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There's no reason why person should take sickening, salivating calo- mel when few cents buys large bot substitute for calomel.
 It is a pleasant, vegetable liquid which will start your liver just as sure- lv as calomel, but it dosen't make you sick and can not salivate.
 Children and grown folks can take Dodson's Liver Tone, because it is perfectly harmless.
 Calomel is a dangerous drug. It is
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Joel Whitaker Robert Cooper Robert Cooper Garfield Brandon Mac Mccoy Willie White John T. Stillwell Nath Ingram Cornelius Collins George Henderson Robert Jones Fred c. Little Charles Lewis Will Hudson Frank Robinson l.. c. Jones George w. Mckinney John Busre Henry Witherspoon William Parker George Dickerson Palos Collins Edward Hart Oscar (Thomas Sherman Lee Roy Elmer Cole James Dixon James Jones Amos Hill Joe Logans. Lloyd Johnson Ed. Cole Fred Williams George o. McCann
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No Resnite.

"Hooray!" shouted the boy in the brown sweater. Our teacher is going to France and be Red Cross nurse, {"
 "What good is that to us?" objected the boy in the scout suit "TheyIl only get some other teacher to take her place.
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EXEMPTION BOARD
 LISTS l47 LOCAL MEN AS DfSfR1ERS
Failure to Report in Ten Days Means a Term in
 Federal Prison.

Exemption Board No. 2 lists 147 men as deserters and announces that there is reward offered for their capture.
 If they are brought in by the off cers they will havefto go to Leaven worth. If these men report their penalty will be much, lighter. The list fo1lows:, Willie Shelton Ben Jones Ed. Olden Albert Williams Orealus King Cornelius Larson Henry Davis Arthur Williams Lee Isaacs Anthony Reed George o. Keeth George A. Medley Bishop Owens Willie Ed Johnson Wesley Ashley Alex Banks Alvin O'Neal T, A. Fudge James Mitchell James Lockett Charley Tubbs Will Sanford Tommie Nelson Joe Phillips James Thomas Ollie Shaw Arthur Long Arthur Long. Bijah Allen Clayton Ballad
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OTHER AMERICAN RESULTS
Indians Win From Athletics,

Indians Win From Athletics. Philadelphia, Aug. 27.-Cleveland
 won today's game to by rally in the sixth inning. Speaker was called out on a close decision at the plate in the fifth and was finally ordered out of the game. In the sixth inning Cleveland knock ed Johnson out of the box. Score: R H F Cleveland .... 12 2 Philadelphia - ....... ................6 10 Morton and O'Neill; Johnson, iPer- son and McAvoy.
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The Strong Withstand th.
 Summer Better Than ths s VI, neat d

Old people who are feebla o "ak who are weak will be strenaths ana younger u,s. Eo na np%E the depressing heat of Ha en
 ing ing eSovE 5 IASIELESSchill T ToNIG, Nsul,ls byai . ana enriches W the blood and builds ltpus ltine Effect. COG. uslnenins, lpUs''
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TANKS CLINCH HOLD
 IN FIRST DIVISION
Defeated St. Louis a Double Header Yesterday Afternoon, Second
 Game Going 12 Innings.

New York, Aug. 27-New York virtually clinched It's hold on a first division position here today when it defeated St. Louis in two games 4 to 2 and to 6, the second game going 12 innings.
 First Game-Score: R H E New York .... ...........4 3 1
 Rogers, Nunamaker, Houck and Severeid; Love, Mogridge and Han nah.
 Second Game-Score: R H E St. Louis w ................6 IA 5 New York .... .....................7 13 1
 oHuck and Severeid; Finneran, Mogridge and Hannah
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Wesley Ferguson. Bland Fields
 Clarence Bell
 Charles Bell
 Tom Presley
 Nathanield Henderson John Brurson
 Henry Williams
 Ross Brown
 Ellis Lawson
 Sam Cosey
 Jesst Mitchell
 Will Wilkins
 James Washington
 Willie Jernigan Willie Grison
 Jessie Jenkins Frank Frankcain George Moore Thomas E. Payne John Henry Clay Ben Atkins Will Howard Fred Hines Lee Thompson Willie Jones Henry Mccoy Charlie Taylor Charlie Taylor George Salter Ernest Williams Will Hunter Robert Winfield Charlie Caldwell Henry Wright Joe Todd Will Griffin Carissus Robinson Patterson Williams Henderson D. Minor Dave Mccoy John Robinson John Robinson Willie Hardy Edgar Jones Samuel Washington Lee Young William Simms Sam Boyd James Martin Lee Perkins James Pool Calybourn Thomas Robert Thompson George Granthum Walter Grey Henry Hines Thad Atkins Elmer Williams Fair Key Albert E. Crowder John Wright Wesley Kinsley Ed. Chatterson Willie Thomas Fred Hines Conway Perrill James MsGaughy Frank Gould Mack Lewis Boomer Brown Vorgis Evans Roland Cam Arthur Bradford Frank Williams c. H. Williams HenryJones Ham Lewis George Ham Jack Mayfield Robert Webster Jessie James Brown James Caroline Jeff Barker Nolan Jillard Wilbert Wilson
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Smart.

Nell-What would you give to have such hair as mine7
 Bell-I don't know--what did you giveESoston Evening Transcript
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JOE BUSH FANS 13 TIGERS,

Boston, Aug. 27.-Joe Bush, of Boston famed 13 Detroit players to- day but the visitors won ? to 1.
 Detroit scored twice in the eighth on successive singles by Jones, Witt and Veach.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-06-01

bread which had been issued with the
rations the night before. Then I had
the pleasure of seeing them dig into
the bacon with their dirty fingers. The
allowance was one slice per man. The
late ones received very small slices.
AS each Tommy got his share he i'm
mediately disappeared into the billet.
Pretty soon about fifteen of them made
q rush to the cookhouse, each carrying
a huge sHce of bread. These slices
they dipped into the bacon grease
which was stewing over the fire. The
last man invariably lost out. I was
the last man.
After breakfast our section carried
their equipment into a field adjoining
the billet and got busy removing the
trench mud therefrom, because at 8 :4o
a. M, they had to fall in for inspection
and parade, and woe betide the man
who was unshaven, or had mud on his
uniform. Cleanliness is next to godli-
ness in the British army, and Old Pep
per must have been personally ac-
quainted with st. Peter.
ITO be continueG.)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-06-01

sandbagged parapet. / reached for 1t,
and was taking aim to fire, when my
mate grasped my arm, and whispered,
Don't fire. He challenged In a low
voice. The reply came back instantly
from the dark forms:
"Shut your blinkin' mouth, you
bloomin' idiot; do you want US to click
1t from the Boches?"
Later we learned that the word. "No
challenging or firing, wiring party out
In 'front.'" had been given to the sentry
on our right, but he had failed to pass
1t down the trench. An officer had over
beard our challenge and the reply, and
Immediately put the offending sentry
under arrest The sentry clicked
twenty-one days on the wheel, that Is,
he received twenty-one days field pun
ishment No. 1, or ''crucifxion," as
Tommy terms 1t.
: This consists of being spread-eagled
on the wheel Of timber two hours a
day for twenty-one days, regardless of
the weather. During this period, your
rations consist of bully beef, biscuits
and water.
A few months later met this sentry
and he confided to me that since being
"crucified," he had never failed to pass
the word down the trench when so or
dered. In view of the offense, the
above punishment was very light, In
that failing to pass the word down a
trench may mean the loss of many
lives, and the spelling of some impor-
tant enterprise In No Mans Land.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-06-01
DANGERS OF cosTIvENEss

Auto-intoxication. headache, lassi-
tude, irritabllity. blues, sallowness,
blotches, are among the results of
constipation. If long neglected it
may cause piles, liberation of bowels.
appendicitis, nervous prostration,
paralysis. Don't delay treatment
Best remedy is Foley Cathartic Tab
lets, as many thousands know from
experience. They not only do their
work surely, easily, gently, but with
out injury to stomach or intestinal
lining. Contains no habit forming
element. Sold everywhere-Adv.
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CHAPTER vi.
HBack of the Line.n

| Our tour in the front-line trench
F., lasted four days, and then we were
| relieved by the - brigade.
| Going down the communication
! trench we were in merry mood, al
/ though we were cold and wet, and
every bone in our bodies ached. 1t
makes lot of difference whether you
are "going In" or "going out"
At the end of the communication
! trench, limbers were waiting on the
road for us. / thought we were going
to ride back to rest billets, but soon
found out that the only time an in
fantryman rides Is when he is
wounded and is bound for the base or
Blighty. These linbers carried our
reserve ammunition and rations. Our
march to rest billets was thoroughly
enjoyed by me. It seemed as If
were on furlough, and was leaving be-
hind everything that was disagree
abb and horrible. Every recruit feels
this way after being relieved from the
trenches.
We marched eight kilos and then
halted in front of a French estaminet.
The captain gave the order to turn
out on each side of the road and wait
his return. Pretty soon he came back
and told B company to occupy billets
lit, 11S and 119. Billet lit was an
old stable which had previously been
occupied by cows. About four feet in
front of the entrance was a huge ma
nure pile, and the odor from 1t was
anything but pleasant. Using my
1ashlight stumbled through the door.
Just before entering / observed a
white sign reading: Sitting 30, lying
90" but, at the time, its significance
did not strike me. Next morning I
asked the sergeant major what it
meant. He nonchalantly answered:
That's some of the work of the r.
A. NJ. C. (Royal Army Medical corps).
1t simply means that in case of an at
tack, this billet will accommodate
fifty wounded who are able to sit up
and take notice. or twenty stretcher
cases."
1t was not long after this that was
one of the 40 lying"
/ soon hit the hay and was fast
asleep, even my friends the "cooties"
failed to disturb me.
The next morning at about six
o'clock / was awakened by the lance
corporal of our section, informing me
that / had been detailed as mess or
derby, and to report to the cook and
give him a hand. helped him make
the fire, carry water from an old well,
and fry the bacon. Lids of dixies are
used to cook the bacon in. After
breakfast was cooked, carried a dixie
of hot tea and the lid full of bacon to
our section, and told the corporal that
breakfast was ready. He looked at me
In contempt. and then shouted, Break
fast up, come and get 1t :" / immedi-
ately got wise to the trench parlance,
and never again informed that Break
fast was served"
1t didn't take long for the Tommies
to answer this call. Half dressed,
they lined up with their canteens and
dished out the tea. Each Tommy
carried in his hand thick slice Of
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were constantly whistling over the VII
lage and bursting in our rear, search
ing for our artillery.
These cellars were cold. damp and
smelly, and overrun with large rats
big black fellows. Most of the Tom
mics slept with their overcoats over
their faces. / did not. In the middle
of the night woke up in terror. The
cold, clammy feet of a rat had passed
over my face. + Immediately smoth-
cred myself In my overcoat, but could
not sleep for the rest of that night.
Next evening, we took over our sec
tor of the line. In single file we wend-
ed our way through a zigzag COM
munication trench, six inches deep
with mud. This trench was called
whisky street." On our way up TO
the front line an occasional flare of
bursting shrapnel would light up the
sky and we could hear the fragments
Shaping the ground above US on our
right and left. Then a Fritz would
traverse back and forth with his ''type-
writer" or machine gun. The bullets
made a sharp cracking noise overhead.
The boy in front of me named Prem
tice crumpled up without a word. A
piece of shell had gone through his
shrapnel-proof helmet. felt sick and
weak.
In about thirty minutes we reached
the front line. 1t was dark as pitch.
Every now and then n German star
shell would pierce the blackness out
in front with its. silvery light. / was
trembling all over, and felt very lonely
and afraid. All orders were given in
whispers. The company we relieved
filed past US and disappeared into the
blackness Of the communication trench
leading to the rear. AS they passed us,
they whispered, 'The best o. luck
mates"
/ sat on the fire step Of the trench
with the rest of the men. In each
traverse two of the older men had been
put on guard with their heads sticking
over the top. and with their eyes try
ing to pierce the blackness in mo
Mans Land" In this trench there
were only two dugouts, and these were
used by Lewis and Vickers machine
gunners. so IL was the fire step for
ours. Pretty soon II started to rain.
We put on our ''macks." but they were
down our backs, and IT was not long
before we were wet and cold. How 1
passed that night I will never know,
but without any unusual occurrence,
dawn arrived.
The word stand down. was passed
along the line, and the sentries got
down Off the fire step. Pretty soon the
rum issue came along, and it was a
Godsend. 1t warmed our chilled bodies
and put new life into us. Then from
the communication trenches came
dixies or iron pots, filed with steam
ing tea. which had two wooden stakes
through their handles. and were car
rfed by two men. / filled my canteen
and drank the hot tea without taking
IL from my lips. 1t was not long be-
fore / was asleep in the mud on the
fire step.
My ambition had been attainedf / |
was in a front-line trench on the west
ern front, and oh. how wished we're
back in Jersey City.
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ITO be continued.
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CHAPTER ".
Mud. Rats and Shells.

I must have slept for two or three
hours, not the refreshing kind that re
suits from clean sheets and soft pill
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-18
Norwich.
A Narrow Escape,

Fifteen cents a quartz" said Fan ny.
 Yes, he said he would give us fif- teen cents a quart"
 She spoke to her friend Bessie as they sat down where they had been picking blueberries.
 That is more than mamma pays the woman who brings them to our house." said Bessie.
 Yes, but we are going to give the money to Blind Joe, so We take big price"
 Just then Bessie's little sister came along. She carried pail. too.
 Where are you going?"
 I'm going picking berries all by myself" and she walked off without word.
 Why don't you stay with us?" call- ed Fanny.
 Dora looked over her shoulder and called back:
 Ask Bessie; she knows"
 Fanny turned and said: T believe the darling is crying? Oh, call her back!"
 But she had turned the road and was out of sight. Suddenly they heard a scream. Ii was Dora! She is in the cranberry bog and will be drownedi Just then a man came up and brought her to dry land. You're too kind for anything said Bessie and Fanny, and hugged and kissed Dora with all their might. You never will go picking berries alone again, never as long as live" Well, IT didn't want to-" sobbe6 Dora. EsTELLA oLssoN. Age 1s. NnNnuinh
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You may both speak. will be judge"
 Ezekiel began, about the harm the Woodchuck had done. He told how much trouble it was to catch him. He asked if the woodchuck would not take to his bad habit again if they let him go He ended with these words: "The woodchuck must die, and, to pay for what he had stolen, let us sell his skin.''
 Daniel was very much afraid that his brother had won the case, but, seeing the poor prisoner tremble, he felt pity for it, so he took courage and said: The woodchuck has right to life. to food and to freedom. God made him to live in the bright sun shine, in the free fields and woods. He is not like the cruel fox, for he kills no one. Has he taken anything but the corn to keep alive? And is not grain as sweet to him as the food on mothers table? You can't say he has broken the laws as men often do; he has only done what it is his nature to do. Look at this poor, dumb, trembling creature and answer me this: Do you take away life which you never can give back?'
 Daniel paused. There were tears in his fathers eyes. Tears that rolled down his sunburned cheeks. The plea for mercy had touched his fathers heart, and forgetting that he was judge" he started up and cried in 8
 loud voice: 'Zeke. you let that wood chuck gol"
 LYDIA DUGAs, Age 10. Versailles
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The Squirrel Family.

Dear Uncle Jed: Once there lived a happy family ot squirrels near the edge of a wood. Their names were AIr. and Mrs. Bushyta:l; also, Frlsky and Tommy. They had many neigh bors, but the ones they loved best were the mice family.
 One day Mrs. Bushytail woke up early for her sister was coming to visit So she was preparing for a great feast. She started the fire and set the coffee en to boil. then she began making cornmeal cakes. Everything she needed was there except the corn meal.
 So she went to wake Mr. Bushytail, but she must have shouted too loud for her children (F'risky and Tommy) woke up too. Mrs. Bushytail told MT. Bushytaii that she had no cornmeal to make cakes with. So he took three bags, filled them with corn, put them on his wheelbarroW and started off to the mill
 While he was gone Frisky and Tom my did the most cunning trick. Their mother told them to go out and pick some sticks to make the fire brighter, but instead of getting the sticks Fris-
  so to see their friends on the other side of the wood.
 They started off very happily, all though they didn't know the way for 1 they hadn't seen them since last Thanksgiving Tn the woods it was | very quiet in some places, but in oth- CTS it was quite noisy. Sometimes l they heard the wind rustling the leaves 1 on the trees and they thought it was Il snake coming to devour them. Tom my was the older and had his senses, 1 but Frisky was a great deal smaller and younger and she would cry at the least thing.
 When they came to the heart of the wood Frisky wouldn't go any further ] but began crying. Tommy left her and went to look for a safe place where she might sleep | Soon he found a hole in a tree and called to Frisky who came willingly l Tommy helped her get in, then he himself crawled in. They soon fell 1 fast asleep and slept till it was get ting dark Then they thought they would start for home so they took hands and began running.
 They had not gone far when they met their father. mother and aunt and were coming to look for them Their | aunt was hoIdinS lantern to Nghl the ways Tommy and Frisky heard enough of scolding from their parents l for a while, but when they reached home they were being hEsgea and kissed and instead of having the feast at daytime they had it at night. 1 The next time their mother told 1 them to do something they did 1t ant never again did they run away from their happy home.
 SOPHIE GASKA, Age 12. 1 Jewett City.
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her many precious government se-
 erets. They let her see the lists of
 secret Confederate sympathizers and
 agents in various cities. They con-
 tided to her their carefully hidden pro-
 cesses for smuggling food and arms
 and despatches and medical supplies
 into the southern army forts and
 forces and she planned movements of
 their armies. All this Pauline trans
 initted faithfully to the Union gov ernment and rendered incalculable l service to our country by her tidings. At last she penetrated to- General Bragg's Confederate headquarters at Shelbyville. There in some. way she | aroused suspicion Perhaps by means of some spy in the Union confi- dence may have betrayed her In any case Bragg ordered Pauline arrested. She was court martialed and was sentenced, to be hanged as a | spy.
 There was no Abraham Lincoln on hand as in the instance of captured women spies of the Confederacy to | commute her death sentence to ban 1 ishnent, or 8 prison term. But be- I fore sentence could be carried out a Union army captured Shelbyville. The Confederates in their haste to get out i of the city did not wait to hang Pau l line, but left her imprisoned there i The rescuing Union troops acclaimed her as heroine They gave her ac- 1 coutrements of United States officer l ETHEL LIGHT, Age F. l Willimantic
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Little Eunust,

Once there was a little boy who was very lonesome. He always went to the woods to look for flowers. He was very kind, but people did not like him because l1e was homely; but there was one who liked him, and that was God. Both his father and mother were dead but they were in heaven, and they both were watching over him.
 One day when he was walking through the woods he saw a little young bird lying on the ground and he picked it up with his tender little hands and, looking up, there was a lit tie nest ln the trees which he was standing by. He climbed the tree with the little bird in his hand and when he reached the nest the mother bird had just come home to her little ones, and the boy put the other one in.
 The mother was so glad to have her young one. back that she always was with the little boy, and she was not afraid of him, but always ate out of his hand. He was in the woods most of the time.
 The people heard of this and were very much surprised and they treated him very kindly afterwards.
 The people noticed he was out in the woods mostly in the month of August, so they named this kind boy August"
 LOUISE LEBER. Age Il.
 Plainfield.
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WIDE-AWAKE STORIES

lot of thinking, as he slowly and sadly changed his uniform for his street clothes without speaking to any of the fellows.
 What would this temper, if 1t was going to lose baseball game and make him hit smaller fellow now, do when he was older? John had dreams of going through college and of becoming a successful lawyer. A wise little head had John when he came down to earth" He figured that, if Temper could do so much harm at sixteen, he had better get rid of 1t before he was a day older
 Outside the locker room, John run into the small second baseman of the "Invincibles" I'm sorry I hit you" he said. And it took some manhood to say that q was out, all right. Pm going to learn to swallow my ! temper"
 1 He did. John Webb discovered a big truth-that self-cor1trol is the first law of success.-The Boys World.