The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Monday, June 7, 1915 Page: 3 of 4
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FARM WORK AMIDST SHELLS
i •
STOP FOREST FIRES *S WORST SIDE
United States Forestry Servict
Seeks Public's Co-operation.
Ten "Don'ts" to Be Observed In th«
Woods to Prevent the Blazes
Which Are Causing Big
Losses In East.
Austrian's Sufferings When
Captive in Russia.
One of the Few Members of His Regi-
ment Who Escaped Alive When
Command Was Practically
Wiped Out by the Enemy.
Within the sound of the big guns many French peasants are leading an
almost normal life, for farming must go on or there would be no food for
the fighters. The photograph shows farm horses startled by a bursting shell.
It was taken recently near Auber, France.
RUSS ARE ACCUSED
Atrocities Charged to Czar's Sol-
diers by Germany.
Affidavits to Be Used in Peace Nego-
tiations to Prevent Extension of
Muscovite Territory in Europe
—Horrors Detailed.
By OSWALD F. SCHUETTE.
(Correspondent of the Chicago News.)
Berlin, Germany—The German gov-
ernment has issued an official me-
morial to the civilized world setting
forth a series of "atrocities committed
by Russian troops upon German in-
habitants and German prisoners of
war."
The memorial is accompanied by doc-
umentary evidence in the shape of 81
affidavits setting forth the testimony
on which the charges are based. They
are far too horrible for publication.
All are to be used against Rus-
sia whenever peace negotiations are
begun to halt any possibility of an ex-
tension of the Russian government in
Europe. The memorial already has
called forth indignant denialB from
London.
In part the atrocity record is as fol-
lows:
"According to official Investigations,
thousands of men, women and chil-
dren were dragged away, oth?r thou-
sand murdered, about 20,000 buildings
were destroyed or burned during the
first and second Russian invasions of
East Prussia. During the second in
vasion alone 80,000 dwellings were
plundered and desolated.
"The inhabitants, including women
and children, were mishandled under
the most flimsy pretexts or for no rea-
son at all, although they did all they
could to satisfy the Russian soldiers
regarding quarters and supplies. This
mistreatment was sometimes carried
out with extreme cruelty; in one case
the male inhabitants of an entire vil-
lage, including the district judge,
were flogged and at the same time
threatened with death. Fugitives were
fired upon without any motive. But
above alt many peaceful citizens were
murdered without any reason what-
ever, some enduring terrible suffering
in the presence of their relatives. In-
nocent young men were shot merely
because they were able to perform
military service.
"A head forester, who was in
charge of transportation of German
convicts, was taken prisoner by the
TO INHERIT $1,000,000
Russians and brought before General
Rennenkampff—and apparently in
keeping with his infamous orders to
kill all German foresters—was imme-
diately shot. Even the aged women
and children did not escape the mur-
derous frenzy of the Russian soldier.
"The murder of a little child be-
tween two apd three years of age was
particularly cruel. Investigations show
how terrible was the end of a whole
family which fell victims of the Rus-
sian soldier's lust for murder; the fa-
ther was nailed to a table, the child
to a door and the mother's breasts
were cut off and her body slit open. In
another instance the tongues of the
husband and wife were nailed to the
table and they finally died.
"The cases of attack upon young
girls and women are innumerable.
"Information regarding the cruel
treatment of German prisoners of war
by the Russian troops will be found in
additional appendices. In numerous
cases German soldiers who were taken
prisoners were ribbed, spit upon or
otherwise ill treated without any rea-
son. A Russian officer threatened
some German soldiers with death be
cause they would not betray their com
rades, and had one of them actually
shot. Russian troops placed German
prisoners in narrow excavations before
their gun positions, apparently with
the intention that they should be
killed by shots from German guns.
"Cossacks have slashed off the heads
of German prisoners as they rode by,
and others were badly injured; some
were maimed by having their limbs
cut off. One German prisoner was
bound to a horse gin in a most cruel
manner and allowed to starve to death.
Three hussars were found in a barn
hanging with their heads down and
noses and ears cut off, indicating that
they must have died in excruciating
agony.
"Russian soldiers have also not hesi
tated to murder and barbarously maim
wounded German soldiers. They have
removed bandages from the wounded
that they might bleed to death; others
eyes have been stabbed out; tongues
ears, fingers and feet have been cut
off and skulls crushed in.
"In some cases these brutal deeds
have been performed with fiendish
cruelty. Illustrative of this, a lightly
wounded soldier was found secured to
the floor of a veranda by a bayonet
stuck through the mouth, the flesh of
the lower arm was stripped off from
elbow to wrist, the fingers were slit up
to the wrist. Another soldier who
had received a skull injury was so
bound to a calf in a stable that every
time the animal moved its mouth the
exposed brain of the soldier was
rubbed.
"The most atrocious thing of all was
the order of the highest Russian mill
tary authority, found on a high Rus
sian officer, which directed that all
male inhabitants over ten years of age
should be driven before the attacking
troops; this monstrous order, which
has blackened the name of the Russian
commander in chief forever, was ap-
parently issued with the intention that
German soldiers in repulsing the Rus-
sians would be compelled to fir6 on
their own people."
William J. Smith Cary, the Con-
necticut youngster shown hi the illus-
tration, will inherit 1,000,000 on at-
taining the age of twenty-one years.
CARRIED 13 ON ONE TICKET
Conductor of Train Thought Mother
Had Her Sunday School Class
With Her.
Muskogee, Okla!—Mr. and Mrs
Frank Scott of Highland, Kan., are
seeking a home with lots of land
They will need it, for although they
have been married not quite ten years
they have had nineteen children, all
boys, and 13 boys are living. They
hold the record for triplets, having five
sets to their credit, and also two sets
of twins. All the 13 living boys are
under five years of age.
Mrs. Scott once boarded a train with
her 13 boys and one first class ticket.
The conductor informed her that she
could not take her entire Sunday
school class on one ticket, and it was
not until she showed him the family
Bible, with all the birth dates record-
ed, that he believed it was only her
family and permitted them to occupy
five double Beats wblle paying for one.
Washington. — To obtain the co-
operation of the public in preventing
forest fires, which are doing a grea^
deal of damage in the East this
spring, the United States forest serv.
ice has prepared ten "don'ts" to be
observed in the woods, it is hoped
that these rules may have a beneficial
effect during the fire season of the
southerr Appalachians, which is not
yet over, and that of the North woods,
which is just beginning, and which,
from present indications, promises to
be unusually severe.
The "don'ts" follow:
1. Don't throw your match away un-
til you are sure it is out.
2. Don't drop cigarette or cigar
butts until the glow is extinguished.
3. Don't knock out your pipe ashes
while hot or where they will fall into
dry leaves or other inflammable ma-
terial.
4. Don't build a camp fire a-ny larger
than is absolutely necessary.
5. Don't build a fire against a tree,
a log, or a stump, or anywhere but
on bare soil.
6. Don't leave a flre until you are
sure it is out; if necessary, smother
it with earth or water.
7. Don't burn brush or refuse in or
near the woods if there is any chance
that the flre may spread beyond your
control, or that the wind may carry
sparks where they would start a new
fire.
Don't be any more careless with
fire In the woods than you are with
flre in 'your own home.
9. Don't be idle when you discover
a fire in the woods; if you pan't put
it out yourself, get help. Where a
forest guard, ranger or state fire war-
den can be reached, call him up on
the nearest telephone you can find.
10. Don't forget that human thought-
lessness and negligence are the causes
of more than half of the forest fires
in this country, ajid that the smallest
spark may start a conflagration that
will result in loss of life and destruc-
tion of timber and, young growth valu-
able not only for lumber but for their
influence in helping to prevent flood,
erosion and drought.
Many thousands of acres of forest
and suburban woodland from Maine
to Florida, and from the Atlantic
coast as far west as Arkansas, have
been burned over already this spring
by fires which started for the most
part from preventable causes. On the
national forest purchase areas alone,
49 fires occurred in March, burning
over more than 6,500 acres, while 44
fires starting on private land near or
within government boundaries dam-
aged nearly 5,500 acres. Fires in
April were even more numerous and
severe, but rains in the latter part of
the month helped the situation some-
what.
awful story, and for that reason I I
did not forward his letter as I bad
received it. I am now making an
effort through the state department
at Washington to have him released,
or something done to better Ills con-
dition, though he does not complain
at all as one might suppose he would."
Famous Royal Artillery Band.
One of the most famous bands is
that of the Royal artillery. Many per-
sons who hatfe attained distinction in
the musical world have been connect-
ed with the Royal artillery or its band.
MARRIED TO SPANISH PRINCE
Society Favorite Is Secretly Wedded
to Distant Relative of King
Alfonso.
Miss Ruth Waters, widely known in
society in New York, Philadelphia,
Narragansett Pier and Palm Beach,
was secretly wedded recently to
Prince Ludovico Pignatelli d'Aragon, a
The New York representative of
an Austrian manufacturing firm was
talking to t> party of friends, the war,
as usual, being the subject of con-
versation.
"The Vienna firm I represent," he
said, "is composed of a fathe- and
two sons, and Is of sufficient impor-
tance to employ a thousand workmen
anil sell Its goods all over the world,
though it is not doing any business
outside of America at present. One
of the sous went to war as a cap-
tain.
"Not long ago I had a letter from
the captain by way of Vladivostok
through American friends there. The
young fellow told me that in a battle
with the Russians his entire regiment
had been caught in an amb'igh or an
enfilading flre, and every one sf them,
except 36, had been killed. The 36
were captured, and he was one of
them, but he had not escaped the
deadly hail of bullets. One had struck
him ip the mouth and passed through
his head, coming out back of the ear;
a piece of shrapnel had struck him
on the right side of the face, destroy-
ing the right eye, taking away most
of his cheek and jaw, cutting off the
right ear and destroying the hearing;
another piece had gone through the
upper part of his chest and the ad-
Joining shoulder, and a bullet had
pierced his thigh.
"That would seem to be almost
enough reason for a man to die on the
field of battle, but the captain did
not. Instead he was able in some
fashion to walk, and the Russians
made liim walk six miles to a railroad
station, with other prisoners. The
medical treatment b^b received was
hardly worth mentioning, though, evi-
dently It was enough to keep him to-
gether.
"At the railroad he was loaded into
a rough car, and for 22 days he was
on his way to some point or other
Where, after a day or two, he was
loaded up again in the same kind of
transportation and given a trip of 33
days. At the end of this journey he
was landed In a hospital at Vladivo-
stok, thousands of miles from where
he started, and suffering tortures all
the way. Still, he did not quit living,
and when iie wrote me he was able to
get out and move around.
"He said the prisoners were prac-
tically at liberty about the town, but
that really did not mean much, be-
cause it was so cold that they were
around very little during the day, and
if a man tried to get away and re-
mained out all night he was certain
to freeze. He had not been able to
tell any of his story to his people at
home and had managed to get a let-
ter to me through the American con-
sul.
"I have written to his people, but
I hadn't the heart to tell them all his
Among them was Sims Reeves, w^io
who,
was the son of a bandsman, and
in his boyhood, sang In the military
choir at Woolwich. It is, perhaps, not
well known that the Royal artillery
band is fifty years older than the
Philharmonic society, having been
formed in 17C2. It has done much for
fiw advancement of music in England,
and has always enjoyed the advantage
of having a succession of eminent mu-
sicians as bandmasters. It has always
been double-handed; that is to say,
the players are as proficient on
stringed instruments as on wind, and
can at any time assume the character
of an orchestra.
Backache Spells Danger
Census records show that deaths from
kidney disorders have increased 72% in
f>0 years, l'eople can't seem to realise
that the first pain in the back, the first
disorder of the urine, demands instant
attention—that it may be a signal of
coming gravel, dropsy or fatal Bright'*
disease. The best prevention of serious
kidney disorders it prompt treatment—
the best medicine is Doan's Kidney
Pills.
An Oklahoma Case
THeturm ^ Mrs. It
Thorpe, Gracemont,
■ - - Okla., says: "I was
in such bad shape
with kidney trouble
that walking made
my back ache. Of-
t« n I was laid up
for several days.
The kidney secre-
tions were unnat-
ural and I had
rheumatic pains in
my arms and
shoulders. I felt
tired nearly all the
time. Doan's Kidney Pills helped me
as soon as I used them ami three
boxes restored me to good health."
C«t Doan's st Any Stor*. SOc • Bo*
DOAN'S "pTAV
FOSTLR-MU-UURN CO.. BUFFALO. N. Y.
Queen's All In Flames.
Obeying tradition, a bonfire was
lighted the other night at the gypsy
camp, Simonsville, and will be kept
until It oonsumes all the effects of
Tryphena McNeill, qileen of the tribe
of her name, who died in a hospital
here.
Fuel has been furnished by costly
clothing, including a $2B0 fur coat and
everything she owned or haudled, val-
ued at thousands of dollars.
Mrs. McNeill was the wife of King
Samuel. Her reputation as a seeress
brought many rich clients to her.—
Waterbury (Conn.) Dispatch to New
York World.
DAISY FLY KILLER ft
• eason.
metal, can'Uplllortlp
orer; will not toll or
IDjur« anythlnf.
Guaranteed effective.
Alld«alarsor«a.Bt
aipre*a paid for II.0S.
■ AROLD B0M£RS, 160 Da Ealk A**., Brooklyn, H. T.
IF YOU \l\\Z
no appetite, Indigestion, Flatulence, Sick
Head'tche, "all run down" or losing flesh, you
will find
Tuffs Pills
Ju t what you need. They tone up the weak
stomach and build up the flagging energies.
The Human Touch.
There must be the sensitive touch.
A visitor to a manufactory saw a man
molding clay into pots. Noticing that
all the molding was done by hand, he
said to the workman, "Why do you
not use a tool to aid you in shaping
the clay?" The workman replied:
"There is no tool that can do this
work. We have tried different ones,
but somehow it needs the human
touch." And how true it is that In
shaping lives for God there Is need of
the human touch. We cannot do the
Lord's work by machinery. Jesus
touched men, imparting health, cleans-
ing and salvation.—Biblical Recorder
Applied Art.
"What's your hired man plowing up
your front yard for, Blinks?"
"My daughter has a new camera
and the instruction says to break up
the foreground before taking a picture,
and I couldn't very well let her do
that hard work."
Flaw In the Argument.
"Don't you think that Idiots should
be chloroformed at birth?" asked the
progressive person.
"It wouldn't be practical," replied
the student of human nature. "Most
of them do not show it until after they
grow up."
You would be dismally lonesome If
everyone in the world were as good
as you think you are.
JUDGE CANARIES AT CONCERT
Hundreds Trill, Quaver and Roll In
Auditorium In New York
for Prizes.
A committee of bird-music critics
sat in Judgment recently at Labor
temple, in East Eighty-fourth street,
on the vocal accomplishments of sev-
eral hundred canaries which had been
brought here from various cities un-
der the auspices of the Central Soci-
ety of Canary Breeders of America,
The birds were brought into the au-
ditorium from a darkened room, and
as soon as they saw the light they
burst Into song. The critics listened
intently, observing each trill and qua-
ver, and presumably in their reports
will tell those in good voice, whether
they sang artistically or not and what
the chances are of this or that yellow
bird making good if he studies hard
and remembers what the critics say
about him.
Prizes are to be awarded to the best
singers.—New York Sun.
The Direct Cause.
"Why do you want to get divorced?"
"Because I'm married."
Some people are vain because of
their imperfections.
A man's ideal figure usually has a
dollar mark in front of it.
Miss Ruth Waters.
Spaniard, and a distant relative of
King Alfonso. Not even the announce-
ment of the engagement ever was
made, although Miss Waters an-
nounced a few days previous to the
marriage that there was something in
the report that she was engaged to
the prince. Her parents, prominent
socially in New York, were opposed
to the match because of their daugh-
ter's youth.
Grandmother at Twenty-Nine.
Savannah, Ga.—Mrs. Josephine Da-
vis Hill, a former Macon woman, now
residing at Millbrook, Ala., is a grand- ;
mother at the age of twenty-nine j
years. She was married when twelpe, 1
became a mother one year later, a
widow at sixteen, was remarried at
twenty-nine and a grandmother at
twenty-nine years and one day.
Amazon Explorer
Swears By Grape-Nuts
Algot Lange—famous tropic explorer—recently made a perilous exploration of
the lower Amazon.
The question of food supplies was a big one. Economy of space food value
keeping qualities—palataui.ity—all had to be considered.
Lange chose for his standby
Grape-Nuts
Here is the way he refers to this food here and there through his book, "The
Lower Amazon."
"I have included in my supplies Grape-Nuts.
"At lunch I eat some Grape-Nuts (an American
breakfast cereal) with condensed milk."
"After this egg (turtle) meal comes for me
Grape-Nuts from sealed tins."
"1 go back to the moloca at noon to eat my
lunch of roast turtle, Grape-Nuts and hard-tack.
Everywhet j—at homo or abroad—wherever big things are accomplished—this
famous wheat and barley food is relied upon to build and sustain vigor and energy
of body, brain and nerve.
Ready to eat—delicious—economical nourishing.
"There's a Reason" for Grape-Nuts
—sold by Grocers everywhere.
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