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Show THE SALINA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH ! CHAPTER VII CHEVRONS Eadle turned his bead at that and discovered a man holding a huge syringe of nickel. The man made the needle squirt tentatively. It was a huge syringe, so huge that the man held It In two hands. Its good for yuh, said the man, approaching Eadle. Its so yuh wont get lockjaw. I think 1 prefer lockjaw," said Eadle, reaching back of him and taking a firm grip of the stretchy handles. Zip! It was done. That wasnt so bad, remarked the Youve got a nice light sergeant. touch. The looks of that thing are what give a guy the horrors. I get lots o practice," said the I do this man with the syringe. about two hundred times a day. Give us your arm an Ill give you somethin will make you feel better." Eadie closed bis eyes after that and lost direct connection with events. A long time later he looked up suddenly. The place seemed changed, there were not so many stretchers there, and he had the sensation of having been asleep. Over him leaned a man. It was Short Mack, his childs blue eyes full of tears. I "You big bum I said Short. thought you'd croaked. Fat chance," answered Eadle. Im going to spend the winter in bed. Think of me when youre sleeping In the mud with your feet in water up to the knees. You'll' I.ookit now, be back to us by the time we go out to rest camp. You aint got much of a wound after all. Youre looking bet-teThe 'first time I came alreadydown here with Baldy and Ham we . dead." . thought Whats on your .mind? demanded' Eadle, for the other seemed to be at' a loss for further words. Short bletw his nose and blinked his blue eyes.- - . Them glasses," he said.' ' Dont .you tldn-- you better leave em with Continued 17 The sergeant saluted and went out. He was tired, his legs ached, and his mind craved sleep. Between the Germans and his own otllcers, a man hud a tough time In tills war. . On to the kitchen then. At the kitchen he tilled his cup with coffee and the cook, wiping his hands on his apron, took olt the stove a messkit full of some kind of gray matter. Whats this?'' demanded Eadle. good for yuh, replied the cook. It. Its bacon grease an flour, Its "Eat with them pavin stone biscuits stirred up in it. Eadle proceeded to eat. The stufT tasted good, especially since it was his first real meal In several days Ills head reeled a little bit from fatigue and his legs kept going to sleep, lie sat on a ration box, hla back to the warmth of the rolling kitchen, and ate, drank coffee, and thought upon his lot Jake had the luck after all. What was there in this war for a man? Work and fight and sleep In the tnud and go without food, and be bedeviled by officers all the time. Three days of fighting and killing. Ierhaps tonight . he would have to go on the lines again. Winter was coming on and it was going to get colder every day. All honor to the French and British who had stood this misery for four years. As for his own particular troubles, they were annoying, but not serious. He could find some member of the detail, or even lieutenant llarvey to testify for him. The general would Bay whether tie had been a goldbrlck or not. He had captured a machine , which was not a gun task performed by gohlbrlcks. "IIovv's It go? asked the cook. I've eaten lots "Good, suld Eadle. worse. I wish I had some soft bread He to wipe out my messkit with. got up and walked toward the water cart. Intending to rinse out his cup A sudden swelling WhooOOOOO I roar, a roar like that of a lion a thouA A shell sand times magnified. near one! Eadle wont for the ground but he felt Iron going Into hint ere he When things cleared a little bit, he found himself on the ground, lying op his side. He opened his eyes and then raising his head looked about Far him. The place wms deserted. nwny some one called wildly, but there was no one In sight Eadle looked the other way. A column. of steam hid the place where the rolling kitchen had been, hut Eadle could hear hissing and see a shattered blackened whet. and the wreck of a marmite can lying op- - the .ground. the marmite was the cook, one leg gone, and dead. The K. P. lay a little farther nwny, also dead, horribly so. Eadle lay down again quietly. He was hit ami lilt had, he could tell by the way t" felt. And he had been hit right beside the guns, In front of the entire battalion. A real hit. No more about Bound off wound Jawbone stripes! No more wise cracks about going over the hill! The ground felt soft and comfnrlahle. Bight In hack of the guns! That shell had been a fast I low traveler. many years ago had It been when he .had told Ham that a shell could he heard live seconds before It burst? Ttils latest arrival had but roared once and Faille had felt its claw almost ns soon ns ho heard the roar. There were feet pounding comments, excited now, muttered ' " . cries. Battery As kitchen - 1 I.ookit They're all dead! ttie cook!" Get back, men, . don't gang up around here! .Get back! Another shell may land any minute! Wheres Bo--yo- 1 the doctor?-- dozen hands turned Eadle over and he ecnld see a circle of white fares looking at hlin. Whercd It get yuh?' they cried, in the side." answered the sergeant. He was surprised to hear how natural Ids voice sounded. There were men there he knew, looking at him as though he were some strange and fearful object. Off came his belt, his blouse was torn open, up with the shirt, and Eadle, raising or. one elbow, saw IT. A great hunch like an inverted cup and In the center of this hunch a round Jagged hole, with a tiny splash of blood on one side. Lie lay down again and gritted his teeth at the sting of the Iodine. Got any more? asked the Hrst-at- d man who was putting on the bandage. No, thats the only one," said Did If go In? Eadle. Yup, It went In. don't feel weak or anything, 1 dont want to get shoved out with a 1 flesh wound. You earned your ticket to hospital all right." said the first-aiman Take him out to the road." grimly. he directed the stretcher bearers. The two bearers grunted and lifted their burden. Then they began their bobbing progress across the field, down past some dugouts, and so out to the d roid. There was a row of men or stretch wnPJng for an ambulance. Eadie was livi-- down here, and a doctor appeared. Write out a tag now. mid the doctor. Wire it on him so It won't come off. lint's a good dressing, we won t need to touch It. Gun shot wound ah domen, pm down. A T S I think Mi gte hue ilttlo morphine, too. ers beside the road, J IRWIN MYERS, D.S.C. Copjrrlht H. Doran Company. by Georg WNU Servlca by a man was getting In bis winter's coal. Blongl A shovelful would land In the chute and go rattling down. Blongl Another one. tt wasnt coal, It was shells landing. Eadle was glad the curtain was down In back so that he could not see the flash o, them. If he ever saw a shell explode again the shock would kill him. There was a light In the ambulance now, a lone bulb that bung from the celling. A second look around showed the sergeant that his Journey was over. He was not In the ambulance, but In a room or a barrack, or a shed. Anyway, something with a roof on It Men moved about their shirt sleeves rolled to the elbow, appearing and disappearing out of the darkness like phautoma There was x nurse there in a blue uniform, who w'alked up and down. She spoke to the men from time to time, but Eadle coull not hear what she said. She seemed to be very tired. On Eadle's right hand was a silent, blanket-claform, and on his left another. Raising ills head, he cculd see a row of stretchers disappearing in the darknesa There was a ringing Daylight An orderly, smoking s cigarette, was sweeping the floor and picking up blankets and folding them. Another nurse appeared, an elderly one, rubbing ber hands with the cold. Good morning," she said to the orMy, Its cold." She took a derly. thermometer from her pocket down the mercury. Well, heres the first one, she remarked, sitting down beside Ehdies stretcher. She gave him the thermometer and began to take his pulse. "How do yon feel, son? She was d kindly-faceand her and hand, for all it was cold as Ice, felt very nice on the sergeants wrist She removed the thermometer and glanced and-shoo- d at d e tne?. . . It Eadle began to awaken as a man does after a long nights sleep. His first thought was that it was all over, whatever Iron he carried bad been removed, and now there was nothing to be done but to get well. He opened his eyes. There was a nurse beside him, a young one, who looked at him seriously. Waked up? she asked. How do you feel?" Great, said Eadle weakly. What was the matter?" asked the nurse. Appendicitis? Appendicitis h II I was shot through the belly!" The slightest flicker of annoyance She passed over the nurse's face. stepped quietly to . the foot of . the bed and read 'the card there. When she came back her expression bad ' changed completely. Dont talk morel said the' "' any . . nurse Not a word. If you quickly. Owl cried Eadie. Let us know-the have any pain, put up your hand and next tlme-y.q- u want to. ram any-- , Ill come right down to you. Dont . . thing Into me ! She groan. Dont, drink any water. It "Steady now, said the voice, put-a- . basin on a chair where Eadle wont hurt you If you dont tense your' could reach It easily and went swisb-In- g muscles that way. ... .. : away. Whats In there?! .asked the ser' 1" '. Eadle. Appendicitis thought . . geant Where did she of shrapnel. You can "A little-biThere wat, a'great wide roll, about ' . . ! hard.Iy see It. his middle, a pile of bandages like a I saw the hole . It went In, refeather bed. It 'was' satisfying to marked Eadle. Thats enough for have a real wound for once, a wound me. . . you could to and say, There Once more Eadie felt the stretcher' It Is! or point you dont believe It, seized, a door banged, and he was In read the card. And the whole outfit a sudden glare of light. White wails, lidd seen him struck down - The maa host of people In white clothing, jor would "be sore.. Tough on the and a cold table on which he was .major. He would send pompously for laidr The sergeants heart beat very Sergeant-.Eadland would learn that' 'fast for a. little wlrile, for this was Eadie had been seriously Sergeant the cutting room. A man with .specwounded, and the same shell had tacles looted at. Eadle with great In-- , killed two. other men. He again, terest . came back to consciousness-nnd-found--slept a think youre a goldbrlck, said thermometer In hjs mouth, and slept ' the man with spectacles suddenly once more. You dont . look os If you were was It . Ijroad daylight when Eadie wounded the slightest bit.9.. . opened his eyes again. . He was In a I &m, though,. grinned Eadle.. bare wooden structure, a portable "So tt appears, muttered the dochouse, ,on& of, 'those things that are How long tor, reading Eadles card.put up Jby sections. It had a floor since .woundefi? he ps.ked. that boomed- - like a drum. Men In In the Yesterday, some time." hobnails ran up and down this floor morning. It's 'on the card," replied In a seeming endeavor to make all the . Eadle. . noise possible. Dgors banged IncesThats the time you were treated santly. There was a steady flow of that's marked on the card. You might stretcher bearers past the foot of have been wounded last week. Well. Eadies bed. Clump', clump, clump. Its long enough, anyway. Go ahead The place" was thick with cigarette with that ether." smoke, making the sergeant cough. Slow at first on that ether stuff, His head began to spin with the noise said Eadie. "b won't fight It if you and the cigarette 6moke burned like go a little easy on It. fire. A doctor and a nurse appeared Trust me, said the man at the and stopped at the next. bed. They looked at the man there in silence and then the nurse did- something with the sheet. Eadie turned for a better look. They had covered - the other mans . face Now then," said the doctor, this bedside during-winte. man. . But months. what has happened? Do we take adThe nurse turned back the blankets, vantage of this economy? Do we pulled up Eadles shirt "and cut away adapt our floors to these conditions? the bandage. Eadie raised up and reNot by a long shot The rug manugarded hlraselt He had a long seam facturers, the vacuum cleaner makIn his abdomen, sewed In crissers and the Interior decorators have cross stitches. neatly It looked a lot like all combined tacitly In a drive to put the lacing on a football and the rerugs and carpets and the Instruments semblance was the more remarkable to clean them In every apartment because a piece of rubber protruded and all for the purpose of providing a from one end of the lacing. The docneedless and archaic element of decotor gave a tentative tug with a pair ration. Lewis Mumford In the Amerof tongs at this bit of rubber and a ican Mercury. lively stream of blood leaped out of the hole Into which the rubber disappeared. The doctor desisted in Safety Pyramids When do you want him to go?" An Interesting speculation concernasked the nurse. ing the real reason for building the see. He came in yesterday Lets Is of all that Pyramids originally noon. him stay a day or so. Let man-buiforms of structures the pyramid form Is the least liable to be Chests and abdomens arent supposed to be moved Immediately. disturbed by an earthquake. "No, send me out, requested Eadle. Along this line It la interesting to If TJjIs place will kill me.. Havent yoa wonder the newer architectural got a boiler factory somewhere where plan of building skyscrapers In pyrI can rest In peace? amid form Is not one of the wisest Sorry we cant give you a private moves that could possibly have been room and a special nurse, snapped made to avoid the earthquake menthe doctor with unnecessary sarcasm. ace, As cities grow, the potential We only handle about two thousand from danger earthquakes is enormouscases a day. Send him oat If he ly increased, nnd the pyramid form of architecture Is one of the best possible wants to go. The doctor went on to protectlous ngaiust disaster from this the uext case. The banging doors nnd the clatter source. ing hobnails and the smote and the shouting men continued, bu late In Ages of Presidents the day stretcher bearers appeared The oldest President of the United and brought their weapoD alongside States at the time of taking offlee was Eadies bed. William Henry Harrison, according to By golly. thlj$ Is quick work said an answered question in Liberty MagEmile. Tills Is tne fastest Ive azine. lie was sixty-eighyears nnd moved since I was In the army! twenty-thredays old when luaugu- - Where do we go from here?' rated Andrew Jackson attained the Hospital train. Take yon to tbt ine greatest age In years buss. and tli.ee nundied aud fifty tour days. CTO BU CUNTUNljKU.t centl--meter- - ' I meant to give "'em to you anybut .1 forgot" , He way, he said-lifted the strap from his neck and You handed the glasses to Short see 'where that leather 'Is torn? he asked. When you get home you can tell your mother a bayonet did It. It was nn American bayonet, but you neednt say that I'll look after 'em, said Short. I'll keep 'em In the fourgon an youll have em when we see you again." .... Bring out your wounded!" An ambulance rumbled in the road and the Eadie. This Is the Fastest Ive orderly thus announced Its presence. I Wasin the Moved Since Army." . They took np the. sergeants stretcher and carrying t.lm down the slope, In his ears now nnd he could not'hear. shoved him Into the ambulance. very well, but he was certain that the Three more were loaded In, the back men on the stretchers made uo moveand the ment, nor uttered any word. curtain was fastened-dow- n-, They ambulance took up Its Journey. The might be dead. Probably,- many of There was a them were. .ambulance was cold. . blanket over Eadle, hut none under Ynh want these?" A man stood by him, and In dressing of his "wound Eadle holding. In hlk band a little his clothing had been considerably white bag and In the other Eadles disarranged, so "that the biting wind whistle and .collar ornaments. that came fp through the turla'p of Sure." said Eadie, "6aye em PH the stretcher found hla skin tmnSedl- - 'need em ' some day." . . The of that blanket, ntely. possessed "What else yuh got?" deviltry that Inanimate objects aiften Razor nnd stuff In that 'musette. In to slide off. to have, began trying 'am .nil In ; musette nod ji.lL" Dump replace It the sergeant discovered .that Right. Fan yuh raise up a little Ids feet and legs were like those of another man. lie could see them, hut bit? Ill button that shirt In back he could not move them. They had for yuh if yuh do. The sergeant raised' himself on Ids' plenty of sensation,, however, which was that of Intense, even Arctic, cold. . elbows.- - He was astounded, to se.e that 'tie was undressed atrd- that a Emile must have slept or fainted, ' for of a sudden the hack curtain was pajama shirt had been ut on him. backside fmrt. for ease in donning-anraised, aud the stretcher Jerked out. He had a brief vision of a tent tluit removing. The man, an orderly, seemed to be white, and then he was laid ou the ground. Some one arranged his blanket, ..some one rend his tag, and then a man appeared In . a sheepskin coat." Want a little shot of dope?". asked the man. There is scarcely a spot In .e modId prefer a little cognac," . an- ern American home, outside the kitchI'm a bit en and the bathroom, which Is not an swered the sergeant. ' chilled." . example of the esthetic perversion of Cant give It to. you. said Sheep the machine. The floors are a flagrant skin Coat Belly .wounds cant drink. example. In the large and draughty Here, Jump with this sergennt In rooms of nn older generation, on with him! Put him In that ambulance floors trod by heavy-bootefeet, a right there! - , heavy carpet or rug added to the and warmth and quiet, and, In a big room, Again the stretcher was served to draw Its various parts Into again a bobbing Journey begun, ending with the squeal of the sliding a unity. So matters stood, let us say, hooks and the thump of the stretcher In 1880. Today the greater part of handles against the front of the nmbu our newly housed population neceslance. The other men In the ambu sarily lives In small rooms. With all lance made no sound. the Imperfections of present-da- y house It was dark. There was no rattling design these rooms are well heated; of hooks, no rumbling of wheels, no usually, indeed too well heated. The creaking of the ambulance body. people who use them at least the Eadle, Instantly awake, realized that city people-t-wen- r light shoes with the ambulance had stopped, hut rubber heels. .The need for the rug where? Had It been abandoned? or the carpet has disappeared, nnd the The passengers were silent Eadle only place where a little rug has even pounded on the little door beside his the shadow of an excuse ts by the head. No action. Again he pounded. There was muttering outside and the door was Jerked open. Darkness of Pearl Shower Only Egg late twilight, streaming rain, nnd the A reported shower of pearls near dim figure of a man. Secunderabad, India, recently, caused Look out I choked Eadle. The otha rush to the spot where they fell. er man leaped aside. Following a Inavy rainstorm a native Is that blood?" he gasped. T discovered the ground covered with It tastes like It," said Undie, wlp white globules, ranging In size from Ing his mouth on his sleeve. Why that of a nut to a mustard seed. Thou the delay? sands flocked to the field hi autos, on They're shellin' the road up ahead, bicycles and on foot, and gathered said the other man. If they keep It the "pearls" by the handful, police up very long well turn nu go round authorities Investigated and found by the other road." tie shut the door. that the "pearls" were eggs resemShelling the road! Nightfall and bling the genuine article. Many who still In range! Where had he been had collected the eggs are still keep ut dnvn? On the tines by Ids machine tug them, refusing to believe that they gun? They had wanted to send him are not pearls. The man who disonv nit then toi gas. Wasnt li lucky lie ered them sent a bagful to the mi Now tie was going cut had waited thoritles a! Hydorbad. and demanded with u va' wound. Somewhere tieur- J payment for the pearls. , - tl' -- . - d get-that- I - - ? t , 'If The farmer Is being supplied with more material by radio this summer than ever before, Morse Salisbury, in charge of radio for the United States of Agriculture, says. Department And radio stations are not slacking off for the summer months at &1L They protest against the idea that avenue of radio is not a year-rounWe information and entertainment are continuing to supply stations, which now number 13G. So the farmer has his supply of information by radio coming in Just the same more variety this summer than ever before. To the A. C., or house current set, Is attributed much of the credit for the sustained Interest in radio in cities and towns where house current sets can be operated. Many farm homes, however, are now equipped with electric current, but farmers who still have to use battery sets are said to Interest in be showing a year-rounradio reception because of the good things they are receiving over the air. In the earlier days of radio, the farmer got only weather and market reports; now he hears a variety of programs specially prepared for his entertainment and instruction. Formerly, radio was thought of only In connection with cold weather. The the Imextension of broadcasting, provement in programs and the advent of the A. C. receiving set will, it is expected, keep radio, sets in use this summer to a much greater degree than ever before in the summer mouths. There will be a great many radio listeners this summer who will forsake their tennis, their golf aud their garden for the radio, says W. D. Terrell, chief of the radio division, Department of Commerce. Reports from the radio industry itself. would seem to confirm these views. Usually, radio inanufxrturing plants are shut dowu in March, since distributors find the demand for receiving sets does not justify any considerable factory orders in spring and This year, however, one summ.er.. "large manufacturer is still busy turning .out receiving sets and speakers and less than thirty days ago hud to 500 sets and increase- - production speakers a day, when, ordinarily, the business is at a standstill. This factory turned out over 200, 000 receiving sets and speakers in the first four mouths of 1928. This is six times as many sets as this plant ever turned out before in the same period of any previous year. d -- e .I you-wer- - . Hard, to Escape From Tyranny of Custom d Much Interest in Radio During Summer Season d Treating Gunshot Wounds - Eadle laughed and made. his wound hurt... CHAPTER VIII X-ra- y. . . gray-haire- I feel fine, said Eadle. When do they whittle on me? "Pretty quick, smiled the nurse. I wouldnt like to be forgotten, said Eadle, grinning. Ive been here since yesterday." I know Its hard to wait," said the nurse, but were doing the best we can. Thq doctors work two and three days without sleep' and I know a lot of nurses that havent had their clothps off since the drive started. She got stiffly to her feet and went to the next man. It was not very long after that before the stretcher was- - lifted again and they bore the sergeant Into a black room.- This he knew was the Elands felt hl3' dressings,-scissors- snipped, more cold hands. Foreign 'body," said a. mysterious, voice and something about you-wer- . bead of the table. Now. Take whiff of It Hows that?" By G d. It smells good!" replied Eadine. It did, too. The first breath of It brought him a pleasant sensation of sleepiness and the second be drew In deeply as a man might a breeze from the ocean. Getting sleepy, Eadle?" asked the man at the ether, having read the patients name on the card. Yup. Dont start to whittle before I get tsleep, though! No, we wont Youre going fine, Eadle. Lets hear you count" There was a roaring In Eadle's ears now, a rushing of many waters. Count? Let them count themselves. A hand seized his arm. Eadle struggled up out of the waves of sleep as a man returns to the surface after a dive. Dont cut yet! he cried. Im not asleep! The roaring In his ears swelled loudfr. bis leg alone. f- single-handed- started. deftly buttoned it In back and Eadle lay down again. Two blankets they put over him and left him. The blankets scratched, but they were warm and Eadle felt more comfortable than he had for a long time. He slept and only awakened once when the nurse In blue, evidently a fresh young thing, pinched bis leg and awakened him. lie requested her profanely to leave Illustrations by said-Shor- g 1 By LEONARD NASON . r - lt 1 t e oiiire--sixty-n- No. 18 Wire Is Ample for Filament Circuits .There exists a general misimpres-sion' that it is necessary to wire the filaments aud heaters of A. C. tubes with inordinately large and cumbersome wire, due to the relatively heavy filament drain of such tubes. While there is a certain amount of justification for this assumption in the case of the tubes the 27 an! 2G types the stipulation lias been exaggerated even iu such cases, it never should be necessary to use larger than No.- - 13 solid wiring for filament .purposes. .It is very seldom that more than four tubes are carried on a single circuit, special circuits being em- ployed for detector and power tubes, splitting three ways the current consumption to the receiver and reducing the voltage drop in the leads. 'Considering the requirements of the average receiver, the number of tubes used and the length of leads, the difference between the voltage drop occasioned in No. 18 wire and in the recommended No. 14 wire, represents an inconsequential part of possible voltage variations due to line regulation, etc. Also, transformers generally are fitted with primary current control devices, which are used to obtain the correct lube voltage regardless of line voltage or voltage drop in leads. It Is interesting to note that recent experiments In the laboratory af the Areturus Radio company show that heater cathode tubes of the 2 type actually are more sensitive detectors at voltage from 1(1 to 25 per cent below the recommended heater potentials. With high voltage A. C, tubes, sucti as the Areturus line of heater amplifier, detector, high mu and power tubes, consuming only .34 ampere, the wire usually employed In battery sets can be used without consideration of current drain or voltage drop. low-volta- Placement of Speaker for Best Reproduction Those who are constantly striving for the best In reproduction should show as much care, in the placement of a speaker in a room as in the selection of the speaker itself. Due to the reflection of the sound waves, what are known as standing waves" are 'set up and certain frequencies are reinforced while others are reduced In amplitude. The speaker should preferably be located se dial it is not backed ip on the rear side by the Wkb or iny large Frequently a certain note will come in disproportionately loud, which seems to In Route i he speakei Is resonant at this B li q"t lo v noiria Hie speaker a it ai a t i r: - :iva front ttie cut-fac- ii i i tt'i i i i if he - minimised ! |