ruie muzzle.
"Yes I said to the sentry,
watching vm."
"No," said the man, somberly,
is aeaa." x t t
I kept on peering through the port
hole. Then, suddenly almost with f a
shock my: eyes adjusted themselves
to the need. , There, not 10 feet away
from me, :lay an Englishman,! dead.
His snuff-brown uniform had so
blended with the neutral earth I that I
had to look twice to make sure. He
seemed Just a youngster, clean shaven,
with a kind, manly face. One 'strong
hand was half opened. It seemed i to
hold a small card photograph, t I am
not certain. Suddenly I could not see.
"He was hours in dying,"- said the
sentry, "and we could not help him."i
My eyes began to do their duty only
too well. Wherever I looked I saw, the
English dead upon the ground. 1 1 went
from port to port, and the story was
the same. Some of them were hanging
in the wire entanglements. ; Often thej
had beed , shot standing. apparently,
and stooped forward slowly, until their
bodies were caujsrhf about i the middle
by the wires and so were held. One
man was ? seated, his back resting
against a post. His mouth was open,
as though he had been shrieking as he
died. AH' the other faces : thati T mw
THE PORTHOLES OF WHICH HE SEES THE BODIES OF
ENGLISHMEN WHO WERE KILLED IN FUTILE CHARGE."
'He is
"He
wore a look of peace.'
lDip, but U is so.
It seems Incred-
I "There were 500 dead men on a front
of 500. meters," said an. officer. "We
counted them." '
All the Pioneers Killed.
The English had attacked at x3
o'clock in the morning, 10 days before. i
or an hour or more the artillery had
been - playing on the wire entangle
ments the "Spanish riders," I as the
Germans call them, with some mediae
val, significance that I did not under
stand until gaps had been torn In
them. The wires had not been cleared
away,, of course. They hung about in
loops and knots. But they were no
longer affixed to the posts. The pio
neers were seht forward.
"They always die," said a soldier, as
one stating an obvious fact. "All of
them." .
It seems likely. Their duty It to
prepare the way for the men who come
after. They ran forward with planks
with which they bridge the tripping
marls of wire. They cut the wires
with great nippers. They drag the
posts out of the ground and push
aside the movable . entanglements,
when these wire-wrapped skeleton roll
era are used. They rarely reach the
trench. They are not expected to.
"The officers tell them to fall for
ward when they are shot," said a man,
"so that their bodies will cover the
wires and make a bridge for those
who follow."
It sounds brutal, inhuman, preposter
ous, I know but I believe it. They do
things that way in war. Upon a given
moment the English fire upon the Ger
man trenches had ended;, and the Eng
lish ran forward yelling, i As they
came they fired at the German heads
that rose above the level of the
trenches. They had but 100 yards to
go in ths race with death, but 500 of
them died on the division front of 500
meters. That is almost a man to each
frontal yard. Forty men achieved the
incredible. They did what - humanity
cannot do. They forced their way
through those wires in face of that
blasting fire and into the German'
trenches.
- "Two j were , wounded and , surren
dered," said the Germans who had been
in the fight. ,
t ne otners died, une takes that zor
granted"in trench fighting. The man
who hasthe desperate valor needed to
charge a position that by every rule is
impregnable to' leave the comparative
safety of his trench knowing that he
must almost surely die does not bat
tle his way into that other ditch only
lo surrender. I lis plan is to die, but to
die righting. That is way the 38 Eng
lishmen who fought i their way into
that cut in front of La Bassee were
buried beneath our feet. Those who
did not . reach the trench ; finally
flinched before the firei They gave
way. taking their wounded with them.
The dead were left behind.
That was 10 days before. ? Throucb
every porthole, as we looked out at a
barren, : gray-brown landscape, : dead
Englishmen could be seen. Three hun
dred of the 500 who had died on that
500-yard front had, been buried by
night. Mostly their poor, broken bodies
were dumped in the great holes made
by shells. It saved digging. Some
were buried by the German sentries
who move between the lines at night.
Others were Interred by their English
comrades. No truce was made for the
purpose. Truces are not being granted
In this war or "being asked. '
"The : bodies which ' hang upon the
wires cannot be touched," one soldier
said to us,!- In a matter-of-fact way.
"The , others would hear the wires
twanging and would f ire.So that we
only bury the bodies we can bury
safely." ,
: That Is not inhumanity. It isNvar.
dnea rail Xdke Beer Bottles.
As I look back upon this afternoon's
experience in the German trenches in
front of La Bassee, one thing stands
out vividly. That is the way the mines
looked as they were tossed over by the
English mortars.
They : fell , clumsily, end over end.:
They looked prepisely. like beer bottles
-quart-sized bottles some one bad
heaved at us for a Joke. They fell no
faster than bottles would. Men ran
and laughed and hid themselves in the
holes in the trench . walls. The mines
shook the ground when they exploded.
But my memory of these things is al
most muted by my recollection of that
uncanny, slow tumbling.
I This is an unashamed narration of a
personal experience. Nine of us shared
it, all correspondents. We were the
first' newspapermen to reach that part
of the German trenches i which front
against the British. ,We were shelled
the fifth of a second in an automo
bile's speed would have made this story
an -obituary we weee watched from
tpstlle aeroplanes,, and we were sniped
t by. English riflemen. The important
feature of the episode is that, so far
as we know, we were the first observ
ers from neutral nations to 'see a mine
throweiv or a thrown mine In hostile
operation, i Perhaps not one of us ever
pent two such nervously stimulating
hours or wants to do so again.
I We had ; walked through long - ap
proach trenches, ; and were . peering
through the portholes at the dead Eng
lishmen, who poor : devils- lie : Just
outside, when the Joking Btarted. This
is literal! Nine of us furnished the
low comedy for a trench filled with
German' soldiers. We gave them the
laughter they sorely need. For one, I
do not .grudge them one single caeklt?
of mirth. I can remember the . cor
poral., with a fringe of beard about his
face the corporal who field his sides
and was only able to spout. "Ach,
Oott!" at Intervals with a feeling- of
positive comradeship. To tell the
truth, we laughed ourselves.
. ' The Officer's Mysterious Order.
"You can send up four," said the of
ficer in command of the trench divi
sion in which we were gaping about;
That didn't mean ,anthlng to us
then. We saw two men pass along the
trench grinning from ear to ear. Each
had. two cylindrical objects hugged
tight to his-breast. I didn't examine
them closely, I was not interested.
But I remember they were about the
size of a beer bottle. Other men
grinned as they saw these things. Still
we didn't-understand. , We must be- a
peculiarly innocent lot of reporters.
Our minds are impervious to suspicion.
Down the trench a bit, n a platform
cut out of the dirt walls, stood a rusty
little gun on a rusty tripod. It looked
more like a bit of worthless stovepipe
than anything else I can think of. It
was of peculiarly- crude construction,
so that the levers and things about the
butt were of raw Iron, which seeming
ly had never been polished. Hater we
came Ho know that abandoned bit of
ordance was a "mlnenwerfer"--or mine
thrower the purpose of which Is to
gently toss bombs into the other man's
trenches. We also learned that each
side resents this form of amusement.
It Is an almost Invariable rule that the
precise number of mines thrown isre-
turned by the other fellow. We saw
two men puttering about this depraved
little gun. Pretty soon:
"Fuhwhoosh!" it said. f
It didn't make a bang like a real
gun. . It went oft with a wet, powdery
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sort of a sputter. The soldiers stood
In attitudes of attention. Those who
were at the portholes watched . with
eagerness. Others who could seized
the periscopes through which a watch
is kept over the trench embankments
and gazed eagerly at the mirror. There
was. a - bang behind the English
trenches 100 yards away.
, - "A good shot," some one said. "Per
haps it went in.
It Seemed Zdke a Joke.
It seems Incredible now. but three
more shots made no particular impres
sion on our minds. .We took this mine
throwing as a part , of the day's rou
tine. Anyhow, we were tremendously
interested. We were looking : through
periscopes at that thin line of yellow
clay behind which deadly Englishmen
sheltered, 100 yards away. We were
looking into the unterstands, where the
German soldiers were sleeping. We
were examining the devices by which
the trenches are drained. We were
watching through the portholes that
grim fringe of dead men that lines the
trench front. The noise of that sput
tering little mortar did not arouse our
curiosity.- The noise of the exploding
mines in the English trenches did not
tell us anything. The Englishmen
were firing continually. One explosion
more or less meant nothing to us.
Then the Germans stood about, grin
ning, waiting.
"Hier kommt elne!" they veiled.
At least that is what it seemed to
me- they cried, my German being very
fragmentary. - They all . looked up at '
that jStrip of the blue sky one can see
between the trench walls of yellow
clay. I also looked up. I bad a mere
ly academic interest, I didn't know
enough about what was happening to
be frigened. But I looked up. A
longislVark thing, like a beer bottle,
slowly arched up from the English
trenches. At the top of its flightit
may have been 100 feet high. Then it
began to descend, end over end and
slowly. "
'"Run!" said some one to me.
I do not know what is the German
word for "run." But I got the Idea.
We all ran hard down the trench, push
Ing each other and scrambling and
laughing. Soon we came to an angle
these - angle protections against en
filading are only a few. yards apart
and we jammed against each other and
under the shoulder of the trench wall.
Still I was running ignorantly. I had
run, merely because it seemed good to
run. . Just outside the embankment and
in. the' rear the mine exploded with a
nasty little thumps It sent a cloud ot
dirt into the air. - The'ground vibrated.
Panio When the Truth Was Realised.
. Then we knew what had ha ppened.
But we must seem ft pet of fools we
didn't fully comprehend. We had not
noted that the Germans had fired four
times. - We did not know that by the
ing I had rny lace giuea to a port- taugnt tne soldiers how to closely ntl
hole. watching with fascinating inter- mate its probable landing place. Only
est a long line of dead men draped in those nearest it ran. The others told
unnatural attitudes over the barbed each other jokes about the newspaper
wires, when the second went off be- men. t
General Joffre Is
; Kin of a Cooper
Trench Commander in Chief Traced
Back to Ancestors of 1479, One of
Whom Had Barrels. , ;i
Parts, May 1. General Joffre, the
French commander in chief, is descend
ed from a eooper whose name appears
in the parish books of Rivesaltes as
early as 1479, says a dispatch from
Perplgnan to the Paris Temps.
According to Andre Llouquet, a for
mer keeper of . the records at Rive
saltes, where General Joffre was born,
there have been several families of
Joffres in that locality The founder
of one was a weaver, another was a
baker; while the general's ancestor, was
a barrel maker. ? r
German Holdingsin
England: Estimated
London, -May . 1. The estimated
value of German property In Great
Britain now in the custody of the pub
lic trustee was given in the house of
commons this afternoon as In- the
neighborhood of $425,000,000. Russell
Rea, who, on behalf of the board of
trade, gave these figures In rcHponow
to a question f rem Ixrd Charles
Beresford, aiMiured the qucBtloner tliat
"these German assets will be available
for such dl&posal as seems proper on
the conclusion of peace."
Ixird Beresford's! suggestion 'wan
that Englishmen owning property in
Germany should 'recoup out of thin
fund and that $500D dally should be
confiscated for every British officer
subjected to ill treatment while a pris
oner In Germany.
Spain Expects to
Get German Dyes
Ma a rid, : May 1. Marquis ede Iema,
Spanish foreign minister, announced at
a meeting of the cabinet that Francs
had consented to permit the free tran
sit of aniline dyes.1 oxalic acid ani
other I chemical products tetwen Italy
and Spain, .
The stoppage of Imports of these
articles from Germany brought Span
ish industries virtually to a standstill,
throwing thousands out cf work.- Th
action of the Frenchi government "thu
r moves one of the principal causes of
economic dlstrees Ini Spain.
The Home Beauty Parlor
6tf Deity Dean i
-Madeline: To make 'your: too-fat
figure round and Just right, dissolve
4 ounces cf parnotis (from drug store)
in ltf pints hot water. When cool,
strain and take a tablespoonful at
meal time This is a rational, harm
less treatment and gently dissolves
the fat without leaving the skin
wrinkled or the flesh flabby. The
parnotis treatment acts differently
from other reducing methods, inas
much as it restores the graceful lines
of the. figure without dieting or exer
cise, and when the weight is suffi
ciently reduced the treatment can be
discontinued. ,r "- -
Betty: I am certain a daily use of
this vegetable cream-Jelly, which Is
easy to make at home, will soon elim
inate your wrinkles, and clear the skin
or local impurities, leaving it smoom
and velvety and give to it the pink
and white bloom of youth: "Get from
your druggist and dissolve In H pint
cold water 1 ounce alrnosoin and add
1 teaspoonrul glycerine. To . remove
the wrinkles apply a Httltv of the
cream jellv lengthwise of the creases,
leaving over night. The starved tis
sues quickly reopond to this treatment
and assume tneir correct proportions
then the skin will
wrinkleless. The
b smooth and
almozoln . cream-
Jelly Js especially good to clnee the
skin of pimples and blackheads.
Diana: Your daughter can easily
protect her skin, against freckles and
from spring winds by using this sim
ple lotion: , Dissolve 4 ounces epur
max (from drug store) in either 'i
pint hot water or witch hazel and add
2 teaspoon fuls glycerine. Apply spar
ingly to face, neck and' arms and rub
lightly until It vanishes. The pur
max lotion is superior to powder be
cause i one application lasts an entire
day and seems part of the nkin. p"r
max makes ehiny nkins. oillness, pim
ples and other complexion blemish
disappear quickly and It is a benefit
to the finest, complexion.
FIoj Yes. it Is easy to kp your
hair fluffy and ttnft! If you arc very
careful about what you use in sham
pooing. 1 always ut canihrox. It will
quickly remove all dandruff, exepfi
oil and dust, making the scalp no ek-an
and bealthv that the hair grown heavy
and lorns, . I prepare such a head wami
at home at a cost of about three centa
a shampoo by dissolving on teapoon
fut of canthrox In a cup c;f hot water.
This keeps my Iwifr; so lustrous ani
fluffy! tJiat it seems much heavier
than it' la. (Adv.)