Three Strips ofBunting

E. A. BINGHAM

“PrtTmto Dopre*!" -Here!" "Step forward!" A j ri—l soUBer of barely »Ter**e belcht. with nothlag that waa atrUd&sly military In fcU bearing, bnt with a ooantenanee pronouncedly InUllectual. and dart eye* that had a deep and eonatant slow to their depth*, atepped oat of the rar k*. approached the group of ofioen and atood at attention. “Dupre*!” aald Cotoaal Mansln. twirling one and of hi* gray mustache with the ftngerr of a neatly gloTed hand while he regarded the private critically. ‘ Tour Uentanant aaya yon are tnteatgent.” “Thank yon.” replied Doprw wlth“U remains to be prored that you are beam.” The soldier straightened himself, aada alight Bush spread over his face Out was naturally of an unusual pallor. The oolouel smiled “I mean braver than brave/ explained, not without a sign of i taction aa well aa of amusement. “Wo are all brave here. I trust; hot some must be braver than other*.” “Tee. air." the soldier answered. There waa a nJment's pause, while the eolonel still toyed with his mus'tacbr—it waa a very fine one—and , continued to study the man standing rigid at attention. Dupres as a soldier looked very new. as If Just turned out Behind him stood at ease two battalions of soldier*, looking precise!) aa new and Just turned out aa Private Dupre*. They were. Indeed, f-esh battalions Ju*t brought up from their divisional depot to the rear of the Bring line They would. In all likelihood, go »nU> action that day In support of the —th re** ■'out. which had suffered heavily is the Brat Prench advance beyo'd the Vosges They were halted now at the vhqoot of a long. low hill In the green, if Txjrrslne. e that we are abort of i the colonel at last es, sir.* . .it a man to lead a detachment to perform sn Important and perilous doty” “Very well, sir.” “Vou are wflllngT” The soldier’s eyec brightened and a smile came to his thin Ups. “I nm not afraid.” ’•Good!” “Tiut T have one reonest to make" “The deuce you have!" cried the colonel, sharply “What is It?” "That you persn’.t m> to choose the men whom 1 am to lead " ."ltm-m!" murmured the colonel. Thee be looked questlonlngly at tbo

“Too next I" HI* was a figure that only the loose laws of conscription could have passed into an army fightiag for a nation’s existence- He waa smal 1 , even for a petit eoldat of France. Bat something in the way the ma^ moved, and especially something In his long, thin face bespoke courage and power that might well hare had their habitation in a stronger and a finer body. By the time Dupre* had selected two or three more of the men who were to follow him U was apparent to the watching officer* that there waa a curious method In his nominations. Ftor the dangerous and difficult mission upon which he waa about to be sent ho waa not choosing those of the battalion who looked, the beat soldiers or the readiest men for an undertaking that required courage, quickness

I a III find a brl

Tlwii »our otru ”llo» sunu). ■Ir?" “Twenty OUfUt'i e. lui.-d cM.r«- n»i ufid Stepped elnx-1) back IRg liliea Of red and blue They walrhrd cur'vu. went to the rigbl *m«l of ti taboo end. stalking very eh Its front began to choose TUUer. step out!" Hr waa ooe of the emailthe hnUaJloa. with * look I about him. tm

rtoa of rtetieeswea* h TknJh

line was acnitlnlsed closely, an waa dear none but the Intellectnal —if they might be so deecrlbedpealed to him. And when he found his twenty the officers c not reprcey exclamations of amusement. not unmlxed with mirth, to aye them assembled for review and In straction*, looking as if they should have had books 'n their hands Instaad of rifles. “Don’t quite like the looks of that lot—for blowing up bridges.” aald the colonel, directing himself especially to Dupre*’ lieutenant. That officer also had bis doubts: but be realised that, Dupres having been given permission to choose his i to make any change* In his command would be to imperil the success of the expedition and perhaps to weaken discipline and confidence In the two battrllon*. "If* too Isle now, don't think?” he ventured to suggert in re-

ply.

“I sojapoftc so." growled the colonel, retnrnlng to hi* mestache. And so Private Duprex. with a curious smile lurking at the sery cor of his mouth, and a deeper glow In his firm, dark eyes, was allowed to set about quickly Informing his men of the task before them. "Any man who doesn't Ilk* the Job may step out. and ill find another," he st!d tersely when ho had finished Not a man moved; there waa doubt and curiosity on their taoea. but no fear. ’That's belter." admitted the coinuel in the ear of the I'eutenanL Half an hour later Dupre* and hi* tweniy. carrying charge* of dynamite In addition to their rlfiee and knapssika, set out down the white road leading to the distant bridge. They felt a curious thrill with the thought that they were In Lorraine— that far south of them other French regiments were In Alsace—that after forty years of patient waiting the hour of Franco had come, and the tricolor again waved over the fair, lost provinces. Only now and then the sound of cannon and the faint rattle of rlfl* fire from far over the hill at their left reminded them that the province* rot yet been conquered—that th* fight had not yet hern woo They marched In silence for almost an hour very slowly, lest they tumble unexpectedly upon outposts cr scouts of the enemy. Then suddenly Duprex. who until that monwin had addressed barely a few short words of command to his men. turned around .-nd faced them Something strange in hi* eot nance and manner brought the twenty to a sharp halt In their *ery tracks, where they stood regarding him oM-tantl> For a moment Dupre* stood, studytug them with that same keen wrutlt.y they had observed when be sel-vted them for this expedition. “Brother*!" It* cried. A moment’s pause •'Comrade*!" Another pause "Brothers, comrade*, fellow men' Why are we hero?" They could on ! y look at aim. pussled by his word*, so Irrelevant to the hour, but fascinated by his fiery man nor and the ring of bis vole* on the still air “Have you ever slopped to think why we are Bubtlng? Did you slop to think hark yonder when we pass-d Iho gravea of our brothers of the —Ih. why they died, and why we shall -Be alter them* Will"you stop to reflect now what all this meana?" The llltlo knot of mm atole swift Cl«nrr» ill one another's fares and intw here end there a flush, and heard a qui-tkonlng of the breath and U movement of expectancy. Then all eye* were again fixed on their let "Brothors." he went on, "I chose you fer this undertaking because I ■aw tn your faces that you are mere clods- that you are not only brav-.- men. but men who can think ■ hose vou because I knew lha' y .-ould lueve the courage to die ft. b*ar me now!—to die for a caust i,cl and bent eagerly toward they underslan I his a.d tbry know whs: It* esus-'? fVr a moment

curiously as he spoke to them, had wondered not a UUlc at picked for this expedition. None tad become acquainted with him tn the brief period of mobillxatlon. of equipment at the depot, and of transportation In the crowded military train from Bplual to the front Three or four. Including Tinier and Dural, had learned his name, and found him a studious, silent curt follow. not exactly rude or unsympathetic. but uncommunicative and apparently absorbed in his own thoughts. Do pm, with a sudden motion, raised hi* rifle high in the air and flung It fiercely into the dust of the road at his feet His hands went swiftly to th* car-tridge-box at his belt tore it open, and scattered the cartridges far and wide

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those poor devils of (Jcnaaa* want to kill us? Do you suppose this their war? Do you auppo** w* should ever have come hunting each Wher over these fair hUU and valleys if w* had come to know each other's if we had had the age to unite gather for the "Do you think this ncrt.pt thing U going on forever? Bom* thought It was going on forever away back in ItW. In the name of Ood. are w* going to lose the gain woo by the sacrifice* of our ancestors in the cause of human freedom? Are we for all time going tt. be fooled by the aflly shibboleths of oountry and hag and patriotism? To die for three strips of hunting sewn together! For a boundary Hne hasot eve*, a river or a rang* of ntains or any outer kind of an ex-

in your pens, to he plandered and plucked at t will' If you want to die—" They were an silent now—<

In the sacrifice he wee efaout he threat hi* book hack into his locket, and faced the men to make the last appeal, something from his wn heart, clothed In his owe eloquence. a speech be bad long sgo framed for some such moment of greatness But even as he opened his h. before he could utter the first word of hts peroration, there came an Interruption that held him and all

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- faces

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f undi-r-•fth sex i exprrt

liKhtr-d up: and Till lev - uttered a •harp.\wlfi Ah'" B »»>. •'tfiy an exclamation--scarce-ly more Hjnn » whisper h

mag iral.

Th* men had bean sludging him

t u|ion Hypret the effect waa n 1. as If it tyu* b **° ■ * 0

Raised His Rifle High In the Air. on the rood Then, with an acceleration of recklees determination. Jerked the belt Itself from hts body and burled It away from hi®, th* bayonet Is Us sheath falling with n clatter lav from the discarded gun. There followed buttons, and m her*, and all else that was detachable from bis onoe complete and proper uniform. •This." he cried, "la my answer!” He raised himself erect, folded his arms, and looked with mingled dell auce and appeal at the amaaed and si-

lent

This Is mr answer to the murderer*—my answer to the emperors, kings, presidents, politicians, capital ins, bankers, makers of guns and pow-der-all the money-sodden and powercraxed schemer* who have brought twenty millions of slaves together to shoot each other down.” “Stop!” flung out a voice from the group of men before him. Dupre* paused and looked anxiously bvi fearlessly toward the speaker. “Well, liartlneau?” hr demanded •harplrThis 1* treason!" replied the man resolutely. He was the largest among them—a very presentable figure of a soldier In his new uniform—and hla honest face had perhaps a little less of th* Introspective expression that character!led the pel* coantsnpr.ee of bU cotnpeiona. •Treason? Treason to whom? Treason to what*” demanded Duprex. advanring a step and treading hla Label under his feet. Treason to your country! Treason to France!” retorted liartlneau Among the olhers there was now apparent a division of feeling, a conflict of emotions arouat-d by th* fiery and appealing words of Dupres and • he sharp and antiseptic reminder of MarUncou. Dupre* saw Instantly that bo hnd perhaps half of his men already won. prepared as they had doubtless been by tbelr reading, and that ha had a lair chance to convince the others. •Treason!" he cried scornfully. Treason iff Frame, already betrayed by parliamentary cliques! Treason to a country already plundered by grasping politicians: Treason to the Fnirie already tottering to the grave dug for her by her own np-n—so-called men who fill th>- mngatlne* of her battleships with rotten powder— Don’t you know why the Lihertc blew up?—tarn who fill tbelr pockets with Millions appropriated to buy a worn-out and bankrupt railroad men who trade In th* nation's property and the nation'* lives—men who fatten on the corpus of the poor—men who reek with—” "No!" sbouicd Martinoau. "Treason to the country of IVroulede and Poincare; treason to the nation at taoked by tbu tyrant who wants to put his fool on every province eft France as he has on Alsace and- " “Oh. there you are!" broke In Dupn-*. 'That foolish cry of Alsace and la»rnitnc' What Is Alsace? What Is i orratue? What is Franco? What Is • leniiany. Austria. Itusslu? What are these imaginary lines drawn across fields and mountains und valleys? "What ar* Ibeae artificial divisions ol men that are set to fighting one ■ another on the fllmalest pretexts to gratify the lust of relera Tbo tier ■ man tyrant, you say! Ye*, the tierman lyranl. the Husslan tyrant, the French tyrants What I* the republic of France, as It stands today, but another form o' that same corruption, that same autocracy, tbs' asm* tri utnph of the few over the many that In all th* worid' “

go to the poll* and

step Ic -rard them, hla head lifted high, his eye* hlax«ng with the fire of his spirit, his no* growi and Godlike under ! power of hla idea. ”1 have brought you her* to prepare you to die for a cease—for the greatest of *2 cause*—for the cause. The brotherhood of man! It Is com lug The way is prepared. But a lit Up while and such a war aa this win be impossible. •Th* armed horde* win no longer move at the command of tyrants. Germans. French. Austrians. Russians. Fntilth—all nuke win refuse to kill one another at the will of a few shrewd and aelfweeklng schemer* who play upon the folly and the credulity of the masses. The masses! The masses shall role, and th* powder factories shall be Idle, and the warships shall rot at tbelr piers, and the bayonets shall be turned lute—" He waa interrupted for a moment by the much nearer tumult of the battle that waa raging beyond the hill But he Bailed la a Mad of triumph. They ar* dying yonder—for nothing—for wore* than nothing. I tell yon that the worid of me" needs only the Inspiring uplift of n great example. I have thrown down my rifle I ask you to throw down yonra. W# than wait for our brUhers come and find os. We shall not resist. We shall bo tried by martial and shot at dawn, sight of the two battalions, who win see for once what real courage

achieve.

“We shall set our great example before France and before the world. If we must die. let as die for something worth our fives, our reason and our sraU. Let us die for the great cause of peace and humanity—for the brotherhood of man! No more militarism' No more butchery peoples! No more tyranny!" With the last word* he drew from an Inside pocket of his coaf a small volume, worn and ragged from long study, turned to n well-worn page, and began to read: "Patriotism Is, for the ruling classes, a sentiment natural and profitable; for us It is a fool's trap. The natioe Is for them a kindly mother; for us It Is a stepmother, shrew who detest* and persecutes ur. "We are *011 aware that If a war should break out betwoen France and Kuxlsnd or Germany, It would be but the capitalists of each oountry cudgeling each other for the markets of the ••nrid If ww have to risk our live*, w# should t lik them no*, to defend Uonslltles. but rather to found the socialist nation that we already carry In our bralna." “Herve." cried TTIlet. aa he raised hts rifle and flung It on the ground. The name was repeated here end there; and another rifle—two. three, four—slipped from loosened fingers and dropped into the dust or were thrown down like Tilller’a. "Yes, Herve, our greet teacher, our prophet. Usten!" And while the roar of the battle grew stMdlly nearer, on the other side of the hill, bo read: ''Flags are only emblem* They havu no value be>oud what they to represent There an< thousands of flags tbal no longur stand for anything And countrios? What are they? Krr-ry country or nation, so railed, is composed of two groups of men—the few sestod at the loaded table and the mob begging for the crumbs. A country of the present time is nothing but a monstrous exploitation of man by man. Behold your country that they wish us to die for! Behold—” A shell came screaming over the hill and exploded so near them that dust flaw Into tbelr faces Duprex stopped for an Instant, and there waa a hr!- f change la the expression of hts countenance But. whatever It was. he forced It bark and read on. And as he read. In hts fervid and thrilling way. more rifles dreplied from the hands of the men before him. “It’s true!" cried one ns bs tore off bis belt and buttons. “No; that’s too strong'" protested another, but not quite resolutely. "The time ho* not come." waa Duplex's answer. “We shall be dead tomorrow anyhow. The nour has

struck!”

Looking keenly at the face* of his

comrades he oaw that be had all but won the day—that In ■ pother moment

hts man would follow him in » path he might choose U lead

half-blinded py dust nnd smoke and blood and the glare Ol the pltilca* August sun. they turned this way so a that, and thrust at friendt as often as

“irsrsis .r : sx: -no. only eighteen by no p- n mt>«an war In its heal

they rea-bed the Bag. formed a new wall of steel around !t. and began, step by step, to climb the hill recovering

There was first a furious outburst of battle-sounds, cannon and musketry and shouting; this time very nearer than they had Imagined the

then, over the brow of the hill, and not three hundred yard* away, appeared a part of the battle-line itself under their very eyes. tattered flag that *d and rose again and dipped and rose in the thick of a terrific hand-to hand encounter—mi In a fury of battle fighting around the flag. And the flag was the tricolor—merely "three strips of bunting sewn together." as Duprex had

Lid.

And It was retreating. The French se on the hill had been broken and this fragment, with th* flag Ir being forced back German hands were at the very throet of the flag-bearer. Back they came, back down the hill, th* Frenchmen rallying again and again around the flag, again and again thrown away from It. again and again flinging themselves to save It God of battles, what a sight! watchlnr; knot of men caught sight of the color-bearer himself—a mere boy. capless, hi* coat torn almost from his body, the flagstaff clutched to his breast with one hand while with the other be thrust at enemies right and left with some rapoa they could not se*. In an instant he was swallowed up

again.

There were sights that t-ere new and fearful to the men In the road. In their new nnlfonna. wfth their yet unused guns lying In Are dust before

them.

They heard dealh-orle*. saw death *T->.a. * l. - _ • -

, w of the European war In its first staxes was coming home <* the LwriUnU tax many trips sgo. He sat at the purser« table, and the purser one evemm told a truthful nature tale of harto*

the lort ground over the bodies of fh* slain. Dp. up they went; back. hack, back toward the shattered Hue of blue, tbelr bayonets working savagely, the new comers Inflamed with the lust of battle, and those they had Denied thrilled with new tope and courage Dp, then to the very crest of the

hlU

And suddenly a wave of cheering swept along the ragged line o“ blue The —th had seen It* flag go back and down: had thought It lort: had. neverthalevs. fought on desperately, hopelessly—borre back by superior nnmITS But now—the flag! The cheer rippled and then roared

along the line

Ac officer, seeing the flag, hearinf the cheer, had oae of those Inspirations that sometime* come to men 1- such i. that (omerime* win bet ties when battle* are already lost He leaped In fron. of his wavering line, grabbed a rifle from the hands of a dead soldier, helped a wonnded bugler to Ids ftet.

and gave a sharp command _

Orer thst bloody field, shore th#, QUIL ber of blasts. But he's dead nos

sounds of rifle and cannon and about- —poor old Ponto!

lex. rang out the call to the charge. : “One day a freighter was coming it The line leaped to ita feet ; from Covington. Kentucky, and Ponto In the front, to the right. Dupree, tried to p»«« her, headed oat. But ht forgetting ev-rvthlng but the luvt for | ftllt confused and gave th* whistle for battle, fired with a new kind of fury. •, going to the port aide whan he meext snatched fh* fag from the hands of . y,, gtarboard. anu the freighter m the tottering be-, raised tt high above , hlm d(nin and tlOT% i„ foetal bis conhls heed end. followed bv the eleven p^rtaenu. and he sank in nine min

through a school of whale* in mid

ocean.

"All of them ware *ormd asleep.said the purser with a wink to on atcomplice, -and ail of than were iaor . lag. The notes was deafentng.'' "It must have been." said th* eornxpendent; "but when I was a boy ou in Cincinnati. Ohio, there ua*u to be a « blotting whale lha. 1 lived in the octaa just In front of my father's boose. Hb name was Ponto and be would answer to It—answer by whistling You at*, bis blow hole waa dogged with tar node* and every time he spouted ta made a sound like n siren on a Bro

bool.

"Ponto was a greet pet with an the ship* that traded tn and oet of QUidt, aati. The pilots got to kaow him. and when they were entering port sod I “on to cruising about in the chann*! they would signal him and he would signal back, always giving the correct

Itadf. They thrilled at the eight of a j smy and fi-d. stopping only in youth who. flung oul of the struggling ^ of th*ir run* and *t

maddraed with pain and shrieking shriDy, ran and threw himself on th* ground and began tearing up the sod with his finger*. They are dying!" mannured DuI re*. “Onr brothers—there—ere dy-

ing!”

Suddenly, as suddenly as he had thrown it at his feet, Duprex whirled and ran and picked up his rifle and bayonet in the road and was back again to tare his command. “They're dying!” uo cried fiercely. ’Pick up your rifle*, men! We must save them!” He saw a wondering took on the facet before him. “We will save them?" he shouted. And Ann; “Tfllier! Duval! Mar tic-an! AU! Your guns!” They were already picking them up from the dust “Forward!” They leaped as one man from the rood to the green grass of the hillside. “Fix bayonets! ” The voice of Dupres rang heroes the finids, above the sounds of huttlo. “Charge!’ They were only twenty-one—a mere handful compared with the hundreds

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2 d VOU. do you think path he might choose U

—

that were left of hi* twenty mer—and many others and then the whole line— went shrieking Into the astonish-d

ranks cf the enemy

Tho dash was ferocious, un-x-

peeled. Irresistible

The German line shrank before the steel, faltered and gave way Bar nnetod In th« back, clubbed, shot and rlash-d et hr the Inspired demons in Mur and red. th- German soldiers gav*

the ehet ipportlng cavalry.

And when It wo* over, and the blue line halted breithless. exhausted bleeding, with half its nutnb-r Ivin* dead or wounded on the field, there came a curious kind of silence in a lit tie group of men gathered ground the flag. In the center of the group Mood Doprer. with the flagstaff dutrh-d tc Ms bfrost, the tattered “rag” floating softly above hi* head He was hatlese. A bayon-t had torn a hole tn his ooat Blood flowed from a scalp wound tnd reddened bis pale face He looked around him and his e»es glowed with a fire that was different firm that h's comrades had seen before Hr amtlcd, na be studied the faces of h’.s small rn-imand TUtler!” he -ailed oul. “He has fallen!” answered one of the twenty.

“Duval!”

"Here!” came the reply from a f-w fret away, where a soldier lifted his head from the midst of a group of wounded and dead, the last to have

fallen

“Martl-e.au!" “Herr!" answered a sturdy vole* as the man stepped forward The eye* of th- two men met, and

Ood of Battles, What

fighting on the hill But ibe section around ths flog had been torn away from the main battle linn and whirled backward down tbn bill, partially d* tached front ihe main bodies of French and Oeroisna There were |>ertiap* a hundred Germans heating down thirty Ki-nrhmen around the nag. Into the vortex of this almost In human atroggic. where e life went out every second and groans were mlxeil with curses, and walls of agony blendnd with shouts of triumph-Into this r—king and bleeding menstraight toward the wavering flag went the twenty-one with the cold ate*'.. Ah! The cold steel! No time for Bring <nto that whirling maaa' Rarh chose his man—hla next man—and hU next. Taken by surprise, caught between lbs bright bayonet* o» the rv .cunrs and the red bayonets of the 6.fenders of the flag, the German* ware surprised

Too were the Itit to be convlnred.

Marti peso.” said Duprex

“But 1 am ready now—for the aa-Ti-Oce—for tho great protest.” the soldier quietly replied. “We have shown that we are no cpward*. Irad on! I^et us throw down our guns again, and tho Pax. sod mtrch Into th- German ilnos singing our seng of freedom—

the ‘International' "

•for an Instant Duprex regarded him strangely Then h’.s fsee lighted up; he ■tralgutened hlms- if. clutched the tricolor tighter to his hresat and

took two step* backward

"Sotn« da/. MartIn-au—yea!" h«

cried “But now—"

Ho reached bis free hand Into hla pocket, drew forth th- ragrod volume of hts gosp-i of aallraniurism. of the brotherhood cf man. and held It up

at full arm's length

A long time h- regarded it. with a spiritual struggle plainly reflected oa

his fare.

atea, whistling for help to the Ten

last"

After which a great silence befell tt the purser’s table.—Baisrday Bveai&{

Fort

The Airship** The newer German naval and mDJ tsry airships of the Zeppelin and Par serai models are equipped with wireless apparatus of much greater posrr " ~ ■ toby ax thre* mill Harter phosphor broaze wire (hat aa the airship rises ta unwound from a spool to Its full length of 7M feat, *ad thst when the airship ta aloft floats frteiy In the air. The apparatus Itself ta Ten compact; with Its small dyaatro n weighs *70 pounds. It has * mlalmttn range of 120 miles and can prodore wireless wave* from on* tn four lho» sand feet long. According to tt* Wireless World, every large am drome In Germany has its wireless «u tlon; those at Imnortant canter* l!ks Johssnta'.hal. Cologne, Friedr'rt.''-* feu. Frankfort and Mannheim are v«T powerful. Taken together, they fiso a eontlb’uras ring round the bender* of Germany, and keep Germs: chips la constant touch with n G-rxu baac. They also serve as a sort U wireless compass, for they ensb'r ths navigating officers when out at -Igbt of land to fix their praltioa with men than a fair degree Youth’s Companion.

Not Fncouraglnp. Mr. Taft, ex president of the CaltM Pistes. Is a gifted writer, and at oo» time be had a high reputation »« » 1-oet. says London TU-Blta On on- v caaton. however, when he was a young man. he received n nary abort from an esteemed relative of his This was on aunt who lived In lb* rot...try, and the future president -rik to dtne with her one Runday **• l*roudly he carried with him ecu. tings from a newspaper—nothing I«*tn tact, than his own published vers** After the meat be took then exult*-: ly from hi* porket and gave them «* hts aunt to read. Adjusting her spectacle*. *h* through them carefully, while b<* poetical nephew watched her anitoo* Ir- i*re*ently she put down the <**' tings an! glaneed over her ■psctacl'-* at the poet. "Wllltam." she asked. InnoeeotH “do Utt-v prim those things ‘for noth tng‘ If you send them tar

Tho book had b-en his guldv. hit comfort to time* of trouble a rery Bible to Ills free-thinking mind, holding promises C f true freedom of the psora that has never yet come to the world, but 1* to come, "when tho war drums throb no longer and the battle

fl«* are furled "

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Love Letters la Her Ceffi"

The will of Mlse Mary Aabtoo Wad* of Yonkers, who died oa January 11 M Ine age of seventy-four, was a4irit lr ^ to 1*0 bate. Miss I ora is* Bradford rf SM West End avenu*. Monhsii*' * Dieud of Mias Wade, died an affidstU Mating .be had rsr.-tad out the te*U ‘or'* dying wish that a certain »--'^ (-x kagr among her effects should M

buriod with her

Orrrlt Smith, the rx nee tor's coot**

sift and drums tic Iran*-1 ralsttn He had fought for hit !o New fork Sun.

“ Weeding now for

up to the

l« Patrie HU t-y** _. M , fl*R flapping above his bead

wsssw.^ by a Dew .motloo-the flnre, .ad purest . n d most uns.|fl.h

feeBnga nu rBn ‘ U, 01

with * r ai * , '' rn , ' ,,onc suddenly

a radiance such as t, had never

wore h-for. hU eye, flashed; and whirling around he u*, the toluma from Mm with si: his strength toward

the German lines.

’ A lias Harvet” b, rnM Then he lifted the firg ,

"" -hove b' ‘

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