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The Nevada County picayune., 1918-03-28
CHESTER WHITE WRITES
 FROM PORTLAND, OREGON

Dear Lester,
 Will give you a little sketch of my trip to Portland. We went to Texarkana on 233 and caught No. 3 to Ft. Worth. We stayed there about two hours, long enough to see the town. We then caught the Sunshine Special to Fl Paso, stayed there about eighteen hours. We started over in Mexico. but they would not let us cross the line without a passport. We .got close enough that.I could have thrown rock across the line. We decided that was close enough anyway.
 1 saw more Mexicans in Fl Paso than 1 ever want to see again. We'll, we took the morn ing train for Los Angeles. Can't say much for N. M. and Ariz., for l did not see anything but mountains and deserts. Some of the land would be alright if 1t hadswater on it, but 1 saw thou sands of acres that would not be any good if 1t had the Gulf of Mexico turned loose on it. We saw the big training camp at Deming, N. M. That is about all we saw in N. M. that is worah telling. 1 got out at Tucson, Ariz., and looked around for Grady Gammage but could not find him. We got out about the middle of Arizona ard the train ahead of us wrecked and stopped us for obout F hours, and be- lieve me. 1 got some tired; did not have anything to do but look at Jack-rabbits and prairie dogs We'll. they finally got the track cleared so we could pass. Then we began to butt into the warm climate; by the time we got to Yuma, Ariz., we began to pull our coats and raise the win dows. It showed on us all the way through N. M., and to about the middle of Arizona. But at Yuma we began to see the green grass and Alfalfa, growing like summer time. This warm climate lasted until we got to Oakland, Calif., and it begun to get cooler again. We did not stay in Los Angeles but long enough to change cars. Was on the road 52 hours from Fl Pass to Oakland, Calf. Did not see anything in California that look ed like home. but Mutt and Jeff; saw them in San Francisco Tribune. We'll, we stayed in Oak land about 1 hours and left for Portland, crossed San Francisco Bay on the largest ferry in the world; carries 3 passengers and 1 freight train. We rode about l2 hours and then went into the Cascade mountains. There we had to pull the windows down and get back into our overcoats. It snowed on us all the way thru the mountains, at a height of II. Al fL &bove sea level. We passed thfl about p tunnels, some of them oyer a mile long; was some dark Then We came thru on tEis siCe wo began to see the green grass al.i agetation again; sure looked funny to see so many differn ct climates.
 We'll, 1 like my job in the ship yards alright. Work on the same ship with Cam Mcclure and the rest of the Arkansas boys. We get S3. 58 a day. They pay off every Saturday night. My check next week will be S25 06: we get double pay for holidays. Friday was George Washing tons birthday, and our
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-03-28
PRESCOTT DISTRICT

Our District Conference will meet at Emmet, Thursday, May 2nd, 7:30 D. m. The opening ser mon by Dr. James Thomas, of Little Rock.
 J. A. Henderson, P. E. Guthrie Drug Store, a good drug store.
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out Of his safe, "here are the bonds
that your million dollars hnIlphtn

out Of his safe, "here are the bond.
that your million dollars bought"
"Your bonds, you mean," moanet
Latimer, bought with your million"
NO." returned HardsheIl Hopper
bought by your million. And they're
yours, but with string attached to
them. You plunged on Wall street
and went broke. / knew you would
| knew 1t had to be. SO, to save your
money for you, I engineered that
munitions stock deal that you tangled
yourself up in--you seer
Your" exclaimed Latimer Cobb.
"YeD," returned Hardshell, "T knew
you'd get trimmed-so / thought |
might as well do the trimming-and
did. / wanted to feather your nest
for you, Latimer. So bought Liberty
bonds with the money that you lost
and there's the bonds, all standing In
your name."
"You bought 'em In my manner"
faltered Latimer Cobb.
"In your NAME" echoed Hardshell
Hopper. Chiefly because I couldn't
get anything better or solder to buy
and then, you won't have any trou-
BILE any more with that income tax.
But that amt all, Latimer," went on
Hardshell. II want to ask you how
much 1t costs you now to live?"
you're paying me two thousand q
year." said Cobb.
"And you're living on It," went on
Hardsheli, "and I'm living on another
two thousand. And yet our combined
income from these bonds ii come near
to being seventy-five thousand dollars
year. So Tn, giving you these bonds
with the idea that you and me II keep
on living on our two thousand year
apiece-and the rest of the income
wen hand over to the Red Cross and
the Triangle, and buy War Savings
stamps, and such.
mot SO you can notice It," yelled
Latimer Cobb, "what's mine is NINE"
ooh, well,". said Hardshell Hopper,
thrusting back the bonds into the safe,
"as matter Of fact l haven't put 'em
In your name-they're only yours If
you'll consent to what said"
"Well," finally conceded Latimer
Cobb, "if youll put my name In the
paper as big subscriber so that folks
will know what kind of a good patriot
I am"
''You amt patriot, Latimer," said
Hardshell Hopper, "get that through
your head. We're only protecting our
own interests in loaning this money to
the government. We're doing not
blamed thing but feathering our nests"
You can't knock that queer idea out
of Hardshell Hopper's head.
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got out the rum Jar and gave each
a nip and passed around some Tags,
the old reliable Woodbines. The other
prisoners looked their gratitude, but
the big fellow said In English, "Thank
you, sir, the rum Is excellent and ap-
preciate 1t, also your Kindness"
| He told me his name was Carl
| Schmidt, of the Sixty-sixth Bayarian
Light infantry; that he had lived six
years In New York (knew the city bet
ter than | did,, had been to Coney
island and many of our ball games. He
was regular fan. couldn't make him
believe that Hans Wagner wasn't the
best ball player In the world.
From New York lie had gone to Lon
don, where he worked as waiter In
the Hotel Russell. Just before the war
he went home to Germany to see his
parents, the war came and he was con-
scripted.
He told me he was very sorry to
hear that London was In ruins from
the Zeppelin raids. / could not con-
vince him otherwise, for hadn't he seen
moving pictures In one of the German
cities Of st. Paul's cathedral In ruins.
! changed the subject because he
was so stubborn In his belief. It was
my intention to try and pump him for
information as to the methods of the
German snipers, who had been eaus-
ing us trouble in the last few days.
| broached the subject and he shut
up like clam. After a few minutes
he very innocently said:
German snipers get paid rewards
for killing the English"
/ eagerly asked, what are theyT"
He answered;
For killing or wounding an English
private, the sniper gets one mark. For
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LEARNING WHITE MANS WAYS
Esklmos Said to Be Making Crafty.
Ing Progress as Result of Mis-
slonarIes, Teachings.

On Herschel island, where the sun
shines continuously for eight weeks in
summer, the Eskimos had a sun dance,
not always clothed In the garments of
propriety, a writer In an exchange says.
They had an idea that when the sun
came back its movements were direct
ed by an invisible power. but they had
no tangible conception Of God. They
had no belief In future life, either
OF reward or punishment. Today they
are religious, truthful, kind to their
children and to the aged. They are
ambitious to learn; they are practical,
extremely Industrious, sanitary in
their habits, well clothed and we'll
housed. Insanity is unknown. but tu-
Derculosis Is common.
They whale In summer and trap In
winter. They are clever In trading,
good workers on land. water and Ice,
and take excellent care Of their house
hold effects. Tools, IL broken, are
neatly repaired. When on Herschel
island or at Fort Mcpherson, they eat
the white mans food with great rel
ish. In summer they eat their fish and
blubber raw and In winter frozen. They
like food cooked, but 1t Is matter of
Indifference to them. They will bar
ter for the white mans food, eat
hearty meal Of 1t, and then 60 out and
eat bIubber and raw fish as dessert.
The contents of a deer's stomach they
consider great delicacy.
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CHAPTER Xxx.
nchats With ErItx.U

We were swimming In money, from
the receipts of our theatrical venture,
and had forgotten all about the war,
when an order came through that our
brigade would again take over their
sector Of the line.
The day that these orders were Is
sued, our captain assembled the COM
pany and asked for volunteers to go to
the Machine Gun school at ST. Omar.
4 volunteered and was accepted.
Sixteen men from our brigade left
for the course In machine gunnery.
This course lasted two weeks and we
rejoined our unit and were assigned to
the brigade machine gun company. 1t
almost broke my heart to leave my
company mates.
: The gun we used was the Vickers,
Light 1903, water cooled.
1 was still member of the Suicide
club, having jumped from the frying
pan into the fire. / was assigned to
section |, gun No. 2, and the first time
tin" took position In the front-line
trench.
During the day our gun would be
dismounted on the fire step ready for
instant use. We shared a dugout with
the Lewis gunners. At "stand to" we
would mount our gun on the parapet
and go on watch beside 1t until "stand
down" In the morning. Then the gun
would be dismounted and again placed
In readiness ON the fire step.
We did eight days In the front-line
trench without anything unusual hap
pening outside of the ordinary trench
routine. On the night that we were to
'carry out" a bombing raid against the
German lines was pulled off. This raid
Ing party consisted of sixty company
men, sixteen bombers, and four Lewis
machine guns with their crews.
The rid took the Boches by surprise
and was a complete success, the party
bringing back twenty-one prisoners.
The Germans must have been awful
fy sore, because they turned loose
barrhge of shrapnel, with a few Min
MES" and 'whlzz bangs" lntermlxed.
The shells were dropping into our front
line like hailstones.
n, get even, we could have left the
prisoners In the fire trench, In charge
Of the men on guard and let them click
Fritz's strafeing but Tommy does not
treat prisoners that way.
Five of them we're brought into my
dugout and turned over to me so that
they would be safe from the German
fire.
In the candIelight, they looked very
much shaken. nerves gone and chalky
faces, with the exception of one.
great big fellow He looked very much
Mt ease liked him from the start.
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killing or wounding an English officer
he gets five marks, but If he kills a Red
Cap or English general, the sAiper gets
twenty-one days tied to the wheel of a
timber as punishment fo.' lh careless
ness"
Then he paused, waiting TO me to
bite, | suppose.
bit all right and asked him why the
sniper was punished for killing an
English general With smile he re-
piled:
well, you see, If all the English gen
erals were killed, there would be no
one left to make costly mistakes"
| shut him up, he was getting too
fresh for a prisoner, After o while he
winked at me and / wlnkea back, then
the escort came to take the prisoners
to the rear. shook hands and wished
him "The best OF luck and safe Jour-
ney to Bllghty."
liked shat prisoner he was a fine
fellow, had an Iron Cross, too. adj
vlsed him to keep 1t out Of sight or
some Tommy would be sending It home
to his girl In Bllghty as souvenir.
One dark and rainy night while on
guard we were looking over the top
from the fire step of our front-llne
trench, when we heard noise imme-
~diately in front of our barbed wire.
The sentry next to me challenged,
Halt, who comes theref' and brought
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KEEP HIM REASONABLY BUSY
Preacher Serving In Y. M. C. A. "HutD
in Training Camp Finds His
Duties Many and Varied.

II there is notion that Y. M. G. A.
work In the camps consists In selling
stamps and handing out pocket testa-
ments, let 1t be dissipated at once.
One preacher, serving In hut in
New Jersey camp, reports that he has
done almost everything under the sun
except preach.
He has built fires, swept floors,
looked after hundreds of packages Of
laundry, umpires basketball games, or
ganized glee club, stage-managed
circus, sold ice cream at the canteen,
and driven fiivver ten miles and
back three times week to provide
said cream. He has written letters
home for boys who could not write,
and he has taught those same boys
their first lessons In the English Ian
guage. He has been repository for
hundreds of heart secrets, and he has
served as trustee for the care of as
many as thirty Liberty bonds at q
time.
Perhaps oldest of his many tasks
was one that came his way on wild
and stormy night in April, when the
master of arms at the military station
entered the "Y" hut after taps, carry
Ing red box under his arm.
Say" said the master of arms
"we've got lot of T. N. r. mines
stored at the station. Here's the det-
orators, In this box. There's consid-
cradle lightning around, and 1t isn't
safe to leave these things close to the
mines. Would you just as soon take
care of the box over nightly
The Red Triangle man slept that
night Tor tried to sleepy with enough
high explosive under his cot to blow
him half way to heaven.
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CHAPTER xIx-continued.

AT one point Of the fine where the
trenches were very close, stake was
driven into the ground midway be-
tween the hostile lines. At night when
1t was his turn, Tommy would crawl
to this stake and attach some London
papers to 1t, while at the foot he would
place tins Of bully beef, flags, sweets,
and other delicacies that he had re-
ceived from Blighty In the ever looked
. for parcel. Later on Fritz would come
out and get these Injuries.
The next night Tommy would go out
10 see what Fritz put into his stocking.
The donation generally consisted of a
paper from Berlin, telling who was
winning the war, some timed sausages,
cigars, and occasionally little beer,
but funny thing, Tommy never re-
turned with the beer unless 1t was In
side of him. His platoon got Whit of
his breath one night and the offending
Tommy lost his job.
One night a young English sergeant
crawled to the stake and as he tried to
detach the German paper bomb ex-
ploded and mangled him horribly Fritz
had set trap and gained another vic
tim which was only one more black
mark against him In the book Of this
war. From that time on diplomatic re-
lations were severed.
Returning to Tommy, ! think his
spirit Is best shown In the questions he
asks. 1t Is never "who is going to win"
but always "hov long viii It take7"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-27
WHERE BELGIUM STANDS
BY HON. Z. DE CARTIER,
Minister of BeIuiun,,

His excellency, Il. de Cartier Bel
gian minister to the United States
has sent the Vigilantes the following
expression of the attitude of his coun
try:
The principles which you have al
ways stood for, and for which you are
again fighting, are the principles which
have always animated my little country
and for which we, too, are fighting
shoulder to shoulder, with your own
brave boys We are fighting for free
dom and independence. Your soldiers
will not come back until 1t is all over,
over there; neither will ours lay
down their arms until the world is
made safe for honest people.
Germany offered us a shameful bar
gain. She offered to spare our coun-
| try and to indemnify us, II we would
let her pass through to accomplish her
crime against our neighbor and her
neighbor, France. She wished to make
us an accomplish in her crime, and she
gave us twelve hours In which to make
up our minds. That was eleven hours
and fifty-nine minutes too much. We
spu med her base offer. We have suf-
fered, but we have no regrets.
Having tried in vain to bride us by
offers of immunity, the Germans re-
sorted to violence and intimidation.
You all know the story, although many
of the details cannot be told until our
witnesses are freed from the menac-
ing claw Of the German eagle. l say
to you that whoever undertakes to
write the history of the horrors COM
mitted by the Huns of the twentieth
century will have task that will turn
his soul sick. =
One Of the greatest of the crimes Of
Germany was to attempt to enslave
our workmen and to force them to
work for our enemy and against their
own brothers. Tens of thousands of
honest workmen were torn from their
wives and families, loaded on trucks
like cattle and deported to Germany.
LAGIC tLtJ WSiC tCAuPlCu Wy VllClC VI
high wages to work for our enemy and
to sign a so-called voluntary con-
tract" to engage In such workout
they would not sign. They were sub
jected to starvation--but they would
not sign. They were tortured - but
they would not sign.
The Germans tried to divide our
house against itself-but they 'imag-
ined vain thing" In the early part
Of the war, after having rayaged and
massaered in Flanders as well as in
the Walloon district, after finding that
our people could not be inundated,
the Germans sought to separate Flan-
ders from the rest of Belgium by fiat
tering the Flemings and pretending to
be their special protectors. But the
only result of the effort to divide
Flanders from the rest of our country
has been to arouse the most intense
unity throughout the land. All our
people Immediately rallied in defense
of the unity of our country, whose
motto is like your own. You have the
motto "E Pluribus Unum'-"0ne Com
posed of Many" and ours is "Union
Fait In Force"-'In Union There Is
Strength"
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GRO BE coNTINUED.)
Be Above Gossip.

Gossiplng Is about the most useless
kind of work one could possibly en-
gage In. How much better and more
charitable 1t is to turn deaf ear to
cruel truths, to honorably keep silent
about what we have heard, and at the
same time give the unfortunate person
In the case the benefit Of our doubt.
"Small wits talk much," Is an old say
Ing and true one. The girl or woman
who would be truly happy, and who
incidentally would make others happy,
should wisely think twice before she
speaks, and then should put into words
only thoughts that are cheering and
charitable. York Evening Mail.
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War Prisoners to Form Club.

A dozen British prisoners Of war
who had escaped from Germany met
at dinner recently given in London
to celebrate their escape. AT this din
ner 1t was decided to form club,
membership of which was TO be con-
fined to those who have succeeded in
making their way out of a prisoners
of. war or internment camp in Ger
many. The site of the club premises
has not yet been settled, but the club
will certainly be the most novel thing
of its kind In London.
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Hls DUTY Done.

The family Is rather demonstrative
when the various members of the
household come and so. The grand
children are expected to embrace every
one at the beginning and at the end
Of visit. Fred and Albert were get
ting into their clothing and making
their hasty adIeux preparatory to
catching their train home after Christ.
mas. Hurry up, Fred" Albert shout.
ed; you're too slow for anything
I've got niue ali kissed"
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synopsisFred by the sinking Of the Lusana with
American lives Arthur Guy Empey American living City
England enls the British
experience recruiting
where he first the
makes the Coolies After brief
Employs the frontne trenches
his step while the bullets Empey
turks
Chaplain distinguishes himself cung
pick Empey has digger
Exciting listening post
citing work observation duty Back blets Empey
writes a successful play.
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Tigers are extremely fond Of bath.
Ing. In zoo, If tub be provided,
they will eagerly make use of its ia.
cilities for ablution. They are first.
rate swimmers, and in former days II
was reckoned at Singapore that they
'ate Chinaman night" swimming
across from the mainland to get him.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-27

When the window shade falls of
the rod take shoe string, or any
kind Of strong tape and put the tack
through 1t. No matter If the children
pull on 1t or the spring breaks, II
will not tear off again.
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But They DON'T peoelv. M,nv

Some men," said Uncle Eben,
makes portend dey's gettin' wisdom
when dey's only loafin' around In
dulgin' DER curiosity"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-27

An electrically controlled machine
for sorting coffee beans has been IN
vented by native of Munich.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-27

Empey and hls machine-gun
company 90 "over the top" In a
successful but costly attack on
the German trenches. The story
Of this thrilling charge Is told
In the next lnstallment.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-05-03

fortunate brethren across the water
whom, he said, the fiends of hell are
numbering, and at the came time
defend our own land against the
misfortune that bleeding Europe is
now suffering.
DR.. Newman was warmly con.
graduated upon his eloquent address
and at the close many of our people
FASTENED forward to thank him for
his visit to us. The doctor expressed
his appreciation of the reception
given him and said he had never
seen a more intelligent and enthu-
siastic gathering of loyal patriots.
The speaking having been con-
cluded, the subscription list was
again opened and invitation offered
to all who wished to buy more Lib
erty Bonds to increase their SUBJ
scriptions, and while Tensas has
already subscribed her full quota,
the response to the invitation was 80
great that s22, 800 was subscribed in
the space of a half hour, which sent
us long way on the road to the
two times over, which happily is
now the ambition of our parish.
We take pleasure in stating that
the patriotic demonstrations in Ten
sas parish, and especially the general
gathering at St. Joseph, were char
acteristically representative of our
citizenship, who are never recreant
to trust or neglectful of duty. In
good times and bad, in days of joy
and hours of sorrow, Tensas people
have ever been red blooded Amer
leans and equal to every occasion
calculated to prove their worth, the
kind that gives to our nation that
type of men who know not surren-
der. We believe in the Fatherhood
of God and the Brotherhood of Man,
and in the strong conviction that
our cause and the cause of our Allies
is right, we will sacrifice our lives
on the altar of our country's liberty
and for the perpetuation of the God
given spirit of democracy.
That government of the people,
by the people and for the people
shall not perish from the earth"