OCR Text |
Show THE EUROPEAN WAR ' YEAR nature is a vize inerchani A AGO THIS WEEK She kaowi that the humaa heart wanta changea. Thai why we art alwaye thowing aomethina tew. Each day you can Sod aomething diff ent in eu show cates. Little gifta big gifta high value. Out edetf price make buying easy. Feb. 21, 1915. Russians forced the fighting from Eaat Prussia to Bukowlna. Berlin reported ainklng of Brit-iatranaport loaded with troops. American ateamer Evelyn aunk by mine off Holland; eight loot. Bank German aubmarine Briti.ah ateamer Oownahire. German airmen dropped bomba and Colchester. Coggeahall Braintree, England. Reims again bombarded. h A COPYRIGHT BY VESTERN NWSPATCR KXJ . t U A" I ' w ? Oslr 7IK'V'k I ''.tX , -'-'t MAN AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS Have Anthropologists Discovered Many Interesting Facta That Have Bearing on Their Relatione. Zeppelin bombarded Calais, killing fiva persons. Germany denied charges of cruelty to war prisoners. At a recent meeting of the German Anthropological society, Prof. Ed Hahn, lectured on human races and proper- ties of domestic animals, dwelling especially on such relations as are found! to exist between the outward appearance of human races and the r aces of mans animal companions. The hues mainly occurring In the case of man as well as of domestic animals are" black, brown, red, yellow and white, a remarkable feature being that these external characteristics seem to be connected with the whole of bodily constitution. anthropologist Prof. Eugen Fischer of Freiburg, Baden, on evidence afforded by the eye of mammals, considers the, whiteness of domestic animals and white man to be kindred phenomena, nor does he hesitate to suggest many other analogies of a similar kind between man and animals. According to, the lecturer, humanity as a whole. Inclusive of what are called primitive peoples, has been subjected tot some time to conditions similar to those at work In the case of our domestic animals. The classification mainly based on color may be replaced by a system of darker and lighter strains within a given race. Attention is drawn in this connection to the Simmenthal oxen, which, within memory of man, have become remarkably bright-coloreas well as to the fact that the subsequent darkening of adults points to the merging, In olden times, of brighter and darker varieties of man. Set entifle American. w ' t If V V v i i, ' h i A V Feb. 24, 1915. Russians won In Carpathians near Uszok pass. THE UTTLE BUGLER HE LOOKED IN ;Y of British steamer Western Coast lost In the channel. (This "human document la published as ona ot tha moat remarkable letters we ever read. It was not intanded for publication originally, but waa written by Mr. Johnston, who Uvea In tha Michigan Soldiers Home, to his brother, an editor in Kebraaka.1 DEAR Brother George: Your letter of November 27 Is at hand, and It warms my oldheart to think my little brother Is so Interested In anything pertaining to my rather uneventful past Of all things I despise, tls an egotist. However, as you wish to know something about your brother Billys early experience. 4 1 dont see how I can help telling. 1 was born June 18. 1850, In Detroit. Mich., and when the Civil war broke out in 1861, I was going to school, with no thought of anything but a good time and mischief. In July, 1861, when one month past eleven years of age, 1 offered my services In the Ninth Michigan Infantry, Company II, Captain Adams In command, which was quartered at Fort Wayne. Of course, I ran away from school to1 enlist, and mother was almost crazy before they found out where L was They kept me some two weeks' at the fort as a drummer boy. I was so short my drum would not clear the ground when marching, and I had got into so much mischief in that time that a sergeant took me to the port gate, took me over his knee and spanked me with a leather belt, ana told me to beat it for home and mother, which I did. I have always thought my father told them what to do with me. Well father whipped me and mother cried over me. and as 1 1 ad got peppered with lice while at the fort, 1 was made to sleep in the barn for a week, until cleaned up. But the fife and drum In July, when twelve were too much for me,-anyears and a month old, 1862, 1 again ran away from home and enlisted In the Twenty-fourtMichigan Infantry which was quartered on the old fair grounds In Detroit. I beat the drum and played the devil for ten days, when 1 was again taken to the guard line and invited to skip. With the Invitation went same kicks and cuffs I have not for Y Feb. 26, 1915. made French gains on the Mouse. Battle in East on front. Germans retired In Przasnysz region but captured 11 Russian generals In Mazurlan lakes battle. Botha took command of British troops for Invasion of German Southwest Africa. Inner forts of Dardanelles bom260-mil- e barded. French destroyer Dague hit Austrian mine. Allies blockaded coast of German East Africa. Feb. 27, 1915. Germans retired' on north of Eastern front and Russians recaptured Przasnysz. German battalion annihilated on the Bobr. Russians advanced in Galicia, retaking Stanislau and Kolomea. Forty allied warships penetrated Dardanelles for 14 miles. American steamer Dacia seized by French cruiser. French aviators bombarded Metz and Germans Nieuport. dropped bombs on Food Minimum. d h The irreducible minimum for living gotten yet But the boys were not to blame for the rough expenses seems to have been attaiued a treatment ho the lived Crab, hermit, they gave me as my father had quietly by Roger at lcckenham. near Uxbridge. About put them up to it. trying to make me tired ot 164f he began to restrict himself to a soldiering. vegetarian diet, avoiding even butter My brothers and sisters thought I was s hero, and cheese. From roots he got a diet father thought I was a devil, but mother thought I consisting chiefly of broth made from was just her own little Billy just the same. But turnip leaves and thickened with bran, giio school I would not! There was too much and he finally resorted to doel leaves 'attraction on the strewt, so in Ocober, 1862, my and grass, with a bran pudding as an mother packed a little tinnk ot clothing, and they occasional delicacy. He drank nothstarted me' for the Lansing Agricultural college Well things began to happen then. I arrived at ing but water, and lived on three farthings a week until he died in 1680, at the school In the afternoon of Saturday, October; 9, the age of sixty- .- London Chronicle. and was to have been examined and put into my classes Monday morning. 1 nlght say this was the Had Sultans Indorsement. exteut of my college 'education, and the last of my Extract from a Turkish newspaper: schooling. His serene highness has been pleased Sunday morning Mr. Tibbets, who kept the to watch the eclipse, and has directed boarding hoiise for the school,. and his wife, left the lord chamberlain to express his for the day to make a visit. .Milton Ward of Deentire satisfaction with the magnifitroit, who was at the school at the time, and mycent performance." Tit Bits. self were boon companions, having been acquainted in Detroit. Sunday morning. Milton and 1 Rooked on Get Him. Line to Easy away, and went up to Lansing, as remember it. Fond Father "1 hardly know what a couple of miles away. Milt always had money, business to put my son in, I know and was four or five years older than I. He got a .practically nothing about his ability." big bag of candy and a bottle of wine. We went .Friend Take him for a sea voyage. out to the school for a lark After dinner Milt and That will show what there is la him.' I and another boy and three or four little girls who .a -- Philadelphia Record. were visiting boys at the school, got together In a 1 -. LITTLE GOOD CONDITIONS BUGLER IN IN RUSSIA Former American Physician Testifies A SOLDIERS to Benefits That Have Followed HOME TODAY With Vodka. . J lie down to sleep, stretched In long lines of any namber of men, all curled up spoon fashion, as close together as possible. I lay down on the end of the line one cold night when soon a poor fellow came and snuggled up to me. Along In the early morning when he should have turned to warm my back, he did not more 1 got up on my elbow and pulled his nose. He was dead. It was the most frightful experience I ever had. Our, dead were usually relieved of any good clothing they may have had on to be used by those who were almost naked. I had stlH on what was left of a shirt and pair of drawers that I had worn for almost a year. Can you realize or imagine how little of either were left? 1 went down to the dead line one morning and saw a body on which was a fine shirt of blue cashmere 'cloth. I w ent to the gate hnd asked the officer of the Confederate guard, an old taan, if I might remove the shirt from that body to wear myself. My poor boy, he said, and gave permission, with tears running down bis wrinkled cheeks, to big room upstairs, and what a time we did have! Mr. Tibbits and his wife came homeland found the lot of us all asleep; some on the floor, some on the bed, but all of us tipsy and sick from the wine. Was there anything doing then? I should say yes! This whole lark was laid at my door. I was locked In a room to be kept until Monday, when I was. to be sent back home to my parents. 1 did not dare go home, as father would certainly have tried, at least, to whip some of the meanness out of me, for I had about used up his patience. So after the house had got qhlet at night, 1 dropped out the window and hiked for Lansing. They were then recruiting for the Sixth Michigan cavalry. I told the recruiting officer 1 had no mother or father, that 1 sold papers and did odd Jobs for a living, and swore I was eighteen years old. Sure, he knehr better, hut they enlisted me regularly as a bugler, and assigned me to Compaq G, Sixth 1 was twelve years, three Michigan cavalry. months and twenty three days old, and was In my third enlistment, but this, was the first time I was mustered iu. Alt Madden enlisted with me. I was sent to Grhnd Rapids where the regiment was camped while being recruited to its full strength. We were mustered Into the service there. The life that we led the officers of Company G w as anything but pleasant. In Washington, we camped for a time on Meriden hill from which place we made our first hike. And we tasted war, when we went to Falmouth and skirmished with Mosebyr guerrillas. We had the opportunity of trading coffee for tobacco with the Confederate pickets. A white handkerchief on the end of a saber was the signal to stop shooting while the trade wasbelng made between the "Rebs on the Fredericksburg side of the Rappahannock river and us Yanks on the Falmouth side. 1 must Bay I never knew of any advantage being taken to shoot a fellow while the trade was being made. In the early spring of 1863, no regiment was kept more busy than the Sixth Michigau looking out for Moseby and bis men. We always had them, but never got them to any great extent Moseby was a wonder. From then to the time I was taken prisoner we were in eighteen battles and minor engagements between June 30 to October 11, 1863... The Little Bugler never lost a day, but did lose lots of meals In that time On October II, 1S63, at Brandy station, my horse was shot from under me, and I was taken prisoner. Our regiment was charging through a. regiment of enemy cavalry, that had got in between the main column and the rear guard, when my horse was struck by a piece of shell between the knee and hoof, throwing me heels over appetite some feet over his head. I was cut and bruised by the feet ot the charging troopers, wbo were behind. When 1 finally got up It was to look Into the barrel of what appeared tame to be a cannon, but in fact was only a 43 Colt, and a fellow in a gray suit was telling me to strip! He took my shoes and pants, and darn him, he could not wear either of them; he was so much larger than L 1 was taken with a trainload of other prisoners to Richmond, Va., but on the way had traded off my blouse for something to eat. Wq were divided up in bunches after arriving at Richmond. Destiny sent me to old Libby"prison. and later to Belle Isle I had no pants. Shoes or hat One of the older men had given me an old coat The guard would issue us a tew sticks of wood ih the evening. We burned our fires as long as possible, and when the fires had burned out to coals we scattered the coals over the ground to warm It, and then would THE II reflections, here set down, point a morab and adorn a tale V v f In Dar- 14 w iam F. Johnston went to war at the age of eleven years and be came a plains fighter afterward. His Invaded fleet. AS 61 Feb. 25, 1915. besieged Ossowetz. army SAU LAKE CITY! St., Salt Lake City, Utah. - crees.- Russians spilt Austrian Carpathians and again Bukowlna. Four forts at atAranca danelles reduced by allied MAIN STUXT AND WOMEN. Now la the time to learn the barber trade Bar-ber- a in great demand. Special rata now open for 3Q days. Only short time required Tool furnished and commh.eion paid while learning. Cali or write Moler Baber School. 13 Russians made progress In Galicia and the Carpathians. ( Turks massacred Armenians In the Caucasus. United States presented notes to Great Britain and Germany proposing modifications of blockads de- Gormans - WAXTED 4 Feb- - 22, 1915. British captured German steamer Gotha. Steamers Hypalion-an.Roy Parana torpedoed In English channel. Germany promised to respect Italian flag. Three British aviators lost In raid on Belgium. Russia 'presented to neutral nations note accusing Germans and Austrians of atrocities. R. P. Stegler confessed details of German passport frauds In U. 8. FOUtOCDJ66 OF JEWELRY UNION lf-1- 2 Feb. 23, 1915. j Germans bombarded Reims with howitzers. Austrian Russians forced Germans back along the Bobr and repulsed Austrians near Krasne. Germans fssembled great force at Przasnysz. American steamer Carib sunk by mine; three lost. Germany Included Orkney and Shetland Islands In war zone. BOYD PARK ' MAKERS ' take the shirt. A low-dow- n spindle-shanke- fellow from Wisconsin that 1 was chumming with, and whom I had kept alive by stealing grub for him to eat, stole that shirt from me 1 lost a silver mine in Colorado years ago that sold afterwards for three hundred thousand dollars, but it did not hurt so badly as the loss of that shirt. Shortly after this, there was a parole of sick and disabled men agreed on by the governments. I got out and walked aboard our transport at Savannah, the raggedest looking kid that ever left that city. What few troops there were in that transport Just stood and cried when they saw our boys. This w as the nineteenth of November, 1864. At Annapolis 1 got my back pay, ration money and clothing money for the time 1 had been prisoner, amounting to some 1300, with a furlough for thirty days. I started for Detroit I cant tell you all that happened on the trip, but 1 got home broke after a week or ten days on the road. Father killed the fatted calf, mother had it cooked, and I was made much of by everybody, fur I had been reported dead 'long ago, and had preached a memorial sermon for me, they telling What a good little boy I had been, I came home and spoiled It all. After a few days at home 1 went to dismounted camp at Harpers Ferry and from the camp was returned to my regiment, then in Washington waiting to take part in the grand review, after which we were sent to Fort Leavenworth. Here I was discharged and the regiment sent out on the plains after Indians. I went to Denver in the fall of 1865 with a mule train, before there was a railroad In the mountains. I returned to Topeka. Kan, with bull trains, enlisting in the regular army, went to California by way of the isthmus, guarded surveyors In Arizona from the Indians, and fought Indiana in Arizona with the First United States cavalry 1 made a trip into Mexico with a load of phoney Jewelry. Later I was arrested as a filibuster spy In Guaymas and was shipwrecked on my trip from Guajmas to Mazatlan. Two out of seven were saved after floating around for thirty-si1 hours. was shanghaied ip San Francisco and Vaen around Cape Horn to Dublin, which was the most adventurous five months of my life. back to my, home in 1873, married in 1874 and settled down to be decent I am now a member of the Michigan Soldiers home. I ncle Sam is trying his best to make me comfortable in my declining years. But neither he nor all the powers that be can make up the ten years worse than lost from my twelfth to twenty-seconyear, for what 1 did that was rough in that time 1 have not learnt since and it la not In the books. " -- . Doing Away Fewer cases of Insanity are belig received In the asylnms end hospitals of Russia today than before the war, notwithstanding the hralnracklng experiences which hundreds of thousands of people of that country have gone through during the last year. This Indicates to my mind that prohibition of the sale of vodka has been a great thing for Russia. This statement was mads to a reporter by Dr. Philip Newton, formerly hospital physician of Washington, now a brigadier general in the medical branpty of the Russian army. Doctor Newton arrived here recently after having served for fifteen months in Russia first as a surgeon of the American Red Cross and since October, 1915, in the Russian army. The prohibition of the sale of vodka and other Intoxicants has made a better citizen and soldier of the Russian," Doctor Newton said. "He may not be as smart as tffe English and French, but he can do harder work and better withstand hardships. The Russians make ideal hospital patients. The manner In which they endure the most painful injuries is ws'derful. Washington (D. C.) Star. Growing Unconventlonaflty. WomanB rebellion Is everywhere Indicated; her brilliance, her fallings, her unreasonableness, all these are excellent .signs. of her revolt She is even revolting against her own beauty; often she neglects her clothes, her hair, her complexion, her teeth. This is a pity, but It must not be taken too seriously; men on active service grow beards, and woman in her emam clpatlon campaign is still too busy To think of the art of charming. 1 suspect that as time passes and she suffers less Intolerably from a sense of Injustice, she will .revert to the old graces The art of charming was a response to convention; and of late years unconventlonality, a great deal f which is ridiculous, has grown much more among women than among men. -- W. I George, In Atlantlo Monthly- Look High and Avoid Snares. Whyj it is asked, are there so many snares? Thai we may not fly low, hut may seek the things which suw above. For Just as birds, so long as they cleave the upper air, are not easily caught, so thou also, so long as thou lookest at things above, wilt not easily be captured, whether by a snare or by any other.devics of eviL St. John Chrysostom. x d Youth and Old Age. My little niece Grade waa sitting on grandmothers lap. As she was ( rocking to and fro baby kept staring Into her face, and after a few minutes of silence she said: Grandma, you arent so very new, are you?" Tribune." ' hicago Greater part to Act. To mount from a workshop to P ace u .rare and beautiful, so you think; 'to mount from error to truth |