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The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-13
MONMOUTH, ILL.

Mrs. Ada Chambers of Kewanee is
visiting here with her mother. Mrs. S.
P. Maupin.
Mr.. Charles Croft of Cedar Rapids,
Ia, spent Easter week with friends
and relatives here.
The Sabbath school children of the
St. James A. M. E. church rendered an
excellent program in the afternoon.
In the evening the church choir gave
another good program.
At the Calvary Baptist church there
were special services in charge Of the
Rev. H. Brasco of Duluth, MINI. Sab
bath evening fourteen new members
were taken into the church. The
meeting will continue this week
Mrs. Clare Murphy of Galesburg
visited with relatives here over Sunday
Mrs. Berenie Metlock was a passen-
ger to Roseville on Saturday.
Mrs. Lillian Catlin left Friday for
Galesburg from where she started to
visit her parents at Washington, D. C.
Mrs. L. Forte and children have re-
turned home from Ashly, Mo.
Mr.. Webster Ganger has returned
from visit with friends at Keokuk and
Burlington, Iowa.
Mrs. Cora Irving of Burlington re-
turned home Friday after spending
few days with her father, Mr.. Marshall
Mr.. Clarence Catlin was called to
Galesburg Friday night by the illness
of his wife, who was visiting there
with friends.
Mr.. Carl McWilliams was a visitor in
Galesburg Sabbath.
Mr., Jim Saunders of Ft. Madison
spent Sabbath here with his brother,
Mr.. Elisha Saunders.
Mrs. Wilson Humphry delightfully."-
entertained about fifteen ladies at her
home on Fourth avenue. compliment
ary to Mrs. Branton Tule, who is leav-
ing here for the present. The affair
was in the form of recital. A de.
lightful luncheon was served. Mrs
McWilliams and daughters assisted
the hostess.
Grandma Evans is very sick at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Winnie
Payne.
Mrs. Castor of McComb attended the
meeting of the Silver Spray Temple
lodge.
Messrs Carl McWilliam and Clarence
Catlin attended the the dar ce at Gales
burg.
Mrs. Florence Skinner entertained
the Agnes Moody club on their open
meeting day. About fifteen were
present. A delicious luncheon was
served by the hostess.
Little Hazel Jackson, the six year
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Homer
Downing, passed away at the home of
her grandma ther, Mrs. Susie Jackson,
after an illness of long duration. Fun
eral services we're held from the home
in charge of Rev. George Mason of
Carson. III.
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came to McNerney's and got bottle,
| want to say it sure gave US back oul
appetites Food tastes better than
ever before.
my husband and tried many RENE
dies but we never found anything that
relieved US like Tanlac. We recon.
mend it to one and all.
Get Tanlac at McN.rney's drug
store, corner 9th and Grand avenue'
Des Moines or from the following drug
gists in nearby towns:
Tanlac may also be obtained in Bux-
ton, at The Thomas Drug Co
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-13
DAVENPORT ITEMS.

Mrs. Sarah Wright passed away at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Mitchell in
Carbon Cliff, ILL.,, last Monday, whence
she had gone to spend the winter. The
funeral was held Friday afternoon.
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etery. Upon the arrival of her son.
Herbert, from South America the body
will be taken to Marshalltown for
burial.
Miss Bertha Bates is still confined
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-13

Rev. T. w. Lewis, pastor of the A. M.
F., church, Moline, preached the SER
mon, assisted by Rev. Boyd of Rock
Island A. M. E. church. The body
was placed in vault in Oakdale cem-
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Evening star., 1917-11-04
Concentration Does 1t.

EN-. BELL said at a luncheon at
w Camp Upton:
Germany would have accomplished
more in 1914. with her enormous ma
terial superiority, If she had concen-
trated more on one object. Concentra-
tion-that is what she has failed in.
"a Georgia waiter named Wash
White thought he was fighter. and
SO a match was arranged for him with
lightweight from Atlanta
The fight came off in a barn, and
the lightweight in the first round land
ed hard left on wash's nose. The
blood spouted out, Wash's eyes filled
up, and seeing that this was a sensitive
spot with him, the lightweight kept
tapping his nose and tapping it till it
spread over poor Wash's face from one
ear to the other.
AT the beginning of the fourth
round the lightweight landed like a
ton OF bricks on Washs nose for about
the ffty-seventh time. and Wash drop
ped his arms, stalked off to his cor
ner, and began tearing at his gloves.
Here yelled his second, .ain.t We
goin' to fight no MOI
No. sah.' said Wash with hauteur.
No. sab. i amt goin' to fight no mo
with no gentleman what don't scatter
his blows"
Evening star., 1917-11-04
Thin Culture.

ss~ ERMANY!"
VI Critic Butler Glaenzer. seated in
a window at the Players Club, threw
down German review angrily
When these German professors era cl,
up their kultur." he went on, 'it ire
sistibly reminds me of the jerrybuilder.
"A jerrybuilder took a friend to see
a row of two-story brick cottages he ID
just run up. He sent his foreman into
one cottage. and his friend and he
went into the one next door, Then he
said through the wall:
Are you there, Joe?'
Yep. Joe answered.
Can we hear me, Joe"
oh, yes-easy.'
Can We see me-?
No. boss. l can't see ye.'
THE jerrybuilder turned triumpbant-
ly to his friend
There's walls for ye" he said"
Evening star., 1917-11-04

oil. etc. Times. dates and amounts OF
anti-tetanus serum. by whom given be-
fore reception in this hospital. Wher
was the first dressing? How long after
being wounded? Dates and names OF
stations. When you can't read q scrawl
In French handwriting or haven't yet
got hep to running things alone IN
English, it helps.
Even when you know French fairly
there are SO many technical words
What is the French for '.tou-niquet"
Nine out of ten of US would say the
word is surely French. and SO it is--bu'
not for one of those rubber things te
stop bleeding.
Bring me a tourniquet, quick says
the doctor in good French. II the French
aid should obey him he would fetch a
turnstile, while the rubber thing tc
compress veins is, in French. a gar
rot So, in a French drug store. ask
for carrots. How "tourniquet" ever got
into the English for this meaning is a
first-class mystery.
When all the rest of polite French Is
plain sailing we balk 1t some little word
like: Il deem the man fit to walk with
Evening star., 1917-11-04

she has considered those Americans
who offered themselves for the air serv-
ice also entitled to the great reward.
In picking the men for the scouting
and patrol work. however. the severest
tests are applied. They are the ones
who must do the fighting in combats
where the loser whirls two or three miles
to death: they are the ones who must
know enough to refrain from fighting
when their mission forbids 1t.
If man shows any aptitude whatso-
ever. he is given chance at Blerlot mon
oplane training. Here he remains only on
his own merit-he must make good. I
learned to fly as a baby learns to walk
by holding on to chairs, or a boy learns
to swim by being flung into a pond.
have never had any one in the machine
with me. l have flown alone from the
very first; learning it step by step-but
always alone. This training develops the
reflex SO necessary to the fighting pilots.
Those who survive this training are
graduated into a special school, the di-
Evening star., 1917-11-04

planes in this training with less Sc
we're reprimand than If you show trace
Of fear by not coming close enough as
you dive to the earth. Courage counts
and confidence in your machine-know-
Ing just how far to take 1t, how close you
can come, and when to turn.
Then there Is a special course in map
reading for pilots-checking up the rv-
ers. streams, towns and roads, etc. They
must be able to find place they have
never seen before by the aid of a map.
The observers and photographers have
their elementary training on the ground.
They, too. learn map reading SO as to
take pictures over the lines that will At
into the great plan at headquarters. For
the most part they are officers. There
are a few on-commissioned officers in
the lot. though. They are trained in
Photography. map reading. te1egraphy.
radio work, etc. Frederick Zinn is the
only American in this corps Of the serv-
ice in the French army.
When an observer has completed his
ground work he gets about a months
Evening star., 1917-11-04

vision aerobatique ct combat. after they
have passed their brevet militaire. There
they have a course in group flying, in
fighting tactics, in work such as looping.
tall spins with wing slips and machine
gunnery.
That last is trick subject. No expert
enced pilot will turn his machine gun
loose unless he is within 500 or 500 feet
of his target. An adversary in the air
who begins firing at longer range
than this is known to be q novice. He
will exhaust his ammunition too soon and
be easy prey In the machine gunnery
school the targets are generally an old
plane with a German cross painted on it
set on the ground. AS the Vickers in a
fighting plane is immovable, the only
way to get a shot at that target is to
dive nose first to within a few feet Of
1t. grind out your shots and then swoop
up If you don't swoop or virage in
time YOU crash and there's perfectly
good Spad gone to waste. II you swoop
too soon, firing at long range. the in
structor will call your attention to the
fact with emphasis, and you'd rather
You may smash two or even three
Evening star., 1917-11-04

of the propeller while that mechanism
is whirling into invisibility at the rate
of 1.TjO revolutions a minute.
The two-seaters have one machine
gun stationary in front and another on
a swivel in the rear. which the OBJ
server operates.
The aviation section is the corps
d'elite of the French army. and the
members of it have won their places
by merit. The soldiers and officers
assigned to it have gained that assign
ment by some gallantry in fighting on
the earth. The French fiiers who have
not served an honorable apprenticeship
in the trenches are those who for
physical disability or for some other
reason are exempt from military service
and have volunteered their services. re-
gardless of their exemption.
The French believe that the fact that
they offer themselves for service en-
titles them to places in the corps d'elite.
if they show themselves fit for it.
Capt. Guynemer-the Ace-had been re-
jected for military service and was a
volunteer. Not the least compliment
that France has paid to America is that
Evening star., 1917-11-04
The Hun-Harried Sea.

n ORD NoRTHCLIFFE told a sea story
Ia at banquet in New York
Thanks to the hum, he began, "the
sea to all of us Is as hateful now as
1t was in peace time to the Burnley
chap.
"A seasick Burnley chap on the Isle
Of Man boat was heard to say to his
son:
Jimmy. I've gotten a stick WI a
silver knob ont a whoam. Tha can
have 1t. There's two or three quid +
the bank, an that's for t buryin'. And.
Jimmy. bury me in t. Isle OF Man.
can't stand this trip again. alive or
dead"
Evening star., 1917-11-04

ALEXANDER STEWART,
In charge of the drug room of Amer
lean Ambulance Hospital since 1t
opened In September, 1914. mt the
beginning of the war. He is the COM
piler of "'rhc Ambulance Hospital
Aid Book" of Red Cross vocabuIaries
and phrases.
how do you say those things you put
under the armpits? Clutches? Thank
you. bequiilea." Or in the French drug
some silkworm gut"-they'd think you
jeering Ask for erin de Florence.
Nurses get great wisdom from mere
treatment report vocabularies. Culture
from wounds, kinds of dressing, appara-
tus, serums, unusual indications, hem
orrhage. assesses, disease, pneumonia.
cardiac condition, nephritis and all that.
Goodness. l might have seemed igno-
rant, said the good girl. How do you
say chronic septicemia. 'Dictations
should be made to the stenography office
after each operation" t1eres n tip for
Red Cross stenographers. even as to
English vocabulary
II *
Now, you see. always p two Ian
guages side by side, the names, titles
and employment of the entire hospital
staff from the chief surgeon (monsieur
lie chirurgien en- chef to the divisional
collection station. and from the captain
of orderlies to the electrician and
plumber (monsieur le plombier en-
Evening star., 1917-11-04
The Modern Method,

NN1ss ISABEL HOLLAND. Denver
AV4 lawyer. said In the course of a re-
cent breach of promise suit:
my client. I'm proud to say. is a new
woman. The old woman, when Tilted.
took it to heart. The new one takes
it to court"
Evening star., 1917-11-04

ness and peace. It's little book of
fine fellows, sweet girls and good
women.
None others have it in their pockets.
None others are fit to have it.
STERLING HEILIG.
Evening star., 1917-11-04

Ever by .
Upo mnuteA Fighting Frnnce-Photo
Flanders Battle
Ids FIcrsW no
Evening star., 1917-11-04

For these corrections sometimes a
smaller squadron is used. consisting
only of three or four planes. To these
the boche pays little attention. think
ing the group merely a patrol The
observation plane with these small
groups is a single scatter. like it's
guards. and as handy to manage. 1t is
equipped with only one camera. and
underneath and to the left of the
pilot is a rejecting mirror which
brings the cameras field Of vision to
within a few feet of his eyes The
button and lever which work the shut
ter and change the plates are on the
driving control of his machine. SO that
he scarcely has to move his hand to
reach them.
The singIe-seater Spads carry a built
in machine gun of the Vickers type,
which Is pointed by aiming the plane.
It's delivery is timed to the motor so
that the gun shoots between the blades
Evening star., 1917-11-04


1t is the tremendous racket that an
aeroplane motor makes. apparently
vastly increased at night. that has been
potent factor in preventing the re-
taliatory raids that have been so much
discussed in London. People forget
that in bombing London the boche
makes most OF his trip across the sea,
where he is not subjected to anti-air-
craft fire and can make just as much
noise as he pleases. During the entire
course of a raid on the English coast
the bombers may not be under fire more
than ten or fifteen minutes, and that
only when above land.
When we make similar raids we are,
subjected to the fire of anti-aircraft
guns from the beginning of the flight
until the end. We get it going ahd
coming-all the way each time. The
noise of the motor gives the alarm to
the first battery and the others tak9-
up the firing like barking dogs along
country road at night. =.
Despite the difficulties it is done noHp
and then and generally with success.
But the risk. compared to that the
boche runs. is enormous. We also use
the sea, but it takes US only to Bell
gium, already devastated and a mass
could bomb Belgian towns or French
towns without nearly SO much danger.
But 1t wouldn't accomplish the same
purpose as throwing a few bombs right
at Fritz where he lives. and 1t isn't
dcne unless the points attacked are
centerS.
But think of the time when noise-
less death goes sailing through the.
darkness over Germany! s.,.-
Americas answer.
Evening star., 1917-11-04
BY BENNETT A. MoLTER,

subdight Lieutenant Escadrillc MOI. French
Army.
Copyright 1917. hy the Tribune Assoclation.l
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-08
CLING TO BABIES

The Aberdeen Daily American had
a good write-up of the recen wreck
on the Milwaukee at Rosco, and among
many of the incidents related gave the
following with reference to Mrs. j. G..
Sample, who with her husband, was on
the way from Brookings to their new
home near Lennon:
Mrs. j. c. Sample, of Bison, S. D.,
furnished one of the big features of
that sudden crash in the dark. Thrown
feet first across the aisle of her car,
which had been tossed 100 feet from
the tracks, the cool little woman, re-
covering at once from the first shock,
cried out for her babies, Earl, only 3
months old, and Charles, only %
months.
There were no men near to help her.
Hunting about in the seats, crawling
on her hands and knees as the floor of
the car slanted away from her, she
came to them.
Earl was crying in a corner where
the force of the derailing had thrown
him. Charles, in another corner, was
cooling to himself.
Tucking them to- her breast, one
under each arm, Mrs. Sample made
her way out of the car where she
found her husband, from whom she
had become separated.
And not through the rest of that
night of suffering-for there was suf-
fering in the biting cold-did that lit
tie woman for an instant let go of
either of her children.
When the relief trains came from
Roscoe and Aberdeen and Mobridge,
though man after man offered to carry
the youngsters for her, she held on and
not even her husband was allowed to
touch either of them.
A baby under each arm, she tramp
ed to the relief train, which finally
took the cast of "Snowbound" to Ros-
coe, floundtring through the drifts for
800 yards and disdained all aid that
would take her babies from her.
To-day, the youngsters are the life of
the marooned party "in camp" at the
Jamison hotel.
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ment and taxation of reelected land, by
Ruben. who also introduced a bill re.
curing interest received by the state
treasurer on daily balances on state
school funds to be kept in a separate
account from the interest received on
balances in other funds. Alseth bill in
senate empowering cities to dispose of
public utilities.
In the discussion of the rights of
women in the soldiers home, Dalthorp,
of Brookings, was n of the oppon-
ents of the bill as it stood, and based
his position on interviews which he
had secured with old soldiers who he
found did not want the provision. He
also took an active part in the discus
sion in regard to the appropriation for
a soldiers monument, opposing it as
an expenditure which the state might
need soon under existing conditions.
Whittemore took a part in the op-
position in the senate to the bill to al
low the sale of air rifles in this state,
and in the discussion of the Dowdell
resolution to reduce the legislature to
one working body instead of two
houses. opposing both measures. Car
Isle, of Brookings, was one of the
advocates of the Reeves-Torrens title
act, and S%outhwick was the one sena-
tor who opposed it on the floor.
The amendment to classify proper
ty for taxation purposes was introduc.
ed Saturday to again put the issue to
the people for a vote, and representa-
tives of different farmers organiza-
tons are backing it as what they want.
At the Monday session Alseth, of
Kingsbury, introduced a municipal suf,
frage bill in the senate, which II enact
ed will give the women the right to
vote at the spring elections next year.
The house put in all of Monday dis
GUESSING constitutional amendments 10
submit to the people, and among
those recommended were increasing
salaries of state officers and legisla-
tive members, and the general tax
amendment allowing classification of
property for assessment and taxation.
S. A. Travers.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-08

March 24.-The British steamer Sus.
sex, carrying American passengers,
was ~torpedoed and a number of the
passengers killed. 1t is from the Sus-
e case that the present situation can
be directly traced back.
April 1O.-Germany replied to the
United States inquiry in the Sussex
case denying that she had been sunk
by a German submarine.
April 18.-The state department at
Washington notified the German gov
eminent that diplomatic relations
would severed unless Germany
abandon p is present methods of sub.
marine yS .are. This virtually is the
note, to Z ich Germany's reply con-
stituted - Sussex pledge" On which
Saturday, .ction was taken.
April Is President Wilson address,
ed congrE on the subject of Ger
many's s,s arine warfare.
April e Secretary Lansing made
public tt text of a memorandum,
drawn at the direction of the president,
defining the attitude of the United
States on the question of armed mer-
chantmen.
May 4.-The reply of Germany to
the American note of April IS was
given to the American ambassador at
Berlin.
May 5.-The text of the German re-
ply was made public.
May 8.-The White Star liner Gym
rio was sunk off the Irish coast.
May 10.-Germany admitted that the
Sussex was sunk by a German sub
marine in error, and expressed regret.
This was followed by the Sussex
pledge" in which Germany agreed to
warn all vessels and give their crews
and passengers opportunity to escape.
The Sussex pledge" was, in effect,
the German note of May 4.
During the remainder of the year
there was a cessation of submarine at
tacks without warning. Early this
year, they began again. On January
80, Berlin announced her unrestricted
submarine" campaign. This went into
effect on February /.
Before going to press today the Reg
lister called up the Daily Argus-Leader
at Sioux Falls and got its very latest
bulletins on the war situation as fol-
lows:
British ship California sunk by Ger
mans. One American seaman on
board, but was saved.
Hostilities apparently cannot be
avoided. All hope of peace apparently
gone as Germany has gone forward
with her ruthless under-sea warfare.
Germany will require that Bernstortf
and all informed German seamen and
soldiers be safe-guarded and released
before Ambassador Gerard will be per-
mitted to leave Germany.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-08
WHAT Is A BLIZZARD?

So much has been said about Sun
days storm and the fact that SO many
people here are calling it a blizzard"
the writer is tempted to say that none
now living here except some "Old tim
ers' have ever seen a blizzard" or
what was termed a blizzard" in the
pioneer days of South Dakota. We
are willing to admit that Sundays
storm was "some storm" it was the
worst we have seen since the blizzard
of 1888.
At that time we were living
in western Clark county, range SO, and
were publishing a paper at Raymond.
Geo. II. Chase, afterward publisher of
the White Leader in this county and
now post office inspector for Uncle
Sam, was learning his trade with US
and living at our home.
On this particular afternoon, Jan. II,
1888, we had returned to the Office to
take up the usual routine Office work.
The sky was bright and clear, the air
warm and delightful, in fact it was
thawing. About the hour of 2 o'clock
the wind shifted into the northwest
and in less time than it takes to tell it
such a wall of snow swept past the
windows as you never saw. There was
absolutely nothing discernible upon
the outside.
When, after a little time. we decided
that the best place was at home and
we had ventured into the street you
couldn't see your hand before your
face and the lower part of the body
was more invisible than as though you
were in the water. 1t vas a sort of
white mist so thick that you could al
most cut it with a knife. And there
was a power behind it, a person could
hardly stand and to make any head
way was almost a physical impossible
ity.
Getting our bearings by the trend
OF the SlIttt we SOI dSlo W tHc hoICi
and of course we thought that after
leaving the hotel we could surely make
the distance to the house, about a
block and a half to two blocks away.
But after we had wandered and floun.
dered around for more than an hour we
discovered cur mistake. There was
just one building between the hotel
and u home and that was the Cath
Ollie church. AS we had headed straight
for it, as We supposed, it puzzled us
much that we did not reach 1t.
We would separate, being very care,
full that we didn't get out of hearing OF
each others voices. and then come to-
gether again to discuss the situation
as best we could. We became exhaust
ed with our efforts and would cit down
to rest for a few moments only to real
ize that we were not getting anywhere
Every few minutes we would have u
poke holes In the frozen mist in order
70 breathe. 1t didn't matter much abou,
the eyes for we couldn't see anything
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-08

A daughter was born January 20 at
the hospital to Mr.. and Mrs. W. J.
Pickett.