La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 16, 1918, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY, JANUARY If,, i&lg LA- UiL-LNiJii: J-JVKXiNU OiiSEtiVER The Red Cross Drug Store The PRESCRIPTION STORE f Friday J and - SATURDAY Come To Tie Matin its ARCADE Thn hook of Esther is reaci through by the Jews in thslr synagogues ut the feast of Piirlm, it bus often been re marked aa a peculiarity of tiie book that tho DHinc of tied does not occur in it; . There is a false modesty which is vanity, a false glory which is levity, a false grandeur which is meanness, a false virtue which is hypocrisy and a fnlso wisdom which is prudery, La Bruyere. Prefers Chamberlain's. In the courao of a conversation with ijnamiierj.iin Medicine Co.'s ropre-i sentativo today, m hurt neension in ' di;urs in a general way the merits : of their different preparations. At his suggestion I take pleasure in ex pressing my estimation of Chamber lain's Cough Ptcmedy. I have a fam ily of six children and have used this remedy in my home for years, I consld'M' it tho only cjutjh remedy on tho market, as 1 havo tried nearly all kinds." Kail C. lions, publisher Hamilton Connti' Hepublican-News, Syracuse, Kansas. Adv. f , , . IW 30.C00 VriTCHFS I'Oi! ONJS CEN1 Rcijiiircs "almost, no currmit" to run it, yet dues all but guide th-M sewing. SEW HOTOa fits any machine, adjusting. Simply sets on tiie "Siami under drive wheel. This is the year foi Kleetrical Conservation Come and learn how ebctrie ap pliances will aid, NASI? ELECTRIC CO. mm I SI IIIIJ I A&WS R : S. FORREST WRITES OF NO MAN'S LAND AT NIGHT (NOTE; By special perinisslos of tli French War Office, W, S. For rest, United Press Staff Correspond ent, recently accompanied a French night patrol on a reconnaissance in No Mau'ii Land. ' The following story written by Mr. Forrest rotating , his experiences in No-Man's Land at night.) ; ! j . BY W. S. FOKREST. ' (Oniled Press Staff Correspondent.) WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN first sensation to wire elimbinr was THE FIELD, Dee. 15. (By Mali, years ago in this war and now a Night patroliing reconnaissance faded memory, in No Man's Land is a something You are in No Man's Land waste that every first lino sohjier knows, of grey grassy ground except for The constant surveillance ot the shell holes hero and there some old enemy necessitates almost nightly and overgrown with weeds and oth examination o tho blighted strip of era now black dirt craters. In front ground in front of the trenches; of you Is simply blackness hiding wire cntangiments on the friendly other rows of hostile enemy wire side as well as that of tho enemy. ahead. Behind is the vivid frosty Men who Hud monotony in night stuff you've just come through, trenches draw their packet ot Chillis A figure hifddies in a shell hole from the silent games ot "hide and ten yards away. Everybody sees it seek" that can bo played in No and crouching lower, stops. The Man's Land on any moonless night, lieutenant crawls ahead aioae, ids Trench soldiers curse the moon. ' automatic poised. But nothing hap Tonight is moonless. Tho sky is pens and lie waves tiie others ahead, a speckled dome, -Occasional bursts It was only a poilu who earns oat of enemy machine-gun fire and nerv-' earlier to mend tho wire where a os grenade and rocket fntng Have Boehc shell mussed it up early in tho ceased. Both trenches settle down to day. Ho had been a little puzzled, by a period of quiet which is customary the silent patrol, at intervals over routine nights in The party mores ahead, Indian trenches where both sides have been file and in five minutes tho navies at it for over three years. - "Give them a few rounds with tho mitrailleuse and tea if they're still illve,"lho company captain ordered, A mnchino-fiun lieutenant sent a panoramic sweep of lead out into tho darkness. A sheepskin coated poilu, ! patrol havo seen things like this bc silentiy' occupying iiis little nicho in fore and think nothing of it. But a the trench nest, obeying an order, grinning white thing in the center of dropped a grenade Into tho cnp-Iiko j No Man's Land has its food for end of his grenade rifle and fired, thought for the beginner, Tho half pound explosive slug left "Itat-tat-tat" a Boehc machine tho cup with a metallic ling and de- gun breaks tho silence, Kveryboriy tonatcd with a roar and while smoke ; flattens against the ground cm' ekinri a score of vards in front, Tho ! valts until tho silliness becomes dn- poiiu laid his stool helmet on tho j parapet and deftly heaved a hand gronadu which sent its pieces zinging , from last in front of the wire as i everybody "ducked." A parachute flare .sky-rocketed up from a few 1 yards away ana iiontcu uown ijkhs.- '"S P notiiing but tho frosty tangle j of wlro and the dull grey grass j ahead, Then it became quiet again. "Tho jhiche is not very -hateful to ( night" tho captain suggests. A soldier comes along tho trench with a steaming pall. It is the night coffee browed back in the third lino rolling kitchen and canned up. This j kitchen, soldier is the night s most welcome guest. With tho coffee, lie brings along the "gnolc, ' the French army's ration of grog. A poilu ex plained tonight that American soldiers, in this trench some time ago, called it "booze" and drank it with a gulp and a cough. Most poiius mix it with their coffee, though tills poilu added that he found it imndy fuel when his regi ment was on tho Chemin des Dames tp heat Hold rations in a stove made of an upturned Gorman shrapnel hel met, Tiie night patrol is starting. The trench has been warned not to fire at crawling figures in No Man's. Land. A captain and lieutenanl crawl ."over tho top," leading tiie way. They carry blunt little auto matics in one band. A half dozen poiius follow, two deadly, "pine apple" bombs in each hand and the party picks its way cautiously through the wire. Traversing . ordinary wire en tanglements is an impossible task but hero an almost invisible little path winds its crooked way over the' dead grass carpet where the wire ir lowest - and occasionally detours to escape a she!! hole. This path will lie wired up tight again before day--break. The frosty wire rattles and tangs despite utmost care In stepping high wiiile stooping low' and oc casionally crawling. Sounds, in tensify and seem unueeesnariiy sharp. But to veteran ears they are just tiie ordinary. Tiie . first entanglements are UlfS vercoats p&gget A short open spafe &nl then tho next. A soldier stumbles a little over an Invisible wire and the captain stops to whisper "doneo mont." The second maze is passed more quietly because it is narrower. "It always seems a lone ima the first time you eome through the wire," tho captain apologetically whispers. But he's telling a polite little lie and knows it becnuso bio suddenly discover that every direc tion Is darkness, 1 Tho tangle of wire in the rear . has faded from view. Occasionally a. .'11110 object appeal's! on the ground. A cioseup look anrt you try to forget it. The rest of the pressing. This "rat-tat-tat" shows that the Bocbe is still really very much alive and it in a warning to be cautions. Most any minute an unfriendly parachute flare is likely, The patrol's work is done. It lias found nothing "unusual in No iian'f Land," j As steadily as any North Air.eri-1 can Indian ever crouched or cnuvlcd tho patrol heads hack but ready to flatten out again with a second's. no tice. But quiet continues and you return to ibo friendly who, crawl i and wriggle through it and Into the i trench which for the fii-st time dur ing tho ni;.-ht, ban the sensation of r being the sa(es place In tho world. Word is passed- down tho trend? to all its silent watchers that the patrol is ended and that trench war faro is on again. At daybreak there will bo more coffee and "gnois"'aud tho night trench dwellers will pass the wctch to tho day shift who have beer, sleep ing peacefully in dugouts a few yards awsy. 4 After sis days and nlglits of "first, trench" life the-poilu goes back to "rest and quiet" in tiie second line. "It isn't bad when you get used ' to it," Hie captain explains. o - j i Beal Shovman, "That boy of mine is a natural iim showman." "What makes yon think so?" "lie gives circuses every afternoon in our back yard that are tiie talk of tho nctftliiiorhood," "Aren't J'ou afraid he'll break bis neck performing on a trapeze or mak ing high Jumps?" "No, indeed. Ha just takes the tick ets. That's why I (hhik he's a miiu ml horn shov,'mau.'--Uiriuiughaju Age- i Herald, Mot the iovvara of fyrit, j The young lady asi,s- she way says i $Ki a month re: lahey seems like miser ably small pay for biave s Mdier, n:al for her part she lhlui:s.they ought t' ' be cashiered iuurh more liberally. i Cartoons Magazine, amcoats Genuine Reduction on All Lines 67 DNCLE SAM Oen. Forshirte renorta that vaiue m tra i.'H sh push toad Car. urn tre- bam is ."erg up i g arlcrv practi aut" the 'solecis at the American coutonnieau. ilsre's a jlciwo of iJfioljgr,ihr It, i. BonsaB, rtowlOB me loail-j tns of a light ilsid gun "somewhere in America." , J WH"B jwwmi ,. POET HilEI AS':-1 D'Annunzia is Decorated by Two Kings for Deeds of ' Bravery, if itkt lAiniR mm in Addition to Triumphs as an Author and Aviator, D'Annumio Has Shown Marked Ablilty as Statesman and Politician. Koine. Two rulers, tho kings re spectively of Great lirlluin and' Mon tenegro, have conferred lueriuls on Ua isrieiio D'Annunxlo, , Without the history of this man's r muriiublo enrees fresh In mind tiia reader ef (his news Is hardly likely t realize the fact iimt in D'Aiuumzlo 111 ,,il1i. ,,..i.,fl,S.. " t-'i '? J f i 4 l "1 V. 1 - hi i "r 4 i " Vv A'," , 4 if t J 1 , p I ! r ,r,i j'i ' Gabricno D'Annunric lie ..i ihlt . ii an, ace b- M 1m Co , it heva , aient as d ill i mil r n 1 1 i 1 i h ti ' 1 , " shown msrtai s,imy tm jwiiiieia,,. 1 t,J "r,rior clerical fei,,.,-. b53), ihe jseed nf tr,, and caislmis was an j tut? vimw tn Hint i:um . " i - . j i - 1 1 1 i . ill " ,,... ,, , ,, , r , , ' :- ti- "'t'lt- n . t:! - :: tttL 1 1 1 f.i r I . - ". - . ' f " " -- - . i ihmith "ii rvr-r iTifTrrinej 'i m 1 1 m i ii I ants. 9, TTTi A PW RUSHES TRAINING OF Wcht nriitiei'v. n u.tt wTsuifi EirSJ 'nhiiiJy"ihai lie attract ed the attention of literary, critics thronghant Eisnspe. It Is npnft tile "siJicym??' ids Hiemes that D'Annnijrfo's enemies Ijjssti their most wore ertlielsms, hut she esteem In wirteh ha is held by ihe linl lan public was shown vividly in the nn certnln days of Una At ibis lime tliolltii, tiie Itolinn es-preaiier, was the lender of I no r.ro4ifrjn!in eleimtnt in Italy. ; At a crltirai time tihiliiil visiil Ibaue and ltsijnel a eoup whlrii would have cmimiiied ihe alhu fti active jiiirtlrfitjilion in tin- w( tin he half of the nsihcw wish which she is new ieeked in a life and deaih r;4 gle, D'AnmniKio's voice, which was the riui voice of liaiy, was mid against such a move and sn stirred were tho Iicopiw In ids audience Ihnt they rusluii enrasflii to the slreets and threw ip bMrricrtdi's behind which ihey fought for Hie jirescrvntliin of ihe country iwaor. against Hwh who winid betiy Iliem to the kaiser and his intriguers. 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"Most t ids time tbat elapsed be-' twecn the date raj wMci work, wm be. son and the dais on wbicn the la 41p w imt Into nmjnlBi(aa after rtBivrena testa was, In fact, tfaapaMe Jess to the BCtnai repair wcrk Omn to the tcdioBS task ot dbratmtMsig all oiachtaery from baw to stem ot m&f s'rfn for lnsprti. thss eMminaUn very cliance of uverlouklu rourraed utltaMoa,1 The gver:--:r.r's , r free vorked niwaya io ajHrelwsrtnat. et-aied expiosEVi's, -Xhr-y fi-jnd vpy where on the tMj ls,srfinci ot srttrt pipe plnggiust of coucbuUbb sterf anta : and boils to de&sto cjitalera, f Uc posilina Bftaind lnss In oil piijcs ssd ijcarings, tt eanniagly changed Jcdl cntors, of flHlMB fl extlBgataherJtn gasolene, Tiw statejaent gam m to say. . .: .". . . r. 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