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THE MERIDIAN TRIBUNE
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BRIDE OF BATTLE
A Romance of the American Army
Fighting on the Battlefields of France
By VICTOR ROUSSEAU r
(Copyright, by W. G. Chapman.)
WALLACE IS STUNNED BY REVELATIONS MADE TO HIM
BY HIS COMMANDING . OFFICER
Synopsis.—Lieut. Mark Wallace, U. S. A., is wounded at the
battle of Santiago. While wandering alone in the jungle he comes
across a dead man in a hut outside of which a little girl is playing.
When he is rescued he takes the girl to the hospital and announces
his intention of adopting her.
CHAPTER I—Continued.
—2—
“What are you going to do about
her?” inquired the major, standing be-
side the camp bed and looking down
at Wallace uneasily.
“Boil some canned cow and see if it
will dissolve the cellulose out of an
army biscuit.”
- “It shall be done. I guess that’ll stay
her till morning. But seriously, Wal-
lace?” , -
“I suppose I’ll have to assume the
responsibility for her. I’ll take her
down to the base with me tomorrow
and ship her home to my people in
charge of one of the stewardesses on
some liner.”
“I’ve got a better scheme,” said the
major. “Let me have her, Wallace.
My wife will go crazy over her. You
know she’s always talking of adopting
a little girl. She’s got her ideal type
in mind, and that’s it. I was to look
round for one like that if ever the
chance came along.”
“Well, you’d better go on looking
round,. Major,” said Wallace, irritably.
“See here, my boy, you don’t really
want that kid, do you?”
“I do. I’ll think over your proposi-
tion, Major, of course, but my sister
would give her a home and—"
“Let me send her to my wife. You
and swung his arm. The pieces fell
in the jungle grass far beyond the en-
campment. Major Howard shied the
purse after them and went back to
where Wallace still sat upright on the
bed. He noticed, with a certain grim-
ness of spirit, that one of the lieuten-
ant’s hands rested on the child’s fair
hair.
“Well, Wallace?” he asked.
“It’s damnable.”
“We can’t exactly make his child
the regimental pet, can we?”
Wallace was silent, and the Major
sat down on the edge of the bed be-
shame pretty badly and wanted to for-
get it. Hampton was let go, on the
understanding that he leave the coun-
try forever. Oh, yes, he assumed the
innocent air quite dramatically. Some
of the war office people believed in him
until the damning documents were laid
before them.
“And he was still somehow in touch
with things, Wallace, and the leakages
went on afterward. That’s why we
had orders to hang him as soon as
Santiago was taken. He did the kind-
est thing he could have done to him-
self when he got in the way of that
sniper’s bullet.
“I’ll tell you who the child’s mother
was, Wallace, because I was unfortu-
nate enough to know her. She was a
Miss Rennie, Miss Marjorie Rennie,
of a Baltimore family—fine people,
and, of course, with a tradition like
that, she believed in the scoundrel ab-
solutely. She came to me twice. The
-first time was before the informal trial
held by the department. She' begged
Wallace,” he said. “The fellow was a
bad lot, but, as you say, there may be
no reason why this little animal should
suffer for his sins. The mother was
decent, and there may be something in
that idea of a vicarious restitution.
I’ll agree, Wallace, if you’ll let me take
over the charge of her till the war’s
ended. We’ll enter her on the mess
book and settle a fictitious parentage
on her afterward, and may she never
know her father’s history. By the time
she’s old enough to understand a. mas-
cot’s duties, flirt with the lieutenants,
and plead for the drunks, maybe we’ll
have forgotten it ourselves. Good-
night, my boy. Take care of your
wound. I’ll send in that milk and bis-
cuit and a couple of cakes of naphtha
soap, and a porcelain tub with silver
trimmings, for you to make a start on
her in the morning.”
He glanced at the sleeping child,
took Mark’s hand and went quickly
out of the tent. Under the sky lie
stood still for a few moments.
* “The d----d scoundrel!” he mut-
tered.
At that instant his alert ear heaid
what the sentry, posted some distance
AIRY
NEED MORE DAIRY PRODUCTS
IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAYSCOOL
LESSON
(By REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D. D„
Teacher ot English Bible in the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago.)
(Copyright, 1918, Western Newspaper
Union.)_______
LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 3
APPETITE AND GREED.
can claim her after the war, if you
want to. Suppose you got killed; we’d
neither of us have her. If you don’t
let me take her I’ll make you pay for
it."
“How?”
“I’ll order her a bath, under the
sanitary code. And you’ll have to give
it. And scraped beef—our beef!”
“Get out, Major, and give me a
chance to yell when my wound hurts.
Listen! I tell you what I’m ready to
do. I’ll let the regiment adopt her,
with myself, as godfather?
CHAPTER 11.
side him.
“I had orders to watch for him,” he
said. “He was to have been hanged
as soon as we captured Santiago.
That’s why he was making for the
jungle. He was detected and allowed
to escape with his life, but he had
been working as a Spanish agent since
he was drummed out of America. His
career ended at the luckiest moment
for him- He seems to have had the
one redeeming quality of affection for
the child, though if he had had a par-
ticle of unselfishness in him he would
have left her behind,him'. I suppose
she was the only thing he had in his
wretched life.”
“Of course there’s no palliation,”
me to believe he was innocent and the | g
victim of a trap. I wouldn’t even lis- I
ten. You know, when a man has to 1 1
run down his friend he has to harden 1
his heart.
“She came to me again, after Hamp-
ton was broken. She told me I had
played false to, my best friend and
that I’d suffer for it to the last day of
my life. I’ve never forgotten that in-
terview, and you can guess how it
made me mad to hang Hampton when
we learned that he was still keeping
up the game from his exile in Cuba.
He must have got quite a number of
confidential papers out of the war of-
fice. That’s about all.”.
“It’s enough,” said Wallace. “The
Supply Should Be Maintained to Help
Supply Increasing Demands of
European Allies.
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% (Prepared by the United States De- •
• partment of Agriculture.)
% The supply of dairy products •
e should be maintained to meet %
% the needs of this country and to $
e help supply the- increasing de- %
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200000000000000000000000
Tn making this recommendation in
its -supplementary production program,
the’ United States department of agri-
culture points out that dairy products
are essential to the well-being of the
nation and that the dairy cow produces
more food on less feed than any other
of our domestic animals.
Before the war the United States re-
ceived dairy products from about twen-
ty foreign countries; now these sup-
plies have been largely stopped and it
has become necessary not only to re-
place them at once but also to export
large quantities. In 1914, for instance,
we imported approximately 64,000,000
pounds more of dairy products than
we exported, not including fresh milk
and cream. In 1917 we exported
LESSON TEXT—Genesis 25:27-34.
GOLDEN TEXT—Every man that strive
eth for the mastery is temperate in all
things. Now they do it to obtain a cor-
ruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.—
1 Corinthians 9:25.
DEVOTIONAL READING—Romans 14:
13-23.
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL FOR
TEACHBRS—I Corinthians 8:1-13; 10:23-33;
Hebrews 12:15-17.
1. Boys With a Difference (v. 27).
Esau and Jacob were in decided con-
trast. They differed in appearance
/,
He stopped, astonished at the way
the Major took his suggestion. How-,
ard began to stutter, paced the inside
of the tent for some moments, mutter-
ing to himself, and then swung round
upon his heel, facing the lieutenant.
“Good God, no, Wallace! Whatever
put that infernal idea into your head?”
he exploded. “See here, now! You’re
not well enough to talk this thing over
tonight. Some day I’ll tell you why
your proposal is impossible.”
“That’s all very well, Major. I don’t
know what you mean, but if you don’t
like my proposition you know what
you can do. I’m quite well enough to
listen to what’s worrying you. Dig it
out !"
“I haven’t time, Wallace. There s
these stragglers to be sorted out. Not
suggested Wallace. “But the man
may have been born good and—gone
downhill.”
“He was born rotten,” answered the
Major. “He sold his country to pay
his gambling debts. Cuba was about
the only place that would hold him, I
imagine. And to think that swine was
once in our regiment! Sorry I had to
tell you, Wallace!”
He hesitated a while; Wallace had
not moved; but the child at his side
stirred and breathed heavily. The
major’s fists clenched.
“I’m trying to be just to the dead,”
he said. “But I feel that a thousand
years of hell wouldn’t atone for that
crime, Wallace.”
Mark Wallace looked up. “I’m not
sure that I know all the facts about
the case, Major,” he said.
“The facts are that it was no sudden
act of fear or temptation, but calculat-
ed, cold-blooded deliberation. We
knew at the war office that there was
a leakage. It had been traced to the
mobilization division, where Kellerman
and I were working. Even we were
under suspicion, for a time. Then it
narrowed down to Hampton and an-
other.
“Wallace, those months were the
worst time I’ve ever spent. Hampton
was my best friend, and Kellerman’s,
too. We spied on him—had to.
“Well, you know what happened,
more or less. There was a woman go-
between, as there generally is—a fine-
that much can be done tonight, I sup-
pose. Sometime I’ll tell you-—”
He swung round on his heel and
made for the entrance, stopped and re-
turned.
, “I suppose I’d better tell you now,”
he exclaimed. “I had thought it might
be as well not to tell you ever. You
don’t happen to know who this child’s
father was—that man in the tent?”
“What do you mean, Major? Some
settler caught by a bullet, I suppose.”
“Hampton!” said Major Howard,
grimly. -,
Lieutenant Wallace sat bolt upright
on the bed and stared at the other in
amazement.
“The man who sold our mobilization
plans to Spain?” he whispered, con-
scious of a sudden terror for the child.
The major nodded. “It’s years
since we worked together in the war
office,” he answered, “and, frankly, I
didn’t know the face. You wouldn’t
have, would,you, after the work that
the bullet had done? One of those
d---d dum-dums. But—you didn’t
girl married him, then?”
"So much we learned- And also that
she died later. You see, we’ve been
pretty close on the fellow’s track the
last couple of years—ever since the
war. became a probability, in fact.
Most of the officers in the regiment
are since that time, but I guess they
all knew something, and kept it quiet,
like* you.”
Wallace nodded. “I fancy there’s a
good deal of feeling,” he said.
“Quite a good deal,” said the major,
dryly. “And I guess you’ll agree with
me that this makes it—let’s say, a lit-
tle difficult to adopt his child offi-
cially?"
“You mean the remembrance would
be too bitter?”
“I mean that that position is the
one and only position that she is dis-
qualified from holding, by reason of
birth.”
“Still,” urged Wallace, “it isn’t in
the blood. The mother was decent.
Why should that baby be tarnished
with her father’s treachery?”
“It’s written in the Good Book ”
began the major.
“And there’s something else about
coals of fire, too, Major, which came
as a sort of revision of the old law.
It’s just what we ought to do, because
it’s the only way to adjust the mat-
ter.”
“Adjust it? Adjust what?” cried
the Major, with sudden passion.
“The whole of that hellish business,
Major. The man was once an officer
of the Seventieth. He’s dead and his
crimes have died with him. We want
to forget that such a thing could have
happened, and the only way is to leave
him to God’s judgment and to cast
out all bitterness from our hearts.
You quoted Scripture to me—well, I
gave you the answer from the same
Book. Let death bring oblivion to the
man’s memory. He’s, left us the child.
The Major Could Not Distinguish How
the Intruder Was Dressed.
away, had failed to catch—the rustling
of some moving figure in the dense
jungle grass at the edge of the camp
The major remained perfectly mo-
tionless, except for his right hand, |
which was swiftly withdrawing his re-
volver from its case. Suddenly he was
transformed into action. He leaped
between the two last tents of the line,
to see a man confront him for an in-
stant. In the light of the quarter-
moon the major could not distinguish
how the intruder was dressed. It was
evident, however, that he had been
prowling outside the tent which held
Wallace and the child.
“Halt !” shouted the major and the
sentry together, and, as the man drop-
ped into the grass, the rifle and revol-
ver rang out simultaneously.
The sentry, shouting to the guard,
came running up. The major and he
searched the spot, but they found no-
body.
“One of those d----d Cuban sneak-
thieves!” muttered Major Howard as
he replaced his revolver in its case.
And he hurried away to look after his
men.
Splendid Type of Dairy Cow.
320,000,000 pounds, more than we im-
ported.
The total amount of milk produced
in this country in 1917 is estimated to
be 84,611,350,000 pounds. Large losses
occur and the greatest is through the
failure fully to utilize skimmed milk
and buttermilk for human food. These
products have all of the food value
of whole milk except the fat. A given
quantity of them would produce seven
times as much food value in the form
of cottage cheese as they would pro-
duce in the form of meat if fed to live
stock. The possibilities of increasing
the supply of food by the, fuller utili-
zation of these by-products are enor-
mous. In brief, there should be a bet-
ter utilization of skimmed milk and
buttermilk, both as food on,the farm
and through the market.
Better results in dairying may be
secured by proper sanitation and care
in producing and handling milk; by
better care and utilization of pastures;
and disposition. Esau was a cunning
hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was
a plain man, dwelling in tents. They
were born that way. Every child born
into the world possesses a peculiar
bent which we call individuality. No
two are exactly alike, even twins like
Esau and Jacob. The wise parent,
the wide-awake teacher, the educator,
seeks diligently to discover that pe-
culiar individuality, and to give it di-
rection according to the laws of its
own being. This bent is the basis of
character. • Neither Esau nor Jacob
is an ideal personality. Both are
selfish.
II. Parental Favoritism (v. 28).
Isaac loved Esau because he did
eat of his venison. He ought to have
loved him because he was his son;
but it is a sad commentary upon a fa-
ther that his love for his son had such
a sordid basis as that of his stomach.
Isaac, however, was like many today
whose love is secured through their ap-
petites. Rebecca loved Jacob, though
we are not told why. Perhaps it was
because of his cunning. In this re-
spect he, was like his mother, who
practiced craftiness to a finish on her
husband. Cleverness is a bond which
strongly binds together many people.
Many hold the respect of their friends
because of their shrewdness, irrespec-
tive of their moral qualities. Parents
should treat their children alike. To
show partiality is both unwise and
unjust. Even when children possess
peculiar qualities which call forth pa-
rental affection, it should never be made
manifest that preference is made.
III. A Birthright Sold (vv. 29-34).
1. Esau’s profanity (Heb. 12:16-17).
He sold his birthright for a bowl
of pottage. The birthright was the
right of being at the head of the patri-
archal family, a position of honor and
influence, as well as being the inherit-
or of a double portion of the father’s
estate. This being a gift of God
should not be despised. He came from
Several years elapse and then
Wallace, now a captain in the
army, visits Eleanor at a young
ladies’ boarding school. Eleanor,
now a young lady, gives her
guardian a shock, but a pleasant
one, as he takes leave of her.
Don’t miss the next installment.
by raising on the farm adequate sup-
plies of roughage, particularly legumes
and silage, to take the place of grains
so far as is practicable; by preserving
for dairy purposes all the high-produc-
ing animals and eliminating those that
are inefficient; by feeding according
to production so as to secure the
greatest yield of milk with the least
quantity of feed, which necessitates
a record of production of individual
cows; by the full utilization in the
community of good bulls throughout
the entire period of their usefulness
and, to their full capacity, and by the
prompt control of disease.
DAIRY COW IS ECONOMICAL
see this, did you?”
He took a purse from his pocket,
opened it and shook out three gold
pieces into his hand. “That was on a
belt about the body,” he said. “And
there were some papers—not the ones
we wanted, but enough to identify
him. It was Hampton all right.”
He went to the tent door and looked
out. “Here, Johnson!” he called.
The negro servant appeared almost
instantaneously within the opening
and stood to attention.
“Could you use three gold pieces,
Johnson?” inquired Major Howard.
"Well, suh, I don’t know as I’d ob-
ject,” replied the negro, grinning.
“It’s part of a sum that was paid
to an American soldier for betraying
his country.”
“Oh, Lord, no. Major!” answered
Johnson.
“Then do what you think best with
these.”
The negro looked at the gold coins
in his hand, stepped outside the tent
Stared at the Other in Amazement.
looking young woman, little more than
a girl, named Hilda Morsheim. One
of those French-German Alsatians,
Wallace. Kellerman got some hold on
her, and she confessed,
against Hampton was
proven.
“There wasn’t any trial.
The case
absolutely
The fellow
could have been shut up for a good
many years; he had cost his country
millions; he ought to have been
hanged. But he was quietly cashiered
and allowed to disappear. Maybe it
was a foolish move, but we felt the
Start here. Start fresh. I have the
right to the kid, but what you have
told me makes me feel strongly that
there’s a Providence in this affair,
and I’ll lend her. to you—mark that
word, Major!—on that condition or
none.”,...
’Major Howard' pulled at his mus-
tache in agitation. “You don’t really
mean it, Wallace?” he asked.
“I do. If you want me to let you
take her till the war’s over—”
“It means forgiving that black-
guard.”
“It means forgetting him and letting
the Judge judge.”
“It goes against every instinct. I’d
bring her up away from the regimental
life. Besides, there are the others.”
“Who else knows?”
“Well, of course, nobody else knows
who the dead man was. The colonel
will have to know. But he needn’t
‘know we’ve adopted the child. He’s
going South after the war. However,
I’m afraid Kellerman knows. He rec-
ognized what was left of the face, or
suspected somehow. I could tell from
his manner.”
“I don’t see any overwhelming dif-
ficulty in that. You can trust Keller-
man?”
The major nodded, and it occurred
to Wallace that he would rather trust
any of the officers than Kellerman. He
had conceived a prejudice against him
which he could not have explained.
“And Hampton’s name was erased
from the old mess list,” Wallace con-
tinued.
The major, who had been pulling at
his mustache and thinking deeply,
came to his decision.
“Well, I’ll take her on those terms.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Insects That Have Food Value.
Among insects which have been and
are considered of gastronomic value
are caterpillars, moths, a favorite in
some parts of Africa; the pupae of
the silkworm in China; ants, alive and
roasted, are appreciated in Burmah, as
well as by the Indians of North and
South America, while it is said the
lumbermen of Maine enjoy an occa-
sional meal of large wood ants. The
beetle is eaten in the Nile valley, in
Turkey, Lombardy, Java, Peru, and is
said to be nutritious and fattening. In
Central America the eggs of three
aquatic bugs are made into little
cakes and eaten. Mexicans make a
strong drink by infusing a tiger beetle
in alcohol.
Arnmal Will Convert Hay, Grass and
Cornstalks Into Milk in Cheap-
est Manner Possible.
Bluff That Failed.
General Plumer, who has recently
been recalled to France from Italy,
can be very ironical when he chooses,
as the following story proves:
Shortly before the war, when he
held the Irish command, a regiment
was being maneuvered before him on
a field day, and the colonel in charge
succeeded in getting his men mixed up
pretty thoroughly.
However, he went grimly on, and at
last, calling a halt, rode up to Plumer
with an air of importance.
“I flatter myself that was extremely
well done, sir,” he said, evidently with
the idea of trying to bluff that noth-
ing had gone wrong.
“Oh, excellent," was General Plum-
er’s suave reply. “But may I ask what
on earth you were trying to do?"-
Pearson’s Weekly.
Two facts stand out prominently as
reasons, for the increased production
and use of .milk. The first is that milk
as purchased on the market usually
supplies food material together with
the growth-producing elements more
economically than either meat or
eggs. The second reason is that the
dairy cow is the most economical pro-
ducer of animal food. One great law
of food conservation is to turn in-
edible feeds into edible foods in the
cheapest possible manner. The dairy
cow will utilize coarse materials, in-
edible to humans—such as grass,'
cornstalks and hay—and will turn
them into milk. Other farm animals
also are'converters of coarse roughage
into edible foods, but are not so effi-
cient as the dairy cow.
hunting physically exhausted. In this
moment of distress, he thought only
of that which promised immediate sat-
isfaction. • He was willing to relin-
quish all claim upon the future, if
only his present desire could be grati-
fied. A profane person is one who
for the enjoyment .of the present will
forfeit all claim upon the future/ He
would gladly gain both worlds, but
seeing that mess of pottage he lets go
of the future for the present. Swear-
ing is profanity, but not the most com-
mon; To be under the sway of appe-
tite is to be profane. What profan-
ity about us! For a moment’s sin-
ful pleasure men and women are
throwing away innocence, happiness,
and their souls eternally. This is
most serious, for acts are irrevocable.
2. Jacob’s cunning. Tt was right that
Jacob should have the birthright, for
it was according to God’s plan which
had been pronounced (v. 23), but his
scheme' to get it is to be condemned.
He took advantage of his brother’s
weakness to drive a sharp bargain.
The same thing is practiced when un-'
der the force of necessity unlawful in-
terest is exacted, or property is bought ■
under price because one is obliged to
sell.
- To get rich at the expense of anoth-
er is to practice Jacob’s sin. Modern
competitive business methods to a de-
cided extent are of this type. Let each
one ask: “Is my name Jacob?” The
end never justifies the means. God
said that the elder should serve the
younger. It was his plan that Jacob
should be at the head, but God was
able to bring his own plans to pass.
He did not need the scheming of Ja-
cob and his mother to further his
plans. To do evil that good may come
is always wrong.
GET PROFIT FROM DAIRYING
Breeding Furnishes Most Economical
Way to Obtain Large Producers
—Use Best Heifers.
(Prepared by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.) ’
In dairying large production and
profit go hand in hand. Breeding fur-
nishes the most economical way to ob-
tain large-producing cows. The pure-
bred bull, with generations of high-
producing ancestors, back of him, must
be used for breeding, and only the best
heifers from the best cows should be
chosen to be the dams of the next gen-
eration. ,
Understanding the Bible.
I believe that the Bible is to be un-
derstood in the plain and obvious
meaning of its passages; for I cannot
persuade myself that a book intended
for the instruction and conversion of
the whole world should cover its true
meaning in any such mystery and
doubt that none but critics and philos-
ophers can discover it.—Daniel Web-
ster.
Public Good.
There never was found in any age
of the world, either religion or law
that did so highly exalt the public
good as the Bible.—Bacon.
With Christ’s Aid.
With the power of Christ perfected
in my weakness, I am equal to every
temptation, competent for every duty, •
equipped for every struggle, the mas-
ter of every fear.—W. L. Watkinson.
Theory is a vine from which facts
are sometimes gathered •
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