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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20
COLONEL PACKED
FOOD TO MEN
Soldier Lauds the Bravery Of
Leader of Chicago
Regiment.
WENT FORWARD UNDER FIRE
It Was at ChipilIy Ridge, and Men
Had Nothing to Eat for Couple Of
Days-CoIoneI Wanted to 30
Sure They Got It.

New YOrk-That Col. Joseph b,
SanbOrn, commander of ChcagOS old
First Illinois National Guard regiment,
personally carried food to his men
through terrific fire in that engage.
ment at Chipilly ridge in August, when
Chicagos noted regiment was shot to
pieces. was the story told by Sergt. G.
William Keane of Chicago, who re-
Gently arrived mere on board trans
port from France.
Keane, who was a student at Notre
Dame university until Villa cut loose
In Mexico, has several heroic feats to
his own credit, but he attributes his
bravery to Colonel SanbOrn's inspir-
ing leadership. Keane had the Mill
tary cross pinned on his breast by
King George on the same day that
General Pershing was made a Knight
of the Bath. He also wears the Amer
lean ID. S. G. keane has lost his right
leg.
Tells of Sanborn's Bravery
His story was told by Il buddy OF
his in the One Hundred and Thirty.
first infantry, but young keane In.
trrrupted with:
"Say. If you were fighting under
man like Colonel Sanborn, our COM
mander, you couldn't help pitching in
with every drop of blood IN your body.
Do you know what Colonel Sanborn
did ut Chipilly ridge In August, whel
our outfit was so badly shot up? w,
were up there with nothing to eat OF
drink for Il couple of days until Col
onel Sanborn personally brought ra-
tons to us on his back under the most
terrific fire that l ever experienced.
"He did that because he wanted to
be sure that the food would reach us
ana he figured the best way to make
sure was to carry it himself. Who
wouldn't fight like the devil under
commander like thatT"
Keane went to the Mexican border
with the First and re-enlisted later for
overseas service. He was decorated by
King George for his work at Iiamel on
July 4 when the One Hundred and
Thirty-frst was brigaded with Aus
italians.
keane Rescues Wounded.
Keane had charge of directing the
work of stretcher bearers. Party after
party of them went into No Mans
Land that day and failed to return.
Keane went out to find them. He
found them dead, lying across the
stretchers with the wounded men. They
had been killed in their work of mercy
by the Germans AT that moment q
party of Germans made a sOrtie to
capture Keane but it ended in his kill
ing several of them forcing the others
to surrender and to carry the wounded
men and the stretcher bearers they
had killed back to the allied lines
He won the American Distinguished
cross in the Argonne on October 10,
when he stood in No Mans Land oil"
recting the work of rescue till an eX-
plosive bullet shattered his leg.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20
HUNS NGEKS ENEMY
Court-Martia| British Captive for
Use of Name.
Sergeant Tells of CrucIties Inflicted
Upon Him by Eoche
Captors.

London, ngland-Because he re
ferred to the Germans as Huns
Sergt. +. A. Boyd, Il British airman,
who was captured, was sentenced by
theiN to Il years Imprisonment. lie
has now returned to England
With lieutenant, Boyd was patrol,
ling off the Belgian coast in Il sea
plane. They We're shot down By en-
envy deStroyerS, and while Boyd was
in the water he wrote this message:
"ShOt down at q AZ p. IN. Being picked
up by Huns" The pigeon to which he
intruSted the message was unable to
fly and fell into the hands of the Ger
mans. The two airmen were taken
to Brugrs, where they We're sent for
by Admiral Won Schroeder.
ale was frightfully angry over my
message" Boyd relates, "and began
to swear in broken English. The only
thing we understood clearly was that
on the following day one of us was TO
be shot. | had told him that | had
written the message. Later | WAS
court-martialcd and the court held that
by calling the Germans Huns, | had in
suited the officers and men of the Ger
man destroyerS. ana | was sentenced
to twelve months Imprisonment.
"For the first six months | was alb
solutely starved. | gave away my
watch for a slice of bread"
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20
RELATIVES TO BE INFORMED
War Department Will Keep Them
Posted on the Condition OF
Wounded Soldiers.

WashingtOn.-Relat of sick and
wounded soldiers admitted to military
hospitals in the United States will be
advised Of the whereabouts ana condl'
ton of the patients at the time OF adj
mission under plan soon to &c put
into operation by the war department.
Combined with the order issued by
General Pcrshing to the men overseas
TO write home, it is believed by war
department officials that the plan Will
give relatives prompt information as
to all wounded or sick men.
Hospitals in this country, it was an
nounced, would be required to send
cards reporting Immediately to the
nearest of kin when soldier Is adj
mitted what his wound or ailment Is
and his general physical condition.
Transfers of men from one hospltal
to another also will be reported.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20
WINS FAME and
. WAR DECORATION
Anzac Colonel Wounded and Or.
dered Home EnIists and
Fights Again.
IS RECOGNIZED IN FRANCE
General Sends for Him and Gives
Him Commission 49, Decorated
With Order of St. Michael
and St. George.

London..-The story of colonel Of
Australian infantry who was wound
ed in the GallipOli campaign and sent
back to Australia, but who concealed
his rank and re-enlisted as Il private
to serve with the Australians IN
France, mas added to the esteem in
which Australians are held in London.
Col. Charles Melville Mac Naghten,
the hero of the story, is hailed as
man of gallantry and grit.
He was the son of Sir Melville Mac
Naghten, chief of the criminal investi-
CATION department of Scotland yard,
says the Daily Mail. and was practic-
ing law in Australia when the war be-
gan, He was the major in command
of the First brigade which landed at
Amaze Cove on Gallipoli peninsula
Within two days he was wounded
three times. After recovery In Eng
land he returned to Gallipoli and led
his battalion In their immortal charge
ut Lone Pine.
Ordered Back to Australia.
After the evacuation of Gallipoli he
served for time in Egypt and was
sent from there to England, suffering
from wounds and fever. Surgeons re-
fused him permission to return to ac'
tive service, and he was sent to Aus
tralia as second in command OF an
Australian training camp.
One day he slipped away from the
camp and joined replacement bat.
TALON In Queensland under the name
of Charles Melville, and soon after
ward was back In England training on
Salisbury plain as Private Melville.
He was quickly promoted to be cor
poral, and one day was asked by his
commanding officer:
Corporal, do you think you could
drill this companyT
Having commanded a brigade, the
corporal put the company through its
PAGES like the veteran he was.
Recognized by officers.
Back in France again, he was rec
ognized by officers who had known
him in Gallipoli as the daring and
brilliant soldier they had called
"Fiehting Mae" General Brtlw0od
with whom he had served at Lone
Pine. sent for him and gave him a
commission. Not long afterwarc
Colonel Mae Naghtcn was again sent
as an invalid to England, where he
was summoned to buckingham palace
to receive from the king decoration
,as companion of the order of st
Michael and st. George, which haC
been conferred upon him severa
years before for his gallantry at Gal
lpoli.
While serving in the ranks lr
France as Corporal Melville" he hat
been personally congratulated by the
commanding general for valor
Messines ridge.
Mac Naghten's fighting days are
now over and he is compelled to rec
OgniZe this fact, Tor, as one of his
men put 1t, "he is riddled like s
colander and 1t is only his fighting
spirit which keeps him alive"
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20
PUT HER FOOT IN IT
Firemen Release Little Girl From
Frozen Milk Can.

The Arlington, Mass, fire depart
ment, which has been called out for
practically everything under the sun,
including fires, had the surprise ct Its
life the other day when 1t was sum-
moned to extricate girls foot from
a frozen milk can. M. Glare Whit
taker, 4-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest G. Whitaker discovered
a large milk can frozen in the ground.
Childlike she put her foot in the can.
Then, exercising the privilege of her
sex, she changed her mind, and de-
cided to take her foot out. She found
il wouldn't come, and began to scream.
Neighbors, unable to help her, called
the police.
The police. finding themselves BAT.
fled called the fire department. The
five laddies dug the can out of the
frozen ground with pickaxcs, and then
cut the can away from che childs
foot.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20
FARMS FOR BRITISH SOLDIERS
Bill Providing for Big Subsidies to Be
introduced in Parlia-
ment.

LOndOn.-Plans have been perfected
for the introduction in parliament Of
a bill granting subsidies amounting to
millions of pounds sterling for the
purchase of small farms for men dis
charged from the British army, accord,
Ing to announcement here. The meas
ure will be given precedence in par
lament, ii is said While the govern
ment will bear the cost of the work,
t is said, local authorities will be
asked to assist in carrying out de
tails.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20
BRUSSELS TELLS unAIITUUt
Confers Freedom of City on Brand
Whitlotk, American Minister
to Belgium.

Brussels-The municipal council for
mally conferred the freedom of the city
on the American, Spanish and Dutch
ministers to Belgium in recognition of
their services to the city and country
during German occupation.
The address was made by Burgo-
master Max
Brand Whitlock. the American min
lister replied, saying:
II am grateful that fate called me
to share in the city's sufferings and
insults throughout the long nightmare
of occupation by an aggress6r who
vnnly desired to asSassinate the ma
tons soul"
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20
Brother Hajts Brother.

"Halt! Who goes there? Advance
and give the countersign.' Sergt. John
Harvey, of Uniontown, Pa, did as Or
dered, and for the first time In four
years found himself face to face with
his brother, Sergt. Edward Harvey.
Neither of the brothers knew the
other was within several thousand
miles of France.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20
Willow for Artificial Limbs.

The Forest Products Laboratory at
Madison, Wis, is working on the dry
ing of willow for artificial limbs. There
is a shortage of material and the de-
mand for artificial limbs will Increase.
1t takes from three to five years to
air-seas0n the stock, but indications
are that it can be done In kilns IN
from 90 to 20 days.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20
"GERMAN DOGS"

Kaiser Bill and Crown Prince, two
German dogs that were SO christened
by Private Robinson Cleve and Daniel
Nelson of the Five Hundred and Thir.
ty-ninth engineers and Three Hundred
and Seventy-second infantry, who cap
tured these dogs from the Germans.
Both these colored soldiers were
wounded in action and returned to
this country aboard the transport
George Washington.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20

adds light to any dark nook and used
with dark furniture, is most artistic.
A pair of brass candlestcks on the
mantel. andironS before an open fire,
or even a brass iardiniere for ferns.
are all especially attractive in dark
room.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20
Britain'S War Cost
Is $4O,94O, 900, 600

London.--The cost of the war
to Great Britain was approx
mately $40,94O,000,0o0, declared
Sir Il. III. Holden at the annual
meeting of the London City and
Midland bank, of which he Is
managing director. OF this sum
$685., 100000 was loaned to the
allies. Germany's war cost, he
said, was $3S,75O,000,000, Of
which only $2,25O,OO0 600 was
loaned to her allies. In addition
to this there were the debts in
cured by the several German
states.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20
Kills Bio EauIe.

independence, Mo.-A bald eagle,
three feet from the beak to the tip OF
his tail ana weighing nine and one
half pounds, was killed by a farm la.
borer near here. The bird measured
seven feet from tip to tip of the wings
and has been mounted by taxidermist'
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20

The fragrance of jasmine. musk,
hyacinth, the perfumes for seeming
most expensive soaps, originally began
in coal mine. Creosote, pitch. oils
carbolic acid, antiseptics and high ex-
plosives are all hidden away in lump
of coal.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20
ShipbujIders to Plant.

The Liberty Shiphuilding company
and the Carolina Shipbuilding com.
pany, both Of Wilmington, n. c., are
urging their employees to plant "vic-
tory gardens" this year.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20
Boston's Famous Church.

There We're only 5000 houses in
Boston when the North church was
built and many members of the con-
grpgation came from outlying districts.
The corner stone was laid in April,
1723, and the first meeting was held in
December Of the same year.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20
.BETTEP-HO2SE CLUB
Would HELP FARMERS
Lovers OF Driving Animals Would
Also Profit Ey Work Just
Started In Maryland.

The organization Of farmers and low
ers OF riding and driving horses in
Maryland mo Bettel-horSe Clubs, got
It's start recently when W. O. Seigert,
Of GaiesNiilc Anne Arundel county,
formed such club among West River
farmers. The purpose OF the organiza-
tons is 10 improve the breed of Mary
land firm and driving horses and to
tndeaVOr 10 make county fairs, horse
fairs IN truth, whe"e the animals may
be exhibited, exchanged bought and
scld
The formation OF such clubs has the
support OF the Maryland Breeding Blu
reau, which has headquarters on the
18th floor Of the American Building,
Baltimore, AMI Which offers to give
such assistance as it can to those who
wish to organize,
1t will supply information concern.
ing the breeding OF horses and will
refer all who wish to breed their
mares to thoroughbred stations, to
those Maryland no Sc lovers who now
have noted s.res loaned them by the
bureau.
w. O. Seigcrt, president of the West
River Beuer.horse Club, now has two
o. the bureaus stations and to aid the
cause he has announced that he will
place the stud fee at very low price.
\ halfbred mara he owns has been
To nFln iply Of q
noted sires of this country and Eng
land. The colt viii be fOaled in June
ana is expected to prove an Ideal
cross.
His brother has bred mare out of
a Clydesdale rsale by Percheron
sire, to Rode"ick and the result is eX-
pccted to be a horse partaking of the
best characteristics Of his thorough
bred sire and his heavier dam. 1t
should prove to bt a salable horse for
artillery purpo es and is expected to
make fine farm animal.
There are scores of farmers in this
county who would profit by the forma.
ton of Bette horse Club and those
Interested in or2s uizing such club
can communicate through the editor
of this paper with the Information
Division Of the Maryland Breeding
Bureau They will be helped in every
possible way
If the plan goes through and clubs
are formed in this and other counties,
f,ir fol CT IL,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20
Speak Up, Then.

Said the facetlous Teller, you've
all heard that old wheeZe about hear
ing Pike Speak; but did any Of you
ever hear Jack and the Beans Talk?"
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20

"Some men find fault because dey're
too WISE" said Uncle Eben. land 9th.
ers because dey ain got sense
enOugh."s
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20
Unreasonable.

"You are two-faced. You let an
other fellow kiss you" "Well, II l
have two faces, what's your kick?.'
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20

The Maryland breeding Bureau,
through this papc", will be glad to
answer all Inquiries concerning horse
breeding and the care and manage
ment of st"lions End of mares and
colts. Adde'S all questions to the
editor of this paner who will forward
them. The al TC,S viii be printed in
an early number Of this paper.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-03-20
Optimistic Thought.

He who knows nothing knows enough
IL he knows when to be silent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

Draee.,4- Confines OF Neither WeS-
sex. 1t shone with a wealth of re-
ligious and architectural reminis-
cence upon the high-piled ogees and
archivolts of Yeominster Cathedral,
and it looked rather knowingly and
with a sidelong glance into the back
windows Of off-license beerhouses in
the vicinity Of the cattle market. It's
observations also included Ibchester,
the two Yaxleys, the valley Of the
Swale, the long line Of ridges which
eliminates in Sow's Beacon and
four villages Of the name Of Sneed.
1t drove horizontal rays of yellow
light between the legs of sheep that
did not know that by the following
Tuesday their internal economy
would be exposed in the butchers
shops Of Yeominster High Street,
aid it derived a particular satisfac-
ton from eliciting shiny reflections
from the convex faces Of milkmaids
unaware at the moment that before
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

especially moved when they recalled
special, obscure occasion-a day
when he had loved her more than
ever, one of those moments of ten
derness in which the heart has no
need of a pretext in order to give
another JOY. Then he heaved huge
sigh. The beginning Of a sob, a
sort of groan, escaped from his
throat.
Mechanically, he went to the man.
telpiece and picked up the pearl
pin. He turned it over in his fin
gers and contemplated it without
knowing exactly what he was doing.
with a wandering glance and
nervous gesture, merely to distract
himself from his own torment. By
dint Of looking at it, he finished by
really seeing it, then by distinguish
ing its aspect, form and quality. and
then by identifying it.
1t was one Of his betrothal gifts
He had bought this pearl, because
Mime. Arbot-that first name of his
wife, by the power of resurrection
which certain words, certain airs
and certain doors have, revived in
his memory the whole epoch Of his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

the year was out they would sleep,
without the necessity of rising early
to fetch the morning milk, in the
village churchyard. 1t shone with
creditable artistry but without en-
thusiasm because it recognized that
its operations were irrefragably pre-
scribed by the Unreasoning Cause.
Then, remembering an engagement
in the Southern Hemisphere, it went
below the horizon.
To a pedestrian proceeding along
the road from Bishops Yaxley to
Yaxley Admiral the scene was not
without its beauty, or, since he was
in holy orders, its moral; and the
young Fellow and Chaplain of St.
Wilibalds - College, Oxenfording-
bridge, whistled with fervor that
was almost laical as he shifted his
rucksack from one shoulderblade to
the other. The Rev. Mark Over,
whose heavy chestnut beard was now
gemmed with the increasing dew of
evening, was of sanguine and
cheerful temperament, and when he
did not whistle he sang as he passed
between the thick hedgerows.
"Whcre are you going, my pref
t. maid?" he carolled in the old
Mid-Wessex catch, when to his
establishment the answering an
tistrophe was waited to his ears
from behind the hedge in voice
that was Individually feminine.
"Can you, my dear young lady"
he exclaimed, as the voice died away,
"can you direct me to Ranunculus
Cottage? l am bound for the hos
pitable roof of Farmer Buttons, but
such is the bewilderment of an un-
familiar vicinity that I am unable to
locate it with any degree of exacti-
tude."
ooh, yes, sir" said demure
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

putting aside, one by one, all the
pieces which she wished to keep,
guided, in her choice by a sure in
stinct. And each time she made,
out loud, an appraisement of the
object, brief and lucid, like that of
an expert at his testing table:
1.-TWO thousand, eight hundred.
Three thousand, three hundred"
The figures, as she announced
them, conveyed no note of melan-
choly. They sounded no knell like
that which accompanies the depart
urc forever of long treasured things
or marks the passage by way of the
auction block Of some cherished COL
lection. Nine. Serquet acted as if
she wero merely another's agent.
But he, crumplcd up in a chair,
suffered a distress which left him
speechless. Those jewels there
were they not the landmarks Of their
happiness? Didn't a shred Of their
past cling to each one? He looked
at them vaguely, occupied in recall
ing under what circumstances he
had presented them to her, thinking
of the anniversaries and the fates
which these giftS recalled. He was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

Serquet opened drawer, from
which she took box. Her h,4.s 81
followed her with his eyes, distressed
to impose on her this deprivation
Inundated to be reduced to such an
expcdient.
~ would have preferred some
other way" he began in a pitiful
tone.
She stopped him, very brusquely,
very resolutcly:
"My dear, don't let US talk that
way. Let us look things in the face"
In the household she always had
shown the greater decision. She
had never allowed herself to be in
Inundated by life, whose painful de-
mands she had already experienced
when, as the widow Of jacques Ar
bot, her first husband, she had found
herself alone, struggling with the
difficulties of contested inheri
lance and opposing her patience, her
sangfroid and her will to the tricks
of lawyers.
LET us choose some things out
Of this box"
The jewels lay mixed together
against the blue velvet Of two large
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

cases. Rings, collars, chains, brace
lets-evidences Of a fortune for
merly considerable-had been tossed
there, in disorder, on returning from
some entertainment or on the eve
of some journey. They preserved,
scattered thus, the negligent grace
Of the gesture with which their
owner had detached them.
"Hcre are my pearls" said Nine.
Serquct.
She owned two, Of equal beauty,
mounted on pins. She looked at
them TRANQUILITY, showing in her face
no regret at parting with them.
Putting one on the mantelpiecc, she
said:
LET US begin with this"
Calculating with the precision Of
a dealer, she added:
ut is worth to-day ten thousand
francs"
Then she proceeded to divide her
jewels into two lots-the first dcs-
tined to be sold Immediately, the
second to be held till later, when
necessity should obligc her to raise
fresh sums. She worked with COM
plete assurance. asking no advice,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Literature and Life

for the clump Of wood that hid his own
squadron's landing ground.
They did get her home, those two
dying men, and landed in our lines:
And as Spotty's first words when he
was lifted from his cockpit were of
the crash-"Barry, you blighter, If
you've crashed those plates Of mine
I'll never forgive you. .. ). You'll
find all the plates exposed, major, and
notes Of the bearing and observations
In my pocketbook"--so also were
Barry's last of the same thing. He
didn't speak till near the end. Then
he opened bis one eye to the squadron
commander waiting at his bedside and
made an apology -. ("An apology
Good Lord! :. as the major
said after). "Did l crash her badly,
major?" And when the major assured
him no, nothing that wouldn't repair
in day, and that the Marah would
be ready for him when he came back
to them, he shook his head family.
"But 1t doesn't matter" he said.
Anyhow, I got her homo. .. And
If I'm going West tho old Marah
will go East again :. and get some
more Huns for YOU" He ceased and
was silent minute. Then "I'm sorry
I crashed her, major o.. but y'see,
my leg was q bit numb"
He closed his eye; and died.