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Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11
THE BLACK FACE ooUcHeoY

Inspired by the heroic work of negro troops, Uncle John, the Excelsoir Springs, Mo, poet writes: or Glory shine wha' de black hawk
 glisten,
 Debble runnin' loose in No Mans
 Lan'; or tukkey buzza'd, he sail aroun' an
 listen,
 Debble runnin' loose in No Mans
 Lan'; Trouble come a-runnin' when de bull
 bat cryin'- Hell on CT rampage when de stah shell
 flyin'- Dam Bush-Geahman in de ba'b fence
 dyin'-
 Mighty hot place ina No Mans Lan'. or Gen1 Pershin' he gittin' mighty
 sassy
 Debble runnin' loose in No Mans
 Lam; or Gen1 Fosh, go marching mighty
 classy
 Debble runnin' loose in No Mans
 Lam; Black face doughbOy, easy on de trig- ger Black face sa'gent-he strut a little bigger Dam Bush-Geahman bettah shy aroun'
 de nigger-
 Mighty hot place ina No Mans Lan' Blood a-gwine ter spill when de roan mule whinny-
 Debble runnin' loose in No Mans
 Lan': Heah dat shell whine clean to ol Va aginny- Debble runnin' loose in No Man s Lan'; Big gun boom an de airplane a-hum- min Hell bust looae when de grass bum hum-min'- Hi Bush-Geahman. we sholy is a-com- in
 Mighty hot place ina No Man 8
 Lan'.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11
SPANISH CONCERT IS MUCH ENJOYED
 BY AUDIENCE
CLEVER OFFERINGS OF PUPILS OF HORACE MANN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL PLEASE LARGE NUMBER OF PARENTS AND FRIENDS GATHERED TO SEE IT

The entertainment given last night at the high school auditorium by the pupils of the Horace Mann Junior high school was largely attended and much enjoyed.
 The dancing and singing in which the children took part show the train ing given them by Miss aBrtlett, the Spanish teacher. who was assisted by Miss Mccoy in directing the affair.
 The program of the evening was:
 1. La Muneea-Wren Finity, Lissie Lee Winstead.
 ?. Spanish Dance-Bertha Ojeda, Mary Shea.
 8. Me Gustan TodOs-John Will Hams
 4. -Richsrd Ojeda, valdemar Vidal, Bertha Ojeda.
 (La Senorita Angelita promises her servant a two weeks vacation if he can get rid of Senor Seco who persists in calling. The servant succeeds.)
 B. Selection - Carmen Arauelo. Josie Arbayo.
 G. Spanish Dance-"La PalOma- - Alice Smith.
 7 'Rojo, Blanco y AzuL All Spanish Class
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11
IN S=A
 |A6NaHRt00Naf| EG3 By GIllen A. Cai11.s.

road today on his back. He was so gay and fine, this big man, and he swOre so dreadfully when the orders came for his regiment to stop on its way to the front lines. But he smiled at me and talked. oh, so gentle, when he stood at our gate
 The last letter; ah, the saddest for the end. It told of the deathsOf boy that once lived neighbor to the news paper man back in Kansas. He was | only nineteen, this boy, and he was one of the first to go and the first to fall. The newspaper man wrote to his mother yesterday as follows:
 My Dear Madame S.:
 The news Of your boys death in France just came to us the other day and we were all deeply affected by the scmbre tiding5. Since then not a day has passed but that we have spoken together of him and of you.
 Nothing we can write here will help any. we know full well, and alas, how vain it is to try But we cannot help from sending you word of our thought and sympathy at this time.
 When we first knew Kenneth he was l just the age of our boy now. We speak of that the mother and I, and we know a little of how you feel. Our children wept for him.
 Time and distance intervene be- tween us. We may never meet again face to face. But down here in the desert is a household that mOurned with you over your son. He died in France and for France as O million bright brave beautiful boys have died before for that wonderful land. A great death to die, but poor cOmpen- sation for a father and a mother who sit alone in Kansas Land.
 And still they SC in an intending stream over wonder. boys of every class and degree, philosopher. poet. preacher, pedagOgue. printer, painter, and all, and they are plaintiffs in the great suit the world has brought against the kaiser. They will have the plead in court until the case is ended and the verdict brought in.
 During the past two wesks l have had five letters from friends in France and all were written. in a gay. glad, game strain. Heavens how they nov ed mel For all my life long l have loved France and read of her trials and triumphs and heroes. I have adopted little French orphan at Belfort and he sent his picture to me along with dear letter They will never forget the lean. lank, eager boys in khaki from a strange land that marched through their village streets and laughed and swOre and sang and went further on to the battle line to die. France is rich in legend of men who fought and died greatly, but the tales of the Americans will be told a cen tury hence as often as any other French tale.
 You are as great and brave a mother as I have ever known. and you will need it all now to carry you through.
 Your boy went to France where the
 lilies white and the poppies red do
 bloom, and then he went on from France to seek a whiter white than | the lilies, leaving a redder gleam in the poppy field behind An, it is the glory gleam, and it lights his memory | in the old home town.
 What can say? Nothing at all
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11
Poets Corner

W. T.. Trophy. now in France, sent ] in a recent mail. among other things to the Phelps Dcdge store in Bisbee copy of the Knights of Columbus Bulletin, issued by the soldiers in camp In this issue was a poem which ] is so rich with humor and sarcasm and SO cleverly written that it is re- produced herewith:
 THE HERDS CENSOR When alrs. Malone got a letter from
 Pat She started to read it out loud in 1 her flat, Dear Mary" it started, q can't tell
 ye much, I'm somewhere in France and I'm fighting the Dutch. I'm chokin' wid news that I'd like to
 relate,
 But it's little a soldiers permitted
 to state; Do ye mind Dad McPhee-well, he fell in a ditch,
 And busted an arm, but I can't tell
 you which. "And Paddy O'Hara fwas caught in a
 flame,
 An rescued by-faith. l can't tell
 you his name Last night I woke up wid a terrible
 pain, I thought for a while it would drive
 me insane. I'm sorry, my dear. but l can't tell ye where;
 The doctor he gave me pill, but
 find Its contrary to rules t disclose here
 tho kind. I've been t the dintist an had a
 tooth out, Pm sorry to leave you so shrouded
 in doubt; But the best l can say is that one
 tooth is gone, The censor won't let me inform you
 which one. met a young fellow who knows ye
 right well. An ye know him, too. but his name
 I cant tell; He's Irish, red-headed, an there with the blarney, His fclks once knew your folks
 back home in Killarney. By gorry." said Mrs Malone in her
 flat,
 It's hard to make sinse out av writ
 in like that; But I'll give him as good as he sinds.
 that l will. So she went right to work with her
 ink-well and quill An wrote, I suppose ye're dead eag-
 CT for news, You know when ye left we were buy
 ing the shoes; Well, the baby has come, an we're
 both doin' well, It's a-Oh, but that's somethin' they
 went let me tell"
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11
THE IMAGINARY FOE

The Kaiser and Won LudendOrff Were rushing toward the rear. Three hundred thousand yelling Tanks Had filled their skins with fear; And that is strange, because you know, There were no Yankees near. They can't be Yapks.' said Ludeh-
 dOrff,
 You've said yourself, you know, They couldn't get those Yankees here Inside a year or so." Step on the gas" the Kaiser said, Were going much too slow" Tn your last speech" said Ludendorff "You said they'd not succeed In coming over here, because
 The U-boats had 'em treed." ''It seems to me" the Kaiser said This car should show more speed. {" Next time we fight,p said Ludendorff, "We1l treat 'em mighty rough; Pretending to be over here
 Is only Yankee. bluff" "The pace we've set" the Kaiser said, "Is not half fast enough" "Of course, know" said Ludendorff, "Our plans have been upset. But there are not a dozen Tanks Along the Marne. I'll bet" If that is SC" the Kaiser said, That's more as plenty yeti"
 James J. Montague.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11

has been industrious and frugal has wanted for anything. But from now under the new war program, with everything giving way to the wants of the army and the navy, we
 must reef our sails and ride the gale close hauled Automobiles and gas, steel and sugar, wood and fuel, clothing and shoes, luxuries of every kind, must be curtailed. if not given yp entirely Civilian require ments of many, many kinds must give way to the demands of our military establish ment at home and abroad. The warning has been sent out, plain and sharp As Barruch well says, Every mans life is at the call of the nation, and so must be every man s property.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11

German psI7ers are alarmed, frankly alarmed over the defeat of the crown prince on the Marne, and they talk freely of the possibility of retreat this year to the Mouse. They have tasted American steel on the Ourcq and they know now that a million of these Tanks will be available for front line duty this year, and so they talk of backing up to Mouse. That means giv- ing up all of France and more than half of Belgium It is better than we hoped for when Foch broke through at Hartennes And since then he has smashed the Amiens salient without serious resistence. But the critics talked of German retirement to the Mouse last year and then they lunged forward to the Marne the next spring. But this year it is different The apex of the German power was passed in April; the allies are growing stronger at the rate of hundred thousand men week.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11

They do say that during the heat wave that spread from the central west to the Atlantic seaboard the past week that apples cooked on the trees in Virginia where the thermometer went to I20 in the sun. There were sixteen deaths in New York City from heat prostrations Philadelphia reported l06 Washington l04, Detroit 100, St. Louis l02, Kansas City l05, Concordia, Kansas, IS. Scorching weather; hard on the constitution. And none of those poor folks uP wonder who swelter and frizzle and fry will ever believe that it is cool and pleasant down here in Bisbee in the desert where clouds and cool breezes and showers temper the heat in this mountain valley to a delightful moderation.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11

Slowly but surely Germany is awaken ing to the faults and failures of her super men and the courage and ability ot her opponents Items are appearing now in well known German papers that would have been denounced as treason six months age Not only has tribute been paid to the fighting ability of the Americans by those correspondents in a position to judge as they witnessed the fighting and retreat from the Marne, but no less bitter paper than the Frankfurter Zeitung says of Foch: Tn any case General Foch Is good soldier and his strategy has been crowned with sue cess. Glimpses of the truth are being shown the German public. They have been fed and bolstered up with lies and false prophecies and wild visions for four years. They have been told that their enemies were weak and incapable and cow ardly and undone; that the Americans were weddings; that Germany was winning everywhere and invincible. But Foch's counterstroke on the Marne knocked lot of foolishness out of the German bullet head. The truth, long delayed. is coming home to the Rhine cities and Berlin. They are up against 1t for fair, and the fact is beginning to seep home The Germans in the battle Nine know that half million fighting American devils are lined up against them, if the Germans behind the battle lines do not And the difference in the scale of combat is most marked. 1t is marked enough to make possible the stroke on the Marne, the stroke in Picardy, the stroke in Flanders. The Germans who started the victorious peace drive in March are now drawing back to shorten their line and stave defeat off another year. The American joke of year ago has turned into the American peril And Germany Is be- ginning to see through the smoke of the junkers' camouflage and sense this peril.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11

Significant indeed are the returns from the Kansas primary election held last Tues day. Henry Allen, republican candidate for governor, was nominated by 10000 plurality over two strong opponents. and Allen Is in France on Red Cross work and did not make a speech or write a letter or spend dollar in the campaign Charlie Travis, candidate for a state office, was nominated by a large majority Travis is an officer in the Rainbow division in France. Those boys fighting in France, they will be the winners hands down in the political campaigns yet to come. The day of the professional politician is on the wane and his sun will set with the end of the war
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11

but a mumbled and broken word. But our hearts down here and our thoughts go out to you from the desert sand to the bluegrass bloom. it is only lit- tie way from Afternoon Land 10 the Sunset. Listen, Can ycu not hear? Memory. she of the sad, sweet face, sits by your side and sings the songs of yesterday And tomorrow; maybe the day after, we, too. will see the whiter lilies in that land beyond France, and the red gleam of the pop pies that is so terrible now will soften to the beautiful shade of a great sac rifice
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11
FRIENDS IN FRANCE


 The newspaper mans mail from France is assuming proportions. The other day a letter came from Dr. Jim,
 who is over there, that is worth a place in this, or any other column. Dr | Jim has appeared in this column be-
 fore and will again, please God. He | is an old friend who wrote to this lonely newspaper man from gay New York just before he sailed Well, the answer to that letter did not reach the ] little doctor until he was squatted in ! his own dugout somewhere fin the war zone. He read it to his mess, he said, and the newspaper mans request for little statuette of D'ATtagnan will be fulfilled providing a letter comes regularly once a month for the medi- co lieutenant and his huskies of that mess.
 Well, the doctor rambled on in his grand, game, modest letter, and among other things of which he wrote was an old French chateau far back of the lines. He rode over there at the close of a summer day and found Eng | fish Tommies camped all about it's grounds and beyond it's grey walls. They had a very fine band, these Eng llishmen, and that night when the moon shone down upon magic France. this band played the entire score of the Op- era, Babes in Toyland." for the Tom mics and the poilu and the doughboys round about. The little doctor was ev- idently moved deeply by the music and the moonlight and the broken pillars and scared walls of that old chateau, lstanding out ghostly and gray against ! the skyline, a master memory of the old glory days of beautiful France.
 Babes in TOylandi" Yes, these grim veterans of the Great War, gath cred rank upon rank clcse about the musicians sitting on the lawn of that old, old chateau, may have been babes just for that night with the magic Of | the moOnbeams and the glamor of the music in their ears and the memory of home before their dimming eyes. What stage setting for this opera ] And what players upon this stage. I.abes indeed. and the old chateau might we'll have stood for Toyland with it's mighty arches and walls ten centuries old But the next day these babes were fsted to be Men full grown in a night and thrust into the midst of Battleland Their toys were to be machine guns and bayonets and bombs.
 But Dr. Jimmy always did have a strain of sentiment in his gallant Scotch heart, and so he raved about the old chateau and the score of that opera and the effects of the moon beams and that is why this newspaper man loves him so we'll
 | An another letter came from France to the newspaper man, this one from | c Missouri boy who used to drive an automobile back home. but who has | been driving a tank for two years past | in Flanders This newspaper man ! had not heard from him since he went to war. What moved him to write from the battlefield to- an old friend so far away? Who can say? Is he the quick or the dead today? That letter was dated and penned more than a month ago. and much water has run red under the French bridges since then. Here's hoping that the Inervy American chauffeur is still driv- ! ing his tank against the Hun in Elan ders. He has been gassed once, and wounded once. so he ought to be in. mune from the deadly germs of bat tie
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11

May my blood preserve Russia from ruin, are the last words of the czar Mich olas, reported as spoken before he faced the firing squad of the bolshivik Too lateI But the czar's brains and force of character and good sense could have pre- served Russia if he had used them when he was in power And the war would have been ended this year with Germany beaten to her knees and the lives of more than million men and money to the amount of many, many billions saved the allied world And yet one has only pity, and not con demnation for this poor weak vessel of Russian czardom But we have an abiding hatred for the miserable traitors who took his life in the sadly miscalled name of patriotism
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11

Five of New York largest hotels and two of its most famous restaurants were hauled before the federal food board the other day and severely penalized for hoard ing sugar in violation of the rules of the government. One of the restaurants was closed for two days, and of the hotels, the McAlpin, the Plaza and the St Regis were required to contribute $l0,000 to the Red Cross or close their doors They contrib uted the money.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11

French officers from the front are en- thusiastic in their praise of the negro troops in the American army. They fought like fiends along the Marne and in bayonet work outclassed the Prussian picked regi- ments. Send us more of these troops, is the call of the fighting French officers. Well, there are about 100000 of them on the way.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11

Another letter is frcm Dempster Murphy. a former Review reporter. He is in the American tank corps and Is on his way to France. Young Murpny is @ philosopher and poet as well as a soldier In his letter he dedicated the following bit of verse to the Brit isher: When your time comes and you must
 walk between The dull, unpublished docrs of Destiny And sit at cheating games with cheat
 ing men, And lose-sOldier. you do it sportively, Spent is no passing thought upon its
 wealth All coined in golden years, nor on its
 weight, Whether a boyish score or twice the
 sum. You swing your purse with careless
 insclence And toss it lightly at the feet of Death The Banker
 As he stoops you rise to go And steady-handed take the graven
 cup For king and countryi" And you
 lift it high And. though the taste is bitter, drain
 it deep. Then. smiling, you pass out into the
 night And you have done
 For king and country" aye. For king and country. TCmmie, and
 for God
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11

A French orphan also writes to tell how the French people feel about the American soldiers now camped in the villages and along the highways that lead Co the French battle lines. lt is a sigh, a prayer and a psalm. this let ter from this little boy in Belfort whose small heart is almost bursting with pride and joy ever the "big Am .eriCan soldier boys lie said that
 one of them carried me along the
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11

Old General Pau hero of the Franco Prussian war, and lion still with many fierce blows against the Hun to his credit in this war, has been in close touch with the American troops in the different sectors along the battle line, and he pays them this high tribute: We in France knew little of : Americans before your troops arrived, but we are becoming better acquainted every day. Our experience before the war was with but one class of Americans and on your side you knew but little of the France outside of Paris Today all is different. Your troops from the west, the north, south, and the east are giving us better idea than we ever had before of the varied kind of Americans there are. On the other hand, your troops are coming into contact with our people in the provinces, and you must know the people of the provinces are the backbone of France It will all lead to a greater and better understanding and ap- preciation between the two nations. was much astonished to see how quickly your troops picked up French was with them in the early spring when they did not know much of our language, and when saw them few months later they spoke quite well indeed. They are an adaptable body of men and learn the lessons of war quickly. We knew they were brave, brilliant and de- termined, but the way they picked up mod ern methods was astounding.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11

And still another letter came to the newspaper man from France, this one from a lieutenant in a machine gun company. Before he was a lieutenant he was a half back on the University of Pennsylvania football team. He still has the gay heart of college boy
 and his chief worry is that his gun company will be wiped out by big
 shell before catching a German bat talion under fire.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-11

Bernard Barruch, chairman of the war industries board, declares that the people of the United States must prepare for deprivations. " The next six months of the war will be the hardest period of all We have builded our shipyards for ships and our factories to make munitions and our can tonments to house the drafted armies and our railroads and harbors in France. And now we must strain every nerve for the next half year period to place ships, men and guns in commission for the great war. The result will not be fully apparent until next spring. And until then, as Barruch says, we must suffer privations. Up to this time no man or woman in this country who
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1918-12-06
DANCING

In Raeicot hall, Webster, Saturday
night. Putnam people especially in
yited.-Adv.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1918-12-06
WELL KNOWN IN PUTNAM

Brace Bennett and wife spent a
few days of the Thanksgiving holiday
season with the Misses Averill, Pom
fret. While there they called on Put
nam friends. Mr. Bennett is station
ed at a camp at Newport News, Va.
Mrs. Bennett is working with the Red
Cross ambulance corps at the same
place. The ambulance meets the ar
irving transports and carries wound
ed soldiers to the hospital. Miss Dor
cas- Bennett was also the guest of the
Misses AveriIl, but was obliged to re-
turn to Boston Thanksgiving morning
as she is training for a nurse at the
Massachusetts General hospital. The
BENEFITS are well known to the older
residents Of Putnam, as they are
grandchildren Of the late Mr.. and
Mrs. Jerome Alton Of Putnam.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1918-12-06
ANNUAL MEETING
OF WOODSTOCK AGRICUL-
TURAL SOCIETY

The an al meeting of the Wood
ste. Agricultural Society will be held
in the Offices of the association on the
fair grounds, Wednesday, December
II. at 1890 a. m. There will be an
election Of officers and the reading of
reports. The meeting of the ladies'
department will be held at the same
time and place.
This meeting is of unusual import
anee as there will be serious discus
sion of ways and means. If the pres
ent high standard fair is to be main
tanned in the future, some method will
have to be taken of cutting expenses
or increasing the revenue. There
are methods under the constitution
by which this can be done. 1t is ex-
peeted that everyone will make spe-
cial effort to attend this meeting.