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Show (iT-Of-- ears feel belter after a strong ronrus-- l The rnnn was telling r (hat soms One after another of our buS;tlnie before (hey had seen (he Turks was n'lppliur to the ground and digging bringing up nimiiuiillhm from noina his fids Into hi ears, oml the ru t of juiori houses, but they did not come them sat or, the parapet lire step with any where near, lie said their sergeant their heads between their knees mid Iwuiited our messenger to tell them Hulr arms wrapjied around their I Hint, mo. He would say a few words I bends, very fust, theu he would shiver again, Our sergeant rnmo to mo after aland Ms Jaws would clip together and whllo and begun acting Just like I be would try to rulso Lly baud, but people do at a show, only lie shouted I rould not, LINCOLNS SURVIVING SON , I Instead of whispered In my ear, When I Then our sergeant ashed the name K people are looking nt one show thcylof the other sergeant, end when the I always want to tell you how good some man Mid him he said the man was , I Robert Tojld Llnct-In- , tlm only show Is, and that was the wuy I senior to himself and therefore In other JJI v I . I with the sergeant, command and would have to be obeyed. Miirvlvlng mm of President Ahrulmm "You should see what they did to I lie seemed to cheer up s lot after Lliieoln, who recently celebrated hi us at Ft. LMI," be suld, They Just I he said this and did not shiver any leveniy-llflbirthday anniversary, baptized us with the Mg fellows. They I more, so I thought 1 would volunteer sow makes his Lome In Washington. did not know when to stop. When you I then, so I said to him, "Well, mon Robert T. Lincoln wns the eldest see shelling that Is shelling, yoa will vleux, do you think we are seeing real AND CHIEF on vt the president. III early , MEMBER, OF THE FOREIGN LEGION OF FRANCO shelling now?" And then 1 was going schooling was received at an academy VnZ, f fc 4 nt to say I would go, but he looked CAPTAIN CUN TURRET. TRENCH BATTLESHIP CASSAK- D-7 in Springfield, III. By the time he hud the VJvii is nt a th,y iwinl . funny way for a second and attained college ngu Ida father wa enWINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE kid ns or are you, mon vltiixr which abled to send hhn to the University Gw'Jaffiltv Is a French expression thut means WCwiMww AJwWwi of Illlnol. HI graduation from tlmt something like old timer," Institution was followed by a term at CHAPTER XIII Continued. death aatch, with the shells tuning My son, when you see dugouts Exeter academy, after which he en12 up for the dlrgo. It was Impossible to I caved In, roads pushed all orer the tered Harvard university, where lie Cuming bark along the same road we listen to the shells. If you I your limp, guns wrecked, bodies twisted up thing was better than staying there, was a student during the greater part talt( to let another convoy of mule mind on the uolso for any kept of In knots and forty men killed by one I nd the other was that the old Jugout of the Civil war length past, and on officer of the Royal time It would spilt your eardrums, I shell then period. yon will know you oreluns spretty fulr place after all. Rut nnvul division came op anti begun o m sure. Fo all we. rould do was Completing Ms course at Harvard to I seeing shilling." did not say anything to the ser II In 1801, young Lincoln applied for talklni; to our officer. lie wna telling lay low In the shell hole oud wait for I Then one of nnr men sat tip straight I Cpnut or the other men Just went hem bow bo and Ms men bud landed lo the service and wn to happen. against the parapet and stared at us out t th dugout. The sergeant and commissioned military at "X" bench, and bow they bud to something captain, Then they began using shrapnel on and began to shake all serving on the I another man went with me und boost over, but wo unde asltoro through barbed wire, ns, end one of our muehlne staff of General Grunt throughout the I could not get him to say anything or0 11,0 ov,r t,lc luek wall of the hole, gunners, "And, you know," be anld In a sur- who final runipnlgn of the woe got up from Ms knees to thnnge I move. So we knew be hud shell shock. nY ,,at l,n Gie ground for a mlnute to pris'd wny, aa If be himself could position, had his head taken clean Following the oifaisslf.atlon of Ms off And another man watched him for o' eet ,n-- bearings, and then started off. Sir. Lincoln returned to Chicago, where he resumed bis law hardly believe It. lhe beggars were Ms shoulders, and the rest of Mm father. I I studio. my course for where I thought while, and then ho Mgan to shake, 1SC7 In was admitted to the bur. netuully firing on ust" Tlmt Is Just landed near my fei t and I squirmed a bn. Tho sergeant said that If we I tbe communleatlon trenches were, to like tho.Lliney, thoii;:li. Their bleu Sir. Lincoln was appointed secretary of war In President Garfield' Mile, like a cldeken that had Just been j stayed there much longer we would I ,k right, and I Just stood up ond ran, In Is not to appear culled about any' killed. It was awful to see the body I not bo lit to In 1SS0 lie wn again called Into tho public service. President ranlnet IVSl, I foF ns were shells thut the bgured repel an atlnck so ha Ilurri thing at any time, but to act os though son so thick aud It was open 'fulling npimlntlng 1dm 9 United States minister to Great Britain. they were ploying cricket standing ground I would not have any better n round on a lawn with paddle In their I 'bnnee If I cruwled. on outside stayed bunds, half asleep. The Limeys are we rolled It to the I I tripped several times and went; other side of the wutch. eerlulnly cool under fire, (bough, and to- BRITISH LITERARY ENVOY The men In the dugout kept asking down unJ ench tlm thought I was I think tlmt because the Anzncs did to one Then, because side In when bit. I of the It wns each there got us, other thigh when the bombardment so well at Gallipoli people hnve not more violent explosion than any yet. would end, and TMxinutlo It felt a good deal why we were not rein-- 1 ot Lord Clmrnwood, traveler, writer given enough credit to the British The earth 1 bad tripped over a ,ll0ll:h fell on and and up rope, sjouted was whnt ns, forced, happening, and and homo rule advocate, bus come te regulnrs and It. N. D.s, who were und clouds of Mnek smoke, adding whether the Turks would attack us. ig I And one time when I full a shell ex Mg there too, and did their share of the this country at the Invitation of the the ground, covered our shell was easy to see why we were not ruin- "nr me and I begnn to shiver work, and did It as well as any men nlong Illinois centennial committee. An auhole and bung there for some time, forced no body of men could liavo oga,n' 'ld I could not go on for a could. thor of a book on Ahrulmm Lincoln, tlme- - AI1 this time I did not One of our sergeants, from the regular got to us from the reserve I ,on trenches. After a while this Ificer started on the British freer delivered a lecture French Infantry, said It was a shell The communication trenches Ids way again, and as be cut across Octolwr 5 on the martyred president I from a Turkish 133-nihowitzer, quite a distance from us and were the roud a French officer rnuie up. at the celebration In Springfield. The Limey wore a monocle, which That wna only the first one. The buttered up ot that Some of the men worst thing about them was tho smoke said we bad been forgotten and Lord Chnrnwood'a trip Is of more caused the French officer to stare at that than usuul Imimrtnnce, for he Is chairs who think the people rest la our of Pittsburgh troops bad either re him a minute before he saluted. After man see to of a subcommittee of the com snmky about tired or of those ought advanced and fifty we that and the Englishman had passed him the mlttee for promoting an Intellectual men In the trench who had tried Frenchman took a large French penny big howitzer shells bursting, ot:e after jtbe I entente among the allied and friendly to signal us were the only detachments out of Ills pocket, screwed It Into bis another. We could not tdll whnt the rest of I left there, countries, recently formed by the Kojr eye and turned toward us so that we our line wns al Society of Literature. Lord Charm doing or how we were I Tretly eoon another man and I could see It, but the Limey could not. awful fire, but we felt I relieved the two men wjio were out-suwood's committee wss formed for That was not the right thing to do, standing the American relations. He will remain they w ere not having any worse side on watch, and os he went down especially before enlisted men, bo our time than we were. In a few minutes Into tho dugout the until next Januury. officers did not laugh, but the men did, shouted sergennt tnrt to us that he thought the Turks were A liberal, a supporter of Gladstone and so loud that Limey turned around we beard th EMd 0,d 75s n It WD Rbe hearing an I afraid to attack. He also Hnd caught sight of the Frenchman. I ordered one and home rule, an ardent admirer of He started bnck toward blm and ! old "lend a voice over the telephone, of us to keep a live eye toward our Lincoln and a student of his life and and everybody In our shell hole rear In case any of our troops should times, the British peer Is peculiarly cheered, though no one could henr us try- - to signal us. When I looked, fitted to promote mutual understandand we could barely henr ench other, through a little gully at the too of I ing and sympathy between his country Still we knew that If the 73s" got the hole, toward the other and the i nlted States. Lord Charnwood, for some all trench, years before the war an going In their usual style they would I could see was barbed wire and I earnest advocate of a national and compulsory system of boa do for an enemy battery or two, and smoke and two or three since the outbreak of hostilities had much to do, first with military training; corpses. 1 I enlistment voluntary ked EOod t0 Th 73s" began to shiver a little,', nnd I wna and later whh the administration of tho too, for he pulled up very straight and !m military service acts. se or?' buA 14 WM ad. tb stiff, but he left the penny in his eye. , I could be, So I began to think about Murray and The Limey came up to him, halted a I ren, abu4 a bnd E111 More or less how he looked when they took him few pace off and, without enylngi ,? tbcusnnd a word. took, the monocle out of hi that did not stop the ?4 bav ad 14 any harder I oft th al1- rye, twlbbled It three or four feet In the ser- - mother and how she looked tho last the air aud caught It la his other eye I 0u. of ou! c? hoad Prince Maximilian of Berlin, the enr 1In thot ta the Bieo h,ad tI,ne I saw her. I wns thinking about when It came down. . new Imperial chancellor of Germany, t0 th r,Bbt were try,n to her; I guess, and not keeping a very AH I Do that you blighter." be said and Could See Was Barbed wir. .nd has been known as the chief of tho I I I 6 some of kind. tneasaga The when good lookout, a man rolled over faced about and was on his way down Smoke Delbrneck moderates and opponents of the road. Ttiey bad It on the French I Bereaat tack his bend above the I the edge and almost fell on me. He I the Once before, upon I was from I Iaralct and hod a look. But I 1 would th,n!t the man after that other trenches. I carried stayed get through, but finally, the fall of Chancellor 1 Mlchaells, Now hlra erceant cou,d 8e hen I reached what had been the ,nt0 the dugout and then went out Thi rhllllppe Pierre, of whom I ),vhT ,aslhe and e to, as far aa I again and stood my watch until the communication trench I felt I had vember 1, 1917, be was put forward f hnve spoken, told me a story about ' concerncd cundldnte. for the ' don the worst part of it, and I began the moderates rcl,of cani- - We were doing half-hou- r two Limey officers that I hardly be-Ills hancellorship. name, however, n to t 8houtd shifts. wish men In that the hard very that I would get loved, yet Philllppe swore It was the When I got Into the dugout again through I wns uot at all crazy about did not go before the emperor, as truth. He hnd been In America before the olbep trcnch wer trying to slgnnl Prince Maximilian objected for dynas,n west the war, and he said he bad seen one M0Ulethlnff. but he could no. moke it the man was coming to. He wns Just tic reasons. out the bout clouds os of The mouth near smoke shell shock os I had of the communication would of the officers that the story Is about b,ecaus roI1 between them and break At that time there were vague np the I been by this time I was shivering trench hnd been battered In and the many times n New York. Ho said there were two Limey offi- - worda So bo laid down again In the My once In a while, when I did not trenches it Joined with were all filled rumors concerning Prince Maximilian cers going along the road arguing l0,t0in of the hole. But after a while watch myself, ne sold four men hnd I "P- - There were rifles sticking out to the effect that in moderate circles olrnut the German shells w hieh tho be ,ooked ovcp the parapet and saw been sliced np trying to get to us be of them In several places, and I there was under way a movement havTurks were using. One of the officers 8 lnan Just ,eav,n& their trench, evl--1 fpe he came; that they had lost I thought probably the men had been ing for Pa ultimate objective the desaid they were no good because they dcnt,y wlth a Mcssnge for us, and ho H Men out of their 32, Including the burled alive In them. But It was too thronement of Emperor William and In command and two lat then, if they hnd been caught so the choice of Prince Maximilian as did not burst Just about that time bad not sne flv stTs before he wus aergeant-mnjo- r These rumors, how- -' a shell came along and they picked b,own to P1008. and tho lad who fol- - corporals; that they were almost out 1 cl,mbed over the blocked entrance to his successor. I ammunition; that the trenches 0n I tIie communication trench and started ever, were never confirmed, although themselves up quite distance from I "ed ,lIn got h!, too, so they stopped both sides of them hnd been Mown In I back nlong it. It led up through a sort there seemed to be some foundation where they had been standlug. An- - trylng then. Eully, and I thought It was a bad for them. other shell whizzed by and funded flat I And 11 the time the 73s" were I and that they were likely to go to In his book, My Four Years In on the side of the road. The officer endlnS theirs to the Turks not far PIcpe at any moment He said Ihey llace to dig a communication trench walked over, dug It out of the ground, ovor our heads to 000 yards behind all thought the Turks would atlnck in because it gave the Turks some mlEn Gerard paid a tribute to Prince A,raba88adr Jamea behind their barrage, for he said the thInS Nke the Me of a hill to shoot at and expressed admiration for him. nnd took away the detonator and fuse once In curtain fire a of did while Every not extend more I would have to prove that they dld'not explode I than a hundred yards In front of their to cIIn,b ,n and out of a shell hole, The only thing that would make trench. What they wanted us to do and Prts ot U'm were blocked where me believe that story Is that Philllppe wns to relay a man bnck with the a a,,ell hnd caved In the walls. In one DID GREAT WORK FOR BRITAIN Pierre said they were Limey officers. news and either get the word to ad- - Plac 1 saw corpses all torn to No one but a Limey would remempieces, vance or retire or await reinforce- - 80 1 knt'w the Turks had found the ber such an argument after being Lieut Col. J. S. Wardlaw Milne, Moots, they did not care which only rnnge and bad got to this trench in knocked gnlley west by a shell to be ordered to do something. There Breat hape. At another place I found L D. F who has been making a speakI do not doubt that a Limey was not a commissioned officer left I o4a blood and equipment but no would do It If It could be done, though. ing tour of the United States at the with either of the detachments, you I l,K,lcs- - aud I figured that reinforce-see- , request of Lord Chelmsford, viceroy and you might say we were up ,llenl" bad been caught at this spot CHAPTER XIV. of India, has done some very remarkIn the air only we were really as far and tkat they hnd retired, taking theii able work for the British government in the ground as we conld get casualties with them. The Croix da Guerre. since the war started in 1914. The mnn thought there were other I Turks still had the range, and When we had been on the shore Colonel Milne Is commander of the were of our lines not far bihlnd us, but we ,hejr 6en1Ing a shell into the for about three weeks we found ourartillery garrison at Bombay, India; trench knew once ,n so very a then he said he did better; while, and I selves one morning somewhere near of the advisory Indian shippresident ns knocked I not see " do n again, though the how any one could get back under tho heaviest fire a member of the viceroys board, ping 8he11 was so far from hore to our It that away nearest lines. I I ever experienced. Our guns and the knocked head oouncll, of the largest shipping "1B down did see not w,th for ot habit more either. Then we nil fig- Turks' were at It full blast, and the concern In Bombay and one of the than e,sewe ured were I anj'lhlng felt and would not forgotten noise was worse than deafening. dizzy and largest Individual ship owners In the come out of there alive, and you can ,vered a lot- - ond kPt trying to think A section of my company was lying near East , . . wf or believe Murray me or else anything but not, did but not I out In a shell hole near the coiuinu much myself, So 1 care. to his Having flna,y experience, knowledge Anything would be better than Et the top of the Mention trench with nothing to do hm ver and executive which Just mt! the In Conel Milne at there ability, that awful staying but wait for a shell to find them. We noise gully ran, on th othep aide I felt the outbreak of the war was called with nothing to do, and no water. were stiff and thirsty aud uncomforalmost Our sergennt said he would not ask fafe Just down fro,n th crest of the upon by the British government to ortable, and had not slept for two nights. hll was one of our man to any ganize a deep-se- a transport system In that time we had been under conattempt to carry the mesartillery positions, between Indian ports and France. Hi ange, because he said It was not only i!ttb tb good ,d 5s" giving It to the stant fire and had stood off several first work was the shipping to tho certain death, but absolutely tseKss. V'rks 08 fast tbey could. I told raiding parties and small attacks from And he began to show that olfirers what had hap-- : west front men and supplies from artI1,ery sas trenches. enemy had a near pened, think shell He went to work with tre-India. of shock himself. water ond We had no sooner got used to the ,U 1 Au8Ust a on take . flne Morning 64 troop ships naP- - But when Then I began to shiver again, and I ii?0118!14, !voul! ,1014 shell hole and were making ourselves the message back to uthought to- myself that anything would ji,.e,eibo?ed division headquarter the man d to protect cdversald I vfcant Suez canal It was decided to eend to the officer In,t.n vol-decided to been the Jack Johnson size, and we 1 tta? were not A new army was space Vnd h to7me to s ay organized, and through the were swamped. We had to Mesopotamia, together with all needed transported of the men out, and though sln. , AlberMDep h PETTYJOFFfCEit,. ...msloi v ft re W 1 I. Bt s. 1 con-msslo- Fcdd-el-Bu- ! lalkdmmbav 1 .Li 1 X? XZl ,?Jnd ad a4 thla JS of 6us vA. ver'exted to cimeat I string 01 on e e ZlZ SuKh C0N Electric locomotives are being in- creaslngly adopted In South Africa fw underground haulage. SVfcrtMe tjL Ii hLdrrthBpp?ayil SSL th. po,nt that there Is no wood and no atone In 8ert 0f nd ftlth0U8h centurle8 a tha country became necessa nr to transport everything needed for y and en 700 miles on land from Basra, at the T ntlre BUCCe88 of lh expedition depended upon Mr , |