Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1915 — Page 3

CZAR AND CZAREVITCH IN UNIFORM

New photograph of the czar of Russia and his heir, the czarevitch, garbed in the uniform of officers of the Russian army. The young man seems to have outgrown his invalidism.

FIGHT LIKE DEMONS

Bernhard Kellermann Describes Trench War at Souchez. Roads and Paths for Miles Around Under Fearful Fire—Little Hamlet Now Is Marked for All Time.

By BERNHARD KELLERMANN.

(International News Service.)

On the Western German Front. —I hkVe seen them and talked to them, the men fighting out there in the trenches of Souchez. . Just now they are resting, but tonight they will be fighting again like demons. The roads and paths for miles around are under a fearful fire. Almost every second a shell bursts with a deafening roar. Through this Inferno they must pass. Then they will be in Souchez. What is Souchez? A small village which nobody knew a few months ago and which now will never be forgotten again. The little hamlet is marked for all time, like Gravelotte and Woerth. If hell keeps books the name of Souchea must be entered in large letters.

There is nothing left of the village but a heap of ruins. The trenches are a few hundred yards from the village, behind a curtain of fire. Through this curtain our boys in gray must pass. There are no communicating passages—the French artillery on the heights of Loretto does not permit them. The trenches can only be reached over the open field, through the unceasing hail of French shells.

But our men are fearless. Their uniforms were all field-gray at one time, but nobody is able to distinguish their color now. Only the first sergeant looks as if he Just came from the tailor shop. His uniform is spotless and his hands are carefully manicured. With the long nails of his little finger he traces the position on the map. Before the war he was a high school professor, but now he is a soldier every inch of him. “This is our trench,” he said, explaining the map to me. "Over there on the heights the artillery of the enemy stands. "Yesterday we were under heavy fire from seven o’clock in the morning till nine o’clock at nighfe*- The trench was destroyed and we were buried. "About nine o’clock in the evening the shells began to fly over us. The enemy was trying to drive back a relief column and to storm what was

left of our trench. Our lieutenant shouted a command and in a. moment our trench resembled an ant-heap. We dug ourselves out. Most of our guns had become useless, but we had handgrenades. “The French swooped down upon us, but we sent a couple of dozens of grenades into their ranks. The smoke was so thick that we could not see each other. “For a moment the enemy recoiled, „ but then believing us finished, he advanced again, as he had received reenforcements; yelling, staging and laughing we threw still more grenades. "At the same moment we noticed that the Frenchmen were also beginning to attack from one of their trenches at our light, in the direction of the sugar refinery. Like peas from a barrel they came pouring out of the smoke. The lieutenant shouted: ‘One man to the front with grenades!’ A single soldier advanced and started to throw bombs. Who was ItF' "I did it,” answered one of the men, a farmer from Silesia. *T took an armful of grenades and fired away at random, but the bombs hit their mark. The Frenchmen fell back. When they advanced again ] had no more gren-

ades and had to run. They sent volleys after me, but I safely reached our trench again and jumped into one of the craters.” Then the noncommissioned officer continued: “The Frenchmen believed themselves sure of their success, but our lieutenant was ready for them. He sent eight men ahead into the craters and the fire of this little detachment mowed the enemy down when he came on in close formation. In the meantime our machine guns had been brought into action and the French were driven back in front and at our flank.

“But the section of the trench for which we fought had become useless to us. We gave it up and slowly retreated, keeping the enemy at a respectful distance by a heavy rifle fire.

“For a short while the enemy took possession of our destroyed ditch, but he could not hold it. When we re-! took ft by a counter-attack we found it filled with the bodies of dead French soldiers. We quickly dug ourselves in again, but tomorrow the repaired trench may be in the hands of the enemy once more. Then we will have to retake it again, and so it goes on."

QUEEN OF BULGARIA

The most recent photograph of Eleanore, queen of Bulgaria, which was made on the porch outside the royal palace at Sophia, shows her wearing the simple native costume of her subjects. The queen before her marriage to the Bulgarian king was the Princess Eleanore of ReutzKostritz, a favorite at the Russian court. She is distinguished for her work in the Red Cross field, having been head of one of the largest Red Cross hospitals during the RussianJapanese war. ' She may be called upon soon, should her country be drawn into the present war, to again do the effective Red Cross work for which she is noted.

Confederate Twins.

Pittsboro, N. C.—Messrs. James and John Burns of this county are twins and are probably the oldest twins in this state, being over seventy-seven years old. They recently had their photographs taken together for the first time in their long lives. They were both Confederate soldier*

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CHIVALRY NOT DEAD

Old Spirit of Knighthood Main- * tained Among Aviators. British and German Air Raiders Notify Enemy of Fate of Rival Aviators —Flyers Are Type With Marked Characteristics.

By FREDERICK PALMER.

(International News Service.) British Headquarters, France.— “Though it has been repeatedly stated that chivalry does not exist in this war,” said a British aviator, “this does not apply to the British and German aviation branches. Whether it is the individualism of our work and its novelty, or whatever it is that is responsible, something of the old spirit of knighthood maintains among the flyers of the air. When a British aviator has to descend in the German lines, whether from engine trouble or because his engine or his plane has been damaged by antiaircraft gunfire, the next day the Germans report to us his name and whether he survived, and if so, whether he is wounded. We always do the same. It has come to be a custom.”

The reports are made in a manner worthy of airmen and they are the only communications that ever pass between the two foes, which watch for heads to snipe at from their trenches. What is called a “message bag” is dropped over the British lines by a German or over the German lines by a British aviator—sometimes when he is in the midst of bursting shells from the antiaircraft guns. Long streamers are attached to the little cloth bag. These, as they pirouette down to the earth from a height of seven or eight thousand feet attract the attention of soldiers in the neighborhood and they run out to get the prize when it lands. It is taken to battalion headquarters, which wires the fact on to the aviation headquarters, where the fate of a comrade may be known a few hours after he has left bis home aerodrome; and, in another few hours someone in England may know the fate of a relative.

“That is one of the advantages of belonging to the flying corps,” sky the British aviators. “It may be week? before his relatives and comrades know whether a man who is missing after a trench attack or counter-attack is a prisoner or dead. Such little kindnesses as this don’t Interfere with you fighting your best for your cause; at the same time they take a little of the savagery out of war. Of course, the rule could not apply to prisoners taken in trench fightingonly to airmen. There are relatively few airmen on either side and only an occasional one ever comes down to the enemy’s lines.”

With the first flush of dawn the British planes rise from the aviation grounds. All day they are coming and going, and in the dusk of evening they appear out of the vague dis* tances of the heavens returning home _to roost.

The flyers become a type with certain marked characteristics. No nervous man is wanted; and it is time for any man who shows any sign of_ nerves to take a rest. Thqy seem shy, diffident, men of the kind given to observation rather than talking: men who are used to using their eyes rather than their hands. It is a little difficult to realize that some quiet young fellow who is pointed out has had so many hairbreadth escapes. What tales worthy of "Arabian Nights” heroes who were borne away on magic carpets they bring home, relating them as matter-of-factly as if they had broken a shoe lace. Up in their seats, a whirr of the motor, and they are away on another adventure They shy at the mention of their names in print; for that is not considered good for the spirit of this, the newest branch of the service of war. Anonymity is absolute. Everything is done by the corps for the corps Some members have luck, as they put it, and some do not. L —’s name may not be given, but his is the most dra matlc of recent experiences. He was a pilot flying in Belgium, far away from the British lines, when an antiaircraft shell mashed his leg.which was hit by fifty bullets and fragments, the doctor estimated, as the story was told to the correspondent He collapsed In his seat unconscious. His machine dropped at right angles to the line of flight, with ths concussion. The observer who was with him mapaged to hold on by clutching at the machine gun. They were careening down to ths earth, with the observer helpless from his position to do anything, when L— re* frvered consciousness and mustered strength and presence of mind eno ugh to right the machine and to turn it round in the midst of a cloud of shrapnel smoke. He was not going to be taken prisoner, despite his shattered leg, when he found that the shell which had so nearly done for him had not injured »hfes englne 01 the plane. So be made for the near est aerodrome. There he managed to land safely. But, as he said, he did not. dare to get out of his seat until the doctor came, for fear that his leg would fall off He will get well.

Saw Far Ahead.

Wichita, Kan.—Mrs. Clara Fay, sev-enty-seven years old, who died hen recently, had prepared for her demise, leaving nothing undone Iff twwral « burial arraiuj amenta,

STEAK PASTIE A DELICACY

Also an Excellent Way of Using up the Left-Over Articles From the Dining Table.

A little meat goes a very long way If one makes It Into pasties. If I have any left-over cooked vegetables on hand I add these also to the Ingredients after chopping them fine. Required—One pound of steak, six ounces of potatoes, six ounces of cooked haricot beans or mushrooms, one onion, one teaspoonful of chopped parsley, one egg, salt and pepper, pastry. This mixture Is sufficient for two pounds of pastry. Cut the steak, mushrooms and potatoes into small dice, chop the parsley and onion, and if using beans, boil them until they are just tender in salted water.

Mix all the ingredients together in a basin, adding salt, pepper and a little water. Roll out the pastry till it is barely a quarter of an inch thick. Stamp it into rounds with a plain cutter. Put a good heap of the mixture in the center of each round, brush the edge of the pastry with a little cold water, draw the edges together over the meat, and crimp neatly with the finger and thumb. Brush them over with beaten egg, taking care not to brush the crimped edges, as if this is done they can not rise. Put them on a baking tin and bake in a moderate oven for about three-quarters of an hour. —Exchange.

FOR THOSE FOND OF FIGS

Preserved in the Manner Described Here They Will be Found to be a Delicious Titbit. Six quarts figs, two quarts sugar, three quarts water. Select firm, fruit, discard all over-ripe or broken figs. Sprinkle one cup soda over the selected figs and cover with about six quarts boiling water. Allow to stand 15 minutess; drain off this soda solution and rinse the figs well through two baths of clear, cold water. Let the figs drain while syrup is prepared. Mix sugar and water, boll 10 minutes and skim. Add well-drained figs gradually so as not to cool the sirup. Cook rapidly until figs are clear and tender (about two hours). When the figs are transparent, lift them out carefully and place in shallow pans. If the syrup is not heavy enough (about 50 degrees) continue boiling until it reaches this density, then pour it over the figs, being careful to see that the fruit is entirely covered. Let stand over night. Next morning pack figs cold in sterilized jars, having stems all the same length and placing the figs so that all stems will be upward. Fill each jar to overflowing with the sirup testing 55 degrees. Cap, clamp, process and seal immediately.

Preserved Watermelon Rind.

Cut one pound of rind into one-inch squares. Remove peel and all pink part. Soak over night in lime water (one ounce lime to two quarts water). The following morning let stand for two hours in clear water. Drain well; then drop into boiling water and boil rapidly for ten minutes. Drain again and add gradually to the sirup (made by boiling together two cupfuls sugar one quart water). Add to this the Juice of one-half lemon and three slices of lemon. Cook until the lemon is tender and transparent. Allow to stand until cold; arrange the pieces attractively in the Jars, garnishing with slices of lemon. Cover with the sirup testing SO to 55 degrees. Chop, clamp lid on jar, apply sterilizing process and seal immediately.

Cream of Cucumber Soup.

What to make of soup is a problem which often puzzles the housekeeper. The following is seasonable: Cream of cucumber—Peel 5 cucumbers, slice and put into a saucepan with 1 small onion and enough boiling water to cover. Cook until tender,- rub through sieve, pour into saucepan and let stand on back of stove, where it will keep hot, but not boll. Have a cream sauce ready, made by melting two tablespoonfuls butter in pan, stirring into it two tablespoonfuls flour. Add 1 quart milk, salt and pepper and put over cucumber.

Dark Cake.

Two cupfuls brown sugar, one-half cupful butter, two eggs, one-half cupful sour milk, one cupful flour. Then take one cupful of shaved chocolate, dissolved in one-half cupful boiling water, stir this into the cake thin, add one cupful flour and one teaspoonful soda. Bake one hour.

Pineapple Ice.

Peel two large yellow pineapples. Grate them into a bowl and add the juice of one grapefruit and one lemon. Boil one and a half pounds of sugar in one quart of water for ten minutes. When cold, mix the fruit, which may be strained, if one wishes, with it and freeze. V’ ’ •’

Tender Com.

Very few women know the proper way of boiling corn on the cob. Place corn in the boiling water, let boil two minutes, then turn off gas or heat, let corn remain in water 12 minutes, hav- - tag a vessel with lid that fits closely. Keep lid on from the time corn was put in until-the 14 minutes are up.

Bluefish Salad.

Take cold, baked bluefish, flake It, mix with French dressing lightly, arrange on lettuce leaves and mash with a good boiled dressing.

MAY BE PERFECT MONORAIL

NEW MONORAIL IDEA

AMERICAN INVENTOR PUTS FORWARD GREAT THOUGHT. Has Plans for Railroad That Can Bo Constructed Cheaply and Has Many Advantages Over Lines at Present In Use.

A triangular monorailroad that can be built for $5,000 a mile, that can be moved with ease and that will permit of*a speed of 100 to 120 miles an hour with perfect safety and comfort to passengers, are some of the claims of its inventor, Thomas C. Spelling, a New York attorney. The monorail is at the bottom, instead, as usual in monorails, at the top, and the triangular shape of the track or inclosure permits a groove at each side to steady and balance the cars.

The principle of the track or, as it should more properly be called, the passage way, is briefly as follows: The rail is laid on a continuous sill. Two parallel sills support the ribs placed at a distance of every ten feet. The ribs are joined at the top, forming a pyramid. A second pyramid is formed with the peaks of the larger one as the side and as its base the two grooves by which the top of the car is held. Among the advantages claimed for the triangular monorail is the absolute absence of lurching and oscillation on the part of the cars. The framework is rigid and the cars are prevented from swaying, a very disagreeable part of the high speed, two wheel railroad. Friction is reduced by the use of one wheel and greater speed is therefore possible. As the track is an inclosed framework, accidents are a negligible quantity. Such causes of disaster as spreading rails, washed out ties and loose spikes are eliminated.

Mr. Spelling claims that the monorailroad can be laid down at a cost of $5,000 a mile. All parts are made in a factory and simply put together on the ground. Grading and excavation costs are much less than in the two rail system. The monorail can achieve much steeper grades. Grades impossible to present day trains are climbed by the monorail through an ingenious cogwheel attachment to the wheels, the cogs catching similar cogs in the rails at grades. These cogs are not apparent when the train is running on level ground. The inventor of the triangular monorail has obtained a number of patents and has more pending. He is expecting to see his system in operation within a short time. Either steam or electricity can be used for a motive power.

Early Railroading In Arisons.

The first railroad locomotive to enter the state of Arizona was for use on a line in the Clifton mining district The road, necessitated by the predilection of the Apaches for attacking the wagon trains carrying ore to Clifton, killing the drivers and eating the mules, was four miles long and was completed in two years largely by convict labor. The locomotive purchased for use on the road was the smallest made at the time, but it was the wonder and admiration of the district, and besides it was something the Apaches could not eat. Downgrade it could handle all the ore cars that the brakes would hold, but it could haul back not more than two empties. When the furnaces froze up, which occurred once a week, the locomotive could handle the traffic, but when the furnaces were at their best a resort was made to a combined mule and locomotive train, a dozen mules in front hitched to half a dozen cars with the engine behind as a pusher. Hank Arbuckle, the engineer, was the only man within 500 miles who understood anything about a locomotive, and next to the metallurgist he was the most Important feature of the Arizona Copper company’s mining establishment. When the locomotive jumped the track Hank, with the assistance ot three Mexicans, heaved it back again.—Wall Street Journal.

Signals Number Thousands.

An English signaling authority has recently estimated that there are approximately 310,000 switch and signal levers on the railroads of the United kingdom, and the approximate number of signals is 171,000.

New idea In Ballasting.

A machine that blows ballast under railroad tracks with compressed air as they are lifted with a jack has been patented by a Canadian inventor.

TRIANGULAR MONORAIL SYSTEM.

“TEST” CAR IS THE LATEST

Addition to Railroad Equipment Has Been Subject of a Great Deal of Comment A new addition to the facilities of the railroad test department is the chemical test car —a fully equipped laboratory on wheels, says the New York Sun. The car has just been completed. It is designed especially for the purpose of making tests and inspections of steel rails at the point of manufacture.

When in use, the car will be moved to a mill where rails are being rolled, and chemical analyses will be immediately made of the finished rails. This procedure, it is expected, will avoid the delays which at times occur in the operation of the mills, and which cannot be avoided without having a sufficient force of chemists on hand during the rolling process to see that the chemical requirements of the railroad’s specifications are complied with.

An interesting feature of the department is the locomotive testing plant. The old method of testing a locomotive —the one Kipling has vividly described —was to take it out on the track, hitch it to a .train of loaded cars, and see what it could actually do on levels, grades, curves and straight track. Now everything that could be learned by such methods, and more too, is ascertained with scientific precision and great expedition. The locomotive test plant is virtually a treadmill on which the engine runs. Its drivers, instead of resting on rails, turn against the upper side of heavy wheels, and by applying brakes to these wheels any conditions of resistance met in actual work on the road can be duplicated. The engine, instead of pulling a train, pulls against a dynamometer, which is a machine for measuring the pulling force.

In the locomotive test plant such matters as maximum speed, maximum tractive power, starting power and fuel consumption are studied with the greatest accuracy. About twenty-six men are kept busy making the locomotive tests. This plant is the principal one of the kind in existence. Supplementing the locomotive test plant is the dynamometer car. This is a specially designed car, equipped with a dynamometer and used for measuring the pull required to haul a given train. For this purpose, of course, the car is inserted between the locomotive and the remainder of the train. It is used for making practical tests, under actual Operating conditions, ot the force required to draw trains consisting of cars of various types and number, over tracks of all characters.

Must Watch for Danger.

The recent decision of the United States circuit court of appeals, Sixth circuit, in Erie Railroad vs. Hurlburt, is in line with other judicial rulings that if a person undoubtedly would have noticed an approaching train or car if he had looked at all intently, he will not be permitted to recover because he says he did not see it The court points out that a traveler who looked for trains as she approached a railroad crossing was chargeable with seeing what there was to be seen by an ordinarily prudent person by the exercise of reasonable care, and if she looked intently and failed to see what was plainly to be seen she was negligent The court said on this point: "It challenges human credulity to be asked to believe that Mrs. Hurlburt looked and listened, as she says that she did, and neither saw nor heard the train that smashed into her buggy and wrought such havoc. There is no evidence that tends to explain why she did not see the oncoming train. Her own testimony explodes every theory upon which to predicate an explanation that would tend to excuse her. Indeed, it is so Improbable that it does not afford a scintilla of evidence upon which to go to the jury."

Ecuador Railroad.

The only completed railroad in Ecuador is that between Guayaquil and Quito. A branch of this road to extend 190 miles from Curaray to Am bat o is now under construction.

Iron Ties Used in Germany.

More than 35 per cent of the mileage of German railroads is laid upon iron ties, 'one state which la rich in forests using them almost exclusively.. .

Veteran of All Locomotives.

By reconstructing some parts an English railroad is using for light wosX a locomotive built in 1847. —- - ' -