The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-09

with all the noise necessary to the sue. cessfu playing of this national pas. time. One of the boys had been in par. ticularly hard luck and had on!y a thin dime left to put up for future margin when he copped big pot. Just then the submarine alarm sounded. We knew we were near the danger zone.
 Hurry upn' shouted one of the play CTS as we all broke away from our places.
 The winner calmly collected the pot.
 "Thcy may shoot me. and l will tell the world So," he announced. before l will leave this sugar for a blooming Dutchman to put torpedo into That would be just my luck. Ig it ever rains soup I will be caught with fork" It was another drill alarm so the l calamitist returned to the game only | to be taken" for his roll.
 Tt would have been better for me if | we had been torpedOed" be said after he had beer cleaned.
 And don't think the dougnboy is a | piker. Many Il time I've seen 1000 in a single pot.
 Besides craps, the men sang and played Black Jack, favorite card game of campaigners and one in which they win and lose big It wasn't long before few of them had all the mon- ey. The youngsters wrote letters until l thought some of them would never be able to handle gun on account of writer's cramp. One young fellow didn't slight a girl in the state of Tex as, and l suppose he told each she was the only one. He ought to get lots of mail lover there"
 l Because of the breaks in the sleep on | account of submarine drills and for | other reasons 1 am ordered not to dis cuss some of the boys slept in the day time a good deal. There were not many duties aboard ship, and the off, cers let all hands take it as easy as they could. They knew there would be plenty to do In France.
 That is why the American soldier is fighting for his captain and not to make the world safe for democracy. He knows his captain as the fellow who looks out for him. speak of the low u. cal always tell from a guards man, when l say this. And l don't mean that as reflection. Soldering Is the regulars business.
 In the daytime I saw little of my husband. but with the aid of Cupid Private Smlthers l sneaked up to his berth often at night. He still insisted he would report me. The old timers who knew me covered me up, and all the men were very decent. Whenever an officer came along they would find an excuse to gather around me. and [ they did very little swearing. If . fel low forgot and cut loose he got call from somebody. The loyalty of these boys I had known on the border pleased me very much and dattered me little, guess.
 My headquarters were the kitchen where I was rated as one of the cooks and did my share. Here they called me silent Joe" because talked so little afraid my voice would betray me Glad that they gave me this reputation was ready to live up to 1t.
 Fools Husband.
 One day l was folding up my blan ket when 1 saw my husband coming down between the tiers of hunks.
 What are you doing there, rookie ? he demanded. Don't you know ther, is drill on deck?"
 My back had been half turned toward him. I swung around and tore of my hat. My hair had been clipped short but he recognized me and laughed The joke was on him.
 You fooled me, kiddie," he said You'd better go up to drill"
 But the best 1 could do was to hell myself to good cry on his chest There was no one who could see Us He was gentle with me as always. an, ] was happy. I had needed that CT. long time. I think he was a littl proud, too, to know his wife would risl so much and follow him so far just t be near him. I enjoyed that moment I didn't care if all the officers on boar saw me, but none did.
 It was easy lof ihe to So tnIouSh LII simple drills on shipboard, for l wa familiar enough with the army to shoy up lot of the rockies at 1t. Some o the men who did not know I wa aboard were curious about my shaving "When do you get out your razor? youngster asked me one day. 'I don't have to use 1t except ono a week." I answered. I'm kid ye ; You go to it every day to look manly" Once I did try to shave to play m part.
 . Of course there were always the SO ; dier sonRs.. and we had. quite collet