The Medford Patriot-Star. (Medford, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 45, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 22, 1917 Page: 2 of 8
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THE MEDFORD PATRIOT-STAR. MEDFORD. OKLAHOMA
FORTY THOUSAND
Will BE STARTER
UNCLE SAM'S INITIAL ENCOUNT-
ER LIKELY WILL BE IN
8TRIKEN BELGIUM.
GENERAL PERSHING IN CHARGE
L
XMq Man. Witkout
©A Country
& Edward Everett Hole
Marines Added To Division of Regu-
lars—Troops Will be Tranled With-
in Hearing of Fighting to Accus-
tom Them to Cannonade.
THIRD INSTALLMENT.
Washington, May 21- All threo
arniH of America's flghtlm rom*. the
army, navy and marine corps, soon
will ho represented In the war zone*.
Willi American destroyers already
combating ilio l-bout menace Jo ICu-
ropoon waters and army regulars con-
centrating to carry the flag to the
buttle linos In Belgium and France, a
regiment of marines was designated
today to Join tho expeditionary force
and round out the nation's represents
tton in the field.
The marines will be attached to the
array division under General Pershing,
which is under orders tig proceed
abroad as soon as practicable. Al-
though details are not being made pub-
lic, it was calculated tonight that with
the marine regiment the total Ameri-
can force was designated for land
service in Europe Is close
.An army division at war
comprises about 2.1,000 men and up-
wards of 12,000 are expected to be In
the nine volunteer regiments of engi-
neers now being recruited. The for-
estry regiment, and the marine regi-
ment each will number more than
1000. The strength of tho naval force
in European waters has not been re-
vealed.
For obvious reasons no information
as to the time of the Americano com-
mander's departure or his destination
•will be made public.
When General Pershing leaves, ev-
ery detail of the organization and
equipment of his troops will have been
worked out. He will know exactly
what preparations must bo made nnd
what use is to be made of bis division.
Presumably be wdll have wide discre-
tionary powers to co-operate with
commanders of the French, British
and Belgian forces.
RUSSIA BACK INTO CONFLICT
Petrograd, May 21.—Russia, unag-
gressive in the field for. several
months because of internal dissen-
sions, is making ready under the lead-
ership of the new coalition govern-
ment, to resume an- energetic cam-
paign against the Teutonic powers.
The new cabinet, holding the confi-
dence of the radical Council of Work-
men's and Soldiers’ delegates, lias de-
clared against a separate peace and
anonunees its intention of taking tlie
most energetic measures against any
counter revolutions. Declaring the re-! *'u! *IC never seemed
establishment of a general peace with-
out annexations and indemnities is
possiblle only through the overpower-
ing of Germany, the cabinet asserts
that its most important work is the
revivifying of the army.
General Brussiloff, leader of the
great campaign in Volhynia and Ga-
licia last year and the other com-
mand' rs have returned to their head-
quarters and Minister of War Keren-
sky. one of the strongest men of tiie
Russian government, is to visit the
battle fronts immediately to inspire
the Russian troops. Already the Rus-
sians have shown signs of activity
and artllery and mine throwing bom-
bardments by them are reported from
several important sectors along the
SOO-mile front from Riga, on the Hat-
tie to Galatz, on the Black sea.
Along the western front there has
been little infantry activity. North of
Gorizia the Italians have capturedj
Hill 652, the key to the Vodice posi-
tion, in a long and severe action in
which the attacking groops were com-
pelled to advance from rock to rock.
Despite deperate resistance ahe Aus-
trians were driven from the strong-
hold. with the loss of nearly 400 pris-
oners.
Roy Ard Freed of Murder.
Iola, Kan.. May 21.—Roy Ard was
found not guilty by a jury, on the
charge of having murdered his wife,
Viola Ard, in November, 1914.
"I uni showing them how wo do this
In tho artillery, sir."
And (Ids Is u part of tin* story where
nil the legends agree; that the commo-
dore Mild:
“I see you do, and I tlinnk you. sir;
und l .-hull never forget this duy, sir,
and you never shnll, sir."
And after the whole thing wus over,
nnd lie hud the Engllsliiiiun's sword,
In the nild.st of the state mid ceremony
of the quarterdeck, lie said:
“Where is Mg. Nolan? Ask Mr. No-
lan .......me here,"
And when Nolan came, tho captain
said:
"Mr. Nolan, we are nil very grateful
to you today; you ure one of us today;
you will he named In tho dispatches."
And then the eld man took olT Ids
own sword of ceremony, and gave It to
Nolan, and made him put It on. The
man told mu this who saw It. Nolan
cried like a baby, and well lie might.
He hud not worn a sword since that
Infernal day at Fort Adams, But al-
to 10,000. | wnys afterward, on occasions of ••ere-1 kikiut hornt^
strength 1 """O', he wore that quaint old French
sword of the commodore's.
The captain did mention him In the
dispatches. It was always said he
asked that he might be pardoned. Ho
wrote a special letter to the secretary
of war. But nothing ever came of it.
As I said, that was about the time
when they began to Ignore the whole
transaction at Washington, and when
Nolan's imprisonment began to carry
Itself on because there was nobody to
stop It without any new orders from
home.
I have heard it said that he was with
Porter when he took possession of the
Nuknlilwn Islands. Not this Porter,
you know, but old Porter, his father,
Essex Porter, that is, the old Essex
Porter, not this Essex. As an artil-
lery olllcer, who had seen service In
the West, Nolan knew more about for-
tifications, embrasures,, raveilnes,
stockades, and all that, than any of
them did; and he worked with a right
good will In fixing that battery all
right. I have always thought it was
a pity Porter did not leave him in
command there with Gamble. That
would have settled all the question
about his punishment. We should
have kept the islands, and at this mo-
ment we should have one station in
the Pacific ocean. Our French friends,
too, when they wanted this little wa-
tering place, would have found It was
pre-ocrupiod. But Madison nnd the
Virginians, of course, lluug all that
away.
All that was near fifty years ago.
If Nolan was thirty then, he must
have been near eighty when he died,
lie looked sixty when he was forty.
to me to change
a lmir afterward. As I imagine his
life, from what I have seen and heard
! of it, he must have been in every sea,
\ and yet almost never on land. lie
must have known In a formal way,
; more officers In our service than any
• man living knows. He told me once,
| with a grave smile, that no man in the
world lived so methodical a life as he.
"You know the boys say I am the
Iron Mask, and you know bow busy
he was.” lie said it did not do for
anyone to try to read all the time, more
than to do anything else all the time;
but that he read just five hours a day.
“Then,” he said, “I keep up my note-
books, writing in them at such and
such hours from what I have been
reading; nnd I include in them my
scrapbooks.” These were very carious
indeed. He had six or eight, of differ-
ent subjects. There was one of his-
tory, one of natural science, one which
he called “Odds and Ends.” But they
were not merely books of extracts
from newspapers. They had bits of
plants nnd riimons, shells tied on, and
carved scraps of bone and wood, which
he had taught the men to cut for him,
nnd they were beautifully illustrated.
He drew admirably. He had some of
the funniest drawings there, and some
of the most pathetic, that I have ever
seen In my life. I wonder who will
have Nolan’s scrapbooks.
Well, he said his reading and his
notes were his profession, and that
they took five hours and two hours
respectively of each day. "Then,’’
said he, “every man should have a di-
version as well as a profession. My
natural history is my diversion.” That
more limn half the surgeons do. Then
If anylMKly wax nick nr died, nr If tie*
captain wanted him to on any other
invasion, he wiih iilwnyx ready to rend
prayerx. 1 have remarked tlmt lie
read lieiiullfully.
M,v own acquaintance with Philip
Nolan begun *lx nr eight year* after
tiie war, nn my first voyage after i
was appointed a midshipman. It wax
In the first days after our slave truth1
trenty, while the reigning hott-e,
which was still the house of Virginia,
had still n sort of sentimentalism
about the suppression of the horror*
of the middle passage, mid something
Wus sometimes done Hint way, \VY
were In tin- Smith Atlantic on that
business. From the time I Joined. I
believe I thought Nolan was u sort of
lay chaplain—n chaplain with a him-
coat. I never, asked about him. Ev-
erything in the ship was strange to
me. I knew It was green to ask quo*
tloiis, and I suppose 1 thought then
was a “Plain-Bui tons" on every ship
We had him to dine in our mess once j
a week, and the caution was given that
on that day nothing was to be said
Blit If they had told li-
mit to say anything about the planet
clinching «f flats, leaping and dancing, i
kissing of Nolan's feet, mid n general |
rush made to lint hogshead by way of |
spontaneous worship of Vaughan us i
the deli. ex imicliliiu of the nceuslon.
"Tell them," said Vuiiglmn, well
pleased, “that I will take them all in
Cope PalinuH."
This did not answer ao well, rape
Puliims was prnetleally ux fur from
the homes uf most of them us New Or-
leans or Itlo Janeiro wus; that Is, they
would he eternally separated from
home there. And their Interpreters, as
wo could understand. Instantly said,
“All, lion Palmas," nnd hngnu in pro-
|Htxn Infinite other expedients In most
voluble liinguuitt*. Vaughan was rath-
er disappointed lit tills result of his
Hhorallty, nnd asked Nolan eagerly
wlmt they said. The drops stood on
jMinr Nolan's white forehead ns ho
hushed the men down, mid said:
“He says. ‘Not Piiitims.’ lie says,
‘Take us home, take us to our coun-
try, take us to our own house, take
us to our own pickaninnies mid our
own women.' He says lie has mi old
father mid iiintlinr. who will die, If
limy do lint see him. And this one
says ho left his people all sick, and
puddled down to come mid help them,
and that these devils caught him in
the buy ju-t In sight of home, mid
that In* Ims never seen anybody from
home since then. And this one says,”
choked out Nolan, “that ho has not
heard a word from his home In six
months, while he Ims been locked up
In tin Infernal harracoon."
Vauglmn always said In* grew gray
himself while Nolan struggled through
this interpretation. I, who did not un-
derstand anything of the passion In-
volved in It. smv that tile very ele-
ments were melting with fervent heat,
W. L. DOUGLAS
"THE (HOC THAT HOLOS ITS SHAPE"
S3 93.80 94 84,30 93 96 97 & 98
Sava Money by Wearing W. L. Douglas >
■hoe*. For eele by over DOOO shoe dealer*.
The Beet Known Shoe* in the World.
VV7 L. DisifUi nunr and tiie rruil prk'S it ium;vj on the hot-
" tom uf all .hoe* jt die Uctorv. Ths value u guaranifcJ jnd
ihr wr«rrr prorretej againM high pnen lor interior liion, Ths
rrtiil price* ire dir «»me everywhere. They con no more m Sin
FrimiH'o thin they do in New York. They are alwiyi worth die
price paij for tlirtn.
“Tti* qniliry of W. F.. Doug'.ii product i» guirmteed bv mom
4 4° veer* eqvneiice in making fine ahoet. The irrurt
•tvle* are the Iralrri in die Fadaon Cemrri of America.
Thrv are maje in a wrll-cauipped factory al Brockton, Mai*.,
bv the highr-.i paid, ikilled inoeituken, unjer the dirrcuon and
lupvrvinon of experienced men, all working with an honest
iletranination to make the l»es( shoes for chc price that money
can buy.
Ask ynur shoe ilmlrr for IT. T„ tVnngla* aline*, If tie etm-
aril «i||ii,|y r,i„ will> I,In.I )<m mini. Iske nn alliee
"rJ‘" ,n' lnt*m»Mn* Inmklel eiiilslnlmr linw In
[Milnw.i'f III,, hlglie.i oliintliir.l »f quality for lim urlrv,
*y cel urn mull, |n>ali*g« free.
LOOK FOR W. L Dougla.
name and the retail price
•tamped on the bottom.
Boys' Shoes
n/f It M Belt la th* Werld
$3.00 $2.60& $2.00
Prr.hlenl U IV. I.. Ilmi.li*. Shoe Co,,
IMA spark si,, llrorklnn, Sl«i,
Canine Wisdom. Rare Sacrifice.
“I say. I’liIn, wlmt's this hnni* dry "I presume you arc now prepared to
business tin* liumunx nr** talking make any sacrifice for your country'*
obmitj" good?"
“I guess, friend Hover, It Is the kind "Yes. I ihlnk we must nil get behind
nf bone tlmt whet* "lie'- appetite fur I the president now?"
ti Juicy Wild," “Then you are Milling to give up
— v I playing unit' until after the war?"
USE ALLEN’S FOOT* EASE "Ureal Seott! Do you really think
The ti in l.rpi n* liowUtT to l»e -iiul.ru mr,, eh,,.. It will rulin' to that i
urul xpruikleit into lIn- f,„.il,,iU> ti T'oilfT'1-* '
painful,-wolleii. Kitiarilng fr.t un.l into-- the
hilug out of eornH ant bnnlon i Thu irrvate.i
comforter ever discovered fur all font-nchra
HoM everywhere, Vte. Trial package KUKK
Addrcea, Allen a. Olin-lrd. U> Hoy, N. Y -AJv.
The Game.
"Now is the time to swat tin* fly."
. "Yes, if tin* Insect doesn't see vull
mid that something was to pay some- ....... ‘
. ,, . ' , llrst, mul fly the swat."
where. Even the negroes themselves
Mars or the hook of Deuteronomy, I stopped howling as they saw Nolan’s
.should not have asked why; thqfe were
a great many things which seemed to
me to have as little reason. I flr-i
came to understand anything about
“the matt without n country” one day
when we overhauled u dirty little
schooner which liad slaves on board.
An officer was sent to take charge of
her. and after a few minutes he sent
bnek his boat to ask that someone
might be sent him who could speak
Portuguese. We were all looking over |
the rail when the message caine, and
we nil wished we could Interpret, when
the captain asked who spoke Por-
tuguese. But none of the officers did;
and just as the captain was sending
forward to ask If any of the people
could. Noinn stepped out and said he
should he glad to interpret, if tho cap-
tain wished, as lie understood the lnn-
Ex-Senator Caldwell Dead.
Leavenworth, Kan.. May 21.—Ex-
United States Senator. Alexander
Caldwell, aged 87 years, died in a , , ,
hospital in Kansas ttty this afternoon. | ar'Hl_Cod'I,nich?s
He was elected senator from Kansas
Hushed the Men Down.
gunge. The captain thanked him, fit-
ted out another boat with him, and in
this boat it was my luck to go.
When we got there, it was such a
scene as you seldom see, and never
want to. Nastiness beyond account,
and chaos run loose in the midst of the
nastiness. There were not a great
many of the negroes; but by way
of making what there were understand
that they were free, Vaughan had had
their handcuffs and anklecuffs knocked
off, and, for convenience' sake, was
putting them upon the rascals of the
schooner’s crew. The negroes were,
most of them, out of the hold, and
swarming all round the dirty deck,
with a central throng surrounding
Vaughan and addressing him in every
dialect and patois of a dialect, from
the Zulu click up to the Parisian of
Beledeljereed.
As wc came on deck, Vaughan
looked down from a hogshead, on
which lie had mounted in desperation,
and said:
“For God’s love, is there anybody
who can make these wretches under-
stand something? Tho men gave them
took two hours n day more. The men | t*lom‘ *
used to bring him birds and fish, but
on a long cruise he had to satisfy him-
in 1871 and resigned two years later
SEVEN MILLION IS WAR’S TOLL
Including Wounded. Missing and Pris-
oners it will Reach 45 Million.
London, May 21.—The number of
men killed in tiie war thus far was
estimated at 7,000,000 by Arthur Hen-
derson. member of the war council,
in an address today at Richmond. He
estimated the total casualties of the
war to be in excess of the population | deal
and such small game. He was the only
naturalist I ever met *wlio knew any-
thing about the habits of the house fly
and the mosquito. All those people
can tell you whether they are Lepi-
doptera or Steptopotera; but as for
telling how you can get rid of them,
or how they get away from you when
you strike them, why, Linnaeus knew
ns little of that us John Foy, the idiot,
did. These nine hours made Nolan’s
regular daily “occupation." The rest
of the time he talked or walked. Till
tie grew very old, he went aloft a great
He always kept up his exercise
and I never heard that he was ill. If
of the United Kingdom. <The popu-
lation of the Kingdom, according to any other man was UL he was the kind-
the census of 1911, was 45.370,5 30). j
est nurse in the world; and he knew
knocked that big fellow down twice,
and that did not soothe him. And then
I talked Choctaw to all of them to-
gether ; nnd I’ll be hanged if they un-
derstood that as well as they under-
stood the English.”
Nolan said he could speak Por-
tuguese, and one or two fine-looking
Kroomen were dragged out, who, as it
had been found already, had worked
for tiie Portuguese on the coast at
Fernando Po.
“Tell them they are free,” snld
agony, anil Vaughan's almost equal
agony of sympathy. As quick as ho
could get words, he said:
"Tell them yes, yes; tell them they
shall go to the Mountains of the Moon,
if they will. If I sail the schooner
through the Great White Desert, they
shall go home!"
And after some fashion Nolan snid
so. And then they all fell to kissing
him ugain and wunted to rub tils nose
with theirs.
But he could not stand it long; and
getting Vaughan to say lie might go
hack, he beckoned me down iuto our
boat. As we lay back in the stern
sheets und tho men gave way, he said
to me: “Youngster, let that show you
what it Is to be without n family, with-
out a home, and without n country.
And if you are ever tempted to say a
word or to do a thing that shall put
n bar between you nnd your family,
your home, and your country, pray
God In his mercy to take you that in-
stant home to his own heaven. Stick
by your fnmily, boy; forget you havo
n self, while you do everything for
them. Think of your home, boy; write
nnd send, nnd talk about It. Let it
be neurer uud nearer to your thought,
the farther you have to travel from it;
and rush to it, when you are free, ns
that poor black slave Is doing now.
And for your country, boy," and the
words rattled in his throat, “and for
that ilag," ^ind be pointed to the ship,
“never dream a dream but of serving
her ns she bids you, though the serv-
ice carry you through a thousand hells.
No matter what happens to you, no
matter who flatters you or who abuses
you, never look at another flag, never
let a night pass But you pray God to
bless that flag. Remember, boy, that
behind all those men you have to do
with, behind officers, nnd government,
and people even, there is the country
herself, your country, and that you
belong to her as you belong to your
own mother. Stand by her. hoy, as
you would stand by your mother, if
those devils there had got hold of her
today!”
I was frightened to death by his
calm, hard passion; but I blundered
out that I would, by all that was holy,
nnd that I had never thought of doing
anything else. He hardly seemed to
hear me; but he did, almost in a
whisper, say: “Oh, If anybody had
said so to me when I was of your age!’’
I think it was this half-confidence of
his, which I never abused, for I never
told this story till now, which after-
ward made us great friends. He was
very kind to me. Often he sat up, or
even got up, at night to walk the deck
with me when it was my watch. He
explained to me a great deal of my
mathematics. He lent me books, and
helped me about my reading. He nev-
er alluded so directly to his story
again; but from one and another offi-
cer I have learned, in thirty years,
what I am telling. When we parted
from him in St. Thomas harbor, at the
end of our cruise, I was more sorry
than I can tell. I was very glad to'
meet him again in 1S30; and later in
life, when I thought I had some in-
fluence in Washington, I moved heav-
en and earth to have hftn discharged.
But it was like getting a ghost out of
prison. They pretended there was no
such man, and never was such a nma
They will say so at the department
now! Perhaps they do not know*. It
will not be the first thing in the serv-
ice of which the department appears
to know nothing!
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
South's Farm Production.
The Manufacturers’ Record says
that the total value of the South's ag-
ricultural products, including animal
products, in 1916 was more than $4,-
vaughan; “and tell them that these 050,000.000, or only S per cent less than
rascals are to be hanged as soon as the total for the United States In 1900.
"e can set rope enough. ’ The total value of tiie South's crops,
Nolan explained it in such Portu- omitting live stock, in 1916 was $3,658.-
guese as tiie Kroomen could under- 332.000. or $1,072,280,000 over 1915. To
stand, and they in turn to such of the this cotton contributed $1,079,598,000,
negroes as could understand them, grain $1,283,300,000, and hay, tobacco
Then there was such a yell of delight, 1 and potatoes $440,494*000
India lias a new law limiting the j
working hours of adults to 12 a day j
and of children to six.
WOMAN’S CROWNING GLORY
Is her half. If yours Is .streaked with
ugl.v, grizzly, gray hairs, use “Lu Cre-
oli'” Hair Dressing and change It In
the natural way. Price $1.00.—Adv.
Misunderstood.
Wife-—Big checks for dresses will
not la* In demand this season.
Husband—Thank heaven !—Puck.
I’rnyer and
man's Journey.
provender delay
You may buy a Saxon believing it to be the
best car in its class and you will get what
you pay for.
You may look for longer service, better per-
formance and lower up-keep bills from your
Saxon than from any other car of like price.
And you will not be disappointed.
If there was any doubt that Saxon cars are the
best in their respective divisions it has long
since disappeared.
And the proof of this you will find, a thousand*
fold over, in the records of Saxon owners—
and in the opinion of motor-car buyers in
general. Saxon cars have definitely estab-
lished their superiority in every phase of
motor car performance.
And just as surely and decisively as they have
proved themselves abler acting cars, have they
proved themselves cheaper cars to keep up.
To build cars of such quality and such value
clearly reflects the strength and soundness
and ability of the Saxon organization.
Saxon Motor Car Corporation
Detroit, Michigan
• There is still some good territory open for
Saxon Dealers. For information you should
apply to
Bond Motor Company
Kansas City, Mo.
Raise High Priced Wheat
on Fertile Canadian Soil
Canada extends to you a hearty invita-
tion to settle on her FREE Homestead
lands of 160 acres each or secure some
of the low priced lands in Manitoba.
Saskatchewan and Alberts. This yeir wheat is higher but
Canadian land just as cheap, so the opportunity is more at-
tractive than ever. Canada wants you to help feed the world
by tilling some of her fertile soil—land similar to that which
during many years has averaged 20 to 45 bushels of wheat
to the acre. Think of the money yon can make with wheat
around $2 * bushel and land ao easy to get Wonderful
yields also of Oats, Barley and Flax. Mixed farming
in Western Canada is as profitable an industry aa
grain growing.
1BD ACPr*
L. IN
Tha Government this yea* fa asking fanners to pot in*
51* uif?*®* *nt0 grain. There is a great demand for
agreeable, railway facilities excellent, good schools and
churches convenient. Writ# for literature as to reduced
railway rates to Supt. of Immigration, Ottawa. Can* or to
C. A. COOK
2012 Mala SI.. Kaaaaa City, M*.
Canadian Government Agent
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