Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1917 — Page 3

HUSHING SHELLS TO RATTLE FRONT NO SLACKER’S JOB

THE “LEGION OF DEATH"

One of the courageous girls in the “Legion of Death” on parade. When the soldiers at the front refused to fight and became laggard of discipline, a number of heroic Russian women organized themselves into the “Legion of Death” and took the places of the men at the front. They fought furiously- and the Germans were put to flight at the sector, where they were engaged. The wonderful story of their deeds has thrilled the world and made history. Every girl in the battalion carries a dose of cyanide of potassium to use in event of her capture. They do Dot fear death, but they dread capture.

HUNTS FOR MAN SHE LOVES

North Dakota Girl Travels From City to City Till Success Crowns Efforts. Eugene, Ore. —Mary Dorothy Ford, eighteen years old, following the death and burial of her parents at Dickinson, North Dakota, set out three months agp to find ■Granville E. Wetzell, twenty, from whom she had been separated for several years. Her general knowledge was that he was in either California, Washington or Oregon. She traveled to the Pacific coast and from city to city, paying her expenses by working as a waitress. Miss Ford came to Eugene recently and scanned ’the faces In the crowd assembled to celebrate Independence day here and found Wetzell, who had been making his home with his father, W. G. Wetzell, on a farm near this city. Wetzell and the girl first became friends when both were residents of North Dakota. The girl’s parents moved to another city and the Wetzell family came to Oregon. Each lost track of the other. Following the meeting at Eugene the old friendship was renewed and immefijate plans were made for the wedding, which took place at the home of the bridegroom’s father.

FINDS HIS PAPERS VOID

Innocent St Louisan Is Unknowingly an Allen for 17 Years—Files for New Papers. St. Louis. —William J. Mackie, superintendent of the American Car company, who has believed for 17 years that he was an American citizen, has learned that his naturalization papers were fraudulent and that he must file new papers. Ten days ago Mackie appeared in the naturalization ofilce as a witness for an alien. His status was asked and he said that he had been naturalized In 1900. The naturalization records show that around that time about 7,500 fraudulent papers were issued in an effort to pad the election registration. Mackie was told to produce his papers. These showed that he apparently had been naturalized October 15, 1900. The records of the St. Louis court of Appeals show, that no papers were issued to Mackie. Mackie, an innocent party in the matter, surrendered his fraudulent papers to M. B. Bevington, chief naturalization examiner, and will file for new papers.

Petrified Oaks Under Ground.

Fremont, Neb.—Petrified trunks of oak trees have been found 30 feet under ground in sandpits here. A theory advanced is that the trees were burled several centuries ago when the stream that is now the Platt ri'-er cut Its channel through here. There are now no oak trees in the Platte river valley except transplanted specimens.

When Word Comes Men Behind Lines Work With Desperate Speed.

DELAY MAY MEAN DEFEAT

Road Builders Who Follow Fighting Ranks Taxed to the Utmost—Motor Lorries Play an Important Part In the Work. By F. W. WARD. (In the New York Tribune.) London. —To render an advance posr sible and to insure that everything shall be kept up to date behind the line is no small order. There is no time for sitting down and thinking things over. If anything has to be done it has to be done at once. A few hours’ delay might be very convenient to the organizer, but such delay would probably vitiate any plans he might make. That is why, when anything has to be done in the matter of repairs and rearrangements behind the line it has to be done at top speed. There are no “hours" in the army. If a job has to be rushed, then everybody buckles to the task and keeps on slogging until the job is finished. Tommy may grouse—he wouldn’t be much good if he didn’t —but he gets away with the job when he knows it is important Once a job had to be done at a spot where the Huns had been shelling for three solid days. It was just the removal of stores, and all the spare R. A. M. C. and A. S. C. men had been pressed into the service on this particular occasion. It was carried through at night, naturally, and there were no lights to be shown. The party would have been blown out of the earth if there had been any indication of their presence.

It wasn’t an easy job. In fact, it was real hard work, the loading up of lorries, wagons, anything that could be got in the way of wheeled transport. “Now, then, you chaps,” said the officer -in charge, “I don’t know who you are or where you come from. But we’ve got to get this job done in about three hours. If we don’t we shall be shelled to h at daylight.” There was some cheerful growling, but the job was done well under the time, and a dixie of tea at the finish put every one in a thoroughly good humor. Motor Lorries Used. This was only a small job, “somewhere in France,” but it was typical of an infinite number. As things are now, there are plenty of stores and material to do practically any job, but of necessity they are not as a rule on the spot, where they are actually required. Rail heads and engineer dumps cannot be carried forward on the very heels of the advance. That can be easily understood. But when something has to be ddne in a hurry, these materials can be brought up by means of motor lorried, with an A. S. C. driver at the wheel and an engineer officer in charge.

Ammunition dumps, with their millions of shells, have to be built so as to be within easy reach of the transport. But other roads have to be made, leading through the dump from the main route. This is necessary in order that a lorry may be brought in and loaded or unloaded from either side. These roads are of the corduroy variety, a floor of pit props being laid and made secure, for the time being. But when it does rain in France —well, you know all about it. It isn’t long before the logs begin to sag, as the water gets into the ground beneath, and the first thing you know is that a lorry dips down at an awkward angle, one of the wheels disappears up to the axle, and the logs splay out in all directions. That’s where the rush begins. A strong pull and a long pull gets the lorry out of the way, up come the loose logs, the ground beneath is made up with brushwood or short lengths of timber, well pegged down, the surface is relald, and a couple of hours later things are going on well again. Perhaps, though, there are not enough pit props available. Round rushes an officer, gets a chit from the office of the chief engineer of the army corps operating there, hops on a lorry, and away he pelts to the nearest rail head or dump. The chit is handed in to the officer in charge there, the necessary material is issued and loaded, back goes the lorry again, and the job is done. Perhaps a road is under water. Well, iron pipes are necessary to take

LEAVES MILLIONS FOR RELIEF WORK ABROAD

New York. —Mrs. Warren C. Van Slyke, millionairess in her own right and wife of a leading attorney of this city, has sailed for France to take up once more relief activities she dropped a year ago. She will join the hospital unit to which she belongs and which is now stationed along the western front. Her husband joined' the Naval Reserves the day after war was declared, although he is beyond the military age. -

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$156.30 IS EQUIPMENT COST OF EVERY SOLDIER

Washington. —lt costs the United States just $156.30 to equip an infantryman for service in France. Figures made public show that of this total clothing represents $101.21, fighting equipment $47.36 and eating utensils $7.73. The soldier’s gas mask costs sl2, his steel helmet $3 and his rifle $19.5(1 The first 600,000 to 800,000 of America’s fighting men will be equipped with the present Springfield army rifle, those to follow will the Enfieljl used by English troops.

the surplus from one side of the highway to a ditch on the other, and iron pipes have to be found. They do not grow on the bushes by the side of the road. They are stacked perhaps milei* away on a dump, and they have to be brought up. Then, and not till then, the work can, be done, and the route released for traffic again. Even steam rollers have to be considered, for a steam roller has a soul, and has to be humored. The first steam roller I saw in France came from a London suburb, and she was resting in a ditch. The next I saw was one from the county council of a southern county. She was in a ditch, too. Both were got out, of course, but the edge of a road in France has an uncanny habit of breaking away, and then the trouble begins. One roller I knew was the most perverse creature I ever met. She made a start by blowing out the plug of her boiler and had to be assisted from a small river twice by means of a couple of “caterpillar” tractors. Then, suddenly, she appeared to change her mind, and when I heard of her lasi was working as though she were at home. She had to be kept at work; too, and her repairs had also to b«» rushed. When the plug blew out, for Instance, an officer who happened t«/ come along tookra couple of men round' to a French blacksmith’s shop, found some lead, made the repairs there and then, paid half a franc out of his own pocket and wasted only a few hours over the task Instead of a couple of days. Economy of time means everything, and an hour saved means an hour gained.

Real Rush Repair. “Somewhere in France" there is a little river about the width of a canal and with the water confined between banks some feet higher than the surrounding country. The Hun naturally shelled these banks, with the intention of letting all the stream into the fields. Now and again he got home on his objective. But in a few minutes, with sheets of corrugated iron, posts, wire bindings, rolls of brushwood —in fact, anything that was at hand —the gap was filled in and the damage repaired. This was a real rush repair, and it went on at intervals, day and night, for a week or ten days. Then Tommy shoved the Hun back, and he had something else to occupy his attention. Getting up material for these repairs by means of /motor lorries is, too, not a task for children. When you walk across a field or through a wood there isn’t usually much danger in it. But the Huns know where the roads are, and he also knows there is transport coming up or down practically all the time. So, suddenly, he starts shelling, and then you have to get a real move oh. You are also, I may add, just as likely to run into anything as to run away from it. Once a lorry was going down to fetch some stuff from a dump about twelve miles back. Then the shells began to pop over. That meant putting on speedy and for five or six miles it was a race between the shells, the lorry and a motor car. The trio traveled “some,” but the car couldn’t gain a yard on the lorry, and eventually both ran out of range. When the lorry came back, loaded, a couple of hours later, it was found that four shell craters had been blpwn in the road, but that the engineers had already been on the spot and repaired all the damage done.

COLLEGE HEAD “DOING BIT”

Former President of Geneva College Working as Stevedore Somewhere In France. Beaver Falls, Pa.—-From college president to stevedore is a long step, but that is what has happened tn the life of Rev. Dr. Will lain. Henry George, former president of Geneva college here, who is doing his tyit “somewhere in France.” Mr. George enlisted as an ambulance driver in the American Red Cross unit of Harvard university, of which he is ail alumnus. Arriving in France, he found that there were more ambuiance drivers than ambulances, so he volunteered for work in the division. He is now doing the work of stevedore and ordinary laborer, according to a letter received by his sister here. Stung 100 Times by Bees. Huntington, Ind Elgie Wamper, a farmer, is nursing a sore and much larged head, as the result of 100 bee stings he suffered when he tried to escape from a swarm of bees which alighted on his head and shoulders. The bees selected him for a roosting place just as he was climbing' on $ binder. Ross Kaufman, owner of the farm, rescued him. Kaufnian counted the stingers he pulled head and shoulders. . f 7

MAKING FRUIT BUTTERS GOOD WAY TO UTILIZE SURPLUS PRODUCTS

There will be more or less fruit which will not be salable because of lack of a local market, lack of time to pick and pack for distant markets, or because the amount may seem too small at any one time to be worth saving. Such fruit should not be allowed to go to waste, for it may be used in making fruit butters, urge experts of the United States department of agriculture. Well-made fruit butters are very welcome and “tasty.” and go a long way to make plain cereals appetizing. Children and older people, too, like such fruit butter on bread, and it is good dietetics as well as good economy to use such highly flavored products to “carry” a relatively large amount of mllder-flavored food. It is desirable to use only good quality fruit for fruit butters, and it must be remembered that poor fruits will not make good fruit butters. However, as every housekeeper knows, part of an apple or other fruit may be sound and good while 'the remainder is not, owing to bruising or other injury, and such good portions may be used successfully for fruit butter making. Thus it is often a decided economy, since it saves what would otherwise be a total loss.

There is no better way to use good apples and the sound portions of windfall, wormy and bruised apples than to make apple butter of them. While almost all varieties of apples will make good apple butter, those with distinctive flavor and good cooking quality are most satisfactory. Such old standard varieties as Northern Spy, Rhode Island Greening, Tompkins King and Smokehouse are excellent for this purpose. The summer varieties also will make good apple butter, it has been found by recent tests in the United States department of agriculture. If apples of coarse texture are used, it is desirable to cook them and put them through a colander or coarsewlre strainer before adding them to the boiled cider. Sweet apples are sometimes used with tart ones. Overripe apples are not desirable. Apple butter is made by boiling dowm fresh, sweet cider to half its original qauntity, then adding apples which have been peeled and sliced. The apples either are added directly to the boiled cider and cooked in it until the apple butter is done or are made into apple sauce, which is cooked in the boiling cider. The cooking should be continued until the cider and apple pulp do not separate; then the butter will be of the right thickness when cold.

It takes about equal amounts of sweet cider and peeled and sliced apples to make apple butter of the right consistency. In other words, if five gallons of sweet cider are used it should be boiled down to two and onehalf gallons, and five gallons of peeled and sliced apples should be added, either raw or made into apple sauce. Two things essential to making good apple butter are: Long, slow cooking (four to six hours), and constant stirring. If sugar is used, it should be added after the cooking of cider and apples is about two-thirds done. About a pound of either white or brown sugar is the usual amount per gallon of apple butter, but more or less, or not any, may be used to suit the taste. •

SOME SMILES

When Brother Tells.

An Approval. “What I object to about ‘The Stslr Spangled Banner' is that I wouldn't attempt to sing it.” “That’s one of the things I like about it” '_ - ~ ■ “This war is going to make many women here widows.” “Well, perhaps, some of the women will be very glad there is a way to do it legally.” So Many Are Like That

“Were the eggs you got from the grocer fresh ?” Mrs. Kawler asked. “Oh, obsoletely,” replied Mrs. Bl underby. -

Magnanimous Friendship. Belle—Jack thinks in marrying Gladys he is going to get an angel. By the way, who at the wedding is going to give her away? Nell—l could, but I won’t There are nearly half a million Italians near Buenos Aires in the Argentine. s

Mr. Goodthing— How does your sister like the engagement ring I gave her, Bobby? He r Young Brother —Well, it’s a little too small ; she has an awful hard time-getting it off when the other fellows call.

Saving the Surplus.

American “Pep” Displayed By Uncle Sam’s Fighters Startles French Engineers

Between the seaport with its passing camp and the fighting front where the expedition must wind up, American officers and engineers have been looking out for bases and suitable railway junctions and whatever is needed for the movement of troops. Since the French censor has passed it, and because it shows another impression which the French ttre perhaps inclined to exaggerate, I may be allowed to give a story of this American work, says a writer in the Nation. A French colonel, who was with the American engineers, but did not tell the story. Informs me that the Indication of the place is not exact—which Is quite another thing. “They and We” the French reporter headlines the story, willing to stir up his own people by comparison. "Our good friends of America wish to organize a railway station for their army depot. So the Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean company gave them available ground at (some 150 miles south of Paris). When the Americans saw what had been turned over to them, they laughed. •“Is that all? Why, we need at least thirty miles of track.’ “The French engineers were struck of a heap, but they gave the thirty good miles of track which were demanded. One of them remarked to the Americans: 'Well, you’ve got it; but It will take six months to draw up your plans for such a depot.’

Keep What They Make.

Nanking has two educational institutions under government supervision which are worthy of mention. The best housed school in Nanking at present is the Military college, which was built for China by the Germans. The government Normal college has taken on a new lease of life after being closed for several years, says the Christian Herald. Formerly the courses in this school followed the Japanese plan, but at present, according to the professor who showed me around, the whole curriculum is Chinese, as they follow no foreign system, but only take the best out of all and improve on that. No tuition or charge for meals or room is collected, but all students are pledged to teach after graduation, with all privileges of keeping what they can make. As an ex-teacher and the son of a professor, I can see the logic and humor of the latter provision.

Underseas Telephones Not An Impossibility, is Belief

Of recent years there has been much discussion about a telephone service between America and Europe. Romancers have taken delight in picturing the hero of the future as “ringing up" the heroine in London, from a Broadway telephone booth. But it would seem that the thing may be possible after all. Recently the largest submarine telephone cable In existence was laid under the Hudson river, running from Nyack to Tarrytown. This telephone connects the two systems on either side of the river, and constitutes an Important link in the telephone service of the district. The size of the cable and the difficulties which attended Its laying made the event one of special Interest in the technical world Experts profess to see In the success achieved a promise of ’ transatlantic telephone lines. .

Apple butter is spiced according to one’s preference, about half a teaspoonful each of ground cinnamon, cloves and allspice for each gallon being a common mixture. These are stirred into it when the cooking is finisl) oil While still boiling hot, apple butter should be packed In hot, < sterilized glasses, glass jars or hermetically sealed stone Jars, or crocks with tightly fitting covers, and be sterilized in steam as follows: Set the containers, filled and with tops on, in a vessel fitted with false bottom and deep enough to hold them, pour in a little water, put on the cover to hold In the ateam, and set over the fire. Begin to count time when the steam starts to escape, and after five minutes (ten for half gallon, or 15 for larger containers), take the containers out to cool, then sot them away for future use. Do not disturb the covers until the apple Iratter Is to be used. If the covers do not fit tightly, place waxed or oiled paper in them to make a tight fit before sterilizing is done. This sterilizing Is done for the purpose of preventing any spoiling of the top layers of' apple butter, and also to take the"place of a layer of paraffin which, though a good seal, is now quite expensive. All fruit butters and similar products should be sterilized in the same way. Good apple butter is often made without the use of cider. Enough water is added to the peeled a/id sliced apples to make a thin apple sauce and this is allowed to cook very slowly, or simmer, over a low fire for three or four hours. Brown rather than white sugar is usually used, being added when the cooking is two-thirds done. The sugar which settles at the bottom of barrels of New Orleans molasses is excellent for this purpose. A pound per gallon is usually sufficient but this amount Is a matter of taste as Is also the amount of cinnamon, allspice, and cloves to be added when the cooking la done.

“ 'Six months!’ exclaimed the. chief American engineer. 'Why, we hope to have time to get our plans together In the train going up to Paris.’ ” The French reporter adds, rubbing It In: “The next day laborers were on the spot, beginning the work.”

Use Bible in Literacy Test For Aliens Under New Law

The Bible has been designated by the department of labor as one of the bcoSs to be used In the literacy testJCor a’lens under the new Immigration Ir.w recently enacted by congress. Passages will be selected from the Bible In more than 100 languages and •dialects. The reason for the use of lhe Bible In such literacy tests Is not because the Bible is the word of God, birt because it is now the only book translated Into virtually every language In the world, says the Christian Observer. The department gives this fact as Its reason for the selection of the Bible and adds: “Translations of the Bible were made by eminent scholars, and what is more to the point, the translating was done by men whose purpose it was to put the Bible in such simple and idiomatic expressions in the various foreign languages as would make it possible for the common people of foreign countries to grasp the meaning readily and thoroughly.”

U-Boat Warfare Sounds Doom of the Old-Fashion Forecastle

One interesting result of submarine frightfulness has been to provide for the comfort of crews in a way which otherwise might not have come in our time. The noisome forecastle, a tradition from the days of sails and of the small ships in which comfort could not very reasonably be expected, is eliminated in the new standardized British ships. Instead, the shipping controller. Sir Joseph Maclay, has decided that the men are to be berthed aft The primary reason was to secure increased safety from mines and torpedoes, but fmprovements are to be added which will make sea life pleasanter and which, doubtless, will be kept after the war. In place of the open forecastle, there will be doublebunked cubicles, and a messroom will be added, as well as a common smok-ing-room for sailors and firemen. With so much new shipping being constructed these Improvements can be made very rapidly, and will effect such a revolution in sea life as could not have been anticipated in our time, says the Springfield Republican. No doubt our shipping board is keeping track of all these British innovations.

A length of cable 14,670 feet long was required for the job. It took a sand-scow, a tugboat and a lightdraft tug eight days to lay the cable, which weighed about ninety tons. Seventy-four pairs of wires were run through the big tube, and the people on both sides of the river can now hold “submarine” conversation just as though there was not several miles of water, between telephones.

A’bas—The Fly Swatter!

That favorite weapon of offense and defense, the fly swatter, is in the minds of many imaginative people about as - disagreeable as the fly itself. Let’s go back to the reliable sticky fly paper which accounts for its thousands without any effort other than putting out fresh sheets twice a week. 1 , !r Among the latest sanitary appliances for public eating places is a spoon pressed from paper that can be thrown away after using.