Nebraska Newspapers

    THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
HOW A SOLDIER
FEELS IN FIGHT
Annlston, Aln. Hero Is the doscrlp
tlon of a big battle as It Impressed It
self upon tho mind of Sergt. Lawrence
Hopkins of Oxford:
They're off!
"It sends a thrill through you as
you hear tholr cry tt rid rise up and
And yourself In a crowd of men ; paus
ing a moment to light our pipes or
cigarettes and wo are hurrying for
wnrd with glistening steel In our hands
to meet the foe.
"If It were not Cor these other men
moving along heavily laden to keep
pace with the harrage one might well
ntnnd In amazement at a wilderness
(suddenly become crowded with sway
ing humanity, hravely attempting to
weather the furious storm.
"The big guns roll like hoavy thun
der, the little field batteries answer
with a hark, shells scream, whistle,
howl, according ,to their moods.
Death Is Everywhere.
"The quick staccato coughing of
machine gnus goes on unceasingly all
around you and Is swallowed up In
Its echoes. There Is a spatter of rllle
bullets iw'thoy whiz by you ami you
wonder that you are untouched.
Barbed wire tears our clothes to
pieces; mud slicks them together
again. Birds lly at our feet ami from
the sky winged airplanes' swoop
down. Spitfire tanks plod on behind,
crushing and crushing; burning, boil
ing oil sends Unities leaping to the
clouds; molten phosphorus Is poured
Into dugouts. There Is gas to blind
and choke you.
"There nre laughs and cries; the
laugh of a comrade as he struggles
on, or the cry of another as he drops
his rllle and puts his hand to his
heart his last cry. There is tho yell
of the hunter, tho wild-crying despair
of tho hunted. The plunk of tho mor
tars and the hurst of the bombs add
to the tumult of the storm.
"Stretcher bearers rush to and fro,
running zig-zag across tho battlefield
with their messages. Then I drop Into
a shell hole, the cold sweat running
off my face, and breathe. Take my
compass out, get direction adjusted
and when tho barrage lifts I dive Into
tho tornado again and so on. Ger
mans nro scarce; they are down below.
'Moppers up' behind will deal with
them. Over broken trenches and torn
ground, slipping, falling, sprawling, I
ro for our objective. As the curtain
of fire and smoke passes over the vil
lage wo make the final spurt forward
nnd dig like h 1.
Germans Fear Americans.
"The nolso Increases, tho guns get
more angry, shells linil showers of
mud and dirt are falling all around
you. The devil seems to he raking
out ins furnaces, the sky seems to
crash down on you, then my head
ttwlms, my arms fall to my sides, my
DODGING ONE OF
tins loinnrUnllo British ollUlul phntogr.tpii. i.iu. n n ,iv m front
In Frnni'6 at the Instant an enemy shell exploded, was an Incident In the ml
vnnce on Bapaume. A Tommy while doing a little sewing on Ids shirt out
side a captured German hut Is disturbed by the shell.
Money Burns
Burls. No wonder thnt Ann:
lorlenn
li their
soldiers astound the French with
money-spending proclivity. Shops
stocked suillclently In tho ordinary
course of events to last six months
are frequently clelmed out In u day
when tho Yankees arrive. The Amer
icans Juat simply bay everything In
eight.
A hunch of troops Just arriving from
the long Journey ovorseas, or perhaps
having been shunted around ,u month
or so after landing, reach a permanent
camp and are paid off. Frequently
they haven't had a pay day In two or
threo months.
Then with their pockets full of the
strange francs they go to town ami
make up for lost time, They overlook
nothing from a HwIsk watch to an arm
ful of souvenirs to send hack home.
But with nil Uik spending and buy
ing It Is remarknble that there are so
few cases' of drunkenness. The wine
hops nre open to tho American)' ut
leg" grow limp and I drop down as I
hastily don my gas mask. And when
i open my eyes and find myself I am
on a stretcher and someone with a
smile all over his bronzed face offers
me a cigarette.
"Yes, we ran tho Huns for six days
find five nights, and 1 did not want
to eat or sleep. I tell you It was
grand, and If 1 hadn't been gassed I
feel like I could still lie running
them. We started In on the 121th day
of .luly, my birthday, and, mother,
dear, I took no prisoners.
"A German officer said to his men :
'Why do you run; Is not Oott mlt
you?' And the German soldiers an
swered: 'Yes, hut the Americans are
mlt the Kronen.'"
INVESTS INSURANCE
IN BONDS AND STAMPS
I Milton, On. Left $10,000 In
surance by her son, Amos Har
din, who died from a wound re
ceived In action In France, Mrs.
.Mary 10. Hardin turned the en
tire amount into Liberty bonds
and War .Savings stamps. Mrs.
llardln says she takes this meth
od In helping the government
and to avenge her sou. Her
husband, Kll .1. llardln, gave
his life In order to save a fel
low workman endangered from
noxious gases In a well. For
this act Airs. Hardin received a
Carnegie hero medal and a pension.
SQUIRT GUN WAS
ONE HUN TRICK
London. First Lieut. Ira .7. Hodcsof
Urooklyn, N. Y and Berkeley, Cal
praises Lieut. Audrey Grey of Berkc
ley as one of the gamest American
olllcers he ever knew.
Lieutenant Grey, fearfully wounded
and at the point of death, said:
"Don't take 'me, boys ; clean 'em out
first."
By "cleaning 'em out," ho meant for
them to keep on driving at tho Ger
man machine gun nests until they
were abandoned. He did not want to
Interrupt the progress on that part of
the Hue for an Instant.
Lieutenant Hodes was wounded In
the left leg the same leg In which he
had been shot during thu Spanish
American war.
JERRY'S SHELLS
Their Pocket
certain bonis, generally from f:!l0 to
8:!I0 p. m. But the avonige American
does not like French wltn, at least
not at first. French beer has a flat,
weak tusto which does not appeal at
all to Americans. Thero Is no whis
ky, nnd even wore It available the
Americans would not he allowed to
purchase It. Cognac H the nearest ap
proach to whisky and this must ho
ohtnlnod by stealth sort of a boot
longing process.
. Many thousands of American sol
tilers, disgusted with the light wines
and beers which only they may pro
cure, have foresworn booao entirely,
gone on the "water wagon" for keeps
ami will be In good trim for tho nu-tlon-wlde
prohibition they will face
when they return to the United States.
The business of the London slock
exchange, under peace conditions, re
quires the services of 'JIS.OOO persons
every day.
Y'NKS IN WRECKED VILLAGE
WyM?W " p.
. (liiaiiiiiii'tit of Americans are here
shown on their way through the
French town of Buequoy. which has
suffered some very heavy bombard
ments. This French official photo
graph shows the ruins of the village
and the American troops passing
through Thorns do Calais, on their
way to do their share In Hie heavy
lighting which the Yanks did In this
sector.
High Cost of Moving.
Savannah. Ga. The high cost of
moving In Savannah has obliterated
the old saw that "It Is cheaper to move
than pay rent." It now costs from
$10 to $120 per load to move, because
of the extreme scarcity of labor and
the high cost of upkeep.
"I was Just out of the hospital," he
said, telling of his last engagement.
"I had been laid up with whooping
cough. I had Just reported back and
been assigned to command of Com
pany . We were ordered to advance
first on Saturday, August 81. We went
ahead for two and a half miles and
took tho German second line trench.
Grey Gets .Fatal Wound.
"The counter-attack came exactly at
four- o'clock. But, of course. It availed
nothing, because we were fully able to
meet It with more than sulllclent re
sistance. Our artillery had full sweep
of the ground over which they moved.
The slaughter was terrible.
"Wo lay In the position all that
night, and at seven o'clock In the morn
ing made a quick move. We took over
a line of shell holes about three hun
dred yards In front of us. Then we
started In to clean up the thick nests
of machine guns.
"Lieutenant Grey was -shot In the
stomach and Lieut. Harry Blair of
Brooklyn was hit. Then I was hit.
After I got It Blair nnd myself carried
Grey back to a dressing station. He
lieil the next morning.
Huns Did Not Fight Fair.
"The Germans were lighting In n
nasty way. It was not the least bit
safe to pay any attention to them
when they begun to cry "kamerad."
Many of them carried a little pistol
called u 'scpilrt gun.' It shoots a
;inall bullet like a twenty-two. bt i
sprays them out at short range. The
pistols keep on shooting Just as long as
you keep your linger pressed on the
nigger. They are good for short range
nly. The danger was In this: If you
--minded up two or three or more Ger
nims and ordered them to throw up
.heir hands, they would, except that
one of them would b'l a little slow. If
uni started to lower your gun or pistol
in take them In tow the slow-moving
Minn suddenly threw out his squirt gun
uid opined lire. The safest thing to
lo was to take no chances.
"The Germans were doing all sorts
( things that were forbidden by Inter
national code. They did not think any
thing of firing on the stretcher bear-
ers, although tho men were carefully
marked with white bands on their
arms and were classed as noncom
Imtnnls." ? HARD DOLLARS WORRY $
S GOTHAM OLD-TIMERS f,
l x, ..
t iM'w i oik. i' or mo tirst tlnio
t In approximately fifty years the
good old Anurlcan sllvor dollar
has again mane Its appearance
t on Broadwny. Many "old-timers"
linger them gingerly, take a bite,
shake their heads mid mutter
"nhonov." NVviirtlmlouu ti...
it birs are good ones. They are
5 arriving In tho pockets of
France-hound soldiers from the
Middle nnd Western states, and,
well, the majority of them will'
not be spent In Fnince.
Changes German Name.
Atlanta. Ga. John von Hndeln, an
American with a German name, testi
fied before the federal court that he
could stand the reflection no longer.
So his name is now John F. Vaughn.
Vnu.rhn declares he has not a drop of
, German blood In his veins.
At our hnuuo we laugh an' wo sing an'
we shout
An' whirl all the chairs an' the tables
about,
An' I rasisol my pa an' I get him down,
too.
An' lie's nil out of breath when the
flghtln' is through.
Kn' ma says that our house Is surely
a sight.
But pa an' I say tjiat our house Is all
right IMgar Guest.
FOOD FOR THE FAMILY.
OK cakemnklng bnr
lov, corn, rice, or po
tnto Hour or part
cornstarch mny be
uspiI without mnte-
Tlally changing the
character of the
cake.
Corn and Rice
Flour Jelly Roll.
Hoiit tho volks of
three eggs, add one cupful of sugar
and three tnblospnonfuls of water, then
add one-half cupful each of corn nnd
rice Hour with two teaspoonfuls of bak
ing powder. Fold In the stlllly beaten
whiles of the eggs and hake in a mod
erate oven ten minutes. Turn out on
a towel mid spread with Jelly and roll.
Trim the edges before rolling If at all
brown.'
Spiced Cornmeal Cakes. Heat three
tablespoonfuls of fat with one-fourth
of a cupful f molasses and when
boiling hot ndd one-fourth of a cupful
or sugar, one-half cupful of cooked
oatmeal, one-fourth of n teaspoonful of
soda, and one nnd one-half teaspoonfuls
of baking powder; cinnamon and
cloves to taste, one and a half cupfuls
of mixed tlqur. and one-fourth or a
cupfuls of raisins. Bake In muffin
puns .'10 minutes.
Cornmeal Gingerbread. Cook to
gether .'!. minutes one nnd one-hnlf
cupfuls of cornmeal, one-half cupful
of corn sirup, one teaspoonful of salt,
two tablespoonfuls of corn oil, one-half
cupful of molasses, one nnd one-half
cupfuls of sweet milk nnd one cupful
of sour milk. Cool and ndd a beaten
egg, one cupful of barley flour, two
teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Add
teaspoonful of cloves, n teaspoonful
of soda, and one nnd one-hnlf ten
spoonfuls of ginger nnd clnnnmon.
Chocolate Barley Cake. Cream one
fourth of a cupful of shortening, add
three-fourths of a cupful of sirup, n
saltspoonful of salt, one egg, two
thirds of a cupful of cold cofTee, one
and three-fourths cupfuls of bnr
ley flour and one and one-hnlf
teacupruls of linking powder. Add
two squares of. chocolate melted
over not water, neat wen aim
bake 120 minutes In a moderate oven.
Corn Flour Sponge Cake. Separate
the yolks and whites of four eggs, beat
the yolks, mid one cupful of sugar and
a tablespoonful of lemon Juice, a pinch
of salt and one cupful of corn flour.
Sift the flour several times and fold
In the stiffly beaten whites. Bake in
ti slow oven.
The law of human helpfulness asus
each man so to rarry himself as to
blown and not blight men, to make nnd
not to mar them.
SEASONABLE DISHES.
O MCRD Is there In
this ilny ' of plenty
to servo monotonous
meals; even suhstl
ttites mny be varied
so that there will al
ways lie something
different. Tho fol
lowing m a y u o t
prove agreeable to
all. but from these,
one may find suggestions which will be
helpful In varying the 'menus:
Mushrooms au Gratln. I'eel u liulf
potind of fresh Held mushrooms, sprin
kle with salt and let stand n half-hour.
Fry one onion sliced In two tublespoon
fuls of cooking oil ; add two table
spoonfuls of Hour and when well blend
ed mid a cupful of stock made from
cooking the stems of tho mushrooms.
CooU until thick; add a half-teaspoon-ful
of salt, a few dashes of pepper,
and paprika. Add the mushrooms to
tile sauce; put Into a baking dish, ndd
a' half-cupful of bread crumbs that
have been mixed with one tablespoon
fill )f sweet fat and hake until brown.
French Vegetable and Meat Dish.
Fry onions in a little fat. add soup
stock, chopped meat, a few bits of
chopped cabbage, carrot hnd potato.
Cook slowly until the vegetables are
tender. Add prune Juice and boll five
minutes. Turn the stew In n platter
nnd surround with prunes.
Potatoes, Peasant Style. Wash,
pare and cut Into dice enough pota
toes to make a pint and n half; fry un
til brown In six tablespoonfuls of ha
con fat. Bemove the potatoes and ndd
two cloves of garlic chopped, two ta
blespoonfuls of chopped parsley to tho
fat In the pan; conk for two minutes;
add two tablespoonfuls of corn Hour, a
teaspoonful of salt, paprika and poj
per to tasto; two cupfuls of milk, and
when well thickened ndd the potatoes
and serve when hot.
Lemon Tapioca Pudding. Cook a
half-cupful of granulated tapioca In
four cupfuls of milk In a double holl
er twenty minutes. Beat two egg
yolks with four tablespoonfuls of su
Car and four tablespoonfuls of corn
hlrup. Add the grated rind or hnlf
u lemon ami stir Into the tapioca.
OrOk until, thick nnd creamy; add one
ft4liO(aiWer&arain
Mi Commiawv II
nffllliO'UlWjrGjr'ditiln
111 CQ"X"'On l
teaspoonful of lemon extract and turn
Into a serving dish. Bent the egg
whites with two .tublespoonfuls of su
gar and spread over the top for a
meringue. Brown and serve hot or
cold.
We play at our house and have all
sorts of tun,
An' there's alwnys a game when the
upner Is done. ,
An at our Iiouko there's marks on the
wall utnl the stairs
An' some terrible scratches on some of
the chairs
An' mn says that our house Is really
a fright,
I3at pa and I say that our house Is
all right. Kdgar Quest.
SEASONABLE FOODS.
XY are the vege
table combinations
which have never
been enjoyed by the
vast ninjorlty of
households. We con
tinue to travel In the
same old ruts, serv
ing things us our
grandmothers did he
fore us. Let us break
iv. ny liiim old mens anu learn some
thing new.
Eggplant With Rice and Vegetables.
Spaghetti, noodles, rice, macaroni or
bread crumbs may be used In tins
dish. They should all be 'cooked In the
usual manner except the bread. I-or
one eggplant allow one cupful of un
cooked macaroni or one-half cupful ot
rice. Cut the eggplant In slices, paro
nnd cut in three-fourths Inch cubes.
Cover with boiling water and let cook
20 minutes, then drain in n colander.
Melt two tublespoonfuls of fat In a
sniicennn : ndd one largo onion
chopped fine, one-half of a green pep
per shredded fine and let cook slowly,
stirring often until yellow and soft
ened; add the eggplant, the rice, halt
u teaspoonful of salt, a dash of pa
prika, a cupful of grated cheese and
u cupful and a half of tomato. Stir nnd
cook until well heated. Turn into a
greased baking dish, cover with three-
fourths of a cupful of crumbs mlxcil
with three tablespoonfuls of fat and
cool; in the oven until the crumbs nre
brown.
Chocolate Pudding. Melt three
squares of chocolate in three -ni''"N
of milk, four tablespoonfuls of honey,
two tablespoonl'iils of x ;- in .i '
the-mlxture into a wet mold and set
away to harden. Serve with sweetened
whipped (Team or cubes of marshmal
lows may be addeil Instead of sugar.
Codfish With Brown Sauce. Soak
two'cupfuls of salt fish in cold water
for an hour. Drain and fry In six ta
hlospoonfuls of corn oil until slightly
brown. Add three tublespoonfuls of
flour, 1,& mpfuls of water, the fish,
one clove of garlic chopped, one table
spoonful of minced parsley, a few
gratings of nutmeg anil a fourth of a
teaspoonful of paprika. Cook all to
gether ami serve on a platter sur
rounded by a border of cooked rice or
potatoes.
What I must do, Is all that concerns
mo, not what people think. limorson.
TpOTHSOME DISHES.
X TIIKSU days of
substitutes and con
servation wo need
to put more thought
and planning into
our meals to have
variety and whole
someuess. Chatel Potatoes.
Wash, p a r e a n d
slice thin one ijunrt j
of potatoes; arrange In buttered bak
ing dish. Add two cupfuls of strained
tomato, two cloves of garlic finely
chopped, one and a half teaspoonfuls
of salt, and a teaspoonful of paprika.
Bake one and one-half hours.
Chilled Eggs. Cut six hard-cooked
eggs in halves lengthwise nnd remove
the yolks. Cream four tablespoonfuls
of sweet fat with the egg yolks and
six sardines, bones and skin removed,
with one-fourth teaspoonful of mus
tard, salt and red pepper to taste.
Stuff the eggs with this mixture mid
place on Ice for an hour.
Tomatoes With Curry. Cut the tops
from six medium-sized tomatoes; re
move the pulp with u sharp spoon and
cook It with three tublespoonfuls of
rice and sufficient boiling water until
soft. Add u tablespoonful of fat. a cup
of bread crumbs soaked In two table
spoonfuls of cold milk, one hard-cooked
egg yolk, one-half teaspoonful salt, a
clove of garlic chopped, and pepper to
season; a bit of parsley and thyme and
a half-teaspoonful of curry powder.
Stuff the tomatoes nnd place in a pan
with water in the bottom. Bnke until
the tomatoes are soft but not shape
less. Mexican Rabbit Mix one cupful of
freshly boiled rk'o with one cupful each
of canned corn and tomatoes, one-half
a green pepper out In bhrefls. one slice
of onion scraped or chopped, half a
pound of chopped cheese, a teaspoon
ful of paprika or less, a half teaspoon
ful of salt and two well-beaten eggs.
Turn Into a well-greased baking dish.
Sprinkle with crumbs mixed with melt
ed fat and hake In a moderate oven
In a dish set In water. Serve when the
mixture U firm In tho center.
nl(11tioMlWy&a!tUI
nffljliofljl WarOi'iltAjJn
BOW IRS. BOYB
AVOEDEO Ml
OPERATION
Canton, Ohio. "I suffered from
femalo trouble which cnuaed mo mucb
Buttering, ana vwo
doctors docidod
that I would have
to n through an
operation before 1
could got well.
"My mother, who
had been helped by
LydinE. Pinkham
Vocotnblo Com
pound, advised m
totryitbeforo submitting-to
nn opera
tion. Itrcliovedm
from my troubles
f o I can do my houao work without any
difficulty. I ad viso any woman who ft
nfilicted with femalo troubles to giv
Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound a trial and it will do a3 much for
them." Mrs. Mahie Boyd, 1421 Eth.
SL, N. E., Canton, Ohio.
Sometimes there nro serious condi
tions where a hospital operation is th
only alternative, but on tho other hand
no many women have been cured by tbis
famous root and herb remedy, Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, after
doctors have said Uiat an operation was
necessary every woman who want
to avoid an operation phould give it a
fair triil before submitting to such a
trvlng ordeal.
If complications exist, write to Lydla
E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass.,
for advice. The result of many year
experience is at your service.
Calf
Enemies
rnaum Hum n n n mim lmjjuiiimw
WHITE SCOURS
BLACKLEG
Your Veterinarian can 6tamp
them out with Cutter'a. Anti-Calf
Scour Serum and Cutter'a Germ
Free BlacklcgFiltrate and Aggressin,
or Cutter's Blackleg Pills.
Ask him about them. If he
hasn't our literature, write to us for
information on these products.
The Cutter Laboratory
Berkeley, Cal., or Chicago, III.
"Tli Laboratory That Knows How"
EXPLANATIONS NOW IN ORDER
Strange IVJIxup of Names That Caused
Some Misunderstanding In Talk
Over the Telephone.
It Is necessary to preface this little
story with the assertion that tt was not
created by a punster, bur that It nctu
ully happened, reports the Indianapo
lis News.
In the purchasing agent's office of
one of the largest. If not the largest,,
corporations in Marlon county, thero
was a clerk named Shaw and a stenocr
rapher mimed Smart.
The wife of the purchasing agent
called over the telephone one day nnd
asked for her liusbnnd.
"He has just stepped out," replied
Miss Smart, who answered the phone.
"Oh. pshaw" exclaimed the purchas
ing agent's wife.
Misunderstanding, tho stenographer
replied, "Why, he's not here, either.
"Oh, you're smart," commented the
purchasing agent's wife.
"Yes, that's my name," repllt the
stenographer.
And further the nfllant sayeth not.
Which Was It?
Knlcker Au exalted persona for
got himself. f
Boeker Or else remembered him
self. Tho Universal shipyard at liouswn,
Texas, has a woman oakum spinner
who works nine hours every day.
Thousands
O'F under
nourished people have
found -that
Vboc -7
a scierrfci-fic
blend of nour
ishing cereals
helps
wonder-fully
in butildin
hearth ana
happiness.
Weeds no