The Vian Press (Vian, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, October 13, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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"No one but John D Rockefeller
could have gotten away with a Joke
like that” seriously declares the Ger-
man barber at Tarrytown who shaves
the oil man While he Is not express-
ing his feelings out loud at the same
time when anyone asks him how he
likes to take a drink with Mr Rocke-
feller his actions are more eloquent
than words
After the barber had shaved him
one warm afternoon Mr Rockefeller
Invited him to take ah automobile ride
They went to Mamaroneck and Mr
Rockefeller asked the barber if he
would like a drink The bnrber as-
sured Mr Rockefeller that he would
be delighted
“Well you wait till we get back to
the house” the barber was told ‘‘I’ve
got a fine cold drink back there for
you”
All the way home the barber had
visions of a cold bottle and Mr Rocke-
hls Imagination by remarking that he would be glad when
so he could treat When the automobile stopped in front of
home Mr Rockefeller called one of his servants saying:
her and go up to the spring and get us a glass of that pure
nearly collapsed Of course he drank the water but no one
e more than Mr Rockefeller It was one of his pet stories
s after that
MRS REED SMOOT
Smoot wife of Senator
Tutah Is pre-eminently a
woman “The woman
head of the home” Mrs
"has it In her power to
’ a more treifaendous Influence
future in this country through
one medium than ever before In
ory
“The woman who builds up a hap-
f'py home brings her children Into the
’ world rears' them with love and ten-
derness and gives to the world noble
women and courageous men to carry
on Its work has done the greatest work
a human'- being could do Growing
with one’s children — making compan-
ions and friends of them — Instilling iu
them a love of the wholesoraeness of
home — these are requirements that a
mother must live up to”
‘ Mrs Smoot is proud of her chil-
dren and says she wishes that every
other woman was just as happy ns
she is She Is very bright and an able lieutenant for her distinguished
husband but' paramount to everything else are her home and children
When Is a man really bald?
Why when he lias a bald spot of
course but then comes the question
that the Bald Head Club of America
tried to solve now large must the
diameter of that spot be before the
man Is bald? The answer of the club
Is four Inches
The head of this organization
which has declared a relentless war
on all 'hair restorers Is Congressman
P Davis Oakey of Hartford Conn
Mr Oakey Is proud of his eligibility
to the club and has made many boasts
of it He was moved to utterance re-
cently In the house clonkrooni when he
saw a grave menace staring him la the
face— or on the bald spot
It was a group of Republican bald
heads who listened to the impassioned
defense of the liberties of the balds
which the president of the Bald Head
Club of America gave
“Gentlemen” he began “I have lis-
tened during the weary days of this long session to many demagogic speeches
and wearisome orntions The closing days of this session have been prolific
of that kind of statesmanship
“This afternoon while meditating upon the Issues of this Important cam-
paign It occurred to me that in at lenst one great Issue the Republican pnrty
Is badly handicapped The pnrty ha3 not taken the Bald nead Club of Amer-
ica Into Its confidence and a formidable rival threatens the organization
“Bald heads look out 1 For your reputation for brains humor and state-
craft will be obliterated from the national scene unless you bestir yourselves
in the campaign of the future It Is not for you to waste your time in Idle
recriminations at this slight upon the club but to strive In noble emulation”
ROUMANIANS
’ The strong man of Rouraania Is
Its minister of war Take Jouescu
Among: his people he holds a place
Fimllac to that of Venlzelos among
the Gfeeks he Is one of them and they
trust him
He has been the most courted states-
rmn jn Europe lately He was the
-hop? Allies and the fear of the
Germans
' V’ The most prominent characteris-
tics of this interesting man are his
magnetism and personul charm He
has loyalty principle energy ns well
ias the opportunism and “realism” of
Venlzelos He knows national charac-
ter He can conform to its idiosyncra-
sies -Thd great Roumanian lawyer al-
though In receipt of huge fees takes
up the coses of the Impoverished with-U-vrf'v
retainer At the opening of his
1 career ho refused a government post
j that he might practice in the courts
- He ho figured In the most Important as well as In the most sensational cases
without adding to his wealth Ills Income from his profession Is astonishingly
small for one who ranks among the great lnwyers of Europe It Is true thui
he has private' means that render him Independent
‘ Theobby of Tuke Jonescu Is art and If we nmy accept current gossip
he has ( vvn away much money on the education of promising young men
I jwbo at I Sr Parts turned out Idlers
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TWO HITT ZEPPEI’9 DABS
All London Turned Out in Its Night Clothes to Watch Thrilling Spec-
tacle of Battle Between Great Airships From Germany and
Flock of Defending Aeroplanes and Land Guns— People
Showed No Fright and Millions Cheered When Gne
Invader Shot to Earth a Mass of Flames -
i
London — The most formidable air
raid of history apparently has been
at the same time the greatest failure
Previous raids on England enrriod out
by two or even one airship have exact-
ed a far more severe toll of life nnd
wrought tremendous damage ns com-
pared with hat was done by the fleet
of 13 Zeppelins which came to Lon-
don early one morning recently while
on the other hand for the second time
in the history of the present war two
of the mighty Zeppelins were actually
brought down and one was destroyed
On one other occasion a Zeppelin
was forced to come down nnd was lost
in the Thames but this time the air-
ships actually met their fluisli through
the good work of the British Flying
corps after what wns beyond a doubt
the most thrilling battle Id the nir
which lms ever occurred
The real story of the raid and the
battle lu tlie air cannot be told ut
lenst for the present nnd all attempts
to describe wlmt happened during the
night- must be limited to tlie accounts
which nre sanctioned for publication
by the official press bureau
What the Airships Did
The sum total of casualties and dam-
age caused by the 13 Zeppelins is us
follows:
Killed — Thirty persons
Injured — About 100 persons
Twenty-five houses nnd some out-
buildings slightly damaged in the Met-
ropolitan police area
Two water mains cut
A uumber of cottages uud a church
damaged In other nrens
A fire ut some gns works
Remarkable scenes were witnessed
In Loudon while the antiulrcrnft guns
were blazing away at the raiders
From the roof of the Savoy hotel the
correspondent obtained a perfect view
of the airships brought down They
presented a wonderful sight caught in
(be glare of more tlmn a dozen search
lights illuminating them from every
angle The light flashed us a signal
by the victorious nirnmn wns plainly
discernible above tlie destroyed raider
and a minute later flames were seen
to hurst forth from the huge ifirsbip
while shells were bursting ull nroutul it
The giant machine now only a mass
of flames fell rapidly tueteorlike to
tile ground but so great was Its height
at tlie time when it met its doom that
Its fall seemed slow
Throngs on Streets
In Loudon thenters restaurants
cafes and burs close promptly ut mid-
night under the new Defense of tlie
Realm regulations but although it was
then after two o’clock in the morning
tlie streets were packed and n wild
roar of cheers lmilod the full and de-
struction of the unwelcome raider
Hurrying from the roof to the
ground floor of the hotel the corre-
spondent although having already seen
three air raids on London witnessed
liever-to-be-forgotten scenes Stair-
cases ami corridors were thronged
with people aroused from their slum-
bers but few Lidded were those who
displayed tlie slightest sign of fear
Women who shortly before mid-
night laid been dancing In the ballroom
of the Savoy elaborately gowned and
bejeweled were camping ou tlie stairs
in scanty night uttire Of men there
were few to be seen In private cars
taxicabs or even afoot they lmd al-
ready started for the spot where the
remains of the Zeppelin mid tlie bodies
of its crew were then being consumed
by the flames
The little suburb of Cuiiley ucur En-
field ubout eighteen miles from tlie
center of London where the Zeppelin
met Its fate jumped into sudden fume
uud became the scene of u continuous
pilgrimage of sightseers from till parts
of tlie metropolis
Those who expected to carry oil
souvenirs of tlie event however trif-
ling were disappointed for every pur-
tide of the wreckage Hint hud escaped
the attention of early collectors hud
safely passed into official custody
Flock to the Scene
The scenes ut Cullley wests of u re-
murkuble character Hundreds of
thousands of persons flocked to see the
wrecked raider uud such wus the con-
gestion on the local railway tlmt mi
order hud eventuully to bo Issued that
nil bookings must cease When night
enme hundreds were stranded and
ninny made the return Journey partly
on foot
Thu superintendent of utrernft con-
struction und other high officers con-
nected with the flying services were
early upon the scene uud spent a con-
siderable time Inspecting I he machin-
ery purts of tlie Zeppelin which lmd
up to then been recovered
Gen Sir Sum Hughes Cmuidiitn min-
ister of militia was among the first to
Inspect Iho wreckage The airship
came to earth with such force tlmt
much of thu machinery Including tlie
engines ouch of which weighs u quar-
ter of a ton' wns deeply burled lu the
earth The work of digging these val-
uable parts of tlie debris o’lt proceed-
ed until dusk
As each piece of machinery was re-
covered it wus carefully inspected and
in u large number of coses photo-
graphed from different angles by a
special staff of official photographers
a:: i mra
Afterward it was carefully placed In
one of the motor lorries for removal
Tells of Finding Bodies
A special constable gave a thrilling
account of the tragedy
“When I reached the spot” he sold
“the Zeppelin — u mangled mass of
ruins — was still a southing furnace
with tongues of hissing flames licking
the framework aud reducing it to
molten metal So fierce was the heat
that It was nt first impossible to ap-
proach to close quarters Pulls of wa-
ter lmd to be fetched from a pond In a
field some distance away to cool the
remains and tlie work of extrienting
the bodies was proceeded with
“That of the commander of the Zep-
pelin was first discovered His left
lmnd was still resting on the steer-
ing wheel but ills right lmnd bad been
torn nwuy
“Close by the charred remains of
six other members of the crew were
with difficulty extricated from the wire
entanglement to which the skeleton
of the fabric had been reduced nnd
were taken to the outhouse of a neigh-
boring Inn Upon the -band of one
was found a diamond ring
“Four engines were taken from the
crumpled airship together with
clock which survived Intact the huuds
stopping nt ten minutes past threo’
Saw the Raiders
The arrival of the German sniders
over the suburbs of London is related
ns follows by ono who saw the de-
struction of the airship from one of
the heights of Cullley where the raider
came to grief
“Some time after midnight the si-
lence was bitten into by tlie deep boom
of guns Occasionally the lswze of mist
wns pierced by gun flashes The boom
of tho guns found nn answering echo
along the hills and valleys In the dis-
tance For a time nothing could be
seen to justify the unwonted activity
Gradually our ears caught the sound
of a dull droning noise overhead It
enmo nearer getting louder nfid loud-
er until It resembled the roar of a fast
traveling train
“I swept the skies with my glasses
The outline of nn airship 'wus faintly
discernible crossing out of the mist
from oust to west It liovered ubout
for a while ns (hough the crew were
trying to find their bearings Sudden-
ly it began to bonr north It swerved
shortly nnd moved rapidly westward
again turning later and making
straight' for the south nt a high speed
“Once more it turned east until it
came nstrlde the main road to —
when it bore steadily along parallel
with tlie road
Searchlights Shine Out
‘Meanwhile searchlights were played
enst west north and south of the road
tlmlr range stretching fnr out like the
tentacles of nn octopus So far the
raider lmd managed to evade tlie light
Now however one rny fell full across
Its pnth It lighted the airship up
beautifully making it look like a mon-
ster stiver-sealed fish Other rays were
concentrated nnd began to piny on the
monster The sky wns ninv one blaze
of revenling light In the vicinity:
“In vnln did the Zeppelin move
about hither nnd thither seeking a
way of escape Everywhere the raider
was pursued by those fatal rays The
guns begun to play around the airship-
Shells burst nil around Some got very
close The airship made a quick
maneuver ns though to escape north-
ward The pitiless searchlight followed
and the raider wns caught between two
powerful rays nnd lined against a dark
hank of clouds
“That wns the beginning of the end
There wns n gun flash followed by a
ronr The raider was struck Through
my glasses I could plainly see it reel
nnd rock under the hit Then It be-
gan to descend earthward very slowly
It could not now escape tho rain of
missiles After the next hit the renr
part of the Zeppelin broke Into flnmes
“The ship then floundered about In
tho nlr ns though its crew lmd lost
control of It It wns now one mass
of flume looking like n blazing house
suspended In midair There wns no
qmotlon of escape Its descent quick-
ened nnd finally It crashed to enrth
less tlinn n mile from the height on
which we had watched
Crew in Midst of Flames
“As It approached tho ground the
figures of the crew could ho seen
wreathed about by flames Two of
them either fell or Jumped from the
airship when It wns about two hun-
dred feet above the ground While (ho-
blazing raider wns suspended helpless
In the nlr three loud explosions were
hoard In rapid succession It wns
nfter the Inst of these that (he final
enrlhwnrd plunge wus made -
“The light wus watched by crowds
on the hillsides for miles around As
the monster took her flnnl plunge
round after round of cheers blended
with the boom of the guns”
An occupant of one of (he very few
houses situated In the district wbree
the Zeppelin fell snvs:
“Suddenly the Zeppelin assumed n
perfectly perpendicular position and n
tremendous flame hurst from her trav-
eling from tlie bottom to tho top It
was for all tho world like applying
a match to a new lner ‘
burner' She slid' down v 1 the t
ground and It fill happened la about j
fifteen seconds " ! 1
“I made for the spot where she felLj
nnd found her a huge heap of broken
metal There was smoldering in some
places ! Shortly afterward the Art
brigade arrived on tho scene and the
hose was played on her for - some
time”
Sees Zeppelin Fall
Another eyo witness says:
“I saw a Zeppelin completely
focussed by several owerful search-
lights It appeared to be at a great
height but it seemed that it must b(
hit at any moment so splendid wns
the marksmanship of our gunners
Fresently the Zeppelin disappeared In
the low-lying clouds nnd while -the
searchlights continued to play on the
spot whore the Zeppelin had been
focussed a glow spread over the sky
nnd gradually extended nul Increased
in its intensity until the whole heav-
ens were illuminated '
“In the center of this magnificent
glow was n huge flame which soon
became larger and larger It was
quickly apparent that the Zeppelin
was well aflame The nljshlp tilted
at an angle of some 80 degrees nnd
In a few seconds the conflagration ex-
tended the full length of the airship
Almost as suddenly the huge bjnze
subsided Into a dull red glow and the
spectacle was nt an end” : ' -
Yet nnollier spectator saw It thus:
‘‘The nlr wns full of the reports of
anti-aircraft guns nnd falling bombs
Suddenly n great blaze of light ap-
peared in the sky at a-i altitude of
many thousands of feet A grent col-
umn of flame shot up and a great
cloud of smoke could be scon rolling
above the Are The flumes shot up
hundreds of feet
“As the raider slowly fell to the
earth ltu appearance suggested a huge
fiery parachute The blazing mass
gathered speed as It fell while tlie
flumes alternately expanded and con-
tracted By the time the airship was
within n thousand feet ot the ground
all tlie gns had apparently left the
bag and only tlie solhl framework
und the gondolas containing the
wrecked engines nnd the scorched
nnd lifeless bodies of the crew reached
the ground”
Centered in Light Ball
Another watcher on a hill north of
London thus describes the plight of
the Zeppelin before It was hit:
“When the guns opened Are the Zep-
pelin had already leen centered In the
ball of light created b? the myriad
arms of pale lights whlcP shot up sud-
denly from the darkness of the city
The Zeppelin wns nt a g“eat height—
so great indeed that It seemed just
like u bar of polished steel about
the thickness of nn engirt piston rod
and theVe It remained apparently mo-
tionless nnd undecided which way to
go while tlie guns peppered It without
cessation
"Shells hurst around It In front nnd
behind it above nnd below It It
made fo turn as if In the direction of
the coast but a shell hurst ominously
near Its nose and caused It to swing
round in the opposite direction Its
tall dipped and It made to ascend still
higher when n shell burst directly
over it Another descent wns neces-
sary nnd three shells burst simul-
taneously below it
Behind It nnd In front of it two
shells burst nt the snme time The
Zeppelin wriggled like some leviathan
in the colls It seemed Impossible for
it to go north south enst or west nnd
there it stood for a second or two
helpless to move with the shells
bursting nil nround It”
Aeroplanes in Pursuit
One who witnessed the end from n
country lane on tho northern outskirts
of London nt u distance of eight or
nine miles heard the Zeppelin pass
over first und then aeroplanes in pur-
suit Hi? said:
“If there wns no explosion from
bombs the lack of nolso from tills
source wus made up by the whir of
aeroplanes In pursuit They took up
the chase through the white fog The
Zeppelin flew off nnd dnrkness once
more reigned
"Then tho country became as light
ns day nnd a glow of red Illuminated
everything For a few moments the
flame wns so Intense that it wns easy
to rend the print of newspapers nnd
the objects In the thick fog were mag-
nified two or three times their usunl
size It wns n fantastic scene A
ronr followed nnd dnrkness again fell
A moment later the whole scene wns
ngnln enacted nnd then the country-
side wns once more swallowed up in
darkness”
A flying officer said the destroyed
Zeppelin appeared to him to be -larger
and longer than tho usual type al-
though ho was not in n position to sny
that it was a super-Zeppelin
Tlie second Zeppelin slightly dnin-
nged came down pear tho coust The
crew of 22 wns taken prisoner Tho
machine has been removed to nn east
const nrst-inil
Reports given out by the official
press bureau stated that 30 persons
had been killed during tlie raid and
ubout 100 Injured The property dam-
age’ amounted to about $1000000
Hunting Crows Hurt Himself
Middletown N Y — George Nelli n
fnrmrr of Jeffersonville' took his gun
nnd went out to shoot crows which
were raiding hlH cornfield As lie wus
nbout to raise Ills gnn to fire at a
crow the weapon was discharged send-
ing file duirgo Into Ills foot nnd shoot-
ing off ono of ills toes besides bnrtly
Injuring his foot Tlie farmer then
harnessed his team uud drove several
miles lo bn vo u surgeon dr-" the
wound -
di3Ci uj
ByELSIESEE
“Alma when ' do you start on your
trip?”
"Tomorrow at nine Warren”
Warren Dean’s car sped silently
along the parkway to Alma’s home
and neither of them spoke qgain until'
he drew up nt the curb
“And when you have finished your -book?”
he asked -“Oh"
another book perhaps that’s '
the usual way I believe”
“Alma dear don’t think me unsym-
pathetic I’m ns proud of your suc-
cess as you are but some day the book
of your own life must have Its new
chapters written In I’ve asked" you
twice for the big role in that book
and I shall continue to ask you until
you confront me with a- rival more
formidable than your embryo books”
“We’ve been such good friends that
I truly xylsh we might be more War--ren
but unless I felt that -We must be-
raore it would be unfniij to us both
to give you the answer you want now” '
said Alma gently- -
“Goodby” snld Warren at the porch
steps “And remember that if you
ever want me or need me I’ll be wait-
ing for your Call”
- The next day Alma set out for a lit--tie
n’tountaln village where slio worked
throughout the summer on’ her book
By September the book was finished
and Its first Installment asa serial was'
going Into type for the November Issue
of a leading magazine Alma went -ftom
the village to a ranch
Books letters and magazines reached
her In each semhveekly delivery but
Warren’s letters had gradually become
shorter and fewer '
“Ah well" she said to herself one
afternoon "it’s like a man to want to
be everything or nothing but I’ll climb ’
upon Eagle Rock with a new magazine '
for company and leave all men to
their fate”
She sat watching the clouds pass -below
the highest point of a distant
mountain but her thoughts were of
Warren She had unconsciously- been
loosening a round rock with the rest-
less movement of her foot and was
surprised when the stone suddenly
bounded down the mountain side
Alma got up and looked about for J
another rock she could dislodge She
found one larger nnd rounder which -she
loosened with considerable dlffl-
culty
"I’ll name this rock for Warren”
she said to herself “and if It goes all
the way down to the gulch he loves
me if it stops by the way he loves
me not"
She gave it a push and it went"
crashing down among the aspens with
such force that It struck sparks from'-
other stones as it drove surely and
rapidly to the gulch below where it:
embedded itself In the red sand r
“He loves me even if he doesn’t
write” Alma laughed at her childish-
ness but the Incident made her feel
happy and she descended the trail
feeling strangely elated
When she reached tho ranch house
a lafge touring car stood at the' yard
gate Alma passed hurriedly Into the
house Then she heard the shrill voice -:
of the ranchman’s wife trying to get
telephone connection with a big hotel
at n summer resort 40 miles away
The voice came clearly through the
thin walls Into Alma’s room “Hero
they are madam" it sald "here’s the
Elkton house”
“Please let me speak to Mr Brown -the
desk clerk” said the woman’s rich
voice that had a familiar sound to
Alma When the womfin spoke again
Alma clapped her hand over her mouth
to smother an exclamation It was the
voice of a woman she knew and dis-
liked but a woman" famed as a be-
witching widow “This is Mrs At-
will speaking Mr Brown We lost
our way and have Just succeeded In lo-
cating ourselves I’m expecting some
friends from the East Has Mr War-
ren Dean of New York registered?” A
brief silence “No? Then he may ar-
rive on the seven o'clock train If so
will you kindly tell him of our delay -and
say we shall be there not later
than eight? Thank you"
Long after the automobile went puf-
fing on Its steep way Alma sat staring
at the ugly wall paper of her tiny
room but for once she was uncon-
scious of its ugliness '
The next morning she was ready to
laugh at herself for having spent' a
sleepless night Seated under a big
pine midway along a path that led to
a deserted mining shaft she looked
out upon the autumn glory of the
mountain sides
"Good morning Miss Mountaineer
Will you let a weary traveler rest un-
der your tree?” said a well-known
voice
“Warren Dean!” exclaimed Alma
and by the time the name wns pro-
nounced she was standing and War-
ren wns holding both her hands in his
“The ranchman told me you had
started up this path” said Warren
“You didn’t call me Alma but I enrao
In the hope that by this time you might
want me or need me”
“Then you didn’t como nt Mrs At-
will’s call?” she asked
“Mrs Atwltl? She’s been almost
Wiling me with kindness because of
her Interest In my milltnry brother
whose regiment Is stationed at Fort
Lyon near here But I came craving
kindness from you my dear mountain-
eer Have you found nn answer to
that question of mine?”
“I think I found it yesterday” she
answered
(Copyright 191® by the McClure Newspa-
per Syndicate)
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