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TO LECTURE BEFORE
THE CITY w. C. IT. II.

The Red Arrow Trail" will be
the subject of an address by Mr..
Ahrn, of Williamsport, before the
Harrisburg w. G. T. u. in the Fifth
Street Methodist Church this even
ing.
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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-04-10
MEDAL FOR CAPT. sYMMoNDs.

When Colonel G. J. Symmonds, Keno
sha's ranking army official, returns to-
Kenosha, nc will wear the Distinguish
ed Service Medal, the most coveted
decoration awarded to American army
officials. He was awarded the medal
through the recommendation Of General
Pershing according to a telegram re-
ceived here today by Frank s. Sym
monds, a brother of the Colonel, from
Mrs. Symmonds, now in Washington.
The latter recently received copy of
the telegram from General Perish
ing which informed Colonel Symmonds
Of his new honor.
The coveted telegram sent to the
Kenosha colonel by General Pershing in
France, read as follows: "The COM
mander In chief in the name Of the
President has awarded the Distinguish
ed Service Medal to you FOR exceptional
and distinguished services. Medal to
you for exceptionally meritorious and
distinguished service while in command
of the supply depot at Gievres,
lowing a recent visit of General Perish
ing and high English officers to the
intermediate depot at Gievres, where
Colonel Symmonds had been in charge
during the war.
Kenosha and Wisconsin may well be
proud of the record which Colonel
Symmonds has made in the war and
which this award has recognized. The
depot at Gievres covered more than
ninety acres and was the largest inter-
mediate depot in all France. Millions
Of dollars worth of equipment. passed
through the depot every week aud all
of it was so exeellently man
aged under Colonel symmonds d.
, rection that no delay was occa.
stoned and not once did the depot
fail to fulfill the demands made upon
it. An example of the efficiency of
the Kenosha colonel is Illustrated
in the following incident sent back
from the front.
During the height Of one Of the
American offensives on the Western
front, Gen. George Moseey wired his
superior for 270o0,000 rounds Of am
munition to be hurried to the Yanks IN
their death grapple with Hindenberg's
Huns Two minutes later the telephone
clicked on the desk of Colonel Sym
mond at Gievres, France, and he was
told that they only wanted 100000
rounds, not next month or next week,
but tomorrow night. Colonel symmonds
made no-exeusess but be got to work.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-04-10

If ii were possible to express the in
dignation Of patriotic people at the ac-
tion of the Council in failing to re-
elect Captain Brennan, it might be
worth while trying. Tt is just one of
those things when the limitations of
the public print are emphasized Let
it pass with the statement that it is a
disgrace on the city that some future
generation may live down. The pres
emit generation of patriotic men all
women Of Kenosha can not hope TO for
get or forgive. The fact that the ae-
ton was one by men known as "City
Fathers" only makes it more glaring
breach of patriotic faith with the men
who served. The five men who voted
to keep clean the faith Of the city are
entitled to the sympathy of the people
that this shame should have been plac-
ed on council of which they were
members.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-04-10

It's worth while to note that the
paving work in Kenosha has gotten
away to flying start. If the city Of
ficials will just clear the way ahead Of
Contractor Petersen its the one best
bet that he will complete all the work
asked Of him just a little ahead of
the time stated in the contract.
Racine evidently just couldn't think
Of Kenosha having had real visit
from auto bandits and they just had
to stage something of the kind. The
Belle City is to be congratulated that
the robber went no farther than to rob
an Armenian Boarding house and that
they cot away with no more than $50.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-04-10

whatever he wanted. When an order
was received at headquarters, Colonel
symmonds never replied "I'll see if
we've got it." He said, eyes, sire"
and no matter what it was, it was sent
and sent on time.
The remarkable service of Colonel
Symmonds at Gievres has astonished
every one who has visited the depot
there and Washington has for several
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-04-10

weeks been thrilled with stories of his
achievements The announcement of
his name for the Distinguished Service
Medal has been expected by his friends
who are now rejoicing with him in this
recognition. 1t is believed that the
new honor viii bring with it a deserv-
ed promotion for the Colonel and that
the eagles may soon be exchanged for
the stars of a general.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-04-10

'clock this morning as the attorneys
after the busy day in Chicago were in
no mood to make opening statements
or to start the taking of evidence in
the case.
Mrs. Auster hurried to her home with
her sister following the selection of the
jury and later in the evening the men,
bers Of the family posed for a number
Of newspaper photographers.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-04-10

Immediately he sent out calls to every
chief at the post and after tremend-
Gus days work the order was on its way
across France that evening, and the
battle line was saved.
With the same speed and thorough
ness Colonel Symmonds filed every
order and the Kenosha colonel became
known to the commander in chief as
a man upon whom he could rely to have
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
Unusual Methods Used.

With the end of the war have come
many revelations of the unusual meth
DDS used by the Germans to spread
their harmful propaganda In the coun-
tries arrayed against the central pow
ers. and of the clever work which
often frustrated their well-laid plans.
In one case, mentioned In Popular Me-
chnnics Magazine, what appeared to
be an old and worn copy of the works
OF Homer proved to be n volume of
attacks on British rule In India. Only
the first few pages Of the book were
printed with the words of the ancient
poet. The remainder, though in Greek
type like the beginning, was filled with
the diatriSe. The volume was ad-
dressed to an educated Hindu capable
Of trnnsating the Greek into an In
dian dialect.
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
PETS BELOVED BY SAINTS
Or. Douglas Hyde, In Series Of Leo
lures, Deals Interestingly With
Medieval Irish Lore.

Dr. Douglas Hyde recently delivered
a series OF lectures-the Margaret
Stokes lectures-in the Alexandra col
lege, Dublin, dealing with medieval
Irish lore. He told anecdotes about
the Irish saints and their love of birds
and beasts. He traced the love of ami
mails by people In different periods
ana In different countries. Even the
Irish pagans had their pet animals.
says Our Dumb Animals.
He took the three Irish saints, st.
Patrick, st. Brigld and st. Columcille,
and spoke of their affection for their
pet animals. ST. Patrick's kindness to
the fawn was well authenticated, and
the fawn returned the love to his mas
ter.
st. Brigid had her pet dog, most
faithful animal. She also loved birds,
and the birds. especially domestic
fowls, loved her in remarkable man
ner.
The crane was St Columcille's pet,
although his love for dumb animals
surpassed that of the other saints. 1t
was recorded in the life of the saint
that dumb animals. too, were In love
with him, especially birds, and that
some of the latter followed him from
ireland to the island of Iona. There
was, in proof of the love of animals
Tor the saint. the story of how the
horse wept on the bosom of the saint
the night before he died.
DIR. Hyde mentioned large number
of other saints, Irish and Latin, about
whom he told stories, showing their
love for animals, making special refer
ence to st. Kevin, st. Comgnll, st.
Molina, st. Moling, who had made
friends of wolves, foxes, partridges and
herons.
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
Auberue du Pigeon.

StrnsbOurg. French once more. Is
unfolding. like rose to the sun. The
old life has begun again, as 1t was
lived before the interruption in 1871.
Houses are throwing open their shut
ters and hanging up once familiar
signs. One of them, the Pigeon inn
one of the glOries Of Strasbourg with
Its painted wood carvings, its old
windows and curious ship decorations
has reOpened its doors. 1t was built
In 1881 and began Its career under the
sign of "Au Pigeon" Then later the
sign changed to "Au Pigeon Blanc"
and for two centuries the inn was the
rendezvous of the university students.
After 1870 the sign was taken down,
the Pigeon Blanc's hospitality ceased
and the house became the headquar-
ters of Roman Catholic society. The
days of its ecclesiastical Importance
are happily over. The inn becomes
the "PigeOn Blanc" once more. open
Ing new chapter OF It's long history
under true Alsutian management
Christian Science Monitor.
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
FISH LIAR WORKS OVERTIME
ring That Is Challenge to the
Imaginative.

That is the worst of those fish stO-
ries. Somebody always comes along
with better one.
Recently the Evening News told the
V. A. DIS story of the frozen fish that
came to life in the cooking pot. Then
Il correspondents naval officer, 1t
should be snid-easlly puts that to
shame.
"An interesting experiment was
tried some little time ago" he writes
to us. with an ordinary herring.
"The fish was put into n large bowl
of salt water and every day Il small
quantity of water WAS removed and
an equal quantity of fresh was sub
stituted, until eventually the fish lived
and thrived in purely fresh water.
1.-The owner was so pleased with the
success of his experiment that he then
tried removing very small quantity
of water daily until the bowl WAS
empty, and found that the herring did
excellently. entirely without water
and as he was so lively In the empty
bowl he had to put him in n cage.
"Here he lived happily. hopping
from perch To perch just like bird.
until one day some sudden noise star
tied him and he fell into his water
trough and-was drowned"
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
Koran erouoht up to Date.

1t is not surprising that most of the
Arab population should be illiterate
since the language used In writing and
printing is literary Arabic, the very
same In which the Koran was com
posed ~ centuries ago. 1t has been
preserved intact, while the spoken
tongue has gradually changed. as
spoken tongues will. Literary Arabic
today Is about as much Ike the an
cient language as Latin Is like French.
Ninety per cent OF the people do not
understand the language In which
the books are written.
An interesting experiment has been
begun by Rev. Percy Smith. mis-
slOnary In North Africn, who IL trans
lating the Bible and the hymns of the
church into the ordinary speech of
the people, instead OF in literary
Arabic.-Christian Herald.
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
The Art Of Reading.

The printing press has helped liber-
alize and free the people from tyr
amy. Books and magazines and
newspapers have done much to dis
seminate knowledge and bring infor-
nation into the homes of the people.
They have promoted the art of read
ing and stimulated the desire to read
more.
AT the same time the very multi
tude of books and periodicals has cul-
tivated desultory method of read
ing, a desire to skim over everything
and digest little or nothing. Classic
writings, the great books of history,
biography and fiction have in meas
ure gone out of fashion. ''Solid read
ing" as 1t is called, is not often in
dulged in, and the names of great
writer's. whose productions will live
always, are unfamiliar to many of the
present generation.
The excuse is that we live in very
rapid age, and there is no time to
read heavy literature. The reason is
that most persons have lost their
taste for history, for biography, for
good reading. They have partaken Of
the froth for so long they have lost
the taste for the substantial.-New
York Herald.
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
Words and Music.

The value of words is going up. nt
least in Rouen. There the courts
have decided that the artistic values
of the words and music of n poem are
equal. At present in the United
States and Canada the writer of the
words of II song gets only pittance
of the royalties or small sum out
right at the start. In England many
of the most popular ballads have
brought their writer's no more than
two or three guineas, while the COM
poser goes on cashing his royalty
checks for years. What measure pub
fishers apply to the two arts thus
combined to make words so much less
valuable than music is rather hard to
understand. Verse writer's might well
send n little gold medal To the just
minded citizens of Rouen who have
ruled II n false one. ~
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
GOT INSPIRATION Al r,AmJ
Immortal Melodies Evolved by Masters
While Their Fingers Wandered
Idly Over the Keys"

A story is told of MendelSsohn TO
the effect that the charming arpegglo
figure in the Spring song of his "Song
Without Words" came to him on a
day when he played with his children
ut the piano, and allowed them to
catch his hands, rs they wandered
over the keys; and 1t is fact that
many of our most beautiful musical
productions owe their origin to extern
porizing on the piano.
This Is not to be wondered at for
many of our greatest musicians have
poured out their hearts deepest feel
ings as their fingers have fitted, in
desultory fashion, over the keys, pro-
ducing corresponding notes and chords
to their ever-changing moods; finding
ut the keyboard u vent for their In
most thoughts and desires, often meet
Ing with that triumphant response that
time can never diminish.
We can see in the works of Chopin
and Schumann II proof that in the
piano Is the origin Of many of their
most beautiful productions, while in
the great symphonies of the old mas
ters their shape, form, and color have
been gained at the piano where their
fingers wandered idly over the noisy
keys"
This is not so hard to understand
when we consider that the method of
composing n melody is, i'm essence, but
the picking out and assimilating some
melodic tune to which the harmony is
afterward added. From this primitive
instinct is ultimately produced the i'm
mortal tone pictures of the great mu-
sicans.
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
WEALTH IN BAMBOO GROVES
States Is Expected Soon to Be
Recognized Pi ocedure.

One thinks more readily of an Amer
lean farm with wood lot than of one
with II bamboo grove. but bamboo
groves may yet become common in the
southern states, IL the idea of sin
struct the farmer in the desirability
of planting them makes reasonable
progress. 1t will be new idea to the
farmer and he will have to think II
over. Meantime the country has one
important bamboo grove flourishing in
the state of Georgia, where 1t stand
in the custody of the United States
department of agriculture. to serve as
an object lesson. The young bamboo
shoots provide an early spring vege-
table, said to have flavor much like
that of sweet corn. and the stalks
have wide range of uses which
should make bamboo grove profit
able. 1t Is worth the farmers consid
Grafton, for example, that millions of
small canes are yearly imported from
Japan, and fishing rods made out of
them, for which the United States pays
annually about S5,0O0,00O.
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
BIG MEN AT POKER TABLE
Correspondent Of Saturday Evening
Post Writes Of Games IN Which
Statesmen Figured.

Mr.. Cleveland was fond-nOt over
fond-of cards. He liked to play the
noble game Mt, say, n dollar limit
even once and a while for little more
but not much more. And. as DR..
Norvin Green was wont to observe OF
Commodore Vanderbilt. HE held them
exceeding close to his BOSOM"
Mr.. Whitney, secretary of the navy
in his first administration. equally
rich and hOspitable. had often. "the
road gang" as certain group, mainly
senator's, was called, to dine, with the
inevitable after-dinner soiree or
seance. was, when In Washington.
invited to these parties. At one of
them l chanced to sit between the
president and Senator Don Cameron.
Mr.. Carlisle, at the time speaker of
the housewife handled his cards like
child and, as we all knew, couldn't
play a little-was seated on the OppO-
site side of the table.
After while Mr.. Cameron and l
began bulling the game-I recall that
the limit was $5-that is, raising and
back-raising each other, and whoever
else happened to be in, without much
or any regard to the cards we held.
1t Glanced on a deal that l picked
up pat flush; Mr.. Cleveland pat
full. The Pennsylvania senator and l
went to the extreme. the president, of
course, willing enough for us to play
his hand for him. But the speaker Of
the house persistently stayed with us
and kept on.
We could not drive him out.
When 1t came to draw Senator
Cam"ron drew one card. Mr.. Cleve-
land and l stood pat. But Mr.. Car
Isle drew four cards. At length, after
much banter and betting, 1t reached
a showdown and, mirabile dictu, the
speaker held four kings!
"Take the money, Carlisle; take the
money" exclaimed the president. "lf
ever l am president again you shall
be secretary of the treasury. But
lOn't you make that four-card draw
too often"
He was president again, and Mr..
Carlisle was secretary of the treas
ury.-Saturday Evening Post.
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
Hard to Account for Figures.

Statistics have recently been pub
lished in Germany which are so strik-
ing that the Medical Records Geneva
(SwitzerlandD correspondent says
they "need confirmation" 1t is stated
that for every 1000 boys born in the
later years of the war. l,OS6 girls have
been born. Before the war the ratio
was 1000 boys to 1.02I girls. "Noth-
ing" writes the correspondent, sis
known with certainty MS to the con-
ditions that determine sex in the hui
man species, but there Is quite large
amount of evidence in support of the
generalization that during wars and
famines, when the conditions are gen
orally adverse, especially with regard
to nutrition, the proportion of male
relative to female births increases. If
there is any foundation for this gen
eralization, then we must conclude
either that the figures are wrong or
that Germany was mighty well nour-
ished during the war. or else that some
entirely aberrant influence was ut
work"
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
New Power 10 Wanted.

In the field of research In connec-
tion with automobile underwater tor
pedoes, there needs to be developed II
new source of power, said Rear Ad-
miral Ralph Earle, U. S. ~, chief of
the bureau of ordnance, at n recent
meeting of the American Chemical so
ciety. The present source is com
pressed air and the new source must
be of greater potential per unit vol
ume and weight and he nearly as safe
to handle and store on board ship.
Oxygen has been proposed but is too
dangerous to handle.
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
Dundee Honors Beatty.

The Lockit Book of the burgesses
of the city and royal burgh of Dun
dee. Scotland, was opened the other
day, and to the names of high DIS
tinction already inscribed therein the
name of Earl Beatty was added, "in
recognition of>hs great services to
the empire and in testimony Of the
high esteem entertained by the citi-
zens Of Dundee for his distinguished
achievements In the service of the
state" Dundee received the distin-
guished Admiral and Countess Beatty
with all the exuberant enthusiasm of
a city on the borders of the North sea.
which was the theater of operations.
as 1t was the battle ground Of the
grand fleet. Earl Beatty spoke of the
rapidity and efficiency with which the
ship-repairing resources Of Scotland
had been converted to the services of
the fleet, and paid tribute to the
bravery OF Scottish fishermen when
acting as minesweepers.
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
WORK OF PLANT INvtaio..
His Skill Produces Variations That
Nature Would Require Thousands
Of Years to Accomplish.

With n watch glass and fine cam
forms miracles. He causes more
changes In six generations than Nature,
unaided. would produce in 100000
years. Two plants may be growing
in his garden, native of countries sep
arated by continents. Their struc-
lures, habits, hereditary tendencies
and identities have been preserved
plant inventor takes the pollen from
one, transfers 1t to his watch glass,
carries 1t to the other. and frcm the
glass transforms it to the bloom. The
resultant seed is sown. Tie new
plants may resemble one plant or the
other, or they may be like neither,
or they may be the verest monstrosi-
ties. There are thousands OF disnp-
pointments for one success In the
work.
Luther Burbank chose one seeding
out of $1,000 when he invented the
primusberry. The rest were remorse
lessly destroyed. The new primus
berry is cross between the raspberry
and the blackberry, but has Il fruit
much larger and finer than either. Mr..
Burbank has produced 100000 vari-
eties of plums. 10000 peaches and nee
tnrines, 500 almonds, 5000 walnuts
5000 apples, 1000 grapes, 1000 pears
and thousands of different kinds of
berries, flowers and vegetables in
equal profuson.