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New-York tribune., 1918-02-27
The Ultimate Fuel Reserve
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We have received from the government y
pamphlet entitled Five Ways to Save Fue, ),
We can name sixth: Burn the documents
that the government keeps sending to your
Office"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-27
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Otherwise credited paper The oea news c
spontaneous origin published herein
All republication Of all other matter heein are
also reserved.
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Many War Colors
Softly Blended

The nurses dark blue uniforms blended
With the blue and leather of the drivers,
aud both these were relieved By the flowing
white headdresses Of the v A Ds. And
then the olive drab IS the officers marched
past, heading the solid ranks Of the men in a
long column OF fours, with the horizon blue
Of the polus following. One felt sure
somehow, that she would have been glad to
know that the poius were there. They were
ali wounded and some OF them hobbled along
on sticks, while one or two gave an arm to
q c0mrade who had risked his strength to
come. Among them stalked tai Arab mis-
head held high, his face impassive and i'm
movable; only his eyes smoudered with that
pride and scorn that mad faced Death and
Won in Flanders. More khaki as the British
came, and then the patients. Some of them
wore their uniform coats, but ali of them
were III blues. that strange. i'll fitting garb
CT the convalescent. After these cane all
Etretat, women and cd men unfit for SER
vice. 50 many have gone and so few have
come again. They were there to pay their
tribute, and 50 t-ey came. some in cumping
wooden shoes, some Leading little children;
the lame. TIE hat and the blind the old and
the weak; they knew of bitter experience,
and they could sympathize IL was not
impcrsonai sorrow that the French gave.
They knew hey 4 nurse from the French
hospital scbbcd out her grief as she told
how tendei Y Mss Roberts had cared for
little AleN, who now stumps bravey about on
his wooden peg. Alex was so small and in
50 great pain tnat he could not always make
his wants inteiligble, and it was Miss Rob
crts who Went over him as she struggled
with his baby Frencb, trusting to the intul-
ton that nevar failed her 10 heal and COM
fort. Alex remembered
New-York tribune., 1918-02-27
Requiescaf IN Pace
From The Dooins Of u. s. Reserve Bas.
Hospital No. 2, Somewhere in Fyonce

At 6:15 p. m. on Thursday, the 17sb !,
January, 1913. AmabeI s. Roberts.
Army Nurse Corps, attached TO No. n
serve Base Hospital, Etretat, France. pav. :.
the life she had devoted to the service !.
others Her illness, one Of the most as.a,1
Of infections, had lasted barely three d.n.
On Wednesday evening the Unit acknos,
edged defeat. 1t was the silence that ~,
noticed most. There was not the nsn.s
sound ofs whistling, laughing and singirn
along the streets and through the halls. h..
it quiet, very quiet. Men met and af...
strained attempt at conversation fell an.x.
again quickly, each avoiding his neighboy,
glance The scythe of the Reaper had been
felt among for the first time. Pain
suffering and death are common matse,s
with US here, and we had thought, with n.
fatuous cynicism Of the very young that va
were hardened. But we were not hardened
and we have learned our lesson. That whie
could not happen has happened, and tia.
from which we stood apart has entered ns,
our very lives. The Unit has had its fr,.
fatality
Al 40 p. m. on Saturday the troops As.
sembled in the square for parade. The Brit.
ish other ranks, including all patients from
the hospitals who we're able to wax, fell IN
first under the command Of Sergeant Major
King. Then the Americans, every man who
could be spared from duty, mum bering about
two-thrds of the Unit, formed at the com.
mand of Sergeant Kinds.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-27
Chokes Sheets Outside
The Nurses Quarters

ne services were to be at tle Blaaoue.
the nurses quarters. and in moment the
narrow street was choked with troops who
formed in a long double rank on either side
of the street leading to the gate. Fdr fifteen
minutes the men stood at attention while
the simple services were being held inside
the Banquet, and then the leaden casket wss
brought out and placed on stretcher car.
riage covered with flags. The carriage
moved slowly down the street between the
two ranks Of men, who uncovered as il
passed. and as it reached the end Of the
lines the files teiescoped on themselves and
fell in behind.
The two padres came first. marching to.
gether, and followes by the bugler; then the
caslet on the strctcher carriage with the
rallbearers, the honorary palbearers
marching behind Alta. these came the
nurses followed by the Y. A. DIS and lady
drivers and officers. Next in inc were the
American troops, ard after them came the
polus from the French hospital near by; be-
hind these we're the British troops, and after
them the British patients from our own hos
ptals. The French townspeople, headed by
the Mayor, came lcss
1t was q wonderful procession About five
hundred we're in Inc. and the torturngy
slow, rhythmic bea1 OF the funeral half-step
was Ike motif whica told &C the implaca-
bility CT Fate against wh.cA man breaks
himself eternally. But the masses of flowers
chat buried the casket famed ard blossomed
again. the background G. sombre uniforms
like eternal promise which raises Itself
triumphanJly over en- eternal rain All the
flowers that Havre could provide were there
The Unit gave them, and after the Unit the
patients insisted that thew be permitted to
give, Toe. The French gave al they had
New-York tribune., 1918-02-27
Who Among the Aliens?
BY Fl. F. Sherwood

o tl
is veaid Fo many
la n uane
i h ~ nni -
New-York tribune., 1918-02-27
IiARANTEE

Entered at the Postofice New York Second Class
Mail Matter
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-05-17

Sixteen Large Warehouses Established
In France 20 Serve Needs OF
American Troops and Hospitals.

To serve the American troops and
the hundreds of war hospitals behind
the French firing line and 60 reach the
thousands of French refugees the Red
Cross commission TO France Inns estab-
lIshed n system OF 10 large warehouses
throughout France.
Six OF the new warehouses have
been located In Paris, which serves as
the center OF the distribution system.
Ten other warehouses are located out
side the capital. Approximately To-
900 tons of materials are now being
distributed monthly from these ware
houses by the Red Cross commission.
Every kind OF medical supplies,
drugs and surgical instruments Is car
rled In stock for the use of hospital
stats. Foodstuffs. clothing, building
materials. blowing implements and
tools are also being imported In large
quantities for the assistance of French
refugees.
American college men, many OF
whom formerly served as drivers In
the American ambulance. are direct
Ing the work, while the force Of work
men is recruited from veteran French
soldiers and Belgian men no longer fit
for military duty.
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wrong direction, and for the second
time within that hnlf-hour Periods
light went out. To person In his
condition II was n disaster. and. ut
tering mn exclamation Of horror. he
stumbled and fell from the chair with
n light crash.
lie was up again In nm instant. cut
ting the mir I'm nll directions with the
carving knife: then he CROPPED for the
nx. found II. and stood still once more
on the defensive. listening intently. ex-
pectlng the worst and painting. with
mn effect. upon that stiffness. almost
upronrloua.
lie moved about. and cautiously felt
his way round the table and debnuch-
cd Co the mantelplece. where matches
we're sometimes To be found In small
porcelain slipper, mndly believed TO
be decorative.
A chill struck To his spine at verlt-
able sound behind him. This one was
faint creak. the result of some cap
Hilary action I'm the wooden floor, but
cerned Ii might have been n shot.
Wheeling he struck frantic blow
with the ax. which. completing n fine
curve, miraculously failed to ampu-
tate the wielder's left foot at the
ankle. but. Us an incident. permanent
ly relieved all members of the house
hold from troubling 10 put any more
matches In the porcelain slipper.
Thereupon Penrod decided to go
outdoors. The decision itself was a
simple matter; action upon Ii was de-
ferred because OF extreme hesitation
to move at all. But after a gruesome
period Of inertia he began to tiptoe
backward I'm the direction OF the door,
keeping his eyes. ax and carving knife
warily toward where the villainous
creak had sounded. Thus retrogress-
ing, he presently found himself In the
side hall. which separated all the front
part of the roomy, old-fashloned house
from the dining room and kitchen.
The doors leading 10 the forward
rooms were closed. and the thought of
opening them filled him with horror !;
In his minds eye he saw them, gaunt,
huge, full of black shapes of furniture,
lurking places that might conceal
anything!
An empty house In the nighttime
has few attractions for a boy. In
closed darkness sickens his soul and
likewise has discouraging physical
effect: Clmaxlng In the pit OF his
stomacb.-which Is the seat OF courage.
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unpleasant experience I'm the past. He
recorked the bottle, placed IL under
his arm. and muttered:
"You betcha Guess they won't like
this 80 much Sprinkle IL In their ole
eyes"
II now became his purpose 10 make
his way cautiously To the front stair
wny descend 20 the front hall, and
thence. by the front door. reach the
outer air. So. with slow and nolscless
motions. he put himself once more In
possession OF his ax and carving knife.
thrust the latter In the breast of his
Inckct. and. though encumbered TO the
point OF difficulty by the ax. the gun
and the camphor bottle, returned 20
the upper hall and began mn advance
In force.
He went forward dozen steps with
some confidence. then halted ab-
ruptly.
What stopped him was something al
together inside himself. In the dark
ness green vapor appeared Though
not at the other end of the hall. where
he thought Ii dld) and there emerged
from IL the shocking figure of an
old man lying In the rain at the mouth
OF a wind-swept cavern. The vision of
the sawdust box-splteful. like all
other visions-chose this particular
moment to recur to the author Of
Harold Ramorez"
He was standing by the portal of his
own bedroom. Gasplng. he hoped
across the threshold. kicked the door
shut, and maintained possession of
his armory. though, perhaps, not of
his faculties, huddled himself upon
the bed and buried his face in the pill
low.
II Is not altogether discredltable to
n boy in the dark that he sometimes
initiates an ostrich. But Ii Is unf0r-
tunate, because, when one is already
In the dark. very little relief can be OBJ
tanned by closing the eyes.
Penrod. burrowing into his pillow.
could see the old man rather more
plainly than IL he had allowed his eyes
TO remain open. He saw him through
the pillow and through the wall: 1t
seemed that the old man was lying
on the hall rug Just outside the
closed door. and that before long he
would get up and come into the bed
room and bend over the bed and
But the imagination baked In ultimate
horror.
Without lifting or turning his face
Penrod managed to sQuirm inside the
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GIRL RUNS "SHlNE PARLOR"
toners, Likes the Work. and
Makes Good Money.

Az the man with the dust-covcred
shoes climbed into n chair In shoe
shining "parlor" Ia 10. Wayne avenue,
relates the indianapolis News. n neat.
trim-loolgIng colored girl came brlslsly
out OF back room.
"Good morning" replied the pros
pectlve customer. "Whcre's the slloe
shlnerf"
That's me. I'm the sinner"
as that SO? Well. you are the first
girl / ever saw shining shoes. Like
the DusinessT
Indeed. | do. IL pays me we'll and
we are all looking for the money these
days."
"How did you happen to get into
this kind OF work."
"Well, IL was like this. My cousin,
who owns this place, runs "A transfer
wagon. He Is away SO much he had 10
have somebody stay here and answer
the telephone and look after the busi-
ness. He tried boys for a while. but
they are all gone 10 war or talking
about IL and IL was hard 10 keep them.
so he gave me the job. This used 10
be n shining parlor and so many oen
came I'm asking for shines that 1 de-
cided to get into the business myself.
1t didn't take me long To get onto IL.
and now l have lots of customers"
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This tabled point, In the case Of Pen
rod, was becoming more and more sem
sitive every moment. He suffered from
an unpleasant conviction that he was
surrounded by vital dangers which be-
came the deadlier for each slightest
gers were all the more deadlier be-
cause they were underlined; the inscru-
tible darkness held Secrets-and, put
ting out his hand TO feel the wall near
the kitchen door, he encountered one
of them. His fingers very, very brief
ly closed upon something that felt
like a head of wet. cold hair. It sank
from his touch, and there was thick
sounding thud upon the floor.
"Oof !" moaned Penrod, the question
of going out through the kitchen thus
definitely settled, and when he became
again conscious of his whereabouts he
was on the second floor at the top Of
the back stairs.
Mops had driven greater than Pen
rod.
He was sorely shaken, but not dis
posed TO linger in the vicinity of stairs
that led toward kitchen inhabited by
surprises of this kind. He fled into his
fathers bed chamber, bruising him.
self variously In the passage thereto,
and, abandoning his weapons for the
moment, slid his hand along the wall
until il came to q forbidden object
that hung there.
II was an Enfield rifle, q muzzle-
loading relic. last put to use by Pen
rods grandfather on day In the year
1863. and it was truly unloaded. Pen
rod got ii down, pointed the muzzle
waveringly In the general direction of
the door by which he had entered, and
whispered feebly and TREMENDOUSLY:
"Now let's see whu-what you were
goin' TO do SO mum-much !"
He maintained this attitude until the
weight of the extended rifle became
insupportable; then he grounded arms
and leaned against IA bureau, breath
ing even more vehemently than before,
His elbow touched bottle; he seized
upon 1t and smelled the contents-spir-
its OF camphor. Suggestion was i'm
mediately reused by the memory of an
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strawberries in the yard took curious,
changing shapes, and Penrod kept
wary eye upon them as he threaded
his way to the kitchen door.
1t opened to his hand, revealing
nothing save by reminiscent odor; but
there was a dim light in the dining
room. Thithe. he proceeded. his un-
nerved condition being at once i'm
proved by the sight of viands and vege-
tables, for there was a plate upon the
table at his accustomed place, and
food plenteous. though grown cold.
A conjunction of suggestions, oc-
curing as he ate. recalled something
like an echo of Della's voice; gradu-
ally he became susceptible to an i'm
preston that his father and mother
and sister had not dined at home.
Then abruptly it struck him that he
might be alone I'm the house.
GAIL alone In an empty housew As
the words formed in Penrod's mind, 1t
was as If a husky voice had uttered
tn n somewhere overhead. He was
grievously startled.
''An empty house,"
At the upper end of the table was
part of a cold ham, beside which lay
large, horn-handled carving-knife !:
and Penrod, after swallowing dryly
once or twice, lunged suddenly at this
implement, grasped 1t, and stood upon
the defensive. He remained in tense
attitude. listening; and there was no
sound either within the house or with
out; nothing could have been more
ominous. Finally, carving knife in
hand. he went back to the kitchen,
where he had left the ax, and returned
TO the dining room doubly armed.
Again he stood TO listen.
Suddenly Penrod whirled straight
about, with ax and carving knife both
lifted to strike at something behind
him.
Nothing was there except the side
board, so he bout-faced suspiciously
again. Then, laying the ak upon the
table, but keeping the knife In his
right hand, he stepped upon chair
and extended his left hand To the gas
fixture, meaning to turn the jet on
full. But he pressed the key In the
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al the empty rooms and vacant halls
and passages. Burglars had opened
the door and looked at him.
Stopl Had they only looked az himf
Had one OF them come In the room
when the door opened? Was he there
now?
Or was IL The old man?
That finished Penrod.
With a shattering yell OF terror he
sprang from the bed. clutcbisg all his
armory somehow and anyhow: got the
door open. plunged blindly through the
hall and down the front stairs to the
landing. where he tripped over the
stock of his gun and fell all the rest Of
the way. believing outrageously and
accompanied by the rife. the camphor
bottle and the carving knife and the
ak.
1t sounded like the Eiffel tower fall
ing downstairs.
He came TO pause I'm n sitting pos
ture at the foot of the newell. The
hall was brightly lighted. So were
the rooms opening from IL. and out Of
these rooms issued sounds of sudden
confusion and disturbance. His moth
er rushed TO him through the near
est door.
"Penrod, What on earth"
Then through the open front door
came Margaret and four young men
who had been spending the evening
with her on the front porch.
Then, following Penrod's mother.
came three OF Periods aunts. one
uncle, and eleven other alarmed ladies
and gentlemen. most of them holding
cards in their hands.
Then through the door of another
room came Periods father, three OF
Periods uncles, one aunt and the
eleven remaining members of the
Thursday Evening Bridge club. the
hospitable superintendent of which
organization had occupied most OF
Mrs. Schoficlds time that evening aft
or her return. with her husband and
daughter. from dining with an elderly
relative.
Over the banister above leaned
Della Tin extreme negligeel. and Della
likewise demanded TO know. What on
earth Then. by means Of the back
hall and the back stairs, Katie and
an alleged cousin, who had been sit
ting quietly on the back porch. joined
Della. Katie also wanted TO know,
What on earth
"What is the matter. Penrod?" his
mother walled.
Penrod coughed, gulped. and an
swered feebly:
"Just-playing
"But what made you get up?" his
mother cried.
"Get up-where"
"Out of bed. l slipped away and
looked in your room awhile ago and
you were sound asleep. What did you
get up and dress for and
II was just pretending"
pretending what?"
"Just pretending"
He answered absently and I'm n pre-
occupied tone, his mind having some
what conferred upon the number OF
human beings In the circle about him.
AS his mother remarked nfteward,
thtlt Nfit hl'it pSobit IA shN h'"'N
that evening than she had entertained
for years. Including the family and
Margaret's callers there were 30. she
said.
At that she forgot 10 count Penrod
and Della and Katie. and Katie's
cousin.
Altogether there were 81.
hA
rose from the floor.
"You put those things awayl" COM
manded his father.
"Mom-muhf"
"And then you 20 straight 10 bedw
his father concluded sternly.
"Mom-muh. aren't you going TO
have leo crcam7"
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bedclothes and TO cover himself COM
pletely. as far as the top of his head.
for the old man was but one of the
monsters that threatened.
Burglars
Burglars were creeping through the
halls upstairs and downstairs the
air of the whole house became muir
murous with the whispers and rust
lings.
Penrod, still not moving his head,
beneath the sheet: slid the gun off the
coverlet, and pushed IL as far under
the bed as he could. Burglars might
be more merciful If they believed him
but little lonely sleeping child in
tending no resistance.
He gulped lamentably. and a poig
nant bitterness began TO form no In
considerable part of his condition.
What kind of parents were they Che
asked himself) who could go blithely
off and leave little lonely child to
be found by burglars-and other
things-in a great, horrible. hollow.
empty house? Probably his father and
mother were somewhere with whole
crowd of people. in brightly lighted
rooms; no doubt at this very mo-
ment they were both talking and
laughing.
Laughing!
His indignation extended to cover
the cases of his nineteen-year-old
sister Margaret, and of Della, the
cook, and Katie. the housemaid Most
likely all three of these marble hearts
were also somewhere, talking and
laughing!
Big, strong, old grown people
every one of them-well, maybe they
would be sorry tomorrow! Besides,
he would get even with them-if he
lived.
He was making up his mind in what
manner general revenge should he
accomplished upon the household
when the handle of his door clicked
family, and yet distinctly; was softly
turned, and the door opened little
way.
Periods heart did not stop. but his
breath did. He lay motionless.
The door was closed again, gently.
Then heart and breath both bound
ed. There was no doubt about 1t;
something had certainly opened his
door-and had looked ut him. He had
felt It.
1t was too much for closed eyes
Penrose lifted himself on his elbow
and stared whirlingly about him until
his gaze became fixed I'm utter hor-
ror upon the threshold Of the door.
thread of light glimmered wanly along
that threshold.
Shaking TO the verge Of spasms, Pen
rod gathered his weapons again.
Then the light disappeared, and
there was darkness-and silence, and
silence, and silence!
And whatever the color Of the CLEAN
beneath the door, the thread that re-
NAMED upon the fixed retlna of Pen
rods eye, after the actual light had
gone, was green.
Now, indeed, out of the darkness
over the frenzied boy did Chimera
peer and monster hover! The green
thread broke and twisted into shapes,
bodlless, faceless eyes came closer and
closer and closer. while animals
breathed hot upon his cheek.
The silence grew tenser with noises
Just about to burst forth; the dark
ness became charged with unthlnkable
visions Just ready TO make themselves
visible; raw heads and bloody bones.
blenchIng phantasm and ravenlng
vampire. bugbeor. bugaboo, mummy
and nightmare. CHASTITY thing that had
ever got into Periods head was issued
forth and now hung over him.
And outside the door were the bur-
glars. There were burglars rnmpnging
oll through the house by this time, In
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Exercise.

"Don't you think every man should
devote some time to physical culture?"
mot In my particular field of ac-
tivity," replied Senator Sorghum. IF
all legislators went In for physical cul-
ture as we'll as intellectual develop
ment some of these debates might end
In a personal encounter that really
hurt somebody"
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War Economy.

Sandy and Pat were discussing the
economies OF their respective land
ladies. "Indade," said Pat. "the other
day I saw that wumman O'Grady
countin' the peas 10 put In the broth"
"Och." replied Sandy. where am
the landlady melts the margarine an
paints II On yer bread wi brushl'
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Ead Marksman.

"whot is the chief aim of Jobling
Making money"
But he's always hard up"
"Quite true. His aim IL poor"
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THAT singers voice has great carry
ing power. hasn't itT'
1T ought TO have. He supports his
own and his wife's family. too. On IT."