Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1916 — Page 3

Panoramic view of the city of Soissons as it looks today. The city Is situated on a hill and overlooks the surrounding country. It is now a mass of ruins—wrecked cuthedrals, empty houses and debris-littered streets. The famous French city, once noted for its beauty, has been the target for heavy artillery fire.

PRINCE OF WALES IS WELL LIKED

Heir to British Throne Popular With Soldiers at the Front. WINS WAY TO MEN’S HEARTS Officers Have Hard Time Keeping Him Out of Trenches —Quick to Acknowledge and Rectify Hla Mistakes. London—ls the kingship of England were vacant and elective there is little doubt that the prince of Wales would receive the unanimous vote of the soldiers at the front. He has won his way Into the hearts of not only his fellow officers but of the ordinary soldiers by his democracy, humanness and insistent desire to get Into things himself. It has been a constant worry on the part of his fellow officers to keep him reasonably out of danger, and the persistency with which the “Little Prince,” ns he is affectionately called, would try to get into the front line trenches caused no small amount of anxiety to the headquarters staff. His own feelings In this respect were expressed in a letter he sent to a chum of his in England when he was In Flanders. “It is rotten being a prince." he wrote, and then pathetically added: “Every day I try to go to the trenches, but they send me back.” Say He Is a Corker. A fellow officer of the Grenadier Guards, the regiment to which the prince is gazetted, said : “The prince is a corker. He showed up at the mess one nfternoon and burst out: ‘l’ve come for tea and I hope it’s ’ mentioning the name of a well-known whisky." His language Is by no means_ royal and he can and does express himself with a force and picturesqueness that would do no injustice to a Mississippi pilot. When he makes a mistake or an oversight he is quick to acknowledge and rectify It. A story illustrating this is told of his recent visit to Egypt. Accompanied by an officer, his royal

IS THIS MISSING LINK?

What was thought to be the mlssiug link was brought Into the port of New York by Captain Mar sell of the Dutch steamed Medon, which arrived from Pedang, Java. The little animal is of the family known as anthropoid ape. This midget of the gorilla family stands* only three feet high and walks continually on Its hind legs, and wears his coat of bi-istly hair eight inches long. The little animal is a congenial fellow —always laughing a quiet, contagious chuckle, that makes the hearer wonder what the Joke is. He Is very nimble, being able to make an 18-foot flight from a swinging trapeze, without any apparent effort. The little ape was caught In the jungles of Java and has bananas, soft boiled eggs and rice for hi* chief diet.

Capture of Rat Frees Clerk.

Nampa, Idaho. —A steel trap that caught a big rat with a taste for candy freed an Innocent man who ;mlght otherwise be serving a Jail sentence. A clerk In a local confectionery store was held In jail here several days accused of the theft of the candy which disappeared mysteriously night after night.

VIEW OF SOISSONS, WRECKED BY THE WAR

highness cantered by a group of Anzacs and failed to notice or acknowledge their salute. Along their line there ran the signal, “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, out.” The prince turned to the officer in attendance and asked what it meant. When the reason was explained he rode back to the overseas men, pulled up before them and, with a genial smile and all the ceremony he could command, returned the salute. In a flash the Australian commander counted him “in” again. “Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, in,” ran through their ranks, and the prince cantered off to the accompaniment of a lusty cheer. Is Very Observant. He is extremely observant, as one inspector at Scotland Yard can testify. Whenever the prince crosses or recrosses to or from France he is always accompanied by a man from the special branch of Scotland Yard. On one of these trips during the height of German submarine activity the inspector afterward frankly confessed he didn’t like the thought of being torpedoed, so he took his stand by a life buoy attached to the rail, opened his knife and held it In his pocket ready for eventualities. The prince came along, noticed the situation and smilingly said: “Hello, chief, I see you have picked out your life buoy.” The inspector, with a feigned air of surprise, said: “Why, I never noticed it.” “Like you didn’t!” pleasantly retorted the prince.

AVIATORS PLAY JOKES ON THE ENEMY

Flying Aeroplane Not Always Grim Business It Is Painted. FOOTBALL CAUSES A PANIC Dropped in Public Square, Soldiers Scamper for Safety—Another Wit Drops Woolly s 'Sheep on Deck of Destroyer. Paris. —Flying an aeroplane over the front Is not always such grim business as It has been painted. The aviators are, as a rule, lively young fellows, who like to have a little joke once In a while. Some British aviators were playing their Inevitable football behind the lines when a bright idea occurred to u young wag. He blew up a watersoaked old black football and carried it In his machine the next time Tie went for a reconnalsance. Just over a village occupied by the Germans he launched the big ball. “You should have seen those Germans run,” he said later. “When they saw that fearsome object swooping down to earth they scurried to shelter like a lot of rabbits, shrieking and yelling. It fell slap In the middle of the square, bounded once or twice and then rolled Into a ditch. For a minute or two not a head showed, then a fat soldier peeped nervously out of a doorway and, gradually gaining courage, walked gingerly toward the ‘bomb.’

“Finally quite a crowd collected —at a safe distance. At last the fat man who had come out first gathered up enough courage to touch the ‘bomb’ with his foot. It moved easily and he gave it a disgusted kick and everybody walked away, probably swearing at the fool Englishmen.” Throws Woolly Sheep. Another British wit took a woolly sheep, such as children play with In the nursery and threw It on the deck of a German destroyer. He laughed loud when the seamen dodged for shelter. r'~ Sheer nerve and effrontery got a Russian airman out of a tight place, when he was forced by lack of fuel to land far behind the German lines. lie spoke German well and his uniform was covered by his flying suit So when a detachment of Germans rushed up to him, he greeted them cordially In their own tongue and asked them where he could replenish his tank. They all rushed to get petrol and a few* minutes later he] was flying away with an “Auf Wledersehen!” Another good story, from Flanders, Is on a Britisher. The Tommy was walking along a country road when he saw an aeroplane In a field and a swathed figure standing beside it. Not suspecting it might be an enemy machine, he hurried to the aviator, extended his arm and shook hands. The German responded silently and” sadly and only nodded his head in answer to

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BULL GIVES CHASE TO AUTO

Owner Drove the Machines Around a Field Until Animal Was Tired. Federalsburg, Williams, a farmer living neayhere, had a thrilling experience wim an infuriated bull. Williams raf his motor car Into a field to look over the bull,, which he was contemplating buying. The bull made a dash for the machine. Williams quickly turned on all the power the car contained and the machine shot away at a 50-mile-an-hour clip, but when It reached the gate leading out of the field Williams could not make the turn at such high speed. The bull chased him around the field repeatedly and made desperate attempts to head off the car, but Williams, by carefully manipulating the steering wheel, managed to elude the beast, which finally became tired and gave the frightened man a chance to escape through the gate.

Finds Dime In Fish Gill.

Wichita, Kan—Even the fish In the Little Arkansas river are starting bank accounts and saving up their dimes and nifckels. W. E. Smith of No. 728 West Douglas avenue was recently fishing just below the Central street dam and landed a big channel catfish weighing one and a half pounds. The catch was a beauty and Mr. Smith hurried to extract the hook from its mouth. As he ran his finger through the fish’s gill he found something metallic, and upon extracting it found it to be a bright, shiny 10-cent piece.

the Tommy’s queries. From which the latter concluded the aviator was French. Then He Swore. Just then a party of Fusiliers who had seen the German machine come to earth hurried up. The soldier, bewildered at sight of their unslung rifles, lost his head and started to run for cover. The Fusiliers took him for the German aeroplane observer and tried to pot him. Happily, their aim was bad and the soldier threw himself in a ditch untouched. When “captured” and told of his mistake his language was unfit to print. The German guffawed loudly. Commander Sampson of the British flying corps carried out a clever feint in the early days of the war. The Germans had planted machine guns in a cottage and windmill just behind their lines and were harrying the British considerably. Pne day the Germans saw an aeroplane hurrying toward them pursued by a hot fire from British batteries. They concluded it was a German machine returning from a raid. What was their surprise when the aeroplane poured a hot fire into them from almost poiut blank range! Almost every German was killed or wounded.

WILL HALT “PAPER” SHOES

Germany Takes Steps to Check Use of the Material, Which Was Becoming Too Extensive. London.—The use of compressed paper for the making of shoes has become so extensive in Germany that the authorities have taken action to check the manufacture and sale of such shoes. The German papers explain that the trade in shoes with paper soles is bad for the public and for the manufacturers, because the shoes wear out very quickly and the leather which forms part of them is wasted. Manufacturers are now to be allowed to use paper in shoes to only a very limited extent and will be compelled to mark their products in such a way as,to show exactly what parts of them are not made of leather.

KICKS ENGINE OFF TRACK

In a Duel With a Locomotive a Mule Named General Carranza Won the Bout. Sunbury, Pa. —General Carranza, a bucking mule, owned by James E. Drumm of Upper Augusta township, Northumberland county, literally kicked a locomotive off the tracks. The mule, harnessed to a covered wagon, in which Mr.J»nd Mrs. Drumm were riding, was crossing the tracks here when the mule suddenly stopped and commenced to kick and rear. A train was coming and the engineer could not get it stopped until the wagon was struck, but only lightly. The mule kicked the cowcatcher and the locomotive jumped the tracks. A derrick was needed to replace It, while General Carranza retired unhurt

CHIPS WITH BARK ON

A cuff ou the wrist beats two on the ear. .J. . / The homely girl’s face Is her chaperon. If a man refuses to be consoled, his Is a hopeless case. • ’ —: — Many a good reputation has been stabbed by a pointed tongue. All women would strive for religion If It was good for the com^xion. The more worthless awn, the easier it Is for some marry him. After a man gets to be about so old the insurance solicitors give him a rest Some women evidently go to the opera merely to hear themselves make talk. Girls, if you'aYe at a loss to know how to take a man, let him stay where he is. The wise man really looks brokenhearted when his wife goes for a two weeks’ visit. What a fine world this would be If we all loved our neighbors as we try to love ourselves! Fortune knocks once at every man’s door, but misfortune frequently drops in without knocking. ~ Every woman is born with a master mind —and she isn’t'satlsfied until she finds a man to master it. Some wives spend a lot of time regretting the fact that they are so much better than their husbands.

NOTHING IN PARTICULAR

Homeliness makes a boy popular because it takes the conceit out of him. All men love liberty; but few of tho extent of remaining a lifelong bachelor. A trained nurse gets along splendidly when she meets up With a trained Invalid. Don’t let your footprints on the sands of time show that your shoes badly need half-soling. It is a sign of slovenliness. Saints of old wore hair shirts as penance, but they would have rejoiced In a saw-edge collar that has been in the laundry too often. “With all my worldly goods I thee endow,” doesn’t seem to stir up the fuss that is so often made over that short and ugly word, “obey,” A canoe was the best that the Indian could do, else he would never have thought of going on the water In such a thing.—St. Louis GlobeDemocrat.

WHITTLED TO A POINT

Profile portraits are one-sided affairs . Art is long, but artists are often short. Experience teaches a few and fools many. A rich yonng widow never cornea a-miss. Often a straight-laced man goes crooked. No man favors expansion—of that little bald spot. An ex-hero says the world has a very poor memory. . % The wise old hen chuckles to herself every time she sees a fool man trying to put her out of business with an incubator. —Indianapolis Star.

TABLOID THINKS

Morality wears but two garments—swaddling clothes and shrouds. The “public” seems to he a large body of people entirely surrounded by politicians. The wisest man I ever knew never gave any woman the opportunity to say “No” to him. A real diplomat Is a man who sends nineteen roses to a woman on her thirty-first birthday. Some wom'en can keep a servant for years. Others prefer to let them go and keep their husbands. Two may be company, but not after the minister has said “Wilt thou?” and they have agreed.—Exchange.

FROM OUR NEW DICTIONARY

Undertaker —The end man in life’s minstrel show. Perquisite—A political steal authorized by the powers that be. Solitude —Something that makes cranks of many thoughtful thinkers. Time —A perpetual-motion arrangement for making yesterdays of tomorrows.

PROTECTING RAILROAD PROPERTY

This Fire-Fighting Outfit for Use on a Canadian Railroad includes a Tank With a Capacity of 10,000 Gallons and a 10-Inch Fire Pump Driven by Steam.

OVER SNOW TRAILS

“RAILROAD" WORK CALLED A TRIUMPH OF ENGINEERING. Claim That It Has Solved a Problem of the Northwest Lumber Camps Seems to Be Well Founded— How It Operates. One of the problems of the lumber camp In the great flat Northwest Is that of haulage. In fact It Is about the greatest problem. It Is one thing to chop down and saw into lengths a centenarian of the primeval foresL It Is another to transport the lumber to the niilroad line. As the camps move from year to year it is not profitable to build and keep clear of snowdrifts a private line, merely for one season’s product, and then do the same thing all over again the next year. So, until recent years the system has been to load the cut lumber on great sledges, drawn by horses or teams of oxen.

The oxen are very picturesque, but they also are slow, and their capacity is limited, too, and their first cost, together with that of food and wages of the requisite number of men to hundle them, was no- small part of the expense of a camp which was carrying on a large operation. Hence the American engineer got busy once more, and, deciding that the building of a private railroad line was too expensive a proposition for a single season’s operations, he decided to run the trains just the same, dispensing with the tracks —and he did. He built a locomotive which would run over the hard-packed snow of the logging roads, hauling, not a single sledge, but a train of them, and capable of moving 200,000 feet of logs every 24 hours, whereas the same amount of money invested in horses would move only 50,000 feet, or onefourth as much. Enter the cross-country locomotive. Exit the horse and the oxen team. The cross-country logging locomotive looks very much like the common or garden variety of switching engine, with the exception that the front trucks are replaced by sledges, and that around the two driving wheels on each side have been wrapped traction belts with caterpillar treads. The locomotive walks rather than runs, and the ridges in the treads, pressed down by the weight of the engine, obtain perfect traction, even on the hardest ice.

With 200 pounds of steam pressure they develop about 100 horse power, and have a speed of five miles an hour. While it will work over very rough country, It Is most economically operated, of course, over easy grades. In one other respect it differs from the ordinary locomotive. It takes two men to operate it, but one of them is kept busy steering. He sits over the front trucks, swinging the locomotive in the desired direction by means of a iow-geared wheel, very much like that of an automobile truck. The engineer, thus relieved of that responsibility, puts all his attention on the handling of his engine and doubling up on the fireman’s job. Naturally, with a few passages of the sledge trains, grooves become worn over the route, and these, well iced, serve Just as well as rails, so that the trains slip easily along, and do not have to plow a fresh path each trip. With roads well graded and iced the locomotive will handle from 7 to 15 heavy logging sleds with 5,000 or 7,000 feet of logs on each, making as high as 50 miles a day, and doing the work of from 12 to 18 four-horse teams. As only two men comprise the crew, it is easy to be seen that there is a substantial saving in wages. Furthermore, the logging locomotive Is tireless. It is only necessary to provide a shift of crews and run the trains at night as well as in the daytime to Increase the locomotive’s capacity to that of 24 or 36 four-horse teams on the 24-hour basis.

Clam Shells for Fertilizer.

A firm situated in a small town in New Brunswick, Canada, is grinding refuse clam shells and mixing them with other materials for use as commercial fertilizers. In the past many towns on shores where the clam Industry abounds have utilized these shells, if at all, for improving city roads. At one point on the Maine shore It Is reported that about 50,000 bushels of clam shells are left following the winter clam-canning season. The cost of utilizing the product prior to grinding at the factory is the expense of transportation by vessels.

DESIGNED TO FIGHT FIRE

Apparatus for Use on Railroad Lines Is Believed to Be of inestimable Value. Believing that the municipal firefighting facilities of the various communities through which its Hue passes are inadequate to protect its property, a Canadian transcontinental railway has built a fire-fighting apparatus of its own, designed to be hurried by locomotive to any scene of conflagration along its route, reports Popular Me* chanlcs Magazine. The outfit consists of an engine and tender coupied to a flat car carrying a tank having a capacity of 10,000 gallons of water. On the roof of the tank Is a 10-inch steamdriven duplex fire pump with a capacity of 300 gallons per minute. Steam for the pump is supplied from the locomotive’s car heater. By setting the latter's regulator at 120 pounds per square inch a water pressure of 100 pounds is secured at the nozzle. In a recent test the apparatus threw two streams about one hundred feeL One man is required to regulate the pump and two to operate the nozzles.

Cost of Electric Headlights.

Charles C. Paulding, solicitor for the New York Gentry railroad, told the members of the Interstate commerce commission that It would cost the railroads of the country $6,000,000 to equip their locomotives with electric headlights. He admitted that powerful headlights might be advisable on small railroads. “But on large roads, where there is density of traffic, multiple tracks and many signals," he said, “they would be otherwise than safety devices.” He said the large railroads were developing their signal systems, and that their efficiency wonld be minimized If not destroyed by the use of blinding headlights. W. S. Stone, chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, advocated the change, citing cases In which, he said, accidents could have been prevented with more powerful headlights. The 1,000,000 candle power headlights disclosed every object on the track for a sufficient distance to give the engineer warning In time to reduce the speed of hi# train If not to stop It, he said. He stated that the consensus among engineers Is that powerful headlights do not blind them nor do they Interfere with seeing signals when properly placed.

First and Last.

Less than SIOO was paid for the first locomotive in China. It weighed 22 hundredweight. The rails were about the size of walking sticks and lay 30 Inches apart. ( One day, after the seven-mile line had been operating only a few months, a trespasser was nm over and killed by the little engine. The rails were promptly torn up and shipped to Formosa to rust, thus ending the fate of the first railroad in China. That was only 42 years ago. Now China has more than 0,000 miles of railroad, with a net revenue of more than $8,000,000 a year. And C. C„ Wang of the government railroad bureau stands sponsor for this prophecy: “It is no exaggeration to say that there will be more railroads built in China during the coming 25 years than in all the rest of the world combined.”'

Eliminates Human Danger.

In Berne. Switzerland, powerful electric magnets are used In switching and coupling cars, thereby eliminating the hand coupling which costs many llvea annually. The state railroad has Installed a powerful storage battery, which furnishes the power for operating the switches and also for energizing the magnets. A magnet Is placed? at each of the four corners of a locomotive. These magnets are in cylinder form with ends flaring outward. After an engine has drawn up a car it may be coupled by feeding current to the magnets. Throwing out a switch uncouples the car. Each magnet Is capable of a pull of 3,740 pounds.

Relating to Brakes.

The United States Supreme court has ruled that the federal safety appliance regulations relating to brakes apply to electric as well as steam railroads operating in interstate commerce. The court affirmed a Judgment off $7,500 In favor of Edgar E. Campbell., motorman, who was injured In a collision between Spokane, Wash., and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, in which 18, persons were killed.

Ingenious Swiss Idea.

To lessen the smoke and gas In tunnels Swiss railroads are equipping their locomotive stacks with lids to be. . closed when a tunnel Is entered, steaiai being exhausted the engine*.