WILLING TO PAY ANY PRICE
Chinaman Anxious to Use Weighing
Machine, Was Trying to Insert
Folded Bill in Slot.
As he walked out upon the platform
of an intcrurhnu station he attracted
attention immediately, lie was rather
different from the ordinary Chinaman.
There were the colled pigtail, flapping
trousers and long, loose jacket, but his
face was anything hut Celestial. While
the usual Chinaman expresses only ha
bitual stoicism, this man beamed good
humor and Intelligent Inquisitiveness.
Unaware that he was the center of
attraction, he walked up to a weighing
machine and gingerly inspected It.
That he understood Its purpose was
evident, for he reached down Into a
pocket and hauled out n nickel. wW-h
lto vainly attempted to Insert in the
slot. This coin did not fit and in* tried
again with a quarter. Still no sucees..
Evidently this machine of ihe "forelg”
devils” required a bigger sacrifice,
half-dollar was forthcoming, and just
as he Was Inserting a folded hill, the
station agent rushed out and held his
arm.
Pride Before Fall.
“My poor man. how did you happen
to come here?” asked the sympathetic
prison visitor.
“Overconfidence caused my mtn.
ma'am" replied the International
crook.
“But 1 don’t understand.”
“1 had been doing so well I got .,r.
Idea that all Ihe smart detectives were
In books.”—Birmingham Age-Herald
1
(By Associated Press)
(United Press Staff Correspondence.)
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN[
THE FIELD, Dec. 15 (by mail).—Night
patrolling — reconnaisance — in No
Man’s Land is a something that every
first line soldier knows.
The constant surveillance of the en
emy necessitates almost nightly exami
nation of the blighted strip of ground
in front of the trenches; wire entan
glements on the friendly side as well
as that of the enemy.
Men who find monotony In night
trenches draw their packet of thrills
from the silent games of “hide and
seek” that can be played in No-Man's
Land on any moonless night. Trench
soldiers curse the moon.
Tonight is moonless. The sky is a
speckled dome. Occasional bursts of
enemy machine gun fire and nervous
grenade and rocket firing have ceased.
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f quiet which is customary at inter
vals over routine nights in trenches
where both sides have been at it for
over three years.
“Give them a few rounds with the
mitrailleuse and see if they're still
alive,” the company captain ordered.
A machine gun lieutenant sent a pan
oramic sweep of lead out into the
darkness. A sheepskin-coated poiiu,
silently occupying his little niche in
the trench next, obeying on order,
dropped a grenade into the cup-like
' end of his grenade rifle and fired. The
half-pound explosive slug left the cup
with a metallic zing and detonated \
with a roar and white smoke cloud a
score of yards in front. The poiiu
laid his steel helmet on the parapet
and deftly heaved a hand grenade
which sent its pieces zinging from just j
in front of the wire as everybody
“ducked.” A parachute flare sky
rocketed up from a few yards away
and floated down, lighting up nothing
but the frosty tangle of wire and the
dull gray grass ahead. Then it be
came quiet again. “The Boche is not
very hateful tonight,” the captain sug.
gests.
A soldier comes along the trench
with a steaming pail. It is the night
coffee brewed back in the third line
rolling kitchen and carried up. This
kitchen soldjer is the night's most Wel
come guest. With the coffee he brings
along the “gnole,” the French army’s
ration of grog. A poiiu explained to
night that American soldiers in this
trench some time ago called it “booze”,
and drank it with a gulp and a cough.
Most poilus mix it with their coffee,
though this poiiu added that he found
it handy fuel when his regiment was
on the Chemin des Dames to heat field
rations in a stove made of an upturned
German shrapnel helmet.
a nc uigiii pauui la autriiug. ± iio
trench has been warned not to fire at
crawling figures in No-Man’s land. A
captain and lieutenant crawl “over the
top,” leading the way. They carry
blunt little automatics in one hand. A
half dozen poilus follow, two deadly
“pineapple” bombs in each hand, and
the party picks it way cautiously
through the wire.
Traversing ordinary wire entangle
ments is an impossible task, but here
an almost invisible little path winds
its crooked way over the dead grass
carpet where the wire is lowest and
occasionally detours to escape a shell
hole. This path will be wired up tight
again before daybreak. The frosty wire
rattles and tangs despite utmost care
in stepping high while stooping low
and occasionally crawling. Sounds in
tensify and seem unnecessarily sharp.
But to veteran ears they are just the
ordinary.
The first entanglements are passed.
A short open space and then the next.
A soldier stumbles over an invisible
wire, and the captain stops to whisper
“doucement.” The second maze is
passed more quietly because it is nar
rower.
“It always seems a long time the
first time you come through the wire,”:
the captain apologetically whispers, j
But he’s telling a polite little lie and
knows it, because his first sensation in’
wire climbing was years ago in this'
war, and now a faded memory.
You are in No-Man’s land—waste of.
gray, grassy ground except for shell
holes here and there—some old and;
overgrown with weeds and others nowj
black dirt craters. In front of you is j
simply blackness hiding other rows of.
hostile enemy wire ahead. Behind is
the vivid, frosty stuff you’ve just comcj
through.
A figure huddles in a shell hole ten
yards away. Everybody sees it and
crouching lower, stops. The lieutenant j
crawls ahead alone,, his automatic
poised But nothing happens and he
waves the others ahead, it was only
a poilu who came out earlier to mend
the wire when a Boche shell mussed
it up early in the day. He had been a
little puzzled by the silent patrol.
'I he party moves ahead, Indian file,
and in five minutes the novice sud
denly discovers that every direction
is darkness. The tangle of wire in the
rear has faded from view. Occasion
ally a white object appears on the
ground, a close-up look and you try
to forget It. The rest of the patrol
have seen things like this before and
think nothing of it. But a grinning
white thing in the center of No-Man’s
land has its food for thought—for the
beginner.
"Rat-a-tat”—a Boche machine gun
breaks the silence. Everybody flat
tens against the ground and waits until
the stillness becomes depressing. This
"rat-a-tat” shows that the Boche is still
really very much alive and it’s a warn
ing to be cautious. ’Most any minute
an unfriendly parachute flare is likely,
The patrol’s work is done. It has
found "nothing unusual in No-Man’s
land.”
As stealthily as any North American
Indian ever crouched or crawded the
patrol heads back, blit ready to flatten
out again with a second’s notice. But
quiet continues and you return to 4ii>
friendly wire, crawl and wriggle
through it and into the trench which,
for the first time during the night, has
the sensation of being the safest place
in the world.
Word is passed down the trench to
all its silent watchers that the patrol
is ended and that trench warfare is on
again.
At daybreak there will be more cof
fee and “gnols,” and the night trench
dwellers will pass the watch to the
day shift who have been sleeping
peacefully in dugouts a few yards
away.
After six days and nights of “first
trench" life the poilu goes back to
“rest and quiet” in the second line.
“It isn’t bad when you'"feet used to
It," the captain explains.
Ill PlNll/sTltlll
hi amirs isit
(By United Press!
SHANGHAI, Feb. 5.—It was, of all
places, in the French concession, and,
of gll streets, in the Hue Edward VII
it "was a second-hand shop. Strangely
enough, there was a piano in the place,
in full view of the street.
At the piano sat a corpulent Chin
ese, with head shaved smoorn, like a
marble-topped table. He was running
his fingers lightly over the keys. Slid
denly he was moved to melody. He
played—Die Wacht am Rhine!
The Chinaman escaped with his life
but not without converse with three
allied citizens. And the next after
noon, at the same time and the same
place, he reappeared to render an
other program. This time it consisted
of “The Star Spangled Banner,.1’he
Marseillaise” and “God Save the
King*
REGISTRATION
UNITED STATES
( By United Press)
WASHINGTON. Feb. 5—Detailed in
formation, including personal habits,
and business relations of every Ger
man, together with his photograph!
and finger prints, will be taken by the j
department of justice in a national
registration week which began yes
terday.
A certified card, showing that he
has been registered, must be carried
at all times on the person of a Ger
man alien, and he may not change his
place of residence without first noti
fying and obtaining the permission of
the police or postmaster of the town or
city in which he lives. ^
Karlier plans for the gradual regis-;
tration of Germans in the United
States with those in the eastern sec
tion to come first were abandoned
when it was intimated that some Ger
mans might avoid registration by mov.
ing from one district to another.
The present penalty for violations,
of any of the provisions of President
Wilson’s alien enemy proclamation is I
internment for the period of the war, |
I but if a policy suggested by high gov-j
ernment officials is pursued there will j
be a revision of the law' in order to!
make the punishment more drastic.
' Before the clock strikes midnight
Saturday every one of the German
aliens in this country—not including
women or children under the age of
14 years, must have registered or will
be considered a dangerous person and
| will be interned. The registration
does not. apply to Austrians or Hun-!
garians.
I In announcing the provisions and
requirements for the registration the ■
department of justice took care to
avoid creating the impression that the
government looks on each German!
with contempt.
“Registrants are not to be treated
as persons of evil dispositions," in-'
structions to registrars point out,|
"and the registration officers are
urged to deal with them in a courte
ous and friendly manner.”
Co-operation of police, federal offi-j
cers. postal employes and private citi
zens is expected by the department to
see that the United States government
has accurate information of every Ger
man alien within the borders of this
country.
Certificates will be issued to regis
■ trants only after every item declared
has been checked from all possible
I angles and found to have been correct.
| Information so gathered, officials be
j lieve, will be of material assistance
1 in tracing plots against this govern
ment and in discovering just which of
the Germans here should be most
closely watched.
The task of registration is a great
one. In cities of 5,000 or more popu
( lauuii, suumi uy nit; i cuaua ui ijjiu,
j the chief of police and his assistants
will have charge of the work.
In smaller communities and rural
districts registration will be conduct
ed by the postmaster, with the post
master in the largest office in the lo
cal judicial districts, which in most
cases is the equivalent of a county in
charge. It will be his duty to gather
the reports and forward them to the
department of justice. In most cities
the work will be don" by precincts.
Every German inns' < 1 fa the of
fic^ of the regist- • ail i take out
triplicate affidavit t'crrat'-a blanks,
and furnish four photographs of him
self—one for each of the blanks and
one fot his certificate. The photo
graphs must bear his signature writ
r1 _ __- ■ i ...
ten across the front and must not be
larger than three inches square. It
must be on thin paper and have a light
background.
The following information must be
furnished on the information blanks:
Name, address, age, place of birth, oc
cupations and residences since Jan
uary 1, 1914, date of arrival in the
Lnited States, whether married or
single, names and ages of children,
whether any male relatives are in
arms against the United States or if
they have done so at any time, wheth
er registered for the draft, military
training, naturalization conditions and
other similar information.
Small registration officials not
equipped with fingerprint apparatus
have been advised to borrow a small
quantity of printers' ink and a roller
and to make impressions upon the ink
spread on a pane of glass
One of the triplicate records is to
be kept by the registration agents,
one sent to the United States mar
shal, and one sent to the department
of jusice at Washington.
Germans who are not at their place
of residence this week may be regis
tered where ever they happen to be
John Lord O'Brien, special assis
tant attorney general, will have gen
eral charge of the work.
(EMU SUBSTITUTES
(LJBMINETO SCIENTISTS
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 5.—The almost
complete lack of nourishment in many
of the food “substitutes” now being
sold in Germany is arousing a storm
of warning from German scientists,
who declare that government super
vision of the whole substitute food
traffic is an immediate necessity.
Professor Juckenack of the University
of Berlin, writing in the Vossische
Zeitung, says:
“It is useless any longer to hide
the truth. Unless the government ac
tively intervenes to put some control
over the flood of substitute foods with
which we are overwhelmed, the end of
the war will also see the end of a
third of Germany’s population. More
over, the remaining two-thirds will be
so enfeebled from malnutrition that
they will be unable to perform the i
mense tasks of recuperation and rc
toration.
“The devil alone knows what are the
ingredients of thousands of these
wretched substitutes that already do
duty for butter and eggs, oil and milk,
flour and spirits, meat and broth, cof
fee and sugar, tobacco and tea, fish
and sausage, cheese and caviar, and
“The latest products of the ingeni
ous substitute-mongers are really too
terrible to be tolerated. A prepara
tion of crude kerosene is now being
largely sold as frying oil, and 800 cases
of serious illness together with nine
deaths have been traced to its use in
Berlin alone. A preparation called
“goose dripping” is prepared from
dog's fat; egg substitute form a mix
ture of chalk and baking powder;
caviar from fish scales, and bread
from straw. What people, no matter
how patriotic, can hold out on such
fare?”
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A NOVEL IDEA.
LONDON, Feb. 5.—To preve
ing up prices of tea at Mine;’ e,
arrangements are being made r i.he
apportionment among wholesale firms,
of all tea by means of a ballot.
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Use less wheat and meat. Buy local
foods. Serve just enough. Use what
is left.
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Job printing at Daily Times office.
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HENRI FARRO
M. Henri Farro, official aviation ar
tist of the French government, who has
brought to this country a remarkable
collection of paintinga,v depicting the
aerial battles over the firing line and
incidents of aviation life high In the
clouds. As machine gun observer he
took part in many of the encounters he
so graphically portrays on his can
v*8ses.
ALASKA
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without notice.
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gage or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour
before sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, General Agent; S. R. HEDGES, Agent.
—Next Steamer—
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