Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1917 — Page 2

SETTLERS FREE FROM TAXATION IN CLOBLftNO Michigan Legislature Enacts New Law to Help Man Building New Home. "No taxes for five years” Is the meat of a bill which Is now in force In Clover-Land, the upper peninsula of Michigan, and passed to assist in giving the new settler a start. The result of the bill and the general information sent out by The Upper Peninsula Development Bureau, 100 Bacon Block, Marquette, Mich., showing that CloverLand is the most productive portion of Michigan in nil crops, has resulted in a great demand for lands. Soil Is Good. Agricultural experts investigating the soil of Clover-Land have found that it is rich ami clean and capable of producing every crop grown in the Middle Western States. Much of the land is still idle ami in order to attract settlers to these lands the state legislature has passed a law providing that no settler need pay taxes for five years provided he clears two acres of land each yexr. The result has been a general activity in land movements and prominent land dealers of Clover-Land assert that' the time is near when prices are going to jump. At this time there are thousands of acres at fine prices. Good crops last season while other communities were having losses has startled agriculturar experts and Turned many eyes toward Clover-Land. Is Well Located. Clover-Land consists of the fifteen counties of upper Michigan. It has 1,000 miles of coast line on Lakes Superior, Michigan and Huron and -its climate is very pleasing as the result of the effects of the great lakes. Railroads in great numbers, the best highways in the Middle West, numerous water shipping points, pleasing climate, fertile soils and a fine class of people have brought hundreds of settlers into Clover-Land during the last few years. ■—Advertisement,

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STOP TO WATCH BAYONET DUEL

American Who Fought in France Describes Ghastly Incident of the War. DUELISTS KILL EACH OTHER Former Harvard Student Who Enlisted in Canadian Regiment and Lost an Eye in Service Tells of Thrilling Experiences. Cambridge, Mass.—A.vivid war diary by Aimer Auzias de Turenne, a student at the Harvard Law School now living in Seattle, who lost his right eye fighting with the First Canadian contingent at Ypres, is published in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, extracts of which follow: “I had completed my first year at says de Turenne, “and was spending my holidays in Canada when the war broke out; and I, an A ’ terieau, decided to enlist. “It was on September 4, 1014, at Valcartier, near Quebec, one of the training camps of Canada, that I enlisted in the Fifth battery, Second brigade, Canadian Field Artillery. After remaining a short time in camp we left Canada for England, a forc«, of 86,000 men, as members of the First and thence we went to France to the firing line. It was not until the grst German gas attack that we got a real idea of warfare in all its horrors.” After a short account of the battle of Neuve Chappelle and the first use at gas byth e Ger mans, De Turen n e describes the battle of Ypres:

Describes Fateful Battle. “Ahead of us lay a long field, and then a row of tall trees bordering the Yzer canal, then further on another plain and a little hill. At my point of vantage I picked tip a pair of field glasses and, looking along the Yzer canal, I could see black lines moving up a hill. The Infantry was charging. Occasionally the black lines would stop and then continue again, leaving every.time black, dots behind them—these were the dead and wounded. At night time it was also possible to see our own shells explode. “One morning about 10;30 the gunners were all sitting by <helr guns awaiting the order to fire, some smoking, others chatting. Shells were flying by, but far Off, and nobody was paying attention, we got so used to them. I happened to be fixing the bridle of my horse, about 20 feet from the nearest gun, when I heard a shell come. It seemed to come straight for where,l was, judging by the sound; I turned around to see it explode. It explodeilabove my head nt about the height of 30 or 40 feet. I saw the explosion. A large piece of the outside

Make a Record for Efficiency

New British Armies Perfectly Organized and Fitted Out for Business of War. ■ 1 - HI6H IDEALS ARE FOLLOWED StanrtaM.Set by G>H»nt Fx?rrr Wt-'-ife Went Out to Mons Closely Followed in Training Thousands of Recruits. London. —Great Britain’s new armies are now so perfectly organized and fitted out that one may be likely to lose sight of the greatness of their creation and the unexampled difficulties that had to be surmounted. Thepe was a sdrry tatterdemalion "stage, due to shortage of boots, uniforms and so forth. !" The tiny army that went put to Mons in August, 1914, was probably the besttrained body Of troops in Europe for its size. Its high standard was that which those training the new armies had before them as ah ideal. The first 17 months of the war was the difficult period. Nearly all the efficient instructors had gone with the men, who added another laurel to'England’s military record in the great retreat from Mons. At the outbreak of war the accommodation available for single men in barracks in the British isles was hardly 175,000 units. Hosts of recruits poured in. It was difficult to get timber, labor, inspectors; to all the camps water and gas or electric light had to be laid; old roads were repaired, new ones made, and special lines of railroad laid to all the largest camps. Civilian Clothing Used. In the clothing dilemma, while the dozen makers of khaki cloth were being expanded to two hundred, civilian overcoats were bought up and served out to soldiers. When war started the country had fewer than’Boo,ooo Rifles, of which, only the authorized reserve of 150,000 reinalned after the original force, mobilized on August 4, had been armed. And at that time the weekly output of rifles in the United Kingdom was under two thousand. Of guns there were at the outbreak of war only enough for eight divisions, with the authorized reserve for wastage. _ ,

. THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER, JND.

The Wake of a Torpedo THOSE who have traveled by the lanes when the end has come. Nations have of the seas during the last two years listed with bated breath while witnesses and have gone near that end of the have testified to the crawl of the earth where chaos reigns, have waterß t * lat meanß *ke approach of watched with unrelaxed vigilance the torpedo. International crises for a stealthy rippling of the sur- have hung upon what men said face made by that mole of the MW * n sea, the torpedo, as it bores it- trackless deep. seU a hole through the water. jMgfcJS The photographer has Great ships hsve strained _ here made a picture of the the eves of their lookouts in travail of the placid ocean relentless vigilance and have J * n t^ie wa ’ < ® one racked their very vitals in these messengers of attempts to dodge the de- death, so that he who Structive creature at the Ba *' B may recognize point of the wake. Men *Tie handwriting aboard have watched the reaper if the serpent thrust it- he should chance self out until its nose *° **• has reached their ‘ r own stout craft, ' W

of the casing "of the shell, about a quarter of an inch thick and one inch and a half long, struck me flush in the right eye, smashing the orbit, penetrating clean through the face, causing a bulging of the hard palate of the mouth, whence it was extracted. I stiH have the piece, which I treasure as a souvenir. For a moment I was stunned hs though hit by a sledge -hammer; then cam e a nasty sensation, not exactly very painful. Putting my hand to my face, I managed to reach a little fence by the nearest gun, and there the loss of blood caused me to sit down; My companions 1 tying to my aid, I was laid on an old-fashioned Flemish farm wagon drawn by the shadow of a once decent horse. During all that time I was fußy-couscious, and I distinctly remember my trip from the place of the wound to England.” —Ghastly Bayonet Duel. — Mr. de Turenne describes the following incident, of which he was an eye witness: “It was in the early times of this terrific struggle. Somewhere in Flanders the trenches stood only 200 yards I apart. On one side were the French, on the other the Germans. The Germans had attempted ft counter-attack,

The greatest difficulties arose from lack of officers to train the new armies. On the eve of starting an order came to the expeditionary force from the war office that every battalion should leave behind one captain and one subaltern Jisslwr in liuiuing, TliffU helped greatly. Some two hundred of the Indian army, home on leave, were retained for training purposes: retired < i ffic ’) we re. appQljJte4=4fe rtvHfsns weFTfiSF age of twenty-five received their first commissions as lieutenants or captains. The wisdom of providing a method of rapidly expanding the commissioned ran ks by -means of the Officer ST Training, corjis became apparent. Within the first year of the war Oxford university O. T. C. provided more than 2,500 officers sos the army; Cambridge University.O. T. C„ more than 2.000; three northern universities more than 1,000, and Inns of Court O. T. C. more than 2,500. New Army Off After Nine Months. Only nine months after embodiment the first new army was sent to the front, closely followed by the. second and third. Even some divisions of the fourth and fifth were fit to go - to the front barely a year after they had been raised. And none of them gave a bad account of themselves. The secret of the great triumph over difficulties lies chiefly in the magnificent spirit of all ranks. If any special rank is to be picked out. It is undoubtedly true that the backbone of these new armies was the junior subalterns. Mostly untrained, or half trained, "they came to learn their work with their men, and had no false shame in telling them so —without any prejudice of discipline* Not content with the exacting labors of the parade ground, they sat up late preparing their work for the next day. studying military textbooks, practicing problems of strategy and tactics; at mess hardly any junior subaltern talked anything but “shop.” They put posers to the majors and the colonels, which these as willingly tackled. They were, in fact, all keen and on their mettle, and as on the whole they had been well chosen for brain power and aptitude to command, they taught themselves und their men, too, as they went. The same tribute Is applicable in greater or less degree to all ranks. There was everywhere a determination to* overcome difficulties somehow and to gfet on with the work.

and as it was getting dark they were forced to retire, with great losses, leav* ing the dead and wounded on the field. Amid this awful carnage two men only remained, a Frenchman and a German. They were engaged in a bayonet duel, one trying to kill the other. They were both dancing around in circled like demons, thrusting and stabbing right and left. One had to go, and they fought. It was practically dark by this time. The pale moon shone a sickly reflection on these two human beings. Their features*were drawn and haggard, their eyes flashed and bulged out of their orbits,the expression on th etr fa cos' was ghastly—that of utmost despair. And still they danced, each fighting for his existence, when all of a sudden this uncanny Performance came, to an abrupt stop. There was a sharp click, a thrust and a muffled sound. Both bayonets wend home, both men stood transfixed, both .felLdead-tothegivmnd.' 1 '

RECOGNIZES SON IN NAVAL MOVIE PICTURE

Charleston. W. Va.—When R. E. Washington, a hotel man here, went into a moving picture theater he learned the whereabouts of his twenty-year-old son Lawrence, who disap-' peared from his home two years ago. The film showed a picture of the dreadnaught Pennsylvania in target practice in the Hampton Roads' proving grounds, with Washington manning one of the guns. The father recognized his son Im. stantly. The picture showed honors being conferred on the young man, who made three hits without a was promoted from ordinary seaman to chief gun pointer, with an increase of $8- in his monthly stipend. The youth is a direct descend.mt of George Washington's brother Charles, for whom Charlestown, W. Va., was named. '

RING TEARS OFF HIS FINGER

Catches in Nail as Wyoming Mart Leaps From Hayrick to the Ground. Newcastle, Wyo.-—-E.. M. Johnson of Howard,while Jumping from, a. hay-* rick to the ground the other afternoon, had the misfortune to lose a finger. Mr. Johnson’s ring became caught in a nail when he jumped, and the finger was torn completely off at the first joint. He was at once brought to town to have the finger attended to. and a physician amputated the mem ber at the second joint. He is now doing as well as can be expected. Mr. Johnson is staying al the home of his brother, Clarence Johnson, in this city, while he is under the doctor’s care.

Nearly 1,000 in Family.

Hiawatha. Kan—The biggest family in this county has almost 1,000 mem* bers. It is at Reserve, nine railed north of here. Reserve is a small town of 200 or more people with an average Kansas population in the coun, try surrounding for an area of six miles. Yet in the town and the entire area of country within six miles of the town there are than ten families who are nos related to each other by ties of .blood or marriage. Of these ten fandilies nearly all are strangers who have moved ■ int* the community in recent yean.

SWIMMING GREAT AID

Develop Muscles Essential for Professional Boxer. Australian Crawl Stroke Produce# Shoulder Development Necessary for Knockout Punch, Says Promoter Raker, “It has always been a favorite contention of mine that providing he suffers no special disability, the swimmer whose body has beeik developed by that best of all exercises has acquired a physique the possession of which is indispensable to success as a boxer* says “Snowy” Baker, Australian fight promoter and physicalculture expert; 2 - “The development that results from natatorial exercises is superior to that procured by any strong-man system, fer the muscnliir bulginess so pronounced in wrestlers and weight lifters is rarely conspicuous in the swimmer. “When Tn repose the swimmer’s muscles do not obtrude themselves, but t nevertheless,- when the effort is wanted, when the strain is put upon them, they respond readily. “It is somewhat of a coincidence, too, that in build the swiinnrer and boxer are much the same. Boxers usually have their weight where it is most needed, being big of shoulder and light in hips and legs. Many good swimmers are heavy limbed, but the majority show a tendency to taper from the chest down and approach the ideal of physical beauty immortalized in Greek statuary. “In both swimming and boxing the muscles brought into play are regularly tensed and relaxed. The swimmer making his stroke exerts all his strength, and then, recovering for the next one, the muscles are at rest. The boxer delivers his blow with tensed muscles and then relaxes. So it goes throughout a contest in the water or in the ring, alternate strain and rest for the muscles employed, and so both produce a condition where the muscles retain their elasticity and respond readily and quickly to all calls made upon them. “I have before today expressed the opinion that one swimming stroke, the Australian crawl, produces a shoulder development that is a necessary possession of the man with a "knockout ’ 'punchy So far as my experience of boxing goes, the favored few who have the handy gift of being able to dispose of an opponent with one “clout” are always men with loose shoulder action and good shoulder development. “Now, with the crawl stroke most of the work falls to the shoulder and arms; and (he continual effort to pull the body through the water‘with a swinging action results in such a development.”

GOOD POINTS OF BASEBALL

President Tener of NaHbnal 'd-eague Enumerates Many Advantages of Out* National Sport. Baseball, according to President Tener of the National league, “stimulates the mind, recreates the exhaust-

President John K. Tener.

ed faculty, amuses the jaded sense, revives the sluggish blood, makes strong the weak muscle and impels a vigor and health to the body that no other form of exercise combining the element of sport can accomplish.” There, just see how finch you get with your bleacher ticket I

CINCINNATI GETS CUBAN STAR

Romanach; Player Subject of Recent Investigation, Is Finally Signed by Herrmann's Club. The Cincinnati club announces the signing of, Thomas Romanach, the Cuban player, whose case was the subject of a recent investigation by the national commission. He played with the Long Branch team in 1914 and the Brooklyn club made an agreement for his purchase, which afterward was not carried out Later he returned to Cuba, Where he has been rated one of the star players of the Island. Cincinnati sought him even before Brooklyn made its bidnow it gets him.

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Airship Losses in Europe.

An official recapitulation in Berlin of the statistics of airship losses during the year 1916 indicates that the Germans lost 221 machines and their opponents sacrificed 784. The bulk of the losses on both sides was in the West, where the Germans lost 181 airships and the English and French 739, It is declared.

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Woman’s Reason.

“You say he has no money?” “None.” “No prospects?” ’None.” “Why on earth does she want to marry such a man?” “She says she loves him.”

Woman Judges in Queensland.

Woman justices are sitting in th® present session of the high court at Brisbane, Australia, for the first time In the history of Queensland.

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