No Problem to Solve km mm mm By H. M. EGBERT (Copyright, 1915, by W. O. Chapman.) Some men at the club had brought up the old problem of wife versus mother. Which should a man save, if he were struggling with them In the water? Then It was that Merrill told this story: "Sotheby had been out boating with his fiancee, Evelyn, and her lit tle crippled sister, Mollle," he said. "I think that problem was still harder. Ordinarily, of course, his duty would have been to save his fiancee, but Mol lle was lame had been so from birth. She could walk, after a fashion, but Bhe couldn't have swam, and she was far too frail and delicate to swim for her life In such a tide as Eight Mile race. "He knew Evelyn could swim like a fish, too. The girls were Btaylng at North Cliff when he went to see them. He had met Evelyn a few weeks be fore, In town. He knew she and her sister were orphans. They had hard ly a relative In the world. Sotheby had become engaged a week or two before, and he was madly in love with Eve lyn, and the envy of all the other men who admired her dashing beauty, "I think his predicament was worse. It was about half a mile to the land, and Evelyn could probably have mads it. Mollle was helpless. Sotheby did not know what to do. He acted on impulse. He saved Mollle. "He never knew how the boat had overturned. He was trying to bring the tiller arouni and let the boom go when they found themselves in the water, and clinging to the overturned boat, which was drifting rapidly out to sea. "He saw Evelyn struggling beside him, and, Mollle sinking. Quick as a flash Sotheby grabbed Mollle by the hair. He lost sight cf Evelyn. He knew he could not save both girls, and he could not let Mollle go. Alternate ly Bwlmmlng and treading water, he managed, in utter exhaustion, to get Mollle aBhore. Then he fainted. "Heiawakened In a fisherman's cot tage. Mollle was upstairs and doing well. The next day he saw her. He be said. And this time the girl did not refuse. Weeks passed. Their intimacy deep ened. The girl was becoming very dear to Sotheby. At last the day arrived when he felt that the shadow which hung over them ought to be lifted. " 'Mollle,' ho Bald, taking the girl's hands in his. T want to tell you, dear, that I love you. I want to ask you to be my wife. I feel that you and I have something inseparable, some thing that makes our lives one. It is Evelyn, and yet I never cared for Eve lyn as I love you.' "The girl looked at him, and then, to Sotheby's amazement, she burst into passionate weeping. " 'I can never marry you, Jack,' she cried: 'You do not know Oh, you do not know, and I cannot bring myBelf to tell you.' " 'But you love me, Molly?' he cried, "He took her In his arms, and for an Instant her head lay on his shoulder. " 'Yes, I love you,' she said. But I cannot marry you. She raised ner head and looked him frankly in the eyes. 'Listen, Jack,' she said. 'I have loved you since I first saw you, and I have never loved anyone else. That Is why I must send you away. It is because of Evelyn.' He could find no answer to make. Ho bowed his head and went away. It was another year before he saw CAUSED GREAT WORLD WAR BID WIPED OUT E French Composer Tells of Musi cians Playing Till All But One Fall. WROTE MARCH IN TRENCHES Camilla Decreus, French Composer, Describes Death of Colllgnon Telia of Life In Trenches With French Soldiers. New York. Having served as a volunteer in the army until Incapaci tation through rheumatism brought about his honorable discharge, Camilla DecreuB, a well-known French com- poser and pianist, who two years ago made a tour of this country with Ysaye, the violinist, has just arrived here, and is a guest of ex-Senator This is the first photograph re- celved in this country of Wogo Tan- kositsch, the man who hatched the William A. Clark at the latter's coun plot for the assassination of the crown try place near Greenwich, Conn. prince of Austria and his wife, the de- u Decreus was a member of the Mollle again. Then he was at Atlantic nouement of which precipitated the Bame regiment with Colllgnon, former City. present worm war in Europe, aus- prefect, eeneral secretary to the pres- "He was seated in a secluded corner tria named lankositscn in ner uiuma- M(jent 0f the republic, and councilor by the Boardwalk when he saw Mol- turn to Serbia, ana peremptorily ae- of the gtate, who at the age of fifty 11b mmim? toward him. At first he manded his extradition to face a trial els,ht enlisted. Insisted upon remain- thnmrht nr ntHklm was the resem- en the charge of murder It was this ine a Brivate. and whose memory is blance, that she was Evelyn herself, ultimatum that Serbia acceded to in now perpetuated at every roll call of Then, as he watched her, he saw Eve- all its clauses except the trial of Ser- the gaiiant Forty-sixth Regiment of lyn in the flesh, at her side, and, be- blan officers in Austria, among wnom jnfantry, as is that of La Tour d'Au Bide Evelyn a man. Tankositsch was the most prominent, vergn6( flrt grenadier of the repub- The trio were advancing toward a point or nauonai sovereignty wmu llo, him. and Evelyn and the man were I oerma asuea io uavH m. Decreus knew Colllgnon, ana on-! in miniate conversation. Hague. Austria refused tms proner after the iatter's death, in the inter ana aeciarea war. lamumuMi i vaa 0f auty ne composed the funeral Evelyn had grown stouter and flesh- ier; she was still the daBhing beauty of old times, but the dashingness could not carry Itself so well under that ac cumulated load of flesh. It was over done, and the woman was obviously too artificial. The hair was too light, the eyes too dark. Sotheby stared. He could not be mistaken. It was Evelyn. a major in the Serbian army. BOY WORKS UP A ROMANCE California Young Man Shoots Hat Full of Holes for Love of Girl. His march which was a feature of the me morial service held at Fontalnebleau recently, and which M. Decreus had arranged, "I was at JuvlBy with my friend Tourret when the war broke out, and we had been guests of Senator Clark at his chateau of Ivry, at Petitbourg, near by," said M. Decreus. "I had Wllllts, Cal. RIva Lawrenson, a "Sotheby was not superstitious. He young man employed on the Silverla never been in the army. When my knew that Evelyn was at Mollle'B side, ranch near Sherwood, confessed to class was first called to the colors I and he rose and followed them to Deputy Sheriff Ed Brown that he had was rejected because of failure to pass their hotel. He watched them enter, Bnot a hole in his hat and mutilated the physical examination. But when and all that day he waited until he himself with the idea of spreading a our country was threatened, my friend was rewarded at last by seeing Mollle Btory that would attach suspicion to a Tourret and I, unlike many French come out alone. She walked, with her rival for the hand of a young girl of artists and musicians who flocked to limping gait, along the Boardwalk un- the neighborhood. . this country, and who have, I fear, til she came to the same place where The Inhabitants of thft section have created an impression in America that Sotheby had Bat that morning. There been mystified for the past week by a Frenchman following such a profes- she sat down, and there he accosted vague rumors of assaults and hold- slon places it above patriotism and her. ups, and the confession of Lawren- military service, felt we owed some- 'The terror In the Kirl's eyes almost son clears the mystery. thing to France, and volunteered, unnerved him. She glanced at him In the meantime his hated rival is They rejected Tourret, but they toon fearfully, and saw that he knew all. calling on the girl and the sympathy me. " 'You have seen her?' she cried, sought by Lawrenson nas turnea io Describes Life In Trencnes, with a milek Intflkn of breath. ridicule. He was given a severe lec- two days we were at Solssons, "Sotheby nodded. 'Tell me the lure ana anowea io go uuuer yiuuiioo ana immediately we were sent to tne truth. Mollle.' he said, taking her hand to benave m tne luture. trenches. That was In August Now at that point i must coniess mat me In his. And he knew then that, al though it was not the same Evelyn whom he had loved, it was Just the same Mollle who had been so dear to him, who had always been in his thoughts, night and day, since he had learned to love her. She is not dead,' said Sotheby. IIP AND DOWN. INTO CAFE In the trenches was not very exciting since eeptemDer oom Biaes nave nem I .1 A 11 , M ...1.1. U- - R Run an Automob e. Causlna uuu- luo I""uo jiuduhiud, mm im, " Daman., to the Amount caption r lne incident in January, 0 cD0 when the river roBe, carried off bridge and left part of our force on New York.-An automobile carrying "s farther side. The Germans imme- 'But Mollle, tell me the truth, and four men at high speed ran up an em- trust me. " 'Yes, I will tell you the truth,' an swered the girl. 'When you became Engaged to Evelyn you looked on it as a serious matter. But to Evelyn It was just a joke, a summer flirta tion. She gets engaged at least two or three times every summer. AVhen bankment at the end of Smith street, In Belleville, N. J., in the fain last night, crossed a yard 30 feet wide and then dropped 30 feet down a precipice diately attacked and forced the French back over to the main body "It should be explained that one reason for the apparent inactivity at Solssons was the fact that in their The automobile continued 35 feet and marcn on raris uerman engineers naa crashed through the rear door of Ber- taken the precaution to prepare rv Uros' cafe . trenches in the quarries, situated on While the four men were separat- a "igu piaieau, Granite trenches are you looked on It as something lasting Ing themselves from the debris John something whose taking would require He Lost Sight of Evelyn. had not dared to ask about his fiancee; everybody knew she was drowned. To his astonishment Mollle seemed al most unconcerned. "It was a tiny fishing village, and the tragedy, though It stirred the place, was not widely reported. After Mollle and he had recovered the girl gave up the little cottage and went home. "'You must let me come an see you, for Evelyu'B sake,' said Sotheby. ! "He was rather astonished when IMollie resolutely refused. 'I bear you no 111 will, Jack, and I ewe you my life she said. 'Put I feel that It ;Would be impossible after what has happened.' "The girl's uncanny calmness shocked John. However, there was nothing to do but acquiesce. It was a year before he saw Mollle again. They imet on Fifth avor.ue, rnd the recogni tion was mutual. Mollle told Jack iSotheby that she was living with an ,cld aunt in an apartment uptown. ' "That had been a anrf. period for Sotheby. He know ;hat he shadow over his life would deepen rather than disappear, as the years went on. And yet, strangely enough, he began to realize that he had not truly loved Evelyn. Their meeting and engage ment bad been rapid, and there had 'been ho communion of tastes between 'them. It tad been infatuation, and, ln spite of the tragody, Jack thought of Evelyn as an episode in his life, rather than his lost lev. "When he looked at Mcllie he was conscious of a sudden awakening of Interest in the frail girl, whose beauty had developed until she seemed replica of Evelyn less dashing, less vivacious, but the Evelyn wham he would have loved rather than the one be had known. i " 'I am coming to set you, MoUlt,' Evelyn was well, JuBt plain scared, She liked you well enough to become engaged to you, but she never loved you, Jack. Why, Evelyn couldn't love anybody. The man she Is engaged to now is rich, and she will probably marry him; but she never Intended to marry you. " 'You frightened her, Jack, and be cause she really did care for you in a way, she was afraid that she might not be able to help marrying you, And you were not a rich man, not rich enough for Evelyn. I didn't know what she was going to do, but I knew that she was planning to do some thing, because she was mad with fear when you came down to North Clin " 'You know she can swim. She told me afterwardB Bhe sent me a letter while I was In the fisherman's house, before you came up to see me. She had upset the boat, knowing that you would take care of me, because I could not swim. When the boat upset Evelyn dived and climbed out and hid behind the rocks. She waited there Berry, who was tending bar, appeared the sacrifice of a tremendous number before them and asked them what of men. The French generals, follow they would have. The service was lng Joffre's policy of saving his sol- perfect, dlers and wearing out tne enemy Dy After the four had paid for their niDDiing, tninn mat in time mey win drinks they backed the automobile out be able to surround the plateau. of the building and continued on their "Most of the while in the trenches way. Mr. Berry said It would cost in those days it was a case of making 500 to sell that drink. the time pass. We played cards to the accompaniment of shells scream- FOUND AFTER FOUR YEARS gIeior wwAJlVh1!8 Missing Japanese Stowaway Is Discov ered as Cook on an Ameri can Barkentlne. Fort Townsend. Genjlro Suzuki, a Japanese stowaway, who arrived at Smith Cove on the Sado Maru four years ago and escaped from that ves sel by Jumping overboard and swim ming ashore, was taken into custody a few days ago by United States Im migration Inspector H. A. Myers and slon would bury some of our soldiers we would dig them out again and re sume our occupations, the effort being always to keep in good humor. We became hardened to the visits of the shells and used to crack Jokes and make wagers about where they would land. In fact, at one point we were so near the German trenches that we used to crack Jokes with the Germans. A feeling of human solidarity grew up. "One day I got lost in a 'boyau.' or communicating trench, and came will ha dpnnrtpfl. After escaping Suzuki worked in " not beln here- tad been 8ent lneeln camna and ahlnele mills. Last back to the third line to bring food, until ihe saw that we were safe, and August he signed as cook in the Amer- and tne firBt thln8 1 knew 1 founa n,5r" then Bhe ran home and cnanged ner tcan barkentlne Koko Head at Port sen m lQe 0Deu country, iuimeumie dress, sacked ud and ran away. That Amrelpa. TTnon the arrival of the "hells began to burst about me. was .o prevent your knowing that sue Koko Head here and while checking "Ow. nen i was nrsi uniieu, i was was alive. She wanted you to think the crew he wag recognized by In- Instructed that the important thing her dead, so as to escape marrying .nector Mvers. about screening oneself was to be - - . ...... .. i aoie to taice advantage or. any acci dental shelter afforded by a rock. It and other things meant for the men in the front line. These things were un loaded at a certain distance back. In that capacity I went to the Argonne, and was at the battle of Vauquols, at the end of February. I had come to know Colllgnon very well. I know that Colllgnon was repeatedly offered commission, but he wanted to carry the colors of the regiment He was splendid figure, with his white beard, and the rosette of the Legion of Hon or on his breast He could not wear the military shoes and most of the time he went barefooted. Later he wore sandals. It was at Vauquols that he was killed. Our men had sought shelter in the cellars of ruined houses In the village. In a heavy rain of "bul lets from machine guns, Colllgnon rushed out from such a shelter to res cue a comrade who had fallen wound ed. A shell burst near him and killed him. He was burled at the front, and It was not until after my 'reformation,' or honorable discharge, that the me morial service took place at Fontalne bleau. I had ' composed my 'March Funebre' between trips from the depot to the front trencheB. It was at Vauquols that happened an incident that I suppose stands alone In this war, the charge of a regi mental band at the head of troops Nowadays the bands are usually kept at the rear. But a critical moment came. Our men had three times at tacked the Germans, and thrice had been repulsed. The colonel felt that a time for supreme effort had arrived He summoned the leader of the band, Put your men at the head of the regiment, strike up the "Marseillaise," and lead them to victory,' he com manded. The bandmaster saluted. He called his musicians and told them what was expected. Then the forty of them took their positions. Our line was reformed, The bandmaster waved his baton. Allons, enfants de la Patrie rang out, and the men took up the song. France was calling upon them to do or die. The band started out on the double-quick, as if on rapid parado. The Germans must have rubbed their eyes. No musician carried a weapon But they were carrying the 'Marseil lalse' against the foe. Then came the continuous rattle of the machine guns, The band marched on, their ranks thinning at every step. The leader went down. The cornetlsts followed him. The drummers and their instru ments collapsed in the same volley In lesB than five minutes every man of the forty was lying upon the ground killed or wounded, that is, with one exception. That was a trombone player. Instrument Shot Away. "His whole instrument was shot away except the mouthpiece and the slide, to which his fingers were fastened. He did not know it He still blew, and worked the slide. was only a ghostly 'Marseillaise' bo was playing, but the spirits of his dead comrades played with him, and with that fragment of a trombone he led the way to victory. The trench was taken. Half of the band had died on the field of honor. "You have perhaps read statements that the Germans were lashed to can non. Of that I have no proof, but with my own eyes I have seen German sol diers bound to machine guns with chains. We took several of these pris oners at the battle of Vauquols, and we found several dead lashed to their guns. Their officers had lashed them there, with instructions to keep tur ing the crank. "Not a Red Cross flag came near our front but what the Germans fired at it. This cannot be disproved. Wo found the German prisoners we took In absolute ignorance of where they were. They had been told invariably that they were within a few miles of Paris. I finally had a breakdown, due to rheumatism, and the doctors sent me back to Fontalnebleau, where, after a thorough examination, I was honorably discharged on May 4." M. Decreus wears a diamond horse shoe Bcarfplri presented to him by his regiment. Indicative of the spirit of comradeship prevailing between offi cers and men is a note he carried from his colonel. M. Decreus sent the commander a card of congratulation when the latter was made an officer of the Legion of Honor, and the colo nel wrote an appreciative reply with his own hand. He also had a letter from General Sasset-Schneider, com mander of the first and second subdi visions of the Fifth corps, commend ing him as a "good patriot who had discharged his duties to his country until his strength had given way," to all representatives of France abroad. SPURRED RESTA TO VICTORY j F.f. WMhnut Stnmmrh niHmnr MBvBr rnin . seems incredible, but a stone Blx times chant of Newberry. N. C, is at a local " Ml ; as one's fist will absolutely hide hosnltal here learning under the di- uuu " 'uu " uoumu ouu "v rectlons of a trained nurse, to eat, 300 meters an observer cannot detect you. ' 'And you knew all that, Mollle? And that was why you forbade me to see you " 'Yes cried the girl. 'And when T n living with mv aunt I could see you, because Evelyn had gone virtually without a Btomach. He came yu- I threw myself flat and began to West But I dared not let you love to Baltimore two weeks ago to be cast about for a Btone tnat larga U m.' trMtoH fnr tnmnr nf thi atnmarh nrl was remarkable how few rocks were " 'But I have always loved you, Mol- the surgeons removed all but about 011 th6 surface at that point Finally He,' said Jack. 'I love you now, dear.' two Inches of that organ. The small I discovered one and dragged myself "iio tn.it w in hia triii) and kissed flan attachlns to the aesoDhaEus was oenina h in4 thio Hma thov know that loined tn thfi duodenum, a mart of the 8a,e Behind Stone. there was no obstacle to their happl- small Intestine. The man is now able '1 cannot tell you how long I lay ness. to take into his system food that is there, but when I discovered I was " Mark rtpar.' snld Mollle Dresently. easily digested. still alive I began to drag myself away if Pvoivn mnrrlea that man thev will by the elbows, and finally found my tn liv. You won't want to Another Freak Abroad. elf in a trench again. My comrades see her again. Can you wait two weeks Lyerly, Ga. Mrs. W. H. Napier of did not recognize me. Exhaustion and lnncer until I send for you to come Harrlsburg has a week-old white In- rheumatism, the latter acquired to me?' dlan Runner duckling that Is a freak through lying there wallowing my way "lis laughed. 'I have waited two of new order, having three feet per- back In the mud, invalided me back to years. Mollle,' he answered. 'I think rectiy developed, tms cauity is live- me aepow iur iuhuiBuvd ico- I can wait two weeks longer for you, not Evelyn.'" ly and hearty, growing right along "Then they gave me a Job as dis- with its two-footed kin. trlbutor of munitions, food, doming There is a Btory connected with Darlo Resta's brilliant record-smash ing victory In Chicago's first 500-mlla International auto derby. Even hap pier than Darlo himself, who was re warded with the handsome Bum of $23,000 for his efforts, was Mrs. Resta, who was glad to see her hus band come home the victor in the contest Her Joy was increased by the fact that her husband finished without any injury to himself. The speed king admits that his wife was really the goal that, spurred him on to victory. Mr. and Mrs. Resta were married shortly after the last Van- derbllt cup races, in which Resta landed first honors. . IS THE OLDEST BLACKSMITH Michigan Man Is Eighty-six Years of Ago and Still Shoes Horses. j Homer, Mi?h. The oldest black smith in Michigan probably the old est in the United States. That's what Jacob L. Lyon of Homer believes he Is. He will be elghty-slx years old next January. And if there are any competitors for the honor, Mr. Lyon hopes to remove all doubt by remain ing at the anvil for many more years. 'You see, my father lived to be eighty-two, but he had two brothers who lived to be ninety-four and ninety six years old," he declares. "So I have a few more good years In me yet." i Mr. Lyon hasn't missed a day at his shop in several years. His arm is as powerful and he Is as active as the man, forty years his junior, who is his employee. j He lives with his wife, who is sev enty-seven years old, in a pleasant little home only a few yards from thej blacksmith shop. - IS OLDEST GERMAN BIBLE Volume In Minnesota Historical Soci ety Weighs More Than Fifty Pounds. St. Paul. The largest book in the Minnesota Historical society's library i and one of the most Interesting Is an old German Bible bound in leather. ' with heavy brass clasps and corners; It weighs more than fifty pounds. From a historical standpoint It Is of much Interest, as It contains portraits of the reigning Protestant princes of Germany during the early days of the Reformation. There are full-page steel engravings and while there is general sameness In the lines of the faces, indicating that the artist was not particularly skillful in making portraits, the cos tuming no doubt is historically correct. The book was published in 172S from the translations into German of the Hebrew and Greek editions of the Old and New Testaments. FINDS A PETRIFIED FOOT Believed to Be From Body of White Man Killed by Indians Years Ago. Wichita, Kan. William Loteman, who Is traveling In a covered wagon, has part of what he asserts is the petrified body of a man. It was found one year ago on the banks of the Verdigris river, In Wagoner county, Okla., he states. John Hall, a farmer residing near the river, discovered the object where the waves had washed the earth away from It, and he took it home, throwing It Into his barn. "I camped there shortly afterward and I asked him for tke foot, which was broken off," said Loteman. "Ha told me to take all of the body there was there. The head and shoulders are missing, but the body from the waist down is in my possession. It is believed that It is the body of a white man who was killed by the Indians years ago." HEN ROLLS THE EGGS BACK Wyandotte Chicken Makes Owner Stop Sawing Wood So She Can Set , Wlnsted, Conn. Michael L. L. Dane- by was puzzled when he found six hen's eggs on a pile of sawdust at his wood sawing plant after the gasoline-driven power had been running a short time. Through the sawdust-filled air came two more eggs as he debated. He shut off the power to learn if possible where the eggs came from. Presently one of his Wyandotte hens appeared. Finding one of the eggs she rolled it to a nest which she had made In "V'-shaped box; where the exhaust from the engine carries away the sawdust j One by one the hen rolled the eggs- nestward. She then resumed setting.1 The exhaust engine had swept the neat, clean of eggs. Mr. Daneby has tempor arily suspended operations at the mill so that the hen can finish her work. Found Long Lost Brother. Minneapolis, Minn. James Forman of St. Paul has found the brother he, has not seen in 20 years. He located him In Minneapolis municipal court facing a vagrancy charge. The broth ers had a family reunion at James Forman's home in St Paul More "Old Bones." Jhickasha, Okla. While making ex cavations at Shanoan Springs, W. A Hopkins of Chickasha unearthed sev eral large bones which apparently are the remains of a mastodon.