The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1919-08-20
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((0H, the English and the Irish and
the 'owlin' Scotties, too
~ The Canuc.s and Austrilee'uns
and the airy French poilu
Inc only thing that bothered US don't
bother us no more,
It's only wy in ell we didn't know the
Yanks before"
wei. Joe, I asked them guys what the
globe and anchor stood for on their caps
and one guy speaks up and says it means
that the marines fight all over the world"
TITS cute little thing. the marines
insignia. Looks something like a boiled
nuckleberry pudding with a couple Of fish,
hooks run through it. or like a lady hen
hawk trying to hatch out fractured door
KNOB I'm sure you get me Gladys Also
the marines may be identified by their
motto. Just where they wear that I've
TO fnd 1t somewhere about them II you
look close. 1t is 'Semper Fidelis' No, 1t
has nothing to do with fiddles. One d.
GLADYS. 1t Is a phrase taken from the
Sioux dialect. I think. meaning literally
Where do we go from here?"
The story Of "Bluebeard" and his
seven wives, which many will recall
having read long ago, is still going the
rounds. The fable appears to have
originated in France. but it has turned
up almost everywhere in the wide
world.
Now it appears that the Virgin is-
lands have "Bluebeard" Of their own,
whom they claim as the original dyed
in-the-wOol villain of child-lore.
Corporal Lester F. Scott of the
Thirty-fifth company, United States
marines, who is stationed at Charlotte
Amalie in the little island recently
acquired by the United States, writes
as follows of the people and their be-
liefs:
"On the west shore of the bay lies
settlement Of French people called
Cha Chas. These people came orig
inally from the Dutch and French
Leeward islands. They have not
married with the negroes, and they
live to themselves, resenting any out
side interference with their affairs,
"They are hard drinking race, vet
they are the most industrious people
on tAe island, and are especially good
canoemen. Their boats are long. mar
row affairs made out of scraps of
wood. They supply the town with fish
and the women make straw hats that
find a ready sale among the negroes.
"They will never rise any higher
than the true beach-comber, because
the race has degenerated. due to in
termarriage in so small colony. With
their ruddy faces. stiffly starched blue
shirts, tight white trousers and broad
brimmed hats, they present curious
and unusual appearance.
ION the crest Of two of the three
hills of CharlOtte-Amalie nestles the
famous old castles of 'Bluebeard' and
Blackboard These are the two places
of interest on the island. The old
buccaneers were alike as two peas in
their habits, but the castles are in
no way similar. Bluebeard's castle is
the more massive and is separated
from Blackbeard's by distance of
haff-mile. After the death of the
two pirates, a secret tunnel was found
connecting the two castles.
1T is reported that it was through
this secret tunnel the two exchanged
the women they had captured on
Ships
How Germany Looks to Them.
How Germany looks to a marine
who was one of the first to cross the
Rhine is told in a letter from Lieut..
Carol J. Single Of the Sixth regiment
Of marines, to his parents who live In