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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-03-23

Beatrice Morse and Rosalie Ash
ton, who have many successful pro-
auctions to their credit, are now list
ed as members of the World Films
scenario staff. They are engaged
upon a story, in which Montagu Love
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-03-23


such lengths as to be gruesome. The
attack of the Zeppelin upon the de-
fenseless British hamlets is one Of
the most strikingly realistic scenes
ever converted to the screen. Some
OF the night effects are OF stunning
beauty For the first time is seen a
Yep in action.
Corinne Griff7th. Yitagraph star,
had won Mardi Gras honors, taken
beauty prizes and displayed rare
talent as a dancer when she was
discovered" al a social affair in New
Orleans by RoIlin Sturgeon, then a
Vitagraph director. One Of her best
portrayals Is that OF Virginia Denton
in THE Menace" the Blue Ribbon
Feature. which will be seen in the
Isis on Monday and Tuesday. Evart
ORerton has the leading male role.
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brother. the ono who clicked It by the
old lone tree. If you blokes want to
get the creeps, you ought to ear I'm
talk. Some O. the fellows claim that it's
unlucky to get i'm started. They sye
that one O. is carers is sure to click
it within a few days time. but if you
fellows want to tyke the chance, III go
over to lis section, which is occupying
if I can get i'm to tell us about is
brother. But. now mind. this fellow is
a little balmy in is napper, SO don't
make fun of i'm
1 confess that was glad to be rid of
him. but my curiosity overcame my
fears. I asked Curly to go ahead.
The rest of the crew weakly assented,
and Curly went after JerIy's brother.
with him. Jerry's brother came over
and sat on the frestep next to mo. He
sat silent for a few minutes, and then,
in a thin piping. high-pitched voice,
spoke:
$50 you want to ear about Jerry. do
you. They called him Aunted Jerry
but he weren't 'aunted- e could Just
see-'e could see into the future; could
sort O. tell what was agoin' to 'appen.
e could talk to the dead. and they told
i'm. 'E always 'ad spirits around i'm
ghosts. you call 'em. but there ain't
no such thing as ghosts-they're souls
awandering' around: they're about us
now"-I slowly eased down the dre-
step away from him.
Jerry used to talk to the dead; e
would ut in a cemetery at night while
in rest billets, and receive messages
from them what can't speak no moro.
Sometimes, lyte at night I can ear
far-a'wy voices acallin' to me, but as
yet cawn't understand 'em. but will
I Will"
My blood begun to curdle.
Curly Wallace, placing his hand on
the speakers knee. softly said:
"Righto, mate, we know you can see
far beyond us, but tell US of 'Aunted
before e clicked it at the lone tree"
Jerry's brother nodded in a compre-
hending way, and, reaching into the
pocket of his tunic, drew out a creased
and muddy piece Of paper, which he
opened out upon his knee, and then. in
an unnatural. sing-song voice, which
sent shivers through US, recited tho
following poem:
- "Between the lines in no mans land'
With foliage gone and trunk that's torn.
lonely sentry takes his stand,
Silently watching from morn to morn
'on starlit night when moon is bright
And spreads its rays Of ghostlike beams
Against the sky, that tree of blight
CHASTITY hangman's sibbet seems.
"When night is black and winds faint sigh
Through Its shell-torn branches moans
call to men To die, to die,'
They answer it with groans and groans.
''But obey the call for more and more
And Death sits by and grins and grins,
And watches the fast-growing score.
The harvest Of bis sentry'S whims,
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move his iocks from the winter graz
ing grounds to the forest reserves,
where they feed in the summer. The
total number of sheep now In the
United States is about 4S,500,OO0, and
there is only one farm of over twenty
acres in every seven that supports a
sheep.
AS to the sheep Of the whole world.
here is census by continents that Is
approximately correct: North America.
Europe, 174,0O0.000; Asia, 110,000,000:
Africa. 100000; Australasia. 109.000,-
900.
Almost nine-tenths Of the sheep in
North America are found In the United
States. and almost all of those Of South
America Craze on the basin of the Rio
de la Plata. The chief sheep country
Of South America is Argentina. It has
S0.000.000 sheep and 1t gives US large
part Of our wool. AS to Europe. almost
half the sheep Of that continent are in
Russia; Spain and France have each
100000 and England about 100000
more. South Africa has 30,000,000 sheep,
and its wool product goes mostly to
A great many of tho fine sheep OF
Australia are brought from Vermont.
I met one Australian squatter who
valued his Vermont sheep at $3.50
head. This was Samuel McCaughey, who
at that time owned more sheep than
any other man in the world. He had a
round million and some of his flocks
cut on the average as much as twenty
two pounds. and at one shearing he
sold a million and quarter pounds
Of wool. I saw one Of his rams at
stock show, which had, I was told, at
least forty-fve pounds OF wool on 1t,
and at the same time saw ewes wear
ing thirty-pound heeces. When 1t is
remembered that eight pounds is the
average estimate of the flsece of the
United States as given by our wool
experts, it will be seen what these fig
ures mean. McCaughey's $5.o00-ram had
SO much wool that Its ears were entire
ly hidden. and the fleece came out
three inches over its eyes. SO that 1t
looked out at the world through these
two little holes in its head. I stuck my
finger into the fleece and had to press
my whole fist in before I could reach
the skin.
The government at Washington Is
urging the farmers to raise more sheep
and the high prices Of wool and NUT
ten caused bZ the HAR I'LL prehablX
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advance was at its height there was
intense anxiety in Berlin lest tho oil
wells should be lost to Germany as
war resurcce.
The Galicians as a people multiplied
somewhat too rapidly for the soil to
sustain the entire population. and for
many years Galician emigration was
encouraged by the Austrian govern
ment. Galician colonies exist in To-
calities as widely separated as the
Canadian northwest and southern Ar
gentina. Galicians are also found In
different parts of the United States.
Part of the population also migrates.
temporarily. during the crop season
to Germany and to other sections of
the Austrian empire. working for a
larger wage than is to be obtained at
home. and then returning with their
savings.
The division of the population large
ly follows geographic lines, and that
is one Of the things that disturbs the
Austrian government when the talk
is heard of creating new nations, such
as genuine Poland and Little Russia.
The Poles are chiefly in the western
section and the Galicians in the east
ern section. The Jews are scattered
more generally throughout the whole
country. Poles constitute about As
pex cent e6 ths total populatian and
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East Galicia to Russia. The Vienna
Congress a few years later made a
new division.
Under most OF the partitions the his
toric city Of Cracow. the northern
gateway of the Carpathians, was not
part Of Galicia. Cracow for three CEN
turtles was the capital Of Poland. In
der the various partitions of the auto
Gratis in 1772 and later a nominal in
dependence was preserved for 1t and
the adjoining district under a sort of
triple protectorate Of three powers
that Is, of Prussia, Russia and Aus
tria. A kind of oligarchic republic
functioning in this sphere was created
with senate or governing body. Aus
tria was given the preponderant in
huence in administration.
Having at least a semblance of inde-
,pendence, Cracow became the center of
various Polish national movements. To
the autocratic powers these movements,
of course, were conspiracies. One of
these conspiracies, late in the 40s, was
made the pretext by Austria for ahol-
fishing the nominally Independent exist
ence of Cracow and Incorporating it
into Galicia. This was done with the
consent Of Prussia and Russia. Since
then Cracow has been. territorially and
politically. an integral part Of Galicia.
Polish national aspirations and mem.
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other things that Mt them for weaving.
To the naked eye merino wool ~ It
comes from the sheep seems to be made
of fine curly hairs. They are SO ane
space the size of silver quarter. and
so fine that a pound can be spun into
a thread 100 miles long. 1t Is only by
putting the fbers under a microscope
hairs. Enlarged to the size Of . lead
pencil you observe that each Is cover
ed with sharp scales. which overlap
one another like those of fish. The
scales are so close together that there
are several thousands of them on
single inch of the fiber. These scales
are found on all wool and 1t IL tho
scales that enable the wool to be
woven. They interlock SO that the
ibers of which the cloth is composed
character of the fiber. its length. its
curl and other things affecting the
weaving which have to do with the
value of the wool.
sheep of the same breed. according to
where they are found. Just now some
of the finest wool OF the world 10 the
merino raised on the high, dry lands
sheep of Algeria and Morocco grow ex-
cellent wool, and so also do those of
Asia Minor and Persia, as well as those
which Craze on the highlands of the
AnQeS. our On1O ana fcnnSylVau16
sheep produce some of the strongest
wool in the world. They are chisfiy
merinoes, and they pasture on the sod
covered land. Our Michigan and New
York woods are almost as good and
after them come the woods from Ken
lucky, Indiana, Missouri and Wisconsin.
There is a special grade for Texas
wool. and also for certain woods -of
Oregon and California. We have one
grade known as territory wool"
which comes from the great range
states of the west. such as Montzna.
Wyoming, Idaho. Nevada and Colorado.
Much OF that wool is from sheep which
feed on the high piateaus. where-.the
wind blows sand and dirt into the
fleeces. It Is related that ono sand storm
which came up while the men Were
shearing a flock, caused them to stop
work for an hour. and that at thee1td
of the storm the average weight Of the
fleece had risen from six to--nine
pounds. In such wool a great shrink
age has to be allowed for on account Of
the. dirt FRANK
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sheep population. They say there
and that there are millions of acres of
suitable land in the west which should
be occupied by them. Moreover, the
present-day labor conditions are such
as to encourage the business, as COM
paratively few mon are needed In con-
nection with it.
Not only the Department Of Agricul-
ture, but several patriotic wool asso-
Citations as well, have organized move
ment to increase our product of mutton
and wool. Among the latter are the
National Sheep and Wool Bureau and
the More-Sheep-More Associa-
ton of the United States. These are
composed of wool dealers, textile manu-
facturers. bankers and others. all of
whom are uniting with the packers to
give us more wool and more meat. Sec
retary Houston has sheep specialists
who are travelling over the country lee
turing to the farmers on sheep hus-
bandry, and he is planning to organize
boys and girls sheep clubs as part Of
the extension farm movement OF every
state. He is especially anxious to in
crease the focks in New York and New
England and also in West Virginia,
North Carolina, Texas and Michigan.
The wool experts are also sending out
over the country educational exhibits IL
Illustrating sheep and wool. and with
them are lecturers who are urging the
farmers to increase their number of
sheep We have experiment stations for
the studying Of sheep management in
Maryland and Vermont. and in Fremont
Idaho, there is a sheep farm OF
10000 acres. which is experimenting on
a large scale. The bureau Of animal in
dustry has q flock of 1000 ewes on that
station, and this number will be in
as rapidly as possible. It is
desired that the farmers east
Of the Missouri river raise moro sheep.
The experts say that 25,000.000 more
ewes can be kept there at q profit. and
that II this is done 1t will greatly help
the meat supply for ourselves and our
allies. 1t will also add 200, ,000, 900 pounds
more wool to our annual clip.
AS 1t Is now, the United States wool
product Is several hundred million
pounds short every year. In 1915 we i'm
ported 3Os.000.000 pounds, and we have
now the additional needs of our Army.
How can they be supplied? In the past
we have imported a great deal Of wool
from Australia. This supply was cut off
N 126 Xhen thA lRIitish a0xaEnnaat
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Problem of Gaicms Partition Into Poland and Ruhemia

Ruthenians 42 per cent. SO that there
is not a great disparity. The Poles
are rigid Roman Catholics. The Ru-
thenians are Greek Catholics. without
considering themselves entirely cut off
from Rome. yet in the religious sense
their Affiliations are with the Russian
Church.
Polish Galicia, historically. has not
always been territorially what 1T now
is. When the autocrats Of Prussia,
Russia and Austria began their nu-
merous partitions of Poland in 1772
Galicia was not considered with spe
cial reference to its geographical sit
uation, although some attention had
been paid to geographic lines by the
partition made the early part Of the
fifteenth century. West Galicia in 1909
was made an adjunct to Poland, and
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our front-line trench. It was pretty
we'll knocked about by bullets and shell
fragments. 1t made a pretty good
guide post, stickin' sort O. lonely like
up against the skyline at night. Recon-
noitering patrols and bombing parties
used it to show 'em the wye back to
their trenches, because, y'know. out
there in the blackness it's easy to lose
your wye, unless you ave spirits aguid-
in you.
Lots of times English and German
patrols would meet near the lone tree,
and many a 'and-to-'and fight would
tyke plyce around Its roots
"At that part o. the limo II wore
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lgG Vase M@nGQ JGfTV LONE lrGe DeMel--

some e.s n - -. - - ~>
,Ts rss- x'tA 's@ al Ftsas I kn'~s
Just sAsa Shn started 10 vAims.s. J
felt Ike whimpsring.
4 =
Wfkhout smother Wogd ~yo
hro<her eoe mp. ana muttsr1n1 % HIM
self. passed out Of sight around tAs
tr1vsrse. A he disappeared from
view. Sailor Bin exclaimed:
.Blawst my headlights. but if . b1plss
ltke that ever slipped IN the navy in
q fortnight's time . would bloomtn'
we'll be an admiral. because . would
be tho only ono left in the blfnins navy.
Gives me the proper creeps. 'ow In ell
3 company stands for i'm I don't know.
'ow about 1t. Curly-why 'asn't . bssn
sent to Blighty as balmyf"
TIL tell you. BILL answered Burly.
'this bloke only gets these flts o6ca-
sionally. 'E's a damned good soldier
always on the Job. and. next to Corp.
'es tho best scout for work in no mans
land that's ever put foot In these
blinkin' bitches. It's only lately that
'e's been 'avin' these spells SO often.
and yesterday the sergeant major told
me that e was under observation. ana
that it would only be a short time be-
fore e was shipped back"
'Is It fact. Curly" asked HAPPY,
that this 'Aunted Jerry crawled out
there the way his brother says. ana
that he was found dead without .
wound on him., If It's SO. he must have
had q bloody poor heart and died that
way"
Curley answered: TT sure II %. be-
cause 1 got 1t from q leftenant In
'Aunted Jerry's section"
Jim was still whimperins. This got
on keys nerves: he gave him a sharp
cuff on the side Of the head This
was tho first time a hand had been
raised against Jim since he had Joined
US months back. He gave Ikey
piteous look and. sticking his stump OF
q tail between his legs, disappeared
from the firebay. Two days later key
made up for that slap because. at the
risk Of his life, during an attack. ne
raced out into no mans land under
heavy fire and brought in the bleeding
body Of Jim.
Ali afternoon we tried to be a. cheer
full as possible. but our merrtmene
was very artificial. Every laugh
seemed forced and strained. Haunted
Jerry had sure put the "kibosh" on us.
That night Curly. Happy and I were
on watch from 10 to u, and. believe
me. we never spent worse two hours
In our lives. There was not word
spoken among us. I was thinking OF
Haunted Jerry, and no doubt the otner
two were doing likewise: -
A few days later Jerry's brother was
sent back to Blighty, and no doubt
right now is in some insane asylum IN
Blighty communicating with H2unteo
Jerry and his spirits
Copyright, 1918, Mcclure NewsparsR eynd1eAssy
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tain slopes and in the plains and val
leys all the products Of the temperate
climate are cultivated. Wheat, corn,
rye, barley and potatoes are the chief
crops, but in some sections sugar beets
and tobacco are grown. The valleys of
the Vistula and the Dneister are the
main sources of agricultural produc-
ton.
The mineral products include coal.
salt. zinc and petroleum. About 40 per
cent Of the total production Of zinc in
the Austro- Hungarian empire comes
from Galicia. The oil deposits are
valuable. The output in normal years
exceeds 100000 barrels annually. Ber-
lin capitalists had obtained control of
these Galicia oil wells before the out
break Of hoStiltttes. When the Russia
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pretty 'ot. what with the rife and ma
chine gun firing. The only time there
would be lull in the firing was when
q reconnoitering patrol was out in
front. and then, as you know. you
couldn't fire for fear of lifting your
own blokes. All around the lone tree
were scattered many bodies. mostly
English and German. Some of 'em 'ad
been alyin' there for weeks, and when
the wind were ablowin' from the Ger
man lines toward US 1t were sort Of un-
pleasant In our front line
Every time the captain would call
for soldiers for a accommodating patrol,
'Aunted Jerry. as you call i'm, alwys
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Garments of Wool for the Army and Where They Come From

put an embargo on all wool shtpmsnts
from there to this country. understand
that 100,0oO,0o0 pounds have now bean
released and that the embargo may b
raised as far as we are concerned Tbs
Pacific shipping facilities are not rood.
however, owing TO the need Of vessels
for the Atlantic service. and We shall
probably have to rely upon getting most
of our wool from Argentina The product
of that country is of the lower grades,
and 1t cannot replace the fine Australian
wool
woods are also different according TO
the wave or curl in them and In certain
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induce many Of them to go into this
business. For ten years before the
war began, wool sold. according to its
character annd the market. all the way
from 19 to 25 cents per pound. In
1915 tho average price was less than
23 cents, and in midsummer, 1916. it had
risen to 20 cents. Last year the av-
erage price per pound was just under
SIS cents and today it is selling for more
than that. Sheep have trebled in value
and there is more money in sheep rails
ing than there has been at any time in
our history. The agricultural experts
tell me that we could easily double our
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staAeS End. m fsct, there is no rdHoe N
earth, except South Africa, where the
There has been a notable decline IN
our focks. since the year 1900. Wool
has been so cheap that the lands have
been turned from pastures to grain, and
we now fand some of our best grain
producing areas in the great plains
where thirty years ago there were only
cattle and sheep. Intensive agriculture
is breaking up the sheep ranges of the
west. They are being divided into
homesteads and fenced SO that the
sheep man must have open trails to
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kos % thai afssr 8 Who y was nsver
,:ss "ssa e sas;S + g: ss s,ss;a Down
IN our dussst jerry we1fa tan me
wv many dead ware hfQund the tree
,ow 3 could count % 's@ in the d.fa !
'somstfmes In ths day time - wsu1d
rig up . periscope of Ia own and sit on
the f1restep for hours, alookin' out in
bodies around It This sort O. got on
our captains nerves. and . gave Jerry
orders not to use . perisoopa After
this order Jerry used to sit on by
nausin'. The other blokes laughed at
i'm, but knew what he were Adoin'-
e were atalkin' to the spirit Of the lone
tree.
Then . got sort o reckless and be-
cause it were against orders for I'm to
use a periscope. q used to, IN tho
bloomin' day time. stick 'is 'ead over
the top and gaze IN the direction of
the lone o,s sTes bullets - from S
the sand bags all around i'm, but none
of 'em ever 1t i'm. No bullet ever
myde could kill 'Aunted Jerry. as you
call i'm.
4
Tho rest O. the blokes in the
trench would pull I'm down OF the fire.
step. They thought they were asavin'
his live. but Jerry weren't afraid from
bullets e knew, and SO did I. that
they couldn't arm I'm Then our cap
tain-'e 'ad brains, . 'ad-said that
Jerry was balmy and gave orders to
the sergeant major to tyke 'im back
to the doctors to send i'm to Blighty.
Jerry was told about this the night
before q was to leave. ID was greatly
upset and did nothin' but talk to the
spirits-the air was full Of 'em-I
could ear their voices, too.
THAT night shout 10 o'clock Jerry
was missed. Tho next morning . was
still amissin'. For two days nothin'
was 'eard Of Jerry. Then the Royal
Irish Rifles took over . sector Of
trench on our right A lot Of our
in. few Of 'em got around me. and
I described Jerry to 'em. but weren't
afraid for jerry knew where %
vase were with rs spirits.
THAT night an Irish patrol went out
and when they returned they brought
a body with them; said they'd found
it at the foot O. the lone tree. 1t were
examined i'm. lookin' for wounds. e
was dead, all right, and that bloomin'
captain-'e 'ad brains. e 'ad-was re-
sponsible for is death. e 'ad tried to
tyke Jerry aw'y from is spirits. so
Jerry crawled out to the lone tree to
answer its call. e answered 1t, and
now 'e's with the spirits e loved, and