The farmer and mechanic. [volume], October 12, 1915, Page 12, Image 12

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THE FARMER AND MECHANIC.
TRAINING MEN MAIMED IN WAR
liorated: Insight and ennui will throw
them into the arms of the only re
deemer work." .
1 11.. 4 AiAn f "k Ti 1 V nTI A.
TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES sfiftgUFM
he finds, is calm. As a iatan&t, ne
, does not contend against destiny.
(New York Kvcning Post.)
Hack from the battlefields of Eu
rope will come the maimed, the halt,
and the blind, men .still having the
spark of life, but facing deciining
years and the struggle for existence
under the handicap of disability. They
will com thronging in thousands and
tons of thousands the fruit of war's
harvest. Soldiers who have been
Minded by shot and shell, who have
kl leg or arm, others who have lost
all moral, mental, and physical i?rip
m themselves, must turn from fight
ing to industry; and the able bodied
and strong, so many millions fewer,
must carry the burden of the maimed
ones while they toll at the rebuilding.
It will be a problem for the family,
tho community, the State, the nation,
and in the end for the whole brother
hood of man. What is to be done
about It?
Can the maimed be trained to care
for themselves and contribute in part
at least the individual's share in the
industrial field? On the ability to
answer this question affirmatively de
pends the morale and state of mind of
an ever growing proportion of men.
a point of considerable importance at
a time when it will take all the cour
is hrird work to persuade a Hungarian
An uncontrollable curiosity assisted tr, v.MVf. his arm amputated.
me in my progress. At two l tneu to
wash myself; I succeeded. Thence
forth it was a matter of: You must!
The Austrian is depressed, brooding,
but open to good advice. He discusses
nn ii was a mauer o ; loumusi: wminV.v the possibility of certain
For years I polished the shoes of - fe fl n and grateful.
e family, and learned to work sys- -T-L Hrfi the. nolliest
the
tematically. When four years old, I
fell into the water, fnd after that I
was instructed in swimming; at six
But the most cheerful, the polliest
one-armed man is the German, says
the Count. If one but strike the right
tone with him, one peal of laughter
years of age, I could undress myself, v"??' rnt's de
af twelve dress mvself well The follows another. To the Counts cle
at wene dress m0eir ao wen. ine f n German schools
first requirements of independence 'fj11;,1" "I'a fnnnd exne.-
were thus attained I had become a
human being.
" M have never worried myself with
efforts to replace my hands and arms
wilh my feet. It must not be con-
for the one-armed he found expe
rienced one-armed teachers. It was
a real pleasure to see the pupils at
work. They pointed with genuine
pride to their achievements as lock
smiths, turners, blacksmiths, carpen-
was aconired without effort
ing myself in a room, for fear of be
ing ridiculed. I would rack my brains
and experiment, until finally after a
hundred failures, a possibility of real
ization appeared in sight. Patience
and again patience . was my guiding
star.
" 'Learning to play the violin was
to their future. They would find their
rdace and become useful, happy mem
bers of the community. They will
know how to defend their honor, their
home, even with one hand, for a hand
that works grows stronger.
The writer recounts an interesting
incident that happened to him in
POSITIONS
Berlin Claims 100 Yards C -tured
In Champagne: Ga r
Also Toward Dvinsk
the thing that cost me the greatest northern Germany:
d'hote was a gentleman with a long
beard. Various matters were dis
cussed. Turning directly to my vis-
i-vis, a lady asked:
" 'Are you going Vj attend the con
cert of Count Zichy, who performs
effort. When, after endless attempts,
a road seemed to have been found, I
made for a long time no perceptible
progress. Wilhelm Schuster in Ko
nigsberg and subsequently David in
age and optimism available to con- Leipzig, took pains to teach me for
front the dava of reconstruction. three years, until I coma venture to
rhjimrteHsHc. of their usual system I make my first public appearance in with one hand?'
and forethought the Germans have al- the Leipzig Gewandhaus. "The gentleman had not observed
ready addressed themselves to this "Count Zichy, a one-armed musi- that I had but one arm, and asked:
nrol.lpm. The English have. too. it cian of Budapest, is produced as ex- " 'With which foot does he play?"
may be added. One phase of the hibit B to encourage maimed soldiers. "Whereupon I interposed
task that of training one-armed men 'My One-Armed Friends,' is the title j calmly:
to care for themselves and even to or the Count s article, and in it he
become productive members of so- say:
(Bt the Associated
Berlin. Oct. 10 (by wireless tL
ville) Recapture of large sections
territory lost to the allies in the wr?;;
further important progress for VU
Marshal Von Hindenburg's a rim
ward Dvinsk, and the occup;ui..r-. , .f
the whole of the city of B-1lt;u-,
Serbia, are claimed in the Grm-ai.
official statement issued today.
In the west, the Germans clai:-
have taken by assault a large sretu".
of territory in the Champagi; ;1l;
several trenches near Sow-hz. r
the vicinity of Tahure, captured
week by the French, the Germans re
gained a strip of territory 100 yar.!
deep over a front about 2 1-2 mile?
The German war office claims :..
capture of Russian positions owr
front of nearly five miles, north . f
the railroad running west fn.v,
Dvinsk. A violent Russian att.uk
west of the city was repulsed. Al
though the Serbians are offering de
termined resistance.
TOOTHLESS WIFE FILES SI IT
Defiant Husband IlidicuW Iter and
Made Her Wcp.
A toothless wife who siv.- sJ.i.
finds it impossible to get roinfort.-iKi-
'He nlavs with his left foot, sir. false teeth filed suit in the S-;p.-r;..r
with which he is likewise accustomed court yesterday against her husband
very
-itv nrain 1 dirnssed bv two fa- "I call these one-armed neonle mv to defend himself when attacked! or .separation oecause ne innue f;,r.
mous crippled men in recent articles friends because I am sincerely at- "For a moment there was a painful of her. She is Mrs. Mary M. Wilson,
in the Berliner Tageblatt and its semi- tached to them; because, with the silence. Then the grating sound of a who married Matthew Wils m. presi
weekly illustrated supplement. love of a father, I want to come to chair being pushed back was heard, dent of tfrs Matthew Wilson foal
Played For the Kaiser. their aid. Perhaps this feeling was and, rising, the gentleman said in Company at Forty-ninth - street, and
In both cases the writers tell what developed from a purely personal cir- clear tones: the North River, in 1896.
they have accomplished by patient, cumstance namely, because I can- " I beg pardon for the unbecoming Mrs. Wilson alleges that h-i h
unremitting practice. One is an ac- not expend pity upon myself. I want expression. I am an old hunter and band treated her cruelly almost fn.ru
complishcd pianist and has played be- to, I will, I must convince them that didn't notice you have but one arm.' the time of their marriage and on om
foro tho Kaiser and tho royal family, they are not to be pitied. Their fate "WThereupon I rose, reached him my occasion pounded her for ttftvn min
and the other is a violin virtuoso, lies in their own hand. If they have hand, and the thing was settled. utes because she didn't cook a si. uk
Both emphasize the importance psy- the desire to succeed they will sue- "In conclusion, I wish to recall a to suit him. Concerning his habit ?
etiological effect of work. The im- ceed. I have instructed hundreds of remark addressed to me by my august "taking a keen delight in m:kinp fur,
portanco of these articles for men one-armed people and found just as patron, Emperor William I. The of the plaintiff's appearance' Mr
wounded in battle is, however, sub- many dissimilar characters. But in Kaiser summoned me repeatedly to Wilson says:
ject to qualification, us one of them one point they are all alike; they f-re Berlin and Wiesbaden. It gave his "He has particularly directed his
was born a cripple and the other lost all suspicious. They think that one Majesty evident pleasure to see me gibes and slurs at the apiaranc ?
his arm early in his teens. wants to console them with empty part an apple with one hand. He the plaintiffs mouth, knowing that
"A Triumph of Will Power Feet words and then leave them to their would .glance at me curiously and plaintiff was particularly sensativ-
&s Substitutes for Hands," is the title fate. It was always a very good sign ?mile. Naturally, I would on many about the fact that she has lost lu-r
of the first article which deals with when they turned to me with ques- occasions perform on the piano. I teeth and has been unable to secure
the achievements of Unthan, an arm- tions. These questions were invariably did so. too. at the festivities in honor artificial teeth that could be eum-
lesa virtuoso. Unthan has offered his directed to me only after I had given of the then Crown Prince, in Berlin, fortably worn at all times. Becauj
services to the German government as them ocular evidence that certain The late Crown Prince Rudolph was of this faet the plaintiff has frequent -
Instructor to soldiers bereft of their things could be accomplished. also present, as well as all the Ger- ly been reduced to tears and has
arms by the war, and says the Tage- "Most of the tasks set me made de- man princes. I still remember the been unable to eat the meals sl ho-
Matt: j mands upon my manual dexterity. 1 1 feeling of consternation that none of prepared."
Herr Unthan will not alone exhibit 1 was asked to cut a very hard loaf of I the Ambassadors were summoned to
by his own example to the brave fel- bead or a petrified sausage. If I I dinner, I alone enjoying that distinc- FATHER'S PREMONITION VF.JU-
lows crippled In the service of their succeeded, which I always did, they I tion. After the meal, I played several FXED.
country how completely the hands can shook their heads and smiled." I selections.
he replaced by the feet; he will at the "Necessity was my teacher." con- I "The lovable old Kaiser turned to 'Tell Father Good-Bye " Cries Droivr
same time restore their self -conn- Unties the Count. "But I had still me on that occasion with the memor- ing Iad to Boys Who Are Saved
donee, and prove to them that they another, a Count Koloman Esterhazy, able words: Chester (Pa.) dispatch to Philadt;-
are not constrained to be dependent who lost his right arm in tho Hunga- " 'I am not a musician, nor have I phia Record,
upon their fellowmen. It Is this moral rian war of liberation, and lived in conceived a fondness for you on ac- Laughing at the fears of his father,
influence, in particular, upon which Transylvania at the time. The excel- count of your art; but I honor your who urged him not to accompany
the authorities concerned build such lent fellow traveled from Klausenburg courage, your energy, and the perse- Charles Young, sr., and Charles
high hopes; It is just as important as to Pressburg at the request of my pa- verance with which you have over- Young, jr., on a boating and fishing
the imparting of technical devices rents, and the sight of him brought come your great misfortune!' trip, William Bennethum, of this city
and material expedients, me comfort. My first pupil was "I would impress the same thing went along with his friends and waa
"At the request of the Tageblatt, Count Nikolaus Pcjacsevich, who lost how upon the hearts of all the one- drowned in the Deleware river near
tllerr Unthan had himself photo- hia right arm in 1866. At the Casino armed: to have courage, energy, and Chester Island
graphed in a series of positions which at Budapest I often cut his food for perseverance to overcome their hard The three men -engaged a launch ti
show -to what an extraordinary de- him. He was still, however, an ad- fate." tow their flshin skiff over to the is-
gree he has succeeded in making: his miraWe horseman, but the ordinary land intending to return in the name
feet do the work of handa The ar- manual requirements he found very SEIZE DYED CODFISH way.' About midnight, however, they
tist likewise furnished the paper, by difficult. The rank and file, who have decided to row home WTie well out
request, with a brief sketch of his never had a servant, will bear the Inspectors Find Vats of Acid Contain- in the river their boat was swamped,
life. One can hardly conceive of a loss of an arm far better and acquire Ing ImftUUion Salmon. The Youngs managed to save them-
Kn hTi? Th " JK!h,MJnr theK?ev,ic? of hf one-armed consid- New York- Times. selves and also get their boat back to
than the tenacity with which this erably faster. It is by no meas bene- the island where it was richted and
. man, the helpless child of misfortune ficial that they should be treated Plain codfish dyed to resemble Alas- bailed out They reached Chester
of hbj family, developed step by step with the best intentions on the part kan salmon were seized vest erring v I aKnut
into a fully equipped member of so-i of the nurses in special hospitals . m.nL
rh ntflci wttM ontn v J shouted Bennethum
ciety. To quote his own words:
Posihle For All.
J'Tell father and the rest good -by.'
muted Bennethum as he sank to n:s
like princes. It makes them -effemi-
tictiu aiiu ucuctiueiiL. nil H.i I l ll t iniirn i . .. . n i j,
i i - i - . - . - " ---- - i . .- .. -I neain.
r . ;r 1."" iwnunn unnuppy laier. Dy conirast. or sunset in ooxes down in cold stor- xtv ann o o.a cximmor" sala
nu over age under the Manhattan arches of 1 Jeremiah Bennethum when he w
on the violin, the flute, play cards.
Rhnnt swim whn fthwrv-M Knw T oWl oin " ' - , , " ' k unuci lue xuiuinauun arcnes 01 jeremian aenneinum wnen
nVwIf H Sh"ld h the Broklyn Bridge when an inspect- told of the young man's death, "ar.d
2iylr,Ji!. experienced or of Health Department routed them think he should have been able t
1 "T. ili . 1 rt"eu insiruciora, ana mat tne out and looked them over with care swim ashore I had a Dromon stir
to "lm I mySM TSnlTmy iS.l'1'0 lD n the boIes was -AlaSS who" he went away thaf he v.ou:
I"-,,,! TV5e ,. ? '.hOTPlta;-...preferabl w11."6.11? .P- Salmon." but inside there were deni- never return home alive."
i t Z t , 'i 7 Lilw Y. upon I uems are s"" connned to their beds." I zens of the Cape Cod neighborhood in
which I succeeded in developing my His father, the writer. continues, a virion 1 aTt f01!
ir" i"eS 7. "rr?JiU".J?Mi?y5W !d,vdi? not spoil him. top layers of fish were reld "through
JAPAN SENDING STUDKNT
physical constitution, is earnestly de
sirous to advance, will very soon ac
complish what I have done. I am
not referring here to artistic skill, but
to the needs of practical life. There
is hut one road: A never-tiring Im
pulse to depend upon one's self that
is. to become independent of others.
Every outside aid, therefore, should be
firmly refused if there is but a shadow
of possibility of being able to help
one't self.
" That I would learn to use my
feet In place of my hands, my parents
knew before I was a year old. They
noticed, namely, how I reached for
a candle, held out to me In the dark,
with my toes. After that my feet
wero left bare whenever possible. . As
I grew . somewhat . older. T fthnvA
everything within my reach Into my
xesx wnetner it was edible.
were layers More Coming to American ( oil a
last or an Owing to the War.
CiT Qnv "rwl I x -r i nr!
mother. After the first which ever dnd nin., Tm Z ie lorK Aimes: . ... ,
two months, he was not allowed to in Mlrtnr th. UD account or tn war ;
r i7"i " " ,1. A " sending nunareas posi-pi
were treated with 7an7iVnr t,.
wanted him to take a mentor with ing fish in this way raises the price of
ii, say. coa, to aDOut 40 cents. In the delica.
one hand, he must all the sooner stand
Some of these students had left Of
many when their country Joine i ir.
on his own feet."
Work the Only Redeemer.
"And I very quickly learned to do
so" he continues. "Unfortnnte1y,
many of the one-armed are unwilling
now to follow that course, because
they lack faith in "themselves. ' How
strenuously did I combat that flag
ging of energy! In. the course of the
relentless struggle of life, " many will
find that their condition will be ame-
tessen stores even higher prices are Ciluse of the Allies and others av:
obtained for the slices of pink sal- come from the University of Toh.y.
mon.
The Health Department also try
ing to stop the use of such preserva
tives as borax and boraeic acid in
tomato catsup as substitutes for ben
Eoate of soda, which has hitherto been
imported from Germany. Dn Lucian
P. Brown, of the . Department ' of
Health has ordered the confiscation of
catsups and sauces which were found
to contain -borax and alhe'd chemicals
fifty or more of the post-grau
students to enter such institution.-:
the Medical College of Cornell I n
versity here and the College of Phy
sicians and Surgeons.
-In former years many hundred y
young Japanese went to Germany
take advanced courses in the srieri ";
and arts, especially in mining, en?T-
neeringr, and chemistry p.nd inli ir'