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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-09

Advertising for land for a colony
farm proposed by the Passaic, IN. j.
County Board of Freeholders will add
about 31,000,000 to the tax roll in the
into the trap and asked for higher
prices. -..s..
Laying of rails on the trolley road
on City Island, ~ Y, will be started
this week. 49,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-09

George Greene, so years old. walk
ed into police station in philadelphia.
and asked to be arrestea. saying he
was wanted for the embezzlement OF
$50 from Anew York restaurant.
The meIfagerie in Central Park. y.
Y, has acquired its first Rocky Noun
tain goat.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-09

Physical Director Glenn E. Jackson
and Secretary s. w. Robley OF the
boys department are planning to take
boys athletic team to Maui the lat.
ter part OF this month for the purpose
OF giving exhibitions in games and
gymnastics. Mr.. Robley will 60 in
advance TO make the necessary ar.
rangements, while Mr.. Jackson will
take over the team a few DAYS later.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-09
Federal WIRELESS MAY ACCEPT
CODE MESSAGES, SAYS DANIELS

of helligerent nations but that CEN
sor has authority to require trans
lation of all code and cipher radio
grams at any station.
-. (Signed) Daniels,
.... Secretary of U. S. Navy"
This means that code messages
may be sent to the United States and
Canada over Federal Telegraph Com
pany's lines, but senders must be pre-
pared to submit TRANSACTIONS of such
messages should government censor.
ship be instituted, -s....
FEDERAL TELEGRAPH CO.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-09

The members of the board of trus-
tees of the library of Hawaii will meet
in the rooms of the directors of the
Bank of Hawaii. Judd Building, at l 80
o'clock next Tuesday afternoon
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-09
This WOMAN'S
Is SICKNESS
Quickly Yielded To Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
compound.
Baltimore Md. al am more than
glad TO tell what Lydia E. Pinkham's

V vegetable Com
pound did for me.
] suffered dreadful
pains and was very
irregular. ! became
alarmed and sent for
Lydia E. Pinkham's
We ia Bile Com
pound. took it reg
plarly until ] was
a cramp or
pain and felt like
person, and
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-09
RESERvIST PICKED
lip BY THE Pol ICE

Declaring himself a German naval
reseryist, Gustaf Batterman, a sailor in
the Kosmos line freighter Setos,
which has been riding at anchor off
quarantine pending settlement of
hostilities between Great Britain and
Germany, was gathered in by the pc.
lice today. He had escaped from the
vessel and was found asleep near a
dredger moored at Pier No. 10. -
Batterman was taken to central po-
lice station where he was found to pos
sess q considerable sum of money. He
signifed his desire to return to the
fatherland there to serve his country.
Batterman insists that he is ready to
leave the islands in the first available
transportation. He has been held at
the station pending decision from the
German consul. :.
STAR-BULLETIN GIVES YOU
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-09

waii and Alaska would become a rem
devious for American, cutthroats and
fugitives.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-09

Charles Bunnel, aged IS, was mar
ried to Miss Caroline Smith, aged 81,
of Bristol, Conn.
The Washington herald., 1914-10-18
BRITISH PLUCK
Highly PRAISED
Courage Shown by Soldiers
In Battle Lauded by French
Correspondent.

Paris, Oct IA French war correspond
ent, representing a Paris newspaper. who
was the only correspondent present at a
part Of the fighting in Belgium. came
back here strongly impressed with the
conduct OF the Belgian troops. He said:
By the most wonderful chance 1 hap
pened to be in the British lines in Bel
gium just when the great battle of
Charleroi began, a fight that will remain
inscribed in letters of blood on the scroll
Of history I was the only war corre-
spondent at the actual theater of war at
the time, and / shall always bless my
good fortune in being a witness of this
gigantic combat If only because it estab-
lished forever the renown Of the British
army and because it afforded me the op-
portunity Of seeing with wondering ad-
miration the British soldiers under fire.
1T was at Mons. Sunday, August %
The first outpost engagements were be-
ginning and the British troops, who had
only arrived on the scene the same morn
ing, Immediately entered the battle with
out even a moments rest. In a few hours
Mons was put in a states of defense, and
you should have seen those fellows work
ing. Trenches were dug and the bridges
barricaded by eager hands In sight of
such willingness and such irresistible
Eayety you would never have thought
that these men were on the eve Of terri
bic battle.
Gallant little soldiers. What immense
confidence they inspired. At the sight of
them, so calm ard so resolute. the people
Of Mons, panic-stricken only a few hours
before, suddenly seemed TO gain fresh
The Washington herald., 1914-10-18
Shows How Americans Treat
Old Soldiers Better than.
Amy Other COuntry-MOre
Pensions than There Ever
We're Enlisted Men. IN the
Great Struggle.

States. 1t is the same with the retired
pay Of officers and men. A major general
In Belgium. for instance, draws only
1850 annually after serving in the army
forty years dare say that a first lieu
tenant in our army would get about as.
much were he retired because Of wounds
or other disability. A Belgium colonel
receives S,0O0 and a captain 800 after
completing a service OF forty years. Pri-.
Yates are paid but $50 a year on being
retired.
Wounded Officers and men . in Aus
Hungary receive small retirement
pay and allowances II wounded. The
allowances range from $50 to $3.50 year
for officers and from S1s to s5T a year
for privates. A division general I'M
France is paid 800 after serving in the
army for thirty years and a pension for
wounds that may amount to S2.5O0- Al
retired coloners pay Is 500 a year and
his pension may be 81 40 in addition.
Captains on the retired list draw S4SOi
and II suffering from wounds may draw
500 besides The retirement pay Of pri-,
Yates Is $50 annually. after thirty years,
si95.
German officers and men get pay on
retirement and allowances for wounds
ana disabilities based on their pay while
In active service. An officer NAV re-
ceive so much a $3.50 annually and a,
pension Of $50. Widows Of high oficersl
killed in battle or dying OF wounds. are
paid S50 year. Widows of captains
receive S21O and $55 for each child. The.
widows OF privates draw $50 a MONTH
and the privates themselves. II wound
ed. get from $40 to s. a month At thet
beginning Of the present war in En-
rope, the yearly pension appropriation
OF Germany amounted to some so OOOoO0
"a British lieutenant general NAV re-
ceive 1900 year for wounds suffered
IN action, major general 81, $50. a colonel
$3.50, captain $50 and a lieutenant
$50. The widows and children of Brit
ish officers are also pensioned A pri-.
vate, II disabled BY wounds and totally
Incapable Of earning a livelihood. re-
ceives from 50 cents to 81 cents a day.
Russia and Japan have pension systems.
Every theater in the former country
must give a performance once a wear
Tor the pension fund. Recipients Of GER.
tain medals and decorations must nav
Zee into the fund. sll5 for medals stud
ded with diamonds and s46 for medals OF
gold
Wars cost immense sums while fight
ing Is going on and. as in the case Of our.
country. for great many years after.
ward. Each Of our thousands Of so pen-!
sioners. as little figuring will show.
gets sum equal to the income on So OOo
at per cent interest"
Copyright, 1914. b. James B Morroul
The Washington herald., 1914-10-18

store Of courage and almost a sense Of
security.
The battle went on for four days, and
throughout this period the British army,
as 1 am bound to declare, performed
prodigies Of heroism TO check the Ger
man advances. Monday, August a, the
Germans, who were infinitely superior in
numbers, made vigorous efforts to pre-
vent the British from retiring in good or
der and tried to drive them back on Maui
beuge. The frmness and skill with which
the British retreat was conducted foiled
this attempt and inflicted considerable
losses far higher than ours. on the
enemy. whose compact and enormous
masses, hurled at the British troops, were
repeatedly driven back.
The fighting on the 18th, near Cambria,
was dogged and desperate. There again
the British troops made the most splen-
did and the most solid resistance in their
terrible situation of having to make up
for their inferiority in numbers by the
rapidity Of their movements. Several
regiments charged six times running.
During this memorable day, on which
I learnt 10 appreciate at their full worth
the admirable qualities of the British SOL
dier. one incident which may be cited
among hundreds of others is the charge
of the German cavalry division of the
Guards against the Twelfth British In
fantry Brigade. 1t was a terrible charge.
After a desperate bout of hand-to-hand
fighting, men and horses mixed up to-
gether in a seething compact mass, the
German cavalry was repulsed and fed
in utter disorder. the lads OF the Twelfth
Brigade behind them giving them the
bayonet in the back.
show CooIness and Dash.
What impressed me above all were
the coolness and dash of the British
soldier. His utter indifference to danger
and his general air Of don't care simply
carried me away.
Il shall never forget the admirable re-
ply given by a little English soldier
wounded in the hand whom found
sitting by the roadside outside Mons,
wearing an air of CONSERVATION. I began
to talk to him and asked him IL his
wound was hurting him. It's not that
he said with a doleful shake or his head;
but I'm blessed If I haven't been and
lost my pipe in that last charge ! gave
The Washington herald., 1914-10-18

1851, aged 1c5 years, two months and
nineteen days. The last pensioned widow
Of the Revolution was Esther s. Damon.
She died in November, 1905.
"The first pension certificate issued to
a soldier for wounds received In the civil
war was on August u, 1851. Hostilities
opened. you remember. in April The
pension was granted TO Leopold Char
rier. a private in the Twelfth Regiment
OF New York State troops and amounted
to sl a month. George Scott. q fireman
on the United States steamer Month
cello received the first naval pension.
He drew IS a month.
Spanish War Pensions.
-Four hundred and seventy widows OF
the war OF 1879 are pensioners Of the
national government They were much
younger. OF course, than their husbands.
II may interest the public to learn that
there are $50 survivors Of the Mexican
war drawing pensions. The pensloned
widows Of that war number 4,6s9. Pen
sions are paid to 9i5 survivors OF the
Indian wars and to 2.IS2 widows.
The war with Spain has added
great many names to our rolls. Pensions
are now being given TO 242SJ men who
took part in that war. to l,2n widows,
to 221 minor children. to 2Ts5 mothers
and to As fathers. The largest number
Of pensions ever on the rolls Of the gov
ernment $50, f46. was in 1902, or thirty
seven years after the close of the civil
war. Since I7T6, about 100000 persons.
Of whom $4,000 were women. have been
pensioned because OF our various wars
The pensioners have outnumbered the
men in the field. 1t Is claimed that 80. =
700 men were engaged in the Revolution.
$1,000 in the war of 1872 about l,OOO.OOO
in the war with Mexico and 2.7s0.OOO in
the war between the North and South.
Money paid out in pensions" Mr.
SaltZgaber went on to say, goes TO all
parts OF the world. There are ten pen
sioners ii Russia eighteen in China,
thirty-four in Italy. seventy-five in Scot
land. drawing S14,7 30 a year; eighty-eight
In France, drawing S21 900 a year; 4l5
in Ireland. drawing $500 a year: 504
in Germany, drawing $4,000 a year; 464
in England, drawing $4,000 year and
2ss2 in Canada, drawing S529620 a year
MY own State, Ohio. gets $4,000, ,OOO
Of pension money annually; New York
gets S14,Oo0.Ooo; Pennsylvania, $500, 900;
Illinois. Sl2.OOo,Ooo; Indiana, SlO5OO. 900;
Missouri, 5000, COO: Massachusetts, Kan
sas and Michigan each S7,OO0, 900: Iowa
and California about 10000 apiece and
Oklahoma nearly $250O,OO0. Practically
all Of the money is spent for the common
necessities OF life and finds its way into
the pockets OF farmers, merchants and
manufacturers.
An countries pay pensions to their
nghting men in one form or another. but
no country in the world is so liberal as
the United States. Belgium. small but
brave and warIike nays its SeriousI,,
wounded or permanently disabled SOL
diers. Widows get pensions. provided.
however, that the marriage was author
lied by the government and occurred
prior to the wound which ultimately
caused the death OF the husband. The
young widows OF old soldiers, YOU see,
cannot get a pension.
"Al European pensions are small when
compared with those paid in the United
The Washington herald., 1914-10-18
G. M. SaItzgaber, Pension
Commissioner, Fought All
Through the Civil War and
Later Stumped Ohio for G.
0. p, Only to Become a
Democrat Later.
DE- JAMEs D. nroRRow.

Soon after President Wilson came into
once he began hunting for a man. He
kept three essentials in mind during the
progress OF the search. The man. he
said. had to be physically and mentally
robust, and a Democrat, OF course. and
he ought TO have been a Union soldier
IN the war between the North and South.
II such a man could be found. the Pres
ident promised 10 appoint him Commits
sioner OF Pensions. There were plenty OF
veterans, he agreed. but they were old
and infrm and not competent to manage
one Of the greatest bureaus in Washing
ton.
When Timothy T Ansberry. in Congress
from the Fifth district OF Ohio, heard
the news, he hastened 10 the White
House. Make out the papers he told
the President, "in the name of my con-
stituent, Gaylord Miller Saltzgaber, of
Van Vert. He served four years in the
army, he is as good Democrat as there
is In the party, and he Is a young man"
''Young?" the President repeated, with
one Of his nickering smiles and acid-biting
looks.
Yes, for a saItzgaber." replied Mr..
Ansberry. The Saltzgabers are only in
their prime at seventy-five. Samuel Saltz-
gaber, the father Of my candidate. lived
to be 1o5 years old. His age was duly
authenticated, and the figures give are
ofhcislly accurate.
Why, Samuel Saltzgaber," continued
Mr. Ansberry, walked about every day.
read the newspapers regularly, smoked
cigars constantly, and wore a plug hat
rain or shine, until he was a hundred
years old. Then he reformed No, he
didn't change his politics-he lived and
died Republican-but he quit smoking"
Gaylord Miller Saltzgaber was invited
70 Washington that he might undergo an
inspection. He did not want an office.
but he came-an erect. robust man, with
military manners and a very friendly dis
position. on May %, 1913, he was ap-
pointed Commissioner OF Pensions.
Wouldn't Vote for His Son.
The saltzgaber mansion is the finest in
Van Vert County. Mr.. Saltzgaber, from
the first day Of his practice. some forty
hve years ago, has been a very success
ful lawyer. He has been mayor of his
city, and at thirty years of age was
elected 10 the Ohio sLnate. Except for
the holding Of those two ofices, he rad,
until last year, refused to abandon MS
business and take an active part in poll
tics, though he had been a Democratic
worker and orator
The father, Samuel Saltzgaber. was al
ways Republican. II is said that he
voted against his son when he ran for
mayor and senator The old gentleman
formerly kept hotel al Shelby, Ohio.
The Washington herald., 1914-10-18
TEUTONS SORRY FRANCE.
ALLIED AGAINST KAISER
Officer in Hospital Despises British and
Belgians-Has Tried Many
Times to Escape.
KISS HANDS, RELIEVING PAIN
ial CsbIs to The w..hington HeraId.

Special Cable to The Washington Herald.
Abbeyville. Oct. IT.-After adventures
the horrors OF which are almost beyond
belief. a number Of German wounded
found themselves God knows how, con-
veyed to the words Of hospitals in this
quiet French town, whose only claim to
fame is that the boat-train expresses
from Paris en- route to Boulogne stop
here to take up water.
Even the care-hardened doctors. witt
their hatred of the sale Allemand.
could not restrain their honorable tears
as the unfortunate soldiers kissed the
hands that relieved them OF a fraction
Of their pain.
Most Of the enemy's wounded seemed
to be Saxons. More than one had be-
neved he was going 10 maneuvers, and
many had not even fired shot.
One of them said. Il had marched and
been entrained and starved for weeks,
until one day we started out, and sud
denly came under a terrific fire from
we knew not where. In less than FIVE
minutes more than 1o0 of US were down.
There 1 lay for. perhaps. three days,
perhaps four. do not know much about
The Washington herald., 1914-10-18
JEWSPAPERS AND CHANGED POLITICALF FAITH

pensions during single year was t17l.-
f71.s6o This immense outlay vas made in
1913. forty-eight years after the close OF
the civil war. The summit has been
passed" Mr. saltzgaber said to me. land
from now on yearly decrease In the
amount paid out may be expected. The
expenditures for 1914 were 100000 less
than they were in 1919
Seven and three-tenths per cent OF the
pensioners on the rolls died during the
year 1914" Mr.. Saltzgaber continued.
They numbered $3.50 persons-old vet
Grams and their widows and children. The
increase in the totality OF payments Is
due TO laws making more liberal allow
ances than ever before TO all men who
served as soldiers.
ANY former soldier who has reached
the age OF sixty-two Is now entitled 10
pension ranging from S13 a month, for
service Of ninety days in the field, TO SIS,
II the service was three years. When ne
Is sixty-six years old his pension may be
Sl5 or SO a month; II he Is seventy, his
pensIon begins at SIS and reaches the
maximum OF SIS, provided he served three
years. and at seventy-five he draws 81
a month, II he served ninety days; Szz.SO
II he served six months, s2i II he served
one year, 81 II he served eighteen mohths
and $50 II he served two years or more
ANY old soldier, however, regardless OF
age CT length OF service, who is unable
20 perform manual labor by cause m
CURED in line Of duty is entitled 10 80
month. Twelve dollars a month Is the
usual pension paid TO soldiers WidoWs.
Large Pensions Often Paid.
THE average value Of the civil war
pensions paid in 1914 was S224. as against
an average value OF SIS in the year
1910. an increase, you see, OF Sis. Ihe
average value OF Spanish war pensions Is
Ss5: OF 1872 pensions sls2; Of Mexican
war pensions, s1Ss and Of Indian war
pensions, $50.
Besides the ordinary pensions estao-
lished by general laws, there are pen
sIons OF 800 a month for blindness and
Of S72 a month 10 veterans who IN their
disability require the attention OF an
other person. Pensions TO many dls-
tinRuished officers or TO their WIDOWS
are paid under special laws passed by
Congress. Gen. John NJ. Palmer, OF Hi
noIs, the candidate for President OF the
gold Democrats in 1895. was offered 800
a month, but declined to accept more
than $50. a pension OF 900 year ~aS
voted to the widow Of President LIN
coin on her own application. Later it
was increased to $500. Since then $o'Oo
a year has been paid TO the widows OF
our Presidents. cite these cases mere
Iy to show that a good many pensions
are allowed by Congress in special IN
stances.
Pensions were first paid to soldiers
and sailors under the law Of August,
I77s In all, 52,JOI pensions were granted
to the veterans Of the Revolutionary War
~ Nuaa Tlanial Bake
man. Of New York, who died in 1883.
Samuel Downing, born in Massachusetts.
drew a pension for eighty years. He
enlisted when he was sixteen years old.
When he was a hundred years old he
cut down a fve-foot hemlock tree, split
II up and gave the pieces for canes to
the friends who were present to honor
his birthday. He died on his farm in
Saratoga County, y. Y. on February lS
The Washington herald., 1914-10-18

John Sherman. Secretary OF the Treas
ury under Hayes and Secretary Of State
In the Cabinet of Mckinley, lived IN the
same county He frequently made polit-
ical speeches at Shelby and on such oe-
casions was a complimentary guest at
Samuel Saltzgaber's tavern.
i remember that Senator Sherman al
though he was supposed to be q sort OF
an ice water man. often took me on his
knee, when he stopped with us. and
called me a young Republican" Commis-
sioner saltzgaber said to the writer OF
this article.
But you turned out to be Democrat"
said.
yes; the newspapers caused me to
change my politics. Coming home from
the war, after serving In the cavalry four
years, lacking fifteen days. I meant 70 be
physician. My savings while q soldier,
which sent home 10 my father, amount
ed to $500. attended school and taught
and Joined a debating society.
1T happened one autumn that there
were several soldier candidates on the
Democratic ticket in our county. but none
on the Republican ticket I was asked
to make speeches for the Republican can,
didates, inasmuch as had been a SOL
der stumped the county and then Wis
tied a relative in Iowa, at whose house
] read a Democratic Newspaper printed In
Chicago and another published In New
York. Ny apostacy, as my father called
It began at that time. I studied law four
years and came to the bar strong in
Democratic doctrine, but quite deter
mined not to make politics any part Of
my own business"
CavaIrymRn at Fifteen
Six of Samuel saltzgaber's sons went
away to the war. All but one was
wounded. Gaylord saltzgaber. the Com
missioner Of Pensions. was learning the
blacksmith's trade at Elmore, with q
brother, when he heard the fife and drum
and enlisted. He was fifteen years old.
His mother sent him word that she would
take legal measures to annul his enlist
ment. He replied that he would run away
II that were done and join some other
regiment
So the case was compromised. Mrs.
Saltzgaber persuaded two Of her older
sons to enlist al Elmore instead Of at
Van Vert. They were TO go along with
their small brother and take care Of him.
The three SaltZgaber boys became mem
bers Of Troop l. Third Ohio Cavalry. They
enlisted September !. 1851, and were mus
tered out August Is, 1855.
The regiment was hurried away to the
South as soon as II was organized. Mod
ern cavalry is employed in pitched bat
ties, as q screen for advancing infantry
and artillery and for developing" the
presence and strength OF the enemy. Dur
ing the early part of the civil war, how
ever, cavalry was used for less heroic
purposes. Troop captured bacon. cattle,
mules, and forage, guarded fords, rail-
ways, warehouses and wagon trains, and
often came into contact with hard-riding
Confederate bands like themselves
There were skirmishes with John Nor
gan's cavalry and with guerrillas on
horseback. When Gen. Rosecrans sent
4, 600 empty wagons TO Nashville for sup
plies the Third Cavalry helped to guard
the train. Joe" WheeleT's fierce and
ubiquitous regiment attacked the train
and was repulsed. The regiment pursued
the Confederates after the battle Of Stone
The Washington herald., 1914-10-18
WAR BRINGS BOY PAROLE.
ReformHtory Youth to Help Bring,
Family from Austria.

Hutchinson. Kan. Oct. T5.-That he
may so back 10 Pittsburgh and work
with his father in the coal mines to help
raise funds to bring his mother and
sisters from war-ridden Austria, Joe
Bratty, an Austrian. sent to the reforrna-
tory from Cherokee County has been
parOled. The father was here toi
plead with the penal board for his son sI
release.
I'VE had saved 5000 in four years,
me and joe" he told the board, and
we sent the money to our loved ones so
they could buy a farm. Now I have
learned that the Russians have ruined
all our crops and driven our folks away
from the little farm at Styanz. We must
begin again to save money to bring them
to America"