Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1916 — Page 2

CAP and BELLS

SITTING DOWN TO TELEPHONE Student of Human Nature Gives Reason for Woman's Desire to Be - > Seated While Talking. “There’s nothing I enjoy more than searching for people’s motives,” remarked the student of human nature. ‘‘l like to know what actuates them to do certain things at cetain times.” ‘'Just so. Maybe you can tell me something I have been wanting to know for a long time.” L 7. ‘‘What is it?” “Why is it that a woman hates to use a telephone unless she can ait down,?" “Because when she calls up another woman she never knows how long she’s going to be there.”

Those Loving Girls.

Aimee —Mr. Willing asked me to accompany him to the opera tomorrow evening. Hazel —And you accepted? Aimee —Certainly. Hazel —Strange. He asked me, also. Aimee —Oh, there's nothing strange about it at all. I told him I wouldn’t go unless he provided an elderly chaperon.

Inconsistent.

“The trouble about shows lntended to please the tired business man is that they have a tendency to displease his wife.” “So I’ve noticed. And it isn’t quite fair to the tired business man.” —“Perhaps not.” “His wife may spend the afternoon worshiping a matinee idol and yet she objects if he casts an approving eye on a beauty chorus in the evening.”

Not Interested.

“My life is an open book,” said the candidate, who had been discussing at some length his qualifications for office. “So far as I’m concerned, it’s in the same class with a volume of polemical essays,” said the impatient listener. “How is that?” “Whether opened or closed, it’s a book I haven’t the slightest desire to peruse.”

Looking Back.

“This car of yours seems to give you great pleasure.” “Yes. I often wonder how I ever got along ‘without It,” answered the motorist, loftily. “Walking tires me dreadfully and is—er —somewhat plebeian.” * ; -■ “Pardon me for reminding you of the painful past, but I happen to know that you used to cover considerable territory as a mere pedestrian.”

EVERYTHING.

New Boarder —I’ll take some of the white meat and a bit of the dark, too. Landlady—You’ll take all kinds — this is chicken hash.

Interested.

‘ Any political excitement in town these days?” asked the visitor. “About 27 prominent citizens seem to be considerably excited, but everybody else is calm and peaceful,” replied the old resident. “Why are the 27 prominentcitizens so excited?” “They are candidates for office.”

As He Understood It.

"Did you read that article in yesterday’spaper headed 'A Roman Lietor?' ’’ asked Brown of hisTrieiuT . Green "No," replied Green, whose historic knowledge is limited. “I never read such nonsense. I suppose, however, the woman in the case deserved a licking hr the Roman wouldn’t have licked her. Did she have him ar-

NEVER THOUGHT OF FATHER

Inconsiderate Youth Insisted on Wearing His Trousers Too All-Fired High at Ankles. “What’s the idea?” asked the storekeeper as Farmer Corntossel closed the door carefully and edged over to the stove. "The idea of what?” “Of those clothes? That little hat and the sport shirt and white socks?” “Them used to be my boy Josh’s. He’s got to have new oneq an’ my wife says these are too good to throw away. 1 don’t mind the hat ner the shirt, cos I kin let my hair an’ whiskers grow. But Josh ’ud be a heap more of a comfort to his father in cold weather if he wouldn't insist on wearin’ his trousers so high at the ankles.”

Caused Trouble.

“I understand young Mrs. Frlsber found a letter from another woman in Mr. Frisber’s pocket." “That’s awkward.” "But it was from Mr. Frisber’s mother.” “In that case, I presume everything is lovely.” “Indeed, no. What the old lady had to say about Mrs. Frlsber has kept poor Frlsber in hot water for a week.”. .

Both Stumped.

“What was Professor Diggs talking to you about?” “Oh, replied Mr. Dubson, “he was discussing Egyptology.” “Hum. Airing his knowledge of a subject about which, I dare say, you know nothing.” “Exactly. But I got even with him.” “Yes?” "I began to expatiate on the merits of the latest musical comedy.”

A Big Difference.

She —But people used to say he was ill-bred and vulgar. He —But he’s inherited a million, and they only call him eccentric now.

Tactful.

“I don’t believe you have any sense of humor at all,” said the man who makes obvious efforts to be cheerful. “I don’t see how you can say such a thing,” exclaimed his wife, reproachfully. “When I tell you a funny story you never laugh.” “That’s because I appreciate the story so much. I don’t laugh because I’m paying close attention and trying to learn it by heart."

Overdoing It.

"I wish I were as active as a flea,” remarked the whimsical man. “Why so?” inquired his practical friend. ~j—“Think how easy it would be for me to jump out of the way of automobiles.” “Umph! If you were as active as a flea, in proportion to your size, when you jumped you would be apt to land on top of a skyscraper.”

Preparedness.

"What’s your idea of “Well,” replied Broncho Bob, “if you’re havin’ an argument with a man who keeps the same sort o’ company you do, an’ speaks the same kind o’ language, all you need is patient reasoning and an’ honest desire fur a square deal. But if it’s an pld-fash-ioned Injun full o’ firewater, it's as well, to let him get a glimpse of a sixshooter, jes’ to steady his nerves.”

Trouble in Store.

“If women ever get control of this country, what will happen?” asked the alarmist. . “Who can say?” feplied the cynic. “But, suppose we had women in the army?” “If that ever comes to pass there will be the deuce to pay the first time a female private has an argument with an army mule."

Modern Diplomacy.

“Pa, what is an ultimatum?” “Nobody seems to know, son. There to be a time when an ultimatum, meant the last word, but nowadays it seems merely the basis for an argument."

A Ne’er-Do-Well.

“You have met the sort of man who is always remarking dolefully that he has a wife and children to support.” “Oh, yes. And I’ve never seen one yet who didn’t act as ifhe thought gofiiebodyeraeoughttoWWFF vide the support.”

He Was Wise.

Landlord—You see, this is a covertihle flat. De Flats —-Yes, I knoW—Turkish bath in summer and refrigerator la winter. -

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

TWELVE FIGHTS IN ONE NIGHT FOR TREE STUMP

Hartmannsweiler-Kopf in the Vosges Is Scene of Constant Fitting. TRENCHES FIVE YARDS APART Character of Warfare That Has Engaged Armies in Alsace for Seventeen Months—Capture of Cemetery Costs More Dead Than Were Ever Buried in IL London. —The following is published in the London Daily Express from its correspondent in Paris: “When the snow-laden wind comes roaring over the Alsatian hills, its icy blast chilling the body to the bone, ‘poilus,’ huddled together, many feet below the ground, draw their blankets closer around them, for the blizzard creeps down every nook and cranny, and the men, now experiencing their second winter campaign in the Vosges, mumur: ‘How cold the Boches must feel!’ “This note of cheerfulness prevails throughout the French lines, and nowhere more than in this sector of the front. I have chatted with Turcos, who now see snow for the first time, and with men whose extremities were frost bitten last winter, but everyone is happy with the idea that, no matter how much he feels the cold, the plight of the Germans must be much worse. “Here We are in German territory; there is no gainsaying that aid to cheerfulness. How far we have progressed I am forbidden to state, but I can affirm that no fewer than twenty ( Alsatian towns are now within the penny postal rate of France. Every yard gained is a step nearer the Rhine, but for every foot of ground conceded by the enemy there is bloody fighting. Hartmannsweiler-Kopf has become a symbol of the conflict in Alsace; in no other sector of the front, so the French general staff say, has the fighting been so severe, but the importance of its loss or gain must not be exaggerated. “The summit, it is true, commands a great portion of the plains of Alsace, but ever since the French first reached the foot of the hill the whole of Hartmannsweiler-Kopf has never been wholly in the possession of either French or German. Warfare in Black and White. “Here is warfare in black and white. The black uniforms of the Chasseurs Alpins are silhouetted against a background of snow. From an observation post one sees columns of sure-footed mules carrying parts of guns, and companies of men, like myriads of ants, crawling through the mountain passes; or again, patches of black, vague smudges, whirling over the snow. More Chasseurs Alpins rushing on skis over hill and dale, stopping, twisting, firing and rushing on again; agile little men who are the terror of the Germans’ lives in this sector. “Tales of their daring are legion. It Is not so long ago that a handful of them crawled through the German lines and brought back a munition train! It was in the early hours of a winter’s morning. They found the train with steam up; the was started, the enemy was taken completely by surprise, and the train was brought to a spot near enough to the French lines for the men to remove the munitions and destroy the train. “The Chasseurs, or ‘blue devils’ as they are called, were concerned in the taking of Sudel farm, which opened up the road to the Reinbach valley. After some skirmishing between outposts the French established themselves on the River Sutz. The snow was falling thickly when the French began their advance in the teeth of a hurricane of shells that came from the German batteries on the hills behind Cernay, but nothing daunted the "devils,” although they) were two days on the way, sleeping in the snow. “At dawn on the third day the French outposts heard the sound of firing. It was caused by the skiers, who had been out all night looking for the, enemy. They returned, bringing back with them two wounded German officers and six men. “The ruins of the Chateau Freudstein concealed the guns, and massed in neighboring valleys were the Germans. Enemy airmen had been hovering over the column since it set out, and undoubtedly the enemy was trying to draw the French into a trap, but Teuton slyness went astray. Soon the enemy found he had no chance of ambushing the French, and he changed his tactics and sent out one company from a Bavarian regiment to wipe ov*. the 'blue devils. ’ The speed of the men on skis was too great, however, for the heavy-footed Boches and they were soon’ outdistanced. A French battery of heavy artillery received a telephone message giving them, the approximate range, arid after a period_of bombardment the guns in the ruins of the chateau were silenced. Storming Sudel Farm. j “Then came the opportunity sought by the‘devils;’ they began their attack against the center of the' position, which was Sudei fa rm.-'They advanced under cover to within about

three hundred yards of the position they had to storm, but the last stretch was across open ground. “After a brief but sanguinary action the position was carried, enabling the Chasseurs to open a murderous fire on their front and right. “Without the expected support of their artillery in. the chateau, the Germans were powerless against the human waves that swept over them, and they withdrew, but in good order, fighting a rear-guard action until the ‘blue devils' charged with the bayonet. The action terminated in a complete rout of the enemy and about 300 unwounded prisoners remained in the hands of the French. “A recent German communique spoke of a repulse of a French attack ‘near Metzeral,’ but omitted to mention that Metzeral is in the hands of the French, and has been so ever since our gallant allies won one of the most brilliant battles of this war. When the French advance approached Metzeral the Germans began to make a fortress of this little Alsatian town, and the streets were barricaded with barbed wire, and overturned carts masked machine guns. The battle began by an attack launched against the forest. Trees were uprooted in hundreds by the French guns, and gradually the enemy was pushed out of the forest, but it was only then that a fresh surprise was sprung on the French. “The enemy had dug trenches in the forest, which he filled with barrels of tar; these were connected by electricity with a point behind the German lines, and as the French rushed through the forest the barrels were ignited. Nevertheless, this did not stop the advance. They reached the outskirts of Metzeral, and here the fighting became furious. A number of factories were defended by the enemy, and each had to be carried separately by the attacking party. “From windows machine guns poured a hail of lead on the hejds of the French. The men had to break down the doors and fight their way up, story by story. South of the town the enemy defended the cemetery, which held up the attack for a whole night. The tombs were already torn away by the French shells, but the vaults were the scene of fighting of the grimmest description. The handles of coffins were wrenched off and used as knuckle-dusters by the enemy, who made a most stubborn defense; every vault sheltered a small battle, and the vaults themselves had previously been mined by the enemy; when they became no longer tenable they were blown up. Capture Metzeral Cemetery. “The cemetery was carried in the early hours of the morning, but not before it held more dead than ever were buried in-it. “The taking of this salient did not complete the task set to the French. Practically every house in the town was defended, and from cellar to the top story the French had to fight their way before Metzeral was finally in their hands. Truly, the enemy has not cause to make much mention of Metzeral in his official communications. “At the same time that the French were attacking in this sector, a second successful offensive movement was being carried out along both banks of the Feeht. Two important hills, Nos. 665 and 698, were stormed, and eventually Sillackerwasen was taken. From this point Munster was bombarded, which led to the evacuation of this town, _ “The progress along the crest of Linge, about .five miles north of Munster, led to the withdrawal of the German troops here, although strong re-enforcements had only arrived three days previously, but the terrible fire of the French artillery paralyzed the men fresh from the drive in Russia. They were, neverthless, put in to garrison the town, and there they probably remain, still bombarded by the French, who are slowly but surely creeping along the Munster valley. “Altkirch was evacuated by the Germans two weeks ago, and not for the reasons put forward by the Basel newspapers. The Germans have insinuated that the civil population was Withdrawn because of the arrival of fresh troops to undertake an offensive in this sector, but the truth is that the lower part of the town is flooded, as it usually is at this period of the year, and the French advance towards Altkirch has made the town unhealthy for the civil population. "Hartmannsweiler-Kopf is likely' to figure in the French communiques for some time to conia, for the Germans will never give up their counter-at-tacks until they are driven away from their side of the hill. Surprise attacks here are always to be expected, for both sides now know every inch of the ground, and on the summit of the hill the German and French trenches are only about five yards apart. This seems impossible, but it must be remembered that it is the Individuality of the solfiler that counts for everything. Twelve Battles a Night. “Very often a battle, lasting some hours will take place for the possession of a mere stump of a tree, and a tree stump has been known- to change hands twelve times during the course of a night. An account given to me by! a French soldier of a recent French offensive on Hartmannsweiler-Kopf is dramatic in its simplicity. This *rnnri Ima taken part in no fewer than fifteen battles for the hill. “‘The crest of the hill was white With smoke,’ he says. ‘For two days both sides had left the top of the hill, because both our guns and theirs were raking the ground We had buried the German dead the first time the crest came into our possession, but their big

shells, from a battery of Austrian guns, 305’s, disinterred their dead, so that when we charged we stumbled over arms and legs and limbless trunks. “Our attack was launched from three sides; the first charge only took us forward about 150 yards, and then we had to return to our original positions; it was heartbreaking. Before iwe could attack again the enemy sent up re-enforcements, but something must have gone wrong, for hundreds of their men were cut down by their own artillery firing from the ruins of the Hitzstein chateau. 4'We ceased our attack when night, fell, but, our artillery redoubled its furious bombardment of the enemy’s trenches. Their guns fired at ours, and ours fired at theirs and at their trenches. Thirty feet below the ground, snug in our dugouts, we could feel the earth trembling. The Germans kept their men in the trenches because they never knew when our artillery would cease firing and our in* fantry attack begin again. That 18 why we captured more than thirteen hundred prisoners. They were haggard and shaking when they were marched into our lines, for no soldiers on earth could stand what our artillery gave them. “We had very slight losses, comparatively, when we stormed the positions the next day, and if it had not been that the enemy had a few machine guns undestroyed by our fire our losses would have been very much smaller. “I have been here in Alsace for sixteen months,” he added. “I have been wounded three times, and always on the slopes' of ‘Vieil Armand.’ Terrible? Not at all. Think what an awful time the Boches must be having!’ ’

WIFE OF SWISS AVIATOR

Mme. Juan Domenjos, the wife of the Swiss aviator, who recently has startled Washington with his daring flights over the White” House,has been entertained at several charming affairs by national capital society.

HOODOO SHIP MAKES MONEY

The Old Freighter Algoa Has More Than Paid Her Purchase Price. San-Francisco.—The old Algoa, formerly hoodpo freighter of the former Pacific Malt has blossomed out as a real war baby. This steamer, which in times of peace used to be tied up in the lower bay with cold boilers for long periods, has earned >300,000 that was paid for her when she was rechristened the California. Also she has earned $90,000 more. Furthermore, the California —nee'Algoa—has now been chartered to a powder company at J 1,700 a day, or >51,000 a month, or >612,000 a year, or more than twice as much as her owners paid for her. It is stipulated in this last charter that she shall ply only between neutral ports, which is taken to mean that she will become a nitrate carrier between South America and the Du Pont powder mills in the Unitea States.

SELLS AN EGG FOR $1,000

Mrs. Gilfort Sends One, Laid by Fabled Roc, to Denver Museum. Orange, N. J.—Thrifty housewives who'blame their grocers for demanding 60 cents a dozen for eggs may .congratulate themselves that they are not compelled to make their purchases from Mrs. Robert Gilfort Yesterday she disposed of her egg supply at the very satisfactory rate of >12,000 a dozen. The transaction was not as extensive as Mrs/GAfort’ may have desired, however, since it involved but one egg, that of the fabled roc, of Arabian Nights’ fame, and the purchaser was the Denver museum. Technically, it is the egg of tne Aepyornis, the fossil bird-of Madagascar, but three of which are to be found in this country. r--=-

The Wrath of God

By REV. J. H. RALSTON

Secretary of Correspondence Department, Moody Bible Institute of Chicago

TEXT—For the wrath of God' is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth In unrighteousness.—Rom.

What are the good tidings of great Joy as announced by the angels to

“The truth is, half of God’s word is law. The Gospel without a promise of retribution is emasculated. It is not only a theological mistake, it is not a Gpspel.” The text proclaims that there is wrath with God, and there are scores of Scripture passages speaking of the wrath of God and many of them are in the New Testament. What Is the. Wrath of God? When the ancients saw the mountains that are now the witnesses of the wrath of man against man rocking and reeling, they said the gods were mad. But we cannot so think of the wrath of God. That wrath is real indignation against its object, and this indignation carries with it the idea that the object of the wrath will be the subject of God’s opposition. The wrath of God is always based on justice and reason that take into account the rights and prerogatives of men as moral agents. Yet, God’s own character for holiness and justice will be vindicated whatever may be the impatience of man with such a statement. “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap*'—no limitation or modification. The Wrath of God Against All Sinful — t —Mem We know God hates iniquity and all evil deeds, but it is a more serious matter for us to note that the preponderance of scripture testimony is that the wrath of God is against sinful men and logically so. Sin is an abstract thing, and cannot be in itself the subject of the execution of justice, but the sinner can be. Jesus told Nicodemus that the wrath of God abode on sinning man. Paul told the Ephesian and Colossian Christians that the wrath of God would come on the children of disobedience. He told the Thessalonians that the day is coming when Jesus Christ will be revealed from heaven taking vengeance on them that know not God, and obey not the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Wrath Provoked, Slow In Development, and Fearful in Visitation. There are three things concerning the wrath of God that should be carefully noted: First: The wrath of God can be provoked or called out. The Israelites provoked the wrath of God repeatedly and plagues broke out on them. In the second Psalm men were urged to kiss the son lest he be angry and they perish from the way when his wraths was kindled but a little. The wrath of God will never be manifested without the positive act of man calling it out, or provoking it, and one of the strongest evidences of the love of God is that his love has been frequently provoked and was most mercifully restrained. Secondly: The wrath of God is slow "in Its development. “The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.” One of the minor prophets teaches almost exactly the same thing, saying: “Turn unto the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness.” Thirdly: The wrath of God is fearful in its visitation. The time comes when kindness, merciful indulgence and longsuffering, are st an end, and the most terrible judgments fall. This was illustrated in the destruction of the race by the flood, by the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah, by the 'plagues on Egypt, by the wholesale destruction of many of the enemies of Israel. Not less fearful, indeed rather more so, will be tile awful visitation of God’s wrath in the future as indicated in 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9. Thank God there is a refuge, for as Paul teaches by the Holy Spirit, that being novr Justified by the blood of Jesus Christ, we shall be saved from wrath through him. . - If ever in the history of the worst the attention of man ought to be called to the wrath of God, it is £ow when the wrath of man against man—man so glorified by himself as to be almost a god—is manifested with a bitterness and hellish hate as never, before. In thfe awfulexperiences in the warswept regions there is something of the wrath of God. Men have forgotten God and he is making himself known ia wrath. John the Baptists are needed to urge men to flee from the wrath U> coma '' .■ . ...•

the shepherds? To say to men today that Gcd loves them? Yes, but only announcing that part of the Gospel the preacher is acting cruelly, he must announce that there is wrath with God. Many years ago the bishop of the. centraj diocese of New York said to a class of young men about to enter the ministry: