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The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
SOME FAMOUS BATTLE CRIES
"MarnnaIade Forever" Peculiar Slogan
Which Scotch Regiment Orig
mated During Charge.

"Marmalade forever" This quaint
battle cry originated from a certain
Scotch regiment during a charge In
the present war, says London An.
swers. "Stand, the Camerons!" is the
roar Of another regiment of the "kilt-
ies," and serves to corroborate the
fact that as official reports have it,
"the spirit of our troops is excel
lent"
Among others there is the gallant
cry of "Stick it, Welsh !" uttered by
the late Captain Haggard, which has
been an inspiration to many Welsh
bards. 1t is sad to recall that Capt. E.
Langdale, whilst encouraging his
men with the gallant cry of "Come on,
the Leicestershires !" fell on the field.
But the Leicestershires did "come on"
with disastrous results to the Huns.
We must not forget, however, that
famous cry of "Kamerad!' uttered by
whole German regiments, which has
perhaps, encouraged our men more
than any other. There is an amusing
tale told of one Of our Tommies who,
during a charge, was about to give
certain Hun a glimpse of the
"great beyond" when up went Fritz's
hands.
"Kameradp' he yelled.
Tommy lowered his bayonet.
"Hang it," he muttered. "That's
the blooming word I was trying to
think of when arguing with Nobby
Smith I"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
Horses Loyal to Cavalry.

Displaying almost human instinct,
one hundred horses turned over to the
remount station by the First New
York cavalry when that organization
was transferred into machine-gun
companies, demonstrated their disap-
proval of the reorganization by stam-
peding, relates the Brooklyn Eagle. The
horses paid no attention to the mill
tary discipline, but broke down the
barricade of the remount station and
galloped over to the picket line of the
First cavalry, their old rendezvous.
Many of the horses took positions in
front of the tents of officers and sol
diers who have ridden them for years.
An alarm was spread and the cavalry
men were compelled to corral their
former dumb associates and drive
them back to the remOunt station.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
ItaIy's Aerial TramWays.

Before the war the aerial tramway
was utilized in various parts of the
world for transporting materials across
chasms and up mountain sides, but 1t
remained for the Italians to adapt 1t
to their necessity Of negotiating the
sheer heights in Alpine warfare, ac-
cording to the National Geographic
Magazine. A young engineer of Milan
is credited with having first suggested
its present use, but it seems to have
exceeded in usefulness his widest
dreams. Few facts have been given
out concerning the extent of the sys-
tenn, but when this war Is over thrill
ing tale of engineering feats in it's con-
struction will remain to be told.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
SAYS GAMERS WERE BUSY
President Peck of National Food Com
mission Asserts American Women
Do Not Waste Food.

Charles Lathrop Peck, president Of
the National Emergency Food commits
sion, said at a dinner in Washington
that the women Of America have
canned 5OOOOO,OOO jars of fruit and
vegetables.
''They who charge the American
woman of today with food waste" he
said, "are as ignorant as the huckster
was"
"a huckster said to his mate:
+ "'Gee, Bill, you look down in the
mouth!
"'Ain't I got cause to look down in
the mouth?' said Bill. 'Everything's
gone wrong with me lately. First, an
automobile runs into and kills my
boss. Naturally, I try to comfort my
self with a few beers, and get pinched
for drunk and disorderly. They gfm-
me a week, and when get back home
I find my wife's gone off to her moth
ers with peritonitis.'
"'WhatY said the other huckster.
What? That Dago ice cream juggler
down Middle alley? Poor old Bill >"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
Nerve of q HRookie ~

During some recent maneuvers, says
the Rehoboth Sunday Herald, a raw
recruit had been told off as orderly.
On reaching the marquee where the
officer was he poked his head in and
bluntly inquired:
Have ye anything for me to do,
mister?'
Disgustedly laying down his cigar,
the officer exclaimed:
"Why the deuce don't you introduce
yourself in a proper manner? Sit
down. he added, "and I will show you
how to report yourself"
The "rOOkie" seated himself and the
officer, proceeding to the entrance,
walked brisllly into the tent, saluted.
and said:
"Orderly for the day, sir. Have you
any orders for me?'
The recruit calmly picked up the dis
carded cigar from the table and, be-
tween puffs laconically replied:
mo, there's very little doing today.
You can hoof it ~
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
Burros Carry Copper Ore

The wood-carrying burro, passing
through the plaza, to the delight of
tourists and artists alike, for decades
and centuries, now has a rival. 1t is
the burro laden with copper ore A
caravan of these burros, carrying huge
sacks filled with $50 pounds of Is per
cent copper ore, arrived in the city a
few days ago, says the Santa Fe New
Mexican, travelling all the way from
the Lahoma Copper companys mine
- miles east of the Dalton canyon.
They came down the Santa Fe canyon
in good time, and carried the ore to
the depot where it was shipped.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
STOLEN TREASURES OF ART
Germany Will Hold Rare Collections
Taken From France and Belgium
Unless Peace Terms Interfere.

Will one Of the peace conditions in
volve a return to Belgian and French
art treasures removed by the Ger
mans since 1914 from the occupied
territories? asks the New York Eve
ming Post.
Until the present wars outbreak,
everyone has supposed the custom of
nations changed since Napoleon's
time, so that it would no longer be
possible for a cOnqueror to fill his mu-
seums with plunder. That supposi-
ton, like so many others, seems to
have been given the lie by the kaiser,
whose agents are said to have emp
tied the Antwerp and Brussels mu-
seums for the benefit of Berlin. Even
the emperor's grandfather, in the war
Of 1870, took practically no toll Of
Paris art treasures.
Malice has ascribed this moderation
to the lack, in that Spartan genera
ton, of appreciation for art, which led
those earlier invaders to cOnfine their
activities, for the most part, to or
molu clocks and silver services. The
modern Prussian, however, from the
crown prince down, has become a
dilettante, an art cOnnOisseur. Hence
the very thought of cleanup made of
art objects. Berlin, willy nilly, is to
be made a world art center. If tour
lists prefer Paris because of its great
er natural charm, they will, in any
event, be forced to visit the Prussian
capital in order to see Rubens Ode
scent From the Cross"
A monopoly of the worlds potash
supply, and a collection of stolen art,
is to keep the world at Germany's
mercy-unless the terms of peace pro-
vide otherwise
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
He WANTED ONLY BIG GAME
English Warrior BraveIy Describes
Numerous Encounters With the
Ferocioas African Beasts.

Once I was talking with one Of those
gentleman rankers of the old England
who by this time is probably some
where in France, for he was always
looking for trouble where it was thick
est, writes q New York Sun war cor
respondent. He had been awav for
about three years in the jungles of Af-
rica at that time and was giving a
little account of himself
Among his frank admissions was the
story of holding off a band of Asian
tees for six days single-handed, while
he kept busy with two rifles and a
revolver. Also he had got away with
jungles and had slain six more bull
elephants than the law allows. Incl
dentally he had shot lion which was
charging him and had "a hand -to-hand
clinch with gorilla.
He had done things like that before,
this harum scarum offscouring. There
was nothing at which he ever stopped,
being mostly composed Of iron nerve
and steel muscles. He had a soft, ca
ressing way when he talked, and when
he dropped back into civilization he
continued to wear the wrist watch
with it's griny leather band which he
had taken with him through so many
adventures in the equatorial wilds.
"Bally effeminate,'' he observed,
''this tfckbug, eh? Maybe wrong, old
man, but deucedly convenient to squint
down at and time the two-horned rhino
that happens to be charging a chap,
eh, what?'
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
Gear Wheels Made of Cotton.

Gears are now being made of or
binary cotton which Outwear those
made from the finest steel. 1t seems
incredible, but it is true, says Popular
Science Monthly.
The very hardness of the metal
gears causes the teeth surfaces to
scrape over each other when they
mesh, producing hideOus screeches and
groans. Everyone of these scrapings
means a certain amount of wear.
Teeth made out of compressed cot
ton yield. They are, therefore, noise
less. Compressed with the metal gears,
they are indestructible. To make
these fiber gears large cylinder built
up of cotton disks is compressed to but
one-sixteenth of its former length!
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
More Fame for Stuttgart.

Stuttgart, which French aviators
bombed recently, is the original home
of the aircraft engine. 1t was in Stutt-
CART that Daimler evolved the inter
nal combustion engine which French
man, with an eye to utility, quickly
turned to account in the first practical
motor car says the Christian Science
Monitor. Here, too, Count Zeppelin
evolved his monster airships, making
use of the knowledge which trials and
experiments in the big Daimler works
had served to bring to light. Facts
such as these seem more pertinent at
these times than the other reasons for
Stuttgart's fame. She has, as every
one knows, a famous music academy,
and her reputation for music is GER
tainly far older than that which she
has acquired by her machinery; also,
1t is unspoiled by anything Of the ma
ture which has made the very word
Zeppelin byword in civilized coun-
tries.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
SCOUTING SPIRIT DIDIT,

With every reason to feel proud of
membership in the Boy Scouts of
America because of the gracious words
of President Wilson as well as the
commendation of Secretary Of the
Treasury McAdoO, it behOOves all in
scouting to guard against having this
very thing negative Influence to
boys.
The spirit that should be encouraged
Is often expressed by the scout who is
doing a heroic act or an especially
meritorious good turn makes light of
the effort to bestow praise upon him
and dismiss the subject with the char
acterizatiOn, ooh, shucks any scout
would do this" or 81 was simply doing
my duty"
After all, the achievement was made
possible because of two factors: first,
organization, and, second, the spirit
of scouting.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
SOLDIERS LOT NOT so BAD
American Fighters at the Front Not
In the Trenches Continuously
Plenty of Amusement.

The trouble with the American pub
lie Is that they have heard and read
so much Of the great war and its hor-
rors that they think their boys are go
Ing to be continually in the midst OF
bloodshed and constantly in discom-
fort, and they concentrate on the ter
rible side of 1t and ask, GLOW long
Will 1t be before he Is killed?" They
don't see that that is not all there is
to it," declares a war correspondent.
1t is natural enough of course. A
man writes a book about the war,
takes one incident, and another, and
another, makes chapters of them with
the result that the man and woman
who read his book read q succession
Of horrors, and they think it is all like
that. They don't realize, or they for
get, the weeks between these "hor-
rors'' and discomforts.
A man is in the front trench under
fire, say, two days, and sent back four,
or perhaps four days and sent back
eight. Usually a brigade is in the
fire sector" 80 days. Then it is sent
back to the rest billets for an equal
time. Here the men are in practical
ly no danger-perhaps an occasional
she'll. They are together in jolly COM
radeship, having lots of amusements-
football, baseball-plenty to do. They
are well fed, well equipped, well
amused.
OF course, the grouchy soldier is 60
ing to have grouchy time, but the
life Of the American soldier on the
western front is going to be just about
what he makes it. If he goes into it
in the right spirit he will find that it
isn't so bad as II is cracked up to be-
And then he will be in a great state of
indignation because the reports of it
have made it seem so awful.
When he realizes that it isn't so
bad, he mustn't forget to sit down and
tell the folks at hOmel He knows it's
a lot better than he thought it was 60
ing to be. But they don't.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
WONDER WORDS OF RUSSIANS
Favorite Phrase That Means Happi-
ness and Peace for Which They
Have So Long Struggled.

'I am going to try to teach my read
ers six Russian Words" writes William
G. Shepherd in Everybody's. 'The first
is 'tavarish.' 1t means 'comrade.' There
used to be a law in Russia against
using it The French in their revOIus
ton, meant about the same thing when
they said 'citOyen.' 1t is a word you
hear thousand times a day, every
where.
Mir bez anneXi contributzi'
These are the other five words. You
hear them as we in the United States
hear our latest slang phrases. The
Russians use them as we once used
the phrase, sixteen to one,' or safety
first They mean no annexations and
no contributions Every Russian lost
in his happy wonderland, full of the
new joy of life, means. when he uses
these words, to say, This world is a
more beautiful place than I had ever
thought. Let us all be brothers and
help each other to enjoy it, instead
of fighting to make slaves of each
other and to drive the beauty and hap
pineSS out Of life
"There is something infinitely pa
thetic in their faces when you say to
a Russian, Yes. Your idea is fine.
But what of the GermanS?'
'In vain the Russians have stood
their front and cried to the Germans.
All the rest of the world is listening,
except the Germans, to that Russian
call to happiness and peace:
"Tavarish! Mir bez annexi con-
tributzi p"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
An HeirIoom

A prerevolutionary mansion is to be
preserved in Albany as a historic
shrine, says the Brooklyn Standard
Union. This was the home of Gen.
Philip Schuyler, who was in command
of the continental troops in the victory
of Saratoga in 1777. The house had
been erected Is years before and stood
in the open country within what are
now the city limits. The estate, with
it's ample grounds and negro slave
quarters, was known as "The Pasture.'
After their surrender at Saratoga Gen
eral Burgoyne and other British Off
GERS were held as war prisoners at his
home by General Schuyler. Washing
ton, Franklin and Lafayette were en-
tertained there, and in the main par
lor General Schuyler's daughter, Eliza
beth, was married to Alexander Ham
ilton, whom she long survived after
the fatal bullet fired by Aaron Burr at
Weehawken ended the life of Washing
toms secretary of the treasury.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
K0RNIL0FF is A BRAINY MAN
Noted Russian General Has at His
Finger-Ends the Literature of
Fully Fifteen Countries.

Whatever may be said or thought
Of Korniloff, there can be no doubt
that he is brilliantly clever, says a
correspondent. He might be termed
-'self-made man." At the age of thir-
teen he was tending sheep on the
Steppes; today, at forty-seven, he has
at his finger-ends the literature of Is
countries and all manner of military
lore.
At one period of his meteoric career
he combined the two Unmatched pur-
suits of science and spying.
Though he can converse in Is lam
guages, Korniloff is a great believer
in the maxim that "silence is golden"
On one occasion he said: 81 am a
fighting general, accustomed to act
and not to talk. In Petrograd most of
the time is spent in talking"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
SCOUTS AT FORT SHERIDAN

"Be prepared" is the scout motto.
and judging by the way the boy scouts
detailed at Fort Sheridan conducted
themselves, they live up to it. When
nearly four thousand candidates ar
rived at the training camp, the scouts
work had been so thoroughly organized
and planned that there was no cOnfu.
sion. Every boy had received careful
instruction in his duties and had been
required to memorize the correct an.
sWerS to some of the more common
questions of candidates. The bows
went on duty at seven In the morning.
and many did not leave their posts
except for meals until nine at night.
"From the time the candidates got
off the trains to the time they were
issued their uniforms, they saw scouts,
asked questions of scouts, and learned
to depend upon scouts fer nearly all
their information" said Captain Kee-
ley. At the railway stations all trains
were met by the boys and the candi-
dates were directed to the registration
office. There other scouts helped to
keep them in line and directed them
to their companies after they had been
assigned.
Of course, besides these special jobs,
the scouts carried on their regular
work of acting as orderlies at the ad.
jutants office, quarterms sters office,
office of the senior instr ctor, and at
many Of the company headquarters,
The scouts had a house In officers
row for their own use.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21


brown, add pint Of rich milk, two
eggs, little salt, sugar and spices to
taste, bake an hour in q good rich
crust. Ginger and a few drops of
lemon extract make q f1avoring well
liked by those who have tried it.
Preserved Pumpkin.-Cut slices from
a good-colored, ripe, sweet pumpkin,
then cut in chips about the size of a
dollar. Weigh them and allow pound
OF sugar to each pound of chips. Peel
the thin yellow rind from few lemons
and squeeze the juice into a bowl; al
low a half cupful of lemon juice to
each pound of pumpkin. Add sugar
and lemon juice to the pumpkin and
let stand all night. In the morning
cook for half an hour until the pump
kin becomes clear and crisp. R
should have the appearance of candy.
When done take out the pumpkin, put
into jars or glasses, pour the sirup
over and cover as for jelly. This sweet
meat may be served and eaten like
preserved ginger.
Steamed Pumpkin.-Cut pumpkin in
pieces and steam until tended, mash
and season with salt, pepper and but
ter, and serve as vegetable.
Baked Pumpkin.-C pieces of
washed seeded pumpkin in sections
and bake in a hot oven. Serve as
baked squash, mashed and seasoned
with butter, pepper and salt, or dot
the sections with butter and serve them
as they come from the oven, piping
hot.
Pumpkin Puffs.-Take a cupful Of
sifted pumpkin, two tablespoonfuls of
melted butter, quarter of a cupful of
milk, salt and two well-besten egg
yolks, mix and then fold in the beaten
whites, turn into a buttered mold, set
in pan of hot water and cook until
firm. Turn from the mold and serve
with a cream sauce.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
Just Pieces of Paper.

Apropos of a recent financial mag
mates downfall, depOsitor remarked
to bank official that he thought that
the man in a subordinate position who
handles large amounts of cash is sub
jected to a greater temptation than the
high fnancier." "Not So" was the
answer; 81 was paying teller for ten
years, and / can assure you that han
ding cash in large amounts is abso-
lutely like handling simple pieces of
paper with numbers on them. 1t is
the mathematics of accounting that in
terests cashier-the keeping of those
bits of paper in perfect order. The
question of what he might do with the
bills never enters busy paying teller's
mind."-The Outlook.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
Preferred a Democrat.

A Bartholomew county drafted man
who failed to appear for examination
before the draft board, says the In
dianapolis News. He said he didn't
wish to go to war and wished to be
exempted. A member of the board
told him he could go before a notary
public and have his blank filed out
81 don't want to go before a notary
public" he replied. 'Td rather go be-
fore a Democrat"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
Couldn't Treat Him.

you'll have to get another DOCTOR"
said the one to the patient who had
just called ON him.
Am l so ill as that?" gasped the suf-
ferer.
1 don't know just how i'll you are"
replied the man of medicine, "but l
know you're the lawyer who cross
examined me when 1 appeared as an
expert witness. My conscience won't
let me kill you, and I'll be hanged if
| want to cure you. Good day."
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
AMONG THE SCOUTS.

At a war meeting in historic Fanueil
hall in Boston of nurses that have
served in the Spanish-American waf
a squad of boy scouts assisted in many
helpful ways.
Their knowledge of forestry and
workmanship enabled the boy scouts
OF Harwick, VT, to find woman who
had wandered off into the woods. The
boy scouts tracked her through the
woods and found her lying numb and
cold in the rain beside log on ledge
of rock by a cliff.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
Cruel Words.

'eBut can't you give me any encour-
agement at all?" asked the rejected
suitor.
''I'm afraid not" replied the heart
less beauty. However, I don't mind
telling you thatsI have refused one or
two men who pleased me even less
than you do. If you can get any COM
fort out of that, you are welcome to
It,"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
This Touuh Old World.

"Now, Willie, see the nice cake /
have made for your birthday"
'Can / eat it all myself?'
"Why, of course not. You would be
sick"
That's just the way with you, NAM
ma. Whenever you do give me any
pleasure, you always tie string to it"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
Sixty Miles an Hour Climbing Speed.

A modern airplane weighing as much
as a small touring car without any
passengers can climb at the rate of 60
miles an hour. The aviator would say
that his machines rate of ascension is
l.30o feet minute. Such an airplane
would have an engine of q brake horse
power of $50. The airplane climbing
at~6O miles an hour ascends a gradient
of l in 31a to 1 in 4.-Popular Science
Monthly.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
ALWAYS Unusual.

''How do you account for the re-
markable weather"
Haven't tried. To be perfectly
frank, | don't believe / recall more
than few months in the past ten Or
fifteen years when the weather wasn't
being described as remarkable"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
A WAITING Attitude.

'Have you learned any of the new
dances YETI"
"No," replied the man who takes
himself seriously. "Pve been thinking
of trying the Chinese toddle, but I'm
waiting to hear how the political Situ
alton In China crystallizeS. I don't be-
lieve in encouraging a country as long
as 1T shows monarchiStic tendencies"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
M akeshift.

''Those oldtimers used to inscribe
their historic records on rocks with a
chiSel."
"Yes," replied the young man noted
for sudden outbursts of wisdom; 81
suppose the ancients had their trOu-
bles about white paper shortage the
same as we have"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
The Janitors Won't Kick.

II am afraid of this daylight saw
ing plan"
''Why?"
Because they won't stop with set
ting the clocks ahead; they will be
monkeying with the thermometers
next What will we do if they put 70
degrees down to 60 degrees In the
winter time ?''-The Lamb.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-21
Cold Comfort.

81 was arguing with a fellow about
politics the other day and I'm blest
if he didn't advise me to consult an
alienist" exclaimed the contentious
man.
''Welli Well!'
81 suppose he thought that a fine
piece of Sarcasm?"
"Oh, don't know. Maybe he meant
it"