Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 56, Number 48, Jasper, Dubois County, 18 September 1914 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER

UN BO. JASPER DOANE, Publlfthtr. INDIANA Optimism of A merle la the national keynote Even the fish are catching the hookworm these days. Habit la a fearful thing, even in a weather department Isn't this the time for somebody to Me the sea serpent? Man was made to mourn and ro find things to worry about TLü motorcycle Is now in the class of trouble coming tandem. This season's man on horseback rides in a bombproof automobile. One of the new dances Is called the "Lame Duck." It must be some sort of drag. There are psychological moments aod then again there Is plain, undiluted trouble. Who last saw that old familiar gentleman who wiped his mustache with his lower lip? "Pacta are stubborn things." But for that matter, so are the other fellow's theories. This Is a free country, hut that doesn't mean it's a good place in which to start a hunger strike. It is estimated that this year's apple crop will be 50,000,000 barrels, not counting what the bad boys steal. The absent-minded lady who left her child cn a car Is still shivering with fright it might have heen Fldo! The captain who deserts his ship before the wireless operator does will have to do a great deal of explaining. There are left, we suppose, a few of those old-fashioned folk who taught their children to say "yes'm" and no m. Astronomers have discovered a new comet. Everybody knows that there should be one in sight with so much war on tap. "Business men exercise too much," says a famous physician; well, business rtself has been kept pretty much on the run of late. If It isn't the drought, it's the wet weather. If It were not war that is raising the prices of flour, shoes and things, it would be peace. The man that can invent an artflclal tan that'll make you look as though you'd spent six weeks at the seashore will never go hungry. According to a London dancing master, the tango died suddenly last January. We seem to have overlooked it in the "Deaths and Funerals." Young men warned against cigarettes should not be given the Idea that manhood is assured by the consumption of a package of scrap a day. It's well to remember, these days, that many a professional optimist who declares he enjoys hot weather may be merely a stockholder in an Ice company. Although yawning is said to be good for the health, that doesn't make the young man who stays till midnight any more acceptable as a eugenic candidate. The government census reports the robin as the most numerous native bird east of tho plains. Any man with a cherry orchard can confirm the statistical information. Some people spend so much mom y getting ready for vacations that they can never .ravel very far. Still, if most of the fun is in the anticipation, what is the difference? Accused of beaten? her husband a Nmw Jersey woman told the court that the thrashed him soundly every time she caught him drinking. Another reason why husbands leave home. A new peril to the motorist Is reported from Newport, where a driver dodging a bee upset his car and injured three occupants. The moral of course, is "safety first" and be stung. That present style of close fitting coiffure adopted by the women shows that the movement It patronize home industries has invaded the realm of fashion to the conservation of home gsown hair. Modern warfare it la not sweet. may be short, but Why do some stout women at the beaches persist In wearing the freakish bathing costumes? They have better than a slim chance to attract notice In the flrst place. The young women who are dressing like gypsies resemble the original patterns in everything except the redolence. This can be acquired only after long and conscientious avoidance of

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By FRANKLIN F. MURRICK. International News Service. Paris. Burned villa and heaps of bodies lvin on Belgian soil around f'harlerol show the ferocity with which the allied French and British troops opposed the wave of German troops that rolled them over and drove them bar k to France. For ten hours the tide of battle ebbed aiid flowed at Charleroi, the town being taken and retaken five times before the allies withdrew. Part of the city was wrecked, according to reports received by the war office. The villages of Marchlennes, Monceau, Chatelet and Landelies were burned. Citizens Killed. Though the inhabitants of the peacefa little villages had been warned t ..t the conflict was comine. scores i n Joed in their homes and perished m the frames or were killed under the rain of shot and shell that swept the streets when they were driven from the shattered structures. Fierce hand to hand fighting took place in Charleroi. The French were the first to occupy the town, but they were driven out by a bombardment from the German artillery. The Germans then entered by the left bank of the river Sambre, but within a short time more of the allies' troops arrived and the conflict was renewed. The Germans sought cover in the houses In the lower part of the town and to dislodge them the French were forced to sweep that section with their artillery. Wounded Fill Town. The lower part of the town was soon in flames and the Germans were forced into the streets. Back and forth through these surged the contesting soldiers, fighting desperately for victory. The dead lay thick when the French were finally forced to withdraw. For three days wounded soldiers have been pouring Into Maubeuge. The monastery and nunnery there are filled. The inhabitants have given up their homes to the war's victims. On Sunday the Germans drove the French troops through the town of Charleroi, back to tho second defensive position on the line defined by the towns of Avesnes, Rocrol and Mezieres. Recaptured by French. The French artillery from the heights now turned a furious cannonading on Charleroi, which had been bombarded previously by the Germans from the other side. The German position was so weakened by the deadly accuracy of the French gunnery that a counter attack by the allies was ordered and at daylight on Monday the entire line advanced, charged the German position and recaptured Charleroi. The conflict probably was unequaled In history in severity and casualties. The Germans must have succeeded in bringing up reserves, for early on Tuesday they made a successful counter attack along the whole battle line and retook Charleroi, driving the French back to an intrenched position, which they held until the morning of the second day. Retreat In Good Order. The retreat was made in good order, the main forces of the French remaining intact. Both armies suffered terrific losses. The battle has not yet finished. The German catapult is hammering at the French and British allies again, trying to batter Its relentless way to Paris. There is desperate fighting along the Belgian frontier at several points, and French victories are reported at two places, Charleroi and Courtrai. though nothing official has been given out. Turcos Charge Battery. At the beginning of the combat, the French made a sortie In a medieval manner, with the object of surprising the apemy. The latter were found in number far exceeding the French expectations, and the attempt to rout them failed. Then the Turcos, In tho face of n withering fire, charged a German battery at the point of the bayonet. Five hundred of these brave French sol(tiers from North Africa left on the charge. Only 10 returned. Their sortie had no effect against the steady German advance, which continued to creep step by step through the outskirts of Charleroi. Before the railway station the Germans fought for two hours in an effort to capture the bridge. Their losses were enormous, but the bridge was captured. French Beaten Rapidly. After the Teutonic advance overwhelmed the bridge, the Germans rained ground rapidly, taking in succession the villages of Marchiennes. Landelis and Montignies and the country as far as Walcourt. Later the French artillery opened fire on Charleroi and the French infantry advanced under this cover. The ' & of battle appeared to favor the tri color, but not for long. French infantrymen declared the roofs became so jammed with dead that the victims of battle remained standing where they were shot, and were used by the living as breastworks from behind which to fire on the enemy. The last stand of the French was along the line between Thuln and Mettet. At nightfall the fighting ended, both sides tired beyond endurance. Monday morning the French returned to the attack, entering the town in the

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face of a withering fire from machine guns mounted in the steeples, and drivine the fusion across the river Sambre. Many Houses In Flames. They found many houses smoldering or in flames. The Inhabitants, terrorstricken, were in the cellars. German officers and soldiers were fount! dead in the streets, side by side with Frenchmen who had fallen before or afterward. One German officer was shot while he was washing his face, and his head i was bowed over a basin, while his face was covered with Boap. Another had been lifting a cup of coffee to his lips when a French bullet brought death. He was found lying face downward across a table, the broken up beside him cn the floor. German Losses Enormous. An idea of the enormous losses of the Germans in the great battle in southwestern Belgium and of the bravery of Jie kaiser's soldiers is given in the story of a returned traveler who witnessed part of the fighting along the Saubre river, southwest of Charleroi. "I was near Fereux, in a region covered with dense woods, while the fighting was taking place," said he. "I could hear the sound of cannon away to the east and knew that a big battle was raging. From my place In the forest I suddenly saw the advance guard of a German army approaching along a roadway which skirted the trees. "There seemed to be an endless procession of soldiers, all dressed in a uniform of gray. Rank after rank passed by and I thought that the end would never come. "There was no hesitation. The men swung forward with quick steps and I saw officers galloping along the lines urging them forward. French Open Fire. "Suddenly there was a fresh sound of battle, this time in front of me and I knew that the French artillery had opened upon the advance guard of the Germans. I moved cautiously forward to a point where I could get a View of the battle scene It una a view which seared itself Into m memory "The French guns were hurling a hurricane of steel and flame into the German ranks, but the soldiers pushed forward with their battle shouts on their lips. Straight into that pit of destruction rushed the advancing troops. Men fell, on every hand. It seemed that whole platoons melted away. "Over the bodies of the dead and wounded pushed the rear ranks of the invading army, rushing with fixed bayonets upon the smoking muzzles of the French artillery. It was a superb picture of gallantry. Ae.-oplane Is Smashed. "Near Erquellnnes I saw a German aeroplane brought down. The military aviator was flying high in the air, taking a reconnoissance of the allies' positions. The specially constructed guns, designed to attack air craft, were turned upon the aeroplane, but the aviator continued his work. Suddenly I saw the machine lurch, splinters flew, and then the shattered machine began to drop. It had been smashed by a projectile. GERMANS DRAG GUNS OVER THEIR OWN DEAD London. The correspondent of the Dsily Mail describes a visit among the French who were wounded in the battles of the Vosges and have been brought to Vichy, where the hotels have been transformed into hospitals. A wounded artilleryman contributed the following experience: "I witnessed one horrible scene. Tho Germans were shooting from the deep trenches among which our artillery was doing terrible work. Put as fast as a German dropped a fresh man took his place until bodies of tho Germans were on a level with the surface of the earthworks. "At this moment a German battery was ordered to advance. The heavy wheels sank in the trench, but the drivers furiously lashed their horses and finally dragged the guns across the human bridge.'' ' WHAT PRISONERS OF WAR WILL EAT The following scale of daily rations for prisoners of war has been approved by the military authorities: One pound of Lread, three -quarters of a pound of biscuit, one pound of preserved meat, three ounces of cheese, five-eighths of an ounce of tea, one-quartt-r of a pound of Jam, three ounces of sugar, oue-half of an ounce of salt, om -twentieth of an ounce of mustard, one-thirty-sixth of an ounce of pepper, one-half of a pound of fresh vegetables. Two ounces of tobacco will be furnished each week for smokers. Gunners Made Stone Deaf. London. A medical correspondent of the Times who has Ju6t returned from Belgium says it is morally certain that all the artillerymen of the forts at Liege are now stone deaf. The nerves of hearing must fall under the strain of dwelling upwards of a fortnight in a world of mighty explosions," he says. "For these men the guns thunder now only in a silence which may never be broken"

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WINS FRENCH GLORY Gen. Pau Reported to Have Defeated 50?000 Germans France Making Preparations to Move Seat of Government to Bordeaux When Si ege Comes. London, Aug. 31. Gen Paul Pau, France's hero since his victory over the Germans at Muelhausen, Aisace, dealt a hard blow to the Kaiser's army in France today, according to a telegram received from Antwerp by the Reuter Telegram Company. The telegram gave no details, simply announcing: "It is reported here that Gen. Pau has won a brilliant victory over 50,000 Germans near Peronne, in the department of the Somme." That a battle had been progressing in the vicinity cf Peronne all day was known to the war office here, but the result had not been announced officially. Peronne is about twenty miles west of LaFere, which the Germans reached yesterday after defeating the French. It was said in a disDatch I from Amiens that the French engaged at fet. uentin and LaFere were trying desperately to hold back the Germans until Pau arrived with reinforcements. Aside from the reported victory at Peronne, the war news today contained little to cheer the British. The Germans were said to be advancing steadily toward Paris and official announcement was made that preparations were under way for the removal of the French capital from Paris to Bordeaux. Foreign diplomats in Paris were notified of this intention in order that they might make necessary arrangements to move, too, if they saw fit. AUSTRIANS AGAIN DEFEATED Czar's Soldiers Win Brilliant Victory After Bitter Battle Lasting Four Days. London, Aug. 31. The great battle that has raged for four days in the province of Lubin, Russian Poland, has resulted in an overwhelming defeat for the Austrian army, according to advices which reached here from Rome. The message came from Sofia, Bulgaria, in a dispatch to the Messagero at Rome. "The Austrians have suffered an irreparable defeat at Zambose, fifty miles southeast of Lubin," reads the dispatch. Earlier dispatches tended to. relieve the apprehension of the allies that the Russian advance had been checked. Dispatches from St. Petersburg said that the Muscovites had turned the Russian defensive into an offensive action. Meanwhile the Russians are understood to be making renewed assaults on the German army in East Prussia. Word came from the German source of a defeat suffered by the Russians. A Berlin dispatch stated that 30,000 Russian soldiers and a number of high officers had been captured. It is believed that this refers to the reversal said to have been inflicted on Russian arms in East Prussia in the neighborhood of Ortelsburtr, Hohenstein and Tannenburg. DECLARES MIKADO WILL NOT HELP ALLIES FIGHT IN EUROPE New York, Aug. 31. Japan can not send troops to Europe to assist the allies in the righting there, although she stands ready to help them in the far East, according to the Japanese consul general here, Takashi Nakamura. "Our agreement with Great Britain," said the counsel general, "is such that she need have no fear of removing her troops from India to the war zone. That agreement binds HI to protect the interests of Great Britain in such an emergency, and the agreement includes India and China. "In the event of Turkey's getting into this war, which is not so promising as it may seem, Japan would send to India a sufficient force to keep down any uprising of the natives that might be fomented by Turkish or German interests. Such a movement of Japanese troops is covered in the agreement. "On the other haad. we can not send troops to the war in Europe, no matter what the fortunes of the allies may be. In the first place, our agreement does not call for aid in that direction, in the second place, it would be almost impossible to get enough troops into the war zone to be of any service at the last desperate cry for help." Japs Occupy Three German Islands. Pekin, Sept. 1. The Japanese, according to reports received here, have occupied three islands within the German sphere at Kiao-Chau. They are Talickao, Tekupng-Tao and Ta-Chien. These islands had not been occupied by the Germans. Information received yesterday was to the effect that the Japanese had occupied Ta-Chien, a small island outside of Kiao-Chau Bay. It is believed that the Tsing-Tau forts are engaged with the vessels of the Japanese blockading fleet.

State News in Brief

Newcastle. A business meeting of the White River conference of the United Brethren church of Indiana, at a session here, held to select a conference superintendent for the coming year, resulted in tho re-election of Dr. B. E. Shannon of Marion. Laporte. A dispatch received at Montlcello, announces the death of Rev. Joel Weaver, a prominent Indiana United Brethren clergyman at the home of a relative near Omaha. Weaver, in attempting to crank an automobile, was caught under the machine and fatally crushed. Shelby ville, Woman's Tniversalist Missionary society day was celebrated at the state convention of the Unlversalist church of Indiana, at Waldron. An address was delivered by Mrs. Agnes R. Conklin. wife of the superintendent of the Cniversalist churches of Michigan. A business session was held, attended by state officers of the church. More than ninety delegates have registered. Logansport. Miss Louise Rabb, daughter of Joseph Rabb, former judge of the state appellate court, arrived home from Europe. She was in Paris when war between. France and Germany was declared and her party was among the first to leave, acting on the advice of the American consul. She sailed for America from Glasgow. Scotland. Hammond Harry Forbes of Chicago, believed to be the leader of a gang of pickpockets that hae worked on interurban cars between Chicago, Gary and Hammond during the last two years, was shot by an East Chicago policeman on a Sixtythird street Chicago car. He was taken to St. Margaret's hospital. He is in a serious condition. Four other members of the gang with him escaped. Rochester. Isaac Washington Brown, known as Colonel Brown, Rochester's ' bird and bee man," died here of acute indigestion, after an illness of six days. Mr. Brown, who was sixty-six years old. was born in Carroll county. Mr. Brown was famous all over the middle West for his lectures on fcirds and bees, and appealed especially to school children. Columbus The fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Pottorff of Hartsville was spent quietly at their home with only their relatives present. There were members of five generations present among the guests. The husband was one hundred years old July l. He has been twice married. His present wife is eighty-three years old. Anderson William H. Ellison, age thirty-seven, a factory employe, committed suicide by slashing his throat with a razor. Mr. and Mrs. Ellison had. just returned from seeing a relative away on a train. Mrs. Ellison said her husband gave no intimation of his act and that there had been no trouble. While Mrs. Ellison was in the kitchen she heard her husband fall In a front room and she found him dying. Washington. Two boys, about eighteen years old, who say they live at Louisville, are being held here by the local police until they can learn how the boys got possession of a number of stamps which they sold to Albert Shepherd, a street car motorman, last Saturday. The boys sold Shepherd two sheets of 1 and 2-cent stamps for 25 cents. They say they came here from Leipsic, but refuse to tell where they got the stamps. Shelbyville. A rainfall of more than two inches in Shelby county In two days has caused a flood. At Flat Rock cave, south of this citv, the picnic grounds were overflowed and damaged. The ''shoot the chutes" wae washed out as were many of the amusements on the grounds. At St. Paul, the stone quarries were flooded by Mill creek and operations were sus pended. Little Blue river was tilled with dead fish, caused by the refuse from the canning factory and the c ity health authorities have been forced to take measures to get rid of the decaying fishf Columbus. Frederick Liebrock of ' this city is a prisoner of war

la London. This information canrj in ! slep, lost many nights of rest on aca letter from him to friends in this ! pount of the eczema, My hands were city. Liebrock had been employed in j nt At to be seen and I kept them the Mooney tannery here for the last wrapped up and wore mittens that I few years and started for Germany I made out of old linen, several weeks ago to bring his wife "I as about one year using remeand children here. He had reached d!es, then I saw an advertisemeat in Indianapolis when he bought a news- the paper saying that Cuticura Soap paper and saw that war had been de- ! and Ointment wore good. I wrote at

clared. He telephoned here to have his revolver sent to him, ae he said he might join the German army wh p he got to Germany and would then have need of the weapon. The revolver was sent, but It did not reach Indian apolis m time. He desires to get hig family and return to Columbus, but it says ne proDaoiy win nave to remain In prison as long as the war is la progress. Tipton The W. R. c. has started a movement for the erection of a soldiers' monument on the court house square. James Price post, G. A. R., ordered $200 paid out of its funds to start the subscription list. Several individual members subscribed a like amount and it is likely that the amount desired $3,000 will be raised in a short time. Danville. Aunt Melinda Chambers, the oldest resident of Danville, celebrated her ninety-fourth birthday. The usual celebration by the townspeople was not held, because of the aged woman's failing health.

CANADA'S HUGE GRAIN BINS Port Arthur Paper Is Peeved at the Mention of Kansas City Elevator lom Um Fort Arthur (CBd) Brentr Cftfoslsls Kansas City gains the attention of the New York Evening Post and la given fivo Inches of space In that admirable newspaper by reason of increasing the capacity of a grain elevator there. The Evening Post says: "When the additions and alterations to its huge grain elevator at Kansas City now under way are completed the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain railroad will have one of the largest plants of Its kind in the world." The present capacity of the Kansas City product is one million bushels. When it gains its promised stature and becomes "one of the largest in the world" it will have a capacity of 2.133,000 bushels. At the mention of grain elevators the twin ports at the head of the lakes prick up their ears and take notice. The name of Lloyd-George at a Tory garden party, or of President Wilson at a bankers' convention catches attention no quicker than the word "elevator" in the hearing of a Port ArthurFort William man. Toronto prides itself on its churches ; Pittsburgh specializes on millionaires; Chicago has its pork and Boston its pork and beans as for us, we rise to fame on the bins of our elevators, and he who says "one of the largest" about any old two-million-bushel outfit in Missouri must withdraw the statement or name the place and weapons. If the Evening Post had said "one

of the largest in Missouri," or in the general but expressive American phrase had said "some elevator," we wouldn't have minded it so much, but when it describes this etunted Missouri receptacle as "one of he largest grain elevators in the world" then It is time to kick. Why, two-millioa-bushel elevators are so common hereabouts that the secretary of the board of trade does not point them out to distinguished visitors. Nothing could ehow clearer than that what we think of two-million-bushel elevators. When we have pointed to the 9,500,-000-bushel C. N. R. elevator and the 7,800,000-bushel C. P. R. elevator and the 6,500,000-bushel G. T. P. elevator; then to the 3.500.000-bushel Dominion Government elevator which is only the first unit of what is to be a 30-million-bushel plant, by that time the air is so full of millions that the listener would be annoyed if we bothered him with mention of a mere two-million-bushel affair. So we just lump the balance together and describe the grand total of 45-million-bushel capacity already standing at the heed of the lakee. Tpon the basis upon which Kansas City got five inches of space in the Evening Post we claim a complimentary writeup of at least three columns and in the article we would state that in one respect we are like Kansas City when it is a question of big elevators we also are from Missouri. Woman at Law. A Brockton woman was arrested and thought she would save a legal fee by conducting her own case in court, but she was fined $75. Then, with a friend, she called on a regular lawyer. "Ah," said the regular lawyer, giving a guess at what his visitors wanted. "She appealed and wants me to defend her in the superior court." "But she didn't appeal. She paid the fine." "Then where do I fit in the case?" askd the attorney. "We want you to bring suit against Judge Reed and make him give us back the $75," earnestly stated tho visitor. The lawyer did not take the caseBoston Post. ECZEMA SPREAD OVER HANDS 101 S. Boots St., Marien, Ind. "First the eczema started on my fiugers, then epread all over my hands. It broke out in tiny blisters, then would get dry and crack and iwsll so I could not have my hands in arm water they hurt me 60 badly. I could not do all my work. Tho itching and burning were terrible. Tho more I scratched my hands the worse it made them. They were so bad I could not help scratching them and would walk the floor they annoyed me so. I could not once for a sample. Then I bought one cake of Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuticura Ointment. Before the second box of Cuticura Ointment was gone my hands were well and have remained well ever since." (Signed Mrs. O. YV. Sharp. Mar. 21, 1914. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free.with 32-p. Skin Book. Address postCard "Cuticura, Dept L, Boston." Adv. No Wonder. "Ghosts? Why of course there are ghosts." said Simeon Ford at an hotel mens banquet In New York "Churchyards are full of ghosts. "And no wonder churchyards are full of them. After he's been kicked and cuffed and abused all his life, where is the man whose ghost, especially on these balmy summer evs nings, doesn't enjoy a quiet sit down in the moonlight In order to read his epitaph r Real estate dealers fat at tb

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