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. ■ Ft f BAKMW1LL SSMTTNKL, JUttWXLL. SOUTH 0AB0UH4 “DER TAG” FOR BRITISH FLEET IS FULL OF HUMAN INTEREST i Eyewitness’ Story of U-Boat Surrender Makes Greatest Naval His torical incident a Thrilling Narrative of. Retribution That 4 / , Appeals Strongly—Signs of Any Change irr German Discipline. New York.—The most * remarkable element of this remarkable war has been Its coincidence, says a corre spondent of the New York Sun who witnessed the surrender of the first 16\ of submarines by the Germans. On that tense November morning when through the 'gruy mists of the North Sea came creeping the first score U* boats td surrenderJtQ^the British navy /I stood at the port rails of the de stroyer, H. M. S. Melumpus. The setting for the last act of the terrible sea drama of this century wus fitting—u still morning with the mists Just breuklng, a forlorn silver moon lingering, though the red sun was beaming through In the east. Above our heads was n patch of green and lemon sky, and the North sea lay with hardly a ruffle, gruy with n hint of gold, like the pulsation of a hidden light. * A British light cruiser—one of the newest—with destroyers on either flank headed In the line of surrender. Two German hospital ships used as transports—the Sierra Ventant and the Tltania—followed them. One af-. ter another, long low’ phantoms, some white, gome dappled, some black, came out of the mist, their crews standing on deck like a black fence, no colors showing and no sound. After some maneuvers the proces- ■lon stopped and before us luy seven submarine*, with others'out of -vision. The sun had grown stronger and the light cruisers and destroyers were picked out in white In. their beautiful subtle shapes against the grayness. Admiral Tyrwhitt’s llagship, with its yellow flag. In the chief position. As one looked at the destroyer car rying the British subnnffiTO comman ders ami crews who were to take over the German submarinestin* British ■hips seemed fo form u circle, and everywhere one turned there was a British white ensign at the peak. The British ships, too, had stopped and seemed to lie expectantly v. utchlng the flnul event. As ope gazed in the silence, this cir cle of white ensigns and silent ships and the sense of everything focussed on these low, strange murine shapes, hardly out of the sea, was thrilling. To a spectator, the flugs seemed as eternal as the hills that looked down on Chllde ltoland at the hour of his fate. But when the German subma rine navy came to Its dark tower to day there was no bugle blast. The •veut was accomplishv'd with English decorum and German stolidity. One Captain Even Wept. - One German commander protested against navigating his vessel Into har bor, und his protest was recorded and be navigated his ship intp luirhor. An other commander broke down as he left his ship and could not conceal his tears. Another, when the British com mander went on board, was unable to epeuk for a minute, and had to signal to a subordinate to/carry • on. • The commander of the first submarine which the British hoarded took his Iron Cross from his neck und ground o Boy Convinces Father o He Can Make~Good • \ ~ -* - O >• Oak Park, 111.—in order to o • coqvince his father that-he can ° make good, on a business^ prop-. 0 osition, Stephen Horton, son of o' j technical papers, and gave its number • Benjamin I*. Horton, wealthy * citizen of“ttrts~wtttage, has tak- en to shining shoes, making $10 a week. He is “delivering the shines,” too, patrons say. It tindet his heel. ! Some of the sub marines were left bare below. Others left sextant, corapags, glasses and many articles. In one submarine a melodeon was left us If Germany hud no more songs to pluy. Orre man left Ida ship ^Ith Ids guitar under his arm. As we first caught sight of the sub marines our destroyer’ was crowded with the young British submarine "commanders und their crews in a state of exhilaration nnd hi£h frequency. Only the day before the captain of the MelampiiS had been decorated with the Distinguished Service order for an exploit against a submarine eighteen months buck. His delight at Lhe scene before his eyes was indescribable. And nobody can - Indicate- what It meant In general to these men when they beheld the vessels before them they hud sought for through priva tions and fastings and dungers as knights did for the thing they love. 1 huve heurd the phrase ubtrtit eyes dancing, but I never saw the fuct till then. One of them turned to me.and said: “You don’t realize the humilia tion of It. Fancy throwing In your hand like that. Now If it had been a scrup! It must be terrible for that bunch."* i Many officers seemed to feel that side of It. They knew what It meant to have u submarine, and they knew what pride of the sea mennt. They could understand what the German of ficers felt. Afterward, when the Ger mans were on board our destroyer and .vou, saw their faces plainly, and they saw the British nuvy face to face, that sight was overpowering. The men felt It too. “Vou could feel I sorry for these |w>or blighters if they had been destroyer men*—hut these—" . Tilts. dtaaroyeF -wae probably * typi cal of the destroyer class. Spoke of It at “Der Tag." One of the British submarine com manders, who spoke of tills as "Der Tag,” as nearly all of them did (one of them culled It "Der Tag Nacht Den Tage"—"the day after the day"), said thut he would not forget this day. "It Is the annlveggiry of the day a year ago when they did down my brother." Among the purty on the Melumpus was the captain of an Atlantic liner who hnd been sailing through the “tin fish” since the war began und who had had a great liner, the apple of his eye, torpedoed in the Mediterranean when carrying nearly 3,000 troops, of which lie had lost 140. It wus appropriate surely that the mercantile marines who had fought these U-boats thut now lay helpless before us all through the four terrible years should have been present ut th^ deuth. All the appalling tales of heroism and death nnd suffering In the annuls of the merchant service seemed to come to a head In the sight of these low ships on this day of days. Anchored ih_ja^.wlde Une, several miles In extent, our little gray motor- boat went dancing across the sunlit water. Each trip we carried four British submarine commanders und their crews. Each time u pretty sim ilar scene was enacted. The ceremony was not like the ceremony when Nelson’s captains took over an enqmy ship. The English commander Irifuriahiy saluted as he went on board and the German ae- 4***»*#»»»***»»»»»»*»^*»»« Chicken Thief Spends - j j Ten Years In tail / I Pittsburgh, Pu.—Of the last ★ fourteen years Andy Pastor * bas spent ten of them In the J v.’orkhovise because he Is unable * to keep out of other people’s J chicken coops. He appeared In * court again the other day, J chujrged with chicken stealing, * ^ jind was given two more years. ^ $**»»*»»»»»«*»»»»»»»»*»»»$ Yank in Repose the Finest Piece of Camouflage W ASHINGTON.—The American fighting man Is a puzzle to. the French and German peoples He seems to them to be a dual personality. In repose he la the finest example of the art of camouflage that the great war has pro duced. In action he Is exactly what Sherman said wfft- Is. The French grew sick atT heart -/waiting for the Yanks. And when the Yanks came ttre Frehclf were dis appointed. The Yanks w-ere big and husky. But they wqre very young and they were all smiles and laughter. They bought everything In sight and never asked the price. The French had hoped to see grim, world-wise, veteran fighting men. Could' these frolicking boys fight? If they couldn’t- JA W0HL- DOSE* YANKS m top ECKLESSj H. M. S'. Melumpus—the officers came •over the sides, saluted and there the ceremony ended. The guard was mounted forward and aft to prevent Intercourse with the British crew, but that was hardly necessary. The com ments of the -crew were very unfavor able and chiefly turned on Lewis guns and bombs. •*? "Look at them Iron Crosses! What did they, get them Iron Crosses for? For doin’ down sailor men and women nnd children—the /^Belglun Prince, Landovery Castle! Thatfs the sort* of thing for the Iron Crosses they’re wag ging about. Look at them !” -Very Strange Sight. When some of the men looked with an attempt at superciliousness at the crew that had clustered*'aft one of our men replied by pointing meunjngly to a depth charge on the side. The German submarine njen knew well ' , Lieutenant and Clerk Who Got Another Chance Cers at\d men on the British destroyer • ~ - ¥ .. * . gazing across a few yurds of spuce to (-^SECOND LIEUTENANT'stepped Into a Washington store the other day When these same Y’ankee boys not only stopped the Hun In hls tri umphant advance on.Paris,, but also drove back hls selected shock troops, and kept them on the run, It Is no wonder that France went delirious .with ecstasy. They saw In Chateau Thierry the turn of the balance. They knew Paris was saved. They knew the war was won. . ' The German officers believed—and told their men—that, the Yankees would not come; woifid not be equipped; could not fight. Official expressions rrom the firing line reveal the German' emotions when the Yankees finally got Into action: “We can kill them, but we can’t stop them.” “Every time we fire on them, they charge.” "Tell them to surrender and they say "Go to hell!” "They keep on coming at a machine gun till they get it; this weakens our morale.” "Too* reckless; In too much of a hurry.” ‘/Devil dogs.” In short, the’Hun Is echoing the Spaniard of 20 years ago : "They tried to take us with their bare hands.” And now the German people in the occupied territories are finding out that this same "Devil dog” Is the decentest fellow in the world. • . r> ' Suffered for Years Back and Kidneys Were in Bad Shape, But Doan’s Removed all the Trouble \ 4 • - “My kidneys were so weak that the least cold 1 caught would affect them and start my back- aching nntil 1/ could hardly endure the misery." says Mrs. D. C. Ross, 973 Fulton St., Brook lyn, N. Y. "In the moving when 1 first got up, niy back was, so lame, I could hardly bend over and any move sent darts ol pain through my kid neys. It was hard for me to walk up stain or stoop, and to move while lying down sent darts of pain through ""Tk. kidney ROS* tions were ..scanty and distressing and the water remained in my system, mak ing my feet and hands swell. There were dark circles under my eyes and I became so dizzy I could hardly see. I had rheumatic pains m my knees and it waa all I could do to get around. For yean I was in that shape and ( wore plasten and used all kinds of medicine to no avail until I tried Doan't Kidney Pilln. They rid me of the trouble and strengthened my back and kidneys. When 1 have taken Doan’s since, they have always bene fited me.” 8tcorn to before me. L. N. VAUGHAN. Votary Public. Gat Dou’i at Aay Star*, COc a Bn DOAN'S VSTiV FOSTER-MILBURN CO, BUFFALO. N. Y. r *i// the British seamen gazing at them. What waves of will and heart must huve passed back and forward In thut crowded bout, what pages of racial history! There wus no sign of any change In German discipline. “ The officers were us one expected and the men were as one expected; everything the officers commanded was immediately obeyed. There was no sign of civilian coimult- -tees. except ttrtnrtTTere"were tw<> men* in civilian clothes on the bridge of the Tltania. Strungely enough, there were two similar figures on the bridge of the British Melumpus, two shabby- looking-journalists. And so uguln the Wolff 1 bureau can lift Its witching voice and tell the despondent Huns the British sailors’ soviet was In com mand of the boarding operations. The last event of the duy was see ing the German submarines, now j purged of their crews, lying lu bunches of three securely moored lu the inner harbor of Harwich. It was growing dark and their curl- ! on* ghastly - shapes recalled other ghosts—ghosts of women and children and merchant seamen—pallid, blood less- human faces floating onto ths lift of the wuter in the gray deserted j Wastes of the Atlantic. - x and asked a clerk for a certain article. The clerk produced the article and listened while the lieutenant gave certain orders. Now, this firm had been dealing with the government de partment with which the officer was connected for many years and knew exactly how the department wanted its orders handled. When this was suggested to the. lieutenant he was w’roth and told the clerk that he wanted the goods fixed In sueh-and-sueli a way. The clerk, once more remonstrating, the second lieutenant cried oiit: “You are Impu dent; I’ll report you to the proprietor.” i&{ — “That clerk was impudent, and I want him discharged,” exclaimed the officer, getting down to business at ones with the proprietor. ., **TelJ me about It,” said the “boss.” A recital of all the iniquities of the clerk followed, ending with the demand that the man be “fired” at once. ' The boss called In the clerk. The lieutenant repeated hls story. Ths rlerk said It was substantially correct and went out. “Well, Is he discharged?” asked the lieutenant. “No; I think I will give him another chance.” “He ought to be. discharged! Hp ought to be discharged! Why should you give him another chance?” exploded the lieutenant • “Well,” said the proprietor, sitting up straight In hls chair and speaking for the first time In slightly raised voice, “I am going to give him another chance so that If you ever come In this shop again and act and talk as you have he can knock you down. If he doesn’t do it he certainly will be die- charged. Good day.” \ Horse Owners Keep a bottle of Yager’s Liniment in your stable for spavin, curb, splint or any enlargement, for shoulder slip or sweeny, wounds, galls, •cratches, collar or shoe boils, sprains and any lameness. It absorbs swellings and en largements, and tiispels pain and stiffness very quickly. (YAGER'S LINIMENT HAS 300 STORM PHOTOGRAPHS State Meteorologist of Kansas Hat Largest Collection Outside of Weather Bureau In Washington. German knowledged the salute, qnd In'reply to a request for his papers handed over -a Mue fracing nr 'Ms vessel or other —hitherto strictly withheld.*' After the Germans came into the harbor, were taken off the submarines and were taken baek to thefr own transports on two destroyers, ope of ' vvl,ich WUS the P r r ^ Sel 1 wus ou—the Topeka, Ivan.—S. I). Flora. stat€ meteorologist of Kansas, 1ms what is said to he the largest collection of photographs of tornadoes, cyclones and dust storms of any weather bu reau in the United States, outside of | the Washington (D. C.) office. He has some 300 photographs Iri his col lection, most of them of Kansas, storms. - * Among them are the Omaha (Neb.) t of March, 1913; the Elmot brave dead w (Kan.) tornado of June, 1917; thaJ. -Great- Bern! (Kan.) 'cyefone of Novem ber, 1915; the Coffeyville eyelone of 1917, nnd the tornado at Garfield park i here in June, 1917. One of the photos j shows 1,200 dead sheep, another the side of a house blown away and not ! a single thing missing from the rooms, J nnd a church completely destroyed ei- cepf the steeple. Warrior’s Vision of the “Garden of the Brave” < •* S IR JOHN FOSTER FRASER has what he tails a vision that can never be realized—a "Garden of the B^ave.** He says of this vision: "My mind travels back across the Atlantic to that great stretch of land where for years guns used to reverberate, and now all Is silent. The people are wondering what they are going to do In that re gion. There are many generous Amer icans who would like to find the means whereby torn towns and disrupted vil lages could -^be brought Into their own again. “ “I know there are many French people who believe it would be better if instead of that a great forest were allowed to grow over the mightlesl cemetery in the world. I sometimes picture that It would be well thut that great land where lie so many of our ere made into a Garden of the Rruve." —; 1 This liniment is the most economi cal to use as a large bottle contains twice as much as the usual 50 cent, bottle of liniment. Sold by all dealers. Price oS cents. ULBEftT BROtiCO. BALTIMORE. M0. Hqvm you RHEUMATISM Lumbago or Gout ? fake Rtf RUMACIIMR to remove tbecaess and drive the poleon from U»e system. -SHSiaiCIDB OH TVS 1XSIDB \ rCTt BBBlSATlfcl 01 THS OlTSIDS” At All Crocxiitt Jss. BsOy Jk Son, Wkolqiit Distributees Baltimore, Md. -7- *T would like to' see, and I do see sometimes, in my vision, the flowers ol America growing over where lie so many of her gallant sofea:" . “I know’ there will be mighty stretches of fleur-de-lis marking the sleep- THICK. SWOLLEN GLANDS Ing filace of 1,500,000 brave Frenchmen. I would like to see the blooms of Belgium nodding over the graves where brave Belgians sleep, and I know that out there I would like to see a mighty avenue of maple trees telling the place wfhere the Canadians rest, and there will be mighty masses of the wonderful Australian wattle showing wher* the~Australians are sleeping; yes£ hnd I know that out there, too, will toe great sheaves of green, thp sham- will t rock coverlet for the brave Irish; and there that make a horse Wheeze, L Roar, have Thick Wind or Choke-down, can be reduced with ABSORBINE WHERE DISABLED YANKEES ARE RECUPERATING mmm i white rose and red rose. the. roses o£ Old-England, ot iTn/asterTndofTork!'^^.'*'« Bu,,c ''«?'Swe | lingi NobU.t«, telling where 500,000 brave Englishmen He. "Perhaps out In that Garden of the Brave I would come p^ross stretchea of heather, beautiful (gold-purple heather, where dead Scotch soldiers lie. "That is the vision that comes to me. It can never pe realized, but on« ;annot shut It out.” Necessity of a National Cham ?athm I nnytl of Agriculture no hair gone, and horse kept at work. Eco nomical—only afew drops required at an appli cation? $2.50 per bottle delivered. BMkSBfrMi ASSORBINE, JH, the antiseptic liniment for man kind, reduces Cysts, Wens, Painful, Swollen Veins and Ulcers. $1.25 a bottle at dealers or ' delivered. Book “Evidence" free. W.F.Y0UNG, P. D. F.. SIOTMpItft. Springfield. Mass. Ms BBS? ■ V-::' Eli I ru nee in ft*' \\ e* thtileii West Baden. lDd„ which bus been-taken over by~tbe Cuited Stutes govern went at an annual rental of S150.00U to be used for the treatment of disabled soldiers. Thousands of wounded fight tn niil.be nursed back to health at this hotel, famous for its mineral springs and baths. _. S CORRELATION of industry and educadrfn with agriculture Is perhaps our greatest national opportunity, and anything that leads in this direc tion Is sure to bring its rewnrdf. The Morrill act of half a century ago gave *us the agricultural, colleges. Later ^ legislation gave us the county agricul tural agent or adviser. Both have had far-reaching and beneficial effects. But in general our natiohal system of de velopment bus been more factional than co-operative. There has been comparatively little correlation be tween agriculture and business, or be tween agriculture and education, and this sin of neglect has caused all of us to suffer. ~ r " • The fertility of the soil and the in- • — crease and Improvement of farm produce have ceased to be problems merely for the individual. (They are live problems for the nation and must be seri ously taken by the nation. , • ‘ And now another phase is evolving that can bHng a sane, far-reaching npd comprehensive organization among the .wprjfer^ in agriculture. .With 75 per cent of all counties operating under a practical, successful and npcesaary ’ocal agricultural Improvement association plan, how ea§y and natural that .hese be grouped on a similarity of soil, climate and crop basis Into perhapa n dozen groups or districts, with stated district and natltotpuT conferences. Thus we have the natural and needed evolution of the national chamber of agriculture, Juat as purposeful and powerful. Just as nonpartisan. Just as necessary for the nation as the chamber of commerce of the United States, One of the real problems of such sn association would "be to study coats yt production, transportation, manufacture, and harmonise selling prices with these, only after labor has helped to decide the part to which It Ja * * TT FOR Grasp, Colds, Cork Pmbidobu, Etc. «**• external applica tion* of BRAME’9~~ VAPMEttHU SALVf — Win not -clothe*. 25c, 50c ud $1.00 Jin AT AlADBUCCISTB - •» kj - Brime Medicne Co. N. WilkMburo, N. c. A WE BUY DOGWOOD in Carload Lota Write To-day for Full Particulars Shambow Shuttle Company / Woonsocket, R. L Cabbage Plants Genuine Frostproof, all varieties,immedi ate and future shipment By express—500, $1.25; 1000, $2.00; 5000. $8 75. Parcel Poat Prepaid—100, 35c; 500, $1.50; 1000, $2.5Qi Enterprise Ct. be., Stater, S. C* *.