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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1914.' PAGE TWO THE CALUMET NEWS COSSACKS ARE WHIPLASH OF CZAffSARIBY Fearless Riders and Fighters Have an Interesting History The most famous cavalry In the world ts undoubtedly that great ferce whii h fights for thu caar, and whoso dating, resourcefulness and swift sudden attacks are a constant harass ment tt any of his enemies the Cos sack. Long bcfotc the Russian arm it 8 wt i f ready tn uttack Germany and Austria, almost as boon us war had been declared, the (list disiaich 'H finni the front told of attacks on outposts by the Cossacks. If the Rus sian army should he defeated, the vis itors would tind in their pursuit that the Cossacks would hang like wolves their flunks and in. ike every move ment lull of dancer, while after a Rus sian victory these tireless pursuers would pile disaster on disaster. It was the Cossacks who turned Na poleon's retreat from Moscow into a lout. Jt is the Cossacks who hold the Kt-ssian eaule supreme over the great Suji-iian steppes and carry Russian law far umn int' Mongolia. Tlie I i r L sight of an enemy has of Russian sol diers will in most vase be a Hashing glimpse of a. fast galloping body of these horsemen and he will !o luek it' his lirst glimpse is not his lat. The outposts at night will often spring to arms loo late to stop a dash of mount ed raiders; the supply trains far in the. rear of the armies will go under heavy guard for fear of their sudden rushes. The Cossacks will take part in the gleat battles, but they will be the lash to the whip of the Russian arms, a constant irritation and menace to tile foes of the czar. For live centuries, now, the Cos sa .'ks l.ave. been a terror in Kuivpean w.uf.iie. Since King Stephen liathoii of Poland lirst organized an army of them in his wars with the Turks in the sixteenth eentury, they l.ave liken part in every great contest. I or cen turies they were free lances sclli'i their services where they wished and often making war on their own ac count, for booty and glory. It was only gradually that they came under the Kussian engb-s. and their coming gave the Little White Fatr.er control at last of all vast ivnioiis of thv VoUra. the I'ral. the lion and the Dni eper. They have spread far since then, and today the Cossacks hold vast territories in eastern Kurope and s ii! over into Asia. Th y form the best of the czar's troops. Of Motley Origin. The ori-rin of the Cossacks is sti'l Somewhat disputed. They are now e r taisly e.f mixed ran , mostly Slav, but with a dash of the blood of many na tions. Finn and Tarton. Teuton and Turk, each ! ivit'ir its mark. Their very ii line, taken from the Turk word 'Knziil;," mens "free-1 ii . a r" or "out law." Ale! freohoot. i s and outlaws they have been floiu I lie daWtl of their lns'.oiy. The ("oss.o ks lirst apt ear in r--ord-ed his'ory about 1 L'."" A. I.. when a body of Slavs had led from the itl TV. ids of the Ta:t..rs. who were ovt r r :r: r.ir:,' L'-ir.-po ai.d et-F!lshe-d the-tn-(..-lves r n an is! md f-isttass along the lfie;.,r. Tie y . . i at lirst hshcr mn and ,ailoi and their early raids v. i ! made like those of the .Vols, tner, i Una ri.winv g ilieys. These swept i!oW 11 thf 1 '.1 O k se , ., .d eVeJi took j-r;z-s in full s.cht t).- muezzins vat -l.inir from i ! . sp.i..- in c.mstau t::;opi.. Tl.ey ma-'e s'.- ' fnl wsist- .' to the Tartar Kh.in and their in n.h r e a -el k i t fi e of Tartar j a', t he ((.:! Ir v 1 ' ) : cl t 1 em. til I' i" --a at d I'oi..l I V er.. able to c.,lo lot '!':;. . Were ottetl el.i IllieS of these I Ml. . too. Tvi t heJM t l.er. Ul e. c : , . :...( . f- r ! 1 th.- o, r. s- v- i '.d e ,,...,'-. f t he S ll to nd- .V. .. st i..t 4 We-e ask- l ' t !'.'- W ' !.. J I hit 1 o 1 ..'!- t . e. ., - ... : I I 1 t. r. d. He la .-.I w r i ! . ! :. I pp 'I e. ' ioii .' t .. .r t . ! d t! e C.w. .- . j.... i ii-; d f the ,., ,, a - w . d .i li'.-l !.e r ! 111. f .-o t'...t tod..;.' Noted Fc 2'aery. . . a . . -. r ; r ' i ' i r - . i . ; . s . . ea h r a , a I (1 . it d t' fa. IW, th - f' i ::,ig h - :.t,d i-i ail i i . ' 1 1 t i . I :. . i : , a mot . r t ! n-iti ff others DuffysPure 1 . Malt Whiskey Will help You i 9 . K Illackened ruins of a burned farm thousand of dwellings thus wrecked GERMANS CONSIDER MEN THE CHEAPEST MATERIAL; HURL MASSES AGAINST THE GUNS Aliies Machine and Rifle Fire Mow Down Kaiser's Forces But Rigid Discipline Impels Every Soldier to Step Into Places of Those Who Have Fallen What is the reason for the mass formation of the c-nnin troops? In neatly etiy newspaper aiticle from the set ne of war appears the m ntcnee, "The Hermans advanced in mass formation." In nearly every in stance this is followed by the state Hunt that the machine otitis and lille tire mowed them down in heaps, yet fresh soldiers from the rear continue to pour into the caps until the enemy "retired." Th" answer is discipline. The (brman army is founded on that Vne woid discipline. The ar my itself .i discipline. The attack in mass the throwing of munei.-e bodn s of men acainst a selected position is the p. t theory of the derma n general staff. It won niriinst Fiance in 1 s 7 1 . It has won, thus far, in delirium, a.crainst des perate resist 'Mice. The derm. in soldier is told that it a tion w .'.ld he taken airainst a tiuin I er of the tribe, whatever his treat ment f a foreigner. I'ut any fofeijrn . I w!c eon!. ;ivlu easily became a ti i'.e member. Mu.h if tli.se institutions have he.-i: l.-st today, throiiej, the wars V It'll :i!:ai!y resulted 111 tile IlUSSilll "'"iiiiti.ili. n. Hat sii' li vet remains, and !! ' ' i- a!l the , Mem ,,f the llussian c 1 i.v. r the Ci,ssai-K.s is that thty t-h:M -ne military service, and shall :' I i 1 their more peaceful nelirli ' ': Tliey accept, in ireiieial, the of h t a;p,inted by tin- czar, aid they t.. the standaid on the fust .ail. '!':. i:ae I.. n chanced from lootmeti t :'- !i f..r n,, Ion.; that it. is f..r - " a that tliey were ever anything '. I they Jay no taxe-J, .submit to tio , v-j t,- iiu, , hoo.-e th. ir o , ii civil i - I J.i '. . s. ;,nd aie . iy nearly a P :. in the mulst of th- pleat, T!. ' .. i two ma in divisions of t lie ' ' ; : : .. tle.se of Little i: .:, i th- s, ,,r ;,.. lt p,s., '-. ' : : ' - a. s - of the Fl.t;. ine are f ! fid;. !:::-iaf, of purer blood, i : p - -: f. p. city. They have l;v. d in t he in p. .ft of the e.oin- t r- . aid aie in. a e out hi rn in t je, a i d :i !. ha ii e.l. i net ic in nature, tv t .r . i .-tonis. Th of I Ileal Ibis-i.i ;.e from the t c ' i . ' i s: .i 1;.: ,,f (he J ).,n mid t ( Ft timi. r, lived in bb.od. more ' a'd !l!o! d. ; iel d;kb!e, many a I'e e! : iif- t ;.e, v :th hht ha:r and blue ' ! i '. of (!.,.. e ople bad, at one t.r . it- i.A.i e.iital. Those of the Fcr. .i.e. the Linh- I :-..-i:i tin. eentett'd ' n th,. Imapct. at the treat cataracts. 1 f - r 1 1 ths.. to.. their namo of Z .p..p a; ia us, ,,r "Invellers by the F i' " Here was the most perfect p..i!e.c and for many years it wim a I'.iiely military order, admitting all oin.-rs, but exai tltir n vow of rtdib acv. Ml who wifhed. nlso, coulJ leave, i d f. r learly two eerturies this re I uhli" lasted, onstantly stretiKthened by i'm-h recruits, and constantly los ing members of the jrrowlns rommu t.iti.n whi.h were f..rmd around It an! under its protection. The .Jreat !bp-iatis had th'ir hendjtiarteri!, ami fot i Fhorter time a similar military order, at Nijni Novpc rod, on the up p. t Voljra. Lise American Cowboys. Tlare Is at. ut the Cossacks none of the Jdolid Ivrnor.ince, the helpless ness which marks many a RusMan holdier. Free from their youth, they have the resourcefulness, the Independ ence, the daring the dash, or our own western cow-boy. They are utron. lull h. hardy, of clean, simple and tem perate life; arms are their Joy and thlr profession, and the nkase which broii' t them in from their herds and Fteppes u don the uniform and folllovv the f! atf of the far. was more welcome than a summon! in a banquet. Their mirk will be lelt on every campaign where the Russian eaKle are ahown, DESTRUCTION IN WAKE OF GERMAN TROOgS. i mm house near Liege, destroyed by the by the kaiser's soldiers. takes a thousand billets to kill or wound one soldier. He knows that if he advance as ordered he may be shot by the enemy, l'.ut he also knows that if he fails for an instant in that disi ipline he is tuire to be shot by an ollicer. All accounts have agreed upon one thimr the steadiness of the Herman troops in this war under the terrific lire of modern jruns and the remark able precision, with which maneuvers are carried out under conditions more deadly than ever have prevailed on battlefields in the past. It is disci pline that does this. Maneuver Called Unwieldly. The maneuvers of the (Jermans be fore the forts at laee were called unwieldly, clumsy and lacklnir in en thusiasm, by critics. ' The mass for mation was denounced as suicidal. Hut the (brinans continued to ad vance. It is the history of the Herman army that it never shrinks from the attack in mass formation because it has seldom or never been mad" with out the reward of victory. The at tacks on the F.eluian forts were larircly a repetition f the tactics of 17. "With little artillery prepara tion for the assault, immense bodies of troops were thrown forward in mass formation. This, in a ueiieral way, was Napoleon's plan, lt was (JrantV too. It was Von Moltko's In the Franco-Prussian war. Fven in that last war. with the com paratively slow-liriiiK "fid low-power aitillery and rilbs. the s'.aimbter was tetiible. At Mars-la-Tour the Her mans lost 17. una men in thirteen hoars. At Cravelnttc they lost Hl.OuO in eiirht hours. In one part of the field C.d'Ki men fell in tin minutes. That was in 1S70. Today, with mod mi weapons, the daiiKei zone through which troops ate compelled to advance is doubled or trebled, both for artillery and line lire. Th. ie was nothing in 170 to coin pale in d. structiveiH ss with modem shrai.nel. Fire is also directed with much greater accuracy owintf to more scientific methods of niyhtliiK and Im proved systems of battery control. Another Gravelotte Impossible. It has been stated by experts that another Hravelotte under these new conditions would lie iinNsible be . aim., human beings could not endure it :.n.l l.-cause the horrors that woubl meet advancing bodies of troops over the field would be appalling. Fait that is exactly what is being done. Hravelotte was child's play In comparison with Charlerol. Discipline has destroyed the theories and has dissipated the tactics of olllccrs who figured out new ways of formation and attack. Hack of the discipline Is the feeling In Germany that this Is a struggle of the nation for its life. There is pa triotism among Hermans as well as among French. Hut once In the army discipline assumes control over pa triotism. The latter may be a Ftrong- r compelling force In leading a charge with eoltl Pteel. hut the former, tnus far, has done the work In steady, machine-like oieratlons without tne exhilaration of personal combat. The Hermans evidently believe In the methods that have carried them to success In pnn1"" wars. Cavalry, Infantry and guns are missed oppo ulte the rlrd to be attacked. At the appointed moment the artillery opens, the cavalry sweeps forwards and the Infantry prepares for a charge with the bayonet. That was the scheme of Napoleon, who said: "The science of winning battles Is being stronger than the enemy at a given point." Sheer Weight May Win Wr. It was the plan of the Hermans to strike the battle 'Ine of the alien ,, center or flank with i grenler force than the allies could oppose to them German -troops Tbii was but one o GERMANS HALT RETREAT; TAKE DETERMINED STANO Continued From Firtt Pag. ing capture, from taking strong de fensive positions near the frontier. I-irge bodies of fresh troops are un derstood to have been sent forward to assist in the pursuit and many more are ready to share the chase, it is said. Some portions of the allied armies who through the hot and sun ny days. Interspersed with deluges of rain, bore the brunt of the lighting, are taking a brief rest in preparation for future movements which may call for equally great efforts. May Cut Off Retreat. The Frltlsh, who yesterday took nearly nil the crossings on the river Alsne and captured many prisoners, are now- north of that river and are pushing the attack calculated to as sist in forcing the Hermans to evacu ate Ilhelms. The center, somewhere between Chalons and Rheitns, Is making an effort to recapture the latter city, which would be one of the most popu lar victories that could be announced to Frenchmen. Should these movements be crown ed with success and Iion and Rheims again fall Into the hands of the allies, the Hermans would have only one line of communication with Germany through Itethel and even that might tie cut. General von Kuck, however, Is look ing for reinforcements from Helglum, if they have not already reached him, and with these he might make anoth er stand against his relentless pur suers. Reinforcements Held Back. London, Sept. li. The Helgians, v.ho have received new big guns and reinforcements from somewhere, by a sortie from Antwerp, have prevented the Hermans from sending more of their troops out of Helglum to the south. It Is reported that the Hermans had another army corps ready to dispatch to the assistance of their right wing north ef I'aris, but quickly stopped its departure when the Helgians showed their strength and ability to cut com munications between Hrussels and Louvain. Although the Helgians had to retire to the protection of the Antwerp forts when th" Germans discovered them, they proved themselves capable ef at least annoying the army ef occupa tion. Allies Take Much Booty. London, Sept. 1 .". Twenty-one train loads of bontv collecteel on the Manic batth -tie-Id have been brought inte Vin cenne.s s ince Sunday morning, says a Renter dispatch from nris. The spoils of war include eleven guns, seven mo tor-wa '.'ons filled with ammunition, four mitrailleuses, three aeroplanes, two larire Hat ears piled with helmets, lil'es, swords and cartridges, besideH gun carriages and wagons of different kinds. It is estimated that since the begin ning of hist week about thirty guns. thirty mitrailh'iises and forty wagons have been captured from the Gentians, and thereby make the German ad vance to I'aris Inevitable. The war, therefore, probably will be won by sheer weight by masses of men instead of by science. If the mass formation ef the Hermann la abb to stand the terrible strain that the ne-w war machine put upon it. It will continue to break through the lines of I he alllef. If the allien mass enough men to oppose the Herman advance so as to check it by overweight, Rus sia may gain time to force the kaiser to retire for the defense of his own frontier. Men represent the cheapest form ef war material. Tactics take no count of life or suffering. This and disci pllne explain the advance of the mass formation In the face of mae-hlne guns, r.hrapnel and Infantry lire. It Is mere ly a question ef how many men can be spent for a certain position. Napoleon, after the battle of Hero dino, galloped over the tie-Id and saw that the greatest loss of life had been due to the capture of the main Rus sian redoubt. "How many men did that cost?" he ask eel. "Five thousand." was the reply. "It was cheap," he remarked. 'Ve had to have It." And the value of the rheape-st foroi of war material men hasn't gone up since Napoleon's time. HOTELS ONCE, HOSPITALS NOW Maurice, Where Kins Stayed, Is Ready to Receive Wounded Ijondon, Sept. 16. Tho Dally Kx- prcas prints the following from Us i'aris correspondent: "1 went over the 'Hospital Meurlce' this afternoon. Not so long ago it was the Hotel Meurlce, where kings and diplomats und statesmen made holiday and rented its luxurious suites. 'This afternoon the main entrance wua closed and over the door hung the reel cross on the white ground which transforms it Into the 'Hopital Muerlce. There Is no charge for beds now and the doors of the rooms are. open leady to receive Its dolorous and tragic visitors. There Is no ringing of bells or calling of visitors' names or their room numbers by buttoned boys bearing visiting cards on uilver trays. 'The visitors' book Is locked away and another 'book is In its place, a book with a red cross on It, with Its pages ruled after the fashion of hos pital records and the lift is silent und still. l went In out of the hot sunshine. The vast hotel teemed deserted at lirst, like its brothers, the Hotel Rrighton and the St. James and Al bany, a few doors away, Hying also the Red Cross flag. The mahogany counter where the polite head porter was wont to answer a hundred lnejulr ies a minute In six different languages and attend to the telephone at the. same time as he stuck the stamps on le tters was swept bare of everything. Hospital de Luxe. "The first tloor of the 'Hopital Meur ice Is ii hospital de luxe. The car pets have. ef course, been taken away, and only the oilcloth left In the rooms where wealthy visitors stayed a month ago and looked out on the Tulllerles Hardens In happy holiday mood that was shattered to pieces on the lirst day of mobilization. Hone, too, for the most part are the beautiful furniture and the rich curtains in each room; Instead, we have simply bare rooms and the windows wide to the day. Iron and practicable hospital beds, duly numbered, are In every room, but not even these 'teds with the medical dia ries, as et empty, pinned at the head could destroy entirely the hotel at mosphere. Mich room has Its little ormulu clock built in the wall and nil the other luxuries of hotel life. Spain's King Occupied Suite. "Here Is the suite that the king of Spain always used when he came to I'aris there are beds In each of the rooms, ami the Red Cross society lias placed on the tables a hairbrush and a toothbrush for each bed. A sitting room, forming part ef a suite let as a rule to some American millionaire, is now arranged for the reception of the wounded; close by ancdher room Is turned Into an Isolation ward, and the kitchen is ready for the cooking of milk and soup and invalids' food. No need to ring twice for the wnitcr, for the soft footed nurses will be in and out f t the wards all the time. All Is ready In the 'Hopital Meurlce.' "You may go over the Ritz and see the same thfng largo, silent halls with never a visitor except the women workers and the doc tors preparing for their work, and beautiful bedrooms turned Into wards for wounded. The Continental, that great hotel whose corridors are in normal times as busy as a beehive, Is another auxiliary hos pital, and imp by one the large lux urious pleasure palaces of Paris In which milions of francs are spent each season are offering their empty rooms to the Red Cross." Olympia Arena a Stockade. In the great arena ef the Olympia, that monstrous stadium in Kensing ton, where only a few weeks ago the stunts. These youths and men are Ger boat Smith-Georges Carpentier prize r.uhts were held, strange scenes are being enacted dally now. Some two hiinibel-odd men and youths, ranging all the way In age from twenty to six ty. every afternoon, at a set hour, go through odd antics, such as running up and down the arena, jumping, roll ing on the ground and other like stunts, he. e youths and men are Ge r- in addition to a considerable quantity of ammunition. No Russians In Belgium. London, Sept. la. The olllcial press bureau issued last night a denial of the reperts that Russian troops had been landed In Helglum. "There is no truth whatever," says the bureau, "In the rumors that Rus sian soldiers have landed In or passed through Great Rrltain on their way to France or Helglum. The statement that Russian troops are on Helglan or French soil should be discredited." German Casualty List. He-rHn, via Copenhagen and London. Sept. l.". The most extended list of German casualties yet published has been made public here. It comprises "M killed, 2,100 wounded and 814 mis sing. The totals of all published losses up tej date are new as follows: I)ead, 4,184; wounded, 15,983; missing, 3,070. General and Staff Taken. Paris, Sept. 13. A batch of German prisoners, composed of a general with his entire staff and six other officers and 300 men, have arrived at Noisy-Ie-Sec, five miles northeast of Tarls, whence they were sent to the south. ONLY FIFTEEN VESSELS IN GERMANY'S BALTIC FLEET London, Sept. 13. A Rome dispatch, dated the fourteenth, from a ceirres pondent to the Kxchnng Telegraph company, says it Is officially repotted there from Herlln that the Oermnn Haltle squadron which was composed of twenty-nine unit', had only fifteen vessels In action. VON DER GOLTZ IS GERMANY'S MILITARY GOVERNOR IN BELGIUM 1-. i Marshal von iler Holt., who recently retired from ac tive service in th Ge r inun army, volunteered attain at the outbreak f the war and has been made military governor of Helglum. repre senting the Herman gove rnment in the invaded country. His headquarters are located at Hrussels. mans, held prisoners by the govern ment of Kinvland. Their strange an tics are the only exe rcise they are al lowed to take for a little while each afternoon. A thin line of Irish guards, grim, pilent, khakl-dad men, stands guard while the Hermans go through their dally exercise. Tne Olympia was seized by the gov ernment without ix "by your leave" or a notice of any sort. Officials decided it was juft the place tla-y needed, and they occupied It without further ado. The Knglish otlicers make It as pleasant for the prisoners as they can under the circumstance's. The daily routine is much like that of a prison. At 7 a. m. all must arise and those who have spec ial bedding must "stow it away," as in barracks. Accompan ied by aimed guards, the prisoners. In patches, are permitted to perform ablutions. Then beakfast Is served the same as In barracks, cetffee, bread and bacon, or sausage, ham and eggs. At midday hot meat and ve getables, or a stew or a steak pudding, and In the evening bread and butter and tea and jam. as much as they wish. AH expense Is borne by the govern ment. Mineral water er any other non-intoxicating drink may be sent the prisoners by friends, or It will be pur chased for them if they have the funds. Numerous newspapers and maga zines are supplied by tho government and several of t)ie prisone rs have decks of cards, which they use to while away the many weary hours. HOW PEANUTS ARE SALTED. Much Care Has to Be Taken in Prep aration for Market. There are two distinct kinds of salt ed peanuts, according to A. P. Gro hens, an authority on that subject. The ordinary kinds are the ones pre pared from Spanish shelled peanuts, unblanched, or, In other weirds, with the skins left on. The other class of salted peanuts is prepared from the Virginia varieties and blanched. Thi blanched salted peanuts are usually put up in small paratlincd paper sacks to prevent early deterioration. To prepare the unblanched varieties of salted peanuts the manufacturer makes use of a copper kettle or of an Iron stcam-Jacketeel kettle. This ket tle Is partly Idled with vegetable fat or "konnut." When this fat has come to the- boiling point, the peanuts, by means of a wire basket, are lenvercd into the vat and boiled to a straw Color. When elone the wire basket is raised above the- fat to allow the oil to drain off, and then the nuts are discharged into a suitable, vessel or trough, where the salt Is applied while t lie nuts are still hot. The making of blane hed peanuts re-ciuin-s a different process. The Vir ginia helled peanuts are roasted in a special roaster to a light straw color. After this, and as soon as they coeded off, they pass through the- autennatlc blanclK-r, which removes the red skins as well as the bitter germs or sprouts. The nuts are then salted. In order to produce a ready cohesleui for the salt HEADACHY, BILIOUS, STOMACH SOUR? REGULATE YOUR BOWELS! 10 CENTS You're bilious! You have a throb bing sensatiem in your heael, a bad taste In your mouth, your eyes hurt, your skin Is yellow with dark rings under ur eyes, your litis are parched. No wondep yon fee-1 ugly, mean and Ill-tempered. Your s.vstem is full of bile and c enst ipntcd waste not properly passed off and what you need Is a eleanin;; up "Inside." Iion't continue being a billons, constipated nuisance to yourself and those who love you, CANDY CB PAU TELLS HOW HE LOST ARM Letter Written by French General to Mother Made Public Paris, Sept. 13. General Paul Gerald P.iu, hero of the second capture of M ulha usen and whose army haa borim oin of the- biggest parts in the war, In a letter Just published, writ lea to his mothe r son after the battle of Woertli In 1S70. in which he lost Ids right aim, told the story of his wound as fellows; "My good mother: "First of all, the originality of these lines must lead jnu to think that they were traced by a foot instead of a hand. Fiulecleve ' yourself and laugh neither at the lirst efforts of an uu pructh ed hand, nor at the style. He sides the fact that I speak almost ex clusively Herman Just now, I sweat that elegant phrases don't flow easily when It lakcj five minutes to trace- a line. "Hut I am forgetting that I haven't told you the main tiling. 1 am wound ed, but, you s"e, not dangerously. Jt was the 6th of August In the battle of Woertli. I had up to that time the luck not to be touched, in the midst ef a rain of iron und lead, when a shell smashed a tree near me and a splinter struck me on the right hand and put two lingers hors du combat. "An hour afterward I regre tted much less the loss of the ubove mentioned digits because a lUvarlan bullet frac tured the same hand and lodged Itself between the two bones of my wrist, from wlilc h I delicately extracted it. I was then ordered to the nmbulaue-e, and it was while I dragged m.iself along in that direction, obliged to pass under the lire of the Prussian batter ies, 1 received the fragment of a shell In my right thigh. "Fiii.ec essary for ine to tell you that all is eiuite well with me. It is true they had to amputate my wrist, but the operation was highly sucee-ssfu!. "Gerald." ADDITIONAL HANCOCK GLEE CLUB TO MEET. A meeting of the Portage Iike Glee, elub wil be held in the Hancock city hall tonight when, In addition to re hearsal, business matters will be dis cussed.1 The club starts out this season with a membership of twenty-live people Mild hopes to add to this number dur ing the coming; month. Included in the club tire several new members win joined during the past two weeks. 1M-ice-tor Mitchell will have charge of the club again this season. SAME AS BEING AWAY. Neighbor's Little Girl: "Wh.-n did you get back. Mrs. I'.rowne? Did you have 'i nice time?" Neighbor: "Why, 1 haven't been away, my dear." "Haven't you, really? I'm sure T heard mother say you and and Mr. Hrowne had been at loggerheads for ;i Week!" National Me-nthl. lt is necessary to use a little cocoa n which Is sprinkled over the nuts, and they are mixed before the salt is ap plied. The Virginia goober differs from others In that it Is blanched whole and Is prepared from only the choicest or "Jumbo Virginia she-lied peanuts. On account of the great difficult atte-ndiug the blanching, so that the nut nie-a's will not fall npart or into halves, this variety of salted peanuts comnnds a fancy price as compared with the plainer varieties. The majority of manufacturers re sort to the scalding process in blanch ing these nuts, for In that way the skin can be removed more readily and th" nuts are not so apt to fall apart. Th scalding process, however, injures the flavor and lends to toughen the nut. The best plan Is to roast the nut- in a regular roaster for ten to twelve minutes. This Is sufllcient time to loosen the skins so that when the nuts are cooled they can be blanched by hand or by some mechanical ih i.e. The- short time they have been in the roaster will not have charged the a pearance or raw flavor to any extent. When blanched, the nuts can 'be cook ed In pure vegetable fat In the rani" manner as tha unbfinchcd varieties and salted Immediately after they are cooked and drained. Special enre must be exercised in the handling, howeve-r, If It is desired to keep the nuts whole. and don't resort to harsh physic tj Irritate and Injure. Remember, that your sour, disordered stomach, lazy liver, and clogged bowels can be quick ly (leaned and regulated by morning with gentle, thorough Cascarets; a in vent box will keep your head clear and make you feel cheerful snd bully '" months. Get Casoarets now wake UP refreshed feel like ddng a good d-iy' work make yourself pleasant and useful. Clean up! Cheer up! CATHARTICf