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liquid FIRE.

lege, his alma mater near his home.
Pittsfield. Mass.) And what then hap
pened Larney thus describes in his
diary.
eWhittlesey reprimanded Hollings-
head for leaving us without orders and
put message inside his blouse without
comment as to letter Told man who
brought Hollingshead in to put II. with
other wounded. Told Baldwin and ! to
take in our panels for fear Germans
would think they were a white flag. We
called to Private Irving Liner tnow OF
the Bronx, N. W to pull in the panels
OF white cloth which were near his
funkhole and he reached out and pulled
them IN.
It took no Go to hell" message to
tell the Germans that was Whittlesey's
answer The men of the Lost Battalion
told them it was their answer, too-and
in German. Already they had shouted
across to the besiegers taunts that they
were .tWind-Bag Bunch. (which
from the reaction il provoked must have
been the most scurrilous abuse known
to the German army. Now the Ameri-
cans added, even invented, new epithets.
No falling back!,' was still their first
and great commandment
The Germans feplied-with hand
grenades From the ridge above, the
bombs whirled through the trees, some
times in clusters of two or three, to ex-
plode shatteringly among the weakened
men who grinlly held on.
Hurled back again, the Germans
turned against the defenders the cruel
est weapon in the arsenal of warfare
liquid fire. To frighten, then to burn TO
a crisp, is the aim of the flame that
spurts from a hose attached to a tank
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-10-29
lNeWiU Discovered Diary
Of the LOST BAT TALON

and weakness, is surely best able to de-
scribe that scene. Here is what Larneys
wrote in his diary.
Tues, Oct. s. Relief complete. Went
out in ambulances at or F. M. After
z long auto trips was operated on at
Red Cross Base Hospital. This line
was written in later) We obtained some
food and ate ravenously. Major Whittle-
sey has seen that food was distributed.
The diary entries Of that day Of days
in the life of Jim Larney, and each Of
the 252 who came out of the Pocket,
were written sometimes in pencil, sone-
times in ink, in hospital bed, or on a
hospital train Here is an entry headed
Later:
capt. T. Breckenridge lLucien S.
Breckenridge of New York; saw me
swinging from tree to tree as my legs
were weak as / tried to get to ambu-
lance up hill He got behind me and
took twist in my belt and said, Keep
your legs going, Bud, and will push
you up there and he did. At Division
Field Hospital in empty church some
where / got soup and cigarets. Vomited
the soup Couldn't hold it,
General Alexander's words when he
go to US:
& Well, you men have sat heavy on
my chest for week. / guess we lost
more men trying to get you out than
you had"
(Then the writing fades, but to this
day Larney can remember the rest;
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-10-29

The above portion of Larney's diary
refutes the Go to hell version of
Major Whittlesey's refusal to sur
render, with the notation that the
commanding officer or the Lost
Battalion put the German note in
his blouse without comment
'.'-in here. But never mind that
Where's Major Whittlesey?'
(Whittlesey and McMurtry later We're
promoted and received the Congression-
al Medal of Honor. And then, shortly
after the war, came Whittlesey's tragic
end He leaped into the sea from
steamship leaving one of the most
glorious traditions of the World War be-
hind hinl1
Laney's next diary entry was
Wednesday, Oct. 8.
Moved by train to evacuation base
hospital ait Chaumont, Base 10. While
we lay on stretehers on railroad plat
form close beside hospital. Jerry's
planes raiding near town. We can hear
anti-aircraft and occasional Il ayy
crash. Wonder If we are gong to get
ours way back here2n
That would have been an ironical
antI-climax. But no
Relieved 10 be loaded on American
hospital train and leave town. Swell
accommodations after Argonne mud!a
Larney felt even better when they
put in his hands an English newspaper
In it he read that he and aIl the others
of the Lost Battalion were heroes. He
says:
THAT was the first 1 knew of it,
Tbo p.d
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stood triumphantly at the most
agonizing moment of It's ordeal in the
Argonne Forest has come TO life. II IL
Eliminates the greatest epic OF bravery
in the American part IN the World War.
New lines Of that epic are written in
the diary, just revealed, which Jim
Larney, Of Watertown, N. r., kept all
through the siege. Dawn OF that siege's
fifth morning showed pitilessly the des-
perate plight of the survivors. Ragged,
filthy, they crouchei in holes dug in the
slope of Charlevaux Valley, gripping
their rifles, gIaring with haggard eyes
toward the besieging Germans.
Chill night had added torture for
near 200 OF the wounded, many OF
whose bandages came from the hundred
and more dead. The wounded cried out
psteously to their comrades. For Gods
sake. watertn Or aCome and turn me
over, won't your Or. Boys, I'm going!
Write my mother please please!0
The effect Of hunger on tortured hui
man endurance caused the German de-
mand that the Lost Battalion surrender,
all OF which Jim Larney saw. Despite
his stiffened arm, wounded by friend
ly'' artillery, Larney scrawled in his
diary.
Germans call upon Us to surrender.
No attention paid to this demand which
was made by letter and sent with one
of our men who had been taken pris-
oner'
The man was Lowell w. Hollingshead
OF Mount Sterling, O. With nine other
famished soldiers of III Co, 308fh In
fantry, 77th Division, he had been tam
talized unbearably by food that seemed
to fall from Heaven yet, with helllsh
perversity, just beyond reach In big,
tempting packages it had been dropped
by American aviators who hoped to aid
the Lost Battalion, but who did not
know where the surrounded force was
GTILL hoping to get package,
the 10 Americans went straight into
the arms Of the Germans. Half were
killed, the rest wounded. Whereupon,
Lieut.. Heinrich Prinz, once of Spokane
Wash, persuaded Hoilingshead again to
risk death and, giving up the security
of a prisoner -of-war, to take a letter to
Major Whittlesey.
sThe suffering of your wounded men
can be heard in the German lines,' it
shia, diHuAtS UkhSI tiitnBs, ana we are
appealing to your human sentiments
ito surrender.
The incident has been celebrated in
song, story and picture: Whittlesey,
heroically erect, replying to German
standing before him, Go to heIl!"
But at that historic moment Jim Lar
ney, crouched 10 feet from Whittlesey,
saw what happened when Hollingshead,
leg bandaged, carrying light cane
bearing white tag, lInped up. escorted
by a non-c commissioned officer. Whittle-
sey's reply to the Germans-there was
no German present-was neither Go
70 heil!a nor anything else. He put away
the letter. 1T now is at Williams Col
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By Thomas vi. Johnson

FASCINATING new version OF
the supreme test Of fortitude
that the Lost Battalion with
stood triuYnphantIy at the most
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-18
Spectroscope's Eye
Useful in Finding
Impurities in Iron

Cambridge.-How the pow
erful eye of the spectroscope is
used in industry to analyze
metals, particularly in testing
steels and alloys for impurities,
was explained to the symposi-
UNI on metals at the Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology
here by Prof. George R. Harri-
son, director of the Institutes
spectroscopy laboratory.
Necessity of accurate analysis, he
explained, is emphasized by the cur
rent method of making steel which
uses much scrap iron and steel re-
claimed from junkyards. Usually
different types of scrap are melted
together and thus the resulting al
Toys are not always of the constitu-
ton desired.
Even such small amounts as one
part in ten thousand of some metals,
such as aluminium or magnesium,
will greatly alter the properties of
steel, it has been found. Thus the
inclusion of one old automobile crank
case of the wrong type may spoil
tons of steel.
The spectrograph, he explained,
constitutes a quick and accurate
method of checking steel for such
impurities. Placed on a routine
basis, this method is much more
rapid than ordinary chemical meth
DDS with complete analyses posi-
BILE within Is minutes, an important
factor when several hundred tons of
steel are being melted.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-18

the art of telling tall tales did
not die with them. 1t fingers on
to this day in the yarns which
the lumberjacks tell about that
master woodsman, Paul Bunyan,
and Babe, his big Blue Ok, and
in the songs which the negroes
sing about John Henry, who was
''the steel-drivinest man that
ever lived" It survives in the
tale of ''The Big Bear of Arkan-
sas," first told by T. B. Thorpe
in ''The Hive of the Bee-Hunter"
in 1854 and still repeated in many
cabin home in the OzarkS.
For these folk tales are a part
of our frontier heritage. They
are as much that as are the tales
of legendary feats by such he
roes as Daniel Boone, Simon
Kenton, Davy Crockett and Kit
Carson-yes, even Johnny Apple
seed, for his story is also included
in this book. Zone wonders what
the gentle Johnny would think
when he found himself in such
company-with Mike Fink, the
ruthless rifieman, and Lewis
Wetzel, the brutal "Injun-killer."
One reviewer of this book has
suggested that Johnny would
''have licked his wildcat by pray
er!" They are the kind of sto-
ries that never grow old and they
will be repeated over and over,
as MIR. Daugherty suggests, $50
long as the genial, tough, can
tankerous spirit of America en-
dures."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-18
"Rawthah, Old Chappie"

A CONVENTIONAL picture of the
\ typical Englishman to m
Americans is pompous, be-spatted
individual sporting a tightly furled
umbrella and monocle on long
black ribbon. AS a matter of fact,
none of these bits of haberdashery
originated in England, and the mon
ocle especially has been accepted
there only in relatively recent times.
Monocle is a hybrid word of
French origin, which suggests that
the single eyeglass may have been
French invention. The word orig
inally came from the Greek monos,
sole, and Latin oculus, eye, and
literally means one eye. The term
was not even mentioned in the Eng
lish Oxford dictionary before 1858,
and that was considerably before
it became very popular.
The first recorded case of a per-
son wearing monocle to ordinary
social functions was a diplomat
named Phillip Won Stosch who wore
single eye-glass while on mission
to Rome. At first he was looked
upon as being little queer, but
before long he had the diplomatic
corps there practicing before their
mirrors with pieces of silver, and
soon it became quite the rage in
Italy. But new fads and fashions
did not spread as rapidly then as
they do now, and it took over a
century for the new sophistication
to reach England. And after many
years of sneering at "bogus counts"
and "stuck-up frills" here at home,
a number of Americans in the larger
cities may now be seen occasionally
trying out monocles themselves.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-18

one he tells about in GA Mar
rative of the Life of Davic
Crockett of the State of Tennes
see, Written by Himself? Here
is his version:
My blood was now getting
cold, and the chills coming all
over me. l was so tired, too,
that I could hardly walk; but I
thought / would do the best I
could to save my life, and then,
if died, nobody would be to
blame. So I went to a tree
about two feet through, and not
a limb on it for 80 feet, and I
would climb up it to the limbs,
and then lock my arms togeth-
er around it, and slide down to
the bottom again. This would
make the insides of my legs
and arms feel mighty warm
and good. 1 continued this till
daylight in the morning, and
how often I clOmb up my tree
and slid down 1 don't know, but
I reckon at least a hundred
times.
Two Immortal Liars.
Whether Jim Beckwourth OF
Jim Bridger was "the bigges
liar in the West" has never beer
satisfactorily settled. Both men
are dead these many years bu
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-18
Keeping Up
WN[5l6Ss;enffe
&ss1"@M2e ,M4s
Electric Eel to
Be Investigated
in His Habitat
Working of His Power
Plant Will Be Studied
@ Science Service.-WNU Service.

New York.-What happens
to an electric eel when anoth-
er electric eel hands it a dose
of it's own medicine?
This is one of the questions being
taken to the Brazilian tropics by
DR.. Richard T. Cox of the New
York university physics depart
ment, who has left for an extended
research visit in Para, Brazil, near
the mouth of the Amazon, favored
haunt of the shocking" elongated
fish whose ability to generate and
discharge paralyzing "jolts" of cleo
tricity is one of the classic riddles
of biophysics.
Among the pieces of apparatus
which DR.. Cox is taking with him is
one calculated to deliver electrical
discharges like those of the eel it.
self. His plan is to put his eel into
contact with the device, "give it
the works." and then make a care
full scientific record of the fish's
reaction. This is something that has
never been done in the aquarium
studies thus far undertaken in tenn
perate lands.
Will Study Its Power Plant.
Even more intimate studies of the
electric eeps internal power plant
and its workings are planned by
DR.. Cox. He plans to block off va
rious parts of the eePs system of
electric organs, either by section
ing nerves or with anesthetics, and
thus to make analytic studies which
have never been possible un d r
aquarium conditions, where the sup
ply of specimens is so limited that
only studies of surface reactions
have been possible.
A prime part of DR.. Cox's re-
search apparatus will be the cath
ode ray oscillograph, relatively
new instrument which has proved
most powerful tool in the hands of
physicists and engineers studying
the nature and rates of sudden cleo
trical discharges. Modern appara-
tus of this kind has never been
used in electric eel studies, he says.
Why He Goes to the Eels.
One reason why DR.. Cox is going
to the tropics where the eels are,
instead of having the cells brought
to him, is that these peculiar fish
do not survive the voyage north at
all well, so that it is better economy
for him to go where they are plenti-
full and where he can consequently
afford to use up few without con-
stantly having to keep an anxious
eye on a diminishing supply in a
tank.
DR.. Cox will have with him his
wife, Mrs. Shelby Shackelford Cox,
as artist and general assistant, and
a biologist, Robert S. Mathews,
graduate student at Columbia uni
versity.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-18
Twas This Way
60
By LYLE SPENCER
q Western Newspaper Union
The Cure for Malaria
@ Western Newspaper Union.

| M ALARIA was once the most
AVA feared disease of the tropics.
In Elizabethan times, the malarial
jngles of Africa and other parts
of the Near East were so terrifying
and dangerous to white men that
few Europeans even dared to go
there.
Quinine, the most effective rem
edy for malaria, was accidentally
discovered by an Incan native who
was himself half dead from the
disease. On a trek through the
mountain wilderness of Ecuador, he
was overtaken by the dreaded jun
gle fever. Burning with fever, he
dragged himself to the edge of
stagnant pool to quench his thirst,
only to find that quina-quina tree
had fallen across it.
Although the medicine men of his
tribe had always supposed the Bit
| ter-tasting bark of the tree to be
poisonous, the Indian was so far
gone he preferred the swift death
by poison to the lingering one from
ASFCks W ilC VI Cllh lCCp LIN tAiO
pool. In a few hours he miraculous
| ly felt better, and soon he was
| cured.
Returning to his tribe, he carried
his story of the marvellous curative
powers of the quina-quina bark.
Others tried it, and found it had
both curative and preventive pow
ers. By 1910, news of the new
drug had been transmitted to Eu-
rope, where its name was shortened
to quinine.
For a time the bark sold at fab
ulous prices, as royalty and wealthy
merchants bid frantically for the
meager supply to cure their aching
limbs. Within century the tree
had been domesticated and was be-
ing grown commercially in many
parts of the world.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-18
THE HUNTERS OF KENTUCKY
By SAMUEL wooDwoRTH

We GENTLEMEN and ladies fair,
i Who grace this famous city,
just listen if you've time to spare,
While / rehearse a ditty;
And for the opportunity
Conceive yourselves quite lucky,
For tits not often that you see
A hunter from Kentucky.
oh Kentucky, the hunters of Ken
lucky!
Oh Kentucky, the hunters of Ken
lucky!
We are a hardy, free-born race,
Each man to fear a stranger;
Whate'er the game we join in chase,
DeSpoiling time and danger,
And if daring foe annoys,
Whate'er his strength and forces,
Wen show him that Kentucky boys
Are alligator horses.
oh Kentucky, the hunters of Ken
lucky!
Oh Kentucky, the hunters of Ken
lucky!
s'pose you've read it in the prints,
How Packenham attempted
To make Old Hickory Jackson vince,
But soon his scheme repented;
For we, with rifles ready cock'd,
Thought such occasion lucky,
And soon around the gen'ral hock'd
The hunters of Kentucky.
Oh Kentucky, the hunters Of Ken
lucky!
Oh Kentucky, the hunters Of Ken
lucky!
You've heard, s'pose, how New
Orleans
Is fam'd for wealth and beauty,
There's girls of ev'ry hue it seems,
From snowy white to sooty.
So Packenham he made his brags,
If he in fight was lucky,
He'd have their girls and cotton bags,
In spite of old Kentucky.
oh Kentucky, the hunters of Ken.
lucky!
Oh Kentucky, the hunters of Ken
lucky!
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-18

But jackson he was wide awake,
And was not scar'd at trifes,
For well he knew what aim we take
With our Kentucky rifles.
So he led us down to Cypress Swamp,
The ground was low and mucky,
There stood John Bull in martial
pomp
And here was old Kentucky.
Oh Kentucky, the hunters of Ken.
lucky!
oh Kentucky, the hunters of Ken
lucky!
A bank was rais'd to hide our breasts,
Not that we thought of dying,
But that we always like to rest,
Unless the game is flying.
Behind it stood our little force,
None wished it to be greater,
For ev'ry man was half a horse,
And half an alligator.
oh Kentucky, the hunters of Ken.
oh Kentucky, the hunters of Ken.
lucky!
They did not let our patience tire,
Before they show'd their faces;
We did not choose to waste our fire,
So snugly kept our places.
But when so near we saw them wink,
We thought it time to stop 'em,
And 'twould have done you good /
think
To see Kentuckians drop 'em.
Oh Kentucky, the hunters of Ken
lucky!
Oh Kentucky, the hunters of Ken
lucky!
They found, at last, twas vain to
fight,
Where lead was all the booty,
And so they wisely took to flight,
And left us all our beauty.
And now, If danger e'er annoys,
Remember what our trade is,
Just send for us Kentucky boys,
And wen protect We, ladies.
Oh Kentucky, the hunters of Ken
lucky!
Oh Kentucky, the hunters of Ken.
lucky!
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-18

Simon Kenton," as reprinted
from Henry Howe's ''The Great
West" (1855) is not only an il
Illuminating example of the amaz-
ing endurance and indomitable
will-to-live of the typical from
tiersman but, as later biograph-
er of Kenton has said, ''for it's
momentous succession of perils,
transitions and hairbreadth es-
capes, has no parallel in all the
adventurous annals of western
border history" Equally thrilling
is the story of ''The Fight in the
Canyon" from ''The Adventures
of Big-Foot Wallace, the Texas
Ranger and Hunter" by John c.
Duval (1870). 1t reveals also the
chivalrous side of the frontiers
mans character in that Wallace
gave his Indian foe a Christian
burial after he had killed him.
And for a variation on the whip
their weight in wildcats" theme is
another story of this hero of the
Lone Star state-'Big-Foot Wal
lace Whips His Weight in
Wolves an Homeric feat
IF it can be believed in all it's
details.
Where Fact Leaves Off.
( The trouble is one never can be
sure where fact leaves off and
fiction begins in these tales. For
closely allied to the frontiers
mans boastfulness of his own
proves was his fondness for tell
ing "tall tales
Davy Crockett may not have
originated this pleasant Aneri-
can diversion of telling "whop-
pers" but he was one of the
earliest and most skillful expo
nents of the art. For who else
but this immortal bear-hunter
nd "coonskin congressman"
could have invented (and made
believable) such an ingenious
method of keeping himself from
freezing on cold night as the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-18
X-Rays Aid Study
of Poison Sprays

Ithaca, N. Y.-X-rays are be-
ing used by Prof. G.. F. Mcleod
of Cornell university to get
exact data on how poison sprays
containing sulphur behave as
they stick to leaves, and what
becomes of the sulphur after
the marauding insect or cater
pillar has bitten out and swal-
lowed some appetizing but
lethal green pieces.
The rays used in the photogra-
ply are of the kind known as Grenz
rays; they are like X-rays but have
somewhat greater wavelengths, in
termediate between X-rays and ul-
traviolet.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-18

picture should be the frontis-
piece of the book and that one of
the stories about him should be
the first one in it. It is 1.-THE
Disgraced Scalp lock-" taken
from "The Hive of the Bee-Hunt-
err" written by T. B. Thorpe and
published back in 1854. Listen
now to Mike as he talks big":
Well, 1 will walk tall into var
mint and Indian; it's a way
I've got, and it comes as nat
ural as grinning to hyena.
Pm a regular tornad0-tOugh
as a hickory = l0ng-winded as
nor'wester. can strike a
blow like a falling tree-and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-18
Legend of Billy the Kid

IN HIS six years as a Western
desperado, Billy the Kid shot and
killed twenty-one men, not counting
Indians. Billy, whose real name
was William H. Bonney, was called
''The Kid because of his extreme
youth. He shot his first man at the
age of twelve, and he had just
passed his twenty-second birthday
when he was ambushed and killed
by a sheriff's posse in Lincoln coun-
ty, New Mexico.
Like many another Western out
law, Billy was born in the East.
Although brought up in Kansas, his
home town was New York City.
Shortly after his father died, young
Billy drilled a man because he had
allegedly insulted his mother.
BY the time he was sixteen, Billy
had helped another man kill three
Indian trappers to get their furs.
Two years later he had blazed his
spectacular trail all over the South
west, and had twelve notches in his
gun.
He became so feared by local
police authorities that, like Black
Bart, the famous stage-coach rob-
Der, the governor of New Mexico
territory promised him a pardon
in case of conviction if he would
give himself up. But Billy the Kid
had made too many enemies by
then, and said he would be killed
Immediately if he disarmed, even
though protected by the govern
ment.
Instead, he embarked on a new
series of cattle-rustling and killing
expeditions. Shortly before he was
brought down by Sheriff Pat Garrett,
he expressed a wish to kill two
more men, all the notches his gun
would hold.