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PAGE FOURTEEN "Poor Little Fool," In the first rush of the Germans a. cross Belguim and France in the summer of 1914 they missed and pass. ed isolated groups of French soldiers, generally in rough or wooded coun- try, When the gaps in the German armies closed hehind these, the French outposts were cut off com- pletely from their own country, But the gallant little bands of Frenchmen had no thought of giving in. They hid themselve s in the vast forests a- bout Valenciennes and along the Bel. gian and Luxemburg borders and carried on, With no rations but what they could capture from the Germans, they instituted a guerilla warfare of their own, in which little mercy was shown-on either side. The Germans knew to their cost that the French- men were there in the woods, but they rarely could find any of them, One day a party of Germans cap- tured a French boy of about twelve years of age who was carrying some food, At once they suspected that he was taking it to some of the hidden French soldiers. The story of it was found in the diary of a German ser geant picked up on the field of battle They asked tthe boy where he was taking the food, He refused to tell them. They told him that they knew that he was carrying it to French soldiers, and demanded to know where they were, He would not tell. They told him that if he did not guide them to the Frenchmen's hid ing-place they would shoot him. Again he refused. They tied the little fellow to a tree, and the firing party fell in before him. Once more | he was given the chance to betray his | fellow-countrymen or be sho., The tears sprang to the boy's eyes as he faced death there alone with his country's foe, but even at the cost of his life he would not be false to France. He determinedly refused to| betray her soldiers. A gruff com mand in German; a dozen rifles spoke as one; another guttural command, and the party of invaders marched on, leaving a little body hanging limp and bleeding in the ropes which bound it to the tree in the midst of | a great forest, i "Poor little fool!" wrote the Ger-| man sergeant in his diary: "he could | have saved his life by telling. He got what he deserved for his stubborn- | ess." { little fool!" So wrote tha German. Stupid; brutal; ever mis- understanding the deeper spirituzl meaning of actions: Ever imagining that nothing counted in this world but personal profit or brute force! Deluded into the idea that frightful ness would frighten other peovle in- to submission, and terror wouid ter- rorize them into unresting slavery. He is incapable of understanding the spirit which actuated that little French lad. But France understood. In the midst of the honor roll of the great. est heroes of the war, alongside of the names of soldiers and sailors and airmen, of generals and marshals of France is the name pf a little chap of twelve years old, who died alone with his face to the foe in one of the great forests of northern France. He gave his lite for his fellow- countrymen. Ie gave his life for Franee. Poor little fool! A hero of France! Which estimate is right? "Poor |reeeiving world will_some ke | recognize' that it is by such selffcrifice as that | little lad's that the world must be| saved, It is only when we are ready to lose our lives that, we save them, | Once almost nineteen hundred | years ago a young man in far Judaea |gave His life in what appeared to be |a vain attempt to benefit His felow- {men, It looked like a uneless sacri. (fice, The champions of brute force triumphed over the lone champion of a spiritual idc V. They nailed Him to |a cross, The .uughed Him to scorn. !*He would iw a king," they said, | "Where now is his kingdom. Poor fool! He saved others, Himself he | cannot save, Poor fool." | "Poor fool!" { So sald the rulers of Jerusalem | nineteen centuries ago. And they {thought that they were done with { Him. History has exactly reversed | their judgment, What they thought {was His failure, has been His suc- cess. What they thought was his de-| | feat, has heen His victory. What i they thought was His death, has giv: en life to untold myriads of men. Him whom they called a fool, Him | whom they gave a cross instead of a! i throne, the world of today is ever | more and more acknowledging as the 'wisest of men, and crowning more | {and more as King of all the ages, ! | "Because the foolishness of God is ! wiser than men; and the weakness {of God is stronger than men," By the | | foolishness of the Cross men are! {made wise unto salvation; and by | the weakness of the Crdss are they | { made strong to overcome death, The "Villa Rose" | Continued from Page 10. glove lying upon the table, "I left] this behind me," he said putting it| into his pocket. "By the way, where | is the telegram from Marthe Gobin?"' "You put it in your letter case." "Oh, dia 1?" Hanaud took out his lettervecase | and found the telegram within it His face lightened. | NOT FORGIVABLE | "Good!" he said, nphatically. | "For, since we have this telegram, | there must have been apother mes-| sage sent from Adele Rossignol to! Aix saying that Marthe Gobin, that busybody, that inquisitive neighbor, who had no doubt seen M. Ricardo's advertisment, was on her way hither. | "Oh, it will not he put as crudely as that, but that is what the message will mean. We shall have him. And suddenly his face grew 'very! stern. "1 must catch him, for Mar- the Gobin's death I cannot forgive, A poor woman meaning no harm and murdered like a sheep under our! noses. No, that [I cannot forgive." Ricardo wondered whether it was the actual murder of Marthe Gobin or the fact that he had been beaten and outwitted which Hanaud could not forgive But discretion kept him' silent. "Let us go," said Hanaud. the lift, if you please--it time." They decended juto the hall close by the main door. The body of Marthe Gobin had been removed to the mortuary of the town. The life of the hotel had resumed its course: "M. Besnard has gone, I suppose?" Hanaud asked of the porter; and, an assent, he walked "By will save At the moment it seemed as if the Quickly out of the front door. German sergeant's was the true one. Germany was winning all along the line. France seemed doomed, and that little life appeared to he another life flung uselessly away. But time reveals the truth. His- tory is the true arbiter of values And although less than eight year have passed since then, time and his- tory have already proved that the German was wrong, and the Freac! were right. It was the spirit which was in the little lad, the spirit of free- dom, of faithfulness, of self-sacrific: even to death. which saved France. saved the allies, saved the world irom the domination of brute force. Multitudes at the time did not under- it. Many yet do not under- it. The "peace-at-any-price," JSave-OurSkins-but-LoseOur- Souls," babblers will never under- stand it. They have mot the spiritual perception to know its meaning. The but | "But there is a shorter way." said Ricardo, running down the steps: "across the garden at the back." "It mill make no difference now," {said Hanaud They hurried along the drive and | (down the road which circled round the hotel and dipped to the town. Behind Hanaud's hotel Ricardo's car was waiting. THE WEAK SPOT "We must go first to Besnard's| office. The poor man will be at his! {wits end to know who was Mme. Gobin and what brought her to Aix. | Besides I wish to send a message jover the telephone." {quarter of an hour with the Commis- |saire. As he camé out he looked at {his watch. "We shall be in time I think," he said. He climbed into the car. "The murder of Marthe Gobin on her way | from the station will put our friends | at their ease. It will be published, | uo doubt, in the evening papers, and those good people ovel there in Gen- eva will read it with amusement. They do not know that Marthe Gobin | wrote a letter yesterday night, €ome | let us go!™ { "Where to?" asked Ricardo. { "Where to?" exclaimed Hanaud. | "Why. of course, to Geneva." ! (To be Continued) March Exam. (Continued from page 13) i dr. I. -- Christina Logeman. Clif-| ford McKnight, Margaret Pellolio, | Marion Ogden, Gladys Keys. Eliza-! 'beth Gudgeon, John Lepiuski, Deris | Smith, Percy Matthews, Stanley Og-! den. | B. MINAKER, Teacher. Jr. HL--Jochn Gudgeon. Sr. I.--Norman Williams, Car-| 'man Thompson. Josephine Glide, | 'Marjorie Spencer. \ SHIPPING Toronto Glohe: Two million tons of shipping are idle in the United Kingdom ports, and the position of American shipping 18 even worse At the same time shippers complain that the rates are too nigh, SALARIES Brockville Recorder: John Me: Graw receives $65,000 for managing about a score of hall players. Presi- dent Harding only gets $10,000 more for managing 111,000,000 people, A scheme is credited to Field Mar. shal Wilson for evolving order out of chaos in Ireland, Its successful con- summation would easily constitute him as a superman.--Hamilfon Spec: tator, OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1922 Much of the talk is mere gossip. And | DANCE FLOOR SMILES ECHOES Hverybody on the dance floor to- day may not be executing the Con- versation Walk, But, verbal patters between parteners ften keeps apace with the pitter-patter of thelr feet on the waxed floor, Some of the con- versation doesn't mean anything. naturally, most of the sayings are about dancing and thoughts akin to the .light fantastic. The steppers usually converse merely for the sake of sociability, Often the words that pass between strutting wor gliding couples are highly humorous al. though said in all seriousness, Dance jokes in the current press echo some of these conversations, Now, whether you dance, or whether you are a wall or a stallflower, you ought to find some smiles in our card of dance floor echoes. WISE and -- OTHERWISE SUGAR COATED PILIS OF i When in Rome don't eat Roman candles, hg \d L y As a humorist writes so will quip, he L] L] " Dampened matches never light. LJ Ll » Your future may redeem past, L] LJ " A half sole may help to save but half souled energy won't do much for you. ' your po Birthdays are usually mirthdays, . L] LJ The longer the shoe, the vamp the longer "Aegop's Film Fables" LJ LJ * Villian In Disguise When Aesop's animals go wrong It makes us think of Dill, Who sald a man may smile and smile And be a villian still, ~-Aesop, Jr. . 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