ounded.

"Celia," I said, "this is wonderful."

It really was wonderful. For the first time in its life my pianola
refused to play "The Charge of the Uhlans." It had played it a hundred
times while we were at peace with Germany, but when we were at
war--no!

We had to have a farewell piece. I put in a waltz, and it played it
perfectly. Then we said good-bye to our pianola, feeling a reverence
for it which we had never felt before.

* * * * *

You don't believe this? Yet you promised you would ... and I still
assure you that it is true. But I admit that the truth is sometimes
hard to believe, and the first six persons to whom I told the story
assured me frankly that I was a liar. If one is to be called a liar,
one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. I made an effort,
therefore, with the seventh person.

"I put in 'The Charge of the Uhlans,'" I said, "and it played 'God
Save the King.'"

Unfortunately he was a very patriotic man indeed, and he believed it.
So that is how the story is now going about. But you who read this
know the real truth of the matter.

A. A. M.

* * * * *

Things worth waiting for.

"Other pictures are announced, among them 'Trilby,' with Sir
H. Beerbohm Tree in the title-role."--_Blackheath Local
Guide_.

* * * * *

THE TRUTH ABOUT ----.

FACSIMILE SKETCHES BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT AT ----.

[Illustration: FOR THREE DAYS ---- LAY WOUNDED.]

[Illustration: WAS PICKED UP BY ---- AND PLACED IN PASSING WAGON.]

[Illustration: DISCOVERED THEREIN A QUANTITY OF HIDDEN ----.]

[Illustration: THE EXPRESSION ON THE DRIVER'S FACE TOLD HIM ----.]

[Illustration: AFTER A DESPERATE STRUGGLE HE OVERCAME THE DRIVER AND
DROVE WAGON TO ----.]

[Illustration: He found the village damaged. The above sketch gives the
exact positions of ---- and ----. To the right of the ---- can be seen
the ruins of the ----.]

[Illustration: IGNORING THE ----'S FIRE HE RAN FOR SEVERAL MILES;]

[Illustration: AND CAME FACE TO FACE WITH ---- WHO SAID ---- ----.]

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To the Memory of Field-Marshal Earl Roberts of Kandahar and Pretoria.

BORN, 1832. DIED, ON SERVICE AT THE FRONT, NOV. 14TH, 1914.

He died, as soldiers die, amid the strife,
Mindful of England in his latest prayer;
God, of His love, would have so fair a life
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