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Show .l BABIES CRY FIX d liPAcnrnDii" Mother! Fletcher's Oastorla TKt H'tr at Clou Ramgt DturlbtJ in Strut by an Vffictr of tkt Marintt Iinti over .'to years ns n pleasant, liiirrnloss substitute for easier Oil, Paregoric, Toothing Jirops ami Soothing Syrups. Contains no narcotics. Proven direct ions nre on each onekago. 1'hyslclan.s everywhere In f. ip ut-- o Capt JOHN W. THOMASON, Jr. It. The bears signature of Illnatratad Stgh th hj oo tr aUd Aothor from Battlafiald Continued CHAPTER X 14 DON'T RMS These German roads were all honestly metaled, but the Inch or so of mud on the surface was like soup INFLATED LIDS U ihf lmriinn, underfoot, nnd the overcoats soaked IJ Mi t( ttiAA, M'ti It was a ."iii.jilc, the rain like blotting-paper- . KAlA'K, ap n safe llne no with a kind of the ill morning nil li:n ilru,:uiU, If lit ftnrLfl. Uw botween night and daylight. The tana? blackness turned to gray, and, after a while, the major, on Ids horse, Kanford's Balsam of Myrrh could look buck nnd see the end of Since 1846 Has Kealid Wounds and Ids column. The battalion, he reSores on Man and Beast was up to strength again. It flected, atonar bark for Brt buttla IS not milted All dealer! hadn't been this large since It went to Hlanc Mont, the end of September. He shut his eyes on that thought Undertaker Had Best a hundred and thirty men that came of Bid for Business out, where a thousand went In then Thomas A. Iwer, president of the replacements, and, after the armisNew York Itolary clul), said at a tice, more replacements. Perhaps the banquet: quality was running down a little. "There's such u tiling, nfler ill!, us The new chops didn't seem as tall methods too far. carrying tiisl and broud as the old men, the tall, "A business man sent for the docsunburnt Leathernecks that went out tor. The doctor looked him over and the road from Menux, toward Chateau-Thierry- , taid: in the spring. "'You're prutty sitk, sir, but I beJust sli months since the Odd, lieve 1 can cure you.' Hut a few veterans , . . spring. "'What will .you charge, doc'' and hard drilling between tights groaned the business man, 'for u full would keep the temper In an outfit . iureV . one remembered a phrase In tin . flic doctor, "it's rather order of the division '"Well." commander's Irregular to estimate In this way, but "The Second division has never falle! I'm ready to cure you for .(K.' to Impose Its will upon the enemy. "The business man shook his head . . ." And today It crossed the Gerweakly mi the pillow. Then he manman lthlne. Ho swung out of aged with great iliiliculty to articuhis saddle and stood by the road to late: watch them pass; ,2iX) men, helmets "'You'll have to shaile that price and rltles gleaming a little In the considerable, doc. I got a ilarn sight wet gray light. . . . better bid from the undertaker." The road led eastward through a country of low bills, sodden In the A New Way to rain. I'nttdy clouds sprawled on the wet filaments Into Make Jellies crests and spilled the valleys. The" land w as nil In culWithout Staining Fingers Without tivation, laid off In preolsp scptares and oblongs; some newly plowed, smm Without Long Hours cf Boiling sparsely green with turnips nnd rape. or Berries Dcpendinj Upon It looked Ugly nnd ordered nnd sullenFruit Being In Season, ly prosperous. There was slow conOne of the lnot Int crest ins mid vol versation In the column. " Anybody know where we goln' one of the simplest i:ow products In today?" "Patnfino naw I did hear tin) food field Is called minute Jelly-I- t the skipper's orderly say we'd make Is pure fiio! or berry Juice already To the lthlne, some time " "I low far " boilci! down and concentrated. this ( on-- i iitratcd Juice, fruit pectin "Some guy was lookln" at n map at amount lias been added. bnttallon. Said It was about thirty in the The pectin i thi.t part of fruit which kllotiiets." "It's always 'bout thirty makes Jelly "Jell." It Is ns pure and kllomets In this dam' country" "Y h ! Rut I remember one time It wholesome as the fruit Juice. To tn.ike the Jelly take the little wns twelve kllomets. The nlcht we bottle of concern rat'-Juice, pour In hiked up to Verdun, back last March. Had a Krnwg guide-lit- tle a sauce pan, odd water and sugar acshrimp wit' cording to direct Ions on the bottle and a forked beard. Ask him how far, all Then pour Into he'd say was; 'Doo kllomets doox boll a few minutes. kllomets Jelly glasses and when It has become cold Jou bae the liio- -t delicious pure "Hiked all night In the rain, like fruit Jelly you ever tasted. this, an nt daylight we came to a A few bottle- - kept on hand, selected sign, wit' the nnme of tin- place we're according t jniir taste f.r Jellies, nnd goln' to. an" It said T'oot kllomets' you can make ut u few pinkos Just that guide, he let on that he was you want It. 'lie small buttle makes right su'prlsed " Rut there were very tw glasses of Jelly. If yon. wish to few men In the column who rememtry two bodies sold us twenty-fivbered the hlkt to Verdun, In the cents and we will give mi your choice early spring of 101S; In one cupany of grape, tii) ut . pineapple, orange, raspberry, s( rn berry or blackberry. Or four boltles -- nil different - for tifty :etits. Address Oepnrtment Wt C. Packing "orp., Oratiford, New Jersey, Adv. aU'-,-;,'- 1 Ynr-f- tu-s- ... ri-t- t Painted Red Cross Building When the lied iv s building at to t'liill l' !o!!, U', ;i , w. be bad'y in l.e d ,' ii o. t of paint vn Willi- nlid the Ib-frov out funds for the work, members of John t;awl'.v poM i f the Ameriian bi-i-ere- ' j I I.ivion bough: paint, dunned overalls nrd i en pli t d t'-- Joti In otic lifter- ninit. Smallest Cortmistion City South ,H- - bt I Jo be ( tlai'cs I"t,;-- 'i.il i -- in tie 'o , ho e !!! a ' i;o 'an 1 !n map, toun ! Tondar, Aching, Psrsniitu; Feci rtmeirbrrt-- g O'd Cent. . It ,oi . t. th, !..;,. VI. i I I, I ,t ,. tl I .: ,t; , 'i. t' ' i ,' rio't'Tr tri :.- n ' t ''i f'.- -n ;'' " of p' .i.l! ' t ti ! lii;: i - f. f ! v I . ! 1 a i. r- - lb .) " ; " i' ' school-childre- ' c - (T11K KM) J One worthless man In n village s as a bad exainp'e to the entire youth of tl e commnnitv. i Nature Prodigal in Gifts to the Great The grenl Man has usually looked the pnft. Lowell said of Ciaerson that there "whs a majesty about him beyond all the invii I have ever known." about him Washington Impics-e- d as beiiig im ordinary man. and Ir. Jiitues Thatrhir said "the htrength and proportion ,,f ,U Joints and muscles appeared tn te conitneiiPtirnte with the I re emli etit powers of his ,, mind." In his ;orti. an to youth Apollo, and the phy. slclnn HiifelHtid declare! that never hud be "met with a man in whom bodily and mental nrganbatlon were o perfect." Tennyson was "one of the rn-looking men In the world." Word-wortg to the art wa, Harden. " f irv rue heroic pr. o..'ki, pottlotis." Smlthi-t,n ,inl poof, I'.non vijs It boaiHif il :n ,ls et.e in I wa I'b l to "The god of tie Vat b vi, Ibi. A;.. ',. R,.1,i,!,.e." la oevt.io ,t , j ,,.) n .ltI(, f who is troubled J way I Will gladly reconi I mend the VeeetAi-7Compound to them and 1 will utw .t.. inv lettpra tn mcrtrA Mas. Beetiia Meaciiax, UZi N P the . Ave., Lansing, Mich. "I had been sickly ever since fifteen years old. After taking Lvdii E. Pinkham's Vegetable rcin.M ? got so 1 could do all my housework anS 1 am In good health." Mrs. JlABitrL Williams, Ketchikan, Alaska From Michigan to Alaska, from Main to Oregon and from Connecticut to California letters are continually belna written by grateful women recom! mending Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetabli Compound. The Compound Is made from roots and herbs and for more than fifty years has been helping to restore women to health. Are you on the Sunlit Road to Bet. ter Health? CORNS Ends pain at once! In one minute pain from cornsis anded Dr. Scholl's Zino-pad- a do this aaey by removing the canse pressing and rubbing of shoes. They are thin, antiseptic, healing. At all drc nd shoe stores. Cost but trifia. medi-cate- DrScholl's 'Lino-pad- s IMIN'T KI FFKK WITH 1.1 MIlAliO, alnn Ilea, Nrurltm. ArtmiiH liipnvn - rivn romplile lellef. liOPAYN i pr' 'Ml i a - g "I ' .. ' ' '' f" r ; ' . ' n is r::-l- . j ' a' ' ' ' ai ., , 1 '"'I. d : AldllT STIt KAZOK KOR f!. rt .M.my bcli H ijiihIIiv. Pi-rKRAML'R Co.. Boi 411, N. T, nrt at via ratUflnl. not f' ' Of V.llm'i-- j i ; i . tr'ii. t, II - S , i i. ' E'JiV Q,i-- lli y your trnub'en. iiipilim ft., ari- .1 TYI.KS. IS ail'Tt MOM.Y 2i emu. AiMiim Irl Na"oi nl i v. !! '. n - e,. la m . ....... ri unOi-- Imi v t t;, j t I j: 1.- i o i 1 il r !0 j . hTumlprr-iM.d-. U.k uTsaTtTake N. City, No. Post Erects Street Signs hundred vacationists m bo jto t will Haven, Mich., each sumnirr no trouble finding their "J the city In the future. TW will find the tdrects marked by 1?U erected by the local post of the flfM legion. About two hundred will be erected by the Legionnaires h ' co operation with city officials, A The Grand have about AtMf-lea- r The Salutation Solicitor I rdioubl ndii.-- e y l write thin man n nice polil i"1' ttS see what happens, Ollent-- All right. I ll d it. iV?t n Idackguard?-To'teyou fpell 1'etrltied nnialns of a preliWot fon st found In Tcmis tflmw fallen V Irnnks as tall an SlHl feet ,1'.. I l n lieV blue. He lirt. " ln, Ii.i ki'iteil t rvcry altigle and iiiosipiilfi in thou,iiil. f 1 una . Mi. Ko.in (liie initdi-nbes v ay tif fibtio fit bi-It kil' I'tein . y tli" vliiibs. ('"t. ue it t one ni ti i.e. bl m . t,uib;; i' i" vi 3 only aroivn, at Ii jour f r mi 1 -- q a,ili,iM-- ft 'V " i". ie.it i il-.- 1,1 I I'm If. tint .ir of lt...( rt a fi-i- , t I fl ti Pin,!i t.to.-iit:- it it ..f o the e! il Jin;-- t Hot t.,ly .il's n'l irl year piiioi r U it f the te,?. I H e' t ain j. ennrf (1 i i sltsc(ivit!Y.t w.4.l"(f 'iiinmiion- Vt'll rii. mw s tt t i alfiht Vmi til" i !""' M'-n- i noll iff t.,r : i'.T. - r, .1 ' car - ' t h ' ' ( . !.- . t., , o ha ni j . ANT I oot nMv mnl. a intnl: . ll.HMVN ils. lli'-'- ii f ll 1 ctfi v Webnte . ne a i'is .'i . .'"'io " 1. f!i t'";"'"! Im I I Wc .. ' re a,,J family breathe. 1 tb. V ' ! ' i ' v.f ll M.Trj it uu um , Or. O II. fl. I, ...I,,!.,1, ItKA I TV IKMIKl.r T I Kll Or. C. JL Ueirf Co.. X.a Miciiitaa Ave. r:in ij si.. Ilie-.n- ,i t. :C maltl llnif. H.n, iM fly l nn mm lie'a I . ii W la. Milwaukee. Ave., ism 11 friends and rrlatircs t t. n mom K'nrn In your ti ar oiiii-linittiia- (..- Orli-n- t -i mr .,.j : ' natural l'hlioirti lei "on ml iIk t'i fur 11. kail th. i' tpI III. I'hicnK". WHY WORRY? tli- - rivosanhas hilled all his millions of .at was bo e ti at "i ' f . ll t . i,i,. . !.-- V." g ! "; . i n W:.'t. r a f 1 ' k! St ; lb" Wai-h- . Survivor lt i i. (SI- - ADAMS Wrl'i- CO., Aberiiorn, tjuasi mine t i v. the pain it one on Pmc t ;,t.-i- ,. dread the ' , better. aa. "I bear of an.to one col-leg- o I ? imcI. g't longer a d b i 1 sfi how-win- S ' wfi sty So I bought a fe bottles and tried out. It eure helperi me wonderfully t n I ' 08h f ' !' "A neighbor advised me to E. Plnkham'a Vegetal)! pJSL" which Bh7s 7hal , t v.-- -- -d ! . The Reason "You're always meddling with something," complained an Irate father. "Why don't you grow up and be a crossed It, under Oermnn gnnrd. The man?'' "How the heck can I?' objected litbattalion turned right on the eastern "Ma alius mnkes my hank and went up the river, on a tle Willie. so darned clothes tight." American broad rood between a cliff and the Monthly. Legion were There many water. black swift houses, a continuous town. It was DeAll Depends past noon of a Friday, the 13th An uplift worker, visiting a prison, cember, nnd the Roche were out. They gathered to look at was much impressed by the melanthe passing column. The marines eyed choly attitude of one man she found. them keenly. "My poor fellow," she sympathized, These kids were different They did "how long are you In for?" not point or talk or cry out, after the "Depends on politics, lady," replied manner of children. They stood In the melancholy one. "I'm the warden." with unstolid groups, wooden-facedAmeriian Legion Monthly. . Tho pale-bluhoys eyes. winking were nearly all In field gray uniform Sarcasm cloth cut down, perhaps, from the the family battle. was It during cast-ofclothes of an elder. Some of them wore boots nnd round soldier-caps- . 'You seem to think it bad cold In the means nothing to n woman," comThey carried books and luneh-boxe- head Mrs. Rlackstone. "I don't plained on their fashion, knapsack shoulders. "Look, will you that kid know of anything more ati'inying." "No," countered her husband, with there ain't more'n a yenrlin', nnd it rare flash of spirit. "How about they've got hint In heavy march in' " Amerb-aoefcjnw Legion Monthly. 'em "Yen. start order n'ready!" they the that's they're early way they nre these Roche." Those Knotical Miles There were round faced little girls Sweet Voting Thing Why do yott braids. In cloaks. have knots on the ocean instead of with straw-colorelook did fed. like the miles? tint poorly They waxen faced ihildren the battalion reWell, you Skipper (sarcastically) membered in France. And nt every .ee, they n.uli.'n't have the ocean (led them. more were of The If there Mere no corner there knots. Montreal battalion was Impressed. "Say yott Family Herald. see all those kids all those Utile Hundreds of 'em. I'll sipmre-hea'N- : Popularity swear! Something's got to be done "A food chef gets inure than n about these people. I tell you. these professor." "Why- shouldn't be? Roche are dangerous! They have too A lot mine " people take bis courses." children many One inure song "Long Roy." One of the very few soldier songs Only One Explanation Hank -- My brother ain't been arrestthat survived the Atlantic voyage although It suffered some sea change ed for ten years. wns "Iing Roy." It ran (with variaTony What, is he up for life? tions) : Maw! Ounit tye. Raw. One of the grci.t moral fights that Goud-by- . mule, with your old hee- some nr.ttins have Is to keep from haw. . . . e e eating too much. I'll brlnit you Turk n" a Kaiser too. And that's about all one frllnw nn Wealthy Romans sometimes pn!d as do . . ." nui'li a $:',Hi r year for a skilled This file pictured above Is cheering cock. Ids smil In the angle of the bridge nt outside of Just Silly Cognnr On.- kind of bark beetle alone deRite's buvette. In a little while an nver SI.iJmi.mk) worth of timM. I', with no ear for music will run stroys In ii year. ber 1,1m In. I J SOONjECOVERS run-dow- . A iiUfflfl over-worke- d '.. , .".'. 1' I' . 1, 1 a bitiC ti I 1 - (t.. ti : Pi VS tn-i- V.- hlil, i Wanted to Know - ' le-i- public, unfamiliar The u moving picture, of with the making rehas no idea of the time and labor nn runs lilm that a quired to produce according hour or two in a theater, to Lillian Cish, famous American screen Mar, who says, in .un article at the i I.iberiy, "You boy a ticket a box oilice, find a seat, nnd watch get Then you while. u picture lor out. In two hours your hat and walk which you have witnessed something and months us eight taken may have a million dollars to make. "You have seen a woman walk acacross the screen," continues the and turn n window, nt tress, "pause a to stare at u man coming through show you to 10 seconds door. It takes It imty have taken us that sceiie-n- nd it Hi hours to get right We may have of acting a hundred b!t one done that times in rehearsal, and a dozen times only-onbefore the camera; and that Is In the of a thousand episodes play.'' "And what will you have, fir?'' asked the waiter. commanded "I'.ring me a ladled owl," "Yeshlr, cheerful diner, the overly n boiled "owl. Tim guy at th' nex' table says I'm a bigger fool than a boiled owl, an' I'm gonna 'vestigate." American Legion Monthly. e shlp-shnp- "'ik-l- - Men Walked S '"' rlr: 0 Ufniim 0IUI movie-goin- ole SlWIP I0 mainly are country ,1.1s be much That Marne, It wouldn't I never more'n a brand., down South. a guy but Vesle river, iaw that there division, that was in the Tii'nv-secom- l could with me In Netiilly, he says you It." "Heard across near Jump might went chov?-Oali- eys anything about do we ago-w- hon awhile ahead on ent " For four years no hostile troops .... seen this in ti.otr honds had wiia ari'i-- i i., had of files nd prisoners river; only us" ' ""VS"' Audknce D.oesnt See reur-guard- VA bis ll In tie ttnder the cooi. nt. HiiaSe-- s:.-m- tn!-- 'i wl.ii Hi, in. and imiw U Is, un' it's a pity be ain't "Well, but he's hero to set rest In' easy where he Is me, I'm cold as hell an' this dam' drizzle Is dralnln' down my neck" There was nothing but the mist and the ruin, and a mean, cold little wind with a bite In It North and south, from the edge of Holland to the Metz gateway, all the armies were marching. Ahead, Just out of contact, went The battalion the (lermnn unnles. wood of firs a little dense passed Christmas tree woods, the buttallon called thm. This clump showed unmistakably thut It had been a camp; but there was no litter; the Roche who bivouacked there nnd left It neat and clean. Along the road In orderly plies were some hundreds of the round German helmets, and parked precisely In a had cleared place, where horse-ltne- s been, was a battery of 105 field howitzers.' The old Roche wns Jettisoning what he didn't need. The battalion observed and was thoughtful. "What ubmit the ole Roche? You think he was licked enough?" "No, I don't That stuff back there, they laid It down under orders, like they do everything. It's stacked It ain't Just thrown away. An' look how they " "Yen! police up behind themselves Remember the other day, when we we could see was advance-guard- , , sometimes perfect their order, an' all that not like a defeated outfit, at all!" "Sure! I hope to spit In yo' mess kit It ain't I An those little towns back yonder, with the arches an' the flags and the welcome retnrnlu' heroes stuff none o' that was for "They ain't licked enough. Look at this country winter plowln' done everything who th no shell holes no barb' wlrt hell won this wnr. anyway?" "You said It We oughter got up In here an' showed the old Roche what It was like, to have a wnr In his own yard." "Well, I've been In nil of It, an' pers'nally I was glad when the shootlu' stopped. got me some sleep an' a full belly, an' a pair of new shoes nn' some fireman's underwear, too. An' I was right proud not to be killed. I ain't prepared to die " "We know you ain't, sergeant wri know" "Aw, belay that I mean, I wns glad, myself, but we oughter goue on oughter've finished It while we wns at It. He wasn't licked enough, an' now he's g"ln" home like a peacock wit seven talis ." This was the consensus of opinion, delivered with consideration In the rnln. The replacements, especially those who had Joined up after the armistice, In Relclum, were savagely regretful. The chaps who bnd come In nfter Champagne, and been among those present nt one fight, were bloodthirsty, but to n lesser degree. Only the veterans were entirely calm. The rain fell, the road grew- heavier. The battalion, soaked nnd tuNerahle. They passed through plmldi d on. many villages, ail alike; nil ugly and without character. TJie bonnes were closed and shuttered. You saw few people, but you always had the feeling of eyes behind the shutters. One thb k bodied Roche, In uniforman artilleryman, by his leather breeches stood In the doorway of a house, smoking a porcelain pipe that hung to his knee. His fae was set In n cast of bate. He stood nnd stared, and the battalion, passing, looked hl:n over with respect. 'Tliderstiind a bird like that." Those honest. "Yen he's dtni' Heinle In the billet !at nk'lif. they made me sick. Tiiat fellow that talked I'tigllsh. Says be wns glad hH American frteii's, present by agreement In the Uheitilan', to welcome-- - says that to me, nn' would the Ilerr Soldier like a good cup of coffee?" "Piiiii' his how 'bout remarks the coffee?" "Well, It taMed funny, but It was hot." "Old guy at our billet pave u some cognac. Hot stuff! He didn't let on. thorn.-)-. You know tho-tri. k cer-rentes n soldier's family got In iernmnv?- Colored picture like n rol' tlnerre cert! fen te. shows a fit, t indtu' beer drlnktn' Helnie angel over a dead Rim he signed Will. elm I. R - you knew. "Well, this bird bud vlx of them la Ids fnait room, nil framed on the nit. I gathered they was til S"fs I'mir bumped off at Verdun In Rip; urn, oieb" very rei iit Sn)ntm. July, If we met that fella? He Stood !!!, nn' looked at me while I was rivbn' f ,n flit, an' he InoKert ii M,,1. J don't blame Mm, Rut Imw n t,,,. ho gave lis the engna. V I i r tb. battalion learned that the Ro.-.had orders to be limtiSlab'e Toward ti"oi tli . : ! ; ll'-- ' d. an I t1 tilii slow eit to a 'Mo ,j. It" BAYONETS! Prepared Especially for Infants and Giildrun of All Ages lam Th U. 8. flag will fly over Germany ' Less than a year from now . In 01 fW Work on "Movie" Thai he MclCenzle Rend rountrj a creek down whv we'd call this ain't 'Naw. from- -" , erne dam is more your nn ml)1,, rl,er-- an' I.oui- eI was raised In Sent What She hank 'Old Cray Mare She Ain't Tster He' somethln' like ttVwianl f" .'. re ' ,!' rrl'" |