The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 30, 1915, Page 4

STAR—TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1915, PAGE 4, AMERICAN SOLDIER-REPORTER WRITES THRILLING STORY OF CHRISTMAS TRUCE IN TRENCE TELLS HOW SOLDIERS WHO AN HOUR BEFORE HAD KILLED SHOOK EACH OTHER’S HANDS AND POSED FOR PHOTOGRAPHS; ST. LOUIS MAN TOO FRIENDLY NEXT DAY AND oes | uncrossable as the spaces be) you can sboot tt | happy volcos filled the air, atant | stood about with our arma about ¢ was not until the sun began to The © was no shooting all tween the stars; as terrible as Within a minute the target We were all unhumanly happy | I was one of the four men se | each others’ shoulders, in horse | go down that the groups broke | nigh abou m, when human hate. had by bull's-eye | for that one glorious in | lected, and I shall never forget | shoe formation, while the lieu up - on eee Os “ ard tar And the sunshine of the bright m pulled tt down, pasted | which we all-—Dnglish® tu | how I felt aa we advanced to tenant snapped hin camera We're to have a band in ur down the trenches _-—— Christmas morning fell on it as its of white paper where | guese, Americans, and eve | meet the four German soldiers oe don't have chance to trench 9 tonight and we want |St. Louis Man Too : brightly as if it were a lovers’ | the s had struck, and held it | deem, the Turk—could | and their Meutenant, who were | send you the prints before the | you to hear waid the AaB, | ep By Phil Rader | Jane or the alsie In some grand | up again, so that the Germans | and that, savages as we had been, | coming toward us war is over,” be sald, “I shall see | as they bade us good-bye and as Friendly; He Dies Copyrighted, 101%, by ob one ang | cathedral Gcnld een thelr ecaee. | the awfiiness of war had ‘not | We folt an if we wante that you get them afterwards we rhook thett hands. After sup. . ‘ adee corn not meng LONDON, March 6.—There | . In doing #0, Nadeom's head ap filled the corners of o' heart tor we And he »k our addrenne per we heard a sudden burst o' ure human syn hy unerring were three Americans: in that |Nadeem, the Turk, ceased abivelthe {RoMth, Gat we\| Wiehe deve end Okrtitene ties, | throw oUF Ar TDy MDM thee day | At last the bodies were buried. | musle that thrilled us He bad first to feel | marvelous Christmas truce in my Begins the Truce heard him talking across No I thi m wes first to | thet the same po Hg Bon upon | The hour of truce had pas A little German band had crept | the holiday rit of Christma i of the trenches—Eugene | [I don't know how the truce be- | Man's land sense whe happened, He | them ae ee But the men did not go back to | into the Germen trenches and | day, but on this day after Christ ectte, of Pawtucket, R. I; Vie- | gan in the other trenches, b Thoughtlessly 1 ralsed my | suddenly Jumped out. of the | the trenches, In groups on that | announced itself with a grand | mas he failed to sense the gritie tor Chapman, a Harvard man | our hole Nadeem began it head, too trench and began .waving hia | _ THO hatred of war had been | oneg terrible strip the Germans | chord ness of war that had fallen over from New York, and myself. | deém, a Turk, who believes that Other men did the same hands and cbeertt suddenly withdrawn, and tt left | ang their enemies sat talking, or Then came the unexpected | the trenches during the night We belonged to tho foreign le | Mohammed and not Christ was We saw hundreds of German | While he was doing this a pon. | ® Yaeuum tn which we human be | diaving cards, exchanging tobac trains of the r The Karly ‘ ning he Jump. gion which had been inade up in | the true prophet of God head# appearing. Shouts filled | derous German, with a happy | 12% Tushed Into contact with | co and cigarets, and laughed at Frenchmen were frantic | ed out of the trench and bagel Paris of men of ali nations, and | ‘The sunshine of the morning | the air, What miracle had hap- | amile that exposed two rows of | h other. You felt thetr hand: | joxeq with deiight waving his arms again We had been tn the trenches for | seemed to get into Nadeem's | pened? | glittering white teoth, climbed | *itkee—double handshakes with [4,0 41 poss Then came our turn, when the John Street, an American, whe 20 days before Christmas dawn- | blood Men laughed and cheered out. of his trench and shouted: | %°t® hande—tn your heart, a band pla its a Long, Long | had been an evangelist in 6¢, ed. j _ He was only an enthusiastic [Christmas Tears Lieut. Schroeder presents his The truce was arranged, There |the Germans Say Way to Tipperary Louis, jumped out with him and For 20 days we had faced that | boy, but always childishly happy . * aoc compliments to your Meutenant | W4% no firing for one hour, and “Don't blame us," was the bur- | George Ulland, our negro cook began to shout a morning greet Btrip of land, 45 feet wide, be- | and when we noticed, at the rex in Eyes of Enemies | desires to know If he will | the men from both sides were to | den of the Germans’ ta it is | who came from Galveston, got | ing to a German he had made ‘tween our trench and that of the | ular morning shooting hour, that There was Christmas Mght in | select four men and ne to the | come out and bury their dead not our fault that we are fight out bis mouth organ almost | friends with the day before. be Germans—that No Man's land, | tho German trenches were silen their eyes, and I knew there | middie of the neutral territory to | _ The soldiers flocked from both | tng. We don't know what it’s all | burst bi lunge playing “Die THERE WAS A RATTLE O} pee @otted with dead bodies, criss- | Nadeem began to make a joke of | were Christmas tears in mine for truce for burying | trenches. They rushed at each | about, We ail have wives and | Wacht am Rhein RIFLE FIRE, AND STREET crossed by tangled masses of | it There w smiles, smiles ead ‘ and shook hands children, and we all are just the The silence in the German | FELL DEAD WITH A BULLET % barbed wire. We drew a target on a board amiles, smiles, where in days be “Il want to have your photo same kind of men that you are. | trenches while he played was a THROUGH HIS HEAD. ‘That little strip of land was as | fastened it to a pole, and stuck | fore there had been only ritle |Agree to Truce graph,” said the German Heuten- | We are damned fools, and so is | thousand times more eloquent THE SUN WAS SHININ ) wide and as deep and as full of | it above the trench, shouting to | barrels. The terror of No Man's |to Bury the Dead ant to our patty, “He sent back | everybody who {# fighting.” | than the blast of cheers that | DOWN AGAIN ON A WORL death as ¢' Atlantic ocean the Germans eo how well ' land fell away The sounds of Our lteutenant agreed in an tn for bis camera, and we enemies And our talk ran the same, It car when he h finished GONE MAD, 4 DIANA DILLPICKLES | IN HER HOT SKETCH THE SEATTLE STAR — ——$——__,__ Nc ar a a a a a a [* SAY, DIANA, THERE'S: | MEMBER OF SCRIFPS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF XEWSrArEns ONE % NOUR OUAN Mas ND 3 ‘ * WHY, HELLO! FATHER, IN THERE. 1 LEFT Him MERCY: HERE'S A PAGE OF You SAVED MY ‘Teleavaph News Service of the United Preee Association AMUSIN’ HIMSELF READING THAT HAS MY FAMILY BIRTHS LiFe '* THE HOME COMPENDIUM ace wiTt® AND ” Entered at Seattle, Wash, Postoffice as Second-Class Matte: SS Sceataeteecenatahntes learnt tetanic D ae _ | BY mail, out of olty, 360 per month up to 4 mos $1 : carrier, city 3$¢ @ month. | Daity by The Star Publishing Co. Pheae Mala 9400. Prtvate | _ Seattle’s Harbor Defenses HAT Theodore Roosevelt and others meant recently when they said that the United States’ defenses were “paper” defenses is explained in a manner which the Wwhole Pacific Northwest will understand in this common, inary routine news-story : “For some time it has been apparent to military men while Ft. Casey could withstand an attack by a fleet.) Id easily be rushed from the rear and its guns silenced. | “There are a number of places where a landing could effected on Whidby island, and the landing force could} then march unmolested to the rear of the fort and bs ice bones with little or no resistance.” In other words, this fort, which the people of the North. we have counted on a sure defense, really is a defense so long as the nice, obliging enemy will lay out in *Sound, in front of its guns, instead of walking up behind, where no guns are pointed. year $2.60 7 WANT JUST ONE AUNUTE OF “When You're Well, Keep Well Another article in The Star’s health campaign being conducted Blowing Some. “It's awfully good of you to let tions are being made now to repair this defect YOUR TIME, _ said Mra. Twickem-| me do that will please hu BUT THE CHARACTER OF OUR COAST DE- WR. TRUE. at. “ide Waal at woriitie| Stee so meni rue ‘Yomen’s eer _with co-operation of American Medical Association INSES AND OUR NAVY, OUR PEACE INSURANCE, velocipede.”—Christian Register. panton fi MANY YEARS PAST, IS ACCURATELY INDI- , ED BY THIS EXAMPLE OF A “DEFENSE” WHICH, siasimr RUOON Sc THE DOORMAT [LF BADLY NEEDED DEFENDING. : va pote you wet ballot, What Water ss to be used for drink-; Then if the sewage finds its way The American people never will stand for a war of ag will be the first thing you do? ing, for brushing the teeth, for|into a lake or stream or if the con- ‘ P P ¢. : “ of | m, nor will they go to war to protect the fat profits of was ber triumphant re cooking and the tents ot a cesspool soak inte the 4 industrial and trade barons. But if they are attacked, tort. —Puck Various uses of pepe bangle toe = inte Sa 1 will fight as their forefathers fought to protect their eee the household, fect whoever drinks the contami a Profitable. must be free |nated water. m MEANWHILE “THEY DEMAND THAT SUCH EN st hak tone bevdtuoee Ce from infection Water that is contaminated with 2 ey OF “DEFENSE FT. CASEY BE ADDED Seat Seren enene mame Teg free from the sewage is always dangerous to Res a wah . cated M bought germs of disease |drink. It may not always cause | MARILY TO THE NATIONAL LIST OF INTER yet, but it looks good. 1 Remember this sickness, because the sewage may NG ANTIQUES. out so much about the com now that the warm days are | not always contain germs given off a if t nat took me into the coming by persons sick of typhoid fever - - firnt Philadelphia Ledger. Experience has shown that | and other water-borne diseases, but y Merely Look Strong eats water may cause typhoid fever |it is the safe rule to consider such “ACTON r ata aking It Emphatic by carrying the living typhoid | water as dangerous : CCASIONALLY, the war experts get u laymen all ; J into the telegraph of. germ from some person sick — tangled up. Here comes Gen. Francis Greene, for in and rapped on th: inter, As with the disease to some well | When a person laughs the praise fo ae clerk came forward to meet her person. ; diaphragm pounds the liver en , who says: “With regard to the three great Pacifi - bered that had been This {is «© simple mechanical) and the abdominal walls strike Rie, with a coast line 1,200 miles in length, it is true that YOUR MINUTES uP m minutes before. He transfer of the The water! the stomach and me principal harbors are protected by strong, modern, up AND iL HAVE TO what she wa this Ie plays no other han that of} Th rs up tl F date fortifications but—”" etc., ete SHOW YOU THE way time floating the tiny things along, un-| lungs and circulation We’ 1 hed: desi 2 fi G F 2 OUT! + DiDN’r ‘Ob he maid, “let me have that jless we may say that it keeps them the body is improved as is the eve always had admiration for Gen. Greere vsecause YOUD STAY MERE AN telegram I wrote just now: | for from drying up. person's health. T' i his a am Lae? ste Pacific coast line is not HOUR fit ¢ Kot “ thing very important. 1 | ate kerms t cholera dysentery | laugh often. 1,200 miles long, but 1,600, and the protection given ‘he prin- 4 want to underscore ‘perfect! Can you exlain to me the |and the germs of the milder forms | serine ea 8: fi ! sit Ly " lov nowledging the receigt, meaning of the Open Door for jof diarrheal diseases may also be! PLAN EASTER DANCE harbors by the present fortifications is an empty dream “4 & r ~ | i. Snel has bees : died sie iieie: ot a dligy x? o Will it cost auy.| China transferred by water | An Easter dance has as everybody knows who knows anything about those forti thing extra dear, It means that the ms of these various dis-| nounced by the Moochers club fications. No, ma'am,” said the clerk, as) other nations are priv to ave the bodies of the sick | Saturday night, April 3. The wipe their feet on her as they | people in the urine and bowel dis-| will be given in Douglass hall, go tt charges, Sewage is thus Mable to| Fellows’ building, 10th ave. and eh ie: contain them. {Pine st he handed her the message The young lady drew two heas |lines beneath the words, and said USE “Sunset” Brand PAINT and | VARNISH = = And what if all said harbors had the finest fortifications ) ever conceived of? The cities are not located in the harbors, at around them, and there's no law requiring the enemy $ail right up to the muzzles of guns in forts Take, for instance, the lay-out at San Diego, whose forti fication has just got an appropriation of some $385,000. A hostile mosquito couldn't get by the forts 1 into the har bor, perhaps. But the forts are so locate hostile fleet, with modern guns, could lie behind a 400-{« point ‘and shell the city in safety, and the landing places out of reach lof our fortifications are plenty. The same thing is true, in} ) a@ degree, in respect of the other coast harbor defenses. With A Terrible Effort. | Now that the washing hung on the line, Mrs. Moran was leaning SPINNING’S pubes: over the back fence and discussing [i $3.05 32x3!% Firestone Red Inner Tube . with sympathetic Mrs, Regan the Mf 45¢ Half-Pound Ball Hemp Twine problem of bringing up a daughter Not more than five balls to a customer Privately, Mrs, Regan considered |B 15¢ Norust Bottom Flour Sifter . that Maggie Moran was horn lazy | but Maggie's mother held that Mag gie’s case was not so simple “It ain't that Maggie's not will jin’,” said Mrs. Moran, “Willin’ she Strictly high grade and a beauty No. 0 Wells Hinge Pipe Vise Holds pipe from % to 2 inches out a Pacific fleet our Pacific coast fortifications, though is, and act on her bicycle, and) wo, 1 Same Strong, modern and up-to-date, which they are not by a WELL MADE always ready to run an errand for Halle pie toss 16 tS 4c aa sttereseeeeeees | good deal, are a matter for derision. Ask “the man behind — LOCAL MADE [Work callin’ or seca tt alookin stip NO 2 Same Waamateeniee A Sc) 5. } work callin’ or sees it adookin’ at| © the gun” if this is not so. He'll tell you it is so, if he isn't 9 | will stage the biggest meet in ite her | Holds pipe % to 3% inches. afraid to talk. FRAU JUKE DIDN T history. There will be contests of| RETAIL STORE | “It’s easier to do a thing yerseit|p '* YoU Wish # Keen-Cutting, Aldea Try Our New Razer Slade sa 1 wo1ts for model machines, En | than to be tellin’ others,” said Mrs. MatTLE “DOCTOR” found vertebrae In woman's back. then he| WELP WORLD PUGH) tries win be received tr tee cep 1622 Fourth Ave. Regan, understandingly | SPIN IN ’ 1416-1417 found himself in jail. up to Friday night | FACTORY AT FREMONT || “And that’s the truth.” agreed Fourth Av. De: Saiien neve speak Tho first flight will be made| “= Mrs. Moran, “But Maggie ain't to! G ONE WORD from the people and the park board does as it pleases.|ing before the Puget Sound Under-| Promptly at 2 p. m AFAINF * blame, although maybe she’s a lit-| i MANGAS judge thes declared the federal migratory bird law void,| ing. cited ne an iliustretne oF tho| NAVY YARD ROUTE IPE T0 CLEAR hee tr i tae wer tn © ° but thus far no Kansas judge has decided the ten commandments un- peculiarities. of heredity the no.| her, ‘Ma I says, ‘every time The rong In ver ong constitutional. torlous Juke family of New York tate Gon eas De. pgs a you find something to do to help! Fran Juke was a chronic| sunday), #106, 10:36 am isso 100 ee mother round the house, I'll give|. OVerdoing causes most sickness. dizzy spells. I tried a number gly BREAD PUDDING stands third on the list of best seliers in the drunkard,” he sald, “who was born | cept Recaer’’s $108, ye a cent. That started her Overwork and worry bring on most|/remedies, but got very little help ik day 2:30), 6:30 pm r hard] New York school lunch rooms—proving that New York still needs mis. in 1740 and lived 60 years. Her-| Seturday, 1 m. jat it, Mrs, Regan, and ‘twas a full| Cases of kidney weakness juntil I took Doan’s Kidney Pills, self and her descendants cost the | , © table subject to change withest| pimples Are impurities Seeking |‘¥°, Weeks before she got discour} The inside forces and the body ee ee ge my be during a period of 7 n d . sues simpl D r bette! nd eys ac $1,250,000. But 709 of her OL. Price Oe Round ‘Trip an Outlet Through Skin ja@ed and give it up. tissues are simply used up faster} © any. since then ft “And how much did she make?” | than they can be repaired, The one P. _ ed out of a tota ore asked Mra, Regan. body {s filled with waste matter, | been troubled at all, 834. Of these 709, illegitimate HAT JAR 5 5 , c . ’ | The kid lowed thet | ‘ Pimples, sores and boils us . Nine cents,” said Mrs, Moran,| The kidneys are slowed up in thelr |Byery Picture | birth accounted for 106, 142 were 1 OF HU TEROLE pauult Teote toxins, pra ergo |“but I called it a dime,"~The| blood-filtering work. The blood Tille'a Story beggars, 64 were charges of the | purities which are generated in the | Youth's Companion. gets heavy and impure, The kid ie & Sioad threuah the vary ducts whiee " A good kidney medicine 1s cer- | Has Relieved Pain for Every|*0uld absorb only nourishment to| ENTITLED TO PRIVILEGES /tainly needed, but it is quite as AUTO OVERTURNS; One in the: amlly. 7 |e te ote ea. aners| — | . FIVE TIPPED QUT 2,0» sosieina sve croup |Site, nuritin from tne boo’) gm ny Hct inore Hey: to take iil and got hin feet wet anc » lig orcise ht cold: when Hathes wet 884] urine, but in many instances the | more Tt SEBiiOr Gusesein (@) tir, W. D. wammens, § knee on Granny's theama-| bowels create more toxins and {m-| and sleep. Giving the kidneys | PF cette after tee gett | tint hottiered he | purities than the kidneyg can elim-| little rest helps the medicine | ; aoa TUSTEROLE was! inate, then the blood uses the skin work better pores as the next best means of Doan's Kidney Pills pA Gree MUSTEROLE ts a clean, white| ting rid of these impurities whi 69 were convicted of crime. | necessary to avoid worry, over-| | work, late hours, excesses, ete.; to| shoulder bone th derful record of success all over, the world in repairing weak kid: ‘tes neys. Thousands publicly recom-|¢*#? mend them A Seattle Man Says: Edmund H Crowe, engineer, 1015 Fifth ave, N., Seattle, says: “T| had considerable trouble from the | kidney secretions and I often had 4to get up at night to pass them My back was lame and weak and] used to pain me most of the time.|“It catches me right there every | h nd other bat art ent, made with off of mnuatard.| often break out all over the skin in and Jef-|it will hot bilster ike a mustard] the form of pimples e juries whe automobil 8. W. Case » Fre t itc overturned Fifth ay ferson st. late Me There | plaste i The surest way to clear the skin were four other passengers in the f th Don't stand that itching skin-torment |car, including Dr. Case's S-month-| \ttodie la to at tee Eee |thority, is to get from any phar one day longer. Go to any druggist old baby, but none was hurt ex-| Con eat Git ol Rasen Giatsaaen aed | canting fire, Parsons oan | macy about four ounces of Jad Salts a cake of Resinol Soap, Bathe the The accident obeurred as Dr,| Hack nd take a tablespoonful in a glass sick skin with Resinol Soap and hot Case: made a quick turn to avert | ™. rosted| Of hot water each morning before water, dry, and apply a little Resinol |4 collision with another Ford 1 Noehis yee breakfast for one week. This will Ointment. driven by Wilmot H. I treas py children | prevent the formation of toxing in The torturing itching and” burning | urer of the Chas. H. Lilly Co. c in She and foc| the bowels, It also stimulates the stop instantly, you no longer have to , apecial, Jarge hospital| kidneys to normal activity, thus ( coaxing them to filter the blood of iy) dig and scratch, sleep becomes possi- ii bes hor Bx at ble, and healing Bieton Sock the Kip AERO CLUB TO u got the genuing MUS. impurities and clearing the skin of |1 often had terrible headaches and time’ ugly, tormenting eruptions | nei eat ask for The Mus wterele pimples st Convict (jealously) completely and for good. Doctors have HOLD BIGGEST MEET | Cleveland, Onie | Jad Salts ts inexpensive, harmless Tonviet alously prescribed this treatment for 20 years. |and is made from the acid of grapes | Hey, how do you git by with that Sf EELS SIU TE } and lemon jufee, combined with| —-takin’ it easy? Yer only doin’ Gee rts bee of Gans et tone itis ates aad éviniorms ei lithia, Here you have a pleasant,| time as a common pickpocket DOANS skin, ‘They clear away pimples and blackheads, | 014 forth at the south end of G | effervescent drink which usually| | Second Convict (pleasantly)—I KIDNEY P and form a most valuable household treatment for | 0! Gat sr ihe South ene of Green} makes pimples disappear; cleanses | know it—but dey found where I sores, chafings, cuts, burns, piles, otc. Fortrialsise, | Jake Saturday afternoon, when the the blood and is excellent for the! had a previous conviction as a free, writs to Dept. 7-5, Kesinol, Baltimore, Md. | Model Aero Science club of Seattle kidneys as well,—Advertisement, bank embezzler,