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The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-19

A tiny Japanese garden with sand
path, outlined by diminutive shells,
ending In little red and black gate.
There is an artificial cherry tree in
full and perpetual bloom, and from
the tree hang little lanterns and a
cockatoo in ring. A garden ornament
Of stone, another little tree, a metal
turtle and three little porcelain figures
finish the dainty picture.
cents each. There are little lamp posts
and garden lanterns and there are
bird houses set on wicket gates and
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-19
Glove Hint.

Do not draw gloves too tightly over
the nails. There is tendency for the
hands to settle into the gloves, SO that
II the gloves fit loosely over the
nails in the beginning the length Of
service is prolonged. Even then the
nails persist in wearing through the
finger tips before the rest Of the
gloves wear out.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-19
Scarfs to Match Haneings.

The scarfs for the furniture of your
room may be made to match the hang
ings by cutting out single motifs Of
cretonne and applying them to the
scarf ends. Place them on the mate
rial in an attractive way and haste.
They can either be sewed with an
over-and-over stitch around the edge
or buttonholed In place, If, however,
you wish a quicker method, machine
stitch close to the edge around the
entire motif.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-19
Knew All About Il.

In certain small town an old min
lister was in the habit of paying unex-
pected calls at the school. and putting
the pupils through a little examina-
ton. On one such occasion he asked
the class If there were any prophets
nowadays. This was a poser to the
majority, but one bright little fellow
eagerly held up his hand We'll, my
boy, are there any prophets?' asked
the minister Yes, sir" was the an.
swer. "My father says that there are
small profits and quick returns"
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-19
Mats for the Table.

Very useful inexpensive table mats
may be made from thick brown CORN.
gated packing paper. Cut out the
size and shape required, and use two
thicknesses, placing the smooth sur.
faces back to back. Sew them firmly
together at the edges, and cover them
with muslin or any other washable
fabric. The covers may be removed
and washed when they become soiled
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-19

to tho % garden in the yard and attracted colony OF bees
"hen the flowers were bees also disappeared ihe
had discovered an water spout this
access to the walls and beneath Notwithstanding they pro-
carpc sne pound "a" after pound o. 10 out
his e e e the and smoke the bees out Fol-
pounds Of homo sung several Between .wene o u bu,
was found near hole and this was removed Uu'
rhe a several hundred pounds be in other parts Of the ~a
habt Tho are Of the opinion dozen or more coaes u ~
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-19
The Gate.rop Raa AGAIN.

There is to be a revival of gate-top
handbags in the spring. The pref
test models are In chiffon, velvet and
other attractive fabrics. The collap-
sing tops are Of gilt, nickel or gun
metal, and the interiors are provided
with shirred pockets and fittings,
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-19

quarters to show the efficiency of the
jiu-jitsu system. AS a result of the
startling efficiency shown by the small
Japanese expert in contest with the
burliest of policemen Chief Sebastian
has employed Sessu Hayawakawa to
coach the members of the department
in jiu-jitsu.
In the assembly room at Central
police station the demonstration of his
prowess was given by Mr.. Hayawa-
kawa. He asked four of the largest
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-19

machines" belong to the feathered
tribe known as White Leghorns. He
expects and obtains eggs from these
machines with the same regularity
and accuracy as he does figures from
an adding machine.
He says he has obtained $4,000
eggs from his machines" in the last
year, or an average of an egg every
third day for each fowl, and expects
to bring this average up to an egg ev.
cry other day for each hen during
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-19

tho ot,io - ~, ms ago The flooring in
, Me attle OF the building, occupied Nv
Mr. and Mrs, B. H, Gray, began IT, to
SHOW shou.S unm'stakable signs of rotting. al.
taoush 1t was far from the ero"n a.,
herore the floor was taken up, honey
began to appear through the ho.rds
ana a,l' l, despite efforts to mop the stic,S
SUN u, up 1t continued to appear.
,o, Inc s owner was notified and s,tor
o oe,hs t tod about the honey she s', 20.
osllea that about five years acc whi,a
sue was living in the house She NO.. me :
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-19


clothes models.
Didn't know there were any, did
you?
Well, there are. And what's more
there are half dozen men at least
right here in New York who do moth.
ing else the year round but change
from this suit of clothes to that; from
this collar to another; from non.
chalant position at motor wheel to
an "all-aquiver" stand at tennis net,
lust so a camera man may take thoir
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-19
He Fools His Chickens Into Laying More EoQs

CAGoGeorge Newell Figures statistics and chick
ems are MS hobbes Efficiency
Congress Park there in which he n what
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-19
Little Japanese Woman 0vercomes Eight Policemen

Us ANGElEs-Egh policemen with bad legs and defensive
were torn from their footing
Mrs Seu Hayawakawa Aok at pce
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-19
Walls OF Mobile House Are |nter|ined With Honey

onl city real sureenough honey
hehtck and and carpenters say that the
walls are practically interined with honey
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-19
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New York City Has Its Man Clothes Models

NEW YoRKNot 3s" butFne collar type Excellent
~ clothes pole" So athletc!"
workers
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-19

who is seen here wearing one of the.
fashioned long-skirted Polly Prim"
gowns, secured the shawl and had it
designed as the unique evening wrap
shown. Before the novel cloak was
"made-up" Miss Whitney had received
offers for the wonderfully interesting
specimens of old.time craftsmanship
from the Metropolitan museum and
the New York Historical society.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04
A Romantic Profession
By LOUIS HEILGERs

Some of us were having a discussion the other evening after the soup as to the most romantic profession The fat man who sat next to me voted promptly for the person who looks after the sheep before they are turned into plump joints of mutton; but I am sure by the hungry look in his eye he was thinking more of nice little leg of lamb than of the guardian of the gambolling woolIy kind.
 It looked like being a pastoral discus- sion when the thin gentleman opposite in- sisted strenuously upon the romantic pre- eminence of the postman that we yielded him pride of place, so to speak. and fore- bore to press the claims of the vegetarian lady who had a gardener fixed firmly in her right eye, so to speak. while she held an apple in her left hand
 What could be more romantic, the thin gentleman wanted to know, than the profession of man who carried bridal wreath or 8 widows veil in every bag. and drops Fate or a bill impartially through every letter box?
 What, indeed? It sounds all right, I know, but what about the other side to the mall? (You can spell the other way If you like-they all have two).
 Are letters sos absolutely necessary to life, as the postmaster general. who makes his profits out of stamps. would have us think?
 No news is good news-everybody knows that-and iu news travels quickly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04

quite quickly enough without writing about it.
 For instance. if a man loves you he doesn't need to lick 2-cent statmp on an envelope to tell you so. He can call around instead-if not one evening, then next. If he's away, he's only telling you the tale when he writes four pages of adorataion before going out to do other things in his spare time. A man is faith full just as long as you can see him-no longer It doesn't follow he doesn't love you because he wanders-he may love you just as much. only he's doing 1t hy proxy
 If there's any i'll luck floating about 1r1 the offing of life for you--a lost fortune or husband, or an indiscretion come home to roost. or something like that-where's the need to write about it? You'll hear soon enough.
 And who in their senses or out of them has ever yet wanted to know the amount Of their indebtedness to their tradesmen or the extent of their love liabilities? Bills are paid with luck or with cash. as occasion offers. A postal plea avails them nothing
 l know a man who never opens his letters for fear of finding bills or billet doux among them. As he says, he don't want to meet trouble half way. He doesn't want his attention called respectfully to an account rendered by his tailor or dis- respectfully to an unsettled affair with a lady.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04

extra raordinary ways of shells and shrap- nels are based on truth.
 Keil advised me to get facts about this from the artillery staff. In every unit the artillerymen, usually the battery com mander, makes observations as to the conduct of shells Officers of the artil- dery staff give me these facts. The big German shells burst after they have pene- trated the ground. The 12-inch shells (9o5 cent) fired from Austrian mortars make holes as deep as 12 feet, and when they explode they make a cavity 30 yards round The cavity is conical, very neat, like crater, and around it is much earth mixed with fragments of metal Some shells overwhelm and almost suffo- cate with their earth storms, some shells which burst on the ice of the vistula sent fragments of ice flying 300 yards. Shells often kill people whom in theory they ought to spare and they spare peo- pie whom in theory they ought to- kill
 From the artillery staff I got this authentic record of what happened at Coatow in South Poland. 12-inch Austrian shell dropped on the roof of shed. This she'd having been used for washing sheep. had solid floor Of concrete laid over corrugated iron. When the shell fell, the shed was oc- cupied by six men of the artillery repair staff. A hundred yards away Vas an army farrier shoeing horses in the open. The 12-inch shell went through the roof of the shed, broke by weight and speed through the floor, went deep into the earth fand ex- ploded It ought to have killed the six men. and demolished the she'd If it so intended 1t changed its mind. It lifted the shed and iron concrete floor intact with the six men inside. whirled it about 20 yards through the air and dumped it down on one side. Only one of the six men was killed. The others were bruised: one was wounded by tool which he held in his hand. A splinter from the shell struck tho soldier farrier who was far away and smashed his skull. The artillery staff explained by saying that the ground under the shed was undermined by running water; it was soft; the she'll went very deep; and when it exploded it lifted the shed softly on a 1o-feet deep boss of mud. How the shell splin- ter got the farrier they cannot say. Probably 1t was freak of Mars.
 Many shells kill men at distance and leave unwounded. or merely stun-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04

German theatre In all big battles many men are killed by shells from their own side. This happens more often in this war than in any former war. It is caused by giant guns Giant guns cannot be transported quickly. To keep them safe. and give time to get them away in case of defeat, they are always posted a long way behind the firing line. And like MT. Dooley-willin' to be further. That Is one reason why. so far, few big guns have been taken by either side, while hundreds of field guns have been taken. In Galicia on the Dunajec the German 17-inch fiat Berthas are four miles behind the river front which the Austrians hold, and to get at Tarnow which is their chief aim, they fire over the heads of their own men. over the heads of the =ussians on the left Dunajec bank, and over several villages which lie between the Russian
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04

ned, men close by From the Bsura today were carried in six men all badly wounded, and they reported. that three other men were killed. This work was done by shell at Witk owice Several men who were much nearer to the shell were confused and scratched but not wounded. The shell did little damage where it burst, but a blast of gas rlshed along a trench, destroyed a breastwork, and buried a man who Vas building the breastwork The men close by who escaped, were on the edge of the shell crater. The fragments of shell flew high over their heads and came in rain on the heads of a dozen men who were 30 yards away.
 From the military staff I learned that there are few exact records as to the way in which particular indi. viduals net their death. The losses gre too great, but someone usually recorded how a general or well known officer has been killed, and the records show that a large fraction of deaths gre caused in freakish way Battery Commander Yuvashkevitch after fighting in half the battles of the war was thus killed during the February evacuation of East Prussia. The rider of one of the horses drawing the last gun was struck by a bullet. He fell The horse reared.
 shell exploded; all the horses reared, and when order was restored the gun was seen on it's side. The battery commander bent down to examine a damaged wheel, and a second sheU burst. It turned the gun over again. The gun smashed the commanders leg. When he was extri- cated came third she'll More horses reared, bucked and ran away One of them ran into the stretcher on which the officer was being carried, and the officer was thrown out. He was picked up dead. All these three shells, though they had enough explosive force to kill whole battalion. killed nobody and wounded only eight men.
 Shells show their freakishness by kill ing men they're not meant for. By kill ing ones own men. The best known case is the bombardment of Lodz on Decem- Der 5. The facts are testified to by the -t1ead of the Red Cross, M. Gutchkoff, who left the town during the bombardment. Lodz Is very Germanized town, and has scores of German institutions. The first shell struck the German club and killed the German hall porter Another struck the building of the German Lodxer zeitun& and the next shell struck the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04

tow, Ossoviec, Kutno, and four other places which sound like sneezes and he escaped without scratch Then he went to Opotchno, which is dirty little place. but is the headquarters of the-army corps. The soldiers captured some ex- plosve bullets and brought them to the staff. The lieutenant set about to test them. These bullets contain a tiny charge of illuminate of mercury. When they strike things they explode with a vicious blue flame. They are used at night, and the flame shows that they have hit things If you shake them they make a slight rattle. They make nasty wounds, and they. ought not to be used when there Is risk that they may hit men,
 Now, said the staff, we shall test the explosive bullets. The lieutenant sent his orderly to stick up a pine tree trunk against a wall. Into the pine trunk were fired the explosive bullets. Soldiers were ready with axes to hack the trees to the place where they were hit, so that the nature of the bullet penetration might be seen. The lieutenant ordered his orderly to pull down the pine trunk, and get ready to hack it open. The trunk fell awry, struck badly the orderly's knee, blood poisoning followed, the leg was ampu- tated, and the man who marched safely through seven battles will march no more He died.
 At every base hospital I find men who have been wounded through freak shells. Shells act inconsiderately. Dr. Keil youches for their eccentricities. Kel is a white overalled, exceedingly busy doc tor. Jew. great carver and cutter; everyone knows him for he won a law suit against General Shallon. the former governor general, and beat the hector ing general. Keil likes surgery and jokes. He says that his wife, who runs hos pital. and knows we'll the moujik soldier s psychology, reports that every soldier wounded believes that the particular bull let, shrapnel bullet, or shell splinter which struck him was an exceptional, extraordinary. supernumerary shell or bullet; that 1t missed someone else by an inch; that it was intended for someone; that it was deflected by the devil and gen erally that Providence or some other be- nign or baleful power, arranged the mis- sile's path in order to hit some particular man Madame Keil says that for this reason the (stories of most soldiers about the way they were wounded are unre- liable. The individual stories. that is. But the general stories which tell of tho
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04
What Your Fingers Mean

From the Pittsburg Sun.
 When fingers are long and nattened like a club
 Here we have our inventors. directors. electricians, lovers of all the odd things of lfe-but only on the practical basis. Their work will have for Its motto, Use ful, practical and uplifting"
 They make our practical instruments for the home and office; also our guns for the battlefield They are good engineers, for their minds run only in the mechan- ical groove The man who has pushed himself through hard work to the top of the ladder in his own profession will all most always have hand with clubbed fingers
 These persons are often irritable and quick tempered, sometimes childishly fret ful; perhaps from the constant use of the brain. They are full of enthusiasm. mak- ing themselves liked wherever they go, and are the most pleasant acquaintances- They love change, and can always adapt themselves to any enforced environment no matter what it may chance to be. They are honest sober and invariably reliable
 Square hands, but having the fingers of a mixed order:"
 First finger pointed, Second square, third clubbed, fourth pointed
 This man is usually jack of all trades. He will soar to dreams of widest fancy, and then his castle building will suddenly break and he will fall to the earth with a thud, with all his right-minded facul- ties alive, ready for the work of exist ence. This transformation takes place without any apparent reason.
 People with mixed fingers have seldom risen to heights of success. They are unhappy in trade. for they feel above it. They are not made of the stuff that a profession demands, and they make half rate artists and generally end their lives as rovers.
 Among these hands have been found many an odd combination ,as the follow ing. will show: There have been dentists that have longed to be poets and have almost succeeded with both professions. (But note the little word ''almost.') Or they may be paperhangers and carpenters who have longed for the opportunity that would make them famed musicians. We have all heard of the great singer that was found working among the miners in a coal region
 There is a well-known man who for 20 years ran an elevator in one of our largest buildings. It was known to but few of the thousands who rode with him day after day that this man was celebrated lltterateur and that he also spent the short hours at home painting upon a canvas that was to bring him fame. In the meantime the elevator was steady money" The fingers of this mans hand were decidedly mixed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04
SOME FREAKS OF WAR IN POLAND

went nscatched. Then from both Hanks came Germans in big numbers. Thirty Russians, enclosed on three sides, tried to make off by the fourth. A machine gun played on them and 20 were left on the ground. The rest ram they were shot down one by one, and only Kosso- rotoff was left. He ran.
 After him ran bullets from rifle clips and machine gun belts and at last bullet hit l. hit Kossorotoff's haversack beat through one side of his tin kettle. and went to sleep in the bottle of the kettle. Had it not been for the kettle 1t would have gone to sleep In Kossorotoffs spine.
 Kossorotoff realized that he had a charmed life, and that he could not be hurt. He showed his belief by volunteer ing for daring deeds. Once the perscope of the observation point was smashed by shell, and Kossorotoff, as a trained man, was given the ugly work of staring over the rampant with pair of ordinary field glasses. bullet struck and flattened on the rim of the field glass; and the glass by transmitted impact blackened Kossorotoff's eye While Kossorotoff
 
 ment and tore his sleeve. Kossorotoff s notion that he had charmed life was confirmed, He now simply thirsted for battles, and in a certain charge rushed ahead. of his squad. The squad was cut up, but the naimaller corporal proved inexpugnable Not a scratch. Then came fate. Kossorotoff and two men went out to gather wood for the stove they had in their trench. It was safe work as there were no Germans near. He lost his way, got in front of his own outpost, and as he marched merrilly with pine logs, along came an honest Russian bullet, and sped into his thigh. The wound so badly weakened his leg that he will fight no more.
 Kossorotoff told me this in bald details and I read about 1t in the Dnievnik. I re- fused to believe either authority. I asked Dr. Svereinsky of the Duma hospital if it were true, and he said yes Kossorotofr was known as a man of charmed life. When he had lain some days in hospital his company officer, a lieutenant, came to see him, and confirmed the tale The lieutenant had seen the bullet hole in the cap, and he had kept the bullet out of the kettle. This. said the doctor, is noth- that is. orderly, of the same lieutenant had an equally capricious fate He was with his master in five battles at Angus