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a annem A A NN TNT Net een i EDITORIAL PAGE Tuesday, March 26 | i e x SENZA Ze y H. Cassel | Storie ¢ or 3 p les ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. (Th New Lark re ‘ — a By Albert Payson Terhune wutided Daily Except Gundey, by #: Frese Re Mashing Company, Nos. 63 to z % ig ak ipl poet 1918, by the Pross vaiuny 6s (Tho New York Evening World), { RALPH PULITZER, No. 9~Nina Diaz, “Butcher Weyler’s’’ Famous Cuban Spy. 0 sae eiesraen a OMEN are the best sples—if they work for Love! 80 spoke Gen. Weyler—“Butcher Weyler,” the bloody Spanish Governor of Cuba. And he set out to find such a spy. He soon discovered her. She was Nina Diaz, daughter of a Cuban planter who was fighting in the patriot army. Spain was secking to crush Cuba's gallant strt gle for liberty. The Cubans were fighting their 8; ish foes with every atom of pluck and strength and wit that they could muster. This was before our country intervened in 1898, Weyler had already won infamous repute for the tyrannical brutality hy 5 wreaked upon his weaker foes. Now, through Nina | Diaz he proceeded to add new laurels to his vile | collection, ' When Nina's father and brothers left their plantation and joined tho | tasurg nj army in the jungles, Nina and her mother went to Havana to j live. The girl was glowingly handsome and was as clever as she was | beautiful. She attracted much admiration in the island capital, Her fam- ily’s known loyalty to von wom made all local patriots trust her, In . ceoaTan Anat Pry se seer cote op mrt atien, VOLUME SB ..s.0..cccdeccedevoveveess WITH CONFIDENCE UNSHAKEN. MID all reports from the great battle area in Picardy, one consideration shotid pever be lost sight of: rn The present German offensive was anything but a sur- prise. The British knew what was coming, knew even in considerable measure the strength and position of forces the Germans were massing for the attack. ; | Tho British command could, therefore, plan in advance how to! 4 deal with the drive in a manner calculated to prove most costly to th } enemy, how to meet the onslaught with an clastic resistance, # } which, while keeping British losses down and holding British reserves atact, would compel the Germans to put forward division after divi-, \ sion, piling ap their dead by thousands, merely to maintain the mo-| ' mentum of the movement they had started. ; The most’ significant word that has come from the British front i since the battle began is the assurance that the British never intended, to hold the forward positions in this settion if the enemy attacked on} the ecale anticipeted. father and brothers (smuggled into Havana to Nina ing, i y ‘ and to her mother) told of the moves of the patriot army and mentioned j If warfare on the western front has demonstrated anything, it has y ; Vay) fae , | names of secret sympathizers with the Cuban cause. All these tidings were {Memonstrated that stiffened resistance to massed attack means only! ott ‘ : pa nailed yet te Wevlhs-. 1 a a lll wayne “equal heaps of corpses on both sides, with but slight and indecisive} crowds en the s: ri up tinportant ne v/fecorriaing dagen exiles changes in the line. Master strategy has come to be the mevting of Wen Ania WUE RRUEGEE Omen aden ry et RR LT a: offensives a beth to bei the enemy ten, twenty or fifty times the | traband roe of rifles sand cartridges for the bela ond oat worth of what they gain him. This should be kept in mind through all the fluctuations, retreats, | advances, attacks and counter attacks likely to crowd the news for their country's liberty, Nina Diaz was living in luxury and betraying her own people into the merciless grip of Butcher Weyler. days to come. Each battle is now a war—with, not victory, but a balance at the end. | Short, she was just the-type\of woman for Weyler's purpose, A young officer on Weyler’s personal staff made violent love to Nina, He carried her susceptible heart by storm. Urged on by adoration for he | Spanish lover, she willingly consented to advance his interests by acting a spy for the General, \awnennrrng From the first she was of tremendous help | 3 Ww Insurgents had talked freely in her prés- } Love Leads Girt } ence. She repeated their secrets to the Spanish to Spying. General, thus causing dozens of arrests and break- | Onnnnnnanmnnnnnnnnn? ing up many Cuban plots. Letters from her ——t So well did she succeed in Havana that Wi presently sent Ni rural regions to discover the patriot army's whereabouts and ind w people were helping them. Nina disguised herself as a peasant nd journeyed on foot into the Santiago district, not far from her old aoa a et carrying a small unt book, she went from house to ging for contrit r sick and wounded patriots. * i i i } 9 ¥ a shrewd tric ed not onl urse stri ut | In the present case, there is reason to believe Germany's stake is . i ‘. ‘ ; 7 It was & shrew eke money into the Spant int Cotfora iil eparea ‘ far heavier than the Allies’, because the German war lords have been , ere n tntended for & noble © purpose And it gave Woyle i 1 Vere, mes for his next serles of wholesale ‘ pushed to this supreme test by compelling pressure born of Teutonic \ Spanish officer, also In disguise, used to meet Nina at an appointed i restlessness and longing for peace. After go big a venture an un-! spot and take her reports to Weyler. day a Cuban army chanced to be hidden in the jungle ne: A group of its videttes ar- rested Nina and the Span’ d took them to the rebel General, Capot Nina declared her own ddentity and told Capote SAR she iad been on her way, disguised, to visit her How a Clever Lie } father and brothers in his camp when this strange Succeeded. Spanish officer hag accosted her. Her father And ten? brothers were se@ for, They hurried into eamp and at once verified her story. favorable balance coupled with huge logses is bound to weigh he avily| agninst thé war party. The Allies are in,a far better position. To bring disaster and defeat upon the German high command they have only to make cer that the boasted German offensive is kept up at a cost out of all pre eee he girl was released with an apology for having detained fe anes ‘ A i P ee jot an f. Rack to Havana she hyrried, There she told Weyler portion to the war-ravaged scraps of territory it can gain and momen-| . 4 . [Tho sine and exact position of the hidden army she had visited, bs tusily hold. * ae | As a result Weyler's forces made a night attack on the unsuspecting as A HINT. TIMELY HINT that might well be passed along to all the! terrible slaughter, 's usefulness ¥ a spy. From one end of her, land sho wax ¢ as a traitor, though Weyler grimly declared: A St loyal woman in Cuba." To save herself from the vengeance of those she had betrayed she t hip as soon as # Possible tor New York. | band of Cutsns, infileting ‘This ended Nina Diu ' training camps in the country appears in an article by The is ¥ " C} me) * 5 Evening World’s correspondent, Martin Green, who is in’ Mea ie Girl Reflection \ close touch with the American troops in France. i " ac elo From what he has seen of United States soldiers on Vrench soil : * 8 § on brench soil, | Mr. Green is moved to say with kindly frankness: : | even By Hel en Row land : 0 Coprright, 1018, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ‘ E The ger pareieee dead of our men—partioularly our | HIS is the psychological moment when a woman stops bowing { oung volunteers—hasn't a in raising the entente cordiale | Yr i he {i janitor and begins smiling sweetly at the iceman. | to @ bolling point. It is a common falling of our youth in | Y e O u oO W i n g ¢ e a Y if a m 1 ‘ the j é khaki, bursting as he {# with energy and determination and tho | By Roy L. McCardell | Why is it that the woman who has a genius f excitement of adventure, to proclaim loudly to all and sundry if e f u | | 5) | F ‘ bre ich Ai is BEOL Pa cee ce eiilun Word doing something so often marries the kind of man wig t | that 1 1s @ good thing he 1s hore after three and a half years of G ac W * ier eat f ree mt we is an artist at doing nothing? \ war to clean things up and whip the Germans. B S I ‘< I L I ‘“eé Hbt nothing in the Mat Bs RGLAR I should think so. « ° * , I for you," remarked Mrs.| have refused to p: i ‘Walt till we get at Fritz, wo'll run him off his feet,” ts a | : Y PORNLG shen: , ot Bete La, | srt dara al i a Ba = Every normal woman feels that this war would b =| i common form of remark made in public places in France | eopMBRBEDAS Mohan cdlunen sail and, antctea kerete. pases They fara | morning lecture (O)/WHe hhdd ot the ¢ ina STAT over in ten minutes If she could only get near enougil j There is enough understanding of English to circulate thexe & davoled . ‘They are |harkening to the call of the twen- | house at the foot of t like those poor Belgians! ‘The ti to the Kaiser with a hatpin or a knitting needle, remarks among the French people and the French soldiers, who soWing old fully : Nuri icantiioran! fi that they |. "Tha n't blight a boys, who make the telephone cor } 3 know what war 1s and what {t has cost them and what a pow: Just’ what does it |are old.. ‘They take gn interest in| life,” replied M 1 never | nections, have orders to be impudent ; A man makes a virtue of @necessity when he prides erful and resourceful enemy the German is. Nor has there mean—this everything—especially the new meth- | Kot a letter Ld never get lo us when we protest that our house | ¢, Fi himself on his devotion to a woman who is #0 fnecinat- { 1 been any particular boost toward mutual cordiality in the prac- | ine lA ova olds, and yet they are not tr to news, ‘The only mail T ever teleph is cut off till we pay the Beas tha thatiehe ean't help its j Uce of American soldiers of referring to French soldiers as | ' rod/ poxe as youngsters, This is growing ay ’ Ati for contributions and | teleph: ewe telephone eis si | Lethe feeds Basing bore aepyh 2a hard Iwek storic |pany is In LEAGUE with the land- ae ; , : . { | cbesai | DT ae ee eee cmiaaiarcre van iiia| | cslees de you ceomre.a Mande antal ie tepid fon The Greater Love: A man may love a woman even though he hates 4 { If we hadn’t been quite so lucky, if we had fought for nearly four meeuen 17 |aneliite “It Is wonderful, the | Mense amount of discouraging ¢ three months we were away, simply | her cooking, but no man can love any woman's cooking and at the same + years with the armies of a foreign power in possession of a part of our | spring, 1 feel like a boy, 1 breathe | respond isked Mrs, Jarre sus- because it CLAIMS we did not! time feel anything less than tenderness for the cook. i ‘ ‘a dione . nd | Piclously, “Not at this Mou wny- | NOTIFY the < scontinue th | } own soil, if we had put up a Battle of the Marne to keep an enemy | se Fer pans a Poet Mery bark milge he aiceaue oman read: ceuttne Fens oebppetiend| You can't expect a man who really loves you to be as artisticallyg | {iy I} ‘f Mr. R., a man of | yet now I can no longor enthuse |. ; Rie Oven os DONS 6 e ’ roat out of New York or Washington, if our soldiers were tried and| a ee ithe v a ee with the ae thi y T : wor : fi ald " Hin n : apbier up a few times and FOUND OUT | sentimental as one who is trying hard to pretend that he loves you ‘ | experienced veterans of the greatest war in history, should we enjoy| “Seressenauetee icing ready for |Of Years 4 Mibociecs a ie? eee ea ie was {| we were away and were NOT using | expert at love-making is one who doesn’t bother to stick to facts so long { j i 1as me by the coat tails, but no mat. | Aw to forbi married man the telephone? * } being patronized and shouted at by a lot of ne ewly-arrived young|a Jour of many miles to begin a : pest Habe tee i be ve je bis mail any © but at his home Leg wate | he can manage to keep you flattered and interested, ; eras long as there here my dear Mrs, Jarr, | Wrenchmen in brand new uniforms w 5 ¢ ’ ie new enterprise Meult prdject, a) CoM eee xt ea Mr, Jarr wasn't so sure about that, | 7 al! occ: that hi i f h > act us plainly understand on| iiatier that hw had studied about for | Srueran lg Laan a au ( ae but what's the use to arguc brave young men we know have gone And then, again, the Venus de Milo may have lost her arms tryii ' me . do not want to rest out or rust out, iin ee inee anat re ; f occasions that it was high time t ey came to show us how to fight ?| a tong, long time. : ~ a bel A ifaw out on my own| “If your friends do nog write you the war, but mother and I r mem- "to knit war socks in a taxicab, No American boy in khaki who honestly asks hitnself that ques-] During the mea! the wife was |o'S Te : long and cheerful letters, MY friends PEP Stee ue wise ys tion on his way to France is likely to start wrong and get himself dis. |°'Yine dinner © 1 him What | "ie man apoke the truth, Te asad £ JArE Wenk On. eres tne eee iene am writin corawle goa it; The day has passed when they had to doll a soldier up in gold braid iked when he lands there, Sedans “ Te eat ekcell tot, te | te be that growing old gracefully was eee eee ee en eee eee ve could PRETEND that Mr. Jarr | and brass buttons to make him picturesque and fascinating, Just plain plate tha a Ma . |for grandma to sit in the back par appear ey was MY husband, whom I had mar- | khaki or sailor blue will give any woman the same old thrill, Ah, urle, plea 19 coaxed, ‘ ; nat | Wouldn't hay en you,” said Mr,| Tied on my rec rip, ¢ P ; Hits From Sharp w its ve (Nou wevac ernie chair relegated there for that | WOMMa lis found how we were TREATED he| It js easy enough to be pleasant when you're leading a bachelor’s ltfe— Any married man wiil tell you that | gray hairs than for a wig.--Phila-| ney before you and you are a near ateae ee Jave received the suggestion | Could smash things in the apartment | But the man worth while 1s the man who can smile—and trot along } the easiest way to manage a wife t#|delphia Record. silastic over t not |, : i ‘ ; q nti and began read- | 'n his MANLY mirrors, elec- | home to his wife! | her own way.—Philadelphia Record ia o 99 Tak (fhod, @oil t have | o¢ the sight with granddaughter, 4 Satta nieun tric fixtures, the stationary 00) ae \ eee ‘Give the Kaiser No Quarter,” saya | ‘he enough " hnitt but for a different reason shaiplumiting and shan } The tar at leahen ‘for will | ae eee entet aeatiment Is not to | suMolent oF you will not Ml the fight to do her share, And ur Mrs, Jarre: Do not be \ Fae onal Wo have| Take care of your pennies (by investing them in Liberty Bonds), gr ; he farmer never lacks for willing | give him even a plugged nickel,—| do what you wat she urg hat's ad that you have WO COWIE GP) CED ORRORER YS: 38 he Kaiser will tak of your dollars later on! helpers when ghe comes to town to|'Tdledo Blade, {Sa father no r puts his bank haan: (old cthatcAfitwe: are DiOe> | 400 ser will take care + | sow his wild oaty —Hinghamton Prose | esas Well, to pleas count away and lives on it happy tus so long, but w gueuD we oaunot be.eued for the |= career —— i The more & person loses hin tempé said, After the meal, a he Ww ever after while he hibernates t sing ting back from | * ee : ae Be ie aries at paserveraticues elfen marta ere wititiee RTE | ding his arp aud ‘ea aveut 40 | CYeE, oust, wane) Be. Mikernates Lula /ReH wo vbwes alien etting bask from/to Nays lease, 8 - Newest Thi ings i in Science } increase even a German treaty may | Journal, saan 1 hd 1 a tear trickling}. pt pete laestite dake things out of the ice box | second thought, Mr ‘ould say | \ } be worth something. —Columbia (8.C_) Deere eae jhis piace, And tho man o a pal gohan Seve: late tt SAL ed | ho was MAMMA'S HUSBAND, as she! stost of the houses in a Paris| Botanists have found that Alpine? _— a4 Toten peek, time to segret your mise iw thatéjuat « “he geld: [eee ee Rie ee ee ee ts aoa widow of mature age, for if any | suburb are ted by water which | Plants which push their way through | Before long we can put the coat | Hingharnton Press, meme MT “You are com with me. You|" Growing old gracefully is now a|the most DREADEUL rt that 1 was married got in cir- | hows fr pn a an well at a) th snow do so by breathing more | shovel to work in the thrift garden,— . | ; ant x Aeibes y s . mber tn | What do you think, my dear? Under | cul n it might injure my bona fide! temperature of about 82 degrees. jrapidly than normally to generate } Baltimore American, Can your aiitie Jem, It's a good plan| St ® nb TOSAP GE RONE BD BAe EI eee ares. we ‘nad left the eat | iatrimonial chances, for I hear many | oe € heat, Donita ot eonanting in’ toe enititary | don't fon ns, nd, RW wood ees Ke HIB ARALAEAD CE VBS SRP MIRAE PAL ed ! want | young men are marrying now who are} In a book a Minneapolis man has| Bol ‘bull { } of sea don't forget to saw the wood, —Lhila- | Worry anc 1 use ner has no place cked in when we wen : Si nted for children pictures of| Bolivia has built a road for auto- | life; & man ts mustered in, often pep- | delphia Recogd al (iP te money and have you - Superintendent Q pacifists and*have conscientious seru-| invented for children f : i } pered with shot, and comes out the was driaieds Cae ing A Uta ; ) | A REMINOER. linganan Gun acor a FAI about going to war. Thus, !f/ animals jump out in a lifelike man- | Mobiles that Srosene the Andes Moun- , fer," he add | taine 17,000 f et above sea level, ; salt Gf the eartheo-Mempale Commer-| Some men are so e that] And it w aan ware aoe| GOLAN crsecher was-vecl | pha 3 Ps ey have dependent wives, thelr| ner as the pa, vel. | see [seeing ane sunny thle of tihnee ie | ing together. For days he had been A hemently denour tho sins} creature had caused other tenants to|SCRUPLWS are respected, Mamma} oon Maha arat| pate farmers have foundie way } The trouble with « soul mate Is} ume . id sal i t h ¢ his congregat “Bredern | complain to the & the Pre nks this a good i and she says | to treat heather so it can be us a uinbif(S, C.) Sta | planning this jou but for the comt y tor I ; , can G ment will study a native used fo i ioe 1 Be eee ie BAe AR * bd |snke of econ y had agreed {and sistern, Ah warns yo! ‘gainst de| vention of Crucity to Animals, And she will PAVE THE WAY by saying | pest tlc it glo na bean | cattle fodder. delphia Inquirer. Acceording to new food reguin- | SO"? salle ack fain ; 3 i % usband is coming from the West . nh 1c a a 8s 2 ors lu i oe CeRUA” | that he should go e | sin shootin’ erap Ah] thavs t F 1 will ever give | her husband is com! . Brad toa lu nan oeeebior | Camouflage inn't always successful. | every ene oe ingel F owing old gt y. [charges Sot ‘gainst de biack raseality|to THAT association of BUSYBOD.|and he is A TERRIBLE DRINKER | ig se te and possibly A patent has been issued for « j We aro apt to have more respect for! has the price cindiumanels Re ee | a ae : ats Bite | Jid contribute any-Jand MURDEROUS WHEN EN. | dye c rained |™ouse trap to be fastened to a pail 1 |e erates orth gh ea atene sistern, Ah and NOW Lam GLAD|RAGHD, What do you say? te New eyelets for shoes have an ff waite os sya it drops rodente THE ONLY WAY. WHY THE FOUR SERVANTS, |iiy each other, worked hard do erie ny redress for such] tionately youre, CORA CR automatic locking device that pre- (nat climb a tilting table to reach | RESIDENT H, 4. WRIGHT of | ¢¢ HY are you leaving us,/everything — that ame--tomether, think? Mother says] “What do I say?" gasped Mrs. Jarr.| vents them catching in clothing ana | a asl ¥ Iniv 7 - ° | ae srothe a si nade houl ashe put la ers | The va 0! ne) h a a s te » co se } | Fisk Ualvarstt mas setaplain Mary? 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But, you seo, I've | the desire to acco SS GAEMEIMine Lat SinBREA wos peat her div becauso he was inter Ce ee UE ak| a A uw deruey woman tae “ ‘Brains,’ said I, ‘of course, but in iwaye, lives her there were four and the white Wired n now hag | steal : f " ested in her care So Dam writ | pene $790,000,000; between} Chicago has more telephones th A | mesh bag to hold a door key ea f these thnes the only ways man can| On count of me fone agbetters in mind a plan where may 40/102) .d0e be an the te ask you to ask Mr. Jarre to a3 | eee ee tioth Streets, $1,305,2/ al! France und a single office building | prevent it from being lost among - -wonvince people h ton bridge, marame cPhiieignia his bit in war wor ly, wha Ab b kuife."—d'ars | AMP ae me have ANY 5 0; between Fortieth aud Ninety+ in Now York containy more than|oontents of & pocketbook ap Stan, de & Word, LY le Ue Webs be Sunes, | mors Guide, i “. Can (WO WAS dhe danUlORd Lor gixth @preets, $1,618,000,000. there are in the whole of Greece, bing bag.