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Show THE S A LINA SITN. SAUNA. UTAH CHEVRONS By LEONARD NASON STORY down again behind the town. Then any one thats tn these cellars will come out and surrender. Too two artillerymen stay with me. Do you know bow to ask for a barrage?" I know, said Eadie, but I dont think It will do any good. Well, you do It anyway. Ill tell you when. Here! You see that clump of bushes up there? Walt for me there. I've got to go back and pry some of these dugout barnacles loose! He went raging back along the street, and assisted by some noncommissioned officers, began dragging men from behind walls and out of doorways by the scruff of tbelr FROM THE START Sergeant Eadie and Private Darcy, lately discharged from Ina hospital, behind the front, Prance, become bored and disgusted with life In replacement camp. They elude the guards and go over the hill to find and rejoin their old outfit, the SevenAt field artillery. ty-ninth Vaucouleurs they are told their outfit has moved up beyond Toul. Late next day they find their orBoth ganization in the woods. men are worn out and hungry but a drive on the German position at St. Mlhlel la to begin In an hour, and Eadie Is commanded to go along. The Americans are pleasantly surprised at the little resistance met In their advance; the Germans evidently pulled out In the night. Eadie sent back to report the successA ful advance to his captain. few nights afterward, four sergeants, Eadie, Ham, Baldy and Short Mack, Inseparable comEadie panions, sleep together. finds his old friend, Ked Jake On a night march the column are drenched by heavy ahowers Eadie Is ordered out on liaison duty, to adjust fir 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 fire. An officer asks Eadie to send up signal rockets for a barrage. The rockets attract an enemy airplane, which does Immense damage, but after a time the Americans get the needed barrage, and take refuge In a ruined town, from which they drive the enemy. All the officers who are with Eadie and . ..' Jake are, killed. Decks. Come on, said Jake, I know bow we can get through those bouses. You go In a bouse and out tbe back. They went In the front door of a bouse and out the back and cautiously climbed the bill, keeping below the crest as much as possible. From here they bad an even better view of the Smoke, battlefield than from smoke In all directions, balloons on the far horizon In the direction of tbe American lines, and balloons on the other horizon where the Germans were. Westward were thick woods with shrapnel blinking above, the tree tops, and to the east a town and a road with ambulances running on It. Here was Eadie. on the crest of the American advance, and on the right ambulances run the-tow- n. - Illustrations by H. Doran Company. WNU Sarvtca Copyrlxht by Qorg his satisfaction hardly expressed when a man came crawling op from the direction of the town, demanding the whereabout of tbe commanding officer. What do yon want him for? asked tbe officer. T'vt got a message for him from the colonel, replied the soldier. Let me see It." The officer took the slip of paper and opened it He read aloud, but softly, as though to himself. To the Commanding Officer, flank battalion: Advance. If an advance Is not signaled In your aector within five minutes, consider yourself relieved from command and report to me under arrest." Hmraml Thats nice. All right, tell him Ill advance. Tell him Captain Lawrence Is In command of tbe battalion now. The messenger crawled hack' down the bill and Eadie uudged Jake. "Theres .a John for you," whispered Eadie. He should have steered that messenger somewhere else. He might 9 Continued , - The two stepped back and started to dumber over the debris before the' muttered Look ' out, . now, door. these-guyare liable- - to be Eadie, ' nervous.. They crossed the rubbish heap, and arrived In the street, Jake's prisoners tumbling hastily after them: Eadie was about to curse them all from Juke down, but he saw too inatiy doughboys looking at him, their faces turned toward him with all the curibeen osity of cows whose pasture-haInvaded.. These doughboys, rattled as ' they were, and exceedingly prone to shoot first and look afterwards, seemed to renlize that Eadie and Jake were Americans, hut one of them, some one In the rear of the first party, raw only ' t lie crowding prisoners and hurled a Eadie saw It coming and grenade. lied across the street, Jake followFive or six Infantrymen who ing. were within range of the burst threw .themselves down, though such action would not save them from a grenade. The Germans went Immediately hack Into the house. However, the soldier who had thrown the grenade had been .nervous and unsettled In mind, elee he would not have thrown It In the the case he first place, and had simply pulled out the ring and Immediately gotten rid of the grenade. It takes about five seconds for the fuse to burn, and In five second One of a man can do a lot of things the Infantry, seeing no other way of escape; picked the grenade up and hurled it Into nn open cellar, where It hurst viciously, but did no harm. No more grenade throwing called the man who had picked up the lust one.. "Dig those boehe out of there I .Where did those two men go that ran across the street?" Theyre a coupla runners," advised 1 some one. seen 'em with the battalion staff this morning." "Iley!" culled the first speuker, "come out of there I Where's the major?" Eadie and Jake emerged Where's t lie major? the man demanded ugain. Eadie guessed that he was an officer, though lie wore no Insignia. The major's dead. replied he. Who's In command? Do you know where any of the staff are? Where is every one? What cm Hie b pHiiy are you running for? Were artillerymen." said Eadie. The major was killed out there In a shell hole. I don't know whos In "inimind or where any oue Is. They pilled a counter attack on us uud ve've been disorganized ever since.'. Touniet attack uiy granny I" scoffed I e officer "That was some d n fool the town. We saw It to rush Hying mil the trenches. Well, I'm senior , i. ilcei mull some one runks me out You men. bomb all (best cel f It. I ra and id's gel to h I out of here 'i ills town makes too easy an aiming A 1111." umn was bit at less tlmu I t, yard's distance, us If to give weight the officer's remarks. Every one se look to iliglit again. The officei i red himself hoarse. A very trembling guard appeared Just u minute ,:li Jake's prisoners. i i re, buddy." called Juke, where you I .In' to go with them squareheads? I'm gonna take 'em out," replied the other. You Juet leave 'em be," said Jake. I'm lookin after them krauts. They belong to tue. l.a,v oIV said Eadie, seizing Jake s arm. You've got to turn 'em In somewhere. You don't think they let you lake 'em all the way to Bordeuux. do juu? He'll only go back as far as the M. P. line wih 'em. Well, what the b I Is the use of takin prisoners tf you can't go back with 'em?" Allot hei man fell with a sharp cry. Let's ge out of here I yelled the Go np on the hill and come officer. s . that-bein- I 1 1 Too Often This Warns of Sluggish Kidneys. hlm-.sel- accumulate and make one languid, tired and achy, with often dull headaches; dizziness and nagging backache. A common warning is too f refluent, scanty or burning excretions. Doan's Pills, a stimulant diuretic, increase the secretion of the kidneys and thus aid in the elimination of bodily waste. Users everywhere endorse Doans. 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Well pound the woods and the valley, a ward quite re.ndliv. Most of them &ad while arid "that ought to allow us to seen the progress of the attack advance." . pill box. t "You wait here, sergeant." said the and Ping I went the You know a officer. out the 'watchers on the' hill saw presfit when you' see It?. Well, there ought, ently a little thread of- - w.liite smoke' to be one come by .here and If it wander out ol the woods. Pingl went doesn't you go. down Into the town the gun. again. . It fired . for several nnd find It. Then bring It up on that minutes, then a't the suggestion, il ' Kill for me. Captain Lawrence and after The officer went down'the hill" con ' hoarse shouting on the part of the sergeant, t.tie target' was changed and suiting his compass, and evidently talking to Juke, who paid no heed." the gun fired a dozen rounds or so hut kept iooklng sadly buck at Eadie'. Into the cluihp of brush In the valley Eadie turned about and surveyed the The sergeant, then exclaiming that he country behlud him. Ue 'knew what could see troop 'movements In the val .to front would be a lot of red hot peeve. Now hes elected himself-goafor whatever" bard luck we. rub . . . e on-th- . . ! . rear .x -:- xvx -:- Xvx -:- x -:- x -:- x -:- XvXvX -:- x -:- iM -:- xvX -:xvXvA -:- x -:- x -.- xvAvA :' -.A - Benefit of Thorough Training Made Plain Once upon a time there was a lit tie boy who was Imbued with the ain liltlou to become great novelist One day he said to his father: Iad. I wish to become a grea! writer, the author ot books which will What shall entertain the world. write about?'' Son, you should write about art venture." replied the loving father. The parent, who wished for his son-great success and a place In the Hall of Fame, gave Ids entire time to the education of the offspring The hoy was taken all over the Information world to get first-han- d regarding every sort of land and every kind of people. He was shown everything that had to do with adven tore. He was taken to Iceland and to the South Sea Islands so that he would know every clime and ever) country. He was taken across plains and deserts und ranges of mountains taught, from actual experience about typhoons- - and hurricanes- - an'l cyclones. His' education was lucklm;-Inothing that would form "a groundwork for wonderful stories .of the ad ventures of men under the- niost try' '. . . ' ing circumstances. And so It came to pass that the his father for all that he had done for him. out ot the proceeds oi the sale of Ids first hook, the title owhich was, "Her Passionate Hour." ' " Boston Globe. - Complimentary Degrees . s Come Out of the Kitchen One evening, after dinner, the fum ily was reading when Junior, age five said: Dudd.v. will you go iu the kitchen with me to get a drink? Im afraid. reYou don't need to be afraid. You can take your plied the father. dog. Pat, with you. Junior seemed to approve the Idea and started to arouse the dog, sleeping near by The dog growled some at being disturbed. Juulor turned to his tther and said: "See, daddy. Pat Is rfraid, too." . LL. D. is an houorary degree. When LL. D. Is conferred upon a man it In dicutes that he has a profound knowl. edge of th laws of his profession or that department of knowledge In which he U working. LL. D. Is the old-est, highest and most valued university degree, and Is conferred only on such as have made themselves very' eminent by their skill, learning uud original work. It Is seldom conferred before the recipient is fifty years of age. LL. D. Is usually confeYred as nn honorary degree, but Snurtleff, Chicago, and McGill propose to confer It upou tbe completion of required work and examinations in any of tbe higher department of knowledge. LL. D. Is sometimes eonferred as a third degree, in line with LL. B. and LL. M., with work In law schools. D. C. L Is more often eonferred In this way. , Not First Pantheon built tn Koine In The Pantheon 123 A. D. to replace the previous Pantheon of M. Ylwanlus Agrippa, w-- s erected 27 B. Cl ... -. "What! cried all, like the chorus In an opera. You idiot Youre under arrest or relieved from command or whatever they do I I've ar G d d dgood-minto bring my. outfit up here and police y.ou.all'up! Have you got any sense? Did It. ever occur, to you that fire to the flank might land-i- n some-otheelement of the division? .No, .It did not I YoiTre',irisane ! You ought to be killed like a mad dog!- - You've driven my men out of a position It took three hours to capture. Ill have, Well, your hide for this. Don't forget It for 3 minute. And you men he shook crew vthis. his fist ar the time ten years from now you'll still be breaking rocks!Abruptly the major turned and ran down the hill. Set. up that .gun again, directed the capta.in. .1 still think hes crazy. Then it was that things began to Runners arrived, a half happen. dozen of "them, all with imperative or- ders to cease firing and to advance. Fire, possibly from American troops who had been shot up by the one-- " pounder was suddenly opened on the troops on the hill and many were hit: Lawrence, . a- - "little Mvhite' Captain about the lips, blew Ids .frhlstle and ordered an advance, across the' taken .was The dowD "and the. gunners 'sweated forward with' the' infantry. "This battalion, because It- - had ad- vimeed ahead, of the others, and "beleft .had fallen cause the troops on.-th.hack under the misdirected fire of the" now. had Its dank In. the' air. and' began to receive fire from both flank and front. The men was set up. and the firing, very carefully to the front, some machine gun fire from. - , hat direction. The afternoon began "to grow into night and the battalion, like'a wound- ed snake. draggedIts bleeding "length slower nnd. slower across the plateau that shelved upward to the ruined town in the distance. ' On the hill they had been unmolested tor two reasons. The right of the hill was In the sector of another division, a division of veterans, who had gone and their sector rapidly along thoroughly, and who were now some miles away to the north. Elements of this division had lost their way ib the fog and had swung in arm attacked rhe Germans in front of Eadies hat The Germans had talion. In flank. welcomed them royally, hut the Amer icans had not broken off the uttack until well ou in the afternoon when I had become apparent that not only were they lost, but that fun net prog- ress In the direction In winch ;i, were going was Impossible. Once j these troops withdrew, he Germans to the could turn all their atientii-division ot which Ladle's battalion formed a part. 1 75t PACKAGES Rheumatic Pains . . i2 Days Free Trial . bat---tali- h uliar its-pec- one-pound- AND Quickly Relieves ' Counter' Attack My Granny!" Scoffed Bell-an-s Hot water Sure Relief - r, 1 didnt see that, said Eadie. 1 thought that noise was a counter attack. You were too busy keepln your ' hood down,'- replied Jake. That so? Well, you your block of solid boue down loo, oi you'll get a slug through It" Listen, artillery, said the officer drawing over beside Eadie, what can you do for a little tire? See thal hill over there? 1'heres a pill box on top of 1L Thats where this tire Is com ing from. Now, until we fin'd some one better. I'm tn command I'm cap tain o what's left of E company I want gome Ore. (.an I get It or not?" Eadie took out his code book and consulted It. He found uothing there that he had not seen before, except t tint a chain of green stars was to announce the battalions arrival at a certain road, and a red smoke the capture of Mnntfaucon. wherever that . was. "I can 't do It," said Eadie. There's no way you cun cull for fire on points not designated beforehand except hy telephone or messenger. We ought get s' plane over here and stake out our Hue with panels and then make til tn the signal that we were held up hy artillery .tire." Well," suld the officer, It we cam get at.y artillery we'll huve to do It with ttie rifle. In five minutes we try Give me a cigarette. The advance did not begin again In five minutes, nor yet iu fifty. The up pearanee of the Americans on the rls Ing ground above ttie town nud been the signal for a hall of fire, mostly from the left front, where there were considerable forests. A patrol went cautiously forward toward the pill box and made progress, and Eadie. watching them through his glasses, could see them getting closer and closer to the concrete structure. Some enterprising officer began to follow this patrol with a force ot about company strength. A patrol on the other Hank, crawling out across the Helds, was met with a burst ot fire from a patch of woods and killed. A faint popping and t e gushing of smoke from tbe pill box an nounced that tbe patrol had managed to get close enough to hnmh the place. The officer with Eadie had Not a laxative but a tested sure relief for digestive disorders of the stomach and bowels. Perfectly harmless and pleasant to take. 1 f. - . . Officer. p,&s ASTIMULANT DIURETIC .T?. KIDNEYS foster-MilburCo. M(g Cheat Buffalo.NY. -- the to gish kidneys allow waste poisons - said Eadie. looking at them through his field glusses. He pointed them out to the officer who arrived at that moment .with two others like him and a group ' of Infantry.Yes,, ( daresay theyve got ambu-- . lances. running.- - said the officer. Thats the G d d d regular army for you.'go kiting across the landscape-andevil .take tiny one else.- - Youd think theyd give a look once In-- . a rest of .us were while to see how-thgetting on; or not getting on, rather. . The officer began to send hiessen gers off' with directions for an ad vance. Eadie gathered that the advance was about five hours behind ' their schedule. The officer was a young 'man, clear eyed, and an athlete. He had been a football player, probably president of ids class, and was. undoubtedly a splendid leader. An officer, however, must have more than ability to lead especially If he has noncommissioned officers who are a? Ignorant as Eadie, on his stomach beside Jake, nudged the latter. ' "lies going to leave that town as full of boehe 'as a dog of fleas, said Eadie. and out theyll come the minute we go past and blow b I out . of us." 1 I dont think so, said Jake. 1 was the took think, ttie prisoners last. The 'others pulled foot about the tlnie that hold .'brave looey took his platoon Into the town on the gallop and made a lot of work for the buryin squad. What's all this?"- cried Eadie. Why, when we was out there. tn a looey takes the hole with a platoon or so and makes a rush for the town with a lot o yellin an' gren nde throwln. I dont think they got . Achy? Sure your LAME? Stiff? are working right? Slug- er nlngl Theyre Americans, : Feel Tired and Achy? d - CHAPTER IV - was a toy ley, began sniping about at will Tbs to look for. A cannon, a tiny model of a 73, that Infantry, lying about In the shelter looked like something a man would folds of ttie ground, enjoyed themgive bis son to play soldier with, or selves hugely. Some opened cans of hash and ate. The distant roar of the to celebrate Fourth of July. This cannon had wheels, of course, and a battle held no terrors for them. Ths ridiculous shield, and was drawn by a men sent for ammunition returned. tiny Umber and a mule. When the Ping I went the gun gleefully. gun went Into action, however, lta There was a sudden scurry of feet. likeness to a toy ceased. The gunEadie, rolling s cigarette, looked up-white-faceners would nnhltcb It from Its cute officer, bis little limber and drag it themselves to blouse bulging from his pistol belt, a good position where the gun would bareheaded, his breeches torn In be taken off the wheels and set up on great rents and showing bloody wire a tripod. The gun having been aimed, cuts In bis legs, came rushing into the fire would be commenced with small and group about the steel shells, filled with high explosive knocked the gunner headlong. He powder. Then let any machine gun, seized a shell and hnrled It Into the pill box, or mlnenwerfer within range scenery, grabbed a leg of the tripod look to Itself. and grunting tremendously, overturned the gun. Tbe protesting serEadie found the head of the column at'tbe south entrance geant be knocked Into a sprawling heap. of the town, a disgusted officer sitI" cried Eadie, lie low, "Oh, ting oo a stone, and the personnel Dont mix In this! Theyll Jake! this To stretched out on the ground. probably shoot him full of boles. officer Eadie ' presented the request I'm lying low, said Jake to a muffor the advance of the fled voice, for his face was' burled in All he can have Is one, said the officer. Tm glad to give it to him. the dirt Tell 'em to put up their Wed like td see some service. First guns, sarglnL" "Steady, men I called Captain Lawsquad, go. with this sergeant. Youll rence.. Put np those guns I Whats be under the orders of the battalion I commander. Ue wants you to do some the trouble here, major The officer who had upset the gun shooting." turned panting. He wore a pistol belt The squad leaped at their gun with and what was. known as a mall order alacrity. Two meu seized It from Its uniform, but he had a majors gold carriage, two more picked up the trail leaves on his shoulder. the thing came apart like a takeWho- - whos .shootingthat .gun?' down shotgun and a fifth man re. he demanded. moved the wheels to the ditch. Two The gunners, replied Captain men, two who were probably ' .' . Lawrence... . spare gunners, and the sergeant, burThe major thereupon swung on dened themselves with ammunition, ' Captain Lawrence, a sharp vicious jab and looked at Eadie. ' . would have probably' laid the Eadie. that, "Forward '.said Sergeant for some time, but that From shell hole to shell bole they .captain away soldiers burled themselves on several went, and. once over the crest of the the majors arm and. thereby stopped first rise, they began to- be fired at,' the blow. ' but none .of the men was hit. Eadie Take him away, went' on the capthe squad od his own Initiative-tootain. Give' him .a' shot of coke and a roundabout way, and brought them a bucket of water over his head and up the eastern face of the hill on let him wait for the doctor. which the pill box stood, along a The major flung the men from Him trench system that barf been .turned as though they bad been so many Into a gigantic furrow by the AtueF babes. He held up his hand. lean artillery the night before. Here Listen! he cried. Just a minute the sweating,, panting, until I get my breath I No one moved. men flung themselves to the ground There was- - that in his eye and attl-- ' and took a rest Their tude that commanded obedience. next 'surge forward brought them to Turn around," .whispered Eadie the pill box,' where they found Jake, Tliere'll a h of .a smell over the acting battalion commander, and this and he want to be able to say we. another officer Impatiently awaiting we didnt see it. . . was set up them. The Not me." said Jak6,"lts too InterIn and- tbe officer command. Captain estin'.. 1 "like to go to courts anyways. ser-- . Lawrence,- took the ' It gets yuh.o'ut of work. . geant. out- od the flank a little way You big ass!" bega.n" the major,, and pointed out some targets- to him. pointing his finger at Captain Lawprincipally the clump of brush "and rence. You d d fool I "Youve been, another pill box down the valley. 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