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|; came down from the bridge and shook
hands with me!
After this they did not haze me
much. This was the beginning Of a
certain reputation that I had in the
navy for fist-work. Later on had q
reputation for swimming, too. That
first day they began calling me
"Chink," though I don't know why,
and it has been my nickname in the
navy ever since.
It is a curious thing, and / never
could understand it, but garbies and
marines never mix. The marines are
good men and great fighters, aboard
and ashore, but we. garbies never have
a word for them, nor they for us. On
shore leave abroad we pal up with
foreign garbies, even, but hardly ever
with q marine. OF course they are
with us strong in case we have scrap
with liberty party off some foreign
ship-they cannot keep out of a fight
any more than we can~-but after it
is over they are on their way at once
and we on ours.
There are lots of things like that
in the navy that you cannot figure out
the reason for, and I think it is be-
cause sailors change their ways so
little. They do a great many things
in the navy because the navy always
has done them.
kept strictly. on the job as fire.
man, but I wanted to get into the gun
turrets. 1t was slow work for long
time. had to serve as secOnd-class
fireman for four mouths, f1rst-class
for eight months and in the engine
room as water-tender for a year.
Then, after serving on the u. 8. s.
Des Moines as a gun-loader, was
transferred to the Iowa and finally
worked up to a gNn-pointer. After a
time got my G. P. o. rating-chief
petty officer. first-class gunner.
The various navies differ in many
ways, but most Of the differences
would not be noticed by any one but
a sailor. Every sailor has great deal
of respect for the SwedeS and Nor
wegians and Danes; they are born
sailors and are very daring, but, Of
course, their navies are small. The
Germans were always known as clean
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the same rationS and equipment as the
regular French army before it went to
the front. Their food consisted OF
bread, soup, and vino, as wine is called
almost everywhere in the w2rId. In
the morning they received half a LOAF
of Vienna bread and coffee. At noon
they each had a large dixie OF thick
SOUP, and at three in the afternoon
more bread and bottle of vino. The
soup was more like a stew-very
thick with meat and vegetables. At
one of the officers barracks there was
a cook who had been chef in the larg-
est hotel in Paris before the war.
All the prisoners were we'll clothed.
Once a week, socks, underwear, soap,
towels and blankets were issued to
them, and every week the barracks
and equipment were fumigated. They
were given the best of medical atten-
ton.
Besides all this, they were allowed
to work at their trades, if they had
any. All the carpenters, cobblers,
tailors and painters were kept busy,
and some of them picked up more
change there than they ever did in
Germany, they told me. The musi-
clans formed bands and played almost
every night at restaurants and thea
tiers in the town. Those who had no
trade were allowed to work on the
roads, parks, docks and at residences
about the town.
Talk about dear old Jail! You could
not have driven the average prisoner
away from there with "A 14-inch gun.
I used to think about them in Bran
denburg, when our boys were rushing
the sentries in the hope of being bay"
onetted out of their misery.
While our cargo was being unloaded
I spent most Of my time with my
grandmother. I had heard still more
about the cruelty of the Huns, and
made up my mind to get into the SER
vice. Murray and Brown had already
enlisted in the Foreign Legion, Brown
being assigned to the infantry and
Murray to the French man-Of-war Cas-
sard. But when spoke of my inten-
ton, my grandmother cried so much
that promised her would not enlist
that time, anyway-and made the
return voyage in the Virginian. We.
were no sooner loaded in Boston than
back to. st. Nazaire we went.
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(TO BE CONTINUED.1
Something to "Greet" About.

Persons casting about for something
to worry about may take pleasure in
recalling from "The Little Minister"
the manner in which self-styled simple
folk in Scotland regard the northern
lights-'the devils rainbow" Waster
Lunny called it. 81 saw it sax times
in July month";" he said, land it made
me shut my cen. You was out admir-,
ing it, dominic, but can never forget
that it was seen in the year ~ just
afore the great storm. was only a
laddie then, but mind how that awful
wind stripped a. the standing corn in
the glen in less time than we've been
here at the waters edge. 1t was called
the deil's bosom. My fathers hinmost
words to me was, It's time eneuch to
greet, laddie, when you see the au.
rora borealis.'" Waster Lunny was
greeting" DER the drought then, but
twelve hours later the Quharity was
out of it's banks, washing out the corn
and with years store Of wool on its
crest was dashing out to sea.
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Inhumanity,

'''1 ;Efh opposed to cruel and inhuman
rpunishments," said J. Fuller Gloom. 81
: attended a movie show last night to
see picture entitled THE Fate Of the
Fiend of Potsdam' and beheld the kais-
--er tortured in a most brutal manner.
"A great deal Of the time his august
head and the upper portion Of his body
were shown on the lower half of the
screen, while the lower part of lis
body and his imperial limbs strutted
around on the upper half of the
: screen should not mind seeing the
= aEhigh cuss blown from the mouth of
cannon, but cutting him in two in
the middle and compelling him to go
right on acting seemed to me to be
carrying vengeance too far."-Kansas
City Star.
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CHAPTER u.
The War Breaks.


After serving four years and three
months in the q. S. navy, I received
an honorable, discharge on April II,
1914. I held the rank of chief petty
officer, f1rst-class gunner. It is not
uncommon for garbies to lie around a
while between enlistments-they like
a vacation as much as anyone-and it
was my intention to loaf for a few
months before joining the navy again.
After the war started, of course, I
had heard more or less about the Ger
man atrocities in Belgium, and while
I was greatly interested was doubt
full at first as to the truth Of the re-
ports, for knew how news gets
changed in passing from mouth to
mouth, and I never was much Of a
hand to believe things until I saw
them, anyway. Another thing that
caused me to be interested in the war
was the fact that my mother was born
in Alsace. Her maiden name, DER
vieux, is well known in Alsace. had
often visited my grandmother I'm st.
Nazaire, France, and knew the couh-
try. so with France at war, it was
not strange that I should be even
more interested than many other
garbies.
AS have said, did not take much
stock in the first reports Of the Huns
exhibition Of kultur, because Fritz is
known as clean sailor, and I figured
hat no real sailor would ever yet
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sailors; that is, as in our navy and
the British, their vessels were ship
shape all the time, and were run as
sweet as a clock.
There is no use comparing the vari-
GUS navies as to which is best; some
are better at one thing and some at
another. The British navy, of course,
is the largest, and nobody will deny
that at most things they are topnOtch
least of all themselves; they admit
it. But there is one place where the
navy of the United States has 1t all
over every other navy on the seven
seas, and that is gunnery. The Amer
lean navy has the best gunners in
the world. And do not let anybody
tell you different.
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~cALIFoRNIA SYRUP OF FIGS"
CAN'T HARM CHILDREN AND
THEY LOVE 1T.

Mother! Your child isn't naturally
cross and peevish. See if tongue Is
coated; this is a sure sign the little
stomach, liver and bowels need
cleansing at once.
When listless, pale, feverish, full of
cold, breath bad, throat sore, doesn't
eat, sleep" or act naturally, has stOm
ach-ache, diarrh9a, remember, a gen.
tie liver and bowel cleansing should
always be the first treatment given.
Nothing equals california Syrup of
Figs" for children's ills; give a tea
spoonful, and in a few hours all the
foul waste, sour bile and fermenting
food which is clogged in the bowels
passes out of the system, and you
have a we'll and playful child again.
All children love this harmless, deli
ciOus ''fruit laxative" and, it never
fails to effect a good inside" cleans
ing. Directions for babies, children
of all ages and grOwn-ups are plainly
on the bottle.
Keep it handy in your home. A little
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row, but get the genuine. Ask your
druggist for a bottle of California
Syrup Of Figs then see that it is
made by the california Fig Syrup
Company"
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F0REW0RD.

"Gunner DepeW" is not a
work of fiction, but it is
more thrilling than any fic-
ton you ever read. 1t is the
true story of the expert
ences of an American boy
who had a fighting career
that is unique in the annals
of the great war. 1t is a
story crowded with fighting
and adventure - big with
human courage and endur-
ance. 1t is the first war mar
rative that tells the true
story of conditions in the
German prison camps. it
is story that every Ameri-
can should and will read to
the end.
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Moon by "EarthIiqhG"

When the crescent Of the new moon
appears in the west the phenomenon
called ''the old moon in the young
ones arms" is often observed. Part.
~ embraced by the horns Of the cres.
cent is seen the whole round orb Of
the moon. Fhe cause Of this appear.
ance Is that the "earthlight" upon that
part of the moon not reached by the
sunshine is sufficiently brilliant to rem
der it family visible to our eyes.
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up in the morning at four o. clock, do nv
housework, then go to factory and work
all day, come home and get supper and
feel good. I don't know how manv Of
my friends / have told what Lydia E,
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has
done for me. Mrs. ANNA METER1ANo
SO West 10th St, Peru, Ind.
Women who suffer from any such all.
ments should not fail to try this famous
root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound.
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lCuGCura Soap
- - is IDEAL ---
For the Hands
w. N. u, CHARLOTTE, NO. 41--1e1s:
No SneciaI Standing.
NEoap 2Sc., Ointment Is &c., Talcum &c. Sampled
leach mailed free by ''Cuticura. Dept e. Boston.

An American woman who is I. NJ
c. A. worker in London vOuches TOT
the following story:
A newly arrived American salior
met a first-draft friend at the Eagle
hut in the Strand.
"Hello, Jake I" said the former. l
suppose now that you're living in Lon,
don, you're meeting quite lot OF titleu
ladies?"
"Huh :" replied Jake; "you doL
meet them sort-why, they wait at ta'
BILE ~
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cuticura Kills Dandruff.

Anoint spots Of dandruff with CUT
cura Ointment. Follow at once by a
hot shampoo with Cuticura Soap, if a
man; next morning if a woman. For
free samples address, "Cuticura, Dept
K, Boston" At druggists and by mail.
Soap %, Ointment IS and 5O.-Adv.
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Intended No Harm.

Lucy was playing up on the lawn
with her little puppy when the dog
next door came up wagging his tail in
most friendly way. The little pup
stuck his tail between his legs and
started for the house. Lucy caught
him, saying: "Don't be afraid, pup;
he won't hurt you; he just come over
to introduce hisself."
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An experimenter in the Royal Col
lege of Science in Toronto claims that
he has found q way to harness the
suns heat to industrial tasks Of al.
most any nature. For instance, by his
experiments with mirror combinations
he has focused reflected rays so as to
melt bar Of lead at a temperature
below freezing to a depth of one and
a half inches In 43 seconds.
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%OwH p aims SO
badly that at times
i could not be on
my feet and it did
not seem as though
i could stand it. T
tried diff eren +
medicines withonrtt
any benefit and
several doctorss
told me nothing
but an operation
would do me nnv
good. My drug.
gist told me OF
Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable
Compound. took
1T with the result
that I am now well
and strOnO IL
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Inexorahle LAW.

through the universe. The man who
sOws pennies will reap a penny crop.
The man who sows dollars will reap
dollars.
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Gunner Depew, on board the
French dreadnauoht cassard,
gives the PoiIus sample OF the
craftsmanship for which the
American qunners are famous.
Then he leaves his ship and goes
into the trenches. Don't miss
the next instaIIment.
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Waves, like some men, arrive at the
seashore in grand style and go away
broke
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Groves TasteleSs chill Tonic an.
restores vitality energy by purifying aI an
Hching the blood. You can soon feel its StIehs'-
entng, Invigorating Hnect. Price 6Oc'
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A wise man does not believe ai nc
hears. and a fool believes a good many
things he doesn't hear.
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NecessitY.

A national exhibition was recently
held in Berlin to popularize the use
OF paper clothing.
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Philippine islands have a ni'iui'
tropical climate.
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Fall Cabbage Plants

EARLY Jersey and Charleston v akefield, Sue
cesslon and Flat Dutch. By express, 500.
$l'2S, 200, $500; 5000 at 81. rs, 10000 up
a. $l;SO' t: o. b. here. Parcel post, prepaid,
loO, S5c; 1000, $3.50. Wholesale and retail
ID. T. JAMESON. SummerviIIe. g.
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Seemed So.

"There are a good many ups "i'
downs in this war" care you refer
ring to a1rplanes or submarines!
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WOMAN WORKS
IS HOURS|A Day
Marvellous Story of Woman,
Change from Weakness
to Strength by Takinf,
Druggists Advice.

Peru, 1nd.-"I suffered from q -.
placement with backache and dra Q us.
The sun., 1918-09-08
A Good Mascot, but Unframed.
Thursday.

InurSUaN.
BARNEY: Well we went out and got
Ole Dynimite today and me and Steve
Gardner brung him in. And / want to
say BARNEY that he certainly is wonder
full goat. lie is kind of wild yet but, that
is the way you like a mascot. When you
get them young and wild then you can
brake them in and trane them any old
way that you want to.
| guess we must have had to walk about
three miles out TO this other little Frensh
village where they had this goat for sale
and then it took us quite a little while
for us to find the old woman that owned
him. And then we had the darndest
time you ever heard of trying TO make
that old woman understand that we
wanted to buy goat and that We wanted
a mail one instead of a femail one.
"Combien pour la goat l asked the
old woman, when had finally located
Ole Dynimite
Well she tried to tell me in her natif
tongue but l cues she didn't talk very
good Frensh becaus Il couldn't under
stand how much she said and so she put
up both her hands four times which ment
40 franks.
"Mucho-to dam mucho," l said. And
then we had an awful argument and
finally she told us on her hands that she
would take 35 franks for the goat. So
rather than argue anymore with such a
old fool / paid her the 35 franks and
then she got me a rope and we tied it
around Ole Dynimites neck and started
off down the road with him right away.
Well l got along fine with him but he
kind of took dislike to Steve and he
was always wanting to but Steve but I
GAINED him down by talking a little
Frensh to him. That is about the only
thing l saw right away that I didn't like
about Ole Dynimite that he couldn't under
stand American languag at all.
Everything was going fine when we
The sun., 1918-09-08
Death Sentence Passed.


BARNEY Well l would just like to see
myself being made a sucker of again and
going out and spending my hard earnt
dow on any maskot or anything like that
for the good of the company and the
battilun. I'm done, that's what | mean.
Everything a fello does around this
army is always wrong and that is be
cause they have got lot of prema donnas
for ofIicurs who fall in love with lot of
vegitibles and think that they are a whole
lot more important than some little thing
like The happiness Of there soldiers is.
Here l was shaving and working my
heart out over that fool garden that wasn't
any good anyway and didn't have nothing
in it but lot of green stuff that was not
tit for any humin being to eat. Then l
got thinking about the poor soldiers and
now, they would like to have nice goat
trouble and expense of buying fine
mail goat and bringing him back and
giving him to the company and then what
do You suppose happened.
Well early this morning when | went
TO work over in this garden l seen the
Majur coming out through the gate and he
was sore as boile and over ut the other
end of the garden with his head down
ready to attack him was Ole Dynimite.
us that your goat ?" he said.
"Yes, sir, that's Dynimite,' | said back.
well that's just whats going to happen
20 him. He broke in here last night and
ct up all my Vegetables and tonight the
Curnel was coming to dine with me
Take that goat out and have him
killed. Get him out of here and don't
argue Lead him OUT
So / went up to Dynimite and took him
out and took him over TO friend of mine
in another battilun and told him to keep
him until the Majur cooled down.
Then I went up to the Majur and re-
ported. "Your orders has been executed"
| said.
"Then 60 out there and spade up that
garden again and plant the whole thing"
he said. "And if I ever see you with an
other goat or anything like that I'll make
You eat him raw"
ayes SIR said and walked away with
out saying another word to the Majur.
Gardner now / am! Honest, Barney,
you do everything in this army but fight.
YOur pal, BENNIB.
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Ambitious Attempt
to Help His Old
Company at a Cost
of IS Franks" Turns
Out Disastrously
By FRAZIER HUNT,
Author of "Blown In by the Draft"

Monday.
Trend BARNEY; Well Barney we
= got paid to-day and got a whole
barrel of this Frensh dow that don't
look no more like real money than
the Main street of this Frensh villige
does like Broadway, New York, USA.
Natif money over here always makes
me think Of colored tissue paper like kids
play with. But the funny thing is Barney
that You can buy stuff with it. These
Frogies don't know no better than to think
it is real dow l CUES.
What do you suppose l am going to
do with most of my pay Barneyf Well
! am going to buy me persunal pet
and make it company mascot. We amt
had no mascot since we left the old camp
back home and company without mas
cot is like soldiers like us wanting to fight
and not having no trenshes to fight in.
l amt made up my mind yet just ex-
actly what l will buy but it will be
quite lot about a monk, but CUES they
would be pretty hard to find over here.
Then there is all kinds of dogs over here,
and then of corse there is goats. A
good goat makes one of the best army
mascots in the bushes and maybe will
look around and get one Of them.
Well CUES we will be up in the trenshes
for sure next week. been told by some
high athorities over here that we was
going to relief the division that is hold
ing this sectur now and that we would
be taking over the trenshes next week.
CUES they must be expecting an at
tack or something and want to get these
N.G. troops out of there. l leave it to
you, Barney, if it amt kind of funny
how they call them national guard troops
Nc.
Well so long, Barney.
BENNIE.
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Yaphank Bennie's Mascot Is Real Dynamite
His Major the Victim
and Former Trench
Digging Is Mild
Com pared With
His Newest Tasks

met an old man coming down the rode
with a pig tied by rope around the hind
leg. Well when Ole Dynimite seen this
pig he jerked the rope ont of my hand
and run for this pig and rolled him in
the rode and pulled the old man offn his
feet and there was the darndest time
you ever saw there.
Well when we picked the old man up
he started beating Dynimite over the head
with his club and it looked like we was
going to have a battle royal when we
got things Gained down and it cost, Inc
10 franks more just to satisfy the old
man.
That made As franks that Dynimite
stood me, so l CUES you can see Barney
that he ought to be pretty high class
goat even if he don't give no milk or
nothing like that. BESNlE.
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Sees a Chance of Promotion.

Tuesday.
DEAR MAMA; Well ! have got fine
new job Mama and that is taking care of
the Majurs private garden. There has
been some American soldiers around this
billet all summer and they planted nice
garden back of the house where the Majur
is<bileted and all the French vegtibles is
just about ready to be picked now and
YOU would think by the way the Majur
is all excited about it that he had some
kind of gold mine back there instead
of just some French Vegetables.
This morning he sent word over to my
Captain that he wanted reible man TO
come over there and take full charge OF
this garden and pull all the weeds and see
that nothing touched it or hurt it. l was
out there all afternoon and about six
times the Majur come ont and me and
him talked about what the different things
was and how soon they would be ready to
Feat.
when everything gets in good shape 1
CUES will have to have the Curnel come
on over for dinner and then I'll show him
what fine garden got he said.
And of corse told him that that would
be good idea and that after l worked on
this place about three days he could even
have Generil Pershune over and he
wouldn't need to be none ashamed of the
way it would look.
One thing like about the job Mama is
that it gets me in fine with these high Off
ours. A solder who is always jsst in the
ranks never gets no chance to be notised
by the officurs and consequently he don't
have muct ehanst Of getting promoted.
But of corse where am now get all the
chaRst in the world.
Lots of love to all. Your
SOLDER Boy BENNIE,
The sun., 1918-09-08

owned by a natif that lives about miles
from this villige. 1t is mail goat and he
is a beautiful black and white color and
is about the finest goat that hasever been
around this part of the country.
l kind of got bunch Barney that it
wont be very long before my goat is so
popular with all the oflicurs including the
Maiur that he is hble to be batillun mascot
and then I will be assigned to look after
him all the time and keep him in shape
for parades, etc, etc, so l wont have to do
any more drilling. That would be pretty
soft, Ell Barney.
Well SO long, BENNIE.
The sun., 1918-09-08
Ole Dynimite Makes a Hit.

Friday.
BARNEY: Well Ole Dynimite has made
an awful hit with the company and every
body likes him and has took great fancy
to him. would like to spend all my
time looking after him but have to work
in the Majurs garden getting it ready. I
CUES he is going to give a big party to
the Curnel tomorrow night and have a
lot of fresh vegitibles from it.
Today l was building Tense around it
to keep all the chickens there is around
hero out of it. The Majur told me that
if l cought anything like that in there to
kill them. CUES he must think more Of
this pet garden than he does of his own
sun, If he has got any.
Well l must go out and see how Ole
Dynamite is getting along
SO long, BENNIE.