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Abovo is tho very lateat of tho kaiser's dreadnaughts, tho Frlodrlch der Grosso, of 24,700 tons, 1,073 officers and
men, ten 12-inch guns, 14 G.9-lnch guns, 14 3.4-Inch guns und five torpedo tubes. Below is tho PrlncesB Royal, ono of
Great Britain's newest dreadnaughts, of 20,350 tonB. 8ho carries 080 officers and men and is equipped with eight 13.5
inch guns, 10 four-inch guns, flvo mortars and two torpedo tubes.
FIERCE MIDNIGHT BATTLE WITH
SOLDIERS OE RUSSIA IN POLAND
Prussian Battalion, Advancing to Occupy Farm Houses, Finds
Czar's Men Hidden Beneath Straw in a Stable Horses of
Battery of Artillery Stampede Lone Gunner Gets Into
Action and Drives Russians Back Into Forest.
By CAPT. F. E. KLEIN8CHMIDT.
Berlin. It Is midnight. Tho re
servo battalion of tho 'Forty-ninth
Prussian Infantry regiment swings
from tho broad macadamized highway
into a muddy country road. Out of tho
darkness looms a largo farmhouse
surrounded by stables nnd a largo
barn; it is tholr destination for tho
night. Behind tho reservo battalion
follows a battery. Stealthily, with
out sound, they havo all arrived, for
tho Russians aro not far away, very
likely yonder, whore tho dark lino
shows tho beginning of a forest
Tho loader raps on tho window.
"Open, please. Quarters for tonight."
Tho door is opened and a room 1b
mado roady for tho officers. Tho men
must find n place to sloop in tho barn,
which is full of hay and straw, but
boforo turning in, some want tho
warmth of tho flro and a cup of coffco.
Thoy open tho kitchon and an oldorly
man from tho rosorvo, a "landwohr
man," formerly a rural lottor carrier,
makes a flro and begins to grind cof
fco. "Aro thero any Russians around
hero?" someone asks tho farmer.
"No, ihoy wore here yesterday. All
nro away now."
Tho officers aro looking around in
the rooms not used by their host and
family, and thon stretch tholr weary
legs on tho wooden benches in tho
largo living room. In tho barn on tho
threshing floor filled with straw, the
mon nro making themselves comfort
able. Like a "wlll-o'-tho-wlsp" flashes
hero nnd thero a pockot lamp or a'
cigar Igniter, careful that not a glim
mer of light may bo seen towardB tho
forest. Strict orders for tho greatest
sscreoy havo boon given.
Ono of tho mon has a croopy feel
ing, imagining that something 1b not
quite right, nnd voices his feelings,
but ho is mocked by his comrades,
who nro too tired to bother about
spookB. Another, climbing tho straw
pllo, Biiddonly fools something mov
ing under his foot.
Hidden In the Straw.
"Thoro 1b Bomobody here. Make a
light! Hero! Horol"
Qut of tho straw a gray cap, a sec
ond, a third. Bearded faces pop up
everywhere Tho wholo threshing
floor of straw Is nllvo in a moment.
A potty officer Jumps out of tho barn
door, seizes his gun, and now levels
it at tho. dark forms.
"HandB up, I say! Don't you movo!"
Ono gets a Mp with the butt. Ho
flrcB, and a Becond one rolls insensible
down tho straw-pllo.
"Hands tip, I Bay."
Evorywhoro gray forms aro stretch
ing hands toward heaven. At tho eamo
time, outsldo tho barn commences
a furious firing. Tho fiion Jump to
their rifles and out of tho yard. Or
ders: aro being shouted, but how to
oboy whore to go, In this pitch dark
ness, and out of this holl-holo Is tho
question, You can't boo your next
man, let alono tho enemy. Tho Rub
nlans thoro, yonder, on tho edgo of
tho forest!
Yes, yonder flash a hundred lights.
They rnttlo and crack like whips, and
bullctu patter on tho wulls or Bplash
on tho ground. In tho kitchen stands
tho grizzly old vetornn, busy with his
coffee-pot. "Oh bosh, it won't amount
to anything," ho growls to himself.
A wludow-pane Bhattors and tho man
falls headlong o tho floor. Hero a
cry, thero a groan, but now tho rifles
begin to bark on tho Prussian aide
also. Tho men havo Jumped behind
the atone wall, behind trees and utono
fences, and nro firing ns best they can
into tho darkness in tho faco of spit
tins Ikhtnliiff on tho eduo of tho for
THESE GREAT WARSHIPS MEET?
est. Who can aim in this pitch dark
nesB? Behind tho barn, tho battery is Just
unllmboring. Tho horses rear and
stampede. Tho riders aro hanging to
tho bits and somo manage to swing
themselves into tho Baddle. It is use
less. Tho stampede cannot bo pro
vented, nnd away thunders tho battery
into tho ink-black night All go but
ono, with an empty limber. A gun
ner has loosened his caisson, opened
tho box, nnd torn, out tho wicker bask
ets holding tho shells.
"Hell Hounds" Roar.
Now ho turns tho muzzlo of the gun
towards tho forest, loads, and tho
first shot booms abovo tho din of tho
rlflo-flro Into tho night Tho gunner
has commanded two infantrymen to
roach him tho ammunition. Solid
shot, Bhrapnol, anything, It makes no
difference. Who Can Judge tho dls
tanco? Who can get a tlmo fuso?
Into tho barrel with It and toward
tho foreBt whoro tho enemy's flro Is
blazing tho strongest Tho cannon
roars abovo tho rattlo and cracking
and snnpplng of rlflo and machine
gun. Whothor ho hits a fow or many
never mind, tho Russians havo a
terrlblo respect for ono of tho German
"holl-houndB" -too often and most
painfully havo they bitten them.
At last tho ovenlng's flro slackens,
and finally dies out altogether. The
Russians have gone back In the forest.
In tho barn on tho threshing floor
stand a crowd of prisoners. A lieu
tenant and a reserve officer In ono
hand a pockot lamp, in tho other a re
volver, marshal tho prisoners In or
der. Tho petty officer still Jabs a
RUBslan in tho ribs with tho butt of
his gun if ho doos not oboy quickly
or 1b slow In raising his hands. Not
one of them has dared to make a
break or got his arms. Now they aro
counted, and sontrles aro placed ovor
thom In tho yard 125 men.
Next Is to look for tho wounded
and thon onco moro to tho hny to
Bnatch what llttlo sloop thoro Is to bo
had before tho gray dawn of tho morn
ing, for tho morning Is not far off nnd
with It comes nnothor battle. Soon
weariness and youth overpower the
most cxcltod nervos. Ono after nn
othor sleeps.
"What was that?" a prlvato has wak
ened. "A groan. A wounded ninn? It
can't be, they havo been taken Into
tho houso! Thoro It 1b ngnlt! It
sounds as If It comes from tho undor-
world or a cellnr."
Another Batch In the Straw.
"What's tho-fuattor?" a comrado
asks. "Man, aro you crazy? Shut
up do you hear mo. Bo quiet. Havo
you n nightmare?"
"I? It's you that's dreaming."
Again tho groaning, now in two or
threo places.
"Ofllcor," cries tho soldier, "thero Is
something undor tho straw thnt's mov
ing and groaning."
"Light a light! Hlmmolkreuzmllllon
en shall wo never got a rest?" Ono '
of tho men Is tunneling into tho straw
and draws out a Russian boot, On to
it. nangs a uusainn who raUes implor
ing hands and gasps for air. Tho per
spiration 1b running down his faco and
ho Ib almost choked to death.
"So thero you aro, you fool! ServoB
you right! Why didn't you como out
vith tho first batch?"
"Out of this, you dogs, clso we'll
look for you with tho bayonet" Again
tho Btraw Is alive with gray uniforms,
a second batch Is herded with tho first
In tho yard ovor two hundred alto
gether. It's hardly worth while to go to Bleep
now, A fow throw themselves down.
Others repair to tho kitchen to mako
coffee
Strange, thero were no officers. And
tho host? The two rooms next to tho
kitchen with tho windows toll tho tale.
A cup of coffee, a piece of black
bread, 'and then out into tho young
dawn and a now battle. Eleven dead
and twenty wounded tho battalion
leaves behind, but tho enemy lost a
good many moro besides the prisoners.
Tho artillery, too, has found Its way
back. Eleven iron crosses were the
reward for those who kept their wlta
about them that night.
VAN DYKES IN DUTCH DRESS
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Daughters of Doctor Van Dyke,
American minister to Holland, dressed
in Dutch clothes and wearing wooden
shoes. Tho picture was taken at tho
Van Dyko home in Holland. Miss
Katrlnn is shown on tho left and Miss
Paula on the right
GENIUS IS UPSET BY KISS
Wife, Seeking Annulment of Marriage,
Says In Court It Changed
n Noted Botanist.
New York. A kiss, tho first' that
ho had given his bride-to-be, bo af
fected Solotaroff, botanist of Interna
tional reputation, who was commis
sioned by tho United States govern
ment to Btudy tho great parks of Eu
ropo, that ho became eccentric to such
a degree that his wife, Eugonlo, said
sho could not Hvo with him.
Tho story of tho kiss nnd what It
led to was told to Supreme Court Jus
tice Blanchard by a pretty young
woman, to annul tho marriage. Mrs.
Solotnroff traced her husband's troublo
to tho kiss that ho gavo hor Just bo
foro ho asked her to marry him.
"Ho took irie homo that night," Bald
Mrs. Solotaroff. "As ho was leaving
mo ho kissed mo good-night. Wo had
been going together for eight years,
and I had never allowed him to kiss
mo beforo that," sho continued bash
fully. "I really did not like tho idea,
and tho next day ho wroto me that ho
wns so upset by tho kiss that ho could
not do 1i1b work. Ho becamo eccen
tric after that, but my friends said
that it was duo to genius and to tho
fact that ho was In love."
GO 41,600 WILES TO CHURCH
New Jersey Couple Have Attended
Religious Services for Fifty
Years.
Brnnchvlllo, N. J. Surrounded by
seven of tho guests who attended their
wedding half a century ago and by
G3 relatlvos and frlendB, Mr. nnd Mrs.
Israel J. McDanalda of Nowton nvo
nuo celebrated tho fiftieth annlvorsary
of tholr marrlago. McDannlds Is sev-
enty-throo years old and his wlfo sixty-eight.
Thoy flguro thoy havo walked
not less than 41.G00 mllos to and from
tholr church twice In the weok and
twlco on Sunday.
Funeral Party In Slnnle Van.
San Francisco. A Snn Francisco
undertaker has built a funeral automo
bile that carrloa 37 persons, In addi
tion to a coflln and amplo space for
flowers.
111 rjjgk
wSSm mmk
Afmm HB
Ilo who overlooks a liciiltliy spot for
Hie Bite of his houso Is lnnd nnd
oujjht to bo handed ovor to tho care
of his tolatlons and friends.
Thero Is no place moro delightful
than ono's own fliesldo.
FOODS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE.
Of course the universal food for tho
small folks Is milk, pure, freBh and
wholesome. On tho
farm It 1b such a
commonplace food
that- It does not
stand in as high
repute as it should
When one lives In
a city and pays1 10
to 12 cents a quart
for pure milk we have a higher appre
ciation of It,
Milk Is by fnr tho most important
food for children. If they object to
taking It fresh and warm when It Is
bo obtainable try them with cool milk.
There are all sorts of devices used
by mothers to get children to tako
milk. One that they will usually ac
cept willingly is milk through straws.
A pretty glass or a fancy cup will
often bo tho means of persuasion. A
cooky or cracker with tho milk will
mako tho taking of it easier for some.
Soft cooked or baked custards, Jun
kets nnd cornstarch puddings served
with sugar and rich milk make an
other method of serving milk.
Eggs Bhould be given at least every
other day and dried fruits, llko dates.
Qgs and raisins should be often in their
diet Candy, if given after meals in
Bmall quantities, is rather a help than
a detriment, but eating candy before
meals is a most reprehensible habit
If tho children carry a lunch to
school for tho noon meal thero should
be somo means for the serving of hot
milk or chocolate. A hot drink Is ab
solutely necessary during cold months.
Apples, grapes or oranges aro all
good fruits and so are "jannnaB, taken
moderately, if well ripened.
Begin with young children to serve
sweet, nutty olive oil on green veg
etables, so that the habit will be
formed in youth to enjoy tho most
wholesome of all salad dressings.
Carrots, onions and Bplnach should
often bo served, as they tree the body
from many Impurities. Spinach has
been well called "tho broom of tho
fetomach." Green vegetables should be
givon in abundance, as tho child needs
tho mineral salts which they contain.
Children should never be given
stimulants of tea or coffee, but hot
water and nillk is a good hot drink.
Plenty of good, pure water and no
spices or pickles ought to keep tho
llttlo people well.
Tho cares of the day, old moralists
say,
Aro qulto enough to perplex one.
Then drive today's sorrow nway till
tomorrow,
And then put It oft till tho next one.
CARE OF SAVORY FATS. 1
In most homes we find a grease or
fat pot into which varlouB fats aro
poured, sometimes
with considerable
sediment. Greaso
or fat will be much
moro valuable if
not mixed; for ex
ample, have two or
threo receptacles,
keeping one for
bacon fat, one for beef fats and an
other for pork fats. When ono real
izes how valuable a tablespoonful of
butter Is, usually ono a cent or when
butter is but 32 cents a pound, It is
Just one cent a tablespoonful, it will
be wisdom to use overy fat that is
Bweet and good to save the butter.
Grease from sausage, because pf its
seasoning, should be kept by itself
and is most delicious fat to use for
many uses, like cooking, or seasoning
eggs.
To render mutton fat and make It
nsablo tho following method is rec
ommended: For each pound of fat to
be rendered, allow ono onion, a sour
ipplo and a tenspoonful of thymo or
mixed herbs done up in a small cloth.
Cook these at low temperature until
tho onion Is brown and the applo
cooked, strain and you will havo a
fat that takes tho place of butter for
seasoning vegetables and meats In va
rious ways.
Tho fat from ducks, geeso and other
fowl may be tried out and kept to uso
for cake shortening. It also is used
for chicken plo.
Beef drippings, "which may bo ob
tained from roasts or from the strips
oi rat leit irom steaKs, which aro
carefully tried out, mako delicious fat
for drop cakes, gingerbread, splco
cakes and cookies.
Whon French fried potatoes aro be
ing prepared an addition of beef fnt
An Unreasonable Boarder.
"Mrs. Smlthers, If you nro unpatri
otic enough to hoard your foodstuffs,
that is a matter for your own con
science; but please remember In fu
ture not to givo mo a hoarded egg for
breakfast" Punch.
Absolutely Neutral.
Cates Aro you koeplng neutral
rlsht along?
Clemona 1 havo been neutral for bo
long I hnvo forgotten by thlH time
which countries aro fighting.
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roro
to tho lard makes a much finer flavoi
than tho ordinary way of cooking In
lard.
To try out fat place It in water and
cook Blowly until tho scraps aro al
most dry; tho water Is usually evap
orated by that time, if not tho fat will
rlso and tho water hold all tho sedi
ment, which may thon be easily re
moved. FLAVOR VEGETABLES.
The vegetable which ranks high as
flavor for various dishes Is the onion.
They aro considered a
most valuable vegetable
medicinally, and thero
Is no moro wholesome
or delicious one when
well cooked and proper
ly seasoned and aerved.
Tho Bermuda or Span
ish onions aro mild fla
most attractive served
vored and
sliced with French dressing. Chopped
Spanish onion and green pepperB,
served on slices of cucumbers, laid
on a bed of watercress, is another
good salad. For creamed onions allow
two to each person and cook them in
water that is all evaporated by tho
tlmo thoy aro tender. Add two table
spoonfuls of butter for a dozen onions
and a half cupful of rich cream. Salt
and pepper is added and the vege
tables aro heated in the cream until
well seasoned through.
Onions With Rice and Chicken.
This is a combination which is not
often found in American homes, but Is
especially good, To a dozen onions,
all small and oven sized, add a cupful
of rice and a cupful of chicken meat
Put the onions into a baking dish with
the rico. Pour over three cupfuls of
chicken stock and a cup of chopped
chicken meat. Salt and popper and
dot with butter. Place in a moderate
oven and cook covered for ono hour;
then uncover, add a cupful of cream
and cook 15 minutes longer. Servo in
tho dish in which it is cooked.
Onions aro good In beef stock and
covered while cooking, then during the
last half hour sprinkle with a Btea
spoonful of sugar and brown uncov
ered.
Onions parboiled and baked with
cheese and a white sauce is another
most wholesome way of serving them.
Cabbago is another of our flavor
vegetables, which is as good as cauli
flower when carefully boiled, drained
and served In a rich white sauce.
USE YOUR FIRELESS COOKSTOVE.
If you haven't one buy one; If you
can't buy one make one out of a candy
pail lined with asbestos
papdr and padded well
with mineral wool or the
real wool. A cracker box
or an old trunk have
made most acceptable
cookers when well pad
ded. It Is necessary that
thero bo a tight cover
fwi
over tHo cushion that keeps in the
heat
For a home-made cooker the amount
of cooking is limited, as broiling or
brown roasting cannot be done, nei
ther can baking. Tho main thing to
be remembered 'in preparing food for
tho cooker is that thero is no means
of evaporation, so tho amount ot liquid
should bo added with that in mind.
The heat that Is generated In the wa
ter that surrounds the food and the
heat in tho receptacle are all that
cooks the food, so it must bo con
served.
Have the dish boiling hot and tho
cooker near the stovo so that little
heat is lost in transit, then coyer
quickly and allow It to stand from
threo to six hours, depending on the
food cooked. It may need to be re
heated if it is food that requires long
cooking, but rice, macaroni and
steamed puddings may be cooked In
an hour or two.
Seasonings of course should be
added after tho food has reached the
boiling point on tho stove. All foods
must actually boll and bo put so Into
the cooker.
Ono of tho reasons that steaks and
chops aro so exponslvo Is because
there 1b a larger demand for them,
and thoy form a very small part of the
animal. Those who will call to tholr
aid a tireless cooker and buy tho
cheaper cuts will furnish their fam
ilies with just as wholesome and
much cheaper food. A piece of meat
weighing eight or ten pounds can bo
cooked 12 hours to good advantage.
Although tho homo-made cooker la
especially adapted for the cooking of
stews nnd tough portions of meat,
thero aro many cereals and puddings
that are well cooked In it.
It 'All Depends.
Examiner Now, William, if a man
can do one-fourth of a piece of work
In two days, how long will ho tako
to flnlBh it?
William Ib It a contract Job or is
ho workin' by tho day? Life.
Too Serious For Mirth.
"Why didn't the editor tako your
Jokes about the business man who
never advertised?"
"Ho said that It would bo sacri
legious to Jest nbout tho dead."
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It is impossible
to be strong
and robust if
handicapped
by a weak
stomach or
lazy liver; but
you can help
assistance of
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PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
A toilet preparation ot merit.
Ilelpa to eradicate dandruff.
For Refttarinff Color and
Beauty to Cray or Faded Hair,
ooo. ana iu at vructruta.
Strange Scorpion Found.
A curious, strange specimen of liz
ard or scorpion was captured by Wnl
ter T. Todd, near the trolley station
of the Chambersburg, Greencastle &
Waynesboro Street Railway company
at Highueld, Pa. Tho reptile, or what
not, was about eight inches In length
and the color of brick dust. It wa&
found lying on tho ground only a few
feet from the station and, on account
of the -rain and cool weather, was un
able to uso its locomotive powers very
actively and was easily captured, '
The reptile had an elongated Ijody
without scales, four short legs and
short tail, and Its body was almost aa
tough as rubber. Whore It came from
no one seems to know.
GRANDMA USED SAGE TEA
TO DARKEN HER, GRAY HAIR
She Made Up a Mixture of Sage Tea
and Sulphur to Bring Back Color,
Gloss, Thickness.
Almost everyone knows that Sago
Tea and Sulphur, properly compound
ed, brings back the natural color and
lustro to the hair when faded, Btreaked
or gray; also ends dandruff, itching
scalp and stops falling hair. Years
ago tho only way to get this mixture
was to make it atvJhome, which Is
mussy and troublesome. Nowadays,
by asking at any store for "Wye'th's
Sago and Sulphur Hair Remedy," you
will get a largo bottlo of the famous
old recipe for about 50 cents.
Don't stay gray! ' Try it! No ono
can possibly tell that you darkened
your hair, as it dtieB'Jt so naturally
and evenly. You dampen a sponge or
soft brush with li and draw this
through your hair, taking ono email
strand at' a time, by morning the gray
hair disappears, and after another ap
plication or two your hair becomes
beautifully dark, thick and glossy.
Adv.
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Tho optimist) 'rejoices that 'the world
is full of sunshine. So does the awn
ing maker.
Most particular women use Red Gross
Ball Blue. American made. Sure to please.
At all cood crocers. Adv. r
Many a man who boasts of being tha
soul of honor needs half soling.
last drop
is temptingly de
licious. All the family
will lik'ey an Houten's
Rona Cocoa. Big red
can lal-pound
25b
DEFIANGpSTARH
is constantly growing in favor because ir
Does NofeSticJuto the Irora
and it will not injuro'Uie'wwst fabric. Foa
laundry purposes it has H equal. 16 oz.
package 10c 1-3 more starch for same money.
DEFIANCE STARCH CO.,, Omaha, Nebraska
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