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4 f - CHAPTER XXV It Is early morning-, dear aad tray. Tbe gurgling continues. I top my. cars, bat toon take mj r flngen away again, because then I cannot bear tbe other sound. ---The figure opposite me mores. I w -u wbua auu aa vauusma aa look at it. Then my eyes remain fined to It. A man with a small pointed beard-lies there, his head is fallen to one side, one arm is ; half-bent, his head rests helpless ly upon It Tbe other band lies on his chest; It is bloody. He is dead, I say to myself, he must be dead, be doesn't feel any thing any more; it is only the . body that is gurgling there. Then the head tries to raise Itself, for a moment tbe groaning becomes louder, bis forehead sinks back upon his arm. The man is not dead, he is dying, but he is not dead, I drag myself toward bim, hesitate, support myself on my hands, creep a bit farther, wait, again a terrible journey of three yards, a long, terrible journey. At last I am beside him. Then he opens bis. eyes. He must bare heard me and gazes at mo with a look of utter terror. The body lies still, but in tbe eyes there Is such an extraordinary ex pression of fright that for a moment I think they bave power enough to carry the body off with them. Hundreds of miles away with one bound. The body is still, perfectly still, without sound, the - gurgle has ceased, but the eyes .cry out, yell- all the life is gather ed together in them for one tre mendous effort to flee, gathered together there in a dreadful ter ror of death, to me. My legs give way and I drop on my elbows. "No, no," I whisper. The eyes follow me. I am pow erless to move so long as they are there. Then his hand slips lowly from bis breast, only a little bit, it sinks Just a few inches, but this move ment breaks the power of the eyej. I bend forward, shake my head and whisper: "No, no, no." I raise cne band, I must show him that I want to help him, I stroke his forehead. The eyes shrink back as the hand comes, then they lose their start, the eyelids 'droop lower, the tension is past. I open his collar and place his head more comfort ably upright. His month stands half open, it tries to form words. Tbe lips are dry. My water bottle is not there. I hare not brought it with me. But there is water in the mud, down at the bottom of the crater. I dim) down, take out my handkerchief, spread it out, push it under and scoop up the yellow water that strains through into the hollow of my hand. , He gulps it down. I fetch some ml r .. .. V .. . . ll iH.t. i mure, liieu uuuuiiuu ma iuuic in order to bandage him if it is possible. In any case I must do it. so that If the fellows over there capture me they will see that I wanted to help him and so will not shoot me. He tries to resist, buf his hand is too feeble. The shirt is stuck and will not come away. It la buttoned at the back.' Bo there is nothing for it but to cut it off. I look for the knife and rind It gain. But when I begin to cut tbe shirt the eyes open once more and BRIBING CHILD TO EAT FOOD "GOOD FOR HIM" tfs 1 Bad Practice, Says Dr. Copcland, Citing Expei iments Which Show that Children, If Properly Supervised, Will Partake of Essential Foods. By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D. United States Senator from New York. Former Commissioner 0 HeeKfc, 7iev York City. RECENTLY an interesting report was made by Dr. Marguerite - Ganger, of Teachers College Institute of Chi' Welfare Research concerning the feeding of children. This report deals with ex feriments made with a group of children ranging in age from tighten taonths to a little more than, three years. Know rig the difficulty many, parents have in feeding Sheir children, these experts worked along this Cne, hoping to solve the problem.. ' The average child may be said to be emo tional and temperamental. What they will eat today they will refuse tomorrow. It was found that eating was made easier by following a daily routine without conversation about the food, or coercion In eating. After a while they learned to take food as a matter of course, thus proving that much of the dislike for certain foods can be overcome in early life. Nothing is more difficult than to induce a child to eat th - things be does not want Some times children will take a food distasteful to him by promises of a reward. This is not good pracuce. it ku a vm cssmpw In the tests by Miss Ganger, harmless substances were fed to th thildren and so given as not to interfere with their regular diet Som were nleasant to take and others were not Thev were -riven choeo late during one period and snowed after a Month they were Indifferent to it. At another time a vinegar and salt tolutionwaa given daOy. At first they naturally showed real dislike.'- but after a period ot four months they took this strange concoction as a drink without any apparent distaste for it. I cite these two instances to show that children will eat almost any food If they are properly supervised. Gating spinach, carrots, broccoli. beets r peaa becomes as much a habit as wearing clothe. I fear that toe many parents re aard the training of their young children from the wrong viewpoint. One of these is th belief that the child win not eat' unless forced te do so. Of course, tf you put the dish of food before the chad and say. "Now. Johnny, you must eat .this because It la good for yew.' the suggested thought la that perhaps lohany had no Intention of eating that particular thing. - It to the part of wisdom to take some things for granted. - Do not constantly urge the children to eat luring the meaL Appear disinterested ' while feeding the child, rather than assuming the usual coaxing , and wheedling attitude toward aim.' - He will come to understand that he should eat the things placed be fore him as regularly as be takes hie , dally bath , or dresses, to. the morning. There will be times enough " in hie life when coaxing or the offer of a reward may be necessary. Forcing a, child to eat Is harmful rather than beneficial. Be firm, bat to not concentrate all your attenUoa en the saatter of food. ?. Maintain a pleasant aad cheerful atmosphere at mealtime, - Thin WO! on the tbe cry Is In tbem again and tbe aemeniea expression, so that I must close them, oreaa them shot and whisper: "I want to help you uomraae, earaeraue, eamerade, camera de - eagerly repeating tbe word, to make bim under stand. There are three stabs. My field dressings cover them, the blood runs out under It, I press it tight er; there; he groans. That Is all I can do. Now we must wait, .wait These hoars the gurgling starts again but how slowly a man dies! For this I know he cannot be saved. Indeed. I have tried to tell myself that he will be, but at noon this pretence breaks down and melts before his groans. If only I had not lost my revolver crawling about, I would shoot him. Stab him I cannot. By noon I am groping on the outer limits of reason. Hunger devours me. I could almost weep for something to eat, I cannot struggle against it Again and again I fetch water for the dying man and drink some myself. This Is the first man I have kill ed with my bands, whom I can see close at hand, whose death is my doing. Kat and Kroop and Mul ler have experienced It already, when they have hit someone; it happen to many, in hand-to-hand fighting especially But every gasp lays my heart bare. This dying man has time with him. he has an invisible dag ger with which he stabs me: Time and my thoughts. I would give much if he would but stay alive. It is hard to lie here and to have to see and bear him. In the afternoon, about three, he is dead. I breathe freely again. But only for a short time. Soon the silence is more unbearable than the groans. I wish the gurgling were there again, gasping, hoarse, now whistling softly and again hoarse and loud. It is mad, what I do. But I must do something. I prop the dead man up again 30 that he lies comfortably although he feels nothing any more. I close hi.? eyes. They are brown, his hair Is black and a bit curly at the sides. -x The mouth is full and soft be neath his moustache, the nose is slightly arched, the skin brown ish; it is now not so pale as it was before, when he was still alive. For a moment the face seems al most healthy; then it collapses suddenly into the strange face of the dead that I have so often seen, strange faces, all alike. No doubt his wife still think.? of him; she does not know what has happened. He looks as if the would often have written to her; she will be getting mail from him tomorrow, in a week's time perhaps even a stray letter a month heme. She will read it, and in it he will be speaking to ber. My state is getting worse. I can no longer control my thoughts. AVbat would his wife look like? Like the little bru nette on the other side of the ca nal. Does she belong to me now? Perhaps by this act she becomes mine. I wish Kantorek were sit ting here beside me. If my moth er could see me. 4 It my mother could see me The dead man aura uw nuu fsa decided liking Zor it at zirst, Jm a happy and harmonious spirit whlk ae 1 eating. ; Answer to Health U. A. W. Q. What should a fir weurh who le nineteen years old ant nve feet three end one-quart ei techea tallT . A. For her ace aad Keix-bt should weich about 1X1 pounds. b MISS F. 8. 8. a What should t Pn weia-n who la seventeen yean old and nve feet aeven and ene-bak tncbea tan? Kr Tor her ace and helcht 1 should weurh about 13S pound. MRS. M. U Q. I am ufferini frena bunions. What would you ad twi is an operation aavwabieT A. Wearinc broad-toed .ehoas ertea helpful under these circum stances. In some instances pkadnt a sea ec cotton Between the ar toe and the second win relieve prea sure on tae joint end brine enow ceneral relief. Where tbe trouble t of kmc atandinc and very painfu snore drastic measures may be neeet sary. Examination win determln whether or not swek procedure Is ad THANK TOU. aWhat soy face to be hsw end flushed am my hands com? : ' - 5 A. Your circulation Is prebabl poor.' Bund up your entire systes and yon wiu improve.- . 1 might have had thirty more years of -life -if only I had impressed the way back to our trench more sharply on my memory! If only it had run two yards farther to the left' he mighfnow be sitting in the trench over ilere and writ ing a fresh letter to bis wife. But I will get no further that way; for that Is the fate of all of us; if Kemmerich's leg bad been six Inches to tbe right; it Hale Weshus had bent his back three inches further forward The silence spreads. - I talk and must talk. So I speak to him and say to him: "Comrade, I did not want to kill you. If yon Jumped in here again. I would not do it if you would be sensible to me. But you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived In my mind and called forth its appopriate response. It was that, abstraction I stabbed. But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand grenades, of your bay onet, of your rifle; now I see. your wife and your face and our fel lowship. Forgive me. comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are Just poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dy ing and the same agony? For give me, comrade; how could you be my enemy? If we threw away these rifles and this uniform, you could be my brother just like Kat and Albert. Take twenty years of my life, comrade, and stand up take more, for I do not know what I can attempt to do with it now." . It is quiet, tbe front is still ex? cept for the crackle of rifle-fire. The bullets rain over, they are not fired haphazard, but shrewd ly aimed from all sides. I cannot get out. "J will write to your wife," I say hastily to tbe dead man, "I will write to her, she must hear it from me, I will tell her every thing I have told you, she shall not suffer, I will help her, and your parents too, and your child." His tunic is half open. The poc ketbook is easy to find. But I POLLY AND HER PALS &ynA en I ROAD V9RKJ TILLIE, THE TOILER THAT E66,VajUIPvHJE, HfMCAAlS "THAT tF HE OKI 6ET you TO OO IM bOSIMES tiiini lilt ir nut BE A QEEAT j y iHiuo roe. Hiva, but BSUEVE ME nr vwcmt DO you s I i 'II m in m mm W. -9 m-T mW fil mm m. mmr Mam- fc. m- r " se wwi a fP""" tm.Gmm t IWIw.HylOMi.inJ I ffr jJ LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY 15 SHE PROM A BAD BDAAP OM THE HEAP, PUT THE XRAY SHOWS AJO FRACTURE OP AJOU&ED, DOCTOR? THE SKULL AAJD AtO BROkEAi y TOOTS AND CA!5PER 1 POtXTHI uawiuv im Vnuo. POOVET, CAiSPEQ.'. . rrs MOT mime.! VJHO IT BELONG TO? heattato te) open ft In It ta lb hook with his nam. . 80 long as I do not know-nis nam perhaps I may still forget fcinl. time will obliterate it this picture. But his name, it la a nan that will be hammered into me and mover eons out again. It has the power to re call this for ever, Itjwill always come back and stand before me. Irresolutely I take the wallet In my hand. It slips out of my hand and falls open. Some picture and letters drop out I gather them op and want to put them back again, but the strain I am. under, the uncertainty, the hung er, the danger, these hours with the dead man have confused me, I want to hasten the relief to in tensify and to end the torture, as one strikes an unendurably painful band against the trunk of a tree regardless of everything. There. are portraits of a woman and a little girl, small amateur photogaphs taken against an try clad walL Along with them are letters. I take them out and try to read tbem. Most of it I do not understand, it Is so hard to de cipher and I know scarcely any French. But each word I trans late pierces me like a shot In the cbestlike a stab in the chest. My brain is taxed beyond en durance. But I realize this much, that I will never dare to write to these people as I intended. Im possible. I look at tbe portraits once more; they are clearly not rich people. I might send them money anonymously if I earn any thing later on. I seize upon that it is at least something to hold on to. This dead man Is bound up with my lift, therefore I must do everything promise everything in order to save myself; I swear blindly that I mean to live only for his sake and his family with wet lips I try to placate him and deep down in me lies the hope that I may buy myself off in this way and perhaps even yet get out of this; it is a little strat gem; if only I am allowed to es cape then I will see to it. So I open the book' and read slowly: Gerard Duval, compositor. With the dead man's pencil I write the address in an envelope then swiftly thrust everything back into his tunic. I have killed the printer, Ger ard Dnval. I must be a printer, I think conf ifsedly, be a printer, printer 1 ojt f BOT I'M I WOT 5) 13E-TTIU5 AJYUre.e IF V BOAIES 1 DOKrT Know WHO IT BE.LOMerJ im tT fl) KVIOW AMYTHlMr IT 3 , young Flyer 4 - V7 Newman Wadlow, twenty-two, of Wichita, Kansas, youngest en trant In the 1929 Ford Reliability Air Tour, is well up with tbe lead ers of the squadron of forty planes making a tour of SI cities in th e United State and Canada. Read the Classified Ads. i s ow- A Y'i j - J'V- v r , i "Somebody's Gonna Get Roped In.1 Sa.ii mi 1 nun in h.m.b.is ii.mit -Attractive Bait." VOO KKIOVJ THE BOS t-lE you AMD VOU rA.ll fTAVJ UltT C A. 55. U-OM3 AS VOO UJAMT.Blfn y0O GO AMTH UJHlppLEI VOU't- VSE OUT QF X "Damaging 'And rAIOTTHE SLIGHTEST. HAVE Z DOCTOR, BUT X 10 ILL VOO AAJV it IAJ0OIJ2E AR0l)WtTHE IDEA WHO EfflHB0RH00D AAJP I THE LITTLE J IfetfOESS I'LL SOOA J CHre tmnmn rr.n. If- Cn typi wxrwS, K)-f5 WELL. I FOUND IT NOT voua POCWBT j OtN6 OIDMT JA1M IM! TO EXPLAIN, TOOT I DON'T HOW WOULD TOO UlE- IF. TTJU FOUND A KNTJW HOW IT rcrr in mY POCWCT AND ' TMAT ALL. v MAM'S WAMWfV IN MY POCkTBT? THE LEAST I EXPECT 19 AK1 . EXPLANATION THERE. Make Oysters ajlabit j Not a Luxury! A CCORDIXa to mm toadinrf lunch or tbe evening Z-S diet expert, oysters should be habit, not a luxury. Too long we've regarded tbem merely ae appetisers, the sort of delicacy that's la the lobster or caviar class, despite the fact that It hf by ao means expensive. But la recent years tbe vitamin-hunters have found that the oyster con tains a liberal amount of Vitamin C: also that it is especially rich in Iodine. .For both ot which reasons all those who eat too. much cooked food or those subject to thyroid disorders are urged to consume oysters, plenty of them, and prefer ably raw. It la easy to bave oysters on tbe menu two or three times a week without making it monotonous. After all. the oyster season doesn't last throughout tbe year, and while oysters are in their best state they should be used generously. If the dinner to have a main dish of meat, oysters can be offered in a mall quantity as an entree. In fact, most people prefer oysters in rocktail form. raw. well chilled, and stimulating: to the appetite. Or it can be th main dish of MITES til IN 6 MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct. 14. (AP) The fifth Labor government since the common wealth of Australia was formed in 1901 was established by the gen eral elections Saturday. James Henry ScuUln, who assumed lead ership of the Labor party only 18 months ago, will be the new prime minister. The nationalist-country party coalition government under Prime Minister Stanley Bruce was swept from power after tottering for 1 1 months, defeated on its proposal to abolish the federal arbitration court and relinquish Jurisdiction over most Australian labor dis putes to the state courts. The standing of the parties so far as could be definitely judged today, will be as. follows: Labor 50 Nationalists 16 Oh BOy L HOPE H0rJ.lSH.G4!s M 1 Or 6ITTIN KID COCOA IK THE RhiS WITH (SET HIM IN 1H& RIM61 WITH SOMfcBUDDY SOM&ONfc sow rim DERM - VAiiLi- you CONF iMTn Hi?. my omc Foe A Ml MOTS ' Eyidence," I OAI THE OTHER A SIDE. Or? TOUJAJ, OPPICER O'PLIAiJJ IS AAOR.E. THAU MVST1PIED ofBK -THE SODDEUJ DISAPPEARANCE. OP THE dlRl. WHO TMRE UJ THE AJOTB OUT THE WIUDOVJ THAT JLEO HUU .To 0AI6 OP THE MOST iAAftDRTAAlT AE2ESTS PUKfAid HtS LCVUC? CAREER OM THE. FORCE. - That's FinaL" EVENT. TO TWt Yb TO 1 1 IMU1LE IT-ACHEAP "1 VOO CA4 HAVH. I HANDKfeRCHlEr W I DON'T 1 A IT. I UPPoee. TT A M-M-M- W KNOW ANT- $OUVENiR OF aTOUQ.TvCETi. 1 SUCH TERRIBLE. X THlNr ABOUT 1 SSSfQ MAr NANT TO- rv..-. PCRPOM6.! ) TH& MANW S fT CLOE TO TOvjCL, We FlNAUl JsrrjJ BLONDS OR. JZ m Oys ters are very easily digested, hence suitable for everyone, old and young. Oysters require tat and starch, as they are deficient In these two elements. But a dish of oyster soup containing milk, but ter, crackers not to mention a liberal helping of oysters makes a wholesome and nourishing luncheon an by Itself. IncidentaUy. oysters should never be cooked in milk. Milk should te brought to a boil. Meanwhile the oysters should be placed in boiling water and boiled for only half a minute actually SO seconds by the clock. Then add oys ters to tbe milk and serve, but do not cook together. Cocktail Sauce for Oysters, Raw. 1 tablespoon catsup. 1 tablespoon horseradish. 1 tablespoon lemon Juice. M teapsoon salt. Uix together and chill. This can be varied by adding 1 teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce, or a dash of Tabasco, or 1 teaspoon cf onion Juice, or 1 tablespoon of mushroom catsup. Howev?r. the simpler the cocktail rauce. the more likely is the County party 9. In the 1926 elec tion Labor won 32 seats. Nation alists 30 and the country party 13. "We are. defeated, but we can take it like gentlemen," said Pre mier Bruce today. He had been in office since 1923, but the Labor party had been gradually recover ing its old time domination. It has been in the foremost of Aus tralia politics since 1901. The Labor party was generally considered to have been helped on to its sweeping victory of yester day by the success of the Labor party in Great Britain last May and its later energetic action in foreign affairs. MILK STRIKE GETS VIOLENT. DEPORT KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 14. (AP) Sabotage and threats of death have made their way into the Kansas City milk strike which Iit II i" IT.' r HAV.F WMT IT'S UP TO VOO TO DECIDE VJUHETVEr& yoccRE soimG TO "STAJy HERE I OC COME ME, TBLL. VOl. OPP'CER, AU5 THIS IS ALL A TERRtSLE MISTAKE X AM NOT SHOPLIFTER akid there MEVER WAZ A CHILD IAI THIS APARTMEXTT ) The Home-Kitchen - By ALICE LYNN BARRY 'oyster flavor te penetrate. Those who Uke - tbe oyster for . texture rather than flavor prefer t drown Its taste with sharp sauce. Oyster fry. Remove oysters from shells (pref erably large oysters) and wipe dry. Spread with mayonnaise, then dip in fine cracker crumbs. Fry lightly In butter until brown, turning to cook both sides equally. The butter or fat used should be very hot. but not smoking, and the oysters fried quickly. Overcooking spoils them. Pisa la CUnkft. IS large oysters, removed from shelL 12 thin slices of bacon. 1 tablespoon lemon juice, dash of paprika. Wipe the oysters dry, -sprinkle with parsley and paprika. Roll a thin slice ot bacon around each oys tor and fasten together with a tooth pick. Place in the oven and bake until bacon is brown. Oyster BroO. Drain and dry large oysters. Spread with soft butter, then cover with fine cracker crumbs. Place under a broiler and brown quickly on both sides. Serve on toast. started last Monday when milk producers decided to withhold their product from the Kansas City distributors unless an in crease ot approximately 6 cents a gallon was made In the present rate. Threats of death to 0. C. Mur phy, city commissioner of Inspec tion and sanitation were made late this afternoon. Two calls were re ceived by the commissioner stating that his motor car would be blown up if he attempted to leave the city. Murphy in his official capac ity has ok'd supplies of milk which have been 'bootlegged" in to the city. Flying squadrons of- masked men early today stopped all milk trucks bringing milk into the city and dumped the fluid on the road. More than 50 men took part in the raids and more than 1,250 gallons of milk were dumped. An added complication of the milk strike is the controversy be tween the health department and the consumers' league. The latter, an organization of women, con tends present supply .of niilk'is not properly kept by city grocers. By CLIFF STERRETTj a ni icTiOrJ nF- ll I J Ai v-pi-ll ' 1 1 II 1' CAUtRimTlY 1 KJ I He KINfto, W H ... i&KlB COCOA ' By RUSS WESTOVER OVEPMeAfeD WHAT THAT lm AVD TO VOU, TIU-tE - Must IME TQ VAjr By BEN BATSFORD TELL. THAT Ti THM4J?WEM IP VoO AlAfT eXDlE SAlATCHER. THE HOPUPTER , WHECE'D N'tfET ALL THAT LOOT? AM IP TrJEKE. JUEVER WAS A cniud IAI HERE WHATCHA TiOJU MXTH - TXinr an. -ff JA THAT ROOM By JIMMY MURPHY kelp the ehBd se create far