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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
THEIR FINAL REST TOGETHER
Soldiers Intensely Pathetic Deserlp-
tion of the Burial of Youthful Scot
fish Officer With His Men.

.&t G%Sta@SasA>ks -E - -
/ stood one night on a certain hill
that commands the firing line in an
almost soundless panorama. Beside
me was an officer Of the Second Ca
madam division, who had just come
out. There that night, by its white
trail of irldescent light, we could trace
the course of the firing line for many
miles through France and Flanders.
Just to our left the line Of light
jutted far out, like a lone cape into
the sea. "What is that ~jutting-out
placer" my friend inquired. -
"That," l answered, "is the Ypres
salient, the Bloody Angle of the Brit
ish line"
To mention the name Of Ypres is
to have ones memory awakened with
a veritable kaleidoscope of pictures.
That trail of light that jutted out into
the night looked like a cape, and an
iron cape it has been through months
and years Of war. But the holding Of
that cape has been at an awful cost,
and there was not an inch along that
trailing line Of light that had not
cost it's trailing line of blood.
Just after the first gas attack in
April, 1915, the whole countryside was
in a panic. The roads were filled with
civilians in alarm, fleeing down
try, and with limbers and marching
troops Fastening up. / was passing
through the town Of Vlamerthigne,
which is situated two miles beyond
Ypres. In a field at the side Of the
road l saw a funeral party. 1t con-
sisted Of several pioneers, serving as
grave diggers, a gfay-headed Scottish
major, and a corporal's guard to act
as firing party.
/ learned that this inconspicuous
group were burying the last original
officer of a battalion Of the Cameron
Highlanders. The dead officer was a
young subaltern, and the gray-haire0
old major was his father, who had
come from another regiment to attend
the funeral of his son
So, over in a great deep trench,
where a number Of the rank and file Of
the fallen Camerons were already laid,
the body Of their dead subaltern vas
placed. AS l saw the officer and his
men of the bonnie Highland regiment
thus laid to rest together, 1 thought
Of the requiem Of Saul and Jonathan;
'They were beautiful In their lives,
and in their deaths they were not d.
vided."-Capt. Arthur Hunt Chute, In
the North American Review.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
Rides Well at Ninety.five.

Jockeys, no matter what their age
are generally referred to by those not
closely in touch with racing as "the
boy on So-and-So," but a stable lad"
still going well at n~inety-ive is GER
tainly hard to beat. There is one, as
shown by the following clipping from
the London Sportsman Of recent date:
Zone of the brightest and most alert
of the lads riding horses around the
paddock at Windsor prior to their
races was old Faulkner, the GRANDPA
Their of the steeplechase jockey of that
name. He is n~inety-five years old. His
memory is of the best and so is his
hearing. He has been connected with
horses all his life and many a tale OF
the turf he can tell"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
Care for Repatriates.

In the view of the academy the
press has been allowed, more by neg
ligence than ignorance, to print much
scientific information the Importance
Of which escaped the editors and
which should have been kept secret
The columns of matter relating to the
German long-range gun form a case
In point. NJ. Charles LIE Gofic, a sci
entifc writer of note, writing on this
subject, says that the press has in
dulged in a veritable orgy of details
concerning the experiments in prog
ress in France to extend the range OF
the heavy artillery. Plans Of shells
and guns, he alleges. have even been
published.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
CENSOR SCIENCE NEWS
Popular Articles DivuIge Secrets
to the Foe.
Even French Academy of Sciences IN
nocentIy Gives Facts Useful
to Enemy.

Paris.-How popular science dis
cussed in the daily and magazine press
conveys information to the enemy n
how even great national institutions
like the French academy of sciences
sometimes innocently divulge secrets
which the enemy finds useful is told
by q writer in La Liberte, who protests
against the indiscriminate propagation
of technical information. The writer
comments on the fact that the acad-
envy Of sciences has suggested that the
censorship be rendered more effective
bv the addition of a few savants who
will be able to recognize valuable SCI
entifc information when they see 1t.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01

"Only 157 packages of these fans were
exported to the United States in 1917,
as compared with 5,028 in 1916 and
1851 in 1915. The common fans are
simply the trimmed leaf and stem of
the ordinary small palm which grows
wild in most districts of south China,
but usually for the fan trade is grown
in low-lying grounds in the San Wui
district of the Pearl river delta.
ut requires about seven years to
grow the palms to the size necessary
for good fan leaves, and after that they
furnish an annual crop indefinitely
the Chinese stating that the trees live
for hundreds of years, producing their
annual crop.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
Had No Terrors for Hin.

Murphy, says the San Francisco Arr
gonaut, was making his first trip
across the Atlantic, and he felt un-
speakably awful. He failed to con-
meet the fact of his being on the brimy
ocean for the first time with his agony.
The doctor came to him as he tossed
about in his berth.
"Cheer up, man." he said heartily.
81 know you're feeling rotten, but
you're not going to die"
Murphy opened Mortified eyes. Not
going to die?' he walled. "Faith, doc
tor, 1 thought / was! That was the
only thing that kept me alive"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01

the outbreak of Lenine's revolution, by
passionately warning against any rec
ignition or cooperation with Bolshe-
vikiSm.
Terestschenko originally was a So
cialist revolutionist, and hence a mar
of radical ideas, but he emphatically
declares that ~Bolshevikism means
nothing as a factor in the social anne
Iteration.
"Brute force is the Bolshevik god"
he said. mo cooperation with Bolshe-
vik leaders is worth while, because
they cannot create an army. Morally
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
PALM-LEAF FANS ARE SCARCE
High Freight Rates Cut Down lmpor
tation of Old-Time Sum-
mer SoIace.

MISUNDERSTANDING all the threat
ened famines brought about by war
conditions, a palm-leaf fan famine is to
be expected, according to a report from
Consul General George E. Anderson
Hongkong, China.
zone of the lines of export of some
moment from Hongkong to the United
States which has been temporarily de-
stroyed by high freight rates and the
high exchange value Of silver is that OF
palm-leaf FANS" says Mr.. Anderson
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
DoUsE STACKER IN PAINT
Stands In Way of 100 Per Cent Red
Cross Contribution and Fellow
Workers Act.

Pittsburgh, Pa.-Andy Tomko, an
Austrian, stood in the way of a 100
per cent contribution to the second
Red Cross wal fund by the Edgar
Thompson Steel works employees. He
would give nothing, he said. A del
egation met him, took him by the
heels and soused his head in a barrel
Of red paint; then they turned him
around and put him in feet first. His
time was given him minus a days
pay for the Red Cross and then he
was discharged. The plant Is q 100
per center.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
AGAINST AID TO B0LsHEvIKI
kerensky's Former Foreign Minister
Warns World That Any CO.
Operation Is Useless.

Young Terestchenko, the heir to the
great Kiey sugar works founded by his
father. and Kerensky's foreign minis
ter, in whose cabinet he was the young
est member, breaks his long maintain
ed silence for the first time since ne
fed from Russia to Scandinavia upon
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
journalistic pilettante.

whats the matter with the city
editor? Two members of the staff are
holding him and he looks as If he were
about to have a lit"
ats the fault of that wealthy cub
reporter hired last week. The C. e.
told him to cover q Red Cross meeting
this afternoon and he said it would
interfere with his game Of golf
Birmingham Age-Herald.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
"W0PS," "%BOHUEKS,"
ETC., BANNED

Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ca
"Wops," "dagoes," "bohunks"
and similar names may not
hereafter be applied to non
English-speaking soldiers at
Camp Gordon. General Sage
has issued an order requiring
soldiers and officers to so con-
duct themselves toward non-
English-speaking soldiers that
no prejudice, antipathies or hui
initiation may arise.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01

A children's fete was attended by q
royal patron, who stopped for an in
slant to smile down upon one of the
diminutive maidens taking part n 1t,
and the child anxiously held up her
wee mouth for a kiss, which she re-
ceived.
.Enie!' gasped her astounded
mother. after the royal parsonage had
passed on. "How could your" II
fought" said the girl, lit nd be inter-
estin' TO tell my grandchildren
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
GOOD SAMARITAN is REPAID
Woman Who %sefriended Soldier Re-
ceives $4,000 Insurance When
Man Is Killed.

Nevada, Mo.-Mrs. S. H. Mellet,
owner of a small home bakery here,
has received word from the war de-
partment she will receive $4,000 in
surance on the life Of Thomas III.
Price, a soldier who recently died from
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01

NEAR T0BACC0 KILLS HUNS
Substitute Used by Teutons Is Termed
More Deadly Than Enemy
Gas Attacks.

Amsterdam.-The tobacco substi-
tute supplied to the Germany army
has proved m9re INJURIOUS than enemy
gas attacks, Deputy Mueller of Meln'
ingen asserted In the rsiichstag; The
substitute Is composed of beech leaves
a Y the Koelnische Zeitung. On be-
half of the army administration Gen
eral Won Oven admitted that further
delivery of the substitute has beer
stopped. 4es
E-xk-zs~S
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
Play important Role in Making
Repatriates Contented in
Strange Surroundings.
RED CROSS IS CHIEF AID
Cares for FriendIess and Homeless
People Whom Germany Dumps
Back From the Captured
French Hamlets. &

Bourg, France.-All repatriates are
homeless, but some have friends In
France who take them in. Those who
are friendless as well as homeless
when Germany dumps them back from
the captured French hamlet are sent,
according to the plans Of the minis
try of the interior, so many to this
department, so many to that; and the
departments divide them among the
villages, two families here. three there.
All over the west and south Of
France you find them, these people
imbued with a love of their own fire
sides which the nomadic American
can never understand, torn up sudden
ly by the roots and transplanted to
an utterly strange community, with
out anything in the world but a little
baggage they can carry and the franc
and a half q day allowed by the French
government. The father of the family
is dead, or missing or a prisoner, or
at the front. The daughters and the
sons who could work are still in Ger
many. Those in France were sent
back because they were too old, too
weak Or too young to work-useless
mouths to the Germans, They are
the repatr1ate problem in which our
Red Cross is lending a hand.
r~-G~1Eaax-rnW EsyvEa-
Care for Repatriates.
The department of the Ain Is typi-
cal. Bourg, its principal city, lies a
enough to the Swiss border 50 that
when six hundred people were expect
ed, the Red Cross delegates could go
to Eyian and journey back with the
conveys:
When the delegates met the re-
patriates on the train, they gave them
an order which assured to each family
q little Of the coal which was so
precious in France in cold weather. A
printed letter stated that the Amepi-
cans knew their sufferings and SYM
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01

the accidental discharge Of a gun
aboard a transport.
Price came here Several years ago, i'll
and penniless. Mrs. Mellet took him
to her home, nursed and cared for
him until he was well, and then helped
him secure a Job. Assigning Of his
war risk insurance to her was the only
way he could show his gratitude, he
told her, just before leaving.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
Horse Kicks Man Ten Feet.

Greenberg, Ind.-Albert Bruner, 8
prominent and wealthy Decatur county
farmer, was injured seriously when
kicked by a horse. He was knocked
ten feet by the blow. which landed
in his abdomen.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
puxzlIno the Kaiser.

"Dere's one ting puzzles me- said
the kaiser.
"vot's dot, eggsellencyf" asked an
underling.
"Mid dose Yanks sbending all dere
time making money upd in~ventioning
fine machines for us to swipe venever
did dey learn how TO fight de way deg
dO?"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01

Several of the prominent New York
hotels have adopted the policy of set
ting apart an entire floor for the exc
elusive use of women patrons.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
and placed his motortruck at the dis

and placed his mOtOrtruck at the us
posa1 of the army.
With FIVE wounded American. SOL
diers and all the refugee children he
could carry, he started for Paris. Ex-
cept for brief maps he had snatched
lying on the roadside beside the truck
he had not slept in 48 hours when he
reached the French capital, but he inn
mediately loaded a truck with fresh
supplies and returned to the front.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01

~speaking, n cooperation with them
Is worse than useless because they are
mao with ambition and greed for gold.
Sixteen months of revolution have
passed, including eve months of Boil
sheyikism, and who has been bene-
flied? The Russian army? No, 1t is
disorganized. The working classes?
No. all labor is dormant or is plunged
into q severe economic struggle. The
peasants? No, for the worthless money
caused a frightful situation for the
peasant, who was thereby induced to
fight for a strong government"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01

Through German sources comes me
assertion that the soviet government
of Russia has declared 1t will ally
itself with Germany If an A~ngio7Jap-
anese expedition ~intervenes in Siberia.
No doubt Lenine would commit MIN
self to such a course, but it is a ques-
ton whether he would be sustained
by any great numbers of Russians.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01

Germany's penetration OF western
Russia and Finland has been accom-
panied by such brutalities that the
minority socialists in the reichstag
have been attacking the governments
policy strongly. Their leader, Hugo
Haase. asserts that since the Germans
entered Finland $1,000 Workmen nave
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-12-16
CONDENSED MILK FOR
LITTLE SlClllANS

The problem Of caring for the babies
of Sicily was n which the Red Cross
workers were almost at a loss to solve
until the shipment Of sweetened con-
densed milk came to their rescue. A
can Of condensed milk would last n
baby a week, for one spoonful, put in a
cup Of boiling water, was sufficient for
a feeding, and SO, to many a Sicilian
family the terms America" and Soon
densed milk" will always be synony-
nous.
Last February a list Of fifty families
Of Italian soldiers was given to the
Red Cross workers in Italy. The fam
lilies were carefully investigated and
registered and the milk was given to
them for the little children, especially
the babies. Mothers came for the cans
and were grateful beyond expression.
But with the coming Of warm
weather it was necessary to give out
the milk daily, as 1t would not keep
sweet. The mothers brought their
own containers, and the milk was pre-
pared, sugar added, and they were in
structed carefully as to Its use. Abso-
lutte cleanliness of receptacles was In
sisted upon, and the homes were Wis
tied In order to make sure that the
milk rations were being backed by
t~r
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-12-16
FOOD AT LOW COST
FOR BELGIAN FAMILIES

Through the combined efforts of the
American Red Cross and the Belgian
Government, food Is 10Y supplied at
low cost to the families of those Bel
giah soldiers who are at the front or
have been killed or taken prisoner.
The Commissioner for Belgium Of the
Red Cross recently advised the Bel
gian Government that the American
people were ready to undertake this
work and that the Red Cross would
provide 10000 francs a month for Ii.
The Belgian Minister of Supplies
has a chain of sixty-five stores In
France and at the front. which sell
goods to the families Of Belgian sol
diers working In munition plants OF
other places In the
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-12-16
mid BURSTING BOMBS
And ROCKETS GLARE
herolsm Of Two Red Cross Doc
tors and Two Women Canteen
Workers During Bombardment.

Just outside the French town of
Compiegne stands the Chateau Of An
mel. an ancient structure dating back
hundreds Of years. IT. walls and vault
"a rooms could tell many a tale Of
medieval neutrality-suspicious. Of
vlolence-of romance and sorrow.
Today 1t can tell the story of two
ourgeons-American Red Cross doc
t0rs-who for a day and a night and a
second day saved hundreds Of lives
operating by candle light upon wound
"a French soldiers, the while shells
crashed and the ping Of machine gun
bullets resounded-the while the enc
my was advancing steadily until he got
within ave miles Of the little hospital.
The chateau had been used as an
advance hospital under direction Of
the French Service de Sante. Major
TArnowsky and Major Morehead, two
Rcd Cross doctors, were In charge,
the personnel being French. When
the enemy calne within six kilometers
the French authorities ordered the
evacuation Of the place, the patients
being removed at night In canal boats.
The two Red Cross doctors were at
their Wits ends. Their labors were
circumscribed by human limitations.
There were just four hands and no a 8
sistance Of any kind. But somehow
fate usually i~ntervenes when the need
n direct. So In the nick Of time two
American canteen women came over
from Complegne.
SUI, supplies e lacking, and
again tate proved kind. Five heavily
ladan Red Cross camions arrived with
a A hQur after the women. each with
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-12-16
FOR CHRISTMAS
Osborn's Drug Store

two men, so that the personnel now
consisted Of two doctors, two women
and ten men.
Inside two begrimed human beings,
spattered with blood. tense Of face, but
alert and ready for any emergency.
Two brave women r handing them
the instruments as they are needed
the bandages, the other surgical para
phernalia. Other men are holding can
dies, administering anaesthetics, car
rying In the wounded, carrying out
those whose wounds have been bound
up, playing hospital angels In an un-
known tongue to the fellows lying in
the wards.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-12-16

ASIDE from the saving of the lives of
the children, the soldiers are happier
and they are better soldiers now that
they know that their loved one are
being cared for by the Crossa Rosa.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-08-29
HOWARD S0LLlN
/ IS HEARD FROM

" August %, 1918.
Dear Mother: Received your two
letters which were waiting, for me
when I got back from Aix-Les- Bains,
one of which was written on the 10th
of June and the other on the 22nd and
we sure had a wonderful time while
we were there. I expect you got the
cards that I sent you from Aix-Les-
Bains. Also sent the other folks
cards, so you will be able to see what
a beautiful place it really is, there
was always something doing.
I will tell you about it. We left
here at our camp two weeks ago to-
day and got into Aix-Les-Bain the fol-
lowing night about IL o'clock and of
course the provost marshal was there
lat the train to meet US and they took
US up to the NJ. P. station and got our
names and registered us at different
hotels, where we got rooms and meals
and we got nice feather beds to sleep
in and we sure did sleep that night.
John Larson and T. sleep in the same
room and they were fixed pretty nifty
and the next morning we got up kind
of late and so we rang for our break
4<1Sts <14kCA We A1ou OACdhAooI We CIV
cleaned up and went out to see the
town and we hit the Y. M. c. A. the
first thing and it sure is something
swell to see that big building. A big
bunch of us fellows took trip up Mt.
Reward on the little train which runs
on cogs in order to make the steep
grades and they stop twice on the
way up so you can get out and take a
look around the country and you sure
see some wonderful sights, you see
MT. Reward is little over 5000 feet
high. We took bicycles along with
US, they loaded them on fiat cars, and
after we got up there we went up
into the observatory and could look
off to the front Of US and see Mt.
Blanc with her snow caps and the
Italian Alps and it sure was Won
derful sight to see. We looked thru
the telescope at Mt. Blanc and looked
like you could reach out and grab it..
We had dinner on the mountain and
after we had ate we took our bikes
and started coasting down the noun
tain side, some of the fellows took
the q kilometer course and others
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-08-29

took the Al kilometer, Alvin Large
and I were the only ones that took
the AZ kilometer course in our COM
pany, it sure was some hairpin turns
going down the mountain, but we
made them without accident, of course
there were few fellows who took
little tumbles and got punctures 60
ing down.. We got into Aix-Les- Balm
about $3.50 that afternoon and it sure
was warm ride, too. We went to
the show in the Casino that night and
tehy had a vaudeville show with IL
acts, and they sure were good. We
made another trip up Mt. Reward a
few days later. and took the ride down
the 27 kilometer route and which took
US into CRANBERRY. We rode around
there for quite awhile and saw the
town, and rode back to Aix-Les-Ba
and got back in time for supper. We
took in the sulphur baths there and
they sure are wonderful thing and
went up to the cave where the sui
phur comes out of the ground, and it
sure is warm water. We also took in
the museum and saw many old Roman
relics of which that country the Ro-
mans used to dominate. They gave US
a reception while we were there by
the American ladies, we had ice cream
and chocolate. We went to LA
Tosca," one night and it sure was
good. We saw lot of swell people in
Aix-Les-Bain. We left Aix-Les-Bain
last Thursday and got into our camp
Saturday noon, and seemed kind of
funny to get back to camp life again
and hear the old bugle. Well must
close for this time. With love to all.
Your loving son,