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NAVAL OFFICER SAYS SEA FIGHT
IS NOT BATTLE, BUT MASSACRE
London—A graphic description of
the naval engagement off Helgoland,
in which British vessels sank five Ger
man ships and killed 900 men, has
reached here in a letter to relatives
from a young lieutenant who was on
one of the British torpedo boat de
stroyers. It reads:
"As to our fight off Heligoland, I
think the home papers are magnify
ing what really was but an affair of
outposts. We destroyers went in and
lured the enemy out and had lots of
excitement. The big fellows then came
up and afforded some excellent target
practice, and we were very glad to see
them come; but you ought not to con
sider that we had a fight, because it
was a massacre, not a fight.
Just a Case of Bombardment.
''There was superb generalship and
overwhelming forces on the spot, but
there was really nothing for them to
do except to shoot the enemy, even as
pa shoots pheasants.
''Have you ever noticed a dog rush
in ou a flock of sheep and scatter
them? He goes for the nearest and
barks and goes so much faster than
the flock that it bunches up with its
companions. The dog then barks at
another and the sheep spread out fan- \
wise, so in front of the dog there Is a ,
semi-circle of sheep and behind him
none.
Tell* of the Battle.
•'That was much what we did at 7
a. ni. on August 2S. Tho sheep were
the German torpedo craft, which fell
back on the limits of our range and ;
tried to lure us within the fire of the >
Helgoland forts. But a cruiser then I
came out and engaged our Arethusa '
and they had a real heart to heart talk,;
while we looked on, and a few of us ;
tried to shoot at the enemy, too,
though it was beyond our distance.
"We were getting nearer Helgoland ;
all the time. There was a thick mist ;
and 1 expected every minute to find
the forts on the island bombarding us,
bo Ilie Arethusa presently drew off,
after landing at least one good shell
•on the enemy. The enemy gave every
Bit as good as he got there.
1 "We then reformed, but a strong de
etFoyer belonging to the submarines
got chased, and the Arethusa and '
Fearless went back to look after it.
We presently heard a hot action
astern, so the captain in command of
the flotilla turned us around and we
went back to help. But they had driven
the enemy off and on our arrival told
us to 'form up’ on the Arethusa.
Cruiser Fires on Ships.
‘‘When we had partly formed and
were very much bunched together,
making a tine target, suddenly out of
the mist arrived five or six shells from
a point not 150 yards away. We gazed
-at whence they came and again five or
«lx stabs of fire pierced the fog, and
we made out a four tunneled German
cruiser of the Breslau class.
‘‘Those stabs were its guns going
off. We waited 15 seconds and the
shots and noise of its guns arrived
pretty well from 50 yards away. Its
next salvo of shots went above us, and
I ducked as they whirred overhead j
like a covey of fast partridges.
"Yon would suppose our captain had
■done this sort of thing all his life, He
went full speed ahead at once, upon
Ilie first salvo, to string the bunch out
and thus offer less target. The com
modore from the Arethusa made a sig
nal to us to attack wfth torpedoes. So
we swung round at right angles and
charged full speed at the enemy like ■
an hussar attack.
Catches Debris From Shells.
"Our boat got away at the start mag-,
nificently and led the field, so all the
enemy's firing was aimed at us for the
next ten minutes, when we got so close
that debris from their shells fell on
board. Then we altered our course and
so threw them out in their reckoning of
our speed and they had all their work
to do over again.
‘Humanly speaking, our captain by
twisting and turning at. psychological
moments saved us. Actually, I feel
that we were In God’s keeping that
day. After ten minutes we got near
enough to fire our torpedo. Then we
turned back to the Arethusa. Next
our follower arrived just where we
had been and fired its torpedo, and of
course the enemy fired at it instead
of us. What a blessed relief.
“After the destroyers came the
Fearless, and it stayed on the scene.
Soon we found it was engaging a three
funneler, the Mainz, so off we started
again, now for the Mainz, the situa
tion being that the crippled Arethusa
was too tubby to do anything but ba
•defended by us, its children.
Draw Fire of the Enemy.
“Scarcely, however, had we started,
when, from out of the mist and across
our front, In furious pursuit came the
first cruiser squadron of the* town
class, the Birmingham, and each unit
a match for throe like the Mainz. As
we looked and reduced speed they
■opened fire, and the clear bang bang
of their guns was just like a cooling
drink.
"To see a real big four funneler
i spouting flame, which flame denoted
i shells starting, and those shells not at
। us but for us, was the most cheerful
thing possible. Once we were in safe
ty, I hated it. We had just been hav
i Ing our own Imaginations stimulated
on the subject of shells striking.
' Now, a few minutes later, to see an-
I other ship not three miles away, re
’ duced to a piteous mass of unrecog
nizubllity, wreathed in black fumes
from which flared out angry gusts of
• fire like Vesuvius In eruption, as an
unending stream of hundred pound
shells burst on board it, just pointed
the moral and showed us what might
have been.
Says Mainz Acted Gallantly.
“The Mainz was Immensely gallant.
The last I saw of it it was absoWely
wrecked. It was a fuming inferno. But
it had one gun forward and one aft
] still spitting forth fury and defiance
i like a wild cat.
I “Then we went west, while they
' went east. Just a bit later we heard
; the thunder of the enemy's guns for a
i space. Then fell Bilenee, and wo knew
: that was all.
“The most romantic, dramatic and
' piquant episode that modern war can
ever show came next. The Defender,
having sunk an enemy, lowered a
whaler to pick up its swimming sur
i vivors. Before the whaler got back,
.an enemy's cruiser came up and
I chased the Defender, which thus had
I to abandon its small boat.
Up Pops a Submarine.
“Imagine their feelings, alone in an
| open boat without food, 25 miles from
■ the nearest land, and that land an
1 enemy’s fortress, with nothing but fog
i and foes around them, and then sud
j denly a swirl alongside, and up, if you
■ please, hops his Britannic majesty's
i submarine E-4, opens its conning
tower, takes them all on board, shuts
up again, dives and brings them home,
250 miles.
“Is not that magnificent? No novel
ist would dare face the critics with
an episode like that, except, perhaps,
I Jules Verne, and yet here it is, and all
; true.”
England in Anger.
Calm, methodical, undemonstrative
Britain, slow to arouse, Is getting into
a passion which is carrying the nation
to a point of deathless determination
to defeat the Germans The gloriously
gallant fight that the small British
force has been making io stem the
German Hood towards Paris has
touched this country's imagination,
aroused the martial spirit and called
forth a rush to the colors.
Hitherto the country has not
seemed to realize fully the portent of
events across the channel and, as in
the South African war, it's taken a
bit of pounding of their own forces to
bring the people to the point of patri
otic anger which the situation de
manded. Now they have reached that
point.
Stormed by Recruits.
The recruiting stations were over
l whelmed, hundreds standing outside in
I waiting lines. It was reported that
50,000 have been accepted during the
last three days. It's a glorious upris
ing of the whole nation, which has
come to fully realize the necessity of
not only clearing the seas of the ene
mies' ships, but helping the allies on
land as well.
With this condition prevailing, Lord
' Kitchener will find it possible to send
| a steady flow of fresh men to the
I front. The removal of the French
1 government to Bordeaux received gen
i eral approval here, and is considered
the logical step under the circum
stances.
Devotion of Peeresses.
The following letter, signed by five
women of title, is addressed to the
press:
“The undersigned have all got near
■ relations serving with the colors. Most
of them have got near relations who
have borne and are bearing a part in
the gallant and sanguinary battle
which the British army is fighting
against heavy odds on the northeast
frontier of France.
“We know not what their fate has
been or yet may be; but if it is their
fortune to die for their country, we
shall not show our sorrow as for those
who come to a less glorious end. A
white band around the arm will mark
both our loss and our grief; but it
will do more; it will express the pride
we feel in knowing that those who
are nearest to us and dearest have
given up their lives in their country's
cause.”
Rhodes Scholars Join Army.
Ottawa. Out.—All the Rhodes schol
ars from Canada and most of the
Rhodes scholars from other parts of
the world who are now at Oxford have
enlisted for service with the British
forces.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA.
SOUTH AS FIELD FOR BEEF PRODUCTION
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Shorthorn Bull, St. Valentine.
The geographical location and the
climatic conditions of the South are
such as to make It a good section for
cattle raising. The soils are so varied
that what may be said In a general
way will not hold true for all places
or sections of this large area. They
vary from light sand to heavy clay, or
to the black prairie soils, or t’he stiff
post-oak. As a rule the stiffer the soil
and the greater the content of lime
In the soils, the more nutritions the
grasses are, and the greater is the
variety of clovers which will grow’.
The Piedmont section of Virginia,
West Virginia, western North Caro
lina, Tennessee, and northern Ala
bama is a fine grazing country, and
thousands of good beef cattle are
found there. The shorthorn is more
popular than any other breed in this
region, and they do exceedingly well.
The grazing plants are chiefly blue
grass, white clover, red clover, red top
and orchard grass. The cattle fatten
very rapidly during the grazing sea
son and raise excellent calves. Most
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Shorthorn Cow, Sally Girl.
of this region is free from ticks and
the losses from death are relatively
small.
The black prairie section of Ala
bama, Mississippi and Texas, and the
delta lands of Mississippi and Louisi
ana, are extremely favorable sections
for raising and finishing beef cattle, j
Experiments conducted by the bureau I
of animal Industry and the Alabama t
experiment station show that cattle
when kept free of the cattle tick, can
be raised at a cost of 3 to 4 cents a
pound. This cost includes the keep
of the cows for one year, charges for
pasture and all feeds consumed at
market prices, depreciation In the
value of the herd, and 6 per cent in
terest on the money invested. The
principal native grasses which are In
digenous to these soils are bermuda,
Johnson grass, lespedeza and melilo
tus; but red clover, alsike clover, bur
clover and white clover grow readily
when planted in the pastures, and the
grazing season can bo extended great-
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NOTES \Y
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Dairy farming. If carried out suc
cessfully, means brain work Just as
much as any other line of activity.
* • •
The silo and dairying always go
together. The silo when rightly used
will help to make the cows more
profitable
* » •
In dairying cheaper production
means greater profit, and[ cheaper
production usually implies better
cows.
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The Ideal equipment for handling
dairy cattle, or in fact any other kind
of farm stock where diversified farm
ing is followed, always Includes the
6il °'
The separator is the only means
whereby It is possible to get all of
the butter-fat out of the milk, and
butter-fat is the real value of the
product.
ly by their use. Alfalfa, soy beans,
s cowpeas, corn, sorghum and other
forage crops do well on these lands.
There are great areas of "cut-over''
lands In the South that range in price
from $2 to $lO per acre, which could
be used for beef production. The soil
of such lands is usually sandy or post
oak, neither of which are as good for
grazing as the prairie or delta lands,
but which would furnish good grazing
if a little care was taken In getting
pasture plants started. On these soils
carpet grass, bermuda. lespedeza,
white clover, red top, Paspalum di
iatatum, and bur clover do exceeding
ly well. The carpet grass furnishes
abundant grazing on the sandy lands
while the bermuda does better on the
soils which are a little stiff. The
paspalum. white clover, and red top
do well on the damp lands, and If
some lime is present alsike clover
will furnish fine grazing
One of the greatest drawbacks to
the cattle industry of the South has
been the presence of the cattle tick
that transmits Texas fever, which
kills many of the cattle and stunts
others in growth. The tick is rapidly
being eradicated, and it is only a I
question of time until the South is !
freed of this pest
The native cattle of the South are ;
| cold-blooded scrubs carrying a varia- I
| ble percentage of Jersey blood. They
I are small in size and inferior in qual
ity, but they have stamina and the
cows produce good calves when bred
to a beef bull. Some of these cows
i weighing not over 600 pounds, have
given birth to half breed calves which
have developed Into 500 to 600 pound
animals at. 12 to 13 months of age.
No section of the country can raise
cattle as cheaply as the South, and
the variety and prices of feeds are
such that the animals can be economi
cally finished for the market. The
forage plants, especially sorghum and
corn, make such a luxuriant growth in
the southern latitudes that large yields
of silage can be produced per acre.
Wean the calves when pastures get
short.
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Summer feeding on pasture is usu- I
ally more profitable than winter feed
ing.
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A mixture of cottonseed meal, cot
tonseed hulls and alfalfa hay is a
good ration for fattening calves.
• • •
The quality of milk which a cow
yields is determined by the breed, the
quantity often by the feed and care.
• * •
Alfalfa hay is ready to cut when a
considerable number of the plants are
in blossom, and when the crowns start
to send up new shoots.
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The way to secure a good dairy herd
is to breed it and produce it on the
farm rather than to depend upon pur
chases every season.
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The cow that is carefully handled
and properly fed this year will do
better next. Caring for a cow is
a perennial, not an annual line of
work
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SORE EYES
GOODYEAR TIRES AT
ANTE-BELLUM PRICES
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
announce "No war prices on Goodyear
Tires.” Mr. F. A. Sieberling. president
of the Company, thus explains their
unique position.
"We advanced Goodyear prices, as
others did theirs, when the rubber
panic came. Almost in a day crude
rubber rose in New York from 55 cents
per pound to much over a dollar.
"The New York supply was too
small to consider. We cabled our
Ixmdon people to buy up the pick of
the rubber there. By acting quickly
and paying cash they obtained 1,500,-
000 pounds of the finest rubber.
“That big supply of rubber is now
nearly all on the way to the Goodyear
factory in Akron. It constitutes the
best of the London supply.
"We are using the same grade of
rubber and the same amount of it as
we always have used in these tires.
“We. are running our factory with
three shifts of men, twenty-four hours
a day So long as we remain in this
fortunate position on rubber, we shall
supply tire users at before-war prices
to the limit of our capacity."
Careless.
Mr. Flubdub—l lost my umbrella to
day.
Mrs. Flubdub That’s like you. John
Henry I told you when you left the
house this morning to take one of the
borrowed ones. —Puck.
RASH ON CHILD'S HEAD
2127 Division St., Baltimore, Md. —
“The trouble on my child's face and
head appeared as a rash and then it
got so that the ekin looked drawn and
; water and blood would run out. That
I would cause a scab and her head and
| face were a mass of sores. They
! would crack and bleed and then her
j head began to get scaly and I thought
It was dandruff I started to take the
scab off and found her head was a
mass of them. When she would cry
It seemed worse because the water
would stream down her face and itch
and she would dig and scratch. Iler
little head was bald as it was so sore
that all the hair came out. My baby
used to cry at night and I could not
sleep.
"Then I decided to get Cutfcura Soap
and Ointment I would make a lather
of the Cuticura Soap but her face and
head were bo sore I hated to touch
them so I would take a soft cloth and
wash her head. After I dried ft with
a soft towel I would gently apply the
Cuticnra Ointment. With the first
treatment I could see a change in my
; baby and before I used the whole
j treatment she was completely healed
: and her skin Is beautiful ” (Signed)
J Mrs. Lillie Owens, Jan. SI. 1914.
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