Show I 1 ITTER during the week mr and mrs jas crooks received a couple of very in te ter eating letters from their son le land who is now in active service in france the letters were written early in july and at that ti time me the tile young man was getting along asplen although he admitted a slight longing tor for his little gray home horn in the west when the shells from the big guns wern whining and moaning overhead and tearing great holes in the french landscape leland says he has seen enough of prance france to know that it t Is a moat most beautiful country with the prettiest of farms and villages and it seems a terrible thing that such a large part of the french soil baa has been devastated by the war ar which Is now being waged more fiercely than ever the eu reka boy says that he first landed at an english port and about the time that he got so he be knew the value of a shilling he was transferred to france and his troubles started all oi 01 er again he Is picking up the french language fairly rapidly and hopes to be able to make himself un der stood within a very short time |