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VOI,. XLI I. J. F. ARCHIBALD Ambassador Dumba'i Messenger I Who Figure* In Recall Csse* Photo by 'American Press .Association. I r friends got a razor and cut the bullet out. Several days later Mood poison ing set In. —% 11-Boat Takes Prisoner. The latest exploit of a German sub marine 1b the halting of a Norwegian vessel and the seizure tjy a boarding party of a British subject who car ried off a prisoner. This incident la reported by the captain of the' steam er Bescheim, from whose ship the Englishman was taken. Tie Nor wegian legation at Berlin has been In-' ~. structed to lodge a protest. ———— . 18 Fuses on Sant' Anna. A dslpatch to the state department in Washington from the American consular agent at Punta Del Oada, Azores, said that elghten fuses were found in No. 2 hold of the Fabre Line steamship Sant' Anna, on which lira started while bound from New York ta Naples. Many explosions took place, according to the dispatch. Prof. E. R. Thayer Drowned. The body of Prof. Ezra Ripley Thayer, dean of Harvard law schools and one of the beet known legal au thorities In America, wy found In the Charles' river basin at Boston. He had not been In health for some time and bad been missing since Tuesday. His friends believe he wan dered into the water while in a state of mental aberration. Sheriff Seizes Mausoleum. To satisfy a claim for $40,000, held by a local contractor, the sheriff of Blair county has levied upon a marble mausoleum builders' corporation at —Hollldaysburg, Pa. Crypts have been provided in the mausoleum for 500 dead. The sheriff will sell the mau soleum October 1. Czar Frees Political Prlaonera. The Turin, Italy; Oazetta Ae!\ Pop olo" says It has received.a dispatch - from Petrograd stating that Emperoi ° NUmolas has granted amnesty to all political prisoners. . The number af /eeted-is said to be more than 100,00 ft professional'cards DR. L. J. MOOREFIELD, PHYSICIAN OFFICE IN NFW PARIS BUILDINO Office Honrs 9to 11 a. m., 2 to 3 p. m., 7 to 9 p. ml 'Pho e 34w or 99. Qraham, N.-O E. C. DERBY • Civil Engineer. GRAHAM, N. C. National Bull ol AUaune B'i'd'g. BURLINGTON, N. C, Boom It. let National Bank BaildUo 'Phonc 47* JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorney-at-Law GRAHAM. N. C. Otllec over Nntl—nl of JUaaaacf J*. S. C 0 0 2Z, * Attorney-at- Law, IjKAHAM, N. c. Offloe Patterson Building Second Fleor. ilil. WILL S. LO\G, JK. . . . "DKNTIBT . . . Graham - - - . North Carolina OPFIOKimS/MMONU BUILDINO ,ACOB A. LtOM. 1. ELMER LOHO JLONO ft LONG, Attoraefsand Counaelorsat 1 a* r GRAHAM. N. C. JOHN H. VERNON AtUraey as 4 GmsmUmUU* % POMES—(Mtee (U SaMwn SST BURLINQTOW, N. O. Dr. J. J. Barefoot omoi OVKK haduct'b store Leave Meeeagee at Alamance Phar macy 'Phone 97 Residence 'Phone 382 Office Honrs 2-4 p. m. sad by Appointment. DR. O. EUGENE HOLT OSTKOFATHIO PHTBICUI At Office in Qraham on Tuesday, Thursday sod Sstnrdajr After noons in DonoeU Building. 8415. THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. A GENERAL SURVEY OF •THE WAR TUEBDAY. Petrograd admits the Germans have reached the railroad connecting Vilna with the Russian capital. It an nounces continued Russian suCcefses along tha Sereth river. In and says the armies of Austria and" Qer | many have lost 406,000 men in killed and.wounded In the laat two months, while 70,000 prisoners have been •taken in three weeks. A rumor that Riga has been taken la not confirmed, but fierlin officials say they expect Its fall soon v n. French airmen have made success ful attacks, railing several German camps and railroad centers. Two more German air raids were made over England Monday and four \per ffons were injured. "V .WEDNESDAY. A blow by General Ivanoff upon the Austro-German flank near the Ga- Ilcian b rrlcr Is reported by Petrograd to have checked the Teuton invasion in southern Russia, and to have seat the Austrians in retreat. Thirteen thousand men have been captured In three days. The Russian capital ad mits advances of the German army under General von Hlndenburg along the Dvina river and near Vilna. ' Premier Asqpith asked parliament for a new war credit of $1,250,000,000, saying Britain's war .expenses have reached $17,500,000 a day. an* nounced that 3,000,000 men have en , listed in fie British army since the war began. Earl Kitchener declared the its bolt." '•*— it • * '"J' ' * • ■ . THURBDAY. Petrograd announces tiiat Russian successes in the southern field of *ar continue, and that the Austro-German forces in the Dubno region have been routed and driven fifty miles. Berlin reports the Russian driven across the Dvlnsk river,. thirty miles north of Dvina, and that the German forces under General von Mackensen have broken through the Muscovite lines west of Warsaw. Reports of German origin Indicate that Rumania soon may enter the war. Bulgaria Is said to have asked ,Rumanla and Greece the reason for the assembling of troops on her bor der line. An unconfirmed dispatch from Athens says the expedition which re cently left Italy is landing at the up per end of the Galllpoll peninsula Britain announces 87,603 casualties thus far In the Dardanelles campaign. The lose of the British submarine E-7 In Turkish waters is announced. FRIDAY. General von Hlndenburg's fo/cei have reached Vldzy, eighteen east of the Petrograd-Vilna railroad line, according to a Berlin official statement. Petrograd admit* the Ger man occupation - fit Pinsk, and sayf the Austro-German forces in th« southwestern field of operations are presenting a stlffer resistance. Action by the British prize court in condemning f 15,000,000 worth ol American meat cargoes will be re sisted by the United States, which • contends that Great Britain, under Jn ternatlonal law. Is compelled to prove the goods were Intended for England'! foes before seizing them. Heavy artillery engagement is re ported along virtually the entire bat tie line in France. The situation as between Bulgaria and Greece seemingly is less acute. It is reported that Germany has of fered Bulgaria the "Crown of Byzan titqn" In return for her "friendly neu trality." j. —— SATURDAY. Petrograd dispatches report that QenoraJ von Hlndenbdrg ha* pushed to the eastward of Vilna, which is nearly surrounded by German*. Gen eral von Mackensen'a troop* ace re ported In retreat west of Plnsk. Ber lin dispatches say the Russian Inva sion Is about to be brought to a bait and that a new Oerman campaign la to be directed at either Serbia oil ItaJy. I Austrian forces have raptured Ital ian trenches on a two-mile front In the Carnic Alp*, according to a new* dispatch. - Heavy artillery, fighting'u reports J from the French battle front. French troop* hare destroyed S- Turkish position on Galllpoll penin sula. A Turkish fleet ha* shelled tb« C'flmean coast. Enver Bey Is quoted a* saying Germany Intends to send a large army to aid Turkey. SUNDAY. Vilna, the Important Hu dun city at whloh the forces of Field Marshal von Hledenburg have been driving for several weeks, ha* been occupied by German troops, it was officially an hpunced by the German army head quarter*. ~ French artillery ha* destroyed a German anti-aircraft battery near St. Mlhiel. Thi* development, the demolition of three bridge* acres* the Meu*e, in the same region, Indi cates that the French now bare the advantage of the German* Is heavy gan* st the St. Mlhiel salient. Cannon duels were continued Sat urday night throughout the Artolj regfon, also near Roye, at various point* In the Champagne district snd In Alsace. A Renter dispatch from the Darda nelles lays the Turk* lost 10,000 la killed In two engagements with the allien. The latter sow bold (Uimgef positions. British Transport Sunk. Aa Austrian submarine com inserted by Lieutenant von Trspp torpedoed snd *unk a. large British transport a few days ago in the southern Adriatic, according to an announcement made In Vienna. Olrl Accused of Killing Father. Mis* Dora Kldd, twenty years old, waa arrested at her boms near Lowes ville, Vs., charged with * hooting bet father to death with a shot gun be cause he was whipping one of hii children. _ ■ ■ 1 M wtl1tc* iwVi,.^the s.it.ninrli,e luwj »isbp«uvi qticßtion, but a gun she carried made her liable to attack. The cOnfßua*!* placed hlmaelrat the bead of his army, while Grand Of the Week Duke former bead, became commander of Caucasus campaign. Csrdlnsl Gibbons made a formjfl vMt to President Wilson with suggestions for peace. Papers found on ah Aiserlcan newspaper man In England addressed to tM Aus trian government gave plan of Dr. Dumba, Austrian ambassador, to cripple munition planta by calling out tprelgn workers, which Dr. Dumbs clslms to bla right Mexican raided Continued their shooting and foraging acroas our border. The killing of Dr. Mohr of Providence, R. L, it to elalmed, by the throe ne groes held for the tnbrdci was !iih(lasted by bis wife, who Is under heavy ball. STEFA.MSSCN IS SAFE Explorei, Believed to Be Cead, Discovered New Arctic Land. Photo by American Press Association. Vllhjalmar Stefansson, tie Cinari Inn who had been given up as lot it the white area of Ice an.l sno*, re ports be Is alive and we'l and Is pre paring to pursue his exi*lo atLn*. EXPLORERSAFET FINDSJIEVV LAND Stefansson Spent Seven Months on iiiß Ice. FIRST WORD SlfiGE APRIL, 1914 L Recounts Hl* Thrilling Ous«t In the Frozen Arctic for Bhelf of Polar Continent. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Canad ian explorer, who was believed loat in the Arctic, not only 1* alive and well, but has discovered a new land In tbe north and accomplished practically every purpose for which "hi* hasar dous Journey was undertaken, accord ing tp word brought to Nome, Alaska, by the power scbodber Ruby, which arrived from Heschel Island. Btefansson, wltb two companion*, Btorker Storkerson apd Ole Ander son, set out from Martin Point, Ala«- ka, March 22, ID 14, over the frozen polar ocean In search lor supposed new lands In tbe Beaufort *ea. Captain 0. F. Cottle, matter of the Ruby, lays that Stefansson is now on Banks I.and, east of tbe Mackenxle, outfitting for continuance of the ex plorations to tbe westwsrd to sscer tain the full extent of tbe new land he baa discovered southwest of Prince Pstrlck Island. Stefanison discov ered * continuance of tbe continental thelf several degrees west of Bank* land and even determined ita south, ern limits, but wa* unsble to continue his ■ exploration* to the north and west. . Stefansson told Captain Cottle that after leaving tbe supporting party on the Ice north of Martin Point he aad hie hardy companions set their face* to the north, but after continuing their Journey ninety day* they de cided to return to land. Tbey turned back and landed on tbe mainland at a point near which the power boat Mary Bach», of the Stefan**on expedi tion, was wintering. Here the three men outfitted for another three month*' trip. They again went upon tbe Ice, going north and west and dis covering tbe continents! shelf. Stefanison spent some time explor ing hi* new And, bnt at length, owing to ecarrlty of provision*, was com pelled to *et out on the return Jfer nejr to land. The men bed been on ths Ice for nearly seven months. The j return to shore wss accomplished I with great difficulty. The men sub sisted oe the most meager ration*, but kept moving day after day. Tbe dogs were slmeet famished. Finally the party arrived at Banks I And, thoroughly worn out For seven morttbs they'bad been on scanty ra tions. traveling almost eontlnpa^y. gte.'ansson and bla companion* made their way from Bank* land, which Is uninhabited, to Ralllle laland, which 1* vlflicd by'whsler*. Captala Louts lane. cmWusr on bl* "-wer (JR vUAM, Nl C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER W 1915 I schooner Polar hear, found S efans son and companion* maklnr their ; way along the southwestern coaat of i Balllle Island. Tbey were In excel lent health and' spirits and eager to reach the southern wing of the expe dition, that tbey might obtain aup piles and continue thelf, explorations. Stefansson had expected to fall In with the Polar Bear, just as be did. He immediately chartered the schoon er and, with Captain Lane, proceeded nortfyvard at once In the hope of mak ing further dtpeoverle* while thtf sea was open and free of Ice. The sea son was too far advanced, however, and the explorers reluctantly steered for Herschel Island. Britain Seize* U. 8. Cargo**. The British prize court In London condemned the greater part o( the American products forming %tbe car goes of four steamship*. The product*, valued at many mil lion dollars, are declared forfeit to the crown. The meat cargoes, shipped for the most pa>t by the great American packing companies and valued by them at $15,000,000, were foiyid by the president to be destined, except for some small Items, not for con. sumption in Denmark, but fbr delivery in Germany. He'held that their event ual destination was the German gov ernment, for the use of Its naval and military^forces. To rule- otherwise. Sir Samuel said, would be to allow one's eyes to be blinded by theorle* and technicalities t Brltluh Losses 381,953. Official a mouncement was made In the nouae of common* in London that the total of British war caaualtlea up tp 40guat 21 was 381,983 officers and men killed, wounded or missing. ' Detailed figure* of the casualties were announced as followa: Killed and died of wounds: Offi cers, 4965; other ranks, 70,992. , Wounded: Officers, 9973; other ranks, 241,086. . Missing: Officers, 1501; other ranks, 53,446. " These figures refer to tbe army i. lone. Boy* Operate on Chum. , A* the result of permitting two o( Ms young frfbnds to perform an op eration on him, Howard Bruce, sged twelve years, of New Castle, Del., Is 'suffering from gangrene and tetanus and Is In a serious condition. Several days ago while Bruce wsa handling a rifle the weapon waa sccl- I'entaliy discharged and the bullet lodged In hi* light foot. Two of hi* GEN. BLANCO CAPTURED Mexican Leader Held Prisoner by General Obregon. General Luclo Blanco ha* been cap, tured and Is now held a prisoner in Jail by General Obfegon, according to an official Carrahza dispatch from Vera Cruz received In San Antonio, Tex. Tbe *ame dispatch declared Eu lallo Outlerrez, once provisional pres ident of Mexico by election of tbe Aguaa Caliente* convention, bad "sur rendered" to General Obregon at Sal tlllo. General Blanco has been a promi nent military figure In Mexico (or many years. He recently ftme to San Antonio as a refugee and after con ferences with friends departed about ten days ago for El Pa*o. Tbe arrival of General Villa at Juarez, the border town opposite El Paso, was forecast by pa**enger* ar riving on ipeclal train*, who said they passed hi* car en route. Tbe whole Villa army apparently I* being trans ferred to Scnors state, vis Juarez snd Casas Orande*. tbey *ald. Thirteen troop train* are reported (tailed for coal or water between Chi huahua city and Jnarex. GIRL BRUTALLY ATTACKED Aeeallant of 12-Yesr-Old Orphan Held Under Double Guard. William McAndrewa, ex-special of ficer snd a fugitive from Justice, cbsrgsd with assaulting Minnie Young, a twelve-year-eld orphaa, was surrounded and capture! on Loeuet mountain, near ShenanKah, Pa. McAndrews waa taken to town se cretly in an automoblls snd placed In the locsl Jail under doubts guard. It is ssld tbst the girl wss on her way boms when McAndrewa dragged ber Into a schoolyard. She was'found unconscious by -her grandmother. Physician* failel to revive ber and ■be was taken to the *tate hospital, where she wss flnslly restored to con ■clou*ness. She Is reported (tightly Improved. The authority*, fearing violence, will not give tbe prisoner s bearing until tbe angry crowds that line the streets sre disponed. "Be tried to ktom I etn't under stand ft." "Neither can I, deer." Toe cat ("-Pearson" a Weekly. IMG SEES ■ METHODS Of STONE AGE 19 EUROPEAN U Line of Trenches Erected by Men and Women of France Man Precisely as In Pre- Win—No Fam historic Times. Uy Escapes Suffering. Below is presented th« sixth and lest of artioiee from tha pon of Rud yard Kipling undar tha ganaral title of "Frenoe at .War an tha Fren tiar of Civilisation," daicribing tha' impressions of a viait to tha fight ing Una in Franaa. By RUDYARD KIPLINQ. [Oopyrtaht, ltU, by tha Sun Printing and Publishing aaaoclatlon.] "fwVIIS la the end of the Una," said w~ the staff officer, the kind ant J| and moat patient of chaperons. It buttressed Itaelf on a for tretui among the hills. lieyoud that the alienee waa more awful than the mixed nolae of the builueaa to the westward. In mileage on the map the llne'niust i be between 400 and COO mllee. In ac-: tual trench work It la many times that■ dlstanee. It In too much to see at full j length. Ths mind does not readily break away from the obsession of its entirety uor grip Its detail. One vis ualizes the thing afterward as a whits; hot gash worming sll across Francs between Intolerable sounds and lights ] under ceaseless blasts of whirled dirt | Nor Is it sny relief to lose onesslf among wildernesses of piling, stoning, timbering, concreting, wire work or In calculable quantities of soil thjawn up raw to the light and .cloakeAiy the changing seasons as ths unburled dead are cloaked. Yet there are no words to give the essential simplicity of It. It Is a ram part put up by man agalnat the beast, precisely as In the stons age. If It goes, all that keeps us from the beast goes wit bit. One sees this at the front as clearly as one sees the French Til (ages ttchlnd the German Unea. Soma- | times the people steal away from than I and bring word of what they endow. Where rifle and bayonet serve. man use those tools along the front; where the knife gives better results, they go In behind the band grenades with tha naked twelve Inch knife. Hew Method* In UM. Each rsce la suppoaed to flgfat In Ms own way, but this war has passed be yond nil known ways. They say that the Belgians In the north settle ac counts with s certain dry pastften which has varied very little since their agony t>egnu. Home sections of the English line have produced a soft j voiced, rather reserved type which does Its work with Its mouth shot. Tha French carry an edge to their lighting, a precision and drssdfnl knowledge coupled with an Insensibility to shock unlike anything one has Imagined of mankind. To be sure, there has never been a Ilka provocation, for never since the Aealr went about to bind the Fenrls wolf has nil the world united to Und the beast Ths last I saw of the front waa Atea i Brock speeding back to hie gun posi tions among the mountains, and I won dered what delight of what household the lad must have been la the old , (lays. Tben wo bad to work oar way, j department by department, agalnat! the tides of men behind the lina. I Huiiport* and their supports, raasrvss and reserves of reoervea as well ss msaaes in training— they flooded towns snd village#. When we tried short cats we found them in every by lane. Have yon eeen mounted man reading their home letter* with reina thrown on their horses' necks, moving in absorbed silence throagh a street which almoat aald "Hush!" to Its dogs, or met In a forest s proceaslon of perfectly now big guas, sppareatly taking fhstaoelvas from ths foundry to the front! Trench Keep Quiet. In spite of their love of drama there la not siDcb window di easing la the French character. The bocbe, who lo the priest of the higher coon tar jam' pery, would have had half tha neutral press out In can to advertise theee vast spectacles of men and material Bat the same Instinct ai stakes their rich femora keep to their smocks makae the French keep quiet. . "This la oar affair," they argon. "Everybody concerned la It la taking part lp It Ilka tha review yoa eaw tha other day. There are no spectators. Bat It might be of advantage If da world knew." Mine waa a fooUah mark. "There Is only one world today, tha world of the allies. Each of them knows what the others are doing, aad the rest doesn't matter. This la a cart ons hat delightful fact to realise first hand aad think, what II will ha later when we shall nil circulate among each other, o|Hf» our hearts and talk It over In a brotherhood more Intimate than Ues of blood." I lay that night at a little French town and was kept awake by a man somewhere In the but. atlll darkness bowling aloud from the pain of bla wounds. I .was glad be waa alone, for when one man gives way others some times follow. Yet a single note of mls era> is worse than the baying and gulp- Ing of a whole want. I wished a dele gation of strikers could have beard It Dreadful to Contemplate. That a civilian should be In the war aone'at all Is a folr guarantee of bla | good faith. It is when he Is outside the j tone, uncbfsrroned. that queetlona be gin and jptnlta are looked into. U theee are Irregular—but one doean't cam to contemplate it; if regular, there 1 ere still u few counter checks. Aa a lergeant at a railroad etatlon aald when 1 he helped us out of sn Impose*: I "You will realise that it la the moot i undeelrable persons whose papers are moat regular, it Is tbelr business, yoa see. The commissary of police Is at the Hotel do Vllle. If you will come for thu little formality. Myself, 1 used to beop a shop In Paris. My Ood, theee provincial towns are deoolatingt" Ho would have loved bis l'aria as we found it Life was renewing Itself In the streets, whose drawing proportion one could never notice before. Peo ple's eyee, snd womsn'a especially, seemed to be set st a longer range, a more comprehensive gate. One would have aald they came from the aea or | mountains, when- things are few and I simple, rather than from bouses. Best of all, there were no foreigners. The beloved city for tbe first time waa French Uirougbout, from end to end. It fait like coming back to an old friend's boose for a quiet talk after ho had got rid of a buuaeful of visitor* Tha functionaries and tbe police bad dropped tholr masks of official pollte neee and were Just friendly. At tbe hotels—so like school two daye before tbe term begins-the Impersonal valet and chambermaid of tbe set two franc emlle and tbe unbending bead waiter had given place to one's own brothers , aad sisters full of ona'a own anxietlee. , Every Family Vesli War. "Mylfeu Is an aviator, monsieur. 1 eoald have claimed Italian nationality for him at tbe beginning, but be won Id not have It. I loth my brothers, mon eleur, ire at tlte war. One la dead al i ready. And my dance, I bave*oot beard from blm since March. He la cook In a battalion." "Hare Is tbe wine list, monsieur. Yaa, ' both my sons snd s nephew, snd I have ' { no news from tbem—iMit s word of i news. My Ood, wo all suffer these da/a." And so, too, among tbe a hope. The ■are statement of the loss, of tha grief at the heart, but never a word of doobt, never a whimper of despair. "Now why." aaked a shopkeeper, "does not our government or your gov ern men t or both our governments aend eomo of tlie British army to Parle? I assure you wo should make them wel come." ; "Perhaps,ll began, "you might make thaw too weV-ome." Ho Isugbed. "Wo should make them as welcome aa oar own army. They woold enjoy themselves." I had a vision of Britlah officers, each with ninety days' pay to his cred it aad a damsel or two at homo, shop ninf consumed Iy. "And also." said the shopkeeper, "the moral offset on Perls to eee mors of your troops would bs vary good. Bat I saw a quite English provost marshal losing himself in cfaaae of de faulter* of the new army who knew their Parti Mill, there to something to bo aald for thto Idea, to tha extent of a vlrtuoos brigade or eo. At present the English officer In Parts to a ecarcs ' Mrd." Aad ha explains at once why ha to aad what bs to dotag there. "They most have good reasons," I suggested. Teeth to attend to"— "No good," be grumbled. "They've thought of that too. Behind oar ttaee to etmply crawling with dentists now," Hostesses Is Hospitals. If one aaked after tha people that gave dinners and dances test year, where every one talked eo brilliantly of eoch vital things, one got la return the addrenseit of hospital*. Those pleas- I ant hostesses and maidens seemed to be In charge of departments - or on duty in wards or kitchen sculleries. I Bonn! of the hospitals were In Parisi Tbelr staffs might hove one hour a day in which to see visitors. Others were np the lino and liable to be shelled or i bombed. I recalled one Frenchwoman ' In port leu lur been we she hnd once ex plainer! to mc the necessities of ctvl -1 llzed life. Tln-se included the mas seuse, tbe UIIIUICUI'IK{ «ml a maid to ] look after lii|> donx. HUe I t employed j now and bas been for mouths past on I the disinfection and reirnlr of soldiers' | clothes. I There wus no need to ask after tbe men one had known. Still there was | no sense of desolation. They had gone on. Tbe others wciv getting ready. Ail t Prance works outwurd to tbe front pre j clsely lis an rndle»x chain of fire buck i ets works toward the connagration | the lire behind yon and go back i till yon reach the source of supplies I You will thnl mi break, no pause, no | apparent liaste. but never any slacken ing. Kverj IwHl.v has his or her backet. ' little or lilg. snd' nobody dlspntes bow It should be used. | It Is II people |Kw«essed of the prece dent nnd tradition of war for existence. ! sccustomed to hard living and hard labor.' sanely economical by ment. logical by training nnd Illumined and trnnsflmired by tlielr resolve and endurance. Ton know when a supreme trial Over takes an acquaintance, whom till then we conceived we knew, how the man's ■atnre sometlipftl Changes past knowl edge or I*l l«f. He who was sltogeOici such a oue as ourselvea goes forward simply sn.l even lightly to heights we thought uucttalnable. Though he la the very same comrade that lived ear small life with us. yet in all things be haa be come great More Than Contempt of Death. Bo it Is with France today. She baa discovered the measure of her oouL One see* this not alone in the' it la more than contempt of death—in the godlike preoccniKition of ber people un der arms which makes them pat death out of the account, but in the equal I Mission and fervor with which ber peo ple throughout give themselves to the smallest as well as the greatest task* that may In any way *prve their sword. 1 might tell yon something that I saw of tbe cleaning out of certain sewers, of tbe education snd antece deuts of tbe cleaners, what they said in tbe matter and bow perfectly tbe work was done. There was a little Itabelaii In It. naturally, but the rent, was pars devotion and rejoicing to be % use. Similarly with stables, harrlcMee and barbed wire work, the clearing and piling away of wrecked bouse rubbish, the nerving of meals till the service rocks on Its poor tired feet but keep* Its temi>cr. and all the unlovely monot onous details that go with war. The women, as I bare tried to show, work stride for atride with tbe men. with hearts aa resolute and a spirit that lias little merry for shortcomings. A woman takes her place wherever she can relieve a man—ln tbe ahop, at tbe Posts, on tramways. In hotels and a thousand other businesses. She la in ured to field work, and half the harvest of France thla yenr Ilea tn ber lap. One feela at every turn how ber men trust her. Hhe kn m «, for she shares every thing Willi her world, what has be fallen lu r sisters who are now in Oer- 1 mun hands, and her soli Is tbe undy ing fl..iue behind the tneu's steel. Neither uicii nor women have any Illusion as to miracles presently to be performed which shall "sweep out" or '■drive back" the bocbe. Since tbe army Is the nation ,tbey know much, though they are officially told little They uli recogulxe that tbe old fash ioned victory of tbe past is almost at obsolete as a rifle In a front line trench. Tliey all accept the new war. which ni'-an grinding down and wear ing out tbo enemy by every means, plan and device that can be compass ed. it Is slow and expensive, but aa deadly sure *s the logic that leads them l ) make It tbelr one work, their thought, ihelr single preoccupa tion. 7r*noh Not Squeamish. Tbe same saves them a vast amount of energy. They kyow Ger many In '7O, when {be world would not believe In tbelr knowledge. knew tbe German mind before the war They know what she has done. They have photographs during this war. Tliey do not fall Into spasm* of horror and Indignation over atroci ties thnl "eaiinol l« mentioned," m the KnglUh papers say. Tliey mention tbeui In full and Iwok them to account. Tbey do not dlsctias nor consider nor waste an cnulion over anything that Germany Hays, l-oiotts, argues, implies. Intrigues after Tbey have the hearts ease that comes from all belug at work for tlielr country, the knowledge that tbe burden of work la equally dlit tribuled among all. Ibe certainty thai tbe women are m-orfcliig aide l>y aide with the men, tbe assurance that when one nmn's task In at tbe moment end ed another tukes bis place. Out of these things l» born tbelr 1 l»»wer of re u|N-rntlon In their leisure, f tbelr reasoned ' aim while at work and i tbelr superb confidence In I heir arms. 1 Even If tlic Franca of today stood * lons against tbc world's enemy It w 0:1 id lie almost Inconceivable to Imagine ber defeat now—wholly so to Imagine auy surrender. Hie war will I go ou 111 l the enemy Is finished. Tbe French do not know When thai hour will come. Tbey seldom s.icak of 11. { Tbey do not amuse tbcmwlves with dieamn of triumphs or terras. Their business Is war, nnd tbey do tbelr bust new. DRESSES ON $250 A TEAR. "•est Crssied" Woman In United States Spends Little Per Clothes. Do you want to be the beat drained woman oa £3lO a yenr? If yoa do, fol low tbe advice of Vilss Kmma Huffing too Welles of West Virginia, Washing lon and New Turk, who la considered the best dressed woman In the Uulted Suites To inaliiMUi tbe quiet dignity, the genteel reisiae and the unostenta tious dusb tliat stamps a woman aa mart, but not gaudy, you must make • minute study of (hopping and you must never forget that your wardrobe la of Art Importance. Tbe remarkable tiling about thla won derful woman 1* that six years ago the waa living ou u farm near I'nrkernburg, > * | W. Vu.. uepeinfliig only on i for stolen. Shite then she h-is from the Atlantic to tbe I'oiflH through Cnnncln afid Kttro|>e mid tottfl | In fifth avenue. Xcw Yurk, is oat for ber-roodl til but stylish > e;i rEH apparel. *• '.''3 Here to how vile si>ends the $2Wt yj Four *llk VMM. f 1.20 each «d^H Four palm or white knlckerbockam -'J 11.50 each ' (JgH Three palm of the finest hosier^ Two splendid -corsets. K each Four pair of shoes, W. 21 each Three hat*, (to eaqh Underskirt* Several pairs,of clove* „■*' jun Street suit . ....T. S^H Afternoon dress (preferably white In 1 color) - Evening dress ....: ........V.'.'29^l Four crepe de chhie and lingerie 1 Wtlltf Coat and *ei rate lining .. (jH Umbrella an-l parasol, JifiOcach L *3^l Rubber* . SB incidental* ' M RUSSIAN FACESJISASTfI The Germans Close Is 01 ii Great Forca MAY KUMBER 500,0001 IVarMw Tactic* Are Repeated Teutonic Allies aa They Pueh Fu>S ward in Poland. Tbe Russian army, menaced ataK*t|9 the fall of Vllna by the German i» » circling movement, is estimated «Ml rloualy at ZSO.OOO to SOO.MO Hen. - The conditions under which CMbS Russians are attempting to ttirioMS themselves furnishes a striking paral»sß lei to those which followed the tore of Warsaw. They may preciri* JH tate one of the greatest. If not greatest, battle which haa been (ought on the eastern front. Tbe British press has accented the 1 German rialm of the fall of Vlina jij readily, in view of tbe sltaatioo thatjS had been developing. Concern la ex- M pressed for the retiring Bnssli IT| forces. So far as can he Jsdged, WU' l r m Marsha! von HlndenburgH tror >t-w have flung a loop aboat the Hesefcr*™ dver a treat of 100 miles and are l lil only In tbelr rear, bat are tarnarft iMB seriously the single railway tine an J 1 the few available wagon roadnjjj stretching to the'soath. As waa tbe case at Warsaw, the jgj number of Rnaslan prisoners left b*»H hind with the evacuation of Vllna waafl not great. Apparently the oaly way"! in which the retiring forces may a**.fl iorate the seemingly bad situation hi M by a counter Mow. A news agency dispatch from Fev|9 rograd confirms a report drcshUM some time ago that Kiev b betoifl evacuated by the Russians. Tfc*J9 "Buiirse Gaiette." a government ot*.|g gan in Petrograd. c.unces ! that the evacuation is proceeding and that there are plenty of railway cam .g| on hand for thla purpose. * 250,000 Ruse Face Capture. While Berlin gate itself np to re> ll jotclag over the rapture Of Vllna, tary experts predicted the early eap»jfl ture of the RUSH Ian army of 250,000 'gl men, which has besa trapped by the jjl Teutonic forces In the railway uri»"iS angle bounded by Vllna, Lida and -1 Hotodetsrhno. A complete German victory In that Jj region, together with the of tbe Russians' third line of defense, || is declared to be only a matter of 1 days. A decisive engagement—one at the , r f greatest battles yet fought in the || eastern theater —is raging east ot> 9 Vllna, where He German forces of'jJ| Oeneral von Klchhorn. General vo i I Vocltz oud General von Gallwit* arc J )- These armies, whit h are part group under Field Marshal von Hln- '% deuburg, are cooperating wlthytha army of Prtnce LeopofS, of | Victory for von Hlndenhurg east o£ i Vllna means not only another retiraial ment for the Russians, bat also thtijfl separation of the Russian northern ~3j armies from the southern forces. " Although the Russians have achl«v>jg sd some local successes In tbe Vol* $9 hynlan triangle, on the GaUclan fron- ?Ijg tier, operations these arc regarded a i " | of secondary importance. AaotharjH great German victory in Poland would n relieve the Russian pressure on thalM Gallcian frontier and already thejfl ' Russians on the Stripa river. In Oa- * licla, have been fought to a itUdnH I by the Austro-Hungarlan forces. The capture of Dvlflsk and the rcj , tlrement of the Russians from UutUrH : advanced positions on their third UauH i to which they retired from the Is expected to take place thla week. J GERMANS FIGHT SERBS 1 Artillery Duel Over Danube May Be'|l Prelude to Drive. Announcement was made by tU»- M I war offlce in Berlin of an attack'mMH German forces on tbe Serbians. ThauU statement read: "On the northern bank of nube German artillery engaged in tie Serbian positions south of tMljw river near Semendria miles southeast of Belgrade). enemy was driven oft. His artillery force was silenced." •weden Loans Germany 10,000,000. ■ In return for Oemany's consent t|MJB permit the exportation of coal mH some other specifled items to Ave Swedish banks, according to the 1 Copenhagen correspondent of London Exchange Telegraph eoaß pany, hare agreed to make a loan of $10,000,00 to bp used mentor or goods bought in Sweden SI TOT^GLKAIJML
The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.)
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Sept. 23, 1915, edition 1
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