Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1915 — Page 2

IN THICK OF FIGHT

Fierce Exaltation of Battle Told by Frenchman. Corporal Describes the Hoarse Shouts, ths Rasp of Steel on Steel, the Appeals for Mercy in Street Fighting. Pariz. — “No more excitement; an astonishing calm fills us as we open fire upon the Germans who have taken cover in the houses in the outskirts nt the village,” writes Charles Tardieu in a recent installment of his -Impressions of a Corporal,” published tn the Figaro. “From windows, embrasures, from the cover of doorways they blase away «st us. Forty bodies are strewn across the interval between us; a few wounded men are scrambling and wriggling tn the mud. Little by little we regain our breath. “At the top of the village street debouches a company of German infantry. A hellish fire welcomes them, but still they come on, sowing their dead by files. Faster and faster we pump our breech bolts. Their first ranks crumple, they tramp over them; the next rank falls, still they come on. At last their chief, a huge devil of an officer, who is waving them on, goes down. A new volley drops seven or eight more men. This time they stop, hesitate a second, then turn and run. “•Charge!’ roars the captain. ’Give them the steel!* We rush in, our two buglers, their neck veins swelling, playing us the heart-stirring notes of the charge. A heroic intoxication swells through us and we run like beings possessed into the narrow streets, through the humming bullets. “Into houses, through gardens, past open doorways the skirmishers throw themselves, to come out with dripping bayonets. No more shots —death shrieks, groans, hoarse shouts, piteous cries for mercy are mingled with the crash of falling furniture, the slamming of doors, the nasty rasp of steel steel. And over it all the strident notes of the charge! “From each house as it is silenced pour our men, some of them wounded. Hatless, coatless, without theft packs; man has discarded his blouse and is working with his sleeves rolled up. “Trampling on the corpses that strew the way, leaping over obstructions, we make our way up the street, when a machine gun section appears in front of us. But before they have time to unlimber we are upon them. An Instant of.hard work with butt and steel and its crew is down beside their overturned piece. We pass on. “Into the cross street we turn. A few bodies are lying there; one house is burning briskly. Spiked helmets bob over the walls as their wearers

IS CHUM’S MAID OF HONOR

Miss Hanna Heistein, daughter of the former’ Norwegian consul-general at Paris, recently came from Norway to act as maid of honor at the marriage in Philadelphia of her chum, Mias Helena McKinley, to Barton Miss Heistein introduced Mr. Larin to her chum in 1912. A year later Miss McKinley introduced Miss Heistein to a captain in the Norwegian army and an engagement followed.

SINGS WAY OUT OF COURT

•oat With Burr In His Speech is Told Not to Let It Happen Again. Chicago.—Joseph McGilloch has a hurr in his speech that betrays his Highland ancestry, but he sings. He stood before Judge Rafferty and heard him say, “One hundred dollars costfl McGlUoch smiled a rueful smile. >Then he was moved to song. “Stop your ticklin’, Jock—,” he sang Judge Rafferty's eyes twinkled. -Go,” he said, "but don’t let it hapMcGilloch was arrested at Van Buren street and Wabash avenue for re[tnsing to get out of a taxicab.

BELGIANS STUBBORNLY HOLD TRENCHES

This photograph, taken during the heat of battle while the Germans were attempting to drive the Belgians from a position in the trenches, shows the soldiers of King Albert’s army, armed with machine guns, fighting desperately against the heavy odds of the Germans. In the foreground one of the brave defenders of the trench is seen lying dead.

retreat through the gardens. A scattered fire is heard on all sides. At the end of the street, behind a barricade of overturned wagons and wine barrels, some of the Germans who still hold out open up on us. ‘Charge bayonet!* “We rush on, when a shuttered window bursts open and the head of Lugagne, the bugler of the Third, pops out, blowing a frantic charge. Our comrades, making the frontal attack, have won their way through. “Sweeping everything before them, our comrades join us, shouting with the joy of battle as they scale the barricade. By groups, rallied at hazard, we search the houses. All who show fight are finished; those who surrender are rapidly hurried to the rear. At last there are no living forms but those clad in French uniforms and we arrive at the other end of the village, which is now completely cleaned out. “Our officers, in the dusk, rally their men, bringing order out of the confusion. Some three hundred prisoners, livid, trembling, are herded into the courtyard of a,house, under guard of the sergeant major and twenty men. They will be well guarded. “But what is this? Crash! Booooom! They are opening fire with their artillery upon the village. The captain comes running. • “ ‘Corporal, what are you loafing there for? Find the major and ask for orders!’ “I go running, aimlessly. The major? Where is he? Bodies, bodies

SMUGGLING IN WAR

Business, Not Romance, Marks the Contraband Trade. Chiefs of the Runners In Holland Are Well Dressed and Their Dens Are Modern Offices—Guard Methods Closely. Rotterdam. —The romantic smuggler waiting for a dark night to run his lugger ashore in a cove and then bury his bales and barrels in the sand has disappeared, but the trade still flourishes and probably brings more profit than ever, especially just now in Holland. The modern smuggler here, however, is interested chiefly in getting contraband out of the country rather than bringing it in. ■’ A call at an up-to-date smuggler's den, of which several exist in the center of Rotterdam, probably would reveal a middle-aged German dressed in a well cut business suit at a desk, in front of him small heaps of spices, grain of various species, raw rubber, and sample bottles of burning and lubricating oils. From time to time the smuggler chief takes the telephone receiver down and calls a number, and bargains in terse phrases over the price of job lots of the articles, samples of which lie before him, sent for his approval by merchants and dealers who held stocks more or less extensive before the new and strict government regulations falling for an inventory were issued. Then follow other telephone calls on shippers or their skippers. The smuggler chief is trying to arrange for the transport of his illicit exports across the border line into Germany or Belgium. Freights for this trade are high, and the smuggler’s efforts are directed toward beating down the ship* per to as low a figure as possible, but the shipper holds out, for he knows smuggled goods bring high rates when safely brought to their destination. Torture would not force the smugglers to disclose the methods by which they manage to forward the contraband beyond the closely guarded frontier. It is hinted, however, that many railroad cars ostensibly conveying freight from Holland to Denmark and from Denmark to Holland are mysteriously uncoupled and disappear while passing over the intervening German territory. Dutch fishing boats, too, often are seized off the coast by German patrol boats and taken into -German ports, whence they are released after their cargoes have been

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everywhere. Wounded men who whimper, helmets, knapsacks, rifles, strewn about. Blood everywhere—on the walls, on the doors, on the paving stones. Cries, shouted orders, the plaints of the wounded. A stream of injured men looking for the surgeon. “Somewhere a bugle blows the assembly and I rush through the wounded, who are patching themselves up as best they can, some dragging a leg, some with arms in sliifgs. “ ‘The major? Where is the major?’ ”

CAPTURE A “LIVE” GIANT

Amite City Hears This “Broth of a Man” Hasn’t Shaved In Two Years. Amite City, La.—A reminder of the once “Bloody Tangipahoa” is in jail here. He is Louis Singleton, the most powerful man physically in Tangipahoa. Without a haircut or shave for two years, Singleton looked more like a huge grizzly bear than a human. His relatives say that they have been unable to keep him at home. Singleton has two brothus, Walter and Ezra, and the old 250-ticre homestead is situated three miles northeast of Kentwood. The brother, Walter, together with Louis SingletoP, is charged with shooting a neighbor’s cow and disturbing the peace.

unloaded, to the evident satisfaction of the skippers. Dozens of Rhine lighters pass dally up and down the river whose course runs through Germany and Holland, and occasionally one is held up because of the presence of illicit cargo; but it is possible that for each one stopped several others pass muster with forbidden goods on board and are received with welcome by the German authorities. From numerous points along the frontier, closely guarded though it is by Dutch troops, come reports of cattle and horses being driven across into German territory, where the lines of sentinels are thin or woods prevent a clear view. The gains to be obtained by the running of contraband are so tempting that the efforts of the authorities have been rendered futile. Practically half the Dutch troops now mobilized are engaged in guarding the frontiers, not against foreigners ..but against Dutchmen trying to pass contraband. It is difficult, however, to guard every yard of the border line and if the attention of a sentry can be distracted for only a few minutes this gives the wily smuggler his chance to get across with his goods.

“BOX CAR ANNIE” IS BACK

Woman Hobo Calls Again for Drug Cure at Hospital In. Kansas City. Kansas City, Mo.—“ Box Car Annie” is back at the General hospital again, seeking a second trial of the drug cure. It was In March, this year, that the stringent enforcement of the federal drug act sent the woman hobo to the City hospital. After taking the cure she "bummed" her way south, visiting Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas. A few days ago she felt the old desire for drugs coming back to her and Immediately started north , for Kansas City where, she said, “they have a fine bunch to help you." Maggie Draper, alias Annie Smith, alias “Box Car Annie," is thirty yearn old and a well-known character in the western part of the United States. She has been a professional hobo L.r about twelve years. -

Average Life of an Officer.

London. —It has been figured out that the average life of a British officer once he reaches the firing Uns is only 23 days; a cavalry horse lasts ten days in actual fighting and aa exto mobile about one month.

CLOSE RACE CERTAIN

Season in Major Leagues Promises to Be Successful dne. Boaton Brava* Ara Sure to Put ’ftp Bold Front In National Leagu®Boston Red Sox Touted a* Winner* In American. Contrary to winter expectation the baseball season in the major leagues now promises to be a very successful one. A great many critics during the off season were full of fearful predictions that baseball was going into a state of desuetude and that public interest was rapidly waning. It is now believed this may have been a wrong diagnosis, for there is more than the average enthusiasm shown, and the sport is evidently in for a big year. The Feds have made practically no inroads on the clubs of organized ball and the strong teams are intact and capable of putting up a hard battle for the flags in the two big leagues. The race in each of the majors promises to be exceptionally close, which will add to the interest The fight for the pennant in the National league should be a good one, with the Boston Braves, present world’s champions, as the natural favorites. The Braves have been slightly strengthened by the addition of Sherwood Magee in the outfield and are very sure to put up a bold frtmt in their effort to make it two straight championships. They do not, however, appear to outclass the field to any great extent. The Giants seem to be the next best, with the St. Louis Cardinals having quite a chance to come through. These three clubs look to be the best in the league at the getaway. But baseball is full of surprises, as the Braves conclusively proved in 1914, and some dark horse is likely to crop up and set the dope all awry. The American league is likely to have a much closer race than usual, owing to the break-up of the Athletics, who are no longer considered to have a walk-over, though Connie Mack is pretty sure to have his club right In the fight all the way. The Boston Red Sox are touted as the most likely winners of the flag. They look very good and should have a fine chance. Most of the strength of the American league seems to lie In the East this season, with the Athletics, Boston and Washington as the best-appearing outfits. Detroit is too weak in the box to make much of a showing, and it is hardly likely that the Chicago White Sox will develop the steadiness to cut in strongly for the highest honors, while both Cleveland and the Browns lack the class. Conditions in the minor leagues are improving very rapidly. The minors were badly injured by the Feds last year, but that' stage is about over, and there is sure to be a big revival of interest in the smaller leagues before long. All leagues are cutting down on the number of players to be carried, which works hardships on many performers, but which was only a natural result of the activities of the Feds. During the year it is expected that the conditions will settle down to their former substantial basis, and the season is bound to be a great improvement on that of 1914.

TIRED OF PLAYING ON BENCH

Armando Marsans Wants to Play With St. Louis Cardinals Until Court Ruling Is Handed Down. Armando Marsans is tired of the bench and has asked to be allowed to play somewhere. He is said to have requested that he be permitted to play with the Cardinals until a court ruling

Armando Marsans.

is handed down. He will then go where the oourt decrees. The Cuban’s toil at present consists of an hour’s practice every day at the Terriers’ park.

Brainerd Is Fast.

Brainerd is the fastest man on the New York team, not even excepting George Burns, who is a corking base runner. The young first baseman looks like a very promising performer. He is a second sacker by trade, but is picking up the points of first-base play very rapidly. He seems to be quite a find.

Release Young Battery.

Manager Jennings let out. a young battery in Pitcher Smithson and Catcher Petero, both to be returned at the end of the season. Petero went to Chattanooga and Smithson to Scranton. . r ' ' . - ■ ' • '

PHILLIES CALLED SENSATION OF 1915

Manager Patrick Moran of the Philadelphia Nationals, regardless of the standing of his team at the finish of the present season, has achieved a reputation as a leader. With a seemingly mediocre organization that previous to the opening of the league season was destined by critics and expert writers to furnish a sorry exhibition for the National circuit fans, the team has proved the sensation of the new baseball year. Sensations of this sort in baseball are perhaps in a measure largely accountable for its gripping interest. Moran now parades a team accredited by critics as having the best pitcher in Grover Cleveland Alexander, in the National league, the best defensive infield that has represented the Phillies in years, one of the greatest first basemen in Luderus, and in Cactus Cravath the most dangerous hitter in

DIAMOND NOTES

Line you never see: ’Batted for Cobb in the ninth inning. The fine work of the Cardinals has enthused the fans of St. Louis. Just at present the Dodgers are doing great work in the National league. Manager Tinker is beginning to doubt if he really has a reversible outfield. • * * George Zabel has a fast side arm curve ball that he uses only in a pinch. Jake Stahl denies the rumor that he is to become manager of the Boston Red Sox. Johnny Evers has bought some stock in the Troy club of the New York league. • • • Emil Huhn, now the first baseman of the Newark Feds, is called “Hunnie” for a nickname. • • • Cy Falkenberg pitched his first game against Eddie Plahk since the two were rivals in the American league. Cy won, 4 to 3. • • * Whenever the Cleveland club suffers a slump the manager is fired, and right away they begin to win. Other teams might copy. • • * Schang, Sweeney, Schalk and other catchers are blocking players off the home plate, but they are running a 'fearful risk every time they do it. e e e Manager Griffith of the Washington club threatens a wholesale shakeup in his team if the Senators don’t face about and show improvement. • • • Al Demaree, the former pitcher, now with Philadelphia, is conducting a column as well as drawing cartoons this year. His work appears in a Philadelphia paper each evening. •• • t The Cardinals have signed Roger Hornsby, the fast shortstop of the Dennison (Tex.) team. He is the first man to be grabbed from the minors this year by a major league team.* Weiser, who is playing center field for the Phillies, while Paskert is filling in at first, is only a youngster and 'comes from Charlotte, N. C. ( team, where he led the league last year in hitting. .• • * Eastern critics said the Cubs did not look a bit stronger this year than they did last, before they had a chance to watch them perform. Now they agree that they area very much Im- ■

the pinch in the whole Tener circuit. The old axiom that “the race Is not always to the swift*’ still applies. Just a year ago the Pittsburgh Pirates were the sensation of the National league, having won fifteen of the first seventeen games played, the Boston Braves trailing far behind, with three victories in thirteen games. Six months later, however, the Braves had been returned not only the league pennant winners, but the world’s champions, and the erstwhile league-leading Pirates had finished one of their most disastrous seasons in seventh place, not far removed from Cincinnati, the cellar champions. Regardless of the standing of the Phillies next October, Manager Moran, in his first year in that role, has arrived and is deserving of the fulsome praise he is receiving for the rejuvenation.

TWIRLER’S HARD LUCK STORY

Clinton Rogge of Pittsburgh Federals Fanned Four Men in One Inning and All Scored. Clinton Rogge, a new twirler with the Pittsburgh Feds, lays claim to the distinction of being the only pitcher who struck out four men in one inning and saw every one of the four score a run. It happened in a college game in Michigan. Rogge is a big chap, with a world of speed. The varsity catcher was a 115-pound mite and couldn’t hold Rogge, who struck out three men in a row. Every one Went to first when

Clinton Rogge of Pittsburgh Feds.

the catcher failed to clutch the third strike. With the bases loaded, Rogge struck out the fourth batter and the man on third came home with the first tally, while the fanned batter raced to first in safety. An error and a hit followed, and thei three other strikeout victims who had gained the bases through the inability! of the catcher to hold Rogge, scooted home with the runs that won thej game. 1

Still Some Ivory.

In the Yankee-Red Sox game of April 29 the blundering of Chet Thomas, coaching for the Red Sox, spoiled a Boston rally and a chance to win the game. Thomas stopped McNally as he ran into third base and the runner was called out for coacher’s interference. One might ask why players who do not know the rules are sent out to coach.

Depends on Veterans.

Although Herxog has had seven pitchers on his staff all season, the* heavy work has been done by DalK Benton and Ames.