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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 , , .
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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.
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: 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
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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,
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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
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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.
Cries "Always Ferward,8
On May , Win, the liaiimi juirtin
Mient declared war and ihe next day
Il'Annunsio issai an in'.paSsiwil
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LIGHT ARTILLERY
infantry," has demonstrate fw:
IffiEWiS
Written Orders Show Ctntrsi Author
ity 6av Instrectlons for Malang
Craft 0less Navy Maiss :
Great Record.
Washington, Every sac ot llio tW
Uenuan sbitw -iwd by the L'nMed.
iSlatts is hi Aho (ran;irt r cargo"
jsorvjee, rno jnnaiig ijisniejiilejy maw
uto HmsIt engines baying heeai rejsainsl
lllwroughly, t
j 'J'hls Infcirninjhjjs was (sien oat by
j the coniiiiliiee on jnrMis iuforraution in
ews hv
Commillet Tells of Rsmilrt.
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1 Oamaga Cone to 103 Vessels Re
, paired by Processes j
Oesmed Unique. ; -
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PPESOFHi
fac, ihi-?7t. 'i: vie:? 3 r-i
tiia ships Jar service by Qjristoas, and
last of th fteet actoaBy took ber
Seal sea test on) wasp rterej Ipso
serrica s:s s T!.j.;';c!- sri.'t t3 tis
ontlos,
Msny V'(unteired Service,
"To sr-.'. -.; i' er.,, K:.vy
JetinrtBet seoirwl (be services i
availnfeio juachinery welders asd '
pitchers, many of thens haying' io.en
winntartiy offered by tha nattrosds.
"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.
Tho method of patching j4 m'!:5
tog brakes roarlno engines fcad aftver
before been practlied, alihiingh ike. trf
hs heea known in the TaBroad Indus
try 10 years, Threa taethoda ut
patrtiing were nsed; deeMe vetA:r.
asin?ticne welding and ordinary me
ihBidcal jmlchinR, the latter often Inter
being wrtdeil, VbHowImr the repairs,
tests of tho machinery swra first raado
at tins docks, where the isfcips wra .
lashed flmily to the piers while thop! -.:-pellors
were driven at low speed, e&tl
lahT each rtip mm tukea to sc ft-r
rtgorons trial iesis, Tiso psstebm nssd
welds were rermrteil as having ea
wnplete satisfaction, .
Sb former tSenaaa liners; issi!s:
ander dMInetlvely Ajserlean names,
i re BttwJ an " ; ,.
Each Is eon
cflaipped,iw5' ' ;
age service, Ti.- !i-
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