CLEARING UT8IDE the railroad station at ICvta®* .les-Balns they had gathered together, a group of some 50 or 60. They were women and- children, with a scatter ing of old men. Each bore a tag printed In German and with a large number on It. Some carried bundles, others were empty-handed; their clothing was nondescript. Their faces ^; -^<Were drawn and pinched in the evening sun thi ,y : '" tame over the waters of the lake of Geneva, ai ^ the children among them clung to the knees of the f"'~? Women In that pitiful, frightened way so ma$f v* ^children of France have of doing these days. r ?* 4 Inside the station I could hear the Chasseurs f ' (iAlpins, three drummers and three buglers, loudly ,/ H": paying "Le Savoyard." There were some cheers '•>" "|ks the band, leading the main body of the convoy ** ~>Jwhich had Just come in from Switzerland, marched , i'3°«t through the station to Join the group I was * "watching. Great camions of the American Red , --pCross stood waiting to receive the infirm among , -^them. Otherwise it was very quiet, hot at all tM . '-C'-vfecene I had Expected to find here. TV ^ \ There were some women and children in the - /group who fascinated me by their dazed, hopeless flgv^xpression--the still, numb way in which they ' jBtood, almost trembling, it seemed to me. I turned V camera toward them to take a picture, when, 'jas they caught sight of my action, the.rg was a cry =from them. A very Hold woman raised her • 'ifshrivelled hand and \'-^tried to hide her face ^ ^pfrom the lens. The children shrunk fur ther into the folds of „ .their women folks' ^skirts. and an old f 'man gasped: "For the ^ -Prussian. He is go- ;I ing to send our plc- v'tures back to the ¥j/t ^Prussians, and they ... v.--" A Red Cross ,^i|nurse at my side ex- V' ifeplained that I did not • i wlsh to do any such ** thing--that they were safe back in France, their France, again, and that the Prus sians could never touch them. Shepoint- --of* «?¥£•/> *:m,X m'm &7WVmGJ&VU&Mm/LWAP JZir/CWAr jnmv f4|§e^ e arctl across the street, a few feet away, ^through which they would teoon pass, with tSe .^American and French flags intertwined and the; ijfnotto in big scrawly letters, "Soyes les Blenvenus." j. jivbhe explained that I was an American. They seemed to understand, and their faces lighted up, for this was in early June, and even these pitiful ones, who had been where little news had reached them for nearly four years, knew that the Ameri cans were in France in good numbers now, and were their allies. So the group ceased to shrink from my camera. A woman even thrust her child forward and smoothed its hair so that it would look well In the picture. But, just as I was about to snap tlie shutter, another woman In the group, standing a little back, looked at me with an expression that ,was full of condemnation, full of appeal, as she said: "Yes, my friends, let us stand up straight, so that he can get a good photograph of misery!" Then she laughed bitterly, and I--well, I did not take the picture. At this moment the rest of the convoy began to come out of the station, led. by the Chasseurs' lit tle band. With them came Red Cross men and nurses, carrying or helping those who could not walk into the waiting camions and ambulahces. I put up my camera and hurried ahead to reach the casino, whither the procession was bound, be fore their arrival there. Someone struck up "La* Marseillaise," some woman with a high, shrill voice. As I climbed upon the front seat of an . ambulance and we started to pass the crowd I thought for a moment that i was now going to see, going to hear, what I had come up from Paris for--the glad burst of enthusiasm, of happiness from these people no\v that they fully realized that they were in France, among their own, free from the German yoke, which had lain on their necks since 1914. But as our ambulance went by the precision there were no other voices raised to join thAt of the singing woman, and after a few bars she, too, stopped singing and the procession -went on, silent, shuffling, except for some small boys, tow-n boys, who trudged ahead of the Chas seurs, still playing their tune on drum and bugle. I reached the casino ahead of the procession and waited at the door for them to come down the Rue du Casino. The narrow, steep street was crowded along its sidewalks with townspeople, and from windows was flung the tricolor, while the American flag waved here and there, too. As the prceer-slon came around the head u£ the street the t people hailed it with cheers and the waving of flags. The Chasseurs played more loudly--now It was "Vive TArmee" they were tooting. A few Of the children raised their heads and looked with glad eyes on the enthusiastic natives who were trying so hard to cheer them home. An old man; In the procession'straightened up and shouted^ '"Vive le General Jofltre." But otherwise there Were no cheers, no thrills of happiness, nor any- - thing but Just that down-bent attitude, that shuf- gfling walk, that dazed, Whipped, cowed expres sion. It was, as the woman at the station, had -**ald, misery. For Evian Is the clearing house of fnlsery these days. $ doctor told me, and so the subprefect of the de*r of the Haute-Savoie also assured me. ^ tltU liurui ui iuv uauiv »vic wiov ttoauicu mc* |p| "Which is why we make such a great effort to 'ippheer them as they come In nowadays," he said. ^J'They are crushed, these people; they are like >|lead men and women, and the children, even thf -jlttle ones,/are scarcely alive to the sltuatiotiu from Germany once more? They cannot be- ieve it--there is scarcely enough strength left |p ufheir poor minds and bodies for them to be ah|» ' to understand." vi, "Yes," added the Red Cross doctor, pointing out girl of eighteen or nineteen who passed; "look Ht the expression on the face of that girl." I I looked, X caught here eye as she turned'in my dj- AJYAf/Y/C O/f &ALCQ//Y QF£V/AJY J*0&V7VLt. a' • v a • rectlon. but I do.net think she saw me at all, iOf • saw anything. Her face was blank for a mo- ment, then, as in looking'aside she nearly collided with someone ahead of her* she shrunk from him. with a sort of cry, as If she had expected to be beaten down. » We followed the procession into the large hall, now, where the people of Evian greet these home- comers, and where, at long tables, they feed them. Over the balcony hune the of the allies, with the French and American closely intertwined. The people were placed at the tables, numbly obeying the lied Cross nurses who flitted about assisting' them. They ate the food which was set before them without a word. ^ As they nte and drank--there was some 850 of these people--I walked about with the Red1 Cross doctor and studied their faces, their demeanor. Occasionally as one saw us he or she smiled, but for the most part it was like walking through the halls ol an asylum for the mentally deficient--the eyes were dazed, the expression empty, vacant. By now some young women had passed among the crowd giving to each a little French flag. I noticed a boy of about twenty, tall, well put to gether. The girl had to thrust the flag into his hand and explain to hftn what It was. "That boy hasn't always been an idiot, I would say offhand," said the doctor at my side. "He looks beaten, whipped. That's the sort they are sending back to us, nowadays." > The boy still holds the flug, looking at it as If trying to recall where he had seen that combina tion of colors before. I recollected that he woald ' have been about fifteen or sixteen when the war broke out, when he, with these others and so many thousands like them, were caught in that tirst southward rush of tke German horde through the towns of northern France. > j" The subprefect was mounting the platform -to- -speak to the diners. 'The Chasseurs plnyed their '.tunes loudly. The the subprefect began to talk ^to them. He told them they were safe among their friends once more, that never again would they be slaves of Germany, that homes would be found for them and an effort made to find the friends and relatives whom they had not seen nor even heard from for four years. He told them that France soon would conquer, that she was now .^joined by America with her millions of young men, and then he gave the signal for the band to start the "Marseillaise." This it did. As the first notes were heard some of the faces •' lighted up. There was an effort to sing the won* „ \lerful song, and after a fashion It succeeded. But though before the refrain had been finished there r iwere many voices hushed, many hands that could ^ynot wave the little French flags--for a moment „ patriotism, love of country, hope and trust had been awakened. A few minutes later I followed ,*> the Red Cross doctor into the big room where he examines every child who comes into Evian with these convoys of repatriated people. So far ha V Asft A/r£/UC/Ut/&0 CXOSJ WQMjfXA&USmGfi&HWMrf# f7Z&tai cmx/ms rv jfcf/rs 0.0770#$ • • has examined nearly 50.000. I saw 280 little chil dren examined. They ranged In age from three to twelve years, and of them all there were barely more than 50 per cent whom he could pass as be ing even fairly , well nourished. "They have been fed mostly on turnips and ,black bread for months," he explained, "and with (each convoy there are more undernourished ones "and more like this little fellow." He Indicated a thin wisp of a boy--he was ten years of age--it was tuberculosis. This explains, furthermore, why the American ^ Red Cross hospital, as a part of Its war buril-m, has been obliged to extend Its work Into the foun dation and maintenance of homes, here, there s:nd everywhere throughout France, for these unfor tunate* whom Germany Is sending back by the hundreds of thousands. For they are unal l'» to work, until-le to make their own homes, and the civilian population of France, bent double with the pack of Its own problems, has been increas ingly powerless to cope with this, Germany's in sidious effort" to break the morale of France. It was ali new to me when I went up to Kvlan from Paris to see the repatriates come In. I had heard of how Germany had begun sending them back In 1016, and how, as the numbers of them in creased, the American Red Cross stepped in and undertook to look out for the sick children, finally extending its work to caring for the hundreds of tuberculous women whom Germany returned to France. But I had heard, also, of how the repa triates, sent through Switzerland by the Germans arrived at Evian. singing, kneeling down and kiss ing the soil of Trance and gladly taking up their share af their country's work in factories and on farms. I had looked for a scene of joy at the station there in Evian, for cheers and heartcthrills at the casino. Here was a people being returned to the country that it belonged to; here were ban- * ners of welcome, here were hands and hearts open ' to it. But I had seen something entirely different, and when I inquired it was explained to me. "It Is plainly." I was told, "part of the German plan of breaking down French morale, of destroying the efficiency of the American Ked Cross, which it has learned is doing such a large part In the work of naiulllng repatriates. "At the same time that Germany is hurling her big shells into Paris by day and air raiding It by night; at the same time that she Is driving refu gees by the thousands from their homes in towns along the llne»of her proposed advance; at the same time she is filling the hospitals with wounded French and American soldiers, taxing the equip ment of the American Red Cross to the limit, as she believes, she has tried a new trick during this offensive. "If this fs not so. how can It he accounted for that each succeeding trainload of repatriates is larger, contains more sick and completely used up individuals than the previous one? How can you account for the large number of young women with babies born in Germany since they were taken there--babies whose fathers may be Ger man, but whose identity will ever remain a nays- *, tery--which are unloaded on us every day?" Even at that it seemed rather a difficult task. These people who were coming in I saw several »tralnloads of them--seemed such hopeless things. What could be done with them? What a burden tfiev would be on the French! How little result there would be from anything done for them or with them! " , > "That is far from being the case." I was told. "They respond In an incredibly short time to all we do for them. Their health improves, their minds dear. From being liabilities;they soon be come assets. Germany > sends these people in, wrecks, so cowed, so starved, that they can scarce ly tell where they have been, what hjis happened to them in the years of their slavery In the mines, the mills, the fields of their captor country. Tuber culosis seems to have a flrtn grip on many of them, and the children are filled with the germs of con tagious diseases. But either by happy ability of the French to rise under difficulties, or the Joy of finding themselves back In their own land, the rapidity with which they rally, the quickness with which their minds clear, Is remarkable. ' A French Woman, in charge of the casino ves- tlaire at Evian. where clothing 4s found for these unfortunates, said; "The more they send the better we like It. We ctin care for all, with the help of our friends, the Americans. And the faster they send them back, though their coming so fast unquestionably tuxes our resources to the utmost the more quickly will France get back her own p e o p l e . " " ^ Women and Politics i - Years ago a certain witty American "Attempt not to explain ma chinery to a woman; and on politics r^ihalt thou keep thy mouth shut." The k^oner'can wrote well for his time, but ifce wot not of the day which is now Jflpon us, when women control half the Ration's pontics and drive two-thirds 4f the country's motorcars. Women |lke to hear politics and machinery-- Moat of them nndar- stand the subjects, and' those who don't are flattered when someone as sumes that they do understand. Only the other day we heard a man who always gets on well with women--we heard him talking politics--Kansas politics--to a group of women. And, when he reached a complicated situ-5 atlon he illustrated his point with a draw poker story, about a man who held four aces 11 Were these women bored? Precisely not. They were modem womeg who understood, and ttaqr would hare stayed to listen *!! the afternoon if the man hadn't lost his head and begun talking about what a fine pair of twins he has been grand fathering since last spring.--Kansas City Star. ... ' Summed-Up Instruction. Jack lived in a village and was about five years old. Away on a visit he acquired in a modest way the art of whistling. Upon his return home he soon was demonstrating his new accomplishment to his little playmate, Oorxtae, vim itv«4 ~ i.!; ; V".., ; ^ ,Vv ^ - - "Cm. of course, was anxious to learn to whistle also. Jack tried in various ways to teach her, but with slight success. Finally In desperation he said: "Ah, Just make a hole in your Jgee and push." Yea, He Was In Bed. Andy was sent upstairs to bed. Later his mother hearing him running around, went to the door and cried, "Andy, are you in bed?" The answer came quickly back: "Wait just a mi» T m w mk WAS A , FLAT Pastor Charged With Murder of Wife Had Many Love . A, ., A"airs. COUIftS CHURCH 61RIS Accused Divine Said to Have Planned Marriage With One Girl After Pay- ^ Ardent Sult % Another. 'J*. Wells Depot, Me.--A cloak of tery surrounds the death of Mrs. Min nie Stevens Hall, wife of the Rev, Hen ry H. Hall, pastor of the Union Bap tist church here, who declared that she fell from a high bridge to a pile of rocks in a dry creek on the night of June 11. The minister has been lodged In jail at Alfred, Me., charged with the murder of Mrs. Hall. Numerous stories of the prisoner's flirtations have been circulated and detectives are se curing considerable evidence ia the most sensational case that has been brdtaght to light in Maine in many years. The body of the woman has been exhumed. The autopsy was made in the dimly lighted chapel of the little Baptist church where Mr. Hall had preached. Within three hours of the time that her body was disinterred and submitted- to a critical official exami nation it was returned to Its casket and grave, and laid at rest forever. IHad Many Love Affairs. Developments of a startling nature have been made during the Investiga tion. Among them was the fact that the accused preacher was in four im petuous love affairs at the same time and one of them was with a woman of mystery in whom the officers are deep ly interested. She is a Portland wom an known as •'Mrs. Allen," and the T T***? % sp The Two Women Faced Each Other. police of that city have been.called upon for aid in locating her. At the same time Hall was declared to have been engaged to marry "Katie" Gerow, of Wells, to have been paying attention to her twenty-one-year-old Bister, Grace, and to have a living legal wife at the same time. Mrs. Hall learn ed of her husband's numerous infatu ations, which ranged from flirtations to marriage engagements, it was alleged. When Hall was a patient at the Ma rine hospital at Portland, he received dally visits from another woman. She is said to have carried him flowers und It was thought that she was to marry him. Mrs. Hall went to the hospital one day to see her husband, and while She was at his bedside the woman ap peared for her customary visit, but was Informed that she could not go into the ward because at that time the patient's wife was with him. The visitor ex claimed that Hall had no wife, and in sisting that he was engaged to be mar ried to her, rushed Into the ward where she demanded an explanation from Hall. Hospital attendants took a hand in the affair when the two women faced each other and realized the truth. On the day of the funeral of his wifet Hall was almost blithesome. At the home of the wife's mother, when the funeral cortege was being formed, ho beckoned to a w«man to ride in the enrriage with him and in which were his wife's mother and his daughter, Frances. There had been village gos sip which linked the minister's name with the woman, and Mrs. Stephens was unable to withstand the added In dignity of riding in the same carriage with the woman. 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