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Show X AcTst 23, 1231 ' r.ARFir.LD U3ABi:a GATZHLD. UTAH to retire. 1 iPoLutimq 0 a riliQ E. F. l-xx- orai m ic ji ill Ifjt.te AiMiicaa Hewn the wtiki kweeid . fc i a topM Q$aml Joint A Pc nLltiq - On lha other aide the German chancellor. Von Homing, said Inter: We expected grave events commands forward during the la Paria far the end of July. That win dine la and ont tb roach waa oa tba 15th. On the 18th even (;ht, .a a! moat Inextricable anarla of the moat optimistic among ns unu heeled vehicle One of the bat- derstood that all waa lost. Tba talions assigned to lead la the at- history of the world was played tack, though oa the march moat of out In three day. the night, waa forced to move on the run for tho laat few hundred CHAPTER LI place aa yard and juat reached tta American participation la the . the barrage started. second Marne offensive, which beTba Second division headquar- gan July 18, 1918, and turned tbe no ters found Itself July 10 with tide of war in favor of the allies, knowledge of the terrain and little waa not limited to the operations liar-bord obtainable from any source. of the First and Second divisions and his chief of staff, CoL While this bitter contest was being Preston Brown, started for tba waged tor the possession of tha front and acddentalty ran Into the crucial point near Solssona tba Twentieth headquarter! of the around the rim of the salient troops direcThey there found the corp bad been steadily driving ahead. tive for the attack, from which The Fourth division (Cameron), they Issued the division's orders. lean Its artillery, fought at first The country over which tba with tbe French. Tbe Seventh Twentieth corps attacked constat- brigade was attached to the Second ed of a tucceuston of wooded corps French Sixth army, the ravines that lay across the line of Infantry In reserve, end advance with scarcely any roads the Thirty-nint- h assigned to the eneleading toward tba front The division. French Thirty-thir- d my's main defenses along the In the attack of July IS this regiridgea of the Solasona plateau ment cleaned up tbe wood la Its were aaturally strong, and with front, captured Moray, and extendthe added Intrenchments tba ene- ed the Une to the south. On the my evidently felt himself reason- 18th the regiment went forward ably secure. It waa harvest time about two and one-ha- lf miles on and the ripening Wheat that COV- - front L000 yards north of the exered the rolling landacape gave Oureq It was relieved the more cellent cover for . the enemys In-It- Ing of the 20th and went to reserve. .entry and machine guns, but The Eighth brigade was assigned also helped to bide our advance. . to the French One Hundred end Without the usual preliminary Sixty-fourt- h division, tha Fifty-nintartillery preparation, tho assaultregiment In reserve. In the ing battalions accompanied by attack of the 18th, the Fifty-eight- h light tanks plunged forward be- regiment assisted In the capture of hind the barrage The enemy waa Hautevesnes and Coarchamp took caught by aurprtae and the El rat CbevUlon and made further suband (Second divisions gallantly stantial gains. The - Fifty-nintsupported by tha Moroccan divi- regiment was put in the front Une sion In the center, noon overran daring the night of July rebis forward position and broke lieving the Fifty-eightand on ar-I i through the sons of his light tbe 19th, advancing with the divitlllery.Though constantly coo-- I sion. gained two miles. On tbe fronted by fresh enemy troops this with two battalions of the I corps took the lead In tho advance 20th, h . In line, Fifty-nintthe advance I end Its progress was most satlsfao- was carried well to tbe east of noon had It captured Sommelan tory. By The brigade was reI half of tho great plateau In Its lieved from the front line July 2L I front, with many a prisoners and Twenty-SixtDivision Participates. 1 elements little later forward Coincident with these advances 1 reached tba days objectlv on the 18th, tbe Firm corps (LigI Tha 8econd division encountered gett).. serving with the French strong opposition at Yleray. In a Sixth array and composed of oar " dlvtslon ' and determined effort launched after 6 Twenty-sixtthe p. m. the town was captured and a French One Hundred and h 'ns overlooking tha valley of the also became a division, dirise waa occupied. Tha first part ef tbe movement Tbe Twenty-svision bad carried everything be- ixth division occupied tho Une fore It, capturing defended farm It bad taken over from the Second houses and other points where It July 10, Tbe plan for the i met stiff resistance, finally taking division 18 offensivn contemplated a I and bolding a front July penetration south of Soianoua tins slightly beyond that town. Tba deep the French Tenth army, supUna nut diagonally across the by ported on thn right by the French a road. Sixth army, extending tbe attack Tba attack of the corps was rei far south as Bouresche turned the morning of July 19, but d The brigade. Twenty-sduring tbs night the German lines ixth the. vildivision. captured, of Solsaona had lages of Tony and Belles u, end directly- been heavily with ma- one battalion reached the base of chine guns and artillery.- - In their tho dominating hill 193. Elements advance the French One Hundred of the brigade reached tbe railroad, and Fifty-thirdlrlalon end the but severe flank fire drove them to First division met with much tho starting point . the Second brigade of the On the 19th the advance of tho First encountering fire ef the ene- Twenty-sixtwas conUngent upon both from and the front my the left the success of the French One Hunflank. Tanks were sent to Its as- dred and division on sistance and with dose artillery Ita left but that division failed to support the division waa enabled taka lta objectives and the Twenty-sixtlowly to gain ground, but nt condid not attack. On the 20th siderable coat One Hundred and the The Second division, with tb re- waa held again, exposing the serves ef tbs first day In tha lead, left ef the up division to heavy flank 8otssonu-dhauteaforged ahead to tha ' fire and preventing more than a Thierry road but was alight gain. Farther to tho right compelled to withdraw to the vi- tho Twenty-sixt- h succeeded la takcinity ef La Raperi It finally es- ing Gonetrio farm, and got a foottablished a Una Jnst west of Tlgny, hold on bill 19a with the road under Its guns. The When thn attack began oa tho division waa relieved by the French 21st It waa found that tho Germans Fifty-eight-h division the night of had withdrawn tho night before, tba 19th, having advanced six and and tbo Twenty-sixt- h moved forf miles, captured 8,000 pris- ward with Uttle or no opposition oners and 75 guns, and sustained until It reached the new German about 8,000 casualties. SL line nt rHennltage-Epleda-Hopere. east of tha Solaaona-CtateaFirst Division Makes Advance. Thierry highway. On the 22nd It . July 70 the First division continued Its advance doggedly against captured Trugny and got a footwas forced by a dasparata stand by tba Germans hold In Epled but to a strong German counter-attacon tha knoll In front of Bsrsy-ls-SsFifty-secon-d Tba French had been ordered retire te BretniL wood. Tbe brigade was also driven to take Berty-le-Sebut failed. back te Its starting point In the afternoon Summers!! directTba attack renewed on the 23rd ed that It be anaulted by hla Second brigade, but the attempt did was successful one regiment reachSL Fere road, not an creed that day. Assisted by ing the Epleds-Mon- t tha skUlfnl use of artillery and but la the afternoon It was forced with conaummatn dash, andcr Brig. X Gen. B. Buck. In tba face of Intense artillery and machine-guflra, the .Second brigade captured the town an the 21 at. Meanwhile, the First brigade and the French Eighty seven! h division, which had relieved lbs Moroccans, bad crossed tbs SolssonnGbatean Thierry highway and reached tba Chateau of Busancy. Tha Une now ran parallai to the Crtaa, with Solas one cane CHAPTER I Continued Boot commendable energy Initiative the ofSeere led their Tth -- Forty-se- venth r t t. r it r if. h i. i w id ef h 18-1- Il ia, n to la- - kn h ray I a n't le. ya h ilfl Sixty-sevent- if i b ade hat Mlssy-aux-Bo- lam ead i ho-- f the Farla-Solsaon- Fifty-secon- a It, ; ert Ip-fr- Ined i the and d (Han Tila ht, 1 him r the h rard t Sixty-sevent- fa- h rt hy aded. Slxty-eevent- The ad at t Elk irely. two ither, irord shake were he old ed on one-bal- pony on by noant, artlnl mag--) flit i mile m h dy-- , Thin MI k c. c, b h h d d h b YU-lar- d d d landed by our artillery. casualties.1. Tha thrust of thn corps waa conducted nagntfioent dash and tba enemyn position Twentieth with such power that within tha allant waa rendered amenable Tha dangerous character of tba went reused thn crown prince to Hla a general withdrawal from the Mare This operation snatched the Initiative from the enemy In an Instant. and from that hiom aut be waa on the defensive, Oar First and Second divisions. ltb the Moroccan division between them, had struck the derisive blow that turned the tide of the war. Petals said It could not have been aa without oar divisions. at a! :e " ritt D EDDINO. BUMUMO, sonnet. As to tho reserve strength behind the elite It would boon be powerful Indeed If the rata of 250,000 per month nt which tbe Americans were pouring la could bo maintained. One could sense an approaching crista on thn side possibly not so very remote, because of the difficulty b was having In keeping up the effective strength ef bis unit Atlles Now Hold Inttlatlv Beyond these advantages of material force In our favor there was also the moral ascendancy we had galnedity our recent victories and hla failure Foch felt aa we all did, that the allies now held the Initiative and that from this time oa they ehould abandon tht defensive attitude that had been so s long imposed upon them and tbe offensive without cessa, tion. Ho then pointed out tbe follow- Ing offensive! which It was evident would be Indispensable . to later ' ' .v" operations: Tbo release of tbe railroad , In the Marne region by tbe French ; tbe ' railroad by concerted action of the Britlah -and French V' the PertoAvrl eonrt railroad In tbe region of Commerry by the reduction of tbe St MIblel salient by tbe American army, which, by redaction of the front would bring ue within reach of tha, Brley region and permit action on a larger scale between , tho Mease end Moselle. Further offensives were foreseen having In view the release of the mining sections to tht north, by definitely driving the enemy from the region of Dunkirk and Calais Mo one suggested that tbs plans of the moment or those to follow might be carried so far as to terminate the war la 1918. Concerning the pert each should play Foch asked expressions of opinion of the respective commanders In chief as te bow these or any other opera done wn might propose should be conducted. s con-tinu- 4 . Parls-Avricou- rt Parls-Amien- s - . (TO BS OONTIXUXD.) Ted- - to Aw everyone- - was Mer widely known and had mom friends than any other driver on the old Nation- CHAPTER Lit I attended a eoufereica cf la chief at General Focbs headquarters Wednesday, J dy 1818. to discuss plana for elusive operations. Present were Generals Foch, Petals, Weygand and . Lust ; Field , Marshal Haig ind General low rence, and General Conner, chief of operation!, Boyd and Hughes and myself. Thera was pronounced good fel- General Foch Ing and confidence, gave a resume of tho general situation. Ho proposed no definite plan, bnt submitted hla remarks as l the bails of discussion. Tba main point waa that the fifth German offensivn of tho year had been checked and thn allied counter-offensivbeginning - July 18L bad transformed U Into defeat It waa the general opinion that every advantage should bo taken of this fact and that tbe allies should continue their atteckn-srlt- h i much vigor aa possibl On Par With Enemy. General Foch said with eatlafae-tlothat wo bad now reached an equality la numbers of combatants and an actual superiority ta reserves. As tha nnsmy would soon bo required to relievo a consider able number of tired divisions from the active frost The tHlea would rapidly gain further superiority through .the constantly Increasing number of American All Information went to . ahow that the enemy bad two armies, so to apeak, Foch continued, ono an exhausted bolding, army and the other a shock anny. already weakened. maneuvering behind this frail front Unquestionably ws had material advantage In aviation and tanks, and ta a smaller degree In artillery, and this would be augmented by the arrival end armament of American artillery per one-my- Dy . . Natwrally Amelia Earhart, tba noted avtatrix, la said to be aa witty aa she la pretty. It was daring a Washington dinner given In her honor that a woman said to her: . "Heres another lovely debutante gone and got herself engaged to an old ma Te Helen Summer la going to marry old man Calhoun, tbe banker. What U It that makes throe old fellow such winner' with the al road. Hla entire service was tbe Old Line, the National Road Stage company that did the largest share, of tha business along the famous bli bway of a century ag Red. Looting waa . 6 feet 8 Inches tall In bla stocking feet, and was airtight aa an arrow. Ho waa of a; reddish complexion, hla feature prominent and striking, hla voter deep and bonorou But bo wai not loquacious, and had a habit of munching. He waa endowed with strong common sense the term horse sense originated among tha Pike boys" of the National road and was applied to him and bo was affable, convivial and companionable. This Idol of boys and men alike long tbo National road waa bora In Fayette county, P Ho was not only a famous driver, but alao waa a trusted stage agent, stage propri. etor and tavern keeper. - He once owned tbe Central hotel la Union-towPa, and probably would have died a rich man bad ht not been a victim of despondency and depression when the ralirosda inppi anted tbe old east-wehighway. During the Presidency of Martin Yan Bure It waa deemed desirable by tbe administration leaders in Washington that one of thn President! messages bn spread speedily before tba people of the country. Arrangements were made with tbe Stocktoa Une to carry the message westward, aa the Baltimore A Ohio railroad waa not then In operation west of Frederick, Md. . Bunting, as agent for the stage Coach Ho went to Frederick to receive the message and convey It to Red" sat beside Wheeling. W. Y the relay of drivers the entire distance, Z22 mile although he did not handle the reins himself. The distance waa covered ta 23 hours and 30 minute . Changes of teams and drivers were made at tbe usual relay station Joseph Woolley drove the coach from Farmington to Union-tomaking sparks fly aa thn coach speeded down the long western slope of Laurel hill. Homer W estover drove from Unlontown to Brownsville, Pa, a distance of 12 mile In 44 mlnnte " Mall coaches la those days carThere ried only three passenger waa spirited bidding for tbe privilege of j riding In the coaches directed by Bunting on this record rid That was before they started. Twe of tbe passengers lasted as fir aa Unlontow and tba third That speed got out at Brownsvlll In a lumbering stage gave them too much of a shaking up. lt didnt disturb Bunting at alL;- - -- - fade occurred before the - Thla telegraph wires extended west of Frederick. Tbe Pittsburgh Gasette bad arranged to get an early copy of the President's message, and had agreed to pay Robert L. Barry and Joseph P. McClelland, employees of the National Road Stage company, $50 for speedy delivery of the message at their office In Pittsburgh. Browngvllle was the distributing point for tbe United States mall at tbe tlme and Barry and McClelland took the mall coach, the Industry, famous along the rout at Union-tow-n and rode to Brownsville on It, to obtain tbo message and convey It to tbo Pittsburgh Gazett When ibo mall waa opened, there was no copy of the message for the Gazett and Barry and McClelland returned home disappointed, and tbe Gazette had to wait for the next Neighborhood gossip is the most entertaining and the most perilous form of news reporting. American Magaxln Island 2nd. Divisions July 18-22.1-918 Front Lines DMsbn Boundary T a 4 pmmi tea fti4 redvwey. nft I i .41 W .A Vf!2 WktUi I JHf (Mm At ftftviM a lw wmr Wnn sm Ovi .e ft im Am b.MMft It'S no mmm .siisii.a mi yna femme? (ft mai mu 1 4 i faftftdL&b Must be check appeal," laughed Ills Earhart. Ur every day a If thy last toMinifr gildssq'o nX Flit kill Your Salt Lako City llaadquartars the Bmcoa ef Hcxpiulio-- Brio , la tba CUM of ibias Ibis bool offets tb m comhimooe ef oU4ubkm4 cordiiliu a4 olttsmodara amice eed coetat 400 Reel, each with bet IX ) 14 aiasla, Cele Mf cafeteria. mosquitoes quick! , X HOTEL nElVIIOUSE car. W. E. (ntten GeelMsc. ZJ Wem AatGealfes SUNBURN mne st Quick, eeie comfatt. At aU 4ns e4 cobm, bt te4 ian-- Aekfut bt Largest ScSer 1 U, gait Uka W. N, ANTISEPTIC 121 Cotmfcic City, N 85-18- 31. DenwstUelpd Hen One Way If It Works June Dixon of Mount Morel N. T, are you wotting Toung ms has pet bantam he and the chick- bard to win a fortune? en ha become so domesticated that Tes, sir; I am writing lore poem It entered the house and laid an egg for an helres" between two dolls in a carriage oa ' . Business men cant always maka tho aecond floor of tbe dwelling. No ono knew tbo hen waa In thn house a success of public administration becauso politics wont let them fire until it proclaimed tbs' accomplishment with a cacti those who deserve it .- i malL Many Salmon Varieties It is estimated that there are about 100 varieties of salmon, but the important commercial varieties are aa follows: Chinook or king a&lmo tbo largest and beat; blue-bac- k or red aalmoo; silver or coho (medium red) ; dog salmon (light flesh); humpback or pink salmo They are caught near tbe mouths of tho rivers on tbe Pacific coast, during the spring running, when their flesh la plump, firm and of good color. AU Pacific salmon din toon after ascending the rivers to spaw Shrewd New Easlanders Throughout tba Colonial period and during the first decades of national independence tbe economic life of New England waa centered la tbe shipbuilding trade and In eommerc After tha adoption of thn embargo end other restrictive measures the shrewd men turned . their capital from shipping to manufacture. They realized that In this section waa an almost unex-ploltsource of wealth In an abundant water supply. Planting and Reaping The best armor of old age Is n life preceding It; a life employed In tbe pursuit of useful knowledge, honorable action and the practice of virtue In which be who labors to Improve himself from his youth win reap the happiest fruit Cicero. well-spe- 1 In 1846, after the railroad was completed te Cumberland, Md, Red" Bunting drove tbe great mall coach from Cumberland to Wheeling that carried tbe message of President Polk officially proclaiming war with Mexico. . Ha left m. and reached at 2 m. He breakUnlontown nt 8 fasted there with tbe passengers at hla own .hotel be owned tbe National house at tbe time end then started off agai He reacned Wasb-tngt- o Pa, at 11 a. m, and Wheelm. Hn made the 131 ing nt 2 miles in 12 hour . Red" was a firm friend and staunch admirer of Henry Clay, father of tbo National road, and Clay often stopped for day at RedS" hotel in Unlontow Bunting named one of hla sons after the great Kentuckian. (A 111. Wwtara Newspsp OaUt Groef Novelist's Goblet A massive silver-gilde- d goblet from which Sir Walter Scott ones drank his deonch-andorhas been an object of Interest In tbe Glaslna castle for year Tbe cup la emblematic of the family name of Bowes-Lyoof tbe earls of Strathmore, and In former days bad to be emptied to tbe earls health. ' Cum-berla- 1 la Fra Us of Csaslp r: ffr girlst n, Miner Rcecaers Taught How to sava men from being buried alive is being tangbt to a new kind ef lifeguard to tha coal mining district of Upper Silesia, on tba German-Polis- h frontier. A min deserted many years ago, Is being utilized for tbo experiments In life ravwhosa ing. Toung mountaineer Occupations may taka them Into underground passageway are being Instructed la tba working of tbe oxygen polmotor. In the ns of g&s masks and tho correct way to get a man out of the subterranean tomb Ijt which be may ba burled alive ' oi Imprisoned by a landslide or other accident. has-ardo- ns - The Flrat division, throughout lour days of constant fighting, bad advanced nearly seven miles, takes &800 prisoners and 68 guns from even different German divisions etnployad against It. and had about the Thi Hol ef Stic Coich , a n By E, C. TAYtOR . - d ft n connecting - with their Une of resistance In front of our First corps. July 21 the Fifth brigade crossed the Marne In pursuit capturing Mont 8t Per and driving machine guns out of Chart eves. Tha Sixth brigade waited for the bridge to be completed at Mecy and tbs morning of the 22nd one regiment crossed tbs river and captured Tbs Germans were Jaolgonn contesting every step, and while the First battalion of this rlment reached Le Channel U was compelled to retire by successive positions to Jaolgonn On the 26th operations planned In with the French Thirty-nint- h and the American Forty-seconoa Ita left were only Tbe Forty-secon- d partly auccesaful. captured tho strongly held Croix Rouge farm, but the French division could not adThirty-nintvance. The leading battalions of the Fifth brigade entered Le Char-mebut not being able te debouch from the town they, were, withdrawn ' after dark. During the night tbe hard pressed Germane retired to the Oureq. leaving machine guns behind to delay our advance. July 27th tho French Thirty-nint- h division look up tho pursuit followed by the Fifty-fift- h brigade, Twenty-clghtdivision, which relieved tbe French Thirty-nint- h that olght at ConrmonL Tbe Fifth brigade, Third division, advanced on the right to protect this movement nd occupied a Una running southeast from Courmont through ells. During tha morning of the 28th, tbe Fifth brigade captured Ronchere and tba Twenty-eight- h division reached thn Oureq, .bat was nnabla to bold Its gains north of tho river. On thn 29th thn Third division occupied, an Irregular Une beyond Roncheres. bnt neither that divinnit nor the Twenty-clghtsion on Its left was able to make material progress against tbe Bole dee Grtmpettes that day. iTh Third division was relieved on thn 80tb by tbe Thirty-seconand retired south of tho Marn It bad taken a decisive part In stopping the last German offensivn and bad advanced ten miles through difficult country, stubbornly defended by the enemy. It had suffered casualties to tho number of about CpOOO officers and men. ' Thn Forty-secondivision, aa wt have seen, had coma from tha French Fourth army to tho Marne salient and had relieved thn Twenty-sixth division In tha First corps In tho advance that followed It bad gallantly captured Crola Bongs farm on the 26th, and oa tbo following day had cleared (he Foret do Faro, captured Villeresur-Fer- o and had reached tho Oureq. July 28th tbo Forty-seconestablished a Une beyond the Oureq and on the 11 vl id on. In rap29th the Fourth division. port of thn Forty-second STAGE COACH TALES e, St Per d a to -- b i'a tl r h h Mont v h h Zq Eergy, took Eerlngee-et-Ke-s Tbe enemy made a dv.ierrtl.ed stand along the Oureq river and some of the hardest fighting of the period occurred at thu time. August 8, the Fourth division relieved the Forty-seconThe Third corps with tbe American (Bullard), Twenty-eightand Thirty-seconFrench divisions, relieved Thirty-eightef corps on the bed our tint corps. Once eta tarpe beyond the Oureq, c.f advanced rapidly toward the Teals river, meeting with title opposition. st me --WNUSrfta i raptured d h wwe T'ljt .J That night the Fifty-seconbrigade was replaced by the Fifty-sixtbrigade Twenty-eight- h division. When the latter launched Its attack tbe morning of the 21th, It waa found that the enemy bad withdrawn and he was not again encountered sntU the pursuers, Including part ef the Fifty-firTwenty-sixtbrigade. division, reached Crolz Rouge farm. During tta offensive action beginning with the 13th, the Twenty-sixtdivision had progressed nearly eleven miles and had captured ISO prisoners and four pieces of artillery. Bines Its occupation of the sector, July 10, ft had suffered about 6.000 casualties. Tha division was relieved, together with the Fifty-sixt- h brigade. Twenty-eightbridivision, by the Eighty-fourtgade, Forty second division, which took ever the sector on the 25th. The Eighty-fourtbrigade. Forty-secon- d division, replaced two French division!, which were pinched out by the shortening of the Une. On tbe 27th, tbe Forty-seconoccupied tbe entire front of the First corps, about two miles In extent . Enemy Fights Desperately. Tbe enemys defeat In front ef the Twentieth corps (American First and Second divisions and First Moroccan division), was the principal cause of the withdrawal of hla armies, bat be fought desperately from position ta position and his retirement waa being skillfully conducted to save men and material from capture In the counter-offensiv- e of July 18 no operations were ordered for French or American troops east of Chateau-Thierry- , leaving them an opportunity to readjust their tinea. On the 20th, patrols from tbe Third division discovered that thn Germans bad withdrawn across the Marne the night before end the division at once advanced Its line to the river. The night of July. 20 Germans .further withdrew. te the . ittMt Revised Help yourself to n blrthstone for Isundretse tbo ooepstono; for for architect . tbo cornerstone; rook tbo puddlngstone; for solder tbe bloodstone; for borrows , cr tb touchstone; for stock broker tbe curbstone ; for shoemaker the cobblestone; for burgtararthe, keystone l for tonrlst tbe Tellow- stone; for beantie tha peaebstone; forftditor tbe grindstone; for mo-- . torist the mllcetoD; for pedestri- ' an the tombbtone. U. S. & Colo- redo Lookout. n Not Correctly Clessod Bright and "dull" children are often incorrectly labeled, according to Dr. Joseph Miller, director of guidance In tbo Wilkes-Barr- e (P 'school Tbe former are frequentdull ly Just glib, while the children often are normally Intelligent, hut sre slow of speech and shy. .j Macy Ums for Cactcc Cactus plants sre now used to produce various drug soap, clean-era, water softeners and a boiler compound, which Is the latest commercial product of tbe desert plan and baa proved a boon In cleaning and purifying beating system Airplane's Propeller The average airplane propeller Is 9 feet long and tapered tn plana form. The maximum width Is ap- Inche Tba proproximately 6 peller is also tapered In profile or thlcknes and tbe approximate width Is 1 Inche Important German Victory Tht most important battio fought on German soli daring th World war was tho battle of Tannenberg, September 1. 1914, In which the Germans under Yon Hlndenburg defeated a Russian Invading army. Contradictory Character "What amazing understanding In bis writing of tbo psychological life of tho people." wrote the wife of Tolstoi, and what lack of understanding and Indifference to tho Ufo of tbe people nearest to him." Peach la Aacleat Timas Tba peach lsjtn ancient fruit, and Biblical Flowers The International Bible Encyclopedia lists tbe following flowers that grew In Palestine la Bible times: Oleander, vltex (species of verbena), plan carob, hawthor sumach, laurel, broom, myrtle, bugolosa, scabtos squill thistle ncacl arbutus, oleaster, styras (mock orange), Judas tree, caper, rockros vlllosus (poppy), crocus, cyclamen, narcissi, anemone gladioli, trt orchid, flax and bong ran-uucu- lu Now Orleans Sltaatien Tbe site of tbe city of New Orleans Is flat with a slight slop away from tbe river to the swamps behind tbe city. The highest elevation above tbe sea Is ten feet, and In flood time nearly all of tbe city Is from four to twelve feet below tbe level of tho river. Which is kept out by levees or dikes built along tho entire front and graded down to tbo fiat city alt . Paved Street! la Venice . , Yenlc Italy, Is built on a group of Islands at tbo bead of tbe Adriatic sea. Some of tbe streets sre such as exist In paved street other title but tbe majority are canals with the bouses built at tbs water edg so that tbe gondolas or other boats can pull up right ta tba door . . Uo for Dogwood TiaW timber Is shipped from tba mountain forests of Arkansas to England to bo made Into shuttles for clothing weaving fsetorte Before finding this outlet for dogwood timber, Arkansas timber owners mads tba wood Into golf tee collar buttons and other small wooden product - Dogwood Early Theatricals Masques were a kind of private theatrical, popular In the Seventeenth century tn the East and EuThe name Is said ' rope proper. to have originated from the nse of heed masque representing romantic, historical or allegorical types on occasions of festivity or solemnity. Ooght to SeU Aayooo bare talked to an electric refrigerator salesman who was so enthusiastic be not only said It would pay for Itself but Intimated that within a ridiculously short time If Wo would be practically supporting tho entire family. Ohio Stats Journal. ... . American Girl Scant Girl Scouts of America, sisters ef tba Girl Guides of Europe, were organized In 1912 by Mr Jallett Low, a friend and associate of Sir Robert Baden-Powel- l, the father of all scouting, who urged and Inspired tb undertaking, . Famons Phyelclaas Tbs Greek god of healing, . was a descendant of tbs Egyptian oh Imhotep, and tbs latter can ba traced back to a real personality, that ef a learned physician who lived about SOOO B. CL Dactrectloa hy Hail The average annual damage dona by bail ta tbrea or foar times tbit don by tomadoe The ball loose on ten leading agricultural crops amount to $47,500,000 In an average year. Stavaftaa Raviacd Theres so much good tn tha worst of ns and bo much bad In the best of ns that Its bard to tell which of ns ought to reform the Detroit New-- rest of n |