Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1918 — Page 2

MARINES HAVE NO FEAR OF HUNS

Wounded Are Only Anxious to Get Back Where the Battle Is Raging. " ONLY CONTEMPT FOR ENEMY Say When They Get Into Actual Fighting Contact With Foe There la No Fight Left in Him.

London.—A naval attache who saw about 50 American marines In hospital suffering from wounds or gassing in the recent German offensive found every one of them full of cheer regarding the future; every one anxious to get well and be back in the fighting line. And every one of them poor opinion of Fritz as a fighting man. They were unanimous, the attache declared, In stating that the Germans were long-distance fighters only. As one of them said: “They are not so bad when they are 50 yards away with a machine gun, but at close quarters the German soldiers are no good.” Marine after marine asserted that when he and his comrades got into actual fighting contact with the enemy there was no fight left in him. Then the Germans would throw down their guns, and, waving their hands over their heads, cry out “Kamerad!” Feel Contempt for Huns. “Our men,” added the attache, “gave me the impression of looking with utter contempt upon the German soldiers, who can fight only when they feel that they have the protection of artillery and gas, and surrender when it comes to hand to hand fighting. "Far from feeling the slightest dread of the enemy, every man expressed eagerness to get out of hospital and return to the front Every one of them wanted a chance of getting even with the Germans for having been gassed or wounded. * “The men were justly proud of the recordlKaJ the marines had made, and their morale appeared to be of the very highest quality. The cheerfulness of all, including some Infantry in the wards, may be summarized by the remark of one recovering from gas: ‘Why,’ he said, ‘there’s nothing in it. When all of us marines get going, we will wipe Fritz off the map, and we will'eat our next Christmas dinner at home at that.’” A British officer who has seen much of the American marines at their headquarters in France, and seen them at work against the Boche, writing on what he describes as “an instructive glimpse at the American war spirit

PRINCESS IS NURSE

This picture of Her Royal Highness, Princess Mary, only daughter of their majesties, King George and Queen Mary, shows her in the garb of a Red Cross nurse. Her Royal Highness has commenced her duties as a Red Cross nurse and Is'fiervlng as a probationer at the Hospital for Sick Children, London.

DIES AS FOE FLEES

British Aviator Killed in Triangular Fight Y Salvation Army Truck Driver Figures in Tragic Air Battle at the Front. Paris. —Dying in the arms of a Salvation Army supply truck driver at the front in France, a British aviator ■who had just been crashed to earth jn a desperate triangular battle in the sky had the satisfaction of witnessing the defeat of his German antagonist by a French plane just before he drew his last breath. The struggle, according to a report reaching here occurred recently last behind the allied lines in France, and -was witnessed by ; Ransom Gifford, elghteen-year-old son of Col. Adam Gifford, head of the Salvation Army for Hew England, and residing in Boston.

and American efficiency In the field,” saVS: - “On the roads to the front there is perpetual movement. Hundreds of motor lorries, each cue packed with French soldiers, pass us In quick succession on their way to another part of the line. Again and again we pass bodies of American troops on the march, then a group of women and children. Although the road winds over the face of a well tilled countryside, few birds are seen, except for an occasional pair of ring doves. Such is the incongruity of war! Aircraft Hum Continuous. “We find the marines’ headquarters at an old farmhouse, shut in on every side by woods. Here the hum of aircraft is continuous, and links up the intermittent Crash of artillery fife. A Boche observation balloon hangs above the woods to eastward, and a ‘woolly bear’ shell lays a vivid black smudge against the limited skyline ahead. In the farmyard we seem to stand in a little world apart, but the sounds of adjacent fighting are close about us. “A marine officer who has had no sleep for three nights comes in, dusty but cheerful, from- the! trenches. The marines are doing themselves proud out there, he says. There has been some stiff fighting in the woods, but the Boche will have to shift soon; that is the opinion of this old campaigner, who has fought by sea and land all over the globe. We leave the farm under the guidance of a young lieutenant. a ‘broth of a boy,’ with the face of a Greek god.

CAN’T KEEP A GOOD SHIP DOWN

Half of Torpedoed Craft of Great Britain Have Been Salvaged. METHODS GREATLY IMPROVED Much Greater Weights Than Believed Possible Are Now Being Lifted — No Hope of Ever Raising Lusitania. London. —Of 400 British ships sunk in the last two and a half years at least 50 per cent have been raised from the bottom of the sea. The organization responsible —the Admiralty Salvage department —is composed entirely of experts employed by a commercial firm which engaged in the business before the war. Ships were so cheap then, however, that often it did not pay to raise a sunken wreck and restore her to seagoing condition. Things are very different now, and the result is that invention has been stimulated to an extraordinary extent It used to be considered that*!,soo tons was the greatest weight that could be lifted from under water by wire ropes. A sunken government eOllier that was obstructing a fairway was lifted out of the mud recently and carried away by four lifting ships, with sixteen 9-inch wire ropes, and the deadweight carried was calculated at 2,750 tons. The wreck was shifted one mile at the first lift, and so was gradually taken to the beach, patched up and sent off to the repairing yard. She went back into service and made several voyages before a torpedo ended her career altogether. Cartnot Raise Lusitania. Ships sunk in deep water cannot be salved. It is not expected that the Lusitania, for example, will ever be lifted. Divers cannot work In more than 25 fathoms successfully, though for special purposes they may sometimes go down to 35 fathoms for a brief spell of work. The bulk of the ships saved have been sunk in less than 20 fathoms, or have been towed inshore by rescue tugs, and have gone aground in fairly easy positions. The salvage men face considerable risks, not oiily from bad weather hut also from submarine attack. Only one

Young Gifford was hauling supplies to hutments along the line, when suddenly three big planes circled immediately over his head and opened up a terrific fight In a short time one plane shot downward in flames and crashed to earth less than 100 feet from Gifford’s truck. The young Salvationist ran to the wreckage, and after desperate efforts extricated the broken and bleeding aviator, who was still alive. Two French soldiers, who had been concealed near by ran up, and noting the condition of the aviator, raced off in different directions for a doctor and ambulance. Young Gifford held the dying airman in his arms, enabling him to lie back, and with fast closing eyes gaze at the conflict still raging Immediately over their heads. The French plane put the German. to rout, whereupon the English fighter with a smile relaxed and expired in the arms of the Salvationist. Gifford states that for a month he has not had his shoes off, and that this is no uncommon occurrence with the supply drivers. He spent 24 hours under his truck on a subsequent trip when it ran off the road into a ditch,

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“A rough cart track runs behind a belt of woods, and in this vicinity the American artillery is stationed. We approach one of the batteries, well hidden even at dose quarters. A telephone fixed to a tree trunk tings sharply; and” the captain, capless and without tunic, a megaphone in one hand, answers the call. “‘Very good, sir*' He swings’round to the guns. “ ‘On barrage! Fire I’ "Through the megaphone his order penetrates to every corner of the wood, and the gunners leap to their work in a moment. Crash! Crash-Crash! Crash! The guns fling out their deafening message of death almost simultaneously, and in the momentary silence between the rounds the whizz of the shells can be heard as they fly on their way to the wood where the Boche still lingers. “It is real team work, this gunnery, nothing else describes it —the work of a team, pei'fectly trained* in which keenness and efficiency produce a result beyond praise. For a time salvo follows salvo. Then comes the order ‘Cease fire!’ and silence descends upon the battery.”

HERE’S GREAT CHANCE FOR WAR PROFITEERS

Manchester, Conn. James Veich has a hen which lays freak eggs once a week. They are usually of large size. The latest one, a double egg, measured 8% Inches in circumference and 7% inches around the center. Jn the center of the larger egg was a smaller one, the shell of which was harder than the one outside.

salvage ship, however, has been lost through enemy action. # One of the largest oil tank steaihships was mined and caught fire. There was a heavy explosion and the decks were flooded with burning oil. The cargo consisted largely of benzine. Most persons would conclude that the case was hopeless. Not so. The vessel was scuttled by gun fire and thus the fire was extinguished. Then divers plugged all the shot holes, besides closing other apertures. On being pumped out the vessel floated and was forthwith taken to a repairing port New Pymp Is Valuable. As showing how valuable is the new submersible electric motor pump, a recently torpedoed ship which carried a cargo (mainly foodstuffs) of more than $15,000,000 value had a hole 40 feet long by 28 feet deep in her side. She was taken tn tow by rescue tugs, but went down before time had served to beach her sui:ably. No ordinary pumping power would have served the need, but the new type pump enabled stokehold, engine room and all her after holds to be pumped out, so -that cargo could be discharged and the vessel taken higher up the beach. 1 Then the lightening process -was continued until the vessel was floated and taken Into dock, practically all her cargo being saved. The number of the ships of the mercantile marine actually salved by the department in two years from 1915 to 1917 was 260. All these vessels were of big tonnage. For the present year the monthly totals of such vessels salved were: January, 14; February, 41; March, 37; April, 36, and May, 19. Thus the department has saved 4Q7 important vessels of the mercantile marine. This does not include vessels salved outside of home waters.

The larger figures of the latter period were due, not to Increased enemy activity but to improved salvage methods. Many risks are run by the divers, particularly from gases generated by decomposed vegetables and meat In the holds of sunken ships, deaths having resulted from this cause. Grain, it seems, develops sulphuretted hydrogen, which occasions blindness and violent sickness. A chemist, however, has found a preparation which when sprayed on a rotting cargo Immediately kills the gases and enables men to carry on their work in safety.

with shells dropping around it all day and half the night.

SLAPS WAR PROFITEER TWICE

Mother Hands Boastful Passenger Wallop for Each of Her Sons In Service. * - - Monessen, Pa. —*Tm making big money, and for my part I wish the war would keep up awhile longer,” remarked a man on a street car here. A welldressed, motherly-looking woman arose and gave the man a stinging slap, with “Take that for my son in France! And take that for my other son who is in camp waiting to go to France!” she said as she applied the same treatment to the other cheek. The man took his punishment without saying a word.

Postwoman In Wyoming.

Pine Bluffs, Wyo.—Wyoming has its first woman mail carrier. Miss Elizabeth Rutledge of this place is in charge of the rural route between here and Gallio. She took the place of Her* bert Fouiks, called in the last draft

A Bird in the Hand

(Special Information Service, United States Department ot, Agricultures ARE CHICKENS TRESPASSERS?

Hens and a Garden in the Same Back Yard.

INJURY DONE BY FORAGING FOWLS

Local Laws Determine Question of Fencing Garden or Confining Chickens SHOULD GO HAND-IN-HAND Agricultural Department Urges the .Practice of the Principle of Cooperation and the Theory of Live-and-Let-Llve. The redress of the home gardener Against the inroads of the neighbor’s chickens will depend on the laws of the state or ordinances of the town or city in which the gardener lives, in some states owners are liable for damage done by stock running at large; In other states the person who wishes to grow a crop must fence it against depredation. In most of the Eastern states owners of stock are required to keep it under fence.

Response to Queries. These facts are set forth by the United States department of agriculture in response to queries by gardeners who have neighbors raising chickens that harvest the products of Liberty gardens before such products are mature. The department is not prepared to say which type of food-rais-ing is the more profitable and praiseworthy, but says that both can go hand-in-hand if there are proper fences. Whether the poultryman or the gardener must provide the fence depends upon local statutes, or ordinances, and the rights of the case would be determined under general principles of law. It is related that a Liberty gardener and a Victory poultryman lived side by side. One morning the poultryman saw the gardener industriously digging.. “What are you doing?” asked Egbert “Replanting some early peas,” replied Corn-elius. “But that looks like my brown leghorn lying beside that hole.” “It is,” said the gardener; “my first planting of early peas is Inside of her.” Not Humorous Subject The legal authorities of the department say that the chicken-and-garden question, far from being a subject of humor, is undoubtedly a serious one, and has probably led to as much trouble,* dispute and ill-feeling between neighbors as any other single cause. The department believes, however, that in war time there will be more of a principle of co-operation, and a theory of live-and-let-live. With everyone interested in a maximum wartime food production some way can usually be found out of the difficulties that may arise through the proximity of chickens and gardens.

Overcoming Objections.

Objection is frequently raised to the keeping of poultry in towns and cities because of the odor which may result and also because of the noise which is made by roosters crowing, particularly in the early morning. There is no necessity for the poultry flock to become a nuisance to neighbors. If the dropping boards are cleaned daily and the houses and yards are kept in a reasonably clean condition there will be no annoying odors. The soil in the yard should be stirred or spaded up frequently if not in sod in order to keep it in the best condition. This will not only tend to keep down any odors which might arise, but also allow the droppings to be absorbed into the soil more readily and therefore keep the yard in bet ter condition for the bens. ' - "The male bird need not be a nuisance. Unless it is intended to hatch chickens from the flock it is; unnecessary to keep a male bird. The fact that there is no male in the flock will have absolutely no effect on the number of eggs laid by the hens. The male bird should be sold or eaten Just as scon as the hatching season is over.

This is desirable not only for the purpose of eliminating noise, but also to save the feed that woqld be eaten by the male and for the reason that the eggs produced after the male Is disposed of will be infertile. Since these eggs are incapable of chick development they keep much better than fertile eggs, and consequently are superior for preserving or for market.

CHICKENS AT HOME

A yard surrounded by a fivefoot fence will, under most conditions, keep chickens at home. If the hens show a tendency to fly over such a fence, the flight feathers of one wing should be clipped. A fence made of woven wire is preferable to a fence made of board or other material. A board should not be used at the top of a wire fence, as this gives the hens a visible place to alight and tends to teach them to fly over. The larger the yard which can be provided the more contented the hens will be. It 'not only gives them greater opportunity to exercise, but often makes it possible to maintain a sod on the yard, which is advisable.

Poultry Yards and Fences. Breeding stock, and especially growing chickens, should have an abundance of range, while hens kept solely for the production of eggs may be kept on a small area with good results. In rural districts the yarding of poultry Is sometimes unnecessary and in such cases colony houses are used to advantage. Under this system it Is easy keep the birds healthy and the feed bill is reduced, as they are able to get a good part of their feed from the range. These houses, which hold about 10 hens, are placed from 200- to 250 feet apart and are moved from place to place as new range is needed. When poultry fences are needed, as is the case in keeping poultry in towns and cities and in some rural sections, as few fences as possible should be erected, as they increase the cost of equipment, labor and maintenance. When very much land is available the poultry yard can often be kept in sod. On good soil this can be done by allowing 200 to-250 square feet of land per bird (217 to 274 birds to the acre) while more space Is necessary on poor or light land. A large number of fowls are usually kept to the acre where double yards are used and the land is frequently cultivated. - Plymouth Rocks and the heavy meat breeds in small yards require fences, five to six feet high, while a fence six to seven feet high Is necessary for Leghorns. The upper two feet of the fence for the latter may be inclined inward at an angle es 30 degrees, or a strand or two of barbed wire may help keep them confined, while it is sometimes necessary to clip the wing feathers of one wing of those birds which persist in getting out.

Posts may be set or driven into the ground. They should be set eight to ten feet apart with common poultry netting, or 16 to 20 feet with woven wire. Corner posts should be about eight inches in diameter, and be set four feet in the ground, while intervening posts may be four or five inches in diameter and set three feet in the ground. That part of the post which is set in the ground may be charred or treated with some wood preservative to advantage, while corner posts should be firmly braced or set in cement

Rural Clubs Help.

Women's rural clubs have done much to further the employment of trained workers for the counties, such as home demonstration agents, county nurses and county social service workers. The state leader of home demonstration agents in Mississippi has said that the women's clubs in that state have been constant and earnest supporters of county extension work in home economics.. They have given financial aid, used their influence to secure appropriations, bought canning club and given the work a prominent place on their programs. Fifty hens in a space better adapt*! to 25 will be no economy.

WARTIME DEFINITIONS

Prisoners—Married men. Liquid Fire —Prohibition whisky. Raiding Party—l p. m. at the ice box. Relieving Party-—Friend wife on paj day. Observation Post—The front roonr window. Camouflage—Rouge, poudre de ria peroxide, etc. Tanks —Husbands whose wives are in the country. Reveille—Shrill voice exclaiming : “It’s seven o’clock!” Listening Post—A party telephone in Anywoman's house. Flank Attack—What little Willie gets for putting flypaper on baby’s head. Over the Top—Yom\ wife’s hints to you concerning her lack of anything: to wear. Allies —Three late commuters making up a set of excuses for home consumption. Gassed —The result of listening to' a chatty neighbor’s detailed description of her appendicitis operation. Code —The hard look your wifegives you when you have cocppany at dinner and you ask for more chicken*/

POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS

Basting threads left in a garment signify that it is not yet paid for. • Rub a cat’s back the wrong way, and: if you see sparks it is a sign of cold, weather. Australian negroes used to hide themselves during a thunderstorm to avoid attracting the attention of the thunder demons. An evening red and morning gray will set the traveler on his way. But an evening gray and a morning red will pour down rain on the traveler’s head. A black cut is the theatrical emblem of good luck, and when a new piece is produced the proper thing to do to secure success is to-entice a sable tabby to enter the stage from the rear. —•> African tribes have charms, spells* omens, lucky and unlucky days. They makes fetiches of serpents, elephants” teeth and tigers’ claw’s, and they believe that wooden images are imbued With peculiar power from their divinities to protect them against danger* disease and witchcraft.

FROM THE PENCILS POINT

Constructive criticism seems to hurt as poignantly as any other kind. If all people said all that they think,, the world might get used to that, too. A beautiful woman can look beautiful in anything—even a breakfast cap. It is distressing that so many can’t distinguish between an intuition and a prejudice. Lasting disgrace would fall upon the small boy who should ever call a man. anything but “that guy.” In these times of unprecedented demand there are “substitutes” 'for everything—except common sense. Prize: One dozen dill pickles for a new joke about church services that' doesn’t depend on a member going to sleep during the sermon.

SAYINGS OF PUBLIUS SYRUS

.To do two things, at once i»-to do neither.—Maxim 7. Everyone excels in something in which another fails. —Maxim 17. ' Learn to see In another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid.—Maxim. 120. ..... ..... . An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.—Maxim 143. Many receive advice, few profit by it.—Maxim 149. Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.—Maxim 170.

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