Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-11-15

carried on now in over thirty differ.
ent countries by the Y. NJ. c. A. is
not easy work in any respect. Many
Y. NJ. c. A men have undergone hard
ships which the soldiers themselves
do not experience. The following very
interesting extracts are taken from
letters of William Boyd, Jr., a Y. NJ.
C. A. secretary who is serving the
British soldiers in the hot sands of
the Holy Land. Mr.. Boyd is the son
E OF the advertising manager of Curtis
Publishing Co., Philadelphia. He vol
unteered as a Y. NJ. c. A. worker
among. British troops at the outset of
the war and has spent the last year in
this work in Palestine.
/ forgot to mention yesterday the
way in which we get our water sup
ply. We are given three camels once
day with couple OF Egyptian camel
boys, and we must take them some
two miles for water. have taken this
Job on myself, as the orderlies are
generally otherwise occupied about
the canteen. Each camel carries two
fantasies, or water tanks, on his hump
saddle, thus making six fantasies OF
water day allotted to US. You would
have smiled to see your humble son
leading this miniature caravan OF
three beasts and three natives going
to the wells for H2O. If you had seen
us coming down Broadway, no doubt
IL would have seemed funnier yet, but,
OF course, out here 1t is nothing, as
you may see literally thousands pass
ing all day long. We go to the wells,
the camels are made to kneel down
by series of kissing sounds made by
the boys. and the fantasies are then
fled by means OF small hand pumps
and we are then ready to proceed
homeward with our precious liquid.
| had but one blanket last night, sc
I rolled up in it in my dugout, using
my haversack for a pillow. was
awakened in the night by scratching
noise on my pillow. I paid no atten
ton to 1t at first, thinking 1t might b'
a rate or sand mouse after few
crumbs of biscuit. However, as thu
noise did not cease, / struck match
Immediately n huge yellow scorpion
made a dart toward my lower extre
mites, for / was on my knees, ant
simultaneously with this movement o
the little animal made simila
dive out of the door OF my dugout.
re.entered just In time to see tn
scorpion running for hole in tn
floor and heaved a boot at 1t, but al
too late. for II had disappeared. How
ever, soon dropped to sleep agail
and was undlsturbed for the remair
der of the night
I learned since that although tn
yellow scorpion is poisonous, 1t Is nc
so poisonous as its black cousin, tn
black scorpion, whose acquaintance
have not yet made, nor am / in
hurry to meet him. If he once set
his tiny fangs in your flesh he give
you Just about forty hours to max
your will. and they are not the mos
pleasant forty hours one could spen
either.
Didn't go to church this a. m, q
the nearest church is probably som
hundred miles away. that is, TO OF
rear: we don't know what is in fror
OF us yet. However. did the ne'
best thing. They say that "cleanline'
is next to goodness" Failing the on
1 pursued the other with great enc
gy. not only washed the man b,
the wherewithal the man is clothe
The process is very simple. You tab
n basin of water and little soap, 6
anywhere you like. in front of the
NJ. canteen, Outside your dugout. stri
of your shirt, shorts and sox, all tht
ptyle requires out here, and set 4
Hundreds may pass by while you al
proceeding with this very necessar
performance without 80 much q
noticing you, because they all do II !
about the same way. In fact. ! wa
stopped once while applying the lathe
vigorously to walt on chap at tn
canteen. when he had gone J "caI
rIed an as before. When most Of tn
outer layer IL removed. you then DIR,
yourself and rub, off another layer Of
two with the towel This having been
completed, you put your few clothes in
the same basin you have just finished
your own bath in, and scrub away at
them for a while. Il would be a
waste OF precious water to use fresh
so this otherwise uncanny idea OF un
clean water must be dispensed with.
After your clothes have been hung up