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lowy, frothy, greasy, sticky filthy mud.
Heaps and heaps Of mud; just whole
lots of mud. Then put crowd of tents
in the midst of it all. In the centre
tent and in the centre Of it is a person.
That person is | sitting on a pile OF
blankets and writing on a mess pan with
a leaky pen. Amt l an ineffably forlorn
fellow?
This French wine makes a fellow ter
ribly reckless. A bottle only costs 31la
francs for win rouge. Shall send you
It casef Every one here drinks it, The
children take it to school with them. /
take it each time pass wine house.
I've been in society, too. Two evenings
past l helped a pretty red haired girl
milk COW. Another day 1 helped one
with her knitting. I exchanged dollar
bill with a Portuguese sailor for French
money. knocked the dickens out of
Chinaman for humping into me on the
street. / saw Scot with a nose so large
that it had ferry instead of bridge.
Righto! Garry on!
Now, about my picture and me with
a tin derby. Please don't use such a
term. My shrapnel helmet felt terribly
Inundated to know that you referred to
it in such an uncomplimentary manner.
Tin derby is good slang, but my shraPnel
helmet is extremely fastidious, v know.
l haven't seen kodak or a photographers
shop over here. 1 suppose they have
such things, so I'll do all can to have
one taken.
Magazines are a blessing when You
don't write often. We get newspapers
only one day old; they give all the war
news, but one gets tired of war news.
There are no good magazines over here
By now you have received two or three
post cards with a printed letter on the
back. We draw a line through all that
is not true. Some boys use them always
and never write letter. Next letter YOU
get from me will be while / am in the
front line. Yours, HORACE.
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Grocery Run by a Bank

NNE benk in the Wall street district
~ has grocery store. This is the Ma
tional Bank of Commerce. The grocery is
on the seventh story of the bank building
and is managed through the Commerce
Club, an organization composed of the
employees of the bank. Mrs. B. K. Frank
has direct charge of the store, which IS
strictly a cooperative, non-profit making
establishment, run solely for the en-
ployees of the bank.
The enterprise enables persons en-
ployed by the bank to cut down their living
expenses anywhere from 10 to % per
cent. From twenty to thirty pounds OF
bacon, fifty to seventy-fve dozen eggs
ninety to 100 pounds of butter, forty to
100 pieces of canned goods, and twenty
to thirty cans of condensed milk are sold
daily across the counter for cash, in ad-
iition to other articles.
E. W. Benson Bertholf is In charge q
the buying committee y -
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Huns Well Done for Now

From Corporal Fred c. Gehrsitz, for
nnerly with the Stock Exchange firm of
Wilcox & Co. of this city.
I'VE are resting after doing trick in
w the trenches, and although it was
no play it was very interesting to US We
are on the worst front of them all, and
you have to be under cover a great deal
The trenches are not bad; it is the 60
ing to and from them where one must be
very careful. The enemy shells the roads
and the paths leading to the trenches and
they are constantly swept by machine gun
fire. They have rockets which they send
up very frequently that send forth light
by which any moving object can be seen
for quite some distance around.
The only thing you can do to offset this
is to stand perfectly still, no matter what
position you are in. As soon as these
lights go out the enemy plays his machine
gun.
While we were in, the troops in with US
went over the top. We were in back of
them, and if called upon were to so over
in support of them. We were not needed.
however, as they cleaned up in good shape
and brought back few prisoners.
When the artillery preparation started
and the enemy's answer to it came over it
made Fourth of July in the States look
like game of old maid. We were very
lucky, however. The shells and machine
gun fire were all around us, and at times
they would burst so close to where l was
hugging mother earth for all was worth
that when it was over l was covered with
dirt and thought would be the only
one to get up.
1t caused us to lose few men in
wounded. The prisoners were made to
carry them to the rear. They were very
young Germans, and looked pretty scared.
Even then I guess they were glad to be
caught, as from some of the stories told
by them their food is very short and their
folk at home are asking them to send part
of their rations home.
The Germans are pretty well done for.
and it viii only be a short time before
this war will come to close. The Allies
have them on the run on all fronts, and
should it last till next year, think there
will be final push by all the Allies, and
they will be begging for peace.
1 hope things are running for the best
and that may be with you all soon.
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LAST LINE OF CIVILIZATION
THE JUMPING OFF PLACE"

STRAIN your eyes. lou must see what is
there. Why does the dawn not comet
And then you are aware that there is a
faint lighting in the sky TO the front. An
infinitesimal streak of light that grows
swiftly larger. Another band of light and
another, and suggestion of rose tint
You can see little in front of you. The
first row of barbed wire is beginning to
take shape
You can see the men plainly now; they
are hunched up, for the air is cool. Still
they remain motionless, staring, staring.
They are American boys, come 5000 miles
or more for something or other. Some
how you feel that you are at the last line
of civilization; that in front of you is the
jumping off place. And only these men
with their hunehed backs and fixed stare
stand between you and the vague horrors
that lurk on the other side. And still
there rise in the sky shafts of Light, and
the darkness seems tremendously to have
rolled away.
You can look across at distant hills and
a little red rooted town nesting at the
foot of one. A line Of woods in the fore
ground; no sign of life.
You know, because some one has told
you, that at the edge of those woods is
the first German line. That there men
are standing as you are, gazing with re-
lief across No Mans Land, now exposed
to view.
The morning star grows DINNER and
the streaks of red in the eastern sky be-
come more pronounced. The faint ehirp-
ings of birds are heard and from some
where between the lines a cuckoo begins
to call. The sky is shading from red to
pink, to light blue, to dark blue, and
looms still dark as you glance behind You.
You look for moment at the little IA
miliar objects around the trench; the
grenades, the wooden stands, the boxes,
mess kit, some scraps of newspaper.
You take note that there is cleaning up
to be done. Details are beginning to in
terest you again now that you can see
in front of you.
But your eyes are drawn back to the
fresh beauty Of the scene before you.
The hills, the little town, the trees, the
grass and above all that sweep of sky
with its myriad changing colors.
Then suddenly from behind there comes
a dull boom and another and another
until the air is full of booming and the
whistling and grumbling of the shells.
You listen for the reports, but there are
only few. Shell after shell lands in
the enemy lines without report.
A white mist rises from behind their
lines, curling, silver frosted, beautiful to
see. 1t is deadly poison gas. The east
ern sky is riot of flaming color now,
and what seems to be great fame rests
for moment on the top of a hill. You
look at your watch. Relieved! Stand
down." The men turn YEARLY, gather up
their belongings and file away down the
trench. The last one shivers a little as
his back disappears around the traverse.
You watch the gas fumes rising in the
glowing sunlight and you think . little
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II be letter; it is meant as a pic
ture. The title is Dawn. 1t is a slowly
moving picture, Oh so slowly! The title
might be "Stand To-
You will see just barely half a dozen
figures, some seated, some standing. They
are all looking in one direction: away
FROM you. As you look the gloom seems
to settle even more closely, so that all you
can discern are steel helmets and bay
onet or two shining DULY. Also the
sinuous trail of the duck board on which
you are standing.
Overhead q myriad of stars You put
your hands out on either side Of you and
touch wet mud, seeping through a cover
ing of boughs and branches. There is no
movement except now and then an almost
imperceptible shifting of something be-
meath the steel helmets. The silence is so
intense that your ears are ringing with it.
Eventually it is broken by dull boom
somewhere behind you, and then there is
shrill whistling and shell goes hurting
over your head, rafting as it goes like a
sack of loose cans.
Far away in front there is faint fash
You shift your position, you move stealth
lily, turn up the guard of your watch to
see the time-and you are startled by
hearing the report Of the burst you saw so
long before. Another shell comes and
another tumbling after it. Two more
flashes and delayed booms, and the silence
settles down again around you. Suddenly
the darkness is pierced by snakelike
trail of fire; there is kissing, burst and
the whole world seems to be illumined
in a CHASTITY white light. While you are
trying to accustom your eyes to it it goes
out, the knob of light floating toward you
and downward till it strikes the ground
and disappears.
You are left with hazy impression Of
rolling country, patches of trees and row
upon row of jagged barbed wire. The
Away off to your right there is some STAG
cato rifle firing, which rises and falls and
dies away. One or two fares are family
visible, and again there is silence and
darkness that seems to press against your
eyes as you strive to peer over the para
pet.
There might be enemy directly in from.
of you. You start at the faint jingling Of
wire as rat darts across. But the shad-
ows under the steel hats remain motion
less and indisturbed. Then you are con-
scious CT light in front of you that
seems too steady and permanent for a
fare. You watch it, struggling to make it
out.
Suddenly it occurs to you. 1t is star,
the morning star. You are facing the
Rhine, facing east. The sun will come up
in front of you. Still the darkness and
the silence. A chill breath of wind blows
against your face. You shiver a little.
Will the dawn never come? You find
yourself wishing desperately that it would
come and come quickly.
The conviction that there is some one
in front Of you grows each minute. You
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more than is good for you. Then you
shrug your shoulders and hurry back to
your dugout for breakfast.
The foregoing writer ito Dad" is
Lieut. Frank J. Felbei of New York.
whose short story of trench life, THE
Hyphen Draws the Line" recently ap-
peared in THE SUN.
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Gay Despite the Mud

From sergeant in South Carolina
regiment.
MY DEAR E.: Picture to your
4VA self the muddiest place on earth;
mountains and seas of slippery, Shiny, bill
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-05-24
MINISTER VICTIM OF FRANCES

Cleveland, Ohio--Rev. Henry Shrad-
CT is of the opinion that frances work
for good and evil. For Il was the re-
suit of trance that he married and
Il was the result of a trance that he
and his wife separated.
So he testified when seeking a d.
vorce before Judge Pearson OF the
court of common pleas. Shrader gave
lis present occupation as a salesman
Of corn salve and bunion plasters. Be-
fore the frances, to which he said his
wife was subject, he was a United
Brethren minister In churches In Bre-
men, Norwalk, Baltimore and Con-
reaut. He testified his marriage took
place after his fiancee told him she
had conversed with his widow during
q trance.
In another trance she accused him
OF stealing her watch, and the sepG
ration resulted. Mrs. Shrader lives IN
Albion, Ohio.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-05-24
SALTS IS FINE FOR
KIDNEYS, QUIT MEAT
Flush the Kidneys at once when Back
hurts or Bladder bothers-Mest
forms uric acid.

No man or woman who eats meat .regu.
tarly can make mistake by flushing
the kidneys occasionally, says we'll.
known authority. Meat forms uric acid
which clogs the kidney pores 80 they
eluggishly filter or strain only part of
the waste and poisons from the blood,
then you get sick. Nearly all rheuma-
tism, headaches, liver trouble, nervous
ness, constipation, dizziness, sleeplessness,
bladder disorders come from sluggish kid
neys
The moment you feel dull ache in the
kidneys or your back hurts, or if the
urine is cloudy, offensive, full of sedi-
ment, irregular of passage or attended
by a sensation of scalding, get about four
ounces Of Jad Salts from any reliable
pharmacy and take q tablespoonful in
a glass of water before breakfast for a
few days and your kidneys will then act
fine. This famous salts is made from
the acid of grapes and lemon juice, COM
bined with lithia and has been used for
generations to flush clogged kidneys and
stimulate them to activity, also to neu-
tralize the acids in urine 80 it no longer
causes irritation, thus ending bladder dis
orders.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and can.
not iniure; makes a delightful effer-
vescent lithia-water drink which all reg.
ular meat eaters should take now and
then to keep the kidneys clean and the
blood pure, thereby avoiding serious kid.
ney complications.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-05-24
WINS A HUSBAND
BY PITCHING hay
KANSAS STUDENT HER MATE IN
HARVEST, PICKS HER FOR
HIS MAUD MULLER
uNUsAl ROMANCE MD IN COURT
Young Woman Also Wins Suit Tor
Back Pay When She Still Was
Farm Hand

wichita. Kan.-Maud Muller. 90
cording to Whittier raked the meadow
sweet with hay, and forgot all about
her briar torn gown, and her graceful
ankles, bare and brown. as she won
the heart Of the Judge. But Mary l..
Bennett, a Kansas Maud Muller, won
her sweetheart while welding pitch
tCrk and wearing blue denim overalls.
This is the story that Mary told and
she has a husband to prove 1t. and she
made her word good enough for q
court to order her employers to pay
her $50, which she had earned by max
Ing a "hand" In bayfield,.
Mary Bennett, is an orphan, with .
sister living in Texas. At the death OF
her parents she went to live with
neighbors, Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Jason,
in Sedgwick county. She grew to
young womanhood in her home, and
during the summer she was paid the
regular wages OF a farm hand. She
was strong and young and as good 4
farm hand as the average man.
For three years Mary Bennett pitch
Cd hay alongside the men. Last sum-
iner Charles Lee was one Of the work
ers in the field. The girl and the
young man worked side by side. He
was a college student working to
earn money to help pay his way thru
school. They got along so well at their
haying and in the wheat fields that
Lee decided they would be exception
ely good teammates for life.
Lee was graduated early In May
and was offered job at Wichita. He
first went to the Jason home and took
Mary over to a minister's and they
were married. Then he went to work.
When Mary left the Jason house
hold she said the Jason's pwed her
SIC in wages which they Nfused to
pay. So the young husband hired 4
lawyer and suit was brought In Judge
Grover Pierpont's court for the money.
Mrs. Lee, as witness told how shs
lad pitched hay IL hours day, day
In and day out, for three years, and
tlushingly admitted to the court that
she and Lee had made love over their
p-tchforks.
The Jasons maintained that they
bad helped rear her and had taken
care of the girl, when she was Ill.
Judge Pierpont decided that Mrs. Lee
snould pay for care during her illness
and awarded her $50 In cash and told
Jason he did not want any delay in
payment as the young couple needed
the cash for furniture.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-05-24
WOMAN MADE DUMB
BY SIGHT OF SNAKE
Among Gifts Of Flowers and Fruit
She Finds Bottle of Cider
Banq!-Cured.


Bang!-cured.
st. Louis, Mo.-Mary Zubotsli, 20,
of East st. Louis, Is the happiest pa
tient in st. Mary's Hospital. Her
voice, which for two months was gon ,
from her has returned. She is no long
er $50 lonesome" as she says In her
broken English.
Two months ago Mary was walking
home from work thru Emerson Park.
Some boys were playing with snake
and threw It at her. She became so
frightened that she could not scream.
and from then she was unable 70
speak word.
She continued to go to her work
daily, but often had nervous spells.
Her nerves became worse, and she
temporarily lost her hearing. She was
taken to st. Mary's Hospital.
Her friends brought her gifts Of
flowers and fruit, and one brought her
o bottle of fresh cider. This cider re-
NAMED in the room, bottled, and in
rhe night the warmth of the room
caused II to ferment, so that the stop
per shot off making an explosive
sound so loud that Mary was able to
hear II.
The noise frightened her aad
brought back her voice. She began to
talk In the middle of the night aud
has been able to talk q little more
each day.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-05-24
WAR INQUIRIES ENORMOUS
Government Prints Bulletin Every Day
Concerning Important Orders, Etc.

Lansing, Mich.-Owing to the enor-
nous increase of government war
work the governmental departments
at Washington ask Michigan resi-
dents to refrain from making inquir-
les on every conceivable subject con-
corning the war, as 1t has been
found a physical impossibility for the
clerks, though they number an army
in themselves now, to give many Of
these inquiries proper attention and
reply.
There is published daily at Wash
ington, under authority and by direc-
ton of the President, a government
newspaper-the official U. s. Bulle-
tin. This paper prints every day all
OF the more important rulings, de-
cisions, regulations, proclamations, or
ders, ETC., as they are promulgated by
the several departments and the many
special committees and agencies now
in operation at the National Capitol
This official journal Is posted each
day in every postoffice In the state Of
Michigan and may also be found in all
libraries, boards or trade, chamber or
commerce, the Offices of mayors, and
government and other officials.
BY consulting these files most ques-
tions will be readily answered; there
will be little necessity for letter writ
ing; the unnecessary congestion Of
the mails will be appreciably relieved;
the railroads will be called upon to
move fewer correspondence sacks, and
the mass OF business that Is piling
up In the government departments at
Washington will be eased consider
ably. Hundreds of clerks now answer.
ing correspondence will be enabled to
give their time to essentially import
ant war-work, and a fundamentally
patriotic service will have been per
formed by the public.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-05-24
Meatless Days and Meals

Help by reducing the consumption
OF meat per person for meals in which
meat Is used. Buy smaller quantities
of meat than you used to. but prepare
II In such way that there is enough
for the whole family. The flavor OF
meat may be extended by using bread,
cracker crumbs, cooked oatmeal, corn
meal, cracked wheat and hominy, In
making meat loaves, casserole dishes,
meat MEG, baked croquettes, meat
salads and hash. In this way you give
your family a wholesome, comparative
ly inexpensive dish which will salts
~ their craving for the flavor of meat.
The eggs which are added to meat
loaf serve to bind II together, and
when eggs are expensive. the thick
ened gravy from the meat will answer
the same purpose. Use all left-overs
of meat. They can be used to advan-
tage In making soups and gravies or
they can be added to escalloped DO
tatoes to give additional flavor.
COTTAGE PIE.
III raw or cooked cold meAt
IL c mashed potato
8 T fat clippings. etc).
T flour or l T cornstarch
c meat stock. tomato juice. eta
Salt and pepper.
Chop meat, season with salt and pep
per (onion II desired). Cook fat and flour
together. Add meat and pour into but
tered baking dishe Cover with seasoned
mashed potato and brown slowly In oven.
MEAT LOAF.
21k C dry bread crumbs cooked oat-
meal, etc.
l grated onion
u stock or water ~
" to / Id chopped meat-fresh or
cooked
u salt
IA pepper
Mix ingredients thoroughly. shape into
loaf. place in Creased pan. dredge with
flour. Bake 30 minutes II cooked meat Is
used; bake about one hour II raw meat
Is used, basting occasionally.
Help by observing strictly meatIess
days and meals. The average house
wife has for years prepared and served
dishes which are in reality excellent
meat substitutes, although she has not
thought Of them in that way. By plan
ming her menus so that one or more
OF these dishes will be served at the
special meals, the problem of meatless
meals will be solve In general, milk
and milk products,-.uch as American
cheese and cottage cheese,-eggs, fish,
nuts, beans and peas may be used as
meat substitutes. Increase the family
allowance Of milk and decrease the al.
lowance Of meat. Milk is not rela-
lively an expensive food.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-05-24
WANTS TO HELP OTHER MEN.

M. w. Taylor, Calvert, Ala, writes
"To Whom 1t May Concern: recon-
mend Foley Kidney Pills, the best
ever used. | tried different remedies,
but none gave me relief like Foley's. u
They restore regular action of kidneys
and bladder and relieve backache,
rheumatic pains, stiff joints, sore mus.
cles.-Hite's Drug Store.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-05-24
AFTER SICKNESS
THEY GAVE
HER V|NOL
And She Soon Got Back
Her Strength

New Castle, Ind.-"The measles
left me run down, no appetite, could
not rest at night, and took severe
cold which settled on my lungs, SO I
was unable to keep about my house,
work. My doctor advised me to take.
Vinol, and six bottles restored my
health so do all my housework, in
GLIDING washing. vinol is the best
medicine ever used."-Alice Record,
437 So. nth ST., New Castle, Ind.
We guarantee this wonderful c
liver and iron tonic, Vinol, Fo-
weak, run down, Ss.vc2s -
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-05-24

The method of cultivation OF silk,
the rearing of the worms and the reel
ing and weaving have not materially
changed in China for hundreds -
years. Old Chinese prints show that
the methods in vogue today are much
the same as those employed 5000
years ago.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-05-24

II is estimated that there are s0,-
900 acres of mangrove swamps on the
island of Mindoro In the Philippines.
AS tannin made from mangrove bark
Is greatly IN demand, there is an op-
portunity for profitable. investments IN
this wood. The timber Is controlled
by the bureau Of forestry. and q II
aapsa agreement would be needed.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-05-24
Remember:
That milk is a real food,
not merely a drink.

That children need milk
to make them healthy and
to make them grow.
That more milk and less
meat is both healthful and
patriotic.
That even at a high price
milk is a cheap food for
children.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-05-24
WAR BOARD OFFICES AT LANSING
Those Desiring Information Write to
Col. Roy c. Vanderoook, Secretary.

The office of the Michigan War
Preparedness Board is located in the
capitol at Lansing and any person de-
string any information pertaining to
the war work in Michigan should write
to Col. Roy c. vandercook, secretary.
Of the board.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-05-24

Lofty trees once grew In Greenland
and nearly all Of the inhospitable
northern lands. Trees of the same
sorts as are growing today are found
as fossil remains in countries where
the climate is now SO harsh that
scarcely any tree will grow even few
inches high.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-05-24

A western railroad company pro-
vides a shower bath attachment in It's
cars used for shipping pigs. The show
er is turned on the closely packed an
finals at regular intervals. This lowers
the temperature and saves the lives OF
dozens of the animals.