Carney Enterprise. (Carney, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, April 30, 1915 Page: 9 of 12
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CARNEY. OKLA.. ENTERPRISE
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HIDES 10 FROM FOE
French Girl Keeps Soldiers From
German Clutches.
By Dint of All Sorts of Courageous
Ruses She Feeds and Conceals Eng-
lishmen While Teutons
Occupy Place.
Paris.—The invaders would not
have been so charitably disposed to a
French girl liad they known that for
three weeks by dint of all sorts of
courageous ruses she had been feed-
ing, concealing, and keeping from
their clutches ten English soldiers.
She was a servant in a girl's board-
ing school. When the war broke out
the pupils all returned to their homes,
and she was left alon3, for her only
companion was an old deaf and par-
tially paralyzed woman. When the
Germans entered the town they went
through the girls' school from attic
to basement, collecting all the linen
bedding they could lay their hands
on. For some reason or other they
did not install their wounded in the
main building, but in the chapter an-
nex.
These wounded the girl tended with
the utmost devotion, in the first place,
because she is tender-hearted, and in
the second, because she had every rea-
son to desire to stand well with the
invaders. For her conscience was
quite clear. She knew that down in
the grotto at the end of the school
gardens she hau concealed ten "Tom-
mies," who had come, hungry, foot-
sore and worn out just one hour be-
fore the Germans.
"They will be here in a moment,"
the English officer had said, not wish-
ing to put the girl in danger.
"Never mind," she said, "I'll hide
you somewhere, and afterwards w«
shall see." So she took them to the
grotto. But the quarters were nar-
row, damp and intensely uncomfort-
able. Her heart bled for her pro-
tegea. Then she had an idea, the
very daring of which was to insure its
success. She installed her ten "Tom-
mies" in the unoccupied top floor of
the school itself. Then came the
question of the commissariat. At first
she gave up her own ration to her
ten refugees—but that was not
enough among so many. So she col-
lected from her friends and relatives
in the village here a piece of bread
and there a vegetable.
When the Germans, seeing her sus-
piciously laden basket, asked her for
whom were all these provisions, she
would answer, "For your wounded in
the chapel." Better still, she ap- j
pointed herself cook for the German
ambulance, and in this capacity waa '
able to pick up all sorts of broken ;
victuals, so that her English were in
no danger of starving.
But English soldiers do not live by
food alone—they like their tobacco.
Now, according to the regulations of
the invaders, each inhabitant of the
place had the right to buy two sous'
worth of tobacco a day. She found
a way to evade this regulation and
to keep her ten in smokables. She or-
ganized an army of boys, who ten or
twenty times a day would purchase at
different shops the meager penny-
worth.
But there was always the danger
that the hiding place of the ten might
be discovered by some German. For-
tunately, their dormitory communi-
cated by trap-doors with the ground
floor of the building, and precisely
with a room on that ground floor
which gave on the garden. So she
procured a long rope, with which she
advised her prisoners to practice a
sort of fire-drill.
"Just imagine," she said to her in-
terviewer, "that my Englishmen after
a few attempts were able, the whole
ten of them, to strap up their haver-
sacks, get ready for all eventualities,
and slide down the rope noiselessly
in less than five minutes."
But these desperate measures were
not necessary. The Germans tempo-
rarily evacuated the place, and the ten
English soldiers were able to regain
the allied lines in safety. They have
all given her their names and ad-
dresses, and sworn that she must
come to England when the war is
over, where they promise her a royal
welcome. One of the grateful .ten is
a nobleman, and a relative of King
George—Lord Smith is the name
given, but never mind! The girl left
the town only when the Germans
were about to re-enter it, and after the
town had been subjected to a fierce
bombardment for r- ny days.
TERRIER IS A "PANDHANDLER"
"Bubbles" Collected Pennies Enough
to Pay the Price for His
License.
Warren, Mass.—'For the license of
Bubbles, a dog owned by Edward W.
Burns, former proprietor of the Hotel
Rainsdell, 200 cents were paid to
Town Clerk William F. Duncan. Hub-
bies collected the cents himself from
traveling salesmen and other guests
in the hotel. He is a Boston bull ter-
rier, six years old, and is known to
every child here.
Bubbles will not be satisfied un-
less he is given a cent. At all times
he will refuse silver. When a cent
is thrown to him, he grabs it in his
teeth and runs to a corner of a room,
and then returns for more.
At the beginning of the year Mr.
Purns' son began to save the cents
revived by Bubbles. The cents are
on exhibition in the window of a Main
street store.
WOMAN ADVOCATE OF PEACE
Miss Constance Drexel, who posed
especially for this photograph, is an
American girl who was In France with
her parents at the time war broke
out. Like many other American girls
and women, she immediately entered
the relief ranks by nursing the wound-
ed. In the hospital at Deauville, she
saw, more vividly than can be de-
scribed, the horrors of war. She saw
the ifien whom she had nursed, and
helped to snatch from the very brink
of the grave, go hobbling back when
discharged as cured, fearlessly and
bravely, to the firing line
The self-sacrificing American wom-
en who as ministering angels have
snatched so many of the wounded men
back from the grave, are looked upon
by the women of Europe as the great-
est possible factor in bringing about
peace.
Miss Drexel is prominent In the
movement for peace started by women
of the neutral countries.
Time to Begin Operations Is as Early
In Spring as Land Can Be Worked
Without Damage.
It Is always difficult to be saving as
long as there is an ample supply of
anything. This characteristic of hu-
man beings results in the loss of
enough moisture every season to pro-
vide for the needs of much greater
crops, so far as that essential is con-
cerned.
The time to begin saving moisture
is as early in the spring as the soil
can be worked without doing damage
to it. The millions of acres of fall-
plowed land will be found with a crust
over the surface as soon as the snow
melts. The way to lose moisture is
to permit this crust to remain on the
plowed ground until the oats are sown
and spring plowing done. This is the
first of May in most cases, and many
times ten days or two weeks later.
The way to save moisture is to break
the crust with a disk or harrow and
thus produce a loose soil mulch. There
Is scarcely a man who would think of
permitting his field of corn to remain
crusted over during the four or five
weeks when cultivation ordinarily oc-
curs, yet there are many who permit
a crust to remain on their corn ground
for almost an equal length of time be-
fore the corn is planted.
The cornstalk and stubble lands
which are to be plowed in the spring
are other places where the disk can
be used with great profit as early as
the condition of the soil will permit.
Not only will the disking of these
lands save moisture which would oth-
erwise be lost before plowing, but it
will also pulverize the surface so that
when turned under it will form a bet-
ter contact with the solid soil below
the furrow slice. In order that the
moisture in the lower soil may rise
Into the soil cut off by the plow, it is
sssentlal that the furrow slice fit
closely upon the solid soil beneath
ADVANTAGE OF SUDAN GRASS
Heavy Yielding Summer-Growing plant
of Sorghum Family—Three or Four
Cuttings Yearly.
Sudan grass is a heavy yielding,
summer-growing grass of the sorghum
family. It resembles Johnson grass
very much, except that it has not the
objectionable root stalks and hence
is not a pernicious weed, according to
Prof. S. F. Morse, superintendent of
the agricultural extension service of
University of Arizona College of Ag-
riculture and State Leader, United
States department of agriculture.
However, it crosses with the Johnson
grass freely, and some fear has been
expressed that the seeds resulting
from such a cross might produce a
grass which would be fully as objec-
tionable a pest as Johnson grass. Un-
der Irrigation, or where the water sup-
ply is limited, sudan grass will yield
three or four cuttings during the sum-
mer, giving from three to six tons of
dry hay per acre. However, in feed-
ing value it is not equal to alfalfa, and
it is very probable that the amount of
water required to produce a heavy
crop, alfalfa would not only give a
better feed, but also would be benefi-
cial to the soil Instead of somewhat
detrimental as Is sudan grass. For
a given amount of water you will prob-
ably got a somewhat, larger yield of
forage per acre from sudan grass, but
this is rather offset by the superior
qualities of alfalfa, as indicated. On
the other hand sudan grass Is more
alkali and drought resistant than al-
falfa. Under dry farming conditions,
where a quantity of forage produced
with a minimum amount of moisture
Is the main object sudan grass
should prove an excellent crop. As
a feed for best results It should be
balanced with alfalfa or cowpea hay
or cottonseed. Sudan grass must be
planted every year; It may be planted
after all danger of frost Is past, using
eight or ten pounds of seed per acre,
broadcast or drilled.
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Herbert, H. S. Carney Enterprise. (Carney, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, April 30, 1915, newspaper, April 30, 1915; Carney, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc87989/m1/9/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.