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The Washington times., 1918-09-24
JAPANESE TAKE
CAPITAL OF AMUR

LONDON, Sept 24.-Japanese cav
airy have captured Observation-Disclosures,
capital Of the Siberian province CT
Amur, according to information re-
ceived by the embassy here. two
thousand Austro-Germans laid down
their arms at Kolka, Troops moving
up the Amur river reached BlAgo-
vieshtchensk the following day.
HARDIN, Sept. 24-The japanese
have Issued a proclamation saying
that only because Of its friendly feel
ing for Russia and not a desire OF
gain, Japan wishes to help restore
order. The proclamation concludes
that any disorders will be severely
punished. -....-
The Washington times., 1918-09-24
WRECK DELAYS TOUR

Owing to damage to properties
caused by q railroad wreck. Miss
Jane Howard will not appear In
Washington at B. F. Keith's the week
Of October 8. She will return to
New York to replenish her wardrobe
and scenery. and resume her tour the
latter part Of October.
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Maxine Gunner IaMond
makes a test

81 found after entering the service that rather strenu'
work required every bit of energy had said Marine
Gunner LaMond,
"Poundng around on hard pavements seemed to me to
great of energy made test to soft
notwithstanding heels would relieve the strain COM
paron between leather heels and soft heels proved my
point beyond question"
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Let he noise Of dunrterH RHa deL
lars pouring into the o. q. Treasury
announce 70 the world that this conn
tTy o. uzitsd. Buy wa1 Savings
BtRmDA
The Washington times., 1918-09-24
BONDS BUY BULLETS.

For artillery. automatic rifles, and
small arms, and for ammunition for
them, we have spent over $3.7OO, OOO,-
600. Every Liberty Loan subscriber
helps to arm our soldiers.
The Washington times., 1918-09-24

The mountainous region in
which the allied drive is being
carried out is by far the most
difficult terrain in which tanks
have attempted to operate. The
travelling is so bad generally that
cavalry cannot be used effectively.
The Washington times., 1918-09-24
BOND BUYERS HELPED.

We have nearly two million men IN
France. Every subscriber to the
Liberty Loan helped send them there.
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years old. the story goes. and the
scout already has many Boches to his
credit
The Washington times., 1918-09-24
Serbian Tanks Chase
Foe Over Mountains
On Macedonia Front

PARIS, Sept. 24.-Tanks were
used in the Serbian offensive in
Macedonia, the Echo de Paris
said today.
The Washington times., 1918-09-24
10000 PRISONERS
TAKEN BY SERBS

Continued from First Page)
Butte-du-Mesnil our two surprise at
tacks resulted in forty prisoners"
The Washington times., 1918-09-24
Make this test for yourself

IF these heels actually will save energy
you want to know it. Have your repair man
put on a pair of OSuIhvan's Heels today.
Notice how much less you feel the shock
when your heel strikes the hard pavement;
The Washington times., 1918-09-24

how much more energy you nave
at the end of the day.
But insist on O'Sullivan's.
Because of our special process
this heel combines the greatest
resiliency with the greatest dur
ability. They are guaranteed to
outlast any other heel on the mar.
ket. They will last three times as
long as leather heels and give uni
formly satisfactory service to the
verYend. AvoidthedisaP- o.S.m
pointment of substitutes. ssGiS,f d
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O'SsiiieGs's Heels prvfses JOS
ssaisJt tie sLoeks Ssd jars Of hard
p0rrmssfs-&cy s'sssrVs Josr
sssTEy
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Why" he says. 'I thought these
lights were a signal ! was looking
for from one of our men"
We never got the spy, at least 1
never heard of ii. and the pilot being
in uniform, of course. became an
ordinary prisoner of war and was
sent to an internment camp.
There have been a few cases of
German fliers coming over our lines
in machines they had either captured
from us or else had painted with our
markings. Wholly aside from the
fact that this enabled them to land
behind our lines in daylight. it also
permitted them to fly low over our
positions and CLEAN much detailed
information as to our dispositions.
remember we once received an order
from general headquarters late at
night to paint the wing-tips Of every
machine black and that pilots were
to attack every British machine
which did not show such markings
the next morning.
The same order as to attacking
British machines which did not as
play this special identification also
went to the ant1-alrcraIt batteries.
The next days "bag" consisted of two
machines, one brought down by AR
chies" and one by the r. F. c. In q
few days the order came to remove
the black markings and attack every
British machine which continued to
show them. But this time only one
Hun machine was trapped and that
one by the royal naval air service.
The device practically put stop, to
that little Hun trick.
The British intelligence service was
just about as keen on securing con-
fidential Information as the German.
We continually sent spies over the
German lines. but personally. / only
made two trips. carrying the same
man each time. In this work 1t was
necessary. in the first place. to pick
out a good landing field well in the
rear Of the enemy lines, preferably
a field with distinguishing character
istics which might be used as guides
in making landings in the darkness.
1t was desirable. also, to have it as
remote from human habitations as
possible. suppose. however. that
this was a less Important considera-
tion with US than with the Ger
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Continued from Seventh Page.)

tion and over its door he placed a
sign of ownership:
The Children's Room"
1t is a gay little place with swing
ing cages at the windows and an
aquarium in the middle of the floor.
In summer the windows look out on
acres of tree-shaded greenery, and
in winter the frescoed vines on the
ceiling, the singing birds, the darting
fish, with water colors of bird and
animal life, give to the room the
charm of springtime. The shelves
are SO low that the tiniest visitor
may see the exhibits of shells, eggs,
nests and birds and butterflies and
many queer and curiously ugly things
that crawl and squirm. And, always,
the children come.
Quite long time ago. counting by
the years it takes Father Time to
change child into a trained nurse,
a young person stood before a case
OF the ugly beetles and bugs
She was thin little person whose
knobby knees betokened the era of
growing pains. and her teeth were
IN the unhappy transition known as
shedding. There was no assertive.
brow to promise genius and her eyes
gave out no chickering's of a fire of
fancy within. Also, she was chew
ing gum. But she was dead in ear
nest over her spiders and things.
and when a woman fingered at the
case she stopped her chewing to
speculate. with the offhand ffuency
which makes a child the finest thing
In this world-and, maybe, in the
next:
Say, I don't think it's fair to make
some things pretty and others hate
ful like they are in here-do you?
They's like people, amt they? Some
OF EN- all dressed up fine with moth
ing to do but fly around an have
good times and these here other ones
Just ugly Gravity things same as poor
folks that has to work an dress poor.
II Tder made birds an butterflies an
spiders an snakes. Tder started 'em
all even an w'enever one Of 'em did
somethin bad I'd punish it by pickin'
on some pretty color or a wing or
somethin' else that was nice. An
ever time one Of 'em did a good thing
I'd stick on somefhin' extra sweet.
But wouldn't be so mean as to start
'em unfair, would your"
A shedder with knobby knees has no
er Natures method of managing her
things that fly and crawl. but the
woman, having tried to explain and
failed-there Is no retfcence in child
hood-wished that the scientist who
knew children and loved them enough
have been there to enlighten her-and
yet, even he might have failed. also,
for
Langleys knowledge merely scared
to the skies, while the child's prob
lem had gone higher and knocked at
the gates of the Beyond.
And now she Is nursing soldiers
over there with a red cross on her
breast.
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dodge was to travel through villages
in the neighborhood of Albert, looking
for bfllets for his battalion, which ex-
pected to move into that sector, he
would explain. This enabled him to
learn what troops were billeted
roundabout. He was especially inter
ested in bil1ets of the Royal Flying
Corps After a time, his luck turned
or he came once too often. for he fell
under suspicion, and trap was set
for: him. The military police caught
him as he was signaling to German
machine at night. If the police hadn't
been so hasty and had waited few
minutes, they would have captured the
Hun plane as well as the spy. Of
course, the poor Johnny was scrooged
Immediately. We learned afterward
that he had been working a regular
shuttle-line across the trenches, COM
ing over one night and returning the
next.
Early in 1916 an order was read out
to all units Of the Royal Flying Corps.
warning the officers and men to be on
guard against a third spy. who wore
the R. F. C. uniform. A detailed de-
scription of him was given in the Or
der He had been in business in Paris
before the war, and was a first-class
pilot. He never had any difficulty in
picking up acquaintances among our
men, and his Information was most
him hemmed in in a certain district,
and the military police thought they
were reasonably sure of capturing
him. but as the story was told later,
he managed to bluff one of our aero
dromes into giving him a British ma
chine in which he got clear away. 1
can't vouch for the truth of the end
ing of this episode. But beyond Ques-
tion this fellow was extraordinarily
clever. and he was never taken.
One of the funniest spy stories,
which I know to be absolutely true,
as it happened at our aerodrome.
turned the joke on Fritz. We had
just lighted the gasoline flares out
on the field. expecting some Of our
machines that were out on night
bombing to return, when big bus
glided on to the grass. We swarmed
around it. expecting to welcome our
own lads, and we nearly dropped
dead when we saw the iron crosses
painted on the wings. But our sur
prise was nothing to that Of the Hun
pilot, whom we quickly lifted from
his seat. In fact, he was so surprised
that he blurted straight out his OBJ
ject in landing.
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something to prevent the weevils from
destroying them. The insect from
which the weevil comes, 1t seems, lays
its eggs in the blossoms of the beans
and when the beans form the eggs are
inside of them. They lie dormant un-
til some time in the winter. then hatch
inside the beans and eat their way
out. One method of combating them
is to spray with a certain mixture at
blossoming time, but an easier plan
for small crop is said to be to heat
the ripe beans to certain tempera-
winter. don't know just what the
temperature is or how the heating Is
to be done, but the Department of
Agriculture, understand, has issued
a bulletin on the subject and I am
going to send for 1t before harvest
two or three bushels of beans and
then have the weevfls eat them up.
Mary already has canned several
quarts of the snap beans, both the
green pod and wax varieties. and we
have had all we wanted to eat for the
past three weeks The green pods. es-
pecially. seem to be almost continu-
Gus bearers. There are beans of all
Sizes on the bushes and blooms still
coming. It looks as II we would have
beans for the table all summer long,
and lot more for canning.
My peas, I am afraid. were a good
deal of a failure. We had three small
messes, Mary canned two quarts and
fms has been written. I don't know
whether it was the spell Of dry
weather we had or because I was too
late getting them planted. Possibly
1t was a combination of both, but
there isn't any doubt that a profess
sional pea grower would go bankrupt
If he didn't get any larger return for
his Investment and work than I got
for mine.
I suppose, though, I couldn't expect
to succeed with everything, especially
at the first trial. And it seems to me
doubtful IL the weather could be made
to suit all varieties of vegetables,
even. if we could have the rain and
sunshine to order. While my pea
vines were shriveling up and dying
from the heat my sweet corn was
frowing to beat the band. The Gold
en- Bantam already is in tassel and
silk. with every promise of corn ready
to eat in couple of weeks, and the
Stowelrs Evergreen is fairly hopping
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Value of the Aeropane Connection With Secret Intelligence Work

mans. as the French and Belgian pop
ulations of the occupied territories
would die sooner than betray aiieu
soldiers or agents, while the frencn
villagers behind our lines are always
on the alert for spies.
The best kind of LANDMARK LOT
night landings is a river bend or TWO
parallel clumps of trees. You always
cut out your motor while you are
long ways up, and then pancake
down. so as not to make any NOISE.
Once landed, you debark your passen-
ger and Immediately prepare your
machine for getting away again. rms
means that you have to get out. put
chocks under the wheels and MAKE
sure that your machinery Is all ". N.
Then you wait half an hour TO give
the spy a chance to get back 70 you. -
possible to carry out his undertah'hs'
II he is not back in the half hour.
you swing your propeller and then
throttle down to the lowest possiole
power, just enough to keep 1t turning.
The machine will not move with the
propeller going at this rate, and you
are able to remove the chocks from
the wheels. Finally, you climb back
1HIO Ine COChpit, SStSic
open up the throttle. AS the bus ac-
cumulates headway. you put her nose
up and take the air.
The next night, or whenever your
spy has appointed, you come back to
the same field to pick him up. If he
has lodged detection, he Is there In
advance of the time appointed and no.
titles you by prearranged signal.
usually a series of flashes from an
electric torch. so 'contrived that the
light cannot be seen except from di-
rectIy overhead. II the signal does
not appear at once you circle around
and fly over the field several times.
but you don't land without the signal.
My man went the first time dressed
as an officer Of the Prussian guard.
He was a big. blond chap. with waxy
yellow mustache, and. believe me, he
was some Prussian. He would have
fooled his best friends in that rig.
His German accent even was a Joy to
listen to- The second time he was
dressed as a French workman, dirty
and sallow. He came back each OF
those times. but what happened to
him afterward I don't know.
(THE EED.)
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manner wal SO natural and unaffect-
ed, and he looked the part to perfee-
tion.
We walked through the trees to
the sheds. and on the way ne askea
me the usual questions as to the con.
ditions of the field, how we managed
in night flying with regard to lights.
how we liked the machines we were
using-the ordinary run OF shop talk.
He even asked me II we had yet OBJ
tanned a satisfactory. gun mount, and
as we had been working for weeks
of mounts, I was sure he must be on
the inside of things. particularly
when he mentioned the names OF sew
eral officers of the squadron. He add
ed that he had just come over from
London.
well. we had long conversation.
pected him at all, If, just as he was
leaving. he had not said:
'By the way. what machine gun
are you using?
Now, at that time. we were flying
the old BEE machine. which never
mounted anything but the Lewis gun.
and as he was pilot-as evidenced
by his wings-it was more than
strange that he should ask such
question. I Instantly became sus-
picious, but tried to conceal 1t, and in
a moment, as he continued to talk
along, asked to be excused while l
told the mechanics to get my bus
ready for an early morning patrol:
He assented, and I strolled on. But
as soon as had put enough distance
between us I headed for my shack on
the run. I grabbed my gun from Its
back to where I had left him.
He had gone. ran on a ways. and
saw him just entering sunken road.
Halt" shouted.
He looked once over his shoulder
and started to run. fred at him. but
in the gathering darkness aiming was
impossible, and by the time I had
traversed the road he had disappeared
in a wood beyond. We raised an alarm
and beat up the country around. but
ii was no use. He was too clever.
Another case somewhat like this was
that of a spy who was disguised as
major of the Canadian contingent. His
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y sERGT. PILOT DEAN IVAN LAMB,
Royal Air Service.

Royal Air Service.
9TH the British and the Ger
~ man air services were quick
JD) to appreciate the value of the
g. aeroplane in connection with
secret intelligence work. Both sides
in the great war make use of aero
planes to land spies behind the enc
my's lines, and to collect the spies
again after they have accomplished
their mission. OF course, know very
little about the organization of the
German intelligence department, ex-
cept that it is entirely too efficient.
Also. my experience has been that the
German spies who work behind our
fines are anything but towards. They
do not seem to resort to the usual
Hun tricks of poisoning wells and
shooting people in the back. First
and foremost. these spies are out
after information, and they subordi-
nate everything else to this end. I
have known of several cases of these
spies undertaking work of great dan
ger for no other reward, l am sure,
than the satisfaction OF serving the
fatherland, and any man who has
taken equal risks cannot avoid feel
ing of respect for such men.
One of the best instances of pure,
unadulterated German nerve that ever
came within my ken occurred at our
'aerodrome near Savy-Berlette. I had
, little bivouac built out among the
trees close to the hangers, with my
name painted over the door, so that
could always be found readily II I
was wanted in hurry for emergency
patrol. One evening about dusk was
preparing for nice, quiet evening
read when voiced called through
the door:
"Sergt. Lamb! Sergt Lamb!"
I went outside and found staff
captain of the Royal Flying Corps,
with his wings up" several decora-
Itions. and an undeniably swanky
English voice.
"oh. sergeant" says he very
casually. will you show me over
the aerodromeT
I Certainly, sir" answered.
i never thought twice about It His
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along. assuring plenty Of big Juicy
ears before the first of August
We have plenty of beets. and every
few days Ma ryputs away a can of
them foEs net winter Tomatoes will
soon be ripe and my cantaloupes look
promising. Nearly everything. in
fact, looks fair and promising to my
Evening star., 1918-06-30

beans in our two gardens-the quar-
er-acre-vacant-lot garden Fred Tur-
ner and l are making in partnership.
and the small garden Mary and / are
making in our own back yard. Mary
has kidney. wax and snap beans. and
I have stringless green pods in the
back yard, and in the larger garden I
have bush limas and the small limas
known as butter beans. besides the
navy beans. Mary plans to can all
the lima beans we don't eat green. I
wanted to leave the surplus pods on
the vine to ripen for dry limas. but
some one told Mary it was difficult to
get bush limas to ripen properly. be-
cause they are liable to rot during the
fall rains. Pole limas, 1t seems, are
the proper kind to grow II they are to
rfpen on the vine. That is valuable
information to have for another year.
but it came too late to be Of any use
to me this season. Besides. didn't
have any poles and didn't know where
to get any. Since then a couple Of
farmers who bring produce to town
have told me they would bring me all
the poles I wanted for cents a piece.
I don't know whether that is too high
or not, but as the poles would last
several years 1t doesn't sound to me
unreasonable.
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i'm AND AROUND THE CITY
tTo BE coNTINUED.)

A WOMAN was crossing the cob
@1A bles of street down town. 1t
was a street broken out in a rash of
junk shops and cfamorousIy chatty
with foreign tongues.
The woman, herself, had the SAT-
from skin and glazed black hair of
another land than ours. Her shabby
frock was somber enough for chief
mourning, except for its vivid flower
on her breast-a red rag of a rose
and her head was madonna covered
with rusty lace shawl full of holes.
The traditional thousand of women
might have crossed the street with
out attracting notice. This one was
an exception. And it is the exception
that counts.
For one thing, she caught the ex-
cited interest of couple of obvious
Fair, who must have been cross-cut-
ting to get somewhere to account
Tor their being SO far from home.
Both CALCULATED at sight of the
foreign woman and the one who was
white china silk made open confess
sion to the one who was pale blue
georgette.
"If could look like that I'd spend
the balance of my days in black
satine and rusty lace. Must be the
red flower that makes her look
SO difrerent-got a picturesque walk,
too"
The stylish two went their way
and the saffron-faced one sauntered
along on the sunny side Of the street.
The blood-red glow of the flower
dead-black setting. and, it is true, the
woman walked with the untram<
meled grace Of one to whom stays
are a civilization yet to be acquired,
but 1t was the shawl that put her in
a class to herself, for:
In the mantilla of the woman's
country is folded the romantic his
tory of Spain. The mystery Of its
grace cannot be learned from a FASH
ion page. 1t must be taught In
And. by way of first lesson, one
must be born there.
-.
A PORTLY mother and her crumb Of
~ a boy boarded crowded car and,
naturally, had to stand. The boy
caught hold of the brass loop of the
nearest seat. The woman made him
let go.
Don't tech that handle, son; it's
got jums ION it. I don't want you
ketchin' Any disease jums on this
car"
IT amt goin' to catch any jums,
momma."
81 know you amt. It's the jums
that ketches you"
Which shows that popular science
always gets down to the people when
properly advertised.
Moral: Advertise.
MAMIE LANCASTER.
Evening star., 1918-06-30


turner backed out Of work.
< ing and yielded his claim 70
me has been planted almost entirety
to navy beans. Experienced frienos
assured me that I could grow notn-
kng else which would contribute SO
iAeely to the winning of the war ana
atxhe same time be SO useful an ad-
ditisn to my own family larder.
planted almost a quart OF SEED
beans and the yield, am told, shouio
be two or three bushels II beans are
as high as they were last winter that
will be like having a fat bank ac-
count. Well eat beans about every
day, and, having grown them myself
we'll be able to do it without feeling
that we are coneuming food that
ought to go to. the soldiers.
And I want to record right here
that no matter how big crop may
have I'll have earned every bean OF
1T by the honest sweat of my brow:
Khe ground had not been touched
since 1t was plowed two months ago.
In the meantime it had grown
bumper crop of weeds and in places
"as a 80 - 49, ioh Tom and
aie' o.ttac,,ino, tbe
-. .,.e rr, d;dn.t end there.
The ground broke up into clods, and
the clods had to be broken In turn,
and then the ground had to be raked
and leveled OF.
*
T. ~
finally got the SOIL into conollioh
and planted all the stun my program
called for. When this was oone :
found still had lot OF space iei,
and I was In quandary as 70 "ha'
I should do with IL couio nave
grown vegetables 10 seh' oh .oaloe'
But tnat didht appear u mo-
put 30 many oacAaenes "nN
ana saes i".o .n-'
ture thal II nas % ~.
Seeolngiy personal matter anu To-
that-I wanted all the produce from II
Evening star., 1918-06-30

appraising eye. and Mary says I am
making up in chest expansion what
ever I may have lost in measurement
around the girth. Well, think have
a right to feel a little chesty
THE WAR GARDENER.
(To BE CoNTINUED.)