THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1930
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TIMELY HINTS j l STOCK FARMING, *
ON c G R R 0 ° p^ iNG j Edited by N. C. SHIVER, County Agt. J P °etc. RY ’ ’
L ws of the Week on
" Chatham County
Farms
... T Hoke Siler of Siler City
v p ‘ one of the first farmers m
*-.*• U n t v to seed lespedeza is seed
this <-< “ n * acres i n the lespedeza
ing ■•Tennessee No. 76, this winter.
Sf'fiiler has had good results with
S' common for hay, seed and soil
th Line- purposes, and states that
!” P S qualities can not be over
istimated- t , ,
Mr Sara B. Siler of Siler City
? D is also seeding several acres
r Tennessee strain No .76 this
lr. and also quite a large acreage
fa the common lespedeza.
M f L. Vestal of Siler City R.
« n ■ is a new member of the les
l‘ nA '\, c lub. Mr. Vestal is seeding
Tennessee strain No. 76 and also
several acres in the common.
Mr r N. Connell is a firm be
aver in’prepared pastures. He ex
lects to seed ten acres in improved
pastures this spring. +
j. L. Fields of Bonlee is an
ther believer in prepared pastures.
Mr. Fields is seeding three acres in
prepared pastures this spring.
IFSPEDEZA seed unloaded
Lt 3 AT PITTSBORO
\ shipmnt of 10,000 pounds of
lespedeza seed arrived at Pittsboro
for delivery to farmers Saturday of
j a _ t vvee k. 'included in this shipment
is 1250 pounds of the mammoth
growing variety, Tennessee strain No.
76 A number of farmers came in
for seed Saturday, but there is still
plenty of seed on hand.
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SHIPMENT OF SOY
BEANS DELAYED
Last week’s issue carried an an
nouncement of soy beans to be de
livered at Siler City and Pittsboro.
However, owing to weather condi
tions in the eastern part of the
State, these beans will not be un
loaded at Pittsboro and Siler City,
Monday and Tuesday, February 3
and 4, as advertised. However, they
will probably arrive the latter part
of this week, or the first of next.
HERD IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIA
TION FORMED IN CHATHAM
With the formation last week of
a cow testing or herd improvement
association, Chatham county took a
step, which we believe, will prove
to be the greatest single factor in
the advancement of the dairy indus
try in this county. As a result of
meetings held in various communi
ties of the county Monday and Tues
day of last week, some twenty farm
ers announced their intentions of
joining this association. Briefly, this
association will accomplish the fol
lowing things for dairy farmers in
this county:
1. Enable farmers to cull out
their poor producers, or cows that
Navy Oil Reserves Being Drained Away
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Geological Survey Records Reveal Startling Loss
From Teapot Dome
Estimate of oil drops 113
million barrels Secretary
Adams asks new legislation
Urgent need of legislation In re
lation to naval oil reserves, par
ticularly reserves No. 1 and N 0.2,
in California, is set forth in the
annual report of Secretary Adams
of the Navy Department.
Referring to Reserve No. S
(Teapot Dome) the Secretary says:
“From present Indications
there appears to be practically
no loss of oil or gas to operat
ing wells outside of the re
serve. There are 9,321 acres
in this reserve. Total past
Production, 3,549.228 barrels;
. estimate of total recoverable
oil. including post production,
20,000,000 barrels.’*
'l’hls is the famous reserve in
Wyoming that the Geological Sur
ve Y estimated to contain 135,000,-
000 barrels of oil at the time it
■'v&s leased to the Mammoth Oil
Compa,ny #
No less startling than the drop
118,500,000 barrels in the esti
rnate of the recoverable oil under
teapot Dome is the statement that
here appears to be practically no
loss of oil to wells outside of the
reserve.
* n contradiction of this view is
he renewed request of the Secret
ary for power “to contract with
owners of lands within or adjoin
. ®nch reserves for compensatory
royalty (for the oil being drained
ypriVate operators from naval re-,
| serves) i n i ieu of driU i ng offset
t well*.”
drJi hat tlier * was and would be
rainage from Reserve No. 3 was
• th early foremost in a letter from
Ra Inspector Naval Petroleum
h!T date 4 within seventy two
sal A** a ** er Supreme Court had
drainage was a mere pre- |
tor making of the Teapot
lea «e. In the Inspector's
r *eke<| owners of adjoin
ing T e la they “would be will
■ d.w ° pay for tlle increased pro
-*•,*on resulting from drainage
ni within the naval reserves.’*
lc«i U « thermore * the u - s - Geolog-
Der ;" rVey °® ce records at Cas
yomjng, do not support the
I are not paying what they should for
the feed consumed, through the test
ing of each cow in the herd for
production, and also through the
keeping of an accurate record of
each cow in the herd as to her pro
, duction.
t 2. Cut down feed bills through
. the knowledge of the proper grain
k mixtures, and also through the eco
| nomical mixing of farm grown feeds
for the best production of milk or
butterfat.
3. Enables the dairy farmers to
’ keep an absolute cost account on each
cow in the herd.
4. Gives dairy farmers the bene
fit of the advice of a man who has
j been trained in feeds and feeding
and dairy herd management.
Some of the farmers who have
announced their intentions of going
in this work are: Mr. C. G. Oldham,
Chapel Hill R. F. D. No. 1, Mr. J. B.
Fearrington, Pittsboro, Mr. R. N.
Connell, Pittsboro, Mr. W. H. Fergu
son, Pittsboro, Mr. Lacy Webster,
Pittsboro, ‘Mr. J. E. Cflark, Pitts*
boro, Mr. Walter Perry, Pittsboro,
Mr. Will Johnson, Pittsboro and
others.
DID YOU KNOW THAT—
Seed corn dust treatments on co
operative plots on 22 lowa farms
proved their value during 1929?
Their use boosted the yield 4.5 bush
els per acre. Seed corn may be
treated at a cost of about four cents
per acre. The greatest benefit was ob
tained when the weather was damp
and cold.
* * *
Records at the lowa State College
show that a dairy calf born in the
fall can be raised to one year of
age at a lower cost than a calf drop
ped in the spring. The fall calves
also made a better rate of growth.
* * *
Self feeders for pigs have again
proved their value. This time the
results come from the Missouri Col
lege of Agriculture. The same tests
indicate that fall pigs should be full
fed from birth to market. Corn
should be supplemented with a pro
tein concentrate, and alfalfa meal
so used is worth SIOO per ton. At
present prices, a good protein con
centrate is made with two or three
parts of fish meal and one part of
cottonseed meal.
* * *
The cost of building soil terraces
should be about eight-tenths of a
cent per running foot, or between
$3.50 and $4 per acre on fields with
a five per cent slope and which are
not badly gullied. These conclusions
are reached after a study of records
kept by the Oklahoma A and M
college. Terraces were built at the
rate of 225 feet per hour. A fifteen
drawbar horse power crawler type
tractor with an eight foot terracing
grader was used. The terraces were
25 feet wide and two feet high.
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TIMELY TOPICS
Quite a large acreage will be
needed in spring oats this spring to
make up the deficit in small grains
last fall. Remember that the seeding
of spring oats offers a good oppor
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conclusion of Secretary Adams that
there Is no drainage to adjacent:
Salt Creek wells. Its records of
seven outside wells along the edge :
of the reserve make the following
showing of increased production
since the wells in the reserve have
been closed down.
Barrels per Month
1928 1929 j
August HS6 8168
September 185a
October 1625 3122
November 1299 3025
As long ago as the spring of 1928
the State Geological deportment of
Wyoming put anallne dyes in thir
teen Teapot Dome wells and col
ored oil soon appeared in adjacent
Salt Creek wells.
All the evidence sustains the view
advanced years ago by Secretary
Oenby and Admiral Robinson (but
jufstioned by Congress and the
Courts) that if the oil in Teapot
Dome and other Naval Reserves
were not taken out It would not be
there very long. The theory of
storage of oil in the grourfd has
blown up in the face of the facts.
The government has won some law
suits —but the navy is losing its oil.
THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO, N. C.
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Milking machines are becoming in
creasingly popular with dairy farm- !
ers who are handicapped for labor.
For the man with ten cows and up
in this county, and who has a labor
problem, the milking machine if
handled right would probably pay in
the saving of labor alone. Milking
machines would hardly pay where
there is enough family labor for milk
ing that could not be profitably em
ployed elsewhere.
* * *
Now is the time to watch your
cattle closely for “heel fly” infec
tion. Heel flies are also known as
“Ox Warbles” or “Wolves.” The fly
bites the cow or heifer just above j
the heel in the spring and deposits
an egg. The egg hatches into a grub
which travels up the animal’s back,
from which place it emerges in the
late winter or early spring to do
this damage over again as an adult
fly. The time to control them is now,
by squeezing the grubs out of their
backs. After doing this, make an
inspection every ten days for about
a month to see that none remain.
Cows infected with heel flies will
not put on flesh, and are low in milk
production.
♦
“FARM PHILOSOPHY”
Blessed are the soil makers for
they shall see profits from increased
yields.
* * ♦
Highways to market are a part of
“farm equipment,” and therefore,
better roads should mean better
farming.
* * *
High prices for farm products
grown in excess of demands are il
logical, and right thinking farmers
should not expect them.
* * *
Neither the Federal Farm Board
or any other agency uncjer high heav
en can get tKe farmer a quality price
for anything but a quality product.
♦ * *
Insisting on their independence
keeps farmers from becoming more
independent through group action in
their business.
* * *
There is no “Winter of Discontent”
for those of us who see a thousand
beauties in winter’s starkness.
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More Livestock
Needed on Farms
A growing demand for more milk,
butter, beef and poultry makes it
asbolutely necessary that farmers in
North Carolina increase their live
stock production if they continue to
“live at home.”
“The rapidly increasing urban pop
ulation has brought to the farm door
the opportunity of buying those
things that at one time were of ne
cessity produced on the farm,” says
A. C. Kimrey, dairy extension spe
cialist at State College, “but it is
also increasing the demand for all
kinds of livestock products. In neg
lecting to increase his dairy herd and
poultry flocks the farmer is neglect*
ing a wonderful opportunity to not
only produce a good living but also
make a good income from the farm.”
In the early days of our history,
states Mr. Kimrey, when the markets
were few and far apart it was not
only good business but a necessity
to produce everything needed on the
farm. This naturally led to the pro
duction of crops that were adapted
to slow marketing such as cotton, to
bacco and grain. But now, he states,
it is not only necessary to produce
the things needed on the farm but
also to produce those things most in
demand at the nearest market which,
in most cases, is at the front door.
The constant demand today is for
food products from livestock.
According to Mr. Kimrey, live
stock, pasture and feed crops in rea
sonable proportions will enable every
farmer in North Carolina to utilize
a maximum percent of his acreage
and will at the same time, produce
a decent living and a marketing sur
plus of livestock products.
“This is the only permanent solu
tion and as long as the farmers of
North Carolina refuse to follow this
system, just so long will they have a
small and insufficient farm income
and a standard of living not in keep
nig with other livestock producing
sections,” says Mr. Kimrey.
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j History told as it would bo written today
| * By IRVIN S, COBB !
1 . . 1
j A Pen Picture of the Bridge of Death
50*1
Napoleon’s star ot conquest sank when his stupendous campaign against Russia in
1812 ended in one of the most terrible and fatal collapses that military history records.
The retreat from Moscow was immortalized by novel Is', s and by painters. It remained,
though, for a humble participant in that enormous holocaust to draw a picture of its
crowning catastrophe more intense and more effective than any a fictionist ever achieved.
The chronicler of the awful scenes at the crossing of the River Berezina was one
Constant Voivry, who, as a vale! to Napoleon, accompanied his master through the Rus
sian misadventure. Under the title of “The Memoirs of Napoleon/' a translation of Con
stant's writings was printed in IDOS by the Scribners and it is from this volume that I
have drawn for certain extracts printed here.
Napoleon, entering Russia in June, 1812, took with him an immense force. Until
the great World war of more than a century later accustomed us to armed hosts numbering
Up into the millions, his total strength of 450,000 men seemed tremendous.
From the very outset, the invasion of the enemy's country was marked by setbacks.
Sunstroke, heat, colic among the horses as a result of feeding them on green grain,
worked heavy losses In the columns. Straggling began; the road back to the frontier
Was lined with deserters.
Before the oncoming French the Russians steadily retreated, burning the oouatry ao
.... fell back. Napoleon's plans to force a pitched battle all fqilgd; his elusive enemy
declined the issue. Ho chased them across a desolated terrain and all the while the vigor
end the morale of hie troop# declined alarmingly.
He reached Moscow, expecting to find there provisions and shelter for the whiter.
But the city was ftrsd by agents left behind for that purpose when the Russians evacuated
it, and within two days the greater part of Moscow was in smoking ashes and the French *
were compelled to quit it.
They retraced their way through a barren land and now the rigors of the northern
winter added to their other miseries. Frost fought on the side of the Russians who con
stantly harassed their aaarch, preying on the rear guard and picking off stray detachments.
It was at the Berezina, on November 26, 27 and 28, that the failed campaign reached
Ita climax of disaster. With enormous losses, over improvised bridges, dm French forced
the passage of the river. From that time on, the army was a mob, the retreat a flight
of starving, freezing fugitives trapped in a pitiless climate and beleagured by wary and
resolute swarms of foes.
CONSTANT was well-named. No
man could have been more
faithful in his devotion to an
imperial master than he to Napoleon
We take up the memories of the
adoring valet-historian at the point
where he begins to describe the ap
proach to the bridge of death.
There is one early paragraph which
describes very graphically and yet
very simply the state to which the
once-disciplined legions of France had
degenerated. He says:
“One brave and kindly officer took
off his own uniform to give it to a
poor soldier whose ragged garments
exposed him naked to the cold, put
ting on his own back a tattered old
infantry coat, because he was more
capable of resisting the rigors of the
weather. If excessive misery withers
the soul, on the other hand it some
times expands it to the highest point,
as one may see. Many of the most
wretched blew their brains out in de
spair. In that act, there was a res
ignation and a coolness that made one
shudder. In ttiis disastrous campaign
I saw what vanities are physical force
and human courage where that moral
force which is born of a determined
will is nonexistent.”
Working in Water.
He cornea next to Napoleon, of
whom always tie speaks as the em
peror. The well-being and the com
fort of Napoleon were of more conse
quence to, blip than the fate of the.
hundreds of thousands of suffering
wretches who made up the rank and
fitei This is easy to understand. Con
stant may have been a painstakiug
chronicler; certainly his eye was quick
to see, and his pen to set down, the
horrors ttiat multiplied about him in
that most ghastly of recorded routs.
But above ail he was the servaut He
goes on:
“It was frightful to see these mov
ing masses sometimes halting progres
sively, the advance corps first, then
those that followed, then the last.
When Marshal Oadinot, who was
ahead, suspended his march for some
unknown reason, there would he a
movement of general uneasiness, then
alarming speeches would begin and, as
men who have seen everything are in
clined to believe everything, both true
and false tidings easily found credit.
“By five o’clock in the evening of
the 25th some trestles had been fixed
about the stream, constructed of wood
en beams taken from Polish cabins.
The trestles gave way at a little past
five o’clock. They were not strong
enough. It was plain that next day
the army would have to sustain the
enemy’s fire; but there was no room
for choice. At the end of that night
of anguish and sufferings of every
sort the first trestles were driven
down into the river.
“The soldiers stood up to their hips
in water full of floating ice in order
to drive the piles several feet deep
into a miry river bed; struggling
against the most horrible fatigues;
pushing away with their hands enor
mous masses of ice which would have
knocked them down and submerged
them by their weight; fighting, in a
word, and fighting unto death with
cold, the greatest enemy of.life. Well,
that is what our French pontonniers
did. Several of them were either
dragged down by the currents or suf
focated by the cold.
“The emperor awaited day in a
wretched hovel. In the morning he
said to Prince Berthier: ‘Well! Ber
thier, how are we to get out of this?’
He was sitting in his chamber, great
ttr,.rs were rolling down his cheeks,
which were paler than usual.
The French Leaders Really Lead.
“But they exchanged very few
words. The emperor seemed over
whelmed with sadness. It was then
that the king of Naples spoke frankly
to Ids brother-in-law, entreating him
in the name of the army to think of
his own safety, the peril being so im
minent. Some brave Poles offered to
form the escort of the emperor. They
could go further up the Beresina and
reach Wilna in five days. The emper
or shook his head in sign of refusal
i but said nothing. The king under
stood, and there was no further men
tion of It.
“Before the bridge was finished
some four hundred men were partial
ly transported from the other side of
the river on two miserable rafts which
they could with difficulty steer against
the current. From the shore, we saw
them greatly shaken by the great
pieces of ice which clogged the river.
These masses would come to the very
edge of the raft. Meeting an obstacle,
they would stop for a while and then
he drawn underneath those feeble
planks and produce horrible shocks.
Our soldiers would stop the largest
ones with their bayonets and make
them deviate beyond ttie rafts.
“The impatience of the army was at
its highest pitch. The first to arrive
on the other bank were the brave M.
Jacqueminot, aide-de-camp of Marsha!
Oudinot, and Count Predziecski. This
last named was a brave Lithuanian
whom the emperor greatly liked, espe
cially when he shared our sufferings
through fidelity and devotion. Both
of them crossed the river on horse
back. The army uttered shouts of ad
miration on seeing that its leaders
were the first to give the example of
Intrepidity. There was, In fact,
enough to disturb the strongest minds.
The current forced the poor horses
to swim obliquely across, which dou
bled the length of the passage. Then
came the masses of ice, which, strik
ing against their chests and sides, in
flicted piteous gashes.
Over a Road of Bodies.
“At one o’clock General. Legrand
and his division blocked up the bridge
constructed for the infantry. The em
peror was on tiie opposite side. Sev
oral cannons got entangled in each
other and stopped the march for an
instant The emperor sprang on to
the bridge, put his own hands to the
teams, and aided in freeing the pieces.
The enthusiasm of the soldiers was
extreme. It was to shouts of ‘Long
Live the Emperor I’ that the infantry
landed on the other shore.
“When the artillery and the baggage
were crossing, the bridge was so
thronged that it broke. Then ensued
that retrograde movement which crowd
ed back in horrible confusion the whole
multitude of stragglers who were ad
vancing like driven cattle behind the
artillery. Another bridge had been
hastily constructed as if in sad pre
vision of the breaking of the first one;
but the second one was narrow and
unprotected at the sides. However, It
was a makeshift which at first glance
seemed very precious in such an ap
palling calamity; but what miseries
ensued! The laggards flocked thither
in droves. As the artillery, the bag
gage—ln a word, the entire materia)
of the army—had been in advance on
the first birdge when it broke, and by
the sudden recoil which took place,
the catastrophe became known, then
those who bad been behind were the
first to gain the other bridge.
“But it was necessary that the artil
lery should cross first. It pressed for
w;trd then with impetuousity toward
the only way of salvation which was
left Here the pen refuses to describe
the scene of horrors that took place. II
was literally over a road of crushed
bodies that the wagons of every sort
reached the bridge. On this occasion
one saw what hardness, what syste
matic ferocity, even, can be imparted
to the soul by the instinct of self-pres
ervation. There were some of the
stragglers, the craziest of any, who
wounded and killed with bayonet
thrusts the unfortunate horses that
did not obey the whip of their drivers.
Saved From Icy Depths.
“1 have said that the bridge had no
ledges at the sides. Crowds of poor
wretches who were trying to cross U
were seen to fall into the stream and
be sucked under the masses of ice.
Others tried to cling to the miserable
planks of the bridge, and would re
main hanging over the abyss until
their hands, crushed by the wheels ol
the wagons, would force them to let
go their hold. They dropped and were
engulfed by the waters. Whole artil
lery wagons, horses and drivers alike,
were plunged Into the stream.
“Poor women were seen holding
their children out of the water, as if
to retard their death by a few mo
ments. The emperor wished to re
trace his steps, hoping his presence
might restore order; he was dis
suaded from this, and in a munnei
so significant that he struggled against
the impulse oi uu* umt tmu aio>ea
where he was, and assuredly it wa*
not his grandeur that riveted him tw
the shore. You could see wlmt suffer*
ings he endured when, at every to-t
stunt, he would ask how the passage,
was getting on, if the cannons could
still be heard rolling over the
if there were fewer cries from that!
side. ‘lmprudent people,’ he would say*!
‘why could they not have waited a lit
tle longer?*
“There were fine examples of devo
tion on this unfortunate occasion. A
young artilleryman sprang into the
water to save a poor woman who, en
cumbered by her two children, was
trying to reach the other shore In *
small boat. The load was too heavy.
An enormous piece of ice struck the
boat and it foundered. The cannoneer
seized one of the children and swaa
ashore with it. The mother and the
other infant perished. This good
young man brought up the little or
phan as his son.
The Emperor Shivers While the Sol
diers Die.
“Some officers harnessed themselves
to sledges so as to fetch along a num
ber of their companions who had been
made helpless by their wounds. Tbegr
wrapped the poor fellows up as warm
ly as possible, comforted them occa
sionally with a glass of brandy when
any could be procured, and lavished
on them the most touching attention*.
There were many who acted thus; and
yet bow many whose names are no
known! How few returned to enjoy -
in their own country the most beauti
ful memories of their life!
“The bridge was burned at eight
o’clock in the morning. The 29th, the
emperor left the banks of the Beres
ina and we went to pass the night at
Kamen. There his majesty occupied
a wretched wooden house. A freezing
wind entered it on every side through
windows, nearly every pane of which
was broken. We closed the aperture#
with trusses of hay.”
Constant was concerned, you see.
over the privations which his beloved
master endured. There is no word
from him to indicate that in the slight
est degree Napoleon showed remorse
for the host who died that night or
for the greater hosts who already had
died in this hideous retreat —poor
nameless sacrifices to the insatiate
ambition of a man determined to hold
military dominion over a continent.
Between Constant’s lines we read
the concern which Napoleon felt for
the destruction of his army, but
where is there an implication that J#»-
poleon was stirred to pity for the in
dividual human atoms whose stiffened
bodies by thousands and yet more
thousands dotted the wintry plains be
hind him. Conquerors are like that*
else they would never have the will to
conquer. To them human beings are
merely pawns in a mighty game.
So Constant, one perceives, is dis
tressed by the fact that Bonaparte
must shiver in a dismantled hovel,
with only bundles of fodder to shut
out the Icy blasts. Immediately after
telling of this he adds another para
graph which sums up in some measqre
the miseries of the forlorn wretches
elsewhere in that encampment—mee
who have no roofs above them bnt the
heavens, no beds beneath them but
the frozen earth.
What Price Glory?
This is what he says in summary oT
the scenes presented within earshot
of his master’s resting place:
“Not far away from us on a vast
open space the unfortunate Russian
prisoners whom the army was driving*
before it were penned up like cattlcx
Truly, I found difficulty In compre
hending that air of being victorious
which our soldiers still assumed by
dragging along a wretched superfluity
of prisoners who could only hamper
them by requiring superintendence.
When the victors are dying of hanger,
what becomes of the vanquished?
Hence these miserable Russians, worn
out by want and marching, nearly all
perished that night. In tjie morning
we saw them huadled close together
They had hoped to find a little warmth
in this w ay. The feeblest of them had
succumbed, and all night long their
dead bodies had been embraced by
the survivors without the latter hav
ing noticed it. There were some win*
in their voracity, devoured their dead
companions. The firmness with which
the Russians endure pain has often
been spoken of; I can give an Instance
of it which almost surpasses beife£
One of these poor fellows having wan
dered away from the corps to which
he belonged, was struck by a cannon
ball which cut off both his legs and
killed his horse. A French officer?
making a reconnaissance on the bank
of the river where the Russians had
fallen, perceived at a distance a moss
which he recognized as a dead horse;
and yet he saw that this mass was oof
without movement. He approached It
and saw the head and shoulders of s
man whose extremities were hidden
in the body of the horse. The unfor
tunate man had been there four day*
shutting himself up inside his horse
as a shelter from the cold, and feed
ing on infected scraps from this fright
ful lodging.”
That is the final picture which t, fbr
one, got from this narrative—not tbo
emperor in his makeshift quarters, bnt
the legless Russian clinging to life fls
side the carcass of a slaughtered
beast To my way of thinking It to
a picture which all lovers of war fto
war’s sake should be invited to read
and reread and ponder over.
(£1 br tfco 801 l Srodleato. lae.)
“ , j
Better Shot
Angry Neighbor—That boy of fOBHT
has just thrown a stone at met
“Did he hit you?”
“No.” .
“Then it wasn’t my boy.” 1
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