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"F iv e and alx, please, repeated the guard. "K levcn." said the Yank. "N ow move long to to next boy.” ma, Kryslpelas, Doll«, Carbuncles. En- larged (Hand«. BweltinKH, and all Blood aud Skin Diseases, from a common blotch or eruption to scrofula, are benefited by It. In building up needed flesh and strength or pale, puny, scrofulous cbll dren, nothing can equal IL Iu liquid or Fixed Exprseelon. tablet form. Tablets 60c. "Th ere la one queer thing about the FOR GOOD H E A LTH AND LONG so called auto face.” LI FE "W hat Is that?” Do not eat moat more than once a " I t is not a mobile face."— Exchange. day. Drink plenty of pure water, ex ercise outdoors and take a pleasant Her llluatratlon. laxative at least once a week. Such "Nature herself teaches ua that suc a one la made of May apple, root of Jalap, Juice of aloes, sugar coated, and cess depends on system.” "I admit she's made a shining exam first made up and sold as Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellota— nearly fifty years ple In her solar system."— Exchange. ago.— Adr. A t the Opera. "W hat a powerful voice that tenor Incorrigible, At a college in England it 1s against h as!” "Y e s ; I can't hear myself talk when the rules for male students to visit the ''resident Indy boarders." One day ho's singing."— Exchange. n student was caught In the net and brought before the head master, who said: "W ell, Mr. Blank, the penalty for the first offenso Is four shillings, for the second ten shillings, for tho third £1 and so on up to £10." "And whnt would a season ticket cost?’’ Inquired Ihe culprit. SUFFERING CATS! GIVE TH IS MAN TH E GOLD MEDAL One Sign. "Is aiitomohllliiK a paying businessT" "W ell, It seems to raise Ihe dust.”— No humbug! 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No pain at all; no sore ness or smarting when applying It or afterwards. If your druggist don't Se»v 2Sr. Oielaml 25c I SOe have freexone have him order It for you.— Adv. Clear Your Skin WhileYou Sleep with Cuticura JJJRINEt Granulated Eyelids, Its Advantages. "Is the weather service paylngT” "It's bound to have a raise In It. If /vw! S u n , D i nr and W i n d quickly l ^ r e l l e v d by Murine. Try it In It's only the mercury or an umbrella.” ""BP . 'j Sore Fycs. Eytt Inflamed by — j f x m . j y i t x / c Q .your *nd In Baby's Eye*. lO U L I fc O N o S m a rtio f, Juat Eye Comfort R Marine Eye Remedy S J B j S a e \ 0 £ i Ky» S «lv», in Tub** 88c. For Hook o f (A* A/ i / b — from. A»k M a r in e l i r e R e m e d y C o .. C h le a c a t P. N. U. No. 24, 1918 Practical Husband. " A man has Just telegraphed me that he has married my daughter." "Is he a good, practical man?” " I guess he Is. He wired me col le c t " Sapolio doing its work. Scouring forUS.Marine Corps recruits. Join N o w ! • NOCH MOX CAN'S • ONS CO. Man APPLY AT A N Y who wear this emblem are POST OFFICE U.S. MARINES for SERVICE UNDER THIS EMBLEM my. I was tired out, and using my shrapnel-proof helmet (shrapnel proof until a piece o f shrapnel hits It), or tin h at for a pillow, lay down In the straw, and was soon fast asleep. I must have slept about two hours, when M M I W I awoke with a prickling sensation all over me. Aa I thought, the straw had worked through my uniform. I woks up the fellow lying on my left, who had been up the Hue before, and asked him : “ Does the straw bother you, mate? It'e worked through my uniform and I can't sleep.” In a sleepy voice he answered, “That ain’t straw, them’s cooties.” From that time on my friends the “ cooties” were constantly with me. “Cooties,” or body lice, are the bene o f Tom m y'« existence. The aristocracy o f the trenches very fllRTBY seldom call them “ cootie«," they apeak A4TW» Hff ttVTY o f them aa fleas. T o an American flea means a small Insect armed with a bayonet, who Is wont to Jab It Into you and then hop- “ SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE" EMPEY FIRST HEARS THE BIG skip and Jnmp to tba next place to be attacked. There la so advantage In GUNS BOOMING. having fleas on you Instead o f “ cootie** In that In one o f his extended Jumps said flea la liable to land on the fel Synopsis.— Fired by the linking of the Lusitania, with the I o m o f low next to you; he has the typical American Uvea. Arthur Ouy Erupt-jr, an American tiring In Jersey City, energy and push o f the American, goes to England and eultata aa a private In the British army. while the "cootie” has the bulldog tenacity o f the Englishman; he holds on and consolidates or digs In until C H A PTE R II. mets, a sheepskin coat, rubber mack his meal la finished. intosh, steel helmet, two blankets, tear- There Is no way to get rid o f them shell goggles, a balaclava helmet, Blighty to Rest Blllsts. permanently. No matter how often The next morning the captain sent gloves and a tin o f auUfrostblte grease you bathe, and that Is not very often, fo r me and Informed me: “ Kmpey, aa which la excellent for greaalag the or how many times you change your u recruiting sergeant you are a wash boots. Add to this the weight o f his underwear, your friends the “ cootie«" out," and sent me to a training depot rations, and can you blame Tommy for are always lu evidence. The billets are A fter arriving at this place, I was growling at a twenty-kilo route march? Infested with them, especially so If Having served as sergeant major In hustled to the quartermaster stores there Is straw on the floor. ■ nd received an awful shock. The the United States cavalry, I tried to I have taken a bath and put on quartermaster eergennt spread a wa tell the English drill sergeants their brand-new underwear; in fact, a com terproof sheet on the ground and com holiness, but It did not work. They plete change o f uniform, and then menced throwing a miscellaneous as Immediately put me as batman In their turned In for the night. The next morn sortment o f straps, buckles and other mesa. Many a greasy dish of stew was ing my shirt would be full o f them. It paraphernalia Into It. I thought he accidentally spilled over them. I would sooner fight thau he a waiter, Is a common sight to see eight or ten would never stop, but when the pile soldiers sitting under a tree with their reached to my knees he paused long so when the order came through from shirts over their knees engaging In a enough to say, "Next, No. 5217, 'Arris, headquarters calling for a draft of “ ahlrt hunt.” B company.” I gated In bewilderment 250 re-enforccmenta for France, I vol At night about half an hour b efor« at the pile o f Junk In front o f me, and unteered. Then we went before the M. O. "lights out,” you can see the Tommie« then my eyes wandered around looking grouped around a candle, trying, in lta for the wngon whlrb was to carry It (medical officer) fo r another physical dim light, to rid their underwear of examination. This was very brief. He to barracks. I was rudely brought to the vermin. A popular and very quick earth by the “ quarter” exclaiming. asked our names and numbers and method ts to take your shirt and draw said “ Fit,” and we went out to fight. “ 'Ere, you. ’op It: tyke It aw 'y; blind We were put Into troop trains and ers, and run the seams back and fo r my eyea, 'e'a looking for i s batman to sent to Southampton, where we de ward In the flame from a candle and 'elp im carry I t ” trained, and had onr trench rifles Is burn them out. This practice Is dan- Struggling under the load, with fre sued to ns. Then In columns o f twos quent pauses for rest, I reached our barracks (large car barns), and my we went up the gangplank o f a little platoon leader came to the rescue. It steamer Ivin* alongside the dock. A t the head o f the gangplank there was a marvel to me how quickly he assembled the equipment. A fter be waa an old sergeant, who directed that we line ourselves along both rails o f had completed the task, he showed me the ship. Then he o rd e re d us to take how to adjust It on my person. Pretty life belts from the racks overhead and soon I stood before him a proper Tom put them on. I have crossed the ocean my Atkins In heavy marching order, several times and knew I was not sea feellDg like an overloaded camel. sick, but when I buckled on that life On my feet were heavy-soled boots, belt I had a sensation o f sickness. studded with hobnails, the toes and A fter we got out Into the stream all heels o f which were re-enforced by I could think o f was that there were a steel half-moons. My legs were In million German submarines with a tor cased In woolen puttees, olive drab In pedo on each, across the warhead of color, with my trousers overlapping which was Inscribed my name and ad them at the top. Then a woolen khaki dress. tunic, under which was a bluish gray A fter five hours w e came alongside / woolen shirt, minus a collar; beneath a pier and disembarked. I had at [ thla shirt s woolen belly band about tained another ooe o f my ambitions. / six Inches wide, held In place by tie I was “ somewhere In France.” £jc We strings o f white tape. On my head slept In the open that night on the aide ÆY- • ■ ♦•'vf ■ /? was a heavy woolen trench cap, with of the road. About six the next morn Sf ;* huge earlaps buttoned over the top. ing we were ordered to entrain. I Then the equipment: A canvas belt, looked around fo r the passenger ✓ F vM with ammunition pockets, and two coaches, but all I could see on the sid fm ‘ h ! wide canvas straps like auspenders. ing were cattle cars. W e climbed Into called “ D " straps, fastened to the belt these. On the sfds o f each car was In front, passing over each shoulder, a sign reading "Hommes 40, Cheveaux [ l . # ; , / i crossing In the middle o f my back, and 8.” When we got Inside o f the cars, attached by bnckles to the rear o f the we thought that perhaps the sign b elt On the right aide o f the belt painter had reversed the order o f hung a water bottle, covered with fe lt; things. A fter 48 hours in these trucks on the left aide was my bayonet and we detrained at Rouen. At this place The Author's Identification Disk. scabbard, and Intrenching tool handle, we went through an Intensive training thla handle strapped to the bayonet for ten days. gerous. because you are liable to burn acabbard. In the rear was my In The training consisted o f the rudi holes In the garments If you are not trenching tool, carried In a canvas case. ments o f trench warfare. Trenches careful. This tool was a combination pick and bad been dug. with barbed wire en Recruits generally sent to Blighty apade. A canvaa haversack was tanglements, bombing saps, dugouts, fo r a brand o f Insect powder adver strapped to the left side o f the belt, observation posts and machine gun em while on my hack waa the pack, also placements. W e were given a smat tised aa “ Good fo r body lice." The ad o f canvas, held In place by two canvaa tering o f trench cooking, sanitation, vertisement la quite right; the powder straps over the shoulders; suspended bomb throwing, reconnoltering, listen la good fo r “ cooties;" they simply on the bottom o f the pack was my ing posts, constructing and repairing thrive on It. The older men o f our battalion were mess tin or canteen In a neat little barbed wire, “ carrying In" parties, canvas case. My waterproof sheet, methods u&,d in attack and defense, wiser and made scratchera out o f looking like a Jelly roll, was strapped wiring parties, mass formation, and wood. These were rubbed smooth with on top o f the pack, with a wooden stick the procedure fo r polaon-gaa attacks. a bit o f stone or sand to prevent splin ters. They were about eighteen Inches for cleaning the breach o f the rifle pro On the tenth day we again met our jecting from each end. On a lanyard friends "Hommes 40, Cheveaux 8." long, and Tommy guarantees that a scratcher o f this length wilt reach around my waist hung a huge Jack Thirty-six hours more o f misery, and any part o f the body which may be at knife with n can-opener attachment. we arrived at the town of F----- . tacked. Some o f the fellows were lazy The pack contained my overcoat, an A fter unloading our rations and and only made their scratchers twelve extra pair o f socks, change o f under wear, hold all (containing knife, fork, equipment, we lined up on the road In Inches, but many a night when on columns o f fours waiting fo r the order guard, looking over the top from the spoon, comb, toothbrush, lather brush, to march. Are step o f the front-line trench, they shaving soap, and a razor made o f tin, A dull rambling could be heard. The would have given a thousand “ quid” with "Made In England” stamped on the Made; when trying to shave with sun was shining. I turned to the man for the other six inches. Once while we were tn rest billets an this It made you wish that you were on my left and asked, "W hat’s the at war with Patagonia, so that you noise. B ill?" H e did not know, but his Irish Hussar regiment camped In an could have a “ hollow ground" stamped face was o f a pea-green color. Jim, open field opposite our billet. A fter "M ade In Germany” ) ; then yonr house on my right, also did not know, but they had picketed and fed their horses, wife, button-cleaning outfit, consisting suggested that I "aw sk" the sergeant a general ahlrt hnnt took place. The Coming towards ns was an old griz troopers ignored the call “ Dinner up,” o f a brass button stick, two stiff brashes, and a box o f “ Soldiers' zled sergeant properly fed up with and kept on with their search fo r big game. They had a curious method o f Friend” paste; then a shoe brash and the war, so I “ awsked” him. "Think It’s going to rain, sergeant?" procedure. They hung their shirts over a box o f dubbin, a writing pad. Indel He looked at me In contempt and a hedge and bent them with their en ible pencil, envelopes, and pay book, and personal belongings, such as a granted, “ ’Ow's It a-goln' ter rain with trenching tool handles. I asked one o f them why they didn't small mirror, a decent razor and a the bloomin' sun a-shlnlnT’ I looked pick them off by hand, and he an sheaf o f unanswered letters, and fags. guilty. “ Them's the guns up the line, me swered. “ W e haven’t had a bath fo r In your haversack you carry your Iron rations, meaning a tin o f bully beef, lad, and you'll get enough o f 'em be nine weeks or a change o f clabber. I f I tried to pick the ‘cooties’ off my ahlrt four biscuits and a can containing ten. fore you gets back to BUghty." My knees seemed to w ilt u d I I would be here for duration o f war.” sugar and Oxo cubes; a couple of A fter taking a close look at his shirt, I pipes and a pack o f shag, a tin o f rifle squeaked out a weak “ Oh I” Then we started our march up to the agreed with h im ; it was alive. otl, and a pull-through. Tommy gen erally carries the oil with his rations; line la ten-kilo treks. A fter the first It gives the cheese a sort o f sardine day's march we arrived at onr rest In th* next Installment Ser billets. In France they call them rest taste. geant Empey tell of tha realiza Add to this a flrst-ald pouch and a billets, because while In them Tommy tion o f his ambition— hit ar long, ungainly rifle patterned after the works seven days a week and on the rival In a first line trench— and Daniel Boone period, and you have an eighth day o f the week he ts given o f how ho wished ho were baek Idea o f a British soldier In Blighty. twenty-four hours "ou his own." In Jeroey City. Our billet was a spacious affair, a Before leaving for France, this rifle Is taken from him and he Is Issued large barn on the left aide o f the road, with a Lee-Knfleld short trench rifle which had one hundred entrances, (T O B E C O N T IN U E D .) ' • ninety-nine for shells, rats, wind and and b ration bag. Cheap notoriety la dear at any p r ie » In France he receives two fa s hel rain, and the hundredth one fo r Tom I w M 6*4*0 P*U1 »I Ike F. F. L I. KOVERALLS L »• g . U V P a t OH Keep Kids Kleen TK f M l prKhtal WhWul.pkylto* fa*®*» a * « nventad lot cMdNft r y w » o i a«r. M s d t ua (A * paoc« w ith drop. botk. bl»a.ly «hppe-d o* or o4. E rb U y w W/H N<. tjpf.t c L m U c bond» ■ to atop a»cuI*»K-o. M»d* m blue ¿nun. and ge»ume bine and while A N A M M A N S O IM R W HO W EN T « b ark er t o * « AJ bd w<n«M. fat-roJor material in • variety ok pleating de«ign8, ail apptootv airly truaiaad with ♦ • »i- c o lo r * ‘ jh neck and long deeves. r in colon> »bowing dJ- malmaia aenl f i l l a* E M rtlK iUYM EY : nwet------ $1.25 the suit machine gunnejmcrying in .irs a r 1 ¡C o v e r a l l s RC 4 .U-S. PAT.orr. A N E W S U IT P H E E IF T H E Y R IP L£V tS TW iÄ S& C a lw n ia c & x im . Modt bf— LEVI STKAUSS * CO.. Ses Frsseûcs Mtr*, o f " F r w A o n - A / / « '’ ~~ th o e o w (fe r m e n t ( o r « 0 4 ___ * » Occasions for Excitement. “ Do the people o f this country real ize they are In war?” asked the visi tor. " I think so,” replied Mias Cayenne. "But they don’t seem excited over It" "No. Excitement Is all right for baseball or racing. But a war la so serious that It must be faced with calm determination.” — Washington Star. T o Much Rapidity. “ You don't seem to have a very high regard for Zeb Spicer’s piety.” “ Maybe I haven't,” replied Farmer Corntossel, cautiously. “ Zeb says he has read the Bible through more than a hundred times.” “ Yes. But In order to do that he must have gone so fast he couldn’t stop to think much about what he waa readin'.”— Exchange. Nothing Like It. ” “ Is your master in a somnolent con dition?” "N o sir; he was pretty bad, but now he'a asleep.” — Exchange. Cuticura Heals Eczema And rashes that Itch and burn. I f there is a tendency to pimples, etc., prevent their return by making Cuti cura your dally toilet preparation. For free samples address. “ Cuticura. Dept X, Boston." A t druggists and by mail. Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50.— Adv. Not Like Vaudeville. "Don't you like grand opera In vau deville? Sometimes the voices are very fine.” “ I like that p a rt But It seems funny— '" "W hat?” " T o have a singer go through three songs without any change tn costume.” Dr. Pierce’s Pellets are best fo r liver, bowels and stomach. One little Pellet for a laxative—three for a cathartic. A Discovery. Extract from the Plunkvflle Ga zette: “ W e recently heard the town band render the ‘Marseillaise' for the first time. It is a stirring air. W e pre dict It w ill become popular.” Not Much. “ Boss, I ’m hungry." "H unger makes a fine sauce.” “ But what good is a sauce without something solid to go with It?” ALLEN’S FOOT EASE FOR THE TROOPS. Shaken into the shoes and sprinkled in the foot- hath it ffives rest and comfort, takes the friction from the shoe and prevents blisters and sore spots. Make« walking easy. A ccept no substi tute. Sold everywhere. 25c. More to the Point. Berlin's vehicles of all sorts are said to have gone to rack and ruin. 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Sometimes there are serious condi tions where a hospital operation is the only alternative, but on the other hand so many women have been cured by this famous root and herb remedy, I ydia E. Pinkham’a Vegetable Compound, after doctors have said that an operation was necessary — every woman who wants to avoid an operation should give it a fair trial before submitting to such a M ing ordeal f complications e x is t writ# to Lydia EL Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass., fo r advice. The result o f many years experience is at your service. Tr