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Show .Pe .Of f. Kick Kleen Keep TS g.U. pnetiod, pJayti, RBaMreaierairifaciuya I a ep aratUioa. to ujgafhSBsS y. tn mTalZZZL Aok tinned oM extraordinary valor only, and the . officer must work harder- - for the bit of ribbon and bronze than the enlisted man similar foreign honors come easier $1.00 ) o n If a dirt road Is properly built, the rend dragwlllkeep It In goodcon dltlon. Like any other work there Is a best way to do it. These rules from the Highway Magazine, tell how to get the right results. Use a light drag. Haul It over the road at an angle so that a small amount of earth Is pushed toward the center .of the road. Drive a team at a walk. , Ride on the drag; do not walk. . Begin at one side of the road, returning up the opposite slde.Drag the road as soon after every rain as possible, but not when the mud well-traine- d, ? -- - the Marne, The report of the board of Investigation for the fnavy department In their case follows t On July , company of marines '8, 1016, the Twenty-eight-h was engaged with the Dominican armed forces at Hhe battle of Gnayaeanes. During a running fight of 1,200" yards our forces reached the enemy tn trenchment and Corporal Joseph Glowln placed ; the machine gun of which he had charge behind a lagge log across the road and immediately opened fire on the trenches. He waa struck once 'but continued firing his gun, but a moment later he was again struck and had to be dragged ont of the position Into cover, Sergt Roswell Wlnans, U S. M. Ch then arrived with a Colts gun. which he placed in a most exposed position and coolly opened fire on the trenches, and when the gun Jammed he stood up and repaired tt under fire, ..All the time Glowln and Wlnans were handling their guns they were exposed to a very heavy fire which was striking Into the logs and around the rnen. seven men being wounded and one killed within 20 feet. Sergeant Wlnans continued firing his gunr until the enemy had abandoned the trenches." Sergeant Wlnans story In his own words Is oven more modest than the official report, although It ts more vivid and picturesque. "On the morning of July 3," he said, we got under way with every one feeling like a new man. Firing on the advance guard began early In the day. Our captain htnlned permission to take onr platoon forward. We kept the guns on the carriages until .within .a few. yards of the firing line, then transferred them to the tripods and immediately opened fire. The enem.v wns using breechloaders with big Jead mostly ' - . - -- ed slugs, , The brush was very thick on both sides of the road. Jams were frequent with ns and eacfc gun wore out a couple of shell extractors. Difficulty had .been experienced all along with our Some of It dated back as far as ammunition. 1907. It had evidently been reloaded many times. policy. to change barrel aim. case of a jam In the chambers. In that way we would be only a minute out of action. A party of the enemy were seen up the road and Corporal Johnson started to put his gun in action, A Mg lend slug (tin cans, we called them) come ricocheting down the road directly for us. Johnson "saw It while kneeling behind his gun. He ducked almost prone, hut the thing took a long . . '' iod hi'ctr Cf the ihouhrei.- - it - i Opiyk and the killing heat. Penn dashed Into the room and, lifting the coal passer, staggered to safety with him, the scalding water above his ankles. Ignoring the frightful pain of his scalded, swolfireman dashed back way, len feet, this second-clas- s , The battalions made slow progress on the Into the hell from which he had juat dragged one flanks on account of the thick underbrush. The victim and saved another life. j enemy had an Immensely strong natural position Keefer meanwhile was busy saving the ship and had they had a few machine guns and dome from destruction, or at least from the effects of barbed wire they could not have been rooted out from a terrific explosion, for the . without great loss of Ufa, the boiler would sbon leave so little there that It A call went up for a hospital apprentice, aa would be entirely converted Into steam' and the Corporal Fra zee had .been shot In the head, He pressure would wreck it. f j j , had been working hard getting his gnu pointed on steam, the torturing blinding, through Dashing the enemy and had Just succeeded. coppersmith, hauled the fires from Tou are right on them now; give them fltaP Keefer, the two Meanwhile Inboard furnaces. under the were the last words he said. one out of the fire every gotten Penn, having His pointer was also shot In the head and two on feed extra turned the had pump tn the room, others were wounded In the arm. A corporal In tn boilers and water to hold the fire after keep the Thirteenth company was shot twice while to out of a furnaces the built planks laid bridge ne refused to leave on operating a Assistant While Passed buckets. ash of top his gun and had to be carried away, struggling to held in the place Penn plank Engineer Stockney get back Into the flight. was carhe ' fires two before hauled the remaining While this was going on our other guns be-scalded his sick to where the ried terribly bay gun to come up one at a time and we obtained were treated. feet fire superiority over the enemy, who shot very Both Penn and Keefer received the Medal of on. now ts an from This after last Judg, wildly for their acts. That It Is only extraorHonor ment. At the time they seemed to be Just misswhich merits the medal accounts bravery dinary ing me. I dont know how the other men felt, Fireman Smith did not win the fact that for the but I expected to be shot any minute and Just same the bronze for days work. . In helping wanted to do as much damage as possible to the both had he badly bnrned, but the legs Keefer, enemy, before cashing in. Several members of not offer did Itself to display the opportunity cool In work did and creditable our platoon changsame which Keefer and Penn exsupercourage ing cartridge extractors and repairing Jams unhibited. der Are. Some of the most stirring medal stories are We faced the enemy as much as possible white For Instance, of the Indian campaigns. those repairing the guns, as we had a horror of being who expectwas II. there Paul Welnert, Corporal Shot in the back. did at the ed be to he One of the sweetest sounds I ever heard was Wounded Knee,, but Instead had the of battle as of the battalion It the cheering charged Infantry Medal of Honor pinned to his breast the right flank trenches of the enemy. Gunnery Another Indian fighter to win the coveted Sergeant Ralph was among the first of these. He waa Sergt Bernard Taylor of the Fifth bronze com In had a pistol fight with the rebel general cavalry, engaged in fighting the Apaches tn Arimand. Ralph and some other man with a rifle In 1874. zona hit him at about the same' time. Result exit Some of the most distinguished men In the ; . ; general.' worn the medal, Lieut Gen. Nelson have army "We moved up t the trenches-aftebattle the A. Miles won It for continually exposing himself and reformed, getting our equipment together, fire to of the the enemy as colonel of the Sixty-firCorporal FIs zee died soon after being hit and York New volunteers In the Civil war, for a few was buried within feet of the place where no other purpose than to encourage his men by The enemy lost very he had fought so well, . the example.heavily, and If Santo Domingo was not an Island Gen. William Fair At Oaks It Shatter was some of those birds would be running yet," wounded, but when a surgeon was seen approachMaJ. Gen, J, Franklin Bell, now In command ' ing be climbed a tree la order not to be sent to of the eastern department, with headquarters on rear. After the surgeon passed Shatter came the Governors Island, won the medal In the rhtlip-- 1 down and continued to fight until he tell unconh Thirty-sixtpines. As colonel, of the Infantry he scious from loss of Wood. was proceeding along the San Antonio Porac road who remember General Shatter only as Those to head off a band of Insurgents who had attacked was he in the Cuban campaign will wonder how the Ninth Infantry at Guagua and Santa IUta. he Into the tree, but a man can put on a lot got Colonel Ben, mounted, was riding near the head of weight Ip thirty-odyear. . -of the advance party and had with him Lieut Gen. Francis D. Baldwin won the medal while . Col. William It. Grove, Major Straub, two mounta first lieutenant In the Fifth Infantry, With two ed orderlies and about twelve scouts on foot companies under him he rescued two white girls Just .at dawn the party was fired upon from from Indians at McClennans Creek, Tex., in No- what seemed a fairly large body of Insurgents - veraber, 1874. ; hidden in the brush. The American fire dislodged as the Victoria Although not 0 the enemy, about seven of them running down the Cross, the Iron Cross or the Medallle Mitltalre, road around a bend. The scouts pursued them, the Congressional Medal of Honor Is much more but Colonel Bell saw at once that the men,, with difficult to attain. It is distributed to very few their heavy equipment 'were being easily outdispersons and then only after a sweeping Investigatanced by the lightly clad Filipinos, and he dashed tion of the circumstances surrounding the act for after them on his horse. which It Is recommended. Before Major Straub or the two mounted orderThe Medal of Honor was authorized by conlies knew what he was doing. Colonel Bell was gress by an act of July 12, 1302. The striking of far down the road In the midst of seven strug2,000 medals was ordered, to be conferred upon officer for acts of gling Insurgents, firing with his revolver and privates and - . - bravery surpassing those usually demanded of slashing about with his saber, soldiers. One thousand of these medals were The mounted men galloped to his assistance and the Infantry supported him aa best they could" voted to a single organization, the survivors of a Maine regiment which volunteered to remain in with rifle It was almost Impossible service" on the eve of the Battle of Gettysburg to shoot, so tangled up were, the Insurgents and although, their terms had expired. This ts the Colonel Bell, only case of a wholesale distribution of the The officer would have been perfectly Justified medal and has been severely criticized. In remaining with his troops, even behind them ' There are slight variations la the medals as and merely directing the dislodging assault, and for the army, the navy and the marines. designed for charging alone and driving Into the Jungle at The medal, as modified tn 1905, Is a ftve- armys least seven Filipinos, with two officers among - them,-- the Medal of Honor-wa- s pointed star with the trefoils on, the- - tips.. ne swarded to lilrr. star 1$ superimposed on a wreath. In the center ' Two of the few medals awarded In., the war of the star Is the head of Minerva, surrounded by against Spain went to a second class fireman and the- words United States of America. The on board the .battleship Iowa. a coppersmith . While the vessel was crulslng ln Cubaa .waters,-Jul- y jtnedsMs suspended .from a trophy .representing an eagle on a bar with the word Valor." The 20, 1898, at about seven oclock la the mornwhole Is suspended from a ribbon. ing, a manhole gasket blew out In one of the The original medal bore in the center of the 2. room No. . fire boilers Ip . a figure of America clad as Sfinerva. Ilei star , , 1Y. TP,.e teftthndvesffed'tofmttfhefascesr'srmfirfth 4 shibir ,4UtO ,,ikfi ....tOOlU U hd hO 11 1 g W4tCrJRWtoSbCd-In' bei right she repelled Divrd. A band' of VtaV around the floor. circled the' figures. The trophy was an eagle In the adjoining compartment were Robert perched on two crossed cannons and a number of fireman, and P. B, Keefer, a Penn, second-clas- s cannon balls suspended from a red, white and coppersmith. Hearing the wild roar of the esblue ribbon. caping steam they dashed to the door of fire The medal as presented to the marines today Is room No. 2. practically like the original medal, except that It The men who had been working there, blinded is joined to the ribbon by an anchor and the ribbon is worn around the neck, by the escaping steam, floundering in .the scaldThe navy receives a medal similar to that ing water, had been so overcome that they could not get out. One of the coal passers had already awarded to marines buf worn pinned td the breast sunk to his knees and waa dropping forward. suspended from a metal bar by a short ribbon. In a matter of seconds he would have toppled The medal Is worn only on special parade or Into the water and been boiled to death. at ceremonies with the dress uniform. New York Undaunted by the terrifying roar of the stea$i Herald, onr way. The enemy was shooting mighty close, too. The trenches were awfully hard to pick up, . although we were only about 150 yards away. They were on a hill and had carried their dirt water-escapi- - ' , s t , . r st d . . . well-know-n -- -- -- fire,-althoug- , -- - er , i Co, Son Francisco MIZE (he f PlE. (OGFANCtERSFAClNGRUiff Dealers in England Bee Disaster In High Taxes Piaced on Animals to Conserve Food Supply. Dog fanciers in England, especially th women, say that the new dog taxes are going to kill the business thfy have beeu carefully building up for years. They do not object to the suggested Increase on old licenses, but they fear the big tax on new dogs is going to frighten away all their customers? , There are many British women with small Incomes, living In the country who have invested most of their mouey tn dogs as a business. They were willing to mark time till the end of the war, looking forward to a revival la their business afterward. Trade is of course slack just now, but with no money coming in-- at all they will be unable to retain their kennels. One fancier spoke bitterly of th s sensational stories told in Imthe about pampered dogs aul acwere of amount food they possible cused of eating. Some Grievance! , for-wha- Awarded 6RAN0 The railroad official Invited the stern citizen to communicate his troubles. I want you bo give orders," demanded the visitor, that the engineer of th'e express which passes through Elm Grove at about 11:55 be restrained from blowing his whistle on Sunday mornings." exploded the official. Impossible! What prompts you to make such a ' ridiculous request?" Well, you see," explained the citizen In aa undertone our pastor preaches until he hears the whistle blow, and that confounded express was twenty minutes late last Sunday." Benet-Merde- r. court-martial- ed the Two Hans eodwLobd. LoviStTBUM & certain-quarter- ng- ' Bcwiho ofinterim. Lool L 1 Detail of Split-Lo- Lamb. Drag, g is to such condition as to stick to tha drag. Do not drag a dry road. Drag whenever possible sons of the year. at all sea- The, width of the traveled way to be maintained by the drag should be from 18 to 20 feet ; first drag a little more than the width of a single wheel track, then gradually Increase until desired width Is obtained. Always drag a little earth towards the center of the road nntll it is raised from 10 to 12 inches above the edges of the traveled way, If the drag cuts too much, shorten the hitch. , t The best results for dragging are obtained only by repeated . , VOLUNTEER FOR GOOD ROADS An Early Instance. Wed have got on all right If that snake hadnt come " along and taken carge of the apple crop," said Eve. Yes," replied Adam, "this Is the original case of the ultimate consumer getting the worst of it at the hands of ?- the middleman. Gets Hit Boyhood Wish. When a boy In New York John D. Rockefeller, Jr used to' drive his pony to a knoll near Dycbman street and epjoy the view. Often he spoke of a desire to own a large stretch of the scenery. Not so long ago die became owner of 50 acres of It, and he has donated It to the city as a park. Th land Is valued at about $5,000,000. A - , Disadvantage, Do you think the Banner is a good song?" j. Wa Can Have Anything Good If We I dont see why It Isnt a perfectly Will Get Together and Work good old anthem. You dont always get - Hard for Desired End.- a favorable Impression of It, owing t j the fact that anybody feels free to Why, bad roads, even. Is a moral tackle It. regardless of whether he can question. Why should men wade In sing of not." mud and punish their beasts when Star-Spangle- d 1 they have the power to prevent ltl What a Financier. Means. It Is moral in that we fall to use to a pretty clever financier, ITIxIIes advantage the powers and posslbilt isnt he? ties that God has given us, writes R, Dix Financier nothing. Why, he F. Beasley in Progressive Farmer. never beat anybody ont of anything la We tyn have good roads if we will his life. , We can bare any good thing If we will communities acting together. New Brunswick In 1915 produced Half a dozen men could volunteer to 685,518,000 feet of lumber. delegate themselves as leaders In a qg good roads movement and the people soon would follow them. A million volunteers win rush to arms to shoot down a million others who have done them no harm; why should not some volunteer to be leaders in the romances of peace and progress? " ARMY ENLISTING ROAD MEN Corps of Thoroughly Experienced Specialists in Constructing Work 1 , Being Organized. r . j Enlisted men with a knowledge of road building are. being recruited In the engineer, reserve corps, of, Aha United States army. This Is the corps of experienced men which is being organized as a reserve body of thoroughly trained sprelallfits in every branch b. eon L s Grape-N- ut . ictLcd-- . . TM guft crews promptly gave the place where the riet v s,s fired a good combing. "We continued to advance under cover of the bushes and trees, A battalion of infantry was deployed as skirmishers on each side of the road and we were conceal'd by a turn In the road and high trees and bushes. . , , Directly across the road was a huge log. At had Just comonr end of the leg a menced roaring, with Corporal Glowln la commend of , "The captain ordered a gun In action at the butt tf the tree, it had no sooner opened up than all the bullets in the world seemed coming Benet-Merd- :r) UJ SMBftMgSyg HE Congressional Medal recognizes no rank. It la 'awarded to the private or the general, the second class seaman or fireman or to the rear admiral for extraordinary courage, valor surpassing even that which is expected from the seasoned soldier or. sailor. No matter ' how hazardous a duty well ' performed, that Is not To win the medal something more than enough. 4s demanded by duty tuust be achieved, Unlike some of the European decorations for bravery, the American Medal of Honor Is more difficult for an officer to win than for an enlisted , man, because more Is expected of an officer, t The medal Is a bit of bronze suspended from a jrlbbon. Its Intrinsic value, be It what It may. Is ' of no Importance, Into the metal disk are welded toll the qualities of man which men admire, even worship, la the archives of the war department are succinct, unimaginative records of the acts which caused the medal to be pinned to the 'breasts of the men who have won It The papers will yellow and crumble, the ribbons will rot to dust, the bronze Itself will corrode and vanish, 'but the things the medal stands for will go on and the epic of the Medal of Honor will continue to be Inscribed In the hearts of men. ' There la no doubt the Medal of Honor will be won In this war, but It will not be won easily, and though millions may be fighting under tht American flag It will come to but few to wear this distinguishing mark. In the Spanish war less than 20 medals were awarded. In the Philippines a few were given. The last two medals to be awarded were presented to Sergt, MaJ, Boswell Wlnans and Coty ' poral Joseph A, Glowln of the marine corpa, for their work at the battle of Guaya canes, In jSanto It Is the act Itself which wins the Domingo, medal for a man, and not only doe his rank matter not at all, hut he may win It la a skirmish or tn a battle like that of Gettysburg or of ' Ootecortelpneo. JI.U0 eodi. Snortw fonnlyod Rule From Highway Magazine Tell - How to Get Best Results Drag Whenever Possible. 41 xzmzn JTAZ&S A UftAU PROPER WGRKINU &rrt&7CRP03 yzzz A ' mxmzm ornorm or'rw it 4 jwf dnbrenaatnwh mo SS2 o r' iradSta! s: the suit It is bestowed for h foit-colo- Measure Community Value. The roads furnish a ya; Mick to measure the value of any community. A settled country that is not worth a good road is not worth living in. Obtain Best Results. fta3e from cKoice wKola tvheat and malted barley, this famous food retains tbe vital mineral elements of the grain, so essential for . balanced ' nourisb- - rMenrribut'rfca.: foods. cereal many f From every standpoint good flavor, tick nourishment, easy digestion, convenience, economy, behltb from childhood to Best results are obtained by dragging the road as soon as possible after each rata. old age Grape-Nu- t Bad Roads a Hindrance Poor roads are a bar to better mar fcets, better schools, better churches, Vetter llvlag. it There a Refisca food. il -r |