Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1918 — Page 2

SPY OUTWITTED BY AN OLD WOMAN

Curiosity. Aroused by Actions of Foreign Gentleman on Aberdeen Express. DOES SOME SWIFT THINKING Looking Stupid Io Her Specialty, and When Officers Grab the Spy ,He Looks at Old Lady and Sighs. London. —The best spy story In a long time comes from a medical officer, one of the big guns of his corps and profession. It is all about the Aberdeen Express, one of the world’s quickest long-distance runs. You leave London after the theater, go to bed In the train, have a cup of tea in bed at Edinburgh, and breakfast in Aberdeen, 60(1 mijes from town. Northward from Edinburgh there are stops a while on the Forth bridge, from whence you look down onto the _decks of first-class battleships, and at Dundee, and Montrose.

The old lady boarded the train at Edinburgh and the porter shoved her Into a non-smoking compartment of the day coach. The other passenger was a foreign gentleman —of what nationality it would be hard to say, but foreign. As to the lady, she seemed a harmless old thing some fifty-three years of age. The point is that one of the two was really a German spy, and anyone’s first suspicion would point to the old lady. She owned up frankly that she enjoyed a gossip, and found the foreign gentleman quite a good fellow. As to his nationality, the accent gave no clue. She pumped him perseveringly. A few stops from Edinburgh the train stopped on the Forth bridge. From the trains one looks down upon a naval base of first-rate consequence. A spy, making rapid summary of the capital ships In full view, might pick up important information. The foreign gentleman stood up, filling the window, shutting out the view, and annoyed the old lady, who also wanted to have a look. Moreover, she saw him go through a long fumbling procedure which puzzled her extremely. What on earth was he up so? The only thing she saw was the last swift movement which emptied the bulgy part of his overcoat. And she caught the glimpse of a wing. Now the whole thing was clear; there must nave been a message scribbled rapidly, folded and made fast and then sudjen release of a carrier pigeon. The Old Lady’s Specialty. And then the foreigner flashed round to see If the lady had noticed anything. No, evidently not. She looked vacant, nodding and half asleep. “I looked sjtupld,” she said afterward, “but that’s my specialty.” She must have done some very swift thinking before he had time to turn round. Her first impulse was to run Hong the corridor and find the guard ar rouse the first soldier she saw. But ‘hen the foreigner would see by her first movement he was In danger, and she did not want to be strangled, hrown out of the window, and drowned In the Forth estuary. She became affable, wondering what had delayed the train so long. He expressed noble sentiments concerning the allies and contempt for Germany. But as the train pulled into Dundee the old lady, expressed her conviction that the morning papers would be for sale by this time at the bookstalls. She felt that a little run on the platform would ease her limbs after the cramped compartment. She would buy a paper for the foreign gentleman also. Half-way to the bookstall she met a porter. It would be natural to ask him how long the train stopped.

NO FOOD WASTE ALLOWED HERE

Rumors of waste of food at cantonment “eatnps have l>een hotly resented by officers who have charge of garbage disposal at the various camps. This picture shows the unloading of garbage at the central depot at Camp Meade. The cans are brought from benches underneath the windows of each mess hall. Each Can is labeled for various sorts of refuse so that bones, cans, paper, etc., kro' lnto separate receptacles. The camp’s conservation officer notes the contents of each can as they, are dumped into motortrucks for sale to Contractors. At Camp Meade a cook who falls to scrape a bone properly Is in for a stiff call.

“Don’t be seen speaking,” she said, as she passed the porter. “There’s a\ spy in my carriage. Send the station master to me aUthe bookstall.” When the station master came behind the lady spoke into an, open newspaper Just as though she were reading aloud. “Don’t be seen speaking with me,” she said. “There’s a spy In my carriage. The train stops at Montrose next, eh? Well, wire Montrose!" y She paid for her bundle of papers and walked back to the carriage. The spy seemed unsuspicious, sitting where she had left him, much obliged for the newspaper. The plucky old lady sat opposite to her spy and entertained him until they reached Montrose. No Stranger.

Then came to their compartment a British officer with an armed guard and a detective, who greeted the spy at once like a long-lost brother. “Why,” said he, “I’ve been searching for you for months.” The spy looked out through the window eastward and saw an armed sentry waiting on the metals in case he attempted escape. Then he looked at the lady—the artful old lady—and sighed. Later the old lady received an official communication of warm congratulation on her patriotism, courage and high Intelligence, begging her to accept the Inclosure, memento of a fine deed done-for her country.

Rats Steal Flatiron.

Paris, Mo. —Some plastering fell from the celling of the linen room at the Glenn house recently, and Harland Ray secured a ladder and climbed up to knock down the loose plaster remaining. He discovered a rat’s nest and in it were three ladies’ silk stockings, two perfume bottles and a flatiron, besides numerous other tiitags r>pt mentioned in this inventory. How the rats got the iron there remains a mystery.

THE AMERICAN ARMY NOW 1,360,000

Grows in Few Short Months From Force Numbering Only 110,000 Men. OVER 300,000 ARE REGULARS Officer Personnel Numbers More Than 80,000 —Equipment of Men Much ; More Diverse Than In Any Previous War. Washington.—The latest official figures put the number of enlisted men in the armies of the United States at 1,360,000. This is the force that has grown in eight months out of an army which on April 1 numbered only 110,000 men. Most of them are still in the training camps. Many of them are not yet disciplined troops, fully equipped and armed for battle. But there they are 1,360,000 of them, already one of the biggest factors Hindenburg is reckoning with for the campaign of 1918. To lead them there are over 80,000 officers. When the graduates of the second training camp get their first orders the number will be over 100,000 — as many officers as there were privates nine months ago. Over 300,000 Regulars. Of the new American force over 300,000 men are regulars. In all the world only two regular armies remain—the American and the Japanese. The others have all been swept away in the flood of war. When the first American

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ESCAPED FROM GERMANY

Gengo, a young French boy who escaped from Germany, where he was held prisoner, and drifted into an American camp in France. He was officially adopted as mascot of the •force in training there.

HUMBLE PRUNE TAKES THE PLACE OF SUGAR

Derby, Conn. —The sometimes despised and often ridiculed pru.-e has come into, its own here. When the sugar famine struck the town someone discovered that the sugar in a dried prune was sufficient to give a semblance of sweetening to a cupful of tea or coffee.’ The prune dropped in a cupful of coffee is soon rendered soft by the heat and the sugar and sweet is extracted in a short time. It is claimed that the caffeine in the coffee offsets the taste of the prune so that the process is not objectionable in any way. It is being extensively tried here by many persons.

onslaught takes place German Landwehr and Landsturm troops will flnd themselves opposed to an army of professional soldiers. Behind the regulars are the 400,000 soldiers of the National Guard, regulars in experience, many of them, thanks to our helghbor of the South. After the Guard come the 600,000 men of the new National army. The whole military establishment, with the marines and the auxiliary forces thrown in, numbers a million and a half. The expansion that has taken place is as if Grand Rapids had grown in eight months to be virtually as big as Philadelphia.

Diversity of Equipment. The first thing to be done for the new army was to provide them with shelter and clothing, food and warmth. That large undertaking is all but accomplished. Equally great is the task of providing arms. To arm an Infantry division In the Civil war meant to provide as many muskets and as mhny bayonets as there were men in the command. In the present war the job is niore complicated. There are rifles and bayonets to be furnished now as formerly, but there are also grenades and gasmasks and helmets and trench mortars to be seen to. Each of the four infantry regiment's in a division must have 480 trench knives, 192 automatic rifles and three onepounder cannon. The 768 men of the machine gun battalion and the 5.068 men of the field artillery brigade must have guns and three-inch guns tn numbers that would stagger ah artillerJSt evenof so recent a period .as the war with Spain. Two hundred and thousand troops were made ready to fight Spain in 1898. though only 60,000 of them were actually engaged.

Poker Pot for Fines.

- Columbus, O.—ls there is anything in the pot when, a gambling place is raided It may be applied on the costs and fines of the owners of the money. Attorney General McGhee of this state rules in effect. He holds that money taken by the authorities in gambling raids cannot be turned over to police relief funds or city treasuries unless one year elapses in which the owher does not claim it.

GREATER EFFICIENCY. REDUCED COST

Grow Grain in Western Canada* Make Profits, and Show Greater Patriotism. The nation-wide cry of “More Efficiency” has now reached even the most remote agricultural sections and there Is a general interest amongst the farmers to* Increase their products and to reduce their expenses. The need of foodstuffs is greater than the world has ever before known, and every effort Is being used to meet the world’s food requirements, ■ becoming more apparent every day. ’While it is true that this desire is attested by a general 'patriotism, there Is an underlying factor in this extension work to secure some of the-benefits that are being offered by a ready market at maximum prices. Wide-spread attention has been given to the opportunity In this respect In Western Canada, where fortunes are being made in a few crops out of grain at present prices. • It has been found that the open, level prairie can be cultivated for wheat and other small grains at a minimum price, and during the past few years the yields have been more than satisfactory. Wheat crops of forty bushel to the acre have been common in Western Canada in the last three or four years, and with a present available price of over $2.00 per bushel this means a return on Investment and labor that cannot be duplicated elsewhere. This is made possible by the low priced lands that can be secured for grain growing. The range In price runs from sls to $25 per acre, according to location and other local conditions. In this period of “more agricultural efficiency” it is apparent at a glance that the farmer on low priced but high grade lands, growing his grain at a minimum cost, is reaping a golden harvest with the highest percentage of profit. The cultivator of high priced farm lands has a big handicap to overcome in computing his profits on a S2OO an acre farm as compared with the agriculturist ,reaping as great, if not greater return from $25 an acre land. It therefore becomes a question for the farmer himself to answer, whether he is doing himself and his country the best service, by devoting all his energies to working high priced land that yields no better return than land that can be secured at one-eighth the price. It is a chse of getting either minimum or maximum quantity. Many have already decided on the alternative, and with their spare money invested in and now working Western Canada lands, they are allowed to speak for themselves. Apparently they are satisfied, for we learn of cases where on a $4,000 Investment, in one year they have had their money back, with a profit of from 50% to 100%. Such is one of the steps in progressiveness now being demonstrated in the effort to create greater efficiency. The Canadian Government is using every effort to bring these conditions to the attention of the agricultural world, in order to secure the necessary increased grain production so greatly needed. The farmer in Western Canada is exempt from all personal taxes. His buildings, stock and Implements are not assessed; and every encouragement is given to farmers to improve and increase their farm output. Reduced railway rates are being offered to new settlers to look over the country and to size up an unprecedented opportunity in farming. Advertisement.

His Pride.

Governor Whitman said at a gathering in Syracuse: “When the kaiser boasts arrogantly to a ruined Germany about the blessings his rule has conferred upon the German people I am irresistibly reminded of the German prison superintendent. “This old fellow, after 30 years in office, was decorated with the order of the Red Hat, or Blue Sausage, or something of the sort, and in his speech of acknowledgment In the hall of the prison he said: “ ‘As you see, friends, I have been decorated with the imperial order of the Blue Sausage, but I willingly confess that this honor has been atttainedjnot by my own merits alone, but by the co-operation of all of you. I can also declare with pleasure that since I have occupied this office the number of prisoners has increased from 430 to z 9B5 —a fact of which both you and I may be justly proud.’ ”

His Name is Tuesday.

Blossom, a ten-year-old colored lad living in the northwestern part of the city, stopped a policeman at Indiana avenue and North street a few days ago to try to sell him a scrawny-look-ing yellow dog that had followed him home from school. The policeman, after listening to the boy’s tale, started In on a line of questioning, but this Is as far as he got: “What’s his name, ‘Blossom?’” •T call him Tuesday.’’. “How did you come to call him Tuesday?” 1 ’ 1 ’ ? “Pa said I ought to, ’cause he’s so meatless.” —Indianapolis News.

Extravagant

“Extravagant, Isn’t she?” “Very. She even served roast beef for her Thanksgiving dinner.” It Is difficult for a man to be careful without being called stingy.

Seeing-Jesus

By REV. JAMES M. GRAY, D.D.

' Dooa at Moody Bible Inctitate, Chicago v .

TEXT—We would see Jeaws.—John 32: 21. ' ! This was the request of certain Greeks who had come up to Jerusalem

mysterious utterances of his whole ministry. We have not time nor space to dwell on these, important and solemn as they are, but feel led to turn attention to another thought. Instead of considering the effect of this inquiry upon Jesus, let us consider Jts source in the aspiration of those Greeks as the same aspiration arises In our own hearts. When Our Souls Are Burdened. (1) We would see Jesus when our souls are burdened with a sense of guilt. What other name can bring us peacei'and what other presence can inspire hope, “for he hath made him to be sin for us. Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” It is not a teacher, nor an example, nor a ruler that we need so much as a Savior and Redeemer, an intercessor and a daysman, and that is what Jesus is for every one of us who puts his trust in him. He can remove our disability before God and release us from our fears and reconcile us to him. (2) We would see Jesus when we are engaged in his holy worship. Another draws an Impressive picture of the blind, the halt, the weary that roamed the streets of Jerusalem where Jesus stood comparatively unknown, and he contrasts their unhappy and destitute condition with its magnificence, its boasted righteousness and outward observances of devotion. And he employs-this contrast to illustrate the worthlessness of the holiest of religions without Christ. For example, of what benefit is the church, the Sunday school, the family altar, the holy sacraments if Jesus be not in them every one? Jealously therefore should we watch against the spirit of formalism and ceremonialism that creeps into both our private and public worship. Jesus must be there or these things become a hollow mockery, (3) We would see Jesus in the details of our dally life as the Lord of our affections, purposes and pleasures. What are the charrtls of friendship uniless sanctified by the thought of hlml Our prosperity becomes a curse withiOut him, and in our sorrow ahd afiflictlon he is the one who alone can comfort us in all our tribulation. Life without him is the river bed without its stream and the day without the. .sun. When In the Valley of the Shadow. (4) We would see Jesus in death. That is a sad story which Severn tells of the last momepts of the poet, Keats Shelley and Hunt had deprived him of his belief in Christianity which he wanted in the end, and he endeavored to fight back to it, saying if Severn would get him a Jeremy Taylor he thought he could believe. But a copy of Jeremy Taylor was hot to be found in Rome. Another time having been betrayed into much impatiendg by bodily and mental anguish, he cried with an oath, “O, Severn, a man ought to have some superstition that he may die decently!” There is a marked contrast between this pitiable wail and the triumphant paean of, an aged saint of my acquaintance, who falling accidentally upon the floor one day and supposing that her time had come to be gathered into the eternal storehouse, broke forth in the happy refrain,

Hallelujah! ’Tls done, I believe on the Son! I am washed in the blood of the Crucified One! When We Are In Glory. (5) We would see Jesus in glory. This is ‘the consummated desire of every awakened soul and has the support of the word of God wffilch says: “They shall see his face and his name shall be in their foreheads.” Indeed the end of Christ’s intercessory prayer for his disciples was, “Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given inq, be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me.” Even at this long period of time we almost envy those Greeks who came to Philip saying, “Sir, we would see Jesus,” but a blessed day is coming when in a sense not capable "bf being understood just now, “we shall see him as he is, for we shall be like him.” Like him that is, if we have believed on him and confessed him before men. O, in these awful days of war, when the judgments of God are in the earth, I plead with my fellow-men to hearken to his warning voice, and before it is too late to acquaint themselves with him and be at peace.

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Take Cover!

Lord Northcliffe, apropos of a Zeppelin attack bn London, said at a dinner in New York: “Nowadays in my country, when we want to proclaim a man a fool, we say he hasn’t sense enough to come in out of the raid.”

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Takes Bride’s Name.

Murray Cohen, who married Helen Bernays in New York, will hereafter be known as Murray C. Bernays to keep alive the bride’s family name.

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