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WAR AS IT IS *i<*^ [In the following story of a simple country woman, --et down as nearly a possible in her words by a French newspaperman, is revealed more of the horror and wickedness of war thu,n we have known. W* 1 feel nothing of the meaning of war as we read the reports of so many advances, so many retreats, sieges and surrenders, so many thousand dead, so many thousand wounded. We read our papers and put tihem down, alim.s't- unmoved. It is a dream, it is fiction, s > colossal that we can hardly believe it true. Suf- fering in mas's does not touch our hearts, but the story of one poor mother mourning her son, or a wife her hiii-haiid. d.es. And so the story nf i tic p, ,r woman who has kn-iwn war affects us terribly. Its simplicity and directness is superb. Tr-in!a.te I bv H. belt VY. Sncddon.) War was hardly declared before German l-.liers appeared in Xo- meny. On day all the village was winking in tin- fit-Ids. It \\as4iar- vesi tint", 11 nd the m:'ii with ln-nt barks wore cutting tihe corn; the They fled on all sides with fright- ened cries. The street was a horri- ble sight. The cries of women, groans of wounded, the inces-sant noise of volley firing, made a terri- fying accompaniment to the roaring of fire and the crash of falling build- ings. The inhabitants Fought refuge in their cellars, twenty or thirty, of- ten more, crowded together. They heard in the street, the puttering of the firing, the cries of so'diers, the headlong gallop of animals escaped from their stables. They dared not go out. Above all tlr.'y were in fear of being discovered, and trem- bling with terror, they crept close to each otlher and waited for death. How many hours, days, did this hell last. I don't know. I was out of my mind. Twenty-five of us were s'liit in a cellar, men, women, chil- dren, old folk. One night when it was dark we made up our minds to go out. Without making a noise xve raised the trap-dour which opened on the street. Nobody there. Quick, quick, let us get out of here. women were binding the sln-a\ <-s . ; We were seen, and voices cried to us: "Heraus! Heraus (Jet out!" German soldiers with revolvers in their handis came running from all sides. "Get out!' We came out. Wo- men and children first. We fell on our knees and with joined hands pleaded "Pity! Pity ! We're not soldiers." Still the voices ordered. "Heraus !" H;ir i vo'.-ts th< m start : "Have you Th-y turn -d a <! '/I'll great I- idler-. i'i hand*. TI-F-\ !< kcd ab ut trl.'i'i -. The,! wi.<<! ii-i fu-VN. "Ha*? \ciu s Kobodj ii.-H tr> j Si ti thorn made seen the French'" r.innd. Tliere stood red faced Bavarian lexnlvers in theis ']. k:' angrily ami iv.-m with watchful .rl e'ime nut nf a d crepl. across t he -. t >'i the French'" s,.,.ii tlie French ' Bavarians retired. er ii'. 1: nu !- i gliding through the 'ipp. a red int,, the lit corn. tie \x < " d \e.\r dax aii<l for days after pa tn>I- -if ("Ma is s-.., ,nred the < uirtry. pil-agini; am' r-ibhi'i'f as they gendarmes of p the exploits highway r lilici s. They remarks and ventured I i -I The four Nomcnx \v.-m'' <l t , - r>f tho- r^ki d t lire, it lau,th Tii;il n; id the Bavarians It was t -.1 funny, s,, t., arnuse then; i\,, th:-, made the i ' Ml pi ' 'ii r-. I >ne nf them maiKi-fi <1 to ir--t away Tli' (if nn.! i \\<-ic iiia-teis . ,f the ci.;iii;r\ N'uni) iiy and all ah. ml it Ui.s thi II-'- Ti:i v xxcri' exacting n -;iMer- The |> i -i its were rant, 1 1 i r field th -i ; r| < n!d i; ,t understand ir hnmes pillaged. waste, lix-ii t .Monsieur Chardin the deputy w-a-s hardly out when he was killed by a rexoher shot, then after him an old man of seventy, then before the exes , f bis mother, a lad of fifteen. His mother cried, "He's not a - P'rcnc-h soldier- he's nut a soldier," but he xva- krl'"<l all the same. Kxeryone was stricken with fear. y>mc tried to <-:-;-.-ipe, running, leap- ing ditches, climbing walls, but the ioldiers fired on them and they fell. Tihat- made the so'diers very angry. Thev dalled out words winch we did not understand, and they push- id us back against a wall. We thougiht our last minute had : ... ... BIOWlV come. Home onicers passed. We tbri w ourselves on our kiu-"s and sh i.ui-d them our little children. They turned away their heads, scattered i;s with slmvcs of the feet! and reviled us. One of them had' pity mi us. able in our cellar ; we could not breathe the air. We ^were choking. We opened the a; i thole a little more. As soon as we did that a thick imoke invaded our refuge and 1 saw that the 'house opp::sLt" was on fire. It belonged to a s.ab<.it maker, and it was the vrooden shoes and the dry wood with which the house was filled that, burning, made this cra-ckl-ing, this fusillade I had heard. Some soldiers were moving about the fire, nnd in order to keep it going they threw hack in>to it the glowing embers which had rolled at their feet. Other sol- diers were dancing around the fur nace. Then we felit that our house was burning, too. YVe knew it by the frightful heat whidi was around us, by the choking smoke in our throats, the noise of falling plaster and stones toppling down. And we wen: still living. The wall uf t-he henhouse had just given way and by the hols which had opened our poultry tumbled into the cellar. What a piece of luck, I thought. We will have eggs. But next day at daybreak the cock crowed. "This beast is going to give us away," s.aid my husband, and he cut its throat. Then a hen began to call her chickens, clucking mournfully. "She, too," said my husband. "s'ie will betray us." And he cut her throat. He did the same to as many of the hens as he could catch, for he dare not chase them on account of the noise they made beating their wings and screech ing. And then my daugh- ter's little one, the seven months' o-ld baby which had eaten nothing for days and was almost a skeleton, began to cry, to cry of hunger, and would not stop crying. TV> calm it we took a mouthful of water, kept it a few minutes in the mouth to warm it, and mouth to mouth made the little one take it. But when it put it out again the next minutes it began to cry again. "This little one is going to kill us." said n ,y husband. One. day at last ah, how afraid I was t hat day ! we heard great heavy steps stop in front of our air hole. We waited with b-aitrd breath-, and , then, my (!<>d. the trapdoor slowly, slowly opened. A nhaft of light hhowed in our w by our ? >l!iei - '".l in t ' >ne day th- French did Tin- inhabkants MI- re beside- is i . t with tears . f happiness tkl'f W fl.iwe! - I :M w it !i <-;ik come. them xve re They tlii-:n and loaded i joy Their .1 |"I .lain! !i Th< v- -nen he'd mil their aprons full of Chocolat 1 ' ' - A < I r n t The fruit . t gr. < i-r and cigar Ins store "Don't be Xiill. We'll were imp' ,re<l : " I'ity us. xx arc FO unh'ippy. 1'rotert MS l> ' t .-ili:ni.|.iii n ." A i!' 1 tll"X an -xi i- let nfiu'/l. we'll <!, fend ft -iy xx : !i y mi Alas ' | |,,.y I,. |/| I , ||.j,ve 1|^ ' '! the 12th < f A.lgusl for the firs| lime artillery rumbled near N\ ii.' ay .iii-' f'n- t ! 'hr-'l. then an 'I'iier. f-' ,n t'i<- s<ihoo! house. i i I' ' Hed Cros flag The (JI-III;,TI' XM-II- buiiil.a-rdiim- III* ' l n. It wa-- th'-ir intimation that "Let thi'iin go," he to |rln ^ ,| diers. and to us, "If you don't wa it t i be shot, get out of In- re where you wish." We hurried uwa\ as fast as our legs c.ui'd carry us. We ra.n to the bouse. We shut ourselves in l l ie <-;'llar. myself and my <luughter and h"r husband, my children, a boy of fourteen, a girl of twelve, and a seven in nibs' old baby. A tilth- later an old man of seventy four crime to ji in us. "Have you K.. in f,r me f" he "Ves, come in, tin- more tliei merrier I <b n I kn<iw bow many da\s \\ < were shu' up under ground. We heard I he (ierman soUliers; eoniing and going, in the house above our In a:|s \\'<' knew t'u-ir heavv atep*. and without seing we guess"d what they were <! ling. They were taking out and carrying avv.iv furni- lli<-'. v.. i - i ming to v : -it 1 1. I '' ; < .1 ii s i,n a-ul hi tort- n t w a/ton j JK! Immediately tins strange p:0vfs /-Jim.- to light, an inborn an ml mania. Th'-y d'-m;ii.de< Iv . ity fix-i' watch- - A s'-areh iva,' n ll There weren't twenty fm wfi!< !.- in N'otn- ny. After four \xi-ic fiuind at the I <r steel watches, o'<| vi ny TJvey were given t< fit' d-u :f. MOIIS iii.-inia'-s vvho were trlieil .uid t<xjk tlism. Then in l-hf wrecked I' ni - tlr-y to<ik the bandngi M |-.i d f .,r the wounde<u and all the m .Ircines. T>i?y drag Ke<.' ten Fuir-h soldiers ,,ut of their '"''' "-ii k tin in jiway in s-pitc i.-f l.'it-ir ciics of Mifferinji. vY-';l come back for the others to 11:01 n,w," they announced. P'.it next f'tiiy the other wounded were gone. Si .nu: good [>eople had put Ih-in in a .it'- nid during tho Tln.-e ,| iy , |, u ;.-r. Die cannons be- gun t doom Hira-in This time it was our own big guns talking. Th< inhabitants of N'omeny, h-iding in tlwir crll'iis, listem-d with mingled nope ;.;,<! fear Towards the OtO ti< BM <i;iy ,ur .-, Micrs re entere<l Nwneny. They were too f<-w. and some hours later they retreated, to return t he next <l y )ln< ] n g a i,, n . tire. And the (jcrmans returne<l and ili*.y (<xi r-tir-<l. 'llhis |,j<|<. an< | iw-ek Wst>d five days, Fren/lfi and Germans o<'cupying \ome7iy in turn. OUT oavalrjr bunted tiw I'-li laiu. n<l jwitrolK iiM-ei.ing cxchang *d slkfrf*. At lu*t on the morning ,,f r(J| ( . 2<)t ! h the great b'ow struck us. Huddcn- ly Ha: air was Kplit and the earth shaken, ('arm m thundered. .Shell-; aiu.1 Germ.aii shrajmel screanie<l in p.K-.- ai,.l fell upt.n Nomeriy. It wo-s an avalanclie. Thev knocked down walls, tore off rJofs, split ceiling-, buttered louses, and set fire to t-he h-iir kno terrified | )V ||,j v ricnrie of iron and fire, di<| M , I ture. pillaging; and clearing out my h.iii -: And I s ;l xv through a crack that they had all my I hings outside, all my pom little things, my mat tress,. s. mv pil|, lW s, my dresses and those of my daughter, all my linen, ven the babv's little shirts and the "Heraus I Heraus !" cried i V<HCP. We were lniuVld in a corner of j the cellar . We dare not move, and we held our breaths. But our t-eth chattered and we tivmhUd iii every limb. The Children were enfolded in my skirt, and I press: -d t'ie baby against Iny hrra-t as tight as I OOllld to keep it i|uiet. A soldier came, down the steps "iflly and warily. I paw his large shoes. covered with mud, first of all. then his grey coat, then under bis caii his terrible bearded face. He had a revolver in each hand. At the bottom <jf (,|ie steps he stopped, said >omc't>hiiiK 1 did not under- stand, came forward a little in the dark with his arms out, then he made n half turn, went, back to the open door, spnkc to his comrade who had remain >d al and away. Only then did we dare to brent lie. Then after a little when we thought tihe soldiers were far enough away we determined t, ( leave our cellar. But who would gu out fir 1 -). We ar- gued for half an hour, myself, nvv daughter and my husband. In turn each .f us went to the stairs, but stepped on the first s,t,.j, an ,| <.. We were afraid. Finally the "You'll w;i.k-ii me up," sihe said. "I will waken you up." She put her arm round my neck and K-Lspt gently. But I dido t wake her. Others took care of that. In the morning we heard loud voicea talking on the other side of the gar- den, and heads in spiked helmets appeared over the wu.il. Some sol- diers climbed over the wall, others broke down the doors. Soon the orchard was invaded. They pushed us with their rifle butts and put us out. I fell again at their knees and implored their pity. I showed them the crying children and our poor little baby, so pale, thin, wasted to a shadow, but they laugh- ed and led us out. They ied us U before the cemetery and made us sit against the wall in three rows, our legs out, jammed against each other, packed with the backs of others on our chests. We were for- bidden to speak, move or sleep. Arid even to eat, for they left us without a morsel of food. We were dying of hunger. An officer came along. He had a little round piece of glass fixed in one eye. He was tall, and raised himself on tiptoe to look taller. He looked a,t us a long time as if he were reviewing his soldiers, and said affectedly : "Have the 'little children all they want? And those ladies ? Do they need anything ?" His voice was soft as butter but his heart was full of spleen, for w hen his back was turned we beard him say : "The French need nothing. They're all soldiers." We stayed like this for a night nnd a day. Now and ag-ain one of us, worn out with fatigue and sleep. let fall their head on the shoulder or back of a neighbor. A blow from a rifle butt roused them. I prevent- ed the horrible thing my little on-vs from sleeping. We expected to be shot every minute. One of our companion*, a M. Muller, who had come to spend his vacation at No- ineny where the war had surprised him, saved us from death. He spoke German perfectly. He talked with officers and succeeded in them. ap- "You won't do that." he said to them. "Tfiink what a horrible pago u would add to the history of this war." At last one morning wo were or- dered to get up. Our cramped ankles refused to support us. We fell at every f;tep. They raised us with blows from rifle butts nn <| kicks. We went through Xomeny on fire. "Don't look to right, or left," we had been told, "Don't turn round, or stop, if you don't want to be shot." man. "He i dying. Give him ab- solution." The cure bent, raied tihe cover slightly to look at the face of th-3 dying man, then he raised (his- head, made the sign of the cross and ex- tended his 'handi'-i in prayer above the stretcher. Yi:<l when it wa over the German officer stiffly ea- lutrd the priest auid retired. We went on our way. At night we reached Nancy. Our niiserd&s were at an end. 1 SUNDAY SCHOOL SIUDY INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JAM ARY 3. Lewon I. God's Piiticnco with Is- rael. Judge* 2. 7-19. Golden Text, Hos. 14. Verse T. And the people served Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that out^ lived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of Jehovah, that he had wrought for Israel. Joshua was so strong a servant of Jehovah that he not only kept the people of Israel true to Jehovali during hi., cwn life, but so influenced t-he elders who were associated with him that they too kept Israel true to their God. This mark of Joshua's leadership stands out very strong. It is also to be noted that Joshua, and his elders had seen t-h.e great works of Jehovali that he had wrought for Israel. Because they served Jeho- vali, they were able to see what Jehovah was doing; their eyes were open. People in rebellion against God or indifferent to God have tiheir eyes clo.sed and are m>t abb to see unto their judges. Oa judge would arise and be a strong factor in bringing tho people together, but a* soon as tihft danger wo* t-ver, back ana in into the evil practices would the peopl* go. Before tihe rise of Deborah there were a num- ber of minor judges, who are only incidentally named, or not named at all. This was the beginning of the period of the judges, when it was more difficult for any leader to impress fully and finally upon th minds of the people that they must be true to God if. they would b safe from their enemies. But be- cause these judges are only inciden- tally named' or not named at all, we must not conclude that tihey were not great le-aders. 18. When Jehovah raised them up judges, then Jehovah was with the judge. "I will neither leave you nor forsake you." A steady stream of testimony from the beginning of Genesis to the end of Revelation sihows indisputably tihat God always has been with his people, that he has never raised up a man for any particular position and left him to* Ids own resources. The leaders in the world's history have been great because God has been' with them. When they turned from God or when other influences dominated them, their greatness began to wane, and finally disappeared. 19. But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers. The perversity of the Israelites is strongly shown here. Every retrogration or backsliding was worse and further than the preceding one. WEATHER AND STRATEGY. Cold Not Altogether I iifavorabli- to Fighting. That the coming of winter will 9. In the border of his inheritance have its effects n ! he strategy of 1 the contending armies of Europe is but natura/1, but contrary to the general opinion, the results of cold weather will not be ajtogether un- favorable. This is pointed out by a writer in the Scientific American, But I man, a poor inve, went up old man ventured, mounted the stairs, looked about him and dis even baby appeared. We heard his footsteps ' - \o going awav in carriage. other soldiers busy ing in other houses, top to bottom, in tin- kitchen, the bedrooms . . . funking Cheir pipes, drinking, sing ing, shouting, their pockets t ey and jewelery that they found. They were filling bursting with mon T:'iev were carrying away every- thing furniture, sheets, bedding, linen, even women's mid M-clotbes,. They were taking off the window shutters, putting everything in a cries, no firing. Our There courage the distanct He was wife. returned to was nn more reason for d: 1 - cart. We- walched them with -tears in our eyes, rage in our hearts. But what wa.s it in comparison wHli the miisery we were enduring in tihin Mack hol.p, in this profound night, wihere we could not see each oilier, moving like blind people with our arms outstretched no ns not to bump into each other or bruise our- selves on the walN We spok:- in a xvhisper, m-;ut-h to car, s if each xvord that we had to say XVII-H u se- cret for our cars alone. We, had only water to drink, plums to enit. It w.s enough for UK, but for nhe children! My daughter had no more milk, we had only wa. ter to ii'Oiirinh ,her litt'e one. and it made IHIII nek Our little girl kept staying, "I'm so hungry, mamma, so hungry," and crying. To console her I F.;iid, "Don't, <ry, these gentleinii'ii will come u..id ' n-s candy. I Mid that, but I wisihiMl i n my tieart that those geintleiiieii would never <-<nne. We live<l (ibis way for and days. Or,- afti-rn- n I a stranj? mund in the Mr t It was like volleys of firing, like the ruckle of qnickfires. "My (ii:d," I tilioiiiil.t. H, t . I'uMich have <-onu' anil art n N'onieny." Th, irav. I fell down and began t< t-o tum or wluit to do Hi on the hcn-t became ll' lay. I went out firs;it carrying the baby in jny arms, my daughter pil- lowed wit/h thp other two children, then m.v hushaiul. We t<tok a few Hteps in the street. My heart was heating with joy. We ran at full speed to a big orchard at the end .f the town. Two or three hundred in- habitants of Nomcny were lying then flat under tllu- tre.ep,. We lay down beside Mi>>m. We F>aid nolti ing. We hardly dared to breaUie. From time to time bullets wihistUd over .ur hea<k S<xme shelKs burst beside us. We never stirred, with our noses to the ground. We pass- ed two days and two nights like this. Once at nightfall I fell fom M.IIP rub up againM me softly. A small hand caressed mv f a -e nnd a weak voice murmured: "I'm hungry, I'm hungry, and my h-.-ad ;s BO Rore." I turned my bond. Ji'i'l rec<ignixe<l one nf imy little ni:'c;-K. "HiiK.h!" I said to her, "Kay tlieix- and don't make any iioi-se. I will give you sMimetking to eat, alii in good time." a house in a garden an o'd paralytic, stretched on his couch. I saw a child lying in a doorway the skull was open. I saw a French soldier lying near the fountain. His t'hest was crush-ed, he was stripped of his clothes, half naked. I s nw store- keeper of the town lying by his store. I saw and others s ; ,w. Wo p-i--sed alongside of a row of corpses; thirty of them liay along a wall. At tihe corner of a street, six little pigs were suckirug a dead sow. When we came to the end of the town, we were made to retrace , mi- steps. We wiw again the same hor- rors. At last we came to called the Mission Cross. "Halt!" cried a non-ctrminis-iuii- ed officer. Then the party stopped. M. Mul- ler got up on a milestone and said,; "1 have seen red your liberty. They are going to put u on the wax t!> Nancy. We are going to set out. but nobody must turn back or we shall be slut. Come along now." We went on our way. M. Jfuller led tihe way. carryinga white Liml- kerchief Ijke a flag tied to a stick. Behind him camp the cure of No- meny and (mother cure. The sol- diers escorted u to a kilometer from the town. When they left us they wanted to take th? children from us and take them with themi, but the priests intervened, and af- ter n. long discussion tihe soldiers re- tired. A little furtiher on we sw manv Fremih wounded in a field. Hear- ing us pass, Fome of them raised themis.clves up and signed to us, t > call us a 'i-d ask a : d, lAit we dared not go to them. A't Maiiniicnui't, wli-ic-h was full of German soldiers, we were sti ppi-d. An officer came up and made the cure step out of the ranks. He pointed to a stretcher on tihe ground in Tiinn<ath-heres, in the hill-coun- try of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. Timnath-heres is the Tinmath-seraih of Josh. 19. 50; 24. 30. This city of Jos.hua has been placed at Kefr Haris, nine miles south-easterly from Shechem. 10. Another generation that knew riot Jehovah.- The succeeding gen- eration aft^r Joshua and his elders were less anil less true to the reli- gion of Jehovah, ami so it was in- evitable th'it a time wouUl nun- when the Israelites had entirely re cetlfd from the religion of their fathers. 11. Served the Baa-lim. Baalim is the plural of Haal a'nd means more than one fjcd or lord. There are many evidences that Israel was familiar with the worship of nv>re than one heathen god. Se- Judges 3. 7; 8. 33; 10. 6. 10. 12. The (Jed of their fathers, wh-i hrought them out of the land of Egypt. The histoticjil writers of tho Old Tostarnenit never permitted the people of those days, nor <ln they permit us. t < forget that (i-<l was kind to the early Israelites in Egypt. 13. Haal menus owner or lord, and is used of both R ds. and men. B;i:il, however, was more | irticularly th" gi<l of tih^ Tyria-ns. Asihtaroth is the plural of Ashtoreth, who wn- the priiic i) :il pcdd i 1 ss 'f the /id, PI ians. 11 And the anger of Jehovah was kind-led . . . niul lie delivered thrill . . . and lie si "d them . . . so that t'i?y could not any longer sturd before th n ir enemies This is a pii turesque description of the writer. Of c unso. when the lsn-l- ites become weakened through re- ligious corruption, able any longer to they were not withstand their in front of TO uaa. Y< o:>u!d guess Mie f'hape of a, body under the cover which was over it from head to foot. Tlhe face wn hidden. All th-ait was visible wfla the cover stir- ring a little, rWng ami falling. ".\ French officer," sai<l the Oer enemies, and as Jehovah would n > longer have any protection or in- fluence over thrni, as ('icy were exercising th'-'ir own free will against him, it was natural that they should be beaten bv their enemies and so weakened that they could no lunger fight for their honor and 'aftty. \Vecan well un- derstand that the children i f Israel in their time of miserv and conse- quent repentance realized that th? anger of .Ir'uivah xx is upon them. Hi. Am! Jehovah raided up judges- who saved them. A remnant of th" rig'liteous Is always left among the people. History shows no period when there was total -and absolute apostasy. And out- of this remno'it always ha* appenv-aiL^ji leader, strong in religious convict'on **wL iii'sigjiit, and capable to -rally t'ie IvackslitJitl-?!! people to the standard of the triii- (Jid. This was the great xxork of the jiulges. They saved their peopl? at critical times. They saved them because they could bring them bwck to a belief in God, to a worship of God and, IHMU-C, streugit'hen tlicir arms to strike the enemy. 17. Ami vet thev hearkened n->t who says: From the strategical point of view, wintry weather is not an un- mixed evil. In western Europe the w-,r-t weather for military opera- tions prevails in autumn, when the -rainfall is at its maximum. Cold weather sets the roads, makes the sudden fields practicable for march- ing, and the bridges over small bodies of water. Only in the moun- tain passes are these advantages offset by the ob.striu-tion due to siriu. In the intcrior.of the Con- tinent e.g., on the East Prussian and Austrian frontiers heavy snowfall occurs even over the plains and lowlands, and opposes an obstacle to military movements. Here also, the iut?n.se cold freezes over the larger rivers; thus the Vis- tula is normally fro/en at Warsaw from late December t.i early March. On the uther hand, when not fro/en over but filled with floating ice, these streams become impassable even by boat. Again, it is difficult or impossible t i dig trenches in frozen soil, such ;'.-. mav he found :n the dead of win- ter in the interior of the Continent. I'lidtM' such conditions armies have. however, sometimes us-.-d Ulovks o-l ice to good advantage in building breastworks. A Future General. "(;< I'd-hye, Mi-k. Gl gu-n-c' you ! And if yen br.it the German; half a* well a* you beat me you'll beoom-iug lum;- -\ general. " were the farewell words < f an Irish Fusi- lier's wife, whu'h a c..irrespi-di'Mt snys he overheard. Plenty of Tiiiio. Oakley- Wasn't the tailor willing ti> give you time I Owens- Give me rnie,' He said I'd get six months it' he coi'ld have his way. Yet the deaf and dumb can hear and speak the language of love. Irritable .Schoolmaster Now, then, .stuipid, what's the next word .' What comes after ch?ese 1 Dull Boy- A Jiiuuss. far. "Which one of the T.-u Command- meTm*J.;<l A/I-UH break when h^ ate the apple 1 ^ School teacher. "He didn't break any," replied one little fellow. " Cause there wasn't any tihon." Teacher Tell me what lei-.s.m can Ibe learned from the parable of the iprodigal -s-on .' Small pupil (thinking of the husk-si It teaches pe< p!e to .stay where they are com- fort aftile. Ucrman