Ross Gazette 17th December 1914 - Page 9
Ross Gazette 17th December 1914 - Page 9
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| Date | 17/12/1914 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Ross Gazette |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 17th December 1914 |
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Telephone - 50 , Ross . ADDRESSES . HERBERT B. MEW , Telegrams- " Barrel , Boss BARREL BREWERY , ROSS . BRILLIANT ALES NOURISHING STOUT . A.E. Light Ale ... F.A. Recommended for family use THE ROSS [ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED OR GAZETTE - THURSDAY , DECEMBER 17 , 1914 . British , and the other Hying the American But to tell the story of New York would be THE WAR IN THE AIR . gs seemed the minutest objects , and marked to write a social history of the world ; saints BY H. G. WELLS Author of " Kipps , " " The Time Machine , " " The War of the Worlds , " " The Invisible Man " " In the Days of the Comet , " & c . CHAPTER XXIV . Steadily the Vaterland soared , and , the air fleet soared with her and came round to head per gall , 10d . | Light Dinner Ale - Half - pints , per dos . 1/6 for New York , and the battle became a little 1 / thing far away , an incident before breakfast 1/9 It dwindled to a string of dark shapes and 1/6 one smoking yellow flare that presently be came a mere indistinct smear upon the vast 8/6 horizon and the bright new day , that was at 1/9 last altogether lost to sight . 33 " 1/4 Nutritious Stout - Half - pints " G.A. Sparkling Bitter Ale " P.A. Very High Class 33 X.X.B. ( Double ) Nutritious Stout X.X.X.8 . ( Treble ) Nutritious Stout ( Recommended for Invalids ) . " 33 1/9 1/4 33 " Oatmeal Stout , for Invalids Gasks of 4 , 9 , 18 , 66 , and 54 Gallons . Pinta 33 " Pinta " Half - pinte Pints These prices are now increased by the War Tax , as follows : -Cask Beers , £ 1 per Barrel ( less 3s . Rebate , prompt Cash ) ; Bottled Beer , 1s . Dozen Pints , 6d . Dozen Half - Pints . " Home - brewed GINGER BEER , GINGER STOUT , and LEMONADE , 1 / - per gallon , in 1 , 9 , and B - gallon jars or 6 - gallon casks . Stone Ginger Beer , in Screw - stoppered Bottles , 1 / - per dozen . / - So it was that Bert Smallways saw the first fight of the airship and the final fight of those strangest things in the whole history of war : the ironclad battleships , which began their career with the floating batteries of the Em peror Napoleon III in the Crimean War and lasted , with An enormous expenditure of human energy and resources , for seventy years . In that space of time the world pro duced over twelve thousand five hundred of these strange monsters , in schools , in types . Bass's and Worthington's Ale and Guinness's Stout in series , each larger and heavier and more ( own Bottling ) supplied at moderate prices . Familie sand Private Customers supplied with High - class Wines and Spirits . ER сель Publishers by Abyal In Three Reigns Tuck's Christmas & NEW Cards MAKING HISTORY Calendars Postcards Zao - Zaw OPECTURE PUZZLES & C Gift Books Toy Books Painting Books Ec AND BRINGING PEACE PUBLISHERS BY SPECIAL REQUEST , OF THE NATIONAL CHRISTMAS CARD ENTIRELY IN AID OF THE PRINCE OF WALES ' National Relief Fund RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS L C DENTISTRY . battle . the Boale . They were immensely distant and martyrs , dreamers and scoundrels , the Bert stood on the gallery , curious to see the traditions of thousand races and a thousand execution , but uncomfortable because that religions , went to her making and throbbed terrible blonde Prince was within a dozen and jostled in her streets . And over all that confusion of men and purposes feet of him , glaring terribly , with his arm torrential folded , and his heels together in military fashion fluttered that strange flag , the stars and stripes , that meant at once the noblest thing in life and the least noble , that is to say , Liberty on the one hand , and on the other the base jealousy the individual self - seeker feels towards the common purpose the State . CHAPTER XXV . They hung the man from the Adler . They gave him sixty feet of rope , so that he should hang and dangle in the sight of all evil - doers who might be hiding matches or contemplat- no For many generations New York had taken ing any kindred disobedience . Bert saw the no heed of war , eave as a thing that happened man standing , a living , reluctant man , far away , that affected prices and supplied doubt scared and rebellious enough in his the newspapers with exciting beadlines and The New Yorkers felt , perhaps heart , but outwardly erect and obedient , on pictures . the lower gallery of the Adler about a hun - even more certainly than the English had dred yards away . Then they had thrust him done , that war in their own land was an im overboard . possible thing . In that they shared the de- Down he fell , hands and feet extending , fusion of all North America . They felt as until with a jerk he was at the end of the secure as spectators at a bull - fight they rope . Then he ought to have died and swung risked their money perhaps on the result , but edifyingly , but instead a more terrible thing that was all . happened ; his head came right off , and down the body went spinning to the sea , feeble , grotesque , fantastic , with the head racing it in its fall . " Ugh ! " said Bert , clutching the rail be- fore him , and a sympathetic grunt came from several of the men beside him . deadly than its predecessors . Each in its So ! " said the Prince , stiffer and sterner , turn was hailed as the last birth of time , most glared for some seconds , then turned to the in their turn were sold for old iron . Only gangway up into the airship . about five per cent . of them ever fought in s For a long time Bert remained clinging to Some foundered , some went ashore the railing of the gallery . He was almost and broke up , several rammed one another by physically sick with the horror of this trifling accident and sank . The lives of countless incident . He found it far more dreadful than men were spent in their service , the splendid the battle . He was indeed a very degenerate , genius and patience of thousands of engineers latter - day , civilised person . and inventors , wealth and material beyond estimating ; to their account we must put stunted and starved lives on land , millions of children sent to toil unduly , innumerable op portunities of fine living undeveloped and lost . Money had to be found for them at any cost that was the law of a nation's existence during that strange time . Surely they were the weirdest , most destructive and wasteful megatheria in the whole history of mechanical invention . And then cheap things of gas and basket work made an end of them altogether , smiting out of the sky ! Never before had Bert Smallways seen pure destruction , never had he realised the mis- chief and waste of war . His startled mind rose to the conception , this also is in life . Out of all this fierce torrent of sensation one Late that afternoon Kurt came into the cabin and found him curled up on his locker , and looking very white and miserable . Kurt had also lost something of his pristine freshness : Sea - sick ? he asked . " No ! " " We ought to reach New York this even ing . There's a good breeze coming up under our tails . Then we shall see things . " Bert did not answer . Kurt opened out folding chair and table , and rustled for a time with his maps . Then he fell thinking darkly . He roused himself looked presently , and at his companion . What's the matter ? " he said . " Nothing ! " Kurt stared threateningly .. matter ? " he repeated . " What's the " I saw them kill that chap . I saw that flying - machine man hit the funnels of the big ironclad . I saw that dead chap in the don't And then suddenly , into a world peace- fully busied for the most part upon arma- ments and the perfection of explosives , war came ; came the shock of realising that the guns were going off , that the masses of in- ammable material all over the world were at last ablaze . The immediate effect upon New York of the sudden onset of war was merely to intensify her normal vehemence . The newspapers and magazines that fed the American mind - for books upon this im- patient continent had become simply material for the energy of collectors - were instantly a coruscation of war pictures and of headlines that rose like rockets and burst like shells . To the normal high - strung energy of New York streets was added a touch of war - fever . Great crowds assembled , more especially in the dinner - hour , in Madison - square about the Farragut monument , to listen to and cheer patriotic speeches , and a veritable epidemic of little flage and buttons swept through these great torrents of swiftly moving young people , who poured into New York of a morning by car and mono - rail and subway and train , to toil and ebb home again between the houre of five and seven . It was dangerous not to wear a war button . the The splendid music - halls of the time sank every topic in patriotism and evolved scenes of wild enthusiasm , strong men wept at the sight of the national banner sustained by the whole strength of the ballet , and special searchlights and illuminations amazed watching angels . The churches re - echoed the national enthusiasm in graver key and slower measure , and the aerial and naval prepara- tions on the East River were greatly incom- moded by the multitude of excursion steamers impression rose and became cardinal - the im- pression of the men of the Theodore Roose- velt who had struggled in the water after the passage . I Been too much smashing and explosion of the first bomb . " Gaw ! " he killing to - day . That's the matter . sail at the memory . " It might ' ave been me like it . I didn't know war was this sort of and Grubb ! I suppose you kiok thing . I'm a civilian . 1 don't like it . " . which thronged , helpfully cheering , about about , and get the water in your mouf . I " I don't like it , " said Kurt . " By Jove , them . The trade in small arms was enor don't suppose it lasts long . " mously stimulated , and many overwrought " I've read about war , and all that , but citizens found an immediate relief for their when you see it it's different . And I'm emotions in letting off fireworks of a more or gettin ' giddy . I'm gettin ' giddy . I didn't less heroic , dangerous , and national character mind a bit being up in that balloon at first , in the public streets . Small children's air . but all this looking down and floating over balloons of the latest model attached to string things and smashing up people , it's getting on became a serious check to the pedestrian in passage . He became anxious to see how Kurt was affected by these things . Also he perceived ne was hungry . He hesitated towards the door of the cabin and peeped out into the Down forward , near the gangway to the men's mess , stood a little group of air sailors looking at something that was hidden from him in a recess . One of them was in the light diver's costume Bert had already seen in the gas - chamber turret , and he was moved to walk along and look at this person more closely and examine the helmet he car- ried under his arm . 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Bert had not observed that any bullets at all had reached the Vaterland or , indeed , ima- gined himself under fire . He could not un- derstand for a time what had killed the lad , and no one explained to him . The boy lay just as he had fallen and died , with his jacket torn and scorched , his shoulder - blade smashed and burst away from his body , and all the left side of his body ripped and rent . There was much blood . The sailors stood listening to the man with the helmet , who made explanations and pointed to the round bullet hole in the floor and the smash in the panel of the passage upon which the still vicious missile had spent the residue of its energy . All the faces were grave and earnest ; they were the faces of sober , blonde , blue - eyed men accustomed to obedience and an orderly life , to whom this waste , wet , painful thing that had been a comrade came almost as strangely as it did to Bert . A peal of wild laughter sounded down the passage in the direction of the little gallery , and something spoke almost shouted - in German , in tones of exultation . Other voices at a lower , more respectful pitch replied . " Der Prinz , " said a voice , and all the men became stiffer and less natural . Down the passage appeared a group of figures , Lieuten- ant Kurt walking in front carrying a packet of papers . • B & W the He stopped point - blank when thing in the recess , and his ruddy face went " So ! " said he , in surprise . white . The Prince was following him , talking over his shoulder to Von Winterfeld and the Kapitän . " Eh ! " he said to Kurt , stopping in mid - sentence , and followed the gesture of Kurt's hand . He glared at the crumpled obs ject in the recess and seemed to think for a moment . He made a slight , careless gesture towards the boy's body and turned to the Kapitän . " Dispose of that , " he said in German , and passed on , finishing his sentence to Von Winterfeld in the same cheerful tone in which it had begun . The deep impression of helplessly - drowning men that Bert had brought from the actual fight in the Atlantic mixed itself up inex- tricably with that of the lordly figure of Prince Karl Albert gesturing aside the dead body of the Vaterland sailor . Hitherto he had rather liked the idea of war as being a jolly , smashing , exciting affair , something like a Bank Holiday rag on a large scale , and on the whole agreeable and exhilarating . Now he knew it a little better . no ! " my nerves . See ? " for Central Park . And amidst scenes of indescribable emotion the Albany Legislature in permanent aca- sion , with a generous suspension of rules and precedents , passed through both Houses the long - disputed bill for universal military ser- vices in New York State . " It'll have to get off again . Kurt thought . " You're not the only one . The men The are all getting strung up . flying - that's just flying . Naturally it makes one a little swimmy in the head at first . As the killing , we've got to be blooded ; And that's all . We're tame , civilised men . One of the most striking facts historically we've got to get blooded . I suppose there's about this war , and the one that makes the net a dozen men on the shin who've really complete separation that had arisen between seen bloodshed . " Nice , quiet , law - abiding the methods of warfare and the necessity of Germans they've been so far . Here democratic support , is the effectual secrecy of they are in for it . They're a bit squeamy the Washington authorities about their air- now , but you wait till they've got their hands in . " ships . They did not bother to confide a single " Everybody's getting a bit fact of their preparations to the public . They did not even condescend to talk to Congress . He turned again to his maps . Bert sat They burked and suppressed every inquiry . crumpled up in the corner , apparently heed- The war was fought by the President and the less of him . For some time both kept silence . Secretaries of State in an entirely autocratic " Whadid the Prince want to go and ' ang manner . Such publicity as they sought was that chap for ? " asked Bert suddenly . merely to anticipate and prevent inconvenient " That was all right , " said Kurt , that was agitation to defend particular points . They all right . Quite right . Here were the orders , realised that the chief danger . in aerial war- plain as the nose on your face , and here was fare from an excitable and intelligent publie that fool going about with matches " would be a clamour for local airships and " Gaw ! I shan't forget that bit in a ' urry , " aeroplanes to defend local interests . This , said Bert , irrelevantly . with such resources as they possessed , might lead to a fatal division and distribution of the national , forces . He reflected . strung up , " he said . LLOYDS BANK LIMITED . This Bank is prepared , in approved cases , to act as Executor and Trustee of Wills , Trustee of Settle- ments , Trustee of Debenture Stock Issues , & c . Copies of the regulations can be obtained from the Trustee Department , 71 , Lombard Street , or from any of the Branches . THIS BANK HAS OVER 850 OFFICES IN ENGLAND AND WALES . PARIS AUXILIARY : LLOYDS BANK ( FRANCE ) LIMITED . The Ross Cazette TOBACCO FUND For our British Soldiers at the Front . KITCHENER Martin VIRGINIA TO VIRGINIA 50 CIGARETTES 2 ozs COMPRESSED TOBACCO . Every 6d . will gladden the heart of a hero . He will remember you because the sender's name is written on every one of these parcels . If you contribute 1s . , two parcels will be sent to two soldiers , and each parcel will carry your name and address . If you contribute 5s . , it pays for ten parcels to be sent each will carry your name and address upon it . COLLECTING CARDS . - Readers who are willing to collect for the above fund may obtain the official collecting cards at the " Ross Gazette " Office .. The following donations have been re- ceived during the last two weeks : Mr. J. A. Philips , Upton Bishop , 1s .; Mr. HEAD OFFICE : LOMBARD ST E.D. Per ROSS GAZETTE ( No. 2870 ) .- Sydney Harris , Tudorville , Ross , 6d .; Miss Thomas , Northleach Vicarage , Glos . , 18. ' ; Mrs. Hud- son , Waynflete , 6d .; Miss A. Hemans , Grove Common , Sellack , ls .; Mr. A. Bellamy , Pen- alt , Fawley , Near Hereford , 68 .; Mrs. Wat- kins , Haygrove , Ross , 1s .; Miss Toombs , 1s .; " Auntie , " 3s .; Rev. R. T. A. Money - Kyrle , The Rectory , Ross , 10s .; Miss M , Blewett , Pontshill , ls ; Mrs. Smith , Felhampton , Up- ton Bishop , near Ross , 1s .; Miss Ada Jones , Bank View , Weston Grove , Ross , 1s .; Mrs. Havard . 7 , Church - street , Ross , 1s . Miss Nute , 2s . Total , £ 1 10s .. Per CAPITAL AND COUNTIES BANK ( No. 2863 ) .- Master Cecil Stevenson , the Bank , Ross , Jumble Sale . 8s . 6d .: W. Davis , Gorsley , Glos . , 6d .; T. Oakley , New House Cottage , Brampton Abbotts , 6d .; total , 9s . 6d . Per ROYAL HOTEL ( No. 2858 ) .- Mr . F. W Wintle , Ross , 2s . 6d .; Two Friends , 2s .: Mr. W. Rudge , 1s .; Mr. N. F. Greenwell . 2s . 6d . N. H. S. , 1s .; " Nephew . " 1s .: " Nephew Jos , " 1s . " Total , 118 . Per RAILWAY REFRESHMENT ROOM ( No. 2849 ) .- Mr . W. H. John . Ross , 2s .; Miss May Evans , 2 , Hillfield Villas , Ross , 6d .; Miss G. S. Pewter . 2 , Hillfield Villas , Ross , 6d . Mr. F. Maddy . Croft Cottage , Ross , 1s . Mr. W. P. Roberts . Weston Grove , Ross , 1s .: " Jim . " 6d .; " Bill , " 6d . ; T. A. , 6d .; Mr. W. C. Millward . Camp - road , Ross , 6d . Mr. J. H. Badham , Oxford - road , Gloucester , 6d . ; , Mr. F. Nothering . Oxford- road , Gloucester . 6d . Mr. J. P. Smith . Gloucester - road , Ross , 6d . Total , 8s . 6d . Per KING'S HEAD HOTEL ( No. 2859 ) . Mr. C. E. Gray , Ross . 6d .; Mr. J. H. Gar- rood . Ross , 6d .; Mr. J. Haines . Gloucester , 6d . Mr. J. Turner . Ross , ls .; " Egypt , " 1s .; " Merrythought . " 1s . 6d . Total , 5 Per Messrs . BUSSELL and PIKE N 2857 ) .- Mr . A. B. Dickin . Ross . 1s .: Mr. F. Zealley , Ross . Is .; Mr. R. F. Eades , Ross , 1s .; Mr. R. Barnett , Tudorville , Ross , 1s . Total . 4s . Per Mr. T. M. SAINSBURY ( No. 2856 ) .- Mr. Carr , Weston , Ross , 2s .; A. H. , Ash- field , Ross , 1s . 6d . Total , 3s . 6d . Per BARREL BREWERY INN ( No. ( 2846 ) Mrs. Gray , 1s . 6d .; Mr. Blackburn , 6d . Mr. E. Taylor , 6d .; Mrs. Gray . 6d . Total . 3s . Per Messrs . BROWN and SEYMOUR ( No. 28-13 ) .- Mr . H. A. Preece , Ross , 6d . Mr. J. Badger , St. Weonards , 6d .; Mr. T. Jones , Wye - street , Ross . 6d . Mr. W. H. Footitt , Ross , 6d .; " Billy , " 6d . Total , 2s . 6d . Per Mr. WHITEFOOT ( No. 2852 ) .- Miss P. Smith . Brixton Terrace , Ross , 6d .; Miss field , Ross , 6d . R. Gane , Rectory farm , Ross , 1s .: Miss Gat- Total , 2s . 6d . Per Mr. C. H. RAYMOND ( No. 2864 ) .- An old Tommy , " 1s .; Mr. F. J. Kemp . Cherrington , Ross , 1s . Total , 2s . Per NEW INN HOTEL ( No. 2853 ) .- Mr . W. Pendre , 14 , Brampton - street , Ross , 6d . Mr. G. Bird . 26. St. James ' - street , Glouces ter , 6d . Mr. J. Hammond , 34 , Station- street , Gloucester , 6d . Total , 1s . 6d . Per NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK ( No. 2862 ) .- J . Harries , Ross , 2s . 6d .; A. Friend of the Boys , Ross , 6d . O G. Platt . Ross , 1s .; W. A. P. Glenn , Ross , 6d . ; J. C. Tudor , Ross , 6d . J. Cant , 1s .; Mrs. Beynon , Llangunnock , 6d .; J. Ponlton , Strangford , Is .; H. L. Griffiths , Trereece , 1s .; J. James , New Grove , 1s .; " A. A , " Langstone , 1s .; J. H. Bromage , Cobrey , ls .; Mrs. E. Cole , The Meerd , 6d .: Wm . Townsend , How Caple . 6d . E. W. Gent , Ross , 6d ;. Mrs. Blanch . Tretire , 1s .; Mrs. Wilson , Ross , 1s .; Mr. Roderick Dew , Pontshill . 1s . Mr. R. J. Tummey , Howle Hill , 6d . Mr. F. J. Baldwin , Upton Bishop , Is .; Miss Tucker , Kurt did not answer him . He was measur- Scudamore , Upton Bishop . 6d .; Miss Tucker , ing their distance from New York and specu- lating . " Wonder what the American aero- Particularly they feared that they might be Tredunnock , 1s .: Mr. J. Clark , Wallow , 1s . planes are like ? " he said . Comething like forced into a premature action to defend New our drachenflieger . We shall know York . They realised with prophetic insight J. D. Hughes , Llangarron , 1s .; Mr. T. Wal- ters , Llangarron , 1s . Mr. J. Murdoch , I wonder that this would be the particular advantage Upton Bishop . Is .: Dr. N. F. Searanche , by this time to - morrow . what we shall know ! 1 sender . Suppose , the Germans would seek . So they took great after all , they put up a fight . Rum pains to direct the popular mind towards de- Mitcheldean , 2s .; Mr. H. W. Brown . Tre- sort of fight ! fensive artillery , and to divert it from any wen , 1s . Mr. Geo . Ratcliffe , Pigeon House . He whistled softly and mused . Presently thought of aerial battle . Their real prepara- 1s . Mr. J. B. Bennett . Ross , 2s . 6d . Mr. he fretted out of the cabin , and later Bert tions they masked beneath ostensible ones . G. F. Wehh , 1s . Mr. T. Preece , Ross , 1s .: found him in the twilight upon the swinging There was at Washington a large reserve of Mr. D. A. Meredith . Moraston . 1s . Mr. J. R. platform , staring ahead , and speculating naval guns , and these were distributed Griffiths , Llangarron . 1s .; Mr. Wm . Price , about the things that might happen on the rapidly , conspicuously , and with much Press Yatton , 1s . Mr. Floyd P. Hodges . Foy . Clouds veiled the sea again , and attention , among the eastern cities . They 1s .; Mr..T . A. Powell , Upton Bishon , ] s .: the long straggling wedge of airships , rising were mounted for the most part upon hills Mr. J. E. Jonas , Treworgan , 1s : Mr. W. and falling as they flew , seemed like a flock and prominent crests round the threatened J. Thompson , Ruardean , 1s .; Mr. Thomas of strange new births in a Chaos that had centres of population . They were mounted Tonkins , Old Hill . 1s .: Mr. Wm . Pearse . neither earth nor water , but only mist and sky . Ashe , 2s . 6d . ; Mr. J. R. Briscoe , Glowstone , 2s . 6d . Mr. Reg . Bailey , Ross , 1s .: Mr. Inn . Gahhitss . Weston . 5s .: Mr. R Black- burn . Bramnton . 1s .; Mr. E. P. Bennett . The Park . 2s . ' ; Mrs. Hudson . Wanvnflete . 1s .; Mr. Geo . Eltome , Ross , 1s .: Mr. W. Thorne , Ross , 6d . : Mr. W. H. Sadler , Ross , Is . Mr. Arthur Richardson , Ross , 1s . Mr. E. T. Woodward . Daffaluke . 1s . Mr. W. L. Brown , 2s . 6d .; Mr. C. J. Morris , 1s .: Mrs. Andrews , 1s .: Mr. James Link . Bridstow , TOBACCO CIGARS ! CIGARETTES morrow . seen . CHAPTER XXVI . She The City of New York was in the year of the German attack the largest , richest , in many respects the most splendid , and in some the wickedest city the world had ever She was the supreme type of the City of the Scientific Commercial Age ; she dis- played its greatness , its power , its ruthless anarchic enterprise , and its social disorgani- Sation most strikingly and completely . had long ousted London from her pride of place as the modern Babylon , she was the centre of the world's finance , the world's trade , and the world's pleasure ; and men likened her to the apocalyptic cities of the ancient She prophets . sat drinking up drank the wealth of the Mediterranean , and the wealth of a continent , as Rome once Babylon the wealth of the East . and misery , of civilisation and disorder . streets one found the extremes of magnificence In her In one quarter , palaces of marble , laced and crowned with light and flame and flowers , The next day there was added to his growing beautiful beyond description ; in another , a towered up into her marvellous twilights disillusionment ugly impression , black and sinister polyglot population swel trivial indeed to describe , & mere necessary & third tered in indescribable congestion in warrens her law alike were inspired by a fierce and medieval Italy , her ways were dark and ad- terrible energy , and like the great cities of venturous with private war . upon rough adaptations of the Doan swivel , which at that time gave the maximum vertical range to a heavy gun . Much of this artillery was still unmounted , and nearly all of it was unprotected when the German air fleet reached New York . And down in the crowded streets when that occurred , the readers of the New York papers were regaling themselves with wonderful and wonderfully illustrated accounts of such matters as : THE SECRET OF THE THUNDER- BOLT . AGED SCIENTIST PERFECTS ELECTRIC GUN TO ELECTRO- CUTE AIRSHIP CREWS BY UPWARD LIGHTNING . WASHINGTON ORDERS FIVE HUNDRED . WAR SECRETARY LODGE DELIGHTED .. SAYS THEY WILL SUIT THE GERMANS DOWN TO THE GROUND . PRESIDENT PUBLICLY APPLAUDS THIS MERRY QUIP . [ To be continued . ] CLEANING IRONS . 1. Mr. W. H. Phillins , Walford . 6d . Mr. F. P. Beynon . 6d . Mr. S. P. Marfell , 1s . 6d . Mr. C. F. Blanch , 1s .; Mr. Chas . Ed- wards , 16. Mr. James Dawe , 1s .: Mr. A. R. Jones . 6d . Mr. Bromage , 1 .: Fr. Davies , 6d . Mr. F. B. Matthews , 1s .: Mr. A. Loveridge , 6d . Mr. W. F Tavlor , 1 . Mr. M. Hodges , Is . Mr. Hardwick , 1s .: Miss Prichard . .1s .: Mr. Partridge , 1s .: Mr. Corbishley . 2s .: Mr. A. Snodamore , . : Mr. Bull . 1 .: Mr. W. J. Thompson , 1s . : Mr. F. Y. Hooner , 1s .: Mr. R E. Hooner 1. Mr. G. R. Trafford , 5s . Mr. J TA Curtis , 2s . Mrs. Matthews , 2 M- N. Rooler . 2s . 6d . Mise Gatfield Tetal RA everyday incident of a state of war , but very and excavations beyond the power and know . Collected by Mr. S. Jones ( in Sellack ) , distressing to his urbanised imagination . One No. 8667.-H. Wright , 6d .; T. Baker , 6d . ; writes " urbanised " to express the distinctive ledge of government . Her vice , her crime , J. Stevens , 6d .; G. Edwards , 1s .; J. Pant- gentleness of the period . It was quite pecu- ing , 6d .; E. Panting , 6d .; W. Edwards , 6d . ; flar to the crowded townsmen of that time , C. Thomas , 6d .; J. Drinkwater , 1s .; R. and different altogether from the normal ex- Evans , 6d .; Robt . Evans , 1s .; T Warner , 6d ; perience of any preceding age , that they never Mrs. S. Jones , 5s .; Mrs. Baylis , 1s .; Miss A. saw anything killed , never encountered , save Island , pressed in by arme of the sea on It was the peculiar shape of Manhattan Knapper , 6d .; Rev. G. Whitehouse , 1s .; through the mitigating media of book or pio- either side , and incapable of comfortable ex- F. Hatchard , 6d .; Mrs. Witcombe , 1s .; H. ture , the fact of lethal violence that underlies all life . Three times in his existence , and pansion except along a narrow northward To clean flat irons , the best way is to rub Shaw , sen . , 6d .; H. Shaw . jun . , 6d .; G. belt , that firat gave New York architects their Wright , 6d . Miss H. K. Ratcliffe , 1s .; T. three times only , had Bert seen a dead human them when hot on a damp rag that has been Pugh , 1s .; T. Owen , 6d .; H. Terry , 8d .; W. being , and he had never assisted at the killing bias for extreme vertical dimensions . Every rubbed over with soap . This is much better Treherne , 6d . A. Veale , 1s .; Anon . 1s .; of anything bigger than a new - born kitten . was lavishly supplied them - money , than using powders . Before ironing starched Miss Hughes , is .; J. Poulton , 1s .; S. Jones , The incident that gave him his third shock material , labour ; only space was restricted . things , rub the iron on a soapy cloth and this 4s .; W. Shaw , 6d .; Mrs. Panting , 3d .; F. was the execution of one of the men on the To begin with , therefore , they built high per - will prevent it sticking . Electric and box - irons H. Roberts , 2s . 6d .; J. Hart , 1s . Mrs. J. force . But to do so was to discover a whole Adler for carrying a box of matches . The may both be treated in the same way . The man had few world of architectural beauty , of ex- case was a flagrant one . gotten he had it upon him when coming central congestion had been relieved by tun- quisite ascendant lines , and long after the aboard . Ample notice had been given to everyone of the gravity of this offence , and the East River , and a dozen mono - rail cables nels under the sea , four colossal bridges over notices appeared at numerous points all over east and west , the upward growth went on . need street and THE HOUSEWIFE'S HANDS . Hart , 6d .; P. Jones , 6d .; Mrs. W. Pearse , 1s .; J. Burford , 1s .; Miss Badock , 1s . 9d .; C. Pearse , 1s .; L. Heard , 1s . To prevent chapping . - In cold weather , Per the Misses Tommey ( in Sellack ) .- Miss after drying the hands plunge them into oat Pugh , 3d .; G. and W. Baylis , 6d . G. A jar or small barrel can be kept on Preece , 6d .; R. V. Preece , 3d .; J. Philpot , 6d .; Mrs. Williams , 1s .; H. Hodges , 6d . ; will last a long time . After doing the week's washing the skin Mrs. Wall , 6d . ; B. Herbert , 6d . ; E. Thomas , 6d .; G. Herbert , ls .; Mrs. Higginson , 6d . of the hands often looks shrivelled . OTHE To re- move this , rub the hands well with kitchen Mrs. S. Jones , 6d .; A. J. Lloyd , 1s .; A. C. salt , then plunge them into cold water to Trigg , 6d .; Mrs. J. Baynham , 6d .; W. True man , 6d .; T. Wetherell , 1s .; E. S. Tommey , which has been added a little vinegar . A small bottle containing equal parts of 1s .; Mrs. W. Baynham , 4d .; K. S. Tommey , the airships . The man's defence was that he In many ways , New York and her gorgeous the washstand , and a couple of pennyworth 6d .; Mr. and Mrs. Morrey , 1s .; Mrs. Lewis , had grown so used to the notices , and bad plutocracy repeated Venice ; in the magnifi- been so preoccupied with his work , that he hadn't applied them to himself ; he pleaded , work and sculpture , for example , in the grim cence of her architecture , painting , metal- in his defence , what is indeed in military intensity of her political method , in her affairs another serious crime , inadvertency . maritime and commercial ascendancy . But He was tried by his captain , and the sentence she repeated no previous state at all in the confirmed by wireless telegraphy by the lax disorder of her internal administration , & Prince , and it was decided to make his death laxity that made vast sections of her area an example to the whole fleet . mans , " the Prince declared , " hadn't crossed sible The Gerlawless beyond precedent , so that it was pos- glycerine , lemon - juice , and rose - water should 18. Mrs. L. Tommey , 1s .; Mr. F. Tommey , the Atlantic to go wool gathering . " for whole districts to be impassable be kept handy , and the lotion well rubbed 1s . M. Sanderson , Is .; A. Stappard , ls .; And in while civil war raged between into the skin at night whenever the hands feel L. Manton , 1s .; A. McInnes , 2s .; J. Fergu order that this lesson in discipline and obedi street , and for Alsatine to exist in her midet rough and smarting . Old gloves should be son , ls .; J. Fee , 6d .; E. Avery , 1s .; Mrs. ence might be visible to everyone , if was de in which the official police never set foot . slipped on afterwards and worn till next G. Baynham , 1s .; Mrs. F. Evans , 1s .; Mrs. termined not to electrecute or drown , but She was an ethnic whirlpool . The flags of all morning . This will soon make the skin soft Whitehouse , 1s .; Mrs. Colcombe , 6d . Miss hang the offender . nations flew in her harbour , and at the and smooth again . G. Webb , 6d .; Miss Ellwood , 2s . Accordingly the air - fleet came clustering climax , the yearly coming and going overseas round the flagship like carp in a pond numbered together upwards of two million Per Miss Wilton in Foy ) .-- Steels , 3d .; feeding - time . The Adler hung at the zenith human beings To Europe she was Americs , Mrs. Wilton , 2s .; Miss Wilton , 1s .; Miss M. immediately alongside the flagship . F. Wilton , 6d .; J. Cartwright , 6d . ; Miss S. The to America she wee the gateway of the earth . Thomas , 6d .; Miss S. Price , 6d .; Miss K. whole crew of the Vaterland assembled upon the hanging gallery ; the crews of the other Emmett , 6d . Miss H. Jones , 6d . ; A. Baker , airships manned the air - chambers , that is say , clambered up the outer netting to the upper sides . The officers appeared upon the machine - gun platforms . Bert thought it an altogether stupendous sight , looking down , as he was , upon the entire fleet . Far off below two steamers on the rippled blue water , one THE MEXICAN We Hair to its original colour , Do not let Grey Haire appear Restores Grey of HAIR where the glands are not des- troyed . Prevents Dandruff , and the Hair from coming out . R RENEWER.ores and Strengthens the Hair NOT A DYE , L && KEARSLEY'S ORAL Widow Welch's Female Pills Prompt and reliable for Indies . The only mine . Awarded Chemists , or post free , 1 / 1nd 1/10 10 from GATHERINE KEARSLEY ( DEPT . 01 , 42 , Waterloo 2d.London , S.E DELICIOUS COFFEE . 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Those who have tried this remedy , and they now number a great multitude , are entirely satisfied that , for correct- ing ailments of the stomach and the liver , there is nothing to surpass BEECHAM'S PILLS . Sold everywhere in boxes , price 1/1 ( 56 pills ) & 2/9 ( 168 pills ) . Ross Gazette , " Limited , by GODFREY M. MORTON , at their Offices , High - street and Church - street , Ross , in the County of Hereford . 6d .; A. Harding , 6d .; Mrs. Gardner , 3d .; Printed and Published for the Mrs. Nettleton , 3d .; Mrs. Good , 6d .; Miss A. Good , 6d .; F. Good , 6d .; Mrs. Prosser , 3d .; F. Hodges , 1s .; P. Lapthorn , 6d . ; L. Gardner , 2d .; Mrs. L. Gardner , 2d .; W. Norris , 2d . A. Gardner , 3d .; Mrs. Phillips , 2d . Total , £ 4 58 . THURSDAY , DECEMBER 17 , 1914 . Dr. Carter's Liver Salt THE Admirable Remedy in all Stomach troubles such as Indiges- tion , Heartburn , Sick Headache , & c In tins , at 4d . and 8d . SOLE AGENT- BENJAMIN , Cash Chemist VOL . XLVIII . 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