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Destiny That Separated .Young £$iple in Russia Reunites Them in America. * Mi >4 *••••5 iii The Way She Dressed Him. "What do yoa want to be when you grow up?" was asked of a small boy by the visitor. > •'Oh,* said he, "I want to b& * man, but I think mamma wants me to be ft lady."--Buffalo News. //*.•••••• St. Paul Danes have given to war charities funds raised t& Abitild * church. -n.'n ... . jifatesse de Bryas is a Frenchwoman, who came | to America last April to represent the American i-j •*/« committee for devastated France, and is now en- is/v, ,>4 gaged in an extensive tour of the United States, ; >fy.; speaking about her experiences in the war-ridden v-; * \ * districts. The comtesse's father is French, but hef, -T. •"*•5? mother was a Philadeiphian who went to Europjf 1 when a small child and was brought up therein fan **®r sreat-grandfathers, George Clymer and Thomas i 4 v f • Willing, and her granduncle, George Read, were all* , signers of the Declaration of Independence, and one of them, George Clymer, waa among the six who helped'to frame the Constitution.--Editor's Mote. By C0MTE88E MADELEINE DE BRYA3. SOMETIMES meet, In the course tf my travels, people who say: MAl(i poor France! Tragic, invaded coun­ try !" But to these people I would say: "No, no t Yon do not know, your France. It Is not poor France, but noble France. Not tragic France, but heroic France!" /' : I can best explain my meaning by describing an incident which took place on the occasion of one of the it air raids on Paris. An air raid is a nerve- icklng time. The newspaper accounts and the lagazine stories do not tell you one-hundred A ef the anguish lived through by the people who Urouch in their cellars, listing td bombs that ex- « flode close by and expecting all the tftae that the |ext misslie will demolish the house over their leads. The favorite gathering places for civilians du*» fjhg air raids 1s In the cellars. During the raid of " (which I speak, one of these underground places was crowded with refugees. But they were not poping or trembling. Instead, they were con-*- itantly joking and laughing about their predict fent They did not for one second lose thefir le courage and stanchness. A 0>| When the bombs had ceased to fall, they cam| IIP to the street level once more. But they did pot breathe great sighs of relief and thank their Ipcky stars for not being hit. Not they I Their Sjyes glowed with the fire of unquenched spirit; find they shoo*: their fists fn the direction of thig*/ . departing German airplanes. /'rf; "Those fools 1" they shouted. "Those foolsf .jthey think they can break us! They do not know - l$s 1 Never shall we yield! Never 1" ' •.? This is not the only splendid exhibition oi v : Jlrench devotion that I have seen with my own ayes. The people in the rural regions are no lest determined in their ardor. Although nearly one- ftfth of France has been invaded by a ruthless ihemy and some portions invaded the second time, these country folk'would die rather than .give themselves up to the foe. , *•<? In a village of the devastated district I found v. 9 little old woman who was living alone. She : was working at washing linen for the soldiers tbo were in trenches not far away. Her own house had been burned down by the Germans. . Hhe told me her pathetic story. j It seems that a German officer who had a very tmd reputation for molesting the civilians had been quartered in her house. After he had been there for a few hours he went to the small stove • which heated the house and onened it,-to la some wood. But when he put in the stick of wood he allowed the end to protrude, so that, as ., icon as It began to burn, the fire blazed outward Into the room. He then placed a screen near" this blazing wood so (hat it would catch flra The old woman saw what he was doing and knew < that it was his design to burn down her houses He had already burned a house In the next street fa the same manner. Knowing that she was p<**r*-' tfless to prevent him, and being filled with de»- Wr, she fell on her knees before him. "Spare me!" she entreated of him. "Spars this house and allow me to lite here in peace." What have I ever done to you!" r But she had hardly uttered these words when'.. ^%hame overcame her because she was abasing •« herself before a German. In another instant she Aad risen to her feet. "What £m I doing!" die exclaimed, "Je suls perdu! I am disgraced. I have entreated a favor from the foe of my native country." Then she crossed the room before the aston- Jahed officer and took up his gnn. Placing It in His hands she told him to kill her. « 'h •>"-^pi6use' escaped for the tune being. But later ^Jjt was burned by other Germans. When I found this woman she was working 18 hours each day washing for the soldiers. I asked her why she worked so hard and she told me that it was .because she had nothing left to her in the wide 'World, and the only way to keep herself from heartbreak was to be always occupied. The conditions under which most of these peo­ ple have been living are horrifying. Their *i|iouses are heaps of ruins. You can hardly be­ lieve the systematic way in which the Germans prqceeded to destroy their dwellings. A bomb , was thrown into every house along the line of march. The furniture was all broken up or burned, fruit trees were cut down, and the well* •polluted. Yet, when the invading tide was swept back these villagers came back at once to their former homes. This devotion of the French peas­ ant to his little home is something which Ameri­ cans can hardly appreciate. He loves It ardent* ly; it is almost a part of him; he cannot bear tt*' leave It « *i// <ch During the time when they were struggling to rebuild their shattered homes, these peasants had to live in cellars and dugouts. Of course , these places were most unhealthy and not tit to ' remain in. I once went down into a cellar ftiT vwhich an old couple was living. Tbe roof of this Cellar was 80 low that when I was seated on ft Httle plank talking to the old people 1 had stoop. The floor was entirely mud, and the wataP? «eej»ed in through the walls and trickled down In tii\y" streamlets. In the corner was the straw- • |>ed which had been furnished the old couple , seven months before. It was Indescribably filthy' and so damp that one could twist it and wring . water out of it. Yet the chief desire of the old ' • wuuiun was ror a plate .to eat off. The Germans.- _ had destroyed tiieir ~ crockery and household - Utensils and they had only one old metal skillet,' In which they cooked and from which they ate. The treatment of children during the Uerman occupation was very terrible. Little tots of four and five, and children on up to the ages of thir­ teen and fourteen, were forced to work all day for their enslavers. They were taken Into the fields at five In the morning and were not al­ lowed to come back until seven in the evening. During all that time they were given only one meal. Their tasks were to dig potatoes, cut away the barbed-wire entanglements and pick up unexploded shells. After the Germans went away there was no milk to be got because all the cows had been either killed or driven away. In one district there were 500 children who existed for months without a single drop of milk. I met one little girl who had been kept for 20 days on a diet * it consisting of nothing but bread and soup, the latter being watery and scturcely at all nourish* * ; ing. ' The destruction of the schoolhquses tins made - it impossible for the young children to gain any Z* education. ; It Is no strange thing to encounter a / boy or girl of eleven who can neither read nor I write." In their hideous thoroughness, the Ger- *. mans destroyed books, pencils, desks and all. Not * a thing was left. After the American relief work- ens came into the devastated regions they estab­ lished schools and built little wooden buildings in which to carry on the work. At one school they told a story of a little girl who was brought in with the other children to learn to read. As soon as she discovered an old chair in one of the corners she immediately got into it and curled up in utter enjoyment and relaxation. She could not be persuaded to get ;\',out of that chair. The teacher inquired why she a^/was so pleased with the chair and learned that ;/ <* the household in which the child lived had not boasted a single chair since the first invasion of the Germans. The separation of the children from their par­ ents is another very tragic occurrence. In the ' months and years before they are reunited the children grow and change so that they are not £ recognizable to their parents when they meet again. Some of them, to be sure, wear on a chain about their necks little gold baptismal gifts on which their names are Inscribed. But this is exceptional. It is one of the confessed schemes of the Germans to divide and scatter families as much as possible. My heart bleeds for the children of France! Oh, that they shpuld suffer this unmerited abuse < and tribulation! The deportation of . young girls has been sys­ tematically practiced. A German officer comes ,to the front door of a house and orders the entire ;; ^family to assemble outside on the door step. Than ; -'lie picks at random a number of the younger ? women of the family. "I will take you . . . and you . . and you!" he says, indicating the chosen ones with his forefinger. At this sum­ mons they must leave their homes at once. They ->are not allowed to pack their belongings nor to carry much baggage. They are permitted only ; so much as they can carry wrappe^ In k hand­ kerchief. After they are taken into Germany they are rt "put to work cultivating the fields, doing the -hardest and most menial kind of labor. They are forced to live with the soldiers, and are •rudely treated by them. They can send no word »»to their families, and it is almost as though they were dead. The relief work In the invaded districts has Vf been tireless. Great credit is due to the Amer- • icftii eouiiulttee for devastated Finuce, urbanized ? Jby Miss Anne Morgan. Over 1,000 children have been turned over to this committee to be cared MODERN ENOCH ARDEN Young Russian in United Statas Army Meets Wife, Who, Believing Him Executed In HussM^ -" ? Had Wed Agkiti. San Francisco.--The same destiny that tore William Sbavchenko from his seventeen-year-old bride, Dora, in Russia six years ago and led her to believe, that he had been executed for a political crime against the czar, has restored him to her in free America. But now she is the wife of Michael Bakauoff and the mother of his three- year-pid son, Shavchenko Is in the United States army, a private at Camp Fremont, near liere. And Dora Bakanoff loves this modern Enoch Arden just as she loved him when they were married in Bostov-on-Don. Wants Hsr Child. Mrs. Bakanoff has left her present husband and sued for the possession of her child. She says she will ask an annulment of her marriage to him in 1814. After Shavchenko had been carried away by the czar's troops and presum­ ably executed his young wife came to the 'United States, where she married Bakanoff. Shortly after the birth of their son they quarreled and the wife left her husband. She obtained work in a home ,near where Camp Fremont now is, and a few weeks ago an officer from the camp, accompanied by a private, came to visit at the home. The private was Shavchenko. "Our maid In a Russian," said the hostess when she learned of Shav- chenko's nationality. "Suppose you talk together." Truth Dawns Upon Them. As they were about to be Intro­ duced the eyes of the Russian couple met and when tlie truth dawned upon them they rushed into each other's arms, much to the alarm of the army officer and his hostess. Then Shavchenko told his story. He had escaped from the Russian guard. Any man who is dead in love with hltnsetf should be buried iUk'obllrioa. ? A timorous dollar never tu.W-% . - V- ,1 * Fiery Red ftmgtefc A hot bath with Cutleura 3oerp followed by an application of Cutleura Oint­ ment to distressing eczemas, ete* proves their wonderful properties. For free samples address "Cuticura, Dept. X, Boston." At druggists and by mall*: Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50,--Adv. Jamaicans can ralae crops yearly. Don't Poison Baby. TEARS AGO almost every mother thought her chflA PAREGORIC or laudanum to make it sleep. These drugs will FE W DROPS TOO MANY will produce the *81 : FROM WHICH THERE IS NO WAKING. Many are the children who have been killed or whose health has been ruined for life by paregoric, num and morphine, each of which is a narcotio product of opium. Druggists are prohibited from selling either of the narcotics named to children ataS^qr to anybody without labelling them " poison." The definition of " narcotic* is t "A medicine which, relieves pain and produces sleep, but tehtck in poiscm* ens doses produces stupor, coma, corivufaions and death." The taste and smell of medicines containing opium are disguised, and sold the of "Drops/' "Cordials," "Soothing Syrups,i°etc. You should not permitssqr medicine to be given to your children without you or your pbrskau know of what it is composed. CASTORIA DOES NOT CONTAIN NARCOTICS, If it beats the signature Of ChRg. H, Fletcher. Genuine Castorla always bears tbe signature of ̂ Help Harvest Save the Canadian Wkcu Our Own Harvest Requirements Are Complete*. ,w|. United States Help Badly Needed Harvest Hands Wanted Military demands from a limited population have made such A scarcity of farm help in Canada that the appeal of the r.an«aiat> Government to the united States Government for Help to Harvest the Canadian Grain Crop of 1918 Meets with a request for all available assistance to CO FORWARD AS SOON AS OUR OWN CROP B 8ECHD •MQf to aura ewary, Rushed Into Each Other's Arms. < fled through Austria and eventually reached America. 'Not until I had shaken the dust of Europe did I dare write to you," he told his wife. "Only when I learned that they could not take me from America for a political offense did 1 ivrlte home. And always the answer came: *We do not know where she is.'" . " "Thank God that ha put you < to this one camp out of the many and brought you back to me!" wept Dora. The Allied Armies must be fed and therefore it la M oi the crop of the Continent--American and - Those who respond to this appeal will get a Warn Welcome, Good Wages, Good Beard ud Fla A card entitling the holder to a rate of one cent per mile from boundary points to destination and return will be given to all harvest sppiicanta. Every facility will be afforded for admission Into Canada and retain to tie United States. Information ss to wages, railway rates snd routes may be hsd from tbe UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE CHICAGO, BLOOMINQTON, AURORA, DECATUR, ELGIN, QALEIftUR^ PEORIA, ROCK FORD. ROCK I8LAND, SPRINGFIELD. Watch Your Stomach In Hot Weather , Strong Stomach Your Best guard Against Summer Sifknrtfls Keep your stomach in good work* Ing order during the hot summer months and you will have little to fear bi the way of sickness" the advice many physicians give as hot weather approaches. Good, sound, common sense advice, |oo. For very frequently, and especial' in hot weather, these oommon stom­ ach disorders which so many people seem to regard as of minor importance, do open the way for serious iHnrra So keep your stomach sweet, cool End comfortable all summer long.The extra war work--change of diet--poi­ sons that oome with hot weather--all ait us in the stomach. The strongest stomach will need help this summer as never before. The one easy way If you have the' right remedy is to rid the stomach of too much acid. Because it's superacid^ Ity that interferes with digestion and •stimulation, and this causes about tti those stomach miseries you are so familiar with--heartburn,food-repeat­ ing, indigestion, sour, pnr stnmafh ana that miserable, hlnateflJiniflud up condition after esmic. in',rn"w Now here to good newt. An tmr, eurerelief has been found *o get idol the hannfal acidity and gases in the •tomach. It is called EAXOHIO, a good tasting eonkpoond that you eel W Ukecandy. Ttobleioc tiroof EATONIOafX me^Twilf,Xrkw ders. You can have no idea of what sure, quick oomfott EATONIC brines until you do try it. Use EATONTO eat. At the same time self from summer miseries, i Get a big box of EATONIO hom your drugg&t today. He will te& yo« that people who have used EAT09I0 say that they never dreamed that am thing could give such qniok and won- der*al results. It costs only 80s a bog and if it fails In any way, your drug* gist, who yoa know and irat, wST® turn your money. yoor» and bowel AeStoffler1 of Gold1 In one village I saw a mother who had gorfp "l tor. One of Its most useful works has been In ' back to live in a little shelter which she had ' built for herself In.the corner formed by the only two remaining walls of her dwelling. Over tlas & top of this place she placed planks. One ~ /%as open to the weather. The cold, raw weathe^ made ^difficult to exist in such a place. I myfc1 self have lived In a little wooden building neap Ihe front, similar to the barracks in which th# •oldlers live, and I know the cruel winter weath»^ r%- of these parts of France. ' * • The hardship has been greatest on the HttNr children. Oh, the poor children! They no longer "'play. They have forgotten all their games. They do not know what It means to run and laugh and be gay. As they walk along the streets you wijjjh eee them start suddenly and look over theifr shoulders In a frightened way. 80 great has been the terror Instilled into them by the Geiv ibans. s An officer told me of seeing two little childreuif - t **I deserve no less than death,** she said. '"I ** <TandIng against a wall In the town of Maisslri^ have disgraced France by kneeling to ask a favor eif one of her enemies." 1 Probably the German officer would have killed the woman, but at that moment one of his brother officers came into hie house. He must have had • more tender heart, for he took pity on the old woman and put a step to, the proceedings. So, her 'In the north of France, one day in August, 191 Across the road was a burning house. When th(| French officer asked them why they were waiting •o patiently, they replied that a German had' jhut their father and mother up in that house "and had told them to wait there until they came back to fetch them. assisting the stricken people to leave their homes so long as there Is danger from the Germans in "Wie vicinity. Pitiful stories are told of the flight , of these people. One old woman refused to be - separated from her goat In transit, and would only consent • to go when she could be assured -that another goat could be got in'case her'own was lost. France has been hard-tried, but she Is not broken. Never has the morale of the French "people been more unshaken than It Is today. France hails with joy the arrival of the Ameri­ cans. It Is most fitting that these great sister ^republics should be fighting side by side in this hour of stress. Victory will be won; It is In­ evitable! But ah, the pain, the woe and the un­ necessary degradation that have followed In the %ake of the invaders! Will the world ever for­ get these? Can the bitter memory ever be .yeifiicidl--r-A ' i1./ ' ' ' ' ' 1 • , V yhs end of'the wah ̂ A soldier at Camp Grant asked a French lieu­ tenant, who was there as Instructor, how much longer the war would last. The Frenchman calmly answered: "Well, I am not sure, but the tenth year will surely be the worst, and after that every seventh year will be bad." * MISCELLANEOUS twenty -nine Canadians have won 4||fe Victoria Cross in the present war. s5The German language is spoken by about 110,000,000 people as their moth­ er tongue. \ Nearly a thousand gauges '*re re­ quired to measure the various parts ef a Maxim gpi. * " Official estimates "glte Venezuela's population at the beginning of the year taa 2,848,121, an increase of 20,359 in - . / • * " ' • " *, _ „< , * . * , - , A portable turntable has been In­ vented to permit an automobile being turned around on a narrow road as well as In a garage. An English engineer has Invented de­ tachable propelling machinery for ocean-going vessels that can be shift­ ed from one hull to another. Tftie American army is the best-fed army In the world. Its rations are figured on the basis of each soldier's requirements. It is a liberal ration, usually more than enough to satisfy the hunae* «f »ypn a hearty eateiv -• •>:i& .e\viMJ. . ' •BX.irfR. .1 T*JL&W For preparing foundry sand for cast­ ings electrically operated sifters have been invented that do as much work as ten men with hand screens. A new jig-saw puzzle for children Is instructive as well as amusing, the pieces Into which a picture Is cut oeing formed la to letters that make a. word describing It. 5 Until recent years Norwegian farm­ ers used' but 5,000 to 6,000 tons of ni­ trogen as fertilizers annually, but thli year they will use between 55,000 an 1 L:t Use of Peltry In History. In using peltry we walk backward In history. In what we moderns call the early history of Europe much that was lovely was done with peltry. And further back, when artificial heat was not known, when men fend women lived In damp huts or palaces, when life was crude and raw and self-sacri­ ficing in a way that.we may never know, peltry was the true means of overing tl^e body and making one's self not only beautiful, but comfort- MAN fiCSS HIS BENEFACTOR Whsn Sight Returns He Steals Poefcs^ book of Woman Who Ba> ffiendeti Him. Albany*, If. Y.--Clinton Townley, twenty-one, of this city, became blind when in the navy. He was sent home on a furlough and a blind woman here, Mrs. Theekla C. Beck, befriended him and gave him instructions in her home to enable him to earn his living. H& sight began to improve until he was able to see her pocketbook. He took it, i£e. has pleaded guilty to U»f theft,,./.: //:. . ' Yr-4 8aw "Ghosts," QuH Work. Terre Haute, Ind.--An entire day's production of coal was lost at Jackson Hill' mine No. 4, near Shelburn, tho other day because two workmen on the previous afternoon thought they saw ghosts in the mine. The men had been working alone in one of tho shafts when suddenly, according to their story, they saw a shadow in one of the shafts. Later they heard some one shout. , The men ran out and passed the word to the other miners. Tbe miners refused to go to work. . f ' • i I * :M'i ' New Faka Appears. | San Francisco.--An ingenioua hold­ up man, representing himself to be a federal officer, has been stopping youths on the streets of San Francisco and after demanding to see their draft registration cards,and exemption cer­ tificates has been levying a fee of |5 for entering the record in his books. coming to farmeta fran the rich wheat Adds of Western Canada. Where you can hqr good farm tan at *15 la $30 par acre and raise from 20 to 45 M of $3 wheat to th* acre it's easy to make money. .Canada, sSdi la iMvvineco w uauiioua, Saskatchewan ana AMflP 160 Aore Honestwds Fn» to Settbis and other land at very low prices. Thousands of farmers from the U. S. or their sons are yearly taking. Wonderful yields of this great opportunity. and flax. ~ •lu) of Tlate. Bartov aij flax. Mixed Fanafcac Is fully as profitable sn Industry as grain raising. Good schools; markets convenient; climate excellent. Write for literature and particulars as to reduced railway rates to SupL Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to ft J. Brgyskto*. Room 411. lit W. M. V. M« * Iruuc, D rtrnS. Wck Canadian Government Ag«nts ITS $5 for a Kiss. />> Long Beach, Cal.--Five dollars pet kiss and five per hug is the charge Im­ posed by Judge Carl V. Hawkins upon Washington schools have dropped German language study. ; For more than 200 years, the famous national remedy has been recognized as an infallible relief from all forma of kidney and bladder dis­ orders. Its very age is proof that it must have unusual merit. If you are troubled with pains or ache* in the back, feel tired in the morning, headaches, indigestion, insomniat painful or too frequent passage of urine, irritation or stone m the bladder, vou will almost certainly find relief in GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules. This is the good old remedy that has stood the test tor PATENTS SSSSSnEar DAISY FLY KILLER narlem Oil, y of Holland £*312 hundreds of years, prepared in the proper quantity ana convenient form to take. It is imported direct from Holland lab- * /V oratories, and you can, get it at any drug store. It is a standard, old-time home remedy and needs no introduction. E*ch capsule contains one dose of five drops and is pleasant and easy to take. They will quickly relieve those stiffened Joints, that backache, rheumatism, lum­ bago, Sciatica, gall stones, gravel, "brick dost." etc. Your money promptly refund­ ed if they do not relieve you. But be sure to eet the genuine GOLD MEDtAb hraadb In boxes, three sizes.--Adv. Be sure you'm right, then bosnre you're sura. PYTHIANS^ ̂ day sad be ttmgtt Very Much So. "How are the German troops da* ingr • t,\ "I notice by tbe news reports tfeap are still In the running.** Vaiim trawliM EytHb. a Olir afntoWtPwiMSM 3 v I *U\ ^ "'••f J just lye GshAm£> For Marina Cya W. N. U* CHICAOO, Ma