Show ELECTRIC LIGHTS AND CURTAINS CURTAS IN ROOM OF COWS OTHER QUEER SIGHTS the bodner younger readers of the news advocate will read with In interest teresta a V vivid account of the life of the car bon county boys in germany as writ ten by their fornier former teacher stephen A olsen who is with the field artillery to which so many of the local boys belong letters have been received this week from clarence stevenson arthur horsley and others all the general information us to their location and tra travels vele in his letter to hia hib parents olsen writes auge luxembourg dec 6 5 1018 1918 pear parents today finds us here in this germun town of Bertran gp desure we sure are aru foreigners tere ere for the dutch have a language that takes a mouth fall ill of potatoes to manipulate it with and we lave not the potatoes to spare I 1 thought the french language lan guge was a corker but baa has it beat a tho aasand and ways we well so far so good on our journey we are traveling lu automobiles and we are sure seeing at eina the country coun tryo we passed through the southern part of belgium and arrived here two in the afternoon the sure rave ova a R hearty welcome to ws as we wo passed through they bad had pine bees wes stuck up along the street all decorated up like christmas trees and ana had bad jans stretched across the road with signs of vel elcome cime one of the signs sign read welcome brave britons mhd the good americans who are our 1 1 6 the witted at ua us as we pallid and seemed glad even to get tit ahe th e chance of smiling at use us we had no bad luck with the convoy and we sure covered along a long stretch of ot country too we always manage to strike certain towns that have been madred out about tale the middle of the after noon ao so we can get pla places ece tp sleep bleep before it gets dark we always send a party ahead to locate places for so many men five of us who seem most congenial were on the same truck anja an when we saw a sign on the door of of a house saying sup co G 5 men we hiked across the road and told the woman we had come to 0 pay her a visit we bad had our bed ticks with us we hesitated to plant plan tour our muddy feet on the spot door step of the dutch domane wo matia home she met us in the hall and took us into a emall room opening to the right of the hall to our surprise we saw two roomers already there they were two old cow cows peacefully eating hay bay they looked at us with no less wonder than we gave them wyles said it was too much for him and that he would not live with the cows well the woman caught a few french words tbt we uttered in our disgust and then aae told us in french that we were to leave our bed sacks and packs ta a the hayloft until the floor I 1 dried in the room that we were to have we understood it all and when wo we entered the room we cou cou a d almost see ourselves in the floor h vhs as shining so much I 1 understand now what the dutch cleanser means 1 she Is the funniest old woman I 1 ver ever saw she tries to jabber to us r nd has to laugh at her tier own jokes so t int we cannot tell what she is try nig wi to lell tell u the clean floors are i he fruits of the labors of her only ron oon who being to join om the k liters army on account of 1 ts vis left home to help her fier dothe do the louse rork a Is a worker ither other he or she the scrubs the floor and a stable two or three times a da day I 1 should not have said sta ie le for the ws room is just as nice alce is ours I 1 has the electric lights and window on the windows it is t r ater than ours in the respect that 1 opens into the warm kitchen and 9 rs r does not we have ch chairs I 1 3 nigh ugh and the cow do not so per I 1 pa ps we are on an equal after all 1 ito woman m nukes akes ii L great deal of i ater and cheese she pats us on the hulders eiry evry once in a while and la is as thu we arc are her boy boys bhe she I 1 three eon who went to the war I 1 did not toie home again I 1 you know tu tir reason the I 1 1 pie here are apparently very friendly but we hive the orders t I 1 watch them and not to get too friendly with thew I 1 u it la is for the reason of betting getting us to watch ourselves more as we get into the germany territory arther arth tr vol 11 see we fire in the country of Lux inbe ry rg that is not really a part of Gei Gern irany rany although it is under the rule of ger er daiy but we are going into some to tona anns just into the border of ger many whee e wo we will see the dutch proper I 1 quite like army life lire as long aa we are seeing so many new sights and country france and belgium certainly have beautiful farini and wonderful roads roade there Is never yuth a thine thing as t u chuck hole in the roads in a whole hundred miles of countr and beautiful tras trea line each side of the road I 1 saw a funny eight as wo we were coming through belgium A man waa was out in his held field ploughing sloughing hing tie ile had a mule and a LOW cow hitched to his a small girl was riding the cow to keep br be in the furrow for tb the cow wa wat I 1 hitched iu ili aront of the mule I 1 atoo alo baw as we entered a small village two dogs drawing a milk wagon and I 1 would have known in a minute elut we were in belgium for I 1 have always read of the doe dog carts of belgium every time I 1 sec anything like that that is interesting I 1 wish you were here to see it too we stay in in our real rest towns enst a s t long enough to get our things scattered all ovet the town and then the order comes to pack up and move the longest time we have slopped stopped since we left france was three days so you see I 1 do not get time to do a great deal of writing we will be going aiom here about tomorrow or the next day I 1 do not know what town we are going to land in in ger many but I 1 hope we do nob not have to stay there long for I 1 am about ready to start on the return retura journey to the U S A there theta is a rumor out amount some cf of the soldiers that we will go to some seaport on the northern coast of germany and sail over to visit the norwegians and the dunes danes before we leave chii old world because so mapy in I 1 uie the regiment are either danes or norwegian Norwegia nto I 1 hope we do for I 1 would like to see the land of my forefathers well dear folks it is getting rather dark in the office odice and the people here are slow in a turning on the lights so I 1 shall have to close we are only two miles from the large city of luxembourg if you have a map you can get let an idea of just where your wandering boy is these days but you will have to keep on the jump to keep UD with him I 1 am as well as I 1 can cau be and if it the thesda sua would only shine I 1 would feel like a fighting cock it seems oark and stormy all the time it is the nature ef of the country over here I 1 hope we get battled so I 1 can get some mail for we are traveling just fast tut enough to keep keel ahead of it you your loving son STEPHEN address me the same same sup cow co F A A E F |