Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1916 — Page 3

SUBMARINE HAS EXCITING TIME

Adventure of the German U-202 Is Described by Its Cofnmander. CAUGHT IN NET; ESCAPES Flees British Destroyer and Submerges, Only to Be Hooked in Meshes, Which She Breaks at Full Spe6d. Berlin. —A sensational episode of submarine warfare is told by Captain Commandant Freiherr Spiegel in the "“Diary of U-202,” which has just been published by August Scherl, in Berlin. It gives some idea of the dangers encountered and tells how the U-202 was caught in a net but managed to extricate herself by clever maneuvering. “It was ttyree minutes after six o’clock and in half an hour It would be sunrise,” writes Captain Spiegel. “Sky and sea were enveloped in a dark, gray mist and no horizon was visible. Suddenly my glasses discerned a dark shadow, which came liko a ghost out of the mist. Gradually the shadow took more definite form —I saw a dark hull, a mast, and then one, two, three and four funnels. It was a torpedo-boat destroyer. “I gave the alarm and shouted the order ‘Submerge at once.’ Quickly the water began rushing into the tanks, and then it seemed an almost interminable interval until the tanks were filled and the submarine began to sink. Never in my life did the seconds pass so slowly. The destroyer, of course, had sighted us and came speeding on with all the power of her 40,000-horsepower engines. Her forward guns began firing at us. Shells Fall All Around. “Great God! I hope they do not hit us. One single shot and we are lost. Our tower was now almost submerged, but I could still see the dark shadow drawing nearer. The shells were falling all around us, and as they dropped in the water they made a noise like a hammer coming down with full force on a steel plate. “One shot came so near that it lifted our boat half way above the surface of the water. Another shot and he will surely strike us. “Slowly we sank, and then the submarine responded to the movement of the deep-sea rudder and we dived quickly. “The red-globed electric lights showed that our manometer regis-

SOUTH AMERICAN EXPLORER

Dr. Edwin Heath of Kansas City, eighty-eight years old, and a rival of Colonel Roosevelt in fame as an explorer, discovered the river in Brazil which bears his name, and is the only North American outside of former President Roosevelt for whom a South American river has been named. Doctor Heath is a life member of the Royal Geographical society, and although he has given up explorations in favor of his practice as a physician in his home city, he is still known and honored by geographers everywhere.

Swarming Bees Broke Up School.

Oakland, Cal. —Forty schoolchildren •were held prisoners half a day at Langworth school, near here, by a buzzing swarms of bees which chose a comer of the room as their resting place. They stung Miss Ida Warford, the teacher, when she went to investigate and finally forced her to dismiss school for the day. «

Files for Theater Admission.

"Sentonville, Ark. One hundred dead flies ot ten cents is the price of admission to the moving picture theater here. Indications are that within a very short time flies will be an on known quantity in. the community. ■ , •k-'» - * .

tered eight meters, then nine meters, and quickly mounted to 14 meters. Wc were safe. What a feeling of relief to know that an impenetrable wall of water protected us now from the destroyer. Our hearts, that had almost stopped beating, began to send the warm blood again through our veins, Our boat sank deeper and deeper, responding to every movement of the rudder as a faithful horse does to the rein. We were now 30 meters under the surface. “We could still hear the crash of the shells overhead. I looked at the man at the wheel and pointed upward with my thumb, smiling all the while. He smiled back at me. “Suddenly we were thrown headlong in all directions. The submarine trembled like a wounded animal. For a few seconds we were unconscious and our heads and and all our bones ached. “What has happened? Is it all over with us? Did we hit a mine? “Then the men reported that everything was in ’ excellent shape. No leaks were found. "The submarine, however, was at almost right angles.

“ ‘Captain, there’s something wrong,’ said the lieutenant. ‘We are caught in a net, and attached to the upper part of the net are mines. This is enough to drive a man crazy.’ Bored Right Through. “ ‘Don’t lose your nerve,’ I shouted. ‘We’ll get out of this. Keep the submarine submerged. Back up and then with all the power of our engines, go ahead. But don’t rise an inch. Remember the mines above us.’ “The engines worked perfectly. The submarine, when she moved forward, bored right into the net and tore it into bits, and as our splendid little craft responded again to the helm we gave a shout of joy, for we knew that we had extricated ourselves. “ ‘Go deeper,’ I cried. ‘Go down to thirty meters.’ “I sat down and held my aching head in my hands. My brain seemed to be whirling like a windmill. Needles seemed to be sticking in my forehead and there was a roaring in my ears which I tried to stop by placing my hands over them. “It was some time before I was able to think clearly and then I recognized the fact that we had gone deep enough just in time. The enemy had no doubt figured that we would alight right into the net, which would explode the mines and annihilate us. As it was we passed directly under the net, so that the mines exploded in the direction of least resistance, doing no more damage than to knock us unconscious momentarily. “I am willing to let the enemy think he got us, but I pray that we will never have another such experience. Once was enough. It was a nerve-racking ordeal, which we never can forget.”

STRANGE BATTLE IN AISNE WOOD

Germans Come Out of Shelters After French Pass and Attack Rear. FIND THEMSELVES IN A TRAP Search of Captured Wood Reveals Numerous Hiding Places Where Germans Still Held Out—Marvels of Field Fortifications. Behind the French Front in Champagne.—The French troops that made a big dent in the German line just west of Bjrry-au-Bac and not far from Rheims more than a year ago, and who had chafed under the necessity of marking time there ever since, espegan, were allowed the satisfaction recently of attacking a little wood the Germans still held there between the Aisne and the little town of Ville-au-Bois. This diversion developed an action of considerable importance that did not get into official communique. It has been described in the press by a staff officer.

Wood Strongly Fortified. The wood, strongly fortified by the Germans, made it impossible, so long as the Teutons held it, for the French to rectify and properly to consolidate their front at that point. When the attack upon Yerdun developed great proportions it was decided to prepare this operation, both as a desirable improvement of the French position and as a diversion. What would have been considered an unprecedented concentration of artillery, both heavy guns and field pieces, before the Verdun operations was effected immediately behind the front, while the infantry burrowed deeper and deeper ipto their underground shelters. Orders were given for ttye opening of fire at seven o’clock on the morning of April 25, and the fire increased in rapidity and intensity until four o’clock in the afternoon, the Germans replying feebly until the entire wood was being swept and symptoms of an approaching attack became apparent. Then their heavy pieces from the heights of Craonne began a heavy shelling of the trenches from which an attack might have been Buppoapd to originate. The French infantry, well protected from this shelter in their deepened

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dugouts, waited until the FYench artillery lengthened the ranges and swept the approach trenches and soldiers’ quarters in the rear of the German position. At 4:30 the first wave of assailants climbed out of their underground shelters and threw themselves into the wood. All the Germans remaining in the first-line trenches were killed or made prisoner, and the French line proceeded on to the eastern edge of the woods, where they rapidly organized their defenses against ‘ > Find Hiding Places. At the same time special detachments explored the interior of the wood, searching subterranean shelters in which German infantry had sought refuge during the bombardment. That operation was soon interrupted; more than two companies of German infantry that the French had passed over in their rush, seeing that their adyersaries had reached the eastern edge of the wood, came out of their blockhouses and dugouts and took the French infantry in the rear. The attacking party was for a moment menaced with envelopment, but recovering from their surprise, they turned their machine guns upon the assailants, taking them In the rear. The search of the woods, then resumed, uhcovered little companies of Germans hidden underground in all corners. Their resistance was promptly overcome by the use of hand grenades, and 60 more prisoners were taken from the underground shelters, which on inspection were.found to be marvels of field fortifications. They ran from six to eight yards in depth, most of them, and some of themjwere; dug tom depth of ten yards, with such supports that they were able to resist the largest and most powerful projectiles.

NO LEGS, BUT THEY WALK

British Cripples Deceive Onlookers by Brisk Movements —Wonders of Modern Science. London. —When a wounded soldier or sailor is sent to hospital nowadays the amount of patching up made possible by modern science is so wonderful that by the very nature of its success it escapes full appreciation. Thus, if you see a fine-looking young man walking . round briskly with no more support than a walking stick you are not likely to realize that a short time ago. he had no legs at all. An impressive number of marvels of this kind is to he found at the Queen Mary hospital at Roehampton, where the fitting of artificial limbs is being accomplished on a scale that has never been known before.

Less than five months ago Sergeant Kent of the Fifth Wilts lost his legs in his country’s service at the Dardanelles. Yesterday, consciously proud of his facility, he took an afternoon stroll round the grounds of the hospital, with only two walking sticks to help him. For six days he has been relearning how to walk —a joyous experience for, a man who had contemplated a life with crutches. In one of the limb shops yesterday disabled heroes were finding their feet with the aid of parallel bars. In order that the legs may suit them as nearly perfectly as possible, it is usual for the men to take their first steps in the practicing room before the limbs are finished. A one-armed man strode along a corridor swinging the one arm—his left —as he walked. His hand was those of the visitor they were found to be unnaturally hard. The lower part of the one arm was artificial, and the opening and shutting of the hand and the deceiving swing of the limb were operated by shoulder movements. Private Chaplin of the Welsh Fusileers is the owner of this wonderful hand, with which, among other accomplishments, he can write remarkably well. "It was a bit of a job at first,” he admitted. "You see, it’s a left arm.”

ALL TANGLED UP IN "13'S"

Little lowa Girl Finds Herself in President’s Class and Writes Him About It. Des Moines, la.—The number 1* is the mystic link that has drawn little Nettie Maxine Renner of this city into the ken of President Woodrow Wilson, and the fatalistic number has brought the “13” baby a letter from the president, which the president signed himself with his 13-letter name. The little “Thirteen Girl” was bom January 13, 1913; her home is on Thirteenth street. A savings bank account was started with sl3, and her bank book is numbered 13,493. . Sixteen were invited to her first birthday party and only thirteen came. On January 13, 1916, she wrote to President Wilson, with her mother’s aid, and told him about her entanglement in 13’s. Because the number figures pretty big in the president’s affairs, he wrote a personal letter to the little “Thirteen Girt.”

Pay for Civil War Mules.

Butte, Mont. —"A war settlement warrant” for $986, signed by Secretary of the Treasury W. G. McAdoo, is in possession now of the heirs of Samuel H. Pipes in payment for 15 Missouri mules which the government requisitioned from him in the Civil war. Efforts to collect for the mules had been made by Pipes for 40 years, according to attorneys for the claimants. Pipes died here six years ago.

INSTEAD OF MEAT

SOME SUBSTITUTES FOR THE HIGHEST-PRICED FOOD. Expert Gives Advice That Is Well Worth Following at This Time When Provisions Are Generally at a High Figure. (By MISS BAB BELL, Missouri College of Agriculture.) The high is a great cause of the high cost of living. Many people believe that meats are absolutely necessary, and they do have the advantage of having a good flavor and being very easily and quickly cooked, but many of us would have bigger pocketbooks and better health if we spent for meat only a sixth instead of a third of what we pay for food. One of the members of the home economics faculty of the University of Missouri goes home to the farm every summer, where her father and brothers are doing plenty of hard outdoor work. She gives her mother A vacation, takes charge in the kitchen herself and feeds the household to a large extent on meat substitutes, which they seem to find well adapted to their needs. Fish is not as good a meat substitute as many people believe. For while it seems less heavy, it is not less likely to form objectionable acids, but milk, milk products and eggs are good things to use instead of so much meat. A quart of milk or eight or nine eggs has about as high a food value as a pound of the best steak, but on most markets -will cost much less. Other wholesome dishes which should be used to take the place of meat are soups, cottage cheese, cream sauces, variously flavored puddings made of milk and cereal of different kinds, and countless other economical, nutritious, easily digested dishes which any good housewife knows how to prepare. ■

Boiled eggs cooked in water below the boiling point are not as hard to digest as many people believe, but if cooked in very hot water they are more likely to be leathery and hard to digest. Fried eggs are also more digestible if cooked slowly. Nuts are becoming more popular as meat substitutes, although many kinds of nuts are not cheaper than meat if bought on the market at present prices. On many farms, however, it is merely a matter of picking up hickory nuts, hazelnuts or walnuts, instead of letting the hogs get them, and on a great many others it is a very easy matter to raise peanuts enough for the family and have plenty to fatten a few hogs. Those who wish to try some meat substitute dishes can secure directions for making them by writing to the Missouri college of agriculture at Columbia. We Include here t*o tried at the college: Cottage Cheese —Use sour milk that has set. Warm it slowly in a double boiler, if one is at hand, until the whey separates from the curd. Then strain through cheesecloth; chop fine, mix with milk or cream and season to taste. Be careful not to heat too long or too hot before straining, or the curd will be tough. Creamed Fish in Rice Cases —Line a buttered mold about a quarter of an inch thick with boilecl rice. Fill with chopped or boned salmon or other fish, to which thick white sauce has been added. Brown slightly in the oven, turn from the mold and serve.

The Sanitary Kitchen Shelf.

Rip the oilcloth and the perforated paper off the kitchen shelves and paint them if you value cleanliness and health. Water bugs and roaches and ants make the coziest homes in the warm corners of covered shelves, while they find odorous, freshly painted shelves far too cheerless for domestic purposes. By the time the paint is dry the prospective tenants will have settled elsewhere. And recollect the saving in paper, bug powder and time in cleaning.

Grapefruit Cocktail.

Pare grapefruit, - being sure to remove all the white portion. Cut fruit in sections, then crosswise in pieces. Sweeten with sugar. Add an equal amount of oranges cut in same size pieces. Cut a slice from the top of six bell peppers and remove seeds and partitions from Fill with orange and grapefruit.

Fricasseed Veal.

Try this sometime for a cheap dish: Three pounds veal cut in small pieces. Boil till tender. Fry two or three slices salt pork till fat is all out, and put in veal and broth. Add butter, salt and pepper. Let it boil, then take out meat and thicken Pour over the meat.

Carrots and Peas Creamed.

Scrufr and cut into dice enough carrots to make a pint. Let stand in cold water for half an hour. Drain and cook in an uncovered kettle of boiling water until carrots are tender. (Old carrots require about one-quarter of an hour.) Add a pint of peas and a pint of cream sauce.

When Cooking Greens.

When greens are cooked, add a tiny pinch of baking soda to the first water in which they are parboiled for five minutes. Drain this water off and replace it with fresh water for the final cooking.

Yellowness in Clothes.

Three things will cause white clothes to ypllow-r-tho iron in the water, a tod .free use of soda, or improper rinsing.

HELPS IN HOUSECLEANING

Closet Whero There May Be Orderly ' Arrangement of Utensils Makes the Work Easier. No one thing does more to help easy cleaning than some kind of housecleaging closet. This may be placed under the back stairs, in a rear hall, or even in a back porch. It should be wide and shallow, preferably not more than a foot or eighteen inches in depth, to accommodate buckets, palls, scuttles, etc. One of the most successful closets I know of is built on a back porch of a house in the country. It is about a foot wide and has a narrow shelf extending across at the height of about five feet. On this shelf are kept cleansers, ammonia, stove polish, bathbrick and many other bottles and pans of cleaning necessities. Under the shelf are fastened small holders, into which are slipped the various brooms, mops and tools having long handles, thus keeping each separate and in shape. Small hooks are placed lower down, on which are hung lantern, tin basips, carpet-beater, etc. Several high hooks are reserved for holding mackintosh and farm clothing, and boots share the lower space with buckets and pails.—Woman’s Homo Companion.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

When ironing it is a very good plan to get a clean brick, a white one if possible, as a Stand. The Iron will retain heat much longer than if an open ironstand be used. <W£ „, When boiled and unboiled eggs get mixed, spin them, and the boiled ones will spin round quite fast, while those which have not been cooked will hardly spin round once. Tar may be removed from the hands by rubbing with the outside of fresh orange or lemon peel and drying immediately. The volatile oils dissolve tar so that it can be rubbed off. When buttons are taken from an old dress they Should be strung on a string before putting them into the button box. When the hair is dry, lusterless and brittle try rubbing a few drops of castor oil well into the scalp. A little lemon Juice added to the water in which the hair is washed will keep it light and at the same time act as a tonic to the scalp. It is said that the hands may be speedily whitened by rubbing them well for three nights successively with sweet almond oil and then dusting over them as much fine chalk as they will retain.

To Wash Feather Pillows.

It is possible to wash pillows without removing the feathers. Boil in borax water, to which a small quantity of ammonia has been added. Use half a teacupful of borax to a boiler 1 - ful of water and add a teaspoonful of ammonia. Boil 15 or 20 minutes. After removing pillows from the boiler, scrub the tick, if badly stained, by laying on a washing board and applying suds with a stiff brush. Rinse in two or three waters and hang out on the line in a shady place to dry. Shake pillow and change ends two or three times a day. Bring pillows into the house before dew falls or it rains, as it takes a long time to dry pillows at best. This process makes the feathers light, flaky and sweet smelling. '

Spanish Rice.

One tablespoonful of good lard in spider, very hot. Fry one minced onion, a handful of minced olives, one small minced chili pepper (or ten drops of tabasco sauce), parsley, salt and pepper. Fry till golden brown. Add one and a half cupfuls of uncooked Carolina rice. Fry until pale yellow. Put this into a double boiler. Add two cupfuls of strained tomato and four cupfuls of ground steak broth. Stir once, thoroughly. Cover and let cook until rice is done —at least one hour.

Squab Pie.

Line a deep dish with puff paste, bake ten minutes in a hot oven and allow to rise. Cover this with a layer of good sausage meat, fill it with four to six squabs stuffed with a force meat flavored with truffles. Cover the birds with a layer of sausage meat and another of paste. Paint the pie with yolk of egg and bake from one to two hours. Fill the hole left in the center with one cupful of melted aspic Jelly. Serve cold.

Puffs of Meat.

One cupful dried roast meat, two eggs, one cupful milk, one teaspoonful baking powder, one heaping tablespoonful flour, pepper and salt. Beat up the eggs, add them gradually to .the flour, then add the milk, salt and pepper and powder. Divide into buttered casseroles and bake in a hot oven. Serve hot. Small individual dishes are as good as open casseroles or cocottes.

Virginia Waffles.

Boil half of a cupful of Indian meal in a cupful and a half of water 30 minutes. Add a cupful and a half of milk, two teaspoonfuls each of sugar and melted butter, two cupfuls of bals- - powder and two well-beaten eggs. Fry in a well greased waffle iron. Serve with maple sirup.

Maple Pudding Sauce.

This is good on bread or cottage pudding. Beat the yolks of two eggs with a tablespoonful of sugar. Melt a cupful of maple sugar in a cup of hot milk and when boiling’ stir' in the beaten egg yolks, stirring all the time Until it thickens. Beat whites of eggs until foamy, and add just before sen* tog.

Home Town Helps

BEAUTIFY HOME WITH VINES Wise Builder Well Knows the Value of This Cheap and Pretty Ornamentation. The costliest and least satisfactory way to make your home look "different” is to load the house with ornamentation. The next poorest bargain is to scatter all over your lawn flashy trees and shrubs, especially the cutleafed, weeping and variegated kinds, for this will make your place look just like every beginner’s in every city the world-over. The best way to put personality and brilliancy and color into home grounds is to have a different set of vines for every house. One place will have Virginia creepers, trumpet honeysuckle, and bittersweet. The next place will have wild grape, wild clematis, and rose. Both will be beautiful the year round, and neither need cost a cent, because you can dig the plants from the open.

Ready for the Vines.

Whfle you are waiting for the permanent vines to grow, you can’cover your porch the first year, without spending a cent, by sowing seeds of wild cucumber vine or collecting seeds of morning glory in regions where it runs wild. In the garden cities of England, such as Boumville and Letchwdrth, which are the most beautiful of their kind in the world, many thousands of dollars have been saved by building very plain houses, and providing different sets of vines for every house.

PUBLIC PARKS A NECESSITY

Few Cities Today Fail to Recognize the Importance of Providing Proper Breathing Spaces. A pajk commissioner of Louisville makes the following statement regarding the purpose and value of parks: "The use of public parks is to promote the wellbeing and happiness of the people, to alleviate the. hard conditions of crowded humanity, to encourage outdo<Sr recreations and intimacy with nature, to fill the lungs of tired workers from city'factories and shops with pure and wholesome air, whenever they will or can afford to spend a day in shady groves, under spreading trees or on the jeweled meadows. They are havens of sweetness and rest for moth-* ers and wives and sweethearts; above all, they are for the children, for the people, high and low, rich and poor, without distinction, with equal rights and privileges for every class. A city that does not acknowledge the necessity for public parks as a means for promoting the welfare and happiness of its people, and recognize the substantial advantages that follow the making of a city attractive and comfortable as a place of residence, is not progressing, but is already on the wane.”

Perhaps.

’’Many property owners are preparing to trim their shade trees, and the beautification of the city will be the result,” says an optimistic paragrapher in the State Journal of Frankfort. Possibly, but not necessarily. When shade trees are trimmed the proverb that fools rush in where angels fear to tread is, too often, illustrated, —— Many owners of trees have not the slightest appreciation of the beauty of the structure, and proceed upon the theory that an elm or a maple will be all the better for the severe treatment under which the box hedge prospers. And many itinerant pruners work by the day and prove their valueby the litter of lopped branches they bring to the ground under the tree. Sad havoc is worked when the combination of ignorant owner and vandal prpner exposes to saw and shears the growth of years and the dignity that belongs to all unmutilated trees. And the Judicious often grieve without a hope of affecting the course of vandalism. —Louisville Courier-Journal.

One Decade’s Development.

Eighty-five cities of more than 30,000 inhabitants have adopted the commission form of government, according to a recent census bulletin. The cities vary irf population from Boise, Idaho, with 33,000, to Buffalo, with 465,000, and are scattered through 27 states. Nearly half the population ip cities of 30,000 to 500,000, including 7,700,000 persons, lives, under commission government This represents the development in a little more than a decade.