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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-22
CHICAGO Potato Market.

Chicago, June 22.-Potatoes. unset
tied.
Oklahoma-315.
Arkansas-3.2oG3.55.
Receipts-Ne~, SO cars.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-22
Big JOB FOR IOWA MEN.

National Guard Engineers to-day Out
Cantonment at Des Moinss.
Special to Times -Republican.
washington. June e2.-Adjutant
General Logan today was instructed 20
select an engineer company OF the
Iowa, National Guard for duty in lay
ing out the Des Moines national can
Torment
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-22
ANOTHER PEooLER ARRESTED
Court Plaster Salesman Held For
vSs4iaafio1 A. Onawa

Special to Times Republican.
Onawa. June 22-Sheriff Martin yes
terday arrested crippled man giving
the name Of Joe Garvin, who was SELL
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-22
WHEAT PRICES
SHOOT UPWARD
INCREASED COMMERCIAL VESSEL
TONNAGE PLANS LIFT
fsk. MARKET.
JAPAN EXPECTED TO
GIVE ASSISTANCE

Prospect saof Unsettled Weather Has
Suilfsh Effect on Corn-Measer
Offerings Likewise Tend to
Boost ouo&atIen--oats Advance
With Other csrealA
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-22

Chicago, June 2a-Wheat today
showed decided strength which was
associated more or less with reports
that arrangements had been made to
increase commercial vessel tonnage
available for shipments to Europe.
Some Of the assistance was expected
from Japan. Notable uptuTns took
place in the July option. but the vol
uue OF business remained very small
Opening prices, which ranged from II
cent of to 10 cents advance, with July
at $40 to $2.1S and September at SITS
to s1.TS1a, were followed by a moder-
ate rise in the September delivery and
then a slight reaction all around.
In subsequent transactions tho up
ward trend OF prices was at no time
seriously interrupted. The close was
strong, 3ato I cents net higher, with
July at s2I0 and September at S.s4s
Corn.
Forecast Of unsettled weather had
builish effect on corn. Besides coun-
try offerings to arrive proved meager
After opening q cent TO cent higher,
the market scored sharp gains ali
around.
High bids from the seahoard empha-
sized the scarcity OF old corn. Prices
closed nervous at cents to Az cents
net advance.
Oats went up grade with other
cereals. Commission houses generally
were on the buying side.
Provisions,
Provisions averaged higher !nfu-
enced by the strength Of corn.
Lamson's Grain Letter.
Furnished by Lamson Bros. & Co., 2oS
Masonic Temple; Phone 1881
Chicago, June 22.-Corn-Shorts in
corn were given a drubbins today on
account Of enlarged export demand.
Cash corn Is selling at high prices at
all terminal markets and in the coun-
Try. While no marked increase in ar
rivals Is probable 1t seems likely that
there will be plenty OF old corn to go
around and that, at this extreme price,
it will be difficult to maintain a bull
market, especially Il the crop begins
to develop and make up the handicap
Of a late sprtng.
Oats-The strength IN corn and re-
ports Of good sales for export yester-
day, with further inquiries IN the mar
ket, were responsible for the bulge IN
oats. Receipts are not heavy and the
visible supply continues to decrease at
g record rate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-22
CHICAGO Live Stock

Chicago, June 22.-Cattle-Dstima
receipts for today. 1000; market un-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-22

Representative Hog Sales.
Below are quoted q few representa-
tive hog sales for today.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-22
Kansas City Live Stock.

Kansas City, Mo-, June 22-Cattle-
Estimated receipts for today $500;
market steady
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-22

Omaha Live Stock.
Omaha, Neb., June 22-Cattle-Esti-
mated. receipts Tor todsy Sc; "a rkst
steady.
Native stAers ......,. 4 vi 90 11,7s
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-22
Retrospective Cattle Sales.

Below are quoted a few representa-
tive cattle sales for today.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-22

Oats went up grade with other
cereals. Commission houses generally
were on the buying side.
Provisions.
Provisions averaged higher :nfu-
enced by the strength Of corn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09
LONG JOURNEY

Eyes" nodded the major, strange
thing is that q year ago they weren't,
you know-guns weren't in existence,
ard the men weren't gunners clerks
an all that sort Of thing, you know
civilians, what?'
They're pretty good gunners now
judging by effect" said !, noddng tow
ard the ahomination Of desolation that
had once been a village.
Rather" nodded the major. cheerily.
USED to think it took seven long years
60 make q gunner once-do it in six
short months now' Pretty good going
for old England, what? How about a
Gun of tea in my dugout?'
But evening was approaching. and,
having far 70 go, we mad pertorce TO
refuse his hospitality and Did him a
reluctant yoodby.
A.. Don't forget to take p peep at the
mine craters,' said he, and, waving a
CHEEKY adieu, vanished down his dug
out.
Ten minutes walk along the road
and before Us rose jagged mount, and
beyond il anothcr-uncanny hills,
scared and cracked and sinister, up
those steep slopes ] scrambled and
into whose yawning depths | gazed in
awestruck wonder-so deep, so vide
end huge Of circumference, it seemed
rather the result of some Titanic con-
vulsion of nature than the handiwork
Of man. | could imagine the cataclys-
mic roar of the explosion. the smoke
and fame Of the mighty uuheaval, and
war found for me yet another horror
as ] turned and descended the precipi-
tOus slope.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09

wells our fleet car sped on, jolting and
lurching violently over ruts, pot-holes
and the like, until we came TO a part
of the road where many men were en-
gagged with pick and shovel; and here,
on either side of the highway, noticed
many grim-l looking heaps and mounds
ugly, shapeless dumps, depressing IN
their very hideousness. Beside one such
unlovely dump our car pulled up and F.,
gloved finger pointing, announced:
"The church Of La Boiselle. That
heap you see beyond was once the
Marie, and beyond, the schoolhouse.
The others were houses and cottages.
Oh. La Boisella was quite pretty
place once. Get out here to visit the
guns-this way
Obedently followed whittier he led,
nothing speaking, for surely here was
matter beyond words. Leaving the road,
we foundered over what seemed like
ash heaps, but which had once been
German trenches, faced and reinforced
by concrete and steel plates. Many of
these last lay here and there, awfully
bent and twisted, but of trenches | saw
none save few yards here and there
half filled with Undesirable debris. 1t
was. indeed a place of horror-a fright
full desolation beyond all words. Every
where about us were signs of dreadful
death--they came TO one in the very
air, in lowering heaven and tortured
earth. Far as the eye could reach the
ground was pitted with great shell
holes so close that they broke into one
another and formed horrid pools full of
shapeless things within the slime.
Across the hellish waste went
cautiously by reason OF torn and twist
ed tangles of German barbed wire, of
hand grenades and huge shells, OF
broken and rusty iron and steel that
once were deadly machine guns As
picked my way among all this fotsam
| turned to take IN a bayonet, slipped
in the slime and sank to my waist in
skell hole. Even then | didn't touch
bottom. but scrambled out, all gray
mud from waist down-but ! had the
bayonet.
II was in this woful state that !
shook hands with the major Of the bat
terry. And as we stood upon that awful
waste he chatted, | remember, of
books. Then. side by side. We came to
the battery-four mighty howitzers
that crashed and roared and shook the
very earth with each discharge, and
whose shells roared through the air
with the rush of a dozen express
trains.
Following the majors directing FIN
ger, | fixed my gaze some distance
above the muzzle Of the nearest gun
and, marvel of marvels, behold that
dire messenger of death and destruc.
ton rush forth. soaring upon its way
up and IN, until it was lost in cloud
Time after time | saw the huge shells
leap skyward and vanish on their long
Journey. and stood thus lost in won
der. and "a | watched | could not but
remark on the speed and dexterity with
which The crews handled these mon
stfous engines.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09
THING AGAINST CUI TU2ED BARBARTY ON THE SONlNE
ARRAS

Obvious Of driving rain / stood be.
thinking me Of this ancient city; how
in the dark ages it had endured the
horrors of battle and siege, had 'front.'
ed the catapults Of Rome, heard the
fierce shouts of barbarian assailants,
known the merciless savsgery OF re-
ligious wars and remained a city still
only for the cultured barbarian OF to-
day TO make il a desolation.
Very full of thought ! turned away,
but as crossed the desolate square
was aroused by voice that hailed me,
seemingly from beneath my feet,
voice that echoed eerily in that silent
place. CHANGING about, beheld a be-
shawled head that rose above the 1T
tered pavement, and as | stared the
head nodded and, smiling wanly, ae-
costed me again.
Coming thither, looked into
square opening with 8 fight Of steps
leading down into subterranean
chamber. and upon these steps woman
sat knitting busiIy. She inquired If |
wished 20 view the catacomb', and
pointed where a lamp burned above an
other opening and other steps descend
ed lower yet, seemingly into the very
bowel. Of the earth. To her | explained
that NV time was limited. and all
wished to see lay above ground, and
from her | learned that some few peo-
pie vet remained in ruined Arras, wno'
even as she, lived underground, since
every day at irregular intervals the
enemy fred into the town haphazard.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09
Debris Of Battle
Still on Field

And now we were traversing the
great battlefield where. not long since.
so many Of our Jrsvest had fallen that
Britain might still be Britain. Even
yet, upon its torn and trampled sur
face / could read something of the
fght-here a broken shoulder belt,
there cartridge pouch, yonder a
stained and battered coat, while every.
where lay bombs. English and German.
IF you want 20 see La Boiselle prop
erly we must hurry" said F.. and Of
we went at the double. with KS long
legs stridine beside him. but as FOR
me, must needs turn for one last look
where those deadly smoke pufFs came
and went with such awful regularity.
The rain had stopped. but it was
three damp and mud-spattered wretches
who clambered back into the waiting
car.
Il said ]. as we removed our cum
brous headgcar. about how heavy do
you suppose these things Weigh"
Fully toni" he answered. jerking
his cap over his eyes and scowlingly
accepting q cigarette.
Very soon the shattered village was
far behind and we were threading a
devious course between huge steam
tractors, guns, motor lorrieS and more
guns. We passed soldiers a-hoyse and
a-foot and long strings Of ambulance
cars. TO right and left OF the road
were artillery parks and great camps
that stretched away into the distance.
Here also were vast numbers OF the
ubiquitous motor lorry with many
,hree-wheeled tractors for the big guns.
We sped past hundreds OF horses pick.
eted M long lines; past countless tens
smcared orally in various colored
paints; past huts little and huts big;
past swamps knee deep in mud. where
men were taking down or setting up
other tents.
On W sped through all the confused
order Of a mighty army, until, chancnr
70 raise my eyes aloft. ! beheld huge
balloon that as | watched mounted up
and ND into the air.
"One of our sausages!" said F.,
gloyed hand waving. "Plenty of 'em
round here-see, there's another ir
that cloud and beyond it another"
So for awhile ! rode with my eyes
turned upward. and thus | presently
saw far ahead many aeroplanes that
7Cw in strange. zigZsg fashion, now
sweeping low. now climbing high, now
twisting and turning giddily
"Some Of our planes under fire! y
said F. You can see the shrspnel
bursting all around 'em-there's the
smoke-we call EN- 'woolly bears
Won't see any Boche planes, though
rather not!" ~
Amid all these wonders and mar
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09

bombs, Lewis gun magazines, parts Of
broken machine gun and various
odds and ends of accoutrements.
I'm some places this trench had
fallen in because of rain and other
things and was almost impossible,
wherefore, after much climbing and
Splashing, +. suggested we should
climb out again, which we did forth
with, very moist and muddy.
And thus at last | looked at that
wide stretch of country across which
our men had advanced mistaken and
undsmayed through a he'll the like Of
" hich the world had never known be-
fore. And as | stood there | could
almost see those long, advancing waves
Of khaki-clad figures. their ranks swept
by The fire of countless rifles and ma
chine guns. pounded by high explo-
sivcs. blasted by whitening shraPnel-
heroic ranks, which, rent asunder,
shattered, torn, yet swung steadily on
through smoke and fame, unhnching
and unafrad. As If to make the pct-
ure more real, came the thunderous
crash Of shell behind us, but this
time I forgot 20 duck.
Far in front OF Us | saw a huge puff
clouds Of earth and broken beams that
seemed TO hang suspended q moment
ere they fell and vanished. After a
moment was another puff of smoke
further to our right, and beyond this
another, and again beyond this another.
"A battery of heavies," said F.
Even as he spoke the four puffs burst
forth again and upon exactly the same
ground.
At this juncture a head appeared over
the parapet behind US. and after some
talk with +. came one who rendered
US a pair of binoculars. by whose aid
! made out the British new lines o.
trenches which had once been German.
SO | stood dry-mouthed. to watch the
burst of those huge shells exploding
upon our British line. Fascinated. /
stared until rs hand on my arm
aroused me. and returning the glasses
with hay word of thanks | followed
my companions, though often turning
TO watch the shooting, which now |
thought much too good
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09
One Of the Best
A Battlefield Epitaph

Now, as | went, stumbled over a
small mound, then halted all at once,
for at one end of this was very small
cross. rudely constructed and painted
white, and tackled 10 this strip Of
lettered tin, bearing a name and num-
Der. and beneath these the words, zone
Of the Best SO took off my hat and
stood while beside that lonely mound
Of muddy earth ere ! went my way.
Slowly our car lurched onward
through ,he waste, and presently on
either side Of the way saw other such
mounds and crosses. by twos and
threes, by ffties, By hundreds, in long
lows beyond count. And looking
Ground me on this dreary waste | knew
that ore day (since nothing dles) upon
this place Of horror grass would grow
and lowers bloom again; along the
now dcsolate and deserted road people
would come by the thousand; these
humble crosses and mounds Of muddy
earth would become to all Britons
holy place. where SO MANY of our best
and bravest lie, who. undismayed, have
passed through the portals Of death
into the fuller, greater, noblcr living.
Full of such thoughts. | turned for
one last look and then I saw that ths
setting sun had turned each one Of
these humble little crosses into things
Of shining glory.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09
SHELL-SHOCK

,,r-e platform Of a great oput tbe,c l0wr,n : A,

But these lawns ! demurred.
Game 60 me Of their own accord"
NO answered; cat least. tho seed aid
washed ashore from wreck; so | had
~ planted and II has done rather well,
Now what else can | show your II
would take all the afternoon to visit
very ward, and they are all much alike
nut there is the mad ward. if vou'd
care TO see that? This way"
A strange place, this. divided into
compartments or cubicles. where were
many rStcntS In the familiar blue
oNerallS, most Of whom rose and stood
AT attention as we entered. Tall
soldlerly figures they seemed. and vet
WIN an indcfnablc something in their
tooNS NaCucness ot gaze. "a loose
Hpped' too-rcady smile, vacancy of
expression. Some there were who
ScoWied suilonly enough, others who
say crouched apart. solitary souls, who,
earned, felt themselves outcasts:
o'acfS again croUchcA in corners
haunted by the dread Of a pursuiro
vengeance always 40 hand.
One such the colonel accostcd. ask
ing what was wrong. The man looked
up; looked down and muttered unin-
telllCi0!y; whoTcupou the Sister spoke.
"He believes that every one thinks
him spy she explained. and touched
the mans bowed head with a hand as
gentle as her voice.
"Shcll-shock is strange thing"
said the colorel-su-geon. "and affects
men in many extraordinary ways, but
seldom permanently"
You mean that these poor fellows
Will recover / asked
quite 80 per cont" he answered
IN his quiet assured voice.
] was shown over laundvios complete
i'm every detail; / walked through cloth
ing stores where, in "a single day. six
hundred men had been equipped from
head TO foot; ! beheld large machines
for the sterilization of garments FOUL
with the Crime Of battle and other
things
Truly. here. within the hospital that
had grown, mushroomlike, within the
wild, was everything for the alienation
of hurts and suffering more awful than
our fighting ancestors ever had TO en-
dUre. Presently ! left this place. but
now, although a clean fresh wind blew
and the setting sun pceped out. the
world somehow seemed q grimmoT place
than ever.
In the DARK Ages humanity endured
much Of sin and shame and suffering.
but never such as IN the age OF reason
and culture. This same earth has
known evils of every kind, has heard
the screams of outraged innocence. tho
Croan of tortured flesh. and has rcd
dened beneath the heel Of tyranny; this
same sun has seen the smoke and raw
ishment Of cities and been .darkercd
b. the hateful mists Of war-but never
such d war as this, Of cultured bar6sritv
with all its new devilishness. Shell
shock and insanity, poison gas and
slow strangulation, LIQUID fire and
poison shells. Rape. murder, robbery,
piracy, slavery each and every crime
is here-neyer has humanity endured
all these horrors until now
But remembering by whose willthesa
evils have been loosed upon the world.
remembering the innocent blood, the
bitter tears, the agony Of soul and
heartbreak, am persuaded that ret
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09
Weeds Growing
Rank in Tracks

Our way led US through the railway
station. a much battered ruin. its clock
tower half gone, its platforms cracked
and spliutered, the iron girders OF its
great dOmed roof bent and twisted
and with never q sheet of glass any
where Between the rusty tracks grass
and weeds grew and fourished, and the
few way bills and excursion placards
-yhich still showed here and there
locked unutterably forlorn. In the
booking Offices was confusion OF
broken desks, stools and overthrown
chairs, the floor Uttered with sodden
books and ledgers; but the racks still
held thousands of tickets, bearing so
many names that they might have
taken any one anywhere throughout
fair France once, but now, it seemed,
would never take any one anywhere.
All at once through the battered
swing doors marched company of sol
diers. tn" tramp Of their feet and the
FIT OF their voices filling the place with
weary md British. they sang cheer
fully. Packs a-swing, rifles on shout
der, they tramped through shell-torn
waiting room and booking hall and OUT
again into wind and wet, and | remem-
Der the burden Of their chanting was
"Smile. Smile! Smile"
In 4 little while | stood amid the
ruins OF the great cathedral; its mighty
pillars. Clipped and Scared. yet rose
high in air, but its long aisles were
choked with rubble and fallen masonry,
while through the gaping rents Of its
lofty roof the rain fell. wetting the
shattered heap Of parti-colored marble
that had been the high altar once.
Here and there, half buried in the de-
bris at my feet. | saw fragments Of
memorial tablets. battered corona,
the twisted remains OF a great candle
labrum, and over and through this
mournful ruin a cold and rising wind
moaned itfully. Silently we claribered
back over the mountain Of debris and
hurried OF. needless of the devastation
around. reortsick with the gross bar
baritv Of il all
They tell me that churches and cathe-
dras must Of necessity be destroyed,
since they generally serve as obserVa-
ton posts. But have seen many
ruined churches usually besutifed by
time and hallowed by tradition-that
By reason of site and position could
never have been so misused. And then
there is the beautiful Chateau d'Eau!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09
Like City
OF Ghosts

Evening was falling, and as the
shadows stole upon this silent city,
gloom unrelieved BY any homely
twinkle OF light, these dreadful streets.
these stricken homes, took on an aspect
more sinister and forbidding in the
half light Behind those tapping cur
tains were pits of gloom full Of I'M
imagined terrors, whence came un-
earthly sounds, stealthy rustlings,
groans and signs and sobbing voices.
II ghosts did fit behind those crum-
bling walls. surely they were sad and
woful ghosts!
damn this rainp murmured X.
gently.
and the wind" said F. pulling up
his collar. listen to it, It's going 20
play the very deuce with these broken
roofs and things If II blows hard.
Going to be a beastly night, and
forty-mile drive in front Of US. Listen
TO that wind, Come on--let's get
away"
Very soon, buried in warm rugs, We
sped across dim squares, past wind
swept ruins, under battered arch and
the dismal city was behind US; but for
a while her ghosts seemed all about US
still.
As We plunged on through. the gath
ering dark past rows Of trees that
lesped at US and were gone il seemed 70
me that the soul of Arrss was typined
in that patient, solitary woman who sat
amid desolate rain. waiting for the
great day; and surely her patience can
not 90 unrewsrded, for since science
has proved that nothing can be utterly
DESTROYED. since for one am convinced
thai the soul Of man through death Is
but translated into fuller and more
infnite living. so do think that ono
day the woes Of Arras shall be done
away and she shall rise again, ely
greater, perhaps, and fairer than sac
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09
Lives Only
For Revenge

Only that morning, she told me, an
other shell had struck the poor Hotel
de Vile, and she pointed TO a new,
white scar upon the shapeless tower.
She also showed me an ugly rent upon
certain wall near by made by the
she'll that had killed her husband. Yes,
lie lived all alone now, she told me,
waitin- for that good day when the
B~ches should be driven beyond the
Rhine. waiting until the townsfolk
should come back and Arras wake to
life again. Meantime she knitted.
Presently I saluted this solitary
woman and. turning away, left her
amid the desolate ruin Of that once
busy sausre, her beshGwled head bowed
above feverishly busy fingers, left her
as had found her-waiting.
And now as ! traversed these de-
serted streets it seemed that this
seemingly dead city did but swoon,
after all. despite its many grievous
wounds, for here was life, even as the
woman had said, evidences Of which
saw here and there in battered stove
pipes that had writhed themselves
snake-like through rusty cellar gratings
and holes in wall or pavement, mlser-
able contrivances, at best, whose fumes
blackened the walls whereto they
chung.
Still nowhere was there sound or
sight Of folk save in one small back
street, where, in shop that appar-
emily sold everything from pickles TO
picture post cards, two British soldiers
we're buying a pair of braces from a
smiling. hapgard-eyed woman. and be-
ing extremely polite about it in cryptic
Anglo French; and here | foregathered
with my companions.