Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1914 — Page 2

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NEWSPAPER AS LIFE SAVER

'Much to Be Gained, in Many Ways, by a Careful Perusal of Current Periodicals. Some weeks ago a number of pedpie in Baltimore died from eating toadstools which they thought were mushrooms. During a recent week some half dozen others have been poisoned In the same way. One of two conclusions must be drawn from these inci■dents; either that a great many persons do not read the newspapers, or that they are willing to jeopardize their lives for a savory dish. All the ■probabilities are that the explanation of the second occurrence Is not recklessness, but failure to keep up with current events. People who ‘ read newspapers regularly not only get information about tf* state of the world in general and of Jthelr own community in particular, but they get many "valuable pointers as to what to avoid and what not to do. The newspaper acts, In fact, as a sort of life preserver if it is read carefully. That is, for people of average intelligence. There are always some persons who, In spite of conspicuous warnings, will walk on the railroad track and will, not look out for the locomotive.” —Baltimore Sun.

Concentration.

It has been said that the wprld needs a few people who can do many things well, but it needs many people who can do one thing well. Concentration brings the best results, and we need not mourn because we cannot do the work our neighbor is doing, if only our own occupation is a useful one and we are putting into it our best thought and skill. Great and small are only relative terms, and any work that ministers to the welfare of mankind —the part of mankind that Is right around us —is well worth the doing.—Selected. „ i

A Busy Day.

“When Doppel gets hold of his Sunday newspaper he reads through it without stopping.” “Doesn’t he even stop for dinner?” “My dear fellow, Pm referring to a metropolitan Sunday newspaper. He doesn't have time to stop for dinner.”

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CHUMS WITH SPY; NEW YORKER HAS NARROW ESCAPE

Correspondent Tells of Thrilling AdVenture Gotham Man Had in France. iDIDN’T KNOW HIS “FRIEND” Saw Him Taken Out by the Troops and Then Heard the Volley of Musketry That Ended His Life. Chicago.—Herbert Corey, writing to the Daily News from London, tells the following remarkable story: Harry Martin saw him first in the streets of Amiens. He says he couldn’t be mistaken. / “You know me," said Martin. “I haven’t got enough French to get through to ‘polssons’ on any table d’hote bill. I spend more time in France looking for some one who can talk the language than I do in looking at cathedrals.” Because of the war all the regular waiters have left the Hotel du Rhin. 'The regular waiters talk English. Martin saw a young man who didn’t look precisely like a Frenchman. So he hailed him. “He talked IL 5.,” said Martin. “Regular New-York. ■ He told me that for four years he waited on table In the old Martin place', at Twenty-sixth street. Knew a lot of the people I know —by sight. Said he used to be Diamond Jim Brady’s special waiter. I don’t know. It’s only what he told me.” So the ex-waiter at Martin’s Interpreted for the young New York man, who in times of peace does a nice business in French perfumes and mustache stiffeners. Martin says that if he had had good sense he would have quit France when the trouble first started. But he had always had a hankering for adventure that could not be satisfied in the perfume trade. So he began prospecting along the line of hostilities, hoping to see some real fighting. “This ex-waiter gave me a lot of good dope,” said Martin. “He and I kicked around together for or two. He said he was a Frenchman. I don’t know. It’s only wha| he told me.” Ex-Waiter Fails to Appear. Ode day the ex-waiter did not appear. The next day Martin moved on. For three weeks he managed to get along, seeing a good many things. His papers were of the best quality. They "had been secured for him by friends in the perfume line in Paris. “Then I was picked up by the French hussars,” said Martin. “I didn’t mind. I had been arrested so often that I felt sort of peevish if I wasn’t pinched occasionally. The Frenchmen always turned me loose. They’re a good Martin was taken into the best room of a little cottage near Amiens. Just outside was an orchard. The scent of the fruit rotting oii the ground filled the air. A sentry In brilliant red pants stood at the door of the cottage filling the Immature mind of the young son of the cottage with marvelous tales of war. Martin will never forget the round eyes of the youth as he gazed on the redpanted hero. The perfume salesman was turned over to a young lieutenant, who spoke good English, -s I “You’ll have to wait until the colonel talks with you,” said the lieutenant .“But do no( fear. I will make It all right” Martin didn’t fear. „ He didn’t know that there was any reason for fear. There he was —Martin, a salesman of irreproachable antecedents —and he had been arrested so often*that he re-

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

GERMAN FLAG FLIES ON GHENT’S CITY HALL

Vienna. —The list of citizens to be exempted from the levy en masse ineludes priests, doctors, cripples, deaf mutes, the totally blind and the insane.

garded arrest as a part of the day’s routine. He sat down and watched with interest what was going on. French Officers Are Busy. “Maybe there were a dozen French officers there,” said he, “all smoking cigarettes and talking. I never did hear so much talk- They all talked at once. But it looked as though they were getting things done, at that. Soldiers. would come in and report to the colorfel and talk to all the other officers. And all the other officers would talk to them. By and by they got their orders and went out. I don’t know anything about soldiering, but I could see that that little old cottage was being run right.” Martin had cigars. So he and the lieutenant sat in a corner and smoked them. The lieutenant said he wasn’t anxious to bring Martin to the attention of the. colonel until the cigars were gone. Noone paid any attention to them. There was no suggestion of anything serious in the air. “All at once this ex-waiter from: Martin’s came in,” said Martin. “A soldier had him by each elbow. He saluted the colonel. He had never told me that he had been a soldier.” Martin planned to hail him when he got the But an instinct of caution restrained him. Evidently this ex-waiter was “in bad.” The officers were regarding him silently. By and by they began to talk again. First the soldiers who held the ex-waiter told a story and passed a packet of papers over to the colonel. Colonel Asks Questions. “The colonel asked him some questions,” said Martin, “and then other officers talked to him. They all seemed friendly enough. No one made any fuss. He answered some questions and some he didn’t. By and by he asked for a cigarette and the lieutenant who had me handed him one. They bowed and smiled to each other.” The other officers talked to each other. Evidently they were not talking abopt the ex-waiter. The colonel sat pulling ,at< his -thumb-size goatee. Martin’s lieutenant took another of Martin’s cigars and complimented him on them. The ex-waiter looked around the room for the first time. Martin caught his eye and grinned. The ex-waiter looked him in the eye and turned away. “Well,” said Martin to himself, “that’s a dickens of a note.” The colonel took another cigarette •from his dwindling case. The officers sat with their elbows on their knees and looked silently at the ex-waiter. The colonel said something. The two soldiers saluted and turned on their beefs. The ex-waiter whipped his hand stiffly to his forehead, stood at attention, and turned on his heel. The officers relaxed somewhat and again began talking. As the ex-waiter went out he smiled in Martin’s direction — not to him —a queej;, wistful sort of r smile. “It sort of got tne going for a minute,” said Martin. Through the open doors of the cottage they* heard the staccato commands of a drill sergeant. A squad shuffled quickly by. They heard the clicking of gunlocks. Martin turned to his “Listen,” said the lieutenant, holding up one hand., 3 The colonel and the other officers were sitting quietly, in attitudes of attention. There ‘was the report of musketry. The sound of talk within the room rose again. The colonel began to paw over his innumerable reports. The lieutenant spoke to him, and came back to Martin with the word that he must leave the country at once. The lieutenant said it was dangerous for him. The peasants might not understand him. Martin said he would. “But, say,” said he to his friend the lieutenant, “what was this shooting lust now?” “Did you not comprehend?" asked the lieutenant. "It was a spy.”

Austrian Priests- Exempt.

NOISIEST OF WARS

It Is Also the MOSt Nearly Invisi- " ble One. •% ■ Many Fall by Shells of Foe That 's Unseen —“Adieu, My Dear Wife; Vive la France,” Last Message of Dying Soldier. - Paris,. France. —A French officer who has been in the battle east of Amiens in France asserts that this is probably the noisiest war the world has ever known. It is also the most nearly invisible war. Many of the first line troops have fought in all the battles from Belgium to the Marne and back to the present position without actually seeing any Germans, save dead or wounded. The men have become so curious to see their enemies that lately, when the trenches are so close that the French soldiers can hear the Germans shouting orders, the French officers have had the greatest difficulty in forcing the men to keep their heads down. The same officer credits the mitrailleuse with being Germany’s deadliest weapon,. Speaking of ordinary artillery he relates how a few days ago a French Infantryman was wading through the mud back to the trench, and eating a pear. A shell burst near by, a piece of it striking the soldier’s haversack and felling him. He was Immediately on his feet again swearing furiously, “Les cochons! They made me lose my pear.” Writes Farewell to Family. Here are stofies of two heroic deaths: The first is simply a letter found in the hands of-a soldier who had just finished writing it when the end came. “I am awaiting help which does not come," the letter ran. “1 pray God to take me, for I suffer atrociously. Adieu, my wife and dear children. Adieu, all my family, whom 1 so loved. I request that whoever finds me will send this letter to Paris to my wife, with the pocketbook which Is in my coat pocket. Gathering my last strength I write this, lying prostrate under the shell fire. Both my legs are broken. My last thoughts are for my children and for thee, my cherished wife and companion of my life, my wife. Vive la France!" .Dies at Head of His Men. When a certain French colopel had walked a short distance ahead of his regiment to examine the German position 500 yards away, which he expected to attack, an orderly handed him a message. As he was reading it a German shell burst near by. The colonel staggered, with his thigh torn and agape and his boot filled with blood. • Officers ran to aid him, but he pushed them away. “Gentlemen,” he said, "I beg you to. stand back. No, not here! Don’t support me. No, no, not before my regiment!” Making a superhuman effort, the colonel, pale as death, staggered toward the awaiting regiment, to which he* managed to, read the text of the order which he had received. Suddenly a second shell burst, decapitating the colonel, who' thus died the death which a Frehch officer prefers above all others —at the head of his men. a.

500,000 GERMANS ARE IDLE

Trade Unions Report From Two to Six Applicants for Every r Job. ■■ 111 Berne, Switzerland.—Figures made public by the German trade unions place the number of unemployed In Germany at 500,000. The same authority says that the average number of applicants for every 100 places open Is from 200 to 300 in Berlin, Breslau, Hanover, Frankfort, Dusseldorf and Strasburg; 350 in Bremen and Hamburg, 492 In Leipsic, 629 in Dresden, while in nine other Important cities the average number of applicants for every 100 jobs ranges from 160 to 200 c

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Round Trip.

The attorney of a street railroad company in a Kentucky town was examining a skinny sixteen-year-old negro boy who had sued for injuries ostensibly occurred in a collision on the highway, relates the Saturday Evening Post. “You say,” he asked, “that when this street car hit that wagon you were riding on the front seat of the wagon?" “Dat’s whut I said,” answered the little negro. “And you say the force 'of the blow knocked you up in the air?” “Yes, suh —’way up in de air." “Well, how long did you stay up there?” demanded the lawyer. “Not no longer dan it tuck me to git down!” answered the truthful complainant promptly.

Advise War Study.

Mrs. Philip N. Moore, former president of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, is quoted as saying that public opinion should be correct before it crystallizes. She urges that every club program for the winter should be revised to include the study of the war question, its political, economic, ethical, business and psychological sides. She also proposes that the board of the general federation name a committee on foreign relations, which should take the initiative in peace proposals to the women of all countries. Mts. Moore is the foreign correspondent of the G. F, W. C.

Bound to Have Effect.

The lecture had been long, preachy and unrelieved by humor, but at its close a sad-faced, earnest-looking man strode emphatically to the stage and grasped the speaker by the hand. “Doctor Neverend,” he said, heartily, "I want to assure you your message tonight will have a marked effect on the life of every nervous, fretful, impatient man who heard you.” “Indeed!" cried the delighted lecturer, "You really believe it will affect their whole lives?” “Undoubtedly,” declared the sadfaced man, “it will shorten them.”— Judge.

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