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VON MACKENSEN IN NORTHERN POLAND General van Mackenaen. the famous German commander. Is here shown (online ? email stream In northern Poland to obtain personal observation of a stiff rear-guard action wltb the Russians THRICE IS HERO OF PRISON CAMP Story of the Deeds of Auguste the Little French Tailor. NOW HE WANTS TO FIGHT Thraa Tlmaa Ha Wraeka Plant Whera Aaphyxiating Gaa Bombs Are Made and Twice Escapee to Hla Own Unas. r ? v I Parts.?It was in Nantes that I met this little man 1 am going to tell you about, and I think I will tell yon the whole Incident, lust as it happened to me, so that you can see In what a queer, unexpected way one may run against a hero. 1 found him on the railroad qual In a French provisional town in the shape of an undersized tailor, slightly bald and forty-two years old. Nantes Is one of the twelve cities of France that have ftatues In the Place 4e la Concorde, In Paris. One passes through there on the way to and from the coast towns of southern Brittany and. having come from St. Nazalre, 1 ' was waiting In the Qare d'Orleans In Nantes for the train to Paris and meanwhile trying to And my porter to see if he had all my luggage gathered la one place. 1 found him at the tar end of the qual, with my bags at his feet, talking to a young girl wearing the Breton eoiffe and the wide-sleeved Breton cos tume. "Augusts has come," the girl was saying as I approached. "He arrived last night from Paris, and came to our house this morning." My porter touched his cap to me. "Bverythlng is here, monsieur," he said, "and the train will stop directly opposite us on the No. 1 line. This Is my sister Madeleine, who has come to tell me about Augusts." Very Proud of Augusta, "Augusts la our cousin," explained Madeleine, "and he Is coming to the station to see my brother. My brother was his favorite when we were chil dren. Here he la now!" she cried. And 1 turned and saw a group of three ad vancing along the qual. A lame girl was on one side andfon the other was a tall man in baggy corduroy trousers, while between them was a small man, wearing trousers that were too long for him and a brown sack coat and gray cap. He had a heavy brown muatache that hung well over bli mouth and turned up toward hta ayes In great, sweep lng curves. A grayish stubble of heard ornamented his cheeks, and when he took his cap off I aaw that he was beginning to get bald. He looked not so much like an old man as like one yho had recently been through a severe sickness. There were deep lines In his cheeks and myriad little wrinkles around bis eyes, while the skin hung loose and flabby on his neck and his complexion was of a grayish pallor. After the affectionate greetings were over my porter turned to me and said: "This Is my cousin Augusts, monsieur. He Is Just home from Ger many." "Then you are a soldier?" I asked, as I shook hands with him. * "Not yet," he replied. "The govern ment has given me fifteen days' leave before I Join my regiment." "Augusts has' done his service." said Madeleine. They were all very prood of their cousin and stood close around htm In a little circle. m "But yes," said Augusts. "I did my three years before I went to Germany, and I bare been home every year since for my two weeks' training. I was just coming home last year when the war broke out. and they made me prisoner." "Oh," I said. "So you have been In one of the internment camps." Augusts Is a Prisoner. "It Is so, nfonsleur," be replied. "Three days before war was declared they took me and all the other French men and made us prisoners In a camp." "Before war was declared?" "But yea. monsieur, three days be fore war was declared." ' "Where was that?" "It was In Saxony, monsieur. 1 would not want to say too closely. My wife and children are still there, and It would be bad for them. But It was not far from Dresden." "Were your wife and children also made prisoners?" "My wife Is German and my chil dren were born In Germany." "And how long have you lived In Germany?" "Fifteen years." "But you have come home every year?" "To do my training." "And now you hava escaped and come back to Francs." "To fight for France." he said. I marveled at that small man. with the little bald spot, the stubbly gray bedrd. the sickbed pallor and the bag gy trousers that were too long for him. "How old or* rout1' I asked. "Forty-two years since last month, monsieur." he replied. "And what is your business T" "I am a tailor." I could no longer be astonished. "Were there many prisoners In your camp?" 1 asked. "At first there were not eery many," he said. "But soon they began to bring In soldiers. French, Russian and English, and then there were very many of us. They did not treat us ?ery well except when the American ambassador came to Inspect the camp. We were well treated and well ted then, but after be had gone we lived on bread and water for a week to make up for the expense while he was there." "Did you have to work?" "Only the French. The English and Russians did not have to work, but tbey built a factory for making as phyxiating gas shells and the French prisoners had to work In that fac tory." "Did you work in It?" "I wrecked It three times," he re-1 piled. "It made 40,000 shells a week. The first time 1 damaged the furnacp, and it took them four days to repair it. Then 1 spoiled the acid tanks and , they ran for more than four weeks, | making shells that were worthless be- j fore they found It out. The third | time I wrecked the furnace again 'rd it took three days to repair It. But then they began to suspect me. mon sieur They watched me too closely. I could be of no more use there, and ?well, drew a plan of the factory and escaped. It is for that plan that the government has given me fifteen days' leave before 1 Join my regiment." ! "Was It hard to get away?"- . j "My wife did not want me to go She was afraid tbey would captare ma and shoot me." ^ , ? ' ! TT "Tour wife?" he resiled. "When 1 OSes pod from the camp I went to ear good-bp to my wlf# end children. My wife cried and begged me to go back and glee myself up. She said I was sure to be captured and then I would be shot. But her sister came In while I was there. Her sister's husband and his two brothers are fighting In the Herman army. One of bis brothers has been wounded and has the Iron Cross. And she said that I was right to go. She said that I was French, and It was right for me to wgnt to light ,for France. She told my wife to let me go. So I kissed my wife and children and eame back to France. "It was In June that I escaped, and they caught me lust as I got to the Swiss border and started to take me back again. But 1 escaped once more and this time got here. It took me two months." "Haven't you done enough?" I asked. "Do you want to light now?" "Oh!" he cried, raising his clenched lists, "glre mej gun and a bayonet In my hands!" INVENTS POCKET WIRELESS New York Man Haa Apparatus That Sands and Rscslvss Meeaagea at Distance o'f IS Miles. Dr. H. Harrington Cox of Bedford Hills, N. T.. has Invented a compact and eflcieni wireless receiving and ?ending apparatus which may be ?trapped about the waist and safely hidden In the folds of a cloak so that It would be Invisible to an un suspecting person. The sending ap paratus consists of a box which are fire dry cella and a vibrator. Tbe electric pulaatlona are atarted by tap ping a telegraph key, and tbe current which the doctor lays If modified with a bidden transformer, of his Invention, sends out Its messagqf In waves long and short. The equivalent to a half watt or one-eightieth as much as Is required for the ordinary electric Ught bulb Is the amount of electricity necessary. From the box projects a In warfare use this wire Is car ried down the leg of the soldleg. and connected with a metal plate Or spur in the shoe. The receiving Instru ment cqnslsts of a drum about which Is a coll of wtrea. On top of this Is a very One deflector. It has a pair of ear pieces such as are worn by tele phone operators. Doctor Cox can tend and receive messages by bis instru ment over a distance of 18 miles. The picture shows Doctor Cox With his cane (or receiver) raised for a net sage. SEEK SQUAWS AS BRIDES Mexicans Make Love to Indian Malde Who Own Land In State of Wlaconeln. Ashland. Wis.?C. E. Redfleld ot Santa Clara, Cel.. allotting agent for the United States government, here to allot 36,000 acres on the Bad River reservation to M5 members of the tribe, brought from California a bun dle ot applications from Mexico for Chippewa brides But he thinks the Mexicans are seeking the squaws more for the sake of the land than any personal endear ments. STORES OLD VIOLINS IN BANK Baltimore Society Man Thinks Hobby Will Soma Day Maka Him Rich. Baltimore.?!? the vaults of the Mer cantile Trust company, where thou sands of dollars' worth of securities and other valuables lie. more than a score of violins have been packed away by Prank Delia Torre, a promi nent society man. In twenty years. Torre thinks the Instruments will be worth $4,000 or $6,000 each. Brtok Cures Crossed Eye. Natrhex. Miss. ? When Charles Wrlsbt went Into a light with another boy Wright had a badly crossed ey? which had been defective since birth. The enemy hurled a half brick at Wright, bruising his cheek, but It per manently straightened the crossed op tic. KEEPING DOWN HIS WEIGHT Former President Taft puts in all of bis spare time on the golf links in as effort to keep down his welgbt He is here seen starting off for the ninth hole. GETS DIVORCE LEST SHE DIE Kansae CKy Woman Facing Opera tloa Feared Husband Would Get Her Money. Kinias City. Wo.?The uncertainty of the reeult of a surgical operation was the plea made by Mrs Grace Kyth for dleorce from Adolpfa J. Kyth a Mix Kyth told the court she was abou to undergo a serious operation aad Ik the erect at her death her bua band would receive half of hor ?'?O. 000 unlaw the divorce decree was granted. Judge Johnson granted the divorce. Farmer Diet, Team Plow* On. Reading Pa?Two, horse* plowing without a driver excited the curiosity of. John Huber. a Robeaoala farme-. doing Into,the field Huber found he b3dy of hla neighbor, Adam feller, forty five year* 0M.1 lying dead Id a furrow. He b*4 beau atrlchen at the plow. POISON GAS TO KILL PESTS 8an Angelo. Tex.?Killing prairie docs with ess It the newest end moat eueoeasful method of warfare against the western paste, according to re ports from the Infested country near here. I Chlorine gas from a large automo ' bile generator Is foroed Into the holes : through, a boss. The hole Is then quickly corered and the occupant, fa it prairie dog, ground squirrel > [snake. Immediately dies. WHERE THE ALLIES LANDED TROOPS IN GREECE 1 aid of'serbla*16 *** 8aI?n,U' whsr* ***** toroea of Brltl.h and French troops have been landed to go to the WINNING SECOND GAME FOR RED SOX I In a mo?t dramatic battle at Philadelphia, "Rube" Foster of the Boston Red Box pitched his team to victory over the Philadelphia team In the second came of the world series. With two men out in the ninth, Foster smashed a single to center, scoring Larry Gardner, who Is seen In the photo graph sliding home with the winning run. RESCUED SERBIA' FROM TYPHUS ^ 1 From left to right: Dr. Richard P. Strong and Dr. Edward Ryan, who < headed the aanltary work In 8erbla that tared that country from the rar. < age* ot typhus feyer. Doctor Strong, profeeeor of tropical dtaeaaee In Harv ard Medical school, was chief of the American Red Cross sanitary commie- i slon. with headquarters at Nlsh. Dr. Ryan Is head of the American hospital at Belgrade. He wears the medal of the French Legion of Hhnor. WORTH J(NOWING IThe modern battlefield li practi cally smokeless Open-air movies are now possible bp a ?ew screen Invented by a New^Tftrk man. The Illumination of machine shops Is greatly Increased by painting the machinery white. One hundred tons of leaves from which absinthe, the prohibited drink of francs, was to have been made, wars recently seised and destroyed. Moving picture fllma are one end three-eighth! Inches In width, ell men- ; ufacturers adhering to the standard. [ Electrical apparatus to determine , the range and tone of human voices . has been Invented by a German woman. t Skates with adjustable platee that , enable them to be fitted to feet of al moet any normal sine have been In vented. A pitcher for champagne which has i a compartment for fee to cool Its con t i ents has been Invented by an English i BARON VON BISSING -1 Baron tod Ulaalng. half brother of General too Biasing, military goren or of Belgium, though a naturalised British subject, was taken recently from his home In Kensington, Bng land, and Interned In a workhouse with other "enemy aliens." MRS. FENG CHIN FUNG Mrs. Feng Chin Fung, a little Chi ;ie?e bride, recently arrived jfi. Boeton vltb her husband. She has begun the study of vocal and Instrumental music at the Conservatory of Music, and he nas taken up a five-year course In liplomacy at Harvard. Last year he attended Princeton. Mrs. Feng brought with her a great array ol gorgeous silk-embroidered gowns. European* A-e Book Buyer*. In the United States only one person g n 7,800 boys a book In the pourse of s rear, while In Great Britain It Is one _ a 3,800; In Prance It IB about the lame; In Germany and Japan It 1* ether better, and In Swltserland It Is me In 171. Cheaper books, In paper g sorer*, account for some of this differ inos; but, whatever the cause. It re- b nalns true that the Europeans buy a twice as many books per capita aawt . lo.?Atlantic Monthly. Had to Cater to All. "I don't like the way this hotel 1* un!" carped a peevish youag_Jpavel ng talesman. "Neither do I," replied h he landlord of Pruntytown tavern; but I've got to entertain all the fools c hat come along as well as the tea ilble people."?Judge. t i Character. Character la a mosaic which takes i lifetime for Its completion; and t! rifles, the little things of life, are tar nstrumeots most used In preparta* ,arb precious stone for Its place. s THE EUROPEAN WAR A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK I I Oct. 28, 1814. German* croaaad Ya*r canal near Dlxmud*. Battle at Nlauport. Ruaalana drova Garmana from Vlatula rlwar and retook Loda and Radom. Auatro-Germana defeated near Przamyal. Heavy fighting In Boanla. Japan*** aank Gorman orulear Aeollua off Honolulu. Rebellion by O* Wat and Beyer* In South Africa. Oct. 29, 1914. German advance chaokad on tha Vaar. Battle between Rawa and the lijanka river. French eteamer Amlral Oan teaume, loaded with refugees, aunk by torpedo or mine off Boulogne. Slayere of Archduke Ferdinand found guilty of treason. German property In France ta ken Into trusteeship. Oct. 27. 1914. Allies captured Theurout and claimed Germans were driven across border near Nancy. F la roe battles between La Bas ses and the Somme. New Russian army orosaed the Vistula north of Ivangorod. Russians drove Germans from Rawa. British d road naught Audacious sunk off Ireland by mine or tor pedo. Germans laid mines off Irish coiit. Oct. 28, 1814. Alllec repulsed night attaok near Oixmude and made galne In Ypree region and between La Baaaee and Lena. Germane retreated before Hue ?lane advancing from Warsaw and Ivangorod. Battle along River Ban. Hungarian cavalry 'division al most annihilated In Gallela. Belgians defeated Germans (en Lake Tanganyika, Africa. Emden aank a Japanese steamer Japanese cruiser Chitons re pelled attack of two German war ships. Holland army massed on border to prevent Invasion. Oct. 2t, 1814. Allies gained near Ostend. Germans made gains west of Lille and southwest of Verdun. Germans Intrenched themselves near ThieK. Russians eplit opposing armies north and south of Plllza river. Northern German army In re treat. Allies took Edoa. Africa. Turkey began war on Russia by bombarding Odessa and Theodo sla from sea. Emden sank Russian cruiser and French destroyer In Penang harbor. German airmen dropped bombs i on Bethune, killing 18 women. Prince Louis of Battenberg re signed as first sea lord of British admiralty, being eueceeded by Sir John F is hoc Oct. SO. 1S14. Belgian* flooded lower Yaer val ley, compelling German* to with draw. Germane made gain* In the Ar gonne. Ruaalana, pursuing retreating Germans, captured guns and aero planes and retook Czernowlta. Austrian* defeated near Tarnow. Japanese, aided by. Indian troops, attacked Germane at Talng tau. German cruiser Koenlgaberg bottled up In Rufljl river on Af rican ooaat. Turkish torpedo beats bom barded Odessa, sinking one Rus sian gunboat, three liners and French steamer. Russian and Turkish fleets fought In Black soa. German reserve* of 1114 called out. American commission sent food stuffs to Belgium. Hope of Improvement. "Do you think the world 1* getting otter?" "It ought to be," replied the man rho worries about his health. "There re more new medicines being in ented, every year." Heavier Crop. "Now scientists say that vegetables re susceptible to praise." "1 think 111 try that on my can ages. It would help a heap If they 11 got swelled heads."?Louisville Curler-Journal. Truly Accomplished. "Is your daughter a musician?" "Yes." replied Mr. Cumrox; "she as studied music thoroughly." "But she nerer sings or plays the arrant melodies." "No. She has studied musn enough o hare some respect tor It" To Be Expected. "Just as we got to 'he mouth M he rlter?" , "We found ourselyee In the teeth * the wind."'
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