Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1917 — Page 7

SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1017

8. Guatemala breaks off relations with Germany. April 29. —Petain chosen to lead 'French armies in place of Nivelle., J off re asks United States army In France without delay. May 2.—Announce first'Liberty Loan [bond issue will be $2,000,000,000. Secretary of State Lansing warns U-boat sinkings are serious. May 2.—Russians abandon Mush, Armenia, to the Turks. May 3, —News received of mistreatment of Jews in Palestine by Turks. May 4. —French take Craonne from Germans. May G. —French in second battle of the Aisne take 6,100 prisoners. May 7. —Orders given to raise 11,000 engineers here for work in France. May 10. —Critical situation in Russia and civil war - is feared.

May 14.—Great Britain turns over to United States 1,024,500 tons of shipping building for her here. May 15.—New Italian offensive begins. May 16. —Announced squadron of American destroyers is assisting the British; U-boat losses sink to 26 in week. , May 18.—President proclaims conscription law, calling on 10,000,000 men, aged twenty-one to thirty-one years, to register June 5. Italians announce 6,432 prisoners. May 25.—Italy launches renewed Corso offensive, taking 9,000 prisoners first day. »German airplanes kill 76 persons in Dover and Folkestone. May 26.—Germany announces she will sink hospital ships . without warning unless they obey certain strict rules about the courses they 1 take. Announced Italy has captured 22,414 Austrians since May 14. June 3. —General Chang Hsun named dictator by royalists of China. June 5. —United States registers for the army draft without disorder. General Brusiloff made head of Russian armies. June 7. —British blow up Messines ridge; explosion heard in London; 5,000 prisoners taken on first day of offensive.

June B.—General Pershing, commander of American expedition, arrives in England. Secretary of War Baker plans for 100,000 American airplanes. . One hundred American aviators arrive in France. June 9—Wilson tells Russia what United States is fighting for. Japan offended by United States note urging China to maintain order. June 11. —Lord Northcliffe, famous publisher, arrives to co-ordinate British missions in United States. June 12. —King Constantine of Greece abdicates in favor of his second son, Alexander, at command of the allies. June 13. —In greatest air raid so far on London, 153 are killed and 430 injured. Pershing reaches Paris. Elihu Root and American mission in Petrograd. June 15.—Liberty loan oversubscribed. Great Britain frees all the Irish rebels. June 17. —Doctor Ivers, who wrote Germany’s official reply to the Belgian atrocity charges, is sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment in Berlin for extorting $30,000 from the mother of a soldier by threats; evidence shows he is a chronic drunkard and morphine fiend. Duma demands immediate offensive by Russian troops. June 19.—United States Admiral. Sims put in command of allied fleet off Ireland.

June 22. —Announced Liberty loan subscriptions total $3,035,226,850. June 25. —American Red Cross campaign closes, with subscriptions over the hundred million dollars sought. June 26. —Official Mesopotamian report scores British civil and military leaders. Canadians within one mile of Lens, great French coal center. June 27. —Arrival of first United i States army in France announced. June 28.—Brazil joins in war by annulling her decree of neutrality between the entente nations and Germany. June 29. —Greece breaks diplomatic relations with the central powers. June 30.—Russians begin big offensive in Galicia. War Minister Kerensky leads attack. Haig gains mile on fbur-mile front before Lens. July I.—Washington announces United States is ready to equip army of 2,000,000. July 2. —Russian prisoners counted in her offensive number 10,273. Chinese empire re-established. July 3. —Government tells of two submarine attacks on transports bear-

ing Pershing’s men; one U-boat sunk. Russia announces 6,000 more prison- - ers. Germans make vain five-mile offensive at Verdun. July 4. —Eleven killed in German air raid on Harwich. July 5. —Republicans and monarch- _ Ists battle 35 miles from Peking. July 6. —Leaders of German spy system in United States arrested. July 7. —Twenty-two German Gotha airplanes, mounting four guns, each, raid London, killing 43 and injuring 197. July 8. —Wilson orders export embargo on food, fuel and many other things to prevent supplies reaching Germany. British foreign office states German crops this summer will not be above 40 per cent of normal. United States shipping board states expects to build 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 tons in 18 months, instead of the 2,500,000 to 3,000,000 originally aimed at. July 9.—British dreadnaught Vanguard blown up; all but two aboard killed. July 10.—Germans in sudden drive along seacoast beat* British back to 'Yser river and capture 1,250 men. Crisis over electoral reforms and war aims in Germany. Russians take Ilalicz, Galicia. ■' r ,

July 11.—Russians seize town of Kalusz. , July 12. —Widespread labor disorders in West caused by Industrial Workers of the World; German agents suspected. Chang Hsun, leader of Chinese monarchists, flies to Dutch legation in Peking. July 13. —British bring down 30 German airplanes on west front in biggest air battle so far. July 14. —Chancellor Bethmann-Holl-weg resigned and Dr. G. E. Michaelis succeeded him. Germans took French posts south of Courcy. House passed $640,000,000 aviation bill. July 15.- —French took important hills positions from Germans south of Reims. , July 16. —Russians took Lodziany from Austrians, but evacuated Kalusz. July 17. French took German trenches near Melancourt. Three nlembers of Russian cabinet resigned ; riots in'Petrograd suppressed. Shakeup in British cabinet. July 18, —-Increased activity on Roumanian front. Russians took part of Novica. July 19. —Great German attack between Craonne and Hurtebise partly successful. Chancellor Michaelis declared for submarine warfare. Russians driven back in Vilna region. Teutons make advances in Galicia.

July 20.—Draft for American National army held. Premier Lvoff of Russia succeeded by Kerensky. Germany called 2,000,000 of her youngest men to the colors. July 21. —Senate passed food control and aviation bills. Russians in disorderly retreat, burning villages. July 22. —German aviators raided England, killing 11 in coast towns, but were driven away from London. Siam declared state of war with Germany and Austria-Hungary. July 23. —Kerensky given absolute powers as dictator of Russia. Germans lost heavily in along the Chemin des Dames. July 24 —Goethals, Denman and White out of shipping board; Rear Admiral Capps, E. N. Hurley and Bainbridge Colby succeeded them. McAdoo asked congress for $5,000,000,006 more for war. Russians evacuated Stanislau, their whole line periled. French defeated Germans on Craonne front. July 25 —Division of traitrous Russian troops blown to pieces by own artillery as part of General KornilofTs measures to restore order. Lenine, Russian pacifist agitator, captured after greatest man hunt Russia ever knew.

100 MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS IN GREAT WAR

June 28, 1914. —Archduke Ferdinand, heir presumptive to Austria’s throne, and wife assassinated at Serajavo, Bosnia, by Slav student, Prlqcip, giving the pretext for war. July 23. —Austria delivers famous ultimatum to Serbia, charging assassination plot was hatched on Serb soil.

July 28. —Serbia having agreed to all Austria demands save one, Austria declares war. August 1. —Germany declares war on Russia. August 3. —Germany declares war on France and invades Belgium. August 4. —Great Britain declares a state of war by act of Germany. «August 21-24 —Battle of Mons-Char-leroi; Germans victorious. August 23. —Japan at war with Germany. August 27. —Germans bum Louvain, Belgium. August 29. —Russians crushed in battle near Tannenburg, Prussia. September 5-10. —Germans turned back by French and British in the battle of the Marne, September 12. —Battle of the Aisne begins. October 9. —Germans capture Antwerp. October 21-31. —First battle of Ypres. October 30. —Russia declares war on Turkey. —November 1. —Germans sink Admiral Cradlock’s British fleet off Chili.

November 10-12.—Second battle at Ypres. December 1. —German General De Wet captured, ending South African revolt. December s.—Serbians defeat Austrians. December 8. —British sink German fleet off Falkland islands. January 24, 1915. —Naval battle in North sea; German cruiser Bluecher sunk. February B.—Russians suffer second great defeat in East Prussia. February 17. —Germans begin submarine blockade, despite American protest. , Mfirch 22. —Russians take Przemysl, Galicia after long siege. April 22. —Gas first used in war by Germans at Ypres. April 25. —Allies land at Dardanelles.

May 4. —Beginning of great German offensive against Russia. May 7. —Lusitania sunk unwarned by U-boat; 1,000 die, of whom more than 100 are Americans. May 22. —Italy declares war on Austria. \ June 2. —Teutons retake Przemysl. August 5. —Germans capture Warsaw. • s September 1. —Germany promises United States to sink no more liners without warning. September 8. —Czar succeeds Grand Duke Nicholas in command of Russian armies. September 15. —Germans capture

Pinsk —high tide in invasion of Russia. September 24-25. —Allies in drive Ln France'"Capture 25.000. October 5. —Allies land at Salonlki. October 9.—Germans occupy Belgrade. October 10. —Bulgaria attacks Serbia. December 9. —Germany announces Serbia is entirely conquered. December' 19.—Allies evacuate Gallipoli. February 14,1916. —-Russians capture Erzerum. Turkey. February 23.—-Germans open Verdun offensive. April IS. —Russians take Treblzond, Turkey. - April 24. —Irish revolt in Dublin. April 2s.—British besieged in Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia, surrender. May 30—Battle of Jutland; 14 British and 18 German warships sunk. June s.—Lord Kitchener drowned when cruiser Hampshire is torpedoed' north of Scotland. /. June 17. —Russians retake Czernowitz, capital of Bukowina, in great offensive. June 20.—Arabs rebel from Turkey, capture Mecca; new kingdom established. June 27. —British and French in great drive in west, July 9. —Submarine merchantman Deutschland reaches Baltimore. July 27.—Russians retake Brody, northern Galicia. August 9.—ltalians take Gorizia. July 10. —Russians take Stanislau, Galicia. August 28.- —Roumania enters war on side of the entente, and invades Transylvania. ■ September 6. —Germany begins great squeeze on Roumania. , tle of world’s history; 67 British. French and German airplanes brought down. December 5. —Teutons take Bucharest. December 11.—Germany openly proffers peace to her enemies. December 2L President Wilson asks both sides to define their war aims. January 17, 1917.—News received German cruiser Moewe has taken 24 ships in South Atlantic. January 22—Wilson asking “peace without victory,” demands United States enter world league at close of war. . . January 31. —Germany declares ruthless submarine warfare on all ships, whatever nationality, in the war zones. February 3. —United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany. . ■ February 26. —President asks congress for authority to arm all American vessels. v February 26. —British capture Kut-el-Amara. February 28. —Zimmermann note suggesting alliance of Mexico and Japan with Germany against United States made public. March 11. —British capture Bagdad. March 11. —Russian revolution starts. March 15. —Czar abdicates. March. 17. —Germans begin big “strategic retirement” on “west front. April 3.—Wilson asks congress to declare a state of war with Germany. April 6. —President signs congress resolution proclaiming war. April 7. —Cuba declares war on Germany. April 9. —Austria-Hungary breaks diplomatic relations with United States. April 9. —British storm Vlmy Ridge. April 10.—Brazil breaks diplomatic relations with Germany. April 16. —French in great offensive near Aisne river. April 19. —American freighter Mongolia sinks a submarine, this being the first American victory of the war. April 28. —Both houses of congress pass selective draft army bllL • 9 v-?Aww.w«>-- • , May 15.—Big Italian offensive in Carso begins. June 3. —Chinese royalists name Chang Hsun dictator; Germans assist P June 5. —ArSericans register for army draft without disorder. June 7. —British blow up Messines ridge; explosion heard in London. June B.—General Pershing reaches England. ; - June 12. —King Constantine of Greece abdicates; nation prepares to join allies. June 13. —153 killed, 430 injured in London by German airplane raid. June 15. —United States Liberty Loan closes, with billion oversubscription. June 27. —Announce arrival of first American army in France. June 28.—Brazil joins In war. June 30. —Russians begin big offensive in Galicia led by War Minister Kerensky in person. * July 2. —Chinese empire declared reestablished ; republicans prepare to resist. July 7.—Twenty-two German airplanes of immense new type kill 43, injure 197, in London. July 8. —Wilson orders export embargo. July 12.—Chinese empire falls; Chang Hsun flees to Dutch legation in Peking. . July 13. —In biggest air battle so far British claim downing of 30 German planes on west front. July 14.—Von Bethinann-Hollweg, German imperial chancellor, resigns and the kaiser appoints Dr. Georg Michaelis in his place. July 19.—Russians in Galicia mutiny and are routed hy Germans. July 20.—Draft -for American National army field. July 20.—Premier Lvoff of Russia resigns and Kerensky succeeds film. July 2L —United States senate passes food control and $640,000,000 aviation bills.

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He Annoys th« Hens and Reduces the Egg Yield. Capital punishment lor all surplus roosters in Jasper county is advocated by a conservation enthusiast. The following charges, for any one of which the death sentence should be given, have been proven against these noisy fowls: 1. They eat Ynuch expensive food but yield no profits.« 2. They annoy the hens’ and reduce the egg yield. 3. Fertile eggs spoil much more quickly than infertile ones, particularly during warm weather. Now that the breeding season is practically over all of the older roosters should be placed in pens separating them from the hens, :>nd all but those to be kept for another breeding season should be eaten or otherwise disposed of. The young roosters should be separated from the pullets. The best cockerels may be saved, but all others should be marketed when they will bring the most profit from the food consumed.

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Then I’ll Come Back to You

By LARRY EVANS

Author of "Opce to Every Man” Copyright, a 1915, by the H. K. Fly Company

SYNOPSIS Cft’eb Hunter and his sister Sarah weiOMne to their homo Stephen O’Mara, a homeless and friendless boy. starting from the wilderness to see the city. Stephen O’Mara catches a glimpse Of Barbara Allison. The girl Is rich. The O’Mara boy falls In love with her. Shots ten. he fourteen. m® boy and girl are in a puny that go to town. The old people watch with contorn the youth’s growing attachment for the girt Caleb Is much impressed with the boy's Ideas on the moving of timber. Ha predicts a great future for the lad. O'Mara meets Barbara Allison on the oad. There Is a play of words In which both seek to conceal their feeling. Wickersham notices that Barbara and Stephen are together a great deal. Miriam Burrell, Barbara’s friend, sees and understands the black rage that shadows bis face. O’Mara dally becomes more convinced that some one Is trying to stir up trouble among his men. Wickersham and Allison have a conference. They agree that Harrigan, their tool, has messed things trying to stir up trouble among the men. O’Mara assures the men that as long as they work for him they need have no fear. He checks an Incipient strike. O’Mara cheers Devereau with the Information that Miriam Burrell cares lor him despite his unhappy past. O’Mara arranges a meeting between Garry and Miriam. Garry mo longer Is a drunkard. O’Mara has worked wonders with him. O’Mara returns to find the reconciliation of Garry and Miriam. Barbara is present. Mid her comments puzzle Stephen. naran says w-.it' ’he regeneration oi, Garry is onr of rho things tiiat has made 1 her life most happy, Barah plans a meeting between Stephen and Barbara. Womanlike, ehe is convinced that, despite her engagement to Wickersham, Barbara cares for •'Mara. Wickersham and Allison begin to realize that O’Mara cannoU be defeated Sarah’s plan to unite Barbara and O’Mara seems to be working smoothly. Stephen gives Harrigan a beating. Wtekersham sees the fight. O’Mara then challenges Wlekersham to fight. Wickersham refuses. Barbara disappears. Steve rescues her. She sends Wickersham his ring and Wlekersham orders Harrigan to kill his rival. Harrigan kills Big Boule and wounds Steve.

CHAPTER XXII.

And Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.

IHEY carried him into the house and bore him upstairs and laid him. quiet now and alI most pulseless, upon the bed.

They stood there dumfounded at the bedside until Miss Sarah, re-entering the room, coolly ordered them from underfoot and sent them bark downstairs. And at that their unprotesting obedience was of greater assistance than their hands could have been. But when, after one glance at the girl’s stricken face, she tried the next Instant to dismiss Barbara for once Miss Sarah’s will alone proved The girl refused, point blank, to go. “He half undressed me and put me to bed,’’ Barbara flung back in reply to the spinster’s final objection, “and If that did not shock you, surely my staying now need not!” The refusal itself brought a glint to the older woman's eyes and the phrasing thereof a flush to her cheeks, but she wasted no more words in what she knew to be useless argument. And though the girl grew sick and sicker still while Miss Sarah cut away the sodden shirt and started, with competent skill, to cleanse the wound, the latter let her remain and hold a basin of antiseptic and replenish it when necessary.

Miss Sarah knew what to do, and she worked with unhurried thorough; ness. They had sent for the doctor, and after ages had passed for the girl, maddeningly cool and unruffled, he arrived. But his first words, too, were an order that she leave the room, and unable to combat his professional bleakness, meekly she had to obey. Little and wholly hopeless she stole downstairs. ... Caleb and her father were confronting _£aeh other before the fireplace when she reached the lower floor, but the queer note of restraint in their voices meant nothing to her, until she heard her father cry out in sudden anguish. “Cal,” he cried, “Cal, you don’t think I was a party to this attempt at murder?” ky Then, at Caleb’s reply, which went hurtling back at him, the girl was crouching, white and still, and clutching at the stair rail. "Party! Attempt! Because you did not pull the trigger are you any the less guilty?” “Dq you believe that I would murder the man my girl loves?” Dexter Allison moaned now. Barbara gasped at the deadly anger which crossed Caleb Hunter’s face. Caleb had lifted a hand in righteous accusation. “You have dealt in crookedness,” he thundered., "You have thrived on cunning. And, being a law unto yourself in this country, you have gone unpunished until now. You aided and abetted a vicious and unscrupulous scoundrel in his villainy, and how you have

looked upon tne resun or your works. Law has never touched you, sir—reprisal has passed you by. But, by God, str, I warn you that If that boy dies—if he dies—l shall see that you meet me at thirty paces the next And I shall ( not miss—l shall be your law!” They had been friends for close to forty years, yet they were worse than strangers now. Dexter Allison could not answer. He could not speak aloud. Caleb’s finger had swung toward the door in a gesture unmistakable. Allison turned, and, ghastly of face, met the eyes of his daughter. “Barbara," he appealed to her frantically. “Baby”— ' But she shrank, a huddled heap of misery, away from him. “You—too?” she whispered. “Your* And then, dully: “And you're my father!”

The shoulders beneath the garish plaid rose and fell pitifully. This,, then, was the moment which he feared. lie gulped aloud and hung his head and turned his feet toward home. Barbara rose after he' had gone and crept into a chair. One after another -they tried to persuade the girl to rest. Miriam came and talked to her, and Caleb, and even Miss Sarah p.sslng through the room stopped to urge her again to go to bed. But she met them all with the same wordless refusal. She was waiting for him when the doctor, descending in the morning, tried to combine, diplomatically,'praise for what she had done with disapproval of her obstinacy. v “My dear child, this insubordination will help no one,” he said, “and It may end in your collapse at Just the moment whim you are needed most.” “Will he live?” was all she would say. “Will he live?" And before such hopelessness the doctor could not lie. “He is hard hit and very, very weak,” he had to admit “The shock is great and the tissue damage—unpromising. It Is far worse than 1 expected, but he Is still alive, and most men would have been already dead. And his vitality is a marvel, even to me.”

lie rijteht have comforted her, but with no other statement could he have told the truth. He failed also in his effort to persuade her tQ go to bed; he had breakfast with Caleb, mid she refused to eat. And she was still there In her chair, asking be let alone, when Garry Devereau and Fat Joe arrived. She rose and ran to. meet the latter, but the doctor who knew how many such situations the pudgy riverman had weathered, summoned him immediately, and Barbara had to wait an hour before Joe came back downstairs. By the lapels of his coat she clung to him then. “He’s mighty sick.” reluctantly Joe, too, told the truth. “The doctor said that It was worse than he expected,” she droned. “They sent me away, but If he isn’t going to live I won’t let them keep me from him!” Joe’s sympathy was unspoiled by professionalism. “Sick Is one thing”—his confidence was almost convincing—“and dyln’ is another. And- Shucks! I ain’t going to let no book taught medico worry me yet! Men get well because they are bound to get well, or they die because It’s their time to die—and he’s got too much to live for now!" Iler hopeless face made deception Impossible, but Joe comforted her, just the same. lie persuaded her to eat with him. and when he found that his conversation made the waiting easier for her, he waxed quite garrulous. “Why, he’s been hurt almost as bad as tills, once before,” he rambled on. “but he’s still alive, ain’t he?” The girl’s eyes livened at that. “Once down on the Island, he mixed in an affair in which most men would not have meddled. And he got it from behind that time, too, only it was with a knife.” “He never told me,” murmured the girl.

“It ain’t likely he would,” the other stated with finality. “It was over a woman, and not a particularly pretty story, any way you look at it.” Her dark eyes widened. She bit her lip. It came to her how little of his life she had shared. “Oh!” she barely breathed. And again, falteringly, "Oh!” From that halting monosyllable Joe judged that something was amiss. Observation had never been a slow or painful process of concentration with him. “He didn’t even know who she was. He'd never seen her before,” quickly he put her right. “She was just a public dancer, that was all. But a man — mistreated her, and Steve, he just interfered”— Indeed, Joe had found the way to comfort her and still tell the truth, even though he found it foolishly difficult to swallow food and watch at the same time the warmth which his Words kindled. So for an hour he lingered at table and told her many things concerning the man she loved which she would never have learned from his own lips. And it was Joe’s Jocularity which in the end subdued her rebel spirit. She yielded at last and promised to go home and rest, but only after he had promised first, in a fashion which could leave no doubt in her beait, that he would come for her if things grew worse. Before she left him that morning she told Joe of Big Louie, whom she had had to leave in the road, bbt he interrupted her before she could finish. They had already found Big Louie. Then she gave him the note which she had discovered crushed under Steve’s body. This Joe scanned ferociously; he flashed a strange glance at her from bleached blue »»■- (To be continued.)

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