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Show Thursday, MaM. j THE LEIU SUN. LE1H. UTn PAGE TWO Are You UstenjgM The 8CNSBT-DTTINT Bin. and quartet uvit, 0.T1..T. i11 SuiwiT Illustration by IRWIN MYERS, D.S.C. at ltd annnnniiAii & l. "i Wl n. - 'w in m If vnnr .u M . DTBSliVTlNIiUeWJCs,, Copyright by George H. Doran Comp. WKU Berries Bend le stamp for "COTii " patJoolar. of til. Inw-rMtL1 """m E! By LEONARD NASON CHEVRONS : . a 8T0RY FROM THE START Sergeant Eadis end Private Darcy, lately discharged from s hospital, behind the front, la France, become bored and disgusted dis-gusted with life In replacement camp. They elude the guard and go over the hill to find and. rejoin their old outfit, the Seventy-ninth field artillery. At Vaucouleura they are told their outfit baa moved np beyond Tout. Weak, tired and hungry, the two men seek food. Upon the promise of a "real" feed, they split a pile of wood for an officer's cook. When the latter offers them bread and aalmon, they thrash him. A friendly M. P. helps them get a truck ride to Toul and soma bread and jam for a meat Lata next day they find their organization organiza-tion In the woods. Both men art worn out and hungry but a drive on the German position Is to begin be-gin In an hour, and Eadie Is commanded com-manded to go along. The Americans Amer-icans prepare to launch an early morning attack against the Germans Ger-mans at Saint Mihiel. CHAPTER II Continued ' It as daylight by tlie time they had waded through a creek and come to a road. Evidently this was to be the . Jump-off. The captain halted and looked about blm. Eadle thought the moment propitious for a look on his own part to see If there were any outstanding features of the sector that might serve as guides latei on. One look was enough. Out of a level plain leaped a mountain. It towered out of sight amongst the clouds. No need for any guide posts In that sector. Wherever Eadle might And himself he - could see that mountain and know that his battery was at the foot of If. About Endle the men discussed the mountain. The outfit would never pass It The outfit would take It by frontal attack. There was a strong belief thnt It was to be blown up by b njtne, In fact, certain soldiers claimed to have talked with men In Toul who h,id sunk raid mine. All agreed that something would be done, for to think of starting a drive with that cliff held by the enemy would be madness. "Have you got a Very pistol?" asked the captain suddenly, tie turned to Kadle from the group of officers kneeling about a map. "No, 6lr," said Eadle, In a feeling of panic. A Very pistol was for firing rockets. Good," said the captain. I was going to take It away from you If you hd. I've found that as long as you cave the artillery shooting their fool bnrrage In their own fool way, you'll be all right, but If you once start spreading panels or shooting rocket to try to get them to Increase theii range or shift their target, you 11 get a d-o fine shower of eteel right Id the back of the neck. Tou stick right with me, sergeant, and leave the artillery ar-tillery alone.. Posts, gentlemen I" The officers trotted away and the little group of enlisted men, a eet-geaut eet-geaut major, two runners and a signal corps sergeant, began to tighten their Hps and rettle ond resettle their gas masks. Eadle'a heart beat so fust that be could hardly breathe. Again be looked around, but could Dot see more than ten or fifteen, men at the most Not niajiy to start a drive with It was rapidly growing lighter. Eudle's teeth rattled so that he was In danger of biting off Ms tongue an) be kept working his fingers to free them of the mud that crusted them, lie wlshe.t they would start What were they waiting for? lierrrublain.' There go toy guns!" cried Eadle excitedly. The captain stood up and siHike quietly to the little staff. "It's lime we were going," said tie. From all up and down the fields sol IUtp rose op as they must have behind the ninn thai sowed the dragon ft teeth. The country crawled with them. Every blade ol grass seemed to have turned into a soldier. And the rising suu niHin those bayonets? EmliVs fvet. fit I in g like those of another niwu. moved under hi in, carried hliu ucroas the roiid and Into a torn field on the other side. A cold, bitter wind blew to his face. How light It wusl What a mob ol men I Machine gunners, gun shoulder, auto rifle men. ami stretcher bearers. Well, the mountain would bee In to sneak In a second nt two. Eadie looked at It again. The white cloud upon Its summit was thicker now and lightning? flew out of tt Eadie gasped, gritted bis teeth. and looked a eh In. "That's a smoke screen," said be. "or I'm do artillery man, So much tor the mountain." Ue looked to tte Ironl again. Their objective wa rlearly marked bow, a towering wall f the same kind of smoke as that which covered the mountain. Itocketa elxit despairingly from this wall, flares that tried to light Its opaqueness, and red rockets that called on unheeding rliiiery for help. It was time for a counter barrage, thought Endle. but Bone came. It was time for machine I, Tins to begin to pound, but be beard none. Nothing but the steady tramp ilng of feet, faint cries ol comma ni and a far off clatter. Eadie had oeven eukt wlU tanks and so did no: recognize the sound, lie was all the more surprised when one rushed suddenly sud-denly out of a tiny valley and wheezed and clattered on ahead. After It lurched another, that seemed to be mate to the first This could not last The Germans would begin firing Id another an-other second. Ah 1 There was the first shell. Now the deluge would follow. There was a long, nerve-racking silence, during which Eadle heard a man call out that he had been bit Blumpl A second shell exploded a little way behind them, among the men Id the next wave. "What the b I Is the matter with them bochef muttered the sergeant major. "Why don't they start shoot InT "They will In a second." said Eadle through bis thumping teeth. "Glv eio time. Here's their wire." The men began to go through the shattered wire, stepping high and wide to escape the few straggling strand that were left The wire, .the posts, and the ground that bad supported tht posts had all been churned together by the bnrrage and then rolled flat by the tanks. They were near the trench now and Eadle began to feel little wavps of fear. He had oo weapon and If a bayonet fight started he would be tn a sad case, lie could hear ma chine guns going now, shouts, and the pharp explosions of grenades. The German trench suddenly yawned un der his feet as though the ground 'had opened. It was Just a dltcb of newly excavated earth, the dirt pulverized and scattered about. The attacker flowed Into the trench and out the other side. There were' no dugouts visible. Men were shouting everywhere, grenades flamming, a faint purr of machine guns. A pistol cracked so near that It hurt En die's eardruiu. The captain bad Bred at two Germans Ger-mans who appeared with bayoneted rides, lillles cracked all around blm like popping corn and the Germans went down In a heap. The smoke became thinner and the advance suddenly came out Upon a road, a bard well-kept road. Before thera stretched green fields under a blue rky. The captain halted and looked about him with his field glasses. Then he consulted his compass.- On the right one company appeared to be having dltllculty before a patch of woods and a runner went scurrying to direct another company to give aid. Behind them the smoke rcreen above the firet line trenches hid everything. "This Isn't my Idea of a fight" suld the sergeant-major. "Thera boche are wise ones. I think there's some trick here. We'll probably get ours going across this field." The captain put away his compass and wer.t forward again, walking calmly down the road. He might have been on a maneuver somewhere, for all the concern he showed. "We aren't through the defense system sys-tem that quick, are we?" asked Eadle. "I don't see any more trenches," said the sergeant-major. My guess Is that Jerry pulled out In the night." "Maybe you're right," said Eadle cheerfully. "It looks tike It We haven't taken any prisoners." "Hot dog!" cried one of the runners. run-ners. "Hear that Chick?" Ue slapped his companion oo the back. "Luck I No fightln' an' we won't have to clean our rifles 1" The advance crossed the field and, following the road, they came to a crossroads whore a sign directed them one way toward Mount Sec. The other way had no marker, but went off aim lessly across the fields. "Here's a halt," said Eadle. "Runners!" called the captain. The two runners went up and were sent off with messages, one to t he colonel and one to the major of the right battalion. bat-talion. Others came In. It seemed that the halt was going to be prolonged, pro-longed, to give the artillery time to clean out the woods In front American Ameri-can machine guns began to fire a bar rage over the heads of the infantry. "The game gneth right well," re marked the captain, lighting a cigar "We're a mile and a half from the )ump-off and going strong. Come here, sergeant, I'm going to give you a chance to earn your day's pay. Go back to your battery and tell them that this drive Is a picnic Tell em to cease firing. By the time yoo get back we'll be out of range Tell 'em they can go back to their own division. I don't teed 'em any more. Tell your battery commander he did a nice barrage bar-rage for us." t Eadie si'luted and turned to retrace nls steps along the road. The advance had baited everywhere, while the tanks and artillery beat the woods, but they started forward again, com Ing out of the ditch, from billows In the ground, from behind bushes. The sun shone warmly and Eadie removed overcoat and sticker to let the heal get at bis wet uniform. What a fool he bad been to be frightened I But then things always look differently tn warm sunlight than they do la a black night under a bucketing rale, la the glare cf the "orpse-llghts shooting up from the enemy tinea. The guns be found easily on the banks of a creek behind a raised town! He remembered that there bad been trees In front of them and since there was but one clump of trees la that section of the plain, the task ot locating the battery was not difficult. The meo sat about the guns sunning themselves. "HI. sergeant," called the gunners, "how was the barrage?" They knew that Eadle'a duty was watching the arrival of the battery's shells at their destination, tflough they did not know thnt he had accompanied the Infan try. "How's the battle olnT called others. "There's no battle," replied Eadle. "this Is target practice. The boche are half way to Berlin by now. We ran ourselves out of wind chnslnu them. The Jawbone major sent me hack with a message." "Have much of a tight?" asked the lirsi sergeunt "No." replied Eadle, "none at a!L I don't think I saw more than three casualties." "You didn't get shell shock this time then? Run along to the captain so he'll know you didn't go over the hill.'' "What do you mean, over the hill?" cried Eadle "Never mind, never mind," grinned the first sergeant "I didn't come Id 3 . ? il.-JsssA From All Up and Down the Fields Soldiers Rose Up as They Must Have Behind the Man That Sowed the Dragon's Teeth. the army yesterday, my laddie buck. I know all the tricks. On your way. the skipper's lookln' for you." "Don't let him kid you, sergeant," 8a Id a section chief. The men all grinned at Eadie, At the post of command Eadie was told that the captain bad gone to the battalion for officers' call. The order had come by telephone some time before be-fore to cease firing, with the exception excep-tion of one gun that was to shell a patch of woods on the left where no advance ' bad been made and where the French troops who held that section sec-tion of the line reported strong ma chine gun concentrations. "Where's Ham and the machine gunners?" asked Eadle. "Over In the field, goldbrlcking." Eadie directed bis course thither Across the road the machine guns h.id been set up, their muzzles pointing skyward, ready to cordially receive any prowling German plane that came their way." "Hey. Ham," called Eadle, -hows the battle?" The machine gunners received him uproariously. They had broken open a case of emergency rations the gar rlson of the trench had left behind and were regaling themselves about a small fire, heating the beans In a mess kit and eating hundfuls of sugar. "Sit down." said Ham. hear the boche lit out for Berlin. Is that so?" "I'll say It Is Is," agreed Eadie. Hp spread his slicker and overcoat In the sun to dry out untied his gas musk and let It hung In the carrying post lion and began to unwrap his puttees He happened to catch Hum's eye and a slight Jerk of the head brought tht. machine gun sergeant to En lie's side. "Ham." said Eadie. removing his wet shoes and stockings, "I want the low down, now. Give It to me straight What does this outfit think 1 pulled off up Id the Marne?" "Aw. Dtithln." said Ham. "they're Just klddiu yuh. We all know you got bit or shell shocked or some! bin. Only Hist looey you went out wiih that afternoon, be come back and sahl you went over the bill Well, you dldnt show up again and then the next thing we beard was you wns In liospltaL" "Over the bill! The sod of a gun! Why, the Old Man sent me out to find a bridge and the looey was tht one that beat tt without finding any bridge. He Jumped oo bis horse anil went blooey. I was on my way back when I got bit Weil. now. I didnt really get struck by a piece of shell, but that shell knocked me cold and 1 T V V'j.Ci cot a d-d good dose of gas and I wat, a sick son of a gun for a month or more. I suffered. Ham. no klddin And now every one makes a wise crack about a Jawbone wound strlie. And this nit wit ollicer we got with the echelon told me to take tt off. "Aw. doi't mind him," said Ham. -Why. he don't rate spit high In this outfit." "All the same," said Eadle. "after II I went through and being sick and everything, It's a little rough to go back to the outfit and get ruzzen ir wearing a wound stripe." Well, as long as you're the onl.v . u. .1. ...... ..... ...... emt man in tne ouuh nuns " got to expect they'll be Jealous and put you on the pan now an then. Me. d tell 'em all to lake a tiym ning ni i ihe moon Come on. give us your cup. we got some coffee here.' Eudie ate the rest ot his dinner warming his naked feet by the lire. The sun was warm on his back, the fire warm on his feet, and the beans and coffee warmed his Interior. Sher man put It a little too strong after all. thought Eadle. Prisoners had been coming along the road from the front in ever in creasing nunmers and wnen uie nean of a column of about five hundred ap peared down the road, the machine gun crew and Eadie adjourned to the edge of the road to watch them pass. 'Aren't you afraid they'll bite youV asked Eadie as the M. I', went by him The M. P. looked darkly up at the sergeant on the bank above him "Boy," said he, "if I was to yell right loud at them they'd ruin their clothes." "All the same," said Ham to the ser geant, "it's klnda dangerous to have one guy guardin' all that bunch." "I ain't guardin' 'em," called bacR the M. P., who had heard. "I'm show- in' 'em the rond!' Another long column went hy and as Eadie watched It out of sight, he saw the captain approaching down the road. "Ah," said Eadie. "ftirewt leisure Here comes the Old Man." He bob bled back to the fire and pul on his shoes and stockings. "Hang your eye on my slicker and overcoat awhile, will you. Ham?" asked Eadie, wrapping his puttee? about his legs. Til go report ami then I'll come back." The captain's eagle eye had lighted on Eadie, however, and he beckoned to the sergeant. Instead of going Into the trench. "How did It go?" asked the captain when Eadie stood before him. "Good? I hope It keeps on this way. The In dicatlons are that It will. Well, now I'm going to give you a Job. The battery Is to move forward within an hour. Our transport kitchen and all that, won't leave camp until tonight And we'll be gone when they get here. sso men, you come up with, us and when we find out where the butterv will take up position, you come buck and guide our transport to the new position. It will be a nice Job." con eluded the captain, "because you'll he out of range most of the nlcht. ot course,"lf a counterattack starts, you'll hold the transport here." A few minutes later the machine gunners could see a runner arrive at the battery, the lone piece ceased fir mi,, nuu i'it imiiiuoii were at once made - for an advance. .'The llmneri. came up from some plnce In rem mrinA thr,, a... . wiicic iiir.T mm uevn in sliellt'i unl the guns were wheeled nut of thnii positions. The nin.hine mumer be gan to dismount thHr guns. PnJI. ..,.!. . . aiiiu surveyed Uie sectoi iruiu nit? nine Klioll. Where thai morning had been a rolling pinln loony aim. oeseriHl. Ilie Count rysiih teemed with life like tin ant hill Tin fields were dotted with deserted i;ink At i .i i . uiauuieu or aiiiinnoiied iltiiinu the Rulers Believed in The old Emperor Francis Joseph ol Austria used to leave his hftl every morniiia at four o'clock, soim times even at 3::i. riad In an old worn out general s cloak, and on his lieaii the only correct regulation oiti.er's cap In the entire Austrian army, hf worked until six. He went to bed every night at eight Frederick the Great always began hi day ai five, and during the last few months prior hi dealh hi .privy councillors had to hrfns him their reports at font tn the morning. He consoled them with the remark that -It would not last much longer" Enieror William I was at his desk every morning at seven; while "Everyman" in a Barn The Fifteenth century mortality play -Everyman was produced In a strange environment one afternoon recently. re-cently. Its theater was a barn the -tithe barn" at Great Coxwell. Kng. land, a structure reared long ago by builder wbo can acarcely have dreamed that It tI4 ever be put to use such u this. In its v asm ess the tithe barn resembles, however, a cathedral. ca-thedral. The dim spaciousness and hush conspired to create an appro priate atoospliere. Kew lork Time morning's advance, and the roads that had seen no wheel for four years, crawled with trucks. Pioneer Infantry Infan-try and engineers tramped by, going up to repair roads and bridge trenches, and the steady flow of German prisoners prison-ers to the rear grew thicker and thicker. -What a fool I was." muttered Eadie. "Well, I'm never going to be scared again. This may be the Inst drive of the war. For all I know the German ormy has collapsed. I'll say the German army has deteriorated since Chateau Thierry Well, wheth-er wheth-er It hns or not. I'll never be scared of It again." He could feel his cheeks get hot as he thought of the stark terror ter-ror that ha( come over him In the few minutes Just before the attnrk that morning. "Nope." he said aloud, 'never again." CHAPTER III Night Marches Eadie, wajting in a, ditch for the order to move out, heard nis name cnlled. "Here!" he answered. "What Is It?' "There he is." said some one. "slttln down there by that caisson that's only got one team on It." Eadie. looking up, beheld a huge hulking figure he knew well, coming his way along the column. - ' "Well. If It isn't Jake!" he cried. What are you doing awdy from the supply company, aren't you lost?" "Not me," replied Jake. "1 belong to 'A' battery now!" He and badie shook hands and Jake sat down in the ditcli beside the sergeant He was a huge man; his great hands looked like liams and were covered with freckles and red hair as coarse as a horse's mane. More red hair peeked from un ler his helmet, and the collar of his blouse, too small for bis bull neck. was always unhooked. "1 heard you were in some kind ot a Jain," said Eudie. "You should have known better than to try to sell stuff to a T. M. C A guy." "That's a dirty lie," said Jake, "that wasn't It at all. This here 'Y' man, he asked for a lift an' we give It to him. It's agin orders to have anyone ride them escort wagons. Well, I says give him a ride and we give It to him. This was a' week ago, when we was luggin' hay to Hoyaraeix. Well, the night before the drive, d n if this 'Y man didn't see me poundin' up the road an'. come runnin' after me an' give me a plug o' terbuccer. 'He's a white man,' says I to myself. So then the day before yesterday, when we was pitchin' camp near eome old Jerry dugouts, a guy comes an' says he's found a telescope. An' sure enough he had. I right off doped I'd give it to the 'Y' guy for a eoupla more plugs o' satin' terbaccer ..n' I hunted hliu up on' told him, like a d n fool, right in front of a coupia majors. 'Cant give away enemy property,' they says. Everything must be turned in. 'Very good.' I says. So I went hack an took the d-n thing, cart an all an threw it In the creek. So when the two majors come over arguin' as to which of 'em was to have the tele svope, I says It's In the creek, kicks off the brake an' tells Pete to drive on. An' so, bein' broke for It. I asks for a transfer to 'A' battery, where I knows a sergeant named Eadie. Hef-fernan Hef-fernan said you was hack. Where you been? I come over to the battery once o Invite yuh to a keg party at Man--Ires, but they said yuh was sick in vuhr.1"1' W'"" Wi'S the ",a,,er wi,h Eadie spat upon his cuff and went through the motions of polishing hu wound stripe. "Look that over. Jake' oe said. TO BE CONTINUED.) Early Working H ing Hours "I gramhson. the ex kalser. when he Jjnje to ,lle t))ne J" ore seven. This wa8 a severe trial J IV nee Bismarck, who hated he to attend in conference on the JnL r,n,gh' the ,roD nce..o, Politicians about him. then He worked owm ' m S,ep' m t"e toV owing morning. Kept the Minuteg The village football dab was being reorganized. The vicar was apnX ed President, and a person of n"'' ,aCT,ons countenance -was pro-posed pro-posed as secretary. . "You know how to take the minutes. The secretary grinned. es, I know.- he replied. At the next meeting the rrei,w. announced that the secretr .1 read the mlnut TT2 T meeting. 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