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Show Destroyed th Rat of One Hundred Thou-anAcrea a Year. Season at Good Pasture Lands Ar Greetings d to our The shifting sand of Astrakhan n3 taken by the 'Russian deal with this problem to government form the subject of a memoir by J. G. Flrstor, published In Petrograd, observes the Scientific American. Ten million acres of the province In question are covered with shifting sand formed during the nineteenth century and subsequently. These sand hsve been spreading at the rate of 1QO.OOO acre a year, the result being the trana-formation of good pasture land Into a barren waste. The principal cause la over grazing; flocks and herd are kept so long In one place as to result In the complete destruction of the turf. Poor agricultural method are also responsible. About th be ginning of the present century the government took measures of control and reclamation, and between 1904 and 1909 an area of about 46,000 acres waa brought under cultivation. In 1918 a special service was ordered to dealw with the question. The province waa put under the charge of a chief forestry officer and divided Into alx districts, in each of which a subordinate official was appointed to superintend th wotk. At the time of writing good progress has been made In planting soil binders and growing herbaceous crops, but It was still prob- thousands of friends. the measure f' ? - m i America is going to save thousands of French and Belgian women and children from death by starvation or freezing this winter, but every American must lend a hand to the works v. France." Many of these narratives have been men and women who, under the ausbrought by pices of the American Red Cross, have been investigating conditions created by the Invasion of the Hun. The range of vision of these investigator extends from the battle front to the cottage hundreds of miles away where wars misery more Insidious than bombs on the fighting front ha pene. trated. Woven together these accounts make a composite ftory of devastation and suffering on the part of noncombatants comparable with the torture endured by the soldiers In the trenches ; of refugee staring blankly at cratered areas where villages once flourished; of thousands of children, too young to understand, crying for mother who cannot hear their cries; of children poisoned by gaa bombs thrown from German mortars ; of emaciated children sent by hundreds from behind the German and of line; of crippled soldiers to cirrccrgs rtfCEyzrcyia) cxossAta is it planned to deal with all the acute suffering, such ns is summarized above, and to reconstruct many villages In the devastated war zone so a to give the refugees a fresh start in life and prepare the way for again cultivating the soil, but it is the purpose to apply tho American system of Home Service on a scnlo so grand that it is bound to have a heartening effect on the whole French military organization, for the French soldiers fight better when they know their loved ones are being oared for. In furtherance of this great scheme, designed to bring comfort and cheer In the fnmlly of every French soldier that is needy. General Fershlng, General Retain, commander In chief of the French forces, and MaJ. Gen. M. P, Murphy, American Red Cross commissioner, have formed themselves into a committee of Company officers will go through their ranks and ascertain from each soldier whether he has any worry on his mind concerning sickness or want at home. JJeports will be made to headquarters weekly and not a single case will be overlooked in the relief work thut is to be guided by the addresses of fumllios listed. Special attention will be given to the treatment and prevention of tuberculosis, which has assumed proportions almost as deadly as the Infernal machinery of. war Itself. Food and clothing will be supplied when necessary and the spirit and courige of the previously depressed Boldler In the trenches will be enlivened by the news that his family is having its wants attended to. The great struggle of the winter will be the economic struggle, snld Mr. White. The Red Cross practically will fight the American fight until out boys take their places on the firing line next spring. It should be kept in mind that every French soldier who is saved this winter means the te clviliun men and women to comfort and provide with the necessaries of life a story of battling against disease and of the heroism of mercy. Sometimes the cable supplements tales told by returned travelers. A day or two ago, the war rouncil of the American Red Cross received a cablegram from the Iuri& headqunrters of that organization containing. a simple statement of every-daoccurrence on the French frontier, yet graphic in its portrayal of oue phase of wars frlghtfulncss. y It read ; - $5 a mV' . , saving of an American boy when the big drive begins a few months hence. L. D. Wlshard of California, a schoolmate of President WilBon, well known for his interest In Y. M. C. A. work as well as that of the American Red Cross, is another recently returned observer from France. He brought a doubly interesting story. First, the awfulness of many conditions existing; and, secondly, the great work the Red Cross is doing and the much greater work it is preparing to do to meet all the conditions scientifically and energetically. Mr. Wishard expressed the same view as William Allen White regarding the importance of giving primary attention to the economic side of the equation during the winter months. He quoted General Pershing as saying that the greatest thing that the Red Cross can do at present to Insure victory is to stand by the families of French soldiers. Gas Bombs Poison Soil. An interesting fnet dwelt upon by Mr, Wlshard during a visit to Washington was that of the poisoning of the soil in agricultural regions by the gases spread over the country by the Germans. It is stated that this gas has worked its insidious way deep Into the ground, so that unless heroic means are discovered and applied It will be years and years before the land is fit for cultivation of any sort The devastation, he says, is beyond anything In the history of the world, with shell craters so thick that plowing of once fertile fields Is absolutely impossible. Yet in this hopelessly devastated region the Red Cross has set to work to repair some villages and to restore certain agricultural communities, not alone tor the .humanity directly .involved with respect to the people who will thus have shelter and means to go to work, but as an example to the thousands of others and an inapt- -, ration to them to start In and begin life anew. The hopelessness of Jt all might seem complete from a single instance cited by Mr. Wlshard that of man who had owned a mill In a village near Verdun, who told him that when he wrent to look tor the spot on which it stood he had to take a surveyor along to locate It It is into the hopelessness of hundreds of situation akin to this that the American Red Cross is advancing with its bapner of mercy and. Its bugle blast of inspiration. So help the Red Cross I rwltb i- , A TLsmaLoziS yjcrjrr Everywhere In France" there are being brought to the United State the arrival of nearly every ship tales of devastation and which are even more tingle the cabled dispatches which we are accustomed to read under thp Somewhere tn vngue date line, The Red Cross at Evlan. There arrived last week at Kvlan, where the repa tries from France and Belgium are received back into France, a truln loaded with Belgian children. There were G80 of them, thin, alckly, alone, all between ages of four and twelve, children of men who refused to work for the Germans and of mothers who let their children go rather than let them starve. They poured off the train, little ones clinging to the oldest ones, girls all crying, boys trying to cheer. They had come all the long way alone. On the platform were the Red Cross workers to meet them, doctors and nurses with ambulances for the little sick one were waiting outside the station. The children poured out of the station, marched along the street shouting. Meat, meat ; we are going to have meat, to the Casino, where they were given a square meal, the first In many months. Again and again, while they ate, they broke spontaneously into songs in French against the German songs which they had evidently learned in secret. The Red Cross doctor examined them. Their little clawlike hands were significant of their undernourished bodies, but the doctor said : We hiive them in time. A few weeks of proper feeding and they will pull up." t Evlan is a French resort on Lake Geneva, and every day one thousand homeless people arrive there, GO per cent of whom are children. Thirty per cent of the older people die the. from exhaustion. They were once the occupants of happy homes in uorthern France. The Uuns Invaded their country, swept on past their homes and left them behind the enemys line. The invaders, now their masters, impressed them Into labor and transported, thousands of them to work In German fields and factories. Those who are returned by the thousand daily by train through Switzerland are all tlmt are left of these men and women and children mauhood and womanhood sapped until the vital spark Is almost out and, no longer of use ns German captives, sent back to die or to be rared for in their helpless condition by their own leople from whom they had been ruthlessly taken away in their health and strength. Hop for Kaiser1 Victims. Thanks to the American Red cross, coming to the assistance of the overburdened French agencies for mercy, there is hope for these unfortunates. Besides a hospital and convalescent home for children at Evlan, the Red Cross is operating an tuubulance service for the returning repatrtes. Ten automobiles are in commission for handling hosjlck and Infirm person, and a tuberculosis When the returning pital near by is planned. reach the railroad station and have been cheerlngly greeted by crowds of compatriots, they are taken In charge by Red Cross workers. Nourishment is provided and medical attention bestowed. Baths are made available and fresh cloth- -- A Bomb Raid by Shell-Lig- ht frrf.fpfffffrffffff - "Up and down the selected area of front line trench the raiders spread rapidly. There were several dugouts under the parapet, and from some d of them figures crawled with their hands up on the first summons to surrender. These, too, were bundled over the parapet. If a Bhot came from the black mouth of the dugout in answer to the call to surrender, it was prompt- !y bombed. At either end of the area -- of front line marked out as the. limits of the raid strong parties made a block and beat off the feeble attacks that were made on them. gray-coate- The picture of a night attack executed by the English on a German trench' Tn France is drawn in the Cornhlll Magazine by Boyd Cable; - Ihe hour chosen for the raid was just about dusk. There wus no preparation immediately before It. The guns continued to pour iu their fire, speeding it up a little, perhaps, but no more than they hud done a score of times in the last 4 hours. The infantry clambered out of their trench and filed out through the narrow openings In their own wire entanglements. Out tn front a faint whistle cut across the roar of fire.- Theyre off, said the forward officer into his phone, and a moment later a distinct change in the note of sound of the overhead Bhells told that the fire had lifted, thut the shells were passing higher above his head, to full farther back in the enemy trenches and leave clear the stretch into which the infantry would soon be pushing. For a minute or two there was no change in the sound of battle. The thunder of the guns continued steadily, a burst of rifle or machine gun fire crackled as spasmodically. 'Men gulped In their throats or drew long breaths of apprehension that this was the begin nlng of discovery of their presence in the open, -- the- Drstof the stornfthey knew would quickly follow. But there were no more shells for the moment, and the rattle of machine gun fire diminished and the bullets piped thinner and more distant as the gun muzzle swept around. The infantry hurried on, thankful for every yard made in safety. But at the attacking point the Infantry were witacross when the storm burst, and the American almost to eye According Is supplied. ing at shells Evlan, station the most part struck down harmlessly for the railway nesses of scenes at - behind them. ..The meu w wo. Into the -suffered.ho. u have ranks the men la fragment . there are set been broken of by wire, and the shattered parapet loomed broken arms, llie bones of which have up under their hands a minute after the first shell the Germans so that the hand is turned the wrong burst. Up to this they had advanced in silence, way. They present a horrible deformity, denoting but now they gave tongjie' and with wild yells a form of cruelty which excuses Itself on the regain his leaped at the low parapet, scrambled over and ground that the man, should he' ever Win'te''nufir'for-TOitlttrrydutyrdiwn.lhta'tlreTfeiHirrrhdilur'tlieiu a" few form former ""strength, docCross Red twisted and sprawled on the broken ground, but American cases of these In many they were too sooner dotp than runuing stretcher tors have been put to the doubly painful task of bea bbretiieui' 4he- arm- potra wd to the back shelterown lines. purpoHelylndeformity terrible ofjheir remove--ther to ' Tn the German trench the ralders worked and iiictedt ' ' William Allen White pf Kansas and Henry J. 'Tougfif"uf desperate speed, but bmoothly and oh what was clearly a settled and rehearsed plan. who Is prominent in the public life of the Cross Red workers Were few Germans to be Been, and most of There the are among state, Kunie these crouched dazed and helpless, with hands who recently have returned from tours of inspecover their bends. They were promptly seized, tion in France. According to their statements it Is the bundled over the parapet, and told by word or to suffering exaggerate a reel y posable of the counto be off. They waited foe no second bidcivilian gesture the population upon brought alleviated that is ding, but ran w ith heads stooped and hands above try ; a suffering, however, extent being American their the heads straight to the British line, one or by to the greatest possible two men doubling after them as guards. Its army its is which experts. Some sending Red Cros, .Acof the stint without were treasure its and struck prisoners down own their by volunteers of so guns shellfire, and these were just as promptly cordin'' to Mr. White, the real work of the war, grabbed by the stretcher bearers and hurried In rica is concerned, will be carried on by f rus under cover. , . Crocs In France this winter. Not only first-mout- '., ' v ROM -- if . l . yv' -- h extra-speci- -- . al NEW WRITING IMPLEMENT, - - A writing Implement composed of a mixture of wax and finely ground pumice stone containing particles of ink has been invented by William C. Geer of Akron, O., to take the place of ordinary and fountain pens, pencils, crayons and all other writing implements, says the Popular Science Monthly. As the body of the new writing device is composed of a mixture of wax and pumice stone, which is easily worn away when rubbed against a paper surface, the inventor claims that the cells of ink intermixed with the wax and pumice stone will also be liberated, giving a uniform supply of ink. The device Is made by mixing the wax, pumice stone and ink together. Wfien it Is heated to the proper temperature 'It is suddenly immersed in cold water. This chills and solidifies the wax BOYD PARK WAKECTJEWELRy mo mam mm' au BARGAINS IN USED catBalckt, ml te MM. W Wteull Itmb-K-S ranalM tight Und Cu CARS Olfeobita,. Cuiuml. R R flm ctaa jr anted br n,mt fax list detlUW Wilt tod deKt.p-llo- . coditlo-M- putlt. errr LAU RandxU-Dod- d DP.. Ant Ca, tike citr Salt a EARLY MAN FIGHTING ANIMAL Ancestors ef Present People Were Called Upon to Face Beasts That InhabltedPlains and River. Tho first houses were caves. Early man was n fighting animal, and had to contend against th huge and' ferocious beasts that infeste'd the plains and rivers, observes a writer. His dwelling naturally had to bo a place of security as well as a habitation. Caves were, lematical whether the province was natural and artificial, the latter being adapted to the establishment of hollowed out of solid rock by rude flint ' instruments. Most of them were formed in tho sides of cliffs and among, Gladstone a Hard Worker.' high, rugged hills. Gladstone was a hard worker, with To those early ancestors of ours, th no dread with regard to work, says men and women who secured,! primeval th American Magazine. as ona would think, but scanty shelter Ho turned from political responsi- and' from these stone caves bilities of th hetvlest to Greek for and' protection holes in tho rock, we apply the! recreation, and lived hi generic term ef cliff dwellers. yearn and mors, just as Pope Leo They were entirely ignorant of agrl-- . Xm, turned to Latin poetry for his culture, and subsisted by hunting and world-wide relaxation from burdens, fishing and on tho natural product e lived on and and beyond found growing in a wild state. ten, living so hopefully that when, they la very remarkable, at onr at the llttl dlnaer given him on his What can still be seen the typical door very ninetieth birthday, one of tho cardinal said, in proposing a toast to him, houses aad handiwork of those tribes In the caves of the Lanco Heres that yon may live to be a river hundred, holy father, the old peatlff most la southern Colorado. These, la Instances, aro as well preserved But why limit mo to a replied: as when their ancient occnpants dehundred? serted them perhaps 10,000 year They wera contemporaries of Ranke, VThen inhabited they were reachago. German tho historian, who at the age ed by notches cut In of nlnety-oproposed to write a his- the quite frequently at and other times rope lacb rock, tory of the world In 12 volumes, one ders must have been used. . volume to be completed each year, and actually lived, I believe, to comHalf-Wa- y Work. plete nearly half of It Wo so good archinon of us, are, These men had no dreads ; but they allowed their energies to work on, tects aa t be able to work habitually without any fear of exhausting their beneath our strength; and yet there is not a building that I know of, latevitality. ly raised, wherein It Is not sufficiently evident that neither architect nor Almost the Bpeed Limit "At Chattanooga, said a veteran of builder has done his best It' is the the Civil war, one of the men in my especial characteristic ' of modern company left early la the action, and work. All old work nearly has been no one saw him till after the battle, hard work. It may be the hard work when he appeared In camp unwounded of children, of barbarians, of rustics; and unabashed. Some of the boys ac- but It is always their utmost. Let us cused him of running away, but he hav done with this kind of work at oace; cast off every temptation to It t wouldnt admit 1 only retreated in good order, he do not let us degrade ourselves volundeclared. tarily, aad then mutter and mourn I heard ef the matter, and a few over our shortcomings ; let ns confess days later I asked him if he had any our poverty or our parsimony, but not belle our human Intellect It Is not a idea how fast, he had retreated. of doing more, but of doing Wa, Ill tell you, caps, ho said. question Do not let us boss onr roofs better. 1 had been at home, and going after d the doctor, yelks that see me passln with, wretched, rosettes; do not let us flank our would hav theught my wife waa right gates with rigid Imitations of medieval sick "Harpers Months . statuary, JBuch things are more InBuilt fer Giant sults to common sense, and only unfit Gardner, Mass has In one of Its us for feeling the nobility of their proparks what la believed to be the largest totypes. Ruskin. chair In the world, madefor actual usa It Is 5 Vi feet square at the base, Burial on Hilltop. and 12 feet in height The seat la six Buffalo Bill la not the only celebrity feet from the ground, so that those to be burled on a Cecil Rhodes who wish 4o ait la It have to literally and Robert Louis hilltop. Stevenson are both dlmb up Into the chair, like children. buried on points. The empire Th chair weight 1,200 pounds. It was boilder lies high on a kopje in Rhodesia, presented to the city, aad Is an object and the novelist on the highest part ef considerable attractiea to strangers. of his beloved Samoa. Lord J)acreJ supposed to have been burled on. horseAll "Dolled Up." back In Saxton churchyard. Nan gazed with adoring eye on her unde when he appeared ready to go To Save Shoo Sole.--. to a formal dance. After giving him A cobbler passe on the secret that the once over" the braid on hla If about once a month the soles of trouser attracted her attention and shoes are treated to a coat of linseed she exclaimed: Why, he even ha oil they will always outwear the broldery on hit pasts. for-est- 1 a. four-scor- e four-scor- pre-hls-tor- tc n -- it If half-worke- blmt-edge- d, r 4 re-patr- -- -- - . - Al-de- "" n, -- nj Oil-Beari- nave you begun raring jokes and pictures for - .- Shale and Sand Lands areValuahle SOLDIER SCRAPBOOKS. Sammies scrapbook? Kipling Btarted scrapbooks In England for the wounded my," sot of course its a good Idea. these Tom- Extracting oil from sand and shale by the die , filiation, process-is- new practical and highly, profitable. The earnings possible are tremendous. On barrel to the ton of shale or sand Is being produced at a profit of $3 to $16 net per ton. , A SAD CASE OF SUICIDE. There Is a very pompous artist in New York who used to have a sense of humor. Ills quips .!l.J;nown be has ' Have land UK biIiand or shale? It is certain to prove exceedingly valuable. IVm., H. Child & Co, Brokers, are making specialty,,. ef hahdhng such lands. We are prepared to handle yours most advantageously. - - Write or call on ns at once. - verywhere..-.Nowv..hojv;vefr-k-e -- Mike, i'l Pi you-any- gained considerable vogue, he is taking himself and his work very seriously. Gwen Johnstqbe.,ROVllaL..raw.ito4BatTM' luurant the other night, sitting solemnly alone. .Too Lad, he said, real pity and . tenderness It), bis. voice. Poor Arihurl He hus" severed his jocular vein. ' ng - - HIS POINT OF VIEW, didnt you tell me once you have a brother who Is a bishop?" asked the contractor. Yes, sor, I did that." And here you are a bod carrier. Ye!l, things of this life are not equally divided, are they -- Mike?" No, sor, replied the Irishman, shouldering bis hod and starting up the ladder; include they-inot. 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