EASE INMARCHING
Foot Comfort Is Essential to the
Soldier In Warfare.
JHE GERMAN MILITARY SOCK.
It is In the Form of a Large Napkin
Is the Result of Years of Study arto
May Be Folded About the Foot Thir
ty Different Ways to Relieve Pain.
The famous fleld marshal. Von
Moltke. once said that the Anglo-Sax
ons are a warlike people, but that tin
Germuns are a military people Tin
Anglo-Saxon lights to the death when
war comes, careless of his previous
preparation. After the war Is over Ue
irops his arms, dismisses all thoughts
ef war from his mind and returns to
bis civil pursuits The German, on the
other hand, feels in time of peace a>
keen an interest in war as he does In
the midst of a conflict. He takes note
©f his errors in one war and when
peace comes devotes himself to retue
dying these errors.
A German officer who was visiting
America spoke of the way in which his
people addressed themselves to war
problems in time of peace.
"Here is au excellent illustration." he
©aid, and. lifting his foot, be took ofl
Ida shoe. From about his foot he then
took, not tlie ordinary sock that men
wear elsewhere, but a sort of napkin
or handkerchief, which was carefully
folded about it
"This." be said, "is the German rnlh
tary sock. It Is the result of years of
atudy and experiment by the best
minds, not ouly in the German army
but In German science and medicine
During the Franco-Prussian war ot
1870, when our armies were making
forced marches around Metz and on
to Sedan, our infantry was much Ira
peded by sore feet. When It came to
having a certain number of men at a
certain point at a certain time for a
decisive stroke we were usually from
•10 to 30 per cent shdrt, because so
many men bad fallen out of the ranks
from sore feet.
"We got through the war all right,
for our enemies were as badly off In
that respect as we were, but as soon
as the war was over the government
ordered every man In the service to
turn his attention to contriving a form
of footwear that would be more serv
fceable to the man of peace when sud
denly called to war It was years be
fore the present sock was adopted
Thousands of dollars were spent in
expert men ting. Thousands of soldiers
marched in all kinds of footgear, test
ed every possible kind of sock and
stocking. After years of trial this form
was chosen. Here are some of the
{Ways in which it can be worn."
Thereupon the officer took the nap
kin. which was about eighteen or
twenty Inches square, made of cotton
and linen and folded it about his foot
With the deftness of a Turk winding
his turban about his head. Then, un
wrapping it. he folded it about his
foot in a different manner and then
In still a third way.
i "There are about thirty different
ways of folding this sock about the
foot." he said, "and during his three
years In the army the soldier is taught
to become expert in using them all.
Each manner of folding it has a differ
ent purpose. One will relieve a sore
ness of the heel; another a weariness
of the instep; a third will protect an
Irritated corn, and a fourth will re
lieve the Inflamed ball of the foot. At
the same time that the soldier is
taught these different methods ot
wrapping the sock he also learns the
anatomy of the foot, and just why the
different wrappings relieve the differ
ent foot ailments.
| "After serving his two years in the
army," coutiuued the officer, "the sol
dier goes back to civil life and be
comes, let lis say, a clerk at a desk
•For ten years he doesn't walk a mile
a day. At the end of that time war
breaks out and he is called to the col
ors. He goes to the depot of his regi
ment and there finds among his other
accoutrements two pairs of these mill
tary socks.
i "Next morning he starts to march
,with his regiment. At the end of an
bour, when he has tramped two or
three miles over a country road, he is
allowed ten minutes for rest. Now.
the chances are that that soldier has
a pair of very sore feet. He sits down,
takes off his shoe, diagnoses his sore
places, and. recalling his early train
lag, folds his sock back on his foot so
as to give Immediate relief. When, a
ifew minutes later, he falls into line,
he has virtually a new pair of feet.
LAnd this he does just as often as new
foot troubles appear,
j "The tremendous advantage that an
army thus equipped has over oue that
Jwears the old fashioned sock is obvi
bus. If 'getting there with the most
men first' is the science of war the
army with the German sock is at least
one-third more effective than the oth
er."—Youth's Companion.
Last Wish of a Poet.
1 wish to lie on the north side of
the churchyard about the middle of
the ground, where the morning and
evening sun can linger the longest on
my grave. I wish to have a rough,
unhewn stone, something la the form
of a milestone, so that the playing boys
may not break it in their heedless pas
times, with nothing more on it than
this inscription: "Here rest the hopes
and ashes of John Clare." I desire
that no date be inscribed thereon, as i
.wish it to live or die with my poems
and other writings, which, if they have
merit, with posterity It will, and af
they have not it is not worth preserv
ing.—John Clare, 18G4.
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WOUNDED BAVARIAN
MAKES KAISER LAUGH.
The London Daily Mail says
that according to a Silesian pro
vincial newspaper the kaiser
has been pouring out his heart to
wounded German soldiers about
"the many English calumnies, of
which the war has been so pro
lific."
After asking the convalescents
at a base hospital in the eastern
theater of the war about the na
ture of their wounds aud con
gratulating them on the latest
successes of their regiments, the
war lord turned the conversation
to the all pervading theme. Eng
land. Suddenly a stalwart Bava
rian. who had listened wide eyed
to the kaiser's remarks, sat up In
bed and shouted in a rich provin
cial accent:
"Your majesty, you have a tine
lot of relations!"
Everybody present, the narra- %
tive says, was speechless with v
indignation over the Bavarian's
strong language, but the kaiser 4*
laughed heartily, stepped over to
the soldier's bed. slapped him ❖
Jovially on the shoulder and gave 4*
him a hearty handshake of 4
good by. |
WOMAN TAXICA3 DRIVER
AT WORK IN NEW YORK.
Flrat of Sex to Invade Gotham Wear
Leopard Cap and Cape.
▲ taxlcab driving east on Fiftieth
•treet. New York city, entered Broad
way and stopped on Broadway Tin
driver was Miss Wilma R. Russey, thr
drst woman taxlcab driver in Nev
York city.
Even before it was seen the drive*
was wearing skirts her appearance at
tracted attention. She wore on her
kead a huge cap of leopard skin and
•round her neck and over her shoul
ders the yellow and black spotted pelt
•f the same fierce animal. As soon as
the car stopped and the driver climbed
down there was no further room for
mistake. She wore a brown skirt that
came down just below the tops of her
high tau boots and a brown jacket.
Her forearms were lost In black leath
er gloves that came to the elbow.
Several other taxi drivers on the cor
ners formed groups and discussed the
feminine invasion of their business.
Finally they decided to accept it grace
fully. They talked shop and gave her
advice until a party of men came up
and asked If her taxlcab was engaged.
"Where do you want to go?" she
asked.
"No place in particular," answered
one of the men. "Just take us down
Broadway a-ways. All we want is to
have the first ride in your taxi"
The car traveled down Broadway,
making a sensation for several blocks.
Then Miss Russey collected the first
fare and tip ever collected by a woman
taxlcab driver In New York city. It
was a big tip. Miss Russey said, but
•he would not name the amount
LIMITS THE LYLE CHIMES.
Wealthy Tenafly (N. J.) Widow Re
stricted to Four Times a Day.
Vice Chancellor Vivian M. Lewis
made an order in Jersey City, N. J.,
regulating the playing of chimes at
Happyland. the Tenafly estate of Mrs.
Gertrude Lyle, the wealthy widow of
John F. Lyle. Persons living in Ten
afly had testified that their nerves were
being shattered by the jangling of the
2,000 ton bells In the Lyle tower, which
were rung at frequent intervals, night
and day.
The chimes were installed in August
1913. In September Mrs. Lyle's neigh
bors appealed to the local board of
health for relief from the chimes. By
November the Tenafly folk learned
from the local board of health and the
state board of health that no relief
could be granted from that quarter.
Last January Mrs. Alice Bailey, who
lived with her father, Charles T. Buck-
ley, an aged lawyer, 150 feet from the
memorial tower, and Henry J. Brunton
and his wife, who lived 200 feet from
the tower, employed Wendell J. Wright
to start injunction proceedings against
Mrs. Lyle to stop the bells.
The decision of the vice chancellor
provides that quarter hourly playing of
a theme from Elijah must cease. This
theme, which consists of eight notes,
may be played three times each day,
once at 8 o'clock in the morning, once
at noon and again at sunset. Mrs. Lyle
may also have one hymn tune played
each day upon the chimes and two on
Sunday.
WHEAT CROP MAKES A TOWN
It Was Prairie About a Month Ago and
Now Has 500 Inhabitants.
All recent records of town building
have been shattered by the growth of
Kildeer, N. D., terminus of the north
line branch out of Mandan. About a
month ago the site was bare prairie.
Today five elevators are in course of
construction, the Northern Pacific Kail
road company is building a roundhouse
and small shops, two bauks, a news
paper \>fice. a hundred residences and
thirty-five stores are being built.
There are at least 500 persons there
now, making their homes in tents or
box shanties until adequate quarters
can be built.
KlUdeer is in Dunn county and in
the center of a community that is
changing from stock to wheat farm
ing.
SLAVS SUSPECT
GERMAN nUJL
Skeptical ANt Reported i.'.OL
tjjjiibi odiVid
CSNTIKUE POLAND GA:,;T
Czar's Men Do Not Propose to u
Duped by Enemy and Hurry Prc r
arations In Eastern Zone—German-
Must Start Offensive During Coic
Weather, For Spring Will Maw.
Ground Too Soft For Campaigning
Petrcgrad, Jan. 1.1. —News reachin o
here of a proposed expedition in force
. by the Germans and Austrians against
Servia, that the Teutonic allies are
contemplating the dispatch of eleven
j army corps to that country to avenge
the recent Austrian reverses, is looked
■ upon in Russian military circles as a
; transparent ruse on the part of the
Germans to distract Russia's attention
from the Polish campaign and to di
vert this government from further re
inforcing the Russian armies in Po
land.
The Russian general staff, it is said,
is not influenced by the reports and is
continuing its campaign already initi
a ted.
Meanwhile the number of German
troops in Russian Poland has not di
minished, but is continually being in
creased on the Bzura and Niemen
rivers, on the latter waterway as far
as Tilsit.
The Russian general staff has ascer
tained, army officers say, that the Ger
mans are preparing for an offensive
campaign from the extreme northern
frontier down to the river Pilica where
the Austrians likewise have not di
minished their forces.
The supposition that the Germans
are making use of dilatory tactics em
ployed in the western war theater,
where there virtually has been no ad
vance on either side, is the view
shared by military authorities, as they
maintain the Germans must advance
or fall before the spring months
render the roads impassable.
From captured prisoners and other
sources the Russians are said to have
received reliable information that the
Germans intend to begin an offensive
in the near future. The Russians are
preparing effectively to meet this of
fensive.
The new recruitment in 1915 within
sixteen days, as officially announced,
will give to Russia nearly 600,000 new
men. The German advance on the
communities south of the village of
Moghely and southeast of Sochaczew,
several times repulsed with great
losses in the last few days, according
to Russian advices, is reported to have
been undertaken again. Likewise an
Austrian advance towards Kielce and
in the regions of the Pilica river if
said to have been effectively repulsed.
These battles are chiefly impcrtanl
as showing the continued German
ahd Austrian offensives in spite ol
constant losses.
TURKS SETTLE WITH ITALY
Hodeida Incident Closed When Porte
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Apologizes and Frees Consul.
London, Jan. 13.—Special dispatches
from Rome say that Turkey has
agreed to the demands of Italy in
connection with the Hodeida incident.
According to these advices Turkey
has ordered the release of British
Vice Consul Richardson who was ar
rested in the Italian consulate at Ho
deida and has promised to punish the
soldiers who broke into the consulate,
as well as to salute the Italian flag
when it is again hoisted over the
building. •
Investigation of the circumstances
attending the invasion of the Italian
consulate is still in progress and the
incident will remain open until this
inquiry has been completed. In view
of the concessions Turkey is reported
to have made, however, satisfactory
adjustment is expected.
The Rome police have arrested many
alleged pro German agents who had
been soliciting signatures to a peti
tion invoking Italy's neutrality
throughout the war. It is charged that
the agents paid for signatures to the
petition at the rate of a penny each.
A press dispatch from Athens says
the Albanian insurgents have occu
pied the heights of Ruzpol, near Duraz
zo, and are placing guns in a position
to command the capital. The Italian
warships in the harbor and the Italian
marines and bluejackets who were
landed to p otect Italian interests are
reported to be preparing to resist any
general assault on the city.
The war office issued a denial of the
report that four classes of second line
troops of the mobile militia have been
summoned to the colors.
Girls' Dormitory Burns.
Forsyth, >Io., Jan. 13. — Twenty-five
girls narrowly escaped injury and a
loss of $50,C00 resulted when fire de
stroyed tho administration building cf
the schorl cf the Gzarks, a Presby
terian institution here.
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This is Dainty Maid Dyker resting in a cup won at the toy dog show in
New York.
A Pretty Experiment.
How quickly the body eliminates
waste matter may be seen by the fol
lowing simple and pretty experiment:
Eat a tablet of lithium citrate.
Then take a clean platinum wire, hold
it in a colorless flame of a Bunsen
burner and uote that it gives no colora
tion to the flame. Now cool the wire
and pass it aloug the skin of the fore
head, or after rinsing the hand in dis
tilled water draw the wire across the
palm and again hold it to the colorless
Bunsen flame. Note the beautiful yel
low color, due to the presence of the
sodium. Next take blue glass and ob
serve the yellow flame through this.
The cobalt glass absorbs the yellow
sodium rays, and the lilac flame of
potassium now shows. About a half
hour after takiug the lithia tablet make
the same test as above with a clean
platinum wire. The vivid red flame
of lithium is now obtained. In one
short half hour the lithium entering at
the mouth has been absorbed into the
blood and carried to all parts of the
body and is being excreted through the
•kin.—New York World.
Bell Tents.
The interior of a bell tent is full of
surprises for the new hand. He be
gins by expecting it to be the airiest
of lodgings; It is really the stuffiest.
Unless the flaps at the entrance are
left open or the apron around the foot
lifted it soon becomes insufferable if
there are many men sleeping in It and
Luck.
Willie—Paw. what is luck?
Paw—Common sense, my son.—Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
MUMMERS' PARADE IN PHILADELPHIA.
Photo by American Press Association.
This shows one of the ways Philadelphia celebrates New Year's. These "shooters" have been a feature of
Quaker City life for a century or longer.
WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE EMDEN.
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THIS DOG A REAL EPICURE.
Twrisr From Boston Is a Confirmed
Vegetarian.
Mrs. M. R. L. Freshel of Boston,
president of the Millennium guild, au
organization which opposes the slaugh
ter of animals, has a Yorkshire terrier
that Is a vegetarian.
Sister, as the terrier is known, ac
cording to Mrs. Freshel, has never eat
en meat.
This is what Sister likes: Lentils,
peas, beans, celery, carrots, radishes,
lettuce, apples, nuts, eggs, oatmeal and
buttered toast.
"Many of our diseases come from
eating meat," says Mrs. Freshel, "and
when I became a vegetarian twelve
years ago I applied the principles to
animals. My Sister has never had dis
temper.
"If folks would only teach their ani
mals to eat vegetables we wouldn't
have this fuss over the diseases of
dogs."
Rather Too Light.
The landlady who had not a reputa
tion for overfeeding her boarders asked
her solitary boarder as he looked dole
fully at his supper, "Shall I light the
gas?"
The boarder gazed at the scanty meal
and replied, "Well, no. it isn't neces
sary; the supper is light enough!"—
London Telegraph.
Very Temperate.
"He was very temperate. He got
drunk ouly once a week," remarked a
witness to a Liverpool coroner.
A Domestic Disturbance.
The trouble began with a tea tight.
The milk was sour, the cake cut up,
and the sugar fell out with the tonga.
The spoous clashed, and the tahl#
groaned. The fringes on the doltleo
snarled, and the crackers snapped. Th©
easy chairs were soon up in arms, and
even the clocks did not agree. Thinga
were no better in the kitchen. The
pitchers were all set by the ears and
stuck out their lips, while the teapot
and kettle poked their noses iuto every
thing. The range was red hot. which
made the saucepan look black and final
ly boil over. The bells started jangling,
all the pickles and preserves in the
cupboard were jarred, and there were
any number of scraps in the refrig
erator and meat safe. Naturally when
the mistress of the house reached tb
scene of disorder the cook was put out.
—Judge.
It Changed His Mind.
A switching engine prevented a Chi
cago man from committing suicide the
other day. With a rope around hia
neck and fastened to the rails of the
Rock Island railroad he was crawling
between the ties, prepared to jump
from a viaduct, when a switcbinf"
gino came along and cut the rope
he had lost his chance of hanging
self, he thought better of his proji
Good Advice.
"What would you say," said the
prophet of woe, "If I were to tell yon
that In a very short space of time all
the rivers In this country would dry
up?"
! "I would say," replied the patient
j man, "go and do thou likewise."—
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