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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-08-13
WAR BULLETINS
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News Scryice,)
Paris. Aug. l2-Thr crown prince
continues to throw the best German
troops into hattie in vain attempt to
win lack his positions on the Aisne
and In IN" Champagne.
Yesterdays assault on the one-mtie
front between Pant heon farm and the
Chevregny spur was spite hattie
ordered by the German command. Tic
French, seized a number of valuable
trenches here on July 80 and, accord
ing TO prisoners. the enemy stan had
warned the Foriy-tht-ti reserve d.
vision that 1t would get no rest until it
had regained the positions IL had lost.
After IN all-nixht bombardinent
three battalions supported by two ad
dltiorai companies of "stosstruppen'
tshock troors} and fame throwers,
advanced ON the battered trenches
hut they encountered some of the
finest French troops--foot Chasscurs,
under command of General Brissant-
Desmatiiet. who inflicted terrible
slaughter in savage handto- Ia nd
fighting.
The l,attIe lasted all day. just be-
fore dark sh" French turned their ssp<,-
cin. guns on fra gment of Il trench
~hcrc the enemy still Rad n presarious
foothoid and compelled its abandon
n.cnt. \ semi f1icial account says tho
defeated Germans left behind heaps of
ct rpses and more than one hundred
prisoners.
London. Aug. t2.-Wlth the last
strip of Rouman!a nenaced by In
snsiau n n result OF Field Mar~haa Won
es1ri er1SeFa's onward sweep across he
smchita river. King Ferdinand. OF
Roun,a min. and his ministers are now
contemplating new transfer OF the seat
n! government. according to adsices
from Pctrograd. II is said that Rostoy.
on the Don. is regarded as the most
likely place 10 he decided upon. The
royal family probably will move to n
town I'm southern Russia.
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Christiania, August I2.-H eavy
firing was reported from the direction
OF the Skagcrnk last night. Runors
of sea battle arc I'm the air. Nor.
wcgian torpedo boats immediately set
out to investigate.
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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-08-13
Record Attendance Is Expected
at Agricultural College For
Three Days Session
DEMONSTRATIONS WILL
INTEREST THE WOMEN
Governor Stuart and Other
Notable Men Will Make Ad-
dresses-Every Convenience
Planned for Visitors

record attendance is expected at
the fourteenth annual session of the
Virginia State Farmers institute, to
be held at the State Agricultural col
lege, Blacksburg. August Is. Is and
II. The program arranged Is the
similar convention and every effort is
being made to insure its complete
success.
The visitors will have the run of
the dormitories and college buildings
at V. p. l.. and the dormitories have
been prepared to house the farmers
who wish to stay there. No charge
will be made for the use of the rooms.
and meals will also be furnished at
minimum rate. Those who wish can
Sc .ure accommodation at the two no.
tells or numerous boarding houses in
the village.
All three days are brimful OF IN
teresting and instructive addresses.
demonstrations and tours OF inspec-
ton. A special effort has been made
10 make the women's section OF the
program attractive and number OF
entertaining features have been Sc
cured.
The assembled farmers will be ad-
dressed by notaoles from Richmond.
Washington and all over the country
The complete program follows:
wednesday Morning.
Address of welcome-Dr. J. y. Egg
glesten. president Virginia Polytechnic
institute. Blacksburs. Va
The presidents address-Nr. walter
E Hathaway, white Stone. Va
Appointment of committees.
The Food situation"-Dr. Carl vroo-
man, assistant secretary OF agriculture.
va shington. d. C.
1915 70 r. M-Dinner
Wednesday Afternoon.
Mems section.
Adaress--Hou. G W. Kotner com.
II issioncr of agriculture, Richmond.
Va
The Virginia Experiment stations
DR., A. w prinkard. director Virginia
experiment station. Blackshurg. Va
Fish on the Farm"--Mr. Hugh NJ
Smith,, Us Fish commissioned. Wash
thgton, n e.
II. L. Price dean agricultural faculty
Virginia Polytechnic institute. Blacks
burg. Va
to 5so-rnspection Of creamery
barns cattle horses. orchards. field
crops. fertilizer and lime plots
women's section.
Demonstration OF breakrasts-Mrs
Edith Lawrence. ST. Louis, Mo.
Discussion--"vaiue Of Fruits"
to 3A--1nspection and demonstra-
ton OF use Of power in home. water
works. laundry. canning drying. but
ter making and war breads.
Wednesday Night.
500 to : :30-Supper.
Patriotic song service.
ddress--Governor H, G. Stuart
Richmond, Va.
Shortage OF Physicians"-Dr. En-
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II fighting the nations battle
At home. Are you doing
YOUR share by joining the
great force for aid?
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15
DEAD FOWLS.

The average amateur poultry raiser
has n handy spot in some corner of
his yard for burying dead chicks and
fowls. Their ailment may be roup,
cholera, gapes, or any other contag-
iOus disease, yet when the bodies are
buried or thrown into the compost
heap the poultryman considers his
duty well done.
The careless burial of victims of
any contagious disease is a crime
against the living. In the poultry yard
it Is well to remember that earth
worms work increasingly, ~disintegrat-
ing the soil and bringing disease germs
to the surface. Cremation of ali fowls
that die is the best plan. Fire is called
"she great destroyer" for there is no
chance for c~ontagion from ashes.
Fowls may be cremated in any kind
of a furnace or stove. Simply wrap
the body in paper saturated with coal
oil, and it will burn iercely and some
times not leave even a bone. There
is no odor or unpleasantness about
such a process, and surely it is less
labor than digging holes for burial.
In the summer one may make a small
outdoor crematory with a few bricks
and an old, burned-out CRATE.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15
Architects for War Service.

An important work is being accom-
plished by the various state chapters
of the American Institute of Archi-
tects in carrying out the request of
the council of national defense that
a census be obtained of architects will
ing to serve the government in the va
rious departments where such techni-
cal services as they might offer would
be useful.
Each chapter is compiling a list I'm
which every qualification of each man
enrolled is set forth. By this very
wise method we may be sure that
every man that goes into the service
will find work awaiting him for which
he is best qualified, and we shall, 1t is
to be hoped, be spared experiencing
the unfortunate conditions that beset
the profession in France and England
during the early months of the war;
American Architect.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15

the narrow, cluttered streets of q
place where q town once was. Then
we dip into a stretch of road marked
on our maps 'unavoidably dangerous
1t is about thr~ee-quarters of a mile
long. Up the valley we can see the
German positions.
You can imagine that we don't stop
to pick wild flowers on this place.
Bang, bang, whine, crash everywhere.
In spite of the souls in agony behind
us, in spite of piteous 'doucements'
and pas 81 vites,' we tear madly down
this stretch with every ounce of pow
er the car has. Once safe around the
corner we 60 slowly, until we deliver
our load at the hospital.
Shells Hit Three Cars.
Three of our cars have been hit by
%eclats; two put temporarily out of
commission. One car hit a new she'll
hole two nights ago and tipped over.
The driver left the car TO find a tele-
phone, and when he returned he found
a shell had passed through the driv-
er's seat.
81 have no hatred of the Germans.
Somehow l am beyond that. Even
when they came down in airplanes
on our hospital the other night, and
with bombs killed and wounded IA, in
Guiding nurses, l could not summon
hatred-only horror, and wonder.
"On one trip down from the Poste
de Secours l carried a half dozen
French doctors of Importance and n
wounded man, a 'cOuche' of consider
able interest. He was a Prussian first
lieutenant, the highest officer taken in
the recent attack. After lying in the
trenches for a day he was brought in
with the remaining French wounded.
When we unloaded him l addressed
him in German: 'Guten morgen, Herr
Lieutenant, vie befnden Sic sichy He
answered in German, but l soon dis
covered that he spoke excellent Eng
glish. l had only admiration for him
he had such magnificent control over
himself.
Victim Betrays No Pain.
"He lay there on his stretcher, on
the ground, in the center of a ring of
questioning Frenchmen. One leg was
badly torn his face, with thin, straight
nose, thin, colorless lips and wide, in
tellectual eyes, betrayed no pain or
any emotion. As he answered the
questioners in his beautiful, flawless
French, he took off his round she'll
trimmed glasses, and with a piece of
rag cleaned them with meticulous care,
settling them back on his ears. 1t was
quite a sight.
"I am zen repos' now for two days.
Then l shall have two days of the
safe and easy work Of evacuation ;
then two more of repose. This is good.
after As hours duty at the Poste de
Seeours."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15
Royal Aviators.

King Albert of Belgium has now
added to his many experiences that of
being the first monarch to make an
airplane flight over hostile guns in &C.
ton. So far the kaiser has confined
his air exploits to a modest trip in a
Zeppelin in peace time. His brother,
Prince Henry of Prussia, also had a
little flight with Count Zeppelin in pre-
war days. Other prominent royalties
who have been up in airships are
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy and
the queen of Sweden.
In the English royal family several
members made airplane flights when
flying machines were novelties, notably
Princes George and Albert of Batten-
berg and the Princess Louise of Bat
tenberg. Prince Leopold of Battenberg-
even went so far as to loop the loop
his pilot being hone other than Gus
tav Hammel. Prince Axel of Denmark
is another royalty who risked his life
aloft when airplanes were not nearly
so safe as they are today.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15
Scots Hobnob With Australians.

The peculiarly fraternal sentiment
of the Indian Ghurka regiments to-
ward the Highland corps has long ago
been indicated by Kipling and was
amply demonstrated again when the
Ghurkas were in France. Quite as
remarkable now is the warmth of COM
radeship that exists between the Scots
and the Australians. They draw to
each other like old school fellows,
and in those bigger towns behind the
lines to which soldiers at long inter-
walls resort on a pass when the monOt~
ony and squalor of trench or billet
life make certain towns as fascinat-
ing as a metropolis. Highland bon
nets and Australian sombrerOs gen.
orally go about in pairs. Isolated
Scots troops who find themselves just
now in the extensive area where Aus
tralians dominate the landscape are
assured of a welcome as hearty as If
they were mascots, and the billy bOilS
with an enthusiasm no other occasion
would %engender.
you see, we understand each other
the Jocks and u.s. say the Austral-
ians; 1--WE have both the same idea Of
q joke"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15

them to Moorside and brave the deci-
sion Of his mother-inlaw, when one
morning two automobiles came swing
ing around a bend in the road. They
were filled with pretty girls and
smart-looking men, laughing and sing
ing, taking in life in its fullness.
The evident leader of the group
halted the advance machine, leaped
out and walked to where Joe was cut
ting up some feed.
"Can you give me a pitcher of water
and a glassT" inquired the stranger.
1.-THE ladies out yonder are thirsty"
"All our kitchen ware is gone
We're moving" explained Joe, "but I
can give you a bucket and a lineup"
"Grandl" voted the man, and when
he carried the water to the road Joe
stood quite e%nraptured as the strains
of 1.-THE Old Oaken Bucket rang out.
Then he stared as a saucy-faced dam
sci came rushing past him with n
"Oh, mister a real ostrich ~ and she
sped for the Enclosure where she had
made out that member of Joe's house
hold pets.
Out from the machines there came
piling the others. They massed about
the Enclosures that held bear, lion,
tiger, elephant and the rest of the ami
mails. They drowned out the clatter
of the fowls with their excited and
delighted appreciation Of this extraor-
binary discovery of a menagerie in this
unexpected quarter of the world.
"Say, friend" spoke the leader of
the noisy visitors, what you got here,
anyway, and how did you come to get
it?"
Joe told. There was a shade of
sadness in his tones as he came to
the calamity phase in his nature-loving
experience. All the others had crowd
ed about to listen to the unpretentious
and pathetic narration.
"Why," exclaimed a bright-eyed miss
Of the party, 'it's like a movie ro-
nance"
"Moorside," repeated the leader of
the group, "why, that is near where
we are building a movie studio. See
here, I've got a big ideal"
The "big idea" was to buy the whole
menagerie outfit, for these were movie
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15
CARE OF DUCKS.

The requirements of ducks are so
few that anyone can raise them. They
are less bother than chickens, not re-
quiring such varied feeding, and a
fence two feet high will keep them
where you wish them to stay, says
n writer. They will not dig up the
garden, never fly up onto anything,
and are never troubled with lice or
bowel troubles as are chickens.
You can feed them the same kind
of feed from the fifth day after they
hatch until they are full grown, which
they will be in 10 or L. weeks.
Do not feed the young ducklings I'M
til they are SO hours old, taking par
ticular pains to see that they are
kept dry and warm. 1t is not desirable
to try to raise them with hens, as they
step on so many of them and the ducks
are wen worse to raise them with.
Breeders are much less bother and will
raise a larger per cent of them.
For the first five days feed bread
crumbled and moistened with milk,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15
On Foot.

Sir Gold goes by in his motor car,
l tramp the road and take his dust;
But a friendly wind from the hills affair
Sweeps it away with a laughing gust,
Sir Gold may ride, If he wills it so,
But let me follow the winding way
That leads to the hills and the streams
l know,
Where the birches bend and the fishes
play.
He has not seen in the sheltered nook
The windfiower swing on the threadlike
stalk,
He never knows how the fern fronds look,
Nor listens to acknowledgements talk.
And where the orioles nest is swung,
A web of dreams against the sky
Precious and sweet with her eager young,
Blind and stupid he rushes by.
Well, let him go II he likes the pace,
So long as he leaves the road behind;
In spite of his speed he has lost the race,
The tingling zest the foot-wise find.
Ho! Ho! I laugh at his sorry flight,
A speeding slave, when he might be
free
In Gods green weather of sweet delight,
On the good brown road, atramp with
me.
George Edward Day.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15
GALL TO coLoRS WELCOME
Amateur Farmer Had Had Enough Of
Seeking to Coax a Living From
the Soil.

A man stood on the center Of q
cultivated quarter acre, a scuf1le hoe
In his hand. Before him stretched
an army of beets, their files joined
with a growth Of weeds, evil and in
sinuating, like Maximalists. Two
months ago this man had had the
Kerensky spirit, but the weeds SEEM
ed too much for him now. Every
shower brought up new patches of
them. Behind him long rows of let
tuce were going to seed. On his
right the hills Of potatoes, fortified,
hoed and sprayed, now were willing
before their time under a blight as
mysterious and unfair as poison gus.
The heat rolled up the garden slope
like the gray waves at Verdun, but
lrresistibly. Over in a neighbours
field it seemed to scorch the stubble,
yet kept enough moisture so that the
hay would not cure. Up the hill by
the house the lawn was uncut and
bees roared as they fed on the flow
ers of the neglected privet hedge.
Flies buzzed in the hot barn where
the motor car lay idle. On the yell
low, dusty road that led to PickereI
pond nothing stirred until the rural
delivery carriers horse showed his
head above the hill, a silhouette
against the burning blue sky.
The grass in the orchard was high,
It could be scythed and piled about
the trees as a mulch, but for what
immediate purpose when the peaches,
victims of another blighting mystery,
hung like mummies?
A creaking of the we'll chain made
the hoeman turn toward the house.
The mail carrier had driven in to get
drink for his horse and himself. He
waved a letter to the nan with the
hoe.
"Here it is !" he called out. Here's
your notice to report on the first
call" Then he added, as if fearing
to shock "but you won't have to go.
You're a farmer"
The man whirled his hoe about his
head like a hammer-thrower and sent
it whizziDg tSward the barn. He
looked about him at the travail of his
field.
THE devil I'm a farmer!" he shout
ed. "Give me that letter, quick
New York Sun.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15

people, and engaged in that industry in
a p%retentious way. A bargain was
struck.
isn't it wonderful !" jubilated Joe
to wife and mother-in-law on his arri-
val at Moorside a little later. 81 got
six thousand dollars for my collec-
ton and half that a year to ride once
to the studio grounds each day and see
that the animals are well cared for.
Just to think of it!-they won't be
starved or i'll treated. You see, folks,
my menagerie fad hasn't turned out
SO bad an investment, after all!
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15
American Boy Tells Efforts
to Save Wounded Under Fire

The following letter was written by
Robert Redfield, Jr., a University of
Chicago student, who went to France
to serve in the ambulance corps n
who is in the section awarded the
Croix de Guerre. The letter was writ
ten to his family:
81 know there is certainly no way
that in writing l can give you any
idea of the experiences have passed
through and the things l have seen. l
might just as well confine my remarks
to L am well and hope you are the
same
"At present I am writing on a hard
wood table under an electric desk
lamp. / am within a few hundred
yards of the German trenches, and hell
is loose above me. But here 1t is per-
fectly quiet; l am three stories below
ground in a sort of catacomb. Here
/ wait till my car is needed. The air
is fresh but somewhat damp the place
is dark, cluttered with stretchers /;
brancardfers pass in and u
Must Forget All Feeling.
ACIuSS NE uDit SllS al blllNSI At
a telephone switchboard. Every little
while-perhaps once every five min
utes-men come in by the communi-
cation trenches, bearing silent, dirty,
bloody Jumps. They are carried under
acetylene lights in a small DON in the
second cellar and the surgeons slit the
filthy woOlen and begin their work.
81 am surprised ut the excellent con-
troll I have over my nerve This aft
ernoon l opened a box of sardines,
carefully spread the fish on a hunk of
bread, and ate the light lunch with
relish while the priest heard confess
sion from a torn and crushed CHASTITY
thing beneath which the red patch
grew and grew in spite of the lint
bandages. / know it sounds heartless,
but one has to develop the faculty of
giving opiates to ones sympathetic
reactions.
ut is only afterwards that I re-
member these horrors and shudder-
a man with face torn away; a shame
full animal thing out OF which came a
slight, indescribable sound a man suf-
fering from shell shock, mind gone,
every muscle of his body crawling,
crawling. But enough of that.
Work In He'll of Noise.
"Well, If 1 am ON deck and they
have a load of wounded ready, I
emerge from the quiet cavern into a
world where the sky is shattered,
split, sundered by report after report.
The earth shakes and %Quivers. Air
planes above, 75's below, German ar
tillery over the hill, mitrailleuse, whin-
ing shrapnel, the shrek of shells pass
ing above-a hell of noises.
Somehow Eames and ! start the
engine; we receive our freight Of
wounded; we are off, at first through
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15
LED HIM TO THE SLAUGHTER
Chorus Girl Neatly "Worked" Admirer
When They Went to Buy Her
Diamond Brooch.

In my Own Past" by Maude
Ffoulkes, the authoress tells some good
stories of her experiences as a chorus
girl. One of the best concerns a girl
whose rather mean-minded admirer
had at last been persuaded to make
her a present of a diamond brooch.
Something simple for me-" she told
him. 81 hate clusters and twirls."
swell, dear, 1 admire your taste.
Something simple let it be-" answered
the careful lover.
"Tve been thinking" said the artless
girl. show nice it would be to have my
name made into a brooch. viii you go
with me and order oneT"
"He came like a bird" she told her
a%ppreciative audience in the dressing
room, "and / chose a fine brooch-nice
large stones, too"
swell, / neverl" cried an amazed
listener. "Fancy that But your name
is so short 1t couldn't have cost much.
You were a fool, Ida"
my name wasn't Ida in Bond
street" said the young lady demurely.
II asked him to let me wear the name
by which mother called me before 1
went on the stage.
"'And what is that, darlingT he
asked.
"'Gwendoline,' I said, "but, girls, I
tell yon that / didn't dare look at him
when 1 said it."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15
NA,.. 1nAtmeaQ
BOOK FOR FIGHTERS
President Wilson Urges Soldiers
to Read Bible, Key to
Own Heart.

Bibles for American soldiers
and sailors, to be given by the
Scripture Gift mission of Phila-
delphia, will carry a foreword by
President Wilson urging the
troops to read the Scriptures dill
igently. The president has writ
ten this inscription
"The Bible is the word of life.
l beg that you will read it and
find this out for yourselves
read, not little snatches here and
there, but long passages that will
really be the road to the heart
of it.
you will find it full of real
men and women not only, but
also of things you have Vol
dered about and been troubled
about all your life, as men have
been always; and the more you
read the more it will become
plain to you what things RI
worth while and what are not;
what things make men happy
loyalty, right-dealings, speaking
the truth, readiness to give ev-
erything for what they think
their duty, and, most of all, the
wish that they may have the real
approval of the Christ, who gave
everything for them-and things
that are guaranteed to make
men unhappy-selfishness, cow
ardice, greed, and everything
that is low and mean.
when you have read the BIZ
BILE you will know that it is the
word of God, because you will
have found 1t the key TO your
own heart, your own happiness.
and your own duty.
"WoODROW WILSON"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15

{ 1ding a heaping tablespoonful OF
sharp, sifted sand. After the fifth day
feed n and a half pounds Of MD
dlings, one and a half pounds of chop,
three pounds of bran and n and a
half pounds of slfted sharp sand, well
mixed, and a small amount at a time
wet up into a crumbly mash. Never
feed only what they will clean up in
ten minutes, three times a day, always
giving fresh water when you feed
them, and be very sure that none of
the feed is dry or they will choke to
death.