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Evening star., 1915-05-16

piece of the bullet. That humorous de-
fiance is rather characteristic of the sea-
sOned soldier.
saw a Belgian physician, DR.. Van der
Ghinst, when shell fell and exploded
hundred feet in front of him. He stopped
an instant to let the air clear, and then
walked on past the place. "That is moth
ing at ALL" he said. "They come all the
time They did, where he worked.
That is the active phase of courage.
There is another the long-suffering cour-
age that endures grimly. That too we
have seen. We have brought in three
thousand wounded men. | had an En-
glish boy, who had his bicep muscle shot
away in the battle of Ypres. He had lain
for thirty hours, with only rude first
dressing of antiseptic and bandage. All
the color had gone out of his face. He
tainted twice on my shoulder. He did
not groan nor complain Once, in
hoarse whisper, he asked for water.
Mrs. knocker and | brought up from
Dover to London a Belgian soldier who
was dying. Not a moan came out of him.
| lighted his cigarettes for him, and he
always smiled his gratitude. Many times
| have prepared smokes for men with the
arm gone. There is always humorous
smile from the wounded man at his own
helplessness. He regards the attention
as rather good joke on himself.
AT Nieuport one evening boy ran
toward me sobbing, and holding up on
high his right arm. The index finger had
been shot away clean to the butt His
face was wet and shiny in the lanternlight
with the tears of child. We told him it
was nothing. "C'est rien." We told him
that other men We're wounded more griev-
ously He calmed himself at once. He
had got himself out of perspective for the
moment.
Evening star., 1915-05-16

NEVER before in the history of the world has such
test of human courage been devised that of modern
artillery fire. How do stand up under it? Who
the towards? And what is the hardest thing that
the modern fighting has to bear? In this article
Arthur Gleason these questions with some
wonderful stories of individual cases. Since last Septem-
Der he has been with the Munro Ambulance, which
has worked under heavier fire than any other ambulance
in the war;
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w men will be falling on the field
" of battle dead and wounded
y than at any other moment in
the worlds history. There has never been
devised such test of courage as that of
modern artillery fire.
The moaning of the shell, the roar of its
explosion, the crumbling of the house a
few yards away, the brick dust and dirt
shooting up in smoke like the plume of
geyser, the pieces of hot metal pattering
on cobbles and on the walls of houses
these assail the senses as no hand-to-hand
clash of the ancient world ever did.
Machine guns, shell fire, and shrapnel
are accurate and all-inclusive. They
sweep a tract clear. have seen villages
OF Flanders where no house was left un-
touched. | have seen fields like pock-
marked face, pitted by high explosives on
every rod of their acreage. 1t is close
woven net of death that the guns throw
out over an entire area. Few can pass in
under and then be fortunate enough to
slip through that MESH
One afternoon | saw little group of
men go into Dixmude when the town was
being shelled to the ground. They were
Red Cross workers. They went in to get
some wounded, who lay in the center of
the fire, in the cellar of the Hotel de Vile.
Those few minutes under an unceasng
fire of shells put flashlight into the con-
sciousness of the little group at work on
the wounded
Evening star., 1915-05-16
Courage of the Wounded

WHEN the fighting broke out in sud-
den angry spurts our cars We're loaded
with bleeding soldiers. On busy days we
carried an average of thirty men. These
men We're brought to the base hospital in
our motor ambulances from the trenches,
barrcade, wood, house, dressing station,
wounded for length of time varying
from one hour to twelve hours. Some of
them died on the trip in. One of our
drivers, fresh from London, on his first
trip put in three grievously wounded men
at the front, and took out three dead men
at the hospital. Many of our passengers
suffered much pain.
| remember Belgian officer with a
shattered arm. Every swerve of the am
bulance was hurt to him.
"Oh, go slower, if you please!' he would
say. Il beg you, Sir, to stop moment!'
Never once on the ten-mile drive did
he forget to speak with courtesy, in spite
of his fever and pain.
We brought in a man whose face had
been tapped by shell, SO that the veins
had to be bound. He lay unmurmuring.
Only he kept picking at the bandages, be-
cause Of the itching of the wounds. sat
on his arms, or he would have plucked
away the bandages and bled to death.
saw eleven civilians, men, women, and
children, in the hospital at Wetteren.
They each had bayonet wounds in their
bodies. They lay without groaning. One
of them wept as he told me how they had
been marched in front of troops. When
they fell on their faces to escape the rifle
fire the soldiers had prodded them with
bayonets to make them stand again.
went to each of the eleven. One was a
girl of twelve years, with light hair. Her
back was laid open to the bone. One was
woman, white-haired and wrinkled,
perhaps eighty years old She had
bayonet thrust through her left thigh
They all seemed patient as they lay there
We all, a little group of men, came out
crying and swearing.
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stood by his car waiting for. the trailing
black man to come. There are lots of
men who would have gone out of that
accurate fire with the two wounded men,
1t was a dreary wait for the third man
scratching along over the ground. Two
more shells came past, and the negro ar
rived at the step. Smith lifted him in and
brought the three back to safety.
Some Brave German Officers
OF, battle gallantry l saw several in
stances. At skirmsh at NIelle be-
tween Germans and Belgians | saw Ger
man hussar ride out of wood one thou
sand yards beyond his own lines. hap
pened to be standing in the road where
he emerged. He came out of the trees as
silently as an Indian. He was entirely
cool, unhurried; only his eyes were alert.
If the Belgians were still in possession
of the road, they would shoot him down.
But his men would hear the volley, and
would not advance. If the Belgians had
retired, then his men could come on safely
He was taking all the chances, in order to
save an ambuscade of his men. But
there wasn't tremor in him. The Bel
glans had retired; SO he smiled at us, and
rode farther down the road, to gain as
much ground as possible.
My wife and We're in the village of Zele
when band of twenty Uhlans rode
in. The three officers had their pistols
drawn. Their faces were set and stern.
Their men were laughing. One of them
talked with us about New York. A few
hundred yards beyond them, just over
the railroad tracks on the road to Ghent,
there was red brick house sheltering a
dozen Belgian soldiers. Behind cover
of bushes there were fifty more At the
turn OF the road, quarter-mile away,
there were many hundred Belgians, and
at the corner a machine gun.
1t was the job of the Uhlans to learn if
the village itself was a cover for troops.
If it was, they would be wiped out; but
their main body of troops would remain
back and not be ambuscaded. 1t was
even chances that the Belgians down the
road would rake them down with rifle and
machine gun. The Uhlans inspected the
village, and then sent word for their
troops to enter 1t is for pieces of utter
daring like this that the Iron Cross is
given. The death rate of Uhlans is high.
Dying, He Smoked Cigarettes
RADCLIFFE DUGMoRE, the En-
glish naturalist, and were present at
skirmish in Aalst, where the Belgians
had made barricade across a narrow
street. They used market-garden cart,
sods of earth, and bags of fish. As the
shrapnel pattered around them saw one
and another laugh, and then, as caught
his eye, spit, as if he were splitting out
Evening star., 1915-05-16

prised him to learn that his strength was
good to be with He is the bravest man
met among many brave.
There was another youthful driver, a
lad OF seventeen years. He had been
reared delicately. He was fat and imma-
ture. Most of his vitality had gone to
growth. We had crossed the Channel to-
gether. and he had asked me many curious
questions of whatitwas like to beunder fire.
This day in Dixmude was his initiation. 1t
was oversudden and violent; but he stood
his ground because of the English in him.
"This is real fight, isn't it?" he said.
| assured him that it was.
"This is pretty hot isn't it?" he asked a
moment after.
! told him that it was damned hot.
All this was immensely comforting to
him; for it meant the inner torment was
justified. Any sane person under fire has
a desire to run away, and this boy wanted
to be told that it was worth while to stick
around. He stayed, and brought out a
carload of wounded. He was sick at his
stomach for many hours after he got back
to safety, and then developed an attack
of grippe. The point of it is not that he
was ill later on, but that he held himself
together while there was work to be DONE
Evening star., 1915-05-16
Did Not Duck the Shells

I SAW Smith at work on another day.
He is slight of build, and looks like one
of the citys weaklings, who would break
under strain; high shoulders and angular
hitch in his walk, man who talks in
monosyllables
$50 into Dixmude to the house beyond
the Caeskerke Station and bring the
wounded" the Corporal ordered him.
Smith cranked up his engine, and trav-
eled down the road to Dixmude He drove
to the inn where the Sengalese were sta
toned. 1t was the intermittent target of
German shells. The front of it was black
ened with explosives. The panes of glass
were shattered out of the windows. The
high car with its brown canvas covering
was "a fair mark in the clear morning light.
Cool and expert, he turned his car, and
brought it to a standstill in the middle of
the road. A battery Of four German guns
sent four small obus just over his car.
They struck the wall of the deserted house
opposite. The black men standing out
side the inn tlattened themselves against
the wall. A couple of them ran inside
Two wounded men, each of them with an
arm wound, ran to the ambulance and
climbed inside.
Fifty feet away, from the yard of the inn,
strange figure came slowly. 1t was SEN
galese with his foot shot away. He came
on his hands and knees. Again the battery
OF four guns fired, and the whistle of the
shots was audible for second of time be-
fore they cut overhead into the house OPP
posite. Smith did not duck his head He
Evening star., 1915-05-16

VV7HEN this article appears more
NJ men will be falling on the field
wv of battle dead and wounded
than at any other moment in
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-08-21
STATE FUNDS CALLED IN

All the state money remaining in the
various banks was called In by State
Treasurer Haarer last Wednesday.
Approximately s1,300,00O, which has
been on deposit in banks through out
Michigan for several months. was call
ed in and placed in the big banks.
where the state treasurer maintains
checking accounts.
Various state institutions are de-
manding the money that was appro-
priated for them during the last ses-
sion Of the legislature. disbursing
s250.000 last Saturday. Treasurer
Haarer found that II would be neces-
sary to call In all state deposits in
order TO meet future demands.
Small bankers having the custody of
state money have protected vigorously
against the action of the state treas
urer, but they have all been treated in
the same manner.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-08-21
WELCOME THE sHRINERs
Crystal Falls People are Making Pre-
paration for Their Entertainment

The visit OF the Patrol and Band of
Ahmed Temple, A. A. n. o. NJ. 5. Is
arousing a great deal Of interest in
Crystal Falls. not alone among the
Masonic fraterMty but among their
friends and neighbors who are not
masons as we'll and everyone is lend
ing hand where he can to assist the
masons in their work OF entertain
ment. Crystal Falls wants nothing
done by halves and the local masons
are straining every effort to take care
OF their guests.
The Patrol arrived last night, some
OF them via automobile and others on
the train. They went directly TO the
masonic hall where quarters were as
signed them and afterwards recep-
tion was given to them by the local
masons.
Today the Patrol is making a tour
OF the county and upon fits return TO
Crystal Falls this evening big parade
will be staged that will be the most
interesting thing Crystal Falls has
seen in many day. The public is cor
daily invited to witness the street en-
tertainment, I'm fact its main purpose
is to interest and entertain the people
OF this city and all are welcome to par
take of the enjoyment 1t will give.
The parade will start at 500 o.
clock from the Masonic temple and
will traverse the principal streets OF
the city. The parade will be headed by
the band which is no slouch OF a musi-
cal organization.
Ahmed Temple has about 1000 mem
bers. It's jurisdiction includes the en-
tire upper peninsula and in its mem
bership are the major portion of the
prominent business men OF the penin-
sula. The visitors will be from all
over the upper country. They are a
lively lot OF gentlemen and Crystal
Falls is fortunate TO have them visit
our city.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-08-21

The First Aid team OF the Balkan
mine will go TO Stambaugh tomorrow
to contest with the First Aid team OF
the Caspian mine and the winner Of
the contest will go to the meeting OF
the Lake Superior Mining Institute
which is TO be held at Ironwood next
month.
The Caspian team is the crack team
OF the Verona mines on the west side
and the Balkan boys have a real cone
test on their hands but they have grit
ted their teeth and declare they will
win for they all want to go to the in
stitute.
A large number OF the friends Of the
Balkan team will go TO stambaugh
tomorrow 10 witness the contest
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-08-21

Ore shipments we're started
from the Balkan mine yesterday
morning. The ore is being mined by
the Winston Bros. and hauled to SUR
face in their four-yard cars. A trestie
was erected some time ago and onto
this trestle the cars are iun where the
ore Is dumped into chutes that run n
into the railroad cars standing under
the trestle.
The original intention was 10 ship
but 100000 tons Of the 100000 which
tho Winston's are 10 mine but the
change IN the ore market conditions ia
liable 70 change HIS program mater
tally
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-08-21

Paul Manke. well-known citizen
OF Florence, was awarded. yesterday.
the big contract for the building OF
the cement walks at the new town OF
Alpha There were ten bidders in all.
but Paul landed the plum. He will
receive "A cents per square foot for the
walks and as cents for the cutters and
curbing. The contract will amount In
the nelghborhood OF $4,000 and besides
he has contracts for about $4,000 worth
Of cement work for the mines at that
plglt The work will, he somewhat Of
a. hsk, too, for all the gravel will have
be shipped In by rail. We congratu-
late Mr.. Manke on his securing the
.outract, and wish him success in his
big undertaking Mining News.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-08-21
HuMOR FROM THE COURTS

Judge Flanagan OF Norway has a
reputation for keeping things moving
In his court On one occasion Pat
o'Brien, now Judge was attorney for
the defense In a murder case az on
tonagon. He asked one Witness
How far Is II from Mass City 10
GreenlandT
He got his answer and was through
with the witness. The first question
he asked the next witness was:
How far Is II from Mass City "a
GreenlandTs
And Judge Flanniean answered: III
Il Just as far as II was when the last
witness answered. co on."-Pas Cook
IN Saturday Night
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-08-21

Serious frosts were reported from
Potatoes and corn have suffered
greatly and II looks as II the crop will
amount TO very little.
IN Amasa way the potatoes were
cut rirht down 70 the ground. Many
Of the potato lots had the potatoes
just forming While the crop in such
cases viii not be a total loss Il will be
very greatly curtailed and the pota-
toes will be small and not Of good
quality
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-08-21
WILL STAGE A
BIG CONTEST
zxsmoND DRILL AND MERCHANTS
4 PLAN TO STIR UP TRADE
BIG VOTING CONTEST COMING
Nearly s700 in Prizes Are Being
Offered as an Incentive For Con-
testants to Work

The Diamond Drill and a number OF
the local merchants have entered into
an agreement with the Publishers
Music Co. for the promotion OF trade In
this community and before the contest
is ended there will be trade awaken
ing that will stir the community TO its
very depths.
The merchants combining with The
Diamond Drill are Ruwitch & Co..
Crystal Falls Cooperative Society,
Alois Flood, Jacobs Bros. Peter War
shawsky, VIM. Rein, Wills Hardware
Co.
Alpha will come into the work with
the following firms, Miners Drug
Store, Alpha National Bank and Alpha
Mercantile Co.
A representative Of the Publishers
company was in the city this week
making arrangements for the starting
OF the contest and next week the ad-
yertising man will be here TO start
the work and from that time on a
representative of the concern will be
on hand to guide the work until its
final completion which will be some
time in November.
In connection with this contest
there will be side issues. which will be
announced as the time passes by, one
OF the irst being cash prize which
The Diamond Drill will give for the
first count so that the girls who take
hold and push trate in this community
will oe well repaid. In all there will be
dozen prizes, the big prize being
worth $500 and the others varying
from $50 down to $1,000
This is the first contest that pub
fishers OF this paper have ever en-
barked in for the reason that we never
had scheme put up to us where our
people were fetting value received. In
!, this contest those who work will get
amply repaid, the merchants who foot
the bills will get return in a stimula-
ton OF trade and the people at large
who furnish the ammunition to carry
on the battle will get dollar for dollar
on every item that they handle
The merchants are oil planning to do
some work on their own account in
the trade boosting line. There is a
spirit of boost" under this whole af-
fair that augurs well for Crystal Falls
in commercial way. What we need
here is some stirring up: something
that will bring the merchants and the
trades people together; something
that will interest the patrons as well
as the merchants In the town. II is
designed to make this big contest
such an agency.
AS time goes along the details will
be unfolded. Next week the announce
ment will be made and the plan ex-
planned. From week to week the mer-
chants will have announcements to
make that will show how real inter
ested they are in this plan OF stirring
up the people to patriotic interest in
their home community.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-08-21
ECHOES OF THE RAID
Many Humorous Incidents Reported In
Connection Herewith by Witnesses

The visitors from Iron River TO
Crystal Falls early in the week had
many humorous items to detail regard
ing the raid that was made by Rev.
Rutledge and the officers last week
Thursday.
One gentleman told OF the raid in
connection with Eddie St Johns
place. The story is that Eddie had
opened up his place of business only
the day previous and that he enjoyed
good trade the night before On the
day OF the raid he had received g.
gallon keg OF whiskey and being shy OF
an augur with which to tap the keg he
went out TO borrow one On his way
back he thought he would get shaved
and when the barber was scraping his
face the officers were relieving him OF
the necessity for tapping his keg
"A friend was waiting for him, said
our informant, And when his shave
was finished Eddie was told that the
officers were raiding his place"
Eddie asked what he had better do
and the fellow told him 10 'fy'."
Eddie few. all right. He went TO
Palatks. boarded an ore freight and
that night we had message from him
at Escanaba. Guess he was headed
for northwestern Canada and II he
keeps up his gait he is there by this
time"
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-08-21
AeRIcuLruRIrs VALUE SHOWN



Pure Seed In the County
There has been much discussion in
Iron county as TO the real value an
agricuturalist is TO the county There
are many who claim that he is of no
real benefit and among them are some
Of our most influential and progress
sive farmers. The claim is that the
farmers will not work with the agri-
culturalist and that unless they do his
value to the county is nil
There are so many ways in which
an agriculturalist may be OF value to
a county without the people realizing
II, that one must pause and consider
the subject in all of its phases before
drawing conclusions.
The writer has had occasion 10 OBJ
serve few things in this connection
OF late that has opened his eyes on
this matter. II is pretty well conced-
ed that the crops of Iron county are
as free of weeds as any part OF the
state. II you don't believe IL Just ride
around Iron county a little and look
the grain and vegetable fields over. II
is very seldom now that one sees a
field with mustard OF Canadian thistles
in II and when one does he can gem
orally conclude with a fair degree OF
certainty that the man is not "harken-
ing" to the cry OF our county agricul-
turalist.
One Of the things that Mr.. Hoopin-
garner has been especially active in is
the seed line He has had the mer-
chants working with him to greater
degree than the farmers, in one sense,
and the Iron county merchants have
been following his advice and getting
seeds that were known not to contain
impurities. So, unconsciously in some
cases, the farmer who refused to CO.
operate with the agriculturalist is
really cooperating with him through
the foresight OF the merchant who has
followed the agriculturalists advice.
During the summer we have had oc-
casion to ride very extensively over the
upper peninsula and in none OF the
counties have We seen the crops as
free from impurities as are the crops OF
Iron county Last Sunday we rode for
Is miles through one of the richest
agricultural sections OF Mackinaw
county !; in fact we doubt n there Is a
richer section agriculturally in Michi-
gan, than the one we have in mind.
ca ops were immense but in almost
every field there were impurities that
reduced the crop value to almost moth
ing. We saw fields with thousands
upon thousands OF Canada thistles
Others had mustard so that the vel
low flower obscured the grain. We
were told by a gentlemen intimately
acquainted with conditions that almost
all of those impurities came last
spring and the year before with seed
One gentleman wanted to know IL we
thought they would appear next year.
II is safe to say that I'm that small
area the saving TO the farmers on this
years crop alone would have paid the
cost OF an agriculturalist But, It's
not this years crop but next year and
the years to come when the farmers
efforts must be concentrated ON erad-
icating these impurities that must be
charged up against this big blunder
And, that leads to another suggestion
which is this; that in counties having
an sgricuturalist. he should by law
be given the supervision OF the sale OF
seeds.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-08-21

A big meeting was held in Crystal
Falls at the NJ. r. Church last Sunday
evening at which the liquor situation
in the county was discussed by Rev.
Rutledge.
Mr.. Rutledge takes exception 70 the
figures published as those represent
ing the receipts Of liquor In the
county lie says that the "suit case
trade" exceeds the open trade by q
great deal lie says that there IL a per-
ceptibIe one-sided hump noticeable on
many Iron county people, brought
about by cai ying suit cases filled with
booze.