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VOL. xxxix.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, SEPTEMBER 6, 1916.
NO. 5.
J
(Cpaittitttt
MERCY WORKERS
IN WAR DOING
GREAT SERVICES
All Countries Striving to Improve
Conditions Surrounding
Wounded.
WORK OF AMERICANS LAUDED
Motor Ambulance Service Does Inval
uable Work in Transporting Wound
ed Soldiers French People
Touched by Volunteer
Work of Americans.
London. To no one race in this war
belongs exclusively the work of mercy.
France, Russia, England, Germany
and Austria have each striven hard to
improve the conditions surrounding
the wounded in their armies.
In the Ottoman Red Crescent, a Ma
homraedan equivalent of the Red
Cross, even the Turks have a corps of
mercy workers, to render aid to those
injured in battle. But not only the
belligerent nations are occupied in the
field of mercy toward fallen fighters.
America, with all the cheerful optim
ism which characterizes her people,
has worked vigorously to alleviate the
sufferings of the wounded soldiers in
France.
Distant Abyssinia, too, was one of
the first neutral countries to establish
a place of succor for the Injured near
the firing line. Indeed, the Anglo
Ethiopian hospital at Frevent, pro
vided with funds supplied by the Abys
slan crown prince, did great service
early in the war. Japan, representing
the far East, also sent a wonderfully
equipped ambulance corps which has
since occupied the Hotel Astoria,
Paris. Dainty women and intellectu
al men have given their time and their
services eagerly In the cause of hu
manity. The ladies of the Russian court,
self-sacrificing in the extreme, have
been trained for hospital work In the
field. They have performed duties at
which men might shudder and they
have performed them well. So It Is In
France and England and In the other
countries, both in and out of the war.
That the majority of the workers have
been volunteers is to the credit of civ
ilization. Mercy, so often beaten un
der in the actual conflict of the bellig
erents, has survived gloriously among
those whose function has been to re
lieve, where possible, the victims of
shot and shell.
Automobile Great Help.
Like the aeroplane, the automobile
is a new departure, a very important
one, in warfare. Since August, 1914,
it has played many parts. Armored
cars, transport lorries and other vehi
cles directly and Indirectly contribut
ing to the success of the different arm
ies in the field, have established a
fresh reputation for the motor indus
try. But it is largely owing to the
motor ambulance that the noble work
of mercy has been possible.
So far as Great Britain is concerned,
the motor ambulance service owes its
existence and its triumph to Lord
Derby's brother, Hon. Arthur Stanley,
M. P., chairman of the British Red
Cross society, and also to the Royal
Automobile club. Soon after the out
break of war, in September, 1914, Mr.
Stanley, quick to see the possibilities
of the motor ambulance, was given a
permit to send one or two out to the
front by the late Lord Kitchener.
"The actual permit," said Mr. Stan
ley, "was in Lord Kitchener's own
handwriting on half a sheet of note
paper. It is now one of the most
treasured possessions if not the most
treasured, in the archives of the Red
Cross society.
"One of the first things I did on re
ceiving the necessary permission,"
continued Mr. Stanley-"was to get to
gether half a dozen volunteer motor
ists, all members of the Royal Auto
mobile club, to drive the ambulance
cars which we were sending to France.
Our position was curious. The motor
ambulance was then practically an un
known quantity so far as actual war
fare went, and the military authori
ties stipulated that our drivers were
not to wear uniform, nor, under any
circumstances, to go near the firing
line. There was to be no Red Cross
on the cars. Truly, the mission of the
motor ambulance was to be extremely
limited. They were simply to go about
far behind the firing line and pick up
wounded men who could not be car
ried to the field hospitals; men, for
example, who had crawled for safety
into abandoned cottages and barns.
Proves Its Worth.
"With the possible exception of the
American ambulance cars at Neuilly,
ours were the first motor ambulances
used in France. But the value of a
rapid service for the transport of
wounded soldiers was quickly recog
nized, and now, of course, wherever
there is fighting there are motor am
bulances." Here is a typical Instance, as told
by Mr. Stanley, how the motor ambu
lance proved Its worth In the early
days of the war :
"Late one evening one of our ambu
lances crept up close to the firing line.
They met an officer, who turned them
back 'because,' as he said, 'it is so
dark, it is no use going further.'
"They went back to a farmhouse and
to bed. In the middle of the night
they were awakened by the same offi-
PRISONERS BACK OF
E Rrt jBI bIpk
German prisoners taken in the first days ot the battle of the Somuie and
held back of the English lines. The photograph shows the British trenches
and dugouts.
cer, who told them that a wounded
soldier, shot through both legs, was
lying almost In the German lines. It
was so dangerous a mission that the
officer wouldn't order the ambulance
to go! He just told them where the
man was, and left them to decide.
They went. They crawled, without
lights, along an unknown road in the
darkness ; got almost within the Ger
man lines, where they found the man
and brought him back to safety. That
wounded soldier had lain there for
days and would most certainly have
died had he not been rescued that
night.
"In this modest and voluntary way
the motor ambulance came Into Its
own without one penny of cost to the
government !
"Today," went on Mr. Stanley, "there
are about 1,600 motor ambulances and
cars at the French front alone. An
other 1,000 are scattered about with
the troops in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Sa
lonlki, Malta, East Africa, etc. We
have three ambulance convoys each
one consisting of some sixty cars and
a radiographing convoy working in
Italy. We have a number of cars in
Petrograd and on the western Russian
front, while we recently sent a small
convoy as a present to Grand Duke
Nicholas In the Caucasus."
These motors and ambulances have
been provided, and their upkeep main
tained, entirely by volunteer subscrip
tions. "Up to the present," said Mr. Stan
ley, "we have collected over $20,000,000
for the Red Cross and St. John's Am
bulance society. The money comes In
at the rate of about $5,000,000 every
six months. This shows the public
appreciation of the work. Our support
comes from all sections of society."
"As an instance of the diversity of
our work, it may be interesting to note
that we arranged the other day to send
motor boats to Mesopotamia and
'Charlie Chaplin films to Malta, this
latter for the amusement of the con
valescent soldiers !
"One of the outstanding features of
our organization has been the splendid
work done by the women."
Mr. Stanley mentioned, by the way.
the excellent artificial limbs for
maimed soldiers produced by Ameri
man manufacturers, both in the Unit
ed States and especially at a factory
established near London, where many
disabled men are themselves employed.
While the women of all nations at
war have been working courageously
in aid of their men, American women
also have come out brilliantly in the
labor of mercy. At the commencement
of the war a group of American wom
en, nearly all married to Englishmen,
met together to consider how they
might best render assistance to the
soldiers of the king. The result was
the birth of the American Woman's
War Relief fund, of which Lady Paget
became president, with Mrs. John As
tor as vice-president, the duchess of
Marlborough as chairman and Lady
Lowther and Mrs. Harcourt as honor
ary secretary. Other women closely
identified with the work were Lady
Randolph Churchill, Mrs. WThitelaw
Reld and Hon. Mrs. John Ward.
Work of American Women.
The American Women's War Relief
fund began by sending a motor ambu
lance out to the front. "Friends in
Boston" subscribed for another it
was actually the seventh which was
duly presented to the war office in
London. Down in Devonshire, at
Paighton, near Torquay, there is an
American woman's war hospital, where
thousands of wounded soldiers have
been nursed back to health. Not con
tented with these activities the Amer
ican women in question have opened
workrooms in various parts of the
British capital to enable girls thrown
out of work to learn other trades, and
so to become self-supporting, in spite
of the war.
Americans are busy helping in
France as well as in England, and the
American Relief Clearing house, in
Paris, is also an Institution of very
considerable value and importance. It
represents the American Red Cross,
and Its distributing committee has al
ready apportioned more than 4,000,000
parcels, from bales of cotton, clothes
for men, women and children shoes,
hospital accessories, surgical instru
ments and countless other useful
things. No less than 2,000 hospitals
in France have been fitted from the
American Relief Clearing house, which
has Joseph H. Choate for its presi
dent. Modeled somewhat on the lines of
the organization over which Mr. Stan
ley presides, Is the American Volun
THE ENGLISH LINES
teer Motor Ambulance corps, yet an
other body of mercy-workers. In Sep
tember, 1914, Prof. Richard Norton of
Harvard university saw for himself
the plight of the wounded French sol
diers, who suffered additionally
through inadequate means of trans
portation. Consequently, with the co
operation of some of his friends, he
started the American Volunteer Am
bulance corps, which quickly widened
its field from two cars to seventy-five.
Originally composed of American and
British members, the corps has, while
always working in conjunction with
the French army, been placed under
the British Red Cross; owing to ques
tions of American neutrality.
The volunteers of the American Mo
tor Ambulance corps have given their
time and their services uncomplaining
ly to the attainment of an excellent
object. Under the chairmanship of
the late Henry James, the novelist,
who directed matters from London,
many young college graduates freely
entered the corps to work strenuously,
without pay or preferment. Professor
Norton. Rldgely Carter, Sir John Wolfe
Berry, Jordan L. Nott. John Dixon
Morrison and many other well-known
men are members of the London coun
cil. Mr. Norton and several of the
men have been awarded the Croix de
Guerre and the Croix d'Arraee, the for-
mer ranking high in the honors of war
ring and republican France. Work
ing close up to the firing line, the
American Motor Ambulance men have
brought relief to many thousands of
wounded and sick soldiers. Some
times dashing about in country ex
posed to German artillery fire, the cars
have not Infrequently come through
a hall of bursting shells, but, so far,
without the loss of a single life. The
only member of the corps to die is A.
D. Loney who, while returning from a
brief visit to America, was drowned
in the sinking of the Lusltanla.
The American Motor Ambulance
corps has been "mentioned" for Its
discipline as well as for the high stand
ard of its members generally. Lieut,
Col. Leonard Robinson, in the follow
ing words narrates in a report to Mr.
Stanley, some experiences he has had
with the American volunteers: "Im
mediately after our return from Lizy-sur-Ourcq,"
states the colonel, "we
called from the Service de Sante for an
ambulance to proceed to Coulomiers to
bring back General Snow, who had
been seriously Injured. Starting with
an ambulance and a pilot car, and ac
companied by Dr. du Bouchet and Sur
geon Major Langle of the French army,
we left Paris at about 5 p. m., reach
ing Coulomiers toward 8 p. m. The
town had been but recently evacuated
by the enemy, and, as the general was
not in a condition to be moved, we
spent the night there. The following
morning an early start was made and
General Snow was brought safely to
Neuilly, where he remained for sev
eral weeks.
"With the trip to Coulomiers the pe
riod during which the service made
expeditions to the front for the pur
pose of bringing wounded back to the
entrenched camp Paris came to a
close and a new phase of duty was en
tered upon.
"While the ambulance was absent at
Lizy-sur-Ourcq, a call came from the
British authorities, asking that ambu
lances be sent to their clearing station
at Villeneuve-Triage to bring wound
ed, taken from their sanitary trains,
to Paris. No ambulance being avail
able at the time, an emergency column
of touring cars, headed by Doctor Dav
enport, was sent out, bringing in a
number of cases and inaugurating a
service which occupied all our time
for several weeks.
"The American Volunteer Motor Am
bulance corps has certainly done Im
mense service in creating a very fa
vorable Impression on the people of
France, people, beyond all others,
capable of appreciating kindness and
sympathy. But It has not been alone
In this respect. The American Ambu
lance at Neuilly, known before the war
as the American hospital, has also ac
quired the reputation of performing
miracles for the wounded."
"I have visited most of the war hos
pitals in France," said a society wom
an who has gone through the war as
a brancardiere of the French Red
Cross, "and I have never seen such
wonderful work many of the cases
are simply terrible, worse than any
where else as that performed at the
American Ambulance, Neuilly. There
they treat daily the most critical surgi
cal cases. Some of the wounded men
poor fellows seem almost blown
away, so little remains for treatment"
WILSON NOTIFIED
OFJOMIHATION
Receives Senator James and
Committee at Shadow Lawn.
ACCEPTS WITH GRATITUDE
President Sets Forth "Failures" of Re
publicans and Achievements of
Democrats Defends His For
eign and Mexican Policies.
Long Branch, .N. J., Sept. 2. Presi
dent Wilson received today at Shadow
Lawn, the summer White House, the
formal notification of his renomination
by the Democratic party from the noti
fication committee headed by Senator
Ollie James.
In response Mr. Wilson spoke in
part as follows:
Senator James, Gentlemen of the
Notification Committee, Fellow Citi
zens: I cannot accept the leadership
and responsibility which the National
Democratic convention has again, In
such generous fashion, asked me to
accept without first expressing my
profound gratitude to the party for
the trust It reposes In me after four
years of fiery trial In the midst of af
fairs of unprecedented difficulty, and
the keen sense .of added responsibility
with which this honor fills (I had al
most said burdens) me as I think of
the great Issues of national life and
policy Involved in the present and im
mediate future conduct of our govern
ment. I shall seek, as I have always
sought, to justify the extraordinary
confidence thus reposed In me by striv
ing to purge my heart and purpose of
every personal and of every mislead
ing party motive and devoting every
energy I have to the service of the na
tion as a whole, praying that I may
continue to have the counsel and sup
port of all forward-looking men at ev
ery turn of the difficult business.
For I do not doubt that the people
of the United States will wish the
Democratic party to continue in con
trol of the government. TJiey are not
In the habit of rejecting those who
have actually served them for those
who are making doubtful and conjec
tural promises of service. Least of
all are they likely Jo substitute those
who promised to render them particu
lar services and proved false to that
promise for those who have actually
rendered those very services.
Republican "Failures" Cited.
The Republican party was put out
of power because of failure, practical
failure and moral failure; because It
had served special interests and not
the country at large ; because, under
the leadership of its preferred and es
tablished guides, of those who still
make its choices, it had lost touch
with the thoughts and the needs of the
nation and was living in a past age
and under a fixed illusion, the illusion
of greatness. It had framed tariff
laws based upon a fear of foreign
trade, a fundamental doubt as to
American skill, enterprise, and capa
city, and a very tender regard for the
profitable privileges of those who had
gained control of domestic markets
and domestic credits ; and yet had en
acted antitrust laws which hampered
the very things they meant to foster,
which were stiff and Inelastic, and in
part unintelligible. It had permitted
the country throughout the long period
of its control to stagger from one
financial crisis to another under the
operation of a national banking law
of Its own framing which made strin
gency and panic certain and the con
trol of the larger business operations
of the country by the bankers of a
few reserve centers Inevitable; had
made as If It meant to reform the law
but had faint-heartedly failed In the
attempt, because it could not bring It
self to do the one thing necessary to
make the reform genuine and effec
tual, namely, break up the control of
small groups of bankers. It had been
oblivious, or indifferent, to the fact
that the farmers, upon whom the coun
try depends for its food and in the
last analysis for its prosperity, were
without standing in the matter of
commercial credit, without the protec
tion of standards in their market
transactions, and without systematic
knowledge of the markets themselves ;
that the laborers of the country, the
great army of men who man the in
dustries it was professing to father
and promote, carried their labor as a
mere commodity to market, were sub
ject to restraint by novel and drastic
process in the courts, were without as
surance of compensation for industrial
accidents, without federal assistance
in accommodating labor disputes, and
without national aid or advice In find
ing the places and the Industries In
which their labor was most needed.
The country had no national system
of road construction and development.
Little intelligent attention was paid
to the army, and not enough to the
navy. The other republics of America
distrusted us, because they found that
we thought first of the profits of
American investors and only as an af
terthought of impartial justice and
helpful friendship. Its policy was pro
vincial in all things ; its purposes were
out of harmony with the temper and
purpose of the people and the timely
development of the nation's interests.
So things stood when the Democrat
ic party came into power. How do
they stand now? Alike in the domes
tic field and In the wide field of the
commerce of the world, American busi
ness and life and industry have been
set free to move as they never moved
before.
What Democrats Have Done.
The tariff has been revised, not on
the principle of repelling foreign
trade, but upon the principle of en
couraging it upon something like a
footing of equality with our own in
respect of the terms of competition,
and a tariff board has been created
whose function it will be to keep the
relations of American with foreign
business and industry under constant
observation, for the guidance of our
business men and of our congress.
American energies are now directed
towards the markets of the world.
The laws against trusts have been
clarified by definition, with a view
to making it plain that they were not
directed against big business but only
against unfair business and the pre
tense of competition where there was
none; , and a trade commission has
been created with powers of guidance
and accommodation which have re
lieved business men of unfounded
fetirs and sat them upon the road of
hopeful and confident enterprise.
By the federal reserve act the sup
ply of currency at the disposal of ac
tive business has been rendered elas
tic, taking its volume, not from a fixed
body of Investment securities, but
from the liquid assets of daily trade.
Effective measures have been taken
for the re-creation of an American
merchant marine and the revival of
the American carrying trade.
The interstate commerce commis
sion has been reorganized to enable
It to perform its great and important
f unctions more promptly and more ef
ficiently. We have created, extended
and improved the service of the par
cels post.
For the farmers of the country we
have virtually created commercial
credit, by means of the federal reserve
act and the rural credits act. They
now have the standing of other busi
ness men in the money market. We
have successfully regulated specula
tion in "futures" and established
standards In the marketing of grains.
By an intelligent warehouse act we
have assisted to make the standard
crops available as never before both
for systematic marketing and as a
security for loans from the banks.
For Labor and Children.
The worklngmen of America have
been given, a veritable emancipation,
by the legal recognition of a man's
labor as part of his life, and not a
mere marketable commodity ; by ex
empting labor organizations from proc
esses of the courts which treated their
members like fractional parts of mobs
and not like accessible and responsi
ble individuals ; by releasing our sea
men from Involuntary servitude; by
making adequate provision for com
pensation for industrial accidents; by
providing suitable machinery for me
diation and conciliation in industrial
disputes; and by putting the federal
department of Labor at the disposal of
the workingman when in search of
work.
We have effected the emancipation
of the children of the country by re
leasing them from hurtful labor. We
have Instituted a system of national
aid in the building of highroads such
as the country has been feeling after
for a century. We have sought to
equalize taxation by means of an
equitable income tax. We have taken
the steps that ought to have been
taken at the outset to open up the re
sources of Alaska. We have pro
vided for national defense upon a
scale never before seriously proposed
upon the responsibility of an entire
political party. We have driven the
tariff lobby from cover and obliged It
to substitute solid argument for pri
vate influence.
Foreign Policy Stated.
In foreign affairs we have been
guided by principles clearly con
ceived and consistently lived up to.
Perhaps they have not been fully com
prehended because they have hitherto
governed international affairs only in
theory, not in practice. They are sim
ple, obvious, easily stated, and funda
mental to American Ideals.
We have been neutral not only be
cause it was the fixed and traditional
policy of the United States to stand
aloof from the politics of Europe and
because we had no part either of ac
tion or of policy in the influences which
brought on the present war, but also
because it was manifestly our duty to
prevent, if it were possible, the indefi
nite extension of the fires of hate and
desolatioa kindled by that terrible con
flict and seek to serve mankind by re
serving cur strength and our resources
for the anxious and difficult days of
restoration and healing which must
follow, when peace will have to build
its house anew.
The rights of our own citizens of
course became involved ; that was in
evitable. Where they did this was our
guiding principle : that property rights
can be vindicated by claims for dam
ages when the war is over, and no mod
ern nation can decline to arbitrate
such claims ; but the fundamental
rights of humanity cannot be. The loss
of life Is irreparable. Neither can di
rect violations of a nation's sovereign
ty await vindication in suits for dam
ages. As to Mexico.
While Europe was at war our own
continent, one of our own neighbors,
was shaken by revolution. In that
matter, too, principle was plain and it
was imperative that we should live up
to it if we were to deserve the trust of
any real partisan of the right as free
men see It. We have professed to be
lieve, and we do believe, that the peo
ple of small and weak states have the
right to expect to be dealt with exact
ly as the people of big and powerful
states would be. We have acted upon
that principle In dealing with the peo
ple of Mexico.
Our recent pursuit of bandits intt
Mexican territory was no violation of
that principle. We ventured to enter
Mexican territory only because there
were no military forces in Mexico that
could protect our border from hostile
attack and our own people from vio
lence, and we have committed there
no single act of hostility or interfer
ence even with the sovereign authority
of the republic of Mexico herself.
Many serious wrongs against the
property, many irreparable wrongs
against the persons, of Americans have
been committed within the territory of
Mexico herself during this confused
revolution, wrongs which could not be
effectually checked so long as there
was no constituted power in Mexico
which was in a position to check them.
We could not act directly in that mat
ter ourselves without denying Mexi
cans the right to any revolution at all
which disturbed us and making the
emancipation of her own people await
our own interest and. convenience.
Problems of Near Future.
The future, the immediate future,
will bring us squarely face to face with
many great and exacting problems
which will search us through and
through whether we be able and ready
to play the part in the world that we
mean to play.
There must be a just and settled
peace, and we here in America must
contribute the full force of our en
thusiasm and of our authority as a
nation to the organization of that
peace upon world-wide foundations
that cannot easily be shaken. No na
tion should be forced to take sides in
any quarrel in which its own honor
and Integrity and the fortunes of Its
own people are not involved; but no
nation can any longer remain neutral
as against any willful disturbance of
the peace of the world.
One of the contributions we must
make to the world's peace is this:
We must see to it that the people in
our insular possessions are treated
in their own lands as we would treat
them here, and make the rule of the
United States mean the same thing
everywhere the same Justice, the
same consideration for the essential
rights of men.
Besides contributing our ungrudg
ing moral and practical support to the
establishment of peace throughout the
world we must actively and intelli
gently prepare ourselves to do our full
service In the trade and Industry
which are to sustain and develop the
life of the nations in the days to come.
We have already been provident in
this great matter and supplied our
selves with the Instrumentalities of
prompt adjustment. We have created.
In the federal trade commission, a
means of Inquiry and of accommoda
tion in the field of commerce which
ought both to co-ordinate the enter
prises of our traders and manufac
turers and to remove the barriers of
misunderstanding and of a too tech
nical interpretation of the law. In
the new tariff commission we have
added another instrumentality of ob
servation and adjustment which prom
ises to be Immediately serviceable.
We have already formulated and
agreed upon a policy of law which
will explicitly remove the ban now
supposed to rest upon co-operation
amongst our exporters In seeking and
securing their proper place In the
markets of the world. The field will
be free, the instrumentalities at hand.
At home also we must see to it that
the men who plan and develop and di
rect our business enterprises shall en
joy definite and settled conditions of
law, a policy accommodated to the
freest progress. We have set the just
and necessary limits. We have put
all kinds of unfair competition under
the ban and penalty of the law. We
have barred monopoly, These fatal
and ugly things being excluded, we
must now quicken action and facili
tate enterprise by every just means
within our choice. There will be
peace in the business world, and, with
peace; revived confidence and life.
We ought both to husband and to
develop our natural resources, our
mines, our forests, our water power.
I wish we could have made more prog
ress than we have made in this vital
matter.
We must hearten and quicken the
spirit and efficiency of labor through
out our whole industrial system by
everywhere and in all occupations do
ing justice to the laborer, not only by
paying a living wage, but also by
making all the conditions that sur
round labor what they ought to be.
We must co-ordinate the railway
systems of the country for national
use, and must facilitate and promote
their development with a view to that
co-ordination and to their better
adaptation as a whole to the life and
trade and defense of the nation. The
life and industry of the country can
be free and unhampered only If these
arteries are open, efficient, and com
plete. Thus shall we stand ready to meet
the future as circumstance and Inter
national policy effect their unfolding,
whether the changes come slowly or
nntnp fnst find without nreface.
Not for Her.
"I have here," said the gentlemanly
agent, "a washing machine which la
so simple that a child can operate
it. With It you an do your own wash
ing and thus save the money which
you now pay a laundress. I am sell
ing this machine at the extremely low
price of"
"Never mind the price," Interrupted
the comnruter's wife. "I wouldn't take
the machine as a gift. It's so lone
some out here that I don't see a soul
from one week's end to another ex
cept the woman who comes every Mon
day to do my washing, and now you
want to deprive me of her society.
Go away before I set the dog on you T
WEDS FRENCHMAN
ON HER DEATHBED
Pretty Peggie Gillespie Keeps
Her Promise to Marry Wealthy
Admirer.
WAS NOTABLE FIGURE
ramou8 Beauty, Born in Little Penn
sylvania City, Set Fashions for
World and Shone Among Elite
of Europe.
Paris. In Paris a few days ago
;here died at the age of thirty-four one
tt the most romantic characters of
France an American girl, Peggie Gil
lespie by name, who began life in the
little Pennsylvania city of Punxsutaw
ney. Even her end was spectacular,
or on her deathbed she married Hen
ry Letellier, one of the wealthiest of
Frenchmen.
Peggy Gillespie spent most of her
early life in Pittsburgh, where she was
married to George McClelland. But
several years ago she went to France
and immediately became a prominent
figure in society and on the race
courses.
For a long time she was the model
of fashion and did much to set the
styles of women's dress In Europe and
America. Because of her extrava
gance and daring eccentricities she was
described by a French writer as rank
ing with the reckless beauties of the
Second empire.
But as long ago as 1909 a cloud be
gan to shadow her life. When a con
sultation of physicians was called to
consider her health, it was found that
she was a victim of tuberculosis. She
was ordered to the south of France,
and at Hyeres she lived for a time in
a tent with a special kitchen, two
motor cars and a train of servants.
But she did not stay long away from
Paris.
A Star In the World of Fashion.
For years little Peggie Gillespie, by
her wit and charm and the dash with
which she dressed, set a pace which
the other glittering women of the
French capital found difficult to fol
low. Wherever there was a gathering
of beauty and fashion, Peggy Gillespie
was there, outshining the others like a
star. Her entertainments in her sump
tuous apartments in the Avenue Henri
Martin were famous, and she numbered
Set Styles for Women's Dress.
among her acquaintances many of the
highest title and distinction in Europe.
When the war broke out she plunged
into charity and relief work.
Shortly after she had consented to
marry Letellier she began ft yield to
the fatal disease she had fought for so
long. When the doctors announced
that death was near she tried to break
the engagement, but Letellier finally
persuaded her to become his wife be
fore she died.
TOT VICTIM OF FAMILY ROW
Unwittingly Shot and Killed by Mother
Emptying Revolver Under
Table.
Curtisville, Pa. Following a violent
quarrel, Joseph Kunkle, aged thirty
three, a miner, rushed upstairs,
seized a revolver and returned to the
dining room, threw the weapon on the
table and told his wife to use It on
him or he would on her.
The six-year-old daughter, Leila, un
nerved, hid under the table.
The wife, fearing he would shoot,
grabbed the revolver and fired five
shots under the table.
The husband then knocked his wife
to the floor, and as he did so he dis
covered the girl there, shot. He took
the dying child to a nearby physician,
but she immediately expired as he en
tered the office door.
Skirt Prevents Suicide.
New York. Mrs. Alice Walker's
wide skirt prevented her from com
mitting suicide when she jumped into
the East river. The skir spread out
like a balloon and kept her afloat until
boatmen reached her.