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Show PAGE TWO W.N.U. SERVICE STORY FROM THE 8TART Sergeant Eadie and Private Darcr, lately discharged from a boapltal, behind the front. In France, become bored and disgusted dis-gusted with life In replacement camp. They elude the guards nd go over the bill to find and rejoin tbelr old outfit, ibe Seventy-ninth field artillery. At Vaucouleura they are told their outfit baa moved up beyond Toul. Late next day they find tbelr organisation or-ganisation In the wooda. Both men are worn out and hungry but a drive on the German position posi-tion at St. Mlhlel is to begin In an hour, and Eadle Is commanded com-manded to go along. The Americans Amer-icans are pleasantly surprised at the little resistance met In their advance; the Germans evident pulled out In the night. Eadle is sent back to report the successful success-ful advance to bla captain. A few nights afterward, four sergeants, ser-geants, Eadle, Ham, Baldy and Short Mack, Inseparable companions, com-panions, sleep together. J?adle finds his old friend. Red Jake: On night march the columns are drenched by heavy showers Eadle Is ordered out on liaison duty, to adjust fire and repair telephone lines. In a new attack. He takes Jake along, and they are attached to a lieutenant. The attack begins at dawn and this time it Is a real fight Men fall right and left under a withering German Ore, CHAPTER IV Continued The son now shone brightly. There was a wind, a cold and bitter one. Eadle could feel it In those momenta when he was going from one bole to the other. There was always one agonizing moment, when his head and shoulders were in a shell hole and the rest of him still above ground where the bullets could get him. Eadle was of slight build, but be had never before be-fore realized what tremendous hips be bad. They seemed to be mountainous, be could feel them sticking uplnto the sky, a perfect target for even the bllmUft gunner. i Eadle explored five ' holes without success He found neither men nor weapons. He heard voices la the sixth nd went In joyously. There were two men In It. the major and Jake. "Goodl" cried the major at sight of Eadle, "you're the artillery sergeant, aren't you?. I want a barrage 1 Can yoo get me a barrage?" "The lieutenant" began Eadle, "The lieutenant's dead I" barked the major. "I've got bla rocket pistol and this man here has got rockets, but we haven't any code. Have yon got a code? Your lieutenant had one but It's all torn to bits by outlets and full of blood and I can't read It Listen. Lis-ten. Tell the artillery I want a barrage bar-rage on that town. I want It for fifteen minutes, then I want It to tart at the north edge of the town nd go slowly across the fields north. The support battalion will take care of these gunners In back of as, I hope. Tell 'era that Tell 'em to start the barrage at once I We're held op here too long. Tell 'em to nse plenty of gas, too. Lots of high explosive. Tell the heavies to fire, too. Got that? Well, do It." "Oh, O d I" cried Eadle, "yoo can't end any message like that with a mrket I The only way to get detailed fire like that is to send a man bark." "Why. can't yoo see we taveni time to send man back?" cried the major angrily. "Do yoa think you could get through those gunners that re shooting ns up from behind? Do you realize that we're being held op here for a h I of a long time? And wltnt will we do while you're going three or four kilometers back to your battery Sit here and bite our thumbs Shoot off some rockets, quick P Kiidle began to do some rapid thinking. In trench warfare a barrage rocket means very defln'.tt thing: the artillery know beforehand Just where to fire, but in an attack a request re-quest for barrage would mean noth tug. 11 the observers saw the rockel nd even if they could see where It rame from, they would not know where the barrage was to be laid. The chances were thi.t they would lay the barrage on the necks of the tmops that bad requested It . "Come, come for the love of ," yplied the major "Here's the pistol Fticfc rocket in it and shoot It Have you got rockets? Here you. give bim yours 1" Juke obediently handed fistful ot rockets to Eadle, and the sergeant, drawing bis code from bis pocket consulted con-sulted it He looked at the code. Iiursrd his Hps. and Inspected 'he bottom bot-tom of the rocket cartridges. They were of different colors, about the lie and appearance of shotgun shells art on the Nittorn of each was marked whkt kind of rot ket It was, whether of three red stars, two green stars, a yellow si.M'ke, or what "Give uie thatl" cried toe major, nairhln? the code boos from Eadle's .band. "V'hat the bell good you are, Leonard Nason Illustrations by runt -- j 3pyWT 4 6UMGC M POMM a4My I don't know I Sit there thumbing book while my battalion melt away like snowl" The major opened the book, end on the first page, which could be easily torn out and destroyed, was a code. "Lengthen barrage, three green stars. Shorten barrage, one red star. More gas, string of white stars. Less gas, string of red tiara." "Why, this is no d n good 1" cried the major. He burled the book Into the bottom of the shell hole. "What's It say on those cartridges?" he demanded. de-manded. "The color of the outside tells yoa the color of the rocket" explained Eadle, "and those little boles on the bottom tell yoo the number of stars. The letter means the color, too. R for red and so on. That one wltb a big R is a red rtnoke." "Here 1" cried the major, "shoot 'em all off 1 We ought to get some kind of action rut ot It Shoot 'em off or throw eni away, I don't care which." "Boy, I've got It 1" cried Eadle, "We must have a coutact plane here somewhere. some-where. I'll Ore six white stars; that calls the plane over us. Then if we show laundry, be'll see that this Is our front line and if he's got any brains at all he'll fly back or wireless back that we're held np here.' "Shoot Itl" cried the major.: Eadle thereupon fired the rocket There was a plane In sight abcut half a mile away, that was dipping and circling at a low altitude and Eadle's heart was considerably lightened to see this plane straighten out and come In their direction. "Get out a handkerchief, Aike," cried Eadle. "Have the men wave their shirts, handkerchiefs, anything white, so the guy In the plane .can see our front line. I don't know whether there's a panel code or not. I haven't got a copy, if there is." "Waveyour handkerchiefs, men," roared the major. "Wave your handkerchiefs hand-kerchiefs so the plane can see where we are." The booming ot the plane's motor was now plainly audible. Eadle looked op at a long dark green shape, a belly that reminded him of a darting fish. Many voices shouted, rifles popped, then all was drowned In a crackle of a machine gun. This plane bore beneath each wing a thin cross. It banked around, streamers flying from Its rudder, and a long empty machine gun belt from its belly. Again Its gun crackled and three bombs that It had dropped burst in clouds of dirty smoke. The machine was a boche. There is nothing quite so demoralising demoralis-ing as attack from the air. The very novelty of the method of fighting is unnerving enough, 'but the helpless feeling that there la no protection from overhead attack Is the worst part As for these particular troops, wild panic at once took possession of them. Most of them remembered that a little way In front of them was a town and a town meant cellars Many got up and rushed blindly for the town. Th (lane continued to Ore, other enemy machine guns joined in, but those Infantrymen could not be stopped. Tbelr fear of the plane was greater thnn anything else. Enemy machine gunners, judging the moment propitious for surrender, stood up with hands in air. They were either Ignored or ruthlessly bayoneted. "HeyP yelled Jake, seizing the major's arm, "the gang are in the town. Let's beat It for them houses V "What gang, you red-headed Idiot r "Our gang I" Eadle and the major peered over the edge of the shell hole. It was true. Figures In olive drab could be seen diving Into the ruined bouses. This collection of broken walls had loomed as a refuge, and the whole battalion had converged on It in a mad headlong charge. "Come on!" cried the major. lie and the other two leaped out of the shell bole. Thuck! "Some one's hit!" shouted Eadle. "It ain't mel" replied Jake. The major stumbled on a step or two and collapsed. "Into a bole wltb him, JakeP cried Eadle. Each seized an arm and dragged the majot Into a hole. One took told them that their aid would be unavailing. The major had been shot through the gas mask and the bullet evidently traversing the heart bad torn away most of the major's left side on its way out "Let's get outta here, sergeant r Jake had already stretched out one leg to leave the shell hole. "Just a minute." replied Eadle. "Never get excited In th face of danger." He turned the major on one side, lifted bis field glass case and the glasses themselves from around the major's neck, then he jumped out' of the bole and picked op the major's pistol. "Coma on, Jake, ns for the town. tils gra mask suddenly unhooked and dangled from his chest Eadle tried to book tt ud again and discov THE LEHI SUN, ered that the carrying strap bad been cut through and that the mask, was only held to bim by the Btring about bis shoulders. Eadle galloped toward the town. but bis feet seemed burdened wltb lead. The hobnailed shoes were too heavy for a soldier, be thought Ahead of him Jake seemed to fly and was already outdistancing the ser geant They leaped in ana out 01 boles,' hurdled dead and woutidea. and so arrived at the town. Jake, whooping like an Indian, went down the street firing his revolver. A gronp of men clustered about a cellar en trance scattered and Jake went to earth In that black borrow like a rabbit rab-bit Tells and faint shouts came from below ground. The shndew of the plane fell on the street,, end every one took to cover at once. Eadle leaped a pile of debris and dived through the doorway. He found himself in the living room of a shattered shat-tered house. A stairway led up in the corner, but above was nothing but naked beams and broken rotting boards. There was a machine gun In one corner, but Its crew had disap peared. What next thought Eadle. His first care was to loud the pistol he had taken from the major. A counter attack had started from this town not so long ago. What had be come of it? Wen yelled, and the shadow of the plane slid up and down the street like s shark's on sandy bottom. There were two of those planes now and they showed no signs of leaving. Eadle examined the machine ma-chine gun. At first look it appeared Intacf but a closer examination revealed re-vealed the fact that the water jacket had beec punctured. - Eadle peeked through the bole la the wall through which the gun would have fired. All he could see was fields, torn and mangled by the bom bardment rolling hills, and little patches of forest in the far distance. Alt the landscape was covered with bursting shells, tn the sky mysterious planes passed and repassed at terrific speed, or circled above sections of the battlefields like hawks. He crossed the room and, crawling under some tumbled beams, looked out a window There Is Nothing Quite So Demoral-Izlng Demoral-Izlng as Attack From the Air. on the other side of the bouse that commanded a view of the street It was just a bare stretch. of road, lined with piles of stone and rubbish. He could see, here and there, the black entrance of a cellar, with beams or railroad Iron sticking . out showing that the floor over the cellar was well reinforced as a protection against shell fire. Probably those cellars were full of the enemy. . The town was quiet Somewhere in the eastward there was a steady clatter clat-ter of fire, but in the town itself all was still. A man could bear all the better the vicious whack of snipers' bullets against the walls of the houses, and the cracking of bullets overhead. The battalion had taken to eartb In the cellars of the southern part of the town and the town had now two masters, the Americans to the south and the Germans to the north. One would have to drive the other out, and Eadle, thinking ot the disorganization be had seen, the losses that the battalion had already undergone, and the fact that the major had teen killed and the staff scattered, began t fear thut It would be the Americans that would be drlviL out Another counter attack would do it Whack I went a' bullet and dust flew from the stones above Eadle' head. He backed hurriedly into the venter of the room and then took refuge in the fireplace. Another bullet zipped through the hole, ricocheted from the breach of the machine gun. and went humming out through the roof, zeeeeeeeel "Now. then." muttered Eadle. It I stick around In here alone I'll get the shivers again. As long as I'm do Ing something. I don't mind." Again the- shadows went by over head. A gun rattled faintly Prrrrit! went a burst In the road In front ot the house and cloud of dust arose Eadle backed Into the fireplace. Ah but they could shoot down the chlm ney.at him I He started to bark out again. "Hey. Eadle." cried a fulnt voice from the street "11 ey. servant where yuh at?" "In here," yelled Eadle. "In the house." It was Jake's Tolce. and Eadle thought after be. bad replied that the boche could bear him as well s Jake, and be might get a grenade IXnVUJAH lobbed at bim. Again be ducked Into pe urcp.i olce "Sergeant." .am - close at nana. ni . look a minute. Eadle stuck bis neaa sruu-r' sruu-r' . t...h inbn leaning corner or me uc'1. ' ,vm8 in through the wimiow. .round in J "J? you are." sain jane. - - - come out here minute. I got some nrisoners here I took. What II I do with themr Behind Jake Eadie corn., r?oi-mnn rtonding see seven or - patiently lu the street, overcoat . t..b. vpr their arms, and bundles of clothing, pipes, and accordions In their hands. They loosen iuiu- grants with a guide. 0 sv "For 0 t s sake, come in oui that street" gasped Eadle. What'll I do with these prisoners? demanded Jake indignantly. "1 cap tured 'em myself. They fougnt use wildcats. I ain't klddln'I" "Oh, G d I" moaned Eadle, "and I asked to have you go wltb mel Give pm a d n good kick and start 'em down the road. Come In here out of he wetl You'll get killed!" The prisoners themselves, for all their mild patient looks, kept casting on apprehensive eye up at the sky, ot looking over their shoulders In seem log anxiety. fo h I with 'emr cried tuaie. Turn 'em loose and come In here! We're due for a countsr attack any minute!" Jake looked doubtfully at the pris oners and then Instinctively ducked as bullet cracked overhead.. "Counter attack, huh?" repeated Jake, He threw one leg over the sill. Nein, no," spoke one of the pris oners, a saa-eyea, ratneriy son 01 man, "alles gone." He waved a finger back and forth in front of his face. "Kaput 1" he said. "Yah! Yah!" agreed the others. One turned and waved bis band In a sort of farewell gesture toward the northern hills. "I know what that means," said Juke, "an' I ain't no German neither. That means their gang has all pulled out." Something cracked at the upper end of the street and Jake hastily stepped over the pile of rubbish and beckoned bis prisoners to follow him Into the bouse. They came in fearfully fear-fully and huddled In the center of the room, clutching their bundles. Jake pulled and pushed them Into a line and surveyed them thoughtfully. They were old, all were gray-haired, and two wore spectacles. They shuffled their feet and looked at the ground, at the criss-cross of beams over their beads, anywhere but at Jake or Eadie. "I took 'em alive!" said Jake with pride. "You wouldn't think it to look at 'em what a scrap they put up. Eadle replied with a hoarse laugh. Jake, however, paid no attention but walked around and around his squad, and finally took bis position In front of them. The prisoners, exuectlna some sort of command, stiffened their backs and stopped shuffling their feet Now, then," said Jake, "who's got any chewin' tobacco among yuh?" Receiving no reply, he turned to Eadie, "Sergeant," said he, "if you knew how much you sounded like a Jughead brayin' away up that chim ney you wouldn't laugh so hard." "Ah, Jake!" gasped Eadie, "you'll be my death." "Well," said Jake, "what do we do now?" "Not much," replied the sergeant You and I are artillerymen. These doughboys have the work to do. Let 'em do It "I ain't klckln"." remarked Juke. taking off his helmet and ruffling his red hair. " wish this war wa over." "It Is, pretty near." said Eadie. "We've lost n lot of men and haven't gone very far. And then the major's dead. And also this supMirt huttalion that was to leapfrog us won't get by Tibetan Wild Horse It is thought that the dziggetal, or Kiang horse, approaches as near to the primitive horse as any now found In a wild state. This s believed to he the animal so graphically described in the Book of Job. The home of this creature, which formerly ranged farther west. Is now the high plateaus of Chinese Turkestan Turk-estan between Lake Lob Nor and the mountainous region of Tibet. This plateau Is covered with a growth of short grass on which the wild horses graze. The climate Is very cold, the mercury In winter sinking to 40 degrees de-grees below sero, Fahrenheit The Kiang horse is a shaggy animal having bodily somewhat the aspect of a donkey except as to the tail and ears. It la. however, a genuine horse, having rather delicate legs and feet and ears by no means resembling those of a donkey or mule. The color of the head and of the upper part and Olivet Most olives eaten In America are greeu olives which have been pirklej whole or wlih the pits removed. In the Medlterranoo countries It ts customary cus-tomary to eat tit- ripe fruit cured in salt. Olives In this manner constitute . staple part of the laborer's daily diet It Is very rarely that ripe olives are eaten io the United States. The Department of Agriculture has Introduced Intro-duced a new variety called th Barounl olive, especially .dapted lor f-k-kling rlp It is a native of north Africa and has been grown successfully to California. The original stock of a few trees has expanded until there are now orchards of about lou acres total area on the Uclac co.it.-1'.tb-findcr Uftaziua iu. -nnnur we ien in our LUIS KUlJfc- m . Aside from that and these two plane, overhead, wa bavent anything to worry about" "We can see better, anyway," muttered mut-tered Jake, "now that the d n mist la gone." "The boche can see oa, too, remarked re-marked Eadle. -That fog belped M much as It hindered. There too many bills In this part of the world. Idontllkelt" "Them glasses yoo got off tne major any good?" asked Jake suddenly. sud-denly. -By q J r cried Eadle. He pot his hand swiftly behind bis mask and drew out the major's glasses. He had tucked them there, the strap about his neck, and had forgotten them. He Inspected them carefully, putting them to his eyes tentatively. "I can't see a thing." be muttered. His eye roamed about the room and fell upon the stairway that went op L the corner. There was nothing at the top of that stairway but space, but a second look showed a tiny ledge, and the root of what had once been the wall of a room. Bits of wallpaper still clung to It "Come on up there," -ild Jake, following fol-lowing Endle's thought "We can get a swell look around." "Uhl" grunted Eadie. "We most likely get a swell slug through our skulls, too. Well, come on." "I forgot my prisoners," muttered Jake. He fingered his lip doubtfully. "I don't want 'em to light out on me." he continued. He regardefl the prisoners pris-oners a second, while Eadie polished the lenses of bis field glasses. "Listen, you birds," began Jake, shaking bis Immense fist at the prisoners, pris-oners, "I'm a hairy wolf an' tht direct descendant of a long line 0 catamounts! cata-mounts! Never forget Itl I'm goln up them stairs with the sergeant here to look at the scenery. An' If I come down an' find that one of you has moved one foot outta place, I'll knock bim Into a swound !" "What then 1 Is a swound?" asked Eadie, as the two went very carefully up the staircase. "I don t know," said Jake. "1 was to a theayter once where some one fell into one, and from the screechln an groanin' an' rollin' around, I Judged It's about the last stage." There was a fairly good view from the ledge. Eadie looked toward the American lines, and saw men advancing, advanc-ing, probably the support battalion. Toward the German lines be could see nothing." Ah I "Jake," cried Eadle, "Jake I I can see where this shooting Lv coming from!" He extended the glasses to Jake without taking his eye from the place where he had them Inst focused. "Look, Jake, at that what the h II" His groping band met space. "Come down 1" yelled Jake, He was at the bottom of the stairs. "Couie down I The whole German army is sliootin' at yuhl" There was the end of a beam Just behind Eadie and something struck this beam quite a blow. Eadle went down without availing avail-ing himself of the stairway. From the south end of the town came a faint call, "Come ou.ta thatl"' Close at hand a voice that was undoubtedly un-doubtedly an ottieer'8, ordered some one out of a cellar and excitedly demanded de-manded the battalion commander. Eadle and Jake skipped across the floor and peeked througb ihe hole la the corner of the wall. There were many men In olive drab coming' up the street ducking from doorway to doorway. Across the ruins Eadle could see th? bobbing 'leltnets of others who were skirting the town From time to time one of these men would be hit Other Americans, or gently hwited. came out of the eel lars and Joined the newcomers. . "It's the support battalion," said Eadle; "we might as well go out." (TO US CONTlNlTED. Figures in Scriptures? sides of the body is a reddish tan shading to a bay and, though this color grows lighter from above downward. down-ward. It contrasts strikingly with the pure white of the Inner side of the forelegs. Along the spine runs n -well-defined stripe of thick blackish-brown hair ex-tending ex-tending to the root of the taiL The hair is lojg and shaggy and protects the horse against the cold In w'nter. . The dziggetal, like all the othir wild horses, live in bands or herds of 100 to 200 Individuals, each presided over by an old male. This leader gives the signal when any danger approaches these anlma-s are preyed upon frequently fre-quently by wnlves, but their most te nble enemy Is the ounce or Turkestan panther. Historians in Dispute There Is a great dlfferenve of opln ion as to which are the precise mountains moun-tains spoken of as Mount Sinai and Mount Horeb In the Old Testament They were undoubtedly peaks located n the Sinai peninsula, which is- a territory projecting Into the Red sen between the gulf of Suez and the gulf of Akaba. The southern part of this Is mountainous. Many historians ara of the opinion that Jebel Musa represents repre-sents Sinai and Jebel al Mir represents repre-sents Horeb. Others are of tire opln ion that there were not two mountains, moun-tains, but that Jebel Musa was the one differently designated as Horeb r SinaL Time's Change "A banjo player." said Uncle Ehen "used to be considered a icwfer. 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