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Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whola System. 50 cents IMS J Tili . , 4 Sun " THREE CHAINS OF STRONG FORTS PROTECT PARIS Defenses : of France's Capital Have No Equal Anywhere Else In the World. THEY COST FIFTY MILLIONS Total Area Encompassed by These Tremendous Fortifications, Relied on to Balk the Germans, Is at Least 600 Square Miles. Ever Bince the terrible days of No vember and December, 1870, when the German army camped at the very doors of Paris, the French have been building forts to withstand the Ger man armies. All of France is heavily fortified, but about the city of Paris in particular has all the ingenuity of French engi neers' been applied to annihilate any army that might again reach to the capital. Should invading Germans break through the network of frontier forts, should they elect to skirt the heavily fortified cities and hills and strike at Paris, then these invaders would meet a line of fortifications the like of which the world has never seen. Surrounded by Network. The network of forts about Paris contains so" many minor forts that none but those at the French war of fice know their actual number and strength. The tourist who visits the country frequently comes upon a little clump of trees about which the ground is un cultivated, the grass uncut and the weeds rank. If he moves close to the clump of trees he gets a glimpse of a block of masonry that reminds him of some neglected ruin. If he tries to find out what sort of ruin it Is and walks up to the clump of trees he sees not a neglected ruin laid low, but a bit of clean-cut masonry sunk into the earth some thirty or forty feet, in the center of which is a prison like building -with huge eyelets cut here and there. If the visitor has any Imagination, while he eees no guns and no soldiers, he can fancy that behind those huge eyelets big guns lurk. Balked by "Halte La!" If he attempts, however, to verify his fancy by following the footpath that leads through the bushes and grass up to the sunken wall of ma sonry and earth thrown up loosely, carelessly, he will find himself sudden ly facing a French soldier, who cries: "Halte la!" Then the visitor is very sure that he has stumbled upon a fort, the guns of which in peace time are merely guard ed by a squad of artillerymen, but which in war time are guarded by a half regiment ready to hurl miles through the air hideous, death-dealing projectiles with the precision of a sharpshooter. i These artillerymen know to, a foot every bit of ground for miles around, Just how their guns mu6t be pointed to reach a certain spot and annihilate an enemy. While Paris has had her walls, draw bridges and flanking , towers and trenches for a thousand years, it was in the year 1840 that the growing city was first protected against artillery fire. The celebrated fortifications of Paris within five years were completed at an expense of $30,000,000. - May Still Be Seen. These fortifications which are still to be eeen today, are 21 miles in length and have no less than ninety-four bas tions. The ramparts are 32 feet in height, with a parapet 19. feet in width. The. moat, in which cows graze in peace times, is 48 feet wide. - But the range of modern artillery has practically made these fortifica tions useless, except to repel an as sault of old-fashioned hand-to-hand fighting, when, perhaps, a half million men would try on all sides to force an entry into the city. It was these old fortifications which held back the Ger mans in 1870. To keep back the Invader, however, to a distance of at least thirty miles on all sides. Is the reason for the exist ence of the chain of outside forts, which have been built at an expense of at least $50,000,000. Small Army Needed. There are three great chains of forte about the Parte of today. The first circles the city at the fortifications, the second on the higher plains two miles distant from the city, and the third at a distance of twelve to fifteen miles, according to the lay of the ground and the hills that afford points of strategic defense and offense. Were any army to dare to come with in reach of the outside chain of forts. It is not too much to say that the In vaders could be held off and perhaps literally destroyed by a few hundred gunners. And other French troops would be employed merely as a safe guard to hold back any stray body of troops that might steal up to one of the forts. While the actual number of these forts and even their position is known to only a few heads, it is esti mated that there are no less than a to tal of two hundred. They are planned to work together like the crew of a boat. Each big one has a particular bit of territory to guard, and about this, big one has been arranged a sys tem of cross-fire through which It would be next to impossible to break. Every contingency "has been pro vided for. Should one fort be silenced by guns of the enemy, there is another French fort that can in turn play on its own fallen fort and prevent the enemy from occupying it. Like Trap to the Mouse. For an army to venture to Paris is like a mouee walking Into a trap. In the second great chain of forts there are no less than thirty, each of which is considered impregnable to charge by troops or from bombarding cannon. The defender can stay under ground practically and yet continue his lire. t . Between the line of forts and the outer line are said to lie all kinds of dynamite pitfalls which can be fired by electrical wires, as the mines in a har bor, should an ' enemy break through the outer chain of forte.;'' There are some fifty outer fortresses numbered In the outer chain, lying at a distance of twelve to fifteen miles from the heart of the city. The total area encompassed within these great fortifications is no leBs than five hundred square miles. It is estimated that if an invading army were held at the outer line of forts enough vegetable produce could, in summer, be grown on the inside of this outer chain to feed the total popula tion of Paris and the French troops de fending 'the city. FOUGHT TILL THEY DROPPED Medical Observer Says That Many Belgian Soldiers Collapsed ' From Sheer Exhaustion. London. Medical observations In the war now being fought will be' per haps more complete than in any pre vious conflict. A London medical cor respondent stationed at Brussels has sent a report part of which follows: "I have had an opportunity during the last few days of visiting several of the great Brussels hospitals and ambulances and of seeing some of the wounded who have been sent down from the front. "Two facts have struck me very for cibly. First, a very large number of the Belgian soldiers are wounded only in the legs, and secondly, many sol diers seem to have collapsed through sheer exhaustion. "Some of these Belgian soldiers were at work and on the march dur ing the stupendous days of Wednes day and Thursday of last week, prac tically without a moment's respite. They went literally till they dropped. Only with actual loss of consciousness was duty relinquished. The victims present a very alarming appearance when first met. They seem to be al most dead. They are limp and pale and cold. After a time, however, strength begins to return and recovery is usually not protracted. In every case the men who had been knocked out in this manner expressed the keenest desire to return at once to the ranks. The fact that so many of the Belgian wounded had been shot in the legs aroused considerable sur prise at first in medical circles. It soon became clear that this was not merely a matter of chance. When the German prisoners began to come in and were Interrogated, the explana tion was forthcoming. It transpired that orders had been given to fire low, no doubt in the belief that a man hit in the leg must be immediate ly placed hors de combat. While there may be something In this theory, it remains a fact that a flesh wound in the thigh or calf tends to heal quickly and that many of those wounded are already on the high road to recovery. The German wounded, on the other hand have been hit for the most part about the body." LONDON HAS FOOD IN PLENTY Supplies for One Hundred Days on Hand, With Much More on the Way. (International News Service.) London. There is today in London only food enough to provision the city for 100 days. Inquiry showed other English cities to be in about the same situation. About the only commodities of which there were a noticeable short age were bacon and eggs, the staples of the British breakfast table. But there is little alarm over the situation, as It Is known that freight vessels are on their way from Aus tralia and Canada with foodstuffs, which, barring accidents of war, will arrive soon, and it Is is anticipated that freight traffic between the United Kingdom and the United States will be largely restored before the 100 days elapse. Coming to actual figures, J. G. Broodank, chairman of the docks and warehouse committee of the port of London, said that the present stock in the port warehouses and in ships dis charging cargoes Included 36,000 tons of meat, the supply being so plentiful that it was necessary to use a new warehouse for a part of it. The ware houses were having a very busy time, said the chairman. One Exploit of Belgians. Maastricht, Holland. Thrilling lncl dents of the fighting about Liege are being told here by wounded men who were In the garrison of the besieged city. One said .that a half-dozen Bel gian carabinlers came upon 70 Ger mans who were escapiag through a tunnel. As they emerged the Belgians shot them down one by one. When four had been killed the remaining Germans surrendered, believing they faced a large force. Your It is more to you remedy than tclhe e ysician pr Remember there the signature of Sold only in one size bottle, never in bulk, or otherwise; to protect the babies. Some Cause for Fear. The Professor's Wife The profes sor is in the laboratory conducting some chemical exDeriments. The pro fessor expects to go down to posterity From the Laboratory Br-r-r-r-r! Bang! The Visitor I hope the professor hasn't gone! BUMPS ITCHED ON BODY Route No. 3, Cooper, Texas. 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