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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13
AMERICANS TRAIN
FOR CONVOY WORK

week under two veteran uuartermas-
ters. who see that the hour allotted is
well employed.
Sunday i a day of rest, or would
be, only that many-in fact. all-fnd
II necessary To catch up the weeks
work. read up notes make or finish
diagrams ana such things. which they
have had only the time to do hur-
richly during the week.
The course is really an Intensive
course somewhat forced. as IT is
hoped thar after three weeks study
the Americans will be prepared for ex-
aminationS which will allow them TO
be made Suhlieutenants in the trans
port service and be put in charge of
section Of 30 men. Five weeks is the
time allowed their French comrades
for the same work.
Everyone knows what automobile
transportation means in modern war
fare, and its importance has been plain
20 The least military mind ever since
it saved Nerdun. A section of 30 Amer
i't'aiN - lAiNfi'lH at MbI n Ut the front
conducting camions moving ammuni-
ton from railhead to the ammunition
stations, and the new school at Meaux
will provide Americans to officer these
sections and the new ones that will
follow if Pratt Andrew, inspector gen
eral of the american field service in
France" is justified in his hope of see
Ing Il hundred men arrive each week
from the States for this service.
American Flag on the Gate.
The officers in charge of the auto
mobile instruction center at Meaux
(there are other schools for drivers.
mechanics. etc.), from Colonel Borsch-
mex down. are all keenly interested in
the coming of the Americans. and the
colonel spoke highly of the serious way
they had settled down to work. The
gate into the camp of 16 barrack
sheds has an American flag on one
post and Il French one on the other.
When the New York Suns CORE
Spohdent visited the school recently,
the convoy was sent To the village of
Crccy. where all the trucks were TO.
be parked in the market place (drawn
up side by side, close together, at an
angle To the main road so that they
could be started Off again without de-
sD. The little village seemed sad
ana deserted as the convoy arrived.
as do most French villages these days.
with nothing but aged men. women
ana children at home. But it woke up
as The trucks numbered in and took
up their appointed places.
Are they English:" asked a woman
who appeai'd III her shop door.
mo"
Then they are Russians"
Neither"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13
&8I3OIG
SCOUTS
Conducted by National Council of the
Boy Scouts of Amerca)
PLAN TWO MILLION GARDENS

Two million home gardens, cultivat-
ed under the auspices of the Boy
Scouts of America, are going to prove
invaluable to the United States during
the war period and help to end the high
price Of food here, according to o. IL.
Benson of the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture.
Mr.. Benson, who is in charge Of the
governments agricultural extension
work, recently conferred with scout OFF,
Gals of the Boy Scouts of America at
their headquarters, in New York, on
the plans for mobilizing the 275,OOO
scouts and officers for food production.
He said the backyard gardening CAM
paign is sweeping the nation and that
the movement to great extent will
prove the solution OF the food problem
that now confronts this country.
If these new resources are properly
conserved, Mr.. Benson says, they will
furnish a reserve food supply that will
be invaluable to the country in its pros
ecution of the war.
"This Boy Scout movement alone
means more than 100000 new gar
dens throughout the country this
spring" said Mr.. Benson. ''In addition
to raising garden himself, each scout
is pledged to persuade nine other per-
sons, not scouts, to raise gardens. That
makes ten gardens per scotland
there are 100000 scouts. not counting
the adults in the organization. These
millions of gardens will furnish an adj
dition to the food supply which the ma
ton will appreciate more next fall than
it does now"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13
TENDERFooT is REAL SCOUT.

A tenderfoot may not be able to 90
out into the woods after a rain and
build a fire, and his flapjacks may be
black on the outside and. raw in the
middle, and when he cooks bacon he
may finish with fryingpan full of
burnt grease, with just speck here
and there to represent his breakfast,
but all the same the only difference
between him and even the senior pa
troll leader is growth.
A little seeding just Matched out of
an acorn may have lot of develop
ment ahead of it, nevertheless it's oak
all the way through. A tenderfoot is
scout all the way through, as has been
proved time and again on the water,
on the ice, at fires and in the woods.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13
Study Your Habits.

Habit accustoms us to doing most
of the everyday things In particular
ways, and we consciously turn the
mind to them only when they chance
to be done differently. The dividing
line between efficiency and inefficiency
is largely right here. Anyone who
stops to think about it can easily see
that innumerable little habits make
up a very large part Of our lives. 1t
is indeed well worth while carefully
to study the host of little habits that
breeG and hide in the most secret cells
of brain and muscle. None of them is
too small to be worth attention.-Ex-
change.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13

Tree wounds heal most rapidly in
spring.
Poiicewomen are an official part of
British munitiOn plants.
japan has $50 girls high schools.
Utah in 1916 produced 1861, 428 tons
of coal.
If the oceans should rise One-twen-
ty-sixth of their depth they would
flood One-half of the land.
The worlds consumption Of tea has
tripled in the last thirty years, and
the production in the 1876 season
broke all former records.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13
Seminary Graduates
Fast Leave for War.

New York.-Only 20 Of AZ
members of the graduating
class of Union Theological
seminary were here at the COM
mencement to receive their
diplomas. The others had Joined
the colOrs.
Of the classes of 1917 and
1918 of the seminary, IL men
had gone as chaplains, ten to
the Y. NJ. c. A. field service, six
TO Plattsburg, either as student
officers or to do spiritual work,
and four were in Europe with
Rev. DR.. Thomas G.. Hall.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13
CONVERSATIONS

United States in 1916 mined 40, 1853
tons Of aluminium ore. Valued at ST.
297,825.
Youngstown, o., business men have
formed corporation to build dwell
ings for workingmen.
The water Of Spanish river petri-
fies the sand in its bed and cements
together stones thrown into it.
Tests by scientists have indicated
that thunder cannot be heard at a
greater distance than five miles.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13
! Bill and his men" should occasion war

Bill and his men" should occasion war
rant.
Mother Kuhn recounts how she and
a neighboring woman, before whose
house the Stars and Stripes were fly
ing were ordered 10 take down the
flag, and emphatically refused and Ia
conically remarks, ''the flag stayed
up"
Vibrant with patriotic fervor, al
though in her ninetieth year, Mrs.
Kuhn deplores the horrors of war and
its suffering, and, having a keen men,
DRY, tells of living adjacent to Daniel
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13
SCOUT TRAINING DOES WORK.

Major General Hugh L. Scott, chief
of staff Of the United States army, has
written from the war Office in WASH
ington to the national headquarters Of
the Boy Scouts Of America: saying:
"The necessary elementary instruction
that every young American should
have in order to be prepared to play
his part in the national defense, may
be obtained by his work in the Boy
Scouts of America"
General Scott has made thorough
study of the methods of boy training
followed by the Boy Scouts of
America.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13
Users Of Milk Protected.

In France, to protect the public gen.
orally, and children especially, against
the use Of skim milk for their food, the
sale of whole and skim milk by the
same dealer Is prohibited. Plain label
ing is required, and even separate
transportation for the skim milk Is en-
forced.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13
BARBARA FRIETCHIE' DEFIANT
Mrs. Julia Kuhn of Pennsylvania, De-
fender Of "OId Glory" Would
Dare Kaiser.

Carlisle. PA second Barbara
Frietchie" is discovered in Mrs. Julis
Kuhn of Boiling Springs, Pa. who in
1863 defied the troops of Fitz Hugh
Lee to lower "Old Glory" and who de-
clsres, although of German extraction.
that she'd do the same thing to Kaiser
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13
Alligator Put TO work

Trenton, n. 1.-The alligator which
jes lays round all day. hereafter must
do his bit" A. c. Brewer, Trenton's
city engineer, is going to attach a rope
to his neck and put him to work clear.
ing the city's underground ditches
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13

Kaufman of underground railway"
fame. who received the negroes from
stephen Weakley. living farther up the
valley, and transported them by night
In a large Conestoga wagon to the
next station.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13
As U-Boat Toll Decreases the
People Show Signs of
Dissatisfaction.
GLOWING PROMISES FAIL
England Shows No Signs of Weaken
ing, but Seems More Determined
to Prosecute War More Bit
teHy Than Ever.

COpcnhagen.-Private adviceS from
Germany tell of growing dissatiSfac-
ton among the people at large with
the political results of the ruthless
submarine campaign and the absence
of any indications that it has brought
the desired peace near to hand.
During their long campaign for the
unrestricted use of submarines the adj
vOcates of the measure made very def
mite promises of immediate results.
Two or three months was the phrase
used everywhere in street and news
paper arguments in regard to the time
it would take to bring England to her
knees, ready for peace. Even though
the official propaganda since has de-
clared the government bound itself to
no particular time to produce results,
the prediction that they would be OBJ
tanned in two or three months has re-
manned in the minds of the people
Grumblings are now heard that. al
though four months have passed, Eng
land shows no signs of weakening, but,
vi tIt Nchlldiy y SttlliS utleTlulIleu 10
prosecute the war more bitterly than
ever
Reports of France Oiscredited.
Statements that France has been
'bled white" and will be forced to re-
tire from the war have been made so
often that they no longer attract the
slightest credence. The entry of the
United States and Brazil into the war
and the rupture of relations between
world outside Europe are now taken
seriously and regarded with gloom.
Questions have been recently asked
the correspondent by Germans here,
not in official positions, who are dis
gruntled over the results of the sub
marine campaign up 20 the present
time. with regard 20 what would be
the effect in the United States if the
submarine warfare We're abandoned.
The government, however. shows no
signs of weakening and is now en-
gagged in a vigorous publicity cam
paign to bolster up the waning conf
dence at home and quiet the COM
plants of neutrals.
Ii is a matter of knowledge to the
correspondent that at least one men,
Der of the German government re-
fused To commit himself to any definite
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13
His Honest Belief.

'In some parts of Africa" said Mrs.
Naggs, who was perusing the village
weekly, "a man can buy a wife for a
clay pipe and string Of glass beads"
"well," rejoined Naggs, Il suppose
there are suue wives who are really
worth that much"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13
Not Above Suspicion.

Harker-Isn't your friend Wederly
rather inclined to exaggerate at timesi
Parker-Well, he is the father Of q
baby that is just beginning to say cute
things. -
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13
Husband and Wife Enlist.

Chester, Pa.-Mrs. James r. Dom
nelly led her husband to a naval r.
cruiting station. After he signed up
as machinist, she enlisted as a chief
yeoman.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13
Thu Very Best

Bess-"And is she good house
wife," Jane-"A pippinI Why, the
Door chap has no comfort whatever !"
Life.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13
Evening Spent in Study.

Dinner is at $50, and more study
follows till 10 p. H., when all lights
are put out. Such IA program, with
plenty of manual work in the open air.
provides enough exercise. but regular
army drill is put in three times a
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-10-22
LET'S HEAR oCALA SINGING

On Tuesday evening at the lighting
of the liberty fire on the courthouse
square let's have genuine community
singing, inspired by genuine patriotic
spirit. The high school chorus will
lead in the singing of the first and
last verses of America at the begin
ming of the program. After the fires
are lighted the following charus will
he sung:
"Keep the home fires burning,
While our hearts are yearning,
Tho the lads are far away,
They dream of home.
There's silver lining thro' the dark
clouds shining,
Turn the dark clouds inside out,
Till the boys come home"
At the close of the program the
following song-prayer, which is now
being sung at every public meeting
in Canada and America, will be sung
with heads bowed:
'God save our splendid men,
Bring them safe home again,
God save our men.
Make them victorious,
Noble and chivalrous,
They are SO dear to US,
God save our men,"
Please memorize the above words,
and be ready to sing with spirit and
enthusiasm. Marguerite Porter,
2t Supt. Music in Public School.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-10-22
FUNERAL OF\MRs HENDERSON

The funeral of the late Mrs. W. T.
Henderson was held Sunday morn
ing at 10 o'clock, from the Oklawaha
Bridge Baptist church, and the
church was crowded with loving
friends from 'Ocala, Fellowship. An
thony, Berlin, Wacahoota and other
places in the county. Quantities of
beautiful flowers were brought and
send by friends. The funeral SER
vices were conducted by Rev. Rein
hardt, pastor of the Baptist church
of Gainesville, and Mrs. Henderson, IS
favorite hymns were sung by the
church choir After the services a
long line of devoted friends followed
the casket to the old family burying
ground near Lynne, where the re-
mains were laid to rest in a vault be-
side those of the late Mr.. w. T. Hen
derson, who died in July. The pail
bearers were Messrs.. E. L. Carney,
John Edwards, H. D. Stokes, John
Rogers, Ray Holly, o. Fl. Rogers and
Frank Churchill. The sympathy of
the entire community goes out to the
daughter and four sons of this below
ed Christian woman.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-10-22
THEIR COUNTRY CAN
Be PROUD OF THEM
Officers and Men of the Antilles Stay
ed at their Posts Till the Ship
Sank Under Them
(Associated Press)

Washington, Oct. 22.-The official
report of casualties from the sinking
of the American transport Antilles,
forwarded by General Pershing,
shows sixty-seven lost, one unac-
counted for and ITO saved. The re-
port threw no light on just how the
attack occurred. Among the dead
is Nepotoin Robin of Savannah.
STOOD BY THE SHIP
A French Port, Oct 22.-Survivors
of the United States transport An
titles, which was sunk by a German
submarine last week while being con-
voyed on her homeward trip by Am
erican warships, were landed here
yesterday by auxiliary vessels and
are being cared for by the American
consulate. Some of the men have
been lodged in local hotels and a few
have gone to Paris.
The torpedo struck the ship at a
quarter to o'clock Wednesday morn
ing. Many of those on board were
killed in their berths and others while
dressing. The explosion killed the
engineers, oilers and mechanics and
those of the crew who were in the
hunks below.
All the survivors praise the captain
of the Antilles and the members Of
the gun crew, who stuck to their
posts while the officers searched with
field glasses for the submarine, until
the waves closed over the ship.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-10-22
British and French in Flanders
Dealing a New Blow
SLAVS SUCCESSFULLY WITHDREW FROM MOON SOUND---A|R
FIGHTING DECIDEDLY N FAVOR OF ALLIES
ASSOCIATED Press)

Cooperating with the French on
his left, Gen. Haig, the British COM
mander, has launched new blow on
a narrow front on the northern edge
of the active Flanders battle line.
The French attacked on front about
three-fifths of mile in length while
the British went forward on wider
area Both Paris and London report
satisfactory progress. Apparently the
Allies are trying to push forward
on the left flank to better support the
center which has been driven farther
most into the German lines.
The Russian naval units which
were supposedly bottled up in Moon
Sound escaped from superior German
forces, and the Russians also remov-
ed the military forces in this district
and saved their transports. Petro-
grad reports that during the naval
fighting in this district a German
transport was sunk and the Russians
believe they sunk or badly damaged a
dreadnaught with torpedo from a
submarine.
Berlin admits the loss of four Yep
pelins in the London raid Friday
night British airmen are active
over Belgium and in Germany near
Metz. They noted explosions and fires
where bombs were dropped. The AL
lied airrnen brought down nine Ger
man machines and drove four out of
control.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-10-22
THE UNION STATION

A Star reporter visited the union
passenger station Sunday, in order to
estimate the progress being made on
the work, and is of the opinion that
so far from it's being finished Nov. 1
that the date will be a month or more
later.
The delay is probably owing to the
difficulty, which is general all over
the country, of obtaining labor and
material. 1t will not do the town any
harm, as the present arrangement
will be better during fair week than
to unload the crowds expected in the
disheveled grounds around the new
station.
The station will be decidedly
cheapjohn affair. We have no doubt
the contractor is doing good, honest
work for his money, but he wasn't
offered enough to build station
worthy of Ocala.
The building is of veneered brick,
which means it isn't much more fire
proof than wood. 1t will probably
look quite classy when new. but it
Will Ic1NC W OS ICD1dSCO III a 4C"
years or it will be a quarter
of acentury behind the town.
There are no heating facilities except
a pocket-sized fireplace in each wait
ing room. Neither is adequate, es-
pecially the one in the white waiting
room, and people who have to wait in
it on cold night, unless they are
Wrapped up like polar bears, will be
very uncomfortable.
The umbrella sheds are the mar
rowest we ever saw. They are about
fifteen feet wide and will be very lit
tie protection in a driving rain.
The cement platforms, however, are
good and solid, and will do to anchor
new depot to when this one is burn
ed, fallen down or blown away.
1t began to look like there would
be no dining room. The Coast Line
favored Mr.. Mark Temple, who was
ready to put up good building and
equip it. The Seaboard, however,
stood him off, until finally he put up
building beside the Coast Line. He
has erected very neat little dining
room, which will be perfectly conven-
lent to Coast Line passengers and
trainmen, but those of the Seaboard
will have rather long walk to make.
1t is not known now whether another
dining room will be put up on the
Seaboard side or not. There is hard
ly business enough for two. There
will be no eating facilities for the
colored people. who will have to sub
sist on lunches, unless some of their
own people but up cheap lunch stands
in the vicinity.
There is one good thing about the
new station-it will give the Woman's
Club all it can do in the improvement
line for the next few years to make
the surroundings look pleasant. At
present, traveller stopping for din
ner or looking out of the train win
dows will think Ocala is one of the
most untidy tank towns he ever pass
ed through.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-10-22
HEAR Mr.. HODGES

The Tallahassee Record says of
Mr. Leroy Hodges, campaign direc-
tor for Florida of the United States
food administration. who will speak
to the people of Ocala at the Temple
theater at 10 o'clock next Thursday
morning:
No man can slack after he has
heard one of the characteristic ad
dresses of Leroy Hodges, campaign
manager of the food administration
in Florida. Having been with Sen
ator Fletcher on the commission
which visited Europe since the war,
and having been in Europe when the
war first began. Mr.. Hodges speaks
from first-hand knowledge. In urg-
ing us to do our bit to put down the
inhuman Hun. Mr.. Hodges speaks
with an earnestness and sincerity of
purpose that never fails to impress
his hearers. Invariably he leaves one
with the determination to lend every
possible influence to bring the world
war to a successful conclusion.
Mr.. Hodges says that he has heard
Americans say that "all the horrible
things we hear can't be true," but he
declares that a half has not been told.
"All you have heard of the atrocities
of the Germans is true, and more, !"
he says. He tells of the 100000
Poles who perished from exposure
and starvation, most of them women
and children and old men, and all of
them non-combatants. Two million
were driven from their homes by the
Teutons double the entire population
of the state. In twenty-four hours
the bones of the perished had been
cleaned by the wild beasts, and on
their return the Germans gathered
the bones and ground them into fer
tiliezr.
In the trenches that have been re-
captured by the English, says Mr..
Hodges, French women and girls have
been found in irons, chained, as the
German officers had left them in their
haste to make their getaway. In a
recaptured town the French found
forty of their women crucifed to one
wall by swords and bayonets driven
through their bodies. and over their
bodies the Germans had placed this
sign, "This is the way we return your
women to you." Little Belgian girls
had their arms cut off at the shoul-
ders. And these things happened in
the earlier stages of the war, before
it could be said that those of either
side had been hardened by the horrors
of the war.
These are only few of the awful
incidents that Mr.. Hodges relates, and
those he tells are but a few of those
he could tell.
'There may be some women slack
ers," said Mr.. Hodges, "but have not
found any. And as to the men
slackers, | wish | could just hold
them over the trenches and let them
see for themselves the horrors that
present themselves hourly. There
would be no Stacking if all Ameri-
cans knew what / know"
And in our opinion, any Stacker who
hears Mr.. Hodges talk about the wal
in Europe will be straightway con-
verted. He is doing wonderful work
in Florida, and this state is indeed
fortunate to have had such an able
and conscien- ious food director de-
tailed to manage its campaign against
waste
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-10-22
In America to Sell Liberty
Loan Bonds Today
BELIEVED THAT BY HARD AND FAITHFUL WORK, SUBSCRF-
TON WILL EXCEED FOUR BILLION
Associated Press)

Washington, Oct. 22.-Two million
men, women and children are work
ing on the Liberty Loan. If each
worker sells two $50 bonds each day
subscriptions will run over four bill
lion dollars. The treasury statement
issued today said probably slightly
more than two billion dollars have
been subscribed" The treasury de-
partment emphatically denied it was
not announcing all subscriptions as
has been charged.