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'«3 ‘$ ‘ “‘~- §””‘\‘" “ ) I' He Sells Cheap S. P. SA UNDERS :5!) {v.5 nine ii. :iax':z.~:ss 01:, A5115 Grease and Boo intment. 9:0 to “HIS“ gnhility, in ('hem ppiies and fitting: fiEE STUDY r-TU'HI 901‘ mm (1:; t Liwrmghh‘ equipped in W. in c-t‘wmmni and elec- h?! nan-nun). Y .‘H Somme ’lhe Harnessm ake ll!) wings, etc" it»! full uni aMntlicnlntiun bitimzs ynimg ilhtl‘ncted m " Hmzw Studv 1111 ()Ht’; Secret-MW don t. U‘H h ll Canadian rights controiled by British and Colonial Press, Limited. Toronto. A SERIAL STORY BY BARWESS BfRTI‘lA VON SUTTNER The greatest of all human misfor- tunes" was again upon us, and. as usual, the public was jubilant. Regi- ments marched out (how would they return?) with blessings and good wishes and followed by the shouting rabble of street urchins. Frederick had' been ordered to Bo- hemia before the declaration of hos- tilities. when I was still confident that matters would blow over, so I was somewhat spared the agony of part- ing When my father came trium- phantly with the news, “\‘bw the war is begun ‘ 1 had been alone a fort- night, and I had made up my mind fer the worst. as does a doomed man in his ceIl when he knows that the death- sentence nuts: come. I raised my hand imploringly: “Father, one wish! Leave me to my- self.” Not bei ng fond of pathetic scenes he hastily retired, and I, crushed in spirit. wrote in my red journa}: The death-sentence! A hundred thousand 7 en will be executed. “'11! Frederick be among them? .And for that matter. who am I that I should not perish xxith them? Oh that I were alrtaz’: (lend! On the sump do. I received {mm Frederick these hasty line-s: My wife! Be brave and an not lose heart We have heed happy. That pa st no one (-a 1n take from us even if today the decree "it is finls h d" shoxld be issued for us as for many othexs. 'lo-(l'-.y we meet the enemy. Perhaps l shall recognize some~of he old "r’rnssianc-nn1radcs»-even my Cousin Gottfried We march upon Llebenau with the advance guard of Count Clam-Callas. There will b": no leisure for lettersâ€"at most a line to assure you of my safety. But on thix‘ leafletâ€"in case it be the lastâ€""LWlSll I could put into one single word all the love I hear you. I can find mly this: “Martha!" You krow what that means to me. '4 means to me. Conrad had also been ordered to march. He was. full of ardor and re t enough hatred of the Prussians to make his start a pleasure. Still, part- ing with Lilli was hard. for the mar- riage license had arrived just two days before. “Oh, Lilli, Lilli. why have you put me ofl' so long? Who knows if I shall ever return?" Upon his departure her re'norse was pitiful, and she wept bitterly in my arms. I consoled her with the thought that had she been his wife it' would have made the parting even harder. The famizy now removed to Grumitz, and I joined them. oppressed with the premonition of widowhood. Occa- sionally in the midst of my dull grief would come the bright thought: “He is alive. He will come back.” Then the horror of agony that he might be wounded, perishing for water, or that heavy wagons were rolling over his torn limbs. or that flies were in his open wounds. or, worse yet, that they were throwing him into the trench while yet he lived! I would sxn'ng up with a shriek at this thought. “Shame, M artha.” my father wouid remonstrate; "you will become in- sane if you brood in this way. Drive such wicked fears from your mind." Again he would say.. “Your husband is a staff officer, and will not be ne- glected as a common soldier; Besides you should think about the grandeur of the result of the war, and not about your own petty nervous feelings.” “Yes, not to think about it. That is always the way we treat human misery. All kinds of barbarity exist because we are trained not to- think about it." The Red Cross was a new organiza- tion. I‘ read Dunant's pamphlet, which urged its necessity. 'ihe tract was a heart-tending appeai. He had hurried to the field of Solferino, and told the world what he 53 w. Hosts of wound.- ed lying five and six .days without help. What could a single man do to save this mass of misery? Many needed only a drop of water or a bite of bread: others were'buried szi‘i breathing. He spoke out, and for the first timeâ€"the world echoed the cry. The Geneva Convention was called and the Red Gross was founded. ‘ Why had not Austria sent delegates? Why is everything new met either with opposition or indiflerence? The kw of mental inertia and .he sancti- fid custom are to blame. My father argued: "The idea is all right, but impracticable!" How could mil'tury authorky allow private service on the field? And then there _ were spies! And the expense! Is not war costly enough without it? Volunteer nurses were an unnecessary burden. Tactics came before friendly omces. It was even argued that this unnecessary 'bnrden would increase the cost of supplies and bring a rise in prices. Such is official wisdom! so learned, so prudent so heartless, and so im measurably stupid! “It is a magnificent beginning.” 8311 my father. “Heaven ism‘ith us. Our The first engagement took place in Bohemia at Liebenau. June 25. of--- boéaafin’ "vi" rodnnn OLA-.0 w’nfl CHAPTER I. BOOK IV. 1806 (Howe'mer *he next new: thawed that, afler ‘3 e hours of fighting thn {same brigade. forming a part or the advance guard of Clam-Gangs. re- treated to Pcdol. I learned later that Frederick was in this engagement. and the same night General Horn at- tacked Podol.) bags. They will pun'Iah {1105573335303 “But,” continued my father, “even better news comes from the south. At Custozza dear children, we have gained a most glorious victory 1.: have already said it: Lombardy must‘ become ours. I regard the war as decided. We must send some of our regulars and finish of! these Italians, and then it will be easy to deal with these ‘tailors' apprentices.’ This im- pertinent Prussian militia is not fit to engage with regular soldiers. They are all from the shops, the bench, and mere rubbish, and they cannot stand against such blood and iron as our men are made of. Hear the good news from the paper this morning: ‘The cattle-plague in Prussian Silesia has broken out in a highly threaten- ing form!” well.” 3 “Let them (game, every man of them, 9 down into Bohemia. and we will anni- thilate them yet. We will surround 'them; the people will rise against ;them, and when there is no escape, no retreatwhemmed inâ€"we will give . them the finishing touch. 11, is a dds- ;advantage for them to be in the ' enemy's country, for you have not ‘ only the army but the people against you. At 'I‘rautenau the inhabitants poured boiling water and 011 on to t the Prussinns." “Catt!e-plagueâ€"threatening! Is this your good news? Nice thing we must accept as pleasure in these war days. However the black and gold frontier posts \\ 111 undoubtedly keep the plague from cross ing over to us." But my father went on reading the pleasant intelligence: Fever is raging among Prussian troops. Such results must necessarily abound in the villages, with the miscr- able shelter. unhealthy swamp land, and bad treatment. Austrianshave no idea how miserably the Prussians handle their men. The nobles do as they please with the common people. Three ounces of salt pork is all that ‘is allowed for each man. They are unaccustomm‘l to forced marches and the hardsth of short rations, and are close to s.:1:"~;tti0n. ‘ “The pup-(rs are full of startling “The pztpt‘z's are full of stai'tling news. You mght to keep them, Mar- tha." And I. have kept them. This one ought always to do, and when a new gtmgrzhe is. in prospect one should read not thu .ntest news but the ac- counts of the preceding wars. and weigh how little truth is contained in all these t::_::tstings and the prophesyâ€" ing; that would be instructing. “How exrz‘wrdiuary! Defeat after defeat is 0125. First the capture of Podol by moonlight; Clam-Callas bar- rimmed; the viHag'e taken and burned. Then tinny t-nnquer Gitchin. 011;, those cursed memes-guns, how they mowed down our mm rank after ranxi! The enemy‘s {v.0 great army corps have joined and are even now pressing down against Mfinchengratz.” Thus my father lamented, telling us the ter- rible news. mt his confidence was unshaken. “War is horrible, ,1 grant," said my father, “but what would you have?" “Then never again dare tell me that war ennobins a people. Admit that is unmans II: .31, brutalizes and turns men into tier rs and very devils. Boil- ing oil! 1 gh!” “Self defu (.e and righteous revenge are justifiable, Martha. Do you think we should take their needle-guns and bullets without return? Our brave fellows are cut down like defenceless cattle. But we will beat them yet, for we are too numerous and too well disciplined. 1 acknowledge a few mistakes have been made; we should not have waited, but pushed across 'the Prussian frontier from the start. ;Our choice of marshals may not have .been altogether wise. But I will not ‘flnd fault, for the decisive battle is 'yet to come. We are now concentrat- ing a hundred thousand strong at Koniggratz. There will our northern Custozza be fought and won.” I stepped out a moment. Struggling figures dragged themselves up t’o our ; ramp fires; they had been left on the road. Butqmany «more are still lying in the ditches and corn-fields. The heat of the. march was fearful. The brazen sun burned into our brains, the "knapsar-ks .ana muekets gelled our shoulders. None have complained, "thouzh many fell from sunatl‘oke. Frederick was to fight there also. His last letter had said so. I have still in my possession all his hurried little not 5. written in pencil, on horse- back. in the tent, illegible sav tome, and sent whenever he found oppor- tunity to do so. Some came into my hands even after the campaign was over. and l have them as mementos to this hour. They are not the clever descriptions or careful dispatches of the war correspondent. There are no details of the strategy, no rhetorical pictures of the battle-scenes. Here are some of them. A lovely 'summer night in campâ€"â€" the ground is covered with exhausted hen after a iong forced march. Tents have been pitched for staff emcere ioniy. In mine there are three beds, and my two comrades are asleep. By :the feeble light I am writing to my beloved wiIe. Pull lies on my bed. Poor. tired dag! I almost regret that "I brought him with me. He in Cleop- 1m; and dreaming of his lover end pester Count Rudolf Dottty And 1, Martha, am dreaming a: you. Me, ‘1: is a; waking dream. but I no. m sitting in the far corner of the tent, had I dare not move for fur the image will vanish. A cry of horror and disgust escaped THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. (‘H AFTER n. ed dramatically toward the smoke- covered plain. Or he is waving his sword and looking backwards, as it saying to those behind, “Follow me, my children!” Pictures give the mag- nificent and scenic effects of war with- iout the horrors. They give the su- perb detail of line and the elevations and landscape, not the flowing blood. the mangled forms, and scenes of dis- never to rise again. "This iufie night is clear and enchanting, but nighun. gales and roses and jasmine are not tor us. We hear stamping and neig’m lng horses, voices of restless men, the even tramp of the guard. Later we shall hear the croak of the raven, and smell the pov,der blood, and corrup- tion. Astenishing how blind is man kind! hose who curse the fearful tires that burned the martyrs for the glory of God even those glorify the battlefield. The torture chambers of the Inquisition fill them with abhor- rence, but how proud they are of their arsenals! How aesthetically our battlefields are painted! Upon a hill-tap stands a group of generals; the field-marshal with the glass at his eyes, is dictat- tng to his staff as he sits proudly on a white charger. One hand is stretch- gust. To see only the glitter of arms, the clouds of smoke, the prancing horses, the floating banners, the Whirl of action, might inspire a battle-song or an epic, or a masterpiece of paint- mg. The village is oursâ€"no, the enemy has ltâ€"it is once more ours-flnally it is the enemy’s( but no longer can it be called a village nothing but a' heap of smoking ruins. The lnhabi tants (was the village not theirs?) had abandoned it earlyâ€"happy for themâ€"for the shot and shell hit ail alike, old and young, women and children. One family had remained behind in this place which yesterday we took, lest, retook, and lost again~~ an old couple with a married daughter in childbed. The husband clianred H be one of my regiment. “Fer God’s sake, (Iokmelfi' he said, as we 3-,)- proached the village, “send me over there to the house with the red roof. for there lives my wife with h r crippled old parents. They could nut get away." Peer devil, he arrived to see his wife and child killed by an explodingr shell, and the old people. buried beneath the debris. Fighting in the open country is ter- rible enough, but fighting in the mid -t of homes anal human haunts is: 1:»: times more (‘I‘UOL Crashing timbers burning buildings. smothering smoke and fumes, maddened animals, every building a fortress or barricade. and every window a gun-hole! The-r) was a breastwork heappd up wit‘n corpses, the defenders having use! the slain as a rampart «.o shoot behimi. One man penned in among the res was still alive, for I saw him move. Living still! that is the mos 1' ho: rible condition for_ the uncured-fox wounded. if only some angel, either of compassion or death. might touch these poor wretches with a tender hand! » Toâ€"day we had a little cavalry skir- mish in the open field. A Prussia) dragoon regiment came up. droppad into line, and. with their bridles drawn and sabres over their heads, they gil- Ioped down on us. We sprang to m'wt the attack. No bullets were eg- changed. A few paces apart bath regiments broke into a thundering “hui‘rah” (like intoxicated inrlian': or barbaric Z-ulus); and so we fall up 11 each other, horse to horse knee Li knee, Sabres swinging and crashing down upon the men from both sid'lf. We were soon iri such a muddle that we could not use our weaimns. Th.» horses reaver and pranocd, denying: their hoofs. Once I fell and saw above me these frightful erashin-t fer-t within an inch of my head-it wes 21a a pleasant thing. Again on the. march. with 9. 1w: skirmishes. Anot-her great sorrow. I; ought not to haunt me so whcn 11., many are in despair. I should 111111.. left poor Pu: l at home with l: s :1‘111 > master, for, as he ran after me the: splinter of a shell tore off his front legs. I heard the mournfm howl, but must guess on and desert the pan” beast, who may not die for twentyâ€" tour, no, even forty-eight, hours :“Master, master," he seemed to cry. :“d0n’t forsake poor Puxl, and his littl- heart ls breaking.” . . . What 10'. 'ments one most is to think that t»: dying faithful creature misjudged 12:13 it cannot know that when a I‘"gllilOT‘.-t is flying to attack,lea‘1ng be‘1i1111s1 many comrades, one cannot LOIllJZZML “Halt!” for a little dog. . . a d ‘must have thought n10 mcrr'i 1:. Many would say, shrngring then .5 ‘:o l ders, how can one mind sucri trif amidst such great events and 1 gigantic misfortunes? But net yo my Marthaeâ€"you will weep for'anl. What goes :here‘? A spy? One? No, seventeen. There they came in four rows, four in a row, marching with bowed heads, surrounded by 11 Square of soldiers. Behind, in a wagon lies a corpse, and bound to it a twelve- ‘ymâ€"old boyâ€"the dead man's son-â€" in condemned to die. I withdnaw, but hear the arms and tho. smoke, and I shudder. The, boy is _ dead- too. 3 .At last a comfortable night an bed! .A poor little-town! Provisions? Yes. taken from the inhabitants-on requisi- tion. All they had for the coming month. “Requisition!" It is a good thing to have a pretty name for an gngly aot. But a night!!! sleep and a meal mean a {grert deal to me just now. ' When I was about to tumble into bed, an orderly came in and brought me something for which I pressed his hands, rewarded him handsomely, and promised to (lo-some- thing for his family. What the fine fellow brought me gave me the keen- est pleasure. ma freed me from an Continued on m0 7. The Council met February 6. pursuant to adjournment, all the members present, the reeve in the chalr; minutes of last meetâ€" ing read and confirmed. Communiâ€" cations read as IOIIO‘ws: O§¢§¢¢§§OO§OO990999990¢Qoo Hamilton Steel (‘30., Ontario Good Roads Association, H. J. Arm- strong re Ejll’s claim, R.L. Ste- phen re Walden claim. Watson. Smith- Co. re 3058’ claim, Salva- tion Army, asking for assistance. Jerry M'cAssey, sheep claim, NW. Campbell re schools, Municipal World, account, Jas. Hastie, black- smith acoount, report as to treas- urer’s sureties. By-law No - 553 appointin township officers, was introduce and read a first and second time and on motion of Turnbnll and M‘cInnis .was read a third time, signed, sealed and enâ€" grossed on 1233-1211 book? _-I _ J , A..- -vâ€"vâ€"‘â€"-' Peart-M’clnnisâ€"That the com- munication ‘irom N.W. Campbell be held over till next meetingâ€"Car. M‘cInnisâ€"Youngâ€"‘That Angus Mc- Arthnr be appointed sheep in- ingpectog fox: vgarg“ 2.7â€"Qarrgegl. ___-‘__-_- Peart-Turnbull-â€"That J. M'cAs. say be paid $4.66, two-thirds val- ue of sheep killed by dogs, anu that he be paid $2 for brushing art lots 10 and 11. concession o. â€"Carried. ‘ l5eart-Turnbullâ€"T-hat M. Quil linan be paid $5. 35. tu o-thirds Value she_ep lgngd b_v _fogs: ._._â€"Car 99999999999999999999999999 999999999 9.9999999999999994. 'Young-Tfimbunâ€"That l'the Sal- THE RflYAl BANK 0F CANADA SAVINGS DEPARTMENTmfin be 03:13 One Dollar. Interest is credited half yearly. JOINT ACCOUNTS An 9000“} 12:95.“:aa of. two GLENELG COUNCIL. DI-NT ACCOUNTS An nooonnt in the names of two members of 1 family will be found convenient. Either person (or the survivor) my Operate the account. The People’s Mills - Reserve Fund: - - 13, 575, 000 DURHAM BRANCH: S. HUGHES. Manager. JOHN McGOWAN All cars fully equipped, including elect- ric head lights. Prices F.U.B. Ford, Ont. Buyers of all Ford ems \xill share in our profits if WP sell 30 000 cars be- tween August1,1914 and August 1, ’15 a All Ford c u are on exhibition at mu (5 :m ige , E Heartiy Thank our Customers for their patronage during the past yfiars and wish them {We Cvmpiimentx ofthe Sea- son and a Happy and Pi‘(}:=1§)~“5'r0US New Year" ' A continuance 0f their patronage is requested for 1915, and all may rest assured their orders will re= ceive prompt and carefui atten= tion a-- in the past. Commencing: January I, :95, we have decided to put our business on 3 CASH BIAS-[Sand respectfully request uur cu:~t<:mers to take notice offing change. Ford Touring Car Price $590 Prices of other Ford cars"are : Two-passenger Runabout $540 Two-passenger Cou pelet $850, Five-passenger Sedan $1150. C. SMITH 6: SONS Durham, Ontario. TELEPHONE N0. 8. INCORPORATED i 80. “ MADE IN CANADA” meovwwfl6 vation Army and Sick (Ihildf‘el’~ Hospital be paid $5 each as char- ity.â€"-Carried. Peart-Youngâ€"That John O’Neill be paid $2.30 for new stove pipes and cleaning hall, and $1 for ib- sp-ecting gpe‘rep killgq by yogi. â€" ‘o*~ Turnbu11~McInnis-â€"That J. De. Donald be paid $35 part payment of salary as assessor.â€"Carried. Turnbullâ€"Peartâ€"That A. B. M: Arthur be paid $8 for sheep kill- ed by dogs after making the un- al declarationâ€"Carried. . Peart-Youngâ€"fl‘hat Auditors B,§ Edwards and W. J. Ritchie be pai $1_2_le_ach f9} sarvices.â€"Carried. 'Younéâ€"M‘clfinisâ€"Thatfl J L _ cfiautu be paid $3.60 for repairs h glgder‘ apd bolts_ foi bridges.+-G. C --‘ 'f M'cInnis-Peartâ€"Thst '1‘. '1‘li be paid $1 for search re treasnr- er’s sureties, and MLK. Richardiun $1 as Registranâ€"Carried. _ Pmt-Youngâ€"That the Munictp a1 World be paid 87.92 for assess- orls supplies and other forms.â€"C. I'. -‘l â€" The following clause was in- serted in By-law 553: “And it ' is hereby further enacted that end and every one on! _ the nersons Whose names are inserted as Pa'thmasters in this By-law. are hereby also appointed as overseer: - of highways for the purpose of keeping township roads open during the season of deep snows.” The council rad onrned to April, 3. at 10 a.m . S. Black. Clerk February 25, 1915..