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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-05-15
How Many Cubic Feet in Ton Of coal7

Here is a little information which
VIII help you to solve the yexing prob
l@n that is apt to be a hardy annual.
that Is, how much coal to order in
order to fill the bunkerS, but without
having to put some in an old barrel in
the Clubhouse. A ton Of egg coal con.
tains from tnlrty-twe to thlrty-eight Gu
Die feet averaging about thirty-five BY
measuring the cubical contents of your
bin you will be able to estimate how
much to order to I'll them. This may
be done by multiplying together the
length, breadth and depth of your bin.
Popular Science Monthly.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-05-15
Making the Candelion Beautiful

The original chrysanthemum from
which all the superb varieties we
know today are descended was, In Its
wild state, no bigger or handsomer
than a dandelion. It Is found that the
latter grows with astonishing rapid.
ity and luXuriance Of bloom under
cheeSecoth shade.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-05-15

me Journal Of Hercdiiy rscs to re-
mark That the first mermaid in all
probability was not pure invention In
al PROBABILITY the mermaid story
started when some ignorant scafmihg
man saw nothing less than n manatee
dlSportins hlmsclC through the distant
waves. AT Some distance, the scicnti-
fic periodical observes, the mangien On,
sea COW does not look unlike a hu.
man being the shape Of it's head and
facial formation when indIstinctly
seen taking on the appearance of life
closely akin in mankind.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-05-15

down pains so
badly that at times
| could not be on
my feet and it did
not seem as though
| could stand it. /
tried diff eren t
medicines without
any benefit and
several d octors
told me nothing
but an operation
would do me any
good. My drug
gist told m g Of
Lydia L. Pink
b ANS Vegetable
Compound. / took
it with the result
that | am now well
and strong. | get
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-05-15

Good 70 Remember.

4 IS vel "a have visions Of hcticr
life Than that Of every day. but II IS
the life ~ every day from which ele-
ments Of q better life must come
Mactefllnck.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-05-15

Springfield Henry Jasechke an
alien enemy handed United States
Marshal baIiman "a new five dollar BIN
just before entertainment Tor g dpo5eta-
lion camp with the remarks give it
To lhn Rcd Cross for me"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-05-15

up in the morning at four o clock, do my
housework, thengo to a factory and work
oil day, come home and get supper and
feel good. | don't know how many Of
my friends ] have told what Lydia +.
Pinkham 8 Vegetable Compound has
done for me. Mrs. ANNA METERIANo,
SO West 10th St, Peru, Ind.
Women who suffer from any such all
ihents should not fail to try this famous
root and herb remedy, Lydia Il. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-05-15
u Is - SSa@ A4ea 10 VI
HIGH SPOTS I'M THE CAN.
TORMENT NEWS
70 70 . - q A6e 90 aae4 I

camn Dodge Des Moiucs. Ia A
negro officers training camp viii be-
/opened hore May l., THIS camp is
ono ont of t9o>n the country 10 yet
the distinction The other is at Camp
Meade Md Entrance ana training
Of The candidates win Dee most ideuu-
cal with that Of the white men Grad.
yates will be held in egorye until
commissioned as second leutcuants
By the Har department.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-05-15
THE SCARLET CROSS
BY
Margaret Widdemer
OF the Vigilantes.
OF the VigiIantes.

What 1t that you b. to-day who it the Scarlet Crossf
For all the witI,ed world is down in ruin and in loss,
And dasug sword ana hears sound less plain
What you @lo i the Cross but heal To fight again:
We guard the alone heartbr'ken for their dead
We children wandering where aI save Fer has hed
We again broken towns swept down by shot and shell.
We again broken souls hopeless from learning Hell
they Grief and Hate red sign plain
the soul alive that War Had nearly SLANT
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-05-15
WOMAN WORKS
IS HOURS 4 DAY
Marvellous Story of Woman's
Change from Weakness
to Strength by Taking
Druggists Advice.

Peru, Ind. 81 suffered from a djs.
placement with backache and dragging
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
ANOTHER WARNING
TO STATE GROCERS
Edmund Mitchell, Food Admin
IStratOr, [etireS How Sugar
and Flour Can be Sold.
"TO the Grocers of Delaware ::

10 tne GfOcerS of Delaware:
am again calling your attention
10 the Importance of complying strict
~ with the rules of the Food Admin
lstratiOn in selling sugar and -four
1T may not be necessary in many
cases to again call attention to these
rules, but as the Food Administration
proposes to take drastic measures in
all cases where these rules are not
strictly complied with, l thought it
would not be out Of place to send an
other warning notice.
Sugar can only be sold in quanti-
ties not to exceed five pounds to con-
Sumers in cities or towns, or ten
pounds to those in country districts,
unless for preserving purposes, when
it may be sold in twenty-five pound
lots, upon the customer signing GER
titicate. Certificates will be mailed to
you upon application.
mo dealer can sell to a manufac-
turer, sugar in any quantity unless he
receives a special permit from this
office.
"FlOur can only be sold in 1s-barrel
lots to persons living in a city or town,
and A-barrel lots to farmers or per-
sons living in rural communities, and
this can only be done if this amount
is necessary to run the consumer for
thirty days.
"One hundred per cent of substi-
tutes must be sold with flour in all
cases.
'NOne of the above rules can be
deviated from without penalty unless
special permission from this office is
| received.
yours very truly,
EDMUND MITCHELL,
Federal Food Administrator
| for Delaware"
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
GET SUGAR NOW
Jam Manufacturers Urged to Buy
Seasons Supply at Once.

Jam Manufacturers Urged to Buy
Seasons Supply at Once.
The Food Administration asks all
manufacturers of jams and preserves
to take immediate steps to obtain
their entire sugar requirements for the
1918 pack. Federal Food Administra
tors in all states are being instructed
to see that manufacturers of essential
food products requiring sugar take the
first opportunity of building up their
supplies.
The Food Administration takes the
position that preserves and jams are
essential fOOdstuffs, and that Gamers
perform a valuable conservation func-
ton. In the event that it is necessary
to reduce still further the shipping
tonnage that now brings sugar to the
United States, the Food Administra-
ton is endeavOring to guard against
any possible loss of the fruits that
could be saved by canning.
This recommendation does not affect
other manufacturers requiring sugar.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19

A big store like this and particularly in these
times must always anticipate its wants.
And so, months ago taking heed of warnings of
the makers placed unusually large orders for
home furnishings.
This merchandise is arriving and at last
years prices and this means saving of at least
thirty per cent
Beautiful bedroom and dining room suits-Living
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
A RusheI Means a Soldier.

Do YOU know that every buShel of
wheat now saved means the support
of a soldier on the battle line until
the next harvest? AS no soldier can
live without food. every bushel of
wheat is the actual equivalent of Il
fighting unit. The moral is clear. We
must supply soldiers. But it is use
less TO supply the fighters themselves
unless we can also supply the where
withal upon which the soldier lives.
The number of men we can put in the
field is in direct relation to the num-
her of men we can feed In the field.
VIII YOU support a soldier until the
next harvest?
Fight to conserve; conserve to night.
Take what you eat; eat what you
take.
Food is sacred. To waste it is sin
full.
U-boats and wastefulness are twin
| enemies.
Measure your wheat savings by the
Golden Rule.
| The U-boats are wasting some o1
our food: don't be a U-bOat.
Thousands die every year from
oyer-eating-don't dig your grave
with your teeth.
To waste is to give "aid and com
fort" to the enemy-and that Is trea
son. -, .l,v....
..-----<
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19

room pieces in the latest coverings-new draperes
attractive rugs-are here at moderate prices.
Of course. every thing must be of 'Megarys"
quality-your guarantee of goodness.
If you contemplate purchasing new home furnish
ings make your selection now. There is every ind-
cation of only increased prices but of serious
shortage of good merchandise.
Why not act Now?
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19

The U-boats are wasting some of
our food; don't be a U-bOat.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19

Take what you eat; eat what you
take.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
Per1OO Olhs.

An increase of one cent per pound
in the price of sugar in the United
States would take at least $S2, ,185,S20
out of the pockets of Arbarican con-
sumers in one year.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
An Attractive Dining Room
Improves the Meal

for pleasant surroundings aid to good di-
gestion. Your dining room, the room where all
the family gathers should be pleasant and furnished
in good taste. You can rely on Megary's' furni-
ture for beautiful designs and inherent goodness.
There are suits here to fit all dining rooms, and at
wide price range. One particular suit especially
suitable for the small room or apartment in
oak and mahogany with genuine leather seats and
made in straight plain design and is priced in oak
$4,000. And in mahogany $780, 90 for ten pieces.
Really worth 1925 90 and $3.50. 90 today.
Other suits in Queen Anne, Chippendale, Sheraton
and William and Mary designs, come from $225. 90
up, for ten pieces IN walnut anc mahogany. And
you also get the separate pieces if your is
small
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
Just a Few of These Tables
Left

Imagine a beautiful light blue enameed table
253x41a inches with bolted-on legs wide, deep
drawer with nickel pulls and genuine porcelain top
at $7.75.
You easily afford to dispose of the old rickety
table and put of these clean, attractive ones
into your kitchen.
The porcelain top can be wiped yonr bath tub
and grease food droppngs not stain. You
will find some of your kitchen work pleasure with
one of these tables There is not many left and at
this price ST. rs will not last long.
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
!. SUGAR PRICES
Comparison Between Nations Abroad
and Figures in United States.

ana Figures iH OHibSu OeatcSs
During the first year of the war,
the United States consumed more than
four million tons of sugar. The whole
sale price of refined sugar in this
country at the present time is $7.3O
per hundred pounds, as compared with
$9.15 last August. The regulated
wholesale price of sugar in various
foreign countries makes interesting
comparison:
Smyrna times., 1918-06-19
Buy An Eddy For Economy

We have sold Eddy Refrigerators for many years
and we do not believe they can be equaed in food
saving and ice economy. Made of white pine they
will not warp split and fitted with heavy brass
hardware and slate shelves and come in galvanized
or porcelain lining. Ice Chests from $12.75 to
SAG. 90. Refrigerstors galvanized from $50. 90 to
S2O2. 90. Porcelain lined from $46 90 to $95.O0
Ask your neighbor who probably owns one-we'll
abide by her verdict.
The Benson signal., 1918-04-27

"gOvernOr" because he was laid up
with a cold, contracted by getting his
feet wet on his way to work in Wool
wich arsenal. If a man should manage
to doze off, likely as not he would wake
with start as the clammy, cold feet
of rat passed over his face, or the
next relief stepped on his stomach
while stumbling on their way to relieve
the sentrieS in the trench.
Just try to sleep with belt full Of
ammunition around you, your rifle bolt
biting into your ribs, intrenching tool
handle sticking into the small Of your
back, with tin hat for pillow and
feeling very damp and cold, with
"cooties" boring for oil in your arm
pits, the air foul from the stencil of
grimy human bodies and smoke from
juicy pipe being whitfield into your nos
trils, then you will not wonder why
Tommy occasionally takes a turn in
the trench for a rest.
While in a front-line trench orders
forbid Tommy from removing his
boots, puttees, clothing or equipment.
The "cooties" take advantage of this
order and mobilize their forces, and
Tommy swears vengeance on them and
mutters to himself, "Just wait until /
hit rest billets and am able to get my
own back"
Just before daylight the men turn
to" and tumble out of the dugouts, man
the fire step until it gets light, or the
welcome order "stand down. is given.
Sometimes before "stand down" is Or
dered, the command five rounds rap
Id" is passed along the trench. This
means that each man must rest his
rifle on the top and fire as rapidly as
possible five shots aimed toward the
German trenches, and then duck with
the emphasis on the "duck'). There is
great rivalry between the opposing
forces to get their rapid fire all off
first, because the early bird, in this in
stance, catches the wOrm-sOrt of gets
the jump on the other fellow, catching
him unaWareS.
The Benson signal., 1918-04-27

To get to the cemetery, we had to
pass through the little shell-destroyed
village, where troops were hurrying
to and fro.
AS the funeral procession passed
these troops came to the "attention"
and smartly saluted the dead.
Poor Pete was receiving the only sa-
lutte a private is entitled to "some-
where in France"
Now and again shell from the Ger
man lines would go whistling over the
village to burst in our artillery lines
in the rear.
When we reached the cemetery we
halted in front Of an open grave. and
laid the stretcher beside it. Forming
hollow square around the opening of
the grave, the chaplain read the burial
service.
German machine-gun bullets were
"cracking" in the air above us, but
Pete didn't mind, and neither did we.
When the body was lowered into the
grave the flag having been removed,
we clicked our heels together and
came to the salute.
left before the grave was filled in.
I could not bear to see the dirt thrown
on the blanket-cOveredf face of my COM
rade. On the western front there are
no collins, and you are lucky to get a
blanket to protect you from the wet
and the worms. Several of. the Sec
ton stayed and decorated the grave
with white stones.
That night, in the light of lonely
candle in the machine gunner's dugOut
of the front-line trench / wrote two
letters. One to Pete's mother, the
other to his sweetheart. While doing
this I cursed the Prussian war god
with all my heart, and think that st.
Peter noted same.
The machine gunners in the dugout
were laughing and joking. To them
Pete was unknown. Pretty soon, in the
warmth of their merriment, my blues
disappeared. One soon forgets on the
western front.
The Benson signal., 1918-04-27

A machine-gun officer entered the
dugout and gave me a hard look. ]
sneaked past him, sliding and slipping,
and reached my section Of the front
line trench, where I was greeted by
the sergeant, who asked me, "Where
in - ave you been?"
I made no answer, but sat on the
muddy fire step, shivering with the
cold and with the rain beating in my
face. About half an hour later
teamed up with another fellow and
went on guard with my head sticking
over the top. At ten o'clock 1 was
relieved and resumed my sitting posi-
tion on the fire step. The rain sud-
denly stopped and we all breathed a
sigh of relief. We prayed for the morn
ing and the rum issue.
The Benson signal., 1918-04-27
CHAPTER TX.
Suicide Annex.

was in my first dugout and looked
around curiously. Over the door Of
same was q little sign reading "Sui-
eide Annex" One Of the boys told
me that this particular front trench
was called "Suicide Ditch" Later on
I learned that machine gunners and
bombers are known as the Suicide
Club"
That dugout was muddy. The men
slept in mud, washed in mud, ate mud,
and dreamed mud. I had never before
realized that so much discomfort and
misery could be contained in those
three little letters, M U D. The floor
Of the dugout was an inch deep in
water. Outside it was raining cats and
dogs, and thin rivulets were trickling
down the steps. From the air shaft
Immediately above me came q drip,
drip, drip. Suicide Annex was hole
eight feet wide, ten feet long and six
feet high. It was about twenty feet
below the fire trench; at least there
were twenty steps leading down to it.
These steps were cut into the earth
but at that time were muddy and slip
perry. A man had to be very careful
or else he would "shoot the chutes."
The air was foul, and you could cut
the smoke from Tommy's fags with a
knife. It was cold. The walls and
roof were supported with heavy square
cut timbers, while the entrance was
strengthened with sandbags. Nails had
been driven into these t1mbers. On
each nail hung miscellaneous assort-
ment of equipment. The lighting ar
rangements were superb-One candle
in a reflector made from an ammuni-
ton tin. My teeth were chattering
from the cold, and the drip from the
airshaft did not help matters much.
While I was sitting bemoaning my
fate and wishing for the f1reside at
home, the fellow next to me, who was
writing q letter, looked up and inno-
Gently asked, "Say, Yank, how do you
spell 'cont1agration'T'
I looked at him in contempt and an
swered that l did not know.
From the darkness In one of the cor
ners came a thin, piping voice singing
one of the popular trench ditties en-
titled:
"Pack up your Troubles IN your Old Kit
Bag, and Smile, Smile. Smile"
Every now and then the singer
would stop to cough, cough, cough, but
it was a good illustration of Tommy's
cheerfulness under such conditions.
The Benson signal., 1918-04-27
CHAPTER x.
"The DAVIS Work."

ne lays WORK..
I was fast learning that there is a
regular routine about the work Of the
trenches, although it is badly upset at
times by the Germans.
The real work in the fire trench
commences at sundown. Tommy is
like burglar, he works at night.
just as it begins to get dark the
word "stand to-" is passed from trav-
erse to traverse, and the men get busy.
The first relief, consisting of two men
to a traverse, mount the fire step, one
man looking over the top, while the
other sits at his feet, ready to carry
messages or to inform the platoon Off
Ger Of any report made by the sentry
as to his observations in No Mans
Land. The sentry is not allowed to
questioned from the trench or asked
his orders, he replies without turning
around or taking his eyes from the ex-
panse of dirt in front of him. The re-
mainder of the occupants of his trav-
erse either sit on the fire step, with
bayonets fixed, ready for any emer-
gency, or if lucky, and dugout hap
pens to be in the near vicinity of the
traverse, and if the night is quiet, they
are permitted to 60 to same and try
and snatch few winks of sleep. Little
sleeping is done; generally the men sit
around, smoking fags and seeing who
can tell the biggest lie. Some of them,
perhaps with their feet in water, would
write home sympathizing with the
The Benson signal., 1918-04-27
TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES

Owing to difficulties in transporta-
ton from India, Great Britain Is suf-
fering from shortage of cottonseeG and
oil cake for dairy cows is steadily
rising in price.
The large sugar estate owned and
managed for some years at Calamba
by the Dominican friars has been pur-
chased for $1,OOO,OOO for japanese su-
gar capitalists. This is the largest
project yet undertaken in the island by
Japanese business men.
The Benson signal., 1918-04-27

England, accepting men Of nineteen
to forty-one, inclusive, has 100000
soldiers in the field. Germany, accept
ing men Of eighteen and forty-fve, in
elusive, has 100000. Germany's per-
manent disablements are said to be
3,5OO,0O0 or at the rate Of 100000 a
year.
King George rules over more Mo-
hammedans than the sultan Of Turkey,
over more Jews than there are in
Palestine and over more negroes than
any other sovereign who is not a ma
tive of Africa
The Benson signal., 1918-04-27

already has been graduated.
Upon the Coast Artillery corps has
been thrust the burden Of handling
the heavy ordnance with which the
army is equipped, and which in the
field will be manipulated by meth
DDS more or less resembling the meth
DDS already laid down for sea coast
ordnance. These methods are far
different from those used by the field
artillery proper-that is. the light
three-inch rifles and 4.7-inch hOwitZers.
The present-day heavy artillery OFF,
Ger must be a mathematical shark, a
railroad engineer and an expert IN
handling gasoline motors, besides hav-
ing an intimate knowledge Of gun
merry, says a writer in the New York
Herald. His equipment has changed
from the battery commanders ruler
of the field artilleryman to slide rule,
transit and a book of logarithms.
In addition he must understand per-
fectly the manipulation Of heavy
masses-termed the art Of mechanical
maneuvers-for his guns will not be
securely emplaced in concrete, but
will be exposed to the mercieS Of the
open road, with consequent Overturn-
ings and sudden shiftings. He must
know how to use tackle Of all sorts,
and in general know all the tricks of
the modern contractor.
The officers who came down to Fort
Monroe were nearly all graduates OF
the National Guard courses prescribed
by the war department and were fully
competent to handle seacoast ordnance
in the forts to which they were as
signed. They thought that their
knowledge was ample, and it would
have been for this work, perhaps, but
after day or so they found out that
while this knowledge was essential
to them as basic, it was only the be-
ginning.
Gunnery the Big Thing.
The big thing, Of course, was gun
merry. This included q practical knowl-
edge of ballistics-the science of the
movement of bodies through the air.
Ballistics is very exact science, and
in these days Of precision Is absolute
ly essential for the artilleryman. Re
duced to language for the layman, 1t
consists in the knowledge Of just how
far a given piece Of ordnance will hurl
fits projectile under all conditions.
Very simple, say you. Yes, under
standard conditions. Every gun when
It is turned out from the maker is
known to fire certain projectile to
q certain range at certain elevation
These data are compiled in tables and
are theoretically the same for all guns
OF the same caliber and model. These
tables are known as range tables, and
the conditions given for the firing OF
pro1ectiles for these theoretical ranges
are known as range table conditions
Remember this.
Now some Of the principal range
table conditions or assumptions are
that the earth is flat and does not re-
volve: that the atmospheric condi
tions are standard; that there is nc
wind; that the gun and target are or
the same level, and that the action
of gravity is constant throughout the
trajectory.
All we'll and good. We Know that
our gun, then, will fire it's projectile
let us say 10000 yards, under range
table conditions. In other words, giver
the above conditions, 1t will, If prop
perly laid in direction, hit a target
10000 yards away. But unfortunate
ly for us the earth is not fiat, our tar
get is 10000 yards away, and 200 feet
The Benson signal., 1918-04-27

A London cat, officially know as the
"King's cat" is the only one In the
Kingdom to receive an allowance from
the treasury. He inhabits the RECORD
office and 13 cents week Is spent for
his meat.
For the unit of woman telephone op-
orators to be sent to France q dis
tinctive uniform is being provided.
Salaries range from $50 to $125 a
month, with allowance for rations and
quarters. Successful applicants must
speak both Fre3ch and English with
ease.
The Benson signal., 1918-04-27

OWN at the Coast Artillery
school at Fort Monroe, Va,
Uncle Sam is turning out
the latest pattern Of mod
ern heavy artillery officers.
The National Guard coast
artillery officers and such
of the regular establish
ment as have not yet been
through this school have
been ordered down in two
sections. the first of which
The Benson signal., 1918-04-27

Empey goes lover the top" for
the first time and has a hand
to-hand fight with a giant Prus-
sian. In the next instaIIment he
tells the story Of this thrilling
charge.
The Benson signal., 1918-04-27

(TO BE CONTINUED.l