The evening world. Newspaper, November 27, 1917, Page 18

t te aeramiagunn wt JomnPM "Beiared ai the Pert Offion oh Wow Work ae | poe TAIN Te ossiery SF Vere Wor By Albert Payson Terhune ee a * Tee “ew d mae UE wots Ninel beat ™ | hn OS No. 44. THE BATTLE OF OMUSKANY. , ‘The time was Aug 6, 170i, 7 at eprion Seay hak chief, Hrant, came down » New York State HERE 9 a Vood Administration as Waablagton, with Mr. Hoover trom Canada, where ho had been ee .« hoge cad nated food war party of Indians und Tories and Canada (orestete At Ite head, apewially oreated to conserve the tountry’s | verte tke Canadian veusdary and (ua ae 1099 Ome Tear, o0) (ee Ment “EACH FOR ITSELF? OF THR AMROETAT ED ORIMA, So Le aS BP a ————— seceeeee MO, OD and to protect consumers from the rayacity of thoee engaged State” Now York poured bis utiny army, Killing y ia producing, sturing or distriiuting foodatulfe, { and burning and torturing us it rolled sout 4 There is a Wood Commiesion In this Stato epecially ereated by the Brant hated the patriots with all hin mavage oul, And he wae slavieniy Legislature for the purpose of Ineuring practical and efficient food devoted to Mngiund, because an kinglishinan fared J bad marred Fegulation In the commonwealth of New York. The Vresidant of the oblef's sister. Hence his recruiting trip in Canada. No had boundless thie State Food © fon Is John Mitohell influence with hin fellow redekina, And thousands of tuom followed Ria ow praminsion ja goin a tthe There fa in the City of Now doner of Markets whose duty In in & community of more than 6, wits Lolds this important office. Could Mr, Hoover, Mr. Mite York a newly orented City Commie to guard the interests of consumers 000,000 people, Dr. Henry Mosk hell or Dr. Moskowl!tr, severally or collectively, show at tho present moment any method of system) whereby their activities aro belag co-ordinated w produce prompt! and specific results? ‘The functiona of alf th be directed toward tho sme onds food adinin trations are assumed to over greater or less areas, ‘There .# littlc indication ae yet, however, that they have arranged @ plan of co-operation. On the contrary there have been hints that such co-operation eannot be hoped for until certain obstacles in the nature of unwilling- nese to accept limitation of authority im the interest of organization and efficiency have been cleared away, Such a situation should not be permitted to continue, It would seem that the biggest city in the country might well be the place for the first offorte of food administrators to convergo and prove to the public their fitn taken. to handle the job they have under New York has as yet, however, no assurance that the various food regulators to whom it has the rig’ how they will divide the work, Are Messrs. Hoover, Mitchell t to look for help have even agreed ; and Moskowitz prepared to rei consumers in this city with evidence of a complete co-operative under-| | standing? ————————— | APPLY THE BIGGER TESTS. reached the decision that as an Austrian who has served W' WONDER if the great violinist, Kreisler, would have in the present war it is better for him not to go on giving concerts before American audiences had it not been for the multi- plying current evidences of a patriotism too ardent to care what be- domes of a Boston Symphony Orchestra or whether the music of Richard Wagner is interned along with enemy aliens, \ Yet, provided it rests upon a foundation of sinoero, self-sacrificing loyalty, is it not wiser after all patriotism than to combat it? to try to understand this phase of| It ia vain in some cases to recall the President's solemn protest that the United States is at war with the German people only so tar| ‘Ma’ Sunday’s | Ba icans a 119 bettie waa fought during the Mevolution, But © wan not fought with the Britien, lostend, the pa trlote’ opponents at Oriskany wore lodians, Torey and @ few Canadians. o «ere almost no Bom Mabmen engaged to von a Gere aad ee tecuiarly dramatic and thet te worth remembering vy every American sho loves Wo hong of other Americana gallant caplet oon wore Amuri na who did not ade , and who (whea- ou) fought on ti eagerly to the warpath. Tho “Tories” with their fellow Americans in tho struggle for lbert ever ¢ could safely do Brit Ae. } Altogether was a strange and murderome throng that Brant led to the slaughter, One Barry eC eee. Mts BOR slish Colonel, was the nominal head of the expedition, On the patriot garrison at Ft. Stanwiz, Tho militia of ‘Tryon County, N. ¥., under old Gen, Nicholas Herkimer, marched to the fort's reilef, Herkimer had about 800 men with him. The Fort Stanwiz gat numbered 600, Herkimer sont word to the fort that he and tho T County men were coming. He sent also the details of a plan whereby te and the fort's defenders might catch St. Lager's force between two fireiy The signal for tho double attack was duly arranged. Of course, the pude ces of the scheme depended on Herkimer's men and the garrison strilding the fos at procisely the same time from opposite sides. But time went on and, for some unexp! reason, the signal froug the fort was not given. Herkimer wisely refused to go allead without tt His {11 disciplined officers cursed him for a coward and a Tory, till he loa® his temper and, against his better Judgment, yelled the order to advance, — Meantime, during the delay, Indian scouts brought St. Leger word the Tryon militia’s presence. And Brant took charge of the affair, As Herkimer and his men were advancing toward the distant forty with no foar of attack, they came to a deep ravine at Oriskany, near Utiemy Into the ravine they mare only to find its wooded banks and creat; were alive with savages aud Tories, Tho patriots were neatly caught ff Grant's ambush-trap. But they would not yield or run, Instead, they rallied from their dazed surprise and herotcally sought to hold thelr own, against the mass of enemies that heramed thoin in, Of the wild hand te, hand scrimmage that followed, John Fiske says: wn “The scene was one of the most fer that the history of@savage e, warfare has ever witnessed, The dark ravine was filled with a mass Of human beings, screaming and cursing, slip} Oe in the mire, pushing and struggling, selzing eaok The Quarry Breake$ Ctiory throats, stabbing, shooting, dashing ous the Trap. brains. A bullet Killed Herkimers horse and The old hero sat at the The Siege of Ft. Btanwix. shattered his own leg. foot of a great beech tree, where, lighting his pipe, he continued shouting his orders {n @ stentorlan voice and directing the progress of the battle “Now the rain came pouring in torrents and sheets of lightning flashed in quick succession, with a continuous roar of thunder, The wet could no longer be fired. But hatchet, knife and bayonet carried on work of butchery until, after more than five hundred men had been or wounded, the Indians gave way and fled in all directions. The T began to retreat. The patriot army, remaining in possession of the hand } won field, felt {tself too weak to pursue them.” ‘A belated sortie from ort Stanwix completed the route of the Tortes’ and Indians. The menace of thelr raid was checked. But brave ol@ Herkimer did not live to enjoy his triumph. He died from his wound @ few days after the battle. Intimate Talks | as they identify themselves with the present Imperial px lll we Lord, God of Hosts, Thy and its purpose. Tt is vain to argue that since we are at war only! with a present German dynasty, we need not make war on past gen- erations of Germans nor on the music and literature they produced. | Patriotism would be a pallid thing if it did not feel as well as Its deeper intensitics of passion aro necessarily in evidence | In war time. Don’t be too quick to condemn them even when they seem extravagant or inconsistent. is too big, too precious to be app’ The thing itself—when it is real— raised by any but major tests, Letters From the People ¢ Christmas for Belgtan Soldiers. To the Editor of the Evening World: Bvery red blooded person ls now thinking about what he can do for the soldier's Christinas, Many ure unfortunate people whose homes have beon wiped also thinking of the out by the war, to call attention to the plight of the Belgian soldier who will have no one to wend him any little com- fort, and whose only thought on Christmas Day will be of the home ‘ “It you had been @ friend who pundaries aud new idew in that “ Chats wiped, out and, the relatives [AT ce AVIRTOR | plate Mpttyar” tor tho American| Rfawich up how tno Beet eavts| og NS, doubt Golomon whispered tendarly to bis last wife “Darling, yo) wanted to take me to mpcdea, of] on me’ t aut oid nee See Shows, nothing, st Supply Depot Garden CL. oe woman who ts waiting and working| tered by conventions and made easy | 4F@ 9 sD: fi undred women I ever loved! good luck tn any shape, you would| ou iu® 1 Ect cold. T m lat, feet Fo these kind people who would Tyee ve In the war-darkened home from which | for her by the luvor of others Her -—— have been promptly turned away, for| On. myself, and, Mie to do something for these unfor~|.n, a, hor at eof the Ovtthon Fn aise taan gone tn ble khaki. to | peryice fag jana country will) Tf the good old Puritans had been pactfists or conscientious ob-|this te « modern, efficient business | st ana whate” peral cane C FN eee ney, toc | As one of the army of @verage| bear his part in the great soul strug-| piece of t ating for patriotic | Jectors there wouldn't have been any of us here to celebrate Thanks-| institution. We have goods to sell) yor, persisted My, bacco, pipes, books, &o., to the Bel-|citisens whose patronage supporte| gle of the trenches. ocvasions. She will know it has been] giving except the Indians. and @ modern system to insult every sian Consulate, No. | person who comes to buy them. hi they may be papers, who gave their lives freely that it “ | it was, no sugar In my toddy, even nM i nto saont |! enter an indignant protest agatnst| supreme and bitter @ soul-struggte In| jignt survive--she will know that l J S M | f. r V | H A W; | But {f you are a book agent, & Dill) nootiess days and wheatl appreciative banda. V. BM. |the patronizing attitude of some of| the trenches at home, They may mot] penoath it are the unbroken ramparts | . . eda fe) alor ar to IN, | collector, a bore, a subpoena server eas days 5 A Bugar Broker Asks # Question, Bo the Biitor of The Wvening World: I bave just read with a 26 Madison Av- at, deal Please limit communtoations to 150 words, City, have to pay the full fare, fy $1.19, while other men who tissue Soest a were imilee out of town, Pay only 60 cents for th round trip? ‘The men here bave Bot any herd feslings against the draft men, but to @ man from anywhere out of this State the practise seems un- ble on the of the rallroaa railroad feels it a duty to make reduction tn one fare, why not make 4 reduction which would benefit the men from Camp Mills and the avia- tion fleld also? If to one, why not to theatera, Magazines and ne the writers of reviews about thi artiso, Many, many times I ha: found that plays which appeal to ublio are assailed by these review, will be done on this war- reddened curth, even aa itis in the peaceful heavens, Glvo us strength and faith and love to send our dear ones away with a emile on our lips and u song tn our hearts. Give us the vision to glimpse the vie- tory and the sun- whine beyoud the grim clouds of war—-that victory for which they and we may be called to give all that we hold most dear on this earth. Help us to keep our ser- view fag fixing with @ new meaning and @ new challenge and a new deal, and may our lives be fuller for its fying—not with grief or sadness, but with the thrill of an inspiration that shad) know no pause until all buman- tty is freed from the yoke of man- made tyranny.” ‘This is the first @ection of the new In her way she ie facing net as be awept by the fire of the enemy, but they are swept by all of the de- mona of despair and heartache and A PRAYER FOR THE WOMAN LEFT BEHIND. S burden and trial and sacrifice tuto which they are entering—that gaunt cloud from which at times there seems ny ending, and which for three long years of anguish has spread its cold fingers about the hearts of thelr sisters across the seas, They are just beginning, from tho black valley of their new bereavement, to stretch out gropingly for support and consvlation and inspiration tbat cannot be given by human hearts or human voices, It is # erivis needing not only all of the inherent strength of American Wowanhood—that gtrength which has | beon handed down from the wilder- nose struggles of the Mayflower mothers—but a deeper and @ more enduring and a more strength even than that which echoes to us from the herolo pages of the past. The ttle woman at home ts left aloue, and perhaps for tho first time in her life ig brought into in- timate, pel au contact with tb God—that God who must prot when she cannot baye the soldier who | hus marched away with bi» colors, | If wlio is the woman L think she ts she will emerge from her trial by fire with a new faith in herself and tn humanity and i her God, and new er | t consecrated In the life blood of those of a civilization and a brotherhood of man that has come safely through the greatest blagte aimed at it in all his-| tory. $ . friend, HELEN Bomar Most women look forward to marrtage as perfected happiness, lit ts merely the blank cloth on which every human being must embrotder | inspiriDé | his own happiuesa by Land, To add to the other horrors of war, {t now costs a man three cents} |to send you a love-letter containing a thousand dollars’ worth of caution | Mr. Jarr, “But if you were a personal and o penny’s worth of sentiment, Why fe tt that when @ man etarts looking for a wife he usually ex pends all his tline and energy in trying to find one who is hard to win, rather than in hunting for one who ts easy to live with? O the nations at medal awarded by tho United Btates for exceptional valor ts chelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland (Ooq)stgtt, 1017, by the Preas Publishing Oo. (The New York Br OMLTIMIS @ man ts almost as careful in choosing a wife, who 4s his intellectual and social equal as he would be tu Some men are eo cautious that svaring to heaven on the wings of love, they are care- fully gripping a parachute, All alimony should be classed as “excess profits!" Why on earth should a woman bo paid for belng happy? Women are like poetry; any man thinks infinitely more of them when be doesn’t know exactly what they mean, dearte, war the The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell . Coprright, L917, by the Preas Publishing On (The New York Evening World.) GENTLE tap upon hie shoulder| Mr. Biodger gloomily. First tt wae as ho pretended to be busy at) those slepdaughlers of mine, Kreme his desk—for tt was after 9 A.| and Gladys Cackleberry. ‘They got M. and the boss might pass throush/a@ ttle regiment of Lady any moment—caused Mr. Jarr to, Walkers, or something of that eost, rouse up with @ start, or start UD| Went around the house in khalel with a rouse. bloomers, tunics and Sam Brown And well he might rouse up with belts, I bissed and rattled, but they | a start, or vice versa, for the gentle | got their mother, my own well- : touch emanated from no less @ person wiff, my once subdued squaw, than the erstwhile strident Bernard read about the women in Ruséin’ Blodger, sometime Kingsnuke of the) going off to fight, while the men Society of Spleudid and Sagaclous stayed at home changing the Govermw Snakes, or Husbands’ ProtecUve As- ment twice every afternoon an@ sociation of America, night, fowr shows a day, Uke a amall, “How did you get 10?” asked Mr. time bill, ‘Then the women won the |Jarr in surprise, for he bud not seen | Voto at the lust election in New Ye Whereas | the noted wifo-tamer In many a day. |and the girls got thelr mother to aad I—um—er—just oozed in,” ex-| list witb tiem as wuilltary ambute | plained Mr. Blodger, “Nobody tried |drivers—aud not content with thet, \to atop me.” | she now wants to chauff a tank, white “Of course they didn't,” grumbled | the girls cperate the rapid fire guns, They are haviug our flivver riveted? over with wheet tron to practice with ! and Ife became unbearable, and, well, I ran away.” é “What did they do to yout” ested | Mr. Jarr, | “Well, first, the meals weren't ular, Then they got to ie World.) choosing @ j while they are fy | representative of the President sent) to summon me to Washington to ad- vieo the Administration in this critl~ oa! hour, at a salary of twice as much and expenses, you'd have never got |naide the outer portals bi “1 could have stood {t all, bad am |and troatless days—for they stopped my pocket money and bought Elbe. erty bonde—but when they made me or any other kind of pest, you get in without hindrance!" “Do not reproach me as soon as you in learn how to knit, saying I had to do ot interest the article by Mr. Shields “Aiton “oheap” * | that supreme desolation which can/ Yes, and she will know, too, she| the least known and kely ¢ see mo," remarked Mr, Blodger pa- i They on your editorial page in reference to |", brow Plays ey pratead f com ly to the hearthstone black-| will have done her part to hold those difficult A at theticall: “Th itt bs . ted oe ere eee - torial pany 1 rforonce | Now rom". Pinya ter praiodt aalty erthatone | WORE Aud in that Rrowledae he most cult to win, Less than 8,000 on " hetically, ew aa revolted, broke my proud spirit, every’ rattle , Bbhields bas the right fdea and] bid, freakish, often Doaitively in- ened by the grim spectro ar. will find r strength and comfort| of these medals have been granted Sy AAAS Es Basherleat nh NaN EAR ong Taltied Out of mo aad Sraaam ee knows what he is talking |devent. It seems as though they| ‘The women of America aro just be- | 6, whatever may befall. since they were first authorized te i | Bolsheviked!" vas hushed. Iam no longer a snake, | “I thought tt strango that youcrep’ | am a worm!” and he burst into {in so quict without a hiss or rattlea”| tears, remarked Mr. Jarr, “But I thouglit| Mr. J about. As 4 sugar broker I would ‘leo like to know why the sugar di- vision of the Food Admintstration its the American Sugar Refining to insist tat brokers, in were trying to establish @ monopoly 1a Apparat Uae nets Pee) brains—to eet up an intellectual dice tatorship, and dictatorships have oo place tn @ republi Tt has been my ginning to giimpse something of the 3,000 Gems in British Crown | 1863, and alinost the whole of theso were awarded in Civil War days. ‘There are few men alive WhO possess this mark of distinction, rr was touched. He handed ‘partance that ¢ mua Congressional Medal, an it you had not @ Bolshevilt but a Ben| the broken man $2 and coul receiving their small allotments of plays the people iike are the Bes RE are no leas than 9,000 Interesting Mistories, Edward UL and oes known, c iste of a ae | Bolt bride, ‘Don't you remember the wept himself—with joy, a ear gugar, make out the “orders for the) wholesome, normal Kind. I have r {other mon an earlier time} pointed gold star with a medalilon of lice Be; br! ieee ce companys special package sugars {0 | soon such plays with crowded houses stones in the crown of the Brit-| owned the or of thelr day to|faperty In the centre. ‘This 4s ap pares’ Acne) San! dol whoitheles stead of bulk sugar, which the buyers | the audicucos componed of well-dresn: tah King, Some very famous jow- Obtain funds needed priucipally for! pended to @ gold bar bearing tro| j with delight when you gave her a NO CHANGE IN HEALTH, | fm practically every instance would ed indies and gentlemen as well aa| els are included 1a this number, One of foreign expeditions, Part of the| word “Valor” underneath an eagle} |emile, and trembled in feur at your URING one of the campaigns of 7 Bg ONE WHO KN 7 pacple whe obviously Were Dot of the| these is a large beart-shaped ruby, Money that made possible the great| poised to fly. The medal ts attached frown?" " to-do class. Phe Mystery of Long Island Hail- road Fares tor Sold! We Ge Editor of The Evening World: Perhaps as a newspaper man you The pila: (ore contained some principle “af uth or right to have succeeded and yet 1 have read monthly and weekly | Judge George H. Burckhardt he was Introduced to a young “Those attrib-| attorney. utes are but the camouflago of victory of Agincourt was obtained |from pawnbrohers by Henry V. | Crowns have n worn by not] only kings but other dignitaries since given to Edward, the Black Prince, in 1867 by Dom Pedro of Castile, An other precious gem of the crown ts & to a blue ribbon having thirteen white stars. A number of American soldiers were mentioned in Trench despatches the There ain't no such animal!" sald Mr. Blodger gloomily. co Teviews of these same plays that bought by George LV.’ th nolent ) day for bray 1 uetry If said 8 q The Judge shook bands wikia 6 .'the most ancient days s >| ay for bra f the é 4 ee ever | cordially and asi n ; ean obtain the following tnformatton, | seamed deliberate Insults ‘to the Ing | DUS® SAPPNIT: pone ne oy eee gi tmoat famous Nov ates Te, nel Stee ee chinen the emontlon of tac Lathe Bald weet Ailse “over cordially: ang Beked about Rial fatiam ids the insn at Camp Bille and telligence of the public’ Not “ite las | The remaining jewels consist of 1,363/ mont famous now in existence tn the| been FFeichinen the mantion of thelr pulled any thrills of delight at Ben! “Iather 19 dead,” sald the lawyer, Miso at the above address have boen | the writera T have boc able to hace | brilliant diamonds, 1.278 rose diamonds, $708 GFA of, tamubuidy, used fn] names | Tr trite Xian |g Sea ,| Bolts smile or trembled with fear at) “Why, yes, 1 know that: 1 meant je to obtain since our arrival here.| anything about has ever done way-|167 table diamonds, 277 pearls, vlatecn | wag mado in the sixth conturs aud | pe the CFOIX do Guerre with a special | hus tone heed ents Uator such BH frown it was not after eo be- 10,,sK how Is your mothe ” bead iD e/rublee. Complete with Its white alk iron tnsid® another of gold. Tht sdals. Bul the American solitie is ‘h | “Yo your bluff's be ena , did ‘ from any employees of the Long|hen, saying: "I can't lay ap dgg,|jining and purple Cap, the crown|circlot {4 Said to } b SA nis | me bait D » in| (ow mem may hope to wear this badge 'y been called hel “Wwe How yout" } clet {4 #ald to ha raat tkeliood will get neither medata | “ hi; he! I . j Rallroad |» this: “Why do we,!but'l oan tell when it is good." than thirty. Om Ee Cate, ees, MAGS | All Oe ions for hor medals |of honor. It tg believed that at the|lady who was the Widow Cachleberry An | wter Jule” Burekhu 8 good.” God weighs eiigndy more thirty nine | of a all fr » Cross, and ts sup-| por pensions an Amer sailor | noxt session of Congress steps Will D8! Lefore you married ber?” quer again rf a urcklardt ‘ of taken to properly recognize the valor | merento | é Judge. "And hy n men from the camps mentioned |help them I think they know | ounc nd to have given the 2: | Rdler eatinot accept th , and who are all volunteers and! very Little end write mth agiich Hinge howe worn a number Sal algpiiicuuce te pone eee wee | oF BON Accept the ondo olul wigniticuuce, tt hay a tragic B foreign € rment withoy Berend he i Si euaor and. wa ie ag tt » Lg ng A aa Be Sree Be apres peri. w of Congress. Ui of American tro And that will eudury ps Jarre, “What brought it about “He's sll ded "The war and the clvction,” sald] Comment, :