The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 166, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 27, 1916 Page: 3 of 4
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NORMAN DAILY TRANSCRIPT
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COUPLE FURNISH
HOME, THEN ELOPE
Miss Driggs and Frederick W. De
Martin Defeat Parental Op-
position to Marriage.
Winsted, Conn.—Unknown to hej
! parents mis3 Edna 1J. Driggs. daughter
I of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Driggs, highly
j respected citizens of New Hartford,
and Frederick W. De Martin, a drug
clerk, also of New Hartford, furnished
a cozy home in that vHlage before
they eloped by automobile to New Ha-
ven, where they were married by Ilev.
| W. T. Hill, Methodist clergyman. liav
ing returned from their wedding trip
they Bje comfortably settled in their
own home, although both have beei
forgiven by the bride's parents.
Because of family objections to the
union the couple had promised to de-
fer their marriage one month. At the
end of that time the objections were
seemingly as strong as ever, so thej j
ELABORATE DEVICE TO DECEIVE ENEMY AVIATORS
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dance, of the makere, Tribe
HERBERT LANG, who has re-
turned to civilization with the
largest collection of specimens
of animal life ever acquired
In Africa, saw a good deal of the pyg-
mies in the interior regions of the Bel-
gian Congo, where he spent six years.
He was in charge of the Congo expedi-
tion of the American Museum of
Natural History. Altogether it is es-
timated that the members of the ex-
pedition gathered more than 20,^00
large specimens for the museum and
the collections in the aggregate
weighed 45 tons.
When Mr. Lang and his associate,
James P. Chapin, arrived in Africa
they first established headquarters at
Stanleyville, with an equipment includ-
ing 11 tons of supplies, which they
packed into loads of 60 pounds each
for transportation over the trail lead-
ing into the forest. With tha assist-
ance of the Belgian government the
explorers secured 200 native porters
to carry their packs and started out
on the journey from Stanleyville to
Avakubi, which was accomplished in
about twenty-one days.
"Our chief difficulty," said Mr. Lang,
with reference to the equipment of the
expedition, "was caused by the ex-
treme humidity of the forest, to which
our supplies to a certain extent were
exposed. Whenever our expedition ar-
rived at a village in the Congo the
chieftain of the tribe usually greeted
us and brought us presents of chicken,
rice and bananas and other fruit. In
exchange for these favors we gave
thousand pictures in the field of Af-
rican life, game and other subjects,
succeeded in securing some capital
negatives of the pygmies.
"The women are slightly smaller
than the men," he said, "and their
clothing consists chiefly of the bark of
African trees. They usually speak the
language of the tribe they happen to
associate with, and the little people
are ruled by their own chieftains.
Live in Leafy Bowers.
"Some of their places of abode are
formed by bowers of large leaves in
the depths of the forest. Others imi-
tate the tribes or nearby natives and
build their huts. Their villages are
apart from each other. Once in a
while they have a clash with the
larger native tribes, but generally ara
not considered quarrelsome.
"Most of the natives are fond of mu-
sic and dancing, and some of the
tribes possess very elaborate musical
instruments. These include antelope
horns and wooden horns covered with
animal skins and are used for cere-
monial and other dances."
The i.atives also use wooden and
Iron clappers and iron rings upon their
ankles, which make an odd sound dur-
ing the dance. Some of the dances
are the ceremonial, in which they
initiate the natives into the secret
societies, and the medicine man dance.
The explorer said in response to a
question that he had not seen any evi-
dence of cannibalism, but he added'
"Nearly all African tribes are canni-
bals, but owing to the influence of the
Motored to New Haven.
'Vl'"? : 3£ . £ .....
This is probably the most elaborate deceptive device used by any of the belligerent armies The French have
I posted a large numbor of their 220-centimeter mortars In woods and other places, where thoy are hidden from
the enemy's "air eyes." In order to deceive the German aviators, the French have placed very clever fake guns
around the real mortars. They are substantially built of wood and metal to look genuine, and uniformed figures are
i placed about to represent the gun squads. When an aviaor appears overhead, soldiers a long way off pull strings
to make the figures move. Smoke also comes out of the gun muzzle.
II BATTLE, 105
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Painted Aiande Hut
concluded to furnish a home for them-
selves before running away and get-
ting married. They took their land-
lord into their confidence, also mer-
chants of whom they bought house-
hold furnishings, and the villagers
soon began to ask each other who was
to occupy the newly furnished Thi-
bault hojse, on the bank of the Farm-
Ington nver.
Early in the week Miss Driggs, who
is twenty-three years old, went to
Unionville to visit relatives. De Mar-
tin met her by appointment with an
automobile at Burlington when she
was ostensibly returning to her home
and together they motored to New
Haven, where he had made all plans
for the marriage
Following tho ceremony they tele-
phoned the news to their respective
homes and the New Hartford public
soon learned who was to occupy the
newly furnished Thibault house.
Mr. De Martin is about twenty-eight
years old.
YOUTH GROWLS LIKE A DOG
clothes and useful articles to the na-
tives, who invariably are glad to wel-
come the white man to the Congo for-
est. We pitched our tent wherever
night overtook us and t ften occupied
for a dwelling place one of the shelter
houses used by the natives.
Pygmies Are Not Shy.
"We discovered the first pygmy at
Avakubi, and he was a prisoner on a
charge of having killed a man with a
spear. Contrary t" the general idea
the pygmies are not shy. They are a
trifle suspicious, but after they make
your acquaintance they are not unlike
other tribes of native Africans.
"The pygmies live by hunting chief-
ly and frequently bring in antelope
and other game to the villages, which
they are glad to exchange for food.
They are quite expert in tracking
games and shoot everything with bow
and arrow. On the track of big game
the chiefs, women and children all
join in the pursuit until the animal is
captured. Sometimes they will give
a tip to other natives about the dis-
covery of game and then when the
hunter's bag is filled they will demand
a share of the trophy.
"At one time we arrived at a vil-
lage of 200 pygmies and witnessed a
characteristic pygmy dance. The pyg-
mies darice in a circle to the accom-
ptniment of the beating of a gong, and
sometimes a drura. During the dance
•wine made from palms and the ba-
nana is consumed by the dancers."
Both the pygiav men and the women
danced for the explorers and Mr. Lang,
Who, by the way, took more than six
government and recent training this
feature of life in the wilds has been
practically eliminated."
In figLting the natives usually re-
sort to spears and poisoned arrows,
their chief weapon in conflict.
A messenger system has been estab-
lished throughout the Congo region,
whereby reports from chieftains in
the Belgian Congo are received con-
stantly. The entire region is closely
patrolled by native messengers.
Unusual Affliction of Young Man ii>
Indiana Is Puzzle to Local
Doctors.
Lafayette, Ind.—Local physicians
are confronted with one of the most
puzzling cases that has ever devel-
oped in Tippecanoe county. Alfred
Noble, age twenty-two, two weeks ago
seemingly lost all human sense, and
instead developed the instinct of a
mad dog.
He fell to his hands and knees and
growled and barked like a dog, and
bit everything that he came in con-
tact with.
He bit on the legs of tables, tore
up paper with his teeth and did many
other strange things.
After a battle the police succeeded
In overpowering him and he is now in
a strait-jacket at the county jail. Ten
physicians have examined him, bul
none would say he was afflicted with
hydrophobia. He has rational moments
and talks.
Those Pour Rich People.
Pity the poor millionaires!
For the frugal wife, 5 cents now
buys as big a leaf as it did two years
ago, but $1,000 doesn't buy as big a
blue foxskin coat—no, not by half.
The boiled potatoes on the modest
dinner t&ble are rather cheaper than
they were last winter; but when the
poor millionaires are driven by ne-
cessity to buy white fox furs hubby
advances 65 per cent (uore money for
them than he would have done at this
time in 1S13.
Beaver, another essential to pluto-
cratic happiness, hari risen much more
than sugar or lamb chops. Indeed,
Uncle Sam tells us that the whole fur
family is roosting on a higher limb
than ever before.
Luxuries rise and fall rapidly with
the amount of loose change in million-
aire bank accounts; but so far as
prices go, the poor man's dinner pail
can scarcely tell a financial feast from
a financial famine.—Philadelphia Pub-
lic Ledger.
NEEDLE BOTHERED HER SOME
Enters Palm of Woman's Hand and
Works Way to Shoulder in
Two Years.
Philadelphia.—After working its way
along the arm cf Mrs. A. Greenfield,
a needle, which entered the palm of
her hand two years ago, was extract-
ed from her shoulder recently in the
Children's Homeopathic hospital.
In August, 1913, Mrs. Greenfield
was working her sewing machine,
when the needle was thrust into her
hand, becoming embedded in the
flesh.
At tho time her doctor advised her
to have an X-ray used, so as to pre-
vent the needle from working its
way to her heart. Sho neglected it,
however, and did not feel any pain
until a few days ago, when her shoul-
der became sore. Shf> went to the
hospital and the doctors found the
needle several inches under her skin,
close to the shoulder joint.
Hunters Fired 79 Shots at Bear.
Straight, Pa.—Four hunters in the
mountains near here pursued a black
bear for a week and during the chase
fired 79 shots at the animal. Then
they almost stumbled over its dead
body
Canadian, Mind Made Blank by
Shell Concussion, Does Not
Know Parents.
IS STRANGER THAN FICTION
Thomas Truster, Sent Back to Front
From Hospital, Fails to Recall His
Name and Is Reported Missing
—Forgets Sweetheart and
Falls in Love With Her
"All Over Again."
New York.—Fate has played many
strange pranks with the men fighting
in Europe, but none perhaps is more
curious than that in which Thomas F.
Trusler figures Mr. Trusler, who is
! stopping at a hotel, was a gunner in
; the Third brigade, Canadian field ar-
j tillery.
I The concussion from a shell which
struck the ground near him last win-
' ter caused him to lose all recollection
i of the past. Consequently, his fiancee
in Montreal mourned him for dead,
and even afte.r he learned his identity
[ through a scar on his right foot he did
| not remember her or his parents.
{ However, as he explained recently,
he took his parents' word that they
I were his father and mother, and, al-
though he does not recall his first pro-
posal, he said he has fallen in love
all over again with the woman he was
to have married and soon he hopes to
make her his bride.
| Although Sir Frederick Treves, King
George's surgeon, is said to have at-
I tempted to restore his memory by
means of hypnotism, Mr. Trusler, who
| is twenty-one years old, recalls noth-
j ing of his past prior to the day his
I mind became blank from the concus-
! sion, and when he returned to Canada
| in the early autumn because of his
I wound it was necessary for him to
j relearn the way about his native city
of Montreal and to be introduced to
lifelong boyhood friends and school-
mates.
Under Fire at Ypres.
The young gunner went with the
first Canadian contingent which
reached France a year ago. At that
time the German general staff was per-
fecting it3 schemes to break through
to Calais by way of Ypres. Mr. Trus-
ler first came under fire near Vlamar-
tinghe, just west of Ypres. His divi-
sion was acting as a reserve force
"I have been told by men who
served with me on my gun that we
all saw a huge German aeroplane fly
over us," Mr. Trusler said. "Soon
thereafter there came a rain of high
explosive shells from a big German
gun. Several of our boys were killed,
and the fact that I was not was a
miracle. One of the shells fell within
ten or twenty feet of me, I was tcld,
but did not explode. The concussion,
however, was terrific, and it dazed and
stupefied me.
"I remember awakening in a base
hospital with the wounded all about
me. 1 felt myself all over and could
find nothing smashed, so I sat up In
my cot. Then I got out of It and stood
ap and asked why I was there. A
physician told me what had happened
to me and sent me back to my brigade,
which he located by the insignia on
my uniform. When I got back I didn t
seem to recollect anything or any-
body.
"Som-s of the men of my gun com-
pany saw me and took me back to my
quarters. If was necessary for me to
make friends with companions again.
They called me 'Howie'—a nickname
—and soon I became known as Howie
Trusler.' That fact made it difficult
tor my parents to locate me, because
vhen I was ar.ked my name 1 Bpelled
it Tressler,' because I didn't want
anybody to know that 1 couldn't recall
where 1 came from or who 1 was
Is Reported Missing.
"Consequently 'T. F. Trusler' went
on the rolls of tho missing. Conse-
quently also, I failed to get mail from
my fiancee and my parents. It was
not until last summer when I was
wounded in the leg so badly that I was
sent to England that I made any at-
tempt to find out who I was. 1 con-
fided my story to an Englishwoman
of high rank who was interested in
the hospital. She made inquiries
among the officers of my brigade who
remembered 'Trusler' who came out
with the contingent.
"My parents wore communicated
with and my mother remembered an
old scar on my foot. Sure enough
the scar was there. Even when I
returned to Montreal I didn't recog-
nize my mother and don't yet. 1
learned I was engaged to be married
before I left for the front and on my
return home my fiancee was at the
station with my mother and father.
I jjidn't recognize any of them, but
they took me home."
Here Mr. Trusler admitted that he
had fallen in love "all over again" and
with the same girl.
Although the gunner cannot remem-
ber what happened before January of
last year, he has a vivid recollection
of what has happened since, and his
description of the battle of Ypres in
April and of the effect of the poison
gases used by the Germans is most
vivid.
"About five o'clock of the evening
of April 23," he said, "we were get-
ting quite bored, for we were in the
reserve force along the Poperinghe
road, three miles west of Ypres. The
dull monotony was rudely broken by
the sudden appearance of swarms of
French colonial troops, Singhalese and
Zouaves, rushing In from the front
trenches, clutching at their throats,
holding their sides, rolling on the
ground, gasping for breath, eyes blood-
shot and staring, many of them bleed-
ing at the mouth, but most of them
unable to explain the cause of their
peculiar actions.
Asphyxiating Gas Cloud.
"Along with them came scores of
refugees, men, women and children,
bearing with them all they could take
from their burning and . wrecked
homes. At that time we had never
heard of asphyxiating gas and were at
a loss to make out what it all meant.
The order 'stand to your arms' was
quickly passed along to the reserves.
The .Montreal Highlanders were the
first to get on the move. It takes
longer to get artillery wagons on the
move, and while we were working at
feverish haste the Highlanders went
by, each man singing and smiling,
although they must have known that
many of them would never return.
"At seven o'clock tho artillery
forces were all ready and waiting
for tho order to move forward. I shall
never forget the scene at the moment.
From the city of Ypres there arose
high in the heavens huge jets of
flames, while overhead shells burst
by the hundreds, and in our ears was
the din of falling walls and all sorts
of indescribable noises.
"When the order came to move for-
ward we urged our horses with a
cheer and a song. It was necessary
for us to make a detour south of Ypres
in order to get to the main road lead-
ing to our damaged front. It also
was necessary to cross the Yser canal,
about half a mile south of the tOv«n,
on a pontoon bridge. The first gun
got over safely, when along came a
German shell and destroyed it.
"Under a deadly fire, for the Ger-
mans had the range, wo waited while
the engineers worked to construct an-
other bridge. Two long thick poles
were placed across the narrow canal
and crossways on them timbers and j
logs were piled. The second gun j
went across precariously, but the
third was upset by a rolling log, the
cannon carriage falling on one side of
the narrow bridge and the six horses
on the other. While the cannon and
horses seemed to be seesawing this
way and that across the bridge a shell
put an end to all the trouble.
"Then a third bridge was construct-
ed, and my gun went across Hy this
time the glare from the burned town
was dying down, and I was wondering
just what was nhead of us when au
aeroplane high above dropped a star
shell. This was followed hy a perfect
hurricane of shells, and the last gun
to attempt the crossing went into the
water. Emerging from a wood, we
ran Into a murderous gunfire from
German infantry and machine guns.
My gun and others of our battery
were hurled into this open fire-swept
field, swung around and in less than
two minutes opened tire on the tier-
mans.
"Each of our shells contained SOI)
bullets, and at a range of 250 yards
one can readily imagine how the Ger-
mans fell. Finally we halted them,
but the German infantry remained hid-
den behind a deep fringe of trees
with their own dead piled up against
them. Our guns could not do effective
work because of the trees. Therefore
we were ordered to use high explosive
shells.
"I shall never forget how those
shells were brought to us. Tho horses
on the ammunition supply wagon be-
came crazed and ran away. They
dashed within a few yards of the Ger-
man lines, and one brave rider—no
one over knew who he was—Bhot the
first two horses dead The wagon
rolled over them and htm. Then
there was an explosion, for the wagon,
hit by a shell, was blown to bits The
explosion wrought havoc among the
Germans and our Infantry, quickly fol-
lowing up the advantage, drove the
Teutons out of the woods.
"Meantime our line was badly
pressed near St. Julien, and after the
arrival of fresh British and Canadians
our battery was ordered there We
went right into the town. But on and
on came the German infantry, and the
retreat was sounded.
Spying Is Dangerous.
"Spying at the front is the most
dangerous of all occupations." Mr.
Trusler continued.
"The Germans are very clever at It,
and one method of sending news be-
tween the lines is by trained dogs.
One night one of our sentrlea saw a
dog dart past him. He called to the
animal, thinking the dog would make
an excellent mascot for the battery.
The dog came back and wagged his
tail and the sentry took him to his
quarters,
"The following morning one of tha
men remarked on the thickness of the
plain leather collar worn by the dog.
An examination revealed that the col-
lar was hollow, and in it we found a
message in cipher. Instantly an offi-
cer was summoned, the dog was put
on a long vire leash and driven out of
camp. He went direct to a barber
shop, where the men were in the habit
of lounging and talking when off duty.
The barber, whom we thought to be a
Belgian, was a German spy and after-
ward was put to death."
MISS GEORGIA SCH0FIELD
Miss Schofield a recent entrance into
the society of the national capital wan
welcomed enthusiastically, for before
her debut she had been one of tho
most popular of the younger leaders.
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