you rascal! At the home of our
poet--I've just learned it--a little war girl has arrived!"

I hold the paper in my outstretched hand. Has the sun broken suddenly
into the enemy's land? Light and life on all the ruins?...

I see a new bridge reaching on--

Springtime scatters the shuddering Autumn dreariness.

My little girl! I have a little girl in my home!...

You bring back my smile to me in a heavy time....

I gaze up at the sky and am silent. And far and near the busy, noisy
swarm of workers is silent. Every one looks up, seeking some point in
the far sky. Officers and men for a single heart-throb listen as to a
distant song from the lips of children and from a mother's
mouth--stand there and smile around me, in blissful pensiveness, as if
there were no longer an enemy. Every one seems to feel the sun, the
sun of olden happiness.

And yet, it had merely chanced that on the German Rhine, in an old
castle lost amid trees, a dear little German girl was born.

(Written Sept. 17, 1914, in the field.)

Letter of the Duke of Altenburg

From a letter written from the front by the Duke of
Altenburg on Sept. 5, and published in the Altenburger
Zeitung.

We have lived through a great deal and done a great deal, marching,
marching continually, without rest or respite. On Aug. 10 we reached
Willdorf, near Juelich, by train, and from the 12th of August we
marched without a single day of rest except Aug. 16, which we spent in
a Belgian village near Liege, until today, when we reached ----. Those
have been army marches such as history has never known.

[Illustration: DJEMAL PASHA

The Turkish Minister of Marine, Who Shares with Enver Pasha the
Control of Turkish Affairs.

(_Photo_ (C) _International News Service._)]

[Illustration: EMIR ALI PASHA

Vice President of the Turkish Parliament, Who Was Sent to Berlin to
Take Back to Turkey Mohammedan Prisoners Captured from the Allies.

(_Photo from Press Illustrating Co._)]

The weather was fine, except that a broiling heat blazed down upon us.
The regiment can point back to several days' marches of fifty
kilometers ----. Everywhere our arrival created great amazement, in
Louvain as well as in Brussels, into which the entire ---- marched
at one time. At first we were taken for Englishmen in almost every
village, and we still are, because the inhabitants cannot realize that
we have arrived so early. The Belgians, moreover, in the last few day