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with a roar; then the rifle ammu-
milton started going off like a
great bunch of firecrackers, and
great tongues Of flame lit up the
sky.
Sleeps Under Fire
1t is reported that the Germans
had broken thru our line and
we were to counter attack in the
morning. We got into positions
without single casualty.
opened an aid post in an old dug
out and settled down to sleep until
morning. You may thing 1t funny
that one could sleep under such
conditions, but had been up since
$50. had tramped about six or
seven miles, had had a rather try
ing day and was dog tired.
So | settled down on the rough
plank floor and was soon asleep.
I must have been asleep a couple
of hours when a runner came
from headquarters and told us we
were to move off Immediately. 1
looked at my watch and it was
1880 a. IN. on the second day.
We went back to the railroad
followed 1t around to the north of
us, landing there about 4 in the
morning and Topped down on the
floor of some abandoned huts to
wait further orders. Our orders
came along about Q o'clock. We
marched up across the open
prairie. the sun shining, and il
was really hot.
BOches Shell Battery
Just like some of the warm
days we get the last of March al
home. In going forward it was
necessary for us to march rs yards
in front Of three batteries of field
iguns. There are six guns to a
battery. They shoot an 18-pound
she'll and while we were there each
gun was shooting twice to the
minute. You can imagine the
racket when I tell you that the
discharge of one gun can be
heard about four miles. In addi-
ton the boche was trying to
knock out this battery and he was
dropping his six-inch shells a lit
tie too close for comfort.
Then I made lovely mistake.
] was to establish an aid post near
battalion headquarters and went
blithely on when l met a company
commander and asked him where
to go.
Back there about a quarter of
mile" he replied. This is the
front center company. II you keep
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for three hours, expecting to be
blown to bits any second, we fin
ally moved forward. Just as we
left the copse from behind is, up
over a ridge, came q stream of
galloping horses.
Artillery I'm Action
"It's the cavalry" some one
shouted. but soon I made out linn
bers and field guns.
They galloped past us going
like mad, took up a position to
our right, swung into position, I'M
limbered, and In two minutes
were blazing away. 1t was a
thrilling sight.
In going forward we went
around the end of the larger
wood in front of us, over ground
that was torn to bits by the heavy
shellfire that had just preceded,
over another edge. across a valley
and under the crest of a hill. And
here we found the tanks going
over the top of the hill to take up
their position. At this point we
were still about a mile from the
front line.
At this place l opened up an
aid post under the crest of the
hill to take care of what wounded
came in while we were getting into
position. | looked back across
the valley we had Just traversed.
Shrapnel was bursting in the
air. shells were whizzing overhead,
and our guns behind us were
belching forth the fire. The noise
was deafening.
Shell Misses Train
A railroad ran thru the val
ley and an engine pulling a cou-
pie of flat cars was going by. A
couple of soldiers were sitting on
the rear truck swinging their feet.
A shell burst on the track and only
missed the last car about Is
yards. Neither man was hit and
the train went blithely on.
BY this time 1t was getting
along toward evening, the sun was
sinking In the west, and finally
went down a great ball of fire. At
the time, ] remember, I noticed
its color. 1t was blood red and
had q sinister look. Was it my
imagination. or might 1t have been
a premonition!
The drumming of the guns COM
tinued, twilight gradually deep
ened into night. the signalers
stopped their wig-wagging and
took up their flash signals, a fog
dropped down on us and put the
lights out of business, and when
we left to go forward under the
cover of darkness they were busy
putting out their telephone lines
- signalers and runners don't
have an easy time.
Behind us shell landed In an
ammunition dump and 1t went I'D
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OH! THAT AWFUL BACKACHE
IT'S YOUR KIDNEYS

An unhealthy body. and the I'M
happiness and misery which follow.
may be prevented by ordinary judy
ment and care. Keep your stomach
and kidneys in shape and you will
have good health. The kidneys work
is to throw off the poisonous mat
tiers which enter the body. IL they
perform this work regularly and
automatically the other organs will
take care of themselves.
Diseased conditions OF the blad-
nervousness, sleep1essness, that
tired. WORKOUT feeling, dizziness,
nausea, backache, lumbago, rheuma :
tism, pain in the lower abdomen,
many so-called female troubles .
severe pain and discomfort when
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VIVID CLOSEUP
OF HUN ATTACK
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places 10 divisions to our one;
that they suffered terrible losses,
but finally broke thru our
lines of defense, one after another
and fighting for the most part. a
rear guard action, we have retired
about Is miles in a straight line.
For week before the battle
started We had been expecting it;
1--we were ready to move on 80 min
ntes' notice. l had been out with
combatant as well as medical Of
Ulcers on tour of reconnaissance,
definite methods of evacuation of
the wounded had been worked out,
and our plans OF counter attack
been made. After four or five
days of waiting, the storm finally
broke.
The boche opened up on us at
& a. m. March 81. with the heavi-
est barrage I have ever heard.i
"Stand to-" was sounded, We
turned out, dressed, and had all
our equipment packed in 80 min
utes. Then we sat down and
waited for orders to move. The
barrage kept up continuously,
sometimes heavier and then of less
Intensity, sometimes 1t seemed to
be to the north of us and then
suddenly it switched to the south.
Airplanes Scout Positions
Our balloons were up as soon
as 1t was light and the airplanes
were buzzing over our heads. The
ground mist gradually cleared
and the Germans put q hail of
Bhrapnel on our camp and We all
took cover, but three men were
nit. Why is 1t a fellow always
feels safer with roof over his
head even IL he knows bullets and
Shrapnel and pieces of shell will
go thru boards and corrugated
iron just like paper?
Our orders to move finally came
tand we marched off to the brigade
ASSEMBLY point several miles away.
In a large wood there was bat
terry of heavy artillery and shells
were dropping in there two or
three to a minute, and It was
heavy stuff, too.
Sometimes they overshot the
big wood and shells were landing
near where my brigade had its as
sembly point. AS we approached
our little copse we could make all
this out from some distance away
and 1t wasn't pleasant sensation
TO feel we were marching straight
unto 1t.
All the battalions arrived and
in that little copse there must
have been at least 1000 men.
What chance IL the Germans
only knew! But the shells con-
tinued to drop in front of us and
On either side, but none landed
among us, and after waiting there
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until about in the afternoon,
when we saw our men retiring
over ridge in front of us, keep
ing up continuous machine gun
and rifle fire, and we beat it back
to another village and opened an
other post.
About 10 o'clock on the morn
ing of the fourth day Lord Thyme,
my colonel when l was with the
battalion, stumbled into the shack
where l was sitting. ~ looked
like ghost. He had lost his hat,
his face was covered with a four
days beard, the sweat had traced
tracks in the dust from his fore
head to his chin. His sleeve was
torn and bloody and he had a
cash in his arm where he had
been struck by a piece of flying
she'll case.
My God, doc, are you here?"
he said: you got out just in
time. The battalion is all gone
The sunken road is filled with
dead-mostly Huns, damn 'em.
The line broke on the right; we
were surrounded, and at the last
we were fighting back to back.
Only 80 of US got away"
Germans Break Line
So we knew the boche had
broken thru to our right and
our left, and it was a question OF
how long it would be before we
too were surrounded, but we
wanted to stick it out as long as
we could.
But not more than an hour later
a medical officer rushed in from
one Of the battalions and between
gasps for breath told us the Ger
mans were on the edge of the vii
lage, had shot him thru the
sleeve with a machine gun bullet
luckily that was ALL, and for us
to beat it.
Let me tell you we did. threw
my knapsack and made the first
hundred yards in nothing flat and
then settled down to a walk be-
cause I was SO out of breath |
couldn't run any more.
The incessant scream and crash
and bang of the shells kept up
and the rat-tat-tat of the machine
guns never ceased. The village
Immediately behind us was a
seething mass of brick dust,
smoke. flame and bursting shells.
We were told on our way back that
a stand was to be made behind this
village, SO we circled around II
and took up position about half
mile behind it at a crossroads.
Unfortunately for us, a six in.
battery came into action about so
yards from us and, aside from the
harassing effect Of the terrific
noise, batteries are always I'M
pleasant neighbors, as they invite
shell fire. We stopped here until
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Shell Hits Post

About IL o'clock the morning
Of the third day q she'll blew in
the side Of our post but luckily
no one was hurt. We stuck to It
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WASHING WON'T RID
HEAD OF DANDRUFF

The only sure way to get rid Of
dandruff is to dissolve 1t. then you
destroy II entirely. To do this,
get about four ounces OF ordinary
liquid arvon; apply It at night
when retiring; use enough to
moisten the scalp and rub it In
gently with the finger tips.
Do this tonight, and BY morn
ing. most II not all. Of your dan
druff win be gone, and three or
four more applications will COM
pletely dissolve and entirely de-
stroy every single sign and trace
OF 1t, no matter how much dan
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You will find, too, that all Itch
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stop 1T once, and your hair will
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and soft, and look and feel Q hun
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You can get liquid arvon at any
drug store. 1t is inexpensive and
never fails to do the work. ---Ad-
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BY ALTMAN
BY AHERN

urinating. bloody, cloudy and
stringy urine. too frequent or sup
pressed passages. All these are ma
lures signals to warn you OF dis
eased kidneys or bladder, which
may lead to fatal Bright's disease.
Don't wait until the danger is upA
on you. Go to your druggist at
once. Get trial box OF GOLD
MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules. They
are made of the pure, original, i'm
ported HARLEM OIL, the Kind your
great grandfather used. About two
toned up and feeling fine. Money
refunded IL they do not help YOU
But remember 10 ask for the Inn
ported GOLD MEDAL brand. In
sealed packages.
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on In the direction you are going
you are going up over that ridge
and Fritz will be waiting for you
with a machine gun"
Escapes From Trap
So my sergeant and orderly and
myself didn't waste any time in
clearing. On the way back l
found a gallon can full of water,
got into corrugated iron shelter
and had wash and a shave. 1t
certainly felt good. l don't be-
lieve ! had washed for SO hours.
1t was warm and bright. l could
look out of my shelter and see on:
support lines digging themselves
In several hundred yards away.
The cannon fire ceased, the ma
chine guns settled down to an &C.
casional fitful burst and it was
midday of beautiful spring day.
A couple OF partridge flew over
me. What did they know or care
about all this noise and racket
and men getting up in line and
killing each other?
| Along about 8 o'clock things be-
gan to liyen up again. In the
meantime headquarters had been
established in a sunken road with
banks about Is feet high on either
side (later this cut was half filled
with dead. My aid post was in a
dugout nearby and gradually
things got hotter and hotter.
! Our men had dug themselves in
and were popping away with their
rifles. The field batteries behind
us were putting up barrage, air
planes were circling overhead.
both ours and the Germans. The
Germans put up counter bar
rage, the machine guns were going
+, like mad. | was standing with the
colonel on a little rise of ground
above the sunken road when the
Germans broke thru about a
mile to the north of us. They
could be plainly seen pouring over
the ridge in close formation.
Tanks Drive Huns
Then the tanks came up, and
you should have seen them run!
Just like rabbits! The tanks re-
tired; the boches reformed and
came at 1t again.. They tell me
that at certain places our men
withstood Is successive attacks
and that the Germans went down
in thousands. One Welshman told
me that his gun accounted for
rs in three minutes during one
wave.
Machine gun bullets were nip
ping around me the shellfire was
getting hotter, and even the
1t was a wonderful sight to watch
| decided discretion was the bet
ter part of valor," or something
like that, and got down in my dug
out.
l was sitting there smoking a
cigaret when my orderly came
down and said was being relieved
and was to go back and work with
the ambulance. Fifteen hours
later the man that relieved me
was captured. But I am getting
ahead Of my story.
went back to the advanced
dressing station thru the hot
test shellfire l ever experienced.
More than once I went down on
my face when a shell burst and
the pieces went whizzing over my
head. spent the night in al
mined village where the advanced
dressing station was located, and
all night they shelled 1t to blazes.
It was remarkable how few casu-
alties we had.
Shell Hits Post
About IL o'clock the morning
Of the third day q she'll blew in
the side Of our post but luckily
no one was hurt. We stuck to It
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about 10 o'clock at night. when
we were ordered to retire.
Carry Wounded Back

Carry Wounded Back
There was no way of getting out
the wounded that we had collect
ed. so the stretcher bearers car
ried them on their stretchers for
six or seven miles. In fact, we all
helped, and when we arrived at
our destination at O'Clock in
the morning of the fifth day we
were all in.
| could hardly move, but after
two big bowls of hot tea and some
hard tack I turned in on the floor
and slept like log for four hours,
when we moved to another place
and opened a dressing station.
On the way a German airplane
came down and crashed near the
road, but neither the pilot nor OBJ
server were hurt. They were
couple of rather neat looking lads
about 10 years old.
And so it went for three days
more, open a dressing station, re-
tire sometimes on the rum. long
marches. very little to eat except
what we foraged from abandoned
camps and dumps, dog tired,
sleeping when and where we
could, and finally the division wal
relieved. We now saw our first
civilians, and last night I slept In
a bed. 1t wasn't much OF bed,
and the mattress was full OF
humps, but to get my boots off my
sore and aching feet, to stretch
out, and know I wouldn't be rout-
ed out in Is minutes-well, you
couldn't have bought that bed
from me for 800.
Transferred to A. f. F.
Did you ever read Robert w.
Services description of the retreat
from Mons. Well, that's the way
/ felt:
Tramp, tramp, the grim road, the
road from Mons to Wipers:
I've hammered out this ditty
with me bruised and feeding
feet;
Tramp. tramp. the dim road
We didn't ave no pipers--
All bellies that were 'oller was
the drums we 'ad to beat.
The ninth day, sitting around
the fire in our mess after the best
dinner we had had in days, the
commanding officer handed me
some papers and said, Here is
something that will interest you,
Pettitt. / want to say we shall be
sorry to lose you"
And this is what 1t was: Lieu
tenant Roswell T. Petit, M. R. c.
is relieved from duty with the
British army and will proceed to
the A. e. F., where he will report
for duty"
I leave for Paris In the morn
ing. This has been a long tale,
but the half of 1t hasn't been told.
I hope I haven't strung 1t out too
much.
/ have Just been informed that
all my kit had to be burned to
prevent It falling into the hands
of the enemy. I shall probably
want you to send me some things
from home, but will see what I
can get here first. Your son,
ROSWELL.
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HAIR ON FACE
DISAPPEARS QUICK

TIE most elective convenient
and harmless way to fenseve haiR
sanitary 1iG1id. Il acts quickly
witA .esrtainty ana absolute safe
~. Results fres its use are In
mediate and lasting.
Only genuine DeMiracle. the
original sanitary liqulds hes .
Heney-baek guarantee In each
package. AZ toilet counters In
go. "a ana - slses, or by naa1
from NJ In Danin wrapper on re-
ceiHt Of D.ass
sealed snve1eDo - request. De-
Miraele. 12otA %. and Park Avs.
New York.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-04-11

Builders of air castles are spared all
worry about labor strikes.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-04-11
WITH VOICE OF EXPERIENCE
Possibly Mamma Spoke Of What She
Understood to Be General Habit
Of Married Men.

The two girls were walking along n
suburban avenue, talking about their
best young men, of course. At leust,
one of them was.
Charley was up to see me last
night" She said.
That's twice in n week, isn't II? In
quired the other.
YES" and she blushed and giggled.
VI suppose he'll come three times in
the next week?"
II suppose So"
And four times the next?"
THAT'S what brother says"
And five times the next?"
THAT'S what sister says"
And six times the neXt?"
That's what auntie says"
And seven times the next"
That's what papa says"
That's about all he can do; what
then?"
Then We'll get married; that's what
everybody says"
"And then what?"
'"Then l won't see him any more of
an evening; that's what mamma says
Pittsburgh Chropicle-Telegraph.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-04-11
Help Properly Equip Your Own
Son and Other Soldier Boys
Over There.
DUTY OF ALL TO BUY BONDS
Liberty Loans to Uncle Sam ls Best
Guarantee Of Our Fighters Safe
Return Home-Do Not
Hesitate.
(ey ROLAND G. USHER of the Via.
ilan<ecN

Put it to yourself straight now. You
know perfectly we'll that you would
feel ashamed to keep your boy out of
the ranks If he wanted to 60. You
know perfectly well that you would
probably feel ashamed before ybur
neighbors If they knew that the boy
was sticking Mt home. But have you
ever asked yourself whether you felt
ashamed that you were keeping your
dollars tight in your jeans instead Of
lending your dollars to the war as
we'll as your boy? If you have not
got a boy you probably would feel
that he ought to go if you had one.
You have got some dollars, why don't
you send them?
Think again; If you have sent boy
over there, don't you know for GER
tain whether that boy will come back,
God grant that he may. But he went,
just the same, knowing fully just ms
you did that he might not come back.
You gave the dearest thing you had in
the world to the government freely, for
the cause of democracy. You were
glad to do it; you felt fine about it.
You still feel that If you had it to do
over again you would not do anything
else. But will wager anything you
like that you have lot of money that
you can lend to the government with
out hurting yourself ut all. and which
you are hanging on to until 1t screams,
Think Of it. Those dollars will be per.
fectly sure to come back If you lend
them to the government. The govern
ment guarantees that. Why should
you therefore be SO afraid to loose
your clutch on them. The great risk
you have already taken and did it be
cause it was a worthy and noble
thing to do. The thing which is nc
risk at all and yet which is just as nee
essary to the war as the other, you
| hesitate about.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-04-11
Combination

It sometimes happens that when
type is set it matches out trouble.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-04-11

Building-up for the Spring Attack at
the Front is a good deal like putting
the body in condition for an invasion
of the germs of grip, pneumonia or
"Spring fever" here ut home.
AT this time of the year most people
suffer from condition often called
Spring Fever. They feel tired, worn
out. before the day is half thru. They
may have frequent headaches and
sometimes "pimply" or pale skin and
white lips. The reason for this is that
during the wintertime, shut up with
in doors, eating too much meat and
too little green vegetables, one heaps
fuel into the system which is not burned
up and the clinkers remain to poison
the system-a clogging up Of the circu.
lation-with inactive liver and kidneys.
Time to put your house in order.
For an invigorating tonic which will
clarity the blood, put new life in the
body, sparkle to the eyes. @nd a
wholesome skin, nothing does SO well
as n glyceric herb extract made from
Golden Seal root, Blood and Stone
root, Oregon grape root and Wild
Cherry bark. This can be had in con-
venient, ready-to-use tablet form at all
drug stores, sixty cents, and has been
sold for the past fifty years as DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. BY
reason of the nerves feeding on the
blood, when the blood is pure the
nerves feel the effect. and neuralgia or
other nerve pains disappear because
such pain is the cry of the starved
nerves for food. When suffering from
backache, frequent or scanty urine,
rheumatic pains here or there or that
constant tired feeling, the simple way
to overcome these disorders is merely
to obtain DR.. Pierce's Anuric from
your druggist. In tablets. sixty cents.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-04-11
PATENTS ;i;;:! !: Is "a: Il:
R.ses reasonable. Highest leferences Bestssrvioes
W. N. w., FARGO, NO. 15.-1e1s.
How to Live cheapIy.

There is ut least one family in Eng
land which can snap it's fingers ut Lord
RhOndda and whose members are not
to he found in food queues. The head
of the family recently wrote to a Lon
don newspaper that himself, wife and
family of four have lived for IA weeks
wholly on raw vegetable salads made
of grated turnips, carrots, parsnips,
beets, cabbages, ETC., together with
fruit salads, toast and porridge, and
says they are all much stronger and
healthier as result. They use neither
tea nor coffee and grow their own vege.
tables, and so may be regarded as the
most independent family in England
New York World.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-04-11
cuticura Kill. pandrufe.

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
x, Boston" At druggists and by mail.
Soap Is, Ointment Is and 50.-Adv.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-04-11

Sentiment for a Pessimist.
"This is old Grouch's birthday.
suppose l ought to say something to
him about it,"
"Wish him many unhappy returns
Of the day.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-04-11

A spring gun has been invented for
casting fishing lines farther than can
be done by hand.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-04-11
Not to Be Expected,

Josephine had quiet wedding,
didn't she?" "Oh, no; she had to be
there, you know"
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-04-11

When YOU bury an old animosity
never mind the graveStOne.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-04-11

DR.. Pierce's Pellets are best for liver,
bowels and stomach. One little Pellet
for laxative, three for a cathartic. Ad.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-04-11

Money makes the mare go, and mar
rfage makes the money go.