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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-11-20

Hill go itself had hardly any right to
be called hill, for to me It looked
like little rising ground and that's
all. but we had ninety-two batteries Of
artillery playing oil over 1t. and they
kept up the heaviest possible lombard.
ment for thirty-ave minutes. When
you think of 863 cannon pouring shells
into such q small place as one little hill
It may give you some idea Of what we
gave the Germans who were trying to
hold It against Us.
The bombardment stopped as abrupt
" as It started. and as soon as 1t ended
the mines we had laid under the bill
were set OF. The earth seemed to
tremble for q moment and then came
q great rumbllng roar. followed By an
upheaval of earth which seemed to
reach the clouds. The moment tho
mines had been set OF our chaps left
their trenches on the dead run, and
they charged across the crater where
hill 60 had been but few moments
before.
The heavy artillery fre we had given
the Germans had partly dehoralixed
them. The explosion of the mines I'm
ished the JOB. and they ied ike sheep.
Our machine gun was pouring steel
into them for q few moments, but We
had to stop. as our own men were pur.
suing them, and It was not safe to con-
tinus our nre any longer. It was al
over IN Z very short time and, while
we had to stand by all night, our work
did not last long during the actual
battle.
Soon altar this battle / secured my
ilrst "leave" to 60 to England fora rest
Of seven days. and though this d sup
posed to be story Of experiences
while on the lighting front, ! viii re-
late somsthing that happened while ]
Ma q GlasgoM. ecot|and
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HOW TO PREVENT LOSSES IN STORAGE

one OF tho most valuable by-product
OF any livestock industry 10 the manure
its proper care and use 10 ono of th,
oistinguishing features Of . successfu
stock farm.
foultry manure contains more nitro
gen than other farm manure, because Il
birds the excretion of the kidneys 4
voided In solid form (ufic' acid), will
unoigested portions Of tho food. Thil
form or nitrogen 10 easily available e
plants. Unfortunately. however, It !,
not stable. Putfifactive processe.
easily change Il to ammonia compounds
and unless special care ID taken OF the
droppings one-third to one-half of ths
nitrogen passes of - ammonia gas.
The yearly droppings from . her
while on the perohes will weigh about
thirty pounds. While these will vary
IN composition with the kind-oi feed
that 10 used, In general the thirty pounds
will carry about pounds Of nitrogen,
D pounds phosphoric acid and .25
pounds of potash. The phosphoric acid
and potash will not waste II the manure
10 kept dry but the loss Of nitrogen In
unprotected and untrested hen manure
Ia large and will vary from one-half to
three quarters Of the total nitrogen.
Fifteen years ago the Maine Agricul-
tural Experiment Station made Q series
OF trials In which different preservative
materials were added to fresh hen
manure. The following Is summary OF
the results.
When left untreated considerable more
than half Of the nitrogen was lost.
When dry absorbents were used the loss
was equally large. When ashes or lime
was added the loss was greatly increased.
Addition of two parts by weight of
plaster prevented all loss of nitrogen.
The addition of one part by weight Of acid
phosphate or of kainit to 8 parts of
manure also prevented loss. The ad-
dition of dry absorbents with these
materials did not reduce their preserva.
tive action and made the, manure Of
such consistency that It could be
readily applied to the land.
Because of these trials the Station
recommended storing the droppings In .
covered shelter and the daily addition Of
chemical to the droppings in the follow
ing proportions: To each 80 pounds Of hen
droppings, add 10 pounds of dry saw
dust, dry peat, or dry loan, 16 pounds
of acid phosphate and 8 pounds Of
kainit. This makes balanced fertilizer.
But during the war 1t will be impossible
to obtain kainit and 1t will have to be
omitted from the formula. The acid
phosphate In the above proportion will
prevent loss of nitrogen. By the use OF
wood ashes applied to the land In the
spring the needed potash would be add
ed. But the ashes must at no time be
directly mixed with the hen droppipgs.
The absorbent and the chemicals
should be kept conveniently at hand and
each day when the droppiDgs are collect
ed they should be treated. 1t may be
best to weigh the Ingredients a few
times after which 1t will be possible to
make sufficiently close estimates by
measure. Droppings treated in this
way will not be In good enough mechan-
icsi condition to be used In planter or
drill but they can be evenly distributed
with manure spresder. They should
be used ut the rate of about two tons
per acre.-CHAs. D. WOODS, Director.
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Dainty Cali, Poor Cow.

oanty Cah, Poor Cow.
nave oeen much interested I'm ths
oo..esponaence concerning the heife,
Gall, whether or not it 10 necessarv ~
ra'se every calf In order 10 determins
Wnicn are profitable and which Are not
One thing can be done besides vaitjnc
70 grow the COW and that n 10 pass on
the negative merits which can be dster.
mined with some considerable degree of
certainty, even though the positive ones
cannot Be foretold.
For instance. before q calf 10 . month
old the caretaker can form fairly good
ioea OF something that 10 OF NO little i'm
poreanoe In the characteristics of = COW
which Q to Do profitable member of
tne herd, and that 10 whether the animal
10 good feeder or not. We have All
seen the dainty calf which apparently
never cares whether it eats or not. and
We know this feed bucket test Ia not val
ueiees provided the calf Ia in ordinary
health.
Nobody expects . good COW to be a
dainty feeder. In other words. the
dainty feeder is not apt to be really
profitable COW. A voracious appetite is
one OF the requisites of the COW that
pays her way, and II the history of such
an animal were followed from birth il
would show that she possessed . vora-
cious appetite even - calf. A dainty
feeder also Ia almost invariably such
from the first. The heifsr that would
gorge itself, if permitted, may be relied
on as the one with enormous capacity
for taking care of food ~ she grows
older, and this capacity always 10 q
trait of heavy producers. Your dainty
calf, nine times out of ten, will never
prove high producer. II 10 the wide
awake, ready-for- business calf that
makes good as . COW.
It cannot for Q minute be claimed,
however, that there 10 an unfailing rule
in this matter. Assuredly no one
would reasonably claim that all wide
awake, hearty eaters were bound to
make profitable cows. Yet close obssr-
vation will bear out the statement that
the profit making animals are usually
possessed Of hearty appetites, and that
this characteristic 10 present at birth.
The prevailing high cost of feeds can
not but have the effect Of diminishing
the number Of young stock raised,
by the man who sees no
further than the present. At the same
time one takes very little chance In
keeping every heller calf until she has
reached the age when her milking value
can be demonstrated, particularly as
animals of two or three years Of age will
doubtsdly bring more for beef than
it has cost to raise them at any time.
Beef prices will probably not decline ex-
cspt a. feed prices do the ssme.-E. e.
in Hoard's Dairyman.
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>. SNEk> .
FOURTEEN
MONTHS
X AT II
An American Boy's
Baptism Of Fire
By WILLIAM ]. ROBINSON


The most graphic account Of the
great war that has yet been written
comes from the pen Of a twenty-five
year-old Boston boy. who has just re-
turned from France. where az dragoon
guardsman. dispatch rider and motor
car driver he served fourteen months
under the British flag. Out Of thirty.
one motorcycle dispatch riders hs waS
one Of four survivors
when he gets excited. There was
very strict order to the effect that no
man other than one detailed for the
work should touch or In any way dis
turb an unexploded enemy's shell. A
heavy penalty was imposed for dis.
obeying this order, and no one but a
man who didn't know any better would
think Of doing It.
A new regiment came up and went
straight into rest camp before going
into action. A private In this regiment
happened to run across an unexploded
shell one day, and, being the first he
had ever seen, he was greatly excited.
He picked it up and came dashing into
camp with It Before showing 1t to
any one else who knew any better he
went straight to his commanding ofa.
Ger to exhibit his find.
'Oh, look what l found SIR" he said.
.It's a German shell that hasn't ex.
ploded."
"Is It reallyr' said the officer. "Well.
I'll tell you what you can do with 1t.
You will take 1t into that field. and you
will dig a hole five feet deep, and you
will bury your find there, providing. Of
course, it doesn't explode in your hands
before you have time to carry out this
order. Corporal, fall In two men and
see that this man obeys the order"
You may be sure that that man never
30 much as looked at an unexploded
shell after that.
During the time / was at the front !
put six automobiles out Of commission.
According to an estimate made after a
year of war, the average life OF an au-
tomobile is eight days and the Life Of a
horse Is about thirty hours.
The first auto ! lost was due to en-.
CINE trouble, and had to abandon 1t
for the salvage companies to take care
of. The second one was destroyed by
q shell In the city Of Ypres while was
having some dinner. The third one
lost during the scrap for hill GO. | got
stuck in the middle Of field, and as 1t
was In doubtful position set fire to 1t
and trusted to luck that had done the
light thing. The other three were used
up by the fearful condition Of the roads.
We knew several days before the at.
tack came on hill 60 that there was
something in the wind. Our mining
and tunneling companies had been
working day and night, and / noticed
that the artillery seemed to be concen-
trating In that vicinity. Re-enforce-
ments were brought up. and everything
seemed to point toward some doings In
the near future.
Two days before the attack came on
l was warned % hold myself in readi-
ness to take motorcycle machine gun
into action, but was not told any.
thing about when 'was likely to be
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For Croup--Mothers--
AlDays Keep This Handy

The day Of he Cxoup ssaxs - evsx
Sn,.Moss 5SyI those paxsnts Who .y1ssly xy
@cys Honey and Tar ooDYou3o
As home ready foe Instant usA
Mrs. chas. Rsitz Aliens Mills. PA
T.tes: Il have used FoIsy's Honey sne
saa compound for the past eleven yeS
au would not be without H. ~ ~ ~
and Group"
I'll III toward nightfal1 the little onss
S,ow hoarse and croupy. II their hreetn-
,hss,.o ,hs becomes whesxy and stuG. ~
Gea roley's Honey ana J4x ComRoxs -
~ny careful mother has boeu aole
he on an attack Of spasuod1c cFoeS
w Its timely use.
II you are awakened by the hoefss
Enssy cough that msoDe Grou4
cnays Honey and Tar ComVoono -
c,ste vit viii ease the little so1S
ssslsekly. cut the thick choking Pn5S
srS soon they win have easy brees
'a peaceful quiet s1ssp =
Nh1vssy usss y 3 JS10h
AAskuHLlRR AGO. go En1las -
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II has been the endeavor Of the divi-
sion to supply knitted articles In tho
following order-Hrst, to those soldiers
and sailors who are leaving for foreign
service: second, to those who are under
canvas: third, to those In the barracks.
The officers of the division believe that
the task has been practically completed
and that future receipts OF Knitted
articles can be sent directly to France
whore the need for them 10 so urgent.
We have sent to Camp Devens, our
great National Army Cantonment, 49,.
SS5 sweaters. According to An Official
count made In compliance with 90 order
issued by Major. General Hodges, at
noon on Saturday November 10th, there
was q sweater for every enlisted man IN
the camp, and there are on hand at the
camp 5.S44 sweaters ready to be deliver
ed to incoming increments OF the last
fifteeu per cent OF the first draft, the
time for whose arrival 10 not yet definite
" fixed. The New England Division 10
In position to equip with sweaters ct
the camp all mon who can be reasonably
expected to arrive there during the
winter.
The officers Of the New. England Di-
vision of the Red Gross wish to take
this opportunity to express their appre.
oiation and admiration of the splendid
aeryice rendered by the volunteer women
workers all over New England. In
lioht of the demands made for sweaters
and In light OF the fact that practically
An aveaters furnished have been the
product of volunteer work on the part
Of devoted women, they feel that the
amount OF rroductionSis remsrkaoie
achievement. They wish to make pub.
lie the following letter from Colonel d:
I. Dalton, Division Quartermaster OF
Camp Devens:
With reference 10 the large number
Of sveatsrs which have been donated 10
this command during the past several
weeks by the American Red Cross 30
ciety from your Headquarters In Boston,
the Commandlng General desires me to
convey 20 the Society and to the ladies
individually who have 20 kindly given
THAR efforts 70 aid In the comfort and
welfare OF q o enlisted men Of this com.
mand. his sincere appreciation and
thanks In which he 10 Joined py ~
0mCoro ana tloO ~ boS 0sAsss - sS> 49,
have been tie recipients OF the great
number Of sweaters received from your
Society. -
Due to the extraordinary conditions IN
the orxanisatAsn Of this command and the
urususl ollmIItic conditions during the
past two months the sweaters have beea
particularly welcome to the enlisted men
and t6e thsnks OF the entire commaod
eoes out to the ladies Of your 6ociety
lor their interest and their aseistance y
The furnishing Of warm clothing which
has bssn greatly Assdsd In the present
contingency.
6clossl, Infantfy. n. 4. Division
|Qusttwmas(ee.
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CHAPTER VIII.
Second Battle For Calais.

n KY rest Of seven days seemed very
WI short, and, l was back on the
Job at Poperinghe all too soon.
Ypres, which was six miles away,
had been comparatively quiet all win.
ter. In fact 1t had been so quiet that
our Twenty-seventh divisional head.
quarters had moved In there. AS the
spring drew near the Germans began
to shell around the city again, but
very few shells landed directly In the
city proper.
There was a big gas tank on the out.
,kirts down toward Krustadt, and
around this place the shell Gre would
be rather heavy at times The city
was much knocked about even then.
but It was nothing to what It was at
the end Of the second battle for Ca
lais."
Before the beginning Of this battle
the kaiser was quoted as having said
that II he failed to break Us this time
he would lay the city Of Ypres to the
ground street by street He failed to
break Us, all right, and he kept bis
word, for today the fine old city OF
Ypres Is nothing but shapeless heap
Of broken bricks.
For weeks before the attack our air.
men were bringing In reports that the
Germans were massing heavy bodies
Of fresh troops Just In front of our po-
sition. All our transport trains went
through the city, our men were billeted
there, and one Of our divisional head.
quarters had moved into the city.
The Germans still continued to bonn.
bard our positions in this vicinity, but
they left the city itself severely alone.
ALI winter 1t had been as safe to go
through Ypres as 1t would be to 60 to
church, consequently On order to 60 to
Ypres did not bother anybody very
much.
I was at the divisional headquarters
In Ypres with staff officer on the att
ernoon the bombardment started. We
had gone to the city on horses, and we
naturally expected to come back that
way. suppose 1t was about o'clock
when we arrived there, and I put the
horses In the yard behind several build
ingR a.
Az I was still on duty, I didn't dare
20 very far away, for didn't know at
what moment the officer might show
ND. The first inkling got Of anything
unpleasant was when ! heard the
scream of several shells coming through
the air at once.
Right then acted ON the impulse
that seizes every one at such q time
ana went through the nearest cellar
window, where landed on q pile OF
potatoes. was content to stay there,
too, until an orderly found me and told
me that my officer wanted me. The
Germane had been bombarding ~
about half an hour then. and there was
no sign Of any letting up yet
The orderly told me that the shells
were dropping In at the rate Of forty
one to the minute, and remember
wondering who on earth would be fool
enough to count the number Of shells
falling. I reported to my omcer and
found him a. cool a. cucumber. He
asked me where the horses were, and
when / told him he said for me to leave
them there and to 60 and nnd Z car Of
some kind.
knew It was mighty serious When
he would abandon the horses. and !
started out with the fear Of God IN my
heart and wondering where IN the dick
ems / would find q car IN that inferno
AZ I matter Of fact I did ind one, o.
6 leaat 4 Asd BEN 1 CT at eQma hml
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EoldInu Stairs.

Recently q stairway has been pat.
ented for reaching seldom used Dor.
tions Of buildings. 1t folds into q
ceiling and is hidden by q panel when
not In use.
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(To lie continued) -
Cruel Constable.

Country Constable (to. motorist)-
You have evidently been drinking to
excess. There is hardly enough left
In this bottle to soften my heart sufi-
ciently to release you!!-Life.
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Knitted Work Of Red Cross.

The New England Division Head.
quarters of the American Red Cross 10
pleased to announce that since August
22nd 1t has issued to soldiers and sailors
in ito division the folio wing list OF knitted
goods:
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Hardening Wood.

Wood acquires remarkable hard
ness and toughness when 1t is placed
In tanks and covered with quicklime.
which Is gradually slaked with water.
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AMONG THR FARMERS.


II scssoencs aoencs on praotacal agrieulsuxal tou,.
ss.Sss sSc1sSssd. Add.sss an connusicasiossf 81 n.
HAGSI1x I1x ~ depaxtment g HInnY n
ocrat. Paris, Na. oxxoro Dem-
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Honey and Aha stina

IAN opportunity" said Uncle Eben.
rs like bee. One man kin foller Il
up an find honey where another win
only jes' git stung."
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KempIS Works rrensIated,

kempie WORKS treneIate0.
The works Of Thomas Kempis were
written In Latin, but they have been
translated into the language Of almost
1teEy ciyilised people.
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DR.. Austin Tenney, oculist
,Eseties limited to diseases Of ths Eye
80 the htting Of Glassss. A. IerWey
ss epposfts Pest 00os last Er11Ay -
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thinking that there won't be any need
for you to come any further. 1t Is
rotten business. and as there are am
balances going up all the time, / can
get lift In one and will stand just as
much chance of getting through as
though you were to take me. / don't
believe in any one taking unnecessary
risks, and In this case 1t would be risk.
Ing an extra man and a car, too, and ]
don't mind going on In an ambulace
the least bit"
I thought 1t was just about one OF the
finest things had ever heard of q man
doing, and want to say right here
that such things as this are typical OF
the true British officer. There are men
holding commissions who couldn't do
such thing as this to save their uecks,
but they are the "pikers' found In ev.
cry country, Temporary gentlemen"
a. they are called by the real men who
are obliged to associate with them.
Ny officers generosity did not help
me any, but appreciated It more tnan
l can tell. l had orders to take him to
Potijze and to bring him back, and II
1 stayed behind and anything happened
to him I would be worse Oh than II !
were lying beneath the ruins OF Ypres.
Iexplained this to him and said that
would rather take him. God knows
whether It was true or not, but l said
Il, anyway. While we were talking an.
other car passed US. and as my officer
Jumped In resolved to follow the man
who was now ahead Of me.
5 I noticed -1s the car passed us that
there we're two officers In It One, .
major, was sitting beside the driver
and the other, colonel, was In the
back. The car was about 200 yards
ahead Of us, and ! let him keep about
that much ahead al the way up to the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-04-06
SAD STORY COMES
To LIGHT IN The
POLICE STATION

A sad story came to light yester-
day in police circles when an aged
woman, who gave her name az Mrs.
S. A. White, was arrested and charg-
ed with being drunk. She was con-
fined to the sick ward at the station
over night.
This was the woman who claimed
that her son had assaulted her the
afternoon before. After hearing evil
dence in the case yesterday, Recorder
Semmes could not see where the boy
was guilty of any such charge as the
mother made to the policeman.
After the old woman had been lock-
ed up yesterday a telephone message
was received at the police station,
stating that child of but few sum-
mers had shown up at store, near
the home of the woman in Jail, stat
ing that she was his grandmother
and that he was sick, hungry and
tired, and worst of all, homeless. The
child was cared for until an officer
could reach the scene and take him
in charge. He was placed in custody
of kind people for the night, and will
probably be placed in home home this
morning.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-04-06

unqualifedly to abandon its subma-
rine warfare.
Representative Garrett, of Tennes-
see, aroused Mr.. Cooper by asking
him how far England had gone to
compensate this country for ships
lost.
81 deny that this question is one
of property on the one hand and HUI
man lives on the other" Mr.. Cooper
declared. ut is question of the
people being neutral, or admittedly
going in this war because Germany
is monarchy"
Mr.. Cooper accused Secretary Lam
sing of deliberately emitting from
one of the official records an I'M
portant document which presented a
German view. He read a letter from
Secretary Lansing to Representative
Iinkham, of Massachusetts, explain
ing the omission.
Mr.. Cooper closed with the decla-
ration that while all would stand
united when war comes, he would
not vote to plunge the country into
war.
Representative Britten, of Illinois
Republican, declared the people are
"in sympathy with movement that
is slowly dragging US into this Euro.
pean mire."
When Mr.. Britten said Democrats
| in the house had told him they were
opposed to the resolution, but woule
vote for it, Representative Harrison
| of Mississippi, called for their name.
and RnnreSenf tive HnfIin of Ale
bama deniel the statement. Mr.. Brit
ten replied that IS per cent of tht
Democratic members were not really
in favor of "this declaration of war;
and he added that 90 per cent of TIL.
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| UNCLE JOE DIXON
In CONGRAT ULAT|NG
MESSAGE To LODGE

"Belated congratulations from a
Confederate veteran. You delivered
the punch heard around the world"
This was the text of a message
telegraphed last night by "Uncle
Joen Dixon to Senator Lodge, of
Massachusetts, approving the knock,
ing down of Pacifist Bannwart.
Col. Dixon, one of the veteran
newspaper men of the state of Flor
ida, has been in Pensacola couple
of days, and is on his annual hike to
West Texas, program he has been
following for many years. He is
stationed at Quincy, and stopped over
in this city, where he has so many
friends and admirers, and has been
so busy with friends that it was not
until yesterday that he had leisure
time to read of the incident. my
blood just boiled, and I looked on
Lodge as one of the biggest senator's
in Washington" said "Uncle Joe,"
"and | just could not help cUngratu-
lating him, even if it was a little
late"