REFUSES TO ADMIT DEFEAT
French Commander Applies the Prin
ciples of Christian Science to Hit
Military Operations.
In “Behind the Scenes at the
Front” Mr. George Adam, Paris cor
respondent of the London Times,
tells a good deal that is interesting
about the opinions of General Foch, j
who for five years lectured on strat
egy and tactics at the Ecole de
Guerre. There he used often to
quote a saying of Joseph de Maistre,
which summed up the psychological
element in defeat: “A battle lost is
a battle that you think is lost, for
battles are not lost materially.”
To that military summary of the
doctrine of Christian Science, Gen
eral Foch added this formula of vic
tory : “Battles are, accordingly, lost
morally, and it is, therefore, morally
that battles are gained; and a battle
won is a battle in which you refuse
to admit yourself beaten.”
That is the more convincing since
it comes from a soldier with a scien
tific mind. Moreover, on at least one
occasion, when he had been forced
three times to retire, he put his faith
into practice.
After each retirement General
Foch refused to admit defeat. He
and the men under him had the
moral strength, in which science
plays no part, to refuse to know
when they were beaten. On the third
day the retirement began early in the
morning. Tn the course of the day
General Foch once more took the of
fensive, and by nightfall he had de
livered the decisive blow on the cen
ter of the German army that led to I
its final retreat all along the line.— ;
Youth’s Companion.
VIRGINIA HAS ENOCH ARDEN
After Half Century Man Returns to
Find That His Wife Has Another
Husband.
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Wandering over many of the west
ern and New England states for
more than fifty years, his departure
from this country being due to do
mestic infelicity, his return to his
native heath only to find the wife of
his youth the legal partner of an
other man, is the experience of
George Rivan Bvmday, who recently
arrived here from Boston.
Bunday, a man now more than
seventy-five years of age, makes no
effort to absolve himself from being
a contributing cause to a family mis- !
understanding, followed by a.n ap
parently “unbeatable” rupture, as he
now declares, and then his departure.
And now his Enoch Arden appear
ance in this county after the lapse
of half a century has no significance
further than his native heath is a
good place for rehabilitation and
atonement. He says he entertains j
nothing but the kindliest feelings for
his former wife and the man who
replaced him in her affections.—Lu
ray (A a.) Dispatch Philadelphia
Record.
EXACTLY.
Walton — Boozer says he even
drinks in his dreams.
Gallon—A case of unconscious
celebration.—Life.
HAVE FAILED TO UNDERSTAND
Writer in Atlantic Monthly Criticizes
the Ideas Held by Great Men
_ Concerning Women.
It seems that the intelligence of
man cannot solve the problem of
woman,-which is a bad sign in a su
perior intelligence. The trouble lies
in this: man assumes far too readily
that woman essentially differs from
mgn. Hardly a man has lived who did
not so exaggerate. Nietzsche, Scho
penhauer, agreed to despise worn- j
en; Napoleon seemed to view them
as engines of pleasure; for Shake
speare they may well have embodied
a romantic ideal, qualified by sport
ive wantonness. In Walter Scott'
women appear as romance in a cheap
edition; Byron in their regard is a
beast of prey, Doctor Johnson a
pompous brute, and a puritanical
sensualist. Cervantes mixed in his
romantic outlook a sort of suspi-j
cious hatred, while Alexandre Du-!
mas thought them born only to lay j
laurel wreaths and orange blossoms •
(together with coronets) upon the i
heads of musketeers. All, all—from
Thackeray, who never laid his hand
upon a woman save in the way of
patronage, to Goethe, to Dante, to
Montaigne, to Wellington—all har-1
bored this curious idea; in one way
or another woman differs from man.
And today, whether we read Bernard
Shaw, George Moore, M. Paul Bour
get or Hall Caine, we find that there
still persists a belief in Byron’s
words: “What a strange thing u
man ! And what a stranger is wom
an !”—Atlantic Monthly.
CASH INSTEAD
“I came near marrying him once,
but it was all for the best that I
didn’t.”
“How’s that?”
“I sued him for ten thousand dol
lars for breach of promise and won.”
Secret of His Success.
“He is a splendid workman. One
secret of it, outside of his skill, is the
good care he gives his tools. He
keeps every one in the best condition,
ready for instant use. Another secret
is the care he takes of his best tools—
brain, nerves and muscles. He never
dulls them with liquor or tobacco,
foolish or harmful pleasures, dissipa
tion or carelessness. He gets the best
service out of them and the tools
which perform their bidding.”—Ex
change.
And Be More Plentiful.
This would be a better world if the
turkeys would devote less attention to
fenthers and gobbles and more to
white and dark meat.—Chicago News.
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ONE GUESS.
“I wonder why that fellow stares 1
at me so.”
“I wonder. He’s a noted ento- j
mologist.”—Pittsburgh Post.
NO DANGER.
“I hope this lecture will not be
any cheap talk.”
“Of course not. They’re charging
two dollars a seat.”
LOCATED.
“Do you thiuk he has the brains j
of the family.”
“Quite likely They must be!
somewhere.”
ENCOURAGING.
“The doctor thinks I’m threat
ened with brain fever.”
“Oh, don’t mind him. He’s only
kidding you.”
ON THE LINKS.
I wish the nearsighted old boob1
would quit taking my house for his !
eighteenth.”
APT.
“Wljv do they call the baby
‘Bill?’ ”
“He was born on the first of the
month.”
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