Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 312, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1918 — Smoked Dry Pipe. [ARTICLE]

Smoked Dry Pipe.

The lost pipe of a Hun raider was found in the garden of a bouse In an Essex town over which a German airship passed. A portion of the stem has been cut and flattened and upon it is written In indelible ink, “Karl Werner, 13138—A. G.” The under side of the bowl and the stem have been notched eleven times and On the side of the mouthpiece are more notches. The finder of the pipe said: '‘There w’as no smell of tobacco about the pipe and it had not apparently been recently smoked. It is possible that, it was used by the owner as a dry pipe as the mouthpiece shows signs* of hard biting. The notches cut in the stem may record the number of - times the airman had flown with it in his mouth.” “Smoking” a dry pipe is not Unusual, especially would it be the case In a Zeppelin in which a spark from a lighted pipe might cause the ship’s destruction.