Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1918 — Page 2

STORIES of AMERICAN CITIES

I Staged Battle Royal Far Below Earth’s Surface | IJROOBT.YN.—When Thomas O’Malley regained consciousness In the, Wll||j§. liamsburg hospital, he hastened to reiterate the statement he had made jplttgt before they began to sew him up. It was a succinct statement In Mr.

O'Malley’s well-known manner. It was to this effect: "I can lick him." In another part of the Institution they were ministering tenderly to AnIpfljjpew Peransky, who, however, after * careful thought, declined to make any ; statement for publication. The surgeons believe that with complete rest, and If there be no complications, he will be able to leave the hospital within 60 days.

F O’Malley and Peransky are, or . . | were employees of the contractor who is tunneling the new subway tube in i the vicinity of North Seventh street. The men employed there work in a |caiason under high air pressure. O’Malley and Peransky, both registered for the draft and neither returned to work that day. They entered the air chamber In the same cage.the oth«*r day, ana 8 glance at him convinced O’Malley’s gangmates that it would be just as well not to cross Mm Peransky, however, was in that state of exuberant Americanism which made him careless of who listened when he spoke up. In any event, after they had been In the air chamber less than 20 minutes somebody behind, bnt within earshot of O’Malley, gave utterance to the opinion that there was a man among them who had neglected to register for the draft because of anti-British prejudices of long standing. O Malley turned and saw Peransky standing grinning at the Jester and the jest. They had been lighting furiously for 20 minutes when Policeman Dalton, summoned by a foreman on the earth’s surface who had received a distress sjgnai from the earth’s Interior, arrived and stopped the fighting with a few well-aimed blows of his dub. He had found the belligerents rolling on the floor of die air chamber, while their companions stood about terrified, in saw apparently that the fighters would do some damage to the walls of the air chamber and be the death of all hands. 1 Dalton explained afterward that the two men had reached that point or fighting exhaustion where the task of separating them was not one to draw heavily on the resources of a trained policeman. Mr. O'Malley is undecided about returning to snbway work. He says that, after a holiday especially, the high air pressure is apt to go to his head and make him insensible to logic and logical consequences. MHB Many Feline Aristocrats in Maine Coast Towns BANGOB, mra—Summer visitors to Maine coast towns marveled at the great number of handsome, long-haired cats to be seen in those places, even in the homes of the poorest people, and also at the number of old men

•coon' cat, so called, is a hybrid, an accident. The long-haired cat la liable to skip for a generation or two and then come back with qualities superior to those of its forebears. A white Angora witlr orange eyes is a valuable animal, worth as much as SIOO in some places. A coon, or Angora male, with tiger stripes of black and gray, will bring $25. to SSO. “If you see a cat with odd eyes—that Is, with one eye red,or orange and the other blue—you can be sure It is deaf. Yet It will catch as many mice as any. other. , “The average life of a cat is about ten years, although I have some four teen and fifteen years old. I feed my cats on fresh fish when I can get It. It Is not as heavy as meat and the cat is not so liable to disease. Milk is very good, but cats prefer fish to anything else, except beef. If you feed a cat on beef once It will want It ever afterward. “Many cats have the habit of licking the hair on their breasts with their tongues. They get little mats of hair in their stomachs, and unless they gel rid of it It will finally cause death.”

lust Needed SIO,OOO, So He “Drew” It From Bank NEW YORK.—A tall, well-dressed young man, carrying a small suitcase, entered the Atlantic National bank, Broadway and Warren street, by way of the employees’ entrance, walked into the paying teller’s cage, opened hie

suitcase and nonchalantly proceeded to pack It with money. When he had SIO,OOO tucked away, he closed the bag and walked out. fihief Clerk C. E. Smith and Joseph Baum el, another clerk, saw the young mb as he emerged from the teller's cage. The young man, who, it was revealed later, was Melvin Kipford, twenty-six years old of Harrisburg, IHu told the clerks that he was making a study of money and its ec-

centric habits. Needing some f^ cl . thought he would require mens for his laboratory, he had Just taken wnat ne rm ug revolver When the clerks attempted to hinder his exit, Kipford mew a revolver . cfnrted tn run The clasp on the suitcase became unfastened and SS where he was stopped by Traffic Policeman James Bml At the° Kipford said he had stopped at the bank earlier in to. • 55 bill and seeing the money In the teller went ont and bought a small suitcase and returned for some cash. He declared New he'had°no e registration card and never had heard of the draft. Little Bride’s Dream of Fine Home Faded Away CHICAGO. —It was a nice farm Bert Manning picked out for his bride to see. The wheat and cornfields showed heavy yields. Fat cows gpzed in the pastures. The house was commodious, sheltered by trees, and deep

“Let's go to the farm now,” said the bride.-• Manning agreed and packed the trunks in the automobile. Then he suggested that his wife draw her f 1.600 savings and take It to Hnnmjond, .the town nearest the farm. She gave him the money for safe keeping. * „ “Now we will go just as soon os I get the gas, said Manning. Be stepped into the car and started after gas. He is still going. Mrs. Manning told the police, and detectives are looking for Manning. He met his bride seven weeks ago through an advertisement in a German newspaper, In which Im posed as a “wealthy bachelor,” and said he wanted a German girt for a wife.

and women who derive profit by breeding them. The progenitors of these feline aristocrats were brought to Maine many years ago by shipmasters trading up the Mediterranean, from Persian and African ports. Some highly successful breeders of Angora cats live in Penobscot bay towns, and they ship cats all over America. “The Angora,” said one of these breeders, “is larger than the ordinary cat, or at least looks large because of the greater thickness of the fur. The

in vines and flowers. Louise Haug, the little Chicago dressmaker, was em tranced. It was the place of her dreams. “I can’t take you in now,” said Manning, as they drove past in his automobile. “I don’t want my housekeeper to know I am going to be married. But we will live here soon. This is our nest, honey.” They were married and lived hap\ pily for five days at the home of the dressmaker’s .brother-in-law.

THE EVEWfjm REPITBETCAN. RENSSELAER. THP.

YANKEE FIGHTERS NEARING COAST OF FRANCE

A host of khakl-clad soldiers of the United State* lining the rails of an American lighter as they get their first view of France where they are about to disembark.

POISON GAS SHIP IN RACE WITH U-BOAT

Destroyers Appear as Shell Falls but Ten Feet Off Stern. HAS HUGE CARGO OF DEATH Freighter Develops Engine Trouble and Falls Behind Convoy—Submarine Bobs Up and Begins Hurling Shells. By FRAZIER HUNT (In the Chicago Tribute.) An American Naval Base In France. —A lad from the U. S. S. Destroyer 652 had just finished narrating how close they had come to getting a submarine on the last trip when they had brought in a big convoy of troopers. , “Some boat she is,” he remarked offhand. “We did seven thousand knots last month and in three sub fights. Say, what was those funny steel drums you had piled on the deck of your old cargo ship when you come in yesterday?” A lad from the Atlantic freight ferry boat- turfacd to the destroyer gob. “Those steel drums you asked about didn’t have nothing at all In them except about a million gallons of the most dangerous poison gas ever made. Can you imagine what would happen if a torpedo or even a shell had hit one of those tanks?”

This ship, which we shall call the Terrance, left New York as part of a convoy of 15 stores ships. Cargo of Death. On this trip it was carrying several thousand steel drums of poison gas that the army needed badly. It was a dangerous cargo. Any explosion cn board would tear open these drums of concentrated gas and in ten seconds choke the crew to death. The only hope would be to use respirators, so a hundred gas masks were borrowed from the army and the executive officer of the ship called all hands for Instructions three times a day. The first ten days of the trip were uneventful. Then the Terrance’s engines began acting badly. It could not make the required ten knots and slowly it fell behind. There were not sufficient convoying destroyers to have one remain. behind, so all that stood be- ’ tween the Terrance’s drums of death and a German submarine was the fore and aft guns. Finally, at six o’clock one evening, the gas mask drill just had ended when the lookout in the crow’s nest shouted down that a submarine was coming to the surface on the port side, some 9,000 yards astern. And here was the Terrance wilh crippled engines hobbling along six or seven knots an hour, with the convoy 20 miles ahead. “Open fire with the stern gun. Call general quarters. Send S. O. S. to the convoy. Send word to the chief engineer," were four orders the skipper on the bridge gave first. Through his binoculars he could see the submarine coming to the surface. Even now the Terrance’s stern gun was peppering away shots, but falling short of the mark by 1,500 yards. In half a minute more the submarine’s conning tower opened and men

TEUTON SHELLS ARE BAD

From 50 to 70 Per Cent Fail to Explode. During Marne Retreat the Germans Used Old Btuff to Keep Up Morale. With the American Army in France. —American artillery officers estimated recently that at certain stages of the German retreat north of the Marne from 50 to 70 per cent of the shells fired by the enemy failed to explode. One night, after the Germans crossed Pie Vesle the enemy fired 72 shells of large caliber Into a wooded tract where American troops were supposed to be quartered and artillery experts of one of the divisions engaged reported that only four of these shells bad exploded. None of the American officers suggested that the German shells were de- • ■- ‘ N : v .

crawled out and uncovered the submarine’s two guns. In another minute the first shell came whining toward the Terrance. It. too, fell away short. Call for Help. In the radio room the operator was pounding out the call for help, and now came the answer that the destroyers were comng to aid. Down below the whole engine force was- working madly. Suddenly a miracle happened and the starboard engines began supplying power to the propeller. From a bare seven knots the ship jumped to ten —then eleven, twelve. Meantime on the bridge the officers with gas masks strapped at alert position were getting the thrill of their whole life as the old boat picked up speed. Sub shells now were falling within 300 yards of the ship. With the Terrance’s new. speed the sub gained slowly, but tbq skipper and officers knew its guns would outrange their own and soon find a mark. It was a great race with life or death for the goal. Then from the edge of the world

DYE INDUSTRY GROWING

Government Report Shows Remaskable Progress Made. One Hundred and Ninety American Firm* Now Make Dyea and Drugs. Washington.—The remarkable success of the American chemists and chemical manufacturers In developing the dyestuffs industry, when the supplies of dyes from Germany were cut off, is strikingly shown in a report just Issued by the United States tariff commission entitled, “Census of Dyes and Coal-Tar Chemicals. 1917.” : f At the outbreak of the European war, Germany dominated the world’s trade in dyes and drugs derived from coal-tar. Before the war, seven American firms manufactured dyes from Imported German materials. In 1917, 190 American concerns were engaged in the manufacture of dyes, drugs and other chemicals derived from coal-tar, and of this number, 81 firms produced coal-tar dyes from American materials Which were approximately equivalent in total weight to the annual imports before the war. The total output of the 190 firms, exclusive of those engaged In the manufacture of explosives and synthetic resins, was over 54,000,000 pounds with a value of about $69,000,000. ~ Large amounts of the staple dyes for which there Is a great demand are now being manufactured in the United States. A few of the Important dyes, such as the vat dyes derived from allsartn, anthracene, and carbazol, are grill not made. The needs of the wool industry are being more satisfactorily met than the needs of the cotton industry. / The report gives in detail the names of the manufacturers of each dye or other product and the quantity and value of each produced, except in cases where the number of producers is so small that the operations of in-

teriorating. There had been day after day of rain during the retreat, and It was believed possible that In the withdrawal the Germans had not been able to take the usual precautions against dampness, the result being that many projectiles from some of the big guns failed to do anything more than strike the earth with a thud. Oae officer suggested that possibly the Germans had been firing old shells rather than no shells at all, the officers realizing that only a few of them were exploding, but preferring to keep the big guns pounding away merely- in an effort to keep np the morale of the, men putting dp the rfiar-guard fight. The average number of faulty shells Is generally from 2 to 6 per cent.

An Arizona scientist hopes to fix the time 1 of the cliff dwellers by comparing the age rings of tree trunks still standing in their homes with the rings on the oldest trees now Uviiut -

NEW ZEALANDERS EAT PRISONERS, HUNS TOLD

London. —New Zealand troops always eat their prisoners. Such is the latest output of the German behlnd-the-lines propaganda which recently armed the Americans with tomahawks and shotguns. “First the New Zealanders give you cigarettes, them yon figure in their menu,” officers had informed a bunch of Hnns recently captured. They refuced the cigarettes.

came the smoke of destroyed shooting ahead like flaming arrows. Thirty knots and more they were making. In another minute they could trace their outline. But the sub was nearing, too. One shell broke less than thirty yard* ’liway. Seconds seemed like hours, but each brought the rescuing destroyers nearer. They were heading straight for the sub, and no sub cares for that There was one more shot, then the gunners ran to the conning tower and climbed Inside. Two minutes later she submerged. Their last shot hit within ten feet of the Terrance’s stern.

dividual firms would be disclosed. Seventeen hundred and thirty-three chemists or engineers were engaged in research and chemical control of this new industry, or 8.8 per cent of the total of 19,643 employees. The report also contains an-interesting account of the history and development of the industry since the outbreak of the European war.

ALABAMA BUCK KEEPS WORD

Former Negro Preacher Evolve* Perfect Answer to Theology of Huns. Paris. —“Rev.” Arthur Jefferson Is his name. Before the war he used to “preach ’roun” in northern Alabama. Now he’s the buckest buck private in a negro regiment that has already earned fame in the line. He evolved the perfect answer to Prussian theology 15 minutes after he got into that line. The Germans opposite—it was a quiet sector —had hung ont a big sign bearing the Potsdam profanation, “Gott mit uns.” Arthur Jefferson took one long look at it. Then, he disappeared into a dugout. He appeared later with the legend, laboriously Inscribed on a box: “Germans: Consign your souls to the Lord. In ’bout four minutes your bodies going to belong to Alabama.” And they did.

CHASES KAISER IN SLEEP

Ohio Man Dreams He’s Fighting Germans and Bhoots Belf in Bhoulder. Toledo, O. —John Brooks, while dreaming he was fighting the Germans and had the kaiser chasing upstairs in the palace at Wilhelmstrasse, drew a revolver from beneath his pillow and fired at the fleeing Hun. Doctors called to take care of Brooks said that the bullet had passed through his shoulder, but that tie would recover.

CHARGES DEATH TO SAVE MEN

American Staff Officer Falls Mortally Wounded in Gallant Action in Lorraine. With the American Army in Lorraine.—The fighting on the new American front in Lorraine was featured by the gallant action of an American staff officer. When the officer saw there was danger of part of his advancing forces being outflanked by German machine gunners he personally led his men In a charge against the gunk. He captured one gun himself and his men took the others. The officer was wounded, probably mortally. The officer's troops belonged to the division operating on the eastern wing of the American offensive sector. They had taken the village of Norroy and were pressing -onward in Hie face of opposition from machine gun nests. - The irregular advance suddenly exposed one unit to a flanking fire and the officer forgot that he as a staff officer was supposed to stay away from the fighting and rushed la.

MADE BY SUN WORSHIPERS

Theory Adyanced Concerning Apertures in -Walls of the Casa Grande Ruin in Arizona. - According to a National Park newa-> paper bulletin issued by the department of the interior, there is much speculation and concern on the part of tourists and archeologists over twopairs of holes in the walls of the Casa Grande ruin In Arizona. The hole* are about an Inch and a half in diameter, and are bored through walls four feet thick. They occur in pairs, each pair oh opposite sides of a great central room. The holes In each pair are In line with each other, so that one standing in a dark first-floor room behind the center room may look through the Innermost holes at the sky. One pair points due east, the other pair points north at a declining angle. One can only assume that the tribes which built this most ancient of pueblos were deeply religious people and worshipers of the sun. An interesting theory was recently advanced to explain the holes. It is said that these holes form what might be called a seasonal clock. Twice a year, once as the sun works north and once as it works south along the eastern horizon, it rises in line with the eastward pointing holes and on one morning, possibly for three throws a bar of light Into the dark inner rooms. From this the ceremonial calendar could be dated and certain festivals would fall on the same day year after year. One Is reminded of Stonehenge, in England, where the sun at its summer solstice shone down a long alley of stone monuments upon an altar placed in the center of a series of circles of stones.

GLOOMY OLD ‘FRONT PARLOR’

Mid-Victorian Furnishings Served to Remind Beholders of Particularly Solemn Mortuary Chapels. The mansard sheltered the accumulations of two or more Garland households of mid-Victorian tastes. It was a debauch of black walnut and haircloth in a twilight of heavy lambrequins and large figured wall paper. Never in all my twenty-two years had I beheld so many marble-top tables gathered undor a single roof. There were three in the parlor alone. One bore a Rogers group—“ Coming to the Parson,” it was called; another a stereoscope with views of the Yosemite and the centennial of 1876; the third served as pedestal for a case of pallid wax flowers; On the walls hung “oils” of mountain scenery which it would have crazed a geologist to classify. "The sitting room*across the wide hall was even 'Worse. It was bullied by the ugly bulk of a secretary with vicious rams’ heads carved on its lower doors. Second in massive gloom was a black marble mantlepiece crowned by a black marble clock with a limping tick and an asthmatic chime. Tables filled the spaces unclaimed by haircloth sofas and chairs, and a whatnot bestrode a corner. I was how prepared to find ‘The Maiden’s Prayer,' and I did, poor maiden, neatly done in best female academy style. There was also a brohze plaque of ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware.’ It was a bad crossing. None of the pictures were Inspiring, but one at least was appropriate. It portrayed the youthful Victoria in her nightie receiving the news that she was now queen of Great Britain, defender of the faith and high sponsor for art.”—Woman’s Home Companion.

Salutation Accorded Sneeze.

In France, in earlier days, a sneeze was greeted by the removal of the hat, and when the paroxysm was over the sneezer formally returned the salute of all present. In England, also, in the seventeenth century, a sneeze was saluted by the removal of the hat. Joseph Hall, bishop of Exeter, in 1627, wrote that a man no longer reckoned among his friends those who failed to uncover when he sneezed. The Siamese' have a peculiar Idea of their own thatthe gods are continually turning over the pages of the judgment book, and that when they come to the page relating to any particular person that individual invariably sneezes. Their salutation is, “May the judgment be favorable to you.”

Old Church Deserted.

'’it Is Interesting to note'that in the old Lebanon Presbyterian church, near Alma, S. C., which church has gone down, a good church organ was allowed to remain m the church building and rot. It has been very many years since any services were held In the building, which in its day was one of the bert church buildings in this entire section. The carpet still remains on the floor, the old Bible is still on the stand and the organ was never claimed by any one. The building is almost rotten, the doors having rotted and fallen down.

First Impressions.

Be careful that you do not make a disagreeable impression on people at your first meeting. If you are unsocial at first acquaintance, and finally decide that those people will repay in smiles and politeness, you will have to exert yourself more than a little to do away with the first Impression made by your unresponsiveness. It will take many months of faithful work to counteract In the mind of your employer that first unfortunate impression you made before you woke up to the fact that your position held prom|ses for the future. First impressions aye tenacious. Do yofcr best to make them favorable, I ■' I; - fl|| -.