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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-21

me state game Wardens took tho
attitude that they were supposed to
enforce the state law only. and in
many Instances merrily helped in the
spring slaughter of the migratory
birds. They had no orders to the con
trary.
Now all Is changed. The fedora
law supersedes any state law, and
state officials have been instructed tc
cooperate with the federal aNheritiee
ard the result will be that spring
hunters will ger in trouble
This information was sent to az
deputy game wardens in the state r.
letter sent out by Ralph +. Brad
ford, chief game and fish warden.
His letter in part follows,
'Tbe president Of the United states
under date Of August o. 1916, in ac
cordance with an act OF congress ap
proved March 4, 1918. did proclaim
and make known Regulations for the
protection OF migratory birds
These regulations call for a closed
season IN Illinois between Deccmber
IL and August 81 next following
"A treaty between the United States
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season for hunting shall De iur'hef re
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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-21
THESE TRAMPS HAD
EMPEY BESTED WITH
A CURE FOR Coolies
HO EOES BORROW COAL YARD
OFFICE WHILE THEY HUNG
CLOTHES OUT IN A &c DEGREES
BELOW ZERO WIND TO FREEZE
ALLEN ENEMIES,
Arthur Guy Empey pIease vite'

Arthur Guy Empey please wlite
Various remedies recommended by
the author OF over The Ton Ton rid.
ding oneself Of cooues. faded into
.mateurshncss last night when Louis
,ohuaon ANA Maenus Mathew son, Two
t.nerauts. hit upon the unique scheme
freez.ng out alien enemies who in
ested their clothing by airing their
earring apparel in a .dc.ices.beloV-
ere noyther
Reports that irregularities were 0c-
uting at Miss NattinGers coal yard
same into the police department 1t
vas charged thar someone was tenant
ns the building after the office was
closed. Spottcrs were placed on duty
20 detect. il they coud, just what vas
,oug on, and last night the vigil end
ID when The tw0 tramps we're caught
slepins in Adam.ike style upon the
dald floor OF the office hudQod as
.loseiy az they codld TO the stove
Officers Reilly and Neary made The
discovery and when they saw the mas
.uinc Scutember Mons in such great
ishabelc they naturally inquired,
Where's your ciothes?' The replies
.altIcd the officers beyond speech.
Both ttamps speaking in m son said
,hey had hung all their things on
lie fence TO Kill termin inhaDitine
hem and then retired for The night
The recipe acc0rdlp@ to the Off
ais. while beng successful TO Ger.
ain degree, was exceedingly painful
the owners ot the bear skin who
lad to cross half a lot in as naked a
dakedness az is possible. before they
achcd the cheeriness OF the stove
ire
To aid them in d.spos.hg Of the
oots the pair were given thirty days
ID The county Jail The cell win he
supplemented with frequent baths
nd sprayint.
Arrest Coat Thiet
Geo- -p RCscAstocE wanted in OF
ava 70. stealing 4 raincoat from r.
r speor, steward at the Ottawa 1'u-
bolculosis Colony was arrested yes
tcrday when he appeared at the high
school TO undergo a physical eXamn.
ation under the draft law
Rosenstock. who was employed in
a minor capacity at the colony is
accused ay M. Speer OF taking The
coat when he left his job some weeks
ago He was summoned back to OF
tawa tG appear before the cxaninina
board and when he put in his appear
ante. ana. after he had been accepte ed
for military service he was placed
under arrest by Deputy Sheriff VIM
Nlischke. who had been assigned &c
watch The high school while the eN
aminations were on.
He was locked in the county Iai
and today friends were coming to his
rescue in an effort to yet him released
He admitted taking The coat and an
nounced himself willing to return tho
garment to it's riehtlul owner
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-21

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troops are still advancing
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which were received here this after
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fanding me entrance 10 the gulf Of
Finland. said a dispatch from Ber-
lin oday.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-21

ENEMY IGNORES
bOlSHEvikI PLEA

ed readiness Of the Bolsheviki o accept the
peace terms OF the Central Powers the German
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-21

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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-21

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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-21

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Established 1910
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-21

FAR and not cutie SO
cold tenigrt Increasing
cloud ness and rising tenn
pe5Ltare Friday Warmer
sltlfd1y
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13

nippcd round behind him and opened
fire at very close range. The hostile
machine turned over and went down
stecply- ''apparcntiy under control" :"
says X, with reverse. One suspects that
a German would have said "obvjously
out Of CONTROL" and that German Head
quarters, making good job of it, would
have added five more British aeroplanes
to its monthly list of imaginary slain.
However. X prefers to underestimate;
apparently under CONTROL" he says No
doubt he would have made quite cer-
tain Of it. but at this moment his guns
iammed. He withdrew for moment to
clear them.
When he was ready again he looked
up and found to his surprise that the
genera! melee" had broken OF and his
own formation had disappeared. He
was alone. "Continued patrol at H.
0O0," he says casually. However. he
was not to be lonely for long, for sud
denly six hostile scouts appeared.
"Finding myself above the six hostile
scouts" says X, Il started to dive and
zoom.' This would probably have
frightened you and me a good deal. but
it is quite an ordinary business in the
air. "Zooming," one gathers, is just the
opposite to "dive": a combination of
the two would seem to correspond to
the in and out Of a boxer looking for
an opening. "On my first dive" says
\. 81 attacked the leader "a red and
yellow machine). but he turned under
meath me and zoomed up again. On
my second dive | attacked black and
light-blue machine.' 1t must have
been a pretty SIGHT in the sun
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
licts. swayed by one tide. Certainly
in his heart burns fierce jealousy.


ONLY once in the brief, tense war
~ history Of this post has the light
Of discovery fallen upon what Joe Gish
patrols.
Between "tattoo" and "taps," on a
binding night of sleet and rain the
lonely watch is broken by sound
which provokes the ringing cry:
Halt! Who goes there?"
No answer A fog horn means afar.
Wet leaves whirl and eddy about the
stiffened, canvas-covered legs of Pri-
vate Gish and light CLEANS along his
dripping rifle barrel.
"IVho goes therc?'
Long moments pass. punctuated by
the rhythmic toling Of the bell buoys.
Shcepish disgust settles upon Private
Gish. He blows hcatedly into wet
mtten. swcars profoundly and takes
up his post again with one ear pricked.
doglikc.
Suddenly searchlight darts out.
playing upon the heavy mass Of ships
They look war and weather worn, dan
sign of life. The light flashes away
and the startling sound breaks again
the wild s?bbing of a woman.
pocket flash reveals her, crouchcd be-
yond the barrier, staring out to sea.
The wire casts net Of shadow across
her face.
"What's the matter. ma'am ?" in
quires Private Gish. sharply
The matter is chose things those
miserable ubs-they'rc sending men
-him-in boats like that" She is
sobbing Historically.
This is too much for Private Gish
Barbed wire is his job. Only barbed
maybe they amt so bad as they look.
Moreover, she'll have to move along.
There can be no lettering, and above
all no information of consoling
nature. Soldiers are rude lot, to be
sure. Nearly crazed with grief, she
is driven away. Heaven only knows
how she found out, anyway, or how
much she will talk. OF course
she will talk great deal She will un-
Willingly help TO spread the great en-
emy net which one long, silent arm
of thc nations service is unweaving as
fast-nay. faster-than it is spun.
Joe Gish is left in gloom. His whole
heart is in those ships, those "tubs,' u
where men are lying below decks, wait
ing for the open sea.
And they are recovering from their
own sense Of shock in the discovery
that these "battercd hulks" are the
latest products Of shpyard skill.
NUCH is the "camouhage' so gibly
~ sung and never recognized. From
countless dry docks, through the skilled
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13

jammed, so he handed the unfortunate
German over to Pilot A. while he
cleared his guns. A. VINO had BY now
finished with his acrodromc, saw the
stranger safely down to the ground,
where he crashed. "both wings folding
up Pilot {, who seems to have been
assisting generally. gives more par
tlculars Of the descent; the machine
"dlved into field. when his right wing
caught in a hedge ard he was cart
wheeled on his back 1t sounds con-
elusive.
There being no more airplancs about.
other targets mad to be found. A dis
covered train Look here" one can
imagine his saying, "ths is NY train. +"
"All right" says B. "kecp your beast
ly train I've got something funnicr
herc-Boches playing football" One
would like to know more about that
football match: no doubt it appeared
in the results as "2-l abandoned'; BIS
sudden appearance must have spoiled
the game nsiderably. And A must
have spoiled that train. Il sprayed
bullets along it," he says, "concentrat-
ing longest on the engine" 1t would
certainly have seemed longest to the
engine driver
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
The Enemy Crushed
Near a Hedge

Black and ght blue put its nose
down and fled, X assisting from be-
hind with both guns at nifty yards.
Down went black and ight- blue in a
straight nose dive to its DOOM "Mean-
while had lost height so that the
other five hostile scouts were above
me, and started attacking. Went down
them, and succeeded III gaining a little"
An awkward moment. but it had it's
ompensations. For at 1000 feet he
saw the black and -light-bluc scout
crash in a fair-sized field near "A
hedge" Whatever happened to him
now, he had accounted for an equal
Number Of the enemy.
And the outlook was poor. The only
path of escape took him right across
-andyellow; he rsked it. and red
and-ycllow let him have it at close
range "He hit my petrol tank and my
engine stopped, and went down, close
chine and another Then follows "A
very human touch. 81 remember decid-
ing not to land in the field where the
black -and-light-blue machine had
crashed" Very quick and uncon-
trollable must his thoughts have been
in that rush down to earth; one Won
aers just what made him decide so. A
superstitous feeling? A sudden wish
not to see what he had done to black
and -light-blue? Or just the practical
knowledge that the wreck below gave
him less room for landing? Anyhow
down he went-for the next field.
And then all at once another. a more
wonderful, thought came to him: "I
thought of turning on my emergency
tank" How he must have cursed him
self for forgetting, how his heart must
have leaped at remembering 1t was
just in time. "At about 100 feet my
engine picked up" And then very cas-
ually and hurriedly. or. as if rather
ashamed about that blessed emergency
tank. he ends up. after that pnt my
nose down and flew west and succeeded d
in getting back between Mcssines and
Ypres."
A crowded hour. indeed but not the
only hour by any means. For each day
in the Flying Corps offers just such an
hour to those who look for it.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13

The train started again Suddenly
the peasant woman said to nc:
"Tell me, Mr.. Soldier. where do yop
come from? How are you gctt;ns
along down there Haze you man
big shells? And many men killed"
/ vas about to answer her. yerv
obligingly. But there vas .hc placara
starng me in the face. "Be silent,
Ee or your guard, Enemy ears hesr
you." 1t was a reminder that | ouvh.
to weigh my words. SO I contented
myself with answering cvssively.
eve have lots Of rain. And whom
it rains we get soaked"
The pretty girl with the knitting
needles did not lift her eyes from h.,
work. But slight smile showed
about her mouth Her charming face
was lighted UP. ! guessed What she
vas thinking:
"If that good fellow had bccn d..
pended on TO invent powder. his com.
rades and he would still be fighting =,
they fought in the time Of Merovaus."
It is useless for me to denv that an
somewhat sensitive. felt humiliated
Who wishes to pass for n thichhead-
Especially in the presence Of a pretty
girl.
Meanwhile the good woman broke
out in lamentations. Her son Arsene
was fighting somewhere IN the Ar
gonnc. Mon Dicu, Mon Dieu, She
could no longer cat from worry Oh.
my. Oh, my.
intcrposed:
But, madame All those who 20 to
war arc not killed have fought for
eighteen months"
She listened to me, bu. without being
convinced.
She repeated over again:
"Oh. my! Oh, my"
Then her charming ncighbor inter-
vcned
"The gentleman is right have two
brothers who have been under fire ever
since the war began Oaly the cider
has been wounded"
Little by little the peasant woman
calmed down.
ALAS. Alas.' she sighed But, as
they say. one must bear misfortune,
with patience
At the next station she got oue When
She was on the platform. With all her
panlers. the big ones and the little
ones. two young girls appeared at the
window of the compartment They wore
hats like that OF my gracious com
panion
We'll. we'll" they said, aren't you
going to rejoin US? Arc you going to
stay in here all the way home 80
back 9"s s;s sSs ssscs away s1s
ment. | found myself alone with the
old cure and the young woman She
continued 20 knit. Tho stocking sae
was making grew longer. I puzzled
my brain to discover q reason WHY she
should have left her sisters and trsv-
cllcd alone third class. bus couldn't
find any.
A. the station III 3 whore /
was to get Off, was surprised to SOC
ms companion get off also On the
platform she joined her sisters. One
OF them said TO her:
"You know, Moniquc. have made a
calculation. You have saved eleven
francs and quarter. You can use it
to buy tobacco for your wounded"
At the exit lady awaited them The
next day my friend. Mmc. Mouricz.
presented me to the family Leberger
And that is the reason why now have
al the rear. like my comrades. an
exquisite fiancee, who writes me long
letters and of whom think at night
when | am or guard under the stars,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
The Poilu S Romance
A French War Story
Translated By William l.. MCPHERSON

Here story oith touch Of gagety The suffering
and bitterness cannot altogether ert1ngh chcerunes
of spirit and 7ataa1ness of feelng Le at tie 'front.'
runs aong the old g?9oves Of enotion In oet M the romantic
and men haze become urcr and te~derer Truy
the uAer OF this story sas 4he pon & Is an ofeotoaa
from Uot point of ricw the romance whlch IS set forth
beZov has maritime aspect 1t chorningly simple
IN time qrheu men being brought together on
footing of broader sympoy and genuine fellowship
Aid the snpicity of pos modest recital IS bit no
adnrabtc than is its unaffected delcocy Of sentiment.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
He Still Found
More To DO

"then came back over the lines
at 500 feet" 3 could still find a lit
tie more to do; he speaks precisely
Of "single-horsc transport" and
"three different groups of three or
four men," whereas c (who. one feels,
was rather out Of the fun) can only
say boldly, 81 came back low along the
roads, shooting at ground-targets."
But if you trying to imagine our
three friends returning jauntily home.
you must have one more line from B's
report to complete the picture. Anti
aircraft guntire was severe on home
ward flight Just worth mentioning,
perhaps.
Zone crowded hour Of glorious life"
said Scott, "is worth an age without a
name" The equation could be stated
more exactly, il not poetically, by add
ing the three obviously implied words
to the left-hand side Of it. zone
crowded hour Of glorious life with a
name is equal to an age without a
name is what Scott meant Well, I
can tell you of zone crowded hour" OF
a gentleman in the Royal Flying Corps,
but am afraid it won't be with a
Mame.' The Flying Corps prefers to
live its glorious life anonymously
However, it won't offend him if we call
him X; X, Of the r. f. C.-it follows
that Y is equal to anything
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Labor Was an
Uncertain Quantity

This condition was Il "nangovcr'
from peace times. Civilian labor was
taken on for halliday, as ship was
berthed, and it was never certain from
day to day whether this labor would
be forthcoming A large employer
might have limited number of com
paratively regular men on whom he
could rely, and the special machinery
of the Board of Trade Labor Exchange
might be able to furnish men from
what were known as surplus stands"
but the fact remained that the supply
of labor was extremely unreliable.
Difficulties of organization and the
lack of mobility were hard to overcome.
For example, at one quay gang Of
dockcrs might be made up in which
there would perhaps be more than
enough good winchmen, but not enough
good men to manage the sings down
in the hold. Or there might be q
plethora of dock labor at one end Of
Liverpool at time when a big ship
was being berthed at quay several
miles down the Mersey.
Casual work had bred casual habits;
the majority Of the men could not rely
on getting regular work, and with this
tradition behind them they had long
ceased to try for it,. they had grown
content to labor by fits and starts SO
long as they could earn a living. In
addition to this, large portion Of the
men were only prepared to do certain
kinds of dock work, either for physical
reasons or from personal inclination
Some men, to illustrate, would refuse
to go in the refrigerating chambers of
a meat ship, although imported beef is
essential to the British nation. Di.
charging Australian wheat was dirty
Gusty. choking job, and was not pre-.
ferred Nevertheless. the nation coulc
not carry on" without Australian
wheat
One thing, to be sure, could be sale
IN favor of the system. 1t represented
the very quintessence Of indvidualism
There was not the slightest restrain
on the dock workers personal liberties
he might work or not. as he chose
But the most ardent admirer Of the
freedom of the individual would no
deny that it was condition entirel,
unsuited to the demands of the natio1
in time of war.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Conscription Proved
The Best Remedy

The situation was critical and needed
rcmedying, and the only remedy seemed
to be to place the whole port Of Liver
pool under military control. This
scheme however, the British govern
r,ent was unwilling to adopt at time
when neither conscription nor the ap-
rlication of any kind Of compulsion
was contemplated.
At meeting called by the govern
mcnt representatives of the Mersey
River Harbor Board. the leading en-
ployers and the Dockers' Union were
present. From the windows Of the high
building in which the meeting was held
could be seen evidence of the situation
they had come to rectify. Ships lay at
anchor in the Mersey, unable to get to
their berths to unload their precious
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
By "A. A. M

THERE is a song, of which the
British soldier never seems to
"A tire, whose fourth verse goes like
.his:
"Four men went to mow--went to NOV
a meadow;
Four men, three men, two men, one
man
tAnd his dog)
Went to NOV meadow
The other verses arc equally enter
tanning differing only in the number
Of men engaged), the tune is simple
one, and by, say, the forty-second verse
even the novice is familiar with both
words and music, and ready to join in.
Just now I am going to tell you quite
a different story; the story Of four men
who event to bomb, went to bomb a
hangar" 1t is as typical Of the Brit
ish army as the song, and like the song
it. goes on interminably. simple,
everyday affair.
The four men set out TO 'do their
damnedest" to certain German aero
dromc. No. ! dived on to the aero
drome to about 800 feet, got into line
with row of machines all spread out
ready for him, and dropped his bombs
on them. Having got to the end of the
line (and also to the end Of his bombs)
he swcoped up and dived again. He
had no bombs now, but he had a ma
chine gun, and he sprayed the line low
inglv with bullets. "My emergency
tank was shot this time he says care
lessly in his report, so the Germans
had evidently got busy. However, he
event round again and repeated this
action" third time, just for luck, and
then steered for home. This may have
finished his official JOB Of work, but on
his way home-howevcr, we must get
back TO the acrodromc. which is what
we are concerned with at the moment
Some Ceased Firing
For All Time
No. =, following no. /, went dow
to 400 feet and dropped mis- bombs, ano
saw them all explode i'll front of the
hangars He then went round the
aerodrame at 200 feet, firing his ma
chine guns into the hangers and at
machine gun crew presumably the one
which had disabled No. Is emergency
tank. "The machine gun crew. say:
No. 2. modestly, ceased fire while
was firing at them One doesn't blame
them. Some OF the crew, no doubt
ceased fire for a long time aftcrware
as well. He then stecred for HON,
and had further adventures
both on his own and with No. / lie
US leave them and follow No. 8.
No. 3 gives more particulars; tha
line Of aeroplanes drawn up so thought
fully by the Germans consisted o
four scouts and one Gotha. One o
them (evdently annoyed by No. rs at
tentions) tried to make off, so No.
fired few rounds at him. "He dive,
straight into the ground and crashed
Whereupon No. 5 proceeded to dro
his bombs on the four remaining ones
He had got three bombs off when
bullet hit his petrol tank. What wa
No. , doing to allow this?) II
switched on to his emergency tank
but he was only 100 feet up at thi
moment. and the engine could not pic
up in time SO he landed gracefull
in the nice German aerodrome. pickle,
up and flew off again-which SCENE
to be rubbing it rather unhindly @
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
He Made a Very
Great Discovery

Imagine them. full OF lie and ma
chine-gun drums, looking for targets.
Pilot A was the first 70 find something.
He made q really great discovery. lie
found another aerodrome. all by HIM
self, and sprayed all the machines
with bullets Meanwhile Pilot B had
come across an enemy aeroplane fly
ing at 800 feet. Pilot B got under
meath him (it sounds rather sporting
at 800 fcet) and played upon him from
there. Apparently he was successful
in hitting the engine. for the German
began to glide down. B followed quick
ly, pepperlng him from behind till they
were down to 100 feet. BIS guns then