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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-04

time ago from an extended visit WITH
Mr. Mcqueen. w'ho had been III for
some tina
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07

vaderl Home of the brave Porthos, whose Titan deeds were the marvel of his time, and whom the other three referred to much as the old Greeks referred to Ajax, or the Northman to Thor Porthos, whose only religion was love of friends ard love of country An, how Porthos would have fought for Pierrefonds. No tale of valor ever told would begin to describe his prodi- eies here How proud he was of his pleas ant little vineyard, and his gilded gates and tall trees along the driveway. How glad he was to entertain his three friends here and sit in the park and talk of the old rides and battles.
 There is something cryptic and fore ordained to this column about this recur- renee of long forgotten Pierrefonds in the fateful annals of France This castle can not fall It is impregnable. Its approaches are guarded by the shades of Porthos and D'Artagnan and Athos and Aramis; one for all, all for one Romance is not dead Its nervous force in the sword arms of those who fight for France Is mightier than mere muscle and physical strength. Pierrefonds bars the way in the Compeigne sector. Porthos' castle is again rallying place tor the friends of France. The magic of old days is here, more potent than gas against the enemies of this land. A D'Artagnan to the rescue! Ho, Porthos, hastenl The noble face of Athos appears at the gate in the purple shadows of the dawn. And here is Ararnis with his cold and terrible calm of battle Pierrefonds, home of POrthos, can never fall to the invader
 -.zsyern or 1Ove rovers O, good wine,
 Brave fighters aIl and great ladies in
 your pride;
 Dreamers of delicious dreams fine,
 Tread softly here for here D'Artagnan
 died'
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07
TWOLITTLE GIRLS SMASH THE POETS
 DEAD LINE

This newspaper man has a dead line for poets and poetry. The poem that finds its way to the copy hook in this office must be worth its place; it must have some class to carry it thus far. Occasionally Ned White or Randall. down in Warren, and an unknown poet or two, break the dead line and adcrn a page of the Review with pleasing bit of verse. But generally the newspaper mans scrap book fur nishes the poems for the Review.
 However, the other day. two little girls invaded the newspaper mans of- fice, each with a poem that smashed all precedents in the matter Of verse that must and must not be given a place They were so small. these girls, and so eager and so excited and so possessed with patriotic zeal, that they broke through, clear to the third line
 Each carried her poem in her hand and they were thrust forward at this newspaper man like bayOnets. And yet they were rather shy and diffident. too, and only half hopeful that their cffusions would see the light of the printed page.
 And the poems are not so bad. eith- CT: well worth their place, if only for the gay heart and shining eyes behind them. Here is one by Beryl Pittman, Fourth Grade B, Lincoln school:
 LIBERTY TO WIN Let the bell of freedom ring While We all may proudly sing, The Star Spangled Banner, Which is waving now
 And which will wave forever. When cur boys come marching home
 with cheer
 Every one will ask at once for moth
 CT dear"
 And father will be SO proud of his
 dear son
 And the deeds that he has done. And mother has a tear in her eye. But still she could not cry, It was just a tear of joy, As sine murmured low. My boyt'
 Beryl wanted the newspaper man to know and to understand. once and for all that she had written this poem all by her lonesome self. "and no one helped me one bit"
 Then came LOttie May Wacek. aged eight both artist and poet. for she had drawn a flag upon the margin of the sheet to illuminate the poem. LCttie's delight over a promise to publish was worth two or three dollars an inch. This is what Lottie had written, in a wild burst of patriotic zeal:
 AMERICA. NY LAND America, my bravest land.
 To you give my heart and hand. With your banners waving high.
 Reaching upward to the sky. With a hip. hip. hurrayl
 America. l truly say. Ncu are surely the brayest land
 And I'm proud you have my heart
 and hand
 Dear liberty would be mocked in Ser
 lin.
 II the Germans the war should win
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07

Dear little girls. these words. pain fully and patiently traced upon the paper in characters almost illegibie. and bravely rhyned in the face of all meters to the contrary. are worth more to this nation than many armed ships and factories making shells and mill tary bands playing grand music. and eloquent OTations or perfect blank verse. They are the strength of the nation. for they come from the nation deepest heartbeat. Some day you. tn your turn. will send a sweetheart. hus- band or son to war. Little girls like you were born on Plymouth Rock and the shore of the James river in Virgin ia, in order to make possible the revO- lution of the thirteen colonies Little girls like you grew to wOmanhOOd tO inspire and send Perry out on Lake Erle and Jackson down tO New OE leans and Taylor to Mexico and Stone wall Jackson to Charlottesville and Grant tO Richmond and Custer to the Little Big Horn and Dewey to Manila Bay and Pershing Co France. This na- tion will grow stronger and never weaker, as long as 1t has girls like you.
 This newspaper man thanks you for the poetry, and he thanks you twice over for your visit.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07
WHIST-LIFE

Hour after hour the cards were fairly
 shuffled
 And fairly dealt, but still got no hand; The morning came, and with a mind un-
 ruffled
 only said, T do not understand. Life is a game of whist From unseen
 sources
 The cards are shuffled and the hands
 are dealt; Blind are our efforts to control the forces That, though unseen, are no less strong
 ly felt. do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play; And through the long, long night will l.
 unruffled,
 Play what l get until the break of day
 -Ironquill Eugene Ware).
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07
''THE YANKSw

The Stars and Stripes, official publication of the American army in France invariably refers to the American troops as Tanks. Copies of the paper show such headlines as ''The Tanks Are Here, Tanks for the Tanks and Tanks Take Village" And a sergeant from somewhere in France writes to his home paper in old Mizzou declaring that, We are to ourselves and our allies. The Tanks, and we like 1t. In fact, it has official sanction, so if you refer to us by nicknames, please let 1t be Tank. "
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07
THE GREATEST THRIFT STAMP STORY
 OF THEM ALL

Here is the champion thrift stamp story of the year, as told to the news paper man by a Warren district man just back from a trip to the state cap ital.
 This man was riding on the train from Phoenix to Tucson when he mo- ticed one of the officials of the state orphan asylum in the seat ahead with a small boy in his charge. Engaging this man in conversation. he was soon struck with the appearance of the lit- tie orphan boy Alert, bright eyed and eager. yet modest ana manly in his bearing, this waif was one to win sympathy and kindliness fl even if one did not know of his double bereave- ment.
 The Warren district man produced quarter and gave it Co the boy. sa,- ing:
 This is for ice cream when ycu get to Tucson
 The boy took the quarter and grave ly thanked the man. But lI not use it for lee cream. he said I'm going to buy another thrift stamp with it A man in Phoenix gave me a quarter and | got a stamp before l got on the train. See. And the boy producel a book with one lonesome stamp past ed inside
 When a poor little kiddie on his way to an orphan asylum is thoughtful enough and game enough Co pass un candy and ice cream and invest any small change that comes his way from a kind hand in thrift stamps it makes the average man feel like a miser ani a stacker on the stamp question. no matter how much he has done for the cause Ot the var
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07
DETAILS OF HORROR

DE AlIS UT F1OhhOh
 PEORIA, H., July 6.-With sixty three bodies recovered and the total number of dead tonight estimated at 100 to 150 persons. government, state and county officials began searching inquiries into the cause of the wreck of the excursion steamer Columbia Friday night Survivors have charged that the big steamer carrying 800 passengers on a return trip from Pc or.l to Pekin, H., l7as driven against a sand bank scarcely ten feet from shore and about five miles south of Peoria, during a heavy fog. First re- ports were that the craft had struck a snag or submerged log.
 While the orchestra continued to play on the dance floor, that proved a death trap to most of the 200 dancers, the vessel. it was said. backed into deep water, where it suddenly broke in two and settled on the bottom of the river with only the pilot house and part of the superstructure appear ing above the water.
 Harry Smith, chief O. police of Pc kin said.
 Reports have come to me that the drinking on board the Columbia the night of the tragedy was carried to extremes. This phase of the case will receive rigid attention after we have buried our dead The result may be amazing"
 The Columbia was condemned eight years ago just before it was purchased and repaired by Captain Mehl, accord ing to R. V. Downes, federal inspector of hulls of St. Louis, and his assistant, G. R. Bowers. who have begun an in vestigation.
 It was on the return trip to Pekin from Peoria Friday night that faint jar extending from stem to stern, gave the first intimation of the onrushing tragedy.
 The tragedy came without warning
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07
PierrefondS

In recent dispatches and maps having to do with the western battle front has ap- peared from time to time the name Pierre fonds. It is just little hamlet situated near Compeigne, and is one of the smaller of the buttresses that bar the way ot the German further into France on the Com peigne sector. But to this writer, and to many of those devotees who kneel at the shrine of romance and idealism and senti- ment Pierrefonds is a magic name, and its appearance now in the vital part of war map IS like the flash of its old master rapier in the forefront of the fight. For Pierrefonds, be 1t known, was the castle and home of Porthos, one of Dumas immortal musketeers and the giant of the beloved quartette.
 From time to time writers and lovers ot history have since the beginning Of the great war, referred to the musketeers and their glorious deeds of an earlier day in many of the towns of France that have been touched by the ebb and flow of this con flict In the first year of the war, Macs tricht, village up near the Holland-Bel- giunn border appeared often in the dis patches. D'Artagnan was killed at Macs tricht, leading Louis XlN's musketeers to victory. AIthos staged his famous drink ing bout in an inn at Amiens. Aramls was wounded on the Picardy road and lett at Compeigne. D'Artagnan fought often all through Flanders, and once took Bau- paume Porthos shed his blood and killed horses many times in mad rides from Paris to Calais.
 Readers and lovers of the musketeers romances number hundreds ot thousands in France, England and America, and their fathers before them read and loved and cherished in their heart of hearts the mem ory of D'Artagnan, the indomitable Gas con; and Athos, the great nobleman; and Aranis, the subtle, skillful, terrible priest; and Porthos, the giant of the great heart and the hand that never failed his friends. Poets have struck their harpstrings anew since the great war to sing of the glory ot these four, and it has been declared time and again by the Poilu that out ot the mlsts of the Flanders and Picardy battle plains. the gray forms of the famous four, swag- gering as of yore in silk and spur and lace and steel have arisen to lead the way Tn some desperate charge. Those poets and idealists ard invincibles of the Foreign Ieqions have sworn that the spirits of the musketeers, who never lost fight, haunt the hottest fields of battle and hold the line with their gleaming rapiers until the foe has fled
 And this column believes every good word of these camfire stories and these waking dreams and these muttered words of delirium from the hot lips of heroes of today of the heroes of yesterday.
 Pierrefonds, a buttress against the in-
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07

when the 800 merry makers aboard. after a nights outing at Alfresco Park in Peoria. were ending the evenings entertainment with dancing and con certs by the orchestra.
 After the survivors had been cared for, it was impossible because of the darkness to continue the search for bodies and this was halted until day light At sun rise scores O. volun- teer workers hacked at the wreck age while two divers began bringing out the bodies.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07
MOB VIOLENCE FEARED

PEKIN, H.. July 6.,-After a day spent in collecting the dead from the wrecked excursion steamer Columbia many citizens, excited by the harrow ing scenes, tonight gathered in sa- looms and other places and threatened the wreck vengeance on any of the ships officers whom they should tind in any at fault for the sinking or the ship with the loss O. a hundred or more lives.
 Precautionary measures against any mob violence were taken by the au- thorities.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07
SEA BATTLE FOUGHT
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ID. ANENAtW A%leA1Na hAANf
 AMSTERDAM, July 6.-An Austrian official statement received here says. "A detachment of our torpedo beats encountered a superior enemy torpedo force on July 2. A violent engage ment occurred at short range. A large enemy destroyer was set afire; anoth- CT was severely damaged. The energy retired swiftly.
 "Our vessels were little damaged; a few men were slightly wounded.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07

I am he that calls the nations Up the heights since time began; l am She that holds the balance For the pouring days of man; And I write in Inc Book of Ages That the World may sec and knew. Where were YOU when the Hun came gleaming In the pride of hs terrible blow?
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07
CLARK WAS FAMER
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 PUEBLO, Colo, July 6.-Priyate James E. Clark of Bent county Colo rado, whose name appears in the day s marine casualty list was homestead CT previous to enlisting in the ma rines shortly before the registration last year. He had dry farm claim some seventeen miles south of Las Animas. Nothing was learned of his parents or other relatives.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07
STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED

They have made stree1 in Paris Ave nue President Wilson. Overheated Ger mans will resent the statement, but Arthur Brisbane, the Washington editor, believes the same thing will be done in Berlin, by the Germans themselves. one of these days.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07
WHERE WERE YOU?
By Edwin Davies SchOOnnlaker

Into your quiet chamber When the bleeding horror came, Did you clasp the Christ to your bosom And venture the seething flame? There are crosses on the hillsides Where the grappling heroes fell. Did you kneel above the wounded In that storm of shot and shell? When the World of light and beauty Paused and staggered from her goal. Did you round the freemans bullet For that battle for the Soul? Did you wind the needed linen? Reach down deep and give and give? Did you shout the passing thousands That the dying lands might live? l canvass the golden cities
 Where the scatheless towers stand I silence the sounding places; 1 search through the fruitful land Where the rising decks stained seaward Did you labor, stript and brown In the double furrow round the field Did you watch the sun go down? Granite shafts are over wonder
 Soaring up the peaceful blue;
 Arch on arch with bronzed statues Tell what clasped hands can do
 Did you watch the ships returning, Proud to know he took his chance? Does your moistened eye go seaward When you say "the soil of France?
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07

UVTHERE were you in the day of the te WV When the thunders shook the world " And the cry went up through the he And the solid hills were hurled? Were you camped in tents of comfort? Were you breast to breast with the woe? write in the Book of the Ages? That the World may see and know When the drums pealed out at midnight And the bugles shrilled at dawn And the stalwart brothers rose and sped Where the darkening host rolled on, When sharp from the tortured nations Came the cry for brain and hand, Did you march with the hurrying heroes Did you answer the call of the Land? When the days were big and stirring And the thrill was in the air. When the League of Man was rising Though the clouds were everywhere, Did you catch the beauteous Vision Dawning through the sky of pain? Did you watch the sea-lights beckoning To your place along the Aisne?
 Never more in all the ages
 Will such royal summons come
 As that call that woke the nations
 At the rattle of the drum.
 When the shrill alarm was sounded
 That the foe was breaking through,
 And the night was closing over,
 Brother, sister, where were you?
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07

Wobbly "Bill'' Cleary IS as foxy as ever. At one and the same time he poses as at torney for the l. w. w. plaintiffs in a suit brought against certain corporations and individuals of Cochise County charged with deporting himself and clients last July. If the l. w w. outfit on trial in Chicago go to prison Bill should worry His fee has been subscribed by the rank and file and their friends and sympathizers in advance. If the case against the Warren district cit izens falls to the ground, which it certainly will, Bill should again worry; the afore- said fee has already been subscribed by the aforesaid rank and file. Bills sympathies proclivities and demagogery have always been very profitable Bill likes to talk, bet ter than most men, whether from curbstone or court but he always talks for Bill and Bills pocketbook Bill by the way, IS also an appointee of Hunt, as well as general counsel for the l. w. w. Pretty soft for Bill work and play and profit and pleasure walking hand in hand in this fashion. He rode out of Bisbee in stock car, but he's been riding in Pullmans ever since. His old stock car friends, however, are still riding in stock cars. A lean night in stock car and fat year in court.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07

This column has followed with interest the progresses of General Crowders work or fight order in New York City. With five millions of people herded together in this narrow space, the idlers, pleasure seek CTS, grafters and buns number thousands, as the proportionate result of a natural law, hence it was to be expected that there would be hurrying to and fro of these gent " to either dodge or accept the law. But arrests were few the first week that the order was in force. The authorities were patient and conservative in their enforce ment of the law Theatres, amusements, hotels, office buildings and stores were the hardest hit. Their men employees must give way to women. Ten thousand men have applied to the authorities for jobs un- der the new order Fourteen thousand were supplied with work in the two weeks pre- vious to the order taking effect.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07
GREWSOME TASK
 OF BRINGING UP
 DEAD CONTINUES

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Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07

which were on their way from Chi cago. He said he thought that the list of dead would be more than 100.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-27
Held to Post with Ambulance
 All Shattered

HANRE. France. Sept. 27- Ambu- lane" work is not in" safest joh i'm aginahlr during d battle. according to the report of Lieutenant F. \. Fish, commanding American Red Cross sec tion "SS l0l ." to tn" Red Cross direC tor of transportation.
 During the fighting of July 2l-27 the section. consisting of twenty am balances. worked day and night in a gas.riddcn and shcll-swcpt area. Al though it handled 1.2S6 wounded dur ing the seven days of fighting. the section found time to assist a British ambulance in cvaCuating gas cases.
 The report mentions l., l.. Wonham, who. after his ear had been wrecked, took that of another driver who had collapsed. and worked both posts. It tells of ambulanccs being SO shot up that the sides rcsembled Siov"s. In once case the driver found himself holding only the wheel of his steering apparatus- a shell had scattered the other parts to the winds
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-27
PRISON LABOR IS ADVOCATED
 FOR THE WAR

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 27.-Prison la is being urged by Warden John Fran cis of tn" Western Pcnitentiary. who is recognized as an authority on the management of penal institutions. and rccIaiming rccrcant manhood Mir Francis has taken up the subject with tn" Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh. which body has called up on congress to enact Legislation that will permit 5OOOO inmates of prisons in tn" country to cngag" in war work.
 According 10 the views of MT Fran cis tn" criminal is a patriot according to his lights He will be glad to help to win the war if allowed to do so. state laws passed to fit peace COndi. tiOns prevent this He holds that it should be possibl" to suspend these laws for war purposes during the con tinuancr of the war by act of con. grcsS That it has not been done MT. Francis thinks is due to an oversight rather than to the determination of anybody to refuse to make Use of tn" resources of the prisoners labor.
 Mir Francis expressed a firm belief in the patriotism of labor and does not think it will oppos" the Us" of prison labor in making supplies un- der present conditions.
 "I am in possession of data which shows that five per cent of the prison labor of the country, engaged on thr manufacture of socks, will turn out i.000,0O0 donZ"ns of pairs in a year , time Mir. Francis r"citos. 'Wr should have had twice that mans socks ready to send to our soldier in Franc" to keep them from freezing during tn" coming winter We could have had them if this proposition Of our prisoners had been allowed to work on them
 What is true ol socks is true C. other supplies. There ar" building and machinery available to turn our mmrns" quantities of supplies anI they ar" not being used There ar. @o.ooo persons rottinE in idlcncss in prison cells in this country becausr They have no employment They ar. dcg"ncratjng morally, mentally ana physically. while their country am the people of Europe need the work they would be glad to give. Soms thing should be done to change this condition of things"
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-27
Lorraine and
 Alsace Workers
 Compelled Save

NEW YORK, Sept. 2. Workers of Alsaco and Lorraine under eighteen years of age may receive only 24 marks week of their earnings Everything over the prescribed sum must b" deposited in a savings bank and cannot he drawn during the war except with the consent of the mayor of tn" municipalities in which they live
 Thrs" restrictions are only part of a system of compulsory saving de yisrd for the young of Alsace and Lorrain" and mad" mandatory by q decree issued hy the commander in chief of the army group of Duke Alhrocht of WuorttcmburE, according to the Cologne Gazette.