The Logan County News. (Crescent, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, October 9, 1914 Page: 3 of 10
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THE LOOAN COUNTY NEWS
CATHEDRAL THE GERMANS BOMBARDED
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SINKING THE GERMAN CRUISER MAINZ
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IN STERLING
LIVES A GIRL
Who Suffered As Many Girls
Do—Tells How She
Found Relief.
Sterling, Conn.—"I am a girl of 22
years anil 1 used to faint away every
■y month and was very
.veak. 1 was also
This photograph, taken from a British cruiser, shows tli
gageinent off Helgoland.' Her two funnels and two of her
man cruiser Mainz sinking during the naval eu
had been shot away.
SCENE IN DINANT AFTER ITS DESTRUCTION
Wounded Britons Tell of Valor of
the Kaiser's Men.
The famous and stately Cathedral of Notre Dame at Reims, considered
one of the most beautiful structures of the middle ages, was bombarded and
set afire by the Germans because, they assert, it was being used by the
French for observations.
in groups Hut the Germans kept
right on. The fieldpieces cut holes
through their mass, but they did not
halt. It is Private Clark's own opin-
ion that no braver men ever charged
under fire.
They wasn't 'ardly fifty feet away
when I slipped some more cartridges
in my rifle," said he. "and 1 emptied
'em all before they got up to me. I
know I accounted for some in that |
mess, sir. You couldn't 'ardly miss
em if you tried."
Put the Germans kept on coming.
Clark could see them falling as they
came, but they kept on coming. They
were innumerable. They swept down
the Hritish force by sheer weight.
"They aren't fawncy with the bay-
onet like we are," said Clark. "They
just dig in like they were pitching
hay."
No one will ever make him believe
that the German has a distaste for
cold steel any more. The Germans
went on and over the Britons. Clark
found himself where the British line
had ended and near a clump of small
trees.
"It weren't no good 'anging," said
he, "and so I ran. I thought those
trees would myke a nice cover for
me."
More than one hundred other Eng-
lish soldiers had been taken with the
same thought. The trees were not
big enough to hide a cow. Ilut they
all got away. What's more, they all
had their guns, and as soon as they
came to cover they re-formed and
hiked on until they came to another
British unit, which they joined.
REVENGE OF FRENCH MOTHER
Red Cross Nurse Makes Wounded
German's Parent Suffer for
a Few Moments.
Paris—The following remarkable
human document Is absolutely authen-
tic, but for obvious reasons the real
names of the persons concerned are
not revealed. It is a letter sent by a
French Red Cross nurse to the mother
of a wounded German soldier in her
care. The letter follows:
"Madame: Your son is seriously
wounded. His life depends entirely on
the assldious care'of myself, his nurse.
"While at his bedside, I think of my
son, who, lying helpless on a battle-
field only slightly wounded, was cow-
ardly finished by a revolver bullet by
one of your soldiers, perhaps even by
your son, now under my care.
"I am not a saint. My revenge is
easy. Tonight an extra dose of mor-
phia will bring me justice for the death
of my son.
"I am sending you here the last
good-by of your son. L. A.,
"Red Cross Nurse."
"P. S.—Madame, your son is safe.
He will be well within two weeks. I
have merely wanted to make you live
for a minute the long hours of incon-
solable mourning which now will be
my life."
Do Not Know What It Is to Be Afraid
of Either Rifle Fire or the
Bayonet.
_
By HERBERT COREY.
Special Correspondent of The Chicago
Daily News.
London.—Tommy is getting to
know Hans better Groups of slightly
wounded men are being sent hack
from the shattered British front east
of Amiens. Every man has been told i
by his officers that he must not talk
for fourteen days, even of his per- j
sonal adventures. The impossibly ,
stupid British censor office would
have all knowledge of this war kept
from the world.
"You can talk about the Dutch- j
men," I suggested to one chap I met
at the Charing Cross station. "That'll j
do no harm."
He agreed with me. He was a nice, j
clean cut boy—Private Ilarry Clark |
of the Staffordshire regiment—and he
was just sweating to talk. A hole
through his arm only inconvenienced
him He was smoking a huge pipe.
"They fight well," said he. "They're
afraid of nothing. They come on
when the dead are lying in heaps be-
fore them."
The war office has persistently put
out stories that the Germans cannot
stand the bayonet, along with a com-
panion piece that the Germans ham-
string wounded men.
"The 'eli they cawn't stand the bay-
onet," said Private Clark. "They
don't know what it is to be a-feared.
They keep a-coming on, and just
trample all over us."
Clark's regiment was intrenched
•somewhere on the front at Mons.
The Hritish were forced to bear the
brunt of the German attack through-
out this first great battle. Long be-
fore they first came in contact with
the foe they had been cheered by the
war office statement that the Ger-
mans were afraid of the cold steel.
The war office had also said that the
Germans are inferior as to field ar-
tillery and In rifle practice.
"Their guns was good," said Pri-
vate Clark. "We used just to get a
hole dug for ourselves, and they'd
shell us out of it. I didn't think much
of their shrapnel. Seemed to me it
didn't have much force. But they
could sure 'It us."
The particular German regiment
that practiced upon Clark and his
comrades was not composed of sharp-
shooters, according to the Briton.
For an hour they lay In their trenches
and fired at each other. On the other
hand, other soldiers have asserted the
German shooting is quite up to Brit-
ish standard. Then the Germans
scrambled out of their trenches and
started on a dog trot across the field.
"Looked aB though they said to
themselves, 'You bally beggars, we'll
myke you get out of that,'" said Pri-
vate Clark.
The English lay in their trenches
and fired their rifles until they be-
came almost too hot to hold. They
were supported by a company of
French light artillery.
"You couldn't miss em," said Pri-
vate Clark. "It was like shooting at
a wall, tliey were that close together.
They didn't 'ardly extend their order
at all."
He could see through the thin
smoke of the modern rifle men falling
bothered a lot with
female weakness. I
read your little book
' Wisdom for Wo-
men, ' and I saw how
others had beet)
helped by Lydia E.
Pink ham's Vegeta-
ble Compound, and
decided to try it, and
it has made me feel
like a new tfirl a'1(l I now relieved
of all these troubles. I hope all young
girls will get relief as I have. I never
felt better in my life."—Miss Bertha A.
Peloquin, Box 116, Sterling, Conn.
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been troubled with suppression. The
doctors called it 'Anemia and Exhaus-
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Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-
pound brought mo out all right"—Miss
I.avlsa My RES, Box 74, Massena, N.Y.
Young Girls, Heed This Advice.
Girls who are troubled with painful or
irregular periods, backache, headache,
dragging-down sensations, fainting
spells or indigestion,should immediately
seek restoration to health by taking Ly-
dia E. Binkham's Vegetable Compound.
New Jersey's 1913 mineral produc-
tion was valued at $40,715,061.
Don't be misled. Awk for Red Prow
Ball Blue Makes beautiful white clothes.
At *U k<>' 1 groetrt. Adv.
You think that other people nr«
"funny." But that is Just what they
aro thinking about you.
This Is Not the Way.
Wife (with magazine)—Here's an
I article on "How to avoid war."
Hub—What does it say—remain sin-
' Kle?
Part of
like all the
is it appeared afte
ructures in the ci
ermans had
destroyed.
The building on the left was a large hotel and,
bridge aro seen some German soldiers Ashing.
BRITISH HIGHLANDERS ON THE FIRING LINE
Good Reason.
It was a very youthful class in phys-
iology.
"Why," asked the teacher, "Is It best
to eat soup first when one is very
hungry?"
The pupils stared at her blankly.
Then Jamie enlightened them from
the depths of his own experience.
"You can get It down faster," ha
announced.
Photograph taken during one of the battles in northern France, showing
enemy being concealed in the woods.
Highlanders on the firing line, the <
Hard to Kill Some Men.
Reports indicate it sometimes takes
a lot to kill a modern soldier Ser-
geant Fougere of Prance received eight
bullet wounds, a broken arm and oth-
er injuries, and although shot in the
calf, thigh and ankle, escaped being
captured by Germans, and limped ten
miles to his regiment. Another French
soldier received six bullet and three
bayonet wounds, and is recovering.
The French war office estimates only
two men are killed out of every hun-
dred hit. The penetration is so clean
one s«ldier did not know he had been
hit for three hours, and another bullet
went through two soldiers and lodged
in a cavalryman's saddle.
PROUD PRIVATE LANGE
CATHEDRAL OF MONS
The interior of the cathedral at Mons after the Germans had shelled and j
occupied that city.
Private Lange of the Twelfth regi-
ment of the Belgian army holding the
order issued by King Albert conveying
to him the decoration of Chevalier of
the First Order of Leopold. This
honor was conferred for his wonder-
ful feat at Horstal, where he captured
the flag of the Ninetieth German in-
fantry, killing a colonel and 14 sol-
diers In the encounter.
Fashion Note.
"One blessing, at least, will coma
to us from this dreadful war. We
shan't be Inundated with shocking
French fashions."
The speaker was a leading club-
woman. She resumed:
"At a club dinner the other evening
a man fashion writer—man fashion
writers are the best—said to me:
" 'A truce to these foreign modes!
They are caricatures.'
"'Caricatures?' said I. 'Caricatures?
Yes, perhaps. Hut wouldn't It be rnor«
accurate to call them take-offs?' "
LIGHT BOOZE. "
Do You Prink Itf
A minister's wife had quite a
•le with coffee and her experience ia
Interesting. She says:
"During the two years of my train-
ing as a nurse, while on night duty,
1 became addicted to coffee drinking.
Between midnight and four in tha
morning, when the patients were
asleep, there was little to do except
make the rounds, and It was quita
natural that I should want a hot cup
of coffee about that time. I could
keep awake better.
"After three of four years of cof-
fee drinking, I became a nervous wreck
and thought that I simply could not
live without my cqffee. All this tlma
I was subject to frequent bilious at-
tacks, sometimes so sever* as to
keep me in bed for several days.
"After being married, Husband
begged me to leave off coffee for he
feared that It had already hurt ma
almost beyond repair, so I resolred to
make an effort to release myself from
the hurtful habit.
"I began taking Postum, and for a
few days felt the languid, tired feel-
ing from the lack of the coffee drug,
but I liked the taste of Postum, nnd
that answered for the breakfast bsv-
j erage all right.
I "Finally I began to feel cleaner-
headed and had steadier nerves. Allt-
| er a year's use of Postum I now feel
I like a new woman—have not had any
bilious attacks since I left off coffee."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to
Wellville,' in pkgs.
Postum comes in two forms:
Regular Postum—must be well
boiled. 15c and 25c packages.
Instant Postum—Is a soluble pow-
der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly
in a cup of hot water, and, with cream
and sugar, makes a delicious bever-
age Instantly. 30o and 50c tins.
The cost per cup of both kinds la
about the same.
"There's a Reason" for Postum.
—sold by Grocerfc
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Frishman, Joseph. The Logan County News. (Crescent, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, October 9, 1914, newspaper, October 9, 1914; Crescent, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc280100/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.