BISMARCK DAILY TBlBUNE FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1015.

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Those Who Live in Europe Are Sacrificing Everything for

>1 the Cause of Humanity.

MANY ENLIST IN RED CROSS

Others Havs Turned Over Their Ca» ties and City Homes for Hospitals

— Wealthy' Ladies Washing Dishes — Anna Gould's

Broad Charity.

8©ciety, as It was formerly known, does not exist in Europe today. There ard no Mils, no dinners, ho splendid receptions. The women who led In the pleasure of other days have most of tttem donned a nurse's cap and gown or even accepted a 'menial task In order to alleviate the distress ol poor and wounded. In this work the American women who have married foreigners or who for some other rear •oa find" themselves residents of Eu­rope -have been notably prominent They have ddtae more than work them-'selves—they have prayed themselvei leaders.

In recounting the faithful lives ol service American women are leading today it is hard to know where to be-gin, for the work goes on in ever; capital, London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin; and in no way is the unfortunate char> acter of the great conflict better lllus-trated than by the presence on botb aides of these noble American women some laboring for the Germans and the Austrians and others to be sees at their poats of duty on the side oi the sllles.

Famous estates owned by American! In Europe have been placed at theserv ice of the combatants. Countess Jo bannes von Siersdorff, the former Misi Knowlton of Brooklyn, turned over hei castle in Silesia to the kalBerin foi the use of the Red Cross. Then sh« herself went to Berlin and entered the ranks of a hospitsl nurse corpi there. Her husband is in the German army. In happier times they one* spent 150,000 to entertain the kaisei at a single day's shooting on the e» tate now given for the use of the Ger man wounded. -

Another German Red Cross nurse is the beautiful duchess of Croy, who wasNaney Lelshinfcn. The "duke IS s lieutenant in the guard corps and hit Gentian castles, and 'estates 'are re celVtog wounded soldiers, while hit Hungsrlin chateau has been offered to 'Ibb' Archduke Frederick, Austrian commander in chief, tor a hospital.

. ; American Women In Berlin. ' The women of the "American colony

it) Berlin are working like beavers. The "American chttrctila now a hospi-til, irhlle the American Woman's clttb aas'offeredfor tise its beautiful build' Ing also. The American women are Attending Red Cross lectures and have gone so far as to offer to receive wounded men in'their own hoines ihould there be an overflow from the hospitals.

In Budapest the Countess Laszlo Bkechenyl, once Gladya Vanderbllt, *hd the Countess Slgray, nee Daly, fere leading in Red Cross work while (heir husbands are at the front. Count Slgray is reported a prisoner of the Russians. Instead of IfVipg'ln a Riti jtotel, his present* quarters are t$s ttllitary prison in Odessa! v, The palace of the Countess Ssech* Bnyl is one of the most magnificent in "ungary. But it was ruthlessly re-odeled for a barracks In, the course

of mobilization and now it has changed its character again, sheltering kfeveral hundred victims of Russian bullets. The countess herself, clad, in the modest garments of the' nurpe, feces about among the beds cheerihg the guests war has brought her. .*•Curiously enough, the countess' cousin, the duchess of Marlborough, #ho was Consuelo Vandertillt, Is do* ling much to help the Hungarians' foea She is the most active spirit in Lon-Jin relief work. Besides making Bun. Mrland'hbvlse, her London homfc,' a Center of activities, she has been in­fluential in directing the" work of other Anglo-Americans. It was largely tlrough her that Paris Singer was led tirglve his palatial Countr? house near Torguty for the wounded-men under the care of the American Red Crosa

What the Astora Are Doing. Waldorf Astor, Jr., is also very ac­

tive. In the course of a letter to a friend in Richmond, Va., Mrs. Astor, trho was Miss Nannie Langhorne oi Virginia, writes: P"We have',' come hare (Telverton, South Devon) and taken this little house.pine npiles from Plymouth. It IV just oir the moor. We took it so lhat the children could get moorland Air and we could workJ in Plymouth $ost of the day. ' '' "'."We have had 100 of the wounded •t Plymouth for the last fortnight. They were woiunded at Mons those first three days. A great many ol tJSem sAw the horrorsof'German bru­tality and the stories they tell are al-mbst unbelievable, only they tell thejm quite simply and told them to-me the first day they arrived before they had aaen or heard of a newspaper. One mot ersatura ih (taluklx abib

i tered. be said, not from fear of the i war or guns, but »t seeing two Bel-hUlfth ibmeft with both tisRds cut off.' : ' "I know that the Germans are fk

lng what thtf can In AtMrica to dei./ these things, but I have got it from the men themselves—plain, unedu­cated stoldiers a great many of them. The Coldstream guards regiment wa3 nearly wiped out because the men re­fused to Are on the Belgian women and children whom the Germans had put in front of their guns at Mons. This soldier Vas wounded there and told me this himself."

Mrs. Astor has assisted in the con-' valescence of men at Plymouth^by

taking them in large numbers for au­tomobile trips over the moors.

Washing Dishes in Hospital. Perhaps Paris has seen more of the

benevolent ministrations of American women than any other city. It is re­lated that a visitor to the improvised American hospital at Neuilly found Mrs. Herman Harjes, wife of the part­ner in the Morgan Paris banking house; Mrs. W. K. Yanderbilt and her

, friend, Mrs. Munroe, all washing j dishes in'the kitchen. They had re-| ported at eight o'clock every morning, j declaring they were ready for any

kind of useful work, from scrubbing 1 floors to assisting In the operating i chambers. *

The American hospital at Neuilly, , sear Paris, was established In 1906 j through resident Americans and Am-' bassador Henry White. It has 35 beda i and is ess of the finest hospitals on : the continent. But these 35 beds were \ not enough for Americans to give ! when war broke out. The American i ambulance committee obtained from the government the use of the new

; Pasteur high school at Neuilly and im-i provised a hospital here. Here ar« | accommodations for wounded to the

j number of a thousand. The staff ii j led by the distinguished Dr. joseph A. j Blake of New York, Dr. Charles Po-| land, a former United States army

j surgeon,'arid Dr. George D.'Hayes. This hospital is specializing in the

most serious cases because there aro few places in France where such splen­did talent and appliances are avail­able.

Has Motor Ambulance Servlee. The American committee is also op

crating a motor ambulance service and brought some of its own patients from the battlefield of Meaux, jtfo engage-ment fought nearest to Paris.

The first wounded were received September 9, consisting Of fair English boys, beown Turcos from Algiers and black men from -Senegal. Fifteen American surgeons living in Paris and twenty more as a relay were r^ady to treat them. Doctor Blake- seni a call to New York for volunteer surgeoni and a party of six soon left, amonq them Dr. Richard Derby, who married Ethel Roosevelt. Mrs. Derby left behind In America her six-months-bid baby son in order to go with, her hua> band iff the capacity of nurse,

The four million dollar marble, pal' ace of the former Anna Gould, nowlhe duchess of Tallyrand, Is today-filled with French wounded. The duke,drivel one of her motor cars Inthe'serjvic* of France, while all th^!^si,' ,oj? hei cars have been turned over to thie,gov­ernment also. The dtike carries me» sages between Paris and Bordeaux oi between Paris and the battlefield"r

The duchess bad her heari tpuched by tin plight of the large class ol women in Paris who live faithfully with m6h to whom they are not legal­ly married. Their men have now gont to war and they an* their children were without friends. It seemed. Anns Gould, with her all-inclusive charity, came tothelr'1'relief. " She opened I workshop and'employs'the women al sewing. ' They receive three meals I day and are paid a small amount b$ aides. The duchess had promised hew self a visit to .her old home in New York thliwiptir,r but'she $*s' given ft tip In order to cofitlnuh to supervlsli her work'of m^rty. ' " j

Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt of the to mous New York family has sewing women in her bolsde Boulogne man slon. There shlfas'snd bandages art turned out in large quantitlea. Mrs, Vanderbllt and Mrs. Edith Whartoq are also keeping many seamltressei employed.

WOULDN'T BELIEVE THEM

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B. Jones—I wondef lf Stockson Bonds, the millionaire, reads all th« stories they-print about him.

B. Smith—No, but even if he did you don't suppose he'd believe them do you? >

THESE GjjftLS

' Tom—Do you think you could lean to ,love me?

Tess—>Yes, but I'm' ability forget ful.

HAOITT COME

CANT GIVE UP F00TBALI British Soldiers Amaze fhe French by

Indulging ih the Sport be­tween BattledL

On the Battle Front, via Paris.—Ths French soldiers were Surprised to see their British comrades, after the long -spell- In the trenches, - retire to ths rear, inflate several footballs and be­gin lively games.

Some of the British battalions had lost a large proportion of their num. bers in the severe battles of the last week, but thersest of. the men for the sport was unabated. •'}[

Two battalions engaged In a regular jnateh, on the result of which eoma money changed hands. The players stripped off their tunics and caps, but retained their footgear, which was cov­ered with thick layers of clay from the trenches.

8hortag» In Glaaa Eysst London,—There Is A shortage In

slaps eyes, the best of which are manufactured fn Germany. Aa they cannot be obtained from that country now American manufacturera may have to be called upon.

. First Automobllist—Did you repri ' land your chauffeur for causing th« xploaion? Second Automobilist—No, but I'm

(olng to as soon as-1 find him.

THE ANSWER

Hoax—Why do they name this ci­gar after Howell Rant, the actor?

Joax (trying to light one)—Because it won't draw, I reckon. •' " -

A oR0AST, ^ , —— :£;q.

ItSH JEm Proving Themselves Worthy oi

Rape^s ETest Traditions.

Dragoon Relatea Two Instances H« Wltnesssid of (Their Enduranee^and , ;Brayery ijinvthe Battlefield;

Paris.—Irishmen fighting Britain's battles in France^ today are proving themselves ^oi^r. of,the finest tra­ditions bf their rate. There have been nkny paries of tjh^eir endurance and pluck, blit two; re|ited by- a trooper of the Irish dragoons may be taken as

^ |rSere' waa^A nun of ours," isays the*^ troo^^. "yho "carried a chum to a farmhbw/uibder flre, and when the

• left 'behind. The German pstrdf^called and found him. There were only Jthe two, one wound ed, against, a . djDsen ^uhlans. Behind a" barrier of furirilure^ they kept tht Germane at bay, wouudlnp; or killing half ot them.^ The G^fmans made ofl and brought a maSchifie gun: to the house and threatened to-destroy it.

"The two soldiers were not unmind­ful of .the klndqess shown them by the ownere of thy farmb and rather than bring loss on them.pr.^he village, they made a rush out With' Some mad idea of,taking the gun." '

"Just-over the threshold of the dooi they-fell dead, their blood bespatter­ing the walls of the house.

"There, was a, yoang chap of the Irish rifles. He was'kneeling beside % wounded man of the Oloucesters, I

' think, keeping off the Germans, whe were oirclirig tbund llkb carrion birds. He< had been hit himself, -but was gamely, firing:at th^ enemy as fast- as

' his .wounded, arm wrould pennlt We went lo,.'his asslstahce but they were both worii but-when we reached them and, greatly to our. regret, we had to taare them. to be plcked up. by the Red Cross people. ' "That was hard; but If you tried to pick ty> erery wounded man you saw you;wpuldn't be much use as a fighter, and as we were under urgent ordeni to o take up a position from which to cover the retreat, we had no time for sentiment. They knew that, and they weren't the men to aak us to risk the safety of the army fqr them. ' ;^':'Never mind,' th£ rifleman said, with a faint smile on a ghastly face,

, 'the sisters will pick ua up when Its all over, but if they don't, sure,: then we've-only got oucel-.to die and It's thevgrand flght we've had anyhow. What more could soldiers ask for?'

:"When we,cata|e'bafek.again one o! them was thiere atobd dead; but his mate had gone, ^and -^whether it^ was the Germans t>r -the |led. Cross people that got him, I would^t care to say."

FAMINE IN BELGIAN TOWNS Shortage'of Pood le Serious snth Hol­

land Refuses tolMiAny v

'•*>i Th«rs.

London.—A dispatch to the Reuter Telegram - company says the Belgian minister to the Netheriands anhouncea that famine prevails ]^».r most; parts oi

1 Belgium which are Occupied by the Germans. "It' Is"mpst serious at Brus­sels, but. the' shortagV rOf food is also felt at Namur, Luxemberg, and Hain-^dL- -»j i.r? hvi'J ft*)-!}}'?! : •* A Rotterdam dispatch to the Ex«

change Telegraph company^says: "General von der Golts, the German

commander In Belgium, recently sent several emissaries to Hollapd in an endea.vor. to,obtain foodstuffs- to couni ierac|t;. the -famine threatening-; Bru» sels. -.

"Th<ese emissaries completely failed in their nMssion,-and. the..Dutch',gov­ernment Is closely watching the export trade. The emissaries^ who are Dutch* men, say Brussels has- no salt, yeast, or flour, -scarcely anjr meat,1 and* no bread to eat:"

BUSY BELGIAN

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seemed to "have" looted "and burned.

The Russian officers have by means impressed the German military men favorably. In many.,cases it was remarked that they failed |o grasp thp most elementary tacticfl pplnts in siti uatiens on the battlefield. \t was also frequently charged In newspaper ac« counts and letters from soldiers and officers that many Russian offlcerl lack courage. A German captain raj ports that he counted 150 dead Ru» sians on the heights near Hohenstel% but not one officer anions them.

The Manager of the Burlesque Com* •ny—Yes, sir, she's .a "burlesqus leauty."

Critic—That. describes ,her, style ex­actly.

Russian Chief a Giant Petrograd.—The tallest commandei

In tha allied armies is Grand Duka Nicholas, commander-in-chief of th« Russian forces. He meaaurea six feel •U IftClMfc

Locating the- Fear. „ -.fl'm afraidr you have!:appendicitis,"

laid the-doctor.- -. : , "What's the use xjf putting it that>

way!" exclaimed/'Mr; Growcher. "You're not atra^d.-. If,anything you're cheerfully expeotaat. But I'm scared ulf to death!"

FAVORED FORM Nest Rebuke Administered by Err*

. perors Francis «>oss|»h to Devote* i of,'"Red Ttps." , ,

, .'The emperor of vAuatria-Hungary is no. slavish admirer of red-tape meth-ods. He loves; the fluent, direct-man­ner pf the military man, and is- on the best ot terms with the bluff, honest generals of hip artny. The . following Is an instance of how ha upheld one of them ln hls controversy with the bu­reaucracy. . . . The officer was Galgotzy, a.taciturn old aoldier, whom thf whole Austrian ariinrknew and lulmired. After the oc ciipaUon-pf fBoania-Hersesovlna, Gal-goticy^was sent tohuild.%mllltary road. Funds were short and the.^ntai :avall-ablo f9rvthe purpose Memedhopelessly InsupMant :< ••

I^y?dlnt qf ^hard work and.lngenulty, Galgotsy succeed, nevertheless, vio perfonplRg hisvtask, astd thereupon re-ported: "Road built; ,^S,000 itorlns ceived; 2&000. florins* spent; remains nothing. Galgotsy." ,*

Dissatisfied With so dummary an ac­count, the audlt offlcials.applied for a detailed atatement of , expenditure. ;Gil-gotzy ignored the applloation, which was presently renewed- in peremptory form. Impatient of -red tape; he re­plied: "Road built; R.OOO ffprlns re­ceived, 25,000 flQrins spent; .remain! noticing. Whoever doubts .it is an ass."

Shocked by such impropriety, a red-taplat-ln-chief.submitted the general's "account" to Francis Joseph, who blandly inquired: "Do you then doubt itr .

These Belgian sharpshooters when photographed' were ^ensconced behind luc^wvter ^ipes ptftsidevA^tJTsrp ^nd were busily picking off such Germans is%ame into vfcwj

German Officers Praise the Work 1 ! of Czar's Artillery. *

Shooting of His Infantry, However Found Net Effective—Aggressive-

nesa Surprised Kaiser's Men.

Berlin.—German*army officers arc giving their views as to the fighting

Sualitles of the Russian emperor's sol-lers and officers. The first surprise

the Russians gave to the German niili-' tary leaders' was the aggressive way in. which they pushed the campaign. It had been supposed in military quar ters here that they would occupy strong defensive positions behind the Vistula, and other streams and await the attaek of the Germans and Aus­trians. Instead of such strategy, how­ever, they pushed Into East Prussia in great numbers at a very early atage ol the war. ""'From this fact it Is Inferred her« that Russia's mobilization was very far advanced and other preparations for war begun long before the Petro grad government admitted that even one aoldier had been called to th« colon. This Inference finds strong support, too, in admissions declared to hive been made by Russian prisoners. Lr ThJrhe*f Burprise wae that the^Ru* sian generals no longer send theii troops into battle in -close formation as In previous wars, but have mod­ernized their tactics and try to utilize all the advantages of the ground. The Shooting of the infantry, however, was found to be still very ineffective. This Is no wonider, If prisoners told the truth in saying that they had no tar-' get practice whatever,and had .y&ed only, their rifles, shooting w<+h blank

cartridges in maneuvers. Even sol­diers 9f the standing-army- appear to hiave had practice only in shooting al about nine hundred yards. At thai range their work was fairly accurate^ but at longer an* shorter ranges neap ly all their bullets went wild.

With the field artillery the case !« quite different. Its firing is remark­ably good,c and the unanimous verdict of the German officers is embodied in the frequently heard words, "Hats ofl to the Russian gunners.',' As a rule the first salvo of the batteries would fall short, the second would overshoot, but the third would begin a frightful carnage among the German ranks un-Jess they ^had changed their position meanwhile. One of the specialties oi the Russian artillery was to locate and fire upon the German staff officers, with the result that these had fre­quently to change their position.

The accurate Russian gunnery wai considerably neutralized, however, by the large proportion of shells which failed to explode—a fact which'soon found a legendary explanation In the report that many shells contained sand instead of explosives. Artillery experts find a more probable explana­tion in the marshy nature of the ten rain in many'places along the Russian frontier, the shells burying themselves in the soft earth without exploding.

The CosSacks have again proved that they are of little value, according to German officers, either for recon-noissance work or 'in fighting. On the other handr Yfce Geimari' ortclfere speal much more favorably of the regular Russian caValry. The conduct of th< troops in the invasion of East Prussia^ particularly "when together iii largel units and under the command of high er officers, appears to have been In general -excellent.' They appear tfl have respected private property and paid for supplies requisitioned, even if "payment was bnly in Russian script Small detachments, on t*e contrary.

FATE OF THE F0URFLUSHER Young Man Was Mistaken in Think*

ing Girl Had "Fallen for" ths Automobile.

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She sat on a bench under one of thfl alder trees, with closed Hps, drink­ing in the: glories vof the setting sun.

"Excuse me," he said, lifting his hat with his right hand while he ad­dressed her with the left, "but do you happen to have such a thing on you as a match? That is my autombblle standing there and„I find myself .with­out a match to light the lamp," ,

It was obviously but a ruse to en­gage her In conversation, but. he waf rather a nice-looking young man; with a three-dollar knitted necktie and all, and she smiled as she told him how sorry she- was about hav­ing no match.

"They all fall for the automobile," he muttered to himself. ?

One thing led to another, and sooa he was sitting' beside her chatting gayly about the Latin Quarter, Shakespeare's latest play, the preva. lence of divorce and other absorbing topics. But soon It really did begin to darken up.

"I must go," she said*, and, giving | him a final smile, she strode daintily

to the automobile to which; he had pointed as his, hopped In and was-lost in a cloud of dust, leaving him to re> fleet on the Just deserts -which sooner or later must envelop all four§ushers.

Limitations of Private Philanthropy, In a certain city an energetic associ­

ation secretary was just completing 'his fund for a fine new> building. ' One

. night his wife was called out to a | case of distress, through whi£h lie got

an insight into the bad conditions sur­rounding working young '*• women • In his city. After carefully getting up his facts, he formed a. committee, se­cured speakers and announced that on Friday there would be a public meet*

; ing to consider the problem .of ti)4-] .working young women in local indus­

tries. Promptly he was, summoned by -telephone to meet the directors of his association, and when he'entered the room, one of his Christian backers burst out upon him-with: "What "lii h—1 do you i tein 'by getting up. this public meeting^. jDsntfc you kU^*\rvjS got 80 girls working.. In the basemenii of my department store?" His othe; directors were equally stern, and h» was ordered to oall of^ his meeting or lose all the Important contributions to his building fund: He held hi# meeting and Immediately vthereafte^ resigned.—Edward A. Ross. lfr-Atlsn. tic.

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