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British Soldier Survives Most
Thrilling War Experience.
Entered as second-class matter March 26, 1618, at tlie postoffice at In Rescued Man Gives Thrilling
Story of His Perils.
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C LY D E
T. ECKER, Editor.
H e n ry F o rd declares he is tt Republican. I t is a kind,
how ever, that w ill make the old tim er bat his eyes. Con-
cernng protection and free trade, M r. F ord is quoted as
saying that free trade should p revail the w orld over,
which out-l)em ocrats the Democrats on this issue. T o
• call a man in this day it “ Republican” or “ D em ocrat”
means little. H e can advocate anything and be either.
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belongs to M r. Roosevelt. His criticisms are divided into
fo u r parts: “ 1” and self praise, advocating a permanent
m ilitarism against which the w orld is fighting today, find
in g fault w ith the conduct o f the war, and denouncing as
traitors and pro-Huns everyb od y who disagrees w ith him.
W e h eartily concede to him the right to talk as much as
he wishes and to say what he wants to, still w e p re fe r the
course o f our other ex-president much better. M r. T a ft
is engaged in constructive w ork and is using his a b ility to
b rin g this war to a successive conclusion in order that a
perm anent w orld peace may be established.
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SO M E DIFFERENCE OF OPINION
p r o v in g T h a t
R e a d e rs C a n
N e ve r
A g re e en the M e rlte ef A u th o r«
W h o M a y Be F a m o u s.
A chap wrote to me a while ago.
.bays Riot, and said he was thinking
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of taking up the
reading o f . Mere
dith’s novels as
an Indoor sport.
What did I think
of Meredith, etc.?
\
I replied that I
hadn't
read
a
whole lot o f Mer
edith hut In a
_
brief characterlz-
it:
utlon o f his works
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f
I would say that
he
was.
dull,
dreary, slow, stale, flat, unprofitable,
humdrum, monotonous, uninteresting,
unentertalnlng, unllvely, unimagina
tive. Insulae, dry-as-dust. Insipid, prosy,
prosing, prosnlc, turhld, opaelous, ob
fuscated,
fuliginous,
ambiguous,
cloudy, foggy, nublferous, vague, loose,
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tiresome. Incomprehensible, amphibo
logical, thldlefnddle, Impossible, etc.
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Today he answered my note to tell
« B JW W 1 A £ W » S
me he has Just finished reading "The
JL-
Ordeal o f Richard Carvel” — or some
thing like that— and that he finds Mer
Represeutatlve and Mrs. Medill Mc
edith Is perspicacious, penetrating,
Cormick of Chicago. Mr. McCormick
argute, nlmhle-witted. dazzling, clever,
Is representative at large from Illi
aiiappy. poppy. Interesting, spell-hind-
nois utnl a candidate for the Repub
Ing, true-to-llfe, sapient, rational, re lican nomination for United States
flecting. dandy, fine, lucid, transpicu senator to succeed Senator .1. Ham
ous unambiguous, Intclllglble-to-the-
Lewis, whose term expires March 4,
meiinpst-capacity, touching, tender. Im 1919.
Mrs. McCormick was Ruth
mortal. rich, tinparagoned, Immense,
llanna, daughter o f the late Senator
glorious, delicate, nice, unimpeacha Mark Hanna. She Is one o f the lead
ble, etc.
ers In the girl scout movement.
The duffer’s name Is Incognito.
W e are glad Rlol tells us who the
A patriot is a fat man who falls
chap Is. From the style, we had sup
nit of a cherry tree instead of a
posed his name was »’eter Mark Koget.
hammock al this season of the vear.
— Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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A full report o f the rescue o f En-
sign E. A. Stone, U. S. naval reserve
force, who, with a companion, clung
to a wrecked seaplane for 80 hours In
the English Channel without food and
water before being picked up by a
trawler, was received by the commit
tee on public Information from Its rep
resentative In London.
Ensign Stone was given tip for
i drowned several weeks ago, but after
J which the two men passed safely con-
stitute one o f the thrilling incidents of
the seaplane patrol co-operating with
the fleet convoys.
. “ I left our station In a British sea
plane as pilot,” said Ensign Stone,
“with Sub-Lieut. Eric Moore o f the Roy
al naval air service, as observer, at
d a. m. Our duty was to convoy pa
trol. When two hours out, having met
t o r ship coming from the westward,
we thought we sighted a periscope
ahead and turned off In pursuit. W e
lo.lt our course. Our engine ‘dropped
dtad’ and at half-past eleven o’clock
fcrced us to land on the surface In a
rough spa.
R e le a se d
M ’CORMICK S E E K S
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Vice President M arshall has called Theodore R oosevelt
an old woman. The vice president evid en tly is angered
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at flu* form er president s constant scolding and nagging. flvp wepk8 ln a hospltnl hp hns re.
Th e medal fo r being the worst chronic kicker evid en tly rurne,i to London. The perils through
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I n mu emù m ti
C a r r ie r
P ige o n s.
“ W e had no kite or radio aero to
call fo r assistance, so we released our
two carrier pigeons. W e tied a mes
sage with our position and the word
‘sinking’ on each. The first, the blue-
barred one. flew straight off and
reached home. But the other, which
was white-checked, lit on nor machine
and would not budge until Moore
threw our navigation clock at him,
which prohably upset him so that he
failed us.
"H ea vy seas smashed
our tall
planes, which kept settling. I saw that
they were pulling the mnchlnes down
by the rear, turning her over. A t half-
past two p. m. we capsized, climbing
up the nose and ‘over-the-top’ to the
underside o f the pontoons.
“ Our emergency ration had been ln
the observer’s sent at the hnek; hut we
had been so busy trying to repair the
motor and save ourselves from turn
ing over that we did not remember this
until too late. From now on for near
ly four days, until picked up by a
trawler, we were continually soaked
and lashed by seas, and with nothing
to eat or drink. W e hnd nothing to
cling to, nnd so to keep from being
washed overboard we got upon the
same pontoon nnd hugged our arms
About one another's bodies for the
Whole time.
“ W e suffered from thirst. I had a
Craving fo r canned penches. Tw ice a
drizzle came on. wetting the pontoon.
W e turned on our stomachs nnd lapped
tip the moisture, but the pnlnt came
OlT with salt and nnuseBted us.
T i n s o f B is c u it F lo a t By.
“ Our limbs grew numb. From time
o time the wreckage from torpedoed
ihlps would pass. Once two full bls-
’ ult tins came close enough to swim
for, hut then, In our weakened state,
we knew that we would drown If we
tried to get them. W e did haul ln a
third tin and broke It open. It was
filled with tobacco.
“ W e sighted a trawler about six
o’clock on Tuesdny evening.
We
waved nt her for half an hour before
she changed her course.
We were
both too weak to stand up and signal.
W e could only rise on our knees.
Moore's hands were too swollen to hold
a handkerchief, but I had kept my
gloves on and was able to do so. The
The traw ler moved warily around us.
but finally threw life preservers at the
end o f a line. I yelled that we were
to weak to grasp It. She finally hove
to, lowered a boat and lifted us on
bonrd.
Moore lost six toes from gangrene
In hospital. My feet turned black, but
decay didn’t set In.”
Every machine from the seaplane
base and those from n station on the
French coast had searched continuous
ly fo r the aviators after the blue
pigeon arrived, as did all the patrols
and desfwiyers In the area.
Ensign Stone Is a native o f Norfolk.
Va„ born July 10, 1891. His mother.
Mrs. Clara Stone, lives at the Red
d ate apartments, Norfolk.
I f you have been thinking that “ dls-
llngulshed service” on the battlefield
means one grand dash and then a quiet
room, an attentive nurse and pleusunt
recuperutlon, consider the case o f P ri
vate J. Taylor, whose valor Is briefly
recited In a late issue of the official
supplement to the London Gazette.
This official list o f soldiers cited for
decorations ulwuys carries a short de
scription o f the uct o f vulor for
which the citation is made.
These two paragraphs accompany
announcement o f the award o f the dis
tinguished conduct medal to Private
Taylor.
“ H aving been cut off with his com
pany, he received a bullet in the thigh,
:uusing a compound fracture.
To
'-avoid capture he crawled into a shell
hole, where he reinalned.for a period
of over seven weeks, during the
whole o f which time the surrounding
district was subjected to a severe bom-
hurdment by our artillery. Hysubslst-
ed on tins o f bully beef collected at
night from dead bodies, and water
which he obtained in u waterproof cap.
“ A fte r some weeks three o f the en-
emy visited his shell hole, but by feign
ing death he avoided capture and even
tually succeeded In crawling back to
our lines— a distance of some 900
yards.”
In a hospital near London, where he
is recuperating, Taylor diffidently am
plified the story o f his terrible experi
ences.
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E s t a b lis h e d 1 8 3 1
NEW SLANT ON WORK
OF Y. M. C. A. IN FRANCE
Rastus and the Ham
(Theophilus B. Steward.)
Some folks dey lubs de brown po’k.
chops,
An’ yuthah cyahs fo' lam’;
Prominent Western Minister Tells But chile jes’ listen w ’ile Ah talks.
Ah’s sho’ some fool ’bout ham.
of Religious Activities Within
Jes’ han' hit tuh m i long wid aigs,
Sound of Hun Guns.
Er b’il an’ slice hit col’,
Hit sho do mek mah stomach glad,
The Rev. Robert Freeman, D. D. of
An’ happifies mah soul.
Pasadena, Cal., one o f the best-known
ministers of the West, Is in France as
Talk erhout yo’ lan'scapes bright
a secretary to the Y. M. C. A. H ere’s
Yo’ ’spirin’ sights on sea an' lan’;
what he has to say o f religion within
Dah
haint no place kin hoi’ er light
sound o f the German guns, where isms
Tuh dat ’ah kitchen table, man—
merge into helpfulness, and creeds
Dat aint no time tuh ahgahfy,
don’t count so ranch as being kind:
“ You can get any opinion you want
Nuh stan’ eroun’ an’ preach;
on the religious work o f the Y. M. C. Jes’ put vo’ mouf an’ teef tuh wuck,
A. in France.
Caize ham am hits own speech.
“ It is overdbne, it is underdone, it
Isn’t done at a ll; it is narrow, it is
W orked ’em Along the Line
bigoted, it is too generously broad; It
is stiff, it is highty-tighty, It isn’t child
A sweet little thing, with a most
like ; there is no singing worth speak
ing of, and why don’t you have some becoming smile, short skirts and a
thing besides hymns? And any one of dimple in lier chin was in town the
these opinions con be defended, first past week attempting to work our
by the character o f the person voicing citizens on the scholarship-mazazine
It, and, second, by reference to the subsription stunt. This scheme has
place visited by the critics.
been worked to a fare-you-well here.
‘‘But here’s a little incident that
happened the other day which tells —Sutherlin Sun.
The same little wren that took
the whole story o f the religious work
our subscription.—Harrisburg Bull
o f the Y. M. C. A. In France:
“ An American lad with nerves shat etin.
P la y s ‘P o e au m ; F o o ls H une.
tered by what he had seen at the
That pretty little chicken was
“ Next day a party o f Germans came front, was going out o f his mind. He here, too, but she don’t need any
Into my shell hole. One lifted ray hnd had the experience before, and
scholarship; she's plenty wise now.
leg— luckily not the broken one or I ’d was ln an agony o f anticipation. He
—Jefferson Review.
have yelled— but they thought I twas was a Catholic, and, as such, most anx-
dead. I was covered with mud and j ious to confess. H e could not speak
Star Beams
looked like the other bodies covering French and the only available priest
the ground. During the next fortnight | could not speak English.
(Kansas City Star.)
I managed to live on the reserve beef j
“ ‘Is there anyone, here who can
Peters had collected. Then, feeling speak French?’ Inquired the priest.
Keep Hie home liars squirming.
that nothing worse could happen, I
‘The Y. M. C. A. woman running
resolved to try to get into our lines. the hotel knew the language. So the
The chautauqua has been termed
It was an inky night. First I crawled three retired into a quiet room, and the
an integral part of America’s de
by mistake right into a German line. American soldier confessed his sins
fense in this war. Yes, hut how are
They didn’t hear me. so I turned hack through a Protestant woman to a Cam-
and inched along for an hour. Then olio priest, in a T. M. C. A. hut ln we going to get the Germans to at
tend.
I got into some barbed wire. I was France.
a mass o f cuts, blood and rags before
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explained.
I got through.
Just then a Verey
A writer in tlie New Republic says
"W hat Is a dual personality?”
light shot up. I saw a man peering
the self-painting occupation of some
"Oh, that’s what a chap and a girl
over a trench. He was about to shoot
New York women is one of the use
when I shouted. Three o f them camel itacover th ,t '“arh has after belli*
less occupations. Perhaps he might
out and dragged me Into our own m,rrle<t • week or so.”
change his mind if he ever saw them
trenches.
—
without any paint.
Before the war Tuylor was a factory
A ft e r T h e ir Q uarre l,
hand. He Is recovering rapidly and j “ o f cours'* you speak to Lena when
Not only are American soldiers
looking forward to his return to the *oxl pas* h er?'
‘Indeed, I do not. Why. I don’t even pouring into London in great num
’ trenches.
notice what she has o n !”
R o b b e d D e a d fo r Food.
“ It was during one o f our attacks
upon the Hlndenburg line,” he said.
“ W e had gone over the top, two com
panies of us. W e were met by a ter
rific enemy nre and the fellows were
dropping like ninepins. I was knocked
out. It must have been a couple ot
days before 1 recovered consciousness.
I found myself ln a shell hole with
another man who was wounded but
could move freely. During the days
and part o f the nights the bombard
ment kept up. Shells fell ull around,
but none happened to drop in our
shell hole. At night Peters crept out
and foraged among the dead for scraps
of beef, line rations and their water
bottles. A fte r two or three days It
rained.
W e collected water ln our
caps.
“ That sort o f existence lasted for
over five weeks. I was getting weaker
and weaker. One night Peters crawled
out and did not come back. That left
me without aid.
D a n P ro v e s L o y a lty .
Remove T e u t o n ic E a gle s.
Litchfield, 111.— Is Dan Darnla, a coal
Because they too nearly resemble
the German eagle sometimes used as miner o f Hillsboro, disloyal? Listen!
a Teutonic military emblematic fig When somebody said he was, this Is
ure, four eagle ornaments at the foot what he d id :
Walked Into the sheriff’s office, asked
o f two grand stairways In the State
Capitol at Salt Lake City have been fo r a flag, kissed it fervently, went to
the Red Cross headquurters, bought a
removed.
As soon as his attention was called membership for Ills entire family, pro
to a drug store and bought i.u
to the resemblance o f the ornaments ceeded
.
to the emblem o f Prussianlsm, Gov- ^ n’ orIrnp
took it home and hung
ernor Bamberger ordered their remov- | * over
*ront dour-
al and their substitution with figures
o f real American eagles.
In d ia n C o a t V a lu a b le .
A curio dealer at Steubenville, O.,
has a coat covered with 8.300 elk teeth
which he values at $10.000. The coat
N a tio n a l A c re Plan.
H ere la the “ National acre” plan, the vva* ma,,p bv an Indian in Manitoba,
newest plan for farmers to help fight ( ' an"da. and Is sinew sewed. It weighs
the H uns;
28 P°»nds. The owner o f the coat 'Is
Set aside one acre o f your farm to " m«‘nlb<‘r
the Order o f Elks and
be planted and cultivated as the “ Na- "'***”
,he coat at aI1 conventions,
tlonal acre,” the proceeds of which are W,th ,he coat the owner wenrs an or-
to be used In buying thrift stamps, dlnary necklace made o f the largest
The Idea !s spreading over Georgia o f ,he e,k tw>th ,n h,!' collection.
and South Carolina.
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Italians Show Patriotism.
Cowa Drunk on Apple Pulp.
Apple pulp ahlpped from a cider mill
at Yakima. Wash., and fed as an exper-
Iment to dairy cows on a Tleton ranch
a few days ago made the animals
so drunk that few of them were able
to stand op and many of them
fared about Uke Intoxicated
m
To
show
at
thplr Patriotism. Italian
^ h ^ i i n ^ w . Va
an-
,heJ W,U no* hand,e
j " b*a‘ «our selling wheat substitutes
^ 8 ead’ Th,t8 , f t,on ■ « * * » wlth
cla' “ PP™Tal a'"ce Italians In their
natKe ,and know nothln« #f wheat
floor substitutes
bers, hut they are arriving in such
numbers that the London newspaper
reporters have found it out and
written pieces about it.
Lieut. John Philip Sousa has
promised to compose an American
wedding march ns soon as an inspir
ation strikes him, to replace those
in common use, both of which were
made in Germany. And so he asks,
“Don't propose till I compose.”
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