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THE PALATKA NEWS, PALATKA, FLA.
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Vivid Stories Told By Survivors
Of Lost British Cruisers
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....I.. it4.' .ii.inu in' tile Cressj
t.,.u..ci I'liiip.hi.-i't.t saiu:
, i, win ii .' I heard u g.eat iTusli and
s.iu ihe .uoiiiiir licedng uver and go
ing k.iwii rapidly Ve came to tbe
coin ii.sinu tlii.t she Hud been struct!
by ii torpedo, and Ui'pt a sharp look
out for these iTU ft while steaming to
tbe assistance of tile Abouklr.
"The Hogue was ulso closing up to
ward the sinking ship with the object
of assisting the crew, who were drop
ping into tlie water, when we heard
a second crash. As the Hogue began
to settle we knew that she also had
been torpedoed
"As we i'''"'
to ine. '1,001! nut. sir. mole's u sun
marine on our port beam!'
"She was about 40U yurds away. 1
took careful aim at her and she dis
appeared. Up she came again so 1
11 red my third shot and smashed In
the top of the conning tower.
Let Out a Great Shout of Joy.
"The men standing by shouted. 'She's
hit, sir!' and then they let out a great
cheer as the submarine sank, nnd
while she was going down two German
sailors floated up from her, both swim
ming hard.
"After that we shot at a trawler
which was 1.0(H) yards away and evi
dently a German boat In disguise, di
recting operations. We hit her with
the first shot and set her on fire.
"l!v this f :!.: ve rl'viul.v h.'d Ih.-oii
struck by one torpedo, but the uuiu
age was uot in a vital spot and we
should have kept afloat all right. We
saw another submarine on our star
board side nnd made a desperate effort
to get her, but failed, and her tor
pedo got home lu our engine room.
"Then the Cressy began to turn
over, and this I will say for the men,"
said Mr. Dougherty proudly, "they act
ed like British sailors, nud those who
died died ns a Briton should.
"Our cuptalu was ou the bridge, and
In these critical minutes he spoke some
words of advice to the crew. 'Keep
cool, my lads, keep cool,' he said In a
steady voice. Tick up a spar, my
lads, and put It under your arm. That'll
help you to keep afloat until the de
stroyers pick you up.'
Wa-ter Thick With Drowning Men,
"They were discharging torpedoes at
us while the water was thick with
drowning men. When I dropped into
the sea, clinging to a bit of wood,
there were men all around me. We
shouted cheery messages to one an
other. . I was afloat for f.-ur hours."
Says a Muiduii. Ho. land, dispatch to
the London iMily Chronicle:
"The men of the Abouklr afloat In the
water hoped for everything from the
arrival of her sister cruisers, and nil
survivors agree that when these also
sank many gave up the struggle for
life and went down. An ollicer told
me that when swimming, nfter having
lost his Jacket in the grip of a drown
ing man. I: s chief thought was that
the Uenii; ii find succeeded in sinking
only tin-1 comparatively obsolete
cruisers ..i Ii shortly would have
been scrap; --.-il anyway.
"Twenty-four men were saved on i
target which floated oil' the llogue.1
deck. The men were gathered on it
for four hours waist deep In water.
Memory Awakes
TtUSSIAN-AUSTRIAN-G IRMAN" CAMPAIGN
Only a misguided person would at
tempt to pull a wooden leg.
always shows a larger variety
of patterns and finishes from
which you can make your
selections than any other store
in the city, and you will find
here displays of all the princi
pal nationally advertised lines
which you know so well ar
ticles made by specialists, and
sold at uniform prices every
where. New Fall goods ar
riving daily.
RECEIVED THIS WEEK A LARGE SHIPMENT OF
REED and RATTAN CHAIRS
which were bought before prices advanced We have
them in green, brown and patural finishes, UQ 00
and in all shades. From $15.00 to .... LpO
IF YOUR DINING ROOM NEEDS NEW FURNISHINGS
you should see what
we have and now
reasonably we can
furnish it for you.
Tables, $6.50
to $45.00 each 12L
and all other pieces to match
in either Golden Oak, Early
English or Fumed Oak fin
ishes, in a large variety of
styles and prices
We are showing this week a beautiful
LIVING ROOM OUTFIT in Early English
consisting of DA VENDOR 1
with good spring
ana cotton inui-
tress, chairs and Vi
toK onl In match
iciimv. an .mi.....
Specially priced
$85.00
We also have
other outfits in
Rattan, Golden
Oak and Fumed
Oak priced from
$35.00 up.
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In buying Window Shades, real
economy demands that you
buy BRENLIN UNFILLED
because they will
wear indefinitely,
always hanging
smooth and are
made on Hartshorn
rollers which never
give trouble. We
have them in Dark
Green, Clover Green
White and Ivory, in
all widths up to 60
inches. We hang
them free.
ii
UNFILLED
Window Shades
I Come in and let us show you
why these are the most beauti
ful and economical shades
you can buy.
TOf1 "CI7 fXl TT We have 6 MacDougall
LLUjL LIU 1 White Enamel Lined
Kitchen Cabinets which retail regularly at tQ A ((
$35.00, which we offer to close out the lot at pDJJJ
each, upon weekly payments of'$l.C0 per week. This is an ex
ceptional opportunity to obtain a high grade Kitchen Cabinet at
a real bargain price.
We have three Ranges
which we are offering
TO CLOSE OUT
at greatly reduced prices to close them out, as we have a carload
of others now on the way here.
One Cast Iron O. K. Range with large oven and good warming closet,
c regular price $50.00, cut to 40
1 asbestos lined steel PRINCESS Range, regular $40, cut to 32.50
1 steel COLONIAL Range, regular price $40.00, cut to . . $30
All of these ranges are mounted on legs, and are perfect in every way.
YELVERTON'S
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What care I for the war or who may lose!
Thank God that I am old and these dim
eyes
Long since wept dry. Fcaar In her hideous
guise
,'o more can haunt my pillow till the lorn;
niijht flies,
Whispering her dreadful tale.
What Is't to me that others sons must
go?
My share Is paid In three mounds side by
side.
And 1 live on, who gladly would have
died.
With nnught to lose, whate'er may now
betide
Whether 'tis win or fall.
Women may He with open eyes till the
faint dawn
Thinking of lips that babble feebly to a
darkening sky
Gray hands that clutch a water flask long
since run dry
Of husbands. lovers, ons but not so L
On dreamless seas I sail.
Prate not to me of war! I've had my fill
Of death and sacrifice and bitter tears.
Yon marching fet and blaring music In
my ears
Gut ri'iid apart my graves, now green
these many years
Make Time Past drop its veil.
New York Times.
HOW WILD ELEPHANTS
ARE CAPTURED IN INDIA,
Hunt Permitted Every Fifth Year.
What Huge Beasts Are Used For.
Tills Is tbe year of the "elephant
battue" In tbe great forests of Mysore,
India.
The bunting of these gigantic ani
nials Is permitted In India only every
fifth year. Ou tbe average from 200
to 250 wild elephants are captured
during tbe battue season, and these are
trained for the various purposes for
which tbe Asiatic elephant is used.
In view of the vast strength pos
sessed by full grown elephants. It
seems at first sight almost incredible
that they can be captured In herds,
and quickly subdued to the will of
their masters. At the present time. In
Mysore, the regular methods of cap
turing wild elephants is for a large
number of natives to go into the jun
gle, some mounted on tamed elephants
and many on foot, and to make a great
noise and hullabaloo, which results In
driving herds of the wild elephants
into stockades or often into ponds of
water, which have previously been
surrounded on all sides, except nt the
approaches, by immensely strong pal
isades. As soon as the herd is cornered
the passages that had been left open
are securely closed, and then tbe train
ed elephants are brought Into play to
cajole and subdue the perplexed prison
ers.
Iii India elephants are no longer cap
tured, ns they still are In Africa, by
means of a huge pitfall in the ground.
In these traps they lire often seriously
Injured or killed. The Indian elephant
is somewhat smaller than the African
nnd differs from it in other ways, as.
fur instance, in the fact that tusks are
possessed only by the males, while both
sexes have them In Africa.
With bis enormous muscles nnd his
dead weight of live or six tons an ele
pliant can pull down or root up small
trees, can pick up huge logs with his
trunk and carry or throw them around
like sticks, and since he is a very tract
able beast when well tamed, he often
does farm work of which a team of
horses would be Incapable. He can
make a fem e or place huge blocks of
stone In a well. He Is often employed
to drag artillery wagons.
On a good level road an elephant will
march at the rate of five miles an hour,
anil lie is capable of running for short
distances with a speed of twenty miles
an hour. lie can carry in regular serv
ice from I.'Jik) to l.fKiO pounds.
GERMANS SWARM LIKE BEES.
MAISH Laminated Down and All Pure Cotton Comforts
are "light as a feather, and as warm as toast." You get warmth without weight, as they are all filled with
pure cotton and guaranteed absolutely pure and sanitary. We have them do rir Ji C ffi
in several coverings, priced from pO.JJ LU j 1 J.JJ
SPECIAL : Pure Aluminum Tea Kettle, regular price $3.75, only $2.50
0r BuOAfjtSTS.
CZ3 AUSTR.IA.N-GCRMAN LIN?
ANDREW CARNEGIE ON
THE EUROPEAN WAR
Millionaire Peace Advocate Ab
sorbs Some Ideas While In
Europe Tells "How The War
Started."
Andrew Carnegie, advocate of in
ternational peace, readied New York
aboard tbe steamer Mauritania with
new vision of how the war In Kuropi
was started.
"I'll tell yon bow the war started.'
said Mr. Carnegie. "The kaiser we.
on a holiday on his yacht in tl:
North sea. While he was away h
received a telegram asking him to re
turn to Berlin. When be returned
the iniehiof had already been done.
"The kaiser himself is a marvclcm.
man, possessed of wonderful iiigciiui
ty. He lias dune more good for (Jer
many than any other man before bin
He bos built up a great foreign com
nierce and a marvelous Internal bus!
ness. The kaiser himself is a peac
loving man.
"Tbe trouble was started by tie
(icrnian mi'i!:iry caste that rules tb
country. They are responsible fo
tbe war. The kaiser gathered "o:'.m;
him a group of men who snow
to 111 in. aeleil in corn-erf :id in hi
absence took the action that eon! '
not be altered.
"As for my own country I do :
know bow to thank Cod that I ilv
in a bro'. herhooil of forry-i il:
tlons -forty-eight nations in
union."
"Amei-ien's duty to the world.
Carnegie added, "is to point the va.
to an everh'sting ponce. 'iVh; t w
want is an international court to s o
war. No rial friend of his' In;; u-u
wants to stop the war now. Tlia
would he a whort-slghted policy an
would be but an armed truce."
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PALATKA - - FLORIDA
Wounded Britisher Describes Irresist
ible Attacks In Advance on Paris.
A striking personal description of
tbe work of the British expeditionary
force, including the last heavy fighting
outside Taris, is given by a driver of
the royal artillery who has been in
valided borne.
"The awfullest work of all began
where we were posted to resist the
German rush on Paris. On one slope
leading to a position where our guns
were posted the ground was slippery
with blood, which was like a river at
the foot, where there was an ever in
creasing pile of dead, dying and
wounded.
"The fiercest fighting took place
when tbe Germans tried to force a
passage of the river at various points.
As they came up the fords they were
galled terribly by the rifle fire, and
I we kept plugging them with shells as
! fast as we could. For awhile It didn't
seem to be of any use, for as one man
j fell another stepped forward to take
his place. They had evidently made
' up their minds to get the pontoons into
position regardless of cost in lives.
The first party got theirs Into posi
tion nicely, and then came rushing
across it like a swarm of bees rushing
out of their hive to see what was
wrong. A shell from a French battery
hidden on our left dropped right on
them, and the thing went toppling Into
the river with Its human load, being
carried down stream umlor a heavy
rifle and shell fire. '
"The same thing went on the whole
day. until we were sick of the sight,
and tbe cries of the drowning and dy
ing men were always ringing in our
ears. That was the daily program as
I saw It until I got hit and was sent
home."
Tnn..rt l'n Whole System.
"Chamberlain's Tablets have done
more for me than I ever dared hope
for " writes Mrs. Esther Mae Baker
I Knpncernort. N. Y. "I used several
i bottles of these tablets a few months
I aim. Thev not on v cured me ot till
I inns attacks, sick headaches and that
I tired out feeling, but toned up my
whole svstem." ror sate Dy an aeai
I ; ers.
NEW WAR CCST ESTIMATE.
Six Nations' Daily Expense $38,000,000,
Says German Expert.
Fourteen thousand million dollars Is
I he yearly cost of the war (or $3S,
:.-ti.l.H per dayi to Germany. Austria.
Belgium, France. Uussia and England,
according to the German, statistical ex
pert. Captain Max Ilenke.
Of this expense France and Ger
many, be estimates, each with 3.000.000
men in the Held, must stand S2.S0O.000.
iiOO each, while liussia's share, with
ijer 4.OIK1.OO0 fighting men. will be $3,
8C 10.000.000.
Thewe figures would seem exagger
ated if the actual cost of England's
Boer war (In which not more than
400.000 British troops were actually
engaged at one time) was not known to
have cost $1,200,000,000 In less than
three years, or $4"0.000.000 a year.
MEXICO'S NEW REVOLUTION,
I Cheap notoriety is seldom
; what it costs.
worth
COMMANDS ATLANTIC FLEET.
Admiral Fletcher Succeeds Admiral
Badger, Who Retires to Naval Board.
Hear Admiral Frank F. Fletcher has
succeeded Hear AdmlniJ Charles .1.
Badger ns commander in chief of tbe
Atlantic fleet. Admiral Badger has be
come a member of the general board of
the navy at Washington.
One of Fletcher's qualifications for
his present command is tbe fact that
he is a sea lawyer, but not In the usual
sense of tbe term. The traditional sea
lawyer is a trouble maker. Fletcher is
not of the old type. lie is regarded as
a good authority on international law.
which Involves, among other things,
tbe diplomatic nnd military relations
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AD&II1IALS
Villa's Plans For March on Mexico City
to Oust Carranza.
Now that General Villa has definite
ly broken with General Carranza and
announced that lie will fight to the last
Torreou becomes the center of tnterest
in the new war In Mexico. It Is at
Torreon that Villa expects the big bat
tle, nnd he is preparing that city for a
vigorous defense and a possible siege.
All troops ordered to Sonora by Villa
have been recalled and are being hur
ried to the south. All troops in Chi
huahua City are being sent to Torreon.
nnd every garrison in the north is be
ing stripped of men to mobilize at Tor-
eon the greatest army that Villa has
put Into the field. villa has made
plans for an immediate movement
against Mexico City.
Villa holds all northern Mexico and
In this position has advantages which
will count seriously against Carranza.
Villa will be able to control the rail
oninmnlcntlon with the United States.
All you who have torpid liver, weak
digestion or constipated bowels look
out for chills. The season is here and
the air is full of the disease germs,
the best thing to do is to get your
liver in good condition and purify the
stomach and bowels. HERBINE Is
the right remedy, it answers the pur
pose completely. Price 60c. Sold by
Ackerman-Stewart Drug Co.
Paris Women Far Outnumber Men,
The war census of Paris is complete.
The population is now 1.807.044, a de
cline of 1.020 "07 from normal figures.
There are in Paris now 040.087 women,
5.s;;,4S0 men and 272,471 children, of
whom 30.0SO'are under fifteen months
old.
American Press Association.
BABOF.K AND FLETCHER (AT
UlUUl'l.
between countries, whether they are at
peace, at war or in the twilight zone
between.
Admiral Fletcher was born at Oska
loosa. la., on Nov. 23. 18."i.". He was
christened Frank Fletcher. The middle
name. Friday, is something of an accident-
Fletcher was born on the sixth
day of the week, and bis father was in
the habit of referring to him us his
"man Friday." The father of tbe pres
ent admiral died when the boy was
seven years o.d. but the nickname
stuck. When he was only fourteen
Fletcher was appointed to Annapolis
Naval academy, and an elder brother
brought him east from Iowa. Tbe
brother wrote bis name ou the roster
of the Naval academy as Frank Friday
Fletcher, and so it has stood on the
government books ever since. Naval
officers rarclv use the Frank when re
ferring to the admiral. He Is known
throughout the service as Friday
Fletcher.
Women Nurses Armed With Pistols
The Germans, in retreating from
Peroune. left behind hospital stall' ot
twenty-five surgeons, seventy women
nurses. Kid male nurses, a Protestant
pastor. Dominican priest and several
deaconesses. Each of the women
nurses carried a pistol. When th
chief surgeon was reminded that this
was contrary to Ked Cross regulations
he explained that the women had
been given arms "to make their per
sons respected."
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