Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1917 — Page 8

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two for sergeants. We are full to ■war strength (250 enlisted men), and have a few extra men and more coming. There are 175 coming down Saturday and some of them will be assigned to this company. Of course, however, there will he a “weeding out’’ of undesirables and men without engineering experience, so that we will have only the 250 men. The regiment is full of “pep’’ and all want to be moving. No one knows just when we will move, and if it was known no one could tell. However, I think it wHI bo soon the first of the year. If the men had their way it would be tomorrow. We are well fed here. Off course, there are no fancy dishes, but lots of good, wholesome food. Of course some men kick on the food, hut that is to be expected anywhere. There is no need of my going into detail regarding the hours we keep for you already know what army regulations are. Enough to say that taps sound at 10 p. m. and reveille at 6:15 a. m., and we put in seven hours a day in the field at work. That is about all for this time. Yours, O. O. OSBORNE. Co. E, 108th U. S. Engineers. From a long letter received froig the editor’s oldest son, George M. Babcock, we copy the major part which may be of interest to readers of The Democrat:

To begin with, we did not leave Ft. Thomas until Wednesday night. We were taken to the depot at 2:30 o’clock and left Newport, Kentucky, at 6 p. m. I was lucky enough to get into an old Pullman sleeping car, it being the only one on the train of six cars. The other cars consisted of tourist sleepers. We also had two negro chefs on board and ate out of our mess kits all the way down. Some life. Keith O’Riley and his com rad “s baked up enough bread To last us for j the entire trip. I got tired of white | bread and when put on kitchen | duty the second morning out I no-j tired the first chef was busying himself preparing some corn muffins. When I got the opportunity to commune with himwithout being overheard I suggested that I would give him a dime for a pair of them, which he said was O. K., and they were certainly fine. I went back to the kitchen car morning and received a cordial greeting. I left with two more hot muffins and a piece from, a large corn cake, all of which was being prepared for the train crew and officers in charge of us. Saturday noon several of us organized the chef and I had four of the muffins. As for the trip down here, we passed through Chattanooga, Tennessee, hut were foribdden the privilege of leaving the train. Shortly after leaving the Tennessee, city we

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February 13, Ernest Asher, 4 miles southeast of Wheatfieid. General sale. Feb. 18, A. B. Lowman, near Hebron. General sale. February 19, H. E. Gifford, 314 miles east of Alx. General sale. February 20 John R. Lewis. Hampshire hog sale. February 21, Roorda and Otis, Iy, miles north of Fair Oaks. February 27, B. T. Lanham. southeast of Rensselaer. General February 28, John Faris. Genera] sale. February 2«, Mr. Barber, 3% miles north of Alx.

were held up by the engineer pulling a draw-bar on the cook car. When the first side track was reached this car was put on the rear of the train. We found the land in Kentucky and Tennessee in poor condition. There was very little under cultivation, and negroes were everywhere. The snow continued to thin'out the farther south we went. We had arrived within fourteen miles of Birmingham, Alabama, when we were held up for several hours by a freight wreck. Several ears were dumped in the ditch. On getting up Friday morning we found no snow, and that evening we arrived, in New Orleans. Louisiana. On entering the city we saw many patches of green truck in the gardens. It surely looked good to us. Before, arriving at New Orleans we crossed a lake which was spanned by a railroad bridge. It was the longest bridge I ever crossed, several miles in length. Land almost disappeared on. Upjh sides, possibly due to the foggy condition of the weather, but it was a very long bridge. On reaching New Orleans we were taken by the lieutenant in charge to the yard surrounding the U. S. subtreasury building and were given good coffee, cakes, bananas and postal cards, “to send home to mother.” We gave the Red Cross ladies a rousing cheer on departing. We were ferried across the Mississippi river and arose next morning in Texas. We were having breakfast when we reached Houston, which is quite a jcity. We reached this place at 3:4(5 Saturday afternoon, and then our troubles began. But just a moment. We passed through Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and saw several national guardsmen about. The camp was too far from the track to he seen.

The mountains in Tennessee were not so had. We saw Lookout mountain at Chattanoogo, passing through a long tunnel 'underneath. We passed several training camps on the way down here. There are more Camps in Texas than in any other state. As for our troubles, we were marched from the railroad. Station at Kelly field through the dust to ou.r present location, a couple of miles distant. We were issued another blanket, making three, and were then given a cot and a tent, which cot we had to set up, and after mess at an outdoor mess shack, eaten while sitting on the ground, we’ turned in early. We were up at 6 Sunday.,morning and had eats at 7. We started in to fix up our tent. The dust here is something awful. Aeroplanes are certainly numerous. We have all gotten tired of the noise they make each morning and afternoon. There are three schools here for aviators. The climate here is not bad. The sun has shone here a few hours since we have been here, and overcoats and under coats are easily shed. We have not done hardly anything since coming here. We expect to have a trade examination in a few days and will then be assigned to a squadron and sent to some other part of the country. The place where we are located was recently a large cotton field, and we saw many fields off cotton on the way down, as well as many cotton hales. The land in eastern Texas was as smooth as a floor, hut farther in it became rolling. T could write a volume, hut it is about time to turn in, and we have surely been getting lots of sleep. I will close for this tipie, with best regards to all. My address is Kelly Field, No. 1, Line “N,” San Antonio, Texas.

Last Sunday Father Dhe sent SBO more, making $l2O in all, collected by the parochial school children for the war orphans in France. Father Dhe sent the money directly to the very Rev. Father Guillemant, vicar general of Aria:. —Fowler Tribune. Rosell S. Bassham of Lafayette, was awarded a verdict of $20,000 damages last Friday against the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway company in Judge Gridley’s court in Chicago. The verdict was for injuries sustained a year ago while he was employed by the company. The complainant lost both legs in the accident, and asked for SIOO,OOO. Herman Brousky, supposed to he dead, revived in an undertaker’s basket in a Crown Point morgue last Tuesday and Charles Geisen, the attendant, had the scare of his life as the “dead man’s’’ body rolled over as he started to prepare it for burial. Brousky was a patient in the insane ward at the Crown Point jail, and about midnight was found by Tom Platt, jailer, apparently dead. He was put in an undertaker’s basket and sent to the morgue =to be prepared for burial. Brousky w r as taken back to jail from the morgue and is a lively corpse now.

TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE John Bunning et ux to Abe L. Lageveen et ux, December 12, pt sw sw 26-32-7, 5 acres, Keener, S3OO. ' The Democrat prints sale bills of the better class and can do it on very short notlee.

FEELS BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY

Former German Appreciates Citizenship in America. Sir—Although I know from past experiences that that man is the wisest who keeps his ideas and opinions*to himself, yet I deem it my duty to express mine if you permit through your valuable columns. I am a naturalized citizen of this republic, German by birth and education, even have served in the German army. I have taken an active part in political contests for ovet twenty years. It may sound rediculous, but I realized since the campaign of 11)00 that i‘:’ the United States of American could pass by the rocks that destroyed the ancient republics of Greece aiid of Rome, the war between the democracies of America and the autocracy that dominated Germany was unavoidable. The principle of government that controlled all the actions of the Hohenzollern dynasty since Frederick the Great, that controlled the actions of Bismark and that was so deeply inoculated into the German people in the last thirty years was directly opposed to the principles that control the actions of our statesmen and our patriots and our people. The clash of arms was bound to come. It came sooner than expected. In IDOO W. J. Bryan closed his great speech at the Military park in our city with the following words: “Behold a republic in the western hemisphere that will defy the autocracies of Europe. Behold a republic that will shake the throne of every potentate, and will teach the people of all the world that goveriiment by and for the people has found its champion, j What prophetic words! Today the men and women of America are preparing to defeat a system of gov-

ernment that is put of place in this age. I otften said that a majority ot our people do not realize the blessings they enjoy, because they came naturally to them. They will more appreciate them when they are called upon to make sacrifices in order to secure them for the future. Every man or woman, be he German or of any other nationality, who knows the history of the Ilohenzollerns, who knows the principles that control the militarists of Germany actually as I know them, who knows that the aristocracies of Europe consider our republic their greatest enemy, and does not'support our government in this crisis is either biased or does not understand the fundamental principles upon which this government is erected. A weak government of our republic autocracy would welcome and sneer at. If America had not proved to the world that a great people gathered from all parts of the globe could govern themselves, autocrats everywhere would have pointed to us and said that popular government was a failure. ESut the United States has proved to the world that popular government is the best for all the people and that is the reason they use all their power to create disloyalty and discontment among our people. But they must and will fail.

As a Christian I believe that the good God has given the United States of America to the world as a haven where people of all nations may come and enjoy liberty, equality: And justice beneath the folds of the Stars and Stripes. Dark clouds that now threaten us will pass away. Misery and hardships that we now endure will end in joy when we have (proved to the world that although the powers of autocracy have tried to 'undermine the very foot of our government by instilling the poison of disloyalty in some' olf our people, democracy will endure, not only here in America, but everywhere. May God grant the people of Europe to have national leaders as America lias had them even in our day, not to say anything of the long past. May they have a statesman like Cleveland, a pacifier like McKinley, an energetic, patriotic firebrand like Roosevelt, a jurist like Taft and a champion of democracy like Wilson. —George S. Schauer, in Indianapolis News.

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engendered by the furlough news. But in Saturday night’s issue, the same correspondent said: Private Antone Sirson of E company, 46th infantry,* shot bimsel'f because a leave for the holiday season had been denied him. Sirson died almost immediately. A service rifle was 'used. Sirson had complained to other men of the company when he learned that his request had been denied because be would be on duty in the regular course of military discipline throughout the furlough period. He appeared morose and melancholy fori several hours prior to the act, it J

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was reported. The near relative given by Sirson at the time of his enlistment was Mrs. Anna Yxa, 1601 Hanover street, Chicago. And from other sources The Democrat is told that furlough passes had been issued Thursday to thousands of the boys at Camp Taylor, only to be taken up again Friday, but that about five hundred of the soldiers left camp without leave. It would appear that the whole thing has been badly *handled. Either furloughs should have been granted or the'* promise of them Should not have been made. If all could not be given furloughs, then ! the decision of who was to get I them should have been determined by lot. With but a few hours disi tant from Louisville and on a direct line of railroad, it is a keen disappointment to the Jasper county boys and their relatives and friends to learn that general furloughs were not granted.

Error in Printing Milk Rules Will Delay Their Taking Effect. Indianapolis, December 2 4. —The State Board of Health announces that the milk rules requiring that the milk be graded according to sanitary quality* for saving child life as in some other states, will rtot be promulgated on account of a technical error in printing, which can not be corrected in time for promulgation by January 1. This leaves the milk situation unchanged, and milk producers and dealers will be promptly notified in regard to action hereafter taken by the State Board of Health. ■

The Democrat is still selling a good commercial envelope, XX and XXX, size 5,6, 6 3-4 and a few bonds left, at 5c per package of twenty-five. When the present supply, bought before the big advance in prices, is exhausted we will be obliged to advance the prices. Better lay in a supply now while you can get them at the old figure. A new supply of pads of typewriter paper (8%xll) just made up and on sale in the fancy stationery and office, supply department at The Democrat office.

KAISER PLANNING FOR PEACE

Is Now Seeking an Agreement With the Lenine Agents in Russia. London, December 2 3. —A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Copenhagen says: “The Beliner Zeitung says Emporer William has informed his government that he contemplates going to Brest Litovsk if the diplomats arrive at an agreement, in which case he will endeavor ,to assemble all the sovereigns and regents of Europe in a peace conference, as was' done after the Napoleonic wars. The emporer is credited as having said that body wants peace and that the future offers so many great tasks that all states must .co-operate in them.’’

Amsterdam, December 23. —A dispatch received here from Best-Lit-oivsk, Russia, dated Saturday, says' “Today at 4 o’clock in the afternoon the peace negotiations were begun at a solemn sitting. . “Dr. von Kuehlmann, German foreign minister, was unanimously elected chairman. He made the most important speech before* the delegates, saying in part: “ ‘ln viw of the situation, it will be impossible in the course of these deliberations to prepare an instrument of peace elaborated in its smallest details. What I have in mind is to fix the most important principles and conditions upon which peaceful and neighborly intercourse, especially in the cultural nomic sense, can be speedily resumed and also to decide upon the best means of healing the wounds caused by the war.’ “The German foreign minister proposed the following rules, which were adopted: “Questions of precedence will be decided according to the alphabetical list of the represented powers. “Preliminary sittings will be presided over by the chief representative qf each olf the five powers in rotation. “The following languages may be used in the debate—German. Bulgarian, Russian and Turkish. “Questions interesting only part of the represented powers may be discussed separately. “Official reports of the proceedings will be drafted jointly. “At von Kuehlmann’s suggestion the chief Russian delegates stated the chief principles of the Russian peace program in a long speech, which coincided on the whole with the well known resolutions of the workmen’s and soldiers’ deputies. “The delegates of the central powers declared their intentions to begin on the Russian program. The result of their labors will be discussed at the sitting.’’

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 26, 1917

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