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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER- HYRUM, UTAH - the cars we were frozed stiff, 1 could liurdly walk, and some of the boys OF simply could not move without intense pain. They loaded twelve men Into each compartment, and detailed a guard of six men to each car. The windows In the cars were all smashed, and everyCame to this Woman after thing about the cars was dirty. U.S. Chief and a town at train Navy the Officer, stopped Petty Finally Taking Lydia E. Pinkham By and there was a Member of the Foreign Legion of France named Vegetable Compound to mob of women and children around, Captain Gun Turret, French Battleship Cassard Restore Her Health as usual, ready for us with bricks and Winner of the Croix de Guerre us stoned the car through spit. They Ellensburg, Wash- .- After T Copyright, 1918, by Reilly and Bvtton Co., Through Special Arrangement With the George Matthew Adams Service windows, and laughed and jeered at married 1 was not well for a lone nZ us, but by ttds time w were so used and a good deal to it that we did not mind much. Only, of looked tillliy and Miielled that way, turned Ids back out I went and around every now and then some fellow CHAPTER XVIII Continued. time Wa3 not able to and where the coal dust had rubbed the corner of the barracks. go about 16 t would get all he could stand, and Our greatest desire ' But one of the sentries there saw either tails As we went ashore, the bombardoff, we were very pale. And all of us back or make a pass at was to have a child me and blew his whistle, and a guard ment began, and wo were not only were starved looking. Then he would got his in our home and one somebody. and somewhere came of About eleven oclock that morning up foni tinder tire of spit, if you could call it eight a bayonet through the arm or either day my husband came hade from that, but also of rocks and bottles and the whistle blew again, and we came grabbed me. I tried to explain, but it leg, or a crash on the bead with a gun I said town wtth a bottle sticks and most anything thft could out and were given an aluminum was no use, because every time butt. of Lydia E. Pink, be thrown. spoon and a dish apiece. Then we a word it meant another swat over an eighteen hour ride, withAfter hams Vegetable All this time, lest you fjrget," we cheered up and saw corned beef and the ear, so finally I gave it up. out food or drink, we arrived at Then they drijld me across the compound and had no shoes, and no clothing only cabbage for ourselves. An hour later as was we ralDlnfi It pulled wanted me to try it what had once been ov underwear. they drilled js through the snow to road to the officers quarters. There In. As we went up the grade to the It brought relief When we got there we were three officers there, and each of It is all right to lie n Coney Island lie kuehe. town we could see lights about a mile all t about me asked them at in line least until healths!! stood questions fcotffibnw snowbird and pose nrouiid In your we figured that that was I improved in never once men- away, and bathing suit In the drifts, because you twelve, and then the Germans shout- kinds of things, but out of the bar- the camp. The rain stopped and we housework; we now have a little one all 1 we t0 Lydia E. Pinkham'. are In good condition, and last Jut not ed : Niclits zu essen." But we did tioned my running remained In the cars for some time, .S wh1( sentries the Then we so racks. know gave not what that meant, Mrs 0 Compound. they Vegetable just least, because you do not have to do of the sen- Then, after a while, we knew our new Johnson, R. No. 3, Ellensburg, Was some and four Then waited. and commands, around there hung it. of it Figure out the other side guards were coming; long before we There are women everywhere who they started shouting, Zuruck ! Zu- tries took me out mid over to the could see them, we could hear the for yourself. , for children in their homes yet are tied barbarbed wire fence. There they, long to the us back and drove ruck They marched us into a field where racket they made. Somehow a Ger- denied this happiness on account v over arms to face my of the me, fence, there was nothing much hut guns and racks. and hands and feet lashed to man cannot do anything shipshape some functional disorder which in most we words .niclits the head, heard Later ammunition and snow, and set us up but always has to have a cases would readily yield to Lydia we thought the wire, and with a rope around my and neatly, in something like skirmish formation. zu essen!" so often that; and running around, and Pinkhams Vegetable Compound. of lot noise, nrK eats. We waist, too, I thought, then, that ray We slood there for some time, and probably they meant Such women should not give up hope swine confusion. hunch had come, true, and that I general Until they have given this wonderful hen We saw a lot of JIuns with the had our reasons for thinking so, too. In habits more are their than orderly and would be crucified, like Murray and medicine a trial, and for special advice new long rifles coming toward us, Those words, and "zuruck the Huns. ' were practically .all we did Brown. ,, raus, write Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., roustwe were came When yelling just as they did in battle, and up, they They posted a sentry there In addiLynn, Mass. The result of 40 years we thought sure we were being used hear, except, of course, various kinds tion to the regular guards, and every ed from the cars and drilled up the experience is at your service. scliweinhunde. of for practice targets. It is a good we got near It was awful to see the men when time he walked past me he would kick road t6 the camp. When were halted we German barracks thing they halted and stopped yelling we the Aches, got back to the barracks. Some of me or spit on me, or do both. tiver when they did, or we would have and to made stand counted and chills, and , again, me so One kicked hard time he tongue may mean boys from the Georgic, not much Iry started for them to fight it out, for the hour an at after for least there fhey over twelve years old, were almost that a prong of the barbed wire TABLETS we were not the kind that likes to be 'i hey wi often prevent a sen- 5q at ail anigsugei, oub and prolonged attack. but even the older men were gashed me over the left eye the only had finished counting us, shivering butchered with hands in the air, and crazy, us In At like last leaves. they placed I can one and when with see the was of them. It nothing many crying, in Alaska C wo would have been glad for a chance Syndicate B. for gold t flfl locations and leases: perl only but torture all the time. They opened blood ran into my eye it blinded me, barracks, and those who could went InVOSl gi.UU to get a few of them before they got all and safe assured. leuin!r, big profits windows and doors in the bar I thought both eyes were gone then, to sleep. the us. But they did halt, and then sur There were about forty barracks In rucks, and then we could not hpat the and I hoped they would shoot me., It LUXURY WAS NOT FOR THEM rounded us, and drilled us away room with our bodies. When we start- seemed to me that I had got my share the Limey group at Neustrelltz and barThe two sheds. woods and shal ed to move around, to through swamps and large Zeppelin warm, they by this time without losing the other low water or slush. The women fol fired a few shots atkeep us. I do not eye, and if it was gone, I wanted to racks were just about like those at Hopes of Boarding House UnfortSwinemunde at least, they were no unates Raised High Only to Be lowed, too, and there were plenty of know whether they hit anyone or not ; go too. bricks and spit left. Women as well we had got so that we did not pay any better. I could not put up my hand to feel Along the sides of the rooms Rudely Brought to Earth. as men are the same the world over, attention to and or were shelves benches, and had long the But where me, it like that. prong jabbed things they say. I wonder? You can just stopped us, and we had to stand still. it kept on bleeding and smarting. I every three feet were boards set In In spite of conservation, the Repupicture the women of, say, Rockland, The Huns thought we would take the had on practically no clothing, you re- grooves. The shelves were what we blican husband and his Democratic wife Me., following a crowd of German rifles from the sentries and use them, member. The wounds in my thigh had had to sleep on, and the boards In the entered into a pact If the Iloosier prisoners that way, cant you? Not! too. opened, and it was bitter cold and grooves divided them up so that only state went hubbys way a thick slice But of course the women of Rockland I never saw a yellower bunch of windy. So you can picture to your- a certain number of men could use of smoked ham was to be fried for are pretty crude no kultur at all each bench. people in my life. I do not mean peo- self how gay and carefree I was. breakfast the "morning after," if and Gott never commissioned Presi ple. I wish I could publish what I The following morning we nearly When I had been there for an hour a bake! chicken was to appear dent Wilson to take the lid off the really mean. . and a half they untied me from the dropped dead when the Huns pulled wifes, Now about that ham. at dinner. strafe pot for him. We had stoves in the barracks, but wire, and I keeled over on my back. in a large wagon full of clothing. We Smack against this Republican and They drilled us along the docks, and no coal or. wood, to burn,. There were They kicked nie&6tl I had to stand thought we never would have any- - Democratic headquarters leans a It looked as though the whole German many box&s piled up there, but they up, but I fell dowi again, and all the thing 'to wear but our underclothes, where poor wretches, house boarding navy was tied up at Swinemunde. belonged to the Germans. We would kicking In Germany could not have They issued to each man a pair of whose fires have gone hearth family me to coat We saw many of the ships we had have burned them if we could, but brought my feet. I was just all trousers, thin model, a thin Poor existence. an are dragging heard about, among them being the the Germans made us carry them In. So they blew their whistles and about like the seersucker coats some out, liam the scented frying. souls, they famous Vulcan, the mother-shifor across the road. They weighed about the sentries in the barracks awakened people wear In the summer, an overIlad the landlady lost her senses 150 pounds apiece, and we were so two of the boys, who came and carried coat about as warm as if It had been submarines. There were many an made of cigarette papers, a skull cap Maybe her vacant lot had sprung ors loafing along the docks, and they weak that it was all two men could do me in. their All the time the sentries were yell- and a pair of shoes, which were a oil well? They hustled into gave the women a hand with their to budge them. And we had to carry Gott strafe England I and days labor to carry around. Not one clothes, sniffingly descending to the ing, roll ; us no not them work. were better with let them. days They they would schweinhund until you would have of us received socks, shirts or under- dining room. a brick, but they had more ammunition We were so cold an hungry that even In a battle. What wear. were That ham was cured with hickory, us. came warm they when it to spitting. One of them that exercise did not thought I Idea was their do not know. chuckled toe was the traveling salesman to The cut a from shoe the name of the About 2:30 the whistle blqw again, young boy by tripped right The In had a a water little boys of the pair I received, and as my himself. Kelly, and as you would never doubt, and the Iluns picked out a few men I can hear the hinges on the smokKelly picked up a rock and crashed and took them down the road. We can, and one of them tore off part of wounds were in the right thigh and of sleeve the So his undershirt. ' the sailor with it. lie was then bay could not figure out why, but they they my leg had stiffened up considerably ehouse door creak. oneted twice in the left leg. We be- came back about three oclock, all of washed the gash and bandaged It.' and got very sore, I got pretty anx- Were poachin the eggs this morn gan singing then, our popular favorite, them with bread in their arms. They Believe me, I was glad when I could i0us, because there was nothing but in, drawled the maid as she set down of Pack up your troubles, etc., and were chewing away on it when they see again. I was so tired and worn slush underfoot, and I was afraid I the slices of cold bread and the jug when they heard us, how the swine had a chance. Whenever the sentries out that I went ,to sleep at once, and might lose my leg. So I thought that sorghum. Indianapolis News. stared were not looking they would bite at it did not wake up until they were giv- if I went to the commander and made Then they drilled us past the Ger- like a fish going after a worm. Each ing uu our barley coffee next a kick I might get a good shoe, Catch Big Carp. man soldiers quarters. The men were man carried five loaves. I told him that it was slushy outside, Two carp of 16 pounds and 14 pounds at rifle practice, and I guess all of us and that the water ran through the five ounces have been caught at When they got in the barracks the CHAPTER XIX. hole in my shoe and made it bad for , hunt thought how handy we would be as sentries made them put the bread reservoir, England, by F. James targets. But when we got near them, down on the floor, and then, with my whole leg, which was wounded. and w Baines, members of the Rea German Prison Camps. He examined the shoe, and looked at they quit practicing and crowded their bayonets, the sentries cut each Spinner Angling society. A few days affler I had been lashed the open toe for some Baus Zuruck !" Loaf once down the center lengthwise around us yelling : time, and I to the barbed some of the fence wire was to thought he going put up an Finally we got to the top of the and four times across, which meant One of Those Foreign Makes. htll, and were halted near the bar- ten men to a loaf about the size of an German officers came to the barracks, argument, but would give In finally, What do you know of the Ukraine? Then he asked roe what I wanted. I racks while an officer read the mar- onjjnary loaf in this country and one of them who spoke very good : Nothing, I never take those tial law of Germany to us. At least now. They gave each of us a piece English said All of the neutrals who thought that was plain enough to see, remedies myself. on were ' out. unarmed ships step but I said just as easily as I could a little larger than a safety-matcwe thought maybe that was it. a few out. - I a Only that wanted shoe barbox. us let into the without a hole stepped Finally, they Then he called for all the neutrals, in the toe. The broad was hard and dark, and racks, and the first thing we saw was So the water runs into It, does It? a great pile of hay. That looked good I really think they made it from trees. and the Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, to us, and we made a rush and dived It had just exactly the same smell Brazilians and Spaniards stepped out. he said. Well, my advice to you Is to But when I did. he said, No, not get a knife, cut a hole in the heel and into it. , But the Huns told us to take that the dirt around trees lias. Americans. Anlericans are not neu let the water out. All the other We filed file throw in and of the it the middle sentries single the hay past the road. They had to use force be- to get our ration of this mud, and tral. America supplies our enemies swine in the room laughed very loud fore we would do it. Finally we gave there was no chance of getting in line with food and ammunition. He raised at this, and I guess this Fritz thought in, however, and started to carry it twice, for we had to keep on filing his fist, and I thought he was going to he was a great comedian. But someout. Some of the young boys were until we were out in the road, and hit me. but instead he gave me a how or other, it did not strike me so by readcrying, and I do not blame them stand there in the snow to eat it. We shove that caused me to fall and get funny that I just had to laugh, and I could not go back in lie, barracks un- a little cut on the head. , Then the was able, after quite a struggle, to much. ing. sentries pushed me over with the keep from even snickfering. It was a But one of the boys tried to hide til every man had been served. harder struggle than that to keep some of the hay behind a box and was Our meals were like this: A can of British and the French. jr After that they took the Norwegi- from doing something else, though! enught doing it, and two sentries barley coffee in the morning; cabbage Our meals were just about the same clouted him from one end of the bar- soup, so called, at noon ; a tenth of a ans, Swedes nnd Danes, to separate racks to the other. His nose was loaf of bread at 3 p. ni. That was barracks, and gave them tclothes and as at Swinemunde the bread was broken and his face mashed to a jelly. our menu day in and day out, the beds and the same rations' as the Ger- just as muddy, the barley coffee just 5 But there was nothing we could do, kaisers birthday, Lincolns, May day, man soldiers. When I saw this I as rank, and the soup just as cabmade a kick and said I was a neutral, bageless. The second morning after so we just wandered up and down the or any other time. This cabbage soup was a great idea. too, and ought to get the same treat- we had had our barley coffee, one of barracks, about as we did between decks on the Moewe, trying to keep We called it shadow soup, because the ment as the Scandinavians. They took the sentries came to our. barracks, warm. and gave each boys claimed they made it by hanging me to the officers again, kicked me which was number While this marathon was on we a cabbage over a barrel of water and about nnd swore at me, and the only of us an envelope and a sheet of writheard a whistle blown very loudly, letting the shadow fall on the water. answer I got was that America would ing pnper. Then hetold us to write and when we lookvd out we saw a We pretended, too, that .if you found suffer (or all she had done for the al- to anybody we wanted to, after which wagon piled up with old tin cans. any cabbage in it, you could take your lies. Then I was sent back to the bar- he chalked on the door in big letters Then we were told to form single file, dish hack for a second helping. Rut racks again. KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGER s The next day at about one oclock and told us it was the return address, walk out to the wagon and each get a I uever saw anybody get more than can for himself. Each man had to one dishful. All It was, was just they took us from the barracks and We were all surprised, and asked each drilled us through the swamps. The other where we were, because we had take the first can lie laid his hands spoiled water. harmWe tried to go to sleep that nlghtf! men began to fall one by one, some thought we were in Neustrelitz. After on, and many of us got rusty ones with holes in them. So that about half an but there were so many sentries crying or swearing, but most of them a while, we learned that it means nourhour later, when we received barley around us and those of us who were going along without a word. Those At first, Made in coffee, and all we had to drink it from not sick were wounded that I do not who went down were smashed in the though, many of us thought it vas was the cans, lots of the men had to think a man of us really slept. After head with rifle butts or belts. the name of the town, and we gtt to la we gulp or lose a while I asked a sentry if I could go drink theirs t Finally we arrived at a little rail- calling it the Brewery, becaias the ly. outside for a minute, but for some rea- road station, and had to stand In the name ended in lager. Whatevi-half of it. s The bartalki. were very dirty anc son he would not let jne. I had dif- snow for over nn hour while the en- was brewed there was not SS j.eer us men were and the smelled horribly, ferent Ideas about It, so I stood gine ran up and down the tracks hook- (hough. a til l.C 'en half clothed. We fll around near the door, and when he ing on cars. When we finally got in (TO BE CONTINUE, THE JOY tinner Albert Ex-Gunn- er Alt-Dam- N. Depew Neu-strefit- z. 1 half-pas- ! Four-foote- d 1 P, M GRIPPE- - LaDRipi-- break-upacol- d II p ! j 1 ! ten-ce- h Some Pe?ple ot the harmful effects of coffee Others find 1 it out through experience. either case it is a good idea to adopt I DISTANT 7-- POSTUM A delicious drink made from the finest cereals, . Prisoner-of-War-Cam-p. I I i less and ishing. , the cup, instant- r-- t I Saves sugar and fuel. |