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Ct‘SS L“ thnu ami~ uf um: ug wen-ml», “111 wxnte fur uul' (Analogue as the fizntstep t.'()\\ 3.1 (1 u gnnd snl trit'd whitinu. 'lnke the flep [0- day. Ad- (119‘s Central Busi: lees ( U‘Hi‘ '9 Qiks degr‘ St. 'nm NU VACATION \\-'.H.SHA\V. Chairman. ntn. L.;11'gust trainers Elm-1- any day. '1 he Harnessmakv PH-sident President St'Cl’BtRl‘V r-. SERIAL sway 3v 848031535 BERTHA VON SUUNER C‘anadian‘ rights controlled by British and Colon“! Pres. Limitcd. Tomato. I lost my child, and for weeks by between life and death, drew“ all the agoules of war and torture. In my delirium I crled, “Disarm! Dharml Help! Help us all for the sake of justice and mercy, help!” When I regained consciousneu, my father and Aunt Marie stood at my bedside. “Is he alive? Have letters come?” were my first questions. Yes, quite a heap of letters had accumulated. One was marked: “Not to be opened till all danger is past.” From this I take extracts :â€" To-day we met the enemy for the. first time, having marched through!1 conquered territory until now, with’ i the Danes 1etreating fast. Every-1 where are the ruins and remnants oti battle. The -ndscape is torn with, shell and piled with graves. So the victors march on to new victories.: Toâ€"day we took the enemy’s position and leaving a burning village behind us. While friend and foe were ab- sorbed,in the tumult, I could only think of you, and that perhaps you were lost. The enemy withstood us but two hours, and we did not pur- svue. We collected our wounded and cared for them as well a: we couid. The dead. some among them still possibly alive, we buried, but the ‘wounded and injured we must ieave l behind to bleed slowly to death and starve. And111e.i111rr~.111.1vemust push on into 1'- e joily, dasning \v.sr Our next wiiip reliably be a p tched battle, for txvo gr reat a1111y corps are about to clash. Then the loss 111311 :I run into 1.1111511: :d s. and the artill ry '. i i 1 l I 1 will mow them. 1101111 What a Strong? ‘N'av of doing 111.1 mgs. it “(mid b tie-r if 1'11:- {310 enemies each 1:11 a weapon. which with one illov Wield 11“.:11: out either side. 1 112111111 .19 wouid tend to put :1. sin“ t" war. if hath forces were mun" deadly, 111.1112 force eriuid no longer '1'..- employed to settfe disputes. 11:1“ bx) disputan s anilid be wiped out. Why do i write thus to you. when I ought to be glorifying our 6111311310 merits and triumphs? Because liite you, I 10115.: for the unvarnisherl truth, and hate the usual lying phrases when death is near. With thousands vo’c ing the opposite. i must speak out before I fail a sacrifice to warâ€"â€"th-.1.t ', I hate it. if every man who feels it "I woulds say so. Heaven would hear our icry, and (1 en the thundering canno1 roar would be drowned out by the new battle-cry of panting, exhausted hu- manity: Let us make war on war! 1 l i l I 1 J I 1 l 1 The above was written yesterday. I snatched a few hours of sleep on a sack of straw. In half an hour the field mail is ‘aken. With little rest we are already up for the march-â€" poor fellows. It is indeed little rest after the bloody work to prepare them for still bloodier sights. I have~ just returned from looking over the wou‘.d- ed. whom ' 'e must leave. How glazl‘zy I would have put a bullet into some. of them, who must drag out a miser- able agonized death. My horse is saddled. Farewell. my Martha. if you are still alive. The day is ours. I am unhurtg The first is good news for papa and the last for you. I canno: forget that for thousands the same day we brought untenable grief. Another .etter:- Imagine my astonishment. Riding near me at the head of a detachment was Aunt L‘ornelia’s only son, Gott- fried. The youngster is beside him- self with enthusiasm, but now his poor mother must surfer! That evening I sent for him to come to my tent. “Is it not splendid" he cried. "to.be fighting in the same cause? How Iucky 1 am to be called out in myfirst year of service! I slum w n {the cross of honor.” “And 111;: aunt. Fhow does she like it?" “ 11 just as lall womenâ€"she tried to dan‘p my 2 spirits with tears but I am enchant zdelighted! Awful. I grant. but mag- fniflcent. It is gratifying to feel t‘liuf One or two letters I found of a later date:-â€"â€" I am filling man’s h 51': st duty. wftx God’s help for kzng and country. '10 meet death so 010511;. tn hxl’en-e him face to face. 31d ye 0: not b.» touched. it fills me v.11}; 111»: g 02:. ‘ of the old epics, as if the muse of 11 S“ tory were leading us on to victory. I feel such an indignation at {he enemy who dues defy r1 Germans, and it is a thrii lidg sensation to g 3.3.- ty this mm. to destroy xx 1thnut be ng a murderer, this fearless exams re at 1 one's life.” So the be v1. rllttltd on, and I let 1:: Was not my first campaign the same experience? Epic? Yes. that is .1219 very word with which me so comfy}, train our School boys into sulfiirrs, W‘c throw it into their excitabl.~ young brains. ~11 makes quiet (.omestic bliss seem St‘JLLd 11011511159. \\ am. the,» are longing for heroics. With me this attitude has so completely vanished, that I could hardly rex'lze Gottfried 8 state of m -. .. 1 :31 so earl y realiz. d it all as so in21;-;;an that it was 10 longer a revelation from the kingdom of Lucifer but gross barbarity and [bestiality Only he who is drunk with the passion for blood and-destr.;ction can triumphantly split oven the ae- sak e at you in all your ill condition will be able to read it, but because I have a eu, my premonition that I shall not outlive at my this campaign, and I want to leave my convictions behind me. The sin. come?" cere reflections of honest. humane quite a soldiers should not be falsified or sink nulated. into the silent grave with them, un- opened ‘spoken and unrevealed. I have here u this I :spoken it, this quiets my conscience, t ,1 can die in peace. for the ; This latest letter was five days' old through t' five unspeakable days of dread. Though w, with Frederick was yet unhlurt, my anx- Every- " ieties left me no comfort. My father nants of , was obliged to return to Grumitz, and rn with i Aunt Marie remained to keep me con- So the soled with her orthodox ideas of des- ictories. tinY- providence. and divine mercyâ€"â€" position small comfort with so few letters a behind coming from the seat of war. My vere ab- father made inquiries, but could get .18 mm, no information, although Frederick )isarml I write this, not because I imagine \ l l "'\- wuâ€" twang: “I hopL 3 H are not angry that I} >g ati- struck 3:: row, N133 111.. I hate the: ' be'ng lash b2 - { (aunot endure seeirg ané re {Lani 1m. abused." g - Q’ itt‘ Iii-fat. . '1 “Ovly pzrne can be hurt then. a on L - Ct 11:3. 9 San} 9‘ W11“? :‘persd 1113 boy. is 33.9- “11124 is still worse.” LTOf;‘E3.'§ “But you _ went out to beat the 0 ’;lfii'31‘$, lta‘dz ms az-zd Dan . 3 , :youug§ -“'11:e' H: e our enemies ” gmestig? “Then one may hate those?" en the, I Tu: ning .1'1'33, Frederick said: “And me this to-morrom the priest will tell him Lenishei {that we must love our enemies. Such 1n rie-flsL logic'" ”‘Emn to Rudolf: “No, it is realiz.d tIH‘! berm-:7 we hate them that'fwo was 0 ‘gstri‘he, bu‘ oscaus'e they strike us.” :ingdozn’ “Why do they want to strike us?’ It, and “BecaL-se weâ€"no, go and play, Ru- at: with ',di " heinter rrv vpted himself, “theta ls tmction no way out of the tangle. You must the He- {.never pic-it again; and we will fOrkjv-i I Gottfried is delighted that we are ,fighting together as brothers in the same just cause (as it every cause were not called right by the powers commanding). . “We Germans are brothers?" “Yes, that was proved by the Thirty Years' and the Seven Years’ Wars,’.’ I suggested ironically. Gottfried paid no attention. “To- gether we will conquer every enemy." “Yes, until the Prussians declare war against the Austrians.” “Not to be Iencexess need of in enemy. I never knew the “joy of battle," believe me.‘ my dear wire, I never did. thought of! Impossible! What, when we have fought and bled together?” “I warn you, nothing is impossible in political matters. The friendships of dynastieal rulers are as changeable u the ephemeral fly.” was not in the list of the dead. Thus the days dragged on. One afternoon I lay half dreaming on the sofa, \\ here I had begg ed to be left alone. \Iy weakness and anx: ety had so overpowered my imagination and reasonableness that I was full of fleeting visi‘nary sensatio.s, and springing up in terror at some sfig‘nt movement 3:: the room, I suddenly thought I 93‘? Frederick in the door- “â€"011, my Frederick, my last one." I groaned. What? vauld it be his real voice? then no.1 :rtaxs were thrown areund me 8113;: 2‘73. The drama; came true, I was en- foldod in 31:3: husband‘s loving em- brace. ' ’ ‘ Altaâ€"r m‘.z‘ first expressions of joy had subsidz :1. Frederick told us lzoxv he. had bt'tfil left wounded in a peas- ant’s hut. the regiment marching on and reporiizig him “missing." {his report had not reached us, and when he was sm-i’iciently recovered he has- tened home without waiting to write, for the war was practically at an end. We Spmit 'he summer again at father‘s ('(mnizy seat, where the entire family assembled. including brother Otto, home from the Military Academy, and Cousin Conrad, whose regiment lay not far away. I was determined to persuade my; husband to quit the service, for we} had grown so one in our feelings and ; interests that Wha'. was mine was: surely his also. and why, if new wars l were again to threaten. need we go; through such horrors again? ' Besides. Rudolf was now eleven. years old.1111d it should be our de-: light, in (1111' 1etirement, to educate and train this little man according to our high 1st ideals. He had neverfi - been g11 ('11 0111‘ to nurses and tutors, for it was my pride to watch exery phase 01' his 1evelopment. In his‘ growing appet te for knowledge we' I had net ex permitted ourselves to tell him a iaixlmcd, but his questions ,were not always answered fully; enough to suit him. He accompanied .us on 0111' '11in walks and often his. questions ~.-1111:1nded the unknowab‘; e, C so we anaemed “We do not know 3’; This did not satisfy him, and he used to put tl11se questions to others of whom he 1'1e1ived quite decided an-l swers. One. day he remarked trium- phantly. "i111 do not know how old the moon is. but I do. It is six thou. sand years oldâ€"remember that.” Frederick and I looked at each other silently. ..nd a whole volume of pro- * test lay in that glance and that silence. - I seriously objected to the soldier 'games which his grandfather and uncle played with him. “Thus the - ideas of cutting down the enemy were ;inf1:sed in him without my knowledge. One day Frederick ind I came upon him when he u as mercilessly beating: tuo puppies with a riding whip. “You cheating little Italian,” he said laqhing the one puppy. And striking txc other he called loud‘y, 1“You saum ha Frederick snatcz- ied t‘ )0 whip {ram ehis hand: “And you heartless nttle Austrian.’ he said, i'lafing (11 mo or th‘ree blows. Ru- dolf km an to blubbor. and the Izalian :and Dune ran joyfully aw.ay _( 'EIAPTER III. : 71 REE: ‘vf , v ‘:.. you.” ' . l'ttl so'ourn P-l "“.. â€" We often had distinguidsjahmedu'visgtom M" Will Hargrave was .home Ipgloyckletsepidied twigee angJi'zegi: from Vienna. They ed tho‘ 3431: week from Fergus, where he raised on me on sundry oceasions political situations, and m” D1 "I“ 1has: been" timbering. - and every one of th’ fellow who engagement to the end: After all ° - - r ., ~ . ,1 straight in the eyes that I felt these victories it must be decided what entertamed a number of fnem 5 like apologizing to ’0m for bein would be done with all these Duchiem on Thursday evening‘jn honor of in the way. 11 , re M'r. Thos. Binnie of British Colum- When you get 50 Bin-fired Cleve: Zoyjdh 3:012??? £3511“ “tug: an bia. that you can tell a crook from ar knnna‘ nan-u 1a-- #LA yu~‘-- I- A _- _ -‘. â€" ceive his portion? Not at all, for an entirely new pretender claim“! it. It was not enough that there was a “Gluckshurg” and a “Gotrop” and Whatever other lines at succession to’ lay claim, but Russia presented a new? candidate. Against Auxustenhurg‘ ’Russia pitted an “Olden-burg." But‘ finally there were no bursa at all to have the Duchies, but they were to‘.l be divided among the allies, and the expenses of the war was to be borne by the defeated. This a was hard to, ‘understand. The land had been ,‘devastated, its harvests trampled un-, 'der, its sons were mouldering in their graves, and now it must pay the costs. Was not rather some reparation due to them? "one day I opened the conversation "What news in regard to Schleswig- Holstein?" “The latest news 1s,'that von Benet has addressed a demand to the As« sembly, asking by what right the Allies can accept the surrender of these provinces from a king whose sovereignty has not been recognized by them." “And it is a very reasonable ques- tion," I remarked. “You 'do not understand these mat- ters, child,” said my father. “It :3 not reasonable, but an impertinent trick on von Beust’s part. Do not the Duchies belong to us because we have conquered them? We should not have concluded peace, but conquered the whole of Denmark and turned it over to the German Alliance.” “Why do that, papa, you are such a patriotic Austrian, what do you care for the German Federation?" “Have you forgotten that our Haps- burgs were Gexman "'lperors once, and may become so again?" “What if some of the gr'eat Germans Cheri-shed a Nice dream?” suggest -11 Frederiek. As Bresser s'aid, “Let us hope that "tn- ‘settling of this affair.wi11 not he a source of discord between the powers. For every war has within it the seed of future wars, as one act of ViO’QRDCE has ‘led to another since the be 121213113." Some 8.11313 Eaters bit of news “rs reported: King William of PIWFTbNB. visited our Emperor at Sc“:511br:-.z, They met mm embraces, the 14m: sian eagle “21's hoisted, and 111': Pr 5- sian national airs were played. “'11 triumphal hurrahs from the perv; e. I was very happy, for it put to 81121.8 the evil prophecies that the. two powers might. get mto a quarrel again... My f'ther rejoiced. for he saw in this alliance a means of re”- conquering lost Lombardy. “Will you tell me,” I cried out. to “Will you tell me,” I cried out. to the assembiod guests one day, “why do not all the European States form an alliance? Would not that be the simplest ‘ ay?" The gentlemen shrugged thci shoulders. smiled superior smiles a :1 did not ans-nor. I probaoiy had . one of those silly things \"it which ladies ar apt to \e: ture into me reahns of ..ighe1 politics. 1n 1 V O J .6 The autumn was at hand; peace 11:1 :1 been signed, and Frederick‘ retir» ment from the army could now 73 carried out. But man proposrs 9.11:1 c‘“cu zstauws dispose for him. A: ; sequel of the war many bankl‘: houses“ failcal, and with the rest 1 10:1; my private- fortune. Shot and sly-"l blast not only the amparts‘ and long but also the entire social fabric 0' family and finance. ' My kindest of fathers, IIO‘IJC‘ came to the rescue and saw tigf could want for nothing, yet m; n i ment of my husband from the mi'i-LL had become impnsflble, for we (0 not entirely depend on my ILL}. Frederick was too proud for that ;; so our beautiful castle in tho air ‘5 shattered.’ But one comfort remain. there was nowhere a black 895:? the horizon. and peace might lax-1 many 'years. I confess I am beg: interested in Co-tsin C: And another letter Marie:â€"â€"- My Dear Chili’sâ€"«Ti. has be?!" ' some winter in society-u and l s i: glad when Lilli'azizi Essa m‘: 1732:". ‘1 off. They had onportuniiias one. It is a tiresome. timnidwzr 1:: ‘-.'. ‘) chaperone two pleasure-sinkffli:‘22:}, I am rejoiced to luai fir-:1 " 1 well once more. (I had suffered fr an a serfofis fewer. Your ‘izalsbl:i'id -i;;a;__l been very much alarmed. n" ' God. your time had not Yet; com '. The service which Iliad said at t???) Ursallnes no doubt aided in hfi {.i ~ about your recovery.' Kiss little. I11- dolf for me. Tell him he must lea-m1 all he can. I ”am Sending him a few books: The Pious Child. and his. Guardian Angelâ€"a beautiful story”- and 'The Heroes of our Countity, a collection of war stories for boys. We cannot begin too early to teach them lsuch glorious ideals. Youi' brother iOtto was barely five when he. first ilearned of Alexander. and Caesar. 1t -vwâ€" w ‘ delights me to see how heroic and enthusiastic he is.. I am sorry your plan‘is to stay in Vienna this summer to be nearrr Frederick. But you should think of your dear father as well, who would love to have you at, . - _ .. .. ‘-â€"- :..I". 0!}, 3‘7"" Continued on mo 7- CU APT}??? 2V on) wurn from 9 0r DARKIES’ CORNERS. miglllftflsay, ifist bére, that durin’ , . my 1 e sojourn I’xe d Mt. W111 Hargrave was home poyckets picked {a 1C8 811$“ 629$ last week from Fergus, where he raised on me on sundrv occasions niauuh 1 has been timbering. ' and every one 0‘ th fPIli‘rs who ' . Mr and Mrs "Th ~ worked the trick looked me so all “L1 ._2_8:MI~I_EG1EI:“S§: sgraightjn the eyes that I felt :tori the ‘L. Miss Margaret Lindsay spent last week with Mr and Mrs. Will McCulloch, Beptinck. _ We regret Mrs. Jas. Hopkins is confined to her/bed again with heart trouble. - Mr. W. J. McFadden had a wood bee last Friday, and treated the young pe0ple to a dance m th§___eveni1_1g. _ Misses Aime and Agnes Mc- Girr spent the week-end u 1th their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. M'cGirr. oâ€"AA--â€"- q, u..- - . M‘r. Thos. Binnie of British Col-f umbia, accompanied by Ms. John' Miss Janet Kerr spent tzw fur» and Miss Margaret McGirr spent part of last week with Hanuwr Friday with Mr. and Mrs. J. fmends. Stevenson,“ pear__ Hol_s_te_i1_1. I - M'r._ ngn Cooper is spending a â€"- V0“ _ VM‘r; ahii'Mrs. Geo. Noble‘ Hutton Hill, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John McGirr. I) Misses Eleanor Kress and Alice Elvidge of town were out for a snow-shoe tramp on Saturday and were callers on Mrs. C. Ritchie. Foundâ€"In Presbyterian church shed, good spring-mp whip. Own- er may have same by applying to Murray _R_itchie.__ _ ' O h "Mrs.“ John Bell has the misfor- tune to lose a valuable horse on Saturday mmning from indiges- tion. Every time I. hear someondy or other say that they km) .1' acer- tain chan is crooked because he can’t look em straight in the fa 9 when he’s talkin’ to em. it 11 11111-5 me hot under the collar. Artu knockin’ about this big 11 011d r111 nigh onto eighty years I’ve :11in d1aWin’ foolish deducti ms and I sartinly do contend thct “can‘t look ye straight in the eve stuff 11 ont stand washin any\\av.1 ALL IN YOUR EYE. The People’s Mills Prices of other Ford cars are : Tdeassenger Runabout $540 Two-passenger Cou pelet $850, Five-passenger Seda [1 $1 150. All cars fullv equipped, including élect- ric head lights. Prices F.().B. Ford. Ont. Buyers of all Ford cars will share in our profits if we sell 30,000 cars be- tween A ugust 1, 1914 and August; 1, ’15 JOHN McGOWAN E Heartly Thank our Customers for their patronage during the past years and wish them the Compliments of the Sea- son and a Happy and Prosperous New Year' Commencing January I, 1915, we have decided to put our business on 3 CASH BASIS,and respectfuily request our customers to take notice of this change. A continuance of their patronage is requested for 1915, and all may rest assured their onders will re- ceive prompt and careful atten- tion as in the past. All Ford car- are on exhibition at our Garage Fwd Touring Car ‘ Price $590 C. SMITH 8: SONS , Durham, Onta’rio. TELEPHONE No. 8. “ MADE IN CANADA” When you get so all-fired clever that you can tell a crook from an honest man by the way he meets your eye it’s time that you was totin’ your belongin’s to some safety vault. Just about the time you think you know a piece or rock from a puff-ball is when you’re goin’ to get a stone-bruise. so don’t you go pinnin your faith to anythin’ as flimsy as an ev to-eye contest. Keep voux 03111;. on the fellerfs fingers 1nd let him look any din ed way he pleases. It’s inuch sa ter. Mr. John Cooper is spending a few holidays with his brother at Shelburne. Parties have been the order of the night the last while back, {113d they have been «an all-night 30b; M'r. and.Mrs. Geo. VVillsi were visited by a surprise party from Hampden friends last Friday night After lunch was served, and peo- ple were standing on the ilnur waiting for the music to again commence, Mr. and Mrs. Willis were surrounded, ‘and were pre- sented with a purse. Mr. Willis then gave an able address. in which he thanked his friends fur their kindness, which would ovu- be remembered. Miss Winnie Binnie of Buncsmn spent the Week-end with Hamp- den friends. A box social is being hvld 311 the schoolhouse next T111: 511.11)“ night, in aid of the Belgians A good program is being me; 121191 We are sorry to hear that Mr. Allister Anderson of Alberta, has undergone an operation. having had his appendix removed. We ail Wish for a speedy recovery. HAMPDEN. ‘ February 18, 1915.