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F R E D E R I C K P A L M E R ft' fltv tec-; lCopynght. 1914, by Charies Scnbner's Son*) SYNOPSIS. ?V ;s:.V •h At their horns on the frontier between the Browns and Oraya Marta Oalland and her mother, entertaining Colonel Weater- lin* of the Grays, see Captain Lanstron, staff Intelligence officer of the Browns, Injured by a fall in his aeroplane. Ten years later. Westerling, nominal vice but reel chief of staff, reinforces South La Tjr, meditate* on war, and speculates on the comparative agea of himself and Mar- tjL who Is visiting in the Gray capital, weeterling calls on Marta. She tells him •t her teaching children the follies of war •nd martial patriotism, begs him to pre­ vent war while he is chief of staff, and predicts that If he makes war against the Browns he will not win. On the march with the SSd of the Browns Private Stran- •ky, anarchist, decries war and played- out patriotism and is placed under arrest. Colonol SLanatron overhearing, bega him Off. I^artstron calls on Maria at her home. He talks with Feller, the gardener. Marta tells Lanptrrm that she believes Feller to be a spy. Lanstron confesses it is true, LAnstron shows Marta a telephone which Keller has concealed In a secret passage under the tower for use to benefit the Browns in war emergencies. Lanstron de­ clares his love for Marta. Westerling and the Gray premier plan to use a trivial In­ ternational affair to foment warlike pa­ triotism in army and people and strike be­ fore declaring war. Partow, Brow,p chief of staff, and Lanstron, made vice, discuss the trouble, and the Brown defenses. Par- tow reveals his plans to Lanstron. The Gray army crosses the border line and at­ tacks. The Browns check them. Artil- "17. Infantry, aeroplanes and dirigibles engage. Stransky. rising to make the anarchist speech of bin l'fe. draws the Gray artillery fire. Nicked by a shrapnel splinter he goes Berserk and fights--"all • man." CHAPTER IX--Continue*. But would one? He understood that with their smokeless powder the Gray rung could be located only by their flashes, which would not be vis­ ible unless the retraction of light were favorable. Then "thur-eesh--thur- eesh" above every other sound In a long wail! No man ever forgets the first crack of a shrapnel at close quar­ ters, the first bullet breath on his cheek, or the first supporting shell from his side in flight that passes above him. "That Is ours!" called Dellarme.' "Ours!" shouted the sergeant. "Ours!" sang the thought of every •ike of them. Over the Gray batteries on the plain ui explosive ball of smoke hung in the still air; then another beside it. "Thur-eesh -- thur-eesh -- thur-eesh," the screaming overhead became a gale that built a cloud of blue smoke over offending Gray batteries--beauti- soft blue smoke from which a spray of steel descended. There was no spotting the flashes of the Browns' guas in order to reply %> them, for they were under the cover of a hill, using indirect aim as nicely and ac­ curately as if firing pointblank. The gunners of the Gray batteries could not go on with their work under such a hail-storm; they were checkmated. They stopped firing and began moving to a new position, where their com­ mander hoped to remain undiscovered long enough to support the 128th by loosing his lightnings against the de­ fenders at the critical moment of the next charge, which would be made as soon as Pracasse's men had been rein­ forced. A There' was an end to the concus­ sions and the thrashing of the air around Dellarme's men, and they had the relief of a breaking abscess In the ear. But they became more conscious of the spits of dust in front of their faces and the passing whistles of bul­ lets. In return, they made the sec­ tions of Gray Infantry in reserve rush­ ing across the levels, leave many gray lumpB behind. But Pracasse's men at the foot of the slope poured in a heav­ ier and still heavier fire. "Down there's where we need the •hells now!" 6poke the thought of Del­ larme's men, which he had anticipated by a word to the signal corporal, who waved his flag one--two--three--four --five times. Come on, now, with more of your special brand of death, fire-control Officer! Your own head la above the sky-line, though your guns are hidden. Five hundred yards be­ yond the knoll i{ the range! Come on! He came with a burst of screams so low In flight that they seemed to bnlsh the back of the men's nedks with a hair broom at the rate of a thousand feet a second. Having watched the result, Dellarme turned with a confirmatory gesture, which the corporal translated Into the wigwag of "Correct!" The shrapnel smoke hanging over Pracasse's men appeared ft heavenly blue to Dellarme's men. r "They are going to start for us soon! Oh, but we 11 get a lot of them!" whispered Stransky gleefully tQ his rifle. Pellarme glanced again toward the colonel's station. No sign of the re­ tiring flag. He was glad of that He did not. want to fall back In face of a charge; to have his men silhouetted In the valley as they retreated. And the Grays would not endure this show­ er-bath lvng without going one way or the 9ther. He gave the order to fix' bayonets, and hardly was. it obeyed when he saw flashes of steel through the shrapnel smoke as the Grays fixed theirs. The Grays had 500 yards to go; the Browns bad the time that it takes running men to cover the dis­ tance in which to stop the Grays. '"Well epear any of them who has the luck to get this far!" whispered fltransky to his rifle. The sentence was spoken in the midst of a salvo of •brapnel cracks, which h$ did not hear. He beard nothing, thought noth­ ing, except to kill. The Gray batteries on the plain, having taken up a new position and (Xing reinforced, played on the crest •*, top speed instantly the Gray line rose and started up the slope at the run. With the ^purpose of confusing 00, less than killing, they used percus- ston, which burst on striking the ground. &A wjeU as shrapnel, which fylirst by a time-fuse in the air. Foun­ tains of sod and dirt shot upward to descending sprays of bullets. The concussions of the earth shook the aim of Dellarme's men, blinded by smoke and dust, slb they fired through a fog at bent figures whose legs were pumping fast In dim pantomime. But the guns of the Browns, also, have word that the charge has begun. The signal corporal is waittng for the gesture from Dellarme agreed upon as an announcement. The Brown artil­ lery commander cuts his fuses two hundred and fifty yards shorter. He, too, uses percussion for moral effect. Half of the distance from the foot to the crest of the knoll Fracasse's men have gone in face of the hot, Biz- cling tornado of buliets, when there is a blast of explosions in their faces with all the chaotic and irresistible force of a volcanic eruption. Not only are they In the midst of the first lot of the Browns' shells at the shorter range, but one Gray battery has either made a mistake in cutting its fuses or struck a streak of powder below stand­ ard, and ltc shells burst among those whom it is aiming to assist. The ground seems rising under the feet of Pracasse's company; the air is split and racked and wrenched and torn with hideous screams of invisible demons. The men stop; they act on the uncontrollable instinct of self-pres- ervation against an overwhelming force of nature. A few without the power of locomotion drop, faces pressed to the ground. The rest flee toward a shoulder of the slope through the instinct that leads a hunted man In a street into an alley. In a confusion of arms and legs, press­ ing one on the other, no longer sol­ diers, only a mob, they throw them­ selves behind the first protection that offers itself. Fracasse also runs. He runs from the flame of a furnace door suddenly thrown open. The Gray batteries have ceased fir­ ing; certain gunners' ears burn under the words of inquiry as to the cause of the mistake from an artillery com­ mander: Dellarme's men are hugging the earth too close to cheer. A desire to spring up and yell may be in their hearts, but they know the danger of showing a single unnecessary inch of their craniums above the sky-line. The sounds that escape their throats are those of a winning team at a tug of war as diaphragms relax. With the smoke clearing, they see 20 or 30 Grays plastered on the slope at the point where the charge was checked. Every one of those prostrate forms is within fatal range. Not one moves a finger; even^ the living are feigning death in the hope of surviv­ ing. Among them is little Peterkin, so faithful in forcing his refractory legs to keep pace with his comrades. If he is always up with them they will never know what is in his heart and call him a coward. As he has been knocked unconscious, he has not been in the pell-mell retreat. His first stabbing thought on coming to was that he must be dead; but. no; he was opening his eyes sticky, with dust. At least, he must'be wounded! He had not power yet to move his hands in order to feel where, and when they grew alive enough to move, what he saw in front of him held them frigidly still. His nerves went search­ ing from his head to his feet and-- miracle of heaven!--found no point of pain or spot soppy with blood. If he were really hit there was bound to be one or the other, he knew from read­ ing. Between him and the faces of the Browns--yes, the actual, living, terri­ ble Browns--above the glint of their rifle barrels, was no obstacle that could stop a bullet, though not more than thfee feet away was a crater made by a shell burst. The black cir­ cle of every muzzle on the crest seemed to be pointing at him. When were they going to shoot? When wag he to be executed? Would he bp shot in many places and die thus? Or would the very first bullet go through his head? Why didn't they fire? What were they waiting for? The suspense was unbearable. The desperation of overwhelming fear driving him in irre­ sponsible impulse, he doubled up his legs and with a cat's leap sprang for the crater. A blood-curdling burst of whistles passed over his head as a dozen rifles cracked. This time he was Burely killed! He was in some other world! Which was it, the good or the bad?- The good, for he had a glimpse of blue sky. No. that could not be, for he bad been alive when he leaped for the crater, and there he was pressed against the soft earth of its bottom. He burrowed deeper blissfully. He was the nearest to the enemy of any man of the 128th, and he certainly had passed through a gamut of emo­ tions in the half-hour since Eugene Aronson had leaped over a white post. • • • • • * "Confound it! if we'd kept on we'd have got them! Now we have to do it all over again!" growled Fracasse distractedly as he looked around at the faces hugging the cover of the shoulder--faces asking, What next? each in its own way; faces blank and white; faces with lips working and eyes blinking; faces with the blood rushing back to cheeks in baffled an­ ger. One, however, was half smiling-- Hugo Mallin'8. "You did your share of the running.' I'll warrant, Mallin!" said Fracasse excitedly, venting his disgust on a particular object. "Yes, sir," answered Hugo. "It was very hard to maintain a semblance of dignity. Yes, sir, I kept near you all the time. Wasn't that what you wanted me to do. sir?" Three or four men burst into a hys- (erical laugh as if something had bro­ ken In their throats. Everybody felt better for this touch of drollery except the captain. Yet. possibly, it may poise. Sometimes *' l|lB-irWlt will have this effect. "8ilence!" he said In his old man­ ner. "I will give you something to joke about other than a little setback like thfil Get op there with your rifles!" He formed the nucleus of a flring- line under cover of the shoulder, and then set the remainder of his com­ pany to work with their spades mak­ ing a trench. The second battalion of the l^Rth, whJcht faced the knoll, was also digging at the base of the slope, and another regiment in reserve was deploying on the plain. After the fail­ ure to rush the knoll the Gray com­ mander had settled down to the busi­ ness of a systematic approach. And what of those of Fracasse's men who had not run but had dropped In their tracks when the charge halt­ ed? They were between two lines of fire. There was no escape. Some of the wounded had a mercifully quick end, others suffered the consciousness of being hit again and again; the dead were bored through with bullet holes. In torture, the survivors prayed for death; for all had to die except Peter- kin, the pasty-faced little valet's son. Peterkin was quite safe, hugging the bottom of the shell crater under a swarm of hornets. In a surprisingly short time he became accustomed tc Blood-Curdling Burst of Whistles Passed Over His Head. 9 . the situation and found himself raven­ ously hungry, for the strain of the last 12 hours had burned up tissue." He took a biscuit out of his knapsack and began nibbling it, as became a true rodent. CHAPTER X. Marta's First Glimpse of War. As Marta and the children came to the door of the chapel after the reci­ tation of the oath, she saw the civil population moving along the street In the direction of the range. There was nothing for Marta to do but start homeward. The thought that her mother was alone made her hasten at a pace much more rapid than the pro­ cession of people, whose talk and ex­ clamations formed a monotone audi­ ble in its nearness, despite the continu­ ous rifle-flre, now broken by the pound­ ing of the guns. "It's all done to beat the GrayB, Isn't It, Miss Galland? They are trying to take our land," said Jacky Werther as Marta parted from him. "Yes, it is done to beat the Grays," she answered. "Good luck, Jacky!" YeB, yes, to beat the Grays! The same Idea--the fighting nature, the brute nature of man--animated both sides. Had the Browns really tried for peace? Had they, in the spirit of her oath, appealed to justice and reason? Why hadn't their premier before all the world said to the premier of the Grays,- as one honest, friendly neigh­ bor to another over a matter of dis­ pute: "We do not want war. We know you outnumber us, *but we know you would not take advantage of that. If we are wrong we will make amends. If you are wrong we know that you will. Let us not play tricks In secret to gain points, we civilized nations, but be frank with each other. Let us not try^to irritate each other or to in­ fluence our people, but to realize how much we have In common and that our only purpose is common progress and happiness." At the turn'of the road !• front of I the castle she saw the gunners of the batteries making an emplacement for their guns in a field of carrots that had not yet been harvested. The roots of golden yellow were mixed with the tossing spadefuls of earth. A shadow like a great cloud In mad flight shot over the earth, and with the gunners she looked up to see a Gray dirigible. Already It was turning homeward; already it had gained its object as a scout On the fragile plat­ form of the gondola was a man, seem­ ingly a human mite aiming a tiny toy gun. His target was one of the Brown aeroplanes. "They're in danger of cutting their own envelope! They can't get the an­ gle! The plane is too "nigh!" ex­ claimed the artillery commander. Both he and his men forgot their work In watching the spectacle of aerial David against aerial Goliath. "If our man lands with his little bomb. oh. my!" he grinned. "That's why he is so high. He's been waiting up there." "Pray God he will!" exclaimed one of the gunners. "Look at him volplane--motor at full speed, too!" "Into it! Making sure! Oh, splen-- O?" cried the artillery commander. A ball of lightning shot forth sheets of flame. Dirigible and plane were hidden in an ugly swirl of yellowish smoke, rolling out Into a purple cloud that spread into prismatic mist over the descent of cavorting human bodies and broken machinery and twisted braces, flying pieces of tattered or burning cloth. David has taken Goliath down with him in a death grip. An aeroplane following the dirigible as a screen, hoping to get home with information if the dirigible were lost, had escaped the sharpshooters in the church tower by flying around the town. However, it ran within range of the automatic and the sharpshooters on top of the castle tower. They failed of the bull's-eye, but their bullets, rim­ ming the target, crippling the motor, and cutting braces, brought the crum­ pling wings about the helpless pilot. The watching gunners uttered "Ahs!" df horror and, triumph as they saw him fall, gliding this way and that, in the agony of slow descent. "Coihe, now!" called the artillery commander. "We are wasting pre­ cious time." Entering the grounds of the Galland house, Marta had to pass to one side of the path, now blocked by army wagons and engineers' materials and tools. Soldiers carrying ̂ sand-bags were taking the shortest cut, tram­ pling the flowers on their way. "Do you know whose property this is?" she demanded in a burBt of an­ ger. "Ours--the nation's!" answered one, perspiring freely at his work. "Sor­ ry!" he added on second thought. Already parts of the first terrace were shoulder-high with sand-bags and one automatic had been set in place, Marta observed as she turned to the veranda. There her mother sat in her favorite chair, hands relaxed as they rested on its arms, while she looked out over the valle^ in the supertran- qullity that comes to some women under a strain--as soldiers who have been on sieges can tell you--that'some psychologists interpret one way and some another, none knowing even their own wives. "Marta, did any of the children come?" Mrs. Galland asked in her usual pleasant tone. So far as she was concerned, the activity on the terrace did not exist. She seemed ob­ livious of the fact .of war. Marta's monosyllable absently an­ swering the question was expressive of her wonder at her mother. Most girls do not know their mothers much better than psychologists know their wives. "Marta. whatever happens one should go regularly about what he considers his duty," said Mrs. Galland. "They have been as considerate as they could, evidently by Colonel Lan- stron's orders," she proceeded, nod­ ding toward the industrious engineers. "And they've packed all the paintings and works of art and put them in the cellar, where they will be safe." The captain of engineers in com­ mand, seeing Marta. hurried toward her. * "Miss Galland, isn't ttT" he asked. "I have been waiting for ybu. I--1-- well, I found that I could not make th.e situation clear to your mother." "He thinks me in my second child­ hood or out of my head," Mrs. Galland explained with a shade of tartness. "And he has been so polite In trying to conceal his opinion, too." she added with a comprehending smile. The captain flushed in embarrass­ ment. "I--I can't speak too strongly," he declared when he had regained his composure. "Though everything seems 3 B3 Reminded Her of Yosemite California Woman Not Over-En! iu»»- astic Over Her First Impres­ sions of Gibraltar. Some one who was seeing Watkins off the other day made the inev' able remark about visiting "America first." Some one is sure to say that sroner or later, within a week of one s fall­ ing for foreign parts; if not while one is packing, he or she says it on the deck of the boat Just before the whis* tie blows. That is how it was with Watkins, who was going to spend a summer on the. Island of Sark. and who had never been to California. "No,", confessed Watkins £1 bsven't seen --er--what do jrojl (£*II it-- <5olden4»Gate? I haven't seen the Go«r den Gate. Bpt I crossed $ vear a*o wjth Rome California people They told me a good deal about the Call- * through the Straits of Gibraltar, and, of course, the whole passenger list was out on deck, staring at the old rock. Our boat didn't-stop at Gibral­ tar--we just went slowly through the straits, and looked out and up. » "The woman from California *is beside me. leaning against' the rail, looking at Gibraltar, and Algeciras, and beyond to the headlands of Spain. 8he was mightily Impressed by the rock. "'It's magnificent!' she said. 'It's wonderful! And what do you think? If I half close my eyes, so.tbat 1 on't get quite all of it. I can Just imagine that ! am back home in the Yosemite valley!'" Left Fatal Evidence. A.burglar who broke Into an anti­ quary s Bhop in Paris has been iden­ tified by means of a strip of skin torn fornix oUtnate and how beautiful from his ear by"the broken glass of country was. ' ' showcase. The piece of skin was iiy. iSi . * »A ji'l*. . have helped him in recovering his I never forgot. We were !'i •'tV .Mttl Ilitfi-' ' And." Watkins conMnued. drean*[preserved in a bottle of spirits, and th« wr»man said something tliat J [it fitted on to « -1 going jman' 8 left ear. a fresh scar on the to be safe hsre niw, ft may not be In an hour. Tou must go, all of yon. This house will be an lnfetpo as soon as the 63d falls back, and I can't pos- sibly get your m'other to appreciate the fact, Miss Galland." "But I said that I did appreciate It ahd that the Gallands hare been In infernos before--perhaps not as bad as this one that is coming--but, then, the Gallands must keep abreast of the times," replied Mrs. Galland. "I have asked Minna and she prefers to re­ main. I am glad of that. I am glad now that we kept her, Marta. She is as loyal as my old maid and tha butler and the cook were to your grand­ mother in the last war. Ah, the Gal­ lands had many servants then!" "This isn't like the old war. This place will be shelled, enfiladed! And you two--" the captain protested des­ perately. "I became a Galland when I mar­ ried," said Mrs. Galland, "and the Galland women have always remained with their property In time of war. Naturally, I shall remain!" "Miss Galland, it was you--your In­ fluence t was counting on to--" The captain turned to Marta In a final ap­ peal. Mrs. Galland was watching her daughter's face Intently. "We stay!" replied Marta, and the captain saw in the depths of her eyes, a cold blue-black, that further argu­ ment was useless. Now came the sweep of a rising roar from the sky with the command to at­ tention of the rush of a fast express- train past, a country railway station. Two Gray dirigibles with their escort of aeroplanes were bearing toward the pass over the pass road. The auto­ matic and the riflemen in the tower banged away to no purpose, but the central sections of the envelope of the rear dirigible had been torn in shreds; It was buckling. Clouds of blue shrap­ nel smoke broke around its gondola. A number of field-guns Joined forces with a battery of high-angle guns In a havoc that left a drifting derelict; the remainder of the equadron had com­ pleted its loop and was pointing toward the plain. From a great altitude, literally out of the blue of heaven, high over the -Gray lines, Marta made out a Brown squadron of dirigibles and planes de­ scending across the track of the Grays. The Gray dirigibles, stern on, were little larger than umbrellas and the planes than swallows; the Brown diri- News Brevities of Illinois ipr She Looked Up to See a Gray Dirigible. gibles, side on, were big sausages and their planes specks. To the eye, this meeting was like that of two small flocks of soaring birds apparently un­ able to change their course. But imagination oould picture the fearful clash of forces, whose wounded would find the succor of no hospital except impact on the earth below. Marta put her hands over her eyee for only a second, she thought, before Bhe withdraw therii in vexation-- hadn't she promised herself not to be cowardly?--to see one Brown dirigible and two Brown aeroplanes ascending at a sharp angle above a cloud of smoke to escape the high-angle guns of the Grays. "We've got them all! No Hps sur­ vive to tell what the eye saw!" ex­ claimed the engineer captain, his words bubbling with the joy of water in the sunlight. "As I thought," be continued in professional enthusalsm and discrimination. With high-power binoculars glued to his eyes, he then turned to see If the faint brown line of Dellarme's men were going to bold or break. If it held, he might have hours In which to complete hi8 task; if it broke, he had only minutes. Marta came up the terrace path from the chrysanthemum bed In time to watch the shroud of ehrapnel smoke billowing over the knoll, to visualize another scene in place of the collision of the squadrons, and to note the cap­ tain's exultation over Fracasse's re­ pulse. ^ "How we must have phnlshed them!" he exclaimed to his lieutenant.- "How we must have mowed them down! Lanstron certainly knew what he^was doing." "You mean that he knew how we should mow them down?" asked Marta. Not until ehe spoke did he realise that she was standing near blm. "Why, naturally! If we hadn't mowed them down his plan would have failed. Mowing them down was the only way to hold them back." he said; and seeing her horror made haste to add: "Miss Galland, now you know what a ghastly business war la. It will be worse here than there" "Yes," she said blankly. Her color­ less cheeks, her drooping underllp con­ vinced him that now, with a little show of masculine authority, he would gain his point. "You and your mother must go!" said firmly. " (TO. B8 OONTtNUKD.) "KU,-;' ;. V -.' Rock Island.--Thomas Caeey, treas­ urer of the state board of barber's ex­ aminers, has returned from Cairo, where he arrested 4S barbers, violators of the state law. Sterling. The second day of the trial at Morrison of Emma Hutton and her sister, Lillian Beyers, for the mur­ der of their brother, resulted in the selection of eight jurors. Payson.--Six persons were slightly hurt when a broken steering knuckle upset the automobile of Rev. J. N. Jerman, pastor of the Payson Metho­ dist Episcopal church. Knoxville.--Trustees of the Univer­ sity of Knoxville announced that the Rev. Charles Lefflngwell, founder of the university, would turn the insti­ tution over to the Episcopal church of Illinois. Bloomington. -- Modern Woodmen grand lodge funds in possession of David Myers, grand treasurer, at Pontiac, are liable for taxes, accord­ ing to a decision handed down by Judge Myers. Mount Vernonr -- The Jefferson County Farmers' Institute convened in Mount Vernon. Talks on "Alfalfa" were made by experienced growers. Mrs. *I«na $fann of Oilman was the speaker at the household science meeting. Galesburg. -- Mrs. Margaret Taft was killed and her son and daughter, Oliver and Maude Taft, and grand­ son, Albert, were Injured near Prarie City when the automobile which Oli­ ver was driving upset while going down a hill. Springfield.--With the assumption of his new duties as secretary-treas­ urer of the Illinois Federation of Labor, succeeding J. j\ Morris, Victor Olander, the new secretary- treasurer, announced he will remove his offices to Chicago. Rockford.--Jamee Boldack, a farm hand recently employed On the J. Frank Jackson farm, has brought suit against his former employer for $5,000, alleging that he suffered serious injury in a fall from his employer's farm wagon. Danville.--Voters of the Eighteenth district have returned Joseph G. Can­ non to congress for his twentieth term. Returns show that the former speaker of the house and perhaps its most picturesque figure, had defeated Frank T. O'Hair, who ousted Mir. Can­ non two years ago, by 3,500 votes. Zion City.--Despite 30 new cases of smallpox here and despite the near panic In Waukegan, Racine and neigh­ boring towns over the epidemic, Wil­ bur Glen Vollva, head of the Dowle church here, called upon his congre­ gation to "shoot any doctor who tried to vaccinate." Dr. E. C. Crawford of the state board of health is in charge of attempts to stamp out the spread of the disease, but has not enforced vaccination, merely insisting on quar­ antine of the families of patients. Aurora.--In a determined effort to head off a further spread of the hoof and mouth disease which has invaded Kane county herds of cattle and hogs, Sugar Grove farmers organized a vig­ ilance band of 50 men which went abroad slaying every cat, dog, goat, pigeon, chicken and other fowl in the township. The smaller animals and fowl carry the disease on their feet, the farmers said. They expressed es­ pecial fear of tomcats, explaining naively that they travel asv high as fifteen mJles a night. Chicago.--With 35 cases of small­ pox in their midst the religious colon; at Zion City, founded by the late John Alexander * Dowle. with faith healing the most notable feature of the belief, bowed if) strict quarantine measures Wilbur Gleen Vollva, present head of the sect, has fought the use of or­ dinary precautionary measures since the malady became epidemic, but he Is now said to have given way on all points, except vaccination. Compul­ sory Inoculation against the disease is not permitted by law, but 300 non- church members, employed in a fac­ tory there, bared their arms to the surgeons. Waukegan.--Doctor Drake, secre­ tary of the state board if health; Doctor Crawford, and the attorney of the board arrived in response to a telegram addressed by Mayor J. F. Bidinger and Commissioner Carl At- terbury to Governor Dunne, demand­ ing the state take more drastic steps to protect Waukegan from the small­ pox epidemic in Zion City. Accom­ panied by the mayor, Commissioner Atterbury, Assistant Chief of Police Thomas Tyrrell, and City Physician J. C. Foley, the state health officers visited Zion f 1 ty- They found a dozen cases where ifuyantlne was not being enforced. As a result of this the state officers declared that they would have a number of men stationed in Zion City to enforce the quarantine. This decision was announced after a stormy session with Vollva, it is said, who wished Zion City men to act as guards. Duquoin.---Rev. James R. E. Craig­ head of Carbondale and Rev. William M. Maxton of this city, who are in charge of the work of raising the f30.- 000 endowment for Union Academy of Anna, have announced that $5,205 of the amount has been subscribed. The full amount must be raised by Decem­ ber 12 In order to get the additional $30,000 endowment offered by Hwgh Lauder, formerly of Carbondale and .iow of Jacksonville. Flp. Chenoa.--Rev. J. F. Lorsch. pastor of the Trinity Lutheran church in Chenoa, has received a call to become pastor of a church at Waterville. O. Duquoln.--A party of mine experts, composed of George L. Morgan, James S. Reed and John MoClintick, state mine inspectors; John Bolander. presi­ dent of the state mining board; Evan D. John, former member of the state mining board; Edward Laughron, James B. Brown, R. B. MiteluiH and Charles Krallmann, have completed an investigation of the cauaes of the Royalton mine disaster. A v^djet., that the explosion was caused by a miner crossing the examiners' danger mark and Igniting the gas in one of the entiles, was returned. The o» i<r hav returned operations. SOME TERRIBLE WAR That'of the United Statea 9ovir|i':' ment Heads the List In " Pobtt of Size.' ' war* of Napoleon In,iS cost France $1,000,000,OoO writes We# dell Phillips Dodge in Leslie's. Our CiV- . II war expenditures of the Civil gof- . ernment amounted to $3,400,000,000, Of ' nearly thirteen times as much a year as Napoleon's. The Franco-Oerm?itt war cost France $1,580,000,000, besidfa an added wiar indemnity of $1,000,006,- 000. This same great war, whioh lasted only 190 days, cost Germany 1450.000,000 for an average fighting force of 1,250,000 men. The other big European war of the past half century, the Russo-Turkish war, cost Russia $786,140,000, but she had two years' fighting for her money. The war In the far East cost Japan $650,000,009 and Russia $723,000,000, not counting lost ships. Only toward the end had either side anything like a million men In the field. Italy's little war with' Turkey cost $400,000 a day, allowinc for a mere 60,000 fighting men; and the Boer war, in which England's army averaged 200,000, cost $1,055,000,000 lit two and a half years. •M Spa Guilty. The Justice of the peace in a tpwn In Ohio, tn pursuance of his duties; had to hear and judge cases that were brought before him and also to peov form occasional marriage ceremonies,. He found it difficult to disassociate tfte various functions of his office. Everything had gone smoothly un­ til he asked one bride: "Do you take this man to be your husband?" The bride nodded emphatically. 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