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came four thousand miles from Ogden,
Utah. just outside of New York, to
fight for your king and country. Don't
be Stacker, buck up and get into uni
form; come over to the recruiting Of
fee and I'll have you enlisted"
He " ed and answered, Il don't
care if you came forty thousand miles,
no one asked you to-" and he walked
on. The girl gave me sneering look
I was speechless.
recruited for three weeks and near
ly got one recruit.
This perhaps was not the greatest
stunt in the world, but it got back at
the officer who had told me, eyes, we
take anything over here" l had been
spen ding a good lot of my recruiting
time in the saloon bar of the Wheat
Sheaf pub (there was very attractive
blonde barmaid. who helped kill time
[ was not rs serious in those days as
| was little later when / reached
the front we'll, it was the sixth day
and my recruiting report was blank.
| was getting low in the pocket-bar-
maids haven't much use for anyone
who cannot buy drinks-so l looked
around for recruiting material. You
know a man on recruiting service gets
2 "bOb" or shilling for every recruit
he entces into Joining the army, the
recruit is supposed to get this, but he
would not be a recruit if he were wise
to this fact, would he?
Down at the end of the bar was a
young fellow in mufti who was very
patriotic-he had about four "Old
Six aleS aboard. He asked me If he
could join, showed me his left hand
two fingers were missing but | said
that did not matter as ''we take any
thing over here" The left hand is
the rife hand as the piece is carried
at the slope on the left shoulder. Near
ly everything in England is "by the
left" even general traffic keeps to the
port side.
I took the applicant over to head
quarters, where he was hurriedly ex-
amned. Recruiting surgeons were
/ busy in those days and did not have
much time for thorough physical exam
nations. My recruit was passed as
eft" by the doctor and turned over 70
corporal to make note of his scars.
I was mystitied. Suddenly the corpo-
raj burst out with, "Blime me. two of
his fingers are gone" Turning to me
he said. you certainly have your
nerve with you, not 'alf you amt, TO
4 hiring This bpggar in"
The doctor came Over and exploded,
WHAT do you mean by bringing in a
man in this condition."
Looking out of the corner Of my eye
l noticed that the officer who had re-
cruited me had joined the groy., and
could not help answering, well, sir,
was told that you took anything over
here
l think they called it "Yankoe i'm
puGence," anyhow it ended my recruit
ing.
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TO FEED p0GS ON
CITY GARBAGE
Altoona City Manager Affects
Saving Without Waste.

Altoona, Pa, March As a war
conservation measure and at the gov
ernment's suggestion, City Manager
H. G. Hinkle, of this city, proposes to
throw the city's brandnew $4,000
garbage disposal plant at East AL
toona into discard, that he may give
the garbage to county hog raisers.
By doing this, however, he will save
the city about $4,000 a year and will
be enabled to institute system Of
mum I Al refuse collections that will
include not only garbage, but ashes,
paper. bottles and crockery.
And the people of Altoona approve
OF the plan. although it means scrap
ping their incinerator, once their pride
and joy. Under the presenr pl7n the
city can only collect garbage. not
touching other refuse. Then there is
the haul of four miles to the disposal
plant Including the operation Of this
plant the city spends about $4,000 to
dispose of its garbage alone.
America is at war, and the allies
need the meat, and so Hinkle decided
lIilS NOutu ICNci w. ne ldllCu III luc
hog raisers. They co-operated with
enthusiasm Now Hinlle will haul
the city's garbage to a transfer sta
ton at the city limits. There the hog
raisers' teams will take 1t to their
farms.
Hinkle will also bale paper and tin
cans and sell these articles. With
the money saved by discarding The
disposal plant, with the proceeds from
the paper and tin. and by charging
each family in the city but $ 80 a
year. Hinkle will be able to pa INTO
effect the most complete system Of
collections possible. Every bit of ref
use will he carried away.
People are wiling to pay the $50,
because'it has been costing them from
$3 to s. a year for this service be-
fore
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CHAPTER |.
From Mufti to Khaki.


It was in an Office in Jersey City.
I was sitting at my desk talking to
q lieutenant Of the Jersey National
Guard. On the wall was a big war
map decorated with variously colored
little flags showing the position Of the
opposing armies on the western front
In France. In front of me on the desk
lay New York paper with big 1aring
headlines:
LUSITANIA SUNK! AMERICAN
LIVES LOST
The windows were open and a feel
ing Of spring pervaded the air.
Through the open windows came the
strains of a hurdy-gurdy playing in the
street, Didn't Raise My Boy to Be
q Soldier"
"Lusitania Sunk American Lives
Lost RI Didn't. Raise My Boy 10
Be q Soldier" To US these did not
seem to jibe.
The lieutenant in silence CDened one
of the lower drawers of his desk and
took from it an American fGg which
he solemnly draped over the war map
a grim face, said:
"How about it, sergeant? You had
better get out the muster roll of the
Mounted Scouts, as / think they will
be needed in the course of a few days"
We busted ourselves till late in the
evening writing out emergency tele-
grams for the men to report when the
eho
Then we went home.
I crossed over to New York, and as
I went up Fulton street to take the
subway to Brooklyn. the lights in the
tall buildings of New York seemed to
be burning brighter than usual, as if
they, too, had read "Lusitania Sunk
American Lives Lost" They seemed
to be glowing with anger and righteous
indignation, and their rays wigwagged
the message, Repay
Months passed, the kilograms lying
handy, but covered with dust. Then.
one momentous morning the lieutenant
with a sigh of disgust removed the
flag from the war map and returned
to his desk. I Immediately followed.
this action by throwing the kilograms
into the wastebasket. Then we looked
at each other in silence. He was
sQuirming in his chair and I felt de-
pressed and uneasy.
The telephone rang and answered
1t. 1t was a business call for me. re-
Questfng my services for an out-of-
town assignment. Business was not
very good, so this was very welcome.
After listening to the proposition 1
seemed to be swayed by a peculiarly
strong force within me, and answered,
II am sorry that cannot accept your
offer, but I am leaving for England
next week." and hung up the receiver.
The lieutenant swung around n his
chair, and stared at me in blank aston
ishment A sinking sensation came
over me, but l defiantly answered his
look with, "Well, it's SO. I'm going"
And l went.
The trip across was uneventful.
landed at Tilbury, England, then got
into a string of matchbox cars and
proceeded to London, arriving there
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Rheumatism Back on the Job
y With its Old-time Fury

ton, and routs out the disease germs,
can rid you of this disabling disease.
S. S. S. has given some wonderful
results in treating rheumatism. Be-
ing purely vegetable blood remedy,
it purifies the blood of every germ,
and thus removes the cause of Rheu-
matism. Get bottle to-day at your
drugstore, and start on the right
treatment that will get results: Free
advice about your case can be had by
writing to Medical Director, 26 Swift
Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga.
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SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I-Fired by the news of the
sinking of the Lusitania by German
submarine Arthur Guy Empey, an Arnerl-
can, leaves his office in Jersey City and
goes to England where he cIzdStS IN tliti
British army.
CHAPTER II-After a period of train
ing. Empey volunteers for immediate SerN-
ice and soon finds himself in rest bilets
somewhere in France" where he hrst
makes the acquaintance of the eEer-preS-
ont "cooties."
CHAPTER III-Empey attends his ErsE
church services at the front while q ser
man Fokker circles over the congregation.
CHAPTER IV-Empey's command gees
into the front-line trenches and is under
IRE for the first time.
CHAPTER v-Empey learns to adopt
the motto of the British Tommy, If you
are going to get 1t, you'll get II, so never
worry"
CHAPTER vI-Back in rest billets, En-
pey gets his first experience as iheSs
orderly.
CHAPTER vII-Empey learns fiew the
British soldiers are fed.
CHAPTER VIII-Back in the front-Ene
trench, Empey sees his hrst 1rleno ol 'iie
trenches "go West"
CHAPTER IX-Empey makes his nrst
visit to a dugout in suicide Dltcn.
CHAPTER X-Empey learns what CON
stitutes a days work" in the front-Nile
trench.
CHAPTER XI-Empey goes cover the
top" for the first time in charse vi .tie
II German trenches ana Is "ouiueu ~
: bayonet thrust a..
CHAPTER XII-Empey joins the Su5
eide club" as the bombing squad is caLeu-
CHAPTER XIII-Each Tommy gets an
official bath.
CHAPTER XIv-Empey helps dig an
advanced trench under German hre.
CHAPTER Xv-On listening post III
No Mans Land.
CHAPTER XVI-Two artillerymen put
one over" on Old Pepper, their re3lmehtiA
commander.
CHAPTER XvII-Empey has narrow e5-
cane while on patrol duty in NO Man
Land.
CHAPTER XvIII-Back in rest bllieEs
Empey writes and stages farce colneas'
CHAPTER XIX-Soldiers have many
ways to amuse themselves While on tleH
own"
CHAPTER xx.Empeyy S volunteers teeE ;6 695
machine gun service ana Soes paeh 4-4'O
the front-line trenches.
CHAPTER XXI-Empey again goSs
'oyer the top" in charge Wnlch cost HIS
Company II killed and 81 wounded.
CHAPTER XxII-Trick with machine
gun silences one bothersome FrltZ.
CHAPTER XXIII-German attack pre-
ceded by gas wave, is repulseo.
CHAPTER XXIV-Empey is forced to
take part in an execution as d IileIhDe-
of the firing squad
CHAPTER XXV-British prepare for
the Big Push-the battle of the SoL me.
CHAPTER XVIII a trench raid.
preceding the Big Push. Empey IS des-
perately wounded and lies UNCONSCIOUS III
No Mans Land for Sc hours
CHAPTER XXVII-After four months
In British hospital, Empey is discharged
as physically unfit for further war seF'-
Ice"
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VIN0L MAKES
CHILDREN STRONG
And Invigorates Old People.

Any doctor will tell you that the
ingredients of Vinol as printed below
contain the elements needed to i'm
prove the health of delicate children
and restore strength to old people.
Cod Liver and Beef PeptOnes,
Iron and Manganese Peptonates,
Iron and Ammonium Citrate,
Lime and Soda Glycerophos-
pilates, Cascarin.
Those who have puny,. ailing or
rundown children or aged parents
ny prove this at our expense.
Besides the good it does children
and the aged, there is nothing like
Vinol to restore strength and vitali-
ty to weak, nervous women and over
worked, rundown men.
Try it. If you are not entirely sat
sfed, we will return your money
without question; that proves our
fairness and your protection Mil
lions of people have been convinced
This way. G. P. Craig & Son, Drug
gists, Cambridge, and at the best
drug store in every town and city in
The country-Adv.
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| er of all the parrots in the zoo, but
i she couldn't help that and she loved
! the keeper and wanted him to have
her for his special pet The only times
when Polly Parrot would be unhappy
! would be when the Keeper noticed the
| African gray parrot.
| "Of course the African gray is the
| best talker," the keeper would fire.
| quently tell visitC" and that would
make Polly Parrot feel very unhappy.
! But soon she would feel better for
| the keeper would come to her cage and
say, "But here's the pet. She is the
/ friendliest bird you ever did see"
Polly Parrot would feel so happy
! and she would do many tricks which
would delight the keeper and his Wis
! itors.
| 1t Yves the middle of the day when
! Polly Parrot spoke of the difference
! between zoo life and life when they
were free.
To be sure Polly Parrot had no de-
sire for any other life but the one she
was leading.
"I've never been anywhere but in
the ZOO" said Patsy Parrot. 'That is
I was brought here when 1 was so
young that I have forgotten anything
| else"
"You still act like all parrots though,
in the zoo or not" said Polly Parrot.
"How is that?' asked Patsy.
"You act as we do when we're wild"
said Polly, whenever a ratnstorm
! comes. You sit at the top of your,
cage when you hear the rain pattering
on the roof and you spread your wings
| out to catch the rain. You don't seem
to understand that the rain can't come
| through the roof.
"And the same thing is true of the
parrots who know nothing, absolutely
| nothing, about the wild life. I've OF
ten heard the keeper telling people
about this and asking them If they
didn't think it was strange that we act
| ed the same in a rainstorm as II we
were free, even though we should
know by this time that rain never
| came through the roof"
81 always think it will though" said
Patsy.
.And so do l." said Polly Parrot. Il
| do the very same thing. And try 10
drink from the tree l have. imagine
that must be covered with rain drops
! after a storm. The keeper says It's
lust habit with us, and we can never,
get over it. It seems to be handed
down from parrot parrot t to parrot, hheAsay
"What differences were you going TO
/ tell me between this life and the 9TH
! err" asked Patsy Parrot.
ooh" said Polly, "when it's the mid
die of the day and we're outside we
| always take a nap. We feed early In
the morning and late at night. Here
we're apt to wake up during the
night"
Just at that moment the keeper came
along and told some visitors about the
African gray parrot and his powers OF
talking. Poor Polly got so jealous and
so mad that when the keeper came to
/ show her off to the people she snapped
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food she saw that Fee'
his hand was wrapped up in white and
that he tried not to use the hand she
had bitten.
He gave her the same good food,
corn, flour and heGpseed, but he didn't
pet her. nor did h try to play with
her. She hoped down as fast as she
could and began to dance for him. 1t
had always been his favorite trick. And
she tried, as hard as she could, to have
him forgive her.
ST guess you couldn't help it, Polly"
said the keeper after little while.
you were so jealous, but you must
never be that way again. It's bad to
be Jealous"
Polly never did such a thing again
and she tried to be especially nice TO
make up for such naughty. migrate
full. cruel act!
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Amsterdam rroons Enter the Ukraine

Amsterdam, March 4.-The Austri-
ans have entered the Ukraine in re-
Spouse to an urgent request for help
from the Ukrainian government, &C
cording to Herr Won Seydler, the pre-
nier, in a statement made in the up
per house of the Austrian parliament.
He added that e-ents in Ukraine
threatened to interfere with the trans
portation of foodstuffs. He said:
"In the circumstances we could not
refuse our help. The necessity for
participation by the monarchy is an
action which has not the least con-
nection with any act Of war, and
which possesses no political character
whatever.
SIT rather constitutes solely an act
Of legal administrative assistance rem.
dered al the request Of another state
in the interest of that state. Natur-
ally that assistance cannot be given
except by the employment of lifted
military forces"
According to the Vossiche zeitung,
IF Berlin, peace negotiations at Blu
charest have failed King Ferdinand's
ely to the central powers was I'M
~2:te-factory. it is understood.
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MESSAGE on Postage Stamps.

Havana, March 4.-Goovernment
censors examining mail brought from
Mexico by the Spanish steamer Re-
gira Maria Christiana have found Z
package of letters containing collec-
ton of postage stamps on which were
a series of special markings. seeming
~ forming a secret CODE The postal
authorities will retain the stamps
pen5ing an Investigation. The pack.
age Is said to be addressed to Ger
cran consular officer. In Spain.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-03-04

A certain five-year-old boy who, In
his earliest trousers, could only thrust
his hands through his belt for want
of pockets, had his heart rejoiced at
last with a pair of trousers which had
real pockets in thHm.
His first act was to come down to
a male relative With his hands stuck
proudly in these pockets and to ex-
claim:
Look I've got pockets with floors
in EN-"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-03-04
No Lat-Up In tt Torture.

Pretty soon you will be reaching
for the liri2.ent bottle agzja, for the
millions CT LITTLE pain demons that
cause Rhe1natism are on the war
path. Winter Weather seems to awak-
en- them to renewed fury.
But your Rheumatism cannot be
rubbed away, because lininlents and
lotions cannot reach the disease. It
is in the blood, and only a remedy
that goes deep down into the circula-
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AK Up S0LDlERs' LOSSES
E:.yla1dars Give Freely When Bank
Near Camp is involved.


Baltimore, Nd, March An re-
spcn e to an appeal IN a newspaper
Maryiand@Ts made mp .und to rem
hucse soldiers at Camp Meade Tho
had $4,000 deposits in a state bank
st Odenton I'D.
This bank was a branch of one at
Gowans, whose president, Samuel
Want, disappeared, leaving its affairs
so involved that the state banking
commissioners took charge.
Sub cribar5 10 the fund possibly will
he reimbursed, but the patriotic folk
who contributed felt that the men
who soon viii face duty in France
Should not be Inconvenience. A an
'tI'y .our $4,000 had been sub -,Gib-
II
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POOR WASTING BREAD
Most of Garbage Extravaganza Found
in Their Discard.

IN I helT Discard.
Chester. Pa, March 4.-Charles G..
Worrilow. superintendent of streets,
has reported to the local food admin
istrator. Frederick A. Howard. a waste
of food by residents of the city, re-
CARELESS of the Off cial warnings given
to conserve fOodstuffs
The report declares that each day
scores of basketfuls of wasted bread
are gathered in by the city garbage
department. and it is particularly
noticeable that most of the wasted
food collected comes from sections Of
the city where it is supposed that the
residents can least afford it.
Following a conference between the
two officials it was decided to employ
means for the detection and appre-
hension of thoSt who are violating the
government order to economic in
food products, and arrests and pun
'shment will result.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-03-04

: incC!n. Neb. March Louis Fell
* veHl'lv farmer, Of Beatrice,
E-b. recently brought before the state
rc"nci! If defense to explain why he
sad to have allowed several thou
nd bushels of wheat go t. ruin on
Of his farms, viii be prosecuted,
ted States District Attorney Allen
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rot lived in the
zoo and was very
happy indeed. She
was as tame as
possible and the
person she loved
above everyone
else was the keep
er. She was very
jealous when he
paid any attention
to the African
gray parrot.
To be sure the
African gray was
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-03-04

at him, and bit his
hand.
"This rr o t
was a pet of mine,
but no more" the
keeper said as he
clos ed Polly's
ca ge.
Oh, how badly
she felt, and she
had given the
keeper a bad lit
tie bite. When he
cama with hpr
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-03-04
Powder Workers Pay Skill Rising.

?oWGer WoTNers Fay S.TIT Rising.
Paulsboro. N. J., March EN-
ployes of every department Of the
Dupont powder Plant. at Cfbbstown,
are to receive anothe- increase in
wages, beginning March II. the third
raise they have received within the
last sighteen months The raise, it is
aid will be six cents an hour.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-03-04

mt, =. Tcrch with 4
a-. o nve1~'0- hia brothers death.
forfck ". FiSsrriTar. a brother OF
los Rissniller. TIE reading man
Z in France. enlisted and asked
he sent to France With the next
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pa DAD(T'5ty[N|NG
k,I [A|RY TALE
la s. hAW GRANk s!! !. bgQ,ll!MR
JEALOUS POLLY PARROT

"It's funny" said Polly Parrot, chow
differently we live here from outside"
Now Polly par.
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Feared More Drastic Terms.

Feared More Drastic Terms.
Petrograd, March An the fear
that argument would result in even
more onerous terms, the Russian dele
cation at Brest-Litovsk has accepted
all the German peace conditions and
is about to sign an agreement, accord
ing to a telegram from the delegates
received at the Smolny institute.
The demands already have been in
creased, the delegates reported.
The message, which was addressed
to Premier Lenine and Foreign Minis
ter Trotzky, follows:
LAS we anticipa ted. deliberations
on a treaty of peace are absolutely
useless and could only make things
worse in comparison with the ultima
tum of February 81. They might even
assume the character of lea-ing to the
presenta ion of another ultimatum.
''In view of this fact, and in conse
uuence of the Germans refusal to
cease military action until peace is
signed, we have resolved to sign the
reatv without Distressing it's contents
and leave after we have attached our
signatures. We, therefore, have re-
quested train, expecting to sign at
once and leave afterward.
THE most serious feature of the
new demands compared with those of
February u is the following:
ITO detach the regions of Karaband,
<ars and Batoum from Russian terri
tory on the pretext of the right Of
peoples to self-determinatior''
The new territorial claims upon
rtussia are apparently advanced In the
interest of Turkey. Batoum, a strongly
Fortified seaport on the Black sea
coast, in Transcaucasia. about twenty
miles south of the border of Turkish
Armenia, was one of the cities coded
by Turkey to Russia after the Russo
Turkish war in 1S77-78.
Kars. also in Tvanscaucasia, 105
miles northeast of Ezeroum in Turk
ish Armenia, has been in dispute be-
tween the Turks and the Russians for
nearly century and finally was coded
TO Russia at the same time as was
Batoum.
The other region mentioned probab-
" is that of Karaba gh. Transcaucasia,
lying to the east of the Kars region
and north of the Persian border
Germans to Kill Entire Red Guard.
London, March 4-According to a
10 bn Dol ch 1T
government, a-sen1i-offciai news agen-
~ despatch from PetrogTsd says the
Germans hanged 200 persons when
-hey entered Volnar on February 90.
The proclamation adds that these per
sons were arrested on information
given to the Germans by the Bourbe-
elsie, who assembled around the gal
lows and shouted: THE ame fate
awaits 500 more" The Germans have
announced that all the Bolsheviki Red
Guards will be hanged or shot.
A Reuter- message from Shanghai
says the Russian situation is causing
alarm and even political chaos in
China The pressure of the militar-
lists, according to the spondents
forecast, is likely to force the resigna-
ton of President Feng Kwo-shang,
who is said to be virtually prisoner.
The suggestion has been made that
he would be replaced possibly by Hsu
Shihchang, guardian of the one-time
emperor, and it is even suggested that
the young emperor himself, Hsuan
Tsung. NAV be nominated permanent
president.
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RUSSIA SIGNS
PEACE TREATY
| Reds Surrender to New De-
InandS Of Germans.
BOLSHEWKI GUARD
Teutons Hang 200 In Volmar and 500
More Face the Same Fate--Austri-
ans Enter the Ukraine.

Berlin, March 4.-"By reason Of the
signing Of the peace treaty with Rus
sia," says the official communication
from headquarters. military move
ments have ceased"