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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER- - HYRUM, UTAH nuns eat it, while they and the wtfuitn laughed at us, and pretended that they were starving and would groan nnd rub their stomachs and say, Nlchts zu essen, to each other, nnd then grab a big hunk of bre,d and eat It. What we did not say D them was very little Indeed. We were certainly wild if any men ever w?7e. and Chief Petty Officer, U.5.Mavy Then some of us said we wre goBy Member of the foreign Legion of France ing to get some of that bread if we went west for it. So we started a Captain Gun Turret, French Battleship Casaard fight, nnd while they were attending to Winner of the Croix de Guerre some of us, the others grabbed and hid Copyright, 1918, by Reilly and Britton Co., Through Special Arrangement With the George Matthew Adams Service all the bread they could. They "ousted us back into the cars nnd ws were Your Labor Counts every ounce to divide up the bread of work you do helps some starting just of CHAPTER XIX few beused It also. were very to that Unit, soldier. So, after realizing they us took with when it ard they caught Thr war was fought as -1- 7Fritz picked on them us rns,k rater from the hydrant. I it ing under-dogla the truly We ever were wilder i thy away. I noticed that all the time he was and bullied them In n way that ihe was scared stiff; nr. f.sst, because I had household and in the as it but we could not do anytl ing. writing the word and giving us the rest of us would not have stood. We bad some of the wine., but after that then, vjaS In the trenches. we Wittencolder It after left got stationery, the sentry was laughing would have rushed them and gone I did itoi touch hydrant water, Some of our American women snow blew into t e cars are and having a great time with his own west with bnyonets first. It was a good thing for us that berg, nnd the down physically and xirne doors windows mentally until the through anj little self, but I figured he was just In snow The barracks were made of spruce, there was always plenty of fear of by the weaknesses of their sex. Thw acting German, and that nothing was and were about ninety feet long und Germany, and even luckier rhair fhe we were afraid to sleep for Buffer from' backache, dragging sensi worst night I important about it. twenty-fiv- e feet wide, and you can Huns did not shoot us for eating It. freezing. It was the tion, are very nervous nnd have pain iu We were oil tickled to death to get take It from me that as carpenters, It was nhout the only thing they did have ever seen, and the coal hunkers of head. If ask their neighbors a chance to let our people know where whoever made them were tine fann- not deprive us of It wns not verboten. on the Yarrowdale seemed like a pal- top will her told they to take a Favorite Pro they ace compared to the compartments, we were, and each man thought a ers. There were cracks in them that . I scription of Dr. Pierces which has thought I knew' what tough cooties long time about what he would say, you could drive an automobile through. were," in the trenches, but they were because we couhtat least move around well and favorably known for the past in the ship, while in the train vve could and who he would write to, before he When we were there, each barracks regular the lo lalf compared mollycoddles century, so were and move not at ever started o write. Each man want- had n stove in the center, a good stove pets we had all, packed After In the prison camps. Weak women should try it now. ed to say aP he could In the small and a big one, but at first It was of we boiled our clothes we would be close that we eould not even .stretch Today is the day to begin. This space he had, and we wanted to let no use to us, because the Germans freeYrom them fbr not more than two our legs and arms. Some of the men temperance tonic and nervine will bring our friends know how badly they were would not give us coal or wood for it. hours, and then they would come did die, but not in my compartment, vim, vigor and vitality. Send Dr. Pierce n were us most of treating us without saying it in so But after shivering for a while, vve be- back, with thirsting though Buffalo, N. Y., lOe. for trial pkg. tablets! about the fnce. many words, beenuse we knew the gan ripping the boards out of the bar- for vengeance. t promotes perfect regularity. It soothes JIuns would censor the letters, and it racks, and taking the dividing hoards We thought that night would never and strengthens the nerves, drives The camp at Neustreiitz was surwould go hard with anyone who com- from the benches that vve used for rounded by big dogs, which were kept end, but day came finally, and though despondency, and gives a healthy away appetite plained much. So most of the men beds. just outside the fmrhed wire. We hnd it seemed to get colder and colder, we and refreshing sleep. It makes, weak said they were having a great time Later, they gave each of us a mat- them going nil the time. Every once did not mind it so much. At about women strong. and were treated very well, and spread tress filled with wood shavings, and a in n while, some fellow would make eleven that morning, we arrived at a It is a wonderful prepaid it on so thick that their friends would blanket that was about as warm as a an awful racket, and the next thing place called Mlnden and saw a prison only from natures prescription roots and herbs with were we of The mattresses were figure they knew, there wns Fritz coming like camp there just a stockade near the no alcohol to falsely stimulate and nj glass. lyin because they fpane had to. placed on the ground In the barracks, a shot, with musket at his hip, just tracks with the boys out in the open. narcotic to wreck the nerves. One fellow had an idea that was which were;very damp, and after three ns they carry them In a charge, and We waved to them, and they waved Write Dr. Pierces Invalids Hotel, better than that, though. He had been or four days, the shavings would be- blowing whistles at each other until hack and gave a cheer-oor two. We Buffalo, N. Y., for free confidential medin jail In Portsmouth, England, for gin to rot and the mattresses to smell. they were blue in the face. When- felt sorry for them, because we knew ical advice. three months, for heating up a con- In order to keep warm we slept as ever they thought some one was es- we were not going to that camp, and FLORIDA HOMESITES. stable, and he had had a pretty rough close together as vve could, which caping. they ran twice ns fast as I from what little we saw, we knew we In beautiful Bungalow Colony. Delightful cltime. So lie wrote a pal of Ms that caused our various diseases to spread ever saw them run. except when the could not be going to a worse place imate. Cheap living and fuel. Fiuh anil ojytcn and he had been captured by the Ger- rapidly. In abundance. boating oi magniHunting Foreign Legion,- was on their heels than they were In. I shall never for- ficent Unit protected waler8 opening into When we were receiving our rations, at Dixmnde. mans, but that everything was going was because I here terms that Kill tmrprUe that it Prices and of Mexico. get Minden, most of to reach be within as ao small would us the an offer sentries extra When they got up to the dogs, they received Ihe only cigarette I had while you, along pretty well. In fact, he said, National Bank delivers deed. modest income. the only other trip he had ever been ration if we would take a lash from would first talk to them and then kick I was In Germany. Deluixe edition of beautifully Illustrated (too seat to Ifor general distribution) on, where he had a bettei time, was their belts. We were so hungry that them, and after that, they would rest Minden is quite a railway center, I pensive from this adv. Shall we mall o.ir copvT the three months vacation he had many and many a man would go up their rifles on The wire and yell guess, and when we pulled Into the nquiries Bay Head Corporation, Bay Head, Fla. spent in Portsmouth two years before, and take a swat in any part of his Zuruek at us. We all enjoyed this depot, we saw many, troops going to which lie thought the friend would re- body from the heavy leather belts innocent pastime very much, and we the front or coming back. As at all T ATTO 0 NO W BY MACHINERY member. lie said that trip was bet- with brass tongue and buckle, Just to were glad they had the dogs. Important German fallway stations, tor than this one, so the friend could get a little more shadow soup or some things the Huns there was a Red Cross booth on the Process Is Said to Be Practically Witwere There figure out for himself how pleasant barley coffee or mud bread. hout Pain to Subject Who Is did that you just could not explain. platform, with German girls handing One morning the sentries picked out this one was. Everybody thought this to and coffee out other things barley of one Operated On. For the Russians instance, was a great idea, but unfortunately ten men from our barracks, of which the German soldiers. I saw a large out as we were of the walked kuche, not all of us had been In jail, so ve I was one, and drilled us over a field and we heard a bang! and shanty on the platform, with- a Red They do tattooing by machinery could not all use it. Whlqji was just near the kuche. There was a large passing, Cross painted over the door, I saw now, and promise that it wont hurt over keeled went the Russian and as well, we thought, because the Ger- tank in the field and we had to pump not doner anything the girls giving barley coffee to- the says Popular Science Monthly. Thats a west, Now, mans would be suspicious if all of us water. Into,, it. It wan vair' coto,-nsoldiers, and I thought I would have what the painless dentist says, but we were weak and sick, so vve would a try at it and at least be polite compared this vacation'1 with others. with' the electrical tattooer performA few of the men did not have any- fall one after another, not caring enough to give the girls a chance of ance keeps pace with promise. not. Fritz refusing me. I was refused all right, body they could write to, and some did whether vve ever got up or All you feel .as the needles there with his fell who would smash those but they were so nasty about It that I not know tlieir friends addresses, so are six of them etch a design on your rifle butt. We asked for gloves, beput down my head and let something they would write letters to friends of cause is a slight tingling sensation. our hands were freezing, but all slip. I do not remember just what it skin, the other men,, and sign it with the machine consists of two electrThe vve got was Nlchts. was, but It was not very compliment friends nickname. on the principle After we had been there for about ary, I guess. Anyhow, I did not think omagnets, operated As soon as a man had finished his used in coan of electric vibrator, men anyone near there understood' Engbar. The letter, he had to go out to the center an hour and a half,so one of I our needle nnection a with single lish, but evidently some one heard me that thought of the camp, where they had built a became very sick, outlining for who did, for I. got an awful boot that bar has one needle point raised platform. There the sentries he was going to die, and when he fell shading. the in to six and work put landed me ten or twelve feet away. took the letters, and the men formed over, 1 reported it to a sentry. The the tube, ink an through I on hands fell Operating and my knees, and around the square. There were off- sentry came over, saw him lying in the fluid through about a yard away 1 saw a cigarette needles force the Schwein, nicht icers on the platform reading the let- the snow, yelled, skin. the in make I a stub. dived for it like man fall tiny punctures they grabbed him by the shoulder, ters. We thought they read them krank On a football, and when I came up The growth of tattooing as a fad inthere In the open, before us, so that and pulled him all the way across the that stub was safely in my pocket. is apparently responsible for the we would know they were not tamper- field to the office of the camp commade And it stayed there until I reached troduction of the machine in the ing with the letters, and we thought mander. Then he was placed a Dulmen a to and had chance human background. The on it light remained for. he picture the heaven would fall If they were guard house, where behind the If barracks. of the manufacturers of the apparatus speak any two days. The next thing vve knew, getting so uukul tyred as that. men had smelled other real of the pleasant profession of those tobacco, to had been ordered Finally, all the men had finished the Russians would they probably have murdered who operate the machine. So an eletheir letters and turned them over to make a box, and were being inarched I me. not have blamed them ctric tattooer is a professor as well nnd could the officers, who read them. And then to the guard house to put him in it for It. as an artist. and bury him. we saw why the sentry laughed. That was the first and last cigarette that Neustreiitz. at Another thing The officers tore up every one of the I got in Germany, and you can beMade It Practical. letters. They were anxious that we was pretty hard to stand, was the pretme when I say that I enjoyed lieve Jones get his start m did How would see them do It, so none of us ty habit the. Huns had of coming up I to not was There it. much but It, life? would have any hope that our friends to the barbed wire and teasing us as smoked It until there was hot enough He Invented a sprinkler system though we were wild animals In a would get word. to hold in my mouth, and then I from watching his fountain pen work. left be would there The First and Last Cigarette.' Cut we said to ourselves that, if it cage. Sometimes used what was left and mixed It with was information they wanted, they had crowds of people lined along the wire the bark that we made cigarettes out and the other had said he Russians as much as was good for them, which throwing things at us, and spitting, behaved hard and had of. Incidentally this bark was great was none at oil, because I do not think and having a great time generally. It never himself, worked Wh had trouble. any They just stuff. I do not know what kind of one letter in the bunch had a single was harder than ever when a family killed tree It was from, but it served the to was is and him, all there that and vater with would arrive, word of truth in it. But we were all party it. But not one of us could figure purpose. Whenever a- fellow wanted very angry and pretty low after that, mutter, and maybe grosvater and out why. to smoke and lit one of these bark Boche because it showed the Huns still had grosmutter, and all the little Affer- - we had been at Neustreiitz cigarettes, ,a few puffs were enough, probably plenty of kultur left, after all, and we kinder, because, as you food He did not want to smoke again for for three us out of drilled wllh weeks, they knew there was rough sledding ahead know, the Germans take camp to a railway station, and some time afterward, and like us not of us. Also, some of the men were them whenever they go on a party, the stood us in the snow for four hours he did not want to eat either. They sore because they had wasted their no matter whnt kind, and they would for the train. We were ex- were therefore very valuable. waiting the like us at time thinking up different ways of tip- stand there and stare It Is very hard to get matches in hausted and began falling, one by ping their friends off to the real state boobs they wore, eating all the time one, and the camps, and1 when any prisoner one us of the we could fell, and we so hungry that of affairs, and nil fo"r nothing. Why does get hold of one, it is made to last sentries would Nicht krank!" After yell, almost. eaten have ourselves, they should vt'orry about time, I could a long time. Here Is how we make a not see. Time was the only thing we they had stared a while, they would and give us the rifle butt. We had match last. Some one gives up the our choice of and then and dying up at more feel standing home, had plenty of, and I for one, thought begin to sleeve of his coat, and the match is or down and being killed, and we were going to have still more of it. would start Ihe throwing and spitting It falling was a lit, and the coat sleeve curefully fine to make. choice have to and Going back to the barracks vve tried and the scliwelnhund sangorfest, to a crisp. Then we take burned' The cars ns and In, a time generalhave would finally pulled great to sing Pack Up Your Troubles, but they button from, our coats the buttons ly. Probably, when they got home, usual, the windows weie smashed, the are there was not much pep in it. brass with two holes in them doors for and a medal the off open, would strike compartments just were not downhearted, though ; they a shoestring through the holes, pass ' packed with snow. When vve saw this, themselves In honor of the visit. least, vve said we were not. the knot ends, and with the button lawe knew we to were worse LTun get going Then, too, there were always center of the string, buzz it around the CHAPTER XX. soldiers on leave or off duty, whj made treatment, even, than vve had been as seen boys do, with the have you, to and die. many of us wanted it a point to pay us a visit, and though getting, over both hands, moving the string It hnd soma not of been for unusual as the Kultur the Real Stuff. I do not think they were as bad hands and apart until the Neustreiitz was mainly for Russia! civvies, especially the women, they the men to tell the Germans to shoot button together revolves very fast. them it- seems as though it too, and prisoners, and there were neither Brit were bad enough. We then put a piece of Hint against was always a man who wanted to live (sli nor French soldiers interned then) We had one bucket In each barracks, the crisped cloth, and buzz the button who did get it and went west. only sailors of the merchant marim anj as these buckets were used for It until a spark makes the against us killed all of However, I was men The with. nearly got such as the both washing and drinking, they were and from" this we would, glow, crisp Russians were given far worse treat- always dirty. We boiled the water when we reached Wittenberg. When light our bark cigarettes. I do not ment than any other prisoners. This when we washed the clothes, to get the train stopped there, we saw a big think any man In the world could lowas for two reasons, as nenr as I could rid of the cooties, and that left a wagonload of sliced bread on the sta- bule one of these bark cigarettes: make out. Oue was that the Russian settling In it that looked Just like red tion platform and we all stared at it. some of us tried and went right to We we stood and as It most as could, whereas would stand long anything, lend. We had to get the water from sleep. Ihe British and French could only be a hydrant outside of the barracks, and then we made a rush for It. But when (TO. BE CONTINUED.). goaded to n certain point, and beyond for a while we drank it. But after we got nearer, we saw that there were Lines to Be Remembered. that lay trouble. The ether reason several of the boys hnd gone west four sentries guarding it and four Good nature will always supply the wns that the Russians sent German and vve could not figure out why, a women issuing it out to the German prisoners to Siberia, or nt least, so the man told us he thought the water wns soldiers. They would not give us any, absence of beauty, but beauty cannot Huns thought, and Fritz hates the poisoned, and a Russian doctor, who of course. supply the absence of good nature. So wv stood around and watched the Joseph Addison. cold. So, bating the Russians, and was a prisoner, slipped us word about Ex-Gunn- er Albert N. Depew s, work-sho- p been-s- Dont-wait- frost-bitte- h 1 -- - 1 li - The real food elements of wheat and bap ench-tlm- ley so made as to be rich in sugar; and ready to eat from package with milk or cream. That - -- (irapsMs A Substantial , . end Economical |