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Y TO-DAY the American Army in France may be already playing its part under Gen, Foch, Supreme Commander of the} Allied Forces, in the great action in Picardy. Americans at home were deeply stirred yesterday by despatches, that described the long processions of men, horses, artillery and cam-| jons moving through the towns and over the open roads of France as Unele Sam's boys went singing on their way to the biggest battle in} the world’s history. Nothing could have roused American enthusiasm to a higher| pitch than the prompt acceptance by France of the full American! strength at Gen. Pershing’s disposal to help meet the present emer- gency. | Nothing could ‘have better satisfied American judgment and strengthened American confidence than that unification of military command which this Nation had urged upon the Allies, Under Commander loch the strongest force the United States an as yet contribute will be applied by an experienced, thoroughly, tried General whose capacity has been evident since the Marne. Whether he throws the American troops immediately against the Ger- man offensive or holds them for the'counter blow the Allies are expected presently to strike, it is certain that in his hands the fighting power of the United States Army now in France will not be wasted. How long this battle will last no man can say., In the case of Verdun the German advance was halted in five days, but at the end of five months the battle was still in progress. If the present action develops a proportional magnitude, many more American soldiers will Lilgcahlaleaadg soe | woman whom everybody be rushed overseas and many more American columns will march | Uked. ‘The woman lived alone. singing to the front before the victory is won. j no had a little} The Stars and Stripes are now in the thick of it. They have got} income and there- | fore wax some- Piila ui Ev By Sophie Copyright, 1918, Ag i y i i hat indepen- and supplies that American energy working at top speed can load Mace She did not ae take any com- munity interest, et ‘The House fefuses to agree to the Senate Agricultural BI!I Amendment tnceasing the Government wheat price guarantee | to $2.50 per bushel, But Jn the mvan time the mere probability that Congress and those of hi neighbors wh ventured in to see her always came back with the re- - . She ha can and will meddle with the price of wheat recently fixed by | port Lge Lady Aa Ate the President has bee; c : a Se as n enough to cause fanmers to hold back ltore people gradually avolded her. great quantities of wheat on the chance of bigger profits, At the present moment to hoard wheat 4s to put a heavy drag on the Allies. Is Congress going to encourage the keeping back of this all lwportant war aid by a long wrangle over wheat prices? ——_—__«+. A BIG DIFFERENCE. HE shooiing of a New York gambler known to be in tonch| ‘This continued for many years and| | As the years went by, even tho lit- tle children pointed to the house |where the woman lived and whis {pered in fear, For when she came |out to make purchases for her needs, |she did not look to tho right nor) lieft, but kept strictly to her busl- | ness with solemn face and alient| mien, ‘ tatel, ail i ‘ tee |the woman grew gray. Once in al with the District Attorney’s Office, and in a position to long time a distant reli tive or lawyer! furnish information highly damaging to other gamblers in|jcame to adjust family or business the city, naturally recalls the Rosenthal case, But the city can congratulate itself that, in a sense more impor- tant from the point of view of public safety and order, the paralls) with the Rosenthal case is so far imperfect There is no reason to think that behind the killing of Harry Cohen there is any Becker to shock New Yorkers into new distrust of matters, But no one ever visited her for any length of time. ‘Thus shi grew to be regarded as a * ous" person, Every attempt to draw | her out in common interest with other | people proved unavailing. Now it came to pass that war was declared and many soldiers went to nysteri- | 8 Police Force which has been proving itself worthy of their.confi-|the front. The neighborh there- | dence. The gambler’s code has not ceased to embrace pistol action | °° re oe ee meee " ea i 7 : wome! Also at t on occasions. A gamblers’ row based on fear of an informer is quite} same time some children of the dis sufficient to account for the murder of Cohen, The New York Police have certainly earned the right to have the killing of a gambler at the present time kept distinct in the public mind from the past scandals of the Rosenthal-Becker case, —_———}4-___.. High on the crest of a Syrian hill, Old Joshua made the sun stand still, In modern days we do it better, trict contracted a child's d discasg rather fatal in many cases, and It seemed difficult to check One day the old woman was seen coming down the street carrying a child, and there was much talk among the neighbors, No one ever beard the Uttle one cry, and they Vegan to| whisper among themselves. A few days later the woman was seen carry-| Time, not the sun, becomes the quitter ing another child into her home, and) this moral Mr, Jenkins meeting after office/ing, spectal machinery being em- joline plays a great part, but the horse | from France, Great horse hospitals soon after still another. ‘There wae! Revary Carach LAs Shown ths og | NOUFS Wor over, ax per arranrement, | ployed to reduce the rags to shreds,/and hia, gloomy half brother, the|close behind the Teuton Unes save rrr | mnane Wonder O04 Wonder, and GOW) oc, to some be same tine: coe ¢| “Well” remarked Mr. Jarr, “shall /wash them, separate the wool from| mule, can go where no motor could) about one-third of the antmals tne Newest Thin S in Scie eusploion was aroused because of the)” nt thou, disutrecabhe hea if! ve hustle home? I’m to stop and get |the cotton, &c, Cloth experts claim| turn a wheel, They are indispensable J wed or stricken with discase, Tu g nce disagreeable impression the woraan y ten that wan 1 » aes steak at the jewelry store, 1 mean |that this reworked wool, or shoddy,|/{n war. Past scores of trucks hope- ye! ® of this, Germany is now able | Statistics have shown that Ameri- To avold pressure on the nose or |had created in all the years, Pretty | We S6D Til YO" Dave called Ut) | Heotsteak studio.” lis suitable for use In overcoats, be- | lessly stalled in the mud of Vanders {to secure only one-half of the 460,000 €an telephone operators answer calls|ears a Nebraska inventor has pat-|soon an excited citizen called a meet. | ‘4® WFR’ BS ae “Nobody's golng to make a monkey | cause @ warmer, more closely woyen|ond up the steep mountains of the | fresh animets she requires each year, two seconds quicker than thelr Eng- |ented eyeglasses that are suspended |ing—somewhat of an indignation NeW AUTO tab of mel” sald Mr. Jenkins aullenly, | fabric can be produced, if used in the | Italian front, horses, mules and} war'tne Alliew imported years aoe sh cousins. |from @ head band meeting. The matter was discussed P, “Whateba mean by that asked| right proportion with virgin wool,| donkeys have plodc dragging ar-tmillion and a half horses, @ million . | . 8 pro and con, and everybody feared) A patent has been granted for . | Mr. Jarr. says Popular Mechanles, For this/tillery or laden with food, ammunt-|of them from the United States, From Experiments in rice cultivation in| Practically all of the lectrig power |qhe worst. They decided to notify the! « ric lamp so mounted in an autos “We've been having trench warfare | reason it |s used in army overcoating, | tion and the counties bat of the Marne to Novem. Porto Rico give promise of the island | used in the Italian city of Milan is police and have the woman arrested, |mobile di as to illuminate un-|at home the last day or go," replied/but ail other uniform cloth is now!to sustain an arms bate Pee ware required becoming an important producer of] obtained from hydroelectric plants in |Jt was their duty. Of course, none of rea) and Mr. Jenkins nd now this mma- pure woo), according to Government} when cavalry delive itish used half auido un thee ‘thet grain. l Alba. @helr children were missing, tovy'the Lioor ok & Car When At ib clywyd, powuvse of uy Wile Wo come bo tbe office ‘prusbiug bIOW LD bale woo Berme dae ie. Ly 2 i , | allowed him to go through, and this | EDITORIAL PAGE | Tuesday, April 2 Coprrieh! 1918 be The Prew Publiehing Co (The New York Evening World.) eryday Folk) Irene Loeb By Roy L. argued, but how could respectable don't often give me the people live under such conditions and not do som ‘ss ou Y pleasure of entertaining you," said Mrs, Jarr to the visiting lady from Kast Malaria, “I think I shall have some of my women ing about it? It was an easy matter to secure the police after a committee called at the station and made the complaint. An jiepabad ae the evening with us— officer, with two or three of the ant bl vtatd much nicer than betes prominent fathers, knocked at the] .\ DITO OF CALA FOIE, eupecially Jn war time when we should be seri- ous in our pleasures. Don't you think so too?” Mra. Jenkins sald “Oh, to be sure! It's dreadful how people can go out to theatres and cabarets such times as these!” But her enthusiasm in so coinciding was forced, As’ she sald afterward, if she had to sit in the house after dinner she could do that at home tn her suburban cottage at Zast Malarla, But when one 1s in the big clty one should have a big time. “Then I'll call up Mrs. Rangle and Clara Mudridge-Smith on the tele- iphone and ask them to come over The rooms were delightfully sunny | after supper and bring their knitting and clean, and there was no better | Or the clothes they are repairing for home hospital in the best residence, |{h® poor Belgians or the poor Arme- The intruders wore astonished and | Dians,” addec Mrs, Jacr. began to upologize, and the womap| “I should think it's about time spoke something like this: |those men got home,” remarked Mrs. Jenkiny when Mrs, Jarr came back from the telephone, “Doesn't tt occur to you that every time I have come door of the old woman answered it heyself and asked the officer what he wanted, He had a warrant on some pretext, but the main thing was to look about the house. ‘The woman was Indig- nant and defiant at first, but finally s what he found, There were two upped nurses from the finest in the city taking care of three stricken Little chitdren—children | the woman had secure? from an or- phanage and bad adopted for her very ow. “Lam glad your curiosity has been appeased. Always, always bave you been curious about me. You would | not take me into your confidence and | Up here to your home after being in |town shopping and my busband was |to come up from the office with your ask me to help you. You, did not try to make me one of you, but rather made me the freak of te neighbor- | husband that those two men NEVER hood. I love little children, but 1|do get here together till all hours?" sbrank from their frightened gage.| Mrs. Jarr had never considered it Years ago 1 lost a precious one, and | before, But it was a fact. when I came here to live alono you} “I do not wish to appear unduly pried on me and brought out the re-| anxious about Mr, Jenkins," the lady yentful side of me ouly, from,«the suburbs went on, “but we had a few words the other day—and have bad fewer since.” “You haven't been speaking to him?” Mrs, Jarr inquired, Mrs, Jen- king nodded assent, “There is another side, as you cdn ee, Every person in the world fa it tf you only know how to reach 4tt It is the vulnerable of their make-up. If you know how to bring} it out it 1s surely there." Still the hours sped on, even the The good were aniaged.|¢xtra hour of daylight saving, but Later the woman founded a big hok~| the husbands of the waiting ladies pital in the neighborhoog for children } came not and in her old age became the most| After the manner of the movies we beloved of them all, ‘They learned'| Will make # cut back to Mr. Jarr and side citizens By 7. ‘BL Cassel | : hae Jarr Family Saaheleteaeiieinaoeiencaeeiainatiadaenaeneteamaemenadtneitonaesteiantanaateaateiatiastnadndiiandch. cia hbaaaababdatemesntinahine stitial doiaititie a seaaais o, undaniaieneiad 4 amemceneedelidll Stories of Spies By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Kreniog World.) No. X1.—TIMOTHY WEBSTER, the Spy Who Risked Death From Both Sides. E was « Princeton man, this famed Union spy. Sis name was Timothy Webster. He had a strange gift for ohanging his personality a moment’s notice, Thus, at will, he would be a day laborer, a man of fashion, a rough farm band or a wel “up military officer. iM He was a Union spy. But his fMentity was knowa to so few people that he was in almost as much danger of being hanged by any Federals who might capture him as by the Confederates. He began his Civil War career by posing as @ Southern civilian. In this guise, at Nashville, made friends with a group of Confederate officers, who took him to their camp as @ guest He even s® cured an invitation to go with bis new friends on a tour of inspection through their fortifications. There he learned many things of interest to our Government, which he duly reported on his return to Washington. His next move was to Baltimore. ‘There, mingling with Southern sym« pathizers, he won thelr confidence and was intrusted by them with letters to Richmond. At the Confederate capital the fact that he bad been trusted with such important letters was enough te vouch for his loyalty to the South. He waa made welcomo and was allowed to pick up precious information as to the number of Confederate troops, their mu. nitions and other supplies, the secret routes used by blockade runners and the ingenious lines of defenses around the city. Carrying these tidings to Washington, he risked death by @ secOnd visit to Richmond. Here he gained a position in the Confederate secret service. In other words, he was employed by t South as a spy. In this capacity he used to carry letters to Confederate agents in the North, always telling bis Union employers the names of those agents and the contents of the letters. Returning to Richmond after one of these journeys, Webster stopped over at Washington for a few days and brought/on to Richmond with him «a Mrs. Hattle Lawton—one of Pinkerton’s cleverest spies. Webster intro- duced her as his sister. The couple did brilliant secret service work for a short time there in the heart of the enemy’s country. ‘Chen Webster's long-lasting luck deserted hum, He feil ill of inflammatory rheumatism at a Richmond hotel. Mrs, ton nursed him Yaithfully and would not leave the city without him, o He Steals Secrets of the Army. Rane + Las McCardell Co, (The New York Evening World.) city and go shopping and then go home with your wife, and for me to come up to the house wit u, is to get me to fight out in the 3 “What's the difference w fight, you never win a ba marked Mr, Jarr sagely. “I know that,” grumbled Mr. Jenk- ins, “and that's why I sajd nobod is going to make a monkey of me.” ‘Meaning what?’ asked Mr. Jarr. you re- Washington, hearing nothing from the pair, sent two Federal secret service agents to Richmond to find out what had happened to them. These two agents were numed Lewis and Scully. The visitors had no trouble in locating Webster at bis hotel, on him there and found him in bed, chatting with Capt. McCubbin of the local Provost Marshal's office, Other men from the Confederate secret service dropped in later on to call on Webster and his two friends. Web. Loe authorities at They called ‘ ster, with a spy’s queer “sixth sense,” saw that Lewis and Scully had some- how aroused suspicion, He whispered to them bent Tat out at once, His Sixth | Before they could stir, several more men en- Warns Hie any tered the sick room, among them Chase Morton, AAA AAA whose father's house in Washington had once beom searched by Scully and Lewis, Young Morton at once recognized the men. ‘They were arrested and taken to prison, There they were tried and both were sentenced to be hanged as spies. By this time the Confederate authorities had begun to wonder as to Webster's relation to the two prisoners. Investigations were begun. Scully, | by @ cruel trick, was lured into confessing that Webster was a Union spy. Lewis was next informed that Scully had confessed everything, and he, too, broke down, His life and Scully's were spared in return for their tes~ timony. ‘mcWebster was put on trial as a spy. On the strength of his two come rades’ evidence he was convicted and sentenced to be put to death, He ts aié to have been the first spy to be hanged in the Civil War. ‘Twice tl scaffold-drop refused to work before the hanging could be accomplished. Waiting, in anguish, Webster's tron nerve gave way, and he erted aloud: “You are making mo die a double death B achelor Girl Reflections By Helen’ Rowland 1018. by ahe Press Publishing Co, (The New York SOLDIERETTES! HEN the last debutante has gone nursing, W And the last “parasite” ceased to shirk, And the last “clinging-vine” {s a farmer, And the last “slackerette” ts at work, We shall lator with brain and with body, We shall labor from early till late, No Jonger a plaything—or burden— But Woman—man’s partner and MATE! yrigbt “You know how they do it.” grum- bled Mr, Jenkins. “When they treat you with cold silence at home, they next get you cut in company anc treat you with killing politeness.) “I'l stand by you, old pal," sald Mr, Jarr. “I won't get punished while we have your wife for company. My wife will want to show to your wife our married life is one grand, aweet song. After your wife is gone I'll blame everything on you. You won't mind, old top?” “Not at all,” said Jenkins. “I'll blame {t on you when my wife up- braids mo for humiliating her by not ;Showing up to supper at your \ house.” “Will you roll a Ittle Kelly pooi?” said the spider to the fly. “Anything that is reasonably inno- cent and economical,” replied the tly, the very fly Jenkins "And we'll camouflage our selfish enjoyment with patriotism,” suggest- ed Mr. Jarr, the spider, “Instead of playing for money we'll play for Thrift Stamps.” “Sure,” said Jenkins, “Old Patrick Henry was right: ‘Patriotism Covers |@ Multitude of Enjoyments'.” So while their patient wives waited the spider and the fly went off tu |Play Kelly pool for Thrift Stamps | Bat, as Mrs. Jarr sald afterward, that WAS no excuse. seca hy |War Demand for Shoddy, HE process of reclaiming wool from all sorts of rags has be- nitude since the placing of the Goy- ernment's big orders for army cloth- come a task of increasing mde. | : bere Between the temptations of spring and the im WLAN petus of war, marriage, which was almost extinot, is becoming @ positive epidemic. Oh, well, buy your June wedding presents early, Give them a Liberty Bond! A man spends all day Sunday motoring in the country trying to tow set his business troubles, and then spends all week down at the office tre ing to forget his tire-troubles, One of the bitterest disappointments of a woman's life is to have @ husband who talks in his sleep but never says anything Interesting that ;She can ask him to “explain” next morning. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but It also makes the head grow steadier and cures you of “that dizzy feeling” caused by propinguity or moonlight. What WOULD a man be without @ lot of women to watch over him— first, a mother to make him keep his face clean, later a teacher to make {him keep hts hands clean, and finally, a wife to make him keep his morals and his reputation clean? It must be awfully amusing for @ soldier Just back trom the trom | to watch the “exciting” incidents of a cowboy motion-picture drama Speaking of the Third Liberty Loan, who was {t sald, “If you oan’ ge | 4 across, COME ACROSS?" A hint to husbands: To swear {s human—to forbear, refined, <a RA EE SE ee Se Horse Still Indispensable in War, HE reports that cavalry ts being actively used on both sides tn Germany's latest and most for- midable attack, disposes finally of the assertion, often repeated, that}/encouraged horse breeding in the day of the horse in warfare had \tria-Hungary, and tn the = Even in the transport aer- (months before the war bought helt gas million horses, 300,000 of them to four men was considered neces. sary; 18,000 are now allotted to « German army corps of 42900 men, To provide these, the Pr ended vice, the charge was never true