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Show Frivate to Carry Cross on Mis . Back Forever f PARIS, Oct. 14. Private Jean Four- f nan of New York City, hereafter will I carry a cross on his back as a souvenir 1 of the great war. The wound that has l marked him Is so unusual that ho is r known at American military hospital (J No. 1, where he is now convalescing, tin the "Red Cross Man," and doctors, nurGes and patients have watched his case with unusual interest. , Fournan is a member of one of the American regiments recently engaged in the Qghtlng around Fifsmcs. He has been In France since last October, and went through heavy fighting on several fronts without a scratch. One morning a short time ago, just as his company went over the top, headed for a Boche machine gun nest, a shrapnel skell knocked him out. He had a momentary stinging- sensation and then awoke to find himself on nn American sanitary train from which he was taken by ambulance to the hospital. "When he was carried to the operating operat-ing room, the surgeon looked him over and then called the other doctors to come and look. The boy had beon hit by two pieces of shrapnel, one of which had gone down his back so close to his spine, that only a miracle saved him from paralysis. The other had crossed at right angles, leaving the mark of a perfect cross on his back. Fournan has thoso .pieces of shrapnel shrap-nel in his Red Cross treasury bag. He says they're "lucky pieces" because they "only loft a scar." oo Doubtless some people go- around looking for charily because of what it is supposed to cover : oo Occasionally a man is so anxious to see his name in print that ho gets on i the delinquent tax list |