The St. Charles herald. [volume], April 06, 1918, Image 2

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DURING THE SNOW SEASON ON WEST FRONT
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Motorcycle well loaded with American
snowstorm back of the lines in Franc.
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PROCESSION RIVAL
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Refugees From Belgium,
Tramp Into Allied Village.
LED BY POILU TRUMPETERS
Worn by Hunger, Tired, All Sing Na
tional Anthem—Big Celebration at
Evian for Them—Glad to
Escape Germans.
Évian-les-Bains.—Five hundred lit
tie children, a trille tired-looking, per
haps a little hysterical because worn
by the strain of three days on the train.
tramped joyously up the street, their
wooden sabots pattering a triumphant
tattoo on the hard pavement, skipping,
some of them, to the blare of the
trumpeters who led the way. and cry
lug "Vive la France" at every weleom
lug tri-color. They rushed up by doz
ens to shake hands with anyone who
was on the street to see them at five
o'clock in the morning.
Each of them was dressed in his or
her Sunday best, and toting u home
made pack. All the time the six old
ex-Pol lus tooted away on their trum
pets ns they led the bobbetty proces
sion. It reminded one of the Pied Pi
per who piped strange tunes in Hame
lln and led away all the village chil
dren when their elders refused to pay
him for ridding the town of its rats.
These trumpeters wore leading Bel
gian children to a warm meal at
Evian. Five hundred children, who
had left their mothers and fathers In
the land where food is scarce, were
on their way to a big refuge in the old
Chartreuse monastery at Le Giandier.
There the Belgian government and the
American Red Cross have fitted up a
home for a thousand refugees.
Not Enough to Eat.
They were not orphans—just chil
dren who were not getting enough to
eat. Back in Belgium a Belgian com
mittee had picked them out as under
nourished and asked their mothers to
let them go to France, where wheat
and sugar are not too plenty, but
where the rations are more liberal.
The commission for relief in Belgium j
brought something to them in Bel
gium, but, especially since the Ameri
cans left, it had to be stretched a long
way.
"Aren't you hungry?" some one
asked one of the Belgian children.
"Why, no," the ten-year-old replied.
"I ate yesterday."
The trumpeters piloted them to the
Casino, where the women of Evian
had laid out a breakfast. Six or seven
children, too weak to stand the mile's
walk, were carried In the big Ameri
can Red Cross ambulances that trans
port the old men and women week
SAVES SEAMAN'S LIFE
Amateur Surgeon Amputates Leg
With Clasp Knife.
Steward Is Decorated for One of Most
Brave and Remarkable Deeds
of the War.
London.—For amputating a man's
leg with a claspknife but still saving
his life, Alfred William Fumeux, a
chief steward in the mercantile marine,
has been decorated by the king. The
•tory of his heroic conduct and skill
torm one of the most remarkable of
many tales told since the beginning
the war. The {following is an ac
of the services for which he re
the Albert medal in gold :
T* April, 1917, the steamship In
" y^ tr. Furn^aux was serving was
toritofd by the enemy, and the legs
°f *Uscar. who was on the spot
deck plates had buckled
pne werc caU g{ lt so firmly be
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MAKES SWEATERS FROM •
RAISING SHEEP ON UP ;
Seattle, Wash.—Six heavy
sweaters which recently were
given to the Sedro-Woolley
branch of the Red Cross were
laade at home in the old-fash
ioned way. Mrs. S. D. Benson
raised the sheep from which the
wool was taken on her farm at
Siskiyou.
While experimenting with hark
preparations Mrs. Benson dis
covered a way to dye the yarn
in the regulation shades of gray
and khaki, and finally knit the
sweaters herself.
days, when the trains tiring i:
French repatriates.
There was a big celebration in the
Casino. The mayor of Evian made a
speech, hut most of the children were
obviously much too tired to try to
puzzle out his big words. They were
much more interested in the hand.
The hand played "The Savoyard," the
anthem of Evian's mountain province,
and then it played the "Brabançonne,"
the national hymn of Belgium.
Those children stood up on the tables
to applaud and wave their handker
chiefs! They knew it. every one of
them, although they had not been al
lowed to sing it out loud for three
years. Some of them were so small
that they must have learned it behind
closed shutters. Off In a corner half a
dozen little girls joined hands and
danced.
Too Tired for Candy.
But they were tired out ; there were
one or two who were too tired to eat
the candy placed beside them—and
that is very tired. And in the middle
of tho second verse of the "Braban
çonne," one small son of Belgium laid
his head on his arms and went to
sleep. And before the "Marseillaise"
was sung there were sleepy little
groups, oblivious to the noise about
them, at every table.
It was dark when they entered the
Casino—much too dark for the pic
tures that ought to have been taken
of them—-and it was still very gray
twilight when they came out.
One of the American Red Cross
nurses who was helping care for
them saw two little girls arguing
sleepily about something or other.
"N'est-ce pas?" the tinier of the two
said as she came up. "C'est le matin;
c'est pas le soir?"— "It is morning,
isn't it? It's not evening?"
Later, when the children were pass
ing the American Red Cross doctor,
who examined them for contagious
diseases, the nurse learned more. Lu
cienne and Louise, sisters, came from
tween the plates that he would have
gone down with the ship. Mr. Fur
neaux, however, went to the man's as
sistance and managed to got one leg
out, but the other was nearly severed
through above the knee. Finding it
impossible to pull the leg out, Mr. Fur
neaux amputated it with an ordinary
clasp knife and then carried the man
to a boat.
When in the boat he dressed the
wound as well as possible and gave
the life belt he was wearing to the
wounded man. Mr. Furneaux also ren
dered first aid in the boat to another
Lascar who was badly scalded. Mr.
Furneaux was in Imminent danger of
losing his life in rendering the serv
ice.
POOR LUCK AS STOWAWAY
Japanese Laborer Tries to Steal Pas
sage and Makes Trip With
Hands Tied.
San Francisco.—Because he tried to
steal passage on a Japanese liner from
the Orient to America, a Japanese la
borer was forced to make almost the
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near Namur. Their father had worked
in a Belgian factory until tlie German*
took It over; then lie quit. lie did not
get enough to eat. and hist winter he
died. Their mother worked in one of
the municipal kitchens and made a
tiare living so, hut not quite enough for
all three—so she sent them out to
France to grow fat and happy while
she toils on in the soup kitchen.
Lucienne and Louise seemed a bit
weepy as they told their story, hut they
brightened quickly, it is always morn
ing if one is young enough. "We're
going to good friends." they an
nounced.
"Do you know where you are going?"
"No," they said; "but it's sure to be
like this, and they're going to lie good
friends."
CARPET BAG AGAIN IN VOGUE
Scarcity of Leather Brings Back An
cient Satchel, Says Chicago
Merchant.
New York.—The high cost and short
age of leather will lie responsible for
a revival of the old-fashioned carpet
hag, according to .1. X. Daley, a leath
er merchant of < 'hieago.
Mr. Daley declares that the carpet
hag already is appearing in some of
the western cities lie has just visited.
They are proving popular, and he ex
pects to see them in the Fast shortly.
"Tl.o war." says Mr. Da icy, "is go
ing tu revive a lot o;' discarded necessi
ties of our fon'fathers. Tic- carp'd
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and it may prove just as serviceab
as the more modern equipment."
HELPS DIRECT RAILROADS
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Miss Frances Hawthorne Brady,
daughter of Thomas Grayson Brady of
Washington, D. C.. Is the first and only
woman on the staff of the director gen
eral of railroads, William G. McAdoo.
Miss Brady's capabilities make her
a most handy person in any organiza
tion where directing ability and crea
tive ideas are needed. Miss Brady
was selected because of tlie ability and
efficiency she has shown in Liberty
loan work in the treasury. She is the
second appointee of Mr. McAdoo as
director general of railroads.
Since leaving a finishing school in
Washington Miss Brady has been
prominent in all the affairs of the
younger set. but when the war started
she felt the call for patriotic duty and
offered her services to the government.
Conductorettes Capable.
New York.—Three hundred women
conductors on New York street cars
are making good. President Theodore
P. Shonts of the Interborough Rail
road company, has announced that the
conductorettes are as efficient as men,
equally honest ntul more polite.
entire passage with his hands tied be
hind his hack. When the steamer
reached a Pacific port and quarantine
officers went aboard, the stowaway
was found and ordered immediately
released. He had lost control of his
hands and arms öfter twenty-one days
in the toils, and was sent to a hos
pital for medical treatment.
Robs Peter to Pay Paul.
Watertown, N. Y.—An eleven-inch
piece of bone taken from his leg has
been grafted into the spine of George
II. Wallace. The insertion of the leg
bone, running from the middle to the
back of the neck, nas completely cured
Wallace of tuberculosis of the spine,
from which he had suffered for a long
time.
Will Have Rabbits' Feet.
Hutchinson. Kan.—Kansas negroes
who go against the Boches will ail have
the famous darky charm, the left hind
foot of a rabbit, to keep him safe from
Teuton bullets. K. C. (Kroon) Beck,
"ribbit king" of Kansas, has agreed
to furnish every negro drafted man
in the state a rabbit foot
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Tale of the War and Piemen Three of Houston
H OUSTON.—Jacob and Samuel and Eli Bunin won't interrupt another war
to .sell {lies to soldiers in the front-line trenches. If they meet up with a
war, complete and with spare parts, owned and operated personally my Maj.
tien. George Bell, Jr., commander of
Thirty-third division, they will detour
as widely as the terrain permits.
This tale of the Piemen Three and
tin* twice interrupted war started re
cently.
Sunlight gleamed upon No Man's
Land of the Camp Logan battlefield.
It glinted from rille barrels of sentries
gazing through wire entanglements at
the "German" trenches 50 yards away.
Then Jacob and Samuel and Eli.
caring nothing for wars or rumors
thereof, walked into No Man's Land and with a large basket, skirted the win
entanglements and walked along the parapet of an American trench,
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''Pies! Who wants a pie? Pie
They were regular Joshuas, fo
still.
"Gimme two," shouted a sentry.
"Here, buddy; I'll take lemon cream," cried a machine gunner.
From all sides the "grim warriors" came crowding up.
Then General Bell, on a tour of inspection, came into the trench and
found liis fighters' faces buried in mince, apple, custard, and berry pie.
Well, when the Piemen Three were brought by guards before Maj. Fred
eric !.. lluidekoper, division adjutant, in division headquarters, it was dis
covered two of them had been barred from camp for disobeying a rule against
selling {des to soldiers except through the regimental exchanges.
"Take 'em to the stockade." ordered Major lluidekoper.
Jacob and Samuel and Eli Bunin won't interrupt another war to sell pies
to soldiers In the front-line trenches.
Greenwich Villagers Find War Economy
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EW YORK.—In Greenwich village, that land of embryo literary lights,
rtists, nomads and "first families." they are prepared for most anything
that might choose to come along. When the war began all the rest of the
world gasped and sat back quite
stunned. But they didn't feel unrest
in Greenwich Village. Instead, they
just began to allow their hair to grow
a little longer, took a few more beans
out of tite soup and ripped away one
of the two postage stamps usually
worn as clothing. And the village felt
secure and happy that it was doing its
bit.
As an example of the way they are
conserving on clothing material, the
dances being held in Webster hall
these days might be investigated. Recently they held one of the "every-onee
ln-a-while" affairs, and there was very little attention paid to clothing at all.
Time was when the law stepped into Weitster hall on occasions, when it
was deemed the girls had crossed the border, and carted away the back-to
nature young folk to the station house around the corner. Now the police
men, it is understood, have been instructed to arrest on sight all entering
Webster hall with more than a daub of black paint and a smile on their
bodies.
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Girl in Filmy Garb Dazes Sentry on Zero Post
N EW YORK.— A comely young woman in a filmy nightdress, her black curls
blowing in the below-zero breeze and her bare feet twinkling in what must
have been 'way below-zero snow, dashed up to Private Roy Barnett, on sentry
djity at the entrance of the Columbia
war hospital, Gun Hill road, shortly
before 3 a. in., and said :
"I am a friend of yours."
Private Barnett forgot to say "Ad
vance. friend, and give the counter
sign !" He just stood and blinked.
"I know Uncle Sam's boys are all
friends of mine," the young woman
in tne nightdress continued. "And I
know they will take care of me."
Private Barnett recovered his vo
cal powers and said: "Who are you?
Where are you from, miss? You'll die of cold here."
"I am from the hospital, there." the young woman replied, waving a blue
with-eold hand and arm at the Montefiore home and hospital, about two blocks
to the east. "I have been watching you boys of Uncle Sam from the window
and I know you will take better care of me than they do there. I got out of
the window and a gust of wind caught me and I knew that heaven was help
ing me get to you. I am very cold."
Private Barnett, rather confused, hurried the young woman—she was
about twenty, slim, with large brown eyes, red lips and white teeth—into n
room near by where was a Mazing fire. The officer of the guard was notified,
hot coffee was given her and she was swathed in warm army blankets.
She said her name was Lillian, and that she hoped she would never be
separated from "Uncle Sam's boys" again. The "boys," however, hurried her
back to the home, where the doctors and nurses put her to bed.
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Headless Man Resides in Harrisburg Haunted House
H ARRISBURG, PA.—Despite the declaration of Police Desk Sergeant
Charles Fleck that he buried a box in the cellar of the house at 050 Yer
beke street in 1SS1. and used it as a refrigerator, B. F. Corby, who now
occupies the house, says that doesn't
explain how bones resembling those of
human beings came to be in the box,
nor does it explain the headless spec
ter frequently seen in the house. Corby
is laughed at by the police, and the
polbe are derided by Corby.
For weeks the house has been
"haunted," says Corby. There has
been the plaintive whine of an infant,
for one thing; a headless man ap
peared to Corby and Mrs. R. H. Pe
ters. a neighbor; a strange blue light
shone in the cellar, and a stove, every night, at the same time, cracked loudly
three times. When Corby found the box in the cellar he says the rappings
grew so continuous and loud that not a roomer in the boarding house slept
a wink.
In the mysterious box which Corby found in the cellar, in which the blue
light always appeared, were several bushels of slacked lime and large bones
which fell into duat when exposed to the air.
The police have accepted Sergeant Fleck's explanation of the box, but
Corby says they have not explained the child's cry, the rappings or the head
less man who comes and goes.
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